How To Root Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660 And Install Custom Recovery

The Samsung Galaxy Gio is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung operating the Android operating system. There is good news for Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660 users that they can install the latest version of Clock work Mod recovery in your phone. Thanks to the custom firmwares including the Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0 firmware as well as other custom ROMs.

Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660 Quick Specs:

Note: This update should not be applied to the phones which are Network Locked Devices, if you still continue to apply this update then we cannot guarantee on the consequences.

Disclaimer: We at www.fever18.com should not be responsible in any manner if anything happens to your device as which is a very unlikely case if you follow each and every instruction carefully given in this article.

Features Of ClockworkMod Recovery:

• Reboot into system
• Reboot into recovery
• Wipe cache and data
• Wipe battery and dalvik cache
• Format and mount partition
• Install
• Backup and restore
• Show log
• Fix permission
• Lock key

Prime Requisites :

• Take Backup of your Android phone contacts, your apps and your accounts associated with it.
• Make sure Your Android device is atleast 50% charged so that it can’t get switched off.
• Make sure that data cable is properly connected.

How To Root Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660 And Install Custom Recovery

Step 1: Download Rooting Zip Package from here to your computer. As soon as you downloaded, you have to extract the same to your computer.

Step 2: Enable USB Debugging mode on your device, You can do this

Settings> Applications> Development

Step 3: Open ODIN file and turn off the device and enter into download mode.

Step 4: The download mode can be entered by pressing Volume down button+ the Home key button and then you need to Power ON the device holding the former two keys.

Step 5: Connect the device via USB data cable while keeping the ODIN opened. When you connect the device, the ODIN program will automatically detect it and you will see yellow ID:COM box in ODIN which mean that all the drivers are loaded successfully.

Step 6: In Odin, you need to select the corresponding files as mentioned below:

Click on “OPS” & Select “GIO_v1.0.ops”

Tick Mark On “One Package”

Click on “One Package” tab and choose the file named as “cwm-5.0.2.7-ext4only-odin.tar.md5”

Step 7: After selecting the two things from the above list, you now to proceed to double check the file selections and click on “Start” button.

Step 8: Once the rooting process is done, you will see that the device will be restarted. Once the device is restarted, the phone will be having the Super User and CWM application in your application list.

Congracts! You have successfully Rooted Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660 And Install Custom Recovery.

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