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By Duy Nguyen
Samsung Galaxy A40 (SM-A405) Download ROM Combination Full Plus Bypass FRP Method
Part 1:
ROOT ACCESS:
Flashing Samsung ROM using Odin and Stock ROM Recovery, Root Acess All in One Go. Follow the instruction below
Tools Required:-
- Driver: SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.zip (15.3MB)
- Odin All in One Bundle: Odin3-v3.13.1 // Odin3-v3.12.7
Steps to Perform:
- Launch your Galaxy device into Download Mode
- Turn off your phone and then press and hold the volume UP + Home + Power button simultaneously for 3-5 seconds.
- Start the phone in Download Mode (Currently, the new phones have different keys, so the way to Download different mode)
– Method 1: Press and hold 3 Home + Power + Volume Down keys, then press Volume Up if it is weak
– Method 2: Press and hold 3
– Method 3: Press and hold 2 VOLUME DOWN + VOLUME UP keys and plug in the USB cable connected to the computer
– Method 4: Press and hold the 3 keys POWER + VOLUME DOWN + VOLUME UP
– Method 5 (Note9): Press and hold 2 VOLUME DOWN + BIXBY keys and plug in the USB cable connected to the computer - After pressing Volume Up, you will get the device into Download Mode on Samsung devices that look like:

Please note that you can flash only with .tar or .tar.md5 files
- Proceed to the UP ROM on Odin

- ID: COM must be lit, ie Odin has connected to the Phone
- Select AP or PDA (old Odin) => to the place where the ROM version is located with the * .tar.md5 extension
- Wait a while for the software to load the ROM. Odin will load when the Message frame has the message shown above.
- Click Start to start the ROM loading process
Sitting for 5-10 minutes then Odin told PASS that the process was successful, the phone would restart automatically.
All Done
Part 2 Bypass FRP:(Device Specific)
- Flash ROM combination, then go to SETTINGS>
- Set screen lock password>
- Flash back to full ROM (select 4 files BL – AP – CP – CSC)>
- flash, activate it to ask for screen password instead of logging in to your Google account>
- enter the screen password you set in ROM combination> Done
- watch supporting video
LInks For ROM Download:
- Samsung Galaxy A40 (SM-A405FN)
- Combination: 1 ASC2.rar (923M) | AFH| OneDrive | GDrive2
- Full: A405FNXXU 1 ASC3_A405FNOXM1ASC3_DBT_9.0_FULL.zip (3.7G) MaxSpeed | AFH | OneDrive | GDrive2
- Samsung Galaxy A40 (SM-A405FM)
- Combination: Updating
- Full: A405FMPUU 1 ASC9_A405FMSER1ASC9_SER_9.0_FULL.zip (3.2G) | MaxSpeed | AFH | OneDrive | GDrive2
Thanks