Read the following instructions carefully while updating your Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos to Android 4.2.

2 Jelly Bean. Please note that each and every step mentioned in this article is important Disclaimer: The procedure given in this tutorial is considered as risky and may cause damage to your phone. It is recommended that you should not follow it unless you are familiar with these things. Follow this guide completely at your own risk. I. Before You Begin: 1. The following procedure works for Samsung Galaxy Grand DUOS GTi9802Smartphone. 2. Make sure your device have at least 80% battery power. 3. You must have ClockworkMod Recovery installed on your device. 4. Make sure USB Debugging is enabled II. Downloading Required Files: 1. Jelly Bean 4.2.2 Rom 2. Google apps. III. Install Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean ROM: 1. Connect your device to PC using USB cable. 2. Copy downloaded files to the SD card of your Phone. 3. Disconnect USB 4. Turn off your Phone. 5. Boot into recovery by pressing and holding Volume Down, Home and Power buttons 6. Wipe the Data and Dalvic Cache or you might brick your device afterwards 7. Select install zip from sdcard, then select choose zip from sdcard. (locate the Jelly Bean 4.2 Rom .zip file) and select it by pressing Power button.

8. Once the ROM installation process end, repeat the step 7 but choose Google appsinstead of ROM zip to install the Google apps package. 9. When installation is completed, go back to the main recovery menu and select reboot system now to reboot the phone and boot up into customized Android 4.2.2 ROM Congrats!!! Well known and super customize Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean firmware based custom ROM now installed and running on your Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos GT-i9082.

How to Update Galaxy Grand Duos I9082 with Android 4.1.2 XXAMD6 Jelly Bean Official Firmware
May 15, 2013

Firmware details PDA: I9082XXAMD6 CSC: I9082OLBAMD3 Version: Android 4.1.2 Built date: April, 2013 Regions: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand Pre-requisites 1. Install USB Driver for Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos on the computer. 2. Enable USB Debugging Mode. 3. Make a backup of all your important data before following the guide. 4. The Galaxy Grand Duos should be factory unlocked and not locked to any particular carrier. 5. Ensure the battery of the phone is charged more than 80 per cent. 6. The Android 4.1.2 XXAMD6 Jelly Bean firmware is compatible only with Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos I9082 and installing this on any incorrect variant will brick the device. File Required 1. Android 4.1.2 XXAMD6 Jelly Bean Firmware 2. Odin 3.07 Steps to Update Galaxy Grand Duos I9082 on Android 4.1.2 XXAMD6 Jelly Bean Firmware Step 1: Extract Firmware zip file that you downloaded already from above link, you will get a .tar.md5 file and some other files. Step 2: Extract Odin zip file and you will get Odin3 v3.07.exe along with few other files. Step 3: Power off your phone. Wait 5-6 seconds for vibration to confirm complete switch off. Step 4: Boot the device into Download Mode by pressing and holding Volume Down + Home buttons together and then press the Power button until the device turns on. Now press the Volume Up button to enter Download Mode. Step 5: Run Odin on the computer. Step 6: Connect the Galaxy Grand Duos to the computer using USB cable while it is in the Download Mode. Wait until Odin detects the device. When the device is connected successfully, the ID: COM box will turn yellow with the COM port number. Additionally, the successful connected will be indicated by a message saying Added. If Odin fails to detect the device then re-install USB driver. Step 7: Choose the following files in Odin from extracted I9082XXAMD6 firmware folder by using respective checkboxes:

Select the PDA checkbox, and choose the file named .tar or .md5. Click the Phone checkbox, and choose the file with 'modem' in its name (ignore if there is no such file) Click the CSC checkbox, and select the file with 'csc' in its name (ignore if such file is missing) Choose the PIT checkbox, and choose the .pit file. Use only the file obtained during extracting in step 1 above, otherwise ignore it. Step 8: In Odin, enable Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time checkboxes. Also, ensure the RePartition checkbox is chosen only if a .pit file was chosen in the previous step. Step 9: Verify everything suggested in Step 7 and Step 8 is done correctly. Then hit the START button to begin the flashing process. Step 10: Once flashing completed, your phone will restart and soon you will see a PASS message with green background in the left-most box at the very top of the Odin. You can now unplug the USB cable to disconnect your device from computer. Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos I9082 should be now updated with official Android 4.1.2 XXAMD6 Jelly Bean firmware. Head over to Settings>> About Phone to verify the software version running on the device. Note: If Galaxy Grand Duos I9082 stuck at booting animation after Step 10 then go to recovery mode (press and hold the Volume Up, Home and Power buttons together) and perform Wipe data/Factory Reset and Wipe Cache Partition task before selecting reboot system now function. In recovery mode use Volume keys to navigate between options and Power key to select the option. Please note, performing wiping task will erase your device internal memory data and not external SD card data.