topic Re: Rooting my Go in XPERIA archive

Rooting my Go

alansa — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:26:38 GMT

Going to attempt rooting my phone but I'm a complete noob

I have android 4.0.4 build no. 6.1.1. B.1.10

Going to follow this guide

http://xperiago4us.weebly.com/how-to-root.html

but it seems suspiciously simple. Don't want to brick the phone only to find out a step was left out because it was a "given" and wasn't mentioned. Been burned before.

An example is bootloaders. I've read you need to unblock your boot loader to flash a rom but I looked at this guide to installing a rom and there's no mention of unlocking your boot loader.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949706

Re: Rooting my Go

Uliwooly — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:43:24 GMT

How to manually update, downgrade, root 2012 Xperias

http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/41609

Re: Rooting my Go

alansa — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:27:16 GMT

I'm now trying to unblock bootloader

Stuck on step 15

http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/instructions

Typing in "fastboot.exe -i 0x0fce getvar version" I get a list of command options+descriptions not the response I should be getting. It's not recognizing "-i 0x0fce getvar version".

Re: Rooting my Go

Uliwooly — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:13:15 GMT

What are you trying to do

1) unlocking the bootloader

2) root your phone?

unlocking the bootloader does NOT equal rooting

Installing CWM recovery on a rooted GO with unblocked bootloader running ICS

alansa — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:28:04 GMT

anyone have a guide for installing CWM recovery on a rooted GO with unblocked bootloader running ICS

Re: Installing CWM recovery on a rooted GO with unblocked bootloader running ICS

Uliwooly — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:42:39 GMT

Check the XDA forum