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Root Rooted 2.3

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CurtisAndroid5

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Hello i am deciding wether to root my Europa again as last time i didnt really see the need to do it, but after seeing you guys using 2.3 etc im interested to see how i would go about getting 2.3 on my phone- anyone got an indepth tutorial? (Im a n00b and i dont want to brick my device!)

Thank you
 
Right, im gonna tell you this off experience. If you are interested in custom roms and things like that then obviously go for the 2.3 side of things. i have and dont regret it one bit. Rooting is a must, its so annoying when you go through the market and you see an app that seems ace ,but then you see that it requires root access. so yeah, root is essential. as for CFW and roms, the subsyke rom comes pre rooted anyway. but as for tutorials, i can only point you in the direction of the xda forums. its where i learned and proceeded from :D
 
Thanks, ill check them out but i am bit worried incase i brick my device or do something horribly wrong etc, is the process to get 2.3 hard also has 2.3 got any issues with this phone or does it work fine?
 
After searching through the web and forums I can't find a Gingerbread ROM for i5500. There's a lot of Froyo but no GB that I can find. The Cyanogenmod 7.1 port is also to unstable and resource hungry to be a goer either. Sure it's better on bigger devices. Don't forget i5500 is a low end / budget smart phone.

My advice: root or don't root doesn't really matter. What you want is a good stable ROM that is fast and then do some customisation off Market like ADW Launcher, JuiceDefender and / or WidgetLock. Asthetically and functionally that's probably about as good as you're going to do on this phone without pushing the memory / performance limits on it.

Get a good stock ROM, test it for a few days to make sure it's stable and then work from there as a benchmark. Otherwise you'll be dicking around until early next year trying to get this phone to work with not much return.

I'm only using this until the Nexus comes out anyway. Now that's what I'm talking about ...
 
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