Still waiting for official Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean firmware for Samsung Galaxy S3? Well, you have to wait a little bit longer. But for those unwilling to wait and eager to try out latest features of incoming firmware, you can try out Galaxy S3 XXUFME7 firmware (note – this is unofficial firmware and will increase binary counter). Yes, more Galaxy S4 goodies are coming along. Example, Move to SD card feature, new Music Player… Try it out and let me know the features that you found.
How to install firmware on Samsung Galaxy Note II with Odin software? Yes, don’t limit yourself with OTA software update and Samsung Kies firmware upgrade. Try out other region official, custom or even leaked firmware (in tar or .tar.md5 format). Waiting is no longer the only option. How to install firmware on Samsung Galaxy Note 2 with Odin? Please refer to below step by step firmware installation video guide to find out…
Prerequisites
Note – You should not face any issue when upgrading to newer official firmware. And your applications and data will be intact (leaked firmware might delete them all). However, you will need to factory reset when you downgrade firmware to older version (if face boot loop issue). Therefore, make sure do a backup before install new firmware.
Where to download official Samsung Galaxy Note II firmware? Yes, upgrade official Samsung Galaxy Note 2 firmware is no longer limited by using OTA software update and Samsung Kies. You can install official firmware on Samsung Galaxy Note 2 manually with Odin software. Of course, this is the unofficial way. But you can upgrade or downgrade official firmware anytime you want. And have the ability to try out other region firmware too.
Like all other Samsung Galaxy Devices, Samsung Galaxy Note II has PDA, PHONE and CSC too. PDA is build version of the firmware, PHONE is baseband / modem version and CSC is consumer software customization which specified to geographical region and carriers. CSC contains the software packages specific to particular region, carrier branding and also APN settings for data connection, MMS for service provider. You can change to other CSC if your firmware has multi CSC packages.
Note – By changing CSC will factory reset your Galaxy Note 2. All applications and data will be deleted. Make sure that you make backup before do so.
Just flashed XXELLA firmware and bootloader on Samsung Galaxy S III but don’t like it? It will show red exclamation mark and counter = 1 during boot if you have custom kernel or custom recovery like CWM. Well, you can always install back old bootloader like Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich XXALEF bootloader back. But you might face sudden death issue again which suspected to be solved in this latest XXELLA firmware and bootloader. Anyway, the choice is yours…
