Help Safe rooting of a Kyocera DuraForce XD

[AndroidConvert]

I want to root my phone. I've never done it before, and although I do know my way around, I'm not great with the Android OS. My phone runs 5.1.1, and I know that rooting it leaves it open to viruses. Will simply not downloading things keep me safe from viruses? I just want to root my phone, make some changes, then probably unroot it. How can I avoid turning it into a brick or getting a virus? Please help.

 

[IsaacGuti]

If you plan to root your device, I'd advice to make sure it has enough development support. Make sure there's a custom recovery for it because things can go wrong and you will be stuck with a bricked device.

Don't expect to be able to root your phone to modify it and not have it bricked... it's very risky.

 

[AndroidConvert]

If you plan to root your device, I'd advice to make sure it has enough development support. Make sure there's a custom recovery for it because things can go wrong and you will be stuck with a bricked device.

Don't expect to be able to root your phone to modify it and not have it bricked... it's very risky.

So if it is bricked, its possible to recover it?

 

[IsaacGuti]

So if it is bricked, its possible to recover it?

If there's a custom recovery for it, yes. But I also forgot to mention that some phones have a locked bootloader and it needs to be unlocked(another risky task) for flashing a custom recovery.

It's probably not worth it rooting this device.

 

[AndroidConvert]

If there's a custom recovery for it, yes. But I also forgot to mention that some phones have a locked bootloader and it needs to be unlocked(another risky task) for flashing a custom recovery.

It's probably not worth it rooting this device.

How do I know if I have a locked bootloader? If I had it, how could I unlock it? I really just take out my bloatware, and explore.

 

[IsaacGuti]

How do I know if I have a locked bootloader? If I had it, how could I unlock it? I really just take out my bloatware, and explore.

You can root without unlocking the boot loader, unlocking it is for flashing custom recoveries and ROMS.

...but if you really want to root your phone there's one-click root apps and software like kingoRoot that you can give a try.


I'm not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed.