How to unroot/unbrick Samsung Galaxy Young (GT-S6310/GT-S6312)

With each custom rom, kernel and theme that you attempt to flash onto your phone, there is always the danger of bricking it. A bricked phone technically means that it turns into a non-functional state. In such case, after powering on your phone after an unsuccesful flash, you get stuck in seeing either an infinite bootloop of your boot animation or just the Samsung Galaxy Young logo. This is what we call a soft brick. Unfortunately, the process in recovering a hard bricked Galaxy Young is not the same. A hard brick means that your phone will not power on regardless of any key combinations you try to press.

If you have flashed a custom rom for the first time and ended up bricking your phone, you can easily restore it back to its normal state thanks to tools such as Odin that can get you out of this mess. This post will show you how to do this in case you get stuck in this frustrating situation.

Pre-requisites:

• A working USB cable
• Odin 3.07 - Click here to download.
• Samsung USB Drivers - A simple installation of the Samsung Kies software should take care of that.
• Stock GT-S6310/S6312 firmware - Can be found at http://sammobile.com/firmwares/

How to unroot/unbrick Galaxy Young (GT-S6310/GT-S6312):

1. Head into the SamMobile firmware portal as mentioned in the pre-requisites and register for an account. Then in the firmware search bar search for GT-S6310 or GT-S6312 (S6310 is the regular variant and the S6312 is the Duos variant).
2. If possible, download the firmware that is meant for your country. It's okay to download another country's firmware if there is none available for yours.
3. After the download is complete, extract the firmware zip file and you should get a .tar.md5 file and a .dll file.
4. Now extract the Odin 3.07 zip file that you have downloaded and run the Odin program. Also, do not enable/disable any of the options in Odin, especially not Re-partition! Leave them all as they are by default.
5. Power off your Galaxy Young
6. While the phone is powered off, begin holding the Volume down + Home + Power buttons together to boot into Download mode. Once you have booted into Download mode, press the Volume up button to have it say "Downloading..." on your phone's screen.
7. Now connect it to your computer and check the Odin program to see if it will recognize it in one of the ID:COM boxes. If it doesn't, you need to try and re-install the Samsung USB Drivers.
8. Once your phone is connected and Odin recognizes it, click on the PDA button and choose the .tar.md5 that you got when you extracted the firmware zip file.
9. Now click on Start and wait for the process to complete.
10. After it is done, your phone should automatically reboot and start up normally. In case you are still stuck on a bootloop, take off the battery, place it back in and hold the Volume up + Home + Power buttons together to boot into Recovery mode and perform a data wipe.

 
If you are having a hard time following the text instructions, you may watch the demo video above that shows you step by step in recovering your phone.

How to odex back your rom on Samsung Galaxy Y

Are you done modding that custom rom to your desires and want to perform the final touches on it such as speeding it up? Now you can easily do that thanks to a very simple odexer script developed by MatrixDJ96 from xda-developers forums.

This procedure is a must if you plan on speeding up your phone, such as gaining a faster boot process, gaining a bit more free space and most importantly, removing some lag while using the system apps.

Basic explanation:

Odexing your rom has it's positive and negative sides. Odex files are actually collections of parts of an application that are optimized before booting. Doing so speeds up the boot process, as it preloads part of an application which is a good thing, but the bad thing is that it makes it more difficult to modify a system apk like you would do it on a deodexed rom. Best is to modify the custom rom to your needs and when you feel there is no work at all left to do, odex it.

Download script - Click here.

Instructions:

1. Download the zip file to your sdcard
2. Boot into CWM Recovery and flash it
3. Reboot your phone
4. Now open up the Terminal Emulator app which should be in your app drawer
5. Type in su - it will then give you a popup to grant it superuser access, allow it.
6. Now type in dexo -h which should display a list of commands
7. It is recommended you just type in dexo -all which odexes your rom completely (WARNING: Requires free space in system partition, mostly recommended on a rom that has most bloatware removed!)
8. After the process is done, you may find your statusbar missing and whatnot, just reboot your phone and everything should be back to normal, oh, and your rom should be odexed.

If you are having issues, you may watch the video guide and demonstration below.

Video and demo:

Source: XDA Developers

Xposed Framework on Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360

A while ago, Xposed Framework was back ported to Gingerbread and since the Galaxy Y is running GB and sadly always will be, it's on the list of supported devices.

Image credits: http://www.elandroidelibre.com/

For those of you who are not aware of what this Xposed Framework represents, in a few words it basically allows you to modify your system without the need of decompiling the apk files and then pushing them to your system. It saves tons of time for modifications to the UI such as changing text color, background, images and whatnot whether your rom is deodexed or odexed. Sadly, those exact advantages are missing for the Galaxy Y as for now there is no such module available.

I decided to give it a shot and guess what, it installs without any problems! Huge thanks to xda member liudongmiao for porting this to Gingerbread and of course even bigger thanks to xda member rovo89 for making all of this possible.

As I mentioned above, there are no modules available for now that help modify Gingerbread TouchWiz roms such as the the module called Wanam Xposed which is made for users to modify their Jelly Bean based TouchWiz roms.

We do still get some goodies such as the Play Store fixer, the XPrivacy and App Settings. All of which I go into detail about in the video you will find in this post.

Downloads:

Xposed Installer: Click here.
Play Store fixer (module): Click here.
XPrivacy (module): Click here.
App Settings (module): Click here.

I would say the most useful module for now is the App Settings one because it gives you the ability to change an app's DPI, force a screen orientation, force it to not be fullscreen or force it to be fullscreen, etc.

If you have no idea how to install and setup all of this to work, you may watch this video below:

These are the only known working modules for now, if you happen to stumble upon some neat ones that work in the future, don't hestitate to leave a comment!

Source: xda-developers