Hello Everyone i am now a proud owner of the sony z2 tab with verizon and i know how verizon is when it comes to unlocks and rooting but i want to know if there is any development going on to root or unlock the bootloader for the verizon version of the z2 tab cause i pretty sure the unlocks already made may not work on the verizon lte version
I personally want to say thank you to all the devs who work on these devices cause through your hard earned work it makes my experience on all my devices exciting and very good so THANK YOU all and to all testers as well
I apologize for reposting accidentally posted in General if mod sees it im sorry for the mistake
U can root with towelroot and have a custom recovery, but the boot loader is still locked so no cm and no roms yet. Sure someone is working on something for the boot loader or roms, but no news yet. Look for threads with for locked boot loader.
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Hello, I have just preordered my Xperia active from a local salesperson, but from what i see in the development threads, its nothing like HTC phones when it comes to rooting.
In HTC phones all you had to do is, unlock the bootloader with an update.zip file, root it, and then you're free to do whatever you wanna do from CWM.
I really havent understood how the procedure goes in Xperia phones, nor is there a comprehensive guide towards rooting the phone.
So could someone explain in simple steps what i need to do to root the phone? Or even is it worth rooting it since its so new and the development is more or less... inexistant? The only real custom rom I see so far for the mini mini pro and active is the FXP one which is in beta stages AFAIK.
Also about unlocking the bootloader. Losing DRM and TrackID is what makes them know that you have unlocked it therefore you lose your warranty?
Please enlighten me
Comprehensive Xperia Rooting Guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034087
For the active... there doesn't appear to be much, but if you have 'OCD' like me and like the absolute control... it's worth it. But to each his/her own preferences
Once you unlock, DRM is permanently gone, no more TrackID.
I'm not sure about warranty regulations but there is a way to re-lock the boot loader:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134335
Hope this helps.
EDIT There's also a way to unlock the bootloader and not lose DRM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1285285
But there's no current way to relock it if you use that route.
Thanks a lot for your detailed reply.
Although i still got questions regarding custom ROM's. I saw someone mentioning a insecure kernel, and using it before flashing a new ROM. Kernels in HTC devices are simply there for you to find out which one is best for your country and ROM. Is it the other way around here?
Yes i do want the best out of my device, but voiding warranty for something that isnt yet "ready".... It kinda puts me off.
hi dumraden,
The days with simply zip unlocking are gone either on HTC. The HTC Desire S of a friend of mine was locked. They call it S: on ..unlocked was S: off
I could not keep joking about who was so silly to convert his Desire S back to a Desire.. sorry for that
The step with the insecure kernel is to flash a stock rom where we know a method to use an exploit on it. Sony prevents unsigned firmware from beeing flashed to their devices (compare ps3 or PSP). Thus we need to make use of an exploit to get access to the device to make rooting possible. As root we are the master of desaster and can do what ever we want.
Warranty? Okay, there is a possibility to relock the bootloader in case you'll run in the case of needing warranty. Otherwise there are ways to make it that unsuable that even the support cannot wake it up thus find no real reason for the error.
This is not an FXP ROM, it is cyanogenmod ported by Team freeXperia and mainly released by FXP. It is almost ready. The smartkeyboard and camera did not work on my selfcompiled one on friday. FXP claimed camera would work. Could be my fault.. who cares. They'll get it fixed.. I think soon.
Yea i am a prior HTC user, have my Desire Z getting fixed as we talk ( i hope so at least ).
So basically the insecure kernel works as an exploit for us to install custom roms on the phones. Cool thanks for the heads up.
Wasnt FXP working with cyanogen to build a kernel from scratch in order for us not to have to go through the hassle of using a modded stock kernel for the Custom ROM's? As far as i can tell this is a breakthrough for Xperia phones since we will be able to have an AOSP base in order to build from there up. Right?
I have the same rooting problem. I use superOnClick and gingerbreak but didn't work.
I'm new to android so that keep searching and reading xda..
Then I start using android sdk & fastboot and adb mode said in one of the topics, but fastboot didn't work even though bootloader is unlocked.
I'm confused, waiting for help
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Hey guys,
This is once again one out of thousand of the same questions, however, since this is regarding an official installation of Android, that requires the boot loader to be unlocked, this might be a different case..
So let's keep it short: Does unlocking the boot loader and installing Android L voids warranty or not? And if not: How is it reversible so the unlock will be hidden?
Thanks guys.
p.s. Does this belong in the Dev section or here, since it's both a question and a developer thingy..?
You can always flash KK again and relock the boot loader. Done it a million times. If your trying to install L release on a non 2013 nexus or nexus 5 then that might be a different story.
Is there a way to unlock the bootloader like the note 3 and 4?
Developer of TrentsROM here. It's been a while but I would also like to know this as well.
Ghettoroot for root. No unlocked bootloader, looking like it's just not gonna happen. You could always use Safestrap I guess.
As I have said to TheRock40359,
put some work and let your valid links/findings/research to the thread I made.
I am personally still in haze but in all the research I see the small cracks in all these schemes made to make owner lives worse for no good reason now.
This device is a s3 derivate. So researching s3 stuff as well.
I wanna make it happen.
Lets move over to "my" thread for that.
from what I read, if you have the 4.3 update (MJ9 firmware) you will not get an unlocked bootloader.. if you have anything before that (4.2 / 4.1 etc) then you can use CAUSUAL to unlock and root your device.
does anyone know if the ND7 (4.4.2) firmware has a bootloader that we can unlock?
Has anyone seen it have tried this?
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There is no root for 6.0 unless there is a bootloader unlock
If the method you see on srs is real im sure you see it here on xda that 6.0 is rootable
Untill then root is not possible on 6.0
If you are on 5.1 i do have a video that shows you how to root 5.1
LASERWOLF452 said:
There is no root for 6.0 unless there is a bootloader unlock
If the method you see on srs is real im sure you see it here on xda that 6.0 is rootable
Untill then root is not possible on 6.0
If you are on 5.1 i do have a video that shows you how to root 5.1
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Why is this being said? 5.1.1 on Verizon V10 got rooted without bootloader unlock.
Not that I have anything to offer here for root but it kind of seems no one is trying. This Phone has horrible developer support. Idk why since this is such a great phone.
5.1.1 rooted without bootloader unlock. All the way up until root was achieved for 5.1.1 people kept saying bootloader must be unlocked, which obviously wasn't true.
While he claims to have it working, it is not tested on marshmallow LG Verizon phones.
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beavis5706 said:
Why is this being said? 5.1.1 on Verizon V10 got rooted without bootloader unlock.
Not that I have anything to offer here for root but it kind of seems no one is trying. This Phone has horrible developer support. Idk why since this is such a great phone.
5.1.1 rooted without bootloader unlock. All the way up until root was achieved for 5.1.1 people kept saying bootloader must be unlocked, which obviously wasn't true.
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if i was a dev i can tell you, but all the post that talks about root and questions about root, downgrades etc. i subscribed to the post, thats the answer i see, maybe someone can put it into detail for you
all i know is they need the bootloader to be unlocked so it can be modified, without the bootloader being unlocked and you just root the system, it will just fail and this is true ive tried it on my G4
i tried upgrading my g4 and it got ito a bootloop and when i KDZ it it knows its been modified and no one knows why fter doing a factory reset unless you KDZ it,
if you want a downgrad, that is not possable but there was talk about it in another post but no one had gotten around it for the V10 cause they work, have a life and family
someone may step up and do the work, its all a matter of time, it may take 2 years like i heard 1 device they want rooted took 2 years before it got root
hacking, modifying bricking and waiting to get a replacement takes time and money for the research to be done with the time the dev has
Well unless there is something specifically different about MM 6.0 unlocked bootloader not needed for root. Every VS990 owner with 5.1.1 already knows this.
The same was said about Lollipop 5.1.1 in the months prior to root, that unlocked bootloader was needed for root. This obviously was not true since 5.1.1 was rooted without bootloader unlock.
OEM unlock for VZW lg10 vs990 MMallow
I got my unlock OEM dev options marked... Its super simple.... Just saying... Message me if interested. I'm super excited to finally start the rooting process, my first time ever. Some help would be sees him shpanx
seems that all the "developers" have disappeared as of late. Havent seen one even make a comment now that rooting requires a bit more of a challenge.
So I dug out my old Xperia tablet and wanted to install some custom roms. To my surprise I cannot...
My bootloader is unlockable.
Its about 5 years after release of this tablet and I just don't acknowledge the fact that such a device is in ANY way unlockable.
There has to be a way of unlocking this crappy bootloader.
Would going to provider do any good? It's a few years after the warranty time so why not let me actualy do whatever I want with this device ?
Like someone else said in another thread - it's maddening and unthinkable...
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So I dug out my old Xperia tablet and wanted to install some custom roms. To my surprise I cannot...
My bootloader is unlockable.
Its about 5 years after release of this tablet and I just don't acknowledge the fact that such a device is in ANY way unlockable.
There has to be a way of unlocking this crappy bootloader.
Would going to provider do any good? It's a few years after the warranty time so why not let me actualy do whatever I want with this device ?
Like someone else said in another thread - it's maddening and unthinkable...
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Study https://developer.sonymobile.com/unlockbootloader/unlock-yourboot-loader/