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How can I change product name on odin mode ?

Hi, I'm using gt-p6201.
Maybe it will be some strange.
Anyway, I flashed 6200 rom for my 6201.
It works great.
But!! It changed my bootscreen(original bootscreen was
galaxy tab plus 7.0 N, now just galaxy tab plus 7.0)
And, prodct name on odin mode changed.(gt-p6201 -> gt-p6200)
Anyone can help me ? I need you help. Please T_T

o16neon said:
Hi, I'm using gt-p6201.
Maybe it will be some strange.
Anyway, I flashed 6200 rom for my 6201.
It works great.
But!! It changed my bootscreen(original bootscreen was
galaxy tab plus 7.0 N, now just galaxy tab plus 7.0)
And, prodct name on odin mode changed.(gt-p6201 -> gt-p6200)
Anyone can help me ? I need you help. Please T_T
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Um, i believe GT P6200 and P6201 is only differ at design, so i think that's okay and no need to change ?
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unless your sending it for repair/etc. Then its recommended to flash a stock Odin anyways, which should restore your model number.

kevintangi said:
Um, i believe GT P6200 and P6201 is only differ at design, so i think that's okay and no need to change ?
Thank you for reply.
I considered refund this device.
But, bootanimation & product name makes me crazy. T_T
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chrisrotolo said:
unless your sending it for repair/etc. Then its recommended to flash a stock Odin anyways, which should restore your model number.
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Thank you.
I considered this one(p6201) refund.
So, I just need it. T_T
I try to flash original firmware(p6201) by odin,
but it is not changed.

Wipe every single partition, then flash the latest stock from fus downloader.
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CrisisCorE said:
Wipe every single partition, then flash the latest stock from fus downloader.
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Thanks.
How can I wipe every single partition ?
It means just factory reset/wipe cache ?
If it is not, please tell me how I can do.
I really need your help

actually I would try Odin'ing to the earliest firmware for your device first, as that will likely contain the bootloaders, then you can Odin or OTA to the latest Firmware for your device.
Im quite certain these are low level images/strings (I had to JTAG repair mine for flashing custom bootloader), which are not easily changeable.
If you had to send it back for a refund, I would suggest trying to find the official firmware, possibly including .pit file.
as a last resort... you could have somebody get their PIT file and manually pull those .img's (dd if= , dd of=, etc.) VERY DANGEROUS!
or just unroot and hope they dont notice!

chrisrotolo said:
actually I would try Odin'ing to the earliest firmware for your device first, as that will likely contain the bootloaders, then you can Odin or OTA to the latest Firmware for your device.
Im quite certain these are low level images/strings (I had to JTAG repair mine for flashing custom bootloader), which are not easily changeable.
If you had to send it back for a refund, I would suggest trying to find the official firmware, possibly including .pit file.
as a last resort... you could have somebody get their PIT file and manually pull those .img's (dd if= , dd of=, etc.) VERY DANGEROUS!
or just unroot and hope they dont notice!
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Really Thanks !!
But, I didn't back up my own rom files. Oh my god... T_T
So, I searched pit files and csc file for my device, I didn't get it.
But, I found how can back up pit file.
By using 'heimdall suites'
I'll find p6201 users !!
Really Thanks !!

Sorry for my request: I´m using a P6201 and i want to flash the ICS-Update for the P6200.... like you did?!?
this worked without any problems (except the Name Problem)???
Thanks for your help

siqChris said:
Sorry for my request: I´m using a P6201 and i want to flash the ICS-Update for the P6200.... like you did?!?
this worked without any problems (except the Name Problem)???
Thanks for your help
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No problem. You can do it.
And, Can you extract your pit file from your phone ? (Before flashing)
I need file, but you'll be too.
If your model name change, you can't get customer service.
So, you need back it up.
Please help me T-T.

o16neon said:
No problem. You can do it.
And, Can you extract your pit file from your phone ? (Before flashing)
I need file, but you'll be too.
If your model name change, you can't get customer service.
So, you need back it up.
Please help me T-T.
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Need also the original pit file for the P6201. Can anyone pls help???

Need some advice about flashing Samsung Note 10.1 back to stock

Hi just wondering if I can get a bit of advice regarding flashing my Samsung note 10.1 back to the original firmware.
Currently I have the tablet rooted with the ClockworkMod but I want to go back to stock as I am selling my 16GB wifi note 10.1 and upgrading to a note 10.1 32GB 3G model.
I have been reading up on how to flash it back to stock and I think I have most of it figured out,I found a video on the rootgalaxynote website called how to install stock recovery on your rooted galaxy note 10.1,but what my main question was is which is the right stock image to use.
In my about device in the note 10.1 settings it says build number is N8010XWALG4 and my note 10.1 is the Australian version so I did a search on sammobile and it came up with this firmware (Australia 2012 August N8010XWALG4 N8010XSAALG3) is that the right firmware for me,it's just that when I did the search and selected the country it only had Australia XSA for the Australian options,do you know what XSA means.
Anyway I really just wanted to check with someone here before I go ahead with flashing it back to stock.

Wish I could help but all I can contribute is this: questions don't belong here, they belong in the QA section...
As for your search, if it were mine, I'd be looking for stock n8010 firmware... I don't think you could go wrong with that
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Connect ta to PC. Run Kies and check out what your stock CSC code is that way. If it matches with XSA then go ahead and flash. I got mine through the net and my CSC is INU meaning it's an Indian tablet but I can still flash whatever I want on it.
Where'd you find the 32Gb tablet in Oz and for how much? I know a lot of places are selling 32Gb tablets but they're only 16Gb with a 16Gb microsd card or they're wifi only... I've been looking...

this is where you can get the stock firmware for N8010:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=6580
then flash it using odin.

younix258 said:
Wish I could help but all I can contribute is this: questions don't belong here, they belong in the QA section...
As for your search, if it were mine, I'd be looking for stock n8010 firmware... I don't think you could go wrong with that
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ok thanks for that I'll make sure I place my thread in the correct section next time,I am new to this forum so I am still getting to know my way around.
Thanks.

ultramag69 said:
Connect ta to PC. Run Kies and check out what your stock CSC code is that way. If it matches with XSA then go ahead and flash. I got mine through the net and my CSC is INU meaning it's an Indian tablet but I can still flash whatever I want on it.
Where'd you find the 32Gb tablet in Oz and for how much? I know a lot of places are selling 32Gb tablets but they're only 16Gb with a 16Gb microsd card or they're wifi only... I've been looking...
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Thanks yeah I downloaded the Kies program and the numbers seemed to match up to the firmware on the sammobile website so I'll go ahead with that.
You know you mentioned the 32GB 3G version I went and had a look and last time I was at jbhi about a month ago they had the 32GB 3G models,but now looking at their website today they only seem to stock the 16GB wifi model,so it looks like I am going to have to track one down elewhere,I'll let you know if I manage to find them anyway.

darkthug420 said:
this is where you can get the stock firmware for N8010:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=6580
then flash it using odin.
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Thanks I am downloading it now,I'll do the firmware update when it downloads.

There was one other question I had,I read somewhere that when you root the note 10.1 samsungs has some sort of counter going on,and somehow I have to reset the triangles before I restore the original firmware,do you know how I go about doing this.

That counter is to show Samsung that you have flashed non stock firmware on your device. Triangle away on market fixes this.read thread on here about using it.
I have heard that Samsung does not void warranty for hardware issues even if your Device is not stock.so not sure how important it is to remove the troangle count. It would most likely prevent you from returning it to store if they check the device..only my best guess

erica_renee said:
That counter is to show Samsung that you have flashed non stock firmware on your device. Triangle away on market fixes this.read thread on here about using it.
I have heard that Samsung does not void warranty for hardware issues even if your Device is not stock.so not sure how important it is to remove the troangle count. It would most likely prevent you from returning it to store if they check the device..only my best guess
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ok thanks for that,I will go and download that triangle away app on the market before going ahead,there is one other problem I have just noticed,I am having trouble trying to get the odin3 1.85 program to recognize the stock image I downloaded,like when I start up the odin3 1.85 and I press the pda button to browse for the stock image which is called N8010XWALG4_N8010XSAALG3_XSA.zip odin3 can't see the file for some reason,I noticed on the right side it seems to be looking for .tar images,but the problem is the stock image N8010XWALG4_N8010XSAALG3_XSA.zip I downloaded is a zip file.
Do you know what I am doing wrong here.

Extract the
Maybe the stock download was ziped to compress it.try unzipping. Unless you downloaded a cwm flashable zip.

Odin files are supposed to be TAR not ZIP

erica_renee said:
Extract the
Maybe the stock download was ziped to compress it.try unzipping. Unless you downloaded a cwm flashable zip.
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yeah it was zipped so I went and extracted the original zip file and it extracted a file called KIES_HOME_N8010XWALG4_N8010XSAALG3_976376_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 so I deleted the .md5 from the end of the file name and left the .tar to make it a tar again,don't know why samsung put .md5 at the end of a .tar file,anyway once I changed it to read as a tar file I loaded it up in odin3 and it started to flash the new image.
It took about 4 minutes to do the flash but now it's all good I am backj running the stock firmware,to make sure I held down the power and volume up buttons and it went to the stock recovery mode instead of the ClockworkMod recovery.
Also I got that triangles away program and reset the counter just in case.
Anyway thanks for your help.

garryrw said:
ok thanks for that,I will go and download that triangle away app on the market before going ahead,there is one other problem I have just noticed,I am having trouble trying to get the odin3 1.85 program to recognize the stock image I downloaded,like when I start up the odin3 1.85 and I press the pda button to browse for the stock image which is called N8010XWALG4_N8010XSAALG3_XSA.zip odin3 can't see the file for some reason,I noticed on the right side it seems to be looking for .tar images,but the problem is the stock image N8010XWALG4_N8010XSAALG3_XSA.zip I downloaded is a zip file.
Do you know what I am doing wrong here.
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extract the zip 1st then select the extracred file you will see it has a ext of .tar.md5
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[Q] Flashing firmwares from other regions in GT-N8000

Hi!
I have a Brazilian Galaxy Note 10.1 (firmware code: ZVV) and I want to install a ROM that I found in sammobilie that has some improvements.
However this ROM is designed for Chile (firmware code: CHO).
The both firmwares seems to be designed to the same region:
My firmware: N8000UBALGA
Firmware that I want to flash: N8000UBALI3
The difference is the CSC.
I have two questions:
1) Is it "safe" to flash this ROM using Odin?
2) How can I know if the new firmware will have support for Brazilian Portuguese?
Thanks,
Ronan

Ronis_BR said:
Hi!
I have a Brazilian Galaxy Note 10.1 (firmware code: ZVV) and I want to install a ROM that I found in sammobilie that has some improvements.
However this ROM is designed for Chile (firmware code: CHO).
The both firmwares seems to be designed to the same region:
My firmware: N8000UBALGA
Firmware that I want to flash: N8000UBALI3
The difference is the CSC.
I have two questions:
1) Is it "safe" to flash this ROM using Odin?
2) How can I know if the new firmware will have support for Brazilian Portuguese?
Thanks,
Ronan
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Personally I prefere europian roms (first to get recent updates and have some good samsung apps not avaliable on other countries ) so you can download the Rom from Portugal and flash via Odin , it is safe and you won't lose your waranty. And about Chile , if its native language is Portuguese then its Rom will support portuguees for sure .
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hoss_n2 said:
Personally I prefere europian roms (first to get recent updates and have some good samsung apps not avaliable on other countries ) so you can download the Rom from Portugal and flash via Odin , it is safe and you won't lose your waranty. And about Chile , if its native language is Portuguese then its Rom will support portuguees for sure .
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The language in Chile is not Portuguese, also Portuguese from Portugal is quite different from Brazilian Portuguese.
However in my Brazilian ROM, I have option to select almost all languages in System configurations.
I'm just wondering if the ROM from Chile will also have this option...

So best idea is to go back to sammobile, find your stock rom and have that as a backup in case you decide you need to go back.
The only way you'll know for sure is to try it...

ultramag69 said:
So best idea is to go back to sammobile, find your stock rom and have that as a backup in case you decide you need to go back.
The only way you'll know for sure is to try it...
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Ok, but it won't brick my device right
Also, I'm not sure what options do I need to set in Odin.
I saw some sites saying to do not mark Repartition. Is it right?
Thanks,
Ronan

Ok, I have flashed the firmware from Chile (CHO) without any problems.
It was almost the same... I only saw one difference: in S Note, you have a scroll bar.
Thus, I flashed my original ROM again (Vivo ROM, ZVV).
Afterwards I had a little problem with Kies. The installed ROM is really ZVV (I checked with *#1234#), but Kies was showing that I had a CHO ROM and that an uptade through Kies is not possible. I tried everything, factory reset, cache wipe, reflash the ZVV ROM, but nothing fixed the problem. Then I realized that the problem was not with my Galaxy Note, but with Kies itself. I uninstalled it and used a register cleanner to remove all entries related to Kies. Then I installed Kies again and the problem was finally fixed!! I think that Kies stored my device information with CHO ROM and did not uptade CSC when I plugged it with the ZVV ROM.
Thanks,
Ronan
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Cool, glad everything went well.
Rule of thumb for ODIN, everything is set up when you start ODIN. All you need to do is add the files you wish to flash. Don't change any other settings and,generally, all will be well... There's always a chance of a bad flash but most times it's user error rather than anything else. It can also be a ba download of the flash file. If you have an MD5 checksum for the update, use an MD5 checker app to ensure the flash file isn't corrupted. This will lessen the chance of a failed flash...
Cheers mate...

ultramag69 said:
Cool, glad everything went well.
Rule of thumb for ODIN, everything is set up when you start ODIN. All you need to do is add the files you wish to flash. Don't change any other settings and,generally, all will be well... There's always a chance of a bad flash but most times it's user error rather than anything else. It can also be a ba download of the flash file. If you have an MD5 checksum for the update, use an MD5 checker app to ensure the flash file isn't corrupted. This will lessen the chance of a failed flash...
Cheers mate...
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if I flash a ROM from another country, will I lose apps and settings?
PS: I anot rooted, so I cannot make backups with titanium

Depends on the update... I'v had updates that wipe ALL data then I've had others where the data is still there... I tend to find its a roll of the dice every time. This is why I root my device....
I updated one just recently, the Oz rom, and it left all data intact however it is better to clear all data otherwise you might have a problem with the new rom and old data causing issues...

My firmware: N8000ZCCMD2 4.1.2
Firmware that I want to flash:Android 4.1.2 XXCMA2 Firmware Details: is that suitable pls help

Flash a different carrier's KitKat 4.4.2 on N8000
Hi! My tablet (N8000) has the 4.1.2 version, and I don't think any KitKat update will come soon, because the device code is SEK (Ukraine / Kyivstar) and you know the situation there.
Therefore I decided to upgrade via Odin to the 4.4.2 official version from Poland, at least. Or any other country that already has the update.
Will I encounter any problems if flashing the ROM from another country? I know the answer is pretty straight forward that everything should be fine, but still, better ask.
Thank you!

[Q] Galaxy fit Kies update problem.Help me please

Hy, i'm new here, so sorry if i did not post in the right section
I have a Galaxy Fit on Android 2.3.4 and I want to update to 2.3.6.The problem when I connect to Kies is: "Your device's current firmware version is not supported to update firmware via Kies"
As far as I read on other posts, i have to change the CSC code.Can someone help me with that?I tried changing to some CSC's with the *#272*... but it did not work.What csc do i have to select?
Mention: my phone is not rooted, not flashed.Stock ROM!
Here are some details about my phone: PDA: S5670XWKQA / PHONE: S5670XWKQ3 / CSC: S5670OXFKQ4 /
Help please.

Download the Firmware from "samfirmware" and flash it through "Odin"
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Thanks, but isn't there any other posibility?I still have warranty for the phone and don't want to void it.

Lawr3nce said:
Thanks, but isn't there any other posibility?I still have warranty for the phone and don't want to void it.
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Updating via odin won't void your warranty
Or, you still have your warranty,so why don't you ask in service center to upgrade your firmware.

Ok, thanks a lot.
One last thing though: Can something bad/harmful for my phone happen if upgrade with Odin?Can you indicate me best thread that teaches correctly how to update via Odin?
Thanks in advance

Lawr3nce said:
Thanks, but isn't there any other posibility?I still have warranty for the phone and don't want to void it.
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On the web site are official ROMs.
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/
In Search type s5670 and you'll get Firmware for install. Install Firmware for your region. After install it via ODIN,
connect your phone with PC, open KIES and you'll get notification about Firmware that you have installed.
I do not think they should more receive such a notice, but notification that is your last firmware official.

Lawr3nce said:
Ok, thanks a lot.
One last thing though: Can something bad/harmful for my phone happen if upgrade with Odin?Can you indicate me best thread that teaches correctly how to update via Odin?
Thanks in advance
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YOU are yourself your best guide..just READ READ and READ before you do anything with odin..its little risky,but not hard at all!
^follow this video..he has a video for 2.3.4 also,in case you have 4 files and not one package file
Watch 2-3 videos of upgrading galaxy fit in his playlist and you are good to go..

Lawr3nce said:
Ok, thanks a lot.
One last thing though: Can something bad/harmful for my phone happen if upgrade with Odin?Can you indicate me best thread that teaches correctly how to update via Odin?
Thanks in advance
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The latest Update contains only "1 file" so it's much easier
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Tutorial for install stock ROM:
http://www.samsdroid.com/2011/09/samsung-galaxy-fit-s5670-flashing.html
Photo for stock ROM with 1 file and 4 files:

I'm back again and still thinking about flashing with Odin.I have never done this before.I'm from Romania.Which 2.3.6 stock ROM should I get?From which country?which CSC?
Thanks

Lawr3nce said:
I'm back again and still thinking about flashing with Odin.I have never done this before.I'm from Romania.Which 2.3.6 stock ROM should I get?From which country?which CSC?
Thanks
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pavel73 is from Romania. Best to ask him which stock ROM is installed.

[WORKED] Downgrade to GB without PIT and CSC files

This is not a guide, I just wanted to point out something about the whole downgrade system.
I needed to downgrade my phone to take it to a service center, so i had to flash the original ROM in it. I was coming from the JB indian firmware.
I had read the downgrade thread and lots of people were reporting problems with CSC after downgrading, wich was a concern to me.
The thing is, just for the sake of it, I tried to flash GB without the PIT and CSC files, i just used the PDA posted on the guide and flashed away with Odin 1.85. The flash was successful to my surprise, and i was looking at the Gingerbread homescreen. At that point, 3G didn't work, and the CSC was blank.
Then i flashed my carrier firmware for GB (Movistar - Argentina) and after that 3G was working, and I had only one CSC on the list: TFG, wich I think is the correct one for this region and carrier.
I really don't know if this method can be reproduced, but maybe some of you can give it a shot and report back. At least this way you don't get the CSC problems.
Greetings from Argentina!
/edit: Just to clarify, the steps:
1) Enter download mode (wipes and formatting partitions opcional)
2) Flash with Odin 1.85 ONLY the PDA file "CODE_GT-I9070_I9070DXLD1_CL1068093_REV00_user_SEC_KEY_LD1_8G.tar" that can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2100642
Make sure the only boxes ticked are "Auto Reboot" and "F. Reset Time"
3) Wait for the phone to reboot
4) Once again enter download mode
5) Flash with Odin the GB Firmware for you country and/or carrier. Again, only use the PDA file downloaded from Sammobile, and make sure the only boxes ticked are "Auto Reboot" and "F. Reset Time"
6) Enjoy Gingerbread again!

Piachnp said:
This is not a guide, I just wanted to point out something about the whole downgrade system.
I needed to downgrade my phone to take it to a service center, so i had to flash the original ROM in it. I was coming from the JB indian firmware.
I had read the downgrade thread and lots of people were reporting problems with CSC after downgrading, wich was a concern to me.
The thing is, just for the sake of it, I tried to flash GB without the PIT and CSC files, i just used the PDA posted on the guide and flashed away with Odin 1.85. The flash was successful to my surprise, and i was looking at the Gingerbread homescreen. At that point, 3G didn't work, and the CSC was blank.
Then i flashed my carrier firmware for GB (Movistar - Argentina) and after that 3G was working, and I had only one CSC on the list: TFG, wich I think is the correct one for this region and carrier.
I really don't know if this method can be reproduced, but maybe some of you can give it a shot and report back. At least this way you don't get the CSC problems.
Greetings from Argentina!
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I had the same problem trying to install Movistar's Firmware, I installed the argentine ARO firmware and it changed my CSC, but Kies still saying "XTC". I will try with your method later, because I want to have the original TFG CSC code.

mybe u can try 'csc changer' app at google play. but it will factory reset your data..make sure to backup important data. it work only with csc that are already inside your current firmware..
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hamzani azni said:
mybe u can try 'csc changer' app at google play. but it will factory reset your data..make sure to backup important data. it work only with csc that are already inside your current firmware..
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I did it, and changed my CSC to ARO, but Kies still saying XTC.

Juaniblade said:
I did it, and changed my CSC to ARO, but Kies still saying XTC.
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Kies is high as f**k with their XTC....
Well, try reflashing?
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Jeroenvk94 said:
Kies is high as f**k with their XTC....
Well, try reflashing?
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I downgraded from XXLQE using OP's method and it works! But i'm stuck now with DBT code lol. I will try reflashing with another firmware with multiCSC.

so this proves that re-partitioning or using PIT file is not necessary for the downgrade process..
ODIN analyze and use the default partition of the phone..
this is a good information..
downgrade will be like a walk in the park..

I am now in doubt about the CSC, can anyone confirm that TFG is the correct one for Argentina (carrier: Movistar) ???
I tried to google CSC codes but TFG is nowhere to be found...

I was able to find this version of GB for Argentina:
Argentina (Movistar) | I9070VSLD1 ; I9070TFGLD1
so it seems like you got it correct

The phone showed everything correctly (CSC, Firmware version and Kernel) but when i connected to Kies, it still showed all the data from the India Firmware.....so i don't know. I think it's better than the other method, but still flawed.

Piachnp said:
The phone showed everything correctly (CSC, Firmware version and Kernel) but when i connected to Kies, it still showed all the data from the India Firmware.....so i don't know. I think it's better than the other method, but still flawed.
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Same for me, but I think the problem is in the movistar's firmware. Try flashing a MultiCSC firm like ARO UBLK1 and it should work by doing a CSC change typing *#272*IMEI# in dialer.
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Piachnp said:
The phone showed everything correctly (CSC, Firmware version and Kernel) but when i connected to Kies, it still showed all the data from the India Firmware.....so i don't know. I think it's better than the other method, but still flawed.
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try to uninstall kies from your pc and re-install it again..
it might still have the data or cache of the old firmware that you are using before..

Definitively that's not the problem, I installed Kies for the first time in this laptop only now, AFTER downgrading.
At least if someone checks only the celphone, the information there will be the correct one. If someone could try what juaniblade proposed, that be great. I already gave my phone to the service center so i cant try it myself.
By the way, movistar (argentina) technicians didn't find anything fishy on the celphone. I think they just flash stock firmware and if the reported hardware malfunction is still there they approve the repair/replacement. They don't have the time to go all detective on your phone.

Conulta movistar galaxy advance!
Piachnp said:
This is not a guide, I just wanted to point out something about the whole downgrade system.
I needed to downgrade my phone to take it to a service center, so i had to flash the original ROM in it. I was coming from the JB indian firmware.
I had read the downgrade thread and lots of people were reporting problems with CSC after downgrading, wich was a concern to me.
The thing is, just for the sake of it, I tried to flash GB without the PIT and CSC files, i just used the PDA posted on the guide and flashed away with Odin 1.85. The flash was successful to my surprise, and i was looking at the Gingerbread homescreen. At that point, 3G didn't work, and the CSC was blank.
Then i flashed my carrier firmware for GB (Movistar - Argentina) and after that 3G was working, and I had only one CSC on the list: TFG, wich I think is the correct one for this region and carrier.
I really don't know if this method can be reproduced, but maybe some of you can give it a shot and report back. At least this way you don't get the CSC problems.
Greetings from Argentina!
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Hey how are you! im also from argentina dude, and y have a galaxy advance which i udated to JB, (i have movistar) and i regret it. It works teribly, ive tried 4 different versions, today I installed de JB Claro release and still i have problems. The cellphone is slow, it freezes, i have problems uploading music to the SD card and recelntly im unable to open the photo gallery.
Were you having similar problems? or are you satisfied with JB and the cellphone?? I would like some feedback because not many people i know have this telephone flashed to JB. Are you going to upgrade to JB again once the service is over???de
Anyway, i would really appreciate your feedback men! te mando un abrazo!

I downgraded because i was having some hardware problems with the miniusb port.
Anyway, Jelly Bean was big frustration performance wise. Of course, from a features point of view is miles ahead of GB, but the awful performace is just not acceptable. JB stock is pretty much unusable. To make it even bearable you have to get custom kernel and some other mods (other dialer for instance because stock lags like a motherfu*#er). Even then is still behind GB in performance and battery life.
I haven't tried custom ROMs, but i don't think they are much different than a modded stock JB. Neither have i tried CM yet, because i watch a lot of videos and use the video recorder. If they get around this issues on CM it could be a valid choice....
Movistar will give a new phone to reeplace my faulty one, and i'm not planning to flash JB..... when I came back to GB a few days ago (before taking the cellphone to movistar service center) i realized how much JB sucked (you kind of get used to it working like crap).
So i think i will be waiting some more before i make the jump to JB/CM
Anyway, that's my experience, and my opinion. Some people find JB very usuable with some tweaks.

Argentine guy here, too. So, let's say I'd like to try GB... since I flashed JB right away when I got my SGA two months ago, and a friend showed me her SGA with GB and well, apart from the ocassional interface stutter which is always going to be there in GB, it was REALLY snappy. CM10.1-like snappy, amazing. Yes, as you said JB is head and shoulders above GB feature wise, but apart from that it's not that much of a "downgrade" considering the battery life and performance you gain, I think. When the CM guys get the video recording sorted out I'll be using that, but meanwhile I agree, JB is smooth but lags a lot, it gets on my nerves most of the time! Flashing it, doing all the wipes, installing cocore, going all the way to using 4cylturbo/directinject and crossbreeder and there's still some places where it lags, and it gets irritating.
CWM backup first, then I'll flash stock JB... then proceed to flash GB as per your experience... or I might go on with JB, I don't know, lol. What I'd like to know is exactly how you did it... If I understood you correctly, you flashed the PDA in the downgrade thread without the CSC and PIT files, and left all the odin 1.85 settings as they were (I mean, if you're not flashing the PIT file you don't need to tick the repartition box, right?) or did you do something else...?
Thank you!!

How is that possible when Odin aborts the process and asks for a PIT file?

That is right, I just flashed the PDA file from the downgrade guide like any other PDA, meaning that you don't have to check the re-partition box or anything like that. After that, when the downgrade was done, i flashed the GB firmware i wanted (movistar, argentina in my case), you could use the unbranded ARO firmware.
Odin didn't ask for any PIT file... maybe you have to uncheck the re-partition box.

Just an update, I tried this again with 2 other phones and succeded. There are people posting problems with the other method, but this thread seems to be lost in the forum. I will give another heads up on the official downgrade guide, just in case.

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Just an update, I tried this again with 2 other phones and succeded. There are people posting problems with the other method, but this thread seems to be lost in the forum. I will give another heads up on the official downgrade guide, just in case.
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So, when i'm understanding your posts, it's possible to use the PDA-file of my country to downgrade JB to GB?
If so, it would be genius. I've JB on my Samsung and it's constantly freezing, hanging and restarting my device.
The cause is of course unknown, and I don't have to count on Samsung. Even when I installed another JB (also stock) it's crappy too.
Thank you in advance, i'm wondering whether this works for me.