Huawei Honor 7 is a good quality smartphone, which comes with 5.2 inches IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen display powered by 2.2 GHz Octa-core processor along with 3 GB RAM and the device runs on Android V 6.0 (Marshmallow) operating system. If you are using this smartphone and looking for a way to root it, you are in the right place as I have given a step by step tutorial to root Huawei Honor 7 here.
By following the rooting tutorial given here, you can be able to root Huawei Honor 7 smartphone and get the ability to install custom-built Android applications, custom-made recoveries (TWRP or CWM recovery), install custom ROM firmware’s, etc.
WARNING: Rooting your Huawei Honor 7 smartphone will void its warranty, and you won’t be able to claim it until you unroot your device. So, think about it before proceeding with the rooting procedure.
Prerequisites:
Step 1: Although the rooting process given here is not a data-loss process, it won’t hurt to have a backup of personal data on your smartphone. So, take a backup before getting started with the rooting tutorial.
Step 2: Make sure that your device has at least 50-60% battery backup in it before getting started with the rooting procedure.
Step 3: Now enable the USB Debugging Mode in your smartphone by following this path: Settings ->Developer Options -> USB Debugging. If you can’t see the developer options in your device Settings, then enable it by following this path: Settings -> About Phone (tap on the Build Number for 5-7 times to enable it).
Step 4: Next, download Huawei Honor 7 USB driver and install it on your computer so that you can connect your device to PC.
Once you have finished all these preliminary tasks, you can move forward to the rooting tutorial given below.
Tutorial To Root Huawei Honor 7 Using iRoot:
Step 1: To get started, download iRoot (formerly vRoot) and install the application on your computer. Once done, launch iRoot in your PC.
Step 2: Now connect your smartphone to the computer using an original USB data cable. If you have installed the USB driver of your device on the computer properly, then iRoot will identify your device.
Step 3: Next, click on the green “Root” button to begin the rooting process. Once the rooting process gets completed, your device will automatically reboot.
Step 4: Now, click the “Complete” button and unplug your smartphone.
That’s it. Now, you have successfully finished rooting Huawei Honor 7 smartphone using the iRoot One-Click Rooting tool. For confirmation, install Root Checker for Android in your device and confirm your device’s root privileges.
If you own a smartphone or tablet other than Huawei Honor 7 and would like to get rooting tutorials for the same, kindly visit our Rooting Tutorials page.
If you encounter any issues while following this rooting tutorial, kindly let us know by dropping a comment below.
I’m trying to root my honor 7 and it doesn’t seem to work. It connects fine (and restarted once) but doesn’t complete the root. I always get ‘fail’ what can I do to get the full root?
What error are you getting?
It doesn’t give an error as such. It just says root failed.
Ya, there is an error while rooting.
What error are you getting?
I press the “root” button, it takes several times to root and after that shows “rooting failed”.
Hello, is there any report of successful rooting of Honor 7 with this program? I lost very important data in the phone and need to root to be able to recover. Can you help me? I will pay for the service.
Hi, I will share the rooting tutorial shortly.