{"id":215,"date":"2021-06-14T17:17:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keremgurevin.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2023-05-01T16:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:34:23","slug":"how-i-rooted-my-sony-xperia-xa-ultra-f3211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keremgurevin.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"How I Rooted My Sony Xperia XA Ultra (F3211)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi, today I am going to tell you how I rooted my Xperia XA Ultra (and semi-bricked it \ud83d\ude1b ).
This phone got into my hands on Wednesday, with Android 7.0 and 16 GB of Internal Storage.
The day I got it into my hands and started using it I noticed apps like Spotify, Facebook, PlayStation Android App that I didn’t use nor didn’t want. So I tried to uninstall them but sadly, they were a system app. This meant no tampering nor deleting. Also while using, I started to notice ads on games. Sure, I could use a modified version of the game to remove those ads… But on Android, I don’ feel confident when I have pirated or modified games and apps. So there was only one option that was there waiting for me to try; Rooting with TWRP and Magisk. Also, the best thing about old phones is that the warranty has expired, which means it’s open to tampering without any consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, I got to researching, I immediately started looking through sites like XDA Developers and etc. then I stumbled across this<\/a>. Fully-fledged guidance for rooting the Xperia XA Ultra. While I was doing this, I was on my Windows PC, which meant I needed drivers and etc. for it to actually see the device. But at the time, I didn’t know that. I tried every single way, but no. Eventually, I read this Sony Bootloader Unlock Page<\/a> that told me (after continuing here<\/a>) it told me; “If you are running Windows:\u00a0<\/strong>Download and install the latest\u00a0USB drivers<\/a>.\u00a0If you\u2019re running OSX or Linux:\u00a0<\/strong>You can skip this step since no additional drivers are required.” So after giving my hope up on my Windows PC, the day after, I set up my Mac, and booted it in the first time for 1 year. from there. I eliminated one more problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I went according to the Sony Bootloader Unlock Page, and unlocked the bootloader. Now I was still on fastboot so I tried the command “fastboot boot twrp.img” while booting to twrp without booting into android first. I suddenly unplugged the cable because my lesson had started. Which led the phone bootlooping on the Xperia Logo Animation that does not allow any sort of connection. And I went ” Oh **** it’s dead ! ” and that day, I dedicated all of my power to MAKE IT WORK<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could not find anything that day, but the other day I found a firmware flasher for Xperia devices. But I needed a some sort of firmware file. After tons of Googling, I found “the treasure” In quickly started to download it. Bu thanks to the site, they only had 5mbps with mirrors from USA! (I live in the Middle East) I started the download and just waited, after half an hour, BAM! Downloaded and extracted. I booted my phone into fastboot, launched Flashtool. Selected to flash, and did the instructions. 20 mins later. I saw the beautiful Android 7 Welcome Animation. I ran and shouted. \"\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday however I decided to finally root the phone with MagiskSU. I already unlocked the bootloader so I just
followed the guide that I told you earlier. I downloaded a French 6.0 FW for flashing the boot delivery file.
Flashed boot and twrp images from fastboot. Installed magisk app then rooted from TWRP by installing MagiskSU. That way I uninstalled my apps with Link2SD, installed my favourite store, Aurora Store with supersu permissions, (which means can install and update without user input. ) And installed ABP as an .apk file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PS: Here’s the GSMArena Link for people who wonder.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thank You For Reading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hi, today I am going to tell you how I rooted my Xperia XA Ultra (and semi-bricked it \ud83d\ude1b ).This phone got into my hands on Wednesday, with Android 7.0 and 16 GB of Internal Storage.The day I got it into my hands and started using it I noticed apps like Spotify, Facebook, PlayStation Android […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":26,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[34,36,35,37],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-root","tag-xa-ultra","tag-xperia","tag-xperia-root"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keremgurevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keremgurevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keremgurevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keremgurevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keremgurevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keremgurevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/keremgurevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keremgurevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keremgurevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keremgurevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}