Tutorial Flash Firmware On Samsung Galaxy S2 Via Odin

Today i propose the leadership base that every good android smartphone owner should know: how to flash a Firmware via Odin on Samsung Galaxy s2. Odin is a program very similar to J.A.F. to replace the smartphone Operating system as if it were new, or load a custom rom.

Finally, after almost 2 months from the date of the announcement since March 2012, it was only the user and the owner of the Samsung Galaxy s2 GT-I9100 & GT-I9100G received the android ice cream sandwich update. The news excited is for the owner of a Samsung Galaxy S2 because now able to upgrade Samsung Galaxy S2 to ICS 4.0. So now i will show you tutorial flash Firmware via Odin.

Read First

• Please follow all the step that i mentioned below for good result
• Do with your own risk

Tools Required

• Odin 1.85
• Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich Firmware
• LATEST : ICS DXLPF 4.0.4 for Android you can read on my post : Flash android 4.0.4 on galaxy s I9100 (361MB zip file, extract first)
• LATEST : 4.0.3 ICS DXLP6 Android download here (369MB zip file, extract first )

Safety measures before commencing the process of flashing

• Do Nandroid Backup
• Make sure your smartphone batteries are in the stage of no less than 80% full.
• Make sure you have install Kies on PC/laptop.

How to Flash Firmware Via Odin

1. Make your device into USB Debugging Mode ( Settings-> Applications-> Development-> USB debugging )
2. turn off your smartphone .
3. Turn your phone to Download Mode by pressing button Volume Down + Home + Power simultaneously for a period of 5 – 10 times until appear Warning and click button Volume Up to continue.
4. your phone will expose the exposure of Downloading, Do not turn off your phone
5. Start Odin in the PC/laptop.
6. Connect your smartphone to your PC/laptop using a USB cable.
7. Wait for a few moments so Odin identifies the smartphone.
8. NOTE : make sure you do not tick anything except the Odin Auto Reboot and f. Reset Time (default)
9. Click the button and choose the PDA firmware that you have download and extract before this. (Also make sure you select the correct firmware for your model smartphone you) – File firmware file md5 tar
10. Click Start, and the process of flashing will be done. Smartphone you will reboot automatically after process flashing finished.

Now after we completed all the step, your Samsung Galaxy s2  now have been flashed with Android ICS 4.0.4. After flash new firmware via odin if you want to get root access read on tutorial root samsung galaxy s2 I9100.