Sony users may wondering when will be the official update for their device. Frankly speaking that we seldom heard of official update to Sony devices or else only specific Xperia devices will received latest software version. But as Sony announce recently, Xperia devices will be upgraded to Jelly Bean in early of year 2013. Nevertheless, there are few Xperia devices which no official update beyond Ice Cream Sandwich. Fear not since we still have lots of developers to release highly customized rom for you. CyanogenMod is one of them to provide custom rom with highly stability and enhanced performance. Let’s follow the complete guide below to update to latest CM10 version on your Xperia T.
Benefit of Rooting By rooting your phone/tablet, you can actually perform better management of your phone. However, many are afraid of rooting since bricking of your devices will still occur if you are not follow the guide exactly. To swap away your fear of rooting, we will listed down the benefits of rooting your Android devices:
1. Full Control of Android With root access, you can alter any system files (developer level), delete annoying pre-installed stock apps (come with carrier perhaps), change Samsung boot animation (or others brand) and much more. As you can tells, you can actually alter with full access to your phone via root.
2. Backup and Restore Your Android Devices It is not a unique condition whereby your phone will getting slower and buggy after long period of usage. No matter how well you keep your phone (not installing any stuff which is not possible), it seem like the phone will still getting degraded in performance or error keep popping up. Backup the entire system to an SD card is a must so that you can restore back to the state where no errors are found. Rooting allows you to do so as with Backup App like Titanium Backup or Nandroid Backup.
3. Most Important – Install Custom Rom The ultimate goal of rooting your Android devices is to flash custom rom. Many has complaint of the bad of stock rom and one of the best solution is to flash highly-customized rom. With the installation of custom rom, you are expecting: better battery, butter-smooth performance (Jelly Bean’s slogan perhaps), and blah blah blah (all good stuff).
Disclaimer It’s always risky to root your device and be warned that a failure may brick your device. In order to keep your device safe, please read carefully every single line of the tutorial and follows the steps exactly. We are not responsible for any damage to your device.
Compatibility The tutorial and guide below is only compatible to Sony Xperia T model. It will not compatible to other devices. Check phone model - Goto Settings -> About Device -> Model Number.
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