How to root your techno A6 smart phone

How to root your techno A6 smart phone

Have you been looking for how to root your techno A6 smart phone? Yes here is the step by step on how you will just do that.
Rooting allows you to attain root access to the Android operating system code ( jailbreaking in ios). It provides you with privileges to modify the software code on the device or install other software that like custom rom.
The Tecno Phantom 6 Plus (A6) uses MT6797 chipset (Mediatek Helio P20) SoC and runs on Android 6.0(Marshmallow).  Tecno phantom 6 plus is one of the tecno phone to have 32GB rom and 3GB ram.  Below will be a complete guide on how to gain the root access of tecno A6
How can I root Tecno Phantom 6 (A6) ?
The rooting of tecno A6 involve two main steps

1. Unlocking the Bootloader
2. Flashing the TWRP recovery.img and SuperSU.zip

Unlocking bootloader the bootloader

The first step is to unlock the bootloader of the device. If you are new to MTK bootloader unlocking click here

Flashing the twp recovery image

1. You will need to Download TWRP for Tecno Phantom 6 (A6) Hovatek from here
2. Run your adb and fastboot – new click here to know how
3. Extract and copy the TWRP recovery.img into the same folder as the fastboot.exe and adb.exe
4. Download SuperSU 2.76.zip from here
5. Copy SuperSU.zip to the phone’s internal storage
6. Connect the phone to the PC via USB cord while switched On and boot it into Fastboot (as instructed in the Bootloader unlock guide
7. When the phone enters Fastboot, load the TWRP recovery to the phone by typing the command below then pressing Enter.
8. Run the following command

Command:

1. fastboot boot recovery.img  (The phone should automatically boot into TWRP recovery mode)

1. In TWRP, if you get a prompt asking you to swipe to allow modification of the System partition, tap KEEP READ ONLY.
2. If TWRP offers to root the phone, select NO

1. In TWRP recovery, tap Install

1. Navigate to the location of the SuperSU2.76.zip and select it

1. Swipe to confirm flashing of SuperSU.zip and wait till flashing is complete

1. Reboot the phone normally

1. Confirm Root by installing and running Root Checker from here

Credits:
TeamHovatek For Porting TWRP