How To Root Galaxy Grand
Download Root.rar, which is having all necessary softwares/files for rooting except USB driver/Kies
STEP 1:-
Download firmware from www.sammobile.com
Install the firmware thru ODIN..
Install Kies (Search in net and download it. This will installed USB driver. If already installed skip this)
Press Volume down+Menu+Power...Now the phone should be in download mode. Press Volume UP once
Open ODIN and make sure COM port is detected your phone. You can check that under ID:COM
Click on F.Reset Time & Auto Reboot
PDA>Open Firmware file (You may have to extract the zip file of firmware, which you have downloaded from sammobile)
Press Start
Press Exit
New firmware installed and it should boot the device.
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STEP 2:-
Install CWM-touch_i9082_chotu.tar.md5
Press Volume down+Menu+Power...Now the phone should be in download mode. Press Volume UP once
Open ODIN and make sure COM port is detected your phone. You can check that under ID:COM
Click on F.Rest Time
PDA>Open file CWM-touch_i9082_chotu.tar.md5
Press Start
Press Exit
Press Power Button till the time phone is not switching off or Take out the battery
CWM Installed now.
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STEP 3:-
Fixing CWM and Rooting
Press Power+Volume Up+Menu, Boot in to CWM Recovery (This should boot in CWM if you manually switch off the phone in previous step, else will boot in stock recovery. Then you have to follow STEP 2 again)
Flash Fix-Recovery.zip (This is optional if your device installing stock recovery on reboot)
Flash UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.25.zip
Reboot
Check SuperSU installed or not once booted.
I do not have any credit on these files making..All credit to the original creator.
Please do this steps on your own risk, I am not responsbile if you brick your device.
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