Requirements and Precursors
- Download Minimal FastBoot tool from here and extract the contents to a folder of your choosing. This will help you in setting up fastboot quickly and counter the need for installing the full Android SDK.
- You’ll have to have ADB drivers setup on your PC. Refer to these guides if you don’t have them already setup.
- Once ADB and FastBoot are setup, you’ll have to install your device specific drivers by connecting it to the PC via a USB cable. The drivers specific to your device will be automatically installed to your PC if you have a working Internet connection. If a problem arises in driver installation, just download these drivers and manually install them by pointing your PC’s Device Manager to them.
- Enable USB debugging on your device in the Developer Options menu by referring tothis post.
- Download SuperSU installable zip from here.
- Remember to backup your personal data and charge-up your Canvas A1.
Unlock Bootloader
- Connect your device to your Computer after enabling USB debugging from the above-mentioned steps. If the first time you connect your device to the PC and a pop-up like this appears on your Canvas, click on ‘Always allow’ and then OK.
- Now, open the FastBoot folder and right-click on an empty space while holding down the SHIFT key, and then click ‘Open Command Window here’.
- Next, in the Command prompt, type the following code:
adb reboot bootloader
- Your device will now reboot into fastboot mode.
- The bootloader can now be unlocked by entering the following simple command
fastboot oem unlock fastboot format userdata
- That’s it! your bootloader is now unlocked!
Install ClockWorkMod/TWRP/Philz Touch Recovery
- First and foremost, download the recovery you want to install from one of the below links:
- Now extract recovery image from the zip file to the fastboot folder.
- Open a cmd command prompt and enter the following command:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img fastboot reboot
- Done! Your phone now has a working recovery.
Root Micromax Canvas A1
- Start by copying the SuperSU installable update.zip to your device.
- Now, to boot into recovery, just open the command prompt and type:
adb reboot bootloader
- And now comes the time for the good old method of flashing SuperSU via recovery by browsing to its zip file. For this, go to ‘choose zip -> /external_sd’ and go ahead with the install.
- On reboot, you may or may not get a warning similar to ‘su may have been removed’, ignore that and click ‘No’.
- Once this is done, you’ll be sporting a rooted device!
The above tutorial, however much exhaustive or extensive it may seem, is the most explicit and comprehensive way till now to get your Canvas A1 rooted — all thanks to the committed members over at XDAdevelopers. Although other simpler methods might soon start cropping up; this methodology will have to do for the time being. The Micromax Canvas A1 is a promising device, and for veteran users of the Android OS, no device can be practical enough without root-access on it. So if you already have the device or are on the verge of getting it, this should definitely help you make it truly yours.
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