The OnePlus 6T continues to embarrass other more expensive Android phones with incredible features and value. As fantastic as the OnePlus 6T hardware and pricing are, mimicking the best parts of the most popular phones and selling them in your own device can only get you so far. The device took its covers with Android Pie based OnePlus’s own UI skin Oxygen OS 9.0.5. In the month of November itself, an unofficial TWRP recovery dressed up to this device. No sooner the OnePlus 6T now got an Offical TWRP recovery build. Some senior XDA members eng.stk, joemossjr, Dees_Troy, xls654, and twinnfamous contributed to this build. This guide will help you out on how to Install Official TWRP Recovery and Root OnePlus 6T.
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Unlike many other manufacturers, OnePlus has a clean record when it comes to software updates. The company is supporting devices as old as two years such as the OnePlus 3/3T. The OnePlus 6T is the perfect size for a phone, without compromising the utility of a large screen. The decent 6.41-inch optic AMOLED display is quite big with 1080 x 2340 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio resolution. Following the trend, OnePlus packs in the in-display fingerprint sensor having a speed of 0.34s to unlock. Shrinking the notch makes the OnePlus 6T look better than other phones, but the Face Unlock feature is still less secure than Face ID.
The base variant now is 128gigs. No more 64gigs Variant & memory card slot. There is no 3.5mm audio port so as to place in-built fingerprint scanner. It is powered by the massive processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (10 nm) chipset coupled with 8GB RAM for the 128/256GB variant & 6GB RAM for the 128GB RAM variant. The battery life on the phone is good with moderate 3700mah cell and will last you a full day, or about 18 hours. The Android Pie features like adaptive battery and the battery saver options give you more control. The phone packs a dual camera set up at the rear end with 16MP+20MP. The selfie camera came with 16MP f/2.0, 25mm lens. A night mode for the camera of One plus 6T which tweaks and plays around with the exposure and dark scenarios to give out a better looking low-light photos.
TWRP is one of the most popular custom recoveries for Android smartphones. It is a touch-based custom recovery with an intuitive interface and a lot of useful functions. TWRP is a recovery-level UI packed with powerful features that will make your rooted life easier. It also tries to stand out by giving users extra features not found in ClockworkMod Recovery, as well as an attractive interface. It offers hardcore Android smartphones users quite a few features, including a way to flash custom ROMs, install ZIP-file-based updates, create and restore backups of ROMS and much more.
TWRP has an intuitive touch interface with a lot of useful options. You can take Nandroid backups, restore the backups in case your device stuck at bootloop, flash custom ROMs, mods and any flashable ZIP file. Apart from that, you can wipe individual partitions on your device, run custom scripts and much more.
adb devices
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot devices
fastboot OEM unlock
You have now unlocked the bootloader on your OnePlus 6T. Without any ado lets see how to Install Official TWRP Recovery and Root OnePlus 6T.
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
That’s all! Now its time to root the device.
Rooting your smartphone gives you administrative rights that means you have full access over your smartphone whether it is hardware related or software related. You can flash custom ROM which makes your phone look even cooler, can increase the RAM, GPU, etc. The main thing users intend to root their device is to get rid of bloatware apps and software. Root is actually a directory or a folder in Linux based Operating Systems which contains critical files for the computer to run properly including the software that boots your device. Normal users do not have access to this folder for security purposes. Most of the Linux Operating Systems including Ubuntu, Kali provide System Administrators or the Root Users to access the root folder.
Rooting your smartphone will void its warranty. Sometimes rooting process won’t go smoothly hence you may end up bricking your lovely phone.
adb devices
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot devices
fastboot boot magisk.img
Done! Your brand new OnePlus 6T is now successfully rooted.
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