#Download rom zip file for galaxy y install#
#Download rom zip file for galaxy y update#

The CWM 6.0.1.2 at the bottom I found later.ДЄs mentioned above changing roms was not particularly straight forward. Though I prefer TWRP the roms I later installed had been complied to work with CWM so this was the recovery I ended up working with mostly.ДЇrom top left is the original stock recovery, then installing the update, CWM recovery installed, followed beneath by two shots of the TWRP recovery I prefer.

#Download rom zip file for galaxy y install#

With CWM installed I could utilize it to now install a compatible TWRP custom recovery. Otherwise there would be no way of using stock recovery for flashing.

#Download rom zip file for galaxy y update#

As is often the case with these devices the zip files containing custom recoveries have been signed so they are accepted as an official update by the official stock recovery. Powered off the device then rebooted into stock recovery mode. When does hardware limit such compatibility?ДЇirst step (after the usual changes to stock firmware settings) I downloaded CWM custom recovery as a zip-file and moved it to the external SD card. As mentioned below this took a little work. ItвЂ™s stable and runs at a sufficient speed. IвЂ™ll hang on to this device for a while to be sure, but so far itвЂ™s operating fine. ItвЂ™s one thing to load a Rom in a device yet another to ensure the system is stable and usable as a daily driver. And finishing with an OS Nougat 7.1.2, released in 2017. Starting with an OS Gingerbread 2.3.6, a device still as it was when first released in 2011. On the other hand this device may be a personal record of how far IвЂ™ve been able to upgrade a device. On more than one occasion I found it necessary to tether to the laptop and use the program Odin to re-flash the original stock firmware and starting from scratch. But unlike the others when it came to swapping out Rom after Rom I found this little device troublesome.

So was the installation of the first custom Rom. Like the other clones in this family gaining root access and installing a custom recovery was a straight forward 10 minute procedure (mostly). IвЂ™ve never cared enough to google a list but this must be the 10th different model IвЂ™ve dealt with and no doubt thereвЂ™s many more. They all look the same to me, those small Samsung devices from the OS Gingerbread, Ice cream eras.