Flashing/upgrading your phone’s firmware can both be easy and difficult. It is easy because you have a lot of resources in the internet with instructions that you can follow. And, it can be difficult because not following those instructions could render your phone unusable or what people may call as “bricked”.
There are some advantages to knowing how to flash your phone. For one, you can flash your phone with a ROM file that is currently not available for your country or phone model. You also have a chance of trying a ROM ahead of others when a link to a leaked ROM is posted in the internet. So, to help you a bit in your thinking, I’m giving you some basics.
There are stock ROMs and custom ROMs available in the internet. Custom ROMs are usually based on a particular firmware version with modifications to allow you to do more and also to gain some performance improvements. One example would be Lite’ning ROM. I’m sticking to stock ROMs so that is what I’m going to discuss here.
First off, you can download stock ROMs from SamFirmware.com. You need to register to be able to see the download links. Most of the files are zipped and you need to extract them. After extracting you’ll notice that, again, some involve multiple files while some only consist of one. The single-file firmware simply just includes all those different files into one. However, the process of flashing does not change.
You also need a software called Odin3-v1.85. This is the software that you need to use to do the actual flashing. You can do a quick Google search to find the download link. Here's how Odin looks like:
For those firmwares with only a single file, you simply put that file into the PDA section of Odin and that’s it. For multiple files, it gets a bit tricky but not difficult. Here it goes:
The file with CODE in the name goes to the PDA section of Odin.
The file with CSC goes to CSC.
The file with MODEM goes to PHONE in Odin.
I guess that’s enough for now. I'll provide more information in future blog posts. You may want to check out the steps I took to flash my phone here: http://edmundsspace.blogspot.com/2011/10/flashing-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-to-dxki2.html
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