Sony brings Android 13 to its Xperia 5 IV, 1 III, 5 III, and Pro-I - XDA Developers

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Sony Xperia 5 IV

With different OEMs already updating their devices to Android 13 near and right, it was precocious clip for Sony to up its games, and that's precisely what it decided to yet bash today. After seeding Android 13 to the Xperia 1 IV past month, the Japanese OEM is present bringing the latest spirit of Android to the Xperia 5 IV and the Xperia Pro-I. Additionally, 2021's Xperia 1 III and Xperia 5 III person besides picked up the unchangeable Android 13 update successful prime regions.

Sony Xperia 5 IV

The 4th procreation Xperia 5 is receiving the saccharine dainty of Android 13 successful southeast Asia and Japan. To beryllium precise, the update for the Xperia 5 IV is presently rolling retired to the Asian dual-SIM variant (XQ-CQ72) of the device, portion the 1 for the Japanese exemplary is rolling retired to the NTT Docomo variant (SO-54C).

Owners of the Sony's compact flagship tin place the caller update by the physique fig of 64.1.A.0.857 (Asia) / 64.1.C.0.90 (NTT Docomo). The merchandise includes the December 2022 Android information patches. At the moment, we don't person info connected erstwhile the update volition rotation retired to different variants of these devices.

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Sony Xperia 1 III, 5 III, and Pro-I

For the Mark III series, the Android 13 update is rolling retired successful the signifier of 61.2.A.0.382 (for the Xperia 1 III) and 61.2.A.0.381 (for the Xperia 5 III). On the different hand, Xperia Pro-I users should beryllium capable to spot the update with the 61.2.F.0.147 tag. The updates bring on somewhat aged November 2022 information patches, though.

Once again, the southeast Asian models are starring the race, which means the XQ-BC72 (1 III), XQ-BQ72 (5 III), and XQ-BE72 (Pro-I) variants are expected to spot the OTA punctual soon.

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We should spot the Android 13 update for the aforementioned devices arriving successful much countries implicit the coming days and weeks. While you whitethorn effort to fiddle with Sony's Xperia Companion inferior to download the update for your phone, XDA community-developed tools similar XperiFirm and Newflasher marque it a batch easier to skip the waiting queue and download the caller physique straight from the company’s update server for manual flashing.

Source: NTT Docomo support, Reddit