Showing posts with label Galaxy Ace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Galaxy Ace. Show all posts
May 28, 2012
Galaxy Ace GT-S5830L is a variant of Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 smartphone and the models which are sold in Americas are especially know by this (GT-S5830L) model number. In this article, I'll explain to you in details the step by step instructions to upgrade your handset with latest Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread firmwares. So, to begin with download a firmware for your region below and provided you have give requirements already (if you don't have them then download them too) we are ready to move ahead.
1. Now, extract your download and examine it.
2. If you have got a single .tar or .tar.md5 file then follow the steps give in Method A. Otherwise, if you have got two or more (usually four) .tar or .tar.md5 files then configure Odin as said in Method B.
4. Boot up your device in download mode (Press Volume Down + Home + Power button simultaneously)
5. Only when your phone is in download mode, then connect it to your PC via USB Cable.
6. Once connected in download mode, Odin will say Detected! (see the image below) and then you may press Start button.
7. Wait for about 5-6 minutes for Odin to flash the firmware and then when it says PASS at the top left box, you may disconnect your device.
GT-S5830L 2.3.6 Firmwares Downloads
Region : South America (Columbia) Firmware : S5830LUBKPA CSC : S5830LCOLKP2 Release Date : 2011 September Download : Link 1
Region : North America (Trinidad and Tobago) Firmware : S5830LUBKP7 CSC : S5830LUBKP7 Release Date : July 2011 Download : Link 1
Requirements
- Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830L handset : I am sure everyone reading this article has it.
- Samsung USB Drivers : These are needed to connect your device to your PC. Note that if you have installed Samsung Kies on your PC then these drivers are also installed automatically with it, so you don't need them.
- Odin Multidownloader v4.38 : This is used to flash/upgrade firmwares.
- Cooper_v1.OPS file : This file is needed each and every time you flash anything via Odin; let it be custom recovery or a stock rom. It contains instructions for Odin to be followed while flashing the rom.
- Latest Official Firmware : Download any stock rom from above or check out latest version at sammobile.com.
So, when you've got everything up and ready follow these simple instructions below to upgrade your galaxy ace GT-S5830L to latest android version.
Instructions For Flashing Rom via Odin
2. If you have got a single .tar or .tar.md5 file then follow the steps give in Method A. Otherwise, if you have got two or more (usually four) .tar or .tar.md5 files then configure Odin as said in Method B.
- Method A : Configuring Odin For One Package file.
- Run Odin Multidownloader for Galaxy Ace GT-S5830L.
- Check One Package, Auto reboot and Protect OPS check boxes.
- Click on OPS button and Load Cooper_v1.0.ops file on it.
- Now go to the bottom and click on One Package button.
- Load the single *.tar or .tar.md5 file in this field.
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| Configuring Odin with one package file. |
- Method B : Configuring Odin for Flashing with Multiple Files
- Run Odin Multidownloader for Galaxy Ace GT-S5830.
- Check Auto reboot and Protect OPS check boxes. [ Note : Do not check one package option, use this option only when you need to flash a complete rom in one package.]
- Click on OPS button and Load Cooper_v1.0.ops file on it.
- Click on BOOT button and Select .tar (or .tar.md5) file with APBOOT in the name.
- Click on PDA button and Select .tar (or .tar.md5) file with CODE / PDA in the name.
- Click on PHONE button and Select .tar (or .tar.md5) file with MODEM in the name.
- Click on CSC button and Select .tar (or .tar.md5) file with csc / csc-multi in the name.
- Leave EFS blank.
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| Selecting multiple files in Odin. |
4. Boot up your device in download mode (Press Volume Down + Home + Power button simultaneously)
5. Only when your phone is in download mode, then connect it to your PC via USB Cable.
6. Once connected in download mode, Odin will say Detected! (see the image below) and then you may press Start button.
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| Do not proceed ahead until Odin recognize/ detects your device. |
7. Wait for about 5-6 minutes for Odin to flash the firmware and then when it says PASS at the top left box, you may disconnect your device.
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| Wait till Odin says PASS. This is the notification that your device is successfully upgraded. |
That's all. Now, you have latest gingerbread 2.3.6 firmware on your galaxy ace gt-s5830l smartphone. After your device boots up, you can take your time and examine all the cool new updates provided in the latest version. No doubt you are going to love them. So, have fun playing with your smartphone and enjoy :).
May 6, 2012
Questions :
Could you please answer following two questions about Samsung Galaxy Ace?
1. How do I root Android 2.2.1 (JXKC1) ? I've tried some ways but they didn't work; such as "z4root" or "supper one click". My friends say i should first upgrade it to Gingerbread 2.3.3 but I don't want to lose lots of installed apps and a calendar with hundreds reminder points!
2. Is there any app to lock the screen? I know this feature is on phone but it locks it in period of time like every 30s . I wanna do it myself when I need.
Replies :
It simple to root Android 2.2.1. Most probably Super One Click can root it so, I suggest you try it again following these simple instructions. However, if you are still unable to root with it try using Unlock Root app, which is a one click simple root utility that supports and roots many devices in no time. You can find more information about it and download it from here. If you are still unable to root, post a comment below and we'll work out something for it.
However, I too would recommend you to upgrade to latest Gingerbread 2.3.6 version since you'll get a lot of improvements in your device and smooth performance after the update. I can see that you are afraid of losing your apps and data. But, there's no need to worry about it. You can use a powerful mobile management tool called MyPhoneExplorer to backup most of your data including contacts, SMSs, Calls Lists, Calender, Notes, Alarm, etc and many others.
Just connect your device to the PC and run MyPhoneExplorer app then, sync everything to your PC as well as do a backup from Extras menu. Later you can sync the data again back to your device. Most probably it can help you backup applications too, but, if you are unable then use App Control app to backup your applications. Also, calender is in constant sync with Google servers, so, you won't lose your remainders even if you don't back it up. So, grab MyPhoneExplorer from here and give it a try. You can alternatively use Smasung Kies to sync your apps, however the difference is Samsung Kies is not compatible with custom roms while MyPhoneExplorer stand out with most android devices with any rom out there.
Then, follow these simple step by step instructions to upgrade to latest Android 2.3.6 version. When you are done upgrading you can simply root your galaxy ace gt-s5830 smartphone by flashing a small zip file on your recovery. Detailed steps on rooting galaxy ace running gingerbread are given in this article.
I'm not sure about the lock screen thing. I can't understand why you'd like to keep your screen awake as it will consume some battery. So, it is better to lock your screen while not in use. However, I think I got what you are trying to do and a simple solution is change the screen lock time to 15 minutes or 30 minutes depending upon your preferences. Then, it won't turn off in 30 seconds, but if you'd like to turn it off you can press the Power (aka Lock) button and lock the screen whenever you want. This is quite secure method, since it will lock the screen anyway in 15 or 30 minutes even if you forget to lock it by yourself.
I hope this solves your problem and all your queries are answers. If you have any doubts, do post a comment below and I'll try my best to clear it out. Have a nice time rooting and upgrading.
Could you please answer following two questions about Samsung Galaxy Ace?
1. How do I root Android 2.2.1 (JXKC1) ? I've tried some ways but they didn't work; such as "z4root" or "supper one click". My friends say i should first upgrade it to Gingerbread 2.3.3 but I don't want to lose lots of installed apps and a calendar with hundreds reminder points!
2. Is there any app to lock the screen? I know this feature is on phone but it locks it in period of time like every 30s . I wanna do it myself when I need.
Replies :
It simple to root Android 2.2.1. Most probably Super One Click can root it so, I suggest you try it again following these simple instructions. However, if you are still unable to root with it try using Unlock Root app, which is a one click simple root utility that supports and roots many devices in no time. You can find more information about it and download it from here. If you are still unable to root, post a comment below and we'll work out something for it.
However, I too would recommend you to upgrade to latest Gingerbread 2.3.6 version since you'll get a lot of improvements in your device and smooth performance after the update. I can see that you are afraid of losing your apps and data. But, there's no need to worry about it. You can use a powerful mobile management tool called MyPhoneExplorer to backup most of your data including contacts, SMSs, Calls Lists, Calender, Notes, Alarm, etc and many others.
Just connect your device to the PC and run MyPhoneExplorer app then, sync everything to your PC as well as do a backup from Extras menu. Later you can sync the data again back to your device. Most probably it can help you backup applications too, but, if you are unable then use App Control app to backup your applications. Also, calender is in constant sync with Google servers, so, you won't lose your remainders even if you don't back it up. So, grab MyPhoneExplorer from here and give it a try. You can alternatively use Smasung Kies to sync your apps, however the difference is Samsung Kies is not compatible with custom roms while MyPhoneExplorer stand out with most android devices with any rom out there.
Then, follow these simple step by step instructions to upgrade to latest Android 2.3.6 version. When you are done upgrading you can simply root your galaxy ace gt-s5830 smartphone by flashing a small zip file on your recovery. Detailed steps on rooting galaxy ace running gingerbread are given in this article.
I'm not sure about the lock screen thing. I can't understand why you'd like to keep your screen awake as it will consume some battery. So, it is better to lock your screen while not in use. However, I think I got what you are trying to do and a simple solution is change the screen lock time to 15 minutes or 30 minutes depending upon your preferences. Then, it won't turn off in 30 seconds, but if you'd like to turn it off you can press the Power (aka Lock) button and lock the screen whenever you want. This is quite secure method, since it will lock the screen anyway in 15 or 30 minutes even if you forget to lock it by yourself.
I hope this solves your problem and all your queries are answers. If you have any doubts, do post a comment below and I'll try my best to clear it out. Have a nice time rooting and upgrading.
April 3, 2012
Question :
I own a Samsung Galaxy Mini and heard that it doesn't support official adobe flash player app. I would really love to see flash sites on my device so can you tell me how can I run flash on my handset with stock firmware. I've heard that flash player works on custom android ROMs, so I thought it just might work with stock Gingerbread too.
Reply :
Yes, adobe flash player works fine on custom roms on galaxy mini as well as on other device with ARM v6 CPU. However, I am not sure if it works well on stock Gingerbread firmware. But, you sure can give this a try and see if the flash player works fine on your stock Gingerbread ROM.
Download the files from step 1 and 2 below and then follow rest of the steps to install flash player on your device.
1. Download Adobe flash player version 11 : Adobe_Flash_Player_11.0_(11.0.1.152).apk
2. Download Lib files : Lib.zip
3. Install the flash player app on your handset using adb install command or by copying it to sdcard and then installing it manually.
4. Now, extract the lib.zip file and you will get few lib*.so files.
4. Then, Copy all these lib (*.so) files to /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib directory(folder).
4. Set permission of lib files as rw-r-r --Read & Write access for Owner and Read only access for Group and Others-- using Root explorer ( I believe you have rooted phone). Or if you are ok with terminal run this command in your terminal emulator or in ADB shell :
busybox chmod -R 644 /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib
5. Reboot your smartphone and then run a browser and visit any flash site to see if it works.
That's all. You are now ready to enjoy flash within your android device. If the above mentioned steps don't help you then make sure your browser supports flash and flash plugin is not set to off. Dolphin HD and Firefox are great browsers so just try with them. Also, if you are sure everything is set correctly and followed the procedure above correctly but if flash still doesn't appear in the sites then try again by rooting your device.
It should now work fine since someone already tested it a confirmed it to be working. However, do let me know if it works or not at the comments below.
I own a Samsung Galaxy Mini and heard that it doesn't support official adobe flash player app. I would really love to see flash sites on my device so can you tell me how can I run flash on my handset with stock firmware. I've heard that flash player works on custom android ROMs, so I thought it just might work with stock Gingerbread too.
Reply :
Yes, adobe flash player works fine on custom roms on galaxy mini as well as on other device with ARM v6 CPU. However, I am not sure if it works well on stock Gingerbread firmware. But, you sure can give this a try and see if the flash player works fine on your stock Gingerbread ROM.
Download the files from step 1 and 2 below and then follow rest of the steps to install flash player on your device.
1. Download Adobe flash player version 11 : Adobe_Flash_Player_11.0_(11.0.1.152).apk
2. Download Lib files : Lib.zip
3. Install the flash player app on your handset using adb install command or by copying it to sdcard and then installing it manually.
4. Now, extract the lib.zip file and you will get few lib*.so files.
4. Then, Copy all these lib (*.so) files to /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib directory(folder).
4. Set permission of lib files as rw-r-r --Read & Write access for Owner and Read only access for Group and Others-- using Root explorer ( I believe you have rooted phone). Or if you are ok with terminal run this command in your terminal emulator or in ADB shell :
busybox chmod -R 644 /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib
5. Reboot your smartphone and then run a browser and visit any flash site to see if it works.
That's all. You are now ready to enjoy flash within your android device. If the above mentioned steps don't help you then make sure your browser supports flash and flash plugin is not set to off. Dolphin HD and Firefox are great browsers so just try with them. Also, if you are sure everything is set correctly and followed the procedure above correctly but if flash still doesn't appear in the sites then try again by rooting your device.
It should now work fine since someone already tested it a confirmed it to be working. However, do let me know if it works or not at the comments below.
March 25, 2012
Question :
I just managed to use a laptop and now have my lovely galaxy ace phone is back to stock rom with the help of you and Odin. Thank you. I know your not on here much but I have installed flash 10.1 then the 10.2 update (i tried 10.3) but none of them seem to work. I'm always getting messages from sites saying "You need at least adobe flash 7.0.0 your flash player is currently running 0.0.0"
I'm downloading the apk files installing and rebooting. Am I doing something wrong? My phone is no longer rooted due to reverting back to stock. Do I need it rooted to be able to view flash sites on the galaxy ace. I have read loads but don't seem to have found the answers I'm looking for. If you can help on that it would be fantastic.
Reply :
No, there's nothing you are doing wrong. In reality Adobe Flash player is not meant to be used on ARM v6 devices like Galaxy Ace or Galaxy Mini so the error is with the app you are trying to install. However, developers from various part of world have modded Adobe flash player to work with ARM v6 devices too and I have even tried one which worked on my Galaxy Mini running custom cyanogenmod rom.
But, in your case you are using stock firmware and I'm not sure if it will work on your device or not. However, you can give it a try once. Here's what worked for me : http://yagyagaire.blogspot.com/2011/10/adobe-flash-player-for-android-smart.html
Follow the instructions there and see if it works. If it does it's alright, however, if it fails to operate then download this one (Adobe_Flash_Player_11_v11.0.1.153_ARMv6_only.apk) and install it manually and see if it works. You may need to reboot after first install.
Also, please note that, while testing it in the browser you use a browser which supports Flash like Dolphin or Sky Fire and check to make sure that Flash plugin is not disable in settings and is set to always or on demand. Now, navigating to a flash site you should see a down arrow, clicking on which will active flash for that page and load it.
Hope it works. Don't forget to report if it worked or not?
I just managed to use a laptop and now have my lovely galaxy ace phone is back to stock rom with the help of you and Odin. Thank you. I know your not on here much but I have installed flash 10.1 then the 10.2 update (i tried 10.3) but none of them seem to work. I'm always getting messages from sites saying "You need at least adobe flash 7.0.0 your flash player is currently running 0.0.0"
I'm downloading the apk files installing and rebooting. Am I doing something wrong? My phone is no longer rooted due to reverting back to stock. Do I need it rooted to be able to view flash sites on the galaxy ace. I have read loads but don't seem to have found the answers I'm looking for. If you can help on that it would be fantastic.
Reply :
No, there's nothing you are doing wrong. In reality Adobe Flash player is not meant to be used on ARM v6 devices like Galaxy Ace or Galaxy Mini so the error is with the app you are trying to install. However, developers from various part of world have modded Adobe flash player to work with ARM v6 devices too and I have even tried one which worked on my Galaxy Mini running custom cyanogenmod rom.
But, in your case you are using stock firmware and I'm not sure if it will work on your device or not. However, you can give it a try once. Here's what worked for me : http://yagyagaire.blogspot.com/2011/10/adobe-flash-player-for-android-smart.html
Follow the instructions there and see if it works. If it does it's alright, however, if it fails to operate then download this one (Adobe_Flash_Player_11_v11.0.1.153_ARMv6_only.apk) and install it manually and see if it works. You may need to reboot after first install.
Also, please note that, while testing it in the browser you use a browser which supports Flash like Dolphin or Sky Fire and check to make sure that Flash plugin is not disable in settings and is set to always or on demand. Now, navigating to a flash site you should see a down arrow, clicking on which will active flash for that page and load it.
Hope it works. Don't forget to report if it worked or not?
Question :
I really want my phone back to original rom. I have a samsung galaxy ace original firmware was gingerbread 2.3.6 eerm S580DXKT5. I changed to cm 7 but had major issues with camera & WiFi app problems. I had no pc so couldn't use Odin but was told ics stock v.2 works well which I could flash via just phone like I did for cm 7so I am using that now which was fine until phone battery died and since then the launcher fcs you tube wont work or update and that happens with most the preinstalled apps.
Soooo, I just want to get my phone bk to original state. Can you help . This site confuses hell out of me . So far I've downloaded odin to my phone that's it. Can you tell me what I do now? What i need to download or were from.
Reply :
I undertsood your problem and a very simple solution is to download and flash the DXKT5 firmware using Odin.
But, I also noticed, you don't have a PC. Well, I recommend you search for one (from your friends) and then follow the procedure posted here http://yagyagaire.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-flash-official-stock-firmwares.html
However, if you are really in a situation as not to get a PC then I suggest you wipe data and cache in recovery and it should be fixed all force close problem (but you will lose all your apps and settings). However, if you are not satisfied with the rom and want to completely go back to stock rom, then there's an app called mobile Odin (you can get it in market) which let's you flash official firmware from within a device. Though I am not sure if it works well on Galaxy Ace or not, but most probably it does and you can flash DXKT5 firmware using it from within the device. However, follow this as the last resort and at your own risk. I'm sure you will be able to find more info about mobile Odin at the market description.
I really want my phone back to original rom. I have a samsung galaxy ace original firmware was gingerbread 2.3.6 eerm S580DXKT5. I changed to cm 7 but had major issues with camera & WiFi app problems. I had no pc so couldn't use Odin but was told ics stock v.2 works well which I could flash via just phone like I did for cm 7so I am using that now which was fine until phone battery died and since then the launcher fcs you tube wont work or update and that happens with most the preinstalled apps.
Soooo, I just want to get my phone bk to original state. Can you help . This site confuses hell out of me . So far I've downloaded odin to my phone that's it. Can you tell me what I do now? What i need to download or were from.
Reply :
I undertsood your problem and a very simple solution is to download and flash the DXKT5 firmware using Odin.
But, I also noticed, you don't have a PC. Well, I recommend you search for one (from your friends) and then follow the procedure posted here http://yagyagaire.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-flash-official-stock-firmwares.html
However, if you are really in a situation as not to get a PC then I suggest you wipe data and cache in recovery and it should be fixed all force close problem (but you will lose all your apps and settings). However, if you are not satisfied with the rom and want to completely go back to stock rom, then there's an app called mobile Odin (you can get it in market) which let's you flash official firmware from within a device. Though I am not sure if it works well on Galaxy Ace or not, but most probably it does and you can flash DXKT5 firmware using it from within the device. However, follow this as the last resort and at your own risk. I'm sure you will be able to find more info about mobile Odin at the market description.
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