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[Xperia Z3v General] Kotalm:
I got the root to work but how are you getting Xperia Xposed and 20mp Superior Auto to work?

The only thing I've got to work so far is Viper, which is amazing btw.

Whenever i change a setting with Xposed and i reboot it has done absolutely nothing. Im not sure what is going on. Root Checker confirms that i indeed have root.

And I'm not sure how to check that 20mp superior auto works, but i took an auto picture and then went to manual mode and switched it to 20mp and it was significantly better than the auto version.

I know i asked a lot but any help is appreciated.

Thanks
[Xperia Z3v General] BladeRunner:
Have you installed busybox?
[Xperia Z3v General] Kotalm:
I have, yes, I just installed busybox from the playstore. Is there a specific one i need?
[Xperia Z3v General] jtio21:
Roms

Are their any roms that work with our device yet through a safestrap method since we do not have a unlocked bootloader?
[Xperia Z3v General] turkishmonky:
Glad to see i'm not the only one.

How long is eventually? I've been stuck in the loop for about 15 minutes now. On x64 windows, x64 java.
[Xperia Z3v General] BladeRunner:
Someone posted earlier that Jrummey's BusyBox Installer is the only one that works. I can't confirm this however.
[Xperia Z3v General] GigaSPX:
I just look up busybox and I grabbed the first result. Updated mine from 1.2 to 1.3. It works and that's that.

Also it seems like a new root method guide is out, but I'm a bit suspicious about it. Sending personal device information to some unknown server is just as like as dangerous and to be shut down like when that iOS messenger was released for android. Just a warning guys.
[Xperia Z3v General] BladeRunner:
There was a post in VZW Note 4 thread that said the app communicated with the server in China for 4 hours after root was installed. I'll stick with the method you posted.
[Xperia Z3v General] simpletona70:
I got the same thing when I was trying to root the latest update. Once I downgraded to the older firmware as stated in the instructions, it rooted with no problem.
[Xperia Z3v General] UN5EEN:
Just a quick questions to gain clarification as this is the only thing preventing me from fully committing to rooting my z3v.

When downgrading firmware will the process factory wipe my device or will all my apps, contacts, texts, photos, etc. stay in tact through the downgrade?
[Xperia Z3v General] corybucher:
So now that we got root does anyone know which custom roms we can use? Anyone making custom roms for this variant?
[Xperia Z3v General] jal3223:
[MENTION=4986864]GigaSPX[/MENTION] - have you (or anyone else) found any benefits (bug fixes) by updating to the latest firmware? I have everything debloated and setup, so I'm trying to debate if it's worth the trouble.
[Xperia Z3v General] GigaSPX:
When downgrading, you can choose to keep your Data. Which is pretty much everything that's on board including Apps.

http://www.verizonwireless.com/dam/support/pdf/system_update/xperia-z3v-1-20-15.pdf

This is basically everything you need to know about the latest update that's been present so far. One thing you would really notice is killing off the What's New icon when you hold the Home key, but if you debloated that, not much else I can say. I think there was also the annoying popup every time you get a call about lack of data, but yep. That's the most significant changes you can see there.
[Xperia Z3v General] Mountainfisher:
When I updated to latest firmware, nothing was erased. Just took the OTA update and kept root
[Xperia Z3v General] jal3223:
Cool man, thanks. I saw the article but I wasn't sure if they may have slipped some small bug fixes in there. I guess I need to stop being lazy and just take update though just to be safe. Lol

I appreciate you putting this thread together by the way. I'm sure it's helping a lot of folks.
[Xperia Z3v General] BladeRunner:
I just used Busybox On Rails and it worked perfectly
[Xperia Z3v General] tsachi:
I've tried multiple times, but I'm getting stuck at the root stage. Once the JDB starts it scrolls really fast with lines of commands, then gets stuck with

I uninstalled Java and reinstalled it, but still nothing. Any ideas?
[Xperia Z3v General] JediDru:
I had the same problem. You need to open the JDB.ini in your root folder. Then literally copy and paste the section of the word "classes" until you have about 100 or so of them. It will go through.
[Xperia Z3v General] nealecj954:
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I ended up with the same exact screen.

Also, I can't uncheck verify apps, it is greyed out. Followed all the directions exactly.
[Xperia Z3v General] krazie1:
Great! Happy that you guys got root and twrp.
[Xperia Z3v General] tsachi:
Thanks, that worked.
[Xperia Z3v General] nealecj954:
My phone doesn't restart but when i run the exploit it goes through everything then closes

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I also get a force close of something called keychain and another process when the exploit is running
[Xperia Z3v General] bart77:
I was getting that same problem on my win 7 pc at work. After I disabled driver certification on my win 8 pc at home, I was able to install the drivers and Java and eventually got through it. Once it fails you need to run the adb shell command in the OP before retry.

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What I need help with now is enabling rw access on the SD card for titainium backup and also a temp unroot solution so that I can still use remote play.

Edit :

I found a patched version of remote play on xda that works with root. Therefore I don't need a temp unroot solution in which I had no success.

Also, I do not understand the need for busy box? Tibu works fine without it. My only problem is write access for ext sd is still locked.
[Xperia Z3v General] BladeRunner:
dont forget to install busybox. that should solve your tibu issue. For unroot try supersu pro or use xposed and root cloak
[Xperia Z3v General] bart77:
Is there no way to boot directly into twrp from a powered off state?
[Xperia Z3v General] GigaSPX:
May I ask why do you need direct boot into TWRP from power off? You can just access recovery with the NDR Utils app provided from DualRecovery.
[Xperia Z3v General] bart77:
Most importantly if the system does not boot or by losing root. Either way could be solved by a restore or by flashing root.
[Xperia Z3v General] Rider797:
I thought I read that pressing either volume up or down after the vibrate during startup would do it but I haven't tried it yet to confirm.
[Xperia Z3v General] BladeRunner:
I've tried and cannot get it to boot to twrp/philz that way
[Xperia Z3v General] BladeRunner:
There was a bug in 2.8.14. Flash locked dual recovery 2.8.15. when powering the phone on press the volume up for philz or down for twrp when it vibrates and the green LED lights.
[Xperia Z3v General] Outlaw78a:
I've downloaded everything listed.

Did a clean install of java.

Did an install of Flashtool.

placed firmware zip in flashtool firmwares folder.

I've gotten to the point in flashtool where it asks me to select device, z3v isn't listed so I click on z3, then it makes me shut off phone and put it in update mode. from there it say I don't have drivers for device (s1 Service in Device Manager).

What am I doing wrong, is their a newer flash tool utility ?
[Xperia Z3v General] tweak13:
I selected z3 and it worked fine.
[Xperia Z3v General] nealecj954:
does the phone automatically restart for everyone after running the exploit.bat file, because mine doesn't and just sits on a popup that says waiting for debugger.

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followed all the directions to the letter...have all the drivers installed for usb, used flashtool to downgrade firmware. Open exploit bat it runs, while its running i get 2 popups, one says keychain has stopped, the other says credential manager has stopped, then the popup that says waiting for debugger stays on my screen. The command prompt does say exploit successful attempting to root press any key. When that runs everything goes so fast I cant read it, but it either finishes or aborts (again I cant read it) then closes. Phone never restarts and the popup saying waiting for debugger just sits on the screen. I tried installing superuser and busybox, but I dont have root.

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In the flashtool install location there should be a folder called drivers with a program in it called flashtool drivers. If you run this it will give you the option to install fastmode, flashboot, can Xperia Z3 drivers. If you install those, that should be everything you need and it should work properly.
[Xperia Z3v General] kartng:
You may also need to disable driver signature enforcement in Windows - for sure if you are running Windows 8/8.1!
[Xperia Z3v General] Slickademo:
Just wondering if any mac users have obtained root using windows virtually? I have parellells and xp. Can I use that, or do I need Windows 7? Thanks
[Xperia Z3v General] xuanphucn:
Guys, i have a questions. This is my first sony device. I was wondering if we lose warranty or Sony features if we root our phone at all?
[Xperia Z3v General] BladeRunner:
it voids your warranty, of course, but you lose no features as far as I know.
[Xperia Z3v General] xuanphucn:
like if i flash the phone back to the original firmware. can they still tell that my phone was rooted? I had samsung before and they have the knox ****. once you root, it will trip the knox status and you wont be able to reset that status at all. would that be the case for sony?
[Xperia Z3v General] GigaSPX:
I'm not sure about Sony, but Verizon won't. I rooted my bro's Xperia Z2 tablet and months later there were dead pixels that appeared (not cause and effect). I flashed its original unrooted firmware and sent it back to Verizon because of warranty and they sent in a new one.
[Xperia Z3v General] maxnic:
so, just want to make sure I understand what's being said here.

I read that these features are lost with an unlocked bootloder:

Advanced camera functionality (low-light processing).

Sony Bravia Engine (X-Reality, Super Vivid, Noise reduction and Sharpness filter).

Audio Quality (reduced sound quality and volume)

S-Force Front Surround Sound.

Sony Entertainment Media.

Play Station 4 Remote Play.

Sony MirrorLink and Miracast.

Since I'm reading you all say that the bootloader stays locked using this method, these features remain intact....right?

I'm not even entirely sure I will root this phone at all. I kind of like what I'm reading about it and the features it has lol.

On a side rant,

I SUPER wish that these kernels came with the ability to mount encrypted drives.

I have a TrueCrypt(now VeraCrypt) volume we use for work docs. It would be helpful in a pinch if I could mount it as an actual drive point and work on what I need to from a restaurant without opening up my laptop.

I've seen some apps that work with encrypted drives but at least on the SamSung phones I have it does not have the ability to mount a drive but can open it.

We can't(or aren't supposed to) move files out of the encrypted location, so I can't use that the way it works(damn ISO compliancy).
[Xperia Z3v General] xuanphucn:
it's impossible to unlock the bootloader on this phone. Thanks to Verizon. This is why I hate ATT and Verizon.
[Xperia Z3v General] maxnic:
So then, I can expect the features I noted will work with no problems?

Awesome if that's a yes! I don't need to unlock the bootloader personally, I only have a few root apps I want to use. Still sucks about the kernel though...
[Xperia Z3v General] xuanphucn:
I'd think so. Again, that's what I gather from researching. Don't quote me since I just got this phone yesterday.
[Xperia Z3v General] milkytron:
I haven't tried this method but that should be correct. This does not unlock the boot loader so the features should still all be there. This just roots the current ROM I believe instead of flashing a new one that isn't signed. I feel like this would be the best situation for this phone. Having all the out of the box features along with root ones. And if Xposed works, then that's awesome.
[Xperia Z3v General] nealecj954:
I can't get this to work for the life of me
[Xperia Z3v General] Slickademo:
Still no tutorial video on YouTube? ?
[Xperia Z3v General] jasabian:
I'm Hungup here. I have tried 20+ times re-running the root.bat file - I edited jdb.ini to include roughly 100 lines of classes. At a loss as to where to continue here. Anyone have any suggestions?

org.xmlpull.v1.XmlSerializer
short[]
sun.misc.Unsafe
> > com.sun.tools.example.debug.expr.ParseException: Name unknown: java.lang.Run
time.getRuntime
java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/data/local/tmp/a") = null
>
[Xperia Z3v General] xuanphucn:
try different computer if you can. i tried it on my macbook and it didnt work. i switch to my surface pro and it worked like charm. By the way, i can't update after i root the phone. it just keeps giving me error saying that error during dm session. any idea?
[Xperia Z3v General] BladeRunner:
you don't run root.bat you run exploit.bat

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Where are you getting hung up?
[Xperia Z3v General] nealecj954:
Ok, so I used flashboot to put the stock firmware on the phone, it says successful and shows i have the stock firmware it settings, but during the process it always says "failure to parse TA file...skipping" right near the end, then successful. Not sure if that has an effect on anything. Then I'll connect the phone to my computer. I have all the drivers installed, everything connects fine, i can connect to adb fine. So I connect then run the exploit.bat, set the debugger program to testapp, check wait for debugger program, exploit runs and says successful. Then it says attempting to root, press any key to continue. So I press any key, it seems to be working but everything moves across the command prompt so quickly while the root.bat is running, that I can't actually see what it says (not sure if there is an error or anything). then it seems to finish and closes command prompt. Meanwhile, on my phone, I get to popups during this process one says keychain has forced closed, the other says credential manager has forced closed, then there is a popup that stays on my screen that says waiting for debugger to attach. After the command prompt closes on my computer, my phone doesn't restart and unless I close the waiting for debugger notification, the phone does nothing else. I tried installing busybox and su but both tell me I don't have root. So something isn't working during the process. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Java and JDK multiple times, but that never seems to be an issues anyways because the phone connects to the computer fine, and exploit.bat and root.bat don't seems to hang anywhere, the phone just doesn't root.
[Xperia Z3v General] brandodoubleg:
I have this exact same problem. Try dragging and dropping the exploit.bat or the root.bat file into the terminal and see what the end of the script tells you before it would typically close. Mine tells me something like "Waiting for Java Debugger... File Cannot Be Found... End of line unexpected blah blah blah." I don't remember exactly what it tells me but it's something along those lines. Sorry I can't help
[Xperia Z3v General] jasabian:
After fighting for hours, I went back through the thread and noticed this link. I ran this exploit instead and it worked first try.

Not sure if it helps anyone but figured I might as well share what worked for me. Thanks for your contributions guys!
[Xperia Z3v General] nealecj954:
OK, I did that and it says:

Opening Java Debugger

The system cannot find the file specified.

\Java\%o) was unexpected at this time.
[Xperia Z3v General] nealecj954:
Ok, so I finally got it to work. I uninstalled Java and JDK again, I also uninstalled all the drivers, I got the OEM drivers right from sony's website. I installed JDK and let it install Java instead of installing them separate. I also let them install to their default location the installer picks instead of changing it. ran the exploit and everything worked.

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Well, I'm rooted but the update failed twice, now it tells me I am up to date, but I don't have 23.0.E.1.44

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Ok, I got the update to go through, but I had to make a FTF of the latest update from xperifirm (23.0.E.1.44), flash that, then use the stock shipped firmware, flash that, then root, then install the update again.
[Xperia Z3v General] xuanphucn:
guys, I keep getting error saying that "error during dm session" when I try to update my phone. any idea? my phone can't connect to sony companion either. What the heck is going on?
[Xperia Z3v General] GigaSPX:
What are you trying to update to? Lollipop? That's not yet known when it will ever be available. To the latest firmware that's out now? You could always follow my strikethrough info on my opening post to see how you can just flash it prerooted and all.
[Xperia Z3v General] xuanphucn:
can you upload the file? xperifirm isn't working on my computer for some reason. when i selected the phone model, nothing happened
[Xperia Z3v General] GigaSPX:
I have. Read closely at the part where I said I've packaged everything together on my post.
[Xperia Z3v General] tsachi:
Just saw this, if you're still looking for an answer - I installed from Windows on parallels, no problems. Just make sure to mount the phone to the Windows side every time it asks.
[Xperia Z3v General] Slickademo:
Awesome! Thank you
[Xperia Z3v General] dsrhokie:
Okay, I want to make sure I understand everything...I just received my z3v today and it shipped with 1.44. In order to root, I need to go back to 0.376, root, then update back to 1.44?

Thanks all.

Dave
[Xperia Z3v General] GigaSPX:
Basically.
[Xperia Z3v General] sookieball:
Other than root, is there any efforts for recovery or anything for our semi-loved phone?
[Xperia Z3v General] BladeRunner:
well we have a recovery: http://xdaforums.com/z3/development/z3-xzdualrecovery-qa-t3014206 Since our bootloader is still locked it's not a full recovery as it doesn't replace the stock recovery but it works well enough to flash a zip or do back-ups/restores.

Probably not a lot else coming our way unless someone can port a stock based rom from the Z3 for us so you'll just have to live with root and xposed most likely.
[Xperia Z3v General] ConanOBrien:
Followed OPs post, only confusing thing was figuring out how to use flashtool to downgrade my firmware. Other than that, everything went smoothly. Thanks so much!!!
[Xperia Z3v General] GigaSPX:
How may I go about it to make it less confusing? I'm open for suggestions. :D
[Xperia Z3v General] xratablancax:
Hospot? anyone was able to activate the hotspot after being rooted?
[Xperia Z3v General] ConanOBrien:
Nah it's not on you at all, it was more about using the flashtool. All of the answers I found in the Flashtool thread. I had to Move the firmware folder to a different directory. Copying the folder didn't work, there can't be two folders. Also needed to go back and install drivers within the flashtool. Took me a few reboots on both ends to figure out. Also, the flashtool was being detected as a Trojan by my AntiVirus so I temporarily disabled my AntiVirus.

Phone has been awesome so far since root, first thing I did was uninstall all the bloatware. Just put on xposed framework and I've been messing with the GravityBox module.

Only issue I've been running into now is I can't get into recovery mode. I flashed the dualboot recovery, it worked the first time. I haven't been able to get into recovery since. It just boots straight into the OS. I've tried holding the volume up, as well as the volume down, and it skips the recovery and goes into the OS. I've also tried rebooting straight into recovery from TWRP's app, as well as other apps, and it still skips recovery and goes straight to the OS again. Haven't figured out what's going on with that yet, will experiment more tonight.
[Xperia Z3v General] nealecj954:
The directions are fine, there are just nuances that are unique to the individuals depending on the computer they are using or the os they are using
[Xperia Z3v General] UltraMagnus0001:
I can't get the update of the OTA to install either. I think it's because I debloated some apps before I tried the OTA. Anyone posted a rooted firmware to flash?
[Xperia Z3v General] xratablancax:
http://xdaforums.com/z3/xperia-z3v-general/guide-root-wifi-tether-z3v-t3112327
[Xperia Z3v General] GigaSPX:
I posted it on my first post. You can't possibly miss it now since I went back to edit it to put it in big font, bolded, underlined, and red. That's the latest FW prerooted with recovery and everything.
[Xperia Z3v General] MiaIAm:
Hello,

I am willing to upload a youtube tutorial but first I what like to see if I can take care of one issue I am having which is that fact that I can't get OTA update... I don't get prompted to update and I have tried going to settings - system updates- check for new updates and I get "your z3v is up to date" when it clearly isn't because I downgraded my firmware. I rather not flash rooted firmware, but if push come to shove I just may. Any solution to this?
[Xperia Z3v General] UltraMagnus0001:
That's different, I get an error after it downloads and reboot to intall.
[Xperia Z3v General] nealecj954:
I had the same issue...I tried flashing the 376 firmware again. Didn't work. Ended up flashing 1.44 from xperifirm, then 376 again then rooting then upgrading. All seems to be working well after that
[Xperia Z3v General] MiaIAm:
Ok, here's an update... I was able to update using OTA I just took a little wait. I was trying to update directly after I had rooted and everything and it just wasnt showing up, now I have updated OTA with no problems. Just have to do the DRM stuff and gain the R/W access and I'll be finished.
[Xperia Z3v General] GigaSPX:
You may also try flashing my prerooted FW to be the alternative solution.
[Xperia Z3v General] Slickademo:
A tutorial video would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!
[Xperia Z3v General] Stormwing:
Just want to note that the null thing was an unending PITA for me. Tried 100, then 1000, then 500 "classes" in the JDB.ini. Still nothing. Started to lose hope.

Then I set my screen timeout to 30 minutes and got root lol
[Xperia Z3v General] UltraMagnus0001:
How do I flash teh flashable ZIP? Doesn't it have to be an FTF file? The built in Recovery don't have an option to flash. I don't know how to ADB it.

Thanks for making teh giant red link. I get overwhelmed with all the info and miss stuff.
[Xperia Z3v General] BladeRunner:
you need to already be rooted on .376 and have the locked dual recovery installed to flash the pre rooted .44
[Xperia Z3v General] UltraMagnus0001:
Ok, I don't have the dual recovery installed yet. I have go figure that out.
[Xperia Z3v General] warrenpeace:
Make sure that you have "wait for debugger" checked under USB debugging. I was getting the null error unail I did that.
[Xperia Z3v General] GigaSPX:
It's step 9, all spaced out in the middle of the entire first post.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nahsha:
Hi all,

I'm experiencing crappy reception on z3c where as nexus 5 has more bars / faster coonection. The issue mostly happens in metro / subway. any radio fix for that?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyres:
are you on lollipop?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nzzane:
Well if the issue is when you are in the subway, there is not much you can do to fix that.

the Nexus 5 probably has a better network receiver in it allowing it to get great reception basically anywhere, whereas with the Z3C, although it does have a good network receiver, it doesn't have a good enough one to get good reception when underground