So I want to root my phone. It's an Alcatel Onyx (50008R).
I got it as a cheap phone, since my old zenfone 2 died, long story the main board stopped sending video siganl. Had the Onyx for a bit and it's okay for a cheap phone. Today it just crashed and corrupted the OS, somehow. I couldn't recover anything and had to factory reset it.
I want to be able to delete bloatware or just install an OS without any bloat. I consider chrome, google drive, Gmail, facebook etc bloat. But can't actually delete them from this phone, only disable. I don't want them on the phone and if I do have top reset it again, a version of android that doesn't have them on there as the backup would be nice. As this phone does not have a lot of storage and I don't trust google or facebook at all.
I'm not sure where the heck to start with rooting. Last I checked you needed to use command lines and know exactly what you are doing to root a phone and customize it. But now it seems there are applications you can do it through windows. I have no clue if these are legit or not.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you in advance.
I got it as a cheap phone, since my old zenfone 2 died, long story the main board stopped sending video siganl. Had the Onyx for a bit and it's okay for a cheap phone. Today it just crashed and corrupted the OS, somehow. I couldn't recover anything and had to factory reset it.
I want to be able to delete bloatware or just install an OS without any bloat. I consider chrome, google drive, Gmail, facebook etc bloat. But can't actually delete them from this phone, only disable. I don't want them on the phone and if I do have top reset it again, a version of android that doesn't have them on there as the backup would be nice. As this phone does not have a lot of storage and I don't trust google or facebook at all.
I'm not sure where the heck to start with rooting. Last I checked you needed to use command lines and know exactly what you are doing to root a phone and customize it. But now it seems there are applications you can do it through windows. I have no clue if these are legit or not.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you in advance.