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Sony Xperia Z and ZL get the official Android 4.3 AOSP treatment

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Sony was quick to announce the list of devices that will get Android 4.3 and release an AOSP ROM for the Xperia Tablet Z. The Japanese have since updated the post with good news for Xperia Z and Xperia ZL owners – they get an AOSP build too.

Note that this is the early days and just like the Xperia Tablet Z build things aren’t 100% operational and the builds aren’t suitable for daily use.

Still, it’s nice to see a maker react so quickly to the release new Android version. This will also help developers of custom ROMs who are no doubt digging into Android 4.3′s source code trying to adapt it to their own builds.

Anyway, there’s no file you can flash on your Sony Xperia Z or ZL phone, instead you’ll have to grab the repo from GitHub and build it yourself. Instructions on how to do that and flash the resulting ROM (and unlock the bootloader if you haven’t already) are available on the respective GitHub pages – for the Xperia Z and Xperia ZL.

If you don’t know what GitHub is, you can also download the Xperia Z ROM built by an XDA-Developers member pulser_g2. We didn’t find a similar build for the ZL, if you do drop a link in the comments.

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