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View Poll Results: Did you unlock your phone with this method successfully?
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Voters: 11. You may not vote on this poll

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August 20th,
2011, 07:43
PM

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StoneBoyTony
[TUTORIAL] Unlock Sim Network on Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570,Ace S5830,Gio S5
Junior Member S5670

Good news people. I have sucessfully unlocked my Galaxy Mini.

(It has been confirm that this method can unlock Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570, Ace S5830
i559, 5 i5500, Fit S5670)

Join Date: Jul

2011
Location:
Macedonia Skopje
Posts: 19

I have started this method on xdadevelopers [TUTORIAL] Unlock Sim Network on Samsu
Ace, Gio, Pop - xda-developers so i decided to share it here on androidforums

**********************NOTE********************
BEFORE CONTINUING THE STEPS I WILL SUGGEST TO THE PEOPLE THAT THE
THIS ONLY IF THEIR PHONE IS UNDER WARRANTY. THE CHANCE ARE 70% UN
30% BRICKED. BRICKED CAN BE CAUSE FROM ALREADY DAMAGED PARTITIO
Device(s): GT- INTERNAL MEMORY, UNLOKING YOUR PHONE IN RUSH HOUR AND NOT CONC
THE STEPS AND COMMANDS, BAD FLASHED PHONES, DIFERENT BRAND OF T
S5570
LACK OF UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND HAVE NO CLUE WHAT
Thanks: 0
TALKING ABOUT HERE (FOLLOWING PICTURES LIKE CHRISTMAS TREE).
Thanked 11
I'M NOT TAKING ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR INCORECT PROCEDURE DU
Times in 4
OPERATION FALLOW THE STEPS AS THIS WAS DONE ON A STOCK FIRMWARE
Posts
WITHOUTH ANY PREVIOUS FLASHES ON THE PHONE AND THE SIM CARD MU
WITH THE RIGHT NETWORK UNLOCKED ON THE PHONE. READ CAREFULLY A
A LINE. WHEN YOU SEE THE COMMAND "stl5" = (IN BIG LETTERS TO SEE IS ST
ST15). FOR MORE SECURE REASON BEFORE STARTING THE STEPS YOU NEED
ANY KIND OF PROCESS IN TASK MANEGER IF SOME PROGRAM IS RUNING IN
AND TURN OFF GPS, BLUETOOTH AND WIFI. NEVER INSTALL "ROM Manager" O
TO BACKUP YOUR EFS AS THIS APPLICATIONS ARE NOT DESIGNED FOR OUR
SIMPLY BRICK THEM. USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK AND GOD SPEED!
**************************************************

IMPORTANT: NEVER USE THE METHOD OF DD "dd if=/dev/block/stl5 of=/sdcard/stl

file from root to SD card it seems that Samsung has protected that file and you will have br
guarantee that as it hapened with my old phone!

Now before starting with the SAFE METHOD please provide information about your phon
can see on witch network you unlock your phone and country. You can do this by typeing *
phone call and on Settings > About phone. For example I'll provide mine.
My Network: T-Mobile

Country: Macedonia
PDA : S5570XWKC8
PHONE : S5570XXKB1
CSC: S5570OXXKC9
About phone:
Baseband Version:
S5570XXKB1
Kernel Version:
2.6.32.9-perf
root@DELL104#1
Build Number:
FROYO.XWKC8
SAFE METHOD:

1. Make shure you have installed the leatest drivers for your phone (USB drivers included i
necessary stuff to have correct connection your mobile with your PC) just download KIES
web site for Samsung mobiles (don't forget to restart PC after installation).
2. Make shure u have a ROOTED phone with SuperOneClick 2.1.1.
You can download it from here:
SuperOneClick v2.1.1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

UNIVERSAL GINGERBREAD ROOT SAMSUNG GALAXY GT-S5570, GT-S5660, GT

S5660L, GT-S5830, GT-B7510

This is only for the people that they are using Gingerbread and can't root their phone with S
can root your phone with Universal_GB_ROOT.zip file for your phone model.
Question: How do I Root Gingerbread on my phone?
Answer:

- Download the Universal_GB_ROOT.zip file and put in your SD card.

- Turn off your phone
- Make shure you start the phone like this : Hold Power Button + Home Button
- You will see your phone booting in recovery mode
- Move in the menu with the Volume - Volume + to scroll up and down and choose "apply u
with the Home button.

- Choose your Universal_GB_ROOT.zip file that you copy in the root on the sdcard and pr
apply it.
- You will see a message "Install form sdcard complete".
- Then press on the "reboot system now" and you are done.

Download link for Universal Gingerbread Root (by StoneBoyTony) : Universal_GB_ROO

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

3. When you download the SuperOneClick 2.1.1 extract everything in your C:\ root of your
Like this:

4. After rooting your phone or already rooted download "Root Explorer 2.16.apk" and insta
After you install start Root Explorer you will be asked from SuperUser to give permission
Restart your phone and continue with the next steps.

Download link:
Root Explorer v2.16

5. Turn off: GPS,Wifi,Bluetooth and Data roaming. Enable: Airplane mode. Airplane mode
going on your phone on Settings > Wirless and Network > Flight mode and press to enable
all wirless connections.

6. On your phone setup the "USB debugging on enable . You can do this by going on your
Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging and make shure is checked on en
your phone with the USB on the PC. (KIES program should not be runing just connect you
7. (I'm using XP SP3) Go to Start > Run. Type: cmd

8. It will appear like this:

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C:\Documents and Settings\Profile>_

9. Type: cd..

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10. It will appear like this:

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C:\Documents and Settings>_

11. Type again: cd..

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12. It will appear like this:

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C:\>_

13. Now we are in the root of our hard drive C:\ and we want to enter in the folder ADB tha
from Super-one-click.
14. Type: cd adb

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15. It will appear like this:

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C:\ADB>_
16. Type: adb shell

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17. It will appear like this:

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C:\ADB>adb shell
$
18. Then type: su

(First time is rolled this command on the phone make shure you have unlocked your screen
be asked to give permission on SuperUser privileges and you must click "Allow" and if is t
send this command on the phone after you press "Allow" turn off adb shell by typeing 2 tim
window), restart your phone and continue again from step "7." If again after step "7." for th
will be asked from SuperUser to give permission on the command "su" in that case you hav
phone and you must quit the procedure for unlocking becouse you can brick your phone. B
time after you type the command "su" and see a message on your phone screen "Unknown
Superuser permissions" then you are ready to continue with this TUTORIAL.)

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19. It will appear like this:

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C:\ADB>adb shell
$ su
su
#
20. Type: cd /
21. It will appear like this:

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C:\ADB>adb shell
$ su
su
# cd /
cd /
#

22. Now open your Root Explorer on your phone and make shure you press on the top is on
R/W" on the left on the screen will appear "Mounted as r/w"
From this:

To this:

23. Type: mkdir /efs

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24. It will appear like this:

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C:\ADB>adb shell
$ su
su
# cd /

cd /
# mkdir /efs
mkdir /efs
#
25. Type: mount -o nosuid,ro,nodev -t vfat /dev/block/stl5 /efs

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26. It will appear like this:

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C:\ADB>adb shell
$ su
su
# cd /
cd /
# mkdir /efs
mkdir /efs
# mount -o nosuid,ro,nodev -t vfat /dev/block/stl5 /efs
mount -o nosuid,ro,nodev -t vfat /dev/block/stl5 /efs
#
27. Type: cat /efs/mits/perso.txt

28. This command opens the file where the perso.txt 8-digit code required to unlock. You lo
and note . There are a lot of nonsense written including many zeros, but among them is the

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(I marked the code and painted for security reason)

(Now you got your self the unlock code but you must finish the procedure in the next steps
bricked phone exactly as it is)

29. After you read your code from the cmd just click one time Enter so you can go to a new
the sign #
30. Type: umount /efs
(If you don't type this command you will have a bricked phone!)
31: It will appear like this:
# umount /efs
umount /efs
#
32. Make shure that Root Explorer after this step "31." is in "Mounted as r/o" like this:

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