[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Hello everyone,

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Attention all:

With being successful on getting the Vivo Air rooted, there comes a time were we forget we have root, in this case, I did. Now read this very carefully...

DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT TAKE AN OTA WHILE ROOTED!!!!!!! You WILL HAVE A BRICK IN YOUR HANDS!

So those who just stroll by in XDA, please understand that you need to unroot before taking any ota. I bricked my device and had to buy a new one, plus there is no way to recover from a brick at this time.

You have been warned!!

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You may continue after you have read ^^^^

With some unsuccessful attempts of rooting this device, I have done some reading on getting this bad boy rooted.

I need to throw I'm here a small disclaimer. I, myself, bit the bullet in attempting this. You are solely responsible for what you do to your device. If you are uncomfortable with attempting this, please steer away.

I haven't broken into a system dump yet or been able to get the blocks yet for fastboot if you encounter a issue. I cannot help you with restoring the device if something fails. You have been warned. If you would like to continue, please keep reading :)

I have tried several different rooting methods:

-framaroot

-towel root

-king root

-RootGenius

-SRS Root

These are all the methods that DID NOT WORK!

With that in mind, I was chatting in another thread with [MENTION=5181349]abhishekr700[/MENTION] , he had a good point in the direction of getting the Vivo Air Rooted. He does not own this device but he mentioned we have a MediaTek chipset. I checked out some specs and it turns out our MTK chipset is MTK6592. MediaTek Root Tools does, in fact, support our exact chipset.

[MENTION=5181349]abhishekr700[/MENTION] suggested MediaTek Tools for a possible achievement in root.

Well, we have a small break through on getting the Vivo Air some development now.

After the small fill in and proper credit, I attempted root by using MediaTek Root Tools.

Let's just say, it's extremely easy. However, getting ADB working for the phone was a bit tedious without a proper driver or a nice direction. I had to do some studying on this.

Turns out we need to use the generic Google ADB driver.

The moment you plug in your device, it should recognize the phone and phone only, Windows was able to achieve a driver for the phone. So after fussing with trying to get ADB working I was livid and figured I should try a few other things.

I completely removed all drivers associated with the Vivo Air which was just the one.

After all that talk, let's get down to business. Sorry about that little section as well :p

First and foremost, let's get some pre-reqs ready and have a backup route setup.

A) Download MediaTek Root Tools located here:

androiddevs.net/root-tool-mediatek-phones/

-1) scroll down to the "Procedure" section and download the PDA NET DRIVERS.

-2) also download the GRAPHICAL AUTO ROOT TOOL (This is the root tool we will use).

B) Please go to developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html and download this Google USB Driver. (We may need this later, if and only if your pc doesn't recognize ADB is enabled from your phone).

Now with that out of the way as well, let's move on.

Next...

1- install PDANet and select all the general stuff for the phone. Once you get to the part about enabling ADB, click skip.

2- on your device, please go to Settings>All Settings>About Phone and tap rapidly on "Build Number" till it says "You've enabled Developer Mode"

Now back out to the settings menu again. Tap on Developer Options. Turn this on with the little slider in the right hand corner. Following that, check on USB Debugging.

3- plug in your phone.

4- let the drivers install now, give it a few minutes. Depending on your version, the Vivo Air does not have an icon in the Status Bar displaying Debugging is active. So pay close attention to the pop up bar that you receive at the bottom of the phone. Turn on Interim.

5- now extract the root tool and launch the .exe file.

You'll see some Chinese thing. Just tap the button in the middle, and you should see it starts. It will give you a progress loading circle and will reboot your phone to the recovery the Vivo Air comes stock with.

6- if successful, when the phone reboots, look for a app called KingUser. This is to confirm you have root :)

Download BusyBox and install the binaries just to be safe and bam successful root!!!

I will fill this spot in with more about how the pc may need to manually install the ADB driver. In just a few.

Other than that, you should be good to go!

Thanks to The developer of the Graphical root tool and [MENTION=5181349]abhishekr700[/MENTION] for suggesting that I should go this route.

If someone runs into the ADB issue please notify me if I have not updated the thread with the new information!

Thanks for dropping by and enjoy your rooted Vivo Air :)

This is the first step. ;)