How To Successfully Root Tecno Camon C9

This post is sourced from HOVATEK, you can get the original post Here. Recently I emphasized what Rooting Of Android Phone is all about, The Tecno Camon C9 is one of the latest Smartphone from Tecno's collection and the direct successor to Camon C8. The Camon C9 at the moment does not support any available one-click rooting apks because this device runs on version 6.0 (Marshmallow). Today I will show you the complete guide to Root Tecno Camon C9 Successfully.

Follow This Guide To Root Tecno Camon C9

There are two main steps:

1. Unlocking the Bootloader of the Tecno Camon C9

2. Flashing the CWM recovery.img and SuperSU.zip

Download SuperSU 2.66.zip at http://hovatek.com/redirect.php?link=https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B9srKhKuVIMnZHlTVjhrVEJjdWM&export=download

Copy SuperSU.zip to both the phone’s SD card and internal storage

Download CWM for Tecno Camon C9 ported by Team Hovatek at http://hovatek.com/redirect.php?link=https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B_-waNKLvNRcbDNoVHpCcGo0aXc&export=download

Extract and copy the CWM recovery.img into the same folder as the fastboot.exe and adb.exe

Unlock the Bootloader of the Tecno Camon C9 using the guide at https://forum.hovatek.com/thread-14288.html

Connect the phone to the PC via USB cord while switched On and boot it into Fastboot (as instructed in the Bootloader unlock guide)

When the phone enters Fastboot, flash the recovery.img to the phone by typing the command below then pressing Enter fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Reboot the phone by typing the command below then pressing Enter fastboot reboot

Boot the phone into recovery mode by switching off and using Volume up button + Power button (see https://forum.hovatek.com/thread-479.html)

In Clockworkmod recovery mode, you use the Volume up button to scroll up, Volume down button to scroll down and Power button to select

Scroll down to Install zip and select it

Select Choose zip from /storage/sdcard1

Navigate to the location of SuperSu.zip and select it

Select Yes – Install SuperSU to confirm flashing

Wait till flashing is complete Return to the home screen (using the back option) then select Reboot

If CWM offers to help fix a missing Root, select No

Confirm Root by installing and running Root Checker

Credit goes to mukubya @ TeamHovatek for supplying the needed stock recovery .bin and confirming.