How to Root the Axioo Vigo 350

We haven’t heard much about the Axioo Vigo 350 smartphone and it seems it’s been forgotten in the world of Android smartphones. Well, it’s a good smartphone running on the Android OS and it’s got some good features. A big screen’s there to let you watch your favorite movies and pictures. If you just purchased this smartphone and want to get root access on it, here’s how you can do it. It’s not a complicated process to root the Axioo Vigo 350, all you need is given below.

I. Before You Begin:

1. Your PC must be running on the Linux. The following procedure doesn’t work on Windows.

2. You must have ADB installed on your PC. If you don’t have it already, you can download it from here.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. SuperOneClick (Download link’s given there in the Rooting Process section)

2. Root Package (Download link’s given just below the SuperOneClick link)

III. Rooting the Axioo Vigo 350:

1. Download and place all the files in any folder on your PC.

2. Extract files from the SuperOneClick as well as Root Package archive to any folder on your PC.

3. Copy the three files you extracted from the Root Package archive to the folder where SuperOneClick’s extracted files are.

4. Go with these commands:

[root@jfklixs-domain SuperOneClickv1.7-ShortFuse]# adb push rageagainstthecage /data/local/tmp
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
53 KB/s (5392 bytes in 0.097s)
[root@jfklixs-domain SuperOneClickv1.7-ShortFuse]# adb push su /data/local/tmp
243 KB/s (26332 bytes in 0.105s)
[root@jfklixs-domain SuperOneClickv1.7-ShortFuse]# adb push Superuser.apk /data/local/tmp
699 KB/s (196521 bytes in 0.274s)
[root@jfklixs-domain SuperOneClickv1.7-ShortFuse]# adb shell
$ cd /data/local/tmp
$ ls
Superuser.apk
su
rageagainstthecage
$ chmod 775 rageagainstthecage
$ ./rageagainstthecage
[*] CVE-2010-EASY Android local root exploit (C) 2010 by 743C

[*] checking NPROC limit ...
[+] RLIMIT_NPROC={3386, 3386}
[*] Searching for adb ...
[+] Found adb as PID 1507
[*] Spawning children. Dont type anything and wait for reset!
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[*] adb connection will be reset. restart adb server on desktop and re-login.
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5. Here’s how you can make the root permanent:

[root@jfklixs-domain SuperOneClickv1.7-ShortFuse]# <strong>adb shell</strong>
# cd /data/local/tmp
# mount
rootfs / rootfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock8 /system yaffs2 rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock11 /data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock10 /cache yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock5 /hidden yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock6 /hidden/data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock1 /misc yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock8 /system
# cat su > /system/bin/su
# cat Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk
# chmod 06777 /system/bin/su
# chmod 777 /system/app/Superuser.apk
# reboot

6. Your device should reboot.

7. You should be rooted now !

Although the process took some good time, we finally achieved the root access on the device. From now on, you can install any root-only app on your device without any issues, just provide the Superuser permission and everything will just work fine!

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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