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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

How to root Lenovo Vibe K5

How to root Lenovo Vibe K5


If you own a Lenovo Vibe K5, you must be curious about getting root privileges on Lenovo. This guide will cover all the necessary steps which you need to follow to root Lenovo Vibe K5. Make sure you follow all the steps carefully so you don’t damage your phone.
Root Lenovo Vibe K5 easy tutorial
Note:  This guide will only cover Lenovo Vibe K5. So, I better suggest you do not try this guide on other device such Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus.

Precautions Before You Root Lenovo Vibe K5

There is nothing difficult about the rooting procedure, although you should know a few things before you root Lenovo vibe k5.
  • By Rooting Lenovo K5, manufacturer’s warranty will be lost.
  • If your device shuts down during the rooting process, your phone might be in brick mode.
  • Rooting your phone will not affect your data but still it’s always better to make a backup.

Getting ready to root Lenovo Vibe K5

  • Charge your device up to 80% minimum.
  • Backup your Data e.g contacts, SMS and apps.
  • You need to enable Developer Options on your phone in order to proceed with the tutorial. To enable developer options, follow the instructions below.
    • Go to Settings in your phone. From there, find ‘about phone’ and click it. Then you will see Build Number. You should tap it seven times and developer options will be enabled on your device.
  • Now it’s time to enable USB Debugging. Here is how to do it quickly.
    • Tick the “USB Debugging” checkbox from the developer options from Settings
  • Let’s enable “OEM unlock” now so that we can proceed to the next steps.
    • Tick the “oem checkbox” from developer options
  • Install driver ADB drivers for Lenovo
  • Finally, you will need to download TWRP file so that you can install custom recovery on your phone.

Guide to install TWRP on your device and root Lenovo Vibe K5

Step 1: Unzip the TWRP file that you downloaded earlier. After unzipping, install the downloaded TWRP on your phone.
Step 2:  Open the folder where you unzipped TWRP file and open CMD over there by right clicking on it.
Step 3: Connect your Lenovo K5 to your PC using a USB cable. Now you need to enter the following command and hit enter.
  • “Fastboot reboot bootloader”
This command will turn your phone into fastboot mode.
Step 4: Now Flash TWRP recovery on your phone. You will need to enter the following command. Be sure to copy the command exactly as given but without quotes. Hit enter after entering the command.
  • “fastboot flash recovery twrp-k5-3.0.2-r1_shreps.img”
Step 5: Reboot the pone to normal mode using the following command. You can also reboot into fastboot manually but let’s do it with a quick command here.
  • “fastboot reboot” {Hit enter after entering the command. Your phone will reboot now}
Step 6: This is your final step to root Lenovo Vibe K5.
Copy the SuperSU file to your phone and restart the device into recovery mood by holding the the hardware button combination. Once in recovery mode, find ‘Install from ZIP’ option. Navigate to SuperSU file and wait for the flashing process to finish. Once it finishes, your phone will be rooted.
Congratulations you have successfully Rooted Lenovo Vibe K5. You can check it by downloading and installing root checker app from Google play store. This app will report your phone’s root status within a second.


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Friday, November 18, 2016

Guide How to Install TWRP Recovery and Root Android Lenovo Vibe K5 K5 Plus

Guide How to Install TWRP Recovery and Root Android Lenovo Vibe K5 K5 Plus


[Guide] How to Install TWRP Recovery and Root Android Lenovo Vibe K5 | K5 Plus.

Install TWRP Recovery and Root Vibe Lenovo K5. This guide will show you how to  Install TWRP Recovery and Root Android Lenovo Vibe K5 | K5 Plus. If you want root the Lenovo Vibe K5 or K5 plus you must install TWRP Recovery first on this device. We know that TWRP is custom recovery image for Android-based devices, and this recovery provided GUI interface or with touchscreen enabled, by using TWRP we allows users to install third-party firmware and backup the current system. therefore, TWRP often installed when rooting Android smartphone devices.

Lenovo Vibe K5  is the smartphone released on February, 2016. with 5,0 Inchi IPS capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, work on Android OS, v5.1 (Lollipop), and supported with Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU, Qualcomm MSM8929 Snapdragon 415 chipset, Adreno 405 GPU, combined with 2 GB of RAM, 13 MP on primary camera and 5 MP on secondary camera.

Install TWRP on Lenovo Vibe K5.

Here is the guide started. Now follow all step carefully.
  1. Make sure Minimal ADB and fastboot installed on your compuer. you can see this guide.
  2. Make sure your battery is not empty or at least has 70% of battery capacity.
  3. Now, switch on your Lenovo Vibe K5.
  4. Then enable the Developer Options.
    • Go to Setting -> About Phone -> Phone Information -> tap 7 times at Build Number,
  5. Then, Enable USB Debugging
    • Go to Settings -> Developer -> USB Debugging
  6. Now, Enable OEM unlock.
    • Go to Settings -> Developer -> Unlock OEM
  7. Make sure driver for Lenovo Vibe K5 installed correctly on your computer, you can find the driver that come on the CD cell partition
  8. Now, connect your Lenovo Vibe K5 to the computer using original USB cable.
  9. Then, Download the TWRP recovery, and copy it to the folder where adb is installed on your computer.
  10. Open a command prompt from within your fastboot folder.
  11. To start this command prompt just hold shift + right click, select open command prompt here.
    Run ADB on computer
    Run ADB on computer
  12. Now type,
    • adb devices
  13. This command used to confirm the connection between Lenovo Vibe K5 and the computer.
  14. Once the connection confirmed. Now type.
    • adb reboot bootloader
  15. If you want to temporarily boot this recovery type ,
    • fastboot boot TWRP-k5-3.0.2-r1_shreps.img
  16. If you want to permanently flash it, type ;
    • fastboot flash recovery TWRP-k5-3.0.2-r1_shreps.img
  17. Finish.

Root on Lenovo Vibe K5.

  1. This step will show you how to root Lenovo Vibe K5
  2. To start it, you must Download the ZIP file SuperSU v2.46 
  3. Then save it in the micro SD card.
  4. Now turn off your Lenovo Vibe K5.
  5. Then enter to recovery mode.
    • Press and hold Power Button and Volume Up button
  6. Then follow instruction appear on screen. 
  7. Select recovery to install SuperSu from SD Card.


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