How to Root the LAVA Iris 455
The LAVA Iris 455 is a budget Android smartphone that runs the latest Jelly Bean build on-board. If you’ve already purchased this smartphone and are looking to root it, the guide below should help you do that. Root coupled with a custom recovery will let you install a number of root-only apps as well as flash custom ROMs, to jazz-up your device. So here’s how you can root your LAVA Iris 455 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. You should have MediaTek drivers installed on your PC. If you don’t, get them from here.
3. This should work only on Windows based PCs.
II. Downloading Required Files:
1. CWM Recovery (Download link’s given in the first post)
2. Scatter File (Download link’s given in the first post)
3. SP Flash Tool (Download link’s given at the bottom of the first post)
4. Superuser (Download link’s given at the bottom of the first post)
5. SU (Download link’s given at the bottom of the first post)
III. Flashing a Custom Recovery on the LAVA Iris 455:
1. Download and place all the files onto your Desktop.
2. Extract files from the SP Flash Tool archive over to your Desktop.
3. Rename the CWM Recovery Image to recovery.img.
4. Double-click on the SP Flash Tool executable file and it’ll open.
5. Click on Scatter-loading and choose the Scatter file you downloaded earlier to your Desktop.
6. Checkmark the RECOVERY box only among all other boxes.
7. Hit the Download button.
8. You’ll see a warning message on your screen saying that not all images are correctly loaded. Simply ignore it and hit Yes.
9. Turn OFF your device.
10. Pull the battery out of your device and put it back in after 4-5 seconds.
11. Without turning ON your device, plug in your device to your PC via USB cable.
12. It’ll begin flashing the CWM Recovery on your device and should be done within a couple of minutes.
13. Once the flashing’s done, reboot your device.
14. And you’re done!
Great! You’ve successfully flashed the CWM Recovery on your LAVA Iris 455, let’s root that beast now!
IV. Rooting the LAVA Iris 455:
1. Ensure that your device is connected to your PC and is turned ON.
2. Copy the Superuser as well as SU archives over to your SD card.
3. Once both the archives have been copied, unplug your device from your PC.
4. Turn OFF your device.
5. Turn it back on by holding down Volume UP+Power buttons together.
6. You should now be in the CWM Recovery mode.
7. Once there, select install zip from sdcard followed by choose zip from sdcard.
8. Choose the Superuser zip to be flashed on your device.
9. And it’ll begin flashing the zip on your device.
10. Once it’s been flashed, flash the SU zip as well using same steps mentioned above.
11. Once both the ZIPs have been flashed, reboot your device.
12. And you’re all done!
Excellent! Your device’s been successfully rooted and is equipped with a custom recovery to help you flash third-part ROMs and Mods!
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 LAVA Iris 455 to learn how to do that.
If this procedure helped you please thank/donate to the original developers here and here.
My sp flash tool cannot download after clicking download button i.e 0 bps speed.
I too have the same problem bro
Install the Mediatek drivers first and it should work fine then. Thanks!
does this trick permanently roots the device………
Yes, it does.
hey Mahesh Makvana
its not downloading
thanks man, you’re awesome…..had problem installing cwm recovery at first but everything was solved after i managed to install mediatek driver
That’s wonderful!
could u post the rom link for lava iris 455??? jb 4.2.2 preferably
i’v tried rooting my Lava Iris 455 using you method as show in (IV. Rooting the LAVA Iris 455). it’s still not able to root. infact i’v tried all softwares and many version of Framaroot, still its not getting rooted. please suggest a foolproof method. Seems like this is one phone that’s hard to root 🙁
when opening the cwm it is saying update it from sdcard
Hello sir, everything was smooth till green the circle,But I could not get install zip from sdcard,& still its in Android system recovery mode, so I’m getting apply update from SDcard.Then it gets aborted, help me please to proceed.
That probably means you haven’t successfully flashed the recovery on your device. Are you sure the recovery was successfully flashed on your device?
Finally I rooted LAVA Iris 455 with ” VRoot ” Its just an one click app. Just google & proceed.
How to root phone lava iris 455????
Hello Purvesh,
The above procedure should help you root your device.
Thanks!
Which app to lava iris 455 is root???
Have you rooted your device? If so, you can search the Google Play store to find out the best apps for your rooted device.
Hope this helps!
it helped me a lot ….but can i install cyanogenmod in iris 455 ….pls share a link or info if available …thanks