Google latest and great Nexus phone with LG – the Nexus 4 is a cheap but powerful device able to give any device on the market right now a run for it’s money. Being a Nexus phone, the Nexus 4 has excellent developer support and was graced with Android 4.2.2 just a week ago. Although official ROMs are great and all for their stability and reliability, the amount of features you can get with custom ROMs is second to none.
Today in this article we’ll be covering on how to install the Slim Bean Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean custom ROM on your Nexus 4.
Before starting the tutorial, make sure you have CWM Recovery installed on your Nexus 4 and that your phone is rooted. Now with all that done, let’s start the installation process!
Step 1- Download the Slim Bean Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean ROM and Google Apps.
Step 2- Connect your phone 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 phone 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 choose ZIP from SD card
Step 7. Select the Slim Bean Android 4.2.2 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.
After the phone has rebooted, you should boot into Slim Bean Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. If you have any questions please feel free to ask us in the comments below.
