[Sony Xperia E3] nortonex:
Hello everyone!

At the beggining I really would like to give my regards to:

- [MENTION=5604590]mbc07[/MENTION]

- [MENTION=6384520]costel90[/MENTION]

- [MENTION=5494317]vinay[/MENTION]

and other people from topic http://xdaforums.com/xperia-e3/help/root-locked-bootloader-t3038518 for any help and / or ideas;

- [MENTION=5169444]AndroPlus[/MENTION] and japanese developer, キューブキューブ [MENTION=4938384]cubeu[/MENTION]ndcube for posting rootkitXperia ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2559009 )

Great job people - I really appreciate your work for entire community.

Remember - don't bother me, if you do anything wrong and brick your device - you are doing this at your own responsibility.

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Let's begin rooting our Xperia E3 D2203! I will show you my way to root:

0. Make backup and load up the battery (at least 60%), download and install flashtool ( http://www.flashtool.net/downloads.php ), download and install Sony PC Companion (to provide drivers)

1. Obtain your firmware's FTF file (easiest way is to use XperiFirm)

and this firmware: http://uploaded.net/file/f1wll17r (it's Xperia M2 JellyBean kernel) ,

and copy them to: %userprofile%\.flashtool\firmwares ( for WinXP %userprofile% leads to c:\documents and settings\username; in Win Vista and laters: to C:\Users\username )

2. Turn off the phone

3. Connect it to USB cable with Vol- tapped. Make sure that all drivers have been installed successfully and disconnect USB (this is one-time step, if you have ever flashed your phone you probably don't need to do this again)

4. Run flashtool, click thunder icon, select flashmode, choose 18.5.C.0.19 firmware and click Flash

[IMG="1.PNG"]http://majdanski.eu/e3root/1.PNG[/IMG]

5. Connect USB with Vol- tapped when asked by flashtool

6. Wait until flashtool ends flashing (you will see messsages like this:

INFO- Ending flash session

INFO- Flashing finished.

INFO- Please unplug and start your phone)

then disconnect phone from usb, power on and wait to boot

7. Go to menu > settings

8. Go to about phone, tap few times on 'compilation number' to enable programmer settings. Go there, enable mock location (may be not nessesary) and USB Debugging

[IMG="2.PNG"]http://majdanski.eu/e3root/2eng.PNG[/IMG]

9.Go to security settings, turn ON unknown sources and turn OFF verify apps

[IMG="3.PNG"]http://majdanski.eu/e3root/3eng.PNG[/IMG]

10. Plug in USB to ensure that all drivers are installed properly (especially Sony ADB Interface driver)

11. Download giefroot_debug_D2203_modded.zip file ( https://mega.co.nz/#!sscXQKwB!qOIv2a70SH6UAM8vhySQIeEcYXrkkXXfh_X98q5rdDk ) unzip it and run install.bat

12. IMPORTANT STEP - make sure you allowed permanently to debug from your PC, when window appears

[IMG="4.PNG"]http://majdanski.eu/e3root/4eng.PNG[/IMG]

13. giefroot will inform you, that rooting has failed - that's OK - it was only to ensure, that your pc is allowed to debug

[IMG="5.PNG"]http://majdanski.eu/e3root/5.PNG[/IMG]

14. Now we have our phone prepared. Turn it off.

15. In flashtool click thunder icon, select flashmode

16. Select Kernel from Jelly Bean firmware

[IMG="6.PNG"]http://majdanski.eu/e3root/6.PNG[/IMG]

17. Connect to USB with vol- tapped and wait for flashtool to finish, disconnect USB

18. Power on your phone - you will see Xperia logo for a 1 seconds or 2, but it disappears and you will see only black display - that's ok - it's expected behavior.

19. Wait about 30 seconds and connect USB - make sure that Windows installs driver for ADB Interface Driver (you can ignore MTP driver prompts)

20. Download rootkitXperia ( https://mega.co.nz/#!Mt1zkAyQ!Z2Wg9xQyNCbPt6ksS-Dw76-ifSb_lGvQbFK7zP0yJ9E ), unzip rootkitXperia_20140719.zip and run install.bat

21. Wait for commands: done root command, wait 10 seconds...

22. When you see rebooting message, disconnect from usb, take out back cover, and push off button with needle. After that turn on the phone,at black screen wait 30 seconds and, after that, plug in USB

23. when rootkitXperia ends, you will see message all finished - turn phone off again with button under the back cover (as in step 22)

24. Now we need to restore D2203 kernel

25. Go to flashtool, thunder icon, flashmode, choose firmware from point 4, but BE CAREFUL! - select all things as this is showed on screenshot below: tick OFF wipe cache, data, tick ON exclude bootbundle, partition, ta, fota, baseband, system, elabel - you should see only two files: kernel.sin and loader.sin in content section

[IMG="7.PNG"]http://majdanski.eu/e3root/7eng.PNG[/IMG]

26. Now click flash, connect phone to usb with vol-, wait until flashtool finishes, disconnect usb and turn on the phone

27. When phone boots, connect again usb, go to giefroot_debug_D2203_modded.zip content again and run install2.bat

28. When script ends, update su binary with superSu and reboot :) You have now root access and RW permissions to / and /system :)

[IMG="lockedbl.PNG"]http://majdanski.eu/e3root/lockedbl.PNG[/IMG]

[IMG="root.PNG"]http://majdanski.eu/e3root/root.PNG[/IMG]