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If I want to root my phone (just for some apps) I really need to unlock bootloader ?
Toyubh said:
If I want to root my phone (just for some apps) I really need to unlock bootloader ?
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Yes, you do.
Thank you! Which is the easiest way to do that?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471151
Hi
I just got my phone, but missing the benefits of rooting.
Can anyone tell me how to unlock the bootloader and then root my phone?
Found a lot of links, but not sure which are secure and not to use.
Here's where you go to unlock your bootloader - http://developer.sonymobile.com/unlockbootloader/unlock-yourboot-loader/
Once unlocked, you can flash root or do whatever at that point.
Warning though, you will lose your DRM keys in this process, if you don't know what that means, do some research
se1000 said:
Here's where you go to unlock your bootloader - http://developer.sonymobile.com/unlockbootloader/unlock-yourboot-loader/
Once unlocked, you can flash root or do whatever at that point.
Warning though, you will lose your DRM keys in this process, if you don't know what that means, do some research
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Is their any way to back them up? So if I ever regret, I can get them back?
Also, is it possible or will it ever be possible to root with an locked bootloader?
Faspaiso said:
Is their any way to back them up? So if I ever regret, I can get them back?
Also, is it possible or will it ever be possible to root with an locked bootloader?
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You need root to backup DRM keys.
You cant get root without unlocking the bootloader yet.
Youll lose DRM keys when you unlock the bootloader.
If you cant take losing your DRM keys do not unlock and root.
Chadneu said:
You need root to backup DRM keys.
You cant get root without unlocking the bootloader yet.
Youll lose DRM keys when you unlock the bootloader.
If you cant take losing your DRM keys do not unlock and root.
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Thanks, I will wait.
Last question. I got Samsung before and I was able to update my phone with Kies after rooting. Is their any way to update Sony devices when rooted?
Thanks
Flashtool or PC Companion. I prefer the latter.
russell664 said:
Flashtool or PC Companion. I prefer the latter.
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You sure? As the DRM keys doesn't matter for me, as I don't really use the camera a lot.
But when I unlock bootloader on Sonys website, it tells me I would not be able to get updates from that. But i'm still able to get them with the PC companion?
Just to make sure, as I really want android 5.0 when it comes out.
Faspaiso said:
You sure? As the DRM keys doesn't matter for me, as I don't really use the camera a lot.
But when I unlock bootloader on Sonys website, it tells me I would not be able to get updates from that. But i'm still able to get them with the PC companion?
Just to make sure, as I really want android 5.0 when it comes out.
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You can't update with PC companion if you have unlocked your booloader. Your phone will be bricked!
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eawert said:
You can't update with PC companion if you have unlocked your booloader. Your phone will be bricked!
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You sure? So if I unlock my bootloader, their is no way for me to get Android 5.0?
Faspaiso said:
You sure? So if I unlock my bootloader, their is no way for me to get Android 5.0?
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No way to know for sure until someone tries. But with the Z2, you just have to relock your bootloader (might need to revert to a stock kernel first) and then software updates work fine.
Faspaiso said:
You sure? So if I unlock my bootloader, their is no way for me to get Android 5.0?
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There will always be FTF files shared on XDA and you can use flashtool with an unlocked bootloader.
Know somebody how can I root my z3 with latest ftf... 77? Please help!!
Twenga said:
Know somebody how can I root my z3 with latest ftf... 77? Please help!!
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You do it the only way it is possible
Unlock the bootloader via the official way, flash a custom kernel
My bootloader is already unlocked, where can I get a custom kernel? My z3 was root with ftf.... 98 after upgrade to.... 77 I lost my root! Thank you for helping!!
Twenga said:
My bootloader is already unlocked, where can I get a custom kernel? My z3 was root with ftf.... 98 after upgrade to.... 77 I lost my root! Thank you for helping!!
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Take a look in the development section
In need of some help, I wanted to root my z3 again, I've downgraded back to .77 but completely forgot how I done it last time, I created a few pre-rooted flashables (.77, .690 & .726) but I'm having trouble finding how to install custom recovery.. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Ps. Sorry to hijack your post
hey people...one question..
can i get only root access to my z3 ,without anything else?? i want only get rid of ads!!?? and how?? please help
i'm not interested in new kernel or rom change!? goes that so???
robertrobi said:
hey people...one question..
can i get only root access to my z3 ,without anything else?? i want only get rid of ads!!?? and how?? please help
i'm not interested in new kernel or rom change!? goes that so???
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There is no need to spam multiple topics.
YES, it can be done. NO, we can't tell you how because you didn't post your phone model or Android version.
robogo1982 said:
There is no need to spam multiple topics.
YES, it can be done. NO, we can't tell you how because you didn't post your phone model or Android version.
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Hi all,
I'm trying to get the unlock token at htcdev and I keep getting this message after I submit the copied txt from the fastboot result.
"Error code: 172. Error reason: CID not allowed (MID not exist in model rule)."
PLEASE... any help would be most appreciated.
System info:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/2wrw5rjia39a43l,7tbtdftnp8goph8,1e1h80ub7q1bhq8/shared
Assuming you're in the right forums (Verizon HTC M8), you can't use HTCdev to unlock the phone. Thee only way to unlock the Verizon version of the phone is through a 3rd party unlock method, that was created by jcase and his team, called Sunshine. Here's their website for thee unlock: http://theroot.ninja/
Hi… Thanks for the speedy reply.
That's my my second dilemma. Root is a requirement and towel root isn't working either. So, I'm running in circles. I can't use Sunshine to unlock the bootloader because its not rooted and I can't root it because I can't unlock the bootloader.
RuLEoF2 said:
Hi all,
I'm trying to get the unlock token at htcdev and I keep getting this message after I submit the copied txt from the fastboot result.
"Error code: 172. Error reason: CID not allowed (MID not exist in model rule)."
PLEASE... any help would be most appreciated.
System info:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/2wrw5rjia39a43l,7tbtdftnp8goph8,1e1h80ub7q1bhq8/shared
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You cannot unlock you're boot loader. You have vzw 4.4.4 firmware. Sunshine doesn't work on that yet. You are S.O.L. until they update.
Sorry.
Does it work on 4.4.3?
I'm only asking because I've having an issue with my screen and I was planning on taking it back to exchange it. When I got this one, it had 4.4.3 on it and then I got the 4.4.4 OTA. it's a gamble, but if the new phone still has 4.4.3 on it, then I can just dodged the OTA and try sunshine on that one.
RuLEoF2 said:
Hi… Thanks for the speedy reply.
That's my my second dilemma. Root is a requirement and towel root isn't working either. So, I running in circles. I can't use Sunshine to unlock the bootloader because its not rooted and I can't root it because I can't unlock the bootloader.
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Sunshine does everything. Except if your phone is up to date, you can't do anything cause nothing works for the 4.4.4 vzw m8
RuLEoF2 said:
Hi… Thanks for the speedy reply.
That's my my second dilemma. Root is a requirement and towel root isn't working either. So, I'm running in circles. I can't use Sunshine to unlock the bootloader because its not rooted and I can't root it because I can't unlock the bootloader.
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silver04v said:
Sunshine does everything. Except if your phone is up to date, you can't do anything cause nothing works for the 4.4.4 vzw m8
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RuLEoF2 said:
Does it work on 4.4.3?
I'm only asking because I've having an issue with my screen and I was planning on taking it back to exchange it. When I got this one, it had 4.4.3 on it and then I got the 4.4.4 OTA. it's a gamble, but if the new phone still has 4.4.3 on it, then I can just dodged the OTA and try sunshine on that one.
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Ok. So, does sunshine work on 4.4.3?
In any case, the sunshie web page says that root is required but I can't root it.
Root is required and yes it will work on 4.4.3. Sunshine has a temp root utility built in to the program so it is all in one system.
RuLEoF2 said:
Hi… Thanks for the speedy reply.
That's my my second dilemma. Root is a requirement and towel root isn't working either. So, I'm running in circles. I can't use Sunshine to unlock the bootloader because its not rooted and I can't root it because I can't unlock the bootloader.
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zax10 said:
Root is required and yes it will work on 4.4.3. Sunshine has a temp root utility built in to the program so it is all in one system.
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Very good. Thank you for the clarification.
RuLEoF2 said:
Very good. Thank you for the clarification.
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1 more thing to clarify, I have a Verizon M7, and TowelRoot DOES work, there's just a hidden trick for our phones.... Tap the welcome/ intro msg that appears when u open the towelroot app (i believe I had to tap 3 times) and a string of numbers appears , u change the last number from a 0 to a 1 and then it works for our phones. It's not needed for sunshine, but for ppl who wanna take the shortcut after sunshine of just downloading and using flashify to flash recovery (root or temp root required) it works. It was Towelroot V3 I believe. I'm on 4.4.3 sense 6 m7, and I know it worked on 4.4.2 when everyone was saying it didn't work, so if it's something u wanna look into, give it a try. Even the website I believe said it didn't"officially" support our phones, but after doing that trick, it does
bdizzle1686 said:
1 more thing to clarify, I have a Verizon M7, and TowelRoot DOES work, there's just a hidden trick for our phones.... Tap the welcome/ intro msg that appears when u open the towelroot app (i believe I had to tap 3 times) and a string of numbers appears , u change the last number from a 0 to a 1 and then it works for our phones. It's not needed for sunshine, but for ppl who wanna take the shortcut after sunshine of just downloading and using flashify to flash recovery (root or temp root required) it works. It was Towelroot V3 I believe. I'm on 4.4.3 sense 6 m7, and I know it worked on 4.4.2 when everyone was saying it didn't work, so if it's something u wanna look into, give it a try. Even the website I believe said it didn't"officially" support our phones, but after doing that trick, it does
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Sounds risky.
RuLEoF2 said:
Sounds risky.
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Wrong phone too. I would stick to sunshine. Cost $$ but comes with support if needed.
The Stig 04 said:
Wrong phone too. I would stick to sunshine. Cost $$ but comes with support if needed.
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Good point.
bdizzle1686, thanks for the tip but I think I'll wait.
RuLEoF2 said:
Good point.
bdizzle1686, thanks for the tip but I think I'll wait.
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Not a problem, and yeah it probably does pose some risks, just figured I'd let ya know. Alotta ppl just see that the app doesn't"officially" support any of the htc one phones and take that as fact when it's really not true. I did it with my phone n haven't had a problem, but had I known at the time the risks of doing it that way pose, I probably wouldn't have done it that way
Ok… please forgive my frustration but can someone please explain to me how rooting this phone works… or doesn't work.
I rooted my HTC Incredible and my Rezound with ease. I got pretty comfortable with adb so I went on flashing roms and other mods. They were so easy but now everything seems to be so complicated with this phone.
I'm going nuts trying to understand these confusing threads where it sounds like you need to root the phone in order to root the phone. Even though they don't work, I see instructions to use firewater, towelroot or weaksause so that you can use sunshine. I read where someone was asking for help because sunshine wouldn't work and they couldn't figure it out because the phone was already unlocked, rooted and s-off. ,isn't that what sunshine does… unlock, root and s-off?
My HTC One M8 is bone stock, off-the-shelf with kitkat 4.4.4.
What do I need to use sunshine, now with 2.7.1 or later with 3.0?
Can I use an RUU to downgrade to 4.4.3 so that sunshine 2.7.1 will work?
Is sunshine REALLY the only way that works… or doesn't work (right now)?
Thank you in advance for your help and your patience.
RuLEoF2 said:
Ok… please forgive my frustration but can someone please explain to me how rooting this phone works… or doesn't work.
I rooted my HTC Incredible and my Rezound with ease. I got pretty comfortable with adb so I went on flashing roms and other mods. They were so easy but now everything seems to be so complicated with this phone.
I'm going nuts trying to understand these confusing threads where it sounds like you need to root the phone in order to root the phone. Even though they don't work, I see instructions to use firewater, towelroot or weaksause so that you can use sunshine. I read where someone was asking for help because sunshine wouldn't work and they couldn't figure it out because the phone was already unlocked, rooted and s-off. ,isn't that what sunshine does… unlock, root and s-off?
My HTC One M8 is bone stock, off-the-shelf with kitkat 4.4.4.
What do I need to use sunshine, now with 2.7.1 or later with 3.0?
Can I use an RUU to downgrade to 4.4.3 so that sunshine 2.7.1 will work?
Is sunshine REALLY the only way that works… or doesn't work (right now)?
Thank you in advance for your help and your patience.
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If you're bone stock S-ON with 4.4.4 then you cannot root the phone yet. Probably won't be able to till early January when the new sunshine is released.
If you're bone stock S-OFF on 4.4.4 all you need to do is flash a custom recovery and then flash the latest SuperSU zip file.
RuLEoF2 said:
Ok… please forgive my frustration but can someone please explain to me how rooting this phone works… or doesn't work.
I rooted my HTC Incredible and my Rezound with ease. I got pretty comfortable with adb so I went on flashing roms and other mods. They were so easy but now everything seems to be so complicated with this phone.
I'm going nuts trying to understand these confusing threads where it sounds like you need to root the phone in order to root the phone. Even though they don't work, I see instructions to use firewater, towelroot or weaksause so that you can use sunshine. I read where someone was asking for help because sunshine wouldn't work and they couldn't figure it out because the phone was already unlocked, rooted and s-off. ,isn't that what sunshine does… unlock, root and s-off?
My HTC One M8 is bone stock, off-the-shelf with kitkat 4.4.4.
What do I need to use sunshine, now with 2.7.1 or later with 3.0?
Can I use an RUU to downgrade to 4.4.3 so that sunshine 2.7.1 will work?
Is sunshine REALLY the only way that works… or doesn't work (right now)?
Thank you in advance for your help and your patience.
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.... and to ease your confusion: What a lot of people get mixed up is
temp root with weaksauce + firewater worked for some devices on 4.4.2 (hardware variants making the difference).
For those 4.4.2 weaksauce+firewater did not work and all 4.4.3 M8s there's only Sunshine (and it temp-roots the device in the process)
4.4.4: beaups announced they are shooting for a first week of January release for Sunshine 3
And no, you cannot downgrade to 4.3 with S-on.
Time to try your luck with the new weaksauce and sunshine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...ncluding-4-t2971591/post57462117#post57462117
dottat said:
Time to try your luck with the new weaksauce and sunshine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...ncluding-4-t2971591/post57462117#post57462117
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That worked! Bootloader is now UNLOCKED and S-OFF. Thank you!! I must have had the earlier version of weaksause.
Still no root though. SuperSU keeps failing when I try to update the binary online and my desktop is out of commision so no recovery yet either. I've got a new desktop on the way which should be here by the end of the week.
Is there anything I can try in the meantime?
RuLEoF2 said:
That worked! Bootloader is now UNLOCKED and S-OFF. Thank you!! I must have had the earlier version of weaksause.
Still no root though. SuperSU keeps failing when I try to update the binary online and my desktop is out of commision so no recovery yet either. I've got a new desktop on the way which should be here by the end of the week.
Is there anything I can try in the meantime?
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You can download from the play store the app called flashify to put a custom recovery on since no CPU right now u said, then you can download thesuperSU.zip llatest from XDA and flash it in said custom recovery. That should get you rooted.
I have tried almost every method but failed .... plz help :crying: !!!
PS: dont recommend sunshine method or any other which costs money
mhassanb8 said:
I have tried almost every method but failed .... plz help :crying: !!!
PS: dont recommend sunshine method or any other which costs money
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There is no other method other than a java card (which will cost you money). The ONLY non-javacard/clip method to get root on the current OS for the verizon m8 is to use kingroot and sunshine. Thanks to verizon, htc dev is strictly prohibited so the only permanent root requires s-off.
Your PS is impossible at this time.
Thanks!
I had bought supersu pro, supersume pro and root.explorer but I couldn't do anything. Please help anybody tell me how to delete kingroot. Whenever I try to delete kingroot it says system apps cannot be deleted. And tell me how to update su binary it always fail to update. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
Massab1 said:
I had bought supersu pro, supersume pro and root.explorer but I couldn't do anything. Please help anybody tell me how to delete kingroot. Whenever I try to delete kingroot it says system apps cannot be deleted. And tell me how to update su binary it always fail to update. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
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First of all, never use KingRoot. Secondly, do you have an unlocked bootloader. If yes, I may be able to help. If not, unlock bootloader first.
Google it and follow the steps.
Lemme know if you need more info.
muradulislam said:
First of all, never use KingRoot. Secondly, do you have an unlocked bootloader. If yes, I may be able to help. If not, unlock bootloader first.
Google it and follow the steps.
Lemme know if you need more info.
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Yeah I know I did a mistake but now I totally regret it. My device's Bootloader is not unlocked and I don't know how to do it. Can u just send a link to any video? It will be appreciated. Thanks.
And yeah there's a problem!
Umm I dont have any kind other sources like computer or another mobile etc.
I have a laptop now, can you tell me now how to unlock bootloader?
muradulislam said:
First of all, never use KingRoot. Secondly, do you have an unlocked bootloader. If yes, I may be able to help. If not, unlock bootloader first.
Google it and follow the steps.
Lemme know if you need more info.
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Help!
Massab1 said:
Help!
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Just search forum and google to find way to unlock bootloader. It's hard to tell actual step by step thing because some methods don't work for all.
You can also search from honor 4x and p8lite forums.
I'll try.
keikari said:
Just search forum and google to find way to unlock bootloader. It's hard to tell actual step by step thing because some methods don't work for all.
You can also search from honor 4x and p8lite forums.
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Hope something will work!