Nexus 7 XenonHD Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean Custom ROM Install Guide

Good new for Nexus 7 owners as the much anticipated XenonHD Android 2.2 Jelly Bean custom ROM has been released and is available for download.

Google and ASUS’s budget Nexus 7 tablet certainly helped in turning the tide on Apple’s domination of the tablet market. The Nexus 7 is cheap but packs a lot of neat features which can be expanded even further by installing custom ROMs like the XenonHD.

XenonHD’s feature list includes:

JB 4.2.2 JDQ39
Rooted
Busybox

Miscellaneous:
Add reboot and screenshot options to power menu.
Additional tiles in Quick Settings.
Theme Chooser support. (Updated for 4.2)
Volume rocker wake. (Settings>Display)
Volume rocker long press to seek tracks. (“”)
Show rotation lock in quick settings.
Bluetooth Message Access Profile support.
Improved scrolling cache.
Fixed December bug.
Fixed Google location service.
Add an option to change the device hostname.
New moto style softkeys.
DSPManager added with all the binaries.
Apollo Music player added and fixed for JB.
Added XenonHD wallpapers.
Louder output on speaker for Maguro and Toro.
Added Galaxy4, PhaseBeam and Holo spiral wallapers.
Run sysinit during boot.
Change sysfs permissions to allow user control ksm.
Wi-fi scan time to 100 to save battery.
Performance, battery life and other misc tweaks.
Init.d support with added tweaks and scripts.
SuperSU application for root.
CMFile manager added.
GPS, Camera, Keyboard gestures fixed.
Build.prop tweaks.
Battery life tweaks.
Some secret tweaks.
I’m forgetting soo many things. Flash and see.
Etc

Browser:
New navbar buttons.
Added a menu item in Browser called Close other tabs.
Open in incognito tab option in menu.
Increased tab limit.
Added menu option to open url in browser.
Enabled tablet like browser on grouper.

Messaging:
QuickMessage and Reply.
Custom notification vibrate patterns.
Timestamp options.
Input type selection.
Add reminder to calendar.
Templates functionality.
Split SMS functionality.
Emoji and Strip unicode support.
Etc

Phone and Contacts:
T-9 Dialer and with other stuff.
Dialpad settings.
Etc

Toro:
Use correct battery capacity, add missing eri.xml
Allow tethering.
Fix overlay/networkAttributes array

Maguro:
Fix MMS receiving on T-Mobile
Enable automatic backlight by default.

Tuna:
Removed bugmailer.
Fix gps issues.

Add simtoolkit application

Now that’s a lot of stuff, so before we get started make sure that you have CWM recovery installed and that your Nexus 7 tablet is rooted.

Step 1- Download the XenonHD Android 2.2 Jelly Bean ROM and Google Apps.

Step 2- Connect your Nexus 7 to a computer using mass storage mode.

Step 3- Copy and paste the ROM and Google Apps zips downloaded in step 1, into the root folder of the mass storage device. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the root, but putting it in the root helps finding it easier.

Step 4- Turn off your Nexus 7 and reboot into the bootloader. Do this by pressing and holding the Volume Up + Volume Down and Power buttons.

Step 5. Use volume rocker to navigate and power button to click. Perform a data wipe + cache wipe

Step 6. Navigate to flash ZIP from SD card and choose ZIP from SD card

Step 7. Select the XenonHD Android 2.2 Jelly Bean ROM’s zip downloaded in step 1 first. Select it using the power button and confirm installation.

Step 8. Now do the same things with the Google Apps zip file.

Step 9. When installation is done, go back to the main menu of CWM and perform a reboot.

Also check out:

• Nexus 4 Slim Bean Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean Custom ROM Install
• Galaxy S II I9100 UHMS8 Firmware Update And Root

The process is now complete and you should boot into the installed ROM. If you have any questions or problems feel free to ask us in the comments below.