How to repair SGY

After long time of research and hard work, we've finally came with perfect solution to repair SGY with DDLK2 stock firmware. This is not only about to repair bricked Samsung Galaxy Y but it also work with many problems such as, phone stuck at Samsung Logo while booting, it restarting automatically, applications are crashing any time, recovery problems such “can’t mount system”, “can’t mount cache” and “can’t mount data” and also it act as base ROM for your device too.

If you’re looking to repair your bricked Samsung Galaxy Y then this DDLK2 stock firmware is best solution to make your device work again. The complete procedure is very simple to understand and follow, we will use Odin to install this firmware on SGY. It is recommended that you follow the guide very carefully. Before going any further, read all the pre-requisites  very carefully and make sure you follow them.

Pre-requisites:-

1. This DDLK2 stock firmware is only for Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and meant nothing for any other model. So make sure to check your model of your device under “About Phone” section. 
2. Save your all data which is saved on Phone’s memory to safe place. The process will erase device memory completely. 
3. Enable USB debugging, go to settings -> application -> development -> then check the USB debugging box.
4.  Make sure your phone have at least 50% charging. It is necessary that your phone should be charged to good extent.
5.  Make sure your phone is detected by PC, if not then install USB drivers first or simply install Samsung Kies from Here.

Downloads:-

Download DDLK2 Stock firmware for Galaxy Y here (S5360_DDLK2_ODDLK1_DDLK1_wipe_by_SplitFUS2.zip) and extract it on your PC. There are three files under this zip file:-

• CSC_S5360_ODDLK1.tar.md5
• MODEM_S5360_DDLK1.tar.md5
• PDA_S5360_DDLK2.tar.md5

Remember, these files will be used in further steps.

Download Odin3-v3.07 program here (Odin3-v3.07.zip) and extract it to your PC. Look for the “Odin3 v3.07.exe” and remember that.

Procedure to Unbrick SGY or Prepare it to Install a Custom ROM

1. Firstly, Turn off the device and wait for 5-7 seconds.
2. Now press and hold Volume Down + Home + Power button at same time until a Warning! message appears on screen. Then press Volume Up to proceed to download mode. Now’ll be at download mode of Samsung Galaxy Y.
3. Now look for “Odin3 v3.07.exe”, and run it on your PC.
4. Connect your phone to PC using USB cable and look on Odin program, the ID:Com section will turn to light blue or green. That means your devices has been detected successfully. If in case you didn’t see any changes over Odin then, first install USB drivers and then again connect your device.
5. Now under Odin program, select and locate followings:-
6. After it, make sure that “Re-Partition” box is unchecked and don’t make any changes to settings.
7. Now, click on “Start” button and wait until Odin finishes the job.
8. On successful installation, Pass message will appear on Odin and you’re phone will be rebooting itself. Now you can unplug your device from PC.

So you have managed to repair your bricked Galaxy Y. Or you can say, now you are ready to install any custom ROM to your Phone without having to face any bugs or issues after installing that particular Custom ROM.

So that’s all about our guide on how to repair Galaxy y or how to prepare it for Custom ROMs. If you have any problem while following the procedure then let us know.

Enjoyy! :D

How To Make a ROM for an Android Phone using Kitchen

***NOTE:NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY KIND OF DAMAGE OR BRICKED DEVICES.***

Tried to make it as easy as I could make! :)

What you need:

1.Kitchen by Dsixda

2../system directory of your custom/stock ROM.

3.Root access on phone.

4.Root Browser

5.Root Explorer

6.Common sense and Half an hour! :P

Instructions:-

(I presume that you have already installed Cygwin)

GETTING SYSTEM FILES

1.Install your preferable Root file browser in your phone.

2.Open and look down for system folder in it.
3.Copy the whole folder on your SD card

OR

1.Open your favourite custom ROM and copy the system files in there

SETTING UP ROM

1.Open Cygwin and type "cd kitchen" and press enter
2.Type "./menu" in it. You will see a menu after that.
3.Go to Cygwin>>home>>user>>kitchen>>original_update
4.Make a folder there named as "WORKING_XXXXX" and put the /system files you obtained in it.
5.Go back to Cygwin and press 1.
6.Press enter once again and select the name of your working folder by pressing the number against it.
7.After this it will ask for naming another folder.Do as you want.
8.Now you have a working folder which is going to become your future ROM. Select any options from the menu which you would like to have in your ROM.(I have not tested all of them so there is a chance that some of them wont work).

TWEAKING

Use these links for init.d scripts. To install them open the zip files on your pc and drag the scripts in system>>etc>>init.d into the WORKING_XXXX folder.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1491714-

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1227269

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1353903

ICON PACKS

Open the links and install the ICON PACKS using CWM.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1553292 -Specifically for SGY.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=824656 -Supports all phones and has over 700+packs!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?t=1552767- 3D Icons

ICS Settings MOD-

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1576565

NOW, ADDING LAUNCHERS

There are 2 ways to do this:-

1..Remove touchwiz30.apk from your system>>app and replace it with the apk of your launcher.

2.Put your launcher.apk system>>app directory and flash it.

Launcher Script- http://www.mediafire.com/?kr1oc425451nzvy

ADDING LIDROID 14 BAR TOGGLE

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1511307

LOCKER

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1403761

BOOTANIMATION

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1602200

TROUBLESHOOTING

1. If you get problems in installing a ROM then change your META-INF folder with this one:

http://www.mediafire.com/?0g1m8cobnby046u
(i). Use the script above if you have integrated kernel in your ROM.
(ii). If you have a ROM without kernel then remove these lines:

assert(package_extract_file("boot.img", "/tmp/boot.img"),
       write_raw_image("/tmp/boot.img", "boot"),
       delete("/tmp/boot.img"));

2. If there is a package error then extract the files of the ROM and repack them using any compression software.

3. If ROM installed correctly but stuck onto logo screen?? Then remove try removing kernel and flashing ROM again.

4. If ROM installed correctly but got onto bootloop then there could be many possibilities which could lead to this. If you want accurate cause of it then do a logcat.

5. If there are some apk's which are not working then check if you correctly modded them.

Most of the problems occur because of updater-script problems so before trying any of the troubleshooting try the first tip.

BUILDING THE ROM

1.Press 99 to build the working folder.
2.Go for the interactive mode so press 1.
3.Zipalign them by pressing y. A wall of text would come but dont worry
4.Add updater-script. Again a hell lot of text
5.Press y again
6.Sign your rom by pressing y
7.Change the name of your ROM by pressing y
8.Press Enter to finish!
9.Go to OUTPUT_ZIP and open the your rom and go in META-INF fodler.Over here you need to put the updater scripts which you want for your rom. I have tested the scripts from Creeds v2.5 and it installs perfectly. (This is not a necessary step because you can also install your rom with the original META-INF script.)
10.Copy the rom to your sdcard
11.Boot in cwm and wipedata+cache and then install your rom.(Have a backup in hand)
12.It should install perfectly because it booted properly in my 9/10 tests.

So,here yeah. The procedure is done! Do share your ROM with us and problems too.

CHEEEEEEERRRRSSSSSSSS! :D

Ever wanted to mug up android apk’s directly on your PC for storage or so? Then this article is for you. So today we will be learning How to Download APK Files from Google Play , So let me first explain you what APK is actually. APK is the Android package File basically something similar to that of the EXE files on your Windows Computer , these are the installation files for Android. When you download any application from store to your Android device , apk’s are the real one beneath it .

There could be numerous of possible reasons for you to download the apk on your PC. So let’s just start discussing about how to download the apk. Here are some easy steps that you can follow :

• Go to play.google.com and search for your desired app.
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• Once you reach the application/game page of which, you want an apk , just note down the the URL after the “=” sign , which should be probably in this way “com.appname.creator” .
  
   
• In my case i am downloading apk of Subway Surfers  , so here is what i need to copy :

• Now head over to :  apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader and paste the copied URL Portion(Application Full Package name) below “Package name or Google Play URL” , and click on “Generate Download Link” .

• It Should all look like this :

• And then click on the “Click Here To Download com.xxxxx.xxxx” and you are done!
• Your download should begin immediately, Happy Downloading …..

Now you can use the downloaded apk for storage , or send it to your device by using a USB data cable or Bluetooth as required.

UPDATE : The Site now allows full URL Downloading , so instead of copying the specified URL Portion , you can select the whole Google Play Store Link and paste it on the site to begin your download.

MAKING THE STATUSBAR TRANSPARENT

Requirements : 
Apk-Multitool
SystemUI.apk(of your phone)
Winrar
Notepad++

Where to find SystemUI.apk ? Here is your answer : 
The SystemUI.apk is a system application that is available inside the System folder.To say the exact location :
*Install Root Explorer.
*Locate System/app/SystemUI.apk
*Copy it to your SD-card and transfer it to your computer via Usb cable.

Instructions to Edit : 
Open Apk-MultiTool folder.
Double click on Setup.exe.
A command prompt will be executed.Enter Option "2" and press Enter.Follow the On-Screen Instructions and Install all the available frameworks(though they are not needed now).
Go back by entering the option "6" and by pressing Enter.
Enter option "3" and set up all the available directories one by one.

Note : These steps are needed only when you have downloaded the Apk-Multitool from its website.
If you have downloaded from Andro-Build,then the setup has been already configured for you !

Place your SystemUI.apk in the "place-apk-here-for-modding" folder.
Open Script.exe.You will be getting a coded Android Diagram.Press Enter.

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• In the command prompt,Enter option "9" and press Enter.This will decompile your apk.(During this whole process,the command prompt should not be closed.)
• Your decompiled Apk sources will be in "projects" folder.Open the projects folder.You will find the SystemUI folder.Open it.You will find the below folders and files for sure

1. Res
2. Smali
3. AndroidManifest
4. apktool.yml

• Now locate "Res/layout/status_bar".
• Open "status_bar" with Notepad++.
• Press "Ctrl+F" and search for "android:background".
• In the first line,it will be found.Now change the hexadecimal colour code to "#00000000".
• That is,change to this : 

<com.android.systemui.statusbar.StatusBarView android:orientation="vertical" android:background="#00000000" android:focusable="true" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"

• Press "Ctrl+F" and search for "android:background".Ignore the first search result as you hae already edited the first line.The second result will be found at the end.
• Change to this : 

<com.android.systemui.statusbar.DateView android:textAppearance="@*android:style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.Icon" android:textColor="#ff6bb0ff" android:gravity="left|center" android:id="@id/date" android:background="#00000000" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:singleLine="true" />

Note : The codings may differ for different mobiles.I have used GALAXY Y for this tutorial/guide.
But they are mostly same.

• Now save and go back to the Apk-MultiTool folder.
• In the command prompt,press "11" to recompile the system apk.It will ask "y/n".Enter "y" and press Enter. 
• It will Extract and again it will compile to reduce the amount of errors.The below instructions can be skipped,but to ensure that the SystemUI should work,they are recommanded.Actually this feature is already ben done when you have given "y" option in command prompt.
• Now open the SystemUI.apk and the unsignedSystemUI.apk in winrar.
• Now locate "Res/layout/status_bar" in both the windows.
• Now drag and drop the status_bar from unsignedSystemUI.apk window to SystemUI.apk window.
• When it asks to replace,give "yes".
• Now the SystemUI in the projects folder is the themed one!Enjoy!
• You can manually replace it with root permissions or you can flash it by making it a flashable zip.By this way,you can also do futher editings.

Note : Always have a Nandroid Backup if something goes wrong.I am not responsible for any damage caused.

If you have liked this this post,please be kind enough to give feedbacks and also you are welcomed to ask if you have got any doubts. Please do comment.

CREDITS: HERE

Reducing RAM Usage in Galaxy Y

LOW RAM USAGE IN SGY CAN BE ACHEIVED BY A SIMPLE BUILD.PROP TWEAK.
Here it is 
1) Open Build.Prop
2) Paste the code below in the build prop (at the last maybe for easy editing later.)
---Or---
Copy the build.prop text after "pm.sleep"(IMAGE). Both of them have the same work.

# Dimaks com.qc.hardware=1 debug.composition.type=gpu debug.egl.hw=1 debug.egl.profiler=1 debug.enabletr=true debug.gr.swapinterval=1 debug.kill_allocating_task=0 debug.overlayui.enable=1 # Power Saving Tweaks # pm.sleep_mode=1 ro.rill.disable.power.collapse=1 ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=-17 ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 

3) Restart the phone 
4) Or If you are doing it for a ROM, flash the ROM again ;)

PC not reading the device

Many of us, may have faced the problem when we connect our device to our PC, it doesnot show up. It does not really matter if its not bricked, but if its bricked amd our PC doesn't read it it really gets our heart to sink.
After my own experiences, I've got some points which would result a positive outcome, maybe. They worked for me, lets see what your reaction is.

● Install the latest samsung drivers, Google the links. Its the same as installing kies.
● Disable your antivirus, if you have any.
● Your device should be in download mode before connecting it to the PC.
 ●Try changing ports, if none of them helps.

And if the problem continues, reflash Odin using another computer, maybe your friends ;)





That was a small peice of my experience. Hope it helps.