How to Root Lenovo Vibe S1 and Install TWRP Recovery
If you own a Lenovo Vibe S1 smartphone, and also want to customize this rugged smartphone, then you have visited the right page.
The Lenovo Vibe S1Â is one of it’s kind smartphone, which had become the center attention of the users. It has Unique Dual Selfie Camera, which works by combining the 8MP F2.2 Camera with BSI Sensor and a 2MP camera to analyze the depth of field. This makes background blur and focuses with one touch, apart from the beautification mode, which makes the selfie perfect. The phone’s display boasts of Gorilla Glass 3, which disperses the reflections and makes the screen images looking richer without any compromise of hardness. There is a curved-glass rear panel, along with the rounded metal frame, which makes the phone elegant and stylish. It weighs just 132 grams, and equipped with a 5-inch display with 440ppi and Full HD resolution. The device runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop, and comes with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage, while supporting the expandable storage memory of up to 128GB. The phone comes in-built with the Lenovo Apps, including SHAREit and SYNCit. The Vibe S1 supports 4G-LTE connectivity, and works on Dual Nano SIM. The device is powered by a MT6752 64-bit Octa-core processor running at 1.7GHz.
If you are an Android Enthusiast, and want to Root and Install TWRP recovery on your beloved, then you have landed on the right page. In the due course of the article, we will guiding you through the process to install TWRP and root Lenovo Vibe S1.
The TWRP features the material design, and attractive user interface (UI), and by following this guide you can install latest TWRP for Lenovo Vibe S1. You can download TWRP Recovery from the links provided in the pre-requisite section of this article. Kindly note that this is a <official/unofficial> TWRP recovery and is only for Lenovo Vibe S1 (Kindly confirm the model by going to Settings>About). The process given below is merely for rooting and installing TWRP on Lenovo Vibe S1, do not try out this method on any other device.
If you want to unleash the full potential of the hardware of your Lenovo Vibe S1, then rooting and flashing the TWRP is the main concern. The Stock ROMs have often limited and unsupported features in the sense of Customization. When you have a rooted device and also flashed TWRP recovery, then you are free to install any Custom ROMs, Mods, Kernel, and Xposed etc., as well as many apps which requires root access to work properly.
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Brief Details and Advantage of TWRP Recovery
TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) is an open source, community development project. By flashing the TWRP, your device will be enabled to install any custom firmware, rooting your smartphone, mod zip files for customizations, Xposed Modules for customized features, one click root and unroot processes. Apart from that, it allows you to take Full Nandroid Backup and restore it later, one click image file flashing, remove bloatware, overclock and underclock. Using TWRP, one can easily clean Wipe, Cache and Data after flashing any image file to reflect the changes and rectify minor errors due to cache.
For installing the TWRP, your Lenovo Vibe S1 phone must have the Unlocked bootloader. That means you have to firstly unlock the bootloader to root your device as well doing any customization.
Disclaimer: The AndroidWeblog.com covers although everything in a very neat and a processed manner so that our readers get exactly what they want, still there are meager chances of basic issues that may arise out of the listed steps here. Hence it is in sole interest of the user to follow the steps very cautiously so as to stay away from any mishappenings with your device.
Rooting and flashing the Custom ROM firmware, certainly without any doubt voids your devices warranty and AndroidWeblog.com in no way will be held responsible for warranty void or your bricked device.
Prerequiste
Ensure to check your model number, which must be:
- Lenovo Vibe S1
You must have to ensure that prior to rooting your phone , you have read thoroughly the disclaimer and you agree to proceed further on your risk.
- Phone Should be Charged
Your phone must be 70% charged atleast else, it may lead to complications sometimes while experimenting. Why to take risk, try to charge it fully.
- Back Up
If you are either going to root your phone or install a Custom ROM, it is a good habit to make a back up of your phone. Make a back up of all your media like images, videos and all on your PC and your contacts on Cloud.
- Enable USB Debugging
You must enable USB debugging option by going in to Settings, Applications and Developer options.
Downloads For Rooting Lenovo Vibe S1
Download MediaTek USB VCOM Drivers here (MT6xxx_USB_VCOM_drivers. zip)
Download TWRP Recovery for Lenovo Vibe S1 from here:
TWRP 3.0.2.3-M by SevenMaxs.zip (Login required)
Download SuperSU by Chainfire from here.
Download Latest version of SPFlash Tool for Windows here.
Steps to Flash/ Install TWRP on Lenovo Vibe S1
Step 1:Â Begin with downloading all the files mentioned above in the prerequisite section.
Step 2:Â Browse through the files downloaded, and then Right click on the zipped file MT6xxx_USB_VCOM_drivers. zip and extract the same. Then navigate to the extracted folder and then click on the file InstallDriver. exe. This will install the Preloader VCOM in your system.
Step 3:Â Assuming that you have downloaded SP FlashTool (Win) from the provided link above, Then simply click and extract the archive. Then, browse and run the file flash_tool. exe
Step 4: Find the Scatter File from the downloaded TWRP zip file, which you have downloaded. Rename the TWRP (.img) file to recovery.img. Now, on the flash tool interface, navigate and select the scatter file in the extracted folder of the Stock ROM (Download Stock ROM for your  Lenovo Vibe S1 smartphone).
Step 5:Â At this stage, just leave the recovery as ticket/ checked. Now, at the location tab, click on the storage location field of the recovery and search and browse for the custom recovery image file which is device-specific (As shown in the picture above). Then click the Download button.
Step 6:Â Now, hook up/ connect your Lenovo Vibe S1 to the computer via USB slot. Connecting your smartphone will begin the flashing process automatically, and it requires simply a few seconds to complete.
Step 7:Â At this point of the custom recovery on your device has been flashed. Now, you may disconnect the device from computer. Now, you need to turn on/ boot your device into TWRP recovery. For doing the same, boot the device while pressing and holding the volume up button. Kindly note that key combinations may vary on your device model, and you can confirm the right key combination for your Lenovo Vibe S1. The Volume Up button also starts the bootloader mode on specific devices, which is equipped with menu to browse to the recovery mode. You may try the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons as key combinations. That’s all, you have successfully flashed the TWRP on your Lenovo Vibe S1
Procedure to Root Lenovo Vibe S1/ Install SuperSU
Make sure that you have downloaded SuperSU (link in pre-requisite section of this article). Then, proceed to the steps.
Step 1:Â Transfer the downloaded SuperSU.zip file to the internal storage / SD card of your Lenovo Vibe S1 smartphone.
Step 2:Â Now, just boot into the recovery. From the TWRP interface, you can optionally backup the Stock ROM. Though, I would recommend to backup the Stock ROM. Because if in case process gets failed, you can flash the Stock ROM.
Step 3: Tap on Install ‘, and then navigate to the file ‘SuperSU.zip’ and swipe to confirm flash (located at the bottom of the screen). The flashing process of SuperSU has been started and will take few seconds to complete.
Congratulations, now you have rooted Lenovo Vibe S1 and also flashed the TWRP. Now, you can install Xposed Framework, and customize your smartphone as per your preference. If you wish to verify, you may download and check the Root Status through Root Checker app.
Credits:Â Â alwynjoshy
Source: XDA