October 2. It is a stripped down version of Samsungs best seller the Galaxy S3. The S3 Mini features 4. WVGA 4. 808. 00 capacitive touchscreen display, 1 GHz dual core processor, 5 MP Auto Focus rear camera, 1. GB RAM, and a 1,5. Ah battery. The device was released with Android 4. Jelly Bean firmware out of the box and was later treated with Android 4. Despite of its popularity, quite surprisingly the Galaxy S3 Mini has failed to attract due attention from our developers. As a result, even after months of its release, the device has not got the official CF Root. If you happen to be an owner of this mini powerhouse and want to root it, here is an easy guide that will help you in achieving this goal. Usually, when we write a rooting tutorial, we post links to a rooting package and flashing it to a phone would root it. But here the procedure we are going to describe involves installing the complete official firmware with a twist. The firmware posted below is pre rooted, that means it has Super. User app injected inside. Rooting your phone using this method has one great advantage it does not give you a yellow triangle. The flash counter is not increased and thus you phones warranty remains intact. Now we have a full fledged tutorial for rooting all 3 variants of the Galaxy S3 Mini. Please check this post. How to Install the Pre rooted Firmware on Galaxy S3 Mini If you have ever flashed a stock firmware on your phone using the Odin tool, the method given below will very easy to you. However, if you are a novice, just follow the simple steps to upgrade your Galaxy S3 to Android 4. I8. 19. 0XXAMA2 firmware and root it at the same time. Download the firmware file in zip and extract it on your desktop I8. XXAMA2rooted. Download the Odin firmware flasher and extract the zip Odin. Download Video Belajar Membaca Untuk Anak Paud. Charge your phone and backup your phones contacts, messages, call log, apps, etc. Backup your contacts, call logs, messages, APNs, bookmarks, calendar, apps games using these nice free apps. Go to phone Settings and turn on USB Debugging Mode from Developer Options. Put your phone in Download Mode Turn off the phone. Press and hold Volume DownHome buttons and then long press the Power key for a few seconds till the screen turns. Press the Volume Up key when prompted to enter the Download Mode. This is a no wipe firmware. Therefore, it will not delete any data from your phone. Run the Odin program by double clicking the Odin. Connect you phone to computer using the USB Cable. When the ID COM port at Odin turns blue, click on PDA button and select the. Stop messing around with various emulators for your Android and get RetroArch. This single app a front end for multiple emulators can run games designed for. When you are sure that everything has been done properly, click in the Start button on Odin and wait till the installation finishes. And when it is over, you will see Pass Odin and your Galaxy S3 Mini will reboot automatically. The first boot after flashing the new firmware might take up to 5 minutes, so a little patience is required. Cheers you have not only updated your phones firmware to Android 4. Do not forget to share with us how it went for you.