Rooting Xperia Neo V

I found an article that explains about how to root Sony Xperia Neo V. Please note that rooting might break the waranty, so use it on your own risk. Any damage to your phones after applying this steps will be your responsible and not mine nor the author of the article.

Credit goes to FreakGeeks

Here are the requirements for rooting Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V:

• The phone with unlocked bootloader and it should not be locked to any other network too.
• A computer with Windows operating system.
• Complete back of all the data on the phone including contacts, call logs, text messages, MMS settings and other important files.
• The battery should be about 70% full.
• It is recommended to uninstall any kinds of security programs or antivirus software so that the rooting process remains unhindered.
• Android SDK is downloaded and installed in the computer.
• Installation of the Android USB drivers for Xperia Neo V and fastboot is to done on the computer.
• The recovery image and the rooting files for Xperia Neo V are downloaded and kept.

This list completes the requirements for the rooting process. Now the actual rooting process of the phone commences. It is very important to follow all the steps carefully as missing a single step might harm your phone.

 

Process for rooting the Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V phone:

• Start by installing the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) in the computer.
• Now you need to download the USB drivers and the fastboot archive and save the folders on your computer. There will be two folders.
• Go to the folder where the fastboot_with_Android_USB_file.rar is extracted. All the files inside the fastboot folder are copied. Now go to the Android SDK installation folder and open the “Tools” folder inside it. Paste all the copied files there.
• Also copy the recoveryNeo.img to the same “Tools” folder.
• Copy RootXperia.zip and paste it to the root of the phone’s SD card.
• After these, turn the phone off.
• The phone is then to be put in fastboot mode. For doing that, you need to connect your phone to your computer with the help of a USB cable. While you connect the phone to the computer via the USB cable, press the Menu key.
• A command prompt is launched on the computer.
• Change the directory to the place where the adb.exe and fastboot.exe are located. They are usually in the “Platform-Tools” folder or the “Tools” folder in the SDK folder.
• In the command prompt, put the following commands:
  • Fastboot devices
  • Fastboot boot recoveryNeo.img
  • Fastboot reboot
  • The device will automatically reboot into the Recovery Mode after the last command is entered.
  • While in the Recovery Mode, select “install zip from SD card” and then choose “RootXperia.zip”. Select by using the Power button. It takes some time for the installation to get over.
  • Rebooting the phone completes the rooting process.

Follow the guidelines well and get the rooting done in no time at all!

Undelete Files on EXT3

Carlo Wood has made a tool to undelete files on EXT3 filesystem. It's called ext3grep. This tool is available after he accidentally delete data in his home directory (3 GB) with rm -rf (one nasty command -- DO NOT TYPE THIS ON YOUR SYSTEM AS ROOT!!).

He then studied how EXT3 works and created a tools to recover the files. He also provides explanation about basic EXT3 scheme and some demos on the tools he created. The program is still under heavy development and he can't guarantee that it will out for you since he stopped the development as soon as he managed to recover his files.

The source code is not available for download, but you can send him an email and asked for the source code and he probably will give the source code for you.

Update (9 June 2008): Thanks to John C. Young, he gave me this link : http://code.google.com/p/ext3grep/. It contains the project page as well as the source code for this project. Have fun with it