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How to Install Stock Firmware on Samsung Android Smartphones

Installing / Flashing a stock firmware on Samsung Smartphones powered with Android becomes necessary sometimes, in case of soft brick or if your phone is strucked in the bootloop. One of the advantages of installing a Stock Firmware is that, it clears all the junk from your phone, wipes the root access if you’ve rooted it – in simple words, it unroots your phone. The other big advantage of installing a stock firmware manually is, sometimes the OTA updates take a long time to get rolled out in the specific regions while the firmware files are available over the web, and if you have some know-how about the flashing it manually, you may not need to wait for the OTA updates and flash a firmware in 3-4 minutes using Odin through your PC.

We’ll be having a look on the method to Install a Stock Firmware on your Android powered Samsung Device. Follow the steps explained below to the letter to avoid any mishap and get the stock firmware installed on your device successfully.

Backup all your data placed on your phone’s internal storage, contacts, call logs and messages. This is necessary as wiping the factory data after flashing a stock firmware is a good choice in order to make it new and remove all the junk.

Download Odin – Get it HERE.
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First of all you need to download the Stock Firmware file for your Android Smartphone.

Check your device’s model number, to do so head to Settings > About Phone > Model

Open THIS PAGE and download the latest stock firmware for your device. See the stock rom for your region, if your region is not listed then download any. Region doesn’t really matter, just go with the latest firmware.

Extract the downloaded zip file on your desktop, it should be in .tar.md5* format. If you get the other files like PIT, CSC and Phone you may use them otherwise you just need to put the MD5 file which has the firmware in the PDA tab in Odin.

Open Odin.

Put your device in download mode. In order to do so press and hold Volume Down + Home Button + Power Key simultaneously until you see the warning to continue. Press Volume Up to continue.

In case your device doesn’t go into the download mode using this method, search for the method for your device on Google.

Connect your phone to your PC using the original data cable. As soon as your phone is detected by Odin, the ID:COM box on the top left corner should turn blue or yellow depending upon your Odin version.

Hit the PDA tab in odin, and select the extracted file that is in [MD5] .tar.md5 format.

Most probably you have the .tar.md5 only for the PDA tab so make sure that only Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time are selected in Odin, In case you got the other files like CSC and Phone, put them in their respective tabs.In case you’ve got the PIT file you need to select the re-partition tab as well (remember PIT is only needed in some special cases, ignore this file for normal upgrading / flashing of the stock firmware).

Hit start – It should take a few seconds while the firmware flashing gets completed.

As soon as it gets finished, your device will restart. As soon as it restarts, get it into the recovery mode by pressing and holding Volume Up + Home Button + Power Key simultaneously. You should get the recovery mode now. Reset Factory Data and Cache here – Restart your phone.

That’s all! You’ve successfully installed stock / factory firmware on your device and have it in the factory state now. Your device is just like a new device out of the box now.

That’s All! In case you face any problems, feel free to leave us a comment below. We will try our best to help you out. Thank You!

This post was last modified on August 23, 2014 10:34 am

Usama M

Usama is a software engineer by profession and at TechBeasts.com he uses his expertise to solve everyday consumer tech problems with his main areas of interest being Android, iOS and Windows.

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Muhammad Nouman says:

November 14, 2013 at 9:07 pm

i didnt get any mdf5 files just got some .rfs .bin files
- um009 says:
  
  November 14, 2013 at 9:10 pm
  
  @disqus_yonc7iMeO0:disqus it is not posssible. Did you download the firmware correctly? You need to extract the zip file, and there should be a .tar.md5 file in that firmware zipped folder.
  - Muhammad Nouman says:
    
    November 15, 2013 at 2:20 pm
    
    yap i downloaded from the link above as u mentioned...i extrated there are 5 files
    (1)Boot.bin
    (2)Cache.rfs
    (3)factoryfs.rfs
    (4)modem.bin
    (5)param.lfs
    and 2 more
    - um009 says:
      
      November 15, 2013 at 5:26 pm
      
      @disqus_yonc7iMeO0:disqus you are supposed to unzip the file once. You've unzipped the .tar.md5 file.
Mustafa Bohra says:

December 27, 2013 at 5:51 am

I am currently on ditto note 3 and want to return to stock rom 4.3 but do not want my phone to get formatted, so should I skip the last step or I have to format the phone in order to return to stock rom
- um009 says:
  
  December 27, 2013 at 12:06 pm
  
  @mustafabohra:disqus just wipe cache and dalvik cache. things should work fine.
Pratik Patadia says:

December 28, 2013 at 9:21 am

how to install original stock rom in s3 mini

now in my mob 4.4.2 virson but it didnt work well so now what i dooo give me please soon answer
- um009 says:
  
  December 28, 2013 at 12:19 pm
  
  @pratikpatadia:disqus Simply download the latest android from the links provided above and flash it using the above guide to the letter. There is no 4.2.2 for S3 Mini at the moment, you can only flash 4.1.2.
Yash says:

January 13, 2014 at 9:28 am

It Was Nearly Completed But Somehow My Computer Restarted... And Odin Closed And It Stopped. What Should I Do ?
- um009 says:
  
  January 13, 2014 at 3:55 pm
  
  @disqus_HfnUHF0uz7:disqus put your phone in download mode again and flash the firmware. No worries.
  - Yash says:
    
    January 13, 2014 at 5:26 pm
    
    Thank You... I've Got A More Serious Prob Though... The Battery One :| What Should I Do ?
Kita Gadsby says:

October 20, 2019 at 12:29 pm

the odin window is to big for my computer screen and i can't see the start button. I tried clicking in the general area where it should be but no luck, is there another way to get it to start?
Usama Mujtaba says:

January 20, 2014 at 9:39 am

@kitagadsby:disqus press control and then scroll down using your mouse, that should zoom out. Let me know if it works or not.
sriraj says:

February 6, 2014 at 5:51 pm

i follewd ur steps but it stopped at <ID:0/003> BcmBoot.img wat i do friend
- um009 says:
  
  February 7, 2014 at 4:48 pm
  
  @disqus_xerG6yZOlw:disqus remove your phone. Goto recovery and wipe factory data, now flash the firmware again. It would be wiser to restart your PC once again. This seems a connection issue.
Mitja Kovač says:

February 13, 2014 at 5:05 pm

After I go thru odin steps my phone restarts and automatically open recovery mode and in comand lines it says "failed to mount /dbdata" and "copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount /dbdata your storage not prepared yet."
The same says when I tried to reset factory data and when I restart phone the logo show up but it won't pass this point.
If anyone know how to solve the problem please help
Mitja Kovač says:

February 13, 2014 at 5:29 pm

After I go thru odin steps my phone restarts and automatically open recovery mode and in comand lines it says "failed to mount /dbdata" and "copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount /dbdata your storage not prepared yet."
The same says when I tried to reset factory data and when I restart phone the logo show up but it won't pass this point.
If anyone know how to solve the problem please help
- um009 says:
  
  February 13, 2014 at 9:54 pm
  
  @mitjakova:disqus choose your device's firmware correctly and flash it properly. Let me know what firmware have you downloaded and what's your device's model, I may be able to help then.
Armin Ghasem Azar says:

February 20, 2014 at 5:34 am

Hi. I did all the things you said. After the final restart, my Galaxy Win sticks in the boot, which shows me SAMSUNG logo (highlighting). I downloaded my firmware from samsung-updates:

http://samsung-updates.com/details/24342/Galaxy_Win/GT-I8552/CAC/I8552XXANA5.html

What should I do now? :(
- um009 says:
  
  February 21, 2014 at 11:55 pm
  
  @arminghasemazar:disqus boot into recovery > Wipe Data / Factory Reset / Cache and then flash the stock firmware. It should reboot without any issues now. First boot may take up to 10 minutes.