For all those who are waiting to apply the latest and the stable custom ROM firmware in your Samsung Galaxy S2 GT I9100 smartphone, the wait is now over as in the due course of this article we will be checking out on how you can install this custom ROM firmware. Please note that this is not an Official firmware update released by Samsung Electronics and is a custom ROM firmware developed by Wanam. In the process of applying this update, you will have to root the device and once the device is rooted, the warranty will get lost. The only way with which the warranty can be reclaimed is by re-updating the device with XWLPD Firmware.
Disclaimer: Neither AndroidAdvices, nor developer should be held responsible for any damage happened to your device in the process of following the instructions mentioned in this article. It’s very unlikely that there will be any issues but just in case if at all there are any issues then we are committed to help you in solving the same.
This is the ICS styled custom ROM firmware which comes with the ICS look and also it comes along with the Arabic language support which most of the users wanted. This custom truly provides one of the best ever experience. The best part of this update is that most of the things are stable, though if at all you face any bugs then do let us know in the comments section as we will convey the same to the developer.
Features of XWLPD Based Custom ROM Firmware:
- Better optimised apk’s, framework for more speed and Updated
- Ram Hack
- Battery tweaks
- Internet speed tweaks
- System tweaks, more smoothness
- Fujutweaks
- GTalk with Video
- better camera
- fixed laggy browser
- Zipaligned.
- Deodexed.
- Root + Busybox
- New Market
- Full Arabic support reading and writing
- Samsung keyboard (Added Arabic support)
- Swype keyboard (Added Arabic support)
- Sent time & Unlimited Contacts adding & No MMS Convert
- Added JKay app to customize the theme
- Improved battery life
- Huge APN list
- No SMS on Call logs
- Decreased Call ring delay
- Increased wifi scan delay
- Fix RTL on Whatsapp
- Remove Samsung apps
- BLN on SMS/MMS
- Disable noise suppression
- Call recording
Pre Requisites:
- First up you need to ensure that you have Updated your phone with Latest XWLPD firmware and rooted S2 on XWLPD firmware by following the mentioned instructions in the respective links.
- We highly recommend to back up all the below mentioned data so that just in case if the data gets wiped or corrupted, the same can be restored with the help of below mentioned steps.
SMS – Use “SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Contacts – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log – Call Log and Restore
Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to internal / External SD Card,
APN and MMS Settings – Note down from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”
- Minimum charge left in the device should be at least 60% so as to ensure that device doesn’t get turned Off in the middle of firmware update.
- Disable all the security suites installed in your computer and uninstall all antivirus tools in your computer so as to ensure that the firmware update is not interrupted in the middle of the process.
- Enable the USB Debugging in your Galaxy S2 from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. The USB Debugging option should be ticked.
Additional Pre Requisites for users on Custom ROM Firmware:
- Turn Off the device and enter your SGS2 in recovery mode. In recovery mode, Wipe the data, Clear the cache. After this, select “Advanced” option and clear & wipe the Dalvik cache present in your phone. Once performed all the above mentioned steps, you now need to select “reboot system now” for rebooting the device.
- It’s recommended to update your S2 with XWLPD firmware so as to ensure that the custom ROM firmware installation doesn’t encounter with any issues.
So, assuming that you have followed all the above mentioned instructions, you can now proceed to the next page where we have summed up a detailed article on how to update your galaxy S2 GT I9100 with Wanam lite custom ROM firmware.
