Flash Sony Ericsson Live With Walkman Jelly Bean 4.2.2

You can now install CM10.2 aka Jelly Bean 4.3 onto our phones. It's still currently in alpha testing stage, but so far everything seems to be working well. Installation is similar, you can download the rom here CM10.2 Rom. For more details you can check out the link here :- {Mini/MiniPro/Active/Live}[DEV][JB 4.3][CM10.2] LegacyXperia

Ok.  So after going through so many post as it was all over the place, I was finally able to flash my spare phone Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman to Jelly Bean using Legacy Xperia Rom.  Due to the fact that Sony decided to dropped the idea of upgrading the 2011 series to Jelly Bean so it got stuck with Ice Cream Sandwich instead.  Anyway, I do not mind the fact where the phone is not on the list of upgrade but never the less, having Jelly Bean would be kinda cool actually.  Do take note that this rom also supports Sony Xperia Active, Xpria Arc S, Xperia Mini, Xperia Mini Pro, Xperia Neo, Xperia Neo V, Xpreia Pro and Xperia Ray. So without further adieu, let's get straight to it.

  Before we proceed this is to remind you that I do not take any responsibility should your phone ended up bricked. And remember flashing a custom rom will void your warranty, as it will remove the DRM where Sony would be able to check if you did anything funny to it. You have been warned.

PART 1 : Preparation Check List

• Your Live with Walkman is running the latest ICS version
• Battery at least at 70%
• Unlock Bootloader
• Installing Clockworkmod
• Download Jelly Bean 4.2.2 ROM & Google Apps

Check Bootloader is Unlockable

1. Go to Dialpad
2. Enter *#*#7378423#*#*
3. Select Service Info
4. Select Configuration
5. Select Rooting Status
6. Check Boot Loader Unlocked Allow = Yes.  If it show No, you are NOT ABLE to proceed from here.

Unlock Bootloader

1. Download SE Bootloader Unlocking v1.6 + libs + drivers here :- Depositfile Mirror (For more details regarding this tool visit this link here)
2. Extract the file se bootloader_unlocking_relocking_1.6.rar
3. Install Flashtool-drivers.exe
4. Select drivers for fastboot and Flashmode only.  (Windows will give you some alert regarding the drivers being installed.  Just install them and ignore the warning message)
5. Go to your phone dial pad and enter *#06# to get the IMEI code.
6. Open the program and enter the first 14 number  of your IMEI code in the IMEI box and click on Get Unlock Code
   *If you don't get the UNLOCK CODE after 2 minutes head over to http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com and follow the instruction there to get your UNLOCK CODE sent to your email.
7. After receiving your Unlock Code, key that into the UNLOCK CODE Box, and click Unlock BL.
8. You should get a success message after that, and you're good to go to the next step.

Installing ClockWorkMod (Skip this step if you have already have ClockWorkMod Installed)

1. Connect your phone to your PC
2. Root your phone using this method here :- Root Your Live with Walkman
3. Download ClockWorkMod Here :-http://www.4shared.com/rar/qZQbLbdc/CWM-Install.html?
4. Extract the file
5. Run install-cmw2.cmd (this is for Xperia Mini/ MiniPro/Active/ Live With Walkman)
6. Reboot your phone
7. (When the phone shine brighter or some flashing LED FINGER TIGHT TO KEEP THE VOLUME DOWN BUTTON AND HOLD briefly) This should open the recovery console CWM.
8. Press Volume UP/Down to go to Backup / Restore. Press the HOME button to enter the menu
9. Choose Backup
10. Once complete you can restart your phone

Downloading Jelly Bean ROM & Google Apps
For this tutorial I am using LegacyXperia.  You can download the ROM here http://legacyxperia.basketbuild.com/index.php?dir=main/cm10.1/ .  If you notice that there are a few directories there, the one we need to download is Coconut version that is for our Live with Walkman.  I downloaded the Nightly version instead of the stable one as they managed to get a few things fixed for the phone.  So here we go :-

1. Download cm_coconut-LX-*Latest Date*-NIGHTLY.zip
2. Download Google Apps gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip
3. Extract cm_coconut-LX-*Latest Date*-NIGHTLY.zip to get the boot.img file only
4. Copy both cm_coconut-LX-*Latest Date*-NIGHTLY.zip & gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip to your phone SD Card.
5. Turn off your phone and disconnect it from the pc, and get ready to flash the phone.

---

PART 2 : Flashing the phone

• Flash Kernel using FlashTools
• Enter ClockWorkMod
• Install Jellybean ROM
• Install Google Apps
• Wipe Data/Cache
• Finish

Flash Kernel using FlashTools
Flash tools can be found inside the se bootloaderunlocking_relocking_1.6 folder where you previously download and extracted in the libs folder.  So let's go!

1. Run FlashTool.exe or FlashTool64.exe depending on your machine.
2. While phone is in off mode. Hold the Volume Up button and connect your phone to the PC.  You should see the LED is currently changed to Blue color which is currently in Fastboot mode.  Release the volume up button and wait for the drivers to be installed before proceeding to the next step.
   
   
3. Click on the lighting button
   
   
4. Select Fastboot mode
   
   
5. Select kernel to Flash
   
   
6. Locate the boot.img you extracted from the rom you downloaded.
   
   
7. You will get the success message
   
   
8. Close Fastboot Toolbox
9. Disconnect Phone

Enter ClockWorkMod
While phone is still switched off.  Press and Hold the Volume Down Button, then Power Up your phone as shown below.

You should be boot into ClockWorkMod, and you can release the volume down button.
To navigate around the menu, use Volume Up to go UP, and Volume Down to go Down.
To select the menu press the Home Button.

Install Jellybean ROM

Select install zip

Select Choose zip from sdcard

Locate the ROM you copy over to your SDCard

Select Yes

Wait for it to complete install

Install Google Apps

After installing Jelly Bean ROM onto your phone, it is now time to install Google Apps.  You should see the same message being shown from the picture below.

Select Choose Zip from sdcard

Select gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip

Select YES

And wait for this to finish.

Wipe Data/Cache
We're almost there.  Just a few more steps and you should be good to go.  Anyway, press the back button once to go back to the main menu.

Select wipe data/factory reset

After that wipe cache partition

Once you're done. Reboot system now

Finish
Ok. So the moment you have been waiting for is now here.  Just wait for the system to reboot, and you can start playing with your newly installed Jelly Bean phone.  First boot will normally take a while, so be patient.  And you should see the following things.

You should be seeing this boot animation

Once you're in. Set up your phone

And you're finally in!  Congratulations!

Personal Thoughts
Firstly I would like to thank the team of XDA for coming up with this mod.  Considering the fact that, Sony decided to drop the Jelly Bean update for this phone.  Never the less, performance wise it's good and didn't had battery issues as of yet.  Managed to get a good 1.5 days without charging with normal usage.  Anyway, the only thing that didn't worked well with this was the Panaroma feature, which I think will be fixed soon.  And also Instagram video feature where you can record, but not able to see what you're recording.  You can check it out here as I decided to use this phone just for work purposes only.

Apart from that, I'm not complaining as I believe this indeed has extended the usability for this phone.  Considering the fact it took me almost the whole day on how to get it right, as there was a moment my phone would not boot.  Had to flash back to the original rom where the phone was ok again.  Never the less, hope this tutorial is useful to you.

If you need any help, just leave a question below and I'll get back right to you.