After a few seconds Odin showed that the phone had been added and assigned a COM port. I put the phone into download mode with the three button press, opened Odin and attached the USB cable. The two files I had downloaded were for Jelly Bean. ![]() If I had learned more about Kitkat and about the secure locked bootloader incorporated into Kitkat the following would not have happened. My first mistake was in assuming that my phone was running on Jelly Bean, not looking in the Settings> About Device > Android version 4.4.2, which is Kitkat. I already had the Samsung USB device drivers installed so the phone was recognised when I attached it to the USB cable. I also downloaded Odin 3.07 to my computer, installed it and put a shortcut on the desktop. I started by reading up what to do and saving instructions to my computer and then downloading the two zip files needed to flash the root and recovery packages. ![]() ![]() I wanted to do a Nandroid backup before I did things to the phone that, because I am new to this, I may just damage the Android operating system and end up with a bricked phone that I would not be able to repair. My problems started when I decided to install CWM recovery and root my Samsung Galaxy Pocket Neo GT-S5310I.
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