


Using Odin, you can download the firmware file to flash, but if you try to download the firmware directly from Samsung, it’ll be encrypted. Meanwhile, Odin is Samsung’s proprietary flashing tool if you want to flash firmware by going to Download Mode. However, the company doesn’t allow to download software updates manually. Talking about software updates for smartphones, Samsung rolls out new updates to its devices in various phases over the air by following its strategy to ensure stability. Every new software update fine-tunes the system, comes with new features, and optimizes the system in order to increase the overall device performance as well as brings fixes for vulnerabilities for better device protection. An update is a new, safer, and improved version of the software.
