How to Root Lenovo Vibe K6/ Power (Karate) and Install TWRP Recovery

If you are a owner of a Lenovo Vibe K6 and Vibe K6 Power (Karate) smartphone, and also want to customize this rugged smartphone, then you have visited the right page.

The Lenovo Vibe K6 and Vibe K6 Power are both of the powerful smartphones. Let’s talk about the K6 Power first, it’s specialty is that it lasts 2 days on a single charge. With the Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and Octa-core processor, the smartphone is capable to deliver the good performance. The 5-inch HD display allows  in-plane switching technology, which enables the good viewing angles as well as richer colors on the display. The smartphone’s design is full unibody, and you can feel that it’s robust and stylish.

Further, the Dolby Atmos Audio Enhancement takes the sound quality to the next level, to deliver the ulitmate sound experience. The fingerprint sensor is also provided, enabling users to login to the device with just one swipe of the finger. The 13 Megapixel rear camera, and 8 megapixel front camera for selfies delivers the ultimate pictures quality. The 4G LTE support enables the phone to browse, listen and do the tasks at blazing fast speed. A Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 Octa-core Processor running at 1.4 GHz powers the device,  which ensures that device runs without lag and provides the longer backup.

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 K6 and Vibe K6 Power .

The TWRP features the material design, and attractive user interface (UI), and by following this guide you can install latest TWRP for Lenovo Vibe K6 and Vibe K6 Power. You can download TWRP Recovery from the links provided in the pre-requisite section of this article. Kindly note that this is an official TWRP recovery and is only for Lenovo Vibe K6 and Vibe K6 Power (Kindly confirm the model by going to Settings>About). The process given below is merely for rooting and installing TWRP on Lenovo Vibe K6 and Vibe K6 Power, 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 K6 and Vibe K6 Power, 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.

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 K6 and Vibe K6 Power phone must have the Unlocked bootloader. That means you have to firstly unlock the bootloader to root your device as well doing any customization.

Prerequiste

Ensure to check your model number, which must be:

• Lenovo Vibe K6 and Vibe K6 Power

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 K6 and Vibe K6 Power

Steps to Flash/ Install TWRP on Lenovo Vibe K6 and Vibe K6 Power

Step 1: Assuming you have already downloaded the platform-tools from Android SDK (SDK Manager) platform-tools on your PC. The platform-tools contains the required adb and fastboot binaries.

Step 2: Make sure that the drivers are installed on your computer. Then, skip to the next step.

Note: If Developer Settings and USB Debugging settings are already enabled on your device, as suggested in Prerequisite section, then simply skip the Step 3 and Step 4, and follow Step 5 directly.

Step 3: Now, enable the developer settings on your Lenovo Vibe K6 and Vibe K6 Power Device. To achieve the same, just navigate to the Settings -> About and then find the ‘Build Number ‘, and then tap on ‘Build Number’ for 7 times, this will enable the developer settings on your device.

Step 4: If you have USB Debugging already, then skip this step. If you have not, then open the Developer Options and then enable USB debugging option.

Step 5: Now, open the command prompt in computer/ ADB Terminal, and simply type the command:

adb reboot bootloader

Step 6: Your device should have not entered into fastboot mode. Now copy the TWRP.img file downloaded in prerequisite section, to the same folder where adb and fastboot binaries are located. Rename the file to ‘twrp.img’ and then enter this command:

fastboot flash recovery twrp.img

and then run this command, type:

fastboot reboot

Step 7 (Important): Some devices might not replace the custom recovery automatically during the first boot. You can search Google for key combinations to enter your device into recovery mode. After running the ‘fastboot reboot’ command, press and hold the proper key combination to enter device into TWRP Mode. Once the device boots to TWRP mode, the TWRP will automatically patch the stock ROM, to prevent the chances of replacing TWRP with Stock Recovery.

After typing fastboot reboot, hold the key combo and boot to TWRP. Once TWRP is booted, TWRP will patch the stock ROM to prevent the stock ROM from replacing TWRP. If you don’t follow this step, you will have to repeat the install.

Procedure to Root Lenovo Vibe K6 and Vibe K6 Power/ Install SuperSU

Make sure that you have downloaded SuperSU (link in pre-requisite section of this article). Then, proceed to the steps.

Step 1: Transfer the downloaded SuperSU.zip file to the internal storage / SD card of your Lenovo Vibe K6 and Vibe K6 Power smartphone.

Step 2: 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 K6 and Vibe K6 Power 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: karthick mostwanted

Source: XDA