Android is in everyone’s hand now. If you think you got the full control over your android device, you are still in the dark corner. Device manufacturers would be locking their file systems on devices to avoid unnecessary risk of changing defaults (not settings) of the device just like fonts.
What is file system on Android devices?
Take an example of your personal computer in which you can see the operating system files in the default C: drive or any other drive in which you have the operating system installed.
Coming to androids, can you see those system files in it? Probably not. Rooting is the process to gain the access to see/modify those system files on your device. That means we’re going to unlock the file system with rooting.
Rooting process may not be the same for all android devices. It differs from manufacturer to manufacturer.
Why should you root your Android device?
As I said before, rooting android devices enables advanced user privileges on your device. With this you can,
- Install new fonts or modify existing ones.
- Install or remove applications ( which you can do it in normal mode also).
- Remove applications that cannot be removed in normal mode.
- Remove applications that came with the device on purchase.
If you are a gadget freak and if you ant to play a geek, proceed with excitement else just sit and play temple run 25.
What should you remember while rooting
While rooting your device you should remember cap to head, watch to hand, shoe to leg. No need to wrinkle your eyes, what I meant is rooting process for android devices is not same for all. It differs by manufacturer. Yes! you’re right I already told that in above lines. But I want to tell you that a wrongly rooted android device can be soft bricked.
What is Soft Brick?
Soft brick is the internal damage of the device regarding software. If a device is soft bricked, it can be repaired with enough effort. With the use of recovery and restoration software, you can get you your sick device back to life.
Rooting Android device
Now let’s see how a android device can be rooted. Watch your step carefully if you are doing this for first time,
Note: “Samsung Galaxy” model device is considered here for rooting. Rooting processes may differ from manufacturer to manufacturer, but similar. Visitor’s notice is anticipated.
- Connect your device to your computer with USB cable.
- Make sure your device is discovered in the drives list on your computer. This might look alike connecting your device in mass storage mode.
- Next download universal_gb_root_v25 into your computer. It allows rooting in the following models,
GT-S5570, GT-S5570B, GT-S5570I, GT-S5570L, GT-S5571, GT-S5578 (Chinese Mini), GT-S5660, GT-S5660M, GT-S5660L, GT-S5660V, SHW-M290K (Korean Gio), GT-S5670, GT-S5670B, GT-S5670L, GT-S5830, GT-S5830B, GT-S5830C, GTS5830D, GT-S5830F(La Fleur), GT-S5830i, GT-S5830L, GT-S5830M, GT-S5830T, GT-S5830V, GT-S5830Z , GT-S5839i, GT-S6802, GT-B5330, GT-B7510, GT-B7510B, GT-B7510L, GT-B7800, GT-B5510, GT-B5510B, GT-B5510L, GT-B5512, GT-B5512B, GT-S6102, GT-S6102B, GT-S5300, GT-S5300B, GT-S5302, GT-S5360, GT-S5360B, GT-S5360L, GT-S5360T, GT-S5363, GT-S5369, GT-S5690, GT-S5690i
(new), GT-S5690L, GT-S5690M, GT-S5690R(new), GT-I8150, GT-I8150B, GT-I5510, GT-I5510B, GT-I5510L, GT-I5510M, GT-I5510T, SCH-i509, SGH-T499, SGH-T499Y(new), SGH-T499V(new), SGH-T499W(new), SGH-T589, SGH-T589R, SGH-T589W(new), SGH-I827, SGH-I837, SGH-I857
(new), GT-S5690L, GT-S5690M, GT-S5690R(new), GT-I8150, GT-I8150B, GT-I5510, GT-I5510B, GT-I5510L, GT-I5510M, GT-I5510T, SCH-i509, SGH-T499, SGH-T499Y(new), SGH-T499V(new), SGH-T499W(new), SGH-T589, SGH-T589R, SGH-T589W(new), SGH-I827, SGH-I837, SGH-I857
- Copy the downloaded .zip file to your android device.
- Once you copied the downloaded file into your device, disconnect the USB connection with your computer safely.
- Switch off your device. Now press and hold the power and home buttons at a time. This boots your device into recovery mode.
- You can see the root options on your device in recovery mode. To navigate through the options use volume control buttons on your device. To select the options in the recovery menu select ‘home’ button.
- As we are updating the device with the downloaded file, select ‘Update from SD card’ from your device.
- All the .zip files will be shown on your device. Choose the downloaded .zip file by using volume control buttons and press ‘home’ button to start installation.
- After the installation is completed, booting success or completion message will be shown.
- Press ‘reboot system now’ option to reboot your system with custom update.Enjoy the update made with rooting.
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