Sony has been putting some major effort to open up its devices to third party ROM development and has uploaded a new set of 5.1 Lollipop AOSP binaries for the company’s first 64-bit devices- the Xperia Z3+, Xperia Z4 Tablet and Xperia Z4 Tablet WiFi.
Sony has also uploaded a repository for the new Xperia M Aqua, which is also a 64 bit device, but as of now the handset is not officially supported and cannot be unlocked at this point of time. All of these Xperia devices are based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 SoC, which is built from four 64-bit ARM Cortex-A57 and four Cortex-A53 CPU cores, except for the M4 Aqua, which is based around a mid-range octa-core Snapdragon 615.
This basically means that for developers and end users, they can now easily start working away on their customised AOSP based creations for these devices.Sony has stated that there may be a few stability issues and some important functions may be disabled with these builds.
Developers which are eager can grab the binaries for Android 5.1 Lollipop along with the instructions for integrating them with their build, over the Sony’s AOSP for Xperia website.
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