Safely Root LeEco Le 1s Eco on Android 5.0 Lollipop

Safely Root LeEco Le 1s Eco on Android 5.0 Lollipop

China’s LeEco, erstwhile known as Letv, has set its sights on India. From extensive social media campaigns to fan meets, the company seems to be fully prepared for its foray in the Indian market. Speaking of the Indian market, especially the smartphone segment, not only it is highly crowded and competitive, it is almost nearing a saturation point with most of the smartphones at certain price bracket coming with similar set of specifications. For a new entrant such as LeEco, making an impact in the Indian market is going to be a daunting task. With the Le 1s, priced at Rs 10,999, let’s see whether LeEco can take on existing brands.

Design
One of the first things that impresses about the Le 1s is its design. Featuring a metal unibody, the smartphone has rounded corners and metallic frame on the edges. It is quite slim at 7.5mm, considering that it is a 5.5-inch smartphone housing housing a 3,000mAh battery. The overall design is sort of becoming quite common with most Chinese brands these days, but I would not take away the fact that it looks quite premium, especially for a smartphone that costs just Rs 10,999.

Display
The smartphone has a 5.5-inch full HD display. In terms of viewing angles, brightness levels, visibility in sunlight and indoors, the Le 1s delivers a satisfactory experience. You can customize the display color modes with options such as the Vivid (for more vibrance), Natural (true colors) and Soft (for long-time phone use) depending on your preference. I mostly stayed on the default and Natural color modes.

Camera
The Le 1s has a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front facing camera. The 13-megapixel rear camera comes with features such as PDAF and LED flash. It can also shoot videos in 4K resolution and also supports slow motion. In terms of custom settings, you can set the white balance, ISO level, exposure, contrast, sharpness and saturation levels. The camera interface is quite simple for point and shoot or casual photography.

Performance & Battery life
The Le 1s doesn’t disappoint when it comes to performance. The 2.2 GHz Octa-Core Mediatek Helio X10 Processor coupled with 3GB of RAM ensures the phone keeps ticking smoothly. The phone comes with 32GB onboard storage, out of which roughly 29GB is available to users, which is quite impressive for a budget smartphone. There is no microSD card slot, however, so you cannot expand the storage.

HOW TO ROOT LEECO LE 1S ECO RUNNING ON ANDROID 5.0 LOLLIPOP

Download the SuperSU application and have it on the desktop of the computer.
Connect the LeEco Le 1S Eco smartphone to the computer with the USB cable.
Copy the SuperSU zip file over to the internal storage SD card folder for the phone and then unplug from the computer once you have it.
Boot the LeEco Le 1S Eco smartphone into the custom recovery you already installed earlier and then take your NANDroid Backup from the main menu if you need a backup of your data.
Tap on the Install button from the main recovery menu and then browse the SD card for the SuperSU by Chainfire.
Swipe the bottom of the screen to install the SuperSU where it says you need to swipe to confirm the installation.
Tap on the button to wipe the cache once the SuperSU is flashed.
Select the option to reboot the system once the cache is wiped.
In conclusion, that is how to root LeEco Le 1S Eco smartphones running on the Android 5.0 Lollipop software updates by flashing a stable version of Chainfire’s SuperSU application from the custom recovery image. You find that the custom recovery has successfully installed and enabled the SuperSU so that you are officially a root user and able to install any apps you like.