| ### Root a Samsung Galaxy ACE & extend internal mem with an SD card ### | |
| // Rooting the phone // | |
| First thing, the phone needs to get rooted. Rooting a Samsung Galaxy Ace phone … | |
| Then, follow these steps: | |
| - Copy the rooting zip file for your phone model to the SD card (don't uncompre… | |
| - Shut down the phone; | |
| - Start the phone while keeping the HOME + VOLUME UP + POWER buttons pressed. T… | |
| - Select a position named "apply update from sdcard" (to move up/down, use the … | |
| - Reboot the phone. | |
| After this, your phone should be rooted. This will allow you to extend the inte… | |
| // Extending the internal memory // | |
| The Galaxy phone have a somewhat limited amount of internal memory, and can get… | |
| You will need to resize the FAT32 partition of the SD card, and add a new one, … | |
| - shut down your phone | |
| - take out the SD card, and connect it to your PC (do NOT try to use the phone … | |
| - run GParted on your SD card, | |
| - select the FAT32 partition that is on it, and downsize it to make some room a… | |
| - on the free space that got created, create a new partition. Make sure the par… | |
| - apply your changes. | |
| Put the SD card back into your phone, and turn it on. The new partition won't b… | |
| *** Warning Note *** | |
| Since some of the applications are on the SD card now, thinking they run from '… | |
| === Attachments ========================================== | |
| Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 universal_gb_root_v25.zip | |
| Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 universal_gb_unroot_v9.zip | |
| Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5839i root_5839i.zip | |
| Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360.zip |