How to Downgrade Your Android Version to a Recent Version- ProPings.in

Not everybody appreciates the changes when new Android versions hit devices.

whether you're interested in your old version and want to switch back, so in this article "How to Downgrade Your Android Version to a Recent Version", it’s sometimes possible to downgrade your Android device to a recent version. Here’s how you do it.

Before we going to start, it’s important to mention the risks " try on your own risk". Downgrading your Android phone isn’t generally supported, it isn’t an easy and quick process, and it will almost certainly result in you losing data on your device. ensure you back up your phone before you going to perform.

Additionally, it might be possible for your device’s warranty or potentially brick it! making your smartphone nothing more than e-waste. As such, we do NOT recommend that you continue unless you have experience developing your device’s firmware and completely understand the risks involved.

Before Flashing Your Smartphone

How easy it is for you to downgrade your Android depends on the manufacturer. Some manufacturers make it extremely quick and easy for users to “flash” firmware images onto their devices while others make it nearly impossible.

The typical process for flashing requires you to unlock your bootloader first. Not all Android allow this process, so you’ll check for yourself if your device manufacturer offers an official method for unlocking the bootloader, or whether you’ll need to find an alternative or any other method.

Remembered it! that unlocking your bootloader will wipe your device’s internal storage or memory. Make sure you have backed up your smartphone or else your data will be lost forever.

With the bootloader unlocked, you can then flash your Android version to an older version of Device. Be warned, as unlocking your bootloader will probably invalidate your phone warranty.

The easiest devices to flash, by far, are Android phones in the Google Pixel series. Google offers factory images for the Pixel version, with different builds for Android 9 as well as for 10. You’ll need the Android SDK installed—with the Fastboot and Android Debug Bridge  (ADB) tools—to flash Google Pixel devices.

Both are mixed bags for other device manufacturers, however. Unless the manufacturer offers them, you’ll need to locate firmware images suitable for your device. The XDA-Developers forum is a good place to find perfect and suitable downgraded firmware images for your individual Android phone.

Before searching on other websites, search your company's official website for firmware images.

Flashing non-Google phones is possible with the Fastboot method, although third-party tools do exist for other companies of Android phone's like Samsung.

Manually Flashing Using Fastboot and ADB

The only “official” method for downgrading your Android phone is the Fastboot method. While not every company or manufacturer encourages it, the Facebook tool is available from Google for you to use and should work with official firmware images from almost all Android brands and companies.

To proceed, you just need to be able to unlock your bootloader and have a perfect and suitable firmware image for your device and carrier. Make sure USB debugging is enabled  on your Android phone before you start this process.

Whether you’ve found a perfect and suitable firmware image, your the bootloader is unlocked, and you have the Android SDK installed, connect your Android devise to your PC or laptop. While the steps below are for Windows 10 users, the ADB, and Fastboot commands should work in a similar way on macOS and Linux.

Now simply open the file explorer and head to the saved location of your device SDK installation. Make sure the device image files you need to flash are here, too. These usually come as a ZIP file with multiple IMG files held within. Unzip the contents to this location.

In the folder, hold the shift key button on your keyboard, right-click inside the window, and click the “Open PowerShell Window Here” button. On macOS or Linux, navigate to this folder using the Terminal application.

Type ADB devices in the Windows PowerShell window to make sure you're An android device is detected. If it is, type ADB reboot bootloader to restart your device and boot into the Android bootloader menu.

If the ADB commands don’t work, type .\adb instead.

  

Most manufacturer firmware comes with a “flash-all” script that flashes all the relevant image files to your device. Once your device is in the bootloader mode, type flash-all to start the flashing process.

If the flash-all script doesn’t work, you will need to manually flash the individual items in the folder. Type the following commands into Windows PowerShell (or Terminal) hitting the Enter key between each step:

•  fastboot flash bootloader <bootloader name>.img
•  fastboot reboot-bootloader
•  fastboot flash radio <radio file name>.img
•  fastboot reboot-bootloader
•  fastboot flash -w update <image file name>.zip

Once this process is complete, your phone should restart. If the flashing process was successful, your device will now be running the downgraded firmware image.

Using Third-Party Flashing Tools

Thanks to the work of volunteer developers, third-party flashing tools are available. These manufacturer-specific firmware flashing tools offer you an alternative method to flashing your firmware without using the Fastboot method.

If your device doesn’t have a third-party tool, it’s best to use the Fastboot method listed above.

As we all know that Samsung phones can make use of Odin to downgrade their phones. This is one of the best-known flashing tools outside of the official Fastboot method.

The Odin interface is not the most beginner-friendly, but it will allow you to flash onto some brands phone such as Samsung, including the latest unlocked Galaxy phones.

Remembered! that some smartphone companies carriers lock down the bootloader on Android sold through its stores. These network operators can be reluctant to allow their users to unlock their phones unless the Device is completely paid for.

Additional tools are available for other companies. This post at XDA developers list various flashing tools for Motorola devices, including the recommended RSD Lite. Huawei device owners can use the Huawei Recovery Updater (HuRuUpdater) instead.

We can’t stress this enough: These tools aren’t guaranteed to work, and they don’t come with approval from manufacturers. Whether you use a third-party tool or the Fastboot method, the risk of bricking your device remains the same.

Again, before you begin, make sure you’ve backed up your phone before you make any attempt to flash your device as your phone will be wiped during the flashing process.