The great thing about having virtual navigation buttons on Android is that they can disappear when you don’t need them to provide you with more screen space. They can also be modified. Using a new tweak called Xtended NavBar, you can turn the standard Android navigation buttons on your rooted device into handy shortcuts and quick settings toggles.
Sony’s latest flagship — the Xperia Z2 — ships with an unlockable bootloader except if you end up buying a carrier variant, which might ship with a locked down bootloader. An unlockable bootloader means that the Xperia Z2 is an extremely easy device to root and the process is very similar to how one can gain root access on the Nexus, HTC and Motorola devices.
If you have recently purchased a brand new Xperia Z2 and are looking to root it, worry not as we have got you covered. Simply follow the steps mentioned below and you will be enjoying all the powers that root access brings on your Z2 in no time.
Just like HTC and Motorola, Sony has openly embraced the Android development community by providing official bootloader unlocking tool for its devices. This makes it easier for Xperia device owners to gain root access on their handsets, as they can simply unlock the bootloader and then proceed to flash a root permission manager app.
However, unlocking the bootloader of a Sony device disables certain features, which is why most users actively avoid unlocking the boot loader of their handset.
There are plenty of positive things to say HTC’s nifty DotView case for the One M8, but its lack of support for third-party notifications isn’t one of them. Fortunately, those with a rooted device can now take advantage of an unofficial tweak to change this themselves.
If you already have root access on your Nexus 5, you will not be getting the Android 4.4.3 OTA update as the files in the /system partition have been modified. In this case, you will have to manually update your Nexus handset to the latest flavor of KitKat.
However, the update will rewrite the custom recovery with the stock Android recovery and remove root access as well, which means you will have to re-root the handset again. Below is a quick guide which should help you get the job done.
