How can I root my phone? What is the best app?

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  • Magisk

    The Magic Mask for Android

  • You first need to "unlock the bootloader," which allows you to boot a modified version of Android. After that, it depends on the device, but it seems like yours needs you to install TWRP, which is a custom recovery. First, download it. You'll need to look through the XDA forums for a file. The process for installing it varies slightly and following the wrong process could brick the phone, but you usually run "adb reboot fastboot" on a computer with the phone plugged in and USB debugging enabled, then you run "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img". Don't do that, though, until you're sure that's how it's done on your device. Then, run "fastboot reboot recovery", enter your login information, copy the Magisk APK (https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases) to the phone, and select it in the Install menu. Magisk is the actual root app.

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