Provided that your phone has never been rooted, unlocked, flashed or altered in any way, (see next section), then the best advice is to take it to a Samsung Service Point and ask them to update the firmware for you. JB is available for my code but I cannot update " Advanced steps to take for Kies connection problems". If you experience a problem connecting to Kies then follow this excellent troubleshooting guide by Hawker, entitled.
If you do choose OTA, make sure your battery is fully charged and use Wi-Fi as the download can be around 500+MB. I would recommend avoiding OTA, (Over The Air), updates if possible as they can cause problems if the download is interrupted or corrupted. what you can do!.Īfter updating, re-calibrate your battery as follows in post #1, here.Īlways ensure that you have a fully charged battery before updating. For more details on this, see, Firmware update problems.
The advice for a trouble free installation is to back everything up and do a Factory Reset and a format of your internal and external memory, particularly if you have moved some app’s to your internal/external SD cards, prior to the update, thus enabling a clean, “vanilla”, install and then re-sync your phone with your Google account after updating and checking that all is well before re-downloading your app’s from the Play Store. This can, of course, cause problems since it is difficult to track down the cause of such problems and, in the case of ICS, the blame was in many cases unfairly placed on the ICS firmware. However, it is possible to receive corrupted downloads of firmware updates, and also, not all app’s or settings on your phone may be compatible with JB or correctly integrated.
on how to prevent update problemsĪlthough the JB update is a, “No wipe”, update, meaning that during the installation of the new firmware an attempt will be made to update and integrate all your existing app’s and settings to run with the new JB firmware.
Samsung, Jelly Bean, User Manual, (English, Europe), download, here. Of course, the easiest way to determine your eligibility for JB, is to connect your phone, via USB, to Samsung PC Suite, Kies and check for an update! i9100 XWLSS or for the variants, i9100 G/ M/ P/ T/ XWLSS. The code for your language pack is shown in PDA, above, and is the 2 letters following your model version, i.e. You can now go to post #2 to see if JB is available for your CSC code.įor an explanation of Samsung's Firmware codes, see, here.įor the language packs included in the various stock releases, see, here. In which case it is the 3 letters after that). in this case XYZ, (unless you have an M, T, G or P variants. The important part to determine your eligibility for JB are the 3 letters after the number. The CSC code will determine if JB has been released for your phone's firmware and will look something like this. ( ***Please include the above information when posting a question) It contains the software packages specific to that region, languages, carrier branding and also APN settings for data connection, MMS etc for your service provider.īuild Info: The time and date of the build you are running. Phone refers to the baseband/modem versionĬSC is specific to geographical region and carriers. PDA refers to the language pack and build version of the firmware You will then get a screen showing, " Version", with 4 lines of information. What does matter is the CSC code, ( Consumer Software Customisation code). It doesn't matter where you bought your phone or what sim card you are using or what location you are using it in.
( *For update to ICS, Android 4.0.?, see, here.) This thread is only for the Jelly Bean, ( JB), update * for. Particularly post #3 as this has, " Tips for using this Dummies Guide". Please read all items in posts #1, #2 and #3 carefully and thoroughly as they should answer most of your update queries.