So, after connecting the Phone and ID:COM light glowing Yellow, its not time to select the files with which you can easily update your phone. Please note that its very important to enter in the files as mentioned below or else you will surely brick the device. Just click on the options to select the files from the downloaded and extracted folder.
PIT – victory_8G_100528.pit
PDA – SPH-D700-EF02-8Gb-REL.tar.md5
- As soon as you feed in the files, you will have to double check the same and then you will have to proceed and click on the “Start” option to start the firmware update process. After clicking on the start, you will see that the firmware will be installed in your phone within a time of not more than 5 minutes as you can see in the representational screen shot below which may vary with the actual screen shot of the flashing.
- After the Samsung Epic 4G reboots, you will have see the home screen and then choose the options accordingly and then after you see the home screen and after the completion of Media scanning, you will have to go in the recovery mode wherein you will have to delete the cache memory so that all unwanted files are removed if there are any left in the phone.
For checking on which firmware you are currently on, you will have to go to the Settings > About Phone > Firmware Version where you will find the version of Android OS where it will show 2.3 EF 02. As you can see above that we have shown some of the images of latest Gingerbread update. Note : You will have to reconfigure the APN settings after updating the firmware to access the data services and the Internet services as all the Internet APN settings will be reset. You will have to contact your Service provider which is Sprint to get more info on the APN Settings. Not to forget also configure the MMS Settings. That’s it you have successfully updated your device.
