HOW TO ROOT INFINIX HOT NOTE X551 BASED ON ANDROID 5.1 LOLLIPOP

Its no news that infinix hot note (X551) can be updated to android 5.1 lollipop. Many people after updating their infinix hot note (X551) to this OS find it very hard to root the device. I've been getting a lots of messages from people requesting on how they can root this device running on this update. So here how to easily do it for those who still want to root their devices.

If you you want to update your infinix hot note (X551) to android 5.1 lollipop click here

Note
romkingz is not responsible if you damage your device in anyway. Do this at your own risk.
The rooting method is for infinix hot note X551 with 16GB + 1GB RAM. Do not use it on any other model.

Download SP Flash Tool from here
Download android usb drivers from here
Download and extract this recovery from here
Download SuperSu.zip from here
Copy SuperSu.zip to your SD Card. (don't put it inside any folder)

Launch SP Flash Tool
Click on Scatter button
Select the Scatter file from the recovery folder you extracted

EASY WAY TO FLASH IMG FILES LIKE RECOVERY OR BOOT IMAGE WITH FLASHIFY

Tired of using the complicated fastboot method on PC to flash IMG files like recovery or boot images to your Smart phones or tablets, you are welcome to use this very easy way to flash IMG images to your smart phone without a PC using this app called flashify. Just follow the steps below 

Note
This process is for rooted devices only.
I'm not responsible if you mess your phone in any way. Read the instructions carefully.


If you have not rooted your device, learn how to root it using kingroot or using iRoot from here.

Download the IMG file you want to flash.
Download and install flashify from playstore.


Grant SuperUSer access to flashify by tapping Alow when it pops up.

PHILZ TOUCH RECOVERY FOR MTK DEVICES

This is a new customized Recovery like CWM or TWRP with a lots features. 

You can use it to install Kikat and Lollipop ROMs to your devices.

Bundled with Aroma File Manager to easily manage files in your SDcard/Phone memory in Recovery mode

And many more......................

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HOW TO INSTALL THIS RECOVERY TO YOUR DEVICE

Note

The Recovery shared on this page is for MTK devices only.

I'm not responsible for any thing that happens to your device after using this tutorial. 

Do this at your own risk.

Download and install Android USB drivers from here

Download and extract the the file.

Run PhilZ & Click Next 

On the window that appear, click OK

A Credits list window is seen 

After some seconds, 

another window will show >> Do you wanna start Easy PhilZ Touch Installer for MTK now <<

Click Yes.

On the next window,

Select >> Start Easy Magic PhilZ Touch Installer for MediaTek << and click OK

Click Yes on the next window.

Turn on USB debugging on your device.  Settings > Developers option > USB debugging

Make sure you have properly installed Android USB drivers

connect  your device to the Computer and click OK

The rest process is automated.Wait for it to complete

Congrats you have successfully installed Philz Touch Recovery on  your device.

To boot into this recovery, 

Press and hold volume up button then Power on your device

If you have an  error like this >> aborted recovery too large and causes a region of overlap <<

 Mostly on older MTK devices.

Do the following carefully:

Click Yes

A window about your device chipset will popup

Grant Super User permission on your device

Select your screen resolution on the new window that pops up and click ok

There will be some questions. Ans as follows

In the First question answer NO

An error will show up click OK

Now open PhilZ recovery from a new folder named MTK-PhilZ found on your Desktop

Click OK

Then Click NO

It will ask you to put your stock recovery in stock folder 

Copy the Stock Recovery from  BackUp-MTK-Recovery folder and paste it in MTK-PhilZ folder

Now select your phone resolution and click OK 

Now select fb2png and tune2fs and press OK

Click NO

Click Yes

Click Yes again

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