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By olli_o, Junior Member on 1st December 2015, 05:49 PM
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Hi all,
found out how to root this device!

Here the steps:
  1. Make sure you have fastboot installed on your computer: https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Fastboot
  2. download supersu zip from here
    https://download.chainfire.eu/696/supersu/
  3. save it to your external sdcard
  4. enable developer options (settings - about - click mutliple times on the build number).
  5. enable OEM unlock in the developer options settings on the device.
  6. reboot Wileyfox Swift into fastboot mode: with the device powered down, hold the Volume Up and connect USB
  7. to unlock the boot loader, WARNING!!! This wipes your user data!!!
    on your computer type
    Code: 
    fastboot oem unlock
fastboot -i 0x2970 oem unlock-go
fastboot oem unlock-go
  8. download latest recovery image from here
    http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=crackling
  9. to boot the custom recovery, on your computer type
    Code: 
    fastboot boot <name_of_recovery>.img
    OR
    install recovery
    Code: 
    fastboot flash recovery <name_of_recovery>.img
    and reboot into recovery manually (remove and reinstall battery, hold volume down and power buttons.
  10. install supersu update zip from recovery menu (choose zip from extenal SD)
  11. reboot and enjoy root access
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2nd December 2015, 02:18 PM |#2  
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Thanks
I went a step forward and installed the CM nightly.
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7th December 2015, 12:37 PM |#3  
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I went a step forward and installed the CM nightly.

Does the camera work? I tried one of the first nightlies but the camera crashed, so this was no option for me.
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7th December 2015, 01:53 PM |#4  
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Does the camera work? I tried one of the first nightlies but the camera crashed, so this was no option for me.

No problem with camera for me.
All works fine and smooth
No bugs nored
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7th December 2015, 09:28 PM |#5  
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4) reboot directly into recovery. Normal system boot reinstalls stock recovery.

5) install supersu update zip from recovery menu

When in recovery I press apply update and sd card, before i've even selected supersu, which returns:
Install failed
Installation aborted
Installation aborted
any ideas?
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9th December 2015, 10:46 AM |#6  
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Originally Posted by monethys

When in recovery I press apply update and sd card, before i've even selected supersu, which returns:
Install failed
Installation aborted
Installation aborted
any ideas?

This is stange. I modified the instructions a little, does it also happen if you follow these steps?
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11th December 2015, 02:22 PM |#7  
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OTA?
Will I be able to update my phone (ota?) after the root?
I'm fine with having to reroot
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14th December 2015, 01:03 PM |#8  
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Will I be able to update my phone (ota?) after the root?
I'm fine with having to reroot

Incremental auto-update won't work rooted. But you can manually update. See here
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14th December 2015, 11:37 PM |#9  
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Followed instructions and now have a rooted wileyfox swift thank you
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15th December 2015, 07:38 PM |#10  
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Originally Posted by olli_o

Hi all,
found out how to root this device!

Here the steps:

  1. download supersu zip from here
  2. save it to your external sdcard
  3. enable developer options (settings - about - click mutliple times on the build number).
  4. enable OEM unlock in the developer options settings on the device.
  5. reboot Wileyfox Swift into fastboot mode: with the device powered down, hold the Volume Up and connect USB
  6. to unlock the boot loader, WARNING!!! This wipes your user data!!!
    on your computer type
    Code: 
    fastboot oem unlock
fastboot -i 0x2970 oem unlock-go
fastboot oem unlock-go
  7. download latest recovery image from here
  8. to boot the custom recovery, on your computer type
    Code: 
    fastboot boot <name_of_recovery>.img
  9. install supersu update zip from recovery menu (choose zip from extenal SD)
  10. reboot and enjoy root access

In case anyone has a similar issue:

I could unlock. I could install the recovery. But SuperSU was coming up with signature errors and wouldn't install. I discovered that this was because the recovery was being overwritten (I flashed it to the device because "fastboot boot..." was not working).

I could not get the device to flash the recovery then reboot to recovery without it going into normal boot first and rewriting the recovery so that I would not be able to install SU.

The solution I found for this was to take the back of the phone off.

Flash the recovery: fastboot flash recovery "recovery file name".img

Then just pull the battery.

Hold the volume down when you put the battery back in and launch the device still holding volume down.

Remember to release the power button once you see fox logo or you'll reboot again.

Now I installed SuperSU without a hitch and all is good.

Hope that helps anyone who is stuck.

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Hi all,
found out how to root this device!
[*]download latest recovery image from here
/download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=crackling[/
[/LIST]

All the list from here is a nightly build. Can you give the stable mod? I'm noob so can follow it. it is very hard for me to make it work I'm still working to install the fast boot for mac. I found this:
bash <(curl -s htps:/raw.githubusercontent.com/corbindavenport/nexus-tools/master/install.sh)

It seems to work when i check this command:

adb devices

BUT NOT SURE if this is safe.

Please provide link for recovery or rom which i can follow using your guide. There are many in the link above but which one is stable and i can use that all the of the system functioning.

Thank you in advance.
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