Hello.
I've looked and looked and looked but cannot find a definitive answer to my question. My sincerest apologies to those who think it's another stupid question.
Does my Galaxy Ace on Orange need to be unlocked before I can flash new firmware? I have not done enough posts yet to mention websites so I hope you'll understand the following www sammobile com - dots in appropriate places!! - stated that I either get the phone unlocked or use provider firmware. I am currently on S5380BVKQA but I hear good things about both KPH and KS2.
I am a noob, but a determined noob. I will not let a minor hindrance defeat me before I've even begun my Android experience.
Cheers
Hello all...
I am new to the Android platform.. Bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab GT-P7500
Android Version: 3.1
Baseband Version: P7500XXKI1
Kernel Version: 2.6.36.3
Build Number: HMJ37 P7500DXKI2
Bought it in Singapore, and noticed that the "Dutch" language was not available. I tried using these locale changing programs, and they work, but only change parts of the OS.
Is it quite straightforward to install another firmware to make it a Europe model? If yes, which firmware do I actually use. Have been reading in the other forums, but really cannot find which one to use.
I do understand that it is only this Odin program I need to install another firmware and it works? Can I use the same program to first backup my current firmware in case something goes wrong?
Sorry for all these questions, but have been reading through many threads now, and all seems to be for the professionals, and in Android it is not me at the moment.
Hope someone can help out.
Thanks everyone.
hi man regarding the firmware if you want a stock firmware you can go to samfirmware.com and search for the one of your model and area or you can take a look on the android development area of the forum and see if there is a firm that you like to try and regarding the odin thing you can read the instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171089 and have the last version of cwm here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1090289 you will now what it is once you read the first post oh and yes with this you can make a back up of the original firmware in case you want to go back
hey,
thanks for the links already.
however, still not 100% clear to me.
I have downloaded the Open Europe firmware for the GT-P7500, but still it is unclear on how to exactly do the change through Odin.
I can simply load the downloaded .TAR into the option CSC of Odin and push start? The TAR itself contains .bin and .img files
Any options that should be selected or not in this Odin software?
Sorry for the stupid questions people... Really new to this, so some detailed procedure should have been great..
And for newbies not that 100% clear that thread, at least not for me..
If it's a single tar file, flash as PDA.
ivovdb said:
hey,
thanks for the links already.
however, still not 100% clear to me.
I have downloaded the Open Europe firmware for the GT-P7500, but still it is unclear on how to exactly do the change through Odin.
I can simply load the downloaded .TAR into the option CSC of Odin and push start? The TAR itself contains .bin and .img files
Any options that should be selected or not in this Odin software?
Sorry for the stupid questions people... Really new to this, so some detailed procedure should have been great..
And for newbies not that 100% clear that thread, at least not for me..
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Sent from my GT-P7500 using XDA App
Thanks.. Noted.
And do I need to do the procedure first to root the device or not?
Then last question, do I leave the default options "Auto Reboot" and "F.Reset Time" on, and all the rest off? (Re-partition / Flash Lock / Phone EFS Clear / Phone Bootloader Update)
Sorry for the questions, but once I am set want to try, and afraid I might destroy it so...
Thanks to everyone for the help already...
Hello,
I just installed the new firmware without doing the root procedure first.
All seems to work fine, and now I have all languages available.
I cannot update it through KIES, will look some more for that.
But wondering, can I download and install an update directly on the Galaxy Tab? It says one 99Mb update is available for the system.
Wondering if this will destroy it or not....
Anyone who can answer this?
Hello XDA-Developers,
First of all thank you for all what you do to help us to keep us filling our freaky obsession .
I wanted to post this on Intras's thread but i do not have enough rights, so I hope someone can help me posting it there. This was asked/referred before for other models (e.g. SGS).
Not long time ago the firmware came splitted as mentioned. In Intras's thread one can find separated Modems and CSC, but unfortunately not PDA.
Would be possible to do that? I guess a lot of people want to mix his own Frankestein. In my case, i want to try:
PDA = XWLP8
CSC = XEULP5
Modem = BULP6
I know you can just mix this in Odin or Mobile-Odin or flash separate afterwards, but some times it does not work as expected and it is good to do it in one go. Man can avoid bricks and spare time.
Thank you all.
I've been given a SGS2 to mess about with and I'm having a bit of trouble with it.
The first thing I'm confused about it which variant I have.
I see on the sticker under the battery
Model: GT-I9100
SSN: I9100GSMH
Does that mean its the 'G' variant?
I think it was on Orange UK previously.
The second thing I confused by is the different flashing and rooting options.
I see you can use ODIN or CWM, you can use ODIN to flash pit/kernel/CSC/PDA files etc.
However, I've read references to using insecure kernels to allow rooting causing warning triangles and there being better methods.
Some refer to PIT files needing to be used to fix soft-bricks and some posts say never use them.
I'm just really confused by there being so many conflicting posts.
If anyone can answer some of the questions, even if it's just with links to helpful posts/threads I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance all.
It is NOT the G variant.
G variant would say:
Model: GT-i9100G
Regarding the SSN: portion, the G following I9100 is part of the "GSM" portion of the string, identifying what type of phone it is.
In terms of reading: start here.
Perfect, thanks.
Hi all,
Before commenting, I did try to search unsatisfactorily to see if there is a Samsung Galaxy M-52G corner but unfortunately it seems not.
My specific device is Android (Samsung; SM-M526B; Lahaina; arm64-v8a) v12 . In the inventory section, I had to add M51 although I don't own it and have only M52G.
My actual question is, can I root M52G, and does it use all the files, and resources that M51G uses?
I am on a Debian testing box (no Windows) so what sort of precautions I need to take. I do understand I would have to take a backup but dunno the different ways I can go about it. The best for me is to backup all the info. on a thumb-drive unless people think that is a wrong option.
Looking forward to know more.