

But what if we told you there’s a way to root your Android One phone without using a PC at all. Since Android One phones are nothing but low-end Android devices with Nexus experience software, Google’s prime target for these devices were developing countries like India, where they first launched Android One phones and it was then carried over to Indonesia and a few more countries.īut now with a number of manufacturers, both local and Chinese, selling low-end smartphones with even better specsheets than Android One devices sport, there popularity is only seeing a downward trend.Īnyway, with Nexus experience software in hand on Android One phones, users are naturally more comfortable with rooting these devices and play around with a few custom ROMs like CyanogenMod and other AOSP based popular ROMs.Īndroid One phones come with unlocked bootloaders, so installing a custom recovery from PC and then rooting with SuperSU zip is one method. These Android One devices were capable of shaking the low-end budget smartphone industry, which they did, but the competition easily took over what Google started with Android One phones.

Google’s Android One program is about to get a year older now.
