Is there any way to flash CWM recovery on a Mac. OS snow leopard? i've looked and can't seem to find something
I don't believe there is a Mac-native solution, but you can use VMware Fusion.
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Parallels, Fusion, BootCamp, or find a friend with a PC.
dunno about your phone but for Desire HD CWM comes with dedicated scripts for windows, linux and mac.
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Has anyone had any success with getting a functional USB host mode rocking with this phone? I know there is ways on other phones (ie shorting the Motorola Droid usb port on boot) but I hadn't heard of anything for the SGS4G.
And for bonus points... any type of chrooted linux either? I've seen posts where there are attempts, but no successes.
Because let's face it, we know stock wifi chipset won't hit promiscuous mode, but an external usb wifi and a linux flavor that could access it would give me an uber-chubby.
I've successfully installed debian using linux installer from market on an ext2 partition.
tried ubuntu and gave up, will try again soon.
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Somairotevoli said:
I've successfully installed debian using linux installer from market on an ext2 partition.
tried ubuntu and gave up, will try again soon.
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Any chance you could share how you accomplished that? I tried myself with Ubuntu as well with no luck. Someone else tried Fedora 12 but couldn't reproduce it.
Sorry for the vague title but I wouldn't know where to look or what it's even called. Ok. We had something at my old jobs computer that was like a launcher. We could boot windows 7, or Linux Ubuntu. I can't remember what the "launcher?" was called but I want to say it started with an "A". Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? It would be greatly appreciated. I'm planning on porting a very popular ROM over for the infuse and would need this. Thanks for any help
What do you mean by launcher? Like boot off USB? Or what
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Not really an Infuse question, but VMware does what you need. Other option is to dual boot, and you can also use Cygwin for some Linux activities on Windows.
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What do you mean by launcher? Like boot off USB? Or what
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Installed on HDD. Idk it was called like A_______ something launcher. And you would use the arrows and enter key to select what you wanted to boot. Like Linux or windows 7
VMware Player - virtual machine on top of running OS:
http://www.vmware.com/products/player
Or what I use, the LILO bootloader; comes with most Linux distributions, and allows the option to choose from multiple operating systems at boot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LILO_(boot_loader)
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Hell isn't that grub menu? Anytime time you install Ubuntu along side windows it gives you the grub menu which lets ya dual boot
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Hell isn't that grub menu? Anytime time you install Ubuntu along side windows it gives you the grub menu which lets ya dual boot
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Yep, or GRUB. LILO is just old school GRUB.
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Well the one we had at work was cool. As soon as you booted the computer up you would get a menu. And the options were linux, windows 7, and something else. Then if you booted linux for example everything was linux and it was nice. Then if I wanted to boot Windows 7 I would just restart it and boot 7.
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As soon as you booted the computer up you would get a menu. And the options were linux, windows 7, and something else. Then if you booted linux for example everything was linux and it was nice. Then if I wanted to boot Windows 7 I would just restart it and boot 7.
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Yes, as do all of the bootloaders mentioned above. Install Ubuntu, or any other Linux distribution, and you can choose the option to select between multiple operating systems at boot.
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FauxAffliction said:
Well the one we had at work was cool. As soon as you booted the computer up you would get a menu. And the options were linux, windows 7, and something else. Then if you booted linux for example everything was linux and it was nice. Then if I wanted to boot Windows 7 I would just restart it and boot 7.
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Its called a dual boot, a dual boot is a machine with two OSes on one hdd and it will pop up asking which os you want to boot into.... basic.. and also a virtual machine is also a good option, google both to learn more
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So I'm really really new to the whole android world, and I was wondering if anyone could give me a walkthrough on how to root my Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket (SGH-I727) running on ICS 4.0.4, kernal version 3.0.8 using a mac computer? Thanks.
Always look to the stickies section for step by step directions.
One issue I did run into is having Kies installed and trying on OSX Lion was having issues. I have a Mac with Snow Leopard and a Windows Partition. Used the windows side to get it done. Easy as pie that way....
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read this to flash tar files on a mac http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1277000
i never used it so read carefully
vincom said:
read this to flash tar files on a mac http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1277000
i never used it so read carefully
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this is for a completely different phone though, will it work with the skyrocket?
I am telling you, the Mac route is rough for the Skyrocket... I tried every way possible to do it.
I know it CAN be done, but there are known issues....
Just Google it if you can't find the forum, it will pull up an XDA forum in Google...
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forget it...
I was able to root my 'old' galaxy s2 from Sprint using my mac but not before spending about 7 hours or so trying to figure it out. It was a pain in the ass. I can root 2.3.5 in about five minutes now.
I gave up using Mac for all this rooting and modification crap and thought about a couple different solutions to this problem.
You can simply buy a cheap windows laptop, which I almost did. Or you can run Bootcamp, partition your hard drive on the Mac and then install a copy of Windows 7 or whatever version you choose on your Mac. This is very easy to do even for a beginner.
Last week I finally decided to just put Windows on my Mac and rooted my skyrocket 4.0.4 stock ICS in about half an hour after several hours of reading first. In reality it only takes about 5-10 minutes once you have done it a few times.
I bought a legitimate copy of Windows 7 premium FULL edition so that was about $165. I also ended up replacing the pretty full 250 gb hard drive with a Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB hard drive for about another $165. I partitioned about 130gb for Windows.
I love my Mac but the majority of all the programs for the phones are written on Windows platforms.
That's what I am trying to tell him....
It can be done, but its easier to just run windows on the Mac and do it that way....
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That's what I am trying to tell him....
It can be done, but its easier to just run windows on the Mac and do it that way....
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alright so i decided im gonna do the whole bootcamp thing, where would i go from there?
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alright so i decided im gonna do the whole bootcamp thing, where would i go from there?
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goto a mac forum
It's better if you use a virtual machine like parallels or VMware Fusion, that way there's no need to restart your mac or waste space on a predefined windows partition.
Also you could always just use a friend's PC for the rooting process, Later on unless you want to go full stock or you softbrick your device there's not a real need for a computer.
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It's better if you use a virtual machine like parallels or VMware Fusion, that way there's no need to restart your mac or waste space on a predefined windows partition.
Also you could always just use a friend's PC for the rooting process, Later on unless you want to go full stock or you softbrick your device there's not a real need for a computer.
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When I used programs like that, It really made one OS. Run weird. Mac would crash or windows would do something funky. If your rooting I reccimend staying away from thus and just do boot camp.
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I have been using a windows 7 pc for a while to flash fast boot's. But, recently, I bought a windows 8 pc, and now (no matter what I try) I can't get adb to work. Did any of you guys manage to get it to work? I am screwed?
You can always try using a live CD or run a distro off a flash drive for dedicated developing. Puppy linux works beautifully. Buy a cheapo 4gb drive from a retail chain!
Make sure you're using the correct driver version, win 8 has a finicky install process where it draws the files from the internet even if it's not really correct.
Try manual installation.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982718
have you tried this?
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/fix-adb-and-fastboot-on-windows-8-consumer-preview/
this may be better
I have a mac book pro, and I want to use Odin, install CWM, and root using that computer, is that possible? Must it be on Windows?
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I have a mac too, I've hard conflicting reports, but I'm not sure you can (at least not easily). I'd suggest just using a friend's pc to do it. It'll take you 5 minutes and you'll never need to use the computer again.
If you what your doing you can pull the recovery image out of an odin flashable and use Heimdall to flash it. If you don't know what those are best to borrow a windows machine.
It might be possible if you have windows boot camp for Mac
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I used VMWare/Windows 7 from my Mac to root my device.
There is a native way using the Android SDK
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1685493
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OgYscP-bho