How to root: Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini

In this tutorial we’ll guide you through the steps to root your Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini in and easy and simple manner. So if you are a Xperia X10 user then you can first go through the instructions and steps to root your device, but before you try with rooting procedure please go through the pre-rooting instruction in a right way. Make sure that you are all set with the pre- rooting instructions, so it will be easier to go through all the rooting steps without any difficulties. Rooting your android device gives you great user and application access. Not only you can be able to run android market applications which needs root access for its installation but also rooting include and facilitates the users to install non- market and third party applications, these features provides and adds up benefits resulting from the rooting procedure, but it has one main unfavorable quality which breaks the warranty plan with the device manufacturer. Most important thing to remember is once you root your device you will be not able to claim your warranty under the valid period, but still no need to worry because the solution is very simple. It is possible for any user to claim the warranty once the device is unrooted, that’s it if you unroot your phone ie,. to covert your phone back to its stock version, under unrooted condition the warranty once again exists. The reason why rooted phones are not provided warranty is this root procedure is program that unlocks the root files and provides the user the permission to access these root data, but this is not approved by the manufacturer hence the warranty breaks.

Rooting your Xperia X10 mini can be done in two ways;

1. Z4 root tool and the other is,
2. 2.  Simplest way by using SuperOneClick tool.

But with Z4 rooting program you have two options to try, one is temporary rooting of your device. Temporary rooting is a process with which you can unroot your phone with a simple restart after rooting. The second option is to root the device permanentaly, with this process the phone cannot be unrooted by restarting it. Below are some of the instructions that you need to take care of before you start with rooting procedure.

• It is highly recommended that you make back up of your phone data, because rooting is process which deals with the processor software installation of your phone, so there may be chances of getting your phone data erased. You can just move or copy all the files in your phone memory to SD card or store in your computer by creating a back up file or back up using any android application if you have downloaded and installed it on your phone. Your phone data includes files like, contacts, messages, applications, images, videos and other multimedia files.
• Check the battery charge in your device and charge it before you start with the rooting process, this is just a precautionary measure, so that low battery charge doesn’t interrupt the procedure. Just make sure that your phone battery is charged more than 50 or 60 % of it.
• Make a back up of all your internet account settings; because rooting process erases all your previous settings of APN, you can also set up the APN and other settings with the help of your network or service provider.

1. Steps to root Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini using Z4 root tool.

* Access the internet through your PC and download the Z4root application to the desktop, the downloaded file is a zip file, just extract the contents from it to a new folder, once you extract you can see a Z4root .13.0.apk file.

* Once you get that .apk file, just copy the same file to your phone by connecting the device to your PC. (A .apk file is nothing but android package file).

* Now in your phone just look for the Z4 root.apk file that you copied just now and open it, this will start installing the Z4 root package to your Xperia X10 mini phone.

* This automatically gets installed and once this is finshed, you can see a Z4 app icon in your phone menu, now tap on that app to open it, which displays a screen with two options, as I told you one is Temporary Root and other is Permanent Root.

* Now make sure that you select the Permanent root option, once you click on it your phone will take few seconds to process the step and finally gets rooted.

While it processes you can see a message at the bottom saying: Running exploit in order to obtain root access…

*Once the Z4 mod root finishes the rooting action, the device is automatically restarted. This is where your phone is successfully gains root access of the system, and to check this you can just have a look through the menu icon, where a new icon is added up called “SUPERUSER” on the screen, an android logo guy similar to skull.

That’s it now you can enjoy the new features of your rooted Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini.

1. Steps to root Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini using SuperOneClick Tool.

Before you start this process, ensure that you have installed all the drivers for you phone using PC suit.

* Download Superoneclick on to your desktop (it’s a zip filewhich you can extract on your desktop).

Note:    Superoneclick works only on windows based operating systems.

* Connect your Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini to your computer via USB cable, Select your android phone to USB debugging mode by going to SETTINGS select APPLICATIONS Then DEVELOPMENT choose USB Debugging option.

* Open SuperOneClick.exe which is extracted on your desktop.

* Click on the ROOT option, and wait for some time while the Superoneclick program starts rooting your android device.

* That’s it, now you have gained root access to your phone, and has better functionality compared to its stock state. And with Superoneclick it is possible to unroot your phone with a single click..