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So as you may already be aware phones like mine, (orange uk) have the fastboot locked down, and so we cant unlock the bootloader.

I for one believe it can be accessed but needs a little bit of time and research on getting it done.

This thread is aimed for brain-storming for ideas and collecting them for us to try out,

You can de-brand your phone by flashing the software from this thread

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1033193

thanks to scott4 for the first upload mirror on page 3

Any ideas on getting the bootloader up and going on locked devices please put them in here

UPDATES

We now have root access thanks to Chainfire's gingerbreak apk which is here

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1044765

If your getting "could not extract assets" from gingerbreak

try doing

Quote:

Originally Posted by xperiax10.awesome

cool, finally I rooted my xperia ARC

these are very simple steps(copied from different threads):

1. Install the attached apk: Gingerbreak-v1.00

after installing most people getting this error - "could not extract assets".

TO OVERCOME THIS, just copy the attached ADB.zip and extract it on your laptop (windows)

say at

E:\mobile_Xperia\ADB

goto above path in your cmd promt and types these lines (your phone should be connected to laptop in debugging mode)

E:\mobile_Xperia\ADB>adb shell rmdir /data/local/tmp

E:\mobile_Xperia\ADB>adb shell mkdir /data/local/tmp

NOW JUST INSTALL THE apk file again and click on ROOT

if that Fails try replacing it with rm -r /data/local/tmp

Update 2

Blagus has kindly opened up this thread here

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1063394

We need people with a SIM-FREE phone with a LOCKED bootloader to help us all out, so if thats YOU !!!

Help us poor sods with branded handsets please.