One
plus one, touted as the 2014 Flagship killer has jaw dropping specs that made
this beast best mobile of the year 2014.the firm has seen immense demand and it
is forced to use invite system for the sale of this unique device. Due to
recent Micromax-CyanogenMod spat one plus is forced to develop its own lollipop
ROM.In this tutorial we will show you the way to flash the recent stable
official Alpha lollipop ROM.
You
need to have Custom Recovery installed in order to flash the ROM.The process of
installing custom recovery is explained below:
one plus tool box is the tool that helps us to unlock boot loader and flash TWRP recovery.
After installation on your PC makes sure you have all the required drivers installed.
Now open the tool box, In your mobile go to settings>about phone>tap on
build number 7 times and enable developer options.
- Now head to developer options and enable USB debugging. Having done the above stuff, boot your mobile into fast boot mode or else recovery mode by switching it off and then pressing power+vol down together and connect it to PC.
- Now click on unlock bootloader in the toolbox and follow the instructions and wait for the tool box to do its work.
- Having unlocked the bootloader, now it’s time to flash TWRP.Go to install recovery section and opt for TWRP recovery. After the completion of TWRP installation boot into fast boot mode by pressing power plus vol down and navigate into recovery using volume rockers.
- In the main screen of TWRP tap on Wipe and clear data, dalvik cache and now tap on Install and select the ROM zip file and wait for the complete flash. In the similar fashion flash the zip containing GApps package and reboot. Now you have successfully flashed alpha lollipop ROM on your one plus one.
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If
at all you need to root your mobile flash SuperSU zip file via TWRP.Reboot your
mobile now and you will find SuperSU app installed. Now you have a rooted one
plus one running latest official build of lollipop. To ensure hassle free
flashing experience a nandroid backup of your data via TWRP is advisable along
with a factory reset before flashing. In case of any hiccups like boot loop try
clearing data again through recovery and if it doesn’t help restore your
Nandroid backup via TWRP to get back to your previous ROM.Most errors arise out
of corrupt zip file of either ROM or GApps so take care and download them
properly before initiation of this process.
Final verdict:
Try
following this tutorial step by step as we have demonstrated the most simple flashing
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