Last Updated on September 20, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake
You can now root the Asus Zenfone 4 Selfie Pro smartphone when you have it running on the Android 7.0 (Nougat) software update. You should find that this rooting method works for all firmware build numbers so long as you have it running on Android 7.0, which is information you can find out from the Settings menu.
Once you have the Asus Zenfone 4 Selfie Pro rooted on Android 7.0, you can expect to find all the same root applications working in your favor, including the few hundred that are most used out of them all.
This is what you need to get the root access to the Asus Zenfone 4 Selfie Pro smartphone when you have it running on the Android 7.0 Nougat software update.
Details We Should Know
- You need to have a custom recovery image installed on the Asus Zenfone 4 Selfie Pro smartphone before you can get root access to it on the Android 7.0 Nougat software update using the guide below.
- The following guide should flash SuperSU to get the root access to your phone.
Files We Need
- Download the SuperSU directly on your computer and save it to the desktop. Do not extract the archive. Instead just leave it zipped or else you can’t flash it from the custom recovery image.
How to Root Asus Zenfone 4 Selfie Pro on Android 7.0 (Nougat)
1. Turn on the Asus Zenfone 4 Selfie Pro smartphone, grab its USB cable and connect it to the computer.
2. Copy and paste the SuperSU zip file to the storage folder of the Asus Zenfone 4 Selfie smartphone. Disconnect the smartphone from the computer once that is done.
3. using the same key combination as the stock recovery, boot the Asus Zenfone 4 Selfie smartphone into the custom recovery that you had previously installed.
4. From the main custom recovery menu, locate the Install” button and tap on it.
5. Navigate to the rooting file that you pasted to Zenfone 4 Selfie’s folder when you were using the computer. Follow the rest of the on-screen instructions to get it flashed.
6. When you can see the code finish rolling down the screen, some buttons will become available at the bottom of it. Tap on the “Reboot System” button directly beneath the end of the code.
The Asus Zenfone 4 Selfie Pro smartphone will now boot back up in its standard mode where you can start using the operating system. It is now rooted, which means nothing is preventing you from running the root applications.
You’ll find most of the root applications from the same Google Play Store that you have been using to get the regular applications installed. You won’t find them easily, though, because Google Play doesn’t showcase them in any way. Instead, you’ll need to find out the names of them and then browse for them that way.
There are a few root applications worth knowing about that aren’t on the Play Store as well–sometimes because Google has taken offense to them and decided they don’t want them and other times because the developers just want people downloading them from their websites instead. Most of these times the root apps will be sitting on high-quality websites set up by the developers or the links will be available from the XDA-Developers web forum. If you wind up anywhere else, make sure to scan the files with VirusTotal before trusted them, because you definitely don’t want to be installing malware with root access.