How To Root Tecno Phantom 6 & Phantom 6 plus - Step By Step Guide

How To Root Tecno Phantom 6 & Phantom 6 plus - Step By Step Guide

Hey guys, so this is another tutorial that shows you how to root your phantom 6 and 6 plus device. Rooting of device gives you full access to the system directory and can make changes to the way the OS operates. As part of rooting, you install usage manager (SuperSU is the main one right now). These tools are basically the gatekeeper of root access on your phone. When an app requests root, you have to approve it using the root manager.

So what can you do with root specifically? Let’s say there’s a system app that you really don’t like seeing, but it can’t be disabled through the standard method. With root you can run an app like Titanium Backup to delete or permanently hide the app.

Other Benefits Are:

• Unlock Hidden Features and Install "Incompatible" Apps
• Automate Everything
• Boost Your Phone's Speed and Battery Life
• Block Ads in Any App
• Back Up Your Phone for Seamless Transitions
• Remove Preinstalled Crapware
• Tweak the Dark Corners of Android
• Flash a Custom Kernel
• Flash a Custom ROM
• Truly Own Your Device

There are two main steps in this tutorial:

• Unlocking the Bootloader of the Tecno Phantom 6
• Flashing the TWRP recovery.img and SuperSU.zip

You will have to Unlock the Bootloader of the Tecno Phantom 6 & 6 Plus in other to complete rooting of the device, you can use the tutorial below

How To Unlock BootLoader?

You have to enable USB debugging on Our Tecno Camon C9 smartphone, to enable USB debugging mode, go to settings>>click on about>>continuously tap on the build number continuously for five (5) times to enable debugging mode.

• Next go back to settings>>click on developer option and enable OEM unlocking.
• After which, setup ADB and fastboot on your PC.
• Now connect your Device to PC via USb cable.
• After which launch your ADB and run the command provided below and press "enter".
• Code: ''adb devices''
• the work of the provided code is to make sure if the ADB detected your device.
• Now input and run the command provided below so as to boot the device into fastboot.
• Code: ''adb reboot-bootloader''
• After doing the above your device will boot into "fastboot mode" after which your screen will go black and you will see "fastboot" will be written on it.
• After that type the following command below and press "enter"
• Code: ''fastboot oem unlock''
• The code above will prompt your device asking you to confirm the "bootloader unlock" press the volume up button for yes.
• Wait till you get a success message, after which input and run the code below to boot your device into system mode, system mode{ normal working device mode.}
• Code: ''fastboot reboot''

Thats all.

ROOTING THE TECNO PHANTOM 6 & 6 PLUS

To root tecno phantom 6 and phantom 6, you will need TWRP for Tecno Phantom 6 from HERE 

• Setup ADB and Fastboot on the PC
• Extract and copy the TWRP recovery.img into the same folder as the fastboot.exe and adb.exe
• First you will need to download SuperSU 2.76.zip from HERE
• After that copy SuperSU.zip to the phone’s internal storage
• Connect the phone to the PC via USB cord while switched On and boot it into Fastboot (as instructed in the Bootloader unlock guide; don't forget to re-enable OEM unlocking and USB Debugging)
• When the phone enters Fastboot, load the TWRP recovery to the phone by typing the command below then pressing Enter.

Command: fastboot boot recovery.img

• The phone should automatically boot into TWRP recovery mode

• In TWRP, if you get a prompt asking you to swipe to allow modification of the System partition, tap KEEP READ ONLY.
• If TWRP offers to root the phone, select No

• In TWRP recovery, tap Install
• Navigate to the location of the SuperSU2.76.zip and select it
• Swipe to confirm flashing of SuperSU.zip and wait till flashing is complete
• Reboot the phone normally
• In other to know if your device hhas been rooted successfully you will need to download and install root checker on your device which you can get on playstore HERE

This has only been tested on  Tecno Phantom 6 Plus (A9-H971A1-M-160908V640  & The Tecno Phantom 6 (A6).