How to Root the Alcatel One Touch 990 running Gingerbread

Got a shiny new Alcatel One Touch 990 smartphone and interested in rooting it? Want to have the freedom to customize your device the way you want? No worries, it’s possible now as a root method has become available for the device. This brings happiness to the users of the device as they’ll now be able to get rid of bloatware, get some root-only apps on their devices and even further customize their device with custom ROMs. Here’s how you can root your Alcatel One Touch 990 smartphone.

I. Before You Begin:

1. This will void the warranty of your device. However, you can reinstate the warranty by unrooting your device if there’s any unrooting procedure available.

2. This will flash the custom recovery on your device as well.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. ClockworkMod Recovery Image

2. Fastboot

3. Superuser

III. Flashing a Custom Recovery on the Alcatel One Touch 990 running Gingerbread:

1. Download and place all three files onto your Desktop.

2. Extract files from the Fastboot archive over to your Desktop.

3. Turn OFF your device.

4. Press and hold the Volume DOWN+Power buttons together and plug in your device to your PC.

5. Now launch a Command Prompt Window on your Desktop. To do so, simply hold down the Shift button on your keyboard and right-click on any blank area on the screen, then select Open command window here.

6. Type in following commands into the Command Prompt Window. Make sure to replace recovery.img with the actual name of the Recovery Image you have downloaded.

fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot

7. The recovery will be flashed and your device will reboot.

8. You’re done!

Great! The custom recovery has been successfully flashed, now let’s root the device:

IV. Rooting the Alcatel One Touch 990 running Gingerbread:

1. Connect your device to your PC using the USB cable.

2. Copy the Superuser file over to the root of your SD card.

3. Once the file has been copied, unplug your device from your PC.

4. Power off your device.

5. Reboot your device into Recovery mode by pressing and holding the Volume UP+Power buttons together.

6. From the Recovery menu, choose install zip from sdcard followed by choose zip from sdcard.

7. Select the Superuser ZIP you copied earlier to your device for flashing.

8. It’ll flash the file to your device.

9. Once flashing’s done, reboot your device.

10. And you’re rooted now!

Excellent! Your One Touch 990 has been successfully rooted and is equipped with a custom recovery. All those lucrative custom ROMs and Mods aren’t afar from you now!

V. Flash a Custom ROM (Optional):

1. If you are ready to flash custom ROMs on your device, head to the How To Flash a Custom ROM on the Alcatel One Touch 990 to learn how to do that.

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

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

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