How to Root the Acer Iconia Tab A110

Want to learn how you can root your Acer Iconia Tab A110 device? Want to try the root-only apps that all your rooted friends are having? No worries, here’s how you can do that. Rooting doesn’t just let you read system files, but it allows the modifications to be done on them. So, here goes our guide on how to root the Acer Iconia Tab A110:

I. Before You Begin:

1. Be aware that this will void the warranty of your device. However, you can reinstate the warranty later by unrooting your device if there’s any unrooting procedure available.

2. You should have appropriate drivers installed on your PC. If you don’t, get them from here.

3. This procedure works on Windows based PCs only.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. Fastboot

2. ClockworkMod Recovery Image (Download link’s available in the first post)

3. SuperSU (Download link’s given in the first post)

III. Unlocking Bootloader of the Acer Iconia Tab A110:

1. Place all three files you downloaded to your Desktop.

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

3. Turn ON the USB debugging option on your device by heading to Menu>>Settings>>Developer options>>USB debugging.

4. Plug in your device to your PC via USB cable.

5. Open a Command Prompt Window on your Desktop. To do that, just hold down the Shift button and right-click anywhere on your Desktop and select Open command window here.

6. Type in following commands into the Command Prompt Window:

adb devices
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot oem unlock

7. It’ll unlock the bootloader of your device.

8. Reboot your device.

IV. Rooting the Acer Iconia Tab A110:

1. Copy the SuperSU file over to the root of your SD card.

2. Issue the following commands using Command Prompt Window:

adb reboot bootloader
fastboot boot a110-412-CWM-recovery.img

3. Your device should reboot into the CWM Recovery mode.

4. From there, select install zip from sdcard followed by choose zip from sdcard.

5. Choose the SuperSU file to be flashed on your device.

6. It’ll start flashing the file on your device.

7. Once it is flashed, reboot your device.

8. And you’re done!

Excellent! Your device has been successfully rooted and you should be able to find the Superuser app in your App Drawer!

V. 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 Acer Iconia Tab A110 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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