Hi, am going to show you how to use odin to flash, upgrade or unbrick samsung devices. Simply follow the steps below carefully inprder to avoid
permanent damage on your smart phone.
Download and install samsung usb drivers from here.
Download the odin (latest version preferred) from here
Download the exact rom of your device. Check out samsung roms from here
Watch video tutorial from here
Steps
- Launch odin
- Make sure only Auto Reboot & F. Reset Time is ticked.
- Put your device into download mode by pressing down Volume Down > Home > Power key
- Press volume up on the screen that has a yellow triangle to get into odin mode.
- Connect the device to the computer.
- Added!! will be seen showing the device has connected successfully.
- Click on AP (new versions of odin) or PDA (older versions of odin).
- Navigate to the folder containing the rom of the device.
- Select the rom. (roms names always end with .tar or .md5).
- Wait for odin to process the rom.
- Click start.
- The flashing or upgrading process will now begin.
- A green progress bar will be seen at the top left.
- This process will take about 8 mins or more (depends on the size of the rom.
- When you see PASS! at the top of odin GUI know that you have successfully flashed or upgraded the device
- The device will reboot.
- First boot after this process takes time. Be patient+++++++++
- Do a factory reset if phone bootloops.
- Press Volume up > Home > Power key
- Select factory reset.
- Scroll down to Yes.