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| Thread ID: 127945 | 2012-11-23 04:43:00 | Android update on samsung galaxy mini | Sanco (683) | Press F1 |
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| 1314235 | 2012-11-23 04:43:00 | Hi friends, I need your help please. I have a samsung galaxy mini currently sporting the Gingerbread operating system and it is time to update. Can you point my nose to where I can download the newest compatible and stable system for this phone? I would appreciate any tips on the flashing subject too. Thank you in advance for your help. Sanco |
Sanco (683) | ||
| 1314236 | 2012-11-23 05:01:00 | Don't think the Galaxy mini ever got updated from gingerbread. So the only way to get a newer version on would be to flash a rom. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1314237 | 2012-11-23 05:38:00 | Yes, I am starting to think that way as well. However I would loathe to stuff up the phone, so if nothing official exists I'll just bite the bullet. Cheers bud. |
Sanco (683) | ||
| 1314238 | 2012-11-23 07:33:00 | Nothing official but check out XDA-Devs , I've upgraded my brothers to Jellybean, runs great! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1314239 | 2012-11-23 20:00:00 | Thank you for that CS, however forgive my poor knowledge of these things; does XDA - Devs stand for xda developers? Is is a website? Cheers | Sanco (683) | ||
| 1314240 | 2012-11-23 20:12:00 | Yup :) I'm back home now so don't have to try and post everything from my Cellphone. Try this: forum.xda-developers.com |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1314241 | 2012-11-23 21:40:00 | Got it, thanks. I am downloading the files to my pc then I will save them to the phone's memory card as per instructions - am I right so far? It does ask to root the phone, sounds kinky but I am not sure I got the true significance of it. Can you help there? Regards |
Sanco (683) | ||
| 1314242 | 2012-11-23 23:38:00 | Maybe my joke lost me here, I apologise, but I really do not know what rooting the phone means. Anyone can help with that? | Sanco (683) | ||
| 1314243 | 2012-11-23 23:48:00 | rooting a phone means "to obtain root access". In Android and linux, the root user is the all-powerful administrator user. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1314244 | 2012-11-23 23:50:00 | Before rooting the phone, have you tried installing and running Samsung Kies? en.wikipedia.org I used it with my Samsung Galaxy S2, and it checked the firmware and updated it to the latest known version. I sold it in Sept, and this was the latest firmware: Firmware version 2.3.6 Kernel version 2.6.35.7 Build no Gingerbread .XXKPL I have no idea what the latest Android OS is for your phone, but maybe it would be worth trying Kies first before you do anything radical! |
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