{"id":10764,"date":"2015-03-24T14:07:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T07:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/?p=10764"},"modified":"2016-11-14T16:05:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T09:05:11","slug":"how-to-root-the-gionee-elife-s5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/how-to-root-the-gionee-elife-s5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Root The Gionee Elife S5.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[hoops name=&#8221;Rooting Guides Are No Longer Maintained&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>This guide will show you how to root the Gionee Elife S5.5 Android phone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer: KnowIT is not responsible for rooting the Android device in any way. Before performing any of these steps make sure you back up your Android device completely.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rooting is done entirely by you at your own risk.<\/p>\n<h2>What is needed to root the Gionee Elife S5.5?<\/h2>\n<p>In order to root the Gionee Elife S5.5 you will need the following.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Gionee Elife S5.5 you want to root in your hand.<\/li>\n<li>A PC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Step 1 \u2013 Install USB drivers on to your PC for the Gionee Elife S5.5<\/p>\n<p>In order for the device to be recognised when connected to your PC you must first download and install the Kyocera USB drivers for your PC which you can get from <a href=\"http:\/\/d-h.st\/xOv\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After downloading, save the file, extract it and run the setup program to install the USB drivers.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 2 \u2013 Download the Gionee Elife S5.5 rooting tool<\/h2>\n<p>To root the Gionee Elife S5.5 you need to download and install Root Genius which you can get from <a href=\"http:\/\/d-h.st\/ZRO\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Download the rooting program and install it on to your PC.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 3 \u2013 Root the Gionee Elife S5.5<\/h2>\n<p>Now we are ready to root the Gionee Elife S5.5 phone.<\/p>\n<p>Run the rooting application you installed from step 3 and connect your Gionee Elife S5.5 to your PC.<\/p>\n<p>Wait for the rooting tool to recognise the device. Once it has been recognised click <strong>Root <\/strong>and then click <strong>I Authorize<\/strong> and wait for the process to complete.<\/p>\n<h2>Replace Vroot Superuser with SuperSU<\/h2>\n<p>You should notice, once it restarts, that you now have a new application called Superuser which means that you have successfully rooted the device. You may however wish to replace this program with the more commonly known SuperSU.<\/p>\n<p>To do that download the script to change this from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?ky9845gisnn3824\">here<\/a>. Again, save it to an easy to find location on your PC and extract it to its own folder.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure that the Gionee Elife S5.5 is connected to your PC.<\/p>\n<p>Copy the <strong>mrw <\/strong>folder to the main root of your internal storage (it is called <strong>Phone<\/strong> in Windows).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-10765\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.flexispy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mrw.png?resize=583%2C416&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"mrw\" width=\"583\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the Gionee Elife S5.5 itself go to the Play Store and download the <strong>Terminal Emulator <\/strong>application, install it and run it.<\/p>\n<p>With the program running type the following command (press Enter after each one):<\/p>\n<p><strong>Su<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Allow root permission when asked.<\/p>\n<p>Type the next command and press Enter again when done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>sh \/sdcard\/mrw\/root.sh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wait for the device to complete the process. When done it will automatically reboot.<\/p>\n<p>When the Gionee Elife S5.5 boots up again you should notice that you now have SuperSU and not the original Superuser application and the device is fully rooted.<\/p>\n<p>[hoops name=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[hoops name=&#8221;Rooting Guides Are No Longer Maintai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10764"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14685,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions\/14685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}