Wednesday 25 June 2014

The best Custom ROM’s for Samsung Galaxy S duos with step by step process

The best Custom ROM’s for Samsung Galaxy S duos with step by step process

Here in this article you will come to know about the stable custom ROM’s available for Galaxy S duos that run on Android JellyBean 4.3 and do not lag at all. Please note that Tech Race is not responsible if you brick your phone. Flashing custom ROM won’t brick your device provided that you follow the steps carefully.

1. KyleOpen ROM

This ROM is developed by XDA developer cheatman and has JellyBean 4.3 version. The developer has added many features some of which are:
  • Debloated
  • Rooted
  • Custom boot image enabled
  • Custom boot sounds enabled
  • OTA Update engine
  • Google Now included
  • Flashplayer support
  • Samsung S Voice support through add-on
Before flashing ensure that you have rooted your device and battery is atleast 75% charged. Backup all your data using Titanium Backup.
Steps for flashing KyleOpen ROM:
  1. Download ROM zip from here which is of 407 MB. Copy it into your SD card.
  2. Shutdown your Galaxy S duos and then press volume up button+home+lock button.
  3. Then you will be in CWM recovery. Select “wipe data” then select “wipe dalvik cache”.
  4. Go back to main menu. Select “install zip from SD card” and then select the zip file.
  5. Installation will start. Wait till it completes. It generally takes upto 5-6 minutes.
  6. Once it completes select “go back” and then select reboot system now.
  7. Your device will reboot. Once booted, it will initialize all services and apps which will take a minute or two.
  8. That’s it. KyleOpen ROM has been installed.

2.HyperX™ ROM

The HyperX ROM developed by XDA developer charles1111 is a complete stock Android with some minor tweaks for smooth operating of the device. The ROM is completely stable and smooth and performs better than what stock ROM that your Galaxy S duos came with. The features of this ROM are:
  • CM9 themed system UI
  • Jelly bean drop down notifications
  •  4 way reboot
  • AOSP (Android Open Source Project) lock screen
  • Smoothness tweak added
  • Power saving tweak
  • Debloated
  • Rooted
  • Custom boot image enabled
  • Overclocked Kernel
  • Google Now
  • 25% transparent status bar
Installation of the HyperX ROM:
  1. Download ROM zip from here. Copy it into your SD card.
  2. Shutdown your Galaxy S duos and then press volume up button+home+lock button.
  3. Then you will be in CWM recovery. Select “wipe data” then select “wipe dalvik cache”.
  4. Go back to main menu. Select “install zip from SD card” and then select the downloaded zip file.
  5. Installation will start. Wait till it completes. It generally takes upto 5-6 minutes.
  6. Once it completes select “go back” and then select reboot system now.
  7. Your device will reboot. Once booted, it will initialize all services and apps which will take a minute or two.
  8. That’s it. ROM has been installed.

PMP™ Custom ROM

PMP Ultra ROM is the most stylish ROM among all these with a beautiful User Interface. XDA developer Mohitash claims that it is the most stable ROM for your Galaxy S duos and never freezes or lags. The ROM is pre-rooted and comes with an app called Link2SD which lets you move your appsdata to external SD card. Besides these other features of this ROM are:
  • Better battery backup with better performance and smoothness
  • Removed SMS to MMS conversion
  • Now can send sms to 200 contacts at a time
  • Full screen caller id removed
  • New look to answer/decline call screen while incoming call
  • All new look to System UI
  • New look to lock screen icon and pattern lock
  • New shutdown sound
  • ES File Explorer updated
  • Greenify updated
  • Launcher updated
  • Link2SD updated
  • Terminal Emulator updated
  • Viper4AndroidFX updated
  • Notifier removed
  • Some issues solved (with previous versions of this ROM)
Steps for flashing PMP Ultra custom ROM on Galaxy S duos:
1. Download PMP™ Ultra ROM v5.5 from here and PMP™ Ultra v5.7.4 update package from here.
2. Copy “PMP_U550_GT-S7562.zip” and “PMP_U574_Update-Package.zip”in your SD card.
3. Shutdown your Galaxy S duos and then press volume up button+home+lock button.
4. Then you will be in CWM recovery. Select wipe data then select wipe dalvik cache.
5. Go back to main menu. Select “install zip from SD card” and then select the downloaded zip file  PMP_U550_GT-S7562.zip from SD card.
6. Go back to the main menu and hit reboot.
7. Don’t panic as it will take some time. Now again follow step 3.
8. After entering CWM recovery, install second zip file which is update file by following step 5.
9. Reboot. Finally, you are on PMP Ultra ROM !
If you have any queries regarding these steps or if you get stuck somewhere in the process let us know in the comments section below and we will provide solution for the same.

3 comments:

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  2. Please tell me how to make hyperx file a zipfile.

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  3. Please tell me how to make hyperx file a zipfile.

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