My first post. To begin I'm not a phone techie so I might get the jargon mixed up but I hope someone will find this helpful.
My phone 'soft bricked' and got into a bootloop. This has happened before whereupon I took is to a phone shop to get it fixed. This time I did it myself after many hours of reading tutorials and trial and error of flashing the firmware and the help of xda forums..
Finding the right version of Odin and getting the right stock firmware that actually loaded onto the phone was the main battle.
Unfortunately as I'm a newbie I not permitted to post links. You have to go to Andriodjinn.com and search for unbricking gt-s5830i. On the page you will find a link to the firmware that works, Click on the one that says Australian link, you get a package with four separate files.
Next you got get the right version of Odin and quite honestly some the guides are a joke. The version of Odin that works with the above is and your phone gt-s5830i is Odin3 v1.85.
There are four separate files, bootloader, pda, modem and csc. Make sure all are entered into Odin.
I didn't find a PIT file necessary and besides there is no PIT file in the above package. All the steps are given in the above web page mentioned, so I wont go through those.
I hope this is of help to somebody and shortcut all their trial and error and Odin 'Fails' as I had.
My phone 'soft bricked' and got into a bootloop. This has happened before whereupon I took is to a phone shop to get it fixed. This time I did it myself after many hours of reading tutorials and trial and error of flashing the firmware and the help of xda forums..
Finding the right version of Odin and getting the right stock firmware that actually loaded onto the phone was the main battle.
Unfortunately as I'm a newbie I not permitted to post links. You have to go to Andriodjinn.com and search for unbricking gt-s5830i. On the page you will find a link to the firmware that works, Click on the one that says Australian link, you get a package with four separate files.
Next you got get the right version of Odin and quite honestly some the guides are a joke. The version of Odin that works with the above is and your phone gt-s5830i is Odin3 v1.85.
There are four separate files, bootloader, pda, modem and csc. Make sure all are entered into Odin.
I didn't find a PIT file necessary and besides there is no PIT file in the above package. All the steps are given in the above web page mentioned, so I wont go through those.
I hope this is of help to somebody and shortcut all their trial and error and Odin 'Fails' as I had.
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