{"id":642919,"date":"2013-02-19T07:42:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T12:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=130947"},"modified":"2013-02-19T07:42:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T12:42:53","slug":"sony-xperia-z-receives-root-and-joins-the-modding-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642919","title":{"rendered":"Sony Xperia Z receives root and joins the modding ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"With Sony’s efforts to support<\/a> the Android modding and developer community, it really should come as no surprise that the recently-unveiled Xperia Z<\/a> smartphone is now bestowed with root. The noteworthy achievement is facilitated by the CF-Auto-Root<\/a> solution available for the LG-made Google Nexus 4, a device which shares most of the underpinnings of the Xperia Z.<\/p>\n

The two devices share the same 1.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset and because of it the developer has only slightly modified the Nexus 4 ramdisk from CF-Auto-Root to unleash elevated privileges on the Xperia Z. The app chosen to manage rooting requests is the traditional SuperSU.<\/p>\n

The Xperia Z must sport an unlocked bootloder in order to enable root,<\/a> as well as firmware version\u00a010.1.A.1.350. The fastboot tool is also needed as to upload files onto the device. Users have to reboot into bootloader mode, flash a modded kernel, reboot, disconnect the USB cable and perform a hard shut down, before reconnecting the Xperia Z in fastboot mode, flashing the stock kernel and rebooting the device.<\/p>\n

In order to fully take advantage of apps that require root it is also recommended to install a BusyBox from Google Play. BusyBox by\u00a0Stephen (Stericson)<\/a> comes highly recommended by members of the modding community. The app installs a number of files (the recommended path to install them is \/system\/xbin\/) which can be used by apps that require elevated privileges to run certain commands.<\/p>\n

The root method has been tested on an Xperia Z model C6603, but according to the developer it should work on the C6602 variant as well.<\/p>\n

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With Sony’s efforts to support the Android modding and developer community, it really should come as no surprise that the recently-unveiled Xperia Z smartphone is now bestowed with root. The noteworthy achievement is facilitated by the CF-Auto-Root solution available for the LG-made Google Nexus 4, a device which shares most of the underpinnings of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}