Guide to rooting Huawei Ascend Y210-0100 (Gingerbread)

[blha303]

I wrote up this guide on reddit and it's now on the first page of Google results for 'huawei ascend y210-0100 root', which was my goal, but I thought I'd submit it to the forum here as well.

With lots of thanks to jcase for pointing me at temproot.
Steps:

• Earlier I got Doomlord's easy rooting toolkit to try that. It didn't work, but it gave me adb, su, busybox, Superuser.apk, all that. If you don't have those already, get that, it's the easiest way to get all the files at once IMO.
• Get temproot from <can't post link>
• Use adb push to upload su, busybox and temproot to the device. adb push <name> /data/local/tmp
• adb shell
  $ cd /data/local/tmp
  $ chmod 4755 temproot
  $ ./temproot
  ./temproot
• Root acquired.
• Thanks, HTC, for leaving this exploit open for such a ridiculously long time!
  # chmod 4755 busybox
  # ./busybox mount -o remount,rw /system
  # chmod 4755 su
  # ./busybox cp su /system/bin/su
  # ./busybox cp busybox /system/bin/busybox
  # exit
  $ su
  #

If it's worked, you should see a # after using su. I might have missed a step, so if you've had a problem, leave a comment. After doing this, exit from adb shell and use adb install Superuser.apk to install Superuser. Thanks for reading.

 

[lifolestic]

easier way of rooting y220 is by using frama root

 

[blha303]

I tried several methods for other Ascend Y's, but none of them successfully rooted my Y210-0100 (not Y220).

 

[lifolestic]

alright.

my phone is y220. i rooted it using framaroot. I wanna modify my imei, but mtk engibeer mode is not just compatible with it. can you please help me out?

 

[blha303]

Nope, I have no idea how to do that :/