This is a guide on rooting the new Chuwi Vi7 Phablet as a result of spending lots of hours on this proyect with the hope that others find it useful.
PREREQUISITES:A) Linux users generally install the android-tools package so you have the adb command available.
In Manjaro linux and Arch Linux just do
Code:
sudo pacman -Sy android-tools
In Ubuntu probably
Code:
apt-get update && apt-get install android-tools
A) windows users would need to install the intel drivers for android and adb.exe (presumibly; not tested)
Run CMD and type adb.exe devices
If you see your phablet you should be good to continue...
1) (Recommended) Apply the over the air update; you know you have it when you can see the Google Playstore installed.
2) Connect your Chuwi Vi7 to your PC with a microusb cable
3) unzip the attached file and transfer all the individual files contained to the Chuwi´s /data/local/tmp folder
as follows:
Code:
adb push app_process32_original /data/local/tmp/
adb push busybox /data/local/tmp/
adb push chattr.pie /data/local/tmp/
adb push install-recovery.sh /data/local/tmp/
adb push libsupol.so /data/local/tmp/
adb push su /data/local/tmp/
adb push sugote-mksh /data/local/tmp/
adb push Superuser.apk /data/local/tmp/
adb push supolicy /data/local/tmp/
adb push toolbox /data/local/tmp/
adb push vi7root /data/local/tmp/
4) Now from a terminal run these commands:
Code:
adb shell
#(you will see a shell prompt ending with $)
su
#(you will see a shell prompt ending with # else ABORT immediately)
sh /data/local/tmp/vi7root
reboot
and that´s it!
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