Friday, August 26, 2016

Guide How to Install TWRP Recovery and Root Android Lenovo Vibe K5 K5 Plus

[Guide] How to Install TWRP Recovery and Root Android Lenovo Vibe K5 | K5 Plus.

Install TWRP Recovery and Root Vibe Lenovo K5. This guide will show you how to Install TWRP Recovery and Root Android Lenovo Vibe K5 | K5 Plus. If you want root the Lenovo Vibe K5 or K5 plus you must install TWRP Recovery first on this device. We know that TWRP is custom recovery image for Android-based devices, and this recovery provided GUI interface or with touchscreen enabled, by using TWRP we allows users to install third-party firmware and backup the current system. therefore, TWRP often installed when rooting Android smartphone devices.

Lenovo Vibe K5 is the smartphone released on February, 2016. with 5,0 Inchi IPS capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, work on Android OS, v5.1 (Lollipop), and supported with Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU, Qualcomm MSM8929 Snapdragon 415 chipset, Adreno 405 GPU, combined with 2 GB of RAM, 13 MP on primary camera and 5 MP on secondary camera.

Install TWRP on Lenovo Vibe K5.

Here is the guide started. Now follow all step carefully.

Make sure Minimal ADB and fastboot installed on your compuer. you can see this guide.
Make sure your battery is not empty or at least has 70% of battery capacity.
Now, switch on your Lenovo Vibe K5.
Then enable the Developer Options.

Go to Setting -> About Phone -> Phone Information -> tap 7 times at Build Number,

Then, Enable USB Debugging

Go to Settings -> Developer -> USB Debugging

Now, Enable OEM unlock.

Go to Settings -> Developer -> Unlock OEM

Make sure driver for Lenovo Vibe K5 installed correctly on your computer, you can find the driver that come on the CD cell partition
Now, connect your Lenovo Vibe K5 to the computer using original USB cable.
Then, Download the TWRP recovery, and copy it to the folder where adb is installed on your computer.

Download link
Cretaed by Shreps
TWRP version : 3.0.2.0
File name : twrp-k5-3.0.2-r1_shreps.img

Open a command prompt from within your fastboot folder.
To start this command prompt just hold shift + right click, select open command prompt here.
Run ADB on computer
Now type,

adb devices

This command used to confirm the connection between Lenovo Vibe K5 and the computer.
Once the connection confirmed. Now type.

adb reboot bootloader

If you want to temporarily boot this recovery type ,

fastboot boot TWRP-k5-3.0.2-r1_shreps.img

If you want to permanently flash it, type ;

fastboot flash recovery TWRP-k5-3.0.2-r1_shreps.img

Finish.

Root on Lenovo Vibe K5.

This step will show you how to root Lenovo Vibe K5
To start it, you must Download the ZIP file SuperSU v2.46

Then save it in the micro SD card.
Now turn off your Lenovo Vibe K5.
Then enter to recovery mode.

Press and hold Power Button and Volume Up button

Then follow instruction appear on screen.
Select recovery to install SuperSu from SD Card.

Available link for download