How To Unlock And Root Huawei Ascend Y300 (all versions)
Rooting your Huawei Y300 will give you further privileges that some apps may require and is also necessary to install custom roms.
Follow this step by step guide to unlock the bootloader, flash a custom recovery and finally get root privileges on your Huawei Y300.
Update 26.6.14: Fixed the download link for the unlock tools!
Update 4.7.13: Unlock code can now be requested directly on the Huawei Website. Added Y300-0151 model.
Update 17.4.13: The files have been updated and the chinese language SuperSU tool has been replaced with the english language version.
Update: This guide has been updated to allow rooting the Huawei Y300-0100 phone sold in Europe.
Disclaimer: Flashing a new recovery partition to your phone is potentially risky and can cause damage to your device. You should not try to attempt this if you are not aware of these things. Please follow this guide completely at your own risk. If any damage occurs to your device while following this tutorial, i shall not be held responsible for it.
Note: There are three hardware versions of Huawei Y300
Huawei Y300 (T8833) - TD-SCDMA / China Mobile Huawei Y300-0000 (U8833) - WCDMA China Unicom Huawei Y300-0100 (U8833) - WCDMA International Huawei Y300-0151 (U8833) - WCDMA Extra Frequency The following tutorial is exclusively for the WCDMA models!
What You Need
ddffHuawei Y300-0000 / Y300-0100 / Y300-0151 Windows PC Y300 Root Tools & Huawei USB driver -https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2512901/HuaweiY300_Root_Tools.zip
Step 1: Request unlock code
First, we need to unlock the bootloader.
For Y300-0000 (China Model): Visit this website (Website not available anymore - anyone knows the new URL?)
For Y300-0100 and Y300-0151 (Europe/US): You request the unlock code directly on the Huawei website
Submit the following information via the form respectively e-mail :
S/N number (written on the label under the battery) IMEI (Settings -> About phone -> Status) Product ID (on your phone dial *#*#1357946#*#*) Wait 2-3 days to receive the unlock code via e-mail.
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Step 2: Unlock the bootloader
Before you begin the unlock process, you need to make sure your computer can communicate with your Huawei Y300.
On your phone, go to Settings -> Developer Options and make sure USB debugging is ticked. Extract the downloaded package Y300-AiO-ROOT-v1.3.zip to your Desktop. Install the Huawei Android USB driver from the folder “Huawei USB Driver”. If you have trouble installing, follow the directions http://developer.android.com/tools/extras/oem-usb.html
Make sure you have a working installation of Android SDK adb/fastboot tools, see here or here for instructions. Obsolete Test your installation by connecting the phone to the PC and writing “adb devices” in a command line. Obsolete Disconnect your phone from your computer. Turn off your phone, remove the battery, wait 5 seconds and then re-insert the battery. Make sure you do this or the following steps will not work! Hold the Volume DOWN button and turn the phone on while keeping the Volume DOWN button pressed for at least 10 seconds. Your phone should freeze on the splash screen (fastboot mode). Connect your phone to your computer. Your computer should find a new device. Open the folder “UnlockTools” found on your Desktop and double click on check_bootloader.bat. This will both verify that the connection to your phone is working and that you have a bootloader that needs to be unlocked. From the same folder double click unlock_bootloader.bat and when prompted enter the 16-digits unlock code you received from Huawei. The phone will execute some checks, restore factory settings and finally reboot (this may take while) Optional: To verify that your bootloader has been unlocked, put your phone into fastboot mode and run check_bootloader.bat again.
It should display “Bootloader Lock State: Unlocked”
Step 3: Flash custom recovery
We will now flash the TWRP v2.5 custom recovery for Y300.
Note: TWRP is a custom recovery with similar features like ClockworkMod but with the ability to be controlled by touch interface. Find more information on the developers page
Turn off your phone, remove the battery, wait 5 seconds and then re-insert the battery. Hold the Volume DOWN button and turn the phone on while keeping the Volume DOWN button pressed for at least 10 seconds. Your phone should freeze on the splash screen (fastboot mode). Connect your phone to your computer. From the folder “UnlockTools” run flash_recovery.bat and follow the steps. When the recovery has been flashed successfully, your phone will reboot (this may take a while). Note: For future use of TWRP recovery, you may disable the option Settings -> Fastboot on your phone. That way, you don’t need to remove the battery before booting into recovery. Your phone will boot up a little slower though.
Step 4: Flash SuperSU tool
Finally we will install the latest SuperSU tool.
Copy “SuperSU-v2.00.zip” to the root of your SD card.
Turn of your phone. Hold the Volume UP and Power button simultaneously until the TWRP recovery menu is displayed.
In the TWRP menu choose “Install” and navigate to ”SuperSU-ROOT.zip” in the root of your SD card. Once the installation has finished choose “Reboot system” to reboot your phone.
All Done! If there is a SuperSU icon on your phone, it means the root process was successful.
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