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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:

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.
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.

Install cm 11 based Miui v6 rom on sony xperia V tsubasa

Sony xperia v is budget device with water repellant coating on it.This water resistant snapdragon dual core processor recevied its last update from sony as jellybean 4.3.If you want to have kitkat on your device then its only possible through custom roms.
Miui v6 is finally available for sony xperia V tsubasa.If you have tried all other aosp based roms and want swtich to a rom with different experence then you should give a try for this rom.Though it is a cm 11 based custom rom and you will not find any features of cyanogenmod in it.Check out features list below if you want to know more about this.
If you are confused with the name tsubasa,it is a device specific code for sony xperia V which you can find it in build number or somewhere in about device.
Prerequisites:

Root:You must have root access on your sony xperia V tsubasa.
Backup:Backup all your data which includes apps,contacts,photos videos etc everything to computer or any cloud storage as flashing this Miui v6 on sony xperia V will erase datafor sure.
Battery: Charge your xperia v 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 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: Miui v6 for Xperia V tsubasa (androidfilehost mirror) if needed.Transfer them to internal storage.
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.
Maku sure that you are on cyanogenmod 11 rom before flashing this rom.

Miui v6 rom on sony xperia V tsubasa:

About miui rom:

Miui is one of the best and awesome custom rom out there.As we all aware of it that it is a stock rom for all xiaomi devices but they open sourced it and is widely available for lot of other branded devices through official support or even ports.After log time xiaomi has announced miui v6 with lot of changes in user interface but it still has android kitkat as a base.It might take some time for xiaomi to update miui to latest version of android but till then we have to use this kitkat based rom.

This rom is compiled by a xda senior member "afi1982" for xperia v, a big thanks to him for porting this rom.This rom though has looks of ios will definetelly give you a deifferent expereience for sure.

Coming to miui v6 for sony xperia V it is stable for daily usage and has decent battery life too.This rom is still in testing phase which means it has bugs.Though all features which are essential for daily usage are working fine you might experience lot of force closes if you flash gapps.So it is better to try it with out gapps.
Features of miui v6 rom:

Theme engine: miui is one of the first rom to offer a theme engine.There are lacks of themes in mi store and some are paid versions too.Yo can use mi tools which is a modified xposed framework to run on miui to get all paid themes for free.With this theme engine you can change wallpapers ,boot animations,ring tones, navigation panel theme,status bar theme,lock screen theme,icons and what ever.You can even overlap individual theme elements too.
Miui Launcher: This launcher is completely different from other aosp launchers which you are familiar with.Feature no app drawer and apps resides on home screen it self.
Traffic indicator: Network traffic indication is also available for ongoing traffic.Both download and upload speeds are displayed at same time on status bar.
Status bar: It features transparent status bar as usual.There is a network monitor too for ongoing Internet traffic.You can see your upload and download speed in status bar.Swiping down from status bar will bring you notification panel and swiping left on it will take you to quick toggles.
Utility tool: This helps to clear cache,virus scan,permission etc.
Guest mode: Guest mode is enabled by default and is locked in privacy protection.
Notifications: Notifications appear in form of "heads up" which you must be familiar with.
Features a do not disturb mode too.
Unlock your phone when a trusted blue tooth device is nearby which might remind you of "MI band".
Permission manager: You can control permissions for individual app.

There are the key features of miui v6 rom and you can explore rest of the features by flashing this rom on your sony xperia V tsubasu.

Must see:Paranoid android rom for Sony xperia V tsubasa Lt25i

Flash Miui V6 on Xperia V using recovery:

Make sure that you are running cyanogenmod 11 custom rom before flashing this.
Download Miui V6 for Xperia V(miui-V6-tsubasa-NEO.zip) 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.

Must check: Cyanogenmod 12.1 rom Xperia V tsubasa lt25i

Wait for at least 20 minutes for initial boot to complete and if didn't boot then press and hold power button for about 15 seconds and this will turnoff it completely.Once it goes off using volume button combinations reboot to recovery.If you are using twrp recovery and since you have a cm 11 backup click on restore and select only boot.img and swipe to confirm restore.

Once cm 11 boot img is restored wipe data,cache and dalvik cache and reboot it to system.This time it should boot.If it still fails to boot then you have to wait for another update.If you are facing too many system ui force closed then flash rom without gapps and see if force closes are stopped.

If you have any other queries for flashing this miui v6 rom on sony xperia V tsubasa then just leave a comment below.

Cyanogenmod 12.1 custom rom for Sony Xperia V tsubasa Lt25i

Sony xperia V tsubasa lt25i has received lollipop rom in form of cyanogenmod.Though CM 12.1 is not avaiable officially ,unoffical is available with lot of changes under the hood.There are lot of tweaks to kernel for improved performance.

Tsubasa is device specific codename for xperia V and has a model number as "Lt25i".Codename and model number are the first thing to check before trying any custom roms.After compilations all kernels and roms zip file names will definitely have either of these.

So before flashing you have to make sure that zip files which you have downloaded for xperia V have any one of them.Though recovery doesnot allow you to flash other android device roms. you have to keep an eye on flashable zip file names which you download.

CM 12.1 rom for Sony Xperia V Tsubasa Lt25i:

About cyanogenmod for Xperia V:
Cyanogenmod is one of the best custom roms available in android development ecosystem.They support lot of devices.This is based on android open source project with lot of added features.IT uses android 5.1.1 lollipop as base for now and will be updated to later versions of android when available.

This rom is compiled by a xda senior developer "WhiteNeo" , a big thanks to him for bringing this rom for our device.Besides general features of cm he tweaked kernel a lot which improves performance a lot and you will notice it for sure once you flash this rom.

General features of Cm 12.1:

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.
Performance control:A default CPU manager app to control frequencies and governors . You can adjust cpu frequencies and also set them on boot too.

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.
Software Updates: Cyanogenmod is usually available in three types one s nightlies which gets updated with new features every night and are quite stable for daily usage.second one is the snapchat which is monthly build version which will be stable version and other one is the release candidate.Some times nightlies are considered must stable than the snapshots. As of now we have android lollipop 5.1.1 in form on CM 12.1.
If you are missing root functionality or all your root apps are not working properly then to developer settings and check if root permissions are set properly.

These are key features of cyanogenmod and you can explore other features by flashing this rom on your Sony Xperia V tsubasa.

Kernel modifications by developer:

As we said earlier whiteneo has tweaked kernel a lot so that you can have better performance.He compiled it with latest tool chains available and added some other features which are as mentioned below.

Over clocked: Kernel is overclocked to 1.62 ghz which will definitely improve performance but it costs battery life.
Under clocked: lowest cpu can now be set to 162 mhz for maximum battery life.
voltage control: You can now adjust cpu voltages to improve battery life but if you mess with it then it might brick your device for sure.So dont change voltage values unless you have an idea of it.
Governors: Intelliactive and IntelliMinMax cpu governors are also added.
kernel thermal control driver is also added.

These are some of the kernel features which are added by developer.

Must check: Miui V6 rom for sony xperia V tsubasa

Prerequisites:

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 twrp recovery installed on your xperia V tsubasa. With out it you can not flash roms at all.
Downloads: Cm 12.1 rom for Xperia V tsubasa (androidfilehost mirror) and google apps if needed.Transfer them to internal storage.
You must have root access on your xperia V tsubasa.

Disclaimer:

This is a risky process and we take not responsibly for all earthquakes that arise in your heart if it fails to boot after flashing and if you hard brick it even light from Pluto,Saturn cannot save you.

Must Check: Paranoid android rom xperia V tsubasa LT25i

Flash Cm 12.1 on Xperia V using Twrp recovery:

Download Cm 12.1 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 your 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 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 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.

You have to flash super user zip if you want root access.If rom fails to boot just restore backup which you have made earlier.If you have any doubts on flashing cm 12.1 rom on sony xperia V tsubasa don't forget to leave a comment below.

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