rooting a samsung galaxy j1 runnuning 5.1.1

[wogboy112]

Hi,

Im having issues rooting my device, the model number is sm-j105y. ive tried iroot, kingoroot and a few others and it fails continuosly. could the bootloader be locked?

 

[jeffhaskins]

I believe you have to flash TWRP recovery with Odin and then flash SuperSU.zip file with TWRP to gain root.