How to Root Nokia 5.1 Plus

Rooting Nokia 5.1 Plus:

Rooting is the way to obtain SuperSU Right on Nokia 5.1 Plus in Simple taking full Control over the device. Rooting allow Some advance Functionality on a Rooted Phone. to Root Nokia 5.1 Plus First You need to unlock it’s bootloader after that You can Root it With the Magisk.

Nokia 5.1 Plus Run on MT6771 SoC along With Android 8.1 3/4GB of RAM and 32/64GB of Internal Memory. it Come with 5.8 Inch IPS Display with the Resolution of 720 X 1520 Pixels.

advantage of Rooting on Nokia 5.1 Plus:

  • it Allow System access
  • Rooting allow System Modification
  • Rooting allow Custom ROM Installation
  • it allow Custom Recovery Like twrp Installation
  • Kernel tweaking & Custom Kernel Installation

Disadvantage of Rooting the Nokia 5.1 Plus:

  • Your Device Warranty Now Void
  • New user May brick their Phone due to lack of Knowledge

Download:

  1. adb tools
  2. adb driver
  3. Magisk Manager
  4. Purchase unlock code from any provider Like hikari

How to Root Nokia 5.1 Plus:

The device come with AB partition so it’s slightly difficult to root it. let’s start what we can do

  • Download Stock Firmware & SP Flash tools
  • Now Find Scatter.txt file in Firmware folder, open it with Notepad and Search for “boot_a” or “boot_b”
  • Now Copy 
    linear_start_addr & partition_size:
  • Look Like below
  partition_name: boot_a
  file_name: PDA-0-102A-00CN-boot.img
  is_download: true
  type: NORMAL_ROM
  linear_start_addr: 0x22a00000
  physical_start_addr: 0x22a00000
  partition_size: 0x2000000
  region: EMMC_USER
  • by using SP Flash tools Make a Readback of both boot_a & boot_b according your current slot (use da file along with firmware) rename it boot.img, make a safe copy to restore
  • Now Move both boot file to Phone
  • Download & Install Magisk Manager on Phone
  • Run Magisk Manager & Click Update. Select patch img File
  • Navigate the Stock boot.img

  • Patched boot.img Placed in Download Folder of Phone Storage
  • Download & Setup Platform tools on PC
  • Move Patched_boot.img File From Phone/Download/Folder to Platform tools Folder
  • Now Install adb fastboot Driver on PC
  • Reboot phone bootloader and Connect to PC
  • Open CMD in Platform tools Folder
  • type below code
fastboot flash boot 'Correct patched File name here'
fastboot reboot

Your Phone Now Rooted.

if any issue Restore Readed Files via same or using flash tools.