Install Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich On Sony Ericsson Arc S, Neo V And Ray

Inside of an alternatively astonishing shift, Sony Ericsson has formally released an alpha build based on Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich (with their custom TimeScape UX on prime, of course). If you have obtained a supported Sony Ericsson smartphone and so are a flashaholic, you will unquestionably choose to look at it out!

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The information is directly coming from XDA-Developers – a well-known Android development forum – through a blog site submit wherein they explore, nay celebrate Sony Ericsson’s (SE) final decision to launch an alpha build of Ice Cream Sandwich. SE is maybe the primary provider to official launch an alpha build for just a big new version of Android.

From Sony Ericsson Developer World:

To show our continuous support to the open developer community, and get your valuable feedback, we are today making an alpha ROM of Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0.1) for Xperia™ arc S, Xperia™ neo V and Xperia™ ray available for download. This is something we have not done before, and we are obviously very excited about it.

As it is undoubtedly an alpha build, some very, vital options within your phone will never install it. First of all, you won’t be capable to use WiFi or use Bluetooth. Furthermore this, you will not be capable to make calls! So certainly, it is under not at all suited to use for a day by day driver. It is actually for screening applications only.

DISCLAIMER: iPhoneleaks will not be held responsible if someone loses data or device gets damaged in the following of this guide. Proceed at your own risk.

Step 1: Be sure that your Xperia Arc S, Neo V or Ray is on the latest software release i.e. 4.0.2.A.0.42. It can be checked under settings.  If someone is not on this build, update using Sony Ericsson’s PC Companion.

Step 2: Unlock your phone’s boot loader from unlockbootloader.sonyericsson.com.

Step 3: Download the relevant Ice Cream Sandwich ROM:

• Xperia Arc S

• Neo V

• Ray

Step 4: Then Install Android SDK and set up adb/fastboot. If anyone do not have any idea regarding adb or fastboot, iPhoneleaks suggest you do not go ahead with this guide; you phone might be at risk of damaging.

Step 5: Extract contents of zip file you downloaded in step 3 to fastboot directory.

Step 6: By using a command prompt, navigate to fastboot directory.

Step 7: You can find three files inside extracted zip folder. You should flash them by fastboot.

Ensure to replace the italicized text below to the exactly correct path where the boot.img, userdata.img and system.img files reside:

fastboot flash boot ..\Fastboot\Xperia_arcS_ICS_alpha\boot.img
fastboot flash userdata ..\Fastboot\Xperia_arcS_ICS_alpha\userdata.img
fastboot flash system ..\Fastboot\Xperia_arcS_ICS_alpha\system.img

Step 8: Now reboot your Sony Ericsson smartphone.

Following the steps correctly, an official alpha build of Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich can be installed on your device.