[Device Reviews and Information] rogersa2k:
WARNING: *I* cannot be held responsible for anything *you* do to *your* phone!

Note: While I use a variety of operating systems on a regular basis everything here will be Windows 10 focused.

ADB & Fastboot

Before doing most things mentioned below you will need "adb" and "fastboot" installed. Two of your options are to install the Android SDK Tools or the Minimal ADB and Fastboot tool. If you are somewhat new to this I highly recommend the second one. Go here, download the latest version (1.3.1 as of this writing), and install it. When setup is complete you should have an icon for the Minimal ADB and Fastboot tool.

Note: I highly recommend you add "C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot" to your PATH variable in Windows. This way you can open a Command Prompt anywhere and use adb or fastboot.

Drivers

I recently setup a 5th gen Kindle Fire 7" tablet on my Windows 10 desktop. Because the BLU Life One X 2016 and the Kindle Fire are similar enough it just worked. To use the Amazon drivers you can find them on this page: https://developer.amazon.com/public...etting-up-your-kindle-fire-tablet-for-testing. The direct link is https://s3.amazonaws.com/android-sdk-manager/redist/kindle_fire_usb_driver.zip. Extract the zip file and then run KindleDrivers.exe.

Unlock Bootloader, Install Custom Recovery, and Install Root

Note #1: All credit for this guide goes to manos78's post for rooting the Wiko Fever!!! You can check it out here.

Note #2: I use Windows 10 on every PC I own. I assume Windows 7 and 8 should work just fine but cannot test that.

Note #3: The following assumes you have setup ADB and the proper drivers before beginning. I will try to detail that at a future time.

Note #4: Your phone will be completely erased. If there is anything you want to save do so beforehand.

1) Unlock Bootloader

Power on the phone and skip through all of the setup options

Go to Settings -> About device

Tap Build number five times to enable Developer options

Go to Settings -> Developer options

Enable OEM unlocking

Enable USB debugging

Plug the phone in to your PC and authorize it

Open a Command Prompt

Type adb reboot-bootloader

The phone should reboot and in a very tiny font at the bottom you should see => FASTBOOT mode

Type fastboot devices to verify that your PC sees it correctly

Type fastboot oem unlock

Press Volume Up to say Yes and wait for this to finish

Type fastboot getvar all and look for (bootloader) unlocked: yes

Type fastboot reboot

You should see your phone reboot a couple times as it erases the phone

2) Install Custom Recovery

Note #1: We will flash a version of CWM or TWRP that was built for a Wiko Fever as they appear to be fully compatible with the BLU Life One X 2016. Go to this thread and download the latest CWM (http://www.sendspace.com/file/4g87bj) or TWRP (http://www.sendspace.com/file/y4jel8). Extract the img file. Again, many thanks to manos78 for CWM and hanuma for TWRP!!!

Power on the phone

You can configure your phone now or just skip through all of the setup options and do that later

Go to Settings -> About device

Tap Build number five times to enable Developer options

Go to Settings -> Developer options

Enable OEM unlocking

Enable USB debugging

Plug the phone in to your PC and authorize it

Open a Command Prompt to wherever you extracted the .img file

Type adb reboot-bootloader

The phone should reboot and in a very tiny font at the bottom you should see => FASTBOOT mode

Type fastboot devices to verify that your PC sees it correctly

For CWM type fastboot flash recovery recovery-custom-wiko-fever.img or for TWRP type fastboot flash recovery TWRP_WikoFever_2.8.7.0.img

Type fastboot reboot

Note: If your phone does not reboot then just hold the power button until it turns off. Hold the power button again until it turns back on.

3) Install Root

Note: While there are newer beta versions of the SuperSU app I am not sure if they will work properly on our stock rom. You can test one of those out and report back but I would recommend you do a full backup beforehand.

Download BETA-SuperSU-v2.52.zip and save it to the phone's internal memory or an inserted microSD card

Plug the phone in to your PC

Open a Command Prompt

Type adb reboot recovery

You should now be in CWM. Go to Install zip, find BETA-SuperSU-v2.52.zip, and install it

When it finishes go to Go Back -> Reboot Phone -> No

Once the phone boots up launch SuperSU and configure it as you like

Xposed

Download the latest version of Xposed for sdk22 and arm64 from here. As of this writing it is xposed-v79-sdk22-arm64.zip. Also download XposedInstaller_3.0_alpha4.apk and xposed-uninstaller-20150831-arm64.zip (just in case).

Reboot into CWM or TWRP and do a full backup

Install xposed-v79-sdk22-arm64.zip and then reboot

Cross your fingers and hopefully your phone will start properly. Mine rebooted like five times during the "Android is starting" step but finally finished.

Once your phone boots up install XposedInstaller_3.0_alpha4.apk

ViPER4Android

ViPER4Android adds audio effects to your Android device and is beloved by many. First we will install SELinuxModeChanger and then ViPER4Android. Special thanks to Tha Watcher for his original write-up here.

1) SELinuxModeChanger

Go to the SELinuxModeChanger page on F-Droid, download the latest version (3.2 as of this writing) or use this direct link, and save it to your Desktop

Launch Minimal ADB and Fastboot and type adb install %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\com.mrbimc.selinux_42.apk

On the phone you may see a prompt saying Installation Blocked. If so, click the little triangle and tap Install anyway (unsafe). If you see a failure just do it again and it should work.

Launch the SELinuxModeChanger app on your phone, grant it root permissions, and click Permissive

Note: If you have any issues with SELinuxModeChanger then head over to the XDA thread.

2) ViPER4Android

Download the latest version in zip format from here and extract ViPER4Android_FX_A4.x.apk to your Desktop

Launch Minimal ADB and Fastboot and type adb install %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ViPER4Android_FX_A4.x.apk

Launch the ViPER4Android app on your phone, click Yes when prompted, click Super Audio Quality, and then click OK

Grant root access when prompted

Click OK

Reboot your phone

Note: Once your phone reboots you can start configuring ViPER4Android. I cannot really help much with that but feel free to look over the official XDA thread or their Settings Explained page on the official website.

Engineering Mode

Note: If I were you I would not change anything unless you absolutely know what you are doing!

I cannot seem to get the phone codes to work. You can install the MTK Engineering Mode app from the Google Play Store.

WARNING: *I* cannot be held responsible for anything *you* do to *your* phone!