Thursday, May 5, 2016

Root,Unroot,CWM,and how to Flash Galaxy Ace S5830i , increase RAM ROM

While searching for custom ROM, I found below information over internet. I am sharing it with you.
This guide is for s5830i ONLY!!DON'T USE FOR s5830!!It can damage your phone!!
DO NOT TRY FLASHING SOFTWARE FOR OTHER DEVICE!IT WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE!!!READ CAREFUL ALL THE POSTS!!
How to root Galaxy Ace s5830i.
1.Put update.zip in your main directory in the SD card.
2.Turn off your phone.
3.Boot in Recovery by pressing:POWER+VOLUME UP+HOME buttons.
4.In Recovery select Install zip from sd
5.Choose update.zip
6.Reboot your phone and it's ready.There must be a Superuser icon in your Apps menu.

How to unroot
1.Exactly the same just put the file unroot in your main directory and folow the steps.

ClockWorkRecovery
1.Put the file ClockWorkRec5830i.zip in your main directory in SD again.
2.Turn off phone.
3.Boot in Recovery and select apply update.zip
4.Select ClockWorkRec5830i.
5.You have CWR but don't delete ClockWorkRec5830i.zip from the SD because
every time you want to use it you must install it from the SD!!


Flashing s5830i with Odin v1.85
1.Turn off the phone and put it in Download mode by pressing Power+Volume Up+volume down.
2.Open Odin v1.84.Run as Administrator!.
3.Put the files in Odin and don't touch the settings
4.If it's a one-file firmware put it in PDA section.
If it's multiple put the files in the correct section.
5.Click start and don't touch the phone!Don't turn off computer and don't unplug the phone!It will reboot automatically and the first boot will take some time,so don't panic!

If you have "bricked" your s5830i a.k.a stuck at samsung logo just download Odin and flash PDA.tar form the link.
http://www.4shared.com/file/Ls2CAsHv/PDA.html
Everything you're doing is up to you!I'm not responsible if you don't read!There's a binary counter on s5830i so be careful with flashing!

Update:samfirmware.com provide us with odin 1.84 with .pit file for our phone so from now on you can flash firmware from samfirmware.com without problems.

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Attached Files
File Type: zip ClockWorkRec5830i.zip - [Click for QR Code] (1.31 MB, 500526 views)
File Type: zip update.zip - [Click for QR Code] (1.11 MB, 437888 views)
File Type: zip unroot.zip - [Click for QR Code] (101.4 KB, 119275 views)
File Type: rar S5830I_Downloader.rar - [Click for QR Code] (666.6 KB, 120095 views)

Mounting a VirtualBox hard disk image file (.vdi) in Linux

  • On/Up-to Fedora 19 (You can try these steps on Fedora 20 and others too), you need to install these packages:

  • # yum install nbd qemu-common

    # yum install qemu-kvm


  • To mount a partition on a hard disk image file:

  • # modprobe nbd
    # sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 "file.vdi"

    # sudo kpartx -a /dev/nbd0 // creates mapped devices in /dev/mapper/
    # sudo mount /dev/mapper/nbd0p1 /some/destination/folder // mounts first partition of the image.


  • To unmount:

  • # sudo umount /some/destination/folder
    # sudo kpartx -d /dev/nbd0
    # sudo qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0