Last Updated on January 5, 2023 by Mathew Diekhake

LeEco, the company that was known as LeTV, has now begun manufacturing smartphones that run on the Android operating system. One of their recent launches is the LeEco Le Max 2 smartphone that runs Android and is a premium looking smartphone worth taking a look at if you want to buy a new device.

The phone features a 21MP camera capable of taking high-quality photos, 6GB of RAM to ensure your apps and games never has lag, 5.7 inch screen size, and a 3100mAh battery so that your phone runs the entire day without requiring charging in between.

LeEco Le Max 2 Recovery

While the company has loaded the phone with all of the apps you need to do your tasks, there are still many things you can get on your phone if you root it. These things are root-requiring apps, custom ROMs, custom kernels among many. Flashing these things on your phone lets you get the most out of your device, and these things make your phone work at its fullest which the stock stuff prevents it from doing so.

Before you can root your LeEco Le Max 2, you need to have a custom recovery installed on it. And to get that recovery, you can follow our tutorial below that teaches exactly that:

Files You Need

  1. This tutorial is written keeping the Windows version of Fastboot in mind. You can install ADB for Mac or ADB for Linux if you use any of these two OSes to do the following tutorial.
  2. You should have ADB USB drivers installed on your Windows computer. Install them if they are not already.
  3. Since this will unlock the bootloader, all the data on your phone will get erased. So, backup everything that you wish to preserve.
  4. The following guide will flash a custom recovery called TWRP on your Le Max 2 phone.
  5. Download Root Package and save it to your computer. It contains both root files and a custom recovery for your phone.
  6. You must only do this on a LeEco Le Max 2 phone. Doing this on any other phone will result in a brick of the phone.

Unlocking the Bootloader of the LeEco Le Max 2

  1. Unrar files from Root Package over to your computer by right-clicking on it and selecting Extract here.
  2. Turn off your phone.
  3. Turn your Le Max 2 phone back on in fastboot mode. To do that, hold down Volume DOWN and Power buttons together for a few seconds.
  4. Your phone should reboot into the fastboot mode.
  5. Plug in your phone to your computer using a suitable USB cable.
  6. Let your computer install the required drivers.
  7. Open the folder where you have extracted Root Package, and hold down Shift on your keyboard and right-click anywhere on the screen and select Open command window here. It should launch a command prompt window in your root exploit folder.
  8. Type in the following command into the command prompt window and hit Enter:
    fastboot devices
  9. Your phone should appear in the devices list. If it does not, re-install the drivers.
  10. Next up, type in the following command into the command prompt window and press Enter:
    fastboot oem unlock
  11. Follow the on-screen instructions to unlock the bootloader on your phone.
  12. When the bootloader’s unlocked, reboot your phone using the following command:
    fastboot reboot
  13. Your phone should reboot.

And there you go, you have successfully unlocked the bootloader on your LeEco Le Max 2 and here’s how you can install a custom recovery on your phone:

Installing a Custom Recovery on the LeEco Le Max 2

  1. Turn off your phone.
  2. Turn your phone back on in fastboot mode by holding down Volume DOWN and Power buttons together for a few seconds.
  3. Connect your phone to your computer using a USB cable.
  4. Open the Root Package folder, hold down Shift on your keyboard and right-click anywhere on the screen and select Open command window here.
  5. When the command prompt window launches, enter the following command and hit Enter:
    fastboot devices
  6. Ensure your phone appears in the list.
  7. Next up, type in the following command into the command prompt window and press Enter:
    fastboot flash recovery Le_X820_TWRP.img
  8. It will flash TWRP Recovery on your phone.
  9. Wait for it to flash the recovery on your phone.
  10. When it’s done flashing recovery, reboot your phone using the following command:
    fastboot reboot
  11. Your phone should reboot.

And, you have successfully flashed a custom recovery on your LeEco Le Max 2.

Now that a custom recovery is up and running on your LeEco Le Max 2, you might want to root it, and you can do so by following our how to root the LeEco Le Max 2 tutorial that shows the easiest way to gain root on your phone.

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