The wait is over fellas, the official Android 4.3 for your dear Galaxy S4 has arrived in India and Indonesia. Other countries will follow soon but if you are impatient, we provide a tutorial on how to manually update to Android 4.3. This update is for Galaxy S4 GT-I9500 ONLY.
We just want to let you know that is an official Android 4.3 ROM from Samsung so if you have a custom ROM and you update to this, you will lose your root but we would say it's definitely worth it since Samsung has added a lot of features as improvements. Some of them are : - Galaxy Gear support, TRIM support making the device faster, ANT+ Support, Samsung KNOX Implementation (bootloader and dedicated application), Samsung Wallet, Improved RAM management, improved display color reproduction making the screen look sharper, Improved TouchWiz launcher, New Samsung keyboard, New Samsung browser (Full screen by default, new tab interface and more), New Reading Mode which optimizes display for reading, New camera firmware, Minor UI tweaks (Contacts app, Flashlight Widget and dialog boxes among others.
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How To Manually Update Galaxy S4 GT-I9500 To Android 4.3
- First install USB drivers of your Galaxy S4 GT-I9500 from here - Link.
- Then download the Samsung Official Android 4.3 ROM from here Link and extract it.
- Finally download Odin v3.07 from here - Link.
- Turn off your device. Press and hold Volume UP+Home+Lock Button at the same time till you get into download mode. Then connect it to your computer via USB cable.
- Open Odin and after you've connected to your device to your PC, Odin will show a yellow BOX this confirms you've installed the right drivers and you can proceed further.
- Don't touch anything, just click PDA and select the .tar file of the ROM which you got after extracting the .zip file of the ROM.
- finally click START. The process runs and your phone will be updated to Android 4.3 in a couple of minutes. After the process ends your device will reboot and you'll have Android 4.3 running.
Author : Nadeem Ansari
Designation: Senior Editor
Bio: A gadget freak who can't make a day without his tiny little toys and is constantly trying to keep himself up to date with the latest events in tech history. Loves to read and write articles.
Bio: A gadget freak who can't make a day without his tiny little toys and is constantly trying to keep himself up to date with the latest events in tech history. Loves to read and write articles.
