For the record, rooting causes a violation of the garantuee policy of Samsung. Furthermore there is a possibility of demaging the Android-system(bricking). This has not happend as far as I know, but it should be mentioned. As advanced user it is usually always possible to recover the system, but still, just to let you know.
So whoever takes the risk, takes the responsibility", this hasn't actually happened with me while doing my root for the first time so don't worry.
In this article, I'll try as much as I can, to illustrate the ROOTING, INSTALLING CUSTOM RECOVERY and INSTALLING THE CUSTOMROM processes as much easy as I can.
It would probably be good to mention that Samsung's are easy to root, some Motorola's and HTC's are a bit trickier
Note that all what I am going to say in this article is based on my real life experiment. I've actually rooted my Samsung Galaxy W and installed many custom ROMs on it.
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ROOTING:
May be rooting other phones will be a bit difficult due to the need of doing it from a PC and that stuff, but rooting the Galaxy W ( GT-I8150 ) is very easy.
Before we start make sure you backup all your data in case you did something wrong.
Note: This instructions is written for the stock recovery only.
1. Download this Zip-file copy this into the internal SD card.
2. While switched off, keep the following buttons pressed. Release the power-button once the Samsung Galaxy W(I8150) is switched on.
As soon as you see the Android with the box, release the Home- and Volume Up-button.
After you hit the menu-button shown on the last image, the screen will gray out, you will have to wait until the recovery menu appears.
3. Navigate with the volume up and down to apply sdcard:update.zip in Recovery Menu. To confirm your selection use the home-button.
4. Choose (with volume buttons) the update.zip file on your internal sd card and confirm again with Home-button. You will have to wait 5 seconds.
5. Now choose reboot system now and confirm with home button.
Now you device should be rooted.
1. Download this Zip-file copy this into the internal SD card.
2. While switched off, keep the following buttons pressed. Release the power-button once the Samsung Galaxy W(I8150) is switched on.
As soon as you see the Android with the box, release the Home- and Volume Up-button.
After you hit the menu-button shown on the last image, the screen will gray out, you will have to wait until the recovery menu appears.
3. Navigate with the volume up and down to apply sdcard:update.zip in Recovery Menu. To confirm your selection use the home-button.
4. Choose (with volume buttons) the update.zip file on your internal sd card and confirm again with Home-button. You will have to wait 5 seconds.
5. Now choose reboot system now and confirm with home button.
Now you device should be rooted.
(COPIED FROM XDA)
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CUSTOM RECOVERY:
1- Open this link (courtesy of Arco68)..
http://www.mediafire.com/?6wkwiko5gmqhuyr
2- Download and extract (unzip) the file from the link.
http://www.mediafire.com/?6wkwiko5gmqhuyr
2- Download and extract (unzip) the file from the link.
3- Put the recovery.img file in /mnt/sdcard (internal phone storage. NOT external SD card)
4- Download "Treminal Emulator (by Jack)" and "BusyBox" from the PlayStore
5- Open Terminal Emulator then type "su" and click enter
6- Android will ask you to allow root access, accept that.
7- Then type "dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13"
(the su and dd if=/.....text needs to be entered without the " " quote marks)
then click enter
(the 0 in mmcblk0p13 is the number NOT the letter).
8- Then some text will appear at the bottom of the Terminal Emulator panel.You will see "#" in the beginning of an empty line when it finishes.
9- Exit terminal emulator.. check the recovery by turning off the device then turn on with volume up button, home button, and power button pressed together.. until "Galaxy W" screen shows up, release the power button only.. then you will enter CWM
10- navigate with up (up) and down (down) vol buttons and home keys (select) and power (back) and click "reboot system now" to reboot
The above method has a proven track record for successful implementation.
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CustomROMs:
Download ROM...and matching GAPPS (can't forget those) use a file explorer to move both somewhere they are easily found in recovery, then... (I call them my 10 commandments LOL)1. Reboot into recovery
2. Wipe data/factory reset
3. Wipe cache
4. Wipe dalvik cache
5. Format system
6. Install ROM
7. Install GAPPS (some roms don't need these so read up first)
8. Fix permissions
9. Reboot system
10. Enjoy
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