PIT File

What are PIT files and how to open them

Are you having problems opening a PIT file or are you simply curious about its contents? We're here to explain the properties of these files and provide you with software that can open or handle your PIT files.

What is a PIT file?

PIT files have multiple uses, and Odin Partition Information Table is one of them. Read more about the other uses further down the page.

Odin Partition Information Table

The .pit file extension is used for a firmware file format developed by Samsung. These .pit files are usually found in Samsung mobile phones that run the Android operating system. In this case, PIT stands for Partition Information File - a way for a device to know how to handle a file system. When flashing a firmware update onto your Samsung device, the PIT file contains information about the partitions and volumes that must be created on the device before the firmware itself is written to it. These .pit files do not contain human-readable data. This is why it's best to leave these PIT files alone. Doing this will ensure that these Samsung smartphones' internal memory partitioning functions will continue to work properly. Firmware flashing tools like Odin uses these files.

How to open PIT files

Important: Different programs may use files with the PIT file extension for different purposes, so unless you are sure which format your PIT file is, you may need to try a few different programs.

We have not yet verified any programs for Windows that work with this specific file format. If you know one, please use the 'Suggest a program' link below. Thanks!

Last updated: June 29, 2022

All known file formats using extension .PIT

While Odin Partition Information Table is a popular type of PIT-file, we know of 2 different uses of the .PIT file extension. Different software may use files with the same extension for different types of data.

PackIt Compressed Archive

We know that one PIT format is PackIt Compressed Archive. We have not yet analyzed in detail what these files contain and what they are used for. We're working on it.

We have not yet verified any programs for Windows that work with this specific file format. If you know one, please use the 'Suggest a program' link below. Thanks!

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