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Wednesday, 29 May 2013

How to Root the Sony Xperia S

by eswar :

How to Root the Sony Xperia S

Sony Xperia S is among those smartphones that almost substitute digital cameras by allowing users to take high-quality still images. With a 12MP Camera on the Xperia S, all your photos will be saved at the resolution of 4000×3000 with crystal clear quality. The device originally came with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and eventually it got updated to the latest Ice Cream Sandwich. Now the company’s planning to roll out the Jelly Bean update, however, there’s no exact date when such thing is going to happen. You will be glad to know that the device is rootable and by following the steps in the guide below, you’ll be able to root your device. Rooting will help you load root-only apps as well as you’ll be able to modify system files, something not possible on unrooted devices. So, let’s get onto the procedure.

I. Before You Begin:

1. This will void the warranty of your device. However, you can reinstate the warranty by unrooting the device if there’s any unrooting procedure available.

2. The following procedure works on Windows based PCs only.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. Root Package

III. Rooting the Sony Xperia S:

1. Download and place the Root Package archive onto your Desktop.

2. Extract files from the archive to your Desktop.

3. Enable the USB debugging option on your device by heading to Menu>>Settings>>Developer options>>USB debugging.

4. Once enabled, connect the device to your PC using the USB cable.

5. Double-click on the RunMe.bat file you extracted to your Desktop.

6. If it asks to choose the mode, select Normal mode.

7. Follow the on-screen instructions.

8. And you should be rooted now!

Excellent! Your Xperia S has been successfully rooted and that adds a bunch of new powers to your device that you can use to get the most out of your device!!!!

Do At Your Own Risk!!!!

Update Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 to Official Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean XXLT5 Firmware

The latest firmware for Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 is now available and is named Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean XXLT5 firmware. This new update has been officially released by Samsung, and most of the Note N7000 devices are getting this new firmware. It comes more like a bug fixes and doesn’t bring many significant changes compared with the old one.

This new update firmware can be downloaded with the help of Samsung KIES application. In case you didn’t receive this latest update then you can use this present tutorial for a manual installation. So you can use this step by step tutorial manually install the official Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean XXLT5 firmware using ODIN app, which is a flashing tool developed by Samsung.

The XXLT5 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean firmware is built on 4.1.2 platform JZO54K Jelly Bean, has the PDA: N7000XXLT5 and the CSC: N7000XEZLT2, it was built in 2013 May.

This new Android 4.1.2 firmware (N7000XXLT5), comes with some features, and if you want to install this update then you need to know that after its installation, you’ll enjoy a impressive stability and An improved Battery Smooth Performance, Multi-View such as in Samsung Galaxy Note II with the disable possibility function, a new way to customize the Notification Panel which will have the possibility to add new widgets. Also with this new firmware you have the possibility to use a smart rotation feature, and in the trend of the keyboard the developers comes with a Continues Input feature integrated in the Samsung Keyboard. When you’ll want to store your data, now you have the possibility to store in the cloud with Samsung’s Cloud services. After you’ve installed this latest firmware you’ll have the 2 Home screen modes, New Notifications bar, Google Now app, New Widgets from the Galaxy S III and Smart Stay and Pop-up Play Feature, and other features and custom possibility.

We will structure the tutorial in two sections, in the first one we will guide you to follow some prerequisites which are required to be followed first to be sure the device is fully prepared to support this official manually update. The second section will teach you how to Update Galaxy Note N7000 to Android 4.1.2 XXLT5 Jelly Bean Firmware in one step by step guide.

Let’s continue our tutorial with the first section:

All instructions and information mentioned in this article, are provided only for educational and instructional purposing, so don’t blame us (the android.sc team) or held liable if you damage or brick your smartphone. Try this tutorial only in your own risk.
Install the suitable drivers for the Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 device.
Backup all your data stored in your device’s internal memory. Always when you want to install new firmware in your device, backup all your personal data and application, this thing is necessary because newer you don’t know what bad thing can happens during the installation process and you can lose you data. So, make a backup such as precaution. For backing up your data, you can use the Google Play Store backup tools and our below tips which show you how to back up your important data.
To save your SMS stored in your device you can use the SMS Backup and Restore app.
To save your contacts, you need to sync them with your Google account.
To save call logs history you can use the Call Logs history backup and restore app.
Note down the internet, MMS, APN, 3G settings from the next path: Settings > Wireless & Networks press on More… then > Mobile networks > Access Point Names.
If your device is running a custom recovery image such as CWM or TWRP take a full back up at the actual ROM using the NANDROID backup and restore feature.
Enable the USB Debugging mode, this option will ensure the connection between the PC and the Android device.
Verify if your device’s battery level is up to 80 % power left. This high power level, in its battery is necessary in order to avoid a power off in the middle of the installation process, this unfortunately event can brick your device.
Apply this tutorial only for factory unlocked Android smartphone, and if your device is locked to a specific carrier name isn’t recommended to use the same.
This guide works only with Samsung Galaxy Note N7000, do not try to apply it for any other device, you risk damaging or brick it.
This latest firmware is an official update for Note N7000, so in case your device is rooted, applying this firmware you’ll lose the root rights. While if your device has installed on it a custom ROM after you’ll install this stock firmware, the warranty for your device will be restored and also all the factory restrictions will be activated by default.

So I think these are all prerequisites that have to follow before to begin the next section, where you’ll learn how to update Galaxy Note N7000 to Official Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean XXLT5 firmware.

How to Update Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 device to latest Android 4.1.2 XXLT5 Jelly Bean Firmware- step by step guide:

First download the firmware file N7000XXLT5 and save it in your PC.
Download and install ODIN app.
Now extract the downloaded N7000XXLT5 file on your Desktop folder in your PC.
Power off your Note N7000 device.
Boot the device into Download Mode. For doing that press and keep holding the Volume Down and Home buttons in the same time and then press the Power button until the Samsung Logo will be displayed and an Android logo together with a triangle.
Install the Note N7000 suitable USB drivers in your PC.
Next, open the ODIN app on your PC.
Connect your Android device to your PC while the device is in the Download Mode.
Now, verify if the connection is done. To do that just looks ODIN interface and the ID: COM boxes will be colored in yellow, and a “added” message will be displayed.
Select the update firmware files that you have to flash on your Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 smartphone. All the flashing files are located in the extracted folder in Step 3.
- Click on ‘PDA’ button, browse and load the file with ‘CODE’ word in its name.
- Click on ‘Phone ‘button, browse and load the file with ‘MODEM’ word in its name. In case, this file isn’t there, ignore this step.
- Click on ‘CSC’ button, browse and load the file with CSC’ word contained in its name. In case, this file isn’t there, ignore this step.
- Click on ‘PIT’ button, browse and select the .pit file. Also, ignore this step if this file type isn’t there.
Important: In ODIN app, make sure that the Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time options are checked, and the Re-Partition option must to be NOT checked.
Now, when you want to begin the installation process click on the Start button in ODIN app.
The flashing process has been started, and you need to wait until the ODIN app will complete this installation process.
When the installation process is done, the ODIN app will say “PASS” message, and the smartphone will take an automatically restart.
After the home start screen will be displayed you can disconnect your device from the PC, by removing the USB cord.

Congratulation, you successfully learned how to update your Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 device with the latest Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean XXLT5 firmware.
Verify if your device has been successfully updated with the XXLT5 firmware. To do that navigate on the following path: Settings > About phone.
Use our comment section for any supplementary questions or if you’re in the face of problems or issues regarding this step by step guide, or if something unexpected happened.

How To SIM Unlock for Free Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505 and I9500

In this article, I will teach you an easy method to SIM unlock for Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505 and i9500 smartphones without using a paid application.

As you probably know that the Samsung Galaxy S4, in this moment represent the highest Android based phone that exist in the market

The Samsung Galaxy S4 has been released this year in April and at this moment is highly appreciated by the Android users. It comes with the latest Android version (Jelly Bean 4.2.2) preinstalled and brings the high end features.

The price for this device if isn’t a carried locked can be high, and that’s why most of its users prefer to buy a network locked Samsung Galaxy S4 device.

Today during this tutorial we will teach you how to SIM unlock the Samsung Galaxy S4 device. And the main advantage is that is totally free.

Before starting the tutorial, you need to know this step by step guide will work only for Samsung Galaxy S4 (i9504 and i9500 models numbers).

To be sure your device is the same with the mentioned version of S4 devices, you need to verify this by navigating to Settings > About Phone.

This guide is an easy method to unlock the SIM locked for Galaxy S4 device, we won’t use complex operations, tools or scripts or codes. The unlocking process will be made using its menu options.

This guide won’t get void the warranty for your device and won’t damage or brick your device in any way.

Isn’t required to have a rooted device, or to have a distinctive or dedicated tool installed into device.

This tutorial is an easy method if you’ll follow all the steps and you won’t skip any step, you have to respect their order and don’t do supplementary things by yourselves. If you won’t follow the exact order of steps and all the steps, you can get stuck, and we cannot be able to solve your devices problems. So this step by step guide is provided only for educational and instructional purposing and all you’ll do with your device is in your own risk.

So remember that this guide is tested only for Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505 and I9500 models, so don’t apply this guide for any other similar devices.

After you unlock your S4 device’s SIM you can install other official Android firmware.

How to SIM unlock the Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505 and i9500 for free – Step by step Guide:

Important: not use the “back” button of your S4 smartphone when you perform the below steps; instead of physical button, use the “Menu” and from there select “back” from the options list that will be in the screen.

Launch the Service Mode on your Galaxy S4 device. To do that tap “*#0011#” in the dialer of your S4 smartphone.
Now, after the Service Mode menu will be showed, tap on “menu” – left soft key and after the dropdown menu which is displayed select the “back” option.
Next, tap on Menu button once again and select “Key input” this time.
Tap on the box that will be showed and there enter “1” and after that click/tap on “OK”
Now, go back to the main Service Mode menu and from there this time tap on “menu” and select “back” option.
From the Service Mode menu, select “[1] UMTS” option.
Now, Up next, and select “Debug Screen” from the next screen.
From the new option menu tap on “Phone control” option.
Now, from the “phone control menu” tap on “network lock”.
Now, select “PERSO SHA256 OFF” option.
Return to the UMTS menu ; ( to do that, you need to press on the menu button and from there select the back option).
Now, you are in the UMTS menu.
From the UMTS menu, tap on “Common”.
And from there, select “NV REBUILD” option.
Now, from the new menu which is showed select “Restore backup”.
After that, your Samsung Galaxy S4 device will be get a freeze state. It is normal to be on a freeze state in this step.
Next, the screen of your display will be black, and the LED from the S4 phone will be colored into blue light color.
When the process is done, your S4 device will get an automatically reboot.
Now, wait to perform the first boot, this boot take more time to complete than usual.
Your Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505 or i9500 is SIM unlocked.

That’s all instructions that you need to follow in order to SIM unlock for the Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505 and i9500 devices.

Now your device isn’t assigned to a specific carrier.

To verify if your S4 device is a SIM unlocked device, you should take a SIM card from any

other different carrier and see if it works with this new SIM card.

How To Root & Unroot Samsung Galaxy Ace s5830i Easy Method

How To Root & Unroot

Samsung Galaxy Ace s5830i

(Easy and Simple Method)

Many Peoples Are Not Able to Root Their Samsung Galaxy Ace

Some Peoples Don't Know How To Unroot Here Is The All In One Solution For This Problem By

EditAndroid.Blogspot.Com

Follow This Steps To Root Your Samsung Galaxy Ace

1.Download Root file: Click Here

2.Now Transfer This File To Your SDcard (Root Directory)

3.Now Turn Off Your Phone.....

4.Now Press This Button

Home Button + Power Button + Volume Up

(At a Time)

5.Keep All Button Pressed

Wait For Sometime You Are In Recovery Mode

Use Volume+ & Volume - Buttons For Scroll Up & Down

Use Home Button For Select Anything

6.Now Select Apply Update From Sdcard

7.Select The file you Download

Now Wait & Watch The Progress

Now Select Reboot Your Device

Congratsss Your Device Is Rooted

For Unrooting Of Your device

Download Unroot File : Click here

Put It Into The Root Of Your Sdcard

And Follow The Steps You use For Rooting

2.Now Transfer This File To Your SDcard (Root Directory)

3.Now Turn Off Your Phone.....

4.Now Press This Button

Home Button + Power Button + Volume Up

(At a Time)

5.Keep All Button Pressed

Wait For Sometime You Are In Recovery Mode

Use Volume+ & Volume - Buttons For Scroll Up & Down

Use Home Button For Select Anything

6.Now Select Apply Update From Sdcard

7.Select The file you Download

Now Wait & Watch The Progress

Now Select Reboot Your Device

Congratsss Your Device Is Unrooted

If You Face Any Problem Feel Free To Contact Us

Comment Or Mail Us Your Problem For Any Device

We will try To Solve It

How to Root Micromax A88 Canvas Music

Micromax A88 Canvas Music - another Canvas Series phone from Micromax. We all know one of the most popular series of Micromax is Canvas series and day-by-day Micromax is adding phone to it. Micromax A88 Canvas Music, obviously it has loud music with 4.5 inches capacitive touchscreen, 1.2 GHz Dual Core processor, 512 MB RAM and running on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean OS.

Today, in this article I will guide on How to root Micromax A88 Canvas Music with a simple steps. Are you ready to root your phone then follow the below step by step guide on How to root Micromax A88 Canvas Music.

Disclaimer: Rooting will void your phone Warranty. This article is purely for Micromax A88 Canvas Music, applying these steps on another device may produce troubles. Don’t miss any of the steps, firstly read and understand the whole tutorial then go for the actual process.

Prerequisite:

1. Your mobile should have 70 – 80% battery

2. Make sure that you have enabled USB debugging (All apps > Settings > Manage Applications > Development > USB Debugging – check box)

3. Make sure you have installed CWM Recovery on your device.

4. Ensure you have backed up your important data.

5. Install USB drivers on your PC from here.

Step by Step Guide on:

How to root Micromax A88 Canvas Music

Step 1: Download “Rooting Package” to root Micromax A88 Canvas Music and extract it on desktop.

Step 2: Connect your phone via USB cable to your computer and change the USB Storage to Media Device.

Step 3: Open “Runme.bat” file from the extracted folder.

Step 4: Now, Press “1″ to Root Micromax A88 Canvas Music and wait for the installation to complete. It will take 2-3 minutes.

Step 5: At last, when the whole process is completed, it will say “have fun“, it means your Micromax A88 Canvas has been rooted now!

Hurray! You have successfully to root Micromax A88 Canvas Music. If you want to cross check that your phone is rooted or not then you can download Root Checker application and verify by yourself.

Above is the simple tutorial on “How to to root Micromax A88 Canvas Music″, if you face any problem while rooting the phone then put your query or problem via comments below and we will solve it ASAP! Happy Rooting

Update Sony Xperia S to Official Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean 6.1.A.2.55 firmware

Today, in our article we will teach you an easy method to manual update the Sony Xperia S device with the latest Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean firmware named 6.1.A.2.55.

This latest update is provided by Sony, and it is official firmware.

If you’re an owner for a Sony Xperia S device and want to know how to update the Xperia S device, then you need to read the entire step by step guide before beginning to apply all the next modification with the help of Sony’s own app named PC companion software tool.

Use this manually step by step guide, which contain a guide to update the Sony Xperia S device with the official Android 4.1.2 6.1.A.2.55 Firmware update released by SONY only with a Sony Xperia S smartphone which is running official firmware. So don’t use this guide for any other similar devices, or for Xperia S devices that have installed and run a custom ROM firmware, or other modified kernels.

This guide works only with SONY Xperia S smartphone, and the tutorial is structured a little different such as other tutorials that we posted in our site.

The Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean firmware named 6.1.A.2.55 comes to give a complete Sony mobile features experience for its users. In these new features, I want to remark Sony Media service with WALKMAN app, Album app, Movies app. All the features are accessible with a new lock screen which supports a lot of new features and new customizations.

The main features that this new update come are the possibility to customize the widgets, a new way to access the recent applications with a specified button, you can use this button for launch the latest applications that you use.

Before to beging the updating tutorial you’ll need to follow the next prerequisites:

To see if this latest firmware is already installed on your Sony Xperia S device, to do that Open Settings>About Phone and after that open the Build number or Version menu, now note down the firmware version and if the version is other from 6.1.A.2.55 that’s means in your device is running an older firmware.
Use this step by step guide to update the Sony Xperia S device only.
Download and install the Sony PC companion app on your device. Download the Sony PC Companion software from here: for Windows from here and if you have MAC OS X fromhere.
Verify the power left in the Sony Xperia S device’s battery before beginning the installation of the firmware. Make sure the level of battery is more than 85% power left. Otherwise your device can get a forced power off in the middle of the updating process; this unexpected thing can brick or damage your Sony device.
The USB data cable needs to be near of you, you’ll use the same in the updating process.
Perform a full backup for your personal data before beginning the flashing process.
All the instructions and information listed here are provided only for educational purposing, and we cannot be held responsible or liable for any data lose or if you’ll brick or damage your device applying this preset tutorial.

How to update the Sony Xperia S to Official Android 4.1.2 6.1.A.2.55 Jelly Bean firmware:

Open the PC Companion app on your PC.
Connect your Sony Xperia S mobile to the PC using the original USB cord.
Now, on the PC Companion application find the Update section and make sure you’ll follow all the on-screen step by step instructions.
Your device will be automatically rebooted, after that you can disconnect the Sony Xperia S from computer by removing the USB cord.

Congratulation, now you successfully learned how to install the official Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean 6.1.A.2.55 firmware for Sony Xperia S device.

For supplementary questions, please don’t hesitate to use our comment section where you can explain or share with us your issues and your impression, we will make all the best for helping you.

Samsung Galaxy Grand i9082 Stock Rom with Root,CWM 6.0 Recovery

Stock Rom For Samsung Galaxy Grand i9082

with Root & CWM

By editandroid.blogspot.com

JELLYBEAN 4.1.2

I9082XXAMCD

PDA: I9082XXAMCD
CSC: I90820DDMB2
Modem: I9082XXAMD1
Kernel: 3.0.31-1088096

Features

Deodexed

Zipaligned

Rooted

SuperUser (Thanks to Chainfire )

BusyBox

ClockworkMod Recovery 6.0.2.8 ( Thanks to chotu222 )

CF-Root

Init.d Support

Note2 Video player

Note2 Gallery

Download From Here

Screenshots:

Recommended to have nandroid backup

INSTRUCTIONS:

1 > Download the ROM zip
2 > Put it on your SD Card
3 > Enter Recovery (volume up+ menu + power )
4 > wipe data/factory reset
5 > Wipe Cache partition
6 > Install Zip from SD Card

After installation
1 > Wipe Cache partition
2 > advanced > wipe dalvik cache
3 > reboot the device
If having baseband no service issue just download modem from HERE and flash it through pc odin