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Sunday, August 19, 2012

A guide to flash CM9 ROM for your Bootloader unlocked Xperia Neo V




CyanogenMod is an aftermarket firmware for a number of cell phones based on the open-source Android operating system. It offers features not found in the official Android based firmwares of vendors of these cell phones

Pros:
  • Very Less Memory utilization(Just 19 MB used with out any external apps installed).
  • Smooth, stable and lot of features included in it.
  • Attractive boot animation and wallpapers added by default.
  • Three reboot options added in power off mode.
  • Fast and cool phone app. 
  • Screen can be adjusted to more brighter than stock ICS ROM.
  • CRT Off Animation while locking.

Cons:
  • Only one theme added in the ROM by default. You need to download extra themes from online. ( You can flash Nova 2.5 CM 9. It would have more themes in it and said to be more smooth than this ROM)


Requirements:

1) Take a Nandroid backup of your current ROM and Titanium backup of your data and apps( See http://sonyxperianeov.blogspot.in/2012/05/how-to-take-nandroid-backup-of-your.html to take Nandroid backup of your phone)
2) Export contacts to SD card for backup
2) Unlock the bootloader( Check http://sonyxperianeov.blogspot.in/2012/06/bootloader-unlocking-via-easiest-way.html to unlock your phone easily)
3) Must have CWM recovery installed ( See http://sonyxperianeov.blogspot.in/2012/05/how-to-take-nandroid-backup-of-your.html to install CWM recovery)



Steps how to flash the ROM:


 Step 1 -
Download ROM Zip from : http://mirror.sea.tdrevolution.net/jenkins/5806/cm-9.0.0-haida.zip
 and copy the zip file to sdcard.
Download GAPPS zip from :  http://goo.im/gapps/  and move that too in to any folder in SD card.
(download gapps-ics-20111230.zip from the list)

Step 2 -Flash the new kernel
Extract the files in Zip file to a folder on PC

Step 3: Install flash tool after downloading setup from : https://hotfile.com/dl/163801674/a1fa959/flashtool-0.9.0.0-windows.exe.html 

Step 4: Open Flash tool and  Click on Thunder icon
 - Click on fastboot mode and select 'Reboot in to fastboot mode via ADB'

Either put phone in fastboot mode (power off then click and hold button right to home and plug usb cable) and phone LED will light BLUE.

Step 5: Select 'Select Kernel to falsh' and select the boot.img to flash the kernel
Please wait till the kernel is flashed

Step 3:
Reboot the phone in CWM recovery then
Click on choose to install Zip from Sd card
Select the Zip file downloaded and install the ROM

Step 4:
 Wipe the Dalvic cache and data

Step 5:
Flash Gapps ZIP from CWM reovery like we did above.

Reboot phone
It will take around 5 minutes for first boot.
Your ROM is now installed

Screenshots:


Home Screen
Power menu


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Apollo- Music Player



















Messaging

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Disclaimer:-    Unlocking Bootloader will void the warranty of your phone. AUTHOR WILL NOT NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY POSSIBLE DAMAGES TO YOUR PHONE CAUSED BY THIS METHOD. BY USING IT YOU AGREE TO ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS.

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