How To Install / Flash Firmware on Samsung Galaxy S 2 GT i9100

This Tutorial is about flashing firmware on your Samsung Galaxy S2 GT i9100. I posted a step by and easy tutorials , please read complete guide once and then apply , if you skip any step then it can cause of bricked phone.Disclaimer: Follow this Guide on your risk and if your device gets damaged or bricked during the process, AndroidFlip.com is not responsible. Please read all warnings and notes and follow steps carefully(I) Know about everythingThere are some things that you may know before flashing firmware on your phone , little bit huge so we separated it here – FAQ about firmware flashing on Samsung androids(II) Preparing Your phone1. Go to settings>>applications>>development and enable usb debugging2. Follow...

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Preparing your Android Phone Before Upgrading Firmware

Upgrading your phones firmware and getting bunch of new features is really exited thing but new firmware comes with many problem.You will lost your almost important data, settings and applications. so before upgrading we have to create complete backup of our data and some other task like -preparing pc. below you can see complete guide of preparing phone before upgrading.Please follow all steps of this guide , because it is essential for every android phone before upgrading / installing firmware. (1)  Check your phone compatibilityThe first and most important thing is to check your phone’s current firmware version and status of sim to ensure that you can update your phone or not . you can check firmware version by going to settings > about...

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How to Make Full Android Backup via Titanium Backup, and How to Restore

Backup and restore in android phones is now necessity of users. In this modern age there were many devices out there especially Android OS phones used like a PC. According to using there were lots of activities are done on a single phone. And suddenly all created data crashed cause of mistaken or need of custom settings of older phone in new phone is being a headache for users.As in android phones there were a inbuilt feature is also come with the phone for creating backup. But they were not much fine and ease like. So there is great news for android users related to this subject. There is third party backup application for android users namedTitanium BackupKey feature of “Titanium Backup”Backup of every app with its associated data.Backup...

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How To backup DATA before Upgrading Android phone

Open source makes android more flexible regarding to choosing the device, there is huge range of android phones are available in the market ,with different hardware capacities and different manufacturer . but Good thing always have its bad side - it is so hard to select right phone and settle on one.and reason behind it is -every  week manufacturers are launching new devices with better hardware and look , obviously everyone want highest capabilities . So we upgrade our old device and while upgrading your phone main problem occurs “migrating your data to new one”you need to backup all your contacts,sms,e-mail,notes and settings as well. today i am posting some useful ways to backup your android phone...

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Frequently Asked Questions About Installing Firmware on Samsung Androids

Q: What is Firmware and flashing ?A:  This is little bit huge answer so we have separated it in this post – What is firmware, flashing ?Q: Why We need to flash firmware ?A:Usually latest updates are leaked and available before official updates so we have to flash them manually using a pc softwareTo Downgrade FirmwareTo install another country firmware versionQ:   Will I need to root my phone?A:   No.Q:   Will I still get root permissions on new firmware ?A:   No, it will unroot your phone so make sure there are rooting available for your new firmwareQ:   When i use one of your firmwares and i flash my phone, do i lose my guarantee?A:   Yes and no, if you do it right there will be no problems about guarantee, but if phone get brick under flash you will...

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What is Firmware, Rom and Firmware Flashing ?

In android world it is possible that (i am sure) many time you heard about firmwares, roms and flashing.These strange words really annoys newbies , So i created a simple article on it. I hope this will help you to understand what is firmwares, roms and flashing processWhat is Firmware ?This is very comman question popups in mind that what the heck is this firmware. Defination of firmware isPermanent software programmed into a read-only memoryIn Simple words you can understand it like windows for pc , in case of android we are going to do same thing – installing firmware (Froyo,Gingerbread etc.) on your phone. All phones have their different firmwares and installing tools regard less to the Andriod version (Froyo,Gingerbred). So never think...

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How to ROOT Samsung Galaxy S 2 Using CF-ROOT Kernel [Easiest & Best Method]

Previously we learnt How to Flash Roms on Samsung Galaxy S 2 ,Now we will see how to change root and install the recovery. The process is extremely simple, but not without dangers, act only if you are conscious, what you are doing.You have to flash a modified kernel, containing root, busybox, and ClockworkMod (CWM3) recovery.The procedure is usually that we have seen Previously in Flashing ROM on Galaxy S2.Go to settings>about and check your firmware version it is like XX*** format , note down last three alphabets . For example we have XXKG3 firmware then we have to download this file “CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_KG3-v4.1-CWM4.zip”You can Find and download CF ROOT Kernel file from here regarding to your firmware version,Unzip it and you will see a .tar file, it is...

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How To Increase Battery Life Of Android Phones

Android is the most popular and mostly used mobiles operating system around the world and the importance of android is increasing day by day. if you are a owner of any android smartphone than one problem is common and that is “Low Batter life of the device“. it happens with every single user of smartphone so not a new thing. in morning you have fully charged your devices and by coming to afternoon you noticed that hardly 20%-15% battery is remaining and that’s very annoying.So i will explain you and provide you some basic and advance tips to improve the performance of battery life, so without talking much more about it lets straight away go to the main topic and discuss the various ways through which you can improve/increase...

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