HOW TO ROOT YU YUREKA, UNLOCK BOOTLOADER AND INSTALL TWRP RECOVERY
Prerequisites –
Before we go into the process, let do make some necessary settings on your Yureka.
Go to Settings.
Scroll down and go to About Phone.
Scroll down and tap build number 7-10 times until you see a popup stating ‘You are now a developer’.
Press back and now a new section called ‘Developer Options’ will appear in settings. Tap on it and turn on the toggle at the top.
Now scroll down and turn on USB Debugging.
Now make a backup of all your data as the next step will wipe all the data present in the Internal Memory.
Make sure you have 70-80% battery to prevent unexpected failures.
Disable driver signature enforcement if you are running 64bit version of windows 7. This can be done as follows-
When you boot screen comes up on your PC, press F8 a number of times until you see this boot menu –
Before we go into the process, let do make some necessary settings on your Yureka.
Go to Settings.
Scroll down and go to About Phone.
Scroll down and tap build number 7-10 times until you see a popup stating ‘You are now a developer’.
Press back and now a new section called ‘Developer Options’ will appear in settings. Tap on it and turn on the toggle at the top.
Now scroll down and turn on USB Debugging.
Now make a backup of all your data as the next step will wipe all the data present in the Internal Memory.
Make sure you have 70-80% battery to prevent unexpected failures.
Disable driver signature enforcement if you are running 64bit version of windows 7. This can be done as follows-
When you boot screen comes up on your PC, press F8 a number of times until you see this boot menu –
Now, use arrow keys to navigate to ‘Disable Driver Signature Enforcement’ and press the enter key. Once you will press the enter key, Windows will disable driver signature enforcement for that boot only. If you restart, the settings will be back to normal.
Extract the adb_fastboot file present in the rooting kit in a new folder in your C:/ drive.
Power Off your phone.
While continuously pressing the Volume Up key, connect your phone to the PC/Laptop via USB cable.
You will get a black screen stating ‘Fastboot Mode’ at the middle.
As soon as you plug your phone into the PC, windows will start installing drivers all by itself. Please wait for the installation to complete.
After the drivers have been installed successfully, go to the folder where you have extracted adb_fastboot file.
While pressing the Shift key on your keyboard, right click in the folder and select ‘Open Command Prompt Here’. The command prompt will open up.
Now type the following command to check if your device has been detected in the fastboot mode
fastboot -i 0x1ebf devices
If all is well, you will get something like this.
Congo! Your Yu Yureka’s bootloader has been unlocked!
1. After unlocking the boot loader of your phone, reboot your phone normally. After rebooting you’ll find your phone brand new and all your data has been erased, you may also encounter the screen showing android is upgrading, (if you are doing this on lollipop), wait for it.
2. When the rebooting is done and everything is over, go to developer options in settings and make the following changes:
Advanced reboot – turn it ON
Update Cyanogen recovery – turn it OFF
Android debugging – turn it ON
Now, turn off your phone.
How To Flash TWRP Recovery On Yu Yureka –
Copy the TWRP folder from the rooting kit to the internal storage of your phone.
Now, copy the yu-twrp-recoveryx64 file from the rooting kit to the folder where you extracted adb_fastboot.
Using the same old method, go into fastboot mode and open the command prompt. Now run the following command.
fastboot -i 0x1ebf flash recovery yu-twrp-recoveryx64.img
Once the recovery is flashed successfully, disconnect your phone.
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