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Thread Author: borasport Replies: 3
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New Thu 17 Oct 13 09:50 
 upgrading Andriod on an old phone - borasport
I have a 'surplus' mobile phone - a Samsung Galaxy Y GTS5363 running Android 2.3.6 - can anybody point me in the direction of a set of foolproof instructions on how to upgrade it to Android 4 ?

Google overloads me with multiple sites all of which talk of the dangers of bricking and the requirement for rooting, at which point they have comprehensively lost me.
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New Thu 17 Oct 13 10:13 
 upgrading Andriod on an old phone - rtj70
I'd say don't bother with that phone - it's got a low spec and I doubt it would run a vanilla install of Android 4.x. But I would imagine Cyanogenmod released a ROM for this phone.

But it sounds like you're not that technical either. When I installed stock Android 4.3 on my Nook tablet the process was:

- Create a bootable SD Card with the necessary tools and ROMs
- Backup the existing ROM just in case using the SD Card you created
- Install the new ROM to the eMMC memory
- Install the boatloader for Cyanogen
- Reboot

Quite simple and I found step by step instructions and a list of files I needed.
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New Thu 17 Oct 13 10:23 
 upgrading Andriod on an old phone - Focusless
Quite a nice overview of Android rooting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_rooting
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New Wed 23 Oct 13 00:00 
 upgrading Andriod on an old phone - Stuartli
This might be of interest:

www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/kingo_android_root.html
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