The Samsung SM-T350 was released in May of 2015 and came with Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box. Since tablets don’t get used as often as smartphones, there are many perfectly good Samsung SM-T350 tablets still being used today. And if you’ve managed to change the battery, there’s no reason it couldn’t be used as a perfectly good eReader for many years to come. […]
Android Firmware
Samsung S20 OEM ROMs
The Samsung Galaxy 20 has many custom ROMs and they are easy enough to find. If we haven’t covered them here, you can usually find them on forums like XDA Developers. For OEM ROMs though it’s a different story. Samsung doesn’t offer stock firmware from its website, so you generally have to rely on websites that offer files often locked behind paywalls that have manually […]
Samsung SM-G955U Firmware (Flash File)
You can download the Samsung Galaxy S8+ SM-G955U firmware by using the SamFirm_Reborn Tool, Bifrost – Samsung Firmware Downloader Tool, or Frija. See also: How to Extract boot.img from Samsung Firmware 1. Frija Frija is a free tool that allows you to download and check Samsung firmware. Frija is one of the successors of the original SamFirm tool. I say one of them because another […]
How to Extract boot.img from Samsung Firmware
We were browsing the XDA Developers forum recently and realized that many people don’t know how to extract a boot image file. The boot image in Android is used to boot the operating system, thus it is quite common for those who are planning on installing custom firmware to have to tinker with it. Some rooting tools such as Magisk can often require a patched […]
Samsung SM-G531F Firmware (Flash File)
You can download the Samsung Galaxy S8+ SM-G955U firmware by using the SamFirm_Reborn Tool, Bifrost – Samsung Firmware Downloader Tool, or Frija. Samsung purposefully makes it difficult to download and install the firmware manually compared to other smartphone manufacturers that run the same Android operating system. Even if you were to manage to download firmware from Samsung, they ensure that the files are encrypted to prevent everyday webmasters […]
Samsung SM-T280 Firmware (Flash File)
You can download the Samsung Galaxy S8+ SM-G955U firmware by using the SamFirm_Reborn Tool, Bifrost – Samsung Firmware Downloader Tool, or Frija. If you try to search for Samsung firmware files on your computer, you will only be directed to blogs that have somehow gotten a hold of the firmware themselves but without there being an official Samsung source for the same files. This is because unlike many […]
Download: Free Samsung Firmware Update Tools
Flashing tools were initially developed by the companies that were associated with the device’s hardware, kept in-house, used in the back rooms of smartphone repair centers to fix common mobile device-related problems. The tools were later published on the Web for anyone to use. Now you can solve the same kinds of issues that were once left up to those repair centers: bootloops, soft-brick situations, […]
How to Install Lenovo A7-30H Firmware Flash File
Here’s what you need to download the official Lenovo A7-30H firmware flash file onto a computer. You can then flash the firmware with the appropriate flashing tool that’s made to work with your device in mind. Smartphone repair centers were the first places to know about flashing tools, as they often used them to help fix common mobile device-related problems. Since then they have become available […]
How to Install Lenovo A7-30GC Firmware Flash File
Here’s what you need to download the official Lenovo A7-30GC firmware flash file onto a computer. You can then flash the firmware with the appropriate flashing tool that’s made to work with your device in mind. Smartphone repair centers were the first places to know about flashing tools, as they often used them to help fix common mobile device-related problems. Since then they have become […]
How to Install Lenovo A7-30F Firmware Flash File
Here’s what you need to download the official Lenovo A7-30F firmware flash file onto a computer. You can then flash the firmware with the appropriate flashing tool that’s made to work with your device in mind. Smartphone repair centers were the first places to know about flashing tools, as they often used them to help fix common mobile device-related problems. Since then they have become […]
How to Install Gionee A1 Lite Firmware Flash File
Here’s what you need to download the official Gionee A1 Lite firmware flash file onto a computer. You can then flash the firmware with the appropriate flashing tool that’s made to work with your device in mind. Smartphone repair centers were the first places to know about flashing tools, as they often used them to help fix common mobile device-related problems. Since then they have […]
How to Install Pansonic Eluga Ray 500 Firmware Flash File
Here’s what you need to download the official Pansonic Eluga Ray 500 stock firmware flash file onto your computer. You can then use one of the compatible flashing tools to update the firmware on your smartphone or tablet. Flashing tools were initially developed by the companies that were associated with the device’s hardware, kept in-house, used in the back rooms of smartphone repair centers to […]
Samsung J3 Prime SM-J327T Combination File
Android used to be known as an operating system lacking a little bit in security compared to its competition. In more recent years it was becoming increasingly necessary for Google to do something about that for a couple of reasons. The first is because the technology itself is changing fast and now we have applications such as Android Pay that involve people’s finances. The second […]
Samsung J120A ENG Sboot File/FRP Unlock
The Samsung J120A smartphone comes with Factory Reset Protection, otherwise just known as “FRP” to some. Over the years Android, as an operating system, has been put under scrutiny for not being as secure as it should. And if you go back and look at the lack of security features in past Android versions, it’s not hard to understand where those opinions came from. While some […]
How to Install Wiko Goa Firmware Flash File
Here’s what you need to download the official Wiko Goa firmware (stock ROM) flash file onto your computer. You can then use one of the compatible flashing tools to update the firmware on your smartphone or tablet. Flashing tools were initially developed by the companies that were associated with the device’s hardware and were mainly kept in-house, adopted in the back rooms of smartphone repair centers […]
How to Install Wiko Jerry Firmware Flash File
Here’s what you need to download the official Wiko Jerry firmware (stock ROM) flash file onto your computer. You can then use one of the compatible flashing tools to update the firmware on your smartphone or tablet. Flashing tools were initially developed by the companies that were associated with the device’s hardware and were mainly kept in-house, adopted in the back rooms of smartphone repair centers […]
How to Install Xolo Era 1X Firmware Flash File
Here’s what you need to download the official Xolo Era 1X firmware (stock ROM) flash file onto your computer. You can then use one of the compatible flashing tools to update the firmware on your smartphone or tablet. Flashing tools were initially developed by the companies that were associated with the device’s hardware and were mainly kept in-house, adopted in the back rooms of smartphone repair […]
How to Install Yu Yunique YU4711 Firmware Flash File
Here’s what you need to download the official Yu Yunique YU4711 firmware (stock ROM) flash file onto your computer. You can then use one of the compatible flashing tools to update the firmware on your smartphone or tablet. Flashing tools were initially developed by the companies that were associated with the device’s hardware and were mainly kept in-house, adopted in the back rooms of smartphone repair […]
How to Install Walton Primo G5 Firmware Flash File
Here’s what you need to download the official Walton Primo G5 firmware (stock ROM) flash file onto your computer. You can then use one of the compatible flashing tools to update the firmware on your smartphone or tablet. Flashing tools were initially developed by the companies that were associated with the device’s hardware and were mainly kept in-house, adopted in the back rooms of smartphone repair […]
How to Install Samsung GT-S7580 Firmware Flash File
Here’s what you need to download the official Samsung GT-S7580 firmware (stock ROM) flash file onto your computer. You can then use one of the compatible flashing tools to update the firmware on your smartphone or tablet. Flashing tools were initially developed by the companies that were associated with the device’s hardware and were mainly kept in-house, adopted in the back rooms of smartphone repair centers […]
Download Rockchip Driver Assistant (All Versions)
The Rockchip Driver Assistant, aka the RK Driver Assistant, is a computer application that helps you install the Rockchip driver on a computer that runs on any version of the Windows operating system. The Rockchip Driver Assistant is what you need to install before you can use other applications such as the RockChip Batch Tool—a flashing tool that can flash stock firmware on devices that come with a Rockchip […]
Download Broadcom MultiDownloader [Links]
The Broadcom MultiDownloader flashing tool is a computer application that allows you to flash stock firmware onto your mobile device. There are flashing tools out there capable of flashing stock firmware files for every manufacturer. All you need to do is know which tool you can use. Some flashing tools are made to work for a particular manufacturer of devices such as the Odin flashing tool […]
How to Flash Stock ROM Using Phoenix USB Pro
Here’s what you need to know to be able to flash stock firmware using the Phoenix USB Pro flashing tool. You should always make sure your device is efficiently charged up before flashing firmware, even if you know your device comes equipped with USB charging. We recommend having at least 75% of the mobile device’s battery charged before starting the guide below. How to Flash Stock […]
Download Phoenix USB Pro (All Versions)
The Phoenix USB Pro flashing tool allows you to flash stock firmware files for most devices that come with an Allwinner SoC (system chip). Most flashing tools out there will always offer a way in which you can flash the stock firmware back onto your device. Doing so helps with removing device customizations, fixing software related errors and bugs, getting out of bootloop situations, or just […]
How to Install RDA Bin File
Here’s what you need to know to be able to flash an RDA bile file by using the Multi IEdownload Tool application. Before you think about flashing firmware to your device you should make sure that the smartphone or tablet is sufficiently charged up, even if you think it’s going to be using USB charging. We recommend starting the flashing with no less than 75% battery […]
How to Flash Sony Xperia Firmware
This is what you need to install Sony Xperia stock firmware files onto your Sony device by using the Sony Mobile Flasher tool and a computer. Make sure you’ve got enough battery charge on your device before you get started with the flashing. Even though you’re going to likely be using USB charging on the computer, you still want your device to be efficiently charged […]
How to Install Samsung Stock Firmware Using Four Files
Most people love their smartphones because it offers them a way to now get access to the internet from their pockets instead of having to open up a laptop or even sit behind a desktop computer as it were in the old days. It would be a lie to say that all people do on their smartphones is use a standard web browser for surfing […]
How to Update Galaxy S4 I9500 to XXUBMF8 Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
This update for the Galaxy S4 has rolled out over the air to places in Europe. The new XXUBMF8 is installed via Samsung KIES in Russia only. The rest of the world has to download manually. To do it manually, simply follow this guide. This is an official update to XXUBMF8 Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. Now we are jumping up to the 4.2.2 from the […]
How to Update Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean
After updating to the earlier version of Jelly Bean for so long there is now finally an Android 4.3 in the works and you can flash it to your Galaxy S4 now by following this method. This guide is risky purely because the lack of test driving so far. You should steer clear unless you are willing to take the significant risk, especially if you […]
How to Install XXUAMFB Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean on Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom
The Galaxy S4 Zoom is another brand new device that Samsung launched recently. This device is for those looking for a fantastic camera attached to the rear end of their smartphones. A theory that could revolutionize the way we see cameras made in the future. It could also spell tough times for plain and simple digital cameras. If you do own one of the aforementioned […]