CyanogenMod | Android Community Operating System

CyanogenMod (pronounced /saɪ.'æn.oʊ.dʒɛn.mɒd/) is an enhanced open source firmware distribution for smartphones and tablet computers based on the Android mobile operating system. It offers features and options not found in the official firmware distributed by vendors of these devices.

Features supported by CyanogenMod include native theming support, FLAC audio codec support, a large Access Point Name list, an OpenVPN client, an enhanced reboot menu, support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and USB tethering, CPU overclocking and other performance enhancements, soft buttons and other "tablet tweaks", toggles in the notification pull-down (such as wi-fi, Bluetooth and GPS), app permissions management, as well as other interface enhancements. CyanogenMod does not contain spyware or bloatware. In many cases, CyanogenMod may increase performance and reliability compared with official firmware releases.

CyanogenMod is developed as free and open source software based on the official releases of Android by Google, with added original and third-party code.

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How to Root YU Yuphoria

This is a short tutorial on how to Root YU YUPHORIA.

[ Requirements ] 

1. YU YUPHORIA phone (obviously)
2. Drivers (windows will automatically install them) - official compatible driver pack is here
3. ADB & Fastboot binary package

[ WARNING ] 

PLEASE TAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR DATA BEFORE PROCEEDING!

This procedure may wipe the all the data partition of your phone, so you will loose all your stored data, settings.

SDCARD will NOT BE WIPED!!

Why to unlock Bootloader?

1. You can flash custom ROM(s)/Kernels
2. You don't need to worry if the new firmware can be rooted or not as with unlocked bootloader you can always ROOT your device

[ Steps ] 

1. Download the ADB & Fastboot binary package and extract it on a temporary folder in C:\
2. Power down YU Yuphoria
3. While pressing VOLUME UP key connect the phone to PC/Laptop via USB cable
4. You will get a screen on your phone which says "Fastboot mode"
5. Device drivers will get installed by windows (please wait for the driver installation to complete)
6. After driver installation is done go to the folder where you have extracted the package
7. Pressing the SHIFT key right click in the folder and select "Open command prompt here"
8. Now a Command Prompt window will open up
9. Type the following command to check if the device was detected in fastboot mode
   fastboot -i 0x2A96 devices
10. If you don't get similar output it means that the drivers weren't correctly installed or the device wasn't connected properly
11. If the output is similar to above then run the following command:
    fastboot -i 0x2A96 oem unlock
12. Now reboot from fastboot mode and thats it 
    
    fastboot -i 0x2A96 reboot

PLEASE NOTE THAT OMITTING "-i 0x2A96" WILL LEAD TO FASTBOOT COMMANDS NOT WORKING.

Okay Now if you have unlocked the BOOTLOADER simply follow the procedure below to root your YU Yuphoria

[ NOTICE ]

This procedure WILL NOT replace the stock recovery

[ Requirements ]

• YU YUPHORIA phone
• Unlocked bootloader
• latest SU binary from from: https://goo.gl/rbuvJS
• Busybox installer

[ How to root ]

• Make sure that the device has unlocked bootloader
• Download the latest SuperSU update.zip
• Save it on sdcard of device
• Reboot into bootloader/fastboot mode
  • ADB reboot bootloader 
    or
  • Power down phone and keeping the VOLUME UP key connect the phone to PC/Laptop via USB cable
• Download any of the recoveries
• Hotboot the hacked recovery kernel
  fastboot -i 0x2A96 boot DooMLoRD-YUPHORIA-Hacked_CWM-v1.img
• Device will now start booting into recovery
• Once the recovery starts flash the SuperSU update.zip
• Reboot from recovery into OS
• You should now get root access! ☺

[ Installing busybox ]

• It is highly recommended to install busybox after rooting!
• Just go to andorid play store and download the Busybox installer.
• Once the installer is downloaded, install busybox in /system/xbin
• Reboot device after install and thats it!

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