UPDATE: We now have root on the BLOX2
All credit goes to ieatgravity and mswguitar for this info
WARNING: *I* cannot be held responsible for anything *you* do to *your* phone!
ADB & Fastboot
Before doing most things mentioned below you will need "adb" and "fastboot" installed. Two of your options are to install the
Android SDK Tools or the
Minimal ADB and Fastboot tool. If you are somewhat new to this I highly recommend the second one. Go
here, download the latest version, and install it. When setup is complete you should have an icon for the Minimal ADB and Fastboot tool.
Note: I highly recommend you add "C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot" to your PATH variable in Windows. This way you can open a Command Prompt anywhere and use adb or fastboot.
Drivers
I recently setup a 5th gen Kindle Fire 7" tablet on my Windows 10 desktop. Because the BLU Life One X 2016 and the Kindle Fire are similar enough it just worked. To use the Amazon drivers you can find them on this page:
https://developer.amazon.com/public...etting-up-your-kindle-fire-tablet-for-testing. The direct link is
https://s3.amazonaws.com/android-sdk-manager/redist/kindle_fire_usb_driver.zip. Extract the zip file and then run KindleDrivers.exe.
Unlock Bootloader, Install Custom Recovery and Root, and Return to Stock
Note #1: All credit for this guide goes to
rogersa2k's post for rooting the BLU Life One X 2016!!! You can check it out
here. Most of the stuff was similar enough that I was able to follow it to root my BLOX2 with minor deviations which I've included here.
1) Unlock Bootloader
- Power on the phone and skip through all of the setup options
- Go to Settings -> About device
- Activate "Developer options" by tapping the android version in the settings around 7 times.
- Go into "Developer Options", 5th row down you with find the option OEM unlocking. Turn this feature on.
- Enable OEM unlocking
- Enable USB debugging
- Power off your device
- Hold down the power + volume up buttons at the same time until you see " boot in recovery" in white text in the upper left corner of the screen and release.
- Use the volume key to navigate to Bootloader and select it with the power button.
- Your phone will reboot and sit on the Blu bootup animation
- Plug the phone in to your PC and authorize it
- Open a Command Prompt
- Type fastboot devices to verify that your PC sees it correctly
- Type fastboot oem unlock
- This should output something along the lines of "Your bootloader is already unlocked!"
- If this is the case run "fastboot reboot" to return to android
2) Install Custom Recovery & Root
Note #1: We will flash a custom version of TWRP that was built by one of our members
- Be sure to have your Bootloader unlocked before proceeding
- Download this zip here with everything you will need:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6_iuhJQH7aGTWpSY2haaXl5aU0
- Put the SuperSu.zip file on the sdcard
- Plug the phone in to your PC and authorize it
- Open a Command Prompt to wherever you extracted the .img file
- Type adb reboot bootloader
- Your phone will reboot and sit on the Blu bootup animation
- Type fastboot devices to verify that your PC sees it correctly
- Type fastboot flash recovery BLOX2_TWRP_Recovery.img
- Type fastboot boot BLOX2_TWRP_Recovery.img
- Once booted I strongly urge you to make a nandroid backup
- Select Install
- Select the SuperSu.zip
- Swipe to flash
- Reboot when complete
- Verify with a root checker or simply type "su" into terminal or an adb shell
- Launch SuperSU and configure it as you like
Note: If your phone does not reboot then just hold the power button until it turns off. Hold the power button again until it turns back on.
To get back to stock:
Download this file here: (includes Stock Rom, Drivers and QFIL **Large DL**)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6_iuhJQH7aGU25OMWJNVGdMYkU
Should be set back to stock (unrooted) rom and recovery
