Rooting your Unite2

In simple terms, rooting means getting access to the root of your phone's android operating system.
It is generally understood that android system is open source so it is more user friendly than its rival OSes.


Why and when one need rooting ?


Android phones come with inbuilt features and manufacture defined settings.  Customers are expected to choose a device that satisfies their requirements.  People have different tastes. Some need high quality sound, camera, more application memory, higher size ram etc.

What if you buy a phone which fits your budget and later come to know that it lacks some features you like to use ?  Some features like OTG, more app memory etc may be missed in it which will surely affect you sometimes.   Do you know that these features can be added to your phone without spending more on another phone ? yes !  we are coming to the benefits of rooting.

As this blog is exclusively for Micromax Unite2, lets see how to root it and enjoy hidden features...

Ofcourse Unite2 is a wonderful low budget phone with all needed features for daily use. It has 1 gb ram, 8 gb internal memory, 1.3 ghz processor, 5 mp back cam, 2 mp front cam etc.  But majority of its users have one complaint; its application memory is too low ! you will get less than 1 gb space for apps whereas 8 gb is available for media.  We feel this as awkward as we can use a good SD card for media storage then why this 8 gb / 4 gb is set aside for storage ? Also, lot of stock apps are there which eat out the app memory already.  Nobody going to use these apps but we cannot delete as they are system built.

Another issue is whenever you connect a pendrive, it will keep on showing external usb is connected, checking for errors' but it will never display the usb! (kitkat version only)

Though it has a 2000 mah battery, it may drain out well within a day.  Mainly because apps like Facebook, Whatsapp etc running in the background and eating the juice.

Here comes the benefit of rooting.By rooting your Unite2, what you can do is..

1) Delete unnecessary system apps there by freeing up more space.
2) Can take  backup of your current rom so that you can reflash it anytime u want. You dont need to       install all apps again.
3) OTG support
4) Significant savings in battery charge by killing background running apps
5) Customize the interface like changing network signal, wifi indicator, battery indicator style, clock..
6) Experience latest versions of android through custom roms ie; Unite2 stopped its android updates with Lolipop 5.0 but lot of stable custom roms available to enojoy Cynogen Mode, MIUI, Hive UI, Octo OS,....
7) and a  lot more....!



Interested to try all these ?  come on ! lets root !

KITKAT users:

If you are using the factory version of Kitkat 4.4.2, you can root your phone using kingroot apk.

Procedure:

Go to Settings/Security- tick ' install from unknown sources'
Download kingroot apk from here  kingroot apk latest version
Move the downloaded apk to your SD card.
Open the apk file from file manger, install it according to instructions shown in the screen.
After installing, open the app
Click on 'start'
In a few minutes you may see the message ' root successful'.
You can also check the success by downloading 'Root checker' app from Playstore.
After successfull root, supersu will be installed. Now you can uninstall kingroot app
Done !  you have got the superuser access!!  by opening supersu, you can select unwanted system apps and delete it.

You can download & enjoy custom designed rom from here :
 unite2explorer blog

custom rom list for Unite2


LOLIPOP users:

First, you need to install a custom recovery in your phone like CWM, TWRP, CTR etc.

Guide  here : guide by the legendary Qamrul Haque

Download supersu zip from here : Supersu by chainfire

Put the downloaded zip in your SD card
Enter the already installed custom recovery by pressing vol up+ vol down+power bottons simultaneously.
Select install zip from SD card option
Select Supersu zip and flash.
After completing, reboot your phone.  DONE !
Confirm root access by downloading 'Root Checker' app from Playstore.

What apps can be used exclusively in a rooted phone ?

Greenify, amplify - to save battery juice
Xposed modules like Gravity box, Xstana, Flat style bar indicator etc to customize your phone
Increase system and media sound through hardware acceleration option in Xposed modules


Thank you for reading... drop ur questions in the comment section.