How to Root the Lava Iris X1

Are you rocking a shiny new Lava Iris X1 smartphone? Want to get the most out of your device? Then go ahead and gain root-access on it. It’ll help you unlock the true potential of your device that’ll enhance your user-experience as well as let you modify all the settings of your device.

Rooting is the process of gaining administrative rights on your Android device.  Once we root our Android device, we can then make changes to it to customize it well beyond what it normally can do.

Once you have root access on your Lava Iris X1, you’ll be able to:

  • Remove apps that were preinstalled by your carrier/manufacturer from your device.
  • Free up storage space (because of the above benefit).
  • Increase battery life (apps that might have been running constantly can be removed).
  • Increase performance (after removing apps that are always running, the device will be less bogged down and run smoother).
  • Update to a new version of Android (by flashing a custom recovery/ROM, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).
  • Tons of other customizations when you use your new found administrative rights to flash a custom ROM (again, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).

Interested? Here’s how to root your Lava Iris X1:

I. Before You Begin

1. This will void the warranty of your device. We won’t be held responsible if you end-up bricking or damaging your device. Do it at your own risk.

2. This should only work on Windows based PCs.

3. You should’ve required drivers installed on your PC. If you haven’t, you can install PDAnet and it’ll install the required drivers for you.

II. Downloading Required Files

1. Download Vroot and save it to your desktop.

Vroot (Download link’s available in the first post)

III. Rooting the Lava Iris X1

1. Double-click on Vroot executable and follow the on-screen instructions to install it on your PC.

2. Once installed, launch it from your desktop.

3. Enable USB debugging on your device by heading to Menu > Settings > Developer options > USB debugging.

4. Plug in your device to your PC using the USB cable.

5. Click on Root in the tool and it should begin rooting your device.

6. The Vroot tool installs its own SuperSU app on the device. If you wish to have the standard SuperSU app, you can head over to the Google Play Store and search and tap on SuperSU by Chainfire and install it on your device.

7. You’re all done!

Congrats! Your Lava Iris X1 has been rooted and installed with the SuperSU app to help you manage root-permissions for various root-requiring apps on your device.

You can click here to find all of the Lava Iris X1 How To’s.

You can also find all of the Lava Iris X1 ROMs we have here.

18 thoughts on “How to Root the Lava Iris X1”

        1. Also reseted device using factory reset, but I vanished all my apps, not reseted. Version remain unchanged. Tell me how to reset factory to obtain original, first version

    1. Dhaivat Trivedi

      Buy a new one brother… Go for MI3.. The sale will start tomorrow at 2pm on flipkart. So don’t wait. Register your email as soon as possible and stay on the website 2hrs before the sale starts! You can’t have a better choice than mi3..

  1. dorothaswilliams

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  2. Dhaivat Trivedi

    Hey guys this is an honest review of this phone. I’ve used it for more than a month and then I sold it on olx and this is my experience:

    Lava is an indian company. And as a budget device manufacturing company, they keep in mind the average people while making their devices. The main flaw in the design of these devices is that, THE 4GB INTERNAL STORAGE IS DIVIDED INTO TWO SYSTEM PARTITIONS (1.1GB FOR APPS AND THE OTHER 1.36GB FOR OTHER MASS STORAGE OR AS WHAT THEY CALL “SD CARD”).

    This is totally un-cool. You buy a device to get more storage and what you get is a low space and a bunch of flaws in the UI. Yes you can insert a memory card. But… after you move your application to the sd card, it simply vanishes after you reboot your phone! AND IT ALWAYS HAPPENED NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!!! You can check online, you can check on xda devlopers site. Everyone is complaining about this!

    Then I tried to use a different memory card. I thought that it may be my card that is causing this trouble. I was using samsung 2GB class 4 memory card. So I switched to a 16GB class 10 (samsung only) and I spent 1200 bucks for it! And you know what happened?? IT NEVER WORKED! I TRIED ROOTING BUT THE KITKAT MADE IT VERY DIFFICULT TO ROOT! SO I WAS UNABLE TO PERFORM THE ROOT! AND IT SHOWED THAT THE CARD IS CORRUPTED! I replaced the order from snapdeal (their service is just mindblowing. the guy never even asked me for a thing and replaced it without any disputes). But you know what??? SAME RESULT!! I TRIED IT WITH MY CARD READER ON MY LAPTOP. AND IT WORKED PERFECTLY FINE!

    I know that many people doesn’t have a concern about applications. You just love those iphone-ish looks don’t you. WELL, I DID TOO!! And you know what happened? One day my brother dropped it from even less than a meter’s height and bamm! The side silver bazzle got scrached and not even that! The back got a little damaged just by one blow! Now no matter what I fit there, back cover or the flip cover, it just won’t fit perfectly like before!!

    It’s a relief that I managed to sell the phone and the guy who bought it didn’t notice it. Otherwise my money was totally wasted you know!

    So please guys, think twice before buying these sort of “good looking” phones. They’re just good for photo shooting and for making and receiving calls. NOTHING ELSE!

    1. Hello Dhaivat,

      Thanks a lot for such a great review of the device. We appreciate it. I’m sure it’ll help thousands of our readers who seek reviews for various Android devices out there.

      Thanks once again!

      1. Dhaivat Trivedi

        I just posted something that I felt was appropriate.. Hope I didn’t offend any fans of this phone… 🙂

    2. My reaction to your review is ‘BULLSHIT’.
      I brought this phone on Aug 28th 2014 for 8 or 7 I don’t remember exactly.. Yeah I agree with you about the storage problem(I have the 8GB version).So I brought a 8GB SanDisk SD Card,moved my apps restarted my phone couple of times and nothing happened.All apps are still there.Either you havesome lame reason to lie or the phone you brought has problems.
      The camera is superb.
      Super fast.
      No lags.
      Have lots of apps and games too.
      Best phone under 10k if you care more about user experience than brand.

  3. I’m going to share my experiences with this phone.

    I had purchased this phone after my Micromax Unite 2 was pick pocketed while returning home from work . ( 🙁 )

    After all the harassment regarding notifying the local police station and what not, I decided to buy another phone.
    Sadly since it was the middle of the month I had to squeeze my budget a bit.

    The lava Iris X1 was being sold by a local retailer for 6999/- so I went for it.

    The horror started from the next day.

    CONS:
    1.Videocore 4 gpu. Was a big thing in the past. now-a-days it stutters even when handling the most basic games. I tried subway surfers on it ( latest updated version ). Stuttered during start. then ran smoothly. so I thought it would at least be able to run Trials Frontier. No. it did not work. I began to feel the difference. and i understood that this phone was a bad investment.

    2. Broadcom Quad core. Again, was a big thing in the past when smartphones began to pick up speed. not now. worst processor i have seen. the phone lags like it was running on 512mb ram and a dual core. by this i do not mean disrespect to those people who have dual core with 512mb your phones are optimized to run with that. Lava doesn’t seem to care about optimization sadly.. its just that the phone lags like hell as if an elephant was riding a scooter.

    3. Applications transferred to external memory card disappears.

    4. A tiny battery. Cant even get one full day of usage. i wish they had given a 2000mah battery at least. my phone has turned into a landline.

    5. most memory cards doesn’t seem to work and may get corrupted. i tested a sandisk 32 gb and a transcend 32 gb. sandisk 32 gb got corrupted. i took it out and inserted it into my ordinary phone and formatted it. works perfectly. so its a trouble with the phone.

    6. touch is not smooth during operations. this is due to the lag.

    7. it says it has 1 gb of ram. i have no idea how a phone with 1 gb of ram can lag so horribly.

    8. here is the biggest let down. the phone cant play smoothly its own DEMO video that was supplied with the phone. i tried MX player with S/W mode. it worked perfectly.
    so the Hardware is inadequate and is the barely minimum standard required to call it self a quad core. very disappointing.

    9. call function lags. between tapping the call icon after dialing a number, the lag is pronounced and very much noticeable.

    10. Rooting this phone is a hit or miss type of thing. though it worked for me.

    11. loudspeaker is bad. you cant hear it on the bus.

    PROS:

    1. Shiny. looks like an Iphone clone.

    2. camera is surprisingly good and can record high quality videos. the flash is decent. not good. but okay.

    so you see, now i am stuck with a phone that’s probably the worse phone i have used in the all the years I have been using cell phones. AVOID LAVA! go for anything else micromax ( I really miss my unite 2 🙁 ) , xolo, karbonn… anything is better than this crap!

    1. As u purchased in low cost it was a defective piece. The retailer cheated u. I have been using lava iris x1 for the last 3 months like a charm. All the games really glides. Runs really
      smooth. only the ring and loud speaker sound are low. Othwrwise very good.

  4. Shubham Pratap Singh

    This phone sucks……….whatever app we keep in sd card, it disapperars after restart…….GPU is bad too!!

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