Posted on Jul 20 2014 - 9:28pm by Anurag Kumar

Sony recently updated Xperia Z2 on 17.1.2.A.0.314 firmware unexpectedly which brought changes like improved call voice quality, faster battery charging. Earlier root method was not available for 17.1.2.A.0.314 firmware but now you can root your Xperia Z2 on 17.1.2.A.0.314 firmware via rootkitXperia developed by @cubeundcube.

XDA user RyokoN mentions that above mentioned root tool kit uses two exploits i.e. ‘master key exploit‘ (bug 9950697) and CVE-2013-6282 on an older version but now it uses CVE-2014-3153 (towelroot exploit).

Confirmed devices working on this kit are Xperia Z2 17.1.2.A.0.314 firmware, Xperia Z1 14.3.B.0.288, Xperia SP 12.1.A.1.205 etc.

Download rootkitXperia tool

Download rootkitXperia_20140719.zip

Download rootkitXperia tool

How to Root ?

  • Set up adb ( path ). How to do steps here.
  • Go to settings on your phone and enable unknown sources and USB Debugging option.
  • Download the above zip, extract it.
  • Click on Install.bat.
  • Follow the on screen instructions.
  • Your device will reboot and CMD will show “完了しました” or “— all finished —“, consider rooting done then.

Try the above method if you want root on Xperia Z2 17.1.2.A.0.314 firmware.. Let us know if it works. Drop your comments below.

Source – XDA



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6 Comments so far. Feel free to join this conversation.

  1. a July 26, 2014 at 3:10 am - Reply

    cant set up adb

  2. Maurice July 31, 2014 at 8:34 am - Reply

    Do I Need To Download The ADB.exe? If Yes Where Can I Get It?

  3. TUM August 17, 2014 at 10:48 am - Reply

    I want to root

  4. moiz August 21, 2014 at 1:21 am - Reply

    Adb and everything is set (hopefully correctly) but the problem i
    now face is that ‘install.bat’ opens and gets stuck after succesfully running daemon tools :/
    please help

  5. rob September 4, 2014 at 5:33 am - Reply

    z2 never reacts/reboots. running the .bat reacts exactly as you descibed but then NOTHING happens. NAda, zip.

  6. Taz October 12, 2014 at 3:12 pm - Reply

    does it work on locked bootloader?

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