[ Tutorial ] Nandroid Backup and CWM (ClockWorkMod) Recovery for S2 i9100

This tutorial is for starters who are looking to dig deep into their android devices.
Well Nandroid is a safe bet, as if something goes wrong one can restore the state at which they created a backup (just like restore point in windows).

So the problem arrives when we reboot our system into recovery (because every where it is written that we can create our backup (nandroid backup) in recovery mod). Stock recovery does not provide the options of backup and restore.

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[ Tutorial ] Rooting S2 i9100 (int). Simple, Fast and shortest method.

It has been a little less than a year since I got my first android device and it is still in warranty, and I have started experimenting on it (did nandroid backup of stock incase anything goes wrong).

Well this post is about rooting the i9100 device without increasing Flash counter and showing Yellow Triangle and I did a lot of research before doing it (as 1st time is the scariest). But thanks to XDA community, it was made easier for me. It provided me many ways to root the Samsung's 1st famous android device.

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Android Bug (Update)

Update: With the new Jelly bean update rolling out, this bug seems to be fixed on 4.1.2 android, but is still present in 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 ICS versions of S2.

I have been using android for past few months. So this post was just to test the bug in the android stock browser (Touchwiz) that was going around and haven't been fixed yet. So clicking on the following linksfrom android phone will open phone dialer and do as mentioned.

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