Friday, December 11, 2015

Aospa Paranoid android rom for Sony Xperia V tsubasa Lt25i

Install latest version of android lollipop on your sony xperia V tsubasa with the help of pananoid android custom rom.Though Sony terminated xperia v from its software updates list and gave jelly bean 4.3 as its last firmware we still have lollipop roms for our device.

Since developers has to make use of available jellybean kernel sources to compile lollipop roms you may expect bugs for sure and it might take time to have very stable roms.This doesn't mean that available one are too buggy to use.You can use them as daily driver for sure.

Paranoid android is one such lollipop rom for xperia v which is stable enough to be used as a daily driver.Device specific codename for xperia v is tsubasa and has model number as Lt25i. Check your device model number to confirm that you are using right variant.

Paranoid android rom for Sony Xperia V tsubasa Lt25i:

Paranoid android rom for Sony Xperia V tsubasa Lt25i xda

About paranoid android rom:
Paranoid android is a custom firmware based on android open source project with lot of unique features over other custom roms.It is often abbreviated as Aospa too.Some features of cyanogenomd are also present in this too.Paranoid android is lollipop based rom lacks lot of features which the kitkat based sibling offers.Aospa rom for xperia V tsubasa is compiled by an xda senior member ElArchibald.We sincerely thank him for bringing this amazing and beautiful custom rom.It is quite stable and you can use it as a daily driver for sure.
Features of paranoid rom:
  •  Display sleep options: Double tapping on status bar or lock screen ring will the device to sleep.
  • You can launch music app when a head set is connected.
  • Button actions: You can set custom actions for buttons .Like long press the back button to kill recent app.
  • Theme engine: This feature is adopted from the highly popular custom rom,Cyanogenmod. Allows you to change the themes of user interface with out any need of special mods. There are lot of themes in playstore which you can download and customize it.This theme engine supports icon apps too.So if you download any icon's app you can apply them using this theme engine instead of launcher.
    lollipop roms for xpreia v tsubasa lt25i
  • App ops: Manage permissions of apps using app ops.
  • Audio Fx: This a audio equilizer which is present by default.
  • Pie control: If you have on screen button then this feature will save you lot of screen.It is an alternative to navigation key with lot of features.Hide you navigation keys and enable pie.Swiping from edges of screen will revel pie control which will all navigation keys along with date and time,battery percentage.
These are some of the key features of paranoid android and you can explore rest of the features by flashing rom on your sony xperia V tsubasa Lt25i.

Must check: Miui V6 rom for sony xperia V tsubasa

Prerequisites:
  • Root:You must have root access on your Sony xperia V tsubasa.
  • Battery: Charge your xperia v to at least 90% so that you wont encounter any battery related issues while flashing this.
  • Backup:Backup all your data which includes apps,contacts,photos videos etc everything to computer or any cloud storage as flashing this Paranoid android on sony xperia V will erase data for sure.
  • 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.Its 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.

  • Backup Efs partitions: Backup all your efs partition of your sony xperia v on current Rom.Just in case if you loose signal you can just restore it back.
  • Custom recovery: You need a custom recovery(Twrp or cwm) installed on your xperia V tsubasa.Without it you can not flash roms at all.
  • Downloads: Aospa rom for Xperia V tsubasa (Basketbuild mirror) if needed.Transfer them to internal storage.

Disclaimer:
This is a risky process and we take not responsibly for all volcanic eruptions that arise in your heart if it fails to boot after flashing and if you hard brick it even light from mars,Jupiter or even Pluto cannot save you.
Must check: Cyanogenmod 12.1 rom on Sony xperia V lt25i

Flash Paranoid android on Xperia V using recovery:

  • Make sure that you are running cyanogenmod 11 custom rom before flashing this.
  • Download paranoid android for Xperia V Lt25i and Gapps transfer it to sdcard or internal storage of your device.
  • Power of  device completely and wait for few seconds to confirm that it is off completely.
  • Press power button and when device boots up leave power button.
  • While you Xperia V is powering up you you will notice led light blinks.When this happens you have to press either volume up or down continuously until it boots into recovery mode.
  • Sony xperia V boots into  cwm recovery or twrp.
  • Once you are in  cwm/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 Rom and gapps zip files.
  • Flashing rom 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.
If it fails to boot then hold power button for 20 seconds, it goes off and you now use button combinations again to reboot to recovery and restore nandroid backup which you made earlier.
If you have any other queries on flashing paranoid android rom for Sony Xperia V tsubasa Lt25i just leave a comment below or contact  us.