Wednesday, March 6, 2013

How To Root Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360

Samsung Galaxy Y has been announced recently and is obviously a low end Android phone, similar to LG Optimums Me P350. It’s a budget phone which comes with Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread with 3 inch Capacitive Display. It has a faster processor of 823 MHz which you might not get in other phones at this price. In this tutorial I will tell you how to root Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360 easily. All you need to do is follow the steps given below.  For better understanding I have also included a video at the end of the post. After you have rooted samsung galaxy Y you can install custom ROM and if you’re lucky, you might even be able to install Ice Cream Sandwich on samsung galaxy Y at a later stage.

 


What is Rooting?

Rooting is a process by which you can access system files of your Android OS. After rooting Samsung Galaxy Y, you can install applications which require access to these system files. It becomes necessary if you wish to customize your Android device and also install custom ROMs like Cyanogen Mod ROM's which are highly customizable and have a better performance than the stock ROM's.



Why Should You Root Samsung Galaxy Y?

Rooting has quite a lot of advantages. If you are a try Geek, you would love rooting your device. A few top advantages of rooting are

  • Rooting lets you customize your phone in a better way.
  • Install Custom ROM's to improve the performance.
  • Remove System apps which you do not need and hence free up space
  • Convert the file system of current RFS to the faster ext4 file formats
  • Convert Downloaded apps to system Apps




Prerequisites

Before you root Samsung Galaxy Y, you need to back up your phone’s data. You can back up your contacts to the SDCard and to back up your Applications you can use ASTRO File Manager. In case you need to reset your phone, you can make use of the back up files to restore those applications.


Steps to Root Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360
Follow these steps below to root Samsung Galaxy phone:

  1. Copy the downloaded file to the root of your SD Card via USB Cable or any other method according to your convenience.
  2. Download Update.zip
  3. Turn of your Samsung phone.
  4. Reboot into recover mode by pressing Home button + Volume up button and Power button for 20 seconds.
  5. When you are in recovery mode, select “Update from SD Card”.
  6. Now select Update.zip (the zip file you downloaded in step 1) and execute it by pressing the home button.
  7. Now your phone will be rooted after which you can select the reboot option.
  8. After this, your phone is rooted. I recommend you to download Busy Box from the Android Market after you have rooted your phone.

         

23 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing blogs. Really like the information i've read. If you want guys to know on how to root your new s4. See this link http://www.oneclickroot.com/phone/samsung-galaxy-s4/

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  2. It worked perfectly! Thanks!

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  3. hi...will my sd card be formatted after rooting...

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  4. Still can't download paid apps on playstore. :/

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  5. what does reboot means to re on cell phone or to run restore factory setting????

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  6. pls help me, Its not working after update.zip selected it process and finally shows installation aborted ....pls help me to solve this problem.

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  7. how to move app to sd card after rooting

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  8. To move apps to sd card you need to download link2sd in the play store

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  9. Hai ph mani are u using cmw? if yes
    You cant install this if you are using cmw it only works with recovery mod

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  10. Hai bedick salonga if you want to download apps on play store that are paid.
    Just find black mart alpha. Just click the link
    http://koolwap.in/games_app/dld.php?url=/android/gXlGbBtA/Black_mart_Alpha_04993.htm&ext=apk

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  11. actually i'm trying to Root my samsung galaxy y and this tutorial helped me a lot
    Thanks

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  13. Please help me! How do I unroot?

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  14. my mobile shows an error on the emergency mode that it cannot mount the sd card what should i do now ?? Please help

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  15. i have the same pblm..
    when i click on update frm sdcard, it shows cannot mount sdcard
    an1 plz help me...

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  16. how to backup games??please help me!!

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  17. i've got the same pblm..
    when i simply click revise frm sdcard, that displays cannot mount sdcard
    an1 plz support me personally..
    http://www.techitweb.com/how-to-root-samsung-galaxy-y-gt-s5360/

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  18. How to get all contacts from Galaxy y GT-S5360i after factory reset.
    Please help me ?

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  19. Have any tips for unlocking a Galaxy Y S5360T from the network?

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  20. Android is such a very nice technology for now its very good idea
    to write an article like yours that was very good i have a
    tablet online store
    i need to write some blogs so i can boost my sales in my online
    store atleast i have a idea now thanks for you.

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  21. i am loving smasung smartphone, and waiting for next Samsung Galaxy S5, can you give some information about Samsung Galaxy S5

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