Help Have you rooted your phone?

[dwang040]

Is it terrible to lose the drm keys? Cause I want to root it and install xposed, but I heard that you lose soo much from the lose of drm keys. I know there's a way to backup the drm keys, root, and restore the keys, but the process seems complicated. If you did it that way, was it super complex? Thanks for your answers.

 

[EarlyMon]

Let's ask @El Presidente - btw, we discussed the Z3 Compact at -

http://androidforums.com/threads/what-phone-to-get-for-rooting-more-in-description.937449/

We'll be happy to move this to the rooting forum of whichever Z3 you have.

 

[El Presidente]

Does the root method involve unlocking the bootloader?

If yes, there's not much you can do, but if you can wait till later on today, I'll have a look at what's involved and lay it out for you (I've a tonne on today so not much I can do till later, sorry).

From memory, backing up your TA partition (where the DRM keys are stored) is pretty easy, you just need to be rooted first.

 

[dwang040]

Does the root method involve unlocking the bootloader?

If yes, there's not much you can do, but if you can wait till later on today, I'll have a look at what's involved and lay it out for you (I've a tonne on today so not much I can do till later, sorry).

From memory, backing up your TA partition (where the DRM keys are stored) is pretty easy, you just need to be rooted first.

The method was downgrade your firmware. Run an exploit. Backup the drm keys, now upgrade your firmware. Root and restore drm keys.

Here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2642081

 

[El Presidente]

If that works like my Z1 (likely as almost all Sony devices work the same), that sounds a lot worse than it is.

I'll have a proper read and let you know what the deal is later.

 

[dwang040]

Thank you. I'm just afraid that I might screw it up and brick it or something.

 

[rockinroller]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3017056
I have Rooted my Z3 with this method easily... I was afraid to do it at first but found that it just sounds hard to do and went very smooth without error. ✌

 

[rockinroller]

P.s. You can root without unlocking the bootloader and you will NOT remove DRM keys..

 

[dwang040]

Really, I always thought you had to unlock the boat loader. Or at least that's what Google tells me.

 

[Rajbir Lorriet]

P.s. You can root without unlocking the bootloader and you will NOT remove DRM keys..

Actually i didn't know it's perfectly. But you made it clear.

 

[rockinroller]

Really, I always thought you had to unlock the boat loader. Or at least that's what Google tells me.

Yes you can root with bootloader locked...I have root and busybox plus exposed framework on stock rom 23.4.A.0.546 customised. Never unlocked bootloader...

 

[rockinroller]

Yes you can root with bootloader locked...I have root and busybox plus exposed framework on stock rom 23.4.A.0.546 customised. With locked bootloader...

 

[dwang040]

quick question, do you need to unlock the boat loader for xposed module to work? That's one of the main reasons I'm planning on rooting, along with amplify and greenify.

 

[rockinroller]

quick question, do you need to unlock the boat loader for xposed module to work? That's one of the main reasons I'm planning on rooting, along with amplify and greenify.

No...you do not unlock the bootloader at all....I do photography and if I unlocked the bootloader and lose the drm keys I lose some of the camera settings...so, I searched high and low for this method... I have NEVER unlocked the bootloader and don't plan to....