Procedure to Update Xperia neo V with ICS based Stable Custom ROM Firmware:
- Download the Xperia Neo V ICS Custom ROM firmware from here to your computer along with the Night Elf Kernel. There are two steps which you need to go through as mentioned below in the same chronological manner.
Step 1: Steps to Flash Night ELF Kernel:
- After downloading the Night Elf kernel in your computer, copy this zip package where the fast boot is located in the Android SDK folder, it is generally in the “PLATFORM-TOOLS” OR “TOOLS” folder.
- Now, you need to reboot the phone in the boot loader mode. Press the Menu key and connect the device to the computer with the help of original USB cable. Now, open the command prompt by pressing the “Win key + R”, enter “cmd” and press enter. In the command prompt, enter the below mentioned command.
Fastboot devices
- Now, after entering the above command you will see that the phone will be listed in the list. Up next you need to enter the below mentioned commands one by one.
fastboot flash recovery boot_ne_ics_beta-v1_rc2-zram.img
fastboot reboot
- After the above commands get processed, you now will see that the phone will reboot which will mean that the kernel installation has been successfully finished. Now, let’s head to the next step where we have mentioned on how you can install this ICS based custom ROM firmware.
Step 2: Tutorial to Update ICS based Custom ROM firmware:
- Place the downloaded Firmware Package in your phone’s internal SD Card and disconnect the phone from computer to boot the device in the recovery mode.
- The recovery mode can be entered by pressing and holding the Volume Up + Down Key and press the power button which will take you to the fast boot mode and then with the help of Volume keys, navigate to the recovery mode.
- Up next you will have to select the option of “install zip from sd card” and then “choose the zip from sd card” from the main menu of recovery screen.
- Select firmware zip package and once the installation is done, the device will land back on the recovery screen. In recovery mode select “Wipe data/factory reset” & “Wipe Cache partition” so that this will clear the cache after which select “++++ Go Back ++++” and select “reboot system now” which will restart the SONY Xperia Neo V.
Note: just in case if the phone doesn’t get updated successfully, you need to repeat the whole process from the start.
Congratulations, you have now successfully applied the update of ICS based custom ROM firmware Update in your Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V. Do let us know in the comments section just in case if you face any issues in the process of applying the update as we will try our level best to sort out the same.
