OnePlus has officially released the Nougat beta update for the OnePlus 3 with the Open Beta 8 OTA update for the device.

Apparently, the official TWRP recovery builds fail to boot on the OnePlus 3 Nougat beta release. But thanks to developer eng.stk over at xda, his modified TWRP recovery version 3.0.2-1.28 seems to work fine on the Nougat beta firmware and you can totally use it to flash the latest SuperSU zip to get rooted.

Rooting Nougat was never an issue with latest SuperSU zip, however, TWRP recovery builds require an update on almost all Android devices getting the Nougat update.

Anyway, grab the OnePlus 3 Nougat beta compatible TWRP build from the download link below, flash it to your OnePlus 3 and then flash SuperSU to get root access.

Downloads

How to Root OnePlus 3 Nougat Beta Firmware

  1. Download the SuperSU zip from the link above and save it on your OnePlus 3.
  2. Download the modified TWRP build from the link above and flash it to your OnePlus 3. For help, follow the link below
    [icon name=”hand-o-right” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] How to Install TWRP recovery via Fastboot
  3. Once the TWRP image is flashed, boot into recovery mode.
  4. If you get a prompt to decrypt data when you boot into TWRP, simply cancel it.
  5. Select Install from TWRP main menu. And select the SuperSU zip file that you transferred to the phone in Step 1 above.
  6. Confirm flashing the zip file when asked, and then reboot phone into system.

That’s it. Your OnePlus 3 running on Android 7.0 Nougat is now rooted. Cheers!

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