Rooting Samsung Galaxy Pop With Official Gingerbread 2.3.6.

Official Gingerbread v2.3.6 is finally released for Indian Samsung Galaxy Pop GT-S5570 and in my previous post I wrote about how you can get this official update on your phone manually using Odin. Today in this article I will tell you how you can root your Galaxy Pop which is running official gingerbread 2.3.6 (S5570DDKQ7 firmware). Please follow through the steps carefully for successful rooting of you devices. If you don't know already let me tell you that rooting will provide you with superuser access to your device, giving you full control of it. Once rooted, you can access system files, change fonts easily, remove unnecessary system apps, install those apps that need root access to run and many more which are a matter of talk if your phone is not rooted.

Before beginning, let me warn you that rooting has a risk of bricking your devices resulting it unusable. So, Do It At Your Own Risk. Also, I have tried it and it works fine on my galaxy pop gts5570 which is running this same update of Gingerbread 2.3.6. So, it will probably be fine if you stick with the steps below. Let's being with it then.

1. First of all, download the upd_1.zip file from my drop box mediafire. If you don't have Drop box account yet then signup now from this link to get extra 250 MB free along with regular 2 GB cloud storage.
   
   
2. Mount you SD Card to your personal computer and then copy the file you downloaded to the root directory of your sd-card (It means simply don’t copy inside any directory/folder).
   
   
3.  Unmount your SD Card from your computer and reboot your galaxy pop smart phone in to recovery mod (Press Home + Power Button).
   
   
4. Select ‘Apply update form sdcard’ and select the file (named gingebread-2.3.6-root.zip) you copied earlier to your sdcard (Use Volume keys to navigate and Home key to confirm selection).
5. After the zip is successfully flashed; Reboot your device. (If your device doesn’t boot after applying update.zip file try wiping cache and data in the recovery menu).

That is all. Now you have a rooted you Android 2.3.6 smartphone running latest official gingerbread firmware. After you reboot your phone you will get Superuser app in your app drawer (see the screenshots below) which proves that your phone is rooted successfully. Now, you are the King of your smartphone and do whatever you want with it (remove system apps, use root applications, etc as I mentioned above), but, be careful with it or you might even harm your device.

Notice the superuser app in the App Drawer. It confirms a successful root.

An application is asking permission for root access and as you can see superuser has prompted us asking whether to give it root access or not. P.S. Be careful to provide super user access to only those apps that you trust otherwise the app might even harm your device.

Also, here is a short list of ten applications that are useful for a rooted android smartphone. I suggest you go through them to fully utilize the root access permissions you have gained right now. Also, feel free to ask for help if you are stuck somewhere or have any doubts regrading any issues in the comments below.