This article offers you step-by-step advice into how the simplest rooting of your mk802 III device is done. It should take about 15 minutes to do this. I am not responsible for any problems that might occur while doing this procedure. Although it’s a simple procedure, things might go wrong (especially if your device is not a mk802 III). By rooting your device you will not loose any setting or programs you have already running on your device. I chose to root mine since i was having some issues with the flash player (it stopped working and replacing the flash apk was not helping), and the loading time was getting higher and higher.


Once you root your device with this software you will also be able to control you device from an android device, so that installing games that use multi-touch input will actually make sense.
The idea is silly however since you can already play the game on the phone to begin with, but think of it as a way to play a mobile phone game on a full HD 55″ screen :P

Step 1

Make sure that your device is similar to mine. If it’s not, you might run into some problems. Mine is a Rikomagic mk802 III, purchased from “Rikomagic family store”.

Step 2
Download the latest update from my dropbox folder. If for some reason you may not access the link consider opening an account on dropbox.

Step 3
Copy the file update.zip to an empty micro sd card (you need a minimum 1gb sd card and a card reader for your pc)

Step 4
Just plug in the sd card in your mk802 and a message regarding an update should appear on your screen. it should take about 3-5 minutes to update. Make sure that you have a minimum of 300mb free on your mk802. The mk802 will reboot and an updating screen should apear.

Step 5
Remove the card or delete the file since the message to update will keep appearing over and over again. That’s it, you device is now rooted !. Now you can use software like ppp widget to connect to the internet with a 3G adapter (tested with Huawei E173)

and also you can control the device with this app MK802 III Remote.apk from your phone and all sorts of other things that required your device to be rooted.