Quick Pre Requisites:
- With the help of below mentioned steps, you can easily backup / restore the data present in your phone. This step is very important as once you root the device, you will need to clear the cache data which in turn will delete the user data. You can restore the lost data 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 phone should be 80% so as to ensure that the phone doesn’t get turned Off in the middle of firmware update. (If you don’t follow this step then the chances are more that your phone may get DEAD for which we should not be responsible).
- 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 phone from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. The USB Debugging option should be ticked. USB Debugging Mode can only be enabled once you disconnect the phone from computer. USB Debugging should be ticked.
- You need to ensure that in your device, the Cyanogen Mod 7 or Stock HBoot is present and also along with this you will need to have a free space of 1.5GB in your SD Card with ext4 partition. If it’s not partitioned then with the help of mentioned guide in the link, you can do the same.
- You also need to ensure that your device has attained S-Off which you can by following the mentioned instructions in the link.
So assuming that you have followed all the instructions, you can now proceed to the next page where we will be checking out in detail on how to update your device.
