Upgrade Firmware

• Theme engine: It comes with a cyanogenmod mod theme engine so you can play with lot of themes.This is a great way of customizing your android device. You can theme each and every element of user interface all the way from wallpapers to boot animations.There are lot of themes available in playstore and some are premium too.
• Heads up notification: This notification system is similar to that in google'e one.Swipe left to dismiss notification and right to put it in background.Swiping down on it will open notification drawer and it merges in it.
• Wake options: Depending on the device you will have double tap to wake the device option in display settings and of course you have the option to put the device into sleep by double tapping on status bar.There is a option to wake phone after connecting charger.
• Animations: You can have custom animations for app opening and closing or while scrolling.
• Navigation: Besides device wake options you can even adjust dimensions of navigation bar and set custom actions too like long pressing  back button to kill recent app.In landscape mode navigation goes left hand side and yeah there is an option to disable this too if you don't like it.


• Security:  Privacy guard is available in this Rom along with blacklisting of calls and messages.
• Sound: AudioFx is available for better quality of music.Other features include increasing volume ring tone,profiles,less notifications,you can disable volume adjustable sound,separate ring tones and notifications volume as usual.
• Power: Advance reboot option is enabled by default so you can boot into recovery,fast boot,soft boot easily.
• Screen recorder: There is screen recorder option too in display settings to record your actions on your device.
• Quick settings panel is customizable and brightness control too is available.

Flash Euphoria os rom on Xperia z using recovery:

• Download Euphoria os rom for xperia z yuga  and Gapps transfer it to sdcard or internal storage of 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 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 z yuga boots into Twrp  or cwm recovery.
• Once you are in twrp or cwm 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.

• Backup:Backup all your data which includes apps,contacts,photos videos etc everything to computer or any cloud storage as flashing Resurrection remix custom Rom on Sony xperia z yuga will erase all your data.
• Battery: Charge your Sony xperia z 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 sony xperia z yuga 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.
• You must have a unlocked boot loader for trying this out.
• Custom recovery: You need a custom recovery like twrp or cwm installed.Without it you can not flash roms at all.
• Downloads: Unofficial resurrection remix for yuga and google apps. Transfer them to internal storage of your device.

• Navigation bar tweaks: You can enable disable or navigation bar and also you can adjust the size of navigation bar.Navigation ring included toggles to in case of quick access just swipe from bottom of screen and you can access apps which you have set.
• Status bar tweaks: Status bar has lot of tweaks which include a brightness slider.Slide in status bar to adjust brightness of the screen.Various tweaks are available to carrier label too like color and switch.Quick and smart pull down are also present.Battery icon too has tweaks.
• Gesture anywhere: This basically lets to open any app at any time(while using other apps) with just a gesture.You have to set the gestures and use them.Though you get any floating  type apps so that they can be used over other apps as multitasking its still a nice feature to have.
• Recent panel mods: Stock recent panel do not have an option to clear all the apps at once.In this rom you a button to clear apps and can even set the position of the button.


• App circle Bar:Swiping from the left or right edges of the screen an app bar pops up and you can choose what app you want to launch.This is great way of multitasking.
• Lock screen mods: This includes placing of 5 shortcuts on lock screen and also set targets for the slider.
• Theme enigne: 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 tones 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.

Flash Resurrection remix rom using twrp or cwm recovery:

• Download Resurrection remix rom for xperia z yuga  and Gapps transfer it to sdcard or internal storage of 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 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 z yuga boots into Twrp  or cwm recovery.
• Once you are in twrp or cwm 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.