Safely Download & Install Android 6.0 Marshmallow On Xperia M [AOSP]
Easy and simple step by step Guide to Update Xperia M To Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Sony Xperia M is one of the well-known midrange phone which released in 2013.As it is a 2 years old phone most of you guys surely known that it will not get official Marshmallow Android 6.0 update from Sony.But there is a good news.Developer PecanCM over at Xda has just released an AOSP based The Xperia M Marshmallow ROM has most things working, the only major things that are broken on the ROM are NFC, GPS, MTP and Dual SIM (on Xperia M Dual). Other than that, it’s a pretty good ROMAndroid 6.0 Marshmallow ROM for Xperia M.Follow this guide to Download & Install Android 6.0 Marshmallow On Xperia M.
Official CyanogenMod 13 (CM13) is available For Xperia M.Linked Below↓
→ Download & Install Official CM13 ROM On Xperia M
The ROM uses baseband from Android 4.3 update for Xperia M, so if you’re running 4.1 or 4.2, make sure you first update to Android 4.3
What’s working:
- RIL (Calls, SMS, Mobile Data)
- Display
- Camera (photos, camcorder)
- Audio and video
- Wifi
- Bluetooth
- OpenGL rendering
- Sensors (accelerometer,compass,light,proximity)
- Sdcard
- auto brightness
- notification led
- Wifi,Bluetooth and USB tethering
- NFC
- GPS
Not working/Tested:
- Adopting external sdcard as internal is broken – to get it working flash boot.img from this post
- Mtp/ptp
- accelerometer stops working after some time – reboot your phone
- Dual sim on M dual
Warning:
rootmygalaxy.net will not be held responsible for any kind of damage occurred to your Xperia M while following this tutorial.Do it at your own risk.
How to Safely Download & Install Android 6.0 Marshmallow On Xperia M
Pre-Requirements: (Important)
- Make sure your phone has TWRP FOTA recovery
- Take a proper backup of all your important data and settings on your phone
Download & Install Android 6.0 Marshmallow On Xperia M
Downloads
Download Xperia M AOSP Marshmallow ROM
Google Apps(Gapps)-Link
Download & Install Android 6.0 Marshmallow On Xperia M [AOSP]
Step By Step Guide
- Make sure you have TWRP FOTA recovery On your Xperia
- boot into recovery
- Wipe data and cache
- Flash the rom and gapps zip
- Reboot
- DONE!!!
For More visit Official XDA Thread here
Where do I get that gapps.zip?
I followed all the steps, I did everything right but I got SIM card issue again. The phone keeps asking to insert a SIM card. Only works when I go back to stock rom. How to make it work on custom rom?