Giefroot: The new Root method for series devices Xperia Z3 with locked Bootloader

Having one Android device in your hands, sooner or later you will want to do root, first to use applications that have the condition and secondly to upgrade your device with a custom ROM. Usually the first step is to unlock the bootloader, but for the Xperia devices, this would be disastrous because of the loss of keys DRM.

Although we have already seen one root method for the Xperia Z3, the Giefroot came to us do the work without unlocking the bootloader. So we have root in our device, while we can save and TA partition containing the DRM keys. A prerequisite unfortunately, is to have our older device firmware from October 2014 (before 23.0.A.2.93), but this may be changed, and it is also easy to find the * .ftf file and install via Flashtool .

Conditions

The method therefore works in Xperia Z3 and Z3 Compact and to test it should have the following:

• On the "debug" the device
• Enabled "False Sites" (located under "Developer options")
• Established the ADB driver on our computer if you use Windows

The process

Follow the procedure at your own risk!

• Remove the file Giefroot and decompress it on our computer.
• We put our device in "Airplane mode" and connect to the computer.
• Run the file "install.bat" and follow the onscreen instructions.
• If the process fails fail ("Device not rooted") try a second time.

Admittedly it is a method with strange conditions (False Sites) but the result is worth it. Currently in second edition and can be downloaded from the thread at XDA.