Samsung Galaxy Pocket S5300 is a budget android phone and comes with lots of cool features. If you want to update Samsung Galaxy Pocket S5300 with latest firmware, the following tutorial help you to complete your task. The smartphone runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, 3GB of internal memory and 832 MHz ARM 11 processor.
Pre Requisites
- Backup all of your data using Backup and Restore Apps
- Copy all your songs, videos to Internal/External SD card
- Make sure your device have at least 80% battery power
If you have followed everything mentioned above, you can move to next step. Install USB drivers for Samsung Galaxy Pocket GT-S5300 on your Computer for the connection. If not, then you can downloaded and install the same from here. Now download the following files by clicking on it.
Android 2.3.6 S5300XXLF5 for Galaxy Pocket GT-S5300
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Update Samsung Galaxy Pocket S5300 to S5300XXLF5 Android 2.3.6 Official Firmware
Step 1 Extract Firmware zip file that you have already downloaded from above link, you will get a .tar file and some other files.
Step 2 Next extract Odin zip file and you will get Odin3 v1.85.exe and Odin3.ini in extracted folder.
Step 3 Now Power off your android phone and Wait 5-6 seconds confirm complete switch off.
Step 4 Now, put your Galaxy Pocket GT-S5300 in Download Mode by pressing and holding down the Volume Down and Home buttons while pressing the Power button until you seen a green robot indicating you are in Download Mode.
Step 5 Run Odin3 v1.85.exe as an Administrator as Admin privileges is required to complete the process smoothly.
Step 6 Now its time to connect your Galaxy Pocket GT-S5300 with your PC using USB cable. After successfully connected a message will arrive under Odin’s message box in the bottom left saying “Added!!”.
Step 7 Select the files in Odin at respective tabs from extracted S5300XXLF5 firmware folder :
- Click the PDA Tab, and select the .tar file here with *code* appearing in its name
- Click the Phone Tab, and select file with *modem* in its name (leave if there is no such file)
- Click the CSC Tab, and select file with *csc* in its name (leave if there is no such file)
- Click the PIT Tab, and select the .pit file. Use only if you got it while extracting in step 1 above, otherwise ignore it.
Step 8 In Odin, you need to check on Auto Reboot and F Reset Time options. Remember – you can only check on re-partition option if .PIT file is available to you.
Step 9 Now check you have followed each & everything, mentioned in the above steps. if all are fine then click on Start button to start the installation process and this process may take around 6-7 minutes to complete.
Step 10 After the completion of the process, you need to restart your mobile phone or will restart automatically. Once you see the home screen on your display, you can unplug your Galaxy Pocket GT-S5300 Plus from Computer.
Congrats! You successfully updated Samsung Galaxy Pocket S5300 firmware. Now your Galaxy Pocket S5300 runs on Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread build XXLF5. Follow the path to verify the process Settings > About phone.
If you have find any difficulty let us know in the comment section.