Flashing can brick your phone but is needed to upgrade your phone or root your phone.
So beware of the consequences arising out of using wrong firmware or incorrect flashing procedures or failing to observe requirements.
Requirements :-
1) PC or Laptop installed with samsung usb drivers
2) Odin 1.85 or 3.4 or later version installed on your PC/Laptop
3) The latest Stock ROM (WF07) or custom ROM
(only M110S ROMS) of your choosing
4) The Korean Galaxy S (SHW M110S)
Note:- NOT OTHER MODELS OF GALAXY S
(you can download your software requirements from
Pit Stop)
First and foremost you must UNDO any lagFix or partition you had made in your phone.
Never wipe data if you had enabled Onenand Mode before! or you will end up in serious problems.
Second in order to Save your important files like
efs folder /backups/Images/ downloaded game content etc, use a file manager and copy paste them to your external SD card and remove your external SD card for safe keeping or use
USB Mass Storage mode to save them to your PC/Laptop and remove external SD card
Third you need to
Format your Internal SD card by:- Touch Menu> settings> storage> unmount Internal SD card> Format and
you need to
Factory reset the phone as well by:- Touch menu> settings> Privacy> factory reset + wipe SD card
Lastly Enable USB Debugging on Phone. Touch menu> Settings> Applications> Development>, You need to shutdown phone , boot-up into 3e recovery (press and hold Volume down + Home + Power)
Here you need to wipe device as well as wipe partition and reboot.
Make sure you have more than 50% Battery Charge and Never interrupt Flashing process and also Disable Samsung KIES when using Odin. Kill Kies.exe, KiesTrayAgent.exe, & KiesPDLR.exe using Task Manager on PC
Again check battery Level every-time before you start
Above are REQUIREMENTS , you MUST and HAVE to fulfill them for a clean and safe flashing process
Flashing Procedure :-
1) Shut down your phone and remove battery, press and hold power button for a minute than reinsert battery
2) Put your phone into download mode
Like this (press home + power buttons)
3) run Odin, select the file (rom or kernel you wish to flash) under
PDA
(do not tick or click any other button,
restart odin if you made mistakes)
4) Connect USB cable to PC and wait for Odin com port to turn
yellow Like this
(your phone should and must be recognized)
5) Press start and wait for the
green PASS signal from ODIN
Like this
(on a successful flash, to disconnect the USB cable)
Its all over in five seconds for a kernel and a few minutes for a Rom, IF there were no problems
6) Once your phone has rebooted and you are full of joy, shut down the phone again insert your external SD card and reboot by recovery mode (Volume down + Home + Power)
Here you need to wipe device as well as wipe partition and reboot for the phone to function without complications.
Thats it, you are on the new firmware
But..
in download mode it may get stuck or fail to complete, thats when you need to
1) remove battery and reinsert
2) you may notice your phone going into upgrade mode
Like this or BSOD
Like this and cannot go into download mode
3) just run Odin (when you connect phone, Odin will recognize and turn yellow)
If not press Home + Power to enter download mode
4) Re-Flash again after making sure you had followed above procedure No. 3 to 6 , it should pass
In the event It failed again and again, you may need to use the repair kit to resolve this problem you can download
Recovery guide or follow this
First stage :- For every Stage of Flashing RESTART ODIN and always use Fresh ODIN
1) download
repair kit and unzip it (you will have 6 tar files)
2) put phone into download mode after battery pull
2) run odin and select m110s.pit under
PIT (Re-partion option will be automatically
ticked)
3) select M110S-PDA-PHONE-MOVI-REV03-DG23-1409-USER.tar.md5 under
PDA
4) connect phone and Press start (within 10 min your phone will reboot into Eclair Firmware)
Second stage:-
1) put phone into download mode after battery pull
2) run odin select S1_KOR_DE09.pit under
PIT (make sure you UNTICK the re-partition option in Odin)
3) select M110S-BOOT-DG23-1409.tar.md5 under
CSC
4) connect phone and press start (within a few min phone will reboot)
Third Stage:-
1) put phone into download mode after battery pull
2) run Odin select M110S-NPS-IMAGE-REV03-DG23-1409-USER.tar.md5 under
PDA
3) selct M110S-PHONE-REV00-DG24.0151_Develop.tar.md5 under
PHONE
4) Connect Phone and select start ( within few min phone will reboot )
Fourth Stage:-
Your Phone is currently running its FIRST out of the box Firmware used in 2010 , so now you need to upgrade to the latest 2012 Stock ROM or Custom ROM of your choice so repeat Flashing Procedure to upgrade to Latest Firmware
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