[Samsung Galaxy 5 I5500] chillvisio:
Upgrading your I5500 device firmware using ODIN

The writer of this manual couldn't be held responsible for any damage that you could make to your phone by following or not following correctly this short guide. This is not a ROM backup guide. If you want to backup your current ROM before experimenting with this guide, please dig on the web and find the right guide for backing up your working ROM.

Possible reasons for flashing another stock ROM to your device:

1. You would like to make your device upgradeable via KIES and get rid of annoying "This device can't be updated" KIES message. Author note: I do not know why would one need KIES updates any longer as no more stock firmware updates by Samsung for the Galaxy Europa are expected in future. Samsung customer support was clear enough that Samsung do not plan to bring Android 2.3 for the device, no matter that it is stil being sold by mobile operators and phone shops.

2. You would like to use a different language version. While previous Android 2.1 builds for the Galaxy Europa had all the languages in one place, since Samsung introduced Android 2.2 for this phone they've split the Android translations to regions (eg. Western Europe, Eastern Europa, Latin America etc.).

3. You just relocated in another country and your phone couldn't connect to the 3G network. As I noted in the previous post this could be solved by using the correct baseband version for your region.

4. You wanna go back to stock ROM before getting rid of your phone on eBay. And maybe the buyer of your phone is located in different country using different broadband.

5. Your phone has hardware issues and you wanna use Samsung repair service. Now this is a very credible reason to switch back your Galaxy Europa to Samsung's original stock ROM.

Please, note that latest CyanogenMod ports by psyke83 from MADTEAM work very nice and have less and less issues. They are using more open source software, better sensors driver, they come rooted out-of-the-box and will be supported longer than Samsung's own firmware. You may go to MADTEAM forum, read carefully the CM7 port manual and give CM7 a try. If you are not convinced to switch to CyanogenMod port by MADTEAM yet, then you may proceed by flashing latest official Samsung ROM for your device.

And once again if you missed the first line of this posting: Author of this manual could not be held accountable for any damaged or bricked devices. You are following this manual on your own risk!

I. Finding phone's Product Code

Just dial the following code like if you are dialing a regular phone number

*2767*4387264636#

and you will get some message on screen looking like this

[2] PCode:GT-I5500YKA[COLOR=Red][B]XEU[/B][/COLOR]

After learning your product code it is time to browse the following list and download the appropriate firmware version for your device, then upload .tar file using the Odin Multi Downloader 4.28, found at the bottom of this manual. Please, check One Package mode in Odin and load the tar file downloaded from our firmware library and DO NOT FORGET to also load the EUROPA_v1.0.ops file included in Odin archive.

II. Entering download mode

Not it is time to enter the device in Download mode so you could upload the firmware to it using the Odin Multi Downloader. Just turn off your Galaxy Europa and when device is turned off push and keep pushed in this order the keys: VOL DN, CONFIRM KEY, POWER/END (these are the key you use to lower the sound volume, the big rounded key and the key you use to turn on/off the phone). A few seconds later you will see an yellow under construction android robot sign saying Downloading...

III. Plug the phone and pray

Now plug your phone cable while Odin is running and loaded with the right tar or tar.md5 file. The first field in the left of the Odin window will go yellow and show you something like 1 (COM 1). Now it is time to click the Odin start button and wait for the firmware upload to complete. If it takes ages to complete or download fails your are not lost yet. Just restart Odin and if needed remove and place back in phone's batter while it's cable unplugged and reenter ind download mode. Then restart the upload process.

IV. All is done

When upload finishes fine, you have your phone updated with a stock ROM of your choice.

You could download Odin Multi Downloader 4.28 HERE.