Root Gionee Elife E3 & Flash CWM Recovery

How To Root Gionee Elife E3 & Install CWM Recovery

Gionee E3 is a feature packed android device with a friendly pricing. It has a  4.7 retina display with 1920x1080 resolution and 320ppi. This rooting method is tested on Gionee E3 with Android 4.2.1.

Warning:

• Rooting voids warranty. Do this at your own risk.
• Back up all necessary data before undergoing these steps.
• Make sure your device have at least 65% battery charge left.

Downloads:

Motochopper---Link

E3 MTK USB Drivers---Link

CWM 6.0.2.8--Link   OR   CWM 6.0.3.3 --Link

Rooting:

• Download and install USB drivers for E3 on your PC

• Download Motochopper zip file and extract it on PC.

• Enable USB Debugging on your E3: Settings-->Developer Options-->USB Debugging

• Connect device to PC via USB cable.

• From the Motochopper extract folder, execute "run.bat". If you are using Linux or OS X, navigate to the extracted directory in a terminal and execute "./run.sh".

 

• Approve ADB connection from your PC to Device.

 You have rooted your Gionee E3 successfully!

Recovery:

• Download and install Mobileuncle MTK tool from playstore.

• Start Mobileuncle Tools and grant SU rights.

• Download the required CWM recovery zip and extract it to get the recovery.img file. Copy the recovery file to root of your SD card.

• Open Mobileuncle tool and choose "Recovery Update" option.

• You will see the copied "recovery.img" file . Select it at confirm that you want to flash it.

• You have succesfully flashed CWM recovery. In order to get into CWM you can either use Mobileuncle or Press Vol+Power buttons.

That's it, you have roooted and installed recovery on your Gionee Elife E3.

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