Root your Android device without using Boot Camp

tl;dr

Use Kingo to root your android device via VirtualBox with a free Windows image. Just make sure to install the VirtualBox extension pack and enable USB 2.0 support. This may very well work on Linux as well.

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Background

Kingo Root seems to be the easiest way to root most modern Android devices. I was excited to use it on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3, but dismayed when I discovered it only works on Windows. I've never booted Windows on my MacBook, and I really didn't want to set up a Boot Camp partition just to root my phone, so I set out to figure out whether I could get Kingo to work inside of a free virtual machine.

VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a great free virtualization tool that will allow you to run one operating system in a window inside of another. For example, you can run Windows inside of MacOS, which is what we're going to do in this case. Download and install VirtualBox and the Extension Pack (located right below the download links on the rather poorly designed downloads page). That was easy.

Get a Windows virtual machine image

Next, you need to install Windows. The ievms project provides pre-built VirtualBox images for rapid testing of various versions of Internet Explorer, which is useful for web developers like me. It also provides the quickest way that I found to boot Windows inside of VirtualBox without going through the painful Windows installation wizard. By default, it will install several different versions of Windows (each with different versions of Internet Explorer) totaling tens of gigabytes. You really only need one of these, so I decided to go with Windows XP SP3 since it was one of the smallest options.

Configure the Virtual Machine

You'll need to set some options for the virtual machine to make sure it plays nice with your device's USB connection. Shut down the Windows VM if it's running and go into its settings. Now is the time to install that Extension Pack if you haven't already. Enable the USB 2.0 controller, and with your device connected, add it to the USB Device Filters list (this will give VirtualBox exclusive access to the device when it is running).

Root!

Start up the Windows virtual machine and install Kingo Root inside of it. It should install the drivers for your device automatically and let you root it with one click. If you see a message like 'Connection Unstabitil' [sic] or something to that effect, then you either didn't install the VirtualBox Extension Pack & enable USB 2.0, or you're using a USB 3.0 cable (the one with the wide connector that comes with the Galaxy Note 3 and possibly other newer devices). Make sure to use standard MicroUSB cable and you should be good to go.

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No matter what reason that you want to uninstall preinstalled applications by manufacturer, or you need to root your Android phone for data recovery with third-party tools, you could get the a detailed rooting guide in this post to root your phone safely and easily.

What is rooting a phone?

Rooting is the process of providing users a super-user privilege to control the phone's system and manage all kinds of software for personal needs.

What you should do before rooting?

Back up your device data

No rooting tool can work with 100% success, so you had better use an Android backup app to transfer your Android data to another safe location on PC or cloud or other devices, just in case.

Charge Android phone fully

Rooting is energy consuming, so you need to charge your phone up to 80% for in advance.

Choose the trustworthy root tool

There are various rooting tools in the Internet, you need to choose trustworthy program to help you root Android phone safely and easily. In this post, we suggest KingRoot. KingRoot is a free and easy to use software to root almost all devices from Android 2.x - 5.0.

How to root Android phone with KingRoot?

KingRoot has two versions, PC version and Android APK version. Here we will show you the detailed step-to-step guide to root phone on computer and on Android device with KingRoot.

Root Android phone with KingRoot on computer

KingRoot has one disadvantage that its PC version only displays Chinese in the interface, so you have to follow the guide carefully.

Step 1 Install KingRoot on PC

Download and install KingRoot for PC to your computer. After success installation, double click it to run this software.

Step 2 USB debugging

On your Phone, debug USB mode by tapping 'Settings' > 'Develop options' > slide 'USB debugging' to ON, which will enable you to manage your phone without notifications on computer. If your phone has debugged USB, then you can skip this step, and directly go to step 3.

Step 3 Connect phone to computer

Connect your phone to computer with USB cable, and this software will detect your phone directly.

Step 4 Root phone with KingRoot on computer

After connecting your phone, click 'Try to root' to start to root your phone. After rooting your phone, there is one reminder in the interface that tells you have rooted your phone. After rooting, you could use other recovery tools to recover deleted files from SD card or Android internal storage.

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Step 1 Download KingRoot to PC

You can search https://kingrootapp.net/ on your phone browser to download KingRoot.

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Step 2 Install KingRoot APK

After success downloading, you need to find the APK file, and hit it to install. If you set 'install blocked', then a pop-up reminder will need you to tap 'Settings' > 'Security' > enable 'unknown sources' to install KingRoot.

Step 3 Root phone with Kingroot on device

After success installation, hit 'OPEN' to run this tool. Tap 'Try it' > 'Get now' to start to root phone. The implementation process will show you the rooting process.

If you are not sure if your phone is rooted successfully. You can try to uninstall preinstalled application you do not need. Also, you can go to Google Play to download RootChecker to Check the Root is successful.

How to root Android phone with KingRoot on Mac?

There are various rooting tools online, why choose Kingo Root? Here the following points can explain that:

For Mac users, there will be some data loss or security problems if you want to root your Android phone on Mac, and there are few rooting programs for Mac in the market. so we advise you to rooting Android phone with KingRoot on Windows

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May 31 2018 06:12 / Updated by Iris Walker to Android Troubleshooting

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