ROOT tutorial

Lately I've been quite busy with my work, so im just posting others people blog or just paste an article. There are numerous apps in the market that are related to blogging but none really work as what i want to. There's bug on posting screen shot. That just to share my main problem on updating mods that I make to my x8.

 After month of exploring the android arts, I finally get to a part that I just got the sense of it but im not the master of it. There's still lots of thing to learn. And its exciting to learn and share with other x8 users.

Regarding on the Dual Touch update on the xperia X8, some say YES and some say NO. SE is busy building up they momentum with the 3 sets of the new xperia flagline so, we might as well be forgotten.    I'm sure most of the X10 owner are already satisfied with their Dual-Touch update and us might not.

So if you thinking on staying with X8 so I suggest you ROOT it to get the best out of it.

There's a lot of methods on rooting the xperia, and the easiest way is by using the SUPER ONE CLICK program.

First of all, the main thing to do is getting all the tools that are required for rooting. Its more simple than flashing a rom though. There have been minor reports on people bricking their phone cause of rooting but we cannot say it wont happened too.  I want you to understand ROOTING would cause you a warranty lost. So make your study first before rooting.

So what is rooting?

Rooting is a method of enabling the user to make changers in the non-user area. That is accessing the system in the phone, when rooted, you be able to access system file, change permission of a program, making you a Power User. If you are familiar with Window Mobile and UIQ3. than you might get what im saying.  But what's good in The Android system is the Developers has make it to work as an app so we will get a pop-up each time a program try to make changes in the main system. Kinda like a in window 7.

So how to root?

1. Download the Super One Click program,

In the folder should look like this, there are 11 item in the folder after you unzip/unrar

And when you click on the SOC exe, it must look like this…

This is for the Donut version, if you are still using  1.6 android...

So now we've ready to start the second part,

Make sure you have make a backup of your phone. But I would recommend you to use a fresh firmware - repair your firmware(using SEUS) Sony Ericsson Update Service first. When ready, make sure the battery is more than 50%. Some would say 30% is enough, but for me, pre-caution is better … bad thing happened if the phone shutdown while in the process.

On the phone, go to

Settings/ Applications/Unknown Source -----> tick on the box

And

Settings/Applications/Development/USB debugging  ---->tick on the Box 

So now we are ready to connect the phone…

CONNECT and please don’t mount the SD card but don remove the SD card. Tap on the "Charge Only".

Wait for the PC Companion to pop -up, and Open SOC with administrator in window pc.

Now can start the rooting process, click on the Root button… and wait till it say the rooting is done.

SOC will sent a notification to the phone to test the SU(SUPER USER) authorization. If you see the notification on the phone, then you are done.

The SU icon  -Super User app should look like this,

Open it to see if its access able. Now you can go to the apps market to try out app that required a rooted phone.