{"id":8541,"date":"2014-09-02T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T05:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/?p=8541"},"modified":"2016-11-14T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T09:31:51","slug":"root-sony-xperia-sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/root-sony-xperia-sp\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Root The Sony Xperia SP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[hoops name=&#8221;Rooting Guides Are No Longer Maintained&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7492\" style=\"padding-top: 20px; border-bottom: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.flexispy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/a-rooted-sony-xperia-sp.jpg?resize=1024%2C617&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Black Sony Xperia SP Before Being Rooted\" width=\"1024\" height=\"617\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; padding-top: 20px;\">This guide will show you how to root the popular Sony Xperia SP phone.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; width: 70%; margin: 0 auto;\">\n<p style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; margin: 1.5em 0; padding: 20px;\">Disclaimer: FlexiSPY is not responsible for rooting the Android device in any way. Before performing any of these steps make sure you back up your Android device completely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">What Is Needed To Root The Sony Xperia SP?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">In order to root the Sony Xperia SP you will need the following.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">\n<ul>\n<li>The Sony Xperia SP you want to root in your hand.<\/li>\n<li>A PC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">Step 1 \u2013 Enable USB Debugging On The Sony Xperia SP<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">Before we are able to root the phone you must first enable USB debugging on it which is done as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">On the phone itself go to <strong>Menu &gt; Settings &gt; Developer options &gt; USB debugging<\/strong> and make sure that the <strong>USB debugging<\/strong> option is <strong>checked<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">Step 2 \u2013 Download the root file for the Sony Xperia SP<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">You need to download the root file and save it to your PC in an easy to find location such as the desktop. You can download it from <a href=\"http:\/\/d-h.st\/Kmm\">here<\/a>. Once you have downloaded it extract it to its own folder.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">Step 3 \u2013 Root The Sony Xperia SP<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">Now that we have enabled USB debugging and downloaded and extracted the zip file we are ready to root the phone. This is done as follows:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">\n<ol>\n<li>Connect the Sony Xperia SP to your PC and make sure it is recognised properly by your PC.<\/li>\n<li>Run the <strong>runme.bat<\/strong> file from the folder you extracted in step 2.<\/li>\n<li>Follow the instructions on-screen to root the device.<\/li>\n<li>Wait for rooting to finish.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">Once rooting has finished disconnect the phone from your PC and look for the SuperSU app. Once you can see this you have successfully rooted the Sony Xperia SP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[hoops name=&#8221;Rooting Guides Are No Longer Maintai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14783,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541\/revisions\/14783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}