How to Root the Galaxy Ace 2.3 GingerBread

1. Download the upd_1.zip file into your sd card. You can even put it in a folder if you want.

2. Turn your phone off

3. Boot your phone into recovery mode. To do that, hold HOME+POWER buttons. When the screen turns on and you see the Samsung logo, let go of POWER but keep holding HOME. After the Galaxy Ace logo shows up and disappears, you should enter recovery mode. You can let go of HOME now.

4. Now in recovery mode, you can scroll up and down using the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons and select using the HOME button.

5. Scroll to the second option “apply update from sdcard” and press HOME to select.

6. Scroll to the upd_1.zip file and select it (if you put it in a folder, find and open that folder and then select upd_1.zip

7. After it’s done installing, select “reboot system now” and wait for the phone to reboot

8. To check if your phone is rooted, go to you app drawer and look for an app called superuser with an icon of a pirate android with cross bones. If you see it, your phone is rooted.

Congrats! You’ve officially
rooted you galaxy ace!!

Now what if you want to go
back to unrooted for some
reason, It’s easy. Very similar to rooting

How to Un-root the Ace 2.3 GingerBread