Hello, I recently got my replacement phone back from Carphone Warehouse (Samsung Galaxy 5 I5500) and when I tried to update it on KIES it said unofficial firmware so I couldn't upgrade it, the end of the firmware code said H3G which isn't right so I flashed my phone to cyanogenmod7.1 via Clockwork recovery, now i have decided I want to go to 2.2 official firmware, how would I do this?
Thankyou
Find your stock rom on http://www.shipped-roms.com/
Check out your phones section for flashing instructions
Edit: Just checked shipped roms they dont seem to have galaxy s roms listed. Prob best to ask in Galaxy S section.
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I've got a galaxy s2 from 02 and it is branded and running o2's flavour of software.
I've attached 2 screenshots to show the version I have.
Is it worth it for me to debrand, what would I realistically gain? I've looked through the forums and it seems there is newer generic firmware available. But there also seems to be mixed opinion as to weather it's worth upgrading. From what I can see I have 2.3.3 KF3 if that helps
It also appears that by flashing generic stock firmware via odin I will still be able to use kies so any future releases will download through kies using the firmware update feature?
Answers as always appreciated.
IF you download, from here, the latest stock Samsung ROM, then you will be able to fool KIES into thinking that your phone is no longer an O2 SGSII but a unbranded one. Thus you will be able to get the next available update of the official stock ROM when it is released via KIES.
The most important feature is an improvement in battery life.
If you stick with the branded ROM, then you have to wait a few months for the stock update to be customised by the operator and released.
This is the most important: if you flash an unbranded ROM, then you have invalidated your phone's warranty. You can simply reflash the O2 branded ROM, again available on here, this will put you phone back in warranty.
ok I see is there a link to the post that has the most recent fw? I will ofc check the dev forum stickies Many thanks for the swift reply and advice.
Without a doubt, so many good custom roms available and more newer stock firmwares. You can undo everything so no need to worry about putting it back to stock o2
cheers
Yeah I think I'll flash to generic stock rom then take in the updates from sammy, I'm blown away with this phone as it is running stock roms.
Will wait for ICS to be available on a un-official rom before I debate custom roms,
As soon as I got my sgs2 from O2, I debranded it straight away
Wow what a difference my phone is marginally faster one booted on 2.3.4 bootup is way quicker internet also seems faster.
Unlike X10i flashing new fw didn't basically factory reset the phone everything was as i left it bar the fw.
Had slight issue where it seemed to hang at the last big galaxy s screen for a minute or 2 when first booted but all phones seem to do this when flashed.
One question - my market hasn't changed os there a new one and should it automatically update?
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After countless flashing of custom roms, ICS, kernels etc. I forgot what the stock firmware that my phone was shipped in and I want to flash it back to stock. Is there any other way to know the stock shipped firmware version without looking in the settings since I am running ICS unofficial ROM now.
Nope. Just flash it to the latest stock firmware available.
thanks for your reply I actually tried many stock firmwares but it didnt work, so I checked the back of my phone and found out it was a french phone. Downloaded the firmware KJ2 and it worked whilst others (KI4, KI3) gave me a bootloop
Hi,
I am from India and have Samsung Galaxy S2. I was eager to update my phone to ICS and updated it couple of months back. Later i found that it was not an official update.
Now, I want to rollback to the original version of Gingerbread that was installed at the time of buying.
I tried factor reset, but its now working. I am seeing only ICS.
Can anyone help me on how to get back to my original version of my phone or let me know any link where i will be able to find detailed steps to rollback to my original version.
Thanks in Advance
Vijay
you can flash it from ODIN...
stock roms are available on Sammobile.com,
Go to sammobile.com
Download stock GB ROM
Download Odin flasher
Flash ROM through Odin
Your done.
Chris.
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hi
purchased a bell i717 with official bell ics installed.
tried to get it unlocked but fastgsm and cellunlocker could not unlock via usb or iemi.
found a user in anothe i717 thread unlocking but had to revert back to 2.3.6
i now canot get kies to update to ics official.
what i am looking for is bell official ics for odin flashing.
or a good custom rom for the note.
any help would be appreciated .
i tried stockroms.net but they only have the 2.3.6 which i downgraded with.
i have gone thru dozens of threads but no good links to bell official ics for the i717
thanks,jeff
Samfirmware.com has the stock bell ICS ROM.
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And its in the .tar format for Odin3. Get the password while you're downloading the rom.
thanks to both of you,thats exactly what i did .
haven't checked if kies will let me update but the samfirware one got me back to ics.
Kies will let you update with your stock phone. Just don't do anything besides unlock it. After you upgrade you can flash CWM and root.
OP....could you please put the word "solved " in your thread title ?
It helps other users to find solutions to their questions, and keeps the threads clean.
Thank you !!.....g
Hello, lovly xda-Members and Supporters,
I'll start so my mother and I use the same smartphone - Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100 ...
When she came back home from work and she told me that there is an update for this, I was blown away,
I was looking through the manual setting on the phone for an update, but it said: No update available ...
So, all well and good, then I tried to update via Samsung Kies, Samsung Kies now says to me: Software update via Samsung Kies is not supported by your device ...
I Did something really silly the other day as i flashed a rom to my Galaxy S2 i9100 and i stupidly forgot to back up my stock firmware.
Is there a possibility to get my old firmware again?
I live in Germany.
& I'd love to have this update on my phone.
Each answer is helpful and I thank you once in advance!
Stress Syndrom
StressSyndrom said:
Hello, lovly xda-Members and Supporters,
I'll start so my mother and I use the same smartphone - Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100 ...
When she came back home from work and she told me that there is an update for this, I was blown away,
I was looking through the manual setting on the phone for an update, but it said: No update available ...
So, all well and good, then I tried to update via Samsung Kies, Samsung Kies now says to me: Software update via Samsung Kies is not supported by your device ...
I Did something really silly the other day as i flashed a rom to my Galaxy S2 i9100 and i stupidly forgot to back up my stock firmware.
Is there a possibility to get my old firmware again?
I live in Germany.
& I'd love to have this update on my phone.
Each answer is helpful and I thank you once in advance!
Stress Syndrom
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You most definitely can return to stock, but if you didn't back up whatever data you had before flashing the new ROM, then they're gone (assuming you wiped before flashing). You'll find all the firmwares you want here:
http://www.sammobile.com/
I'm assuming that you had ICS before flashing the custom ROM, because you said you didn't receive an update, so you can most definitely do that OR, you can manually flash the update you didn't receive yet, which is 4.1.2 JB Anyway, all firmwares are there
Viel Glück
oshmoun said:
You most definitely can return to stock, but if you didn't back up whatever data you had before flashing the new ROM, then they're gone (assuming you wiped before flashing). You'll find all the firmwares you want here:
http://www.sammobile.com/
I'm assuming that you had ICS before flashing the custom ROM, because you said you didn't receive an update, so you can most definitely do that OR, you can manually flash the update you didn't receive yet, which is 4.1.2 JB Anyway, all firmwares are there
Viel Glück
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it was for 4.1.2 JB ? my phone is actually 4.0.4, it was allways 4.0.4, so it isn't for my phone anyway ? where can i find stock everything for my phone ? on Sammobile it shows me Taiwan 4.1.2 ...
PS ; Your German ?
In case you still need ICS, Then I'd suggest you google for that. Just search for samsung galaxy S2 4.0.4 firmware. you should find it. It's also helpful if you add your service providor (O2, T-Mobile or any other) just to make sure the phone will work with that network. It's just safer that way
I don't know if we're allowed to post links to outside sources here, but it's enough to say that many German android forums have what you want you just need to search really well
Not German, but I live in Germany :silly:
oshmoun said:
In case you still need ICS, Then I'd suggest you google for that. Just search for samsung galaxy S2 4.0.4 firmware. you should find it. It's also helpful if you add your service providor (O2, T-Mobile or any other) just to make sure the phone will work with that network. It's just safer that way
I don't know if we're allowed to post links to outside sources here, but it's enough to say that many German android forums have what you want you just need to search really well
Not German, but I live in Germany :silly:
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im so confused, found nothing ... heeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp