Posts Tagged: chainfire

8Samsung Galaxy S2 WhiteNetwork sim unlock the Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100

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I was recently giv­en a Sam­sung Galaxy S2 which was locked to T‑Mobile, and was asked if I could unlock it so that it could be used on any net­work. I naively assumed that root­ing the phone would achieve this aim, but sadly this was not the case — it seems that some net­work pro­viders are still sim lock­ing phones, even on con­tract, and that break­ing these locks still isn’t always straight-for­ward. With enough research how­ever, it becomes a fairly straight­for­ward process.

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1Samsung Galaxy Note 2How to: Root the Samsung Galaxy Note 2

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As I’ve noted before pretty much the first thing I do when I get a new phone is root it. This time around its the turn of my part­ners Galaxy Note 2. Below I will sum­mar­ise the steps which are very sim­il­ar to those I used for my own Sam­sung Galaxy S3.

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5Samsung Galaxy S3How to: Root the Samsung Galaxy S3

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Pretty much the first thing I do when I get a new phone is root it. First and fore­most this allows me to install and enable adfree — which is get­ting increas­ingly essen­tial on android. On pre­vi­ous phones this was often tricky, altho in the last couple of years it has stead­ily got easi­er. This time it was the turn of my new Sam­sung Galaxy S3. Below I will sum­mar­ise the steps in my own way, but I had a look at sev­er­al guides on the net and the best one I found was on Android­Au­thor­ity.

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