Quick Pre Requisistes:
- Before proceeding, you need to ensure that the minimum battery level in your phone is not less than 60% so as to ensure that the phone doesn’t get turned off in the process of firmware update.
- Up next backup all the data which is there in your phone so as to ensure that just in case if any of the data is lost you will be able to restore the same. With the help of below mentioned tips you can easily backup the data from your phone.
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”
- Now, after this download the XWKJ3 Gingerbread 2.3.5 firmware package in your computer and preferably to the desktop so that you can easily locate the same.
- Close all the tools like Security Suites, Firewall tools and also the KIES PC Suite as these tools generally tend to interrupt the process of firmware update. Also, enable the USB Debugging in your phone from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. With the help of below mentioned image you can get more info on the same.
Special instructions to users on Custom ROM:
- If you are on any of the custom firmware, then you need to first turn Off the phone so that you can then enter into the recovery mode. The recovery mode can be entered by just holding down the Volume UP key and then press the Power ON button simultaneously to turn ON the device in the RECOVERY mode. Refer below video for more.
- Now, in recovery mode you need to select the options like “Wipe Data / factory reset” and “Wipe Cache Partition” which will clear off all the data which is stored in the phone.
So, now let’s proceed to the next page where we will see on how you can apply this update in your device.
