Saturday 28 December 2013

Root Gionee Elife E3 & Flash CWM Recovery

How To Root Gionee Elife E3 & Install CWM Recovery








Gionee E3 is a feature packed android device with a friendly pricing. It has a  4.7 retina display with 1920x1080 resolution and 320ppi. This rooting method is tested on Gionee E3 with Android 4.2.1.

Warning:


  • Rooting voids warranty. Do this at your own risk.
  • Back up all necessary data before undergoing these steps.
  • Make sure your device have at least 65% battery charge left.


Downloads:


Motochopper---Link
E3 MTK USB Drivers---Link
CWM 6.0.2.8--Link   OR   CWM 6.0.3.3 --Link


Rooting:



  • Download and install USB drivers for E3 on your PC

  • Download Motochopper zip file and extract it on PC.

  • Enable USB Debugging on your E3: Settings-->Developer Options-->USB Debugging

  • Connect device to PC via USB cable.

  • From the Motochopper extract folder, execute "run.bat". If you are using Linux or OS X, navigate to the extracted directory in a terminal and execute "./run.sh".
 
  • Approve ADB connection from your PC to Device.
  You have rooted your Gionee E3 successfully!


Recovery:


  • Download and install Mobileuncle MTK tool from playstore.

  • Start Mobileuncle Tools and grant SU rights.

  • Download the required CWM recovery zip and extract it to get the recovery.img file. Copy the recovery file to root of your SD card.

  • Open Mobileuncle tool and choose "Recovery Update" option.

  • You will see the copied "recovery.img" file . Select it at confirm that you want to flash it.

  • You have succesfully flashed CWM recovery. In order to get into CWM you can either use Mobileuncle or Press Vol+Power buttons.

That's it, you have roooted and installed recovery on your Gionee Elife E3.

7 comments:

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