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devan963 · November 2nd, 2009, 04:50 PM

Here is a link for another guide about Odin, thanks to Bomberman for the link.

Most of the Below information has been taken from this forum so I would like to thank kam187 and Rastaman-FB for providing the majority of this information, drakaz for supplying the ROM’s, and everybody else here for being so bloody helpful I have only written this to put it all together in one place, so if this works and like it (you will) register and thank these lovely people on the forum for helping you to do this.

I have now done this several times and a few have not worked first time around and sometimes I needed to start from scratch again as it did not work, so if you’re short of time come back when you have more.

#######If you flash your phone you may void your warranty, do this at your own risk, myself or anybody here cannot be held responsible if the information below is incorrect or causes damage to your phone, i suggest you read it all in full and make sure you know what you are doing. if you are unsure or unwilling to take the risks leave it and do not go further as nobody wants a £450+ paper weight. #######

How to Install Drivers (ex ADB)

First things first, you will need to install the Samsung drivers for your device if you are using Windows 7 (or probably Windows Vista (God Forbid)) all you need to do is plug in phone to the USB port, mount the Drive by dragging the top bar down and selecting mount.

Then go to Settings >> Applications >> Development and select USB Debugging and them mount the drive again.

If you have problems install Samsungs latest PC Suite from http://www.samsungmobile.co.uk/support/softwaremanuals/software.do
Select the device it will be called Samsung Galaxy, Samsung –i7500 or maybe even Samsung GT-i7500, the naming convention used is inconsistent so it depends on what time of day it is or something like that.

If problems still remain or you run 64x look http://androidforums.com/samsung-i7500/8801-using-i7500-x64-computer-drivers.html

If all you want to do is update firmware via Odin you can stop there for the ROMS there is another driver you need but see below for that.

How to get Odin

So now to get Odin, download from: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MKZTVVQ0
and extract them.
Then you need the latest firmware so choose one from the folowing list (the lower the newer)

I7500XXII4 (original O2 Firmware with CSC) MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service
I7500XXIH8 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GUJMVOWQ
I7500XXII5 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3IZ1GVPE
You need to extract the .tar files from the downoaded .zip.

Once you have all the files you need, start the phone in download mode by pressing Volume Down >> OK >> and Power On

The phone should boot to download mode, then plug in the USB again and open Odin, then select:

-One package from the options tick Boxes
-Select the file path for OPS which is the Orion.ops file
-Select the file path for One Package which is the firmware .Tar file

Press start the phone will reboot once done, you must then factory reset by going, Settings >> SD card & Phone Storage >> Factory data reset

That’s it! Done.

ADB Driver

This is to install the ADB Driver and Galexo ROM’s AFTER you have flashed to II5 from above directions

First to get the required tools file for this go to http://www.megaupload.com/?d=48D1QMWX

Then you need to install the adb driver so enable debugging, Settings >> Applications >> Development and select USB Debugging :
Right click My Computer >> Properties >> Device Manager then you should see an unknown device that did not install when we plugged in the phone previously, this driver is located in the tools file you just downloaded under USB_Driver

So right click unknown device and update driver software, you must choose browse my computer for software >> Let me pick from a list of drivers >> next >> have disk then browse to the file which is \tools\usb_driver\x86
It may not be exactly the above it depends on your OS so keep searching for the have disk option.

Installing Recovery Image And Galexo ROM's

With the phone plugged in via USB and the phone off go to command prompt by typing in cmd in search or run box in windows and cd to the tools directory then

Type: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
It will say... < Waiting for device >
Long-press the two Call buttons on the phone and you will see it load in fast boot and confirm file transfer was successful.

The new recovery image will be flashed,

You need to get the relevant Galexo ROM you want from hdblog.it http://forum.hdblog.it/showthread.php?t=4842
you will need to register to get the text file with the link to the Galexo update.zip files (bottom of his post)

Mount the SD on your PC and copy the rectools.tar.gz (from tools folder) and update.zip(from hdblog) to your root directory on the sdcard by just dragging and dropping the files in via my computer

Boot into recovery (VOL DOWN >> CALL >> END CALL) and do a G.apps backup. It should take 10 to 12 seconds. Anything like 1 or 2 seconds means it failed - reboot into recovery and go again

- Wipe in recovery, it'll reboot into recovery when done
- Apply sdcard:update.zip it'll reboot into recovery when done
- restore g.apps (if this keeps failing then mount the SD card and format it on your PC)
- reboot

If the phone seems to get stuck on the android screen on boot, be patient and wait for at least 10 minutes, but it has got stuck for me before and I have had to just pull the battery out and restart, it will take a while on first boot.

Removing unwanted files

The next parts are not necessary but can help free memory

On the phone go to settings >> Applications >> Development unselect then select USB debugging so it is ticked, this will install any missing drivers. I don’t know why this needed to be done but it did for me.

Cd to the tools directory from the command line with the phone turned on as normal

- adb remount
- adb push clearapps.sh /system/clearapps.sh
(you can edit clearapps.sh if you want to keep the widgets or any other apps you may want I suggest you look at it before running the file, just open it with notepad)

Anything after // are comments if you didn’t know

Then run the following commands:

- adb shell // Opens the Shell
- chmod +x /system/clearapps.sh // edits permissions
- /system/clearapps.sh // runs clearapps.sh to remove unnecessary apps
- cd /data/dalvik-cache
- rm * // Clear all in cache
- reboot