Flashing an Android device is not a rare incident by now. Because most Android users now try to flash their device since it offers numerous features. Term"Flashing" refers to uninstall the current operating system of an Android device and replace it with the same operating system or different Android version. Odin is the specialized flashing tool for Samsung devices. It is well-famous as Samsung Odin among Android users. The latest update of Samsung Odin is v3.13.1. You can use the latest version to flash devices with Oreo firmware.
Download Odin v3.13.1
By now, Samsung releases their new Android firmware compressing into LZ4 compression. LZ4 is recognized as a lossless data compression algorithm. The main purpose this algorithm is to improve data compression and decompression speed. Also, it allows reconstructing the original data perfectly from the compressed data. This algorithm is developed by Yann Collet as cross-platform data compression. Also, it comes on "C" computer programming language since it is a general-purpose and imperative computer programming language. Initially, LZ4 data compression was released in 2011. So, Samsung has updated Samsung Odin to support new firmware with LZ4 compression. If you are using Samsung Galaxy S series smartphones you have to download Odin v3.13.1 to flash them.Yo can have Odin free download sicne it is free.
Features
Flash Stock Firmware - Odin allows you to flash stock ROMs on your Samsung devices when it stuck, crash or boot-loop
Flash Custom Firmware - You can flash compatible modified Android operating systems on your Samsung devices using this application
Flash Root packages in MD5 and .tar
Flash Recovery - You can flash stock or custom recovery effectively using the tool
Flash kernels - Odin allows you to flash custom kernels and stock kernels. But Custom kernel must be in a .tar format in order to flash via Odin
Requirements
A Windows computer
Recommended USB cable
Latest Samsung USB drivers
ADB & FASTBOOT TOOLS
Download compatible Stock ROM for your device on your computer and extract it. (Odin only flashes with .tar or .tar.md5 extensions)
Pre- Arrangements
Back up your device completely
Download Odin Odin v3.13.1 and Install (For Samsung Galaxy S8, S8+, S9, S9 comes with Oreo files (LZ4 Compression)
Install Samsung USB drivers on your computer
How To Flash A Stock ROM Using Odin v3.13.1
After setting all the above requirements put your Samsung device on "Download Mode" pressing Power + Volume Down + Home
Launch Odin application and Click on "BL, AP, CP, CSC, USER DATA" one by one and load the relevant file from the extracted folder
Example: Click "BL" Button and load the file begins with BL_XXXXXXXX
When you come to "CSC" Button make sure to load "Home_CSC" file
Do not load "CSC_XXXXX" File
Keep the "USER DATA" field empty since it is not necessary at this process
After loading all the files check if a check mark is displayed in front of all the fields
Then, click on the "Start" button to start the flashing process
The whole process may take about 15 minutes and after the process complete your device will reboot with new firmware
Final Word
If you flash a beta or testing stock ROM you will not be able to restore your previous firmware