Saturday, September 21, 2013

How To Upgrade From Gingerbread To Android Jellybean OS

I’m pretty sure all Android and iPhone users are seriously waiting like ballot paper to celebrate their birthday on 21st & 22nd of September as BBM will be officially available for download  for these  two operating system.   I know it’s what everyone has anticipated for and finally it’s here.
I don’t know if this is true or not that if you are not running  OS 4 and above, BBM won’t work on your Android phone but lets  wait till the final offical launch.
Someone demanded for this tutorial and as promised, I will quickly give you simple steps on how you can upgrade MyTouch 4G to android OS 4.1.1 Jellybean.

Requirements
1.       A computer
2.       CyanogenMod 10 Rom Package
3.       Gapps Package

Before You Upgrade, Do The Following:
1.       Back up all your data and messages, call logs, contacts etc as it’s going to wipe out everything on your phone.
2.       You need to disable the antivirus and firewall from your computer and MyTouch 4G device respectively as this may cause interruption during the installation process.
3.       Go to Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging’. Tick the USB Debugging option box when you get there.
4.       Make sure your battery is fully charged at least 80% just to ensure that it won’t turn off during installation of Jellybean
5.       You need to have your T-mobile 4G rooted with latest CWM Recovery installed on it.

Follow This Steps To Upgrade To Jelly Bean
==>Download Gapps Package

Now that you have the above in place, we can now begin
Step 1: Connect your  Htc MyTouch 4G to the Computer via USB data cable and place all three packages to the root of the SD card.
Step 2: Turn off your myTouch 4G device and boot into recovery mode just by pressing and holding the Volume Down and Power buttons simultaneously. Soon, it  will boot into the HBOOT mode. Then, using the Volume button navigates to the Recovery and press the Power button to enter into Recovery Mode.
Step 3: Once you’re in Recovery mode, backup of your current ROM for which you need to select Backup and Restore and then Backup should in case your device go A wire, it can always be recovered via back up.
Step 4: Then, select ‘wipe data/factory reset’ and ‘wipe cache Partition’ option to wipe all data from your device. Then,  navigate to  Wipe Dalvik cache’ under Advanced option and select it.
Step 5: After completing wiping, you need to select ‘install zip from SD card’ and again select ‘choose zip from sdcard’ to browse for CM10_Desire_S_nk111_8-6-2012_port.zip file from your SD card. Then, confirm the installation by selecting ‘Yes ____.zip’ which appears on the next screen.
Step 6:    Then, repeat the above process twice with the replacement of ‘CM10_Desire_S_nk111_8-6-2012_port.zip’ with Google Apps package ‘gapps-jb-20120717-signed.zip’ and microphone fix package ‘LowMICfix.zip’.
Step 7:     Then, select ‘+++Go Back+++’ option to return to the main menu and select ‘reboot system now ’to restart your device.

Once you complete this process, you Htc MyTouch 4G will be branded with 4.1.1 Jeallybean

For other Android phone still using gingerbread that you wish to upgrade please specify so that i can help you with steps on how to upgrade it.

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