Samsung gt-i9500 4 file repair Firmware
You can use the firmware for a variety of purposes, which includes:- Fix if it’s giving you force closes errors and restarts randomly.
- Unbrick it’s bootlooping and stuck at logo when restarting.
- Go Back to Stock helps when looking to sell the device, or fix installing OTA updates if broken.
- Restore to factory state.
- Upgrade to newer Android version.
- Downgrade to lower build no. at same Android version.
- Unroot your Device
- Remove custom recovery like TWRP and CWM, if installed, .
Step-by-step Firmware Installation Guide
Let’s see how to install the firmware on your Samsung gt-i9500. Make sure you have more than 30% battery on your device.
- Power off your device.
- Press and hold the three buttons Volume down + Home + Power together until you see the Warning screen.
- Press Volume Up to continue to download mode.
Step 2. Load the firmware file into Odin. Click the AP button on Odin and the select the .tar.md5 file from above.
Load the firmware files(s) on your device. This depends on how many
files you got in step 4 above upon extracting the firmware .zip file.
Case 1: If you got a single .tar/.tar.md5 file, then load this into AP tab of your Odin software. Then go to next step.
To load the file, click on AP tab, select the single firmware file
starting with AP text, wait for it to load, and then skip to step 11,
ignoring the rest of the part of this step.
Case 2: If you got more than one .tar/.tar.md5 file,
then you must be having files starting with AP, CSC, Home_CSC, BL, CP,
etc. stuff. In this case, choose the files as follows. Select the
firmware files as follows.
- Click on BL tab, and select the file beginning with BL text.
- Click on AP tab, and select the file beginning with AP text.
- Click on CP tab, and select the file beginning with CP text.
- [Different] Click on CSC tab, and select the file beginning with HOME_CSC text. If HOME_CSC file isn’t available, then select the file beginning with CSC text.
Step 3. Click on Options tab, and make sure Re-partition checkbox is NOT selected. Don’t use PIT tab, ever.
Go back to Log tab now, as it will show the progress of firmware installation when you hit the start button in next step.
Step 4. Verify that everything is okay as mentioned above. When satisfied, click the Start button on Odin now to start flashing the firmware on your device.
Wait till installation is finished, after which your device will reboot automatically. You’ll get PASS message as shown below upon successful installation from Odin.
