Edit: after thinking about it, just realised that I could have posted this in the main thread of the rom mentioned here... Silly me... Thread move?
Hi everyone
I've recently purchased an Xperia L for my wife, currently running stock rom 15.3.A.1.17 (again), unrooted
I really want to update it to something newer, and looking at the rom list, it's hard to figure out which will be appropriate.
Unfortunately, I'm also not well versed in these sort of things (had my small share of trail and errors though)
Inquiry 1
My main concern is that I want to use the Sony UI. I tried BlissPop but it just didn't do it for me, I simply like the Sony UI and the things that the Sony comes with (particular the camera app)
And though I know I can probably install a lot of those things afterwards, I do also have a lot of Sony products, thus having it all from the get-go is much more convenient than trying to get it all back on
So what I found from the rom list was PrimeXperia - http://forum.xda-developers.com/xper...icial-t3103905
I want to know if there are any other firmwares out there using the Sony UI or not, just for comparisons.
Inquiry 2
Let's say that there's only PrimeXperia, looking at the installation instructions, I see that it uses a recovery menu.
Now, my Xperia L is currently unrooted (and I haven't found a way to root it without having to use vRoot yet (don't want that on my phone)), is it possible to still flash a recovery menu unto the phone?
I have flashtools, and I have tried flashing TWRP (and a Cyanmod one at one point) using Fastboot, and it seemed to run even without rooting my phone first, will it actually function correctly or will the lack of root cause problems?
So my concern is, without having to root my phone, can I use Fastboot mode on Flashtools to flash a recovery menu onto my phone? Which of course, if I can, now I need to find PhilZ Touch Recovery to do so.
Inquiry 3
In the instructions, it says to Wipe Cache Partition and Dalvik/ART Cache, will this wipe data, settings, apps, etc also? Or does it only wipe the system stuff so that when I install the new firmware, it'll simply operate as normal with my apps and stuff still on?
Reason I ask this is because I remember something (from a long time ago) about only wiping/flashing certain things to ensure that user related things are still intact - just want to make sure
Inquiry 4
And just to make sure I know what I'm doing, as per instructions, I'm still within the recovery menu where I select the rom (zip file) and choose to install it, right?
Inquiry 5 - last one
Finally, it says that users reported wifi to not work and the solution was to flash ThunderZap, where is that? Is that within the download link (currently not home so unable to check)?
Sorry for the hassle and thank you for the help in advance :)
Hi everyone
I've recently purchased an Xperia L for my wife, currently running stock rom 15.3.A.1.17 (again), unrooted
I really want to update it to something newer, and looking at the rom list, it's hard to figure out which will be appropriate.
Unfortunately, I'm also not well versed in these sort of things (had my small share of trail and errors though)
Inquiry 1
My main concern is that I want to use the Sony UI. I tried BlissPop but it just didn't do it for me, I simply like the Sony UI and the things that the Sony comes with (particular the camera app)
And though I know I can probably install a lot of those things afterwards, I do also have a lot of Sony products, thus having it all from the get-go is much more convenient than trying to get it all back on
So what I found from the rom list was PrimeXperia - http://forum.xda-developers.com/xper...icial-t3103905
I want to know if there are any other firmwares out there using the Sony UI or not, just for comparisons.
Inquiry 2
Let's say that there's only PrimeXperia, looking at the installation instructions, I see that it uses a recovery menu.
Now, my Xperia L is currently unrooted (and I haven't found a way to root it without having to use vRoot yet (don't want that on my phone)), is it possible to still flash a recovery menu unto the phone?
I have flashtools, and I have tried flashing TWRP (and a Cyanmod one at one point) using Fastboot, and it seemed to run even without rooting my phone first, will it actually function correctly or will the lack of root cause problems?
So my concern is, without having to root my phone, can I use Fastboot mode on Flashtools to flash a recovery menu onto my phone? Which of course, if I can, now I need to find PhilZ Touch Recovery to do so.
Inquiry 3
In the instructions, it says to Wipe Cache Partition and Dalvik/ART Cache, will this wipe data, settings, apps, etc also? Or does it only wipe the system stuff so that when I install the new firmware, it'll simply operate as normal with my apps and stuff still on?
Reason I ask this is because I remember something (from a long time ago) about only wiping/flashing certain things to ensure that user related things are still intact - just want to make sure
Inquiry 4
And just to make sure I know what I'm doing, as per instructions, I'm still within the recovery menu where I select the rom (zip file) and choose to install it, right?
Inquiry 5 - last one
Finally, it says that users reported wifi to not work and the solution was to flash ThunderZap, where is that? Is that within the download link (currently not home so unable to check)?
Sorry for the hassle and thank you for the help in advance :)
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