Xperia U, Root and Recovery

Today from Androidsis, we bring you the way to root and install a recovery trust your Sony Xperia U. In order to root it we must have the latest firmware version, following the following tutorial we can install it on our mobile phone.

Let's go first with the main thing, What is rooting a mobile phone? Android systems are usually locked in such a way that we cannot touch their 'roots'. Rooting gives us access to these roots so that we can modify the operating system at will (Always with MUCH care). Basically it is as if Microsoft Windows came to us with the folder 'C: Windows' blocked so that we cannot touch it, and we access it.

Let's start the tutorial to be able to root our Sony Xperia U. The following tutorial only serves to bootloader locked.

Requirements

• Flashtool
• Nu Kernel
• Firmware kernel .54
• The following file

Steps

1. We will flash the nu kernel with the Flashtool tool.

2. When the process is finished, we will restart the mobile phone.
3. We extract the file that we have downloaded with the 7zip program and execute it.
4. We will choose option number 1 and connect the mobile on with the USB Debugging mode activated.
5. On the mobile phone we will see the option to restore a backup, we accept and let you restore it.
6. We will let the mobile restart by itself, and we will see that we have the SuperSu application installed and turn off the mobile phone.
7. Now we flash the kernel .54
8. We wait for the process to finish, we turn on the mobile and we will have it rooted.

Now we will proceed to install a recovery on our rooted mobile phone. What is recovery? It is a menu where we can modify parts of the system. We can apply MODS, erase data (WIPE), install ROMS, make BACKUPS, etc.

Requirements

• Have your mobile phone rooted
• The following file

Steps

1. We download the previous file
2. We extract it and run it
3. We connect our mobile phone in USB Debugging Mode activated
4. We let the program finish the process
5. Once the process is finished, we will restart the mobile
6. In order to access the recovery, we must restart the mobile and when the Sony logo appears, repeatedly press the volume down key.

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