[Micromax A116] G.Ashwinkumar:
Even though there a lot of articles on how to root still many of you out there have still not rooted this guide will help you.

I've gone through lots of articles on how to install CWM recovery , How to Root Canvas HD but almost all of them are not noob friendly. As a new user i myself took days to get acclimatized to rooting.........

This is a noob friendly guide to root and install CWM recovery both on 4.1 and 4.2 versions.Even the so called geeks can go through this!!:laugh:

Source:

Nothing is of my own i've created this from various forum links and have taken help from google.

First what is rooting?

Rooting is a process allowing users of Smartphone’s, tablets, and other devices running the Android operating system to attain privileged control (known as “root access”) within Android’s subsystem. Basically rooting is performed to overcome the limitation that wireless service providers and hardware manufacture of android phone put on some devices. If your android mobile is rooted that means you are the SUPER USER on your android cell phone and you get ability to customize or replace system applications. This little word rooting provide you power to run specialized apps that require administrator-level permissions and perform another operation which are inaccessible to a normal android.

I think this should be more than enough and you would have already spent your time on this!! Hope so:o

Now what is CWM recovery?

All of the Android devices consign with a recovery assuage that is a basic partition on the device's internal memory and also can be booted into it. The stock recovery of almost all of the Android devices provide a few basic yet useful options that allow us to factory reset our device, clearly it is cache partitioning, and bring back its operating system using an official ROM in zip format, but that is the only thing you can do with it. This is the reason where a custom recovery becomes handy.

A custom Android recovery initially replaces all the stock recovery with the one that lets you to do all that you can with the stock recovery, plus a overabundance of options that give us a lot more control on the device. With a custom recovery, you can install official and unofficial ROMs as well as other updates also including hacks, themes, kernels.Using zip files, wipe not just user data but every standard partition on our device, ascend the storage card for USB mass storage access without leaving recovery, partition your SD card, wipe dalvik cache and battery status, fix the permissions, perform, manage and restore backups, and so on.

This is where CWM recovery comes in our aid!!

There is also another very popular recovery named TWRP which many developers still recommend but still a major drawback is that many ROM developers still prefer CWM so i say go with CWM!

Now first how to ROOT.

Do remember rooting voids your warranty, still you can unroot before going to customer care(if you have to). Don't believe all those info on internet that rooting should be avoided.... never root your device... it is very risky.. etc yes you may brick your device if you don't follow the instructions carefully but if you follow these instructions properly nothing would happen!

Now actually since there are many methods to root which i've come across, i think only 3 of them are quite easy and would explain on how to do them here!

The first way to root is always with the SP flash tools but it is a very old and tough job as many users face the problem of their pc not detecting their device.So i'm not going to explain about it.

Since this post is already too long i'm giving the XDA links to the three methods(sorry)......

First method:

Link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=44650526#post44650526

Second method:

Link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=45971702#post45971702

Third method:

Link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=45972200#post45972200

In case you want to take your beloved CHD to a service center then please unroot it and also flash stock recovery.

Here how to UNROOT and flash stock recovery:

Link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=45971034#post45971034

Please hit THANKS if i helped.

Disclaimer:

I'm not responsible for any damage caused to your phone proceed ahead with caution.