Root Needing urgent rooting advice

[nikkodemus]

Hey, first off, I am a total and complete android/smartphone newb. I've bought a Galaxy Ace about a year ago roughly, so I'm assuming the warranty is up.
I did the thing with the memory to get the apps to install to the external memory instead, but it still uses up internal memory and it's come to the point where i had to take off my fb app. all i have is launcher ex and a few Go apps. I can't do Evernote or Onenote

What I want to do is
a) root the phone

b) try the partition technique to get hopefully tons more room for apps and/or more ram? make it faster? not sure how the partition thing works but it sounds good, right? I just bought a 16 gb sd, so I can partition like 4gb as internal and never have memory troubles again, or does it slow down the phone terribly?

c)And now I'm thinking about running a ROM? A custom ROM. I'm trying to wiki this thing but it's kinda technical. What I'm getting is that CyanogenMod will basically make my phone brand new functionally, and I'll still be able to function normally on googleplay and what not? Good idea?
Yeah, I understand the risk of "bricking" my phone, but I'm going to assume that the risk is minimal if you can read and follow instructions, right? A ROM is a legit thing to do right? It sounds like piracy or something, but it's all official, right?

Right now, my phone functions like sorta 6/10 - it's super slow, it shuts off sometimes on its own like once a week, or goes unresponsive for some seconds, or doesn't read the sd, the swype beta doesn't work at all, i have to keep going back to select swiftkey, games that i should be able to play according to the compatibility on googlplay freeze up. I just basically am super irritated that i can't use onenote without being unable to get texts, and that my dryad theme is glitchy.
*irritated*
*too poor to buy a s3/note2)* like $4,000 where i live. Way cheaper to buy a $100 sd card and experiment, right?

I'm basically just looking for reassurance from anyone who's done this before and can guide me out of a whole if i end up doing something wrong. Root first, then partition after, then change the Rom last?

Please! I mean, it's not super urgent in a life or death way, but I really want to get better usage out of my phone if it can be done safely.

 

[nikkodemus]

Okay, I have gone through these methods -
1) tried the Odin method, but it failed when selecting the official stock rom
2) superoneclick 2.3.3 "not responding" at step 7
3) loading upd_1 in recovery (vol up +power + home) gives "installation aborted"

links for alternatives are going to a survey thing instead. I've gone through tons of forums.

Model number - GT-S5830M
Android version - 2.3.6
Baseband version - S5830MWHLB2
Kernel version - 2.6.35.7 se.infra@SEP-105#1
Build number - gingerbread.WBLB1

Please, i know the phone is old, and people are tired of it, but it's what I got. PLEASE, somebody HELP. The only thing I've done is that sdk thing to install apps to the sd card instead of the internal, but I'm still out of memory

I have a 14gb class 4 sd card. I have cm7fat, odin 4.38, superoneclick v2.3.3.0, Cooper_v1.0.ops , cwm-recovery-ace.tar.md5

HELP!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!

 

[ayush29k]

You are in the right track, getting a second partition for apps will definitely change the way you use the phone, android is all about apps, if you can't have apps on a smartphone then there is no point in having a smartphone.

You know most of the things, this is the order you need to follow:
1.Root
2.Flash a custom recovery i.e ClockworkMod recovery 5.0.2.6 (DON'T USE ROM MANAGER)
3.Flash a custom rom, since you are new, you should go for CM7 based roms, they are fast, beautiful and will change your android experience drastically. You can later try the newer CM10.1 roms which are jellybean based. They are slow and heavy on battery but they have a really good user interface.(This is if you have CM roms available for your model, otherwise go for any stock based roms, they all are better than the official samsung roms). Using custom roms is totally legit, android is an open source software, you have a right to modify it and share it with others, the OEMs void warranty because use of the software they didn't give you may cause damage to the hardware for which they don't take responsibility for, using the roms is on your own risk, read the reviews first and you'll be alright.
4.You can do this step on a stock rom or a custom rom.
Create an ext partition on your sd card, i use a 500mb partition on an 8gb card, its quite sufficient for me. Install a method for using the sd-ext partition as internal memory. To make this work you need to make sure that your rom(stock or custom) can take user made scripts, i.e init.d capability, stock roms don't have this, you need a custom kernel to get this, most custom roms already have the init.d support, afterwards there are 2 ways available:
I.You can use an app like s2e or link2sd which will flash the script and you can use the app to control the partition.
II.The other way is cronmod/amarullz scripts, you have to manually flash this script and forget about managing it, the script will do everything itself(i use this).

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552792
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840645
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477996#
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1716124

Go through these links, read the instructions carefully.

P.S the ACE S5830M is the same as S5830i model, but the S5830 and S5830i models are very different from each other, so make sure you use the stuff made for S5830i only. Get confirmation from the developer that you can use it safely on your phone before attempting it.

Looks like you are using stuff made for S5830, your model is S5830M, that's why none of it is working for you, read the links i posted. Don't use the wrong stuff, it can cause damage.