How To Root Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660 on Gingerbread

August 24, 2011 By

Today we have another rooting process which is for Samsung galaxy GIO S5660.

So the Samsung users of this phone make your phone rooted by our simple and sweet rooting procedure which we have telling you today. As we know the root process is useful for updating the firmware and update the custom ROM .

This process is as easier as of other rooting procedure. Here is the rooting guide.

Note:

  • Use this process only on Gingerbread 2.3 firmware.
  • Make backup of your phone for further safety. Backup procedure is also mentioned above in instructions. So free much space in your SD card or make backup in PC.
  • Keep battery at least 50%
  • Do not clear the cache after rooting cause of it will delete the “CWM” app, which is installed after the rooting process.

Required:

Instruction to root Samsung Galaxy Gio on Android 2.3 Gingerbread

  1. Put the downloaded .zip file as it is in the SD card. Use USB cable for connection b/w PC and Phone.
  2. Power off the phone.
  3. Boot the phone in recovery mode by holding the middle button and then power on.
  4. Now phone enter in recovery mode, here select the “Update from SD card” option.
    samsung Galaxy gio recovery mode
  5. Now browse the downloaded file that in zip format for above process.
  6. Now the rooting process is started.
  7. Wait for some time, After completion the phone will reboot.
  8. That’s all. The phone is now become a rooted phone.

 

You can see super user app in application folder. Congratulations!  Now you have the rooted Samsung Galaxy Gio to get the service of new and latest custom ROMs.

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  • David

    what roms are available for galaxy gio? Can’t find anything other than the rooted version of samsungs own rom which I’m not so fond of.. Any links or tips would be helpful

    • http://androidflip.com Kuldeep Singh

      Yes there are not ROMs for Gio

  • Hulljamie95

    i have 2.3.4 will it work for me?

  • Monkeywiskers5505

    i have 2.3.4 will it work for me?

  • impatient

    did it as instructed, all wen’t according to plan, except i can’t uninstall any of the carrier crap that is on there! i want the 20 minutes of my life back please!

  • max

    Doesn’t work to me… Different package from another tutorial, but it doesn’t work either… The SU app is installed but it doesn’t display any apps in its list, and when i try an app that does require root, it says root is not installed…

  • Clarify me please

    Hi, i’ve just bought my samsung galaxy gio and i’m new in android. I would like u to answer me a few questions before i do the root:
    -My device is locked to vodafone, will it still work?
    -Once my phone is brand new do i really need to do any backup?
    -i download the zip. File from my gio and copy it into sd card or do i download it for my computer and then copy to sdcard?
    -when i connect the phone to PC does the phone need to be in the debugging mode?
    -is there any possibility to unroot, or to do any upgrade that doesn’t void the warranty?

    I’m sorry if i asked some dumb questions but it’s my first android, and i want to do this carefully. Thanks

    • http://androidflip.com Kuldeep Singh

      Theoretically we can root , but i haven’t tested it on Vodafone

      –backup if you want to reduce risk of losing data

      http://androidflip.com/how-to-backup-data-before-upgrading-android-phone/

      –no need to use pc , we need .zip in sd and we have ;)

      –no need to connect phone to pc in debugging mode

      –yes we can unroot our phone by installing new firmware Or install same firmware again

      Asking question is great even Einstein asked a lot questions

      • 2nd help

        Ok i’Ve done the root and almost all went good.. But when i click the superuser icon i have nothing on the apps list, and nothing in the log list too.. It says “no app list” and “no log information” respectively. Is this normal? Or there is a place to get the required root apps?
        Thank u for ur attention :)

  • cody

    When i go to select the file from the SD card and i click it it just comes up with installation aborted.