Flash recovery on Samsung Smartphones

January 10, 2015 Posted by WithU Technologies , ,

How to flash recovery on Samsung Smartphones


As we know that every phone comes with a basic stock recovery application along it and that can be found during the booting of phone by pressing Power button + Home key + Volume Up button.
But they have limited functionality features within them. As they only feature functions to manually flash official updates and clear your phone's cache.

The flashing of a recovery file is specially required when you bricked your Android smartphone. Here we learn the method to fix even a bricked Samsung android device with ODIN.

You can also flash custom recovery software. But I recommend to do it after rooting your phone for better results. For a detailed tutorial on Android rooting you can refer to this link:

How to root Android Device.

There are two methods depending upon you devices manufacturer:

• Fastboot method through ADB.
• ODIN method for Samsung devices

We discuss both the methods and their steps, which helps you to choose the perfect method to flash recovery on your device according to your device.

For the first method Click on the Following link:

How to install Custom Recovery on Android


This method is especially recommended for all the Samsung Handsets in which the device did not restarts into bootloader or fastboot mode.

Requirements:

          Samsung Android USB drivers here





Important things to remember

  • Do not forget to Backup your phone.

  • Download the correct and latest Odin version.

  • Install the Latest Samsung USB Driver

  • Keep in mind that , Most of Samsung phones are different and each one requires various procedures to rooting & flashing with custom ROMs

Download Custom recovery files

There are generally two important and efficient software as custom recovery application for Android and they are:

  • CWM (ClockworkMod)

  • TWRP (Team Win's Recovery Project)

Downloading the software

Download the latest version of either CWM or TWRP from their official website links given below (we prefer CWM, but both work equally well). For CWM go to this website, find your device, and download the file for it:





For TWRP go to this website, click on "Get TWRP for your device" and type your device's name for which you are downloading the file:

Assumptions:

  • You already completed the rooting process that means you know how to check USB debugging option and how to connect your device with your PC with the help of your phone's connectivity drivers. If not then refer to this post, How to root your Android device.

  • The mobile Connectivity drivers are already installed in your PC and your device is already  tested and connected once with your PC.

  • Connect your device with your PC with the USB data cable.

  • Check the USB debugging option.

  • You already converted the .img file into .tar format or .tar.md5 file format.

(As we know in Samsung ODIN flashing the importance of .tar and .tar.md5 formats are very much. And in general the custom recovery files such as, CWM and TWRP are comes in .img format which are not flashable through ODIN. To convert those custom recovery files and also other files in .img format to .tar and .tar.md5 format follow the following link)

So, let's start the process to flash custom recovery in Samsung mobiles.

  • First of all Open the ODIN software.

  • Switch off your Samsung Android device. (If it is not bricked yet :))




  • Restart it in Downloading mode or  ODIN mode by pressing the following key combination :


Volume Down + Power Button + Home Button




  • Press Volume UP button to continue.

  • After the phone opened up in downloading mode, connect your Samsung android device with your PC with the USB data cable.




  • After the connection takes place you will observe that on the ID:COM indicator the first port is enlighten with light blue colour.




  • After that Check the Auto Reboot option and F:Reset Time option.




  • Then Click On AP or PDA (Depending upon your ODIN Version) to select the custom recovery file which is needed to be formatted.




  • After the file loaded into ODIN, then Click on Start button which will initiate the flashing process and if everything goes perfectly then your device will be flashed with a new custom recovery software.




  • Then your device will automatically restarted with new custom recovery software.


  • To get into your new custom recovery software follow the steps given below:



    • After the completion of flashing process switch of your device and start it again by pressing:


      Volume UP + Home Button + Power Button

       


    • Or you can alternatively type the following code in the command prompt window to reboot your device in Recovery mode. (For info on this Click on this link: How to flash custom recovery)


      adb reboot recovery


And at last you have your own preferred custom recovery with advance functions to do.

Hope this tutorial helps you to resolve the issue regarding the flashing of recovery on Samsung Android smartphones.If you face any problem regarding this tutorial then feel free to ask us below in the comment box.