Thursday, December 10, 2015
Aicp custom rom for Sprint samsung galaxy s5 SM-G900P kltespr
Install android lollipop 5.1.1 based aicp custom rom on sprint galaxy s5 SM-G900P with the help of aicp custom rom. Aicp officially supports sprint galaxy s5 which means you will have latest version of android with immediate response for bug fixes.
Device code name for Sprint galaxy s5 is Kltespr and model number is SM-G900P. So if you have another variant of galaxy s5 then this is not for you ,flashing this on other variants will brick your mobile for sure.
Check your device model number before proceeding further.Go to settings and then to about device. Check your model number and confirm that your using SM-G900P of galaxy s5 which is bound to Sprint.
Prerequisites:
Device code name for Sprint galaxy s5 is Kltespr and model number is SM-G900P. So if you have another variant of galaxy s5 then this is not for you ,flashing this on other variants will brick your mobile for sure.
Check your device model number before proceeding further.Go to settings and then to about device. Check your model number and confirm that your using SM-G900P of galaxy s5 which is bound to Sprint.
Prerequisites:
- Backup:Backup all your data which includes apps,contacts,photos videos etc everything to computer or any cloud storage as flashing Aicp on samsung galaxy S5 smg900P will erase all your data.
- Battery: Charge your galaxy s5 sm-g900p to at least 90% so that you wont encounter any battery related issues while flashing this.
- Backup Efs partitions: Backup all your efs partition of your samsung galaxy s5 on current ROM.If you loose signal you can just restore it back.
- Lock Gps:Lock your gps position on your current rom.If you use this a lot then you have to lock it so that it could work even after flashing other roms. It's easy to lock gps .Turn on gps in settings and find your current location in google maps and now now have locked on to gps.
- Custom recovery: You need a custom recovery like twrp installed on your mobile .Without it you can not flash at all.
- Downloads: Aicp rom for kltespr and google apps. Transfer them to internal storage of your device.
Aicp custom rom for sprint galaxy s5 SM-G900P kltespr:
About Aicp custom rom:
Aicp is one the best custom roms available in android development .Aicp stands for android ice cold project.Initially they used android open kang project as a base (Aokp in short) but they later moved to cyanogenmod rom as aokp stopped updating its sources.SO you can expect all features of cyanogenmod rom in Aicp with some extra features too.
Features of aicp rom:
- Theme engine: Theme engine is from the cyanogenmod custom rom which basically changes the look user interface from lock screen to ring tones all the way up to boot animations.The speciality of the theme engine is the ability to choose individual elements of every theme you have installed.So you like the ring tons and wallpapers of one theme and icons of other theme then you can have them at a time.Just open the theme chooser and you will understand how to do it.
- Performance control:A default cpu manager app to control frequencies and governors.You can adjust cpu frequencies and also set them on boot too.
- Trebuchet: This is the default launcher that ships with cyanogenmod.But if you flash gapps then you might loose this.It doesn't have too many features like nova or other launchers but its simple and fast.
- Status bar Tweaks:Status bar has lot of tweaks which include a brightness slider.Slide in status bar to adjust brightness of the screen.Double tap on status bar to sleep device and also network speed indicator for on going traffic info.
- Gesture anywhere:Gesture any where is also available which makes it easy for you to launch apps with gestures instead of returning to home screen and app drawer to launch apps.
- App circle:In addition to this app circle bar is also present which makes it too easy to launch apps with just a swipe from the edge of the scree but it doesn't any floating apps as we have in stock.
- Omni Switch: Omni Switch is an alternative for default recent window in android.To use this Open omni switch app from app drawer and set your preferred options.It opens a floating bubble just like facebook messenger and floats on every app and actions click on it to open your recent apps.
Flash Aicp rom on galaxy s5 using Twrp recovery:
- Download Aicp for galaxy s5 smg900p and gapps transfer it to sdcard or internal storage of device.
- Power of the device completely.
- Press volume up,power button and home key simultaneously and once you see boot loader screen release buttons.
- Using volume down as a navigation button move to recovery and click on power button to confirm action.
- Your galaxy s5 now boots into twrp recovery.
- Once you are in twrp click on backup and select all partitions which you want to backup. It might take about 5 minutes for backup to complete. Don't interrupt backup process.
- Once backup of your existing rom is completed click on back button.Wipe data,cache and dalvik cache and wipe system partition too.
- Now select Install and navigate to location where you have placed your galaxy s5 Rom and gapps zip files.
- Flashing rom on your galaxy s5 might take about 5 minutes or so.Once flashing is complete do a factory reset again.
- Now reboot to system.Wait at least 15 minutes for initial boot to complete and once done you can explore ROM features.
Since this is only meant for SM-G900P (which is sprint variant) don't flash this on other carrier variants as you might end up bricking it.By following above procedure you will be able to install android lollipop based Aicp custom rom on your samsung galaxy S5 SM-G900P Kltespr.
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