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If you are still paranoid about installing the latest version of KitKat in your Galaxy S II GT I9100 Android smartphone then you no longer have to. In the due course of this article we will be guiding you on how you can install the latest version of KitKat 4.4.2 firmware. While there is hardly any scope of official KitKat 4.4.2 android OS from Samsung citing hardware limitations and limited support. So let’s quickly go through the list of quick pre requisites mentioned below and then we will check out on what is the procedure with which you can apply this firmware update.
Quick Pre Requisites:
- It’s highly recommended that you should backup all the data in your Galaxy S2 with the help of below mentioned steps so as to make sure that just in case if the data gets lost or corrupted, the same can be restored easily.
SMS – Use “SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Contacts – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log –Call Log and Restore
Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to internal / External SD Card,
APN and MMS Settings – Note down from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”
- From the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”, enable the USB Debugging in your device. Minimum battery life should be a minimum of 40% or else there is a risk of device getting turned Off in the middle of firmware update.
- Since this firmware is the custom ROM firmware, make sure that your device is rooted. You can check on whether the device is rooted or not with the help of “Root Checker” app. Just in case if the device is not rooted, you can root your Galaxy S2 with the help of below mentioned steps.
- After rooting, download the “ROM Manager” app from Google PLAY Store and install the custom recovery image in your device.
Disclaimer: We should not be held responsible / liable in any manner for the damage happened to your Galaxy S2 due to not following instructions.
Lets head over to the next step where we have mentioned the detailed guide which will help you update the device with the latest firmware of Kitkat 4.4.2.
Procedure to Manual Update Galaxy S2 I9100 Android Phone with Jellybean 4.4.2 Firmware:
- Download Jellybean 4.4.2 Android Firmware Package and Google Apps Package from here to your computer. Once downloaded, connect your phone to computer with the help of original USB cable and place these two zip files in your device.
- Press and hold Home + Power + Volume Up buttons to enter the device in the Download Mode. If your Galaxy S2 i9100 enters in the Normal mode, then you need to re try the process of entering the device in the Recovery Mode. You can also enter the device in the recovery mode with the help of ROM Manager app.
- In recovery mode, select options to clear and wipe the data present in your phone by selecting the options like “Clear Data” and “Wipe Cache”.
- Once done, you now need to select the option of “install zip from sd card” and then select the firmware zip file which you have placed in the device. It will take around 4 -5 minutes to apply both the zip files in your device.
- Once done, select “go back” and choose the option of “reboot in normal mode” for rebooting the device normally. Please note that it may sometime take more than 4 -5 minutes for rebooting the device in the normal mode.
- To check on whether the firmware is update or not, you need to head over to the path “Settings > About Phone” where the current firmware will be mentioned as Kitkat 4.4.2 firmware.
Note: If at all your Galaxy S2 I9100 smartphone gets in the boot loop mode, then you need to turn off the device and then reapply the update from the start. To turn off you can reinsert the battery or say you can long press the power button.
Do let us know in the comments section just in case if you face any issues in the process of firmware update. You have now successfully updated the latest version of Jellybean 4.3 Android firmware in your Samsung Galaxy S2 I9100 Android smartphone.
We will very soon be coming up with custom ROM firmwares which are based on the KitKat 4.4.2 Android firmware.
Yes, now your Samsung Galaxy SII can also have kitkat!
UPDATED: 14/02/2015 , This post was originally posted in my old website zids dreamyworld, as that website is being shut down soon, the post had to be transferred to this site, Dead Links updated
Instructions
* – Your phone must be I9100 (not i9100G,i9100P or other variants) international version. go to settings > about phone > and make sure your phone is i9100
* – You must have at least 50% battery
* – Save, backup all your contacts and Apps/games before do this, or you gonna lose them all. Sd card and external card will not be deleted
* – Download and move these files to a safe folder to External Sd card
1. PhilZ-cwm6-XWLST-ODD-5.06.1-signed.zip
Download it here:XDA philz cwm list
1 – A * ( Warning!) after completed install philz cwm, reboot to recovery (volume up, home, power) , select Back up and restore , and back up your/efs from the next menus. This is important, it backs up your phone imei, and incase your phone has no signal,no imei after flashing this kitkat, just come to this philz cwm after installing it, then Restore it.
2. Download Cwm.kitkat.compatible. i9100.Zip here: CWM Kitkat compatible
3. Download Cyanogen Mod cm-11-20141115-SNAPSHOT-M12-i9100.zip , Here: Download ROM 4.4.4 cyanogenmod
Use 3G or Wi-Fi to download this, don’t use slow networks because file may corrupt
4. Google Apps (Small) –
gapps-kk-20140105-
signed.zip here: Google apps and select Gapps small for CM11
Starting the Flashing Process
1. Switch Off Your Phone, Boot into stock recovery
(volume up+home+power)
2. Select “ Apply update from external Sd card ” and go to the folder where the mentioned files that you downloaded earlier saved, and select and Install PhilZ-cwm6-*****-
signed.zip and wait…
Kitkat 4.4.4 Zip
(Warning!) – Do the /efs backup as explained in 1-A , if you do not do this, you may end up with a phone with no signal!
3. After finish that, turn off phone and Reboot into Philz recovery
(Switch off and volume up+home+power)
4. Do a full wipe, wipe data, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache (it’s in the menu options)
5. Select install Zip and Install CWM.kitkat.compatible.i9100.zip and wait till it’s complete…
6. Reboot into CWM (volume up+home+power)
7. Wipe data/factory reset, Wipe cache partition, Advanced>Wipe dalvik
cache
8. After finishing wipe, Select install zip and Install cm-11-20141115-SNAPSHOT-M12-i9100.zip and wait a minute…
9. After the installation complete, Select install zip again and Install gapps-kk-
signed.zip and wait..
10. After installation complete, Reboot and all done.
– first boot will take a few mins (sometimes more than 15 minutes) So Don’t panic 🙂 i have done this and successfully upgraded my S2 to kitkat
Screenshots
If there’s any errors or problems, drop a comment below, i will help 🙂
Enjoy the new kitkat 4.4.4 on S2!
Also search in the site how to get best battery life, signal and fix overheating of S2. My kitkat 4 4 4 is better than stock 4.1.2 with different modems, kernel etc
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