[Android General] selftricks.com:
Great news for all those guys waiting for CM10.1 Android 4.2.2 Jelly Beam ROM for your smartphone Xperia T, as the CM10.1 custom ROM for Xperia T has been released officially by the team of CyanogenMod. By this new and improved custom CM10.1 ROM you can enjoy all the features of Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean along with the custom tweaks. Earlier we saw Android 4.1.2 Jelly Beam based ROM CM10 for Xperia T, and now ROM CM10.1 is the improved custom. The smartphone launched back in 2012 with Android 4.0.4 ICS out of the box. With the help this guide you will learn how to install Android 4.2.2 Jelly Beam based custom ROM 10.1 for Xperia T smartphone. You can easily end up with successful installation of custom ROM 10.1 with the tips, instructions and step wise procedure providedto you in this guide. As a advise please make a back up of your data before installing CM 10.1 on Xperia T.

File Required to Download

CM 10.1 ROM 4.2.2 Jelly Beam ROM for Xperia T. [FILE NAME: cm-10.1-20130415-NIGHTLY-mint.zip]

Reminder

We are using ClockworkMod Recovery over here as most of the users have it. But this may also work with other similar recoveries like TWRP Recovery.

While installing please follow each and every step very carefully, as failing to do this may result to brick your device.

Please check all the pre-requisites before installing, mentioned below.

If Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean based custom ROM CM10.1 ROM does’nt work on your Xperia T, the way you want to. Then for that case it is suggested to make backup of your Nandroid. This would result to be very helpful.

Neither Sony nor Google has released it. This is the custom firmware.

Perform wipe cache partition and wipe dalvik cache few more times before rebooting, in case you stuck on boot or experiencing boot loop.

Please wait for minimum 5 min after first boot, so that meanwhile ROM can settle everything for you.

Important

After completing the things mentioned below you will be ready to follow the step by step guide to install Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean based CM10.1 ROM custom firmware on Xperia T.

Please make a check that the battery power of your device is at least 80%, else if the device turn in the mid of installation then it may result in the device hard brick.

Make sure that USB Driver is already installed in your PC for Xperia T.

For transferring the file between your PC and smartphone, make sure that USB

Debugging is enabled. Else the transferring of files won’t be possible.

Check that your device is rooted and must have installed ClockworkMod Recovery.

Pre Requisites

Now before you start the installation of Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean based CM10.1 ROM custom firmware on Xperia T, make a backup of following things, so in case you happen to loose any data you can recover it with ease.

SMS & Call Log- Use SMS, MMS & Call Log Entries Backup & Restore App.

Contacts & Settings- Use Android default backup options.

Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to Internal/External SD card.

APN and MMS Settings – Follow the following path“Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”.

WhatsApp Messenger – Manually Backup WhatsApp Messenger Data.

Steps To Install

Establish a connection between your PC and your smartphone with the help of USB cable.

Now copy all the downloaded files to the SD card of your mobile. CAUTION: You have to copy the files, don’t extract any of them.

Remove the USB and disconnect your phone and PC.

Now switch off your phone.

Boot into recovery mode. For this, reboot phone and press Volume Down button few times while booting. At the time of recovery Volume buttons are used to scroll and Power button are used to select.

In case you are afraid or not sure that this new ROM will work properly in your phone, then make a Nandroid backup of your current existing ROM. This may also help in the cases you want to go back to your old ROM. For performing the backup, select Backup and Restore, then on the next screen, select Backup again. Once the process backup is complete, move back to the main recovery menu.

In next step, you have to perform the data wiping task. For this, click wipe data/factory reset.

Now the next screen appears, click Yes on this screen just to confirm your action. Once the wipe is complete, move back to main menu of ClockworkMod Recovery. Now click wipe cache partition, once the process of wiping is done perform Dalvik cache wiping. For this, under the advance option click Wipe Dalvik Cache.

Now to begin the installation of ROM, first select install zip and then choose zip from SD card.

Now locate the downloaded files that you copied in the SD card [FILE NAME: cm-10.1-20130415- NIGHTLY-mint.zip]. Select it by pressing Power button. Now the next screen appears, click Yes on this screen just to confirm your installation action.

After the process of ROM installation finishes. Its time to install the Google apps package. For this also repeat the previous step, first select install zip and then choose zip from SD card. Now locate the second downloaded file from SD card [FILE NAME: gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip].

Select it by pressing Power button. Now the next screen appears, click Yes on this screen just to confirm your installation action.

Once the installation process is complete, move back to the main recovery menu. Now its time to reboot the phone. For this, select reboot system now and boot up into customized Android

4.2.2 Jelly Bean ROM CM10.1. This process of first boot up is going to take some time. So wait for this process to complete.

Now this was the final step. After this, new ROM is now installed in your phone.

In case you want to return to your previous ROM. Boot into recovery, select backup and restore.

Now form the list provided select your previous ROM and continue restoring it.