In this article, you will learn to use Odin flashing tool on your Samsung smartphone to bring new improvements & fixes for your smartphone. Odin will allow you to flash official stock ROMs on your Samsung devices running on Android OS.
Before downloading any firmware for your Samsung device, check and confirm that the firmware is meant for your exact device model. This is necessary to avoid downloading the wrong file, causing your device to brick.
So, if you want to flash your Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 SM-T230 device, then you are the right page where we are going to guide you how to flash Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 SM-T230 device to get rid of unusual errors like application errors, touchscreen errors, download errors, virus inside internal memory, loading a boot loop, other similar errors. To fix these you might want to try factory reset to get rid of errors but if you have already done this too but nothing changed then follow the steps below and start flashing Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 SM-T230 with odin flashing tool.
Benefits of Stock Firmware
Back To Stock: If you wish to go back to stock on your Samsung device, simply installing a firmware using Odin will do it. Whatever customization you had done will be gone, like custom recovery, custom kernel, root access, etc. The device becomes as good as new software-wise.
Update: Installing firmware with a newer Android version or build no. is the easiest way to update your Samsung Galaxy device manually, without waiting for the OTA update, or when OTA fails you.
Unbrick: If your Galaxy device is not starting properly and is stuck in the boot loop situation and thus rebooting after should the logo, then installing a firmware will fix that too. It serves as a good fix for soft-bricked devices.
Unroot: Well, you can easily unroot your device by installing the stock firmware. This will also remove custom recovery (like TWRP, CWM, Cyanogen, PhilZ, etc.), custom kernel, etc. stuff, as all partitions are installed with Samsung’s default respective images.
Pre-Requisites
This will work on Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 SM-T230 (Don’t Try this on Any other device).
Charge your phone up to 80% or 70%.
Download the latest Samsung USB Drivers.
You will lose all you data. So make sure to Backup your phone before doing this step .
You can also backup all your Data.
Download all the Zip files from below.
This will work on Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 SM-T230 (Don’t Try this on Any other device).
Charge your phone up to 80% or 70%.
Download the latest Samsung USB Drivers.
You will lose all you data. So make sure to Backup your phone before doing this step .
You can also backup all your Data.
Download all the Zip files from below.
Steps to Flash Your Device
Step 1: Download and install device driver software on your computer.
Step 1: Download and install device driver software on your computer.
Download Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 SM-T230 official firmware in download section.
Download the driver software of your device. Download and then install it on you computer.
Download or update Kies, part of which will install or update drivers.
Once drivers are installed or updated, it is highly recommended that you restart your computer.
Step 2: Download and extract the Stock ROM (Official/Original Firmware).
After downloading it (normally a compressed file), you need to extact/unzip it to certain location of your PC. The file types that Odin uses are *.bin,*.tar and *.tar.md5.
Step 3: Download and extract Odin on you PC.
You can download Odin3_v3.14.1.zip directly from download section below is a fine alternative, it also offers a download link. Or you can always Google "Odin download".
After downloading it on your PC, extract it to Desktop or another location you'd prefer.
After extracting, right-click to "Open as Administrator". It may prevent certain issue from happening.
Step 4: Boot your Samsung device into Download mode.
Follow these steps to enter Download Mode/Odin Mode:
Power off your device
Press and hold Volume Down key, Home Button Key and Power Key
When your device vibrates, release Power key while keep holding the Volume Down key and Home Button key
Press Volume Up key to enter Download mode, which has a green robot figure and “Downloading… Do not turn off target!!)
Step 5: Connect your device to PC.
You device should be automatically recognized by Odin. At the lower-left of Odin interface, it should show a message that says "Added!" and in the meantime you should see a light-blue box at the ID:COM section stating "COM:3" (the number depend on which USB port you have plugged the device cable and is irrelevant).
Step 6: Click "AP" and "BL" and "CP" and "CSC" to add tar.md5 file that you have extracted and then "Start".
Whether it is "PDA" or "AP" depends on the version of Odin that you used. But the md5 file goes to either "PDA" or "AP" and same way for "BL", "CP" and "CSC".
After adding the file, click "Start" to begin the flashing process.
When the flashing process is done and if everything goes well, you should see a big green box saying "RESET" or "PASSED" (depends on the version of Odin is used). By now, the device should be rebooted and it is safe to remove/unplug your device.
Download Official ROM
Download the Official package from the below download links.
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