Applications for samsung galaxy j1. Installing official firmware on Samsung Galaxy J1 Ace Dual SIM. Installing custom recovery TWRP Recovery v3.0 on Samsung Galaxy J1 SM-J120

Detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to flash a Samsung Galaxy J1 (2016) SM-J120 smartphone with new official or custom firmware. Obtaining Root superuser rights on Samsung Galaxy J1 (2016) SM-J120, installing custom recovery TWRP Recovery.

Installing the official firmware on the Samsung Galaxy J1 (2016) SM-J120 smartphone using the Samsung Odin service program. In order to install new firmware on your smartphone, you first need to download several files to your PC:

Download the latest Official Firmware for Samsung Galaxy J1 (2016) SM-J120

Official service multi-file firmware J120FXXU1APH1

official single-file firmware J120FXXU1APH1

Before flashing your phone's firmware, you first need to decrypt it.
To remove the lock from Samsung Galaxy J1 (2016), you need to disable the reactivation lock. Go to “Settings” - “Lock screen and protection” - “Find phone” and disable “Activation Lock.” Before and after the firmware update procedure, you need to do a general reset of the device to factory settings to avoid all sorts of errors and interface slowdowns.
When performing this procedure, all your data and files will be permanently deleted.

Option 1: On the device, open “Settings” > “Backup and reset” > “Account” > “Reset data” > “RESET DEVICE” and click “Delete everything”
Option 2: Turn off the device, press and hold the “Volume Up”, “Home (Central)” and “Power” buttons and after a few seconds the “Recovery” menu will appear. In the “Recovery” menu, select “Wipe data/factory reset” -> “Yes – delete all user data”, deleting all user data will begin. After the process is completed, select “Reboot system now” and the device will begin to reboot.

You can skip this step, but remember! If you do not reset the data, after the update, “lags” and unstable operation of the device as a whole may appear due to the tails of the previous firmware, and recently, before completely resetting the smartphone, you also need to delete your Google account, otherwise the smartphone may be blocked.

After you have downloaded everything, unpack the archive with the driver for Galaxy J1 (2016) and install it. Then unpack the archive with Odin and the firmware.
We launch the program for flashing Galaxy J1 2016 Odin as administrator. To do this, hover over Odin and right-click and select “Run as administrator”, then click “Yes”.

After launching Odin, arrange the firmware files in the following order:
The file BL……….tar.md5 is inserted into the “BL” field
The AP……….tar.md5 file is inserted into the “AP” field
The file CP……….tar.md5 is inserted into the “CP” field
The CSC file……..tar.md5 is inserted into the “CSC” field

We check that the “checkmarks” are only in the “Auto Reboot” and “F. Reset Time"

We put the Samsung Galaxy J1 SM-J120 phone into firmware mode. To do this, turn off the phone and then press and hold the “Volume Down”, “Home” and “Power” buttons and after the menu with a yellow triangle appears, press the “Volume Up” button
We connect the smartphone using the supplied USB cable to the PC and in the Odin program, the inscription “COM” should appear in the upper left corner, highlighted in blue, then press the “Start” button.

Note: If for some reason your PC does not recognize your device, try reinstalling the driver and/or try other USB ports.

The smartphone firmware process has started. After successful firmware, the device will reboot automatically and the message “Finish” will appear in the Odin program.

Installing custom recovery TWRP Recovery v3.0 on Samsung Galaxy J1 SM-J120

And so let's start installing custom recovery on Samsung j1

If you have not yet installed Samsung drivers on your PC, download and install them. Then connect your smartphone to your computer using a standard USB cable. After the PC recognizes the phone, additional drivers and updates will be installed automatically.

We will need the Odin 3 program, download Odin

Then download the custom recovery for Samsung J1 SM-J120

FOR J120 F :
Download TWRP Recovery recovery.tar.md5

FOR J120 H :
Download TWRP Recovery TWRP J120H

Turn off your smartphone, and then (with it turned off) press and hold the “Volume Down” + “Power” + home key until the phone boots into Odin mode (Download Mode). You will see a warning, confirm your desire to boot into this mode by pressing the “Volume Up” key.

With your phone in Odin Mode, connect it to your PC using a standard USB cable.

Run the Odin 3 flasher program on your PC as an administrator

In the AP line, indicate the path to the previously downloaded file with custom recovery J1 TWRP Recovery with the extension “.img.tar” and select it

Uncheck “auto reboot” and press start (the phone should be flashed, flashing time should not be more than 30 seconds, the result should be like this (succeed 1/ failed 0);

We do not touch the Smartphone until the firmware process is complete; usually the firmware does not last longer than 30 seconds.

Without turning the gadget into working mode, directly from the Download mode we go to the newly installed TWRP Recovery by holding down three buttons (volume up + home + power button, when the Samsung message appears, release the buttons).

All! We rejoice.

Installing custom firmware on Samsung Galaxy J1 SM-J120

To install custom firmware on your Samsung Galaxy J1 phone, you need to have custom recovery TWRP Recovery, if you don’t have it, see the point above.

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Instructions for installing the official single-file firmware on the Samsung Galaxy J1 Ace (SM-J110x).

Drivers and programs

Attention!

To install the official stock firmware on the Galaxy J1 Ace and return the phone status (Settings > About device > Properties > Device status) to “Official” after switching from custom firmware and thereby returning the ability to receive updates over the air Just follow the instructions provided.

Installation instructions

Unpack the downloaded archive into a folder with Odin PC for convenience. The file in the ".tar" or ".tar.md5" format must be left, but the "SS_DL.dll" can be deleted.

Reset your device.
To do this, go to the settings section " Backup and factory reset", select the item " Reset data» > « Reset the device", enter the PIN code (if one is set) and click on the button " Delete everything" The phone will reboot.

Run Odin PC as administrator.

Put your device into download mode ( Download Mode).
To do this, you need to simultaneously hold down the Volume Down key, the Home button and the Power button. Then wait until the phone reboots and agree to the warning by pressing the Volume Up key.

In this state, connect the smartphone to the computer. In Odin the message “ COM».

Click on the “ AP» and select the TAR firmware archive.

Items " Auto Reboot" And " F.Reset Time" must be activated, A " Re-Partition"if active - must be disabled.

Click on the “ Start" The firmware installation process will begin.

At the end of the operation, if everything was successful, the message “All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0)". The phone must be restarted manually by holding down the power button until the screen turns off. It may take up to 5 minutes for your device to boot up initially.
ATTENTION!
If the device does not boot for a long time or the data has not been reset, it must be performed from recovery.
To do this, you need to simultaneously hold down the Volume Up key, the Home button and the Power button. After downloading, select " Wipe data/Factory reset", and then - " Reboot system now" If after these steps the device also freezes when loading, you need to reflash it again.