Rooting

[blertie2]

I have the notification to upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 on my Xperia Z, but as yet cannot find a way to root it without unlocking the bootloader so will stay with 4.2 for now as a rooted phone gives so many useful options.

As rooting is so widespread now I cannot understand why the manufacturers are being so pedantic and not making it as standard.

[blertie2]

I did state that I DID NOT want to unlock the bootloader, if you don't read the post please don't bother to answer.

[Thommo]

The reason rooting is not standard on phones is because it opens your phone up to an attack as your firmware is then able to be altered - Also if the novice has a rooted phone and then installs an app like Root explorer or Busybox to name a few and deletes or alters files not knowing what they are doing then it could render the phone useless until a firmware repair has taken place or worst case scenario a hard brick