How To Flash Samsung Galaxy S III Firmware Using Odin

In This Section I have Discussed  about How To Flash Samsung Galaxy S III Firmware using Odin.

Lets First Understand What PDA, CSC, .PIT is:

• CSC is the consumer software customisation and is specific to geographical region and carriers. It contains the software packages specific to that region, carrier branding and also APN settings for data connection.
•  PDA refers to the build version of the software/firmware.
•  Phone refers to the baseband/modem version.
•  .PIT refers to the partition information table you only need it if you screw up your partition table or if the firmware specifically requires it because of a change in the partition table layout. It's very likely you may never have to use this.
  
  If the package only contains one .tar archive then it will have everything, pda+phone+csc, in the one file.
  
  If it has multiple .tar archive then:
• The .tar with modem in the name is the phone/baseband bit of the package
• .tar with csc/multi-csc in the name is the csc bit of the package
• .tar with code/PDA in the name is the PDA part of the firmware package

In This Case You Will Have To Take Some Extra Time and Will Have to Put This .tar archives in the specific areas of Odin to flash the update. Please Refer to the images below.
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Follow The Steps Properly And Carefully To Get Your Firmware Flashed Properly Without Errors. Please Do Not Overlook Any Step:

1. Just download the firmware version you want from the second or third posts and extract the .tar or .tar.md5 file in the archive and save it somewhere

2. Reboot your phone to download mode.

To get download mode turn Off the device. After It is Completely Switched Off Then press the Down volume key+ Home button + press the power button  Simultaneously.

• You will see a warning asking you to press volume up if you want to continue or volume down to cancel, press volume up to Get To download mode!

3. Start Odin
4. If your ROM is a single .tar.md5 package click on the PDA button and browse to the .tar or .tar.md5 file that you extracted in step 1 and select it.

• If the package has more than one .tar archive then they will be labelled with PDA/Code, Phone/Modem and CSC. Just put them in the corresponding section of Odin like below :

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 5. DO NOT PUT .PIT FILE AND DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT TICK REPARTITION.
6. Connect the USB cable and wait for any required drivers to install and the after that check For the ID:COM section to turn blue. If it Does Then Continue Or Disconnect And Retry.
7. Click start to flash. If Odin hangs at setting up connection just unplug the USB cable and re-attach it, Odin should now resume
8. Do not disconnect the cable or turn off the device once the flash has started, it will reboot when it finishes.
9. Now You Are Done Enjoy Using Your OS.
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