Rooting Sony Xperia D2005

ROOTING SONY XPERIA E D2005 

 

Why do we root an Android device?

You can get privileged access on your device. Once rooted,you can overcome the limitations that manufacturers put on the device.Rooting can also facilitate replacement of complete OS of the device.

Rooting procedures are different for different Android devices.

Rooting a phone is not as hard as you think. I got a Sony Xperia phone very recently, and wanted to root it. All you have to do is, download the Towelroot.apk and Superuser.apk to your PC. 

You can get these apk's from the following links:

Towelroot.apk -   https://towelroot.com/

         Click on the lambda symbol to start downloading.

Superuser.apk -    http://download.chainfire.eu/452/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.02.zip

Enable USB debugging on your device,and transfer these two files onto the Internal Storage of your phone.

If you are on Linux, open the terminal and check whether your device is active by doing:

                    adb devices

If you find your device on the list of devices attached,then fine.

My device was not discovered the very first time. A tip to resolve this is:

                  sudo adb kill-server

                  sudo adb start-server

cd to the directory where you have the Towelroot.apk. Install the Towelroot.apk file on your phone by doing the command:

                 adb install Towelroot.apk 

Open Towelroot.apk from your App Drawer and click on "Make it ra1n". Reboot your phone and install the Superuser.apk file. 

Open the Superuser.apk from the app drawer and update if it asks for updating the binaries. Now download and install Root Checker app from playstore to verify whether you rooted your device successfully or not.

Once rooted,you can change the ROM of your Android device and flash a custom ROM of your choice if you wish to do so.

Sticky notes in ubuntu

I am very much fond of Sticky Notes.I had it on my Windows7, pre-installed as a standard widget,but I couldn't find it anywhere in ubuntu. 
Its good to know that ubuntu also allows sticky notes(aka Indicator Sticky Notes)  which can be installed through terminal. This is a simple app written in Python3 and GTK3(GNU Image Manipulation Program).
Here is what I tried: 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:umang/indicator-stickynotes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-stickynotes

Now you can keep your to-do-list on your desktop. Life made easier :)