Flashed Android Eclair to Samsung I5700 … working :)
May 26, 2010
Since I purchased my Samsung Galaxy Spica (aka GT-I5700 Android phone) I wanted to put Android 2.1 Eclair. Yesterday I managed to find sometime and flashed my phone with (so called) I5700’s India firmware (ie: I570EDDJC5).
Here is the howto ( I am not responsible if anyone’s phone becomes brick in this process ) –
- Install Samsung New PC Studio in Windows XP/Vista/7 computer so that all required drivers will be installed & available. (don’t forget to reboot after the installation)
- Connect Samsung Galaxy Spica phone to the Windows PC using USB cable which came in the box.
- Check whether all the drivers are properly recognized from Device Manager.
- Close Samsung New PC Studio and disconnect the phone.
- Switch off the phone and remove SIM & SD card (if any).
- Start the Odin-v4.03 (included in the firmware pack) multi-downloader in PC
- Hold Vol Down + Camera + Call Off buttons to get into Download screen and connect the phone to PC using USB cable.
- The phone should be detected in COM3 port (USB serial) of Odin.
- Check “One Package” option; add spica_jc3.ops (included in the firmware pack) and firmware package I570EDDJC5.tar (included in the firmware pack).
- Start flashing. Once the flashing is completed the phone will automatically reboot. (for me the flashing, auto rebooting took approximately 6mins …. if it fails, reboot the phone/PC and try again)
- Once you get your Eclair screen, disconnect the USB cable.
Few interesting links –
- Samsung OSS license notice for I5700
- Samsung OSS source release for I5700
- I5700 Linux/Android kernel source tree hosted in Gitorious
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