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rooting without flashing on xperia neo?

hello xda,
First, congratulations for a great work that you are doing here.
I am a newbie in android, and my son bought my wife a Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, OS GingerBread fortunately upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich is available, so I upgraded it.
My question is, is it possible to root this phone without flashing?
The reason I'm asking this is because I cannot play music from external sd card, only the default music and she don't like the list.
I have transferred more than 150 song to it but cannot play it.
I have downloaded some folder app but i can only play music one at a time.
I have read somewhere here that i need to root in order to be able to play music and not the default one.
Can someone please help or guide me to this problem, or maybe anybody can recommend some apps that I can download so I don't have to root?
Thanks in advance.

rooting without flashing on xperia neo
hello xda dev team,
may i ask for your help, i need to know if it is possible to root my xperia neo without installing a custom firmware?
i am not familiar with rooting and flashing firmware. my firmware is up-to-date (ICS) so there's no need to install new firmware, only to root, so i can install some modification for my phone, is it possible?
please please xda dev team , somebody help me.
thanks in advance

[Completed] [Q] Help request- Rooting Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S LT18A

I have an old smartphone (model specified above), which I have tried to find a root for it (like FOREVER), and misrebly failed. I think that the problem is that I own the LT18A model, while every single root I found was worked for the LT18I users (as it seems in the comments).
I want to root it so I can uninstall some of the build-in apps that I dont use (such as facebook, youtube, and out-of-date & un-updateable operator apps.). They function poorly, take up space, and worst of all: they run in the backround (and on old phones such as this every megabyte of RAM counts.) Please help me.
Is there something I'm missing? A vital step a skip or something? Do i need to unlock the bootloader to root?
I probably have a custom ROM of the operator this phone was originally purchased from, does it make any difference?
If Anyone can explain to me step-by-step what and how to root, or point me to a usefull guide, i will be forever thankful.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S LT18a
Firmware version: 2.3.4
Build:4.0.2.D.0.5

Hi
Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. Please see this thread:
[Q] Xperia Arc S LT18A root help 4.0.4
Good luck!

Thread closed, thanks.

[Completed] [Q] Help request- Rooting Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S LT18A

I Know I aleady posted a thread like this, but it was closed before a found a solution, please dont close this one too!
I have an old smartphone (model specified above), which I have tried to find a root for it (like FOREVER), every single root I found wasn't able to do the job. Either the program alerted me that the phone is not supported , or tried to root and failed. I have looked into other threads with the same problem, and they either didn't have a solution, or simply directed me towards stickys with rooting programs that also didn't work.
I want to root it so I can uninstall some of the build-in apps that I dont use (such as facebook, youtube, and out-of-date & un-updateable operator apps.). They function poorly, take up space, and worst of all: they run in the backround (and on old phones such as this every megabyte of RAM counts.) Please help me.
Is there something I'm missing? A vital step a skip or something? Do i need to unlock the bootloader to root?
I probably have a custom ROM of the operator this phone was originally purchased from, does it make any difference?
If Anyone can explain to me step-by-step what and how to root, or point me to a usefull guide, i will be forever thankful.
The file attached is a example to one of many failed roots.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S LT18a
Firmware version: 2.3.4
Build:4.0.2.D.0.5

Hi
Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. I think it's best for you to ask your question in the Arc q&a section here:
Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

No response in two days, thread closed.

[Completed] [Q] Lollipop or custom rom for Sony E4g?

I'm very new to Android (been using iPhone since its release) but i got a Sony Xperia E4g as a gift from my carrier and I would like to update it to Lollipop or root it and get something like MIUI on it. This that possible?
I would like to get rid of all the Xperia software and just get a clean Android install like Nexus phones have.

Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. There is a forum for your device here, Sony Xperia E4g
Also you can ask here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-e3/help
Good luck and welcome to XDA.

Thread closed.

[Completed] Root Sony Xperia ZL

Hello! Greetings all, I am new to this forum and have not much experience in this cell , so I turn to you, I want to root my Sony Xperia ZL C6502 10.5.1.A.0.283 Kitkat , but do not really know how, look online at various pages but offers no security for the process. I thought about using Framaroot or Kingroot but I'm not sure. If any of you know anything I would appreciate your help. Thank you.

LucasAndrini01 said:
Hello! Greetings all, I am new to this forum and have not much experience in this cell , so I turn to you, I want to root my Sony Xperia ZL C6502 10.5.1.A.0.283 Kitkat , but do not really know how, look online at various pages but offers no security for the process. I thought about using Framaroot or Kingroot but I'm not sure. If any of you know anything I would appreciate your help. Thank you.
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Greetings,
Thank you for using XDA Assist. Here is the ZL homepage:
Sony Xperia ZL
Here is the thread with all the information you need:
[Xperia ZL][INFO][REF] All the info you need before you begin
Good luck!