Root & Unroot Samsung Galaxy ACE S5830

Samsung Galaxy ACE S5830 is one of the the popular smart phone but has no news of upgradation to Ice cream sandwich and Jellybean is far away. But if we want to achive look and feel of the latest Android Google's phone operating system it is possible by installing Custom Rom or Mod Pack but to install this custom Rom on your android phone Samsung Galaxy ACE S5830 first of all you will have to gain super users Right. So to gain super user right you will have to Root your Device. The advantages of a rooted phones is , you can easily remove unwanted bloatware that comes preloaded with your device you can install custom ROM's kernels etc. The main disadvantage of rooting your device is it void's your device warranty. So before proceeding check the firmware version of your device device is running on. By going to Settings-> About Phone-> Firmware Version [DDKQ8 2.3.6.]

Warning:
Use this instructional guide at your own risk. We are not held liable if anything happen to your device.




Requirements:

• Samsung Galaxy ACE S5830
• Root file: update.zip 
• Unroot File: Unroot.Zip (Required for unrooting) 

Installation Instruction:

How to Root the Galaxy Ace 2.3

1. Copy the Root.zip file (download below) into 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 it’s done installing, select “reboot system now” and wait for the phone to reboot

8. To check if your phone is rooted, go to you app drawer and look for an app called superuser with an icon of a pirate android with cross bones. If you see it, your phone is rooted.


Congrats! You’ve officially rooted you galaxy ace!!
Now what if you want to go back to unrooted for some reason , or just for the heck of it?? It’s easy. Very similar to rooting

How to Un-root the Ace 2.3:


1. Download unroot.zip (below) and put in sd card

2. Turn off the phone and boot into recovery (refer to step 3 above)

3. Install the unroot.zip (similar to step 5 and 6 above)

4. Restart phone (incase you’re THAT stupid, refer to step 7 above)

5. Look in the app drawer and if all went well, the superuser icon should no longer be there!!!

Congratulations! You have successfully unrooted your Samsung Galaxy ACE S5830 on Gingerbread 2.3.