Hello, I would like to know if there is an official server or site where we can get original roms for Samsung devices.
I saw on your forum and on many other forums, when we want to root a samsung mobiles links to downloads roms saying they are original roms.
My question is : people who are posting these original roms, how do they get them ? I couldn't find on samsung.com any link for such roms so how do you do to get them and what makes me sure that it's really original and doesn't contain any malware etc..
I also saw that there is a tool called samfirm which can get the original roms, is it safe ? if yes, once again why should we pass by forums and tools to get original roms, they are not any direct links to samsung servers to get the roms of their phones ? it's really weird.
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Hi everyone, i was wondering if other brands like htc, motorola, sony ericson, so on have websites like the "samfirmware.com" that samsung phones have, somewhere where all the stock firmwares are listed and available for download + instructions and too many handy yet simple options like in samfirmware.com..... if you know such websites please post the links here. thanks!
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Hi everyone, i was wondering if other brands like htc, motorola, sony ericson, so on have websites like the "samfirmware.com" that samsung phones have, somewhere where all the stock firmwares are listed and available for download + instructions and too many handy yet simple options like in samfirmware.com..... if you know such websites please post the links here. thanks!
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WELL... the answer its... there isn´t any sites like samsungfirmwares or samfirmwares because the rest of phones have another functioning... samsung works with odin and you can flash the new rom from the pc,,, but the majority of the rest of devices works with a recovery menu and from here you flash it... in a few words you dónt need any program like odin etc...
here in XDA you have a lot of pretty and useful threads for scroll the rom that you likes and flash it.....and the better thing all of them are customized for better performance and for do it more beautiful...
the last thing.. sorry for my bad english,,, and if you want any link browse by yourself for it,,, and select that you likes...
at the XDA main page you can select the specific thread of your device, and then select the development section and browse roms....
your device deserves a hard work
You can download the stock roms for the Evo in RUU form from HTC, and they are ran on the computer. You can also download the RUU in zip form to flash through the bootloader. You can get these from the shipped roms site.
Sent from my Evo using Tapatalk
I am a little puzzled. Some days ago I read a post where someone told "flash ROM XXX on the Firmware YYY".
I always thought, that the ROM IS firmware, by mean just another term for it.
All I found in this forum was ->that<- for which is totally bull**** and not explaining it in Android-Device case (for the explaination for PC-OS had to be: Windows/Linux is the OS [like da ROM for Android device] and Firmware is the BIOS ... you all know for sure)
That brings me to my questions:
What is the Firmware on Android?
How does it affect the ROM, especially in developement?
I sure know here are many very knowing developers, which could explain it to me, and of course others like to know about.
Thanks in advance.
Rod.
its simple
Firmwares are the brains of the unit, they set up the hardware and initialise things, like a BIOS on a PC. Its all the stuff done under the hood that you don't see.
The ROM is the part of the phone that holds the Operating System (Android), and the applications and data. Its the stuff you tend to look at and use.
The firmwares are release by the phone manufactures, they are constantly tweaking and improving them. They have different variants for different locales etc. The dq5 and kt1 firmwares are just the version of the firmware (like 1.01 and 1.02) - they use letters to encode data, F and M indicating the month if I recall. They are officially released via Kies. The "other" firmwares floating around are beta (test) firmwares that have been leaked or ripped from other phones.
The ROMs are based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).The devs then take the AOSP source and customise, it to "make it unique".
hope it helped
That was understood. Thank you very much.
There are just more questions coming up now on me:
Is the latest Firmware also the best?
Can I use every ROM with the most actual (or the best) Firmware?
Where Do I get the latest firmware and how to flash?
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That was understood. Thank you very much.
There are just more questions coming up now on me:
Is the latest Firmware also the best?
Can I use every ROM with the most actual (or the best) Firmware?
Where Do I get the latest firmware and how to flash?
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in most cases firmwares released by the companies contains only those things which works best with that particular device so in terms of bugs etc it is the best.
roms can be only be used with the particular firmware it is developed on like if a rom is developed in froyo it can only be used with different versions of froyo for best result and likewise for the rom developed in gingerbread.
and there is no such thing as the best firmware as every new firmware is better than its predecessors.
to get latest firms you can use sammobile.com [have to login to download firms]
for gfit firms go here:=
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=GT-S5670&r=1#modelsa
Thanks again. Everything explained to me, for the moment.
(might be some questions will form overnight)
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Thanks again. Everything explained to me, for the moment.
(might be some questions will form overnight)
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always welcome dude.....
You guys (admins) have made this site so difficult to navigate, so please move this thread to the appropriate subforum.
Anyway, I currently own a Samsung Galaxy Neo Plus (i9060M) and would like to make a backup of the stock rom as it is not available for downloading ANYWHERE! Yes, this must be a very rare low-end device that nobody uses.
How can I accomplish the above-mentioned task without rooting, if that's even possible.
Also, do any of you know of any methods I could try to root my device? *this is not as important, as I will probably try all possible steps JUST AFTER BACKING UP the stock rom., but if you have some idea, I'd appreaciate it*
Thanks
If I couldn't find and install the stock ROM, I wouldn't mess it up unless throwing the device in the trash bin was no loss. What about these?
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/search/i9060M/
About root, Google has the answer, and it's here on xda.
none of those work for me.
I actually found the stock rom for my device, but its hosted on some slow/restricted site and I cannot download it LOL.
If any of you can do me a favor and download it, then reupload it elsewhere, I would appreciate it
http://uploaded.net/file/7bc7bxli
People must be earning millions of dollars hosting files on those ****ty servers.
Evening,
I am having a huge amount of trouble with my tablet but after researching this forum, I think I can fix it bar one problem. I need an original stock rom for a N8010 (GB). I have tried the SAMSUNG website and although I can find the ROM I want, it wont allow me to download it.
Any help would be much appreciated,
Bill.
sammobile .com or samsung-updates .com are the normal xda sources .
So I recently came across this XDA forum about Samsung devices. I was looking for ROMs to flash on my phone, and I can't seem to find any. Most of the links are URLs that are broken, give a 404, etc. I need some help to get a ROM. I'm currently still searching, aiming for KitKat at least.