How To Root Lenovo K3 Note and Install CWM Recovery

Recently Lenovo has launched  a low budget beast Lenovo K3 Note in Indian market via e-retail Flipkart which cost 10K INR. But this price hardly you will get a smartphone with an Octa core processor, 2GB RAM, 13MP rear camera and 5MP front with 3000mAh Li-Polymer battery. I am totally impressed by this phone. If you are one of them who own Lenovo K3 Note and want to do some experiment by rooting your phone, then you need to know the proper way to root Lenovo K3 Note. In this post I am going to tell you step by step way to Root Lenovo K3 Note.

Before we are going to proceed to root Lenovo K3 Note, you must know what is smartphone rooting by Googling. Here I want to let you know that rooting a device mean you are violating the warranty terms and condition. So be sure before rooting your Lenovo K3 Note.

So how to root Lenovo k3 Note?

Note: Rooting your phone violates the warranty terms and conditions, so do at your own risk. And this is only for Chinese version of Lenovo K3 Note, not for the ROW version of Lenovo K3 Note.

To root Lenovo K3 Note, we first need to install custom recovery on it. Then we will flash the SuperSu to root it.  Here is the guide, follow it.

Read also How To Root Lenovo K3 Note ROW or Indian Version K50a40

Part 1: Enable USB Debugging on your Lenovo K3 Note:

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.

Part 2: Download and Install Driver Lenovo K3 Note

Download and install the driver from here. Once you have installed the driver just 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.

Part 3: Download Tools

Download Lenovo K3 NOTE CWM Recovery.zip

Download UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.94.zip

Download ADB FASTBOOT FILES.zip

Part 4: File preparation

1. Copy and paste the SuperSu Zip file to your Phone’s internal memory from your PC.
2. Unzip Lenovo K3 NOTE CWM Recovery.zip, you will a recovery.img file!
3.  FASTBOOT FILES.zip and select Extract to “ADB FASTBOOT FILES” folder

Part 5: Root Lenovo K3 Note

1. Open the “ADB FASTBOOT FILES” folder
2. Inside the folder, hold “Shift” Key then right click and select “Open command Windows here”
3. The Command prompt will open
4. Connect your phone to PC via USB, you will get a pop up on your phone saying ADB debugging, just allow it.
5. Now on the command prompt, type “adb devices” and hit enter.
6. If everything ok, it will show list of devices attached like this
7. Now type “adb reboot bootloader” and hit enter
8. You will that phone will go to bootloader mode. Basically its fastboot mode.
9. Now type “fastboot devices” and hit enter
10. If the driver working in fastboot mode, then command prompt will say fastboot like this
11. Now type “fastboot flash recovery” and hit space not enter
12. Now drag and drop the recovery.img file over the command prompt.  It will show like this
13. Now hit enter to flash the recovery.img file
14. Once the process has completed type “fastboot reboot” and hit enter
15. Once it booted up, unplug your device from PC.
16. Now we need to access CWM Recovery so Power Off or shut down your device
17. Now first hold volume UP+DOWN then hold the Power button, mean hold three buttons simultaneously
18. Release the buttons once you see something written in Chinese
19. Now you are in CWM recovery. To navigate, use Volume UP and Down buttons and to select use Power button.
20. Set the language either English or Chinese according to you.
21. Now select Install Zip then Select Install Zip from /sdcard and browse the SuperSu Zip file that you copy pasted earlier
22. Select the SuperSu Zip file, then choose Yes-Install SuperSu.zip to flash it.
23. Once it’s done, just go back the select reboot the select reboot system to reboot your phone
24. Now your Lenovo K3 Note has been rooted.

To whether you Lenovo K3 Note has root access or not, just go to Google play store and install Root Checker and run it.

Also Read How To Root Lenovo A7000 [100% Working]

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