How To Root Tecno Camon C9

The Tecno Canon C9 is yet another addition to Tecno’s collection of smartphones. This phone runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) making it still unsupported by our favorite one-click root apks (at the moment). By popular demand, Team Hovatek has come out with this rooting guide for Tecno C9 users.

Steps To Rooting Tecno Camon C9

First off, you need to unlock the bootloader for this device, and secondly, you have to flash SuperSU zip via TWRP Recovery. Appropriate steps are listed below:

1. Download SuperSU 2.76.zip Here

2. Copy the downloaded file to the root of your phone's SDCARD 

3. Download TWRP Recovery ported by Team Hovatek Here

4. Extract and copy the TWRP recovery.img into the same folder as the fastboot.exe and adb.exe
5.Unlock the Bootloader of the Tecno Camon C9 using the guide on hovatek Here

Next Step:

• Connect the phone to the PC via USB cord while switched On and boot it into Fastboot (as instructed in the Bootloader unlock guide)
• When the phone enters Fastboot, load the TWRP recovery to the phone by typing the command below then pressing Enter
  fastboot boot recovery.img
• The phone should automatically boot into TWRP recovery mode
• In TWRP, if you get a prompt asking you to swipe to allow modification of the System partition, tap KEEP READ ONLY
• If TWRP offers to root the phone, select NO
• In TWRP recovery, tap Install
• Navigate to the location of the SuperSU.zip and select it
• Swipe to confirm flashing of SuperSU.zip and wait till flashing is complete
• Reboot the phone normally.