to your Samsung Galaxy Mini (GT-S5570)
Samsung Galaxy Pop/Mini gts5570 is an incredible smart phone that ships with stock
Froyo 2.2.1 rom. But, it can be tweaked according to our preference and
even a new rom/firmware can be installed to make it look more beautiful
as well as to improve its performance.
The quest for the development of custom roms for Galaxy pop have just
began and there are many more custom roms to come in future. However,
popular custom roms till now are
In this article I will describe in details the method to install/flash a
custom rom/kernel to your galaxy pop/mini phone. Please follow the instructions
properly as failure to do so may lead to a bricked phone. All the steps
written below are mandatory. Before continuing it is recommended that
you backup your applications, data, contacts, etc and keep them in safe
place (computer or in sdcard). I’m not responsible for any loss of data and applications.
1. First of all you should be on gingerbread (aka android 2.3) operating
system to install a custom rom.
2. [Optional] Root your galaxy pop/mini smart phone.
3. Flash Clock Work Mod Recovery to replace Samsung’s recovery. Clock Work Mod recovery (aka CWM recovery) is required to flash custom roms as well as to do nandroid backup. You can download it from here.
4. Get yourself a good custom rom of your choice ported for Samsung Galaxy Pop/Mini GTS5570. You can find download links for Andro-id v3.2 and Cyanogen Mod 7 roms at the bottom of this article. I recommend that you Flash Cyanogen Mod 7 as this is the best custom rom for galaxy pop/mini ever developed.
5. Put your newly downloaded zip file in root directory of your sdcard.
6. Reboot your device in recovery mode. Use volume keys for navigation
and home key to select an option while you are in recovery.
7. If you want you can do a nandroid backup of your current rom through the option ‘backup and restore’ in CWM recovery.
8. Wipe data and cache from the options ‘wipe data/reset’ and ‘wipe cache partition’ respectively.
9. Select the option ‘install zip from sdcard’ and then select ‘choose zip from sdcard’
option. (Be careful! As most people mistake this step and select ‘apply
update.zip’ option in clockwork mod recovery’s main menu which leads to
many problems.)
10. Choose the zip file you downloaded and copied to your sd card earlier and select it.
11. Wait till it finishes installing your custom rom. Wipe data and cache again and reboot your device.
That is all! You have successfully flashed a custom rom/kernel in your precious galaxy pop/mini gts5570 smart phone.
If you don’t like your new custom rom you can revert to original
gingerbread rom using the procedure you followed at the beginning. If
you have followed the above steps carefully you probably won’t have any
problem as I have tested them on my galaxy pop GT-S5570 smart phone and it worked fine. But, still if any problem arises please feel free to ask in comments.
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