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Rooting GooPhone Y5

Warning: Doing this at own risk – You have been warned. If your phone bricks I can and will not be held responsible. – Credits goes to u669983 @ xda-developers

1) Download the following files to the root of the SD card:

GooPhone-Y5-Root.zip  (app. 1 Mb)
m44-toolbox.apk  (app 0.5 Mb)
recovery.img  (app. 5 Mb)

2) On phone: Got to Settings → General → About , Reboot Recovery click OK, wait a minute, the phone automatically goes into the flash native mode. 

3) Bootloader mode, there will be a triangle and an exclamation point, there is a robot, English menu, just press the volume key. 

4) The volume “+” key = up, volume “-” key =  down , power button = OK . Select second-line option then apply update from sdcard to “will see the files in your SD card. 

5) Find GooPhone-Y5-Root.zip, click OK, the phone will show a progress bar, after 10-20 seconds you will automatically return to the menu. 

6) Return to the main menu, select the first option “ reboot system now “. The phone will restart. ROOT success! 

Description: The Root-procedure applies to GooPhone Y5, GooPhone I9220, GooPhone 4GS_3G, GooPhone 4GS  and GooPhone 4S

Good luck.. And remember.. You do this at your own risk.

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Translation of the Chinese Recovery:

25 thoughts on “Rooting GooPhone Y5”

  1. Hi all
    I have installed the new
    The new recovery.img file menus are in Chinese language.
    Unfortunately I did not back up the orginal file.
    Could someone send me the native recovery.img ?
    Thanks in advance.
    Regards.

    • Hi all
      I also installed the new recovery.img and i have the same probleme (file menus are in Chinese language).
      may be can u give us the translation ?
      or send us the native recovery.img ?
      Thanks

      • Hi.. Can you send me a picture of the main menu. I will see to get it translated. Someone must be able to translate Chinese to English ;)

  3. Is google play working on the y5 now? Is there a way to have the android ui on the y5? (I have the y5 on order, should receive it on monday)

    • Hi Mike.
      The old ROM does support GPlay. New one doesn’t.. Hopefully nexg version will fix this.. But you have to revert to old rom to get GPlay to work.

  4. I dont have the “Settings → General → About , Reboot Recovery” on my goophone Y5. I can go to settings, general, about, but the reboot recovery option isn’t there. Any suggestions?

    • You power on your phone while holding down the “Volume +” key ond the side.. This should bring the Apple on the screen along with the text in lover left corner: “Recovery mode”

  8. hi, this rom is v. 2.3.6 of Android.. if you have the 4.0 I would love to have a copy of that rom to work with: … make a backup of the rom using the recovery, take system.img and boot.img of that rom and zip it.. then upload a place where I can get my hands on it.. thank you.

  9. I also have Goophone Y5, with Android 4 ICS.

    I can not enter recovery mode.

    “Volume +” + “Power ON” => recovery does not enter
    “Volume +” + “Power ON” + central button => recovery does not enter
    “Volume -” + “Power ON” => recovery does not enter

    any ideas please?

  10. Please move comments to support-forum :)

    You can try to install m44-toolbox.apk at the top of this site..

    It has an option to “Reboot Recovery”..

    Can you make a backup of your rom – I would like to see the 4.0 ROM.
    Officially there are no ICS rom for GooPhone Y5, so you might be owner of a Sophone V75 or another model – not the GooPhone Y5..

  12. Yes of course.. My bad.. (My phone came pre-rooted that’s why I didn’t give the rooting part a thought..)

    What happens when you boot with vol. up?

    Do you go to a screen with the robot and a triangle with a “!” inside?

    • When I boot with “power” + “Vol +”, the phone turns on normally. Apple’s logo appears, not the android.

      I’m downloading the SDK android. I read that I can reboot into the recovery mode by ADB.

  13. Yes.. But maybe you can’t reboot to recovery if no recovery image is written on the phone..

    You might want to try the following when you get ADB connection:

    type “ADB shell”
    then.
    “cat /proc/mtd”
    you should get something simular to this: (probably a little different)

    dev: size erasesize name
    mtd0: 00500000 00020000 “boot”
    mtd1: 00500000 00020000 “recovery”
    mtd2: 00140000 00020000 “misc”
    ..etc..

    You can see there is a partition called “recovery”

    You then download the recovery.img at the top of this site..

    You know use an app called z4root to temp root your phone.

    Run m44-toolbox and install the recovery.img to the recovery partition.

    • shell@android:/ $ cat /proc/mtd
      cat /proc/mtd
      dev: size erasesize name

      if i type:
      >adb reboot recovery

      then appears “the robot and a triangle with a “!” inside”

      • When at the robot and the triangle with “!” try pressing power + vol up…

        This was the way to enter the recovery on my old HTC device :)

        You might be very close

          • it sounds like the recovery partition has been erased..

            Try booting normally and then install z4root.apk (I’ll find it and post it here..)

            Moving help to forum .. New thread opened in General Q & A – please move there as well ;)