Procedure to Root Samsung Galaxy S2 on Official Indian ICS Android 4.0.3 Firmware:
- Download the ICS Rooting Package for Indian S2 from here to your computer and extract the same to the desktop and then from the extracted files, you need to open the Odin in your computer.
- Turn Off your phone to get your device in the Download mode. Download mode can be entered by pressing Volume down Key, Center button, and holding both simultaneously press the Power Button after which a green robot will be shown indicating the Download Mode has been entered.
- As soon as you connect the phone to the computer, you will see that the ID : COM section will turn yellow which will mean that all the drivers have been successfully installed and you are now ready to proceed to the next step for selecting the files.
Note: if the ID : COM section doesn’t turn Yellow, you need to check with two things which are mentioned below,
- Install the USB Drivers in your computer &
- Go to the Path “Settings > Wireless & Network > USB Settings” and ensure that “Samsung KIES” option is ticked before connecting the phone to the computer.
- Click on “PDA” and select “CF-Root-SGS2_XX_XEO_LPQ-v5.3-CWM5”. Once you select the file, you need to click on “Start” for starting the process of rooting. As soon as the rooting process is done, the phone will be restarted. Once you see the home screen, disconnect the phone from the computer and turn Off so as to enter the phone in the recovery mode.
- Once that is done, you will see Pass on the top left side which means the work of download mode is done and your phone will be booted in normal mode, now remaining is in the recovery mode.
- To enter into the recovery mode, you need to turn Off your device so that you can enter your device in the recovery mode. Recovery mode can be entered by pressing Volume Up Key + OK button, and holding both simultaneously press the Power Button.
Tip: Due to some reasons if the update process gets failed or interrupted, then you need to apply the update again by following the steps again from the start. Don’t forget to restore the backup which you have taken in the initial steps.
So there you go, you have now successfully rooted your galaxy S2 on ICS 4.0 update for India. Do let us know in the comments section just in case if you face any issues in the process for applying the update.
