You will find all the required details with step by step guide about, how you can update or upgrade and downgrade the (Android Version & Security Patch Level) of your phone. Also, you can easily download your device required firmware at no cost.
Normally, we go for the flashing process on Samsung phone to fix up the bugs, downgrade/upgrade android version and security patch level. For all of these, you just have to arrange some free tool. Before going for this, we also need to know, our Samsung phone firmware details. You simply, continue reading this post, we will mention everything step by step from downloading firmware to flash with firmware Samsung phone.
Is Technical expertise Required to Flash the Phone?
Flashing process is quite simple and it sounds like, as if, its the work of expert people. You will have to visit the mobile repairing shop, and ask for technician to do this job for you. But, it actually, there is nothing like this, if you don’t wanna pay for this, no problem. You can flash your own Samsung Galaxy phone by yourself with few simple steps.
We have to install only (Odin Tool), which is the best flashing free tool to flash the phone with firmware and, install proper USB drivers on computer. So that, we may not face any connectivity issue. Lastly, we will keep the correct (Firmware) file on the PC to flash the Samsung phone with.
You must be thinking, what is firmware? In simple language, its same as you install windows on your PC. Like, windows XP, Windows 10 or 11. Same like this, we are going to install firmware on android phone.
Firmware Required for Flashing Samsung Phones ?
You have to follow up few bold steps to flash the phone safely, for this, we will check the phone firmware detail and download it. After that, we can easily flash Samsung phone with firmware in few simple steps.
In 3 Steps, we will cover all the flashing processing. In this process, you are required to check the phone firmware details, and download the exact firmware & Odin tool. Finally, Flash the device with downloaded firmware.
Check Firmware Details
If you are phone in inaccessible, you can’t access to main (Settings). In this case, you can check the phone model number and binary number just by putting the device into download mode. We have mentioned all step by step guide below.
Enter into Download Mode:
-Turn off the phone.
-Put your device into download mode. For this, you should have a USB cable, which is already connected to the PC.
-For Samsung A series phone, such as (Samsung A20/A23/A24): Keep pressing the both (Volume UP/DOWN) buttons and connect USB cable to your phone. Keep holding keys until you see the (Warning) screen.
| Note: If you have other model of Samsung phone, for this, you just google it or youtube it and put your device into download mode. |
-Once you get the (Warning) screen, just press the “Volume UP” button, after that, you will reach to (Download Mode) screen.
-There, you will be displayed your device model number at the top left corner. In below screen shot, you can see the model number is (SM-A245F) & Binary is 3. Note down your model number + Binary number, so that, we could download exact model number firmware for flashing the Samsung phone with.
-You must know your device correct model number and binary number.
| Note: In some cases, the binary number will be written along with your model number, in this case, the binary will be placed exact after your model number is completed, such as (G960FOXM2BRHA), in this case, you can see the first 6-7 digits belong to model number and after that (2) is the binary number. In below image, you will not see long model number, but, the binary number is still there under the heading of (RP SWREV) |
Download Firmware By (Samfw or Sammobile) Sites
-There are two best website available, from there, you can download the Samsung phone firmware easily with few clicks and at no cost.
-Visit any one website from below and download your device firmware by matching with the (Model Number).
-We have mentioned both site along with the link, you can visit any one and download your required firmware file from there.
Download by Sammobile Website?
-Visit the Sammobile Official Website by click here.
-You will directly reach on the (Firmware) search bar. If not, just click to “Firmware” tab from top and go to (Download Samsung Firmware).
-Type your device “Model Number”. Select your desire country of which language, you wanna download the firmware.
-In the next step, download the firmware by choosing the (Android Version). If you are looking to upgrade your Samsung phone android version 15 to 16, in this case, download the firmware of (Android 16). Same goes with downgrading the android version.
Note: For downloading the firmware, simply, create your free account on their website, after that, sign in there and download it in free of cost.
-Click on the button “Join to Download”, if the account is already setup, just login with your Sammobile account, after that, download firmware.
Download by Samfirm Website?
-Visit Samfirm site by clicking the link here.
-After that, type your device model number.
-Choose your country.
-Select the firmware by matching with (Android Version).
-Download it now by choosing google drive option or directly from their website.
Note: If your Gmail account is already logged in on the browser, you can choose (Google drive) option for a smooth download.
Search Firmware By (Sec Patch | Android Version | Binary/Bit)
Its very easy, after accessing to the firmware list page of your searched Samsung phone mode on Samfw website. Scroll down from there. Search the firmware by (Binary / Bit). The lower bit you will select, the lower security patch level firmware list will be displayed there.
Upgrading Bit/Binary: You can upgrade your firmware bit, but, you are not allowed to rollback to lower bit/binary number. For e,g if your phone has bit number (6), then, you can safely upgrade to > Bit 7,8,9,A,B,C,D etc. But, you can’t downgrade bit version to bit (1,2,3,4,5).
Downgrading Security Patch: You can also downgrade your firmware to lower security patch level by matching with (Bit & binary). If the same bit firmware is available in lower security patch level, then, you can flash the phone safely with that firmware.
Core Tip: You can’t downgrade bit, but upgrading bit is possible. Downgrading and upgrading security patch level and android virions is possible only, if the firmware is matching with your phone (Bit & Binary) number.
Let’s Start to flash Samsung Device by Odin Software
-Put your Samsung Phone into download mode. We’ve already mentioned putting the Samsung phone into download mode step above.
-Do make sure, the phone battery is fully charged.
-Connect the phone to PC
-Download & RUN the Odin Tool & Samsung USB drivers.
| ⇒ Odin Tool V3.14.4 [DOWNLOAD] ⇒ Samsung Drivers [DOWNLOAD] |
-Once everything is done accordingly, let’s extract the downloaded firmware from winrar archive.
-There, you will have 5 child files with the name of (AP/BL/CP/CSC/HOME CSC).
-We have to choose only 4 files there to flash with.
-Click the “AP” button from Odin tool and locate the file that starts with “AP“.
-It may take a minute to be shown on Odin.
-Once its done, go same with (BL/CP/CSC).
-After giving all file path successfully, simply,
-Click on the “Start” button to continue the flashing process with the downloaded firmware. It may take several minutes to be done.
FAQs
My phone is not being detected by the tool Install proper Samsung USB Driver on PC Windows. Or, try to switch the PC port and check our USB cable.
Can i also check my device firmware information without entering into download mode?
Its very simple to check out our device firmware detail. What we need to know, we have to know the exact model number of the phone & Android Version. So that, we could easily download the correct firmware for the phone without making any mistake. Go to your device > Settings > About Phone > Software information. There, you will be able to see Model Number, Android Version, and Baseband Version.
How to know my Firmware Binary Number?
The number that is right after 6-7 character of your model number is the binary number. In some cases, under the download mode, you will see only (Model Number), but in the (RP SWREV), you will find your device binary number.
What should i do for upgrading my Samsung phone android 15 version to Android 16?
Simply, download the android 16 version firmware my matching with your phone model number and binary number and country code. Flash with that firmware by Odin tool.
How do i downgrade android version of my Samsung Galaxy Phone?
Simply, download the android 15 version firmware my matching with your phone model number and binary number and country code. Flash with that firmware by Odin software.
Conclusion
We discussed about how to check device firmware and how to download it. After that, we shared with you easy instructions to download and install the Odin tool and USB drivers. Once its done, finally, we showed you all steps to locate all the downloaded firmware files and flash with the Odin software easily.
To downgrade and upgrade the android version of Samsung phone, you just have to download correct firmware of the same android version, that you wanna run on your phone.