How To Flash Custom Rom In Lava P7 And P7 Plus

Lava P7 is one of the budget friendly smartphones out there thus making it out of reach for the developers to port a custom ROM for it as developers usually make a custom ROM for high-end smartphones. That's where we come in and decided to port a ROM for Lava P7 and P7 Plus.
NOTE: We are specifically telling you about one device in this post but this method works on any android but makes sure to download files according to your smartphone.

What Is A Custom Rom?

Modern phones are like computers. Similar to how computers have an OS (Windows, Linux, Mac etc) phones have a firmware (also called ROM). The names firmware and ROM are misleading. They are just legacy hangups from an era when the phone OS was basic and you rarely flashed (installed) a new OS or updated it. So although we still call it firmware or ROM, it’s actually an OS. In the case of Android, an OS based on Linux.
The Android OS is built by Google. Each release is named after a pastry. So you have Jelly Bean, Ice Cream Sandwich, Gingerbread, Eclair, and so on. With each new release Google usually also releases the source code to the OS. This open source release is called the Android Open Source Project (AOSP)

 

Enthusiasts around the world take this AOSP release and make their own modifications. Since these are custom Android OSes, they are usually simply called custom ROM. The result is AOSP based firmware such as CyanogenMod, Carbon, AOKP, Paranoid Android, and so on. Most of these contain much more features than stock Android, as well as performance hacks and such. So they are quite popular among Android geeks.

Apart from the AOSP Google also releases its OS to partners such as Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, HTC, etc. They take the OS, add their own customization and tweaks, drivers for their hardware, additional software that differentiates their products from others, and (in the past but not so much now) useless “bloatware” software.

Reasons To Install A Custom ROM

Get The Latest Version of Android

This is by far the most popular reason to install a custom ROM. Many manufacturers never update their older Android phones and tablets or updates may take months to reach phones thanks to carrier and manufacturer delays. If you have an older device that isn’t receiving updates anymore and you want to run the latest version of Android, a custom ROM is just the ticket.

CyanogenMod is the most popular ROM for this purpose — it has its own tweaks, but the base system is similar to the stock version of Android created by Google. Thanks to CyanogenMod and other custom ROMs, many older devices that will never be officially updated can run the latest version of Android.

Replace Manufacturer Skin With a Stock Version of Android

Manufacturers like Samsung and HTC “skin” their versions of Android, replacing the clean look Google created with their own look that’s often more cluttered and less cohesive. Many people don’t like this but still, want to use a flagship phone like the Samsung Galaxy S4 or HTC One.

Eliminate Bloatware

When you purchase a phone from a carrier, it often comes packed with bloatware. NASCAR apps, TV apps, a Contacts app that stores your contacts on your carrier’s servers instead of on your phone — these apps can clutter your system and waste disk space. Manufacturers even add their own software before the carrier gets to it, so you have two companies each adding their own bloatware to your phone before it gets to you.

If you want to actually erase these apps from your disk, the best way to do so is to install a custom ROM. You can disable the apps without rooting, but this won’t free up the disk space they consume.

How Do I Get A Custom ROM?

Actually flashing a custom ROM is quite simple you just need the following things:

• A Custom Recovery (TWRP Recommended) If You Don't Know How To Flash Custom Recovery On Lava P7 Click Here.
• A Custom ROM.
• And Of course your smartphone.

Steps To Flash A Custom ROM:

NOTE: Be sure to backup your current ROM as any of these steps go wrong you can easily flash your backup ROM.

Step 1: Download custom ROM for Lava P7 And P7 Plus from here and for other devices here and move it to your device SD Card.

Step 2: Boot into recovery mode by pressing the power button and volume up key simultaneously.

Step 3: Now select install and navigate to your custom ROM and flash it.



Step 4:  Only for Lava P7 users, you have to flash a patch file after installing ROM for that download patch from here and flash it like the ROM.



Now you have successfully flashed a custom ROM on your device make sure not to Root your Lava P7 as this Rom is already pre-rooted and Prexposed.

ROM ScreenShots:

 
NOTE: The ROM can take 15-20 min on first boot so don't panic.