Tips & Tricks

What is Samsung Odin and how to install firmware manually on Galaxy devices?

By Christina Cheng

Posted on May 31, 2021

Samsung has always been a quality-oriented brand and has never compromised at offering high-end and reliable services to its users. The company has made several improvements in its software over the past few years when it switched to One UI operating system from the older Samsung Experience UI.

The improvements are also notable in the software management system and the way the company cares for its products now. The Korean tech giant provides a stock ROM for each of its devices as soon as they are released. In case you go into a hard brick or dead state you can always roll back to the original version. And Samsung makes it, even more, easier by offering its own tool called Odin.

What is Samsung Odin?

Odin is such a tool that makes it easy to install the stock ROM or roll back to the previous software version. The other Android devices have options like Fastboot to recovery integrated into a single interface. Meanwhile, for the Galaxy users, there are different key combinations that are used to boot the device into Download/Odin to recovery modes.

If you own a Samsung device and are a bit interesting in such developer kinds of activities or keep playing with such custom or stock ROM things then this is all you’ve got. A complete guide to using Samsung Odin. It’s important to note that, the company has created this software for internal testings and wasn’t meant to expose it to general users. So, the early warning says to use it after getting a complete understanding or else you may end up losing your essential data.

Table of content:

Downloading Odin
Download firmware
Understanding Odin
Getting the device ready for the process
Extract firmware
Install the firmware using Odin

Downloading Odin

Samsung’s Odin sounds like any thor movie or the god of Vikings that lasted a couple of years ago. The naming scheme is completely unrelated and only the company could explain it. Anyways! The first step is to download this tool on your PC or laptop.

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Below is all the latest version of Samsung Odin and at the top is the most latest and newest one. And we will regularly update this as soon as the company releases the new version. For more details jump here

Download firmware:

You need to download firmware in order to flash it on your device and this you can do in different ways available online. Our folks over SammyFans have made it, even more, easier to download the firmware for any Galaxy device with their complete guide on how to download firmware for Samsung phones. Check it here

Understanding Odin

After you install the latest version of Odin on your device, you’ll be getting a completely different interface with such terms that you must be looking at for the first time. In such a case, there’s nothing to worry we have got you here.

If you have the correct version of Odin then the above-uploaded image is the interface that you’ll get. It will have five different blocks that you need to understand thoroughly.

BL: Bootloader
AP: Android Partition
CP: Modem/Radio
CSC: Consumer software customization
USERDATA

Also, the three buttons at the bottom – Start and Reset beside Exit.

Getting the device ready for the process (Setting up your Samsung device)

To start the process you need your phone to get into the Download/Odin mode that you can do with the following button combination after switching it off.

POWER + VOLUME DOWN + BIXBY
VOLUME DOWN + VOLUME UP than plug-in the USB cable
POWER + VOLUME DOWN + VOLUME UP
POWER + VOLUME DOWN + HOME BUTTON
USB cable + VOLUME DOWN + BIXBY (Samsung Galaxy Note 9 )
POWER + VOLUME UP (Samsung Galaxy Note 10 )

*Make sure your device is charged more than 50% before you start the process

Install the firmware using Odin

After entering the download mode connect your device to the PC using the original USB cable that came along with the device itself.
Now, open Odin on PC and it will automatically detect your smartphone if you have plugged it incorrectly. (A blue box will appear with COM port number that will confirm)
Next is to click on the particular buttons of the sections where the extracted files will be kept. (These are – BL, AP, CP, CSC, and USERDATA)
After all, the setup is done and once you’ve put all the files correctly in those sections then it’s a correct time to press the start button.
Wait for the installation. Once finished, it’ll show “PASS” output and your device will reboot and you can disconnect your smartphone and set it up.

Warning (Things to note):