Rooting Android phones

We love android, but rooting your phone can give you the opportunity to do so much more than your phone can do out of the box-whether tethering, speeding up or customizing the look of your themes. Here what you need to know about rooting process.

What is rooting?

Rooting means giving root permission on your phone. Its similar to running programs as administrator in windows or Linux. 

As there are a ton of different android phones in the market and while some rooting methods might be same for multiple phones, there is no one-size-fits-all guide for rooting every phone. So there are different step for different android phones.

As most of the people use Samsung phones, here are step to root different Samsung mobiles.

1. Samsung galaxy Ace S5830 

These are the steps to root Galaxy Ace.

But I shall not be liable for any damage to your phone. Everything you do at your risk.

You will need-

PC with windows XP or later

-USB to Micro-USB cable

-.Net framework 2.0 or later

-Android development kit (SDK)

-Samsung kies or Samsung Android USB drivers

-ODIN 4.38 + OPS

-SuperOneClick (for 2.2> firmwares) or Universal Gingerbread Root or Unroot (for 2.3< firmwares)

-ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.6 (Fixed!)

-New firmware

A. Preparing your PC:

1. Install .Net Framework 2.0
2. Install Android SDK
3. Download SDK Tools & Platform-tools in Android SDK
4. Right click on Computer and select Properties
5. Select Advanced System Settings then Advanced and Click the Environment Variables button.
6. Click on the variable called 'Path' and then click on Edit. Now add the target directory to the value of the variable, using a semi-colon as a separator.
7. Add system path to Android SDK and Android SDK Tools folders
   x86

Code:

C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

x64

Code:

1. 
   C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk
   C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

8. Now PC is ready!

B. Preparing your phone (only for 2.2.x users! If you only want to root your phone, go to step D, if your phone don't have root skip this steps):

1. Install Samsung Kies
2. Turn on your phone
3. Enable Debugging at Apliccations>Programming
4. Connect your phone into PC via cable
5. Launch SuperOneClick you can Download here.
6. Click "Unroot"
7. Wait
8. When the process is complete turn off SOC and unplug your phone
9. Reboot to apply changes
10. Now you have unrooted phone!

C. Flashing the newest firmware:

1. Turn off your phone
2. Remove your SIM Card and SD Card
3. Extract previously downloaded firmware
4. Open ODIN 4.38 on your PC and change OPS file name to 

Code:

1. Cooper_v1.0.ops

 

• Select from extracted archive: OPS-OPS, Boot-APBOOT, Phone-MODEM, PDA-CODE, CSC-CSC (leave EFS and One Package empty)
• If archive contains only <filename>.tar.md5 select it as PDA and OPS as OPS, leave other fields EMPTY
1. Connect your phone via USB into PC
2. When the screen is turned on hold POWER+VOLUME DOWN+HOME and wait until the phone enters the Download Mode
3. If ODIN detected and recognized your phone should light up the first square to the left side
4. Press "Start" button and wait, the process should take ~5 minutes
5. If all goes well your phone should reboot automatically
6. Square should change the color to blue and display "PASS" it means that flashing process was successful and we have the newest firmware
7. Disconnect your phone
8. Turn off your phone
9. Insert your SIM Card and SD Card again
10. Turn on your phone
11. Now you have the newest firmware!

Da. Rooting for 2.2.1:

1. Turn on your phone
2. Enable Debugging at Apliccations>Programming
3. Connect your phone into PC via cable
4. Launch Super One Click 2.3.3
5. Click "Root"
6. Wait until the program will root your phone
7. When the process is complete turn off SOC and unplug your phone
8. Reboot
9. Now you have root!

Db. Rooting for 2.3.x (NEW METHOD!):

1. Download file called universal_gb_root_v25.zip and copy it to your sdcard
2. Turn off your phone
3. Press POWER+HOME BUTTON
4. Select update from sdcard, select the file universal_gb_root_v25.zip
5. After the update completed - reboot
6. Now you have rooted S5830

OPTIONAL Unrooting for 2.3.x:

1. Download file called universal_gb_unroot_v9.zip and copy it to your sdcard
2. Turn off your phone
3. Press POWER+HOME BUTTON
4. Select update from sdcard, select the file universal_gb_unroot_v9.zip
5. After the update completed - reboot

OLD ROOTING METHOD FOR 2.3.x

Quote:

Rooting for 2.3.x : Code: upd_1.zip Download Download file called upd_1.zip and copy it to your sdcard Turn off your phone Press POWER+HOME BUTTON Select update from sdcard, select the file upd_1.zip After the update completed - reboot Now you have rooted S5830 Unrooting for 2.3.x : Code: unroot.zip Download Download file called unroot.zip and copy it to your sdcard Turn off your phone Press POWER+HOME BUTTON Select update from sdcard, select the file unroot.zip After the update completed - reboot Now you have unrooted S5830

E. Flash Custom Recovery:

1. Put recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.6-galaxyace.zip into SD Card
2. Turn off your phone
3. Press POWER+HOME BUTTON
4. Select Update Zip From SD-Card option. [If you are on previous version of CWM recovery then you might need to select Install Zip From SD Card and then Choose Zip From SD Card Option simultaneously. ]
5. Select recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.6-galaxyace.zip and flash it
6. Reboot your device

F*. Flash Custom ROM:

1. Select Custom ROM
2. Put Custom ROM .zip into SD Card
3. Turn off your phone
4. Press POWER+HOME BUTTON
5. Wipe All
6. Select "Install zip from sd card"
7. Select "Choose zip"
8. Select .zip with your Custom ROM
9. Select "Yes"
10. Reboot into system
11. That's ALL!!!

 

Stay connected tricks for other phones will be available soon. 

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