Kingo Root: Root cell phone with APK or from PC

December 8, 2018, by Santiago

KingoRoot is a software that allows you to root your cell phone from a Windows PC, or even directly from your mobile by installing its APK.

With this relatively easy-to-use tool, you can root Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, Motorola, LG phones, among other brands. From Android systems 4 to 8. On the official website they have a page with step-by-step tutorials to root various models of these brands.

Before rooting, make sure you have at least 50% battery and 50MB free space. And back up your data (just in case).

If the root is not done with the APK, try the PC program, because it seems to be more effective (especially when it comes to unrooting). Despite this, it will not work in all cases. This utility uses “exploits” that depend on vulnerabilities in Android to get root and these do not always exist, especially in the current versions of this system.

Kingo Root PC

The program is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10. It shows step by step how to root an Android device. In an elementary way, everything is a matter of connecting the mobile to the computer with the USB cable and following the steps that are indicated in the program.

In short, once the program is installed in Windows, it is necessary to connect the phone to the PC with the USB cable. Kingo Android Root will notify us if the device is rooted or not.

In case of not having root, you have to follow the instructions. In short, USB debugging will have to be enabled on the device (usually this is done from Settings> Developer options). Once that is done, the driver for the connected mobile is installed and then, it is only a matter of an additional click for the program to take care of rooting the device. If the program does not install the driver on its own, you can try it.

If the mobile is already rooted, from this same program you can unroot (this way it is supposed to delete all the files) or root again.

Kingo Root APK

In this case, you just have to download the Kingo Root APK, perform the installation like any other APK and follow the instructions in the application.

During installation, you may be asked to enable “unknown sources”. Normally you should have a button to do this, but if not, you will have to do it from settings, Security option, or in some cases from developer mode.

Important: Every program to root cell phones, including Kingo Root, gets full control over the device. And beyond rooting, it is unknown what other things they do on the computer, because they are generally not open source programs and they have not been audited either. Another similarly named app, Kingroot, was found to have erratic behavior. If you have sensitive data on your cell phone (such as banking information), you should not use these types of programs, unless you know what you are doing.

Download Kingo Root Program and APK: kingoapp.com

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