[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] randm:
having trouble with the instructions or the fact it cant be done on my leagoo lead 1 phone.

1:Start sony bootloader unlocker and run it with your phone connected. ...did that...already turned on the debug so didnt need to go thru the steps to find that.

2: It will restart your phone to fastboot and then it remains idle...ok..it restarted the phone(im assuming) and the very small words of fastboot mode appeared at the bottom of the screen and stayed like that for must have been 40mins..no other activity on the phone at all..and the program was stuck and "finding key" or something like that..it was at the 2nd little progress dot.

during this step a driver install window popped up and after about 38mins i gave in and let it install the driver that it wanted...thats when i waited a few more minutes and knew it was not doing anything.

3:Keep your phone plugged in, switch it off and boot manually into the fastboot (power + vol up) ...what the hell does this mean..how can you switch it off from fastboot mode?..so i took the battery out and rebooted to fastboot mode..and thought it might continue unlocking the phone..

4:From here the unlocker will proceed unlocking. .....another 25mins pass...no change..phone stuck at the fastboot mode message and pc still stuck at the 2nd dot on the progress bar...so obviously again i have to remove the battery to do anything..

5:Step 1 done. ...lol...not here matey..and can i say that its not 1 step..its many steps..maybe stage 1 is complete...

ok so ive rebooted my phone and its ok...i can click on the X on the sony program and close that..so nothing seemed to be wrong with either the phone or the program...

so i tried the other programs and kingo root seemed to work it said it was rooting..... fetching scripts.... dloading files...waiting for device....waiting for device...waiting for device...then i get this..adb.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience....twice...but the program is still waiting for the device...

1:Now open kingosoft root connect the phone and let it do its thing. ..how long do you wait...1 day or 1 minute...this type of activity needs some better clarification.

anyway after seeing those error msgs i knew it didnt go right and after 15mins i again gave up...the good thing was the phone was still fine and didnt require removing the battery and the program on the pc also didnt crash.

2:At restart of the phone kingosoft will show on screen a message like "checking root status" ...so i thought id better restart the phone just incase...seems like there is no issue at all...which is good.

i did try mtk uncle on the phone but it was no different to what it was prior to any of the above steps...

ive bunched the next steps(lol) into 1...

3:Launch mtk uncle and enter engineer mode.

Go to log and debugging tab ans select user2root

Select Root. ..

none of the above was available...yes i ahd restarted kingroot and it was at the waiting step but nothing was achieved.

your thought to assist people was good but even if it was to work it still needs some extra explaining for some of the stages

thanks for the fun in trying to root my 1st ever android or smart phone..but it hasnt worked for me.

i have since tried a few other programs and found the same result in 1 way or another.

the phone still works as it did when i 1st got it...which means it works awkwardly to say the least..my 6 yr old nokia works easier and has better connectivity with the pc via a simple usb cable.

this phone randomly works with the usb and the bluetooth is a bit iffy...the wifi method of remoting from the pc to the phone is workable but very very limited.

some of the personal changes to settings dont stay if the phone is rebooted such and the stupid leagoo message when sending a txt msg...very annoying but now i know about it i can change it after any reboot.

so if you think you can suggest any other ways to root this phone go ahead but im not too worried if it never gets rooted as no matter what changes get made i will still say this is a stupid attempt at new technolodgy..its like a few steps back compared to a 6yr old nokia.:confused: