How to Use Samloader To Download OTA Updates for Samsung Galaxy Phone

In this tutorial, we will show you how to download Samsung OTA Updates using the Samloader tool. OEMs usually upload their firmware packages online onto their respective websites. This allows the users to download and manually flash the required firmware file via stock recovery, ADB sideloads, or other methods. However, with Samsung, things are different. There isn’t any official place as such from where you could get a hold of stock firmware.

As a result, users look for alternatives in the form of third-party software. Among them, SamFirm and Frija are two of the most popular players in this domain. You could easily download the firmware files using the above tools and then flash them via Odin. And now, we have a new player in this segment. Known as Samloader, it has streamlined the entire downloading process. This guide will list out the steps to download Samsung OTA Updates using this Samloader tool.

What is the Samloader Tool

XDA junior member n000 reverse-engineered the Samsung Smart Switch and created a cross-platform tool in Python. The biggest perk of this tool is that it is open-source; hence you could access its source code from the GitHub repository. Along the same lines, it doesn’t use Windows DLL. This means that the tool is then compatible with Mac and Linux platforms (apart from Windows).

Furthermore, this tool is extremely lightweight (around 100 KB) and could be used to decrypt the OTA package as well. Then you could also add the ability to create flashable packages to this tool’s functionality list. With this, you might have got a pretty decent idea regarding this tool. So let’s now check out the steps to use the Samloader tool and hence download Samsung OTA Updates via it.