How To Root Lenovo A7000 [100% Working]

Lenovo A700 is an MTK android device with android version 4.4 KitKat. In this tutorial, I explain the step by step guide of rooting Lenovo A700 MTK android.

Rooting Android, What Does it Mean?

All untampered android devices come with some secured/protected partitions. This protected partitions prevent some applications from gaining access to the crucial aspects/parts of the android devices' system.

By rooting your android device, the locks put on these protected partitions are removed and that is what rooting means; making it possible for apps that require root access to gaining the root access on android devices. 

Why Root Android Device?

Rooting your android device makes it possible for you to perform a lot of activities you might not be able to perform ordinarily on the phone due to locks put on the protected partitions.

Activities like changing the phone's fonts, tweaking the IMEI, using some VPN apps, changing or hiding your IPs among others. 

Any Side Effects Rooting Android?

Sure. There are some side effects. However, almost all the side effects can be over-ridden or avoided if you desist from going beyond your limits.

The simple rule to avoid all the side effects is "Do not do what you are not sure of and do not install apps you can't handle". 

How to Root Lenovo A700

The guides given here have been used to root several Lenovo A700 and confirmed working. All things being equal, you should safely use this method to root any Lenovo A700
Lets Begin To Rooting Process!

Install TWRP Recovery and Root Lenovo A7000 ROW Version

Note: This method is strictly for ROW devices, don’t try on Chinese devices. 

A. Download Tools:

Download Driver for Lenovo A7000

Download flash_tool_v5.1436.00.000.rar

Download TWRP_2.8.6.0_A7000_ROW.7z

Download SuperSU-v2. 49. Sep

B. File Preparation

1. Now send the SuperSU-v2.49.zip file from your PC to the internal memory of your Lenovo A7000

2. Now right click on TWRP_2.8.6.0_A7000_ROW.7z file and select Extract to TWRP_2.8.6.0_A7000_ROW\,  you will find TWRP_2.8.6.0_A7000_ROW.img inside the folder. Just rename it to recovery.img

3. Unrar the SP flash tool.

C. Enable USB Debugging

Go to Settings>> About>> Build number and tap it 7 times to unlock Developer options. Then return to Settings>> Developer options and tick the USB Debugging option.

D. Install Driver

Install the driver then restart your PC, then connect your phone to PC via USB cable and wait till Windows configures it. Make sure the USB Debugging is enabled in this process. Once the configuration has completed, again restart your PC.

E. Install TWRP Recovery and Root Lenovo A7000 ROW Devices

1. Run as Administrator the flash_tool.exe, that you will find by extracting flash_tool_v5.1436.00.000.rar
2.  Click on “Scatter-loading” and browse the scatter file MT6752_Android_scatter.txt that comes in the TWRP_2.8.6.0_A7000_ROW folder.
3. Now it will show like this, make sure only recovery selected and selected the Download only option

4 .In the menu “Option” tab, go to “Download”, and put a “tick” in the “DA DL All with Checksum”;

5. Now hit on the Download button

6. Now turn off the phone and be sure to remove the battery for at least 5 seconds

7. Put the battery and connect your Phone to PC via USB, this will start the flashing process.

8. Once the process has completed, we will see a huge green check box. Now we can disconnect the phone from the cable. You have successfully installed TWRP recovery

9. Now don’t switch on your phone. If you switch on then twrp recovery will be replaced by default recovery.

10.  So press and hold volume up + down buttons, then power button. In other words, hold three buttons simultaneously. When the Lenovo logo appears, release the power button, the volume of both to continue to hold. ASAP phone enters the TWRP release all the buttons.

11.  Now select Install Zip then Select Install Zip from /sdcard and browse the SuperSU-v2.49.zip file that you copy pasted earlier to flash SuperSU-v2.49.zip

12. Reboot your Phone

Now you have root access on your Lenovo A7000 ROW version, To whether you Lenovo A7000 has root access or not, just go to Google play store and install Root Checker and run it.

Last but not the least, if your device is in warranty period and you have rooted your device, then the best way to claim warranty is install the stock ROM on your Lenovo A7000 ROW.