[Sony Xperia E1] Kizoky:
This guide will teach you on how to unlock the bootloader, root the phone, and flash the recovery.

If you follow my steps no problem will occur.

Latest versions:

Single

D2004: 20.1.A.2.19

D2005: 20.1.A.2.19

Dual

D2104: 20.1.B.2.29

D2105: 20.1.B.2.29

TV

D2114: 20.1.B.2.30

All Latest Flashable Stock ROMs: https://xdaforums.com/xperia-e1/development/rom-flashable-stock-roms-d200x-d210x-t3563358

1. Unlocking the bootloader

Now this one will be tricky. Some phones are force-locked which means It can't be unlocked.

However, If the phone's bootloader is simply locked, It can be unlocked easily.

Go to http://developer.sonymobile.com/unlockbootloader/unlock-yourboot-loader/

And select Xperiaâ„¢ E1.

After that, enter a VALID E-mail address, this is where Sony will send you a link, which will look like this:

Click on "Click here to proceed"

Now something will look like this:

You need to enter your IMEI here, you can find the IMEI on Xperia E1's box, or in the Settings (Settings->About phone->Status)

Or simply typing *#06# on the phone keypad.

THERE'S NO TURNING BACK, YOU WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY DOING THIS, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

After 1-2 minutes a mail will appear in your E-mail, with a verification code.

Yay, we have a code! Now what's next?

We need to download Flashtool. (It's roughly 170mb)

Are you kidding me?!

Flashtool: (uploaded.to)

http://ul.to/7zmty1iv

Flashtool: (.torrent)

http://www.flashtool.net/torrents/flashtool-0.9.19.8-windows.exe.torrent

After It's downloaded, we need to install it. It will take about 4-5 minutes, depending on the PC.

Great! Now we have Flashtool installed. Now we need to unlock the bootloader.

Find and run Flashtool (Flashtool64 If you have a 64-bit OS)

It's great, isn't it?

Connect your phone to the PC, in flashmode mode.

How to do Fastboot mode? Turn off your Phone completely, while the cable is still on.

Wait for the phone, 'till It displays the battery progress.

Now hold the following buttons on the phone: POWER+VOLUME DOWN

Do this until the LED turns GREEN.

Great, the phone is now in Flashmode!

Now, click on the 2nd Icon on Flashtool "BLU"

After that

Paste the unlock code which Sony sent to you, and click on unlock.

You'll get bunch of errors but just ignore that.

Voila! Your phone's bootloader is now unlocked. Which means you can now flash recovery.

If you want to relock the Phone, the steps is the exact same, just click on relock.

2. Rooting the phone

Every phone can be rooted, but since the new updates It is hard to find a working root method. I'll show you both methods to root the phone.

1. Towelroot method

The following method only works on these Firmwares: 20.0.A.1.21(Jelly Bean 4.3), 20.1.A.0.47 (KitKat, 4.4.2)

Please check the firmware to make sure you have the correct Firmware (Settings/about phone)

If not

SKIP

this and check 3. Flashing Recovery tutorial on this topic!

First go to https://towelroot.com/ and tap on the Lambda logo, and install it!

Open towelroot and tap on "Make it ra1r"

If It says it is successful, go to Google Play and search & install SuperSU

Open the app and update It, If the app asks for It.

If you have Recovery installed choose TWRP, But If you don't have Recovery installed choose the other one.

The phone will restart now, and voila, your phone is rooted!

But wait a sec, what about those people who don't have those specific Firmwares?

Check 3. Flashing Recovery, It's mentioned there.

3. Flashing Recovery

With Recovery you can re-root your phone. This is good for newer Firmwares, which are no longer function with Towelroot.

Or you can backup your entire phone, just in case you are flashing other ROMs, or tweaking Android.

To flash Recovery, you need an unlocked bootloader.

You will need ADB, and the boot.img file for your Device. Make sure you download the correct kernel, or otherwise your phone won't boot! (It will boot, but bugs would occur)

ADB: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0MKgCbUM0itVVFWRC02Q0VBQnc/view

PhilZ Recovery: http://xdaforums.com/xperia-e1/general/philz-touch-recovery-xperia-e1-t2941831

TWRP Recovery: http://xdaforums.com/xperia-e1/orig-development/kernel-falconss-custom-kernel-t3318209

Open up the Command Prompt (type CMD in Windows, and hit enter)

Navigate to the ADB folder, in this case, I copied the adb files to c:/, which the command would be cd c:/adb

Now, copy the boot.img you downloaded, and paste It to the adb folder

Turn off your Phone, connect your USB cable to the phone and PC, and turn on the phone with Fastboot mode (Power + Volume Up)

If the LED is BLUE then It is in fastboot mode

Now type in:

fastboot flash boot boot.img

And voila, It's Done!

To enter the Recovery, Power + Volume Down, or just tap the WALKMAN button multiple times, when you feel a vibration you can stop pushing the buttons.

The recovery is the most useful utillity in Android, you can re-root your phone, backup your entire Android system, and so on!

Rooting the Phone with Recovery:

with PhilZ recovery:

Advanced->Re-Root System (SuperSU)

Restart your phone, and download SuperSU, and install It, when It asks for the update, just tap on TWRP, It will restart the phone in Recovery mode, and the root will be finally finished.

with TWRP recovery:

Download SuperSU on Google Play, and update Binary

When asked how to update the binary, just tap on TWRP

You will get root the next boot.

Modes on the Xperia E1:

With Cable (PC):

POWER + VOLUME UP (BLUE) (fastboot)

POWER + VOLUME DOWN (GREEN) (flash mode)

Without Cable:

POWER + VOLUME DOWN |

PhilZ/TWRP Recovery

(GREEN/ CYAN)

WALKMAN |

PhilZ/TWRP Recovery

(GREEN/ CYAN)

On newer CM/LineageOS builds you'll have to use POWER + VOLUME UP, as tapping the Walkman button no longer works!

Pictures for the tutorials will be included soon, It is for people who can't understand English (Or people who are not familiar with android), hope this will make things much easier.

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