The Samsung Galaxy S4 is Samsung’s latest and greatest flagship phone yet and luckily for it’s owners it has excellent developer support. This excellent development support resulted in a brand new Jelly Bean 4.2.2 ROM called XenonHD.
XenonHD is a great custom ROM that brings many features from the stock firmware along with many third party features enhancing the capabilities of an already great phone.
Installing the XenonHD JB 4.2.2 Custom ROM is really easy, make sure you have a custom recovery installed and just follow the steps outlined below:
Step 1- Download the XenonHD JB 4.2.2 Custom ROM and Google Apps.
Step 2- Connect your Samsung Galaxy S4 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 Samsung Galaxy S4 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 JB 4.2.2 Custom 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.
That’s it, if you have any questions feel free to ask us in the comments below.