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Help A way to flash an official update from the phone

toology

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Aug 6, 2010
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Hello, first time poster here, needing help from experienced andriod users.

I got the Galaxy from my mother (she switched to another phone), but she lost the usb cable...

I found a way of sending files via WiFi to the sdcard, and also connected adb via WiFi, but I can't flash the new recovery because I'd have no wifi connection in fastboot.

Is there a way to flash an official update from the sdcard using stock recovery? I successfully entered recovery but there are no options, and I can't find a guide of any kind.

I tried buying the cable, but none of the shops had the official one, so finally I bought a third party cable that only charges the phone through usb, but windows gives me some error and doesn't recognize it as a device.

Thanks!
 
I agree with you, but Im completly stumped as to where to get a genuine samsung cable. Im going back to the shop today to ask for a replacement, I hope that only this cable is faulty. I always hated phone makers that dont use standard usb ports... :mad:

It is completely bog standard micro usb port.

I've got a no-name micro usb cable, a samsung one, and a nokia one, and they all fit my i7500.

The cheapest I've seen is the Blackberry branded one in my local Fnac bookstore (9.99
 
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Don't compare India and Belgium in terms of prices )))

Considering that we pay nearly the same for the full price of the phone I think it's fair to compare prices of accessories too. Heck, if you want to buy an iPhone around here you need to pay nearly Rs45000 + !! That's over 730 Euros! Well over the full price of the phone there.

Opinions may differ, as do prices from country to country, but the difference shouldn't be too much.

-chronodekar
 
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Considering that we pay nearly the same for the full price of the phone I think it's fair to compare prices of accessories too. Heck, if you want to buy an iPhone around here you need to pay nearly Rs45000 + !! That's over 730 Euros! Well over the full price of the phone there.

Opinions may differ, as do prices from country to country, but the difference shouldn't be too much.

-chronodekar

Actually, it's this sort of things (a bit of cable with two quite standards plugs on either side) that you're guaranteed to find at about cost price (give or take a
 
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If you have already flashed the recovery, you can "download" the necessary files to your phone's sd card using EStrongs File Explorer and without having to use any cable whatsoever.

ES File Explorer has the ability to connect to your Windows network via wifi, so you can just browse to the directory where you keep the files in your computer (update.zip, gapps.zip, theme.zip, etc), copy and paste them on the root of your sd card. Then apply them through recovery.
 
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