Rooting and Installing Custom Rom on Samsung Galaxy 5 (i5503/i5500)

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Rooting and Installing a custom rom on high end devices like Galaxy S I/II , HTC Desire I/HD , HTC EVO, Droid 1,  Nexus One/S , LG Optimus and few others has been incredibly easy with lot of forum users to help and brief tutorials available over the web. But its hasn’t been the same with low end Android devices which have just started making their way in the pockets of basic phone users.

Samsung Galaxy 5 (I5500 or I5503) is one of the few android budget phones which has neither seen updates from manufacturer in the past year neither has been attended by developers who built ROM’s. But if you own a Galaxy 5 and are sick of not receiving Android 2.2 update from Samsung over the past year in most of the countries worldwide, then this tutorial is meant for you.

IMPORTANT! Please note that this procedure is not risk free and you are responsible for the damage caused if any to your device. Though we have tried to keep the tutorial as brief as possible, you must have general understanding of each term used in the procedure before you start.

Pre-Installation Instructions:

•  Backup your apps using Titanium Backup (Download link)
• Backup of your phone contacts to your sdcard. Goto Contact ->menu->export to sdcard. This will create a *.vcf file.(remember it name for importing it later)
• If a similar way you can also backup your sms/mms with any free sms backup software available on android market.(Through Titanium backup does this we recommend you to do so if you have really importand texts stored on your device)
• Backup your SDCard

Make sure you have the following utilities before you start the flashing and rooting process:

1. Your Galaxy 5 device ( alternate device link – my device, meant for testing J )
2. Ops file  (alternate link)
3. Android 2.2 firmware based ROM (download link   / alternate link)
4. Odin Flasher (Windows users just run it after extraction, linux users please use wine and run it…preferrably ubuntu 9.10) (alternate link)
5. universal androot(for 1.6 – 2.2….after the flashing is successful)

Flash the downloaded ROM via odin:

 How to Flash Galaxy 5 (I5500 or I5503) Using ODIN

Odin is a flashing tool commonly used on Samsung phones. Before you can use odin you have to setup the environment.

 Prepare your computer

• · Install latest version Samsung Kies (see your device box for CD or visit official website)
• · Download the latest Odin & OPS File from links mentioned in utilities above
  
• · Extract the ROM and you get 4 files .tar.md5 format.
• · Turnoff the phone and remove the sdcard (Not required but if you need to be on the safer side).

 Entering Download Mode

• · Turn of your phone if it’s not already turned off
• · Disconnect the usb now
• · Turn it ON by pressing all together the buttons: Camera button (big middle one) + volumedown (volume-) + powerbutton.

• · Now your phone will display a yellow triangle with downloading caption.

 Preparing odin

• · Run odin
• · Connect the usb cable, you will get an COM ‘X’ number displayed inside Odin(see image on the right)
  
• · Choose the OPS File (Europa_V1.0.ops)
• · Uncheck the one package checkbox(when adding the below 5 files separately) and select – {*alternative procedure- with selecting one package for just installing Android 2.2 with stock ROM, skip to *alternative procedure)
  

1. · BOOT – select BOOTLOADER_I5500XXJPF.tar.md5
2. · PHONE – select MODEM_I5500.tar.md5
3. · PDA – select PDA_I5500XWJP9_CL880109.tar.md5
4. · CSC–  select I5500OXXJP3_CSC_OXX_CL832222.tar.md5

For One Package please refer  *alternative procedure available at the end of post

 Flashing

• · Hit start. The procedure takes around 6 minutes to complete.
• · If you get stuck at “Setup Connection” change usb ports. Done!!!
• · The phone may take up to 10 minutes for first boot

Screenshots of newly flashed Custom ROM on Galaxy 5 Android Phone:

 If you find the language of your device changed after flashing the ROM , in device just go to settings > language and keyboard > select English or language of your choice. System Apps may still be using previous language, to get rid of it just reboot.

Now you can restore your Titanium backup with the batch restore operation. Depending on your requirement choose the type of restore operation and select apps to restore individually. After the restore operation reboot your phone. If the restore causes force close errors you can type *#*#7780#*#* (Does not delete contents of SD card) in your phone dialer (do not press call button after the last symbol) and then accept. The phone will automatically reset in about 2-5 minutes. Later you can selectively restore apps but don’t restore system data if the phone pops up error messages of force close, which generally happens when you are upgrading android version or switching over to a new ROM and thats  exactly what we are doing here with a high possiblity of risking data. The reason why we made multiple backups in pre-installation instruction.

Restore your sms/mms with your app by installing it again from market and choosing the restore file created before flashing the ROM. (you need SD card if backup is on it, or need internet connectivity if backup is on google server)

To Restore Contacts go to contacts > settings menu > import > import your contact file and you are back to work with Wi-Fi/USB tether, Apps2SD, improved OS and lots of new features.(need SD card inserted)

This ROM will also install Universal Androot (if not download here) with which you can root your device in one click. If your device does not root in one go, try another time or just reboot before trying again.

 *alternative procedure to just install Android 2.2 by checking the one package checkbox and choose your package in ODIN. Download the Android 2.2 firmware and follow the same steps after it. While following this procedure please skip adding the 5 files in Preparing ODIN section and continue with Flashing section thereafter.

LAST UPDATED: 30th December 2011

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