Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to present to you all a formal guide to venture into one of the best smartphones in the market, the underdog to the other mass marketers, the Sony Xperia Z3v for Verizon!
First and foremost, we should all give our thanks and appreciation to @zxz0O0, where gave us freedom into our phones. Without his greatest contribution, we would pretty much sit like most of us have been doing since 7 months ago when the Z3v first released to the public. Now without further ado, follow along if you don't want to just settle for good, demand for greatness!
Note: If you have 23.0.E.0.376 already, please skip to step 3
1. If you are NOT on stock shipped ROM, 23.0.E.0.376 / R15B, please download here
2. After having downloaded the FTF, please proceed to using the flashtool to flash your phone. Place your FTF in the firmware folder of the .flashtool folder to run from there. You may uncheck Data from wipe.*
3. Download the files to root right here.
4. Grab the Java Development Kit from here. To prevent issues, you may want to uninstall Java existing on your computer to do a fresh install of this.
5. Extract the zip of the root files into a place and then run exploit.bat.
6. Follow the instruction exactly as stated then proceed.
7. Once it stops at a line saying "please continue to press any key", go back to the folder named as "root" and run root.bat from there.
8. Your phone will reboot from here and you will enjoy root. If it doesn't work, try again a few times while going to command prompt and enter the following line to do a fresh cleanup before trying again:
9. Install XZDualRecovery to get custom recovery. You may use this file, Z3-lockeddualrecovery2.8.14-RELEASE.installer.zip, to flash on the Z3v. It works nonetheless.
Thanks to the following people:
@zxz0O0, for achieving root for our Z3v
@jal3223, for helping me as much as you can to guide me through myself
@[NUT], for the custom recovery to install onto our Xperia devices
This won't be all either. I will be trying out to create a prerooted 23.0.E.1.44 to try on for myself. If it works successfully, I will upload it for all of you guys to use. ;) Happy rooting! ;)
First and foremost, we should all give our thanks and appreciation to @zxz0O0, where gave us freedom into our phones. Without his greatest contribution, we would pretty much sit like most of us have been doing since 7 months ago when the Z3v first released to the public. Now without further ado, follow along if you don't want to just settle for good, demand for greatness!
Note: If you have 23.0.E.0.376 already, please skip to step 3
1. If you are NOT on stock shipped ROM, 23.0.E.0.376 / R15B, please download here
2. After having downloaded the FTF, please proceed to using the flashtool to flash your phone. Place your FTF in the firmware folder of the .flashtool folder to run from there. You may uncheck Data from wipe.*
3. Download the files to root right here.
4. Grab the Java Development Kit from here. To prevent issues, you may want to uninstall Java existing on your computer to do a fresh install of this.
5. Extract the zip of the root files into a place and then run exploit.bat.
6. Follow the instruction exactly as stated then proceed.
7. Once it stops at a line saying "please continue to press any key", go back to the folder named as "root" and run root.bat from there.
8. Your phone will reboot from here and you will enjoy root. If it doesn't work, try again a few times while going to command prompt and enter the following line to do a fresh cleanup before trying again:
Code:
adb shell rm -R /data/local/tmp/*Thanks to the following people:
@zxz0O0, for achieving root for our Z3v
@jal3223, for helping me as much as you can to guide me through myself
@[NUT], for the custom recovery to install onto our Xperia devices
This won't be all either. I will be trying out to create a prerooted 23.0.E.1.44 to try on for myself. If it works successfully, I will upload it for all of you guys to use. ;) Happy rooting! ;)
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