How to root a Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 running Android Gingerbread 2.3.3.

When ever I find myself in a pickle, then I get out of it, I enjoy sharing the solution. This blog post is one of those blog posts. So unless you want to root your Samsung S5830 you might want to move along about now. (Remember all links I offer are correct and safe at the time I published this post, they may change. Please remember to run your antivirus on any downloads before opening them on your computer, just to be safe. I cannot be held responsible for the content of external sites.)

Yes I recently had a problem with moving contents from my phone to my SD card and the phone was getting so full I could no longer update my apps so I looked around online and found lots of information that explains how to root your phone so you can move objects around that you aren’t supposed to.

Now please be aware that rooting your phone will invalidate its guarantee but if its over twelve months old you’ll be fine as the guarantee is probably over anyway. But check and be careful before messing about with your phones operating system.

OK the phone that I rooted is a Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 running Android Gingerbread 2.3.3 and that what I’m explaining here. It may not work on every single Galaxy Ace model, please check your operating system before proceeding with the rest of this instructional.

Now first of all you will need this: Install manager. This is the programme that you will use to move contents from your phone to SD card after rooting. You can use other programs if you prefer, this is the one that I used.

Then you need to download the root zip file that you will need to put onto your phones SD card. That file can be found here. (It would appear the root.zip file needed has been taken down, so I can only suggest Googling “galaxy ace root zip file” and seeing if you can find a copy elsewhere. I cannot find the file on my phone or my PC to share it here.)

Now follow the instructions below. They were originally published here and I have no copyright over them at all and they worked perfectly for me. Remember the instructions will only root your phone you will need to still run the install manager afterwards to manually move your apps from phone to SD card. Some items cannot be moved (please see the update at the end of this post) but the programme will tell you if it can safely move any objects. If it says it can’t you shouldn’t try. OK, all the best and enjoy!

INSTRUCTIONS.

1. Copy the Root.zip file onto your sd card. You can even put it in a folder if you want.

2. Turn your phone off

3. Boot your phone into recovery mode. To do that, HOLD HOME+POWER buttons. When the screen turns on and you see the Samsung logo, let go of POWER but keep holding HOME. After the Galaxy Ace logo shows up and disappears, you should enter recovery mode. You can let go of HOME now.

4. Now in recovery mode, you can scroll up and down using the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons and select using the HOME button.

5. Scroll to the second option “apply update from sdcard” and press HOME to select.

6. Scroll to the Root.zip file and select it (if you put it in a folder, find and open that folder and then select Root.zip

7. After its done installing, select “reboot system now” and wait for the phone to reboot