How to root the MTK6580 with Android 5.1 Lollipop

For a very long time I have been trying to find a solution to a seemingly very simple problem but I realised that finding a solution to this simple problem was an even bigger problem on its own. I have owned quite a number of mobile phones in my God given life and I have managed to do pretty much everything I wanted with them, from visual customization to adding functionality without any challenges until I sometime last year when I decided to buy my Gtel 715 Inspire One running on one of MediaTek’s new processor, the stubborn MTK6580, with Android Lollipop 5.1. Android by nature does not allow you to have full access to your phone, or rather, to the core part of your system which allows you to really customize your phone and grants you full access to your mobile phone. There is a lot you can do with a rooted device but i’m just going to mention one or two. You can flash the stock recovery in favor of  a custom recovery, you can skin your android version to make it look like  a different one, you can flash your stock ROM in favor of a custom one which allows you to do even more with your phone.

Rooting used to be a boring process but these days you just need a few clicks and that will do the job. When I bought my phone I wanted to root it but all the root applications I tried always failed so I eventually gave up. Its only yesterday when I really needed to do something super crazy with my phone that I decided to search for a solution and this is what I got.

Kingroot now supports MTK6580 and it seems like its the only one that can root this phone at the moment. All you need to do is visit www.kingroot.net and download both the kingroot Android app and the windows version. Install the Android app on your phone and the windows application on your computer. Run Kingroot on your phone. Your phone is most likely going to give you a warning saying that the app you are trying to install is harmful, this is because rooting is actually a process that manipulates system files of your phone, so its recognized as malicious software but its not harmful. When you see that just allow it to install and run the app, then its done. If this does not work, juist connect your phone to your computer with a usb cable and run the windows version of kingroot, this one will definitely work.

Make sure you do not uninstall kingroot from your phone, the moment you do that is the moment you loose your root, installing supersu may help but its not proven so its best to keep kingroot.

Thats it, Happy rooting.