How to root the Infinix Hot 4 (X557)

The Infinix Hot 4 (X557) is powered by the MT6580 System on Chip (SoC) and ships with Android 6.0 Marshmallow. In this guide, I’ll be teaching you how to root the Infinix Hot 4 (X557).

How do I root an Infinix Hot 4 (X557) ?




Install VCOM drivers on your PC

Download

SuperSU 2.76.zip




Copy the SuperSU.zip to both the phone’s SD card and internal storage
Download

TWRP for Infinix Hot 4



(Credits to Jemmini for this recovery)
Switch off the phone (still with battery inside)

Flash the TWRP recovery.img to the phone using SP Flash tool

Boot the phone into recovery mode using Volume up button + Power button

In TWRP, if you get a prompt asking you to swipe to allow modification of the System partition, tap KEEP READ ONLY
If TWRP offers to root the phone, select NO

In TWRP recovery, tap Install
Navigate to the location of the SuperSU 2.76.zip and select it
Swipe to confirm flashing of SuperSU.zip and wait till flashing is complete

Reboot the phone normally
Confirm Root by installing and running Root Checker



Source: Hovatek