Download Odin Multi Downloader for Samsung Smartphones & Tablets

ROM information flashable with Odin include .tar extension. Many of the ROMs you're going to flash with Odin are the official stock Samsung ROMs (or leaked stock ROMs). Custom ROMs are rerely flashable by Odin because they come with .zip extension that Odin doesn't acknowledge (it recognizes .tar information).

Custom kernels, however, are generally offered in .tar format by their developers (e.g. CF-Root kernels), so that they are often flashed by Odin. When your phone is new and working official firmware you most often can't flash a custom ROM to it as a result of a Samsung phone often requires a customized recovery and root rights that are included in a custom kernel to be able to flash customized ROMs. That is why Odin typically is useful in rooting and flashing a customized firmware to your phone because you (often) can flash a customized kernel with it that already consists of root and custom recovery and allows you to flash custom firmware (custom ROMs). I exploit the word "typically" very regularly within the earlier sentence because each Samsung smartphone is completely different and requires varied procedures for rooting it and flashing customized ROMs (see the section about utilizing Odin beneath).

If it involves stock ROMs, the most effective source of stock (official) Samsung ROM recordsdata is situated at this excellent website: SamMobile.com/firmwares (link). It requires registration (it is free) and I encourage you to set up an account there as a result of you will almost definitely use this website a number of occasions during your keep at XDA. :) You will most likely come across 1 .tar or 3 .tar file ROMs there, flashable by Odin. Confer with the Odin flashing guide below for extra info.

Beneath on this thread you possibly can download Odin v3.09, v3.07, v3.06, v3.04, v1.85, v1.83 and all important versions of Odin Multi Downloader.

However, keep in mind that not every Samsung smartphone may be flashed utilizing any Odin version. In actual fact, for every Samsung smartphone there is a specific Odin version suitable with it. Please check with the tables under to study which Odin version is compatible with your phone!

To use Odin with ANY Samsung phone you first must correctly set up latest Samsung USB Drivers for Mobile Phones. You'll be able to SPAM drivers in this thread (link). They work for all Samsung smartphones. In that thread there's a full information on installing the drivers on Win eight/7/Vista/XP x86 & x64.