How to Root the Huawei Mercury M886

Huawei Mercury M886 smartphone falls in the category of high-end Huawei smartphones. Consisting of a 1.4GHz Scorpion processor, the smartphone allows you to play high-end games and apps without any kind of lags. You can expand the library of apps on your smartphone by rooting it, it will let you install the root-only apps and in the following guide, we have covered how you can root your Huawei Mercury M886 smartphone.

I. Before You Begin:

1. You must have ADB installed on your PC. You can refer to our guide on how to install ADB.

2. You will need a working Linux Distro with Nautilus. You can get it from here.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. Root Package (Download link’s given in the first post)

III. Rooting the Huawei Mercury M886:

1. Download and place the Root Package onto your Desktop.

2. Extract files from the Root Package to the ADB folder. It is the folder where you have installed ADB.

3. Connect your smartphone to the PC using the USB cable.

4. Open a Command Prompt Window in the ADB folder. Just right-click on any empty area on the screen while holding the Shift button on your keyboard, then choose the Open command window here option.

5. Issue the following commands using the Command Prompt Window you just opened:

adb push busybox /data/local/tmp
adb push su /data/local/tmp
adb push Superuser.apk /data/local/tmp

6. Issue the following command to get into the ADB shell:

adb shell

7. You will see a $ (dollar) sign in the Command Prompt Window. Now, issue the following commands:

chmod 6755 /data/local/tmp/su
chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/busybox
chmod 644 /data/local/tmp/Superuser.apk

8. Turn OFF your device using the Power button.

9. Reboot your device into the Download mode. To do so, press and hold Volume UP+Volume DOWN+Power buttons together.

10. Start the Linux Distro on your PC to get the root access on your device.

11. You will see that your device is mounted as a drive on your Linux Distro.

12. Move the SU and Busybox from /data/local/temp/ to /system/bin/ folder.

13. Move Superuser.apk to /system/app/ folder.

14. Disconnect your device from the PC.

15. Pull the battery out of your smartphone and re-insert it.

16. Turn ON your device in the normal mode.

Hurray ! You now have root access on your Huawei Mercury M886 smartphone. There are a lot of root-only apps on the Play Store and you have the ability to taste them out on your smartphone.

IV. Flash a Custom Recovery Image (Optional):

1. If you would like to flash a custom recovery image in order to flash custom ROMs, head to the How To Flash a Custom Recovery Image on the Huawei Mercury M886 to learn how to do that.

If this procedure helped you please thank/donate to the original developers here.

If you need help with this procedure, please ask in the comments below or in the forum.

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