How to unroot/unbrick Samsung Galaxy Young (GT-S6310/GT-S6312)

With each custom rom, kernel and theme that you attempt to flash onto your phone, there is always the danger of bricking it. A bricked phone technically means that it turns into a non-functional state. In such case, after powering on your phone after an unsuccesful flash, you get stuck in seeing either an infinite bootloop of your boot animation or just the Samsung Galaxy Young logo. This is what we call a soft brick. Unfortunately, the process in recovering a hard bricked Galaxy Young is not the same. A hard brick means that your phone will not power on regardless of any key combinations you try to press.

If you have flashed a custom rom for the first time and ended up bricking your phone, you can easily restore it back to its normal state thanks to tools such as Odin that can get you out of this mess. This post will show you how to do this in case you get stuck in this frustrating situation.

Pre-requisites:

• A working USB cable
• Odin 3.07 - Click here to download.
• Samsung USB Drivers - A simple installation of the Samsung Kies software should take care of that.
• Stock GT-S6310/S6312 firmware - Can be found at http://sammobile.com/firmwares/

How to unroot/unbrick Galaxy Young (GT-S6310/GT-S6312):

1. Head into the SamMobile firmware portal as mentioned in the pre-requisites and register for an account. Then in the firmware search bar search for GT-S6310 or GT-S6312 (S6310 is the regular variant and the S6312 is the Duos variant).
2. If possible, download the firmware that is meant for your country. It's okay to download another country's firmware if there is none available for yours.
3. After the download is complete, extract the firmware zip file and you should get a .tar.md5 file and a .dll file.
4. Now extract the Odin 3.07 zip file that you have downloaded and run the Odin program. Also, do not enable/disable any of the options in Odin, especially not Re-partition! Leave them all as they are by default.
5. Power off your Galaxy Young
6. While the phone is powered off, begin holding the Volume down + Home + Power buttons together to boot into Download mode. Once you have booted into Download mode, press the Volume up button to have it say "Downloading..." on your phone's screen.
7. Now connect it to your computer and check the Odin program to see if it will recognize it in one of the ID:COM boxes. If it doesn't, you need to try and re-install the Samsung USB Drivers.
8. Once your phone is connected and Odin recognizes it, click on the PDA button and choose the .tar.md5 that you got when you extracted the firmware zip file.
9. Now click on Start and wait for the process to complete.
10. After it is done, your phone should automatically reboot and start up normally. In case you are still stuck on a bootloop, take off the battery, place it back in and hold the Volume up + Home + Power buttons together to boot into Recovery mode and perform a data wipe.

 
If you are having a hard time following the text instructions, you may watch the demo video above that shows you step by step in recovering your phone.