Samsung has announced its new Samsung Galaxy A8.It has a 5.7-inch 1920 x 1080-pixel Super AMOLED display.It is featuring an octa core Snapdragon 615, clocked at 1.5 GHz coupled with 2GB of RAM.It comes with 16GB and 32GB of internal storage with a microSD card slot for adding up to 128GB of additional storage.The rear camera is a 16 MP while the front-facing selfie snapper is 5 MP, and a wide f/1.9 aperture, just like on the S6.The phone comes with a massive 3050 mAh battery and runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop straight out of the box but with TouchWiz overlay on top.There is a fingerprint reader in the home button and the phone supports LTE. If you have a Samsung Galaxy A8 and you want to get root access on your device then you are at the right place.This guide is very simple and easy.You just have to Flash the SpaceX auto root Kernel via Odin to Root Samsung Galaxy A8 Remember Before rooting:
Rooting your phone can void your warranty After rooting, you can tweak your phone You can unroot it if you want You can overclock or underclock your CPU to make your phone faster
For One Click Root Guide How to root Samsung Galaxy A8 in 5 minutes Without PC For Unrooting Guide Follow this Link—»»How to Safely UnRoot Samsung Galaxy A8 Important: *Make sure there is at least 80% battery left on your smartphone before begin rooting your device. How to Safely Root Samsung Galaxy A8 With Odin Downloads: 1-Download: SpaceX Kernel 2-Odin 3.10 How to Safely Root Samsung Galaxy A8 With Odin Step-By-Step Guide We have to Flash the above kernel Via Odin
Step 1. Download Odin and SpaceXKernel from above. Step 2. Install Galaxy A8 driver.First of all. Double-click the .exe file of drivers to begin the installation. (Not required if you have already done this. Step 3. Extract the Odin file. You should get this file, Odin3 v3.10.6.exe (other files could be hidden, hence not visible). Step 4. Disconnect your Galaxy A8 from PC if it is connected. Step 5. Boot Galaxy A8 into download mode: Step 6. Double click on extract file of Odin, Odin3 v3.10.6.exe, to open the Odin window, as shown below. Be careful with Odin, and do just as said to prevent problems.
Step 7. Connect your Galaxy A8 to PC now using USB cable. Odin should recognize your Galaxy A8. It’s a must. When it recognizes, you will see Added!! message appearing in the Log box in the bottom left, and the first box under ID:COM will also show a no. and turn its background blue. Look at the pic below.
You cannot proceed until you get the Added!! the message, which confirms that Odin has recognized your device. If you don’t get Added!! the message, you need to install/re-install drivers again and use the original cable that came with the device. Mostly, drivers are the problem (look at step 2 above). You can try different USB ports on your PC too, btw.
Step 8. Load the Kernel file into Odin. For this, click the AP button on Odin and the select the kernel’s file you downloaded above. Step 9. Make sure Re-partition checkbox is NOT selected, under the Options tab. Don’t use PIT tab either. Go back to Log tab btw, it will show the progress when you hit the start button in next step. Step 10. Click the Start button on Odin now to start flashing the TWRP recovery on your Galaxy A8. Wait till installation is finished, after which your Galaxy A8 will reboot automatically. You’ll get PASS message as shown below upon successful installation from Odin.
If Odin gets stuck at setup connection, then you need to do this all again. Disconnect your device, close Odin, boot device into download mode again, open Odin, and then select the file and flash it again as said above. If you get FAIL in the top left box, then also you need to flash the file again as stated just above.
DONE!!! Your Phone is now rooted. To verify the root status install Root Checker. Source Androidlover5842 Over Xda
