{"id":4573,"date":"2017-04-06T16:15:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:20:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:50:53","slug":"how-to-disable-protection-by-my-xperia-on-sony-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/how-to-disable-protection-by-my-xperia-on-sony-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable Protection By My Xperia on Sony Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Xperia Theft Protection (MXTP) for new <\/strong>Sony devices, which used to protect your device from being stolen. But this security feature will raise some problems for most of the users who unlocked their bootloaders. This app can locate, lock, factory reset or even send a sound alert to your device. Also,\u00a0<strong>prevents unlocking bootloader<\/strong>\u00a0and factory resetting your device.Many users wish to crack the bootloader, so they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/root-android-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">root their device<\/a> or install <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/download-install-aosp-7-0-nougat-rom-xperia-sp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">custom ROM<\/a> and custom kernel on their phone. But you need to\u00a0<strong><em>Disable Protection By My Xperia on Sony Devices <\/em><\/strong>for unlock Bootloader of Xperia Devices.<\/p>\n[ad type=\u201dbanner\u201d]\n<p>You will not able to <strong>unlock bootloader<\/strong> of Xperia devices while My Xperia Theft Protection is turned on, then. You need to Disable Protection By My Xperia on Sony Devices before unlocking bootloader of Xperia Devices. It will provoke severe problem if you enable MXTP with an already unlocked bootloader. It will\u00a0<strong>crash your device<\/strong>\u00a0without any warning and you won\u2019t be able to fix that. So\u00a0Disable Protection By My Xperia on Sony Devices before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/unlock-bootloader-root-install-custom-recovery-android-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unlocking bootloader<\/a> of Xperia Devices.<\/p>\n<p>Sony is well aware of the issue, and they added some warning to their official\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/developer.sonymobile.com\/unlockbootloader\/\">Unlock Bootloader<\/a>\u00a0website to warn people against enabling My Xperia Theft Protection if you unlock the bootloader it \u201cmight cause the device to malfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAfter unlocking your device, you should not enable My Xperia (found in the settings menu under security on some devices running Android 5.0) as this might cause the device to malfunction.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-to-deactivate-mxtp-my-xperia-theft-protection\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>How to deactivate MXTP (My Xperia Theft Protection):<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro','sans-serif'; color: #666666;\">You need to <strong>authenticate<\/strong> your Xperia\u00a0device as the authorized owner. If you wish to <strong>disable MXTP<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-to-disable-protection-by-my-xperia-on-sony-devices\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>How to Disable Protection By My Xperia on Sony Devices:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro','sans-serif'; color: #666666;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> <\/span>To <strong>Disable Protection<\/strong> By My Xperia on Sony Devices, first go to setting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro','sans-serif'; color: #666666;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Step 2:<\/strong><\/span> Now <strong>Open Settings -> Security -><\/strong> Protection by my Xperia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4580 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Setting-Security-.png\" alt=\"How to Disable Protection By My Xperia on Sony Devices\" width=\"454\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Step 3:<\/strong><\/span> Now Tap on <strong>Deactivate -> Confirm<\/strong> that you want to disable the <strong>protection -> Sign-in<\/strong> with Google account which you have used to activate the <strong>MXTP.<\/strong><\/p>\n[ad type=\u201dbanner\u201d]\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4582 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/protected-deacttivate.png\" alt=\"How to Disable Protection By My Xperia on Sony Devices\" width=\"451\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4583 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Google-Account.png\" alt=\"How to Disable Protection By My Xperia on Sony Devices\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" \/><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Step 4:<\/strong><\/span> Done. This process is successful.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Step 5:<\/strong> <\/span>So this is the complete guide to\u00a0Disable Protection By My Xperia on Sony Devices<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source & Image Credit \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/talk.sonymobile.com\/t5\/FAQ\/My-Xperia-Theft-Protection\/td-p\/998346\">Sony<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Disable Protection By My Xperia on Sony Devices &#8211; android &#8211; My Xperia Theft Protection (MXTP) for new Sony devices, used to protect your device<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9862,9865,9869,9861,9872,9890,9874,9880,9876,9882,9860,9892,9875,9891,9883,9885,9889,9888,9879,9866,9871,8132,9886,9868,9878,9877,9881,9867,9873,9887,9863,9870,9884,9864,8143],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","tag-antivirus-for-sony-xperia-z1","tag-antivirus-for-sony-xperia-z3-antivirus-for-sony-xperia-z","tag-avg-antivirus-for-sony-xperia","tag-best-antivirus-for-sony-xperia-z1","tag-find-my-mobile-sony","tag-find-my-phone-sony","tag-find-my-sony-phone","tag-how-to-find-a-lost-sony-xperia","tag-how-to-find-lost-sony-xperia-mobile","tag-how-to-find-my-lost-sony-xperia-phone","tag-how-to-unlock-sony-xperia-forgot-password","tag-lost-my-sony-xperia-can-i-track-it","tag-my-xperia-sony-mobile","tag-my-xperia-sonymobile-com","tag-myxperia-sony-mobile","tag-sony-anti-theft","tag-sony-lost-phone","tag-sony-lost-phone-tracking","tag-sony-m4-bootloader-unlock","tag-sony-m4-protected","tag-sony-theft-protection","tag-sony-unlock-bootloader","tag-sony-xperia-anti-theft","tag-sony-xperia-c4-protected","tag-sony-xperia-lost-mobile-tracking","tag-sony-xperia-lost-phone","tag-sony-xperia-lost-phone-tracking","tag-sony-xperia-m4-protected","tag-sony-xperia-phone-tracker","tag-sony-xperia-protected-authenticate","tag-sony-xperia-protection","tag-sony-xperia-security","tag-sony-xperia-stolen","tag-sony-xperia-z-antivirus","tag-unlock-bootloader-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}