How to repair Bricked Samsung Galaxy Y S5360 by Flashing Stock Firmware via ODIN

This tutorial  is for Samsung Galaxy Y S5360 in specific, do not flash the firmware provided here in any other device.

 

It doesn't matter whether you bricked your phone experimenting with it or installing Custom ROMs, because this tutorial will help you get back to your Stock ROM or flash any firmware for your phone via ODIN Flash Tool.

Please note that flashing your phone with a firmware package can completely delete all user data, so make sure to backup your contacts and other data before continuing with the process. 

I will try to explain the process as simple as possible in a step by step manner below,  you can also check out the video tutorial that i have made on the same. Before continuing make sure you have the the following things with you:

1. Your Samsung Galaxy Y S5360

2. USB data cable to connect your phone with your computer

3. Internet to download the required files

        Watch the video tutorial here      

    

Before starting off make sure your phone is fully charged and switched off

• Download and install Samsung Kies form the link below, it contains the default driver for your device

• Switch off your phone and enter into Download Mode by pressing and holding VOLUME DOWN + HOME + POWER BUTTON

• Now connect your phone to your computer using the USB data cable

• Go to Control Panel > Device Manager and look under Universal Serial Bus Controllers and you should find your phone appear as Samsung Mobile USB Compopsite Device, and if it doesn't  then it means that the drivers haven't been correctly installed, in such a case you should disconnect the phone try removing all Samsung related software including Kies from your computer and reinstall Kies and check again, if that doesn't work then download the Unofficial Samsung USB Driver from the link below, install it and check again.

• If none of the above methods work for installing the drivers then you should use Windows Update to find and install the drivers (you must be connected to the internet) , here is how to do it -  Uninstall all Samsung related software, connect the  phone in the Download Mode, go to  Device Manager and in the Other Devices list you must find  your phone as two unrecognized devices CDC Abstract Control Model and CDC ACM Data, right click on CDC Abstract Control Model and select Update Driver Software > Search automatically for updated driver software, now windows will search for the appropriate driver and install it, once installed your device will appear as Samsung Mobile USB Compopsite Device under Universal Serial Bus Controllers and you are good to go.

• Once the drivers are installed and the phone connected in Download Mode, download ODIN and Firmware Package from the links given below

• Extract ODIN's zip file and put it in a folder, similarly extract the Firmare Package and put it in another folder. Upon extracting the Firmware Package you should get 3 main files whose names start with CSC, MODEM and PDA  

• Now go to ODIN's extracted folder and run ODIN, under ID:COM box in ODIN you should see something like 0:[COM#] where # is any number and if the box is blank it means that ODIN can't find your phone and something is wrong

• Leave all the selections to their default unless you know what you're doing

• Click on the PDA button and browse to the file starting with PDA in the extracted Firmware Package and click on Open

• Similarly click on PHONE button and browse to the file starting with MODEM in the extracted Firmware Package and click on Open 

• Similarly click on CSC button and browse to the file starting with CSC in the extracted Firmware Package and click on Open

• Now that all the files are selected click on the START button to begin flashing and wait for it to finish

• The process should take a few minutes or less to complete and if there are any errors they will be shown in the message box.

• Once it completes it will show something like this

    

• Now the phone will reboot on its own, you can close ODIN, disconnect your phone by removing the USB cable and wait for the phone to boot up, the phone should take quite a long time to boot up (less than 10 minutes) so don't panic. The first boot takes such a long time as certain system files are being extracted and created by the newly flashed firmware.

   

 

Links for downloading required files:

Samsung Kies (For official USB drivers that comes with it)

Unofficial Samsung USB Driver (Unofficial drivers probably extracted form Kies package, use only if  Kies installation doesn't fix driver issues)

ODIN Flash Tool (Software for flashing your phone with firmware packages)

Firmware Package (The one i used in this tutorial)
Link 1 (mediafire)
Link 2 (googledrive)

Other ODIN Flashable Firmware Packages (These packages have been made from official firmware releases and are similar to the one used in this tutorial, download according to your choice of region)

If the firmware you want is not listed in the above link try looking on http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ or http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-S5360 , once you have downloaded the firmware from here you can use SplitFus2 tool by Doky to convert it to an ODIN flashable package
Download SplitFUS2 tool from here- http://d-h.st/WR9
Full instructions can be found on the original thread located here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1611225

All Credits to Doky73 (for the original thread), marcussmith2626 and others (for remaking and re-uploading the packages) 

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