Since you are not rooting the phone, the warranty will not be void and updating with this firmware doesn’t mean that you are rooting the device. So, let’s proceed for the pre requisites which needs to be followed by the list of things which have been enhanced in the form of improvements and then the actual procedure to upgrade the existing firmware of the Galaxy Gio to Gingerbread 2.3.4. The best part of this firmware is that anyone who has the Samsung Gio S 5660 from any part of the World can follow this procedure to update their Phone with this Gingerbread version of 2.3.4. Also, some of the users may be curious to know about the next release for the Galaxy Gio or say the next version after Gingerbread 2.3.4, sadly the next update which is 2.3.5 is a purely NFC based update and since this Gio is not an NFC phone there won’t be any update after the core update of 2.3.4 apart from the minor fixes for the Gingerbread 2.3.4 update.
We would also like to add that this is not an Official KIES release and is just a leak version, so we hold no responsibility in any manner if you update the device without following the below mentioned set of instructions.
Pre requisites before updating the Galaxy Gio S 5660:
- Proceed for updating if and only if your device is Samsung Galaxy Gio S 5660, the device model name and number can be found from your box packaging. Now, once you find that it’s the same model name and number, you need to proceed and need to keep aside the important things which you will be requiring for the update which includes the fully charged battery along with the USB cable to connect the phone with the computer.
- Once you follow the above instruction next up you will have downloaded the firmware zip file which you will find it in the Procedure section, for procedure section you will have to go to the next page.
- Note that you download the appropriate files and also you will have to back up all the data which is present in your phone which includes the call log which you can back with an app with your Gmail account, text messages which again can be backed up with your Gmail account with the help of an SMS Backup application, Pictures, Videos and Music files can either be backed up using the cloud based service or can be physically copied to your computer and later can be transferred back to the phone once the firmware is updated.
- So, once the data is taken care, it’s time for all your settings to be backed up, the most important one being the Internet APN Settings as well as the MMS Settings with which you are able to surf internet in 3G or in EDGE as well as send MMS messages. You will have to manually note down all these settings as you will have to reconfigure them all once the firmware is updated.
- Ensure that your computer / laptop which runs on a XP, Vista or Windows 7 OS the firewall and other antivirus programs are disabled and also you should have admin privileges to download and install the software including the drivers and also along with this you will be requiring the USB port on your computer which supports USB 2.0. Also, you will have to note that you have installed the latest version of KIES in your computer as this will automatically install all the required drivers which are required for the firmware update.
