How To Root Samsung Galaxy Camera On Android Jelly Bean

By - Sukesh Kumar(facebook)(twitter)

The very first question that pop up into your head when you get an android device is, how to root this thing? And its the same with Samsung Galaxy Camera recently launched in India.

Well, thanks to  XDA Developers, proper method to root Samsung Galaxy Camera is out.

DISCLAIMER : Hackinthus will not be held responsible if you lose data or your device gets damaged while following this guide. Proceed at your own risk.

Requirements

The instructions provided below are for Windows OS, as Odin works on that.

You can do the same with Heimdall on Linux.

• Required recovery & cache package
• Odin3 Flashing tool version 1.85
• Jellybean 4.1.1 build:GC100XXALK1 (required only if your current firmware refuses to accept the CF root used above)
• USB Drivers for your Galaxy Camera

All these files can be downloaded via link provided at the end. 

Procedure

Step 1: Extract the CF-Auto-Root-gd1-ekgc100.tar.md5 file from the recovery and cache package that you downloaded, and keep it in the same folder as Odin.

Step 2: Open Odin3 1.85 as administrator by right-clicking on it and choosing “Run as administrator”.

Step 3: Start the Galaxy Camera in download mode (Turn it off, and turn back on while pressing and holding Volume Down+Camera+Power).

Step 4: Connect the Samsung Galaxy camera to PC using USB cable. If drivers are installed fine, the first box under ID:COM will turn yellow.

Step 5: Hit the PDA button and point to the .tar.md5 file you extracted in step 1. Do not make any other changes, but make sure Re-Partition is UNCHECKED.

Step 6: Click Start, and wait for the process to complete.

Done!! Your Samsung Galaxy Camera is rooted!!

For more clarification and to download the required files mentioned above, refer to the link below :

XDA-Developers 

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Mod for increasing Camera Quality of Sony Xperia Ray, Active, Mini, and Mini Pro

By-Rustam Ali

Mobile companies while manufacturing a device restrict the features of the hard wares to a certain limit so the customers are not able to make use of their devices to its full capacity. Their have always been tweaks for increase the performance via some softwares or tweaks which include overclocking the smartphone's CPU , Modding camera to its full capacity to get high quality pictures and videos. 

Today i will tell you how to mod your Sony Xperia Ray, Active, Mini, and Mini Pro's Camera quality. 

Sony Xperia Active

Sony Xperia Ray

Sony Xperia Mini Pro

Photo Credits- Sony

Some of the features that this tweak includes:
-Camera Mod Fast Capture
-Smooth HD Recording
-HQ Stereo Audio Video Recording
-Improved HD Video Audio to 256kbps From 128kbps
-Format HD Video Recording changed to MPEG4 from H264 for better performance Smooth
-100% JPEG Quality


The tweak that has to be used for this process is Cybershot 4.0, which you can get from here.
This update has to applied via CWM (ClockWorkMod), if you do not know how to use CWM you can refer to my last post. Just do not forget to backup your phone before performing this process and do "WIPE CACHE PARTITION" then reboot your device and after installing please clear data camera & force stop in setting>applications>all . Then you are good to go and enjoy your camera with high quality pictures and smooth HD video recording. 

Note: We are not responsible if your device gets bricked during this process.

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