Upgrade Firmware

Samsung's first gen galaxy s series is a huge hit in mobile industry.It came with technology that a mobile can possibly get at that time.With the success of that device it has launched galaxy s plus which has model number as I9001 but this was not a huge hit as its predecessor.

If you still own this device you might have probably rooted it and install custom roms on it as samsung didn't provide any updates after gingerbread.Good thing about this galaxy s plus i9001 is that it is well received by android development community as a result we had latest android updates available though samsung denied official upgrades.

If you in search of any lollipop custom roms for this device,you will be listening that there are few which will put a smile on your face.In this post we will guide you to install resurrection remix custom rom on your samsung galaxy s plus i9001.Device specific codename for samsung galaxy s plus i9001 is ariesve.

Flashing or modifying your android device voids warranty and is also risky process.Neither we nor developers hold any responsibility if you brick your device in this process.So proceed at your own risk.

Before going further:

• Check you samsung galaxy s plus model number by going into about device and confirm that you are using I9001 only as flashing o other carrier variants might brick it.
• Make sure that  kies (drivers) is already installed on your computer.If you don't have then do install them.
• You must have updated it to official software that is already available if you are starting from scratch.
• Root: You need to have root access on galaxy s plus i9001 to install resurrection remix custom rom .
• Backup:Backup all your data which includes contacts,apps,photos videos etc everything to computer or any cloud networks as Flashing resurrection remix custom rom on your galaxy s plus I9001 might erase all the data on your device.
• Backup Efs partitions: This is for those who already have twrp installed.Backup all your efs partition of your samsung galaxy s plus on existing rom.Just in case if you loose signal or imei  you can just restore it back.
• Battery: Charge your I9001 so that you wont encounter any battery related problems while updating it.
• You must have a unlocked bootloader on your galaxy s plus to flash this rom.
• Downloads:Lollipop based resurrection remix rom for s plus(androidfilehost) on your computer or device itself.
• Recovery: You need a custom recovery like twrp already installed on your I9001.

Resurrection remix custom rom on galaxy s plus I9001:

Install resurrection remix rom on galaxy s plus I9001

About resurrection remix rom:
This Resurrection remix  which your are about to install on samsung galaxy s plus i9001 is based on android 5.1.1 lollipop and which is in turn based on cyanogenmod,slim,omni and original remix roms.So you can all the best features of other roms are included in this too along with performance and a decent battery life.

resurrection remix custom rom on samsung galaxy s plus

This rom is compiled by a xda senior member "nilac",a big thanks to him for bringing this amazing rom to galaxy s plus.This rom is stable enough for daily usage and you can use it as a daily driver for some time for sure.
Features of this rom:

• Theme enigne: Theme engine is from the cyanogenmod custom rom which basically changes the look user interface from lock screen  to ring tones all the way up to boot animations.The speciality of the theme engine is the ability to choose individual elements of every theme you have installed.So you like the ring tones and wallpapers of one theme and icons of other theme then you can have them at a time.Just open the theme chooser and you will understand how to do it.
  
• Navigation bar tweaks: You can enable disable or navigation bar and also you can adjust the size of navigation bar.Navigation ring included toggles to in case of quick access just swipe from bottom of screen and you can access apps which you have set.
• App circle Bar:Swiping from the left or right edges of the screen an app bar pops up and you can choose what app you want to launch.This is great way of multitasking.
• Gesture anywhere: This basically lets to open any app at any time(while using other apps) with just a gesture.You have to set the gestures and use them.Though you get any floating  type apps so that they can be used over other apps as multitasking its still a nice feature to have.
• Status bar tweaks: Status bar has lot of tweaks which include a brightness slider.Slide in status bar to adjust brightness of the screen.Various tweaks are available to carrier label too like color and switch.Quick and smart pull down are also present.Battery icon too has tweaks.
• Network speed: On going network speed is displayed on status bar.Both upload and download speed are displayed and you can adjust time interval.
  
• Lock screen mods: This includes placing of 5 shortcuts on lock screen and also set targets for the slider.
• Recent panel mods: Stock recent panel do not have an option to clear all the apps at once.In this rom you a button to clear apps and can even set the position of the button.

These are some of the features of the resurrection remix rom and you can explore more features by flashing this custom firmware on your galaxy s plus i9001 that is ariesve.

Flash remix rom using twrp recovery:

• Download resurrection remix rom for galaxy s plus (Resurrection-Remix-LP-v5.5.5-20150907-ariesve.zip)and Gapps transfer them to sdcard or internal storage of device.
• Power of the device completely and wait for few seconds to confirm that it is completely off.
• Using button combinations reboot into recovery or use quick boot app to enter recovery.
• Once you are in recovery backup existing rom first. It might about 5 to 10 minutes for backup to complete and do not interrupt backup process.
• Now download another modified recovery(devhost mirror) and transfer it to sdcard.
• Reboot into recovery and flash the new recovery and reboot to recovery again.
• Once you are in new modified recovery click on wipe and choose advance wipe option.you have to choose as ext4 partition.
• Once you have wiped required partitions go back and click on install.
• Navigate to location where you have placed your i9001 rom and select it.
• Swipe to confirm flash and wait for 5 minutes for process to complete.
• Again click on install and select gapps this time,swipe to confirm to flash.
• Once gapps are flashed reboot to system.Wait at least 15 minutes for initial boot to complete and once done you can explore its features.

If you don't have twrp recovery then you can flash it using cwm along with new modified recovery.

• Download resurrection remix rom for I9001 and modified recovery recovery from above link transfer them to sdcard or internal storage of device.
• Power of the device completely and wait for few seconds to confirm that it is completely off.
• Using button combinations reboot into recovery or use quick boot app to enter recovery.
• Once you are in recovery backup existing rom first. It might about 5 to 10 minutes for backup to complete and do not interrupt backup process.
• Click on install and first flash new recovery which you have downloaded.
• Once flashed click on reboot recovery again.
• Once you are in new modified recovery click on wipe and choose advance wipe option and click on wipe data as ext4 partition .
• Once you have wiped partitions go back and click on install.
• Navigate to location where you have placed your galaxy s plus rom and select it.
• Swipe to confirm flash and wait for 5 minutes for process to complete.
• Again click on install and select gapps this time,swipe to confirm to flash.