Long story short, I messed up my Captivate.
I am on a mac so no odin... can anyone give clear instructions on how to install a new firmware in recovery mode or using a mac with adb?
I have searched and searched but still have no clue on where to begin.
Thank you in advance
Start here read all of what the topic says. Yes I know it's a tad long but you'll wanna read all of it because I'll bet 95% of the questions you'll have or issues you'll run into will be covered.
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it may need a terminal window open to use it. i dont know macs very well but i run in in mint with kde and like it. i think there are mac packages but if not it can be compiled for mac, sorry i cant help in that area.
it's much like odin but is developed and maintained by someon in the comunity and is all open source.
you can also use virtualbox or similar virtual machine software and install windows on it and run odin in the virtual machine.
edit: heimdall download page
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
If your on a mac then your your only options are get a copy of windows and install on your mac thru bootcamp. Heimdall works on a mac just fine if you have the right bootloaders but if you ever used odin oneclick to flash back to stock then for sure you have the wrong ones and since it's common to flash to stock to root your and flash a custom rom. I don't know of any one who has used it successfully on a mac in that specific situation. Another option is to use Odin with VM on Linux machine or just use a friends machine.
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If your on a mac then your your only options are get a copy of windows and install on your mac thru bootcamp. Heimdall works on a mac just fine if you have the right bootloaders but if you ever used odin oneclick to flash back to stock then for sure you have the wrong ones and since it's common to flash to stock to root your and flash a custom rom. I don't know of any one who has used it successfully on a mac in that specific situation. Another option is to use Odin with VM on Linux machine or just use a friends machine.
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i used odin oneclick many times, and heimdal works, only you need bootloaders if you select repartition. i just flash with no pit file or bootloaders at all. also i used heimdall with gb bootloaders on it. no problem.
you only need pit if you repartition. you only need to repartition of you messed up the filesystem badly, and for heimdall if you use repartition the program requires bootloaders as well as pit. odin couldnt care less if you have the bootloaders or not for repartition. im not sure why but that is how heimdal works.
Dani897 said:
i used odin oneclick many times, and heimdal works, only you need bootloaders if you select repartition. i just flash with no pit file or bootloaders at all. also i used heimdall with gb bootloaders on it. no problem.
you only need pit if you repartition. you only need to repartition of you messed up the filesystem badly, and for heimdall if you use repartition the program requires bootloaders as well as pit. odin couldnt care less if you have the bootloaders or not for repartition. im not sure why but that is how heimdal works.
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You did this on a mac?
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You did this on a mac?
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why would the mac be different from linux if the problem is withthe bootloaders on the phone. seems illogical but i guess i have seen stranger things
Here is a link to the i9000 forums that explains a little better but the bootloaders on the 2.1 rom don't allow the phone to register in the mac OS. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878686
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Here is a link to the i9000 forums that explains a little better but the bootloaders on the 2.1 rom don't allow the phone to register in the mac OS. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878686
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ohh it's similar to a driver issue, i though you meant it would cause a problem with the phone for some reason. i get it. that can suck because vm software can be a pain. you may need to manually install the drivers in windows when it is a guest os.
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I've tried it all. Red cwm errors out when I try to delete data.
3e won't format my phone to stock either.
Odin won't recognize my device at all.
Thing is... other than recovery it works perfectly. I'm using it now as you can see. Am I stuck on Infused v1.3.2? It's nice and all but... you know.
Thanks.
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probably a driver issuue for odin, you can bang your head over that or find a friend with a mac or linux box and use heimdall. mac osx and linux dont use drivers for most usb devices thus eliminating that hassel of device recognition.
what windows version? are you running as admin? what drivers did you install? how? did odin work before? which usb port on the pc?
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probably a driver issuue for odin, you can bang your head over that or find a friend with a mac or linux box and use heimdall. mac osx and linux dont use drivers for most usb devices thus eliminating that hassel of device recognition.
what windows version? are you running as admin? what drivers did you install? how? did odin work before? which usb port on the pc?
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Funny you say that. I use a mac with boot camp.
Can you elaborate more on the heimdall manuever?
And I had installed kies. Two Usb ports. Running as admin. Odin worked as normal until today.
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tight686 said:
Funny you say that. I use a mac with boot camp.
Can you elaborate more on the heimdall manuever?
And I had installed kies. Two Usb ports. Running as admin. Odin worked as normal until today.
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ok running odin in a vm can be as issue to set up. you might need to manually install the drivers.
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
this is heimdall, it is an open source alternative to odin and has a mac version. if it is like the linux version you need to launch it from terminal. dont repartition unless you have to, heimdall wants bootloaders for repartition and that is an unnecessary risk. dont use the pit, just extract the pda.tar.md5 and the phone.tar.md5 files from one of the odin packages and flash the cache.rfs dbdata.rfs factoryfs.rfs zimage and modem.bin
disable voodoo first! (requires reboot, takes a while)
oh, is kies running in the system tray? that might prevent odin from seeing the phone.
heimdall is probably better for mac users anyway but closeing kies might be all you need to do.
Should I uninstall kies altogether?
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Should I uninstall kies altogether?
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no because it will likely uninstall the drivers with it. you should be able to find kies in the system tray(might depend on the version of kies, im not sure about kies mini) and just right click and close if that is the issue. im not saying it is, it might be something else.
any luck with heimdall? it looks like 1.2 doesnt have the frontend, just the comand line for osx, but 1.1.1 if you scroll down has the gui.
https://github.com/downloads/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall/heimdall-suite-1.1.1-mac.dmg
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any luck with heimdall? it looks like 1.2 doesnt have the frontend, just the comand line for osx, but 1.1.1 if you scroll down has the gui.
https://github.com/downloads/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall/heimdall-suite-1.1.1-mac.dmg
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I'm getting an error trying to run this application. Seems like it too requires some behind the scenes work.
And I tried killing Kies with Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del) but still no dice with Odin. I JUST used it Saturday to upgrade Infused...I just don't get why it doesn't work now.
Just as a tease...I suppose, I put my phone into Kies mode and lo and behold Odin noticed the phone. Of course, I can't flash in that mode.
I think my phone is doomed. Thank goodness it works at least for all other functions but...what in the world is going on?
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Just as a tease...I suppose, I put my phone into Kies mode and lo and behold Odin noticed the phone. Of course, I can't flash in that mode.
I think my phone is doomed. Thank goodness it works at least for all other functions but...what in the world is going on?
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what windows version? is bootcamp a vm type of thing or is it like just a way to select the os on boot up?
Boot Camp is just official apple software to dual boot Windows and Mac Os X.
I reinstalled Windows and will try again.
I need Kies. Is that it?
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Besides odin of course.
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is it xp or 7?
i think you need the dotnetframework4.0 redistributable package. not positive.
Windows 7.
I'm on my infuse at the moment. Would you be able to provide a link? Thanks.
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Windows 7.
I'm on my infuse at the moment. Would you be able to provide a link? Thanks.
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http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=17718
im not sure if it is needed. but alot of programs ask for it, something makes me think odin or the drivers use it. i may be getting confussed with something else though, also kies may install it.
Windows is finally detecting my phone! Sorta....
I installed that microsoft software as well as Kies. Windows is now saying "Unknown Device has been connected".
And it says the device has malfunctioned and Windows has shut it down.
It seems everyone with the broken red cwm issue fixed it. But I'm trapped still...
And yes, I'm posting from my Infuse still.
Is there a way I can just add the files cwm needs to function?
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I think I'm having pretty much the same issue. I'm on Win7x64. Kies installed. I put the phone in download mode, right click and run Odin3 v1.7 as admin, and it doesn't recognize the phone at all. I tried it both with the kies process running, and after killing it.
Yep. That's my story as well. When booted up normally Windows detects it right? "SAMSUNG_ANDROID".
I didn't think to try another usb cord. Hopefully it will work.
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New sync cable didn't help. Rebooted several times to no avail. Windows still sees it as a malfunctioned device.
If Heimdall doesn't work then I'm absolutely boned.
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I have to use Heimdall if I'm to flash my phone. At home I only have access to Mac. I used a PC at work to root my phone (superoneclick was waaay easy), but I don't want to push my luck with IT and my boss at work.
Is there a list of Heimdall packages for the SGS4G anywhere? I've been searching and can't find them anywhere. Maybe Heimdall 1.3 is too new??
I am hoping to use Audiophile because it just chaps my a$$ that I can't play a stock music player (TMOUS) without it skipping out (paucity of cpu cycles I imagine). I very much appreciate the post RaverX3X put up about Audiophile recently. However he focused on Odin and I can't use Odin.
Any ideas anyone?
No one has made any firmware packages for it.
You'd only use Heimdall for flashing a stock rom base with a custom kernel and then you'd have to flash audiophile through CWM anyway.
I'd make a firmware package for you if I wasn't on my way out soon though. Maybe if no one else has done it when I get back I'll set something up for you.
Alright I made the heimdall package for you, I haven't tested it though, so proceed at your own risk.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tea..._kh2_with_kg4_kernel_heimdall.tar.gz/download
Did it work? I want to know so I can post it on the original thread.
You gave some qualifications about using CWM before putting up the Heimdall package. Since this is my first time flashing and I only have my SGS4G so I am going slowly. I got CWM installed and backed up. I downloaded your file and have it on my Mac. Before I try to use, I want to be sure I know what I'm doing. So I'm reading a lot of XDA first.
You will be the second to know I got it installed and working (with me being the first obviously. )
Thanks for the help.
You actually don't need CWM at all. You'll wind up with CWM after flashing this.
Okay, I'll give this one a try. In a previous message you said that after using Heimdall, I still need to flash Audiophile using CWM. Is that still true? Is there any other software I need to flash with CWM?
You might need to flash my busybox_installer.zip but I think Raver may have included that in the audiophile ftw installer.
Well I tried but Heimdall could never see my phone. I can connect USB storage using the phone, but Heimdall can't detect the device at all.
I've searched XDA trying to find MAC drivers for the phone that might be better than mine, but I've not found anything yet.
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
Scroll down and find the OSX version (Heimdall suite 1.3.0). It comes with Codeless kext (aka driver). It should install libusb for you.
Hmmm, I installed that package. I do not know why kext didn't work. I know I have a system reboot since then.
Maybe I'll uninstall and try to re-install.
Thanks A Lot
FBis251 said:
Alright I made the heimdall package for you, I haven't tested it though, so proceed at your own risk.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tea..._kh2_with_kg4_kernel_heimdall.tar.gz/download
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Hello. First of all I want to thank you for this wonderful rom. I know how to use Odin but recently I got a Mac so I'm still learning how to use it. I decided to upgrade to gingerbread last night and then hell went broke loose I almost BRICKED my phone:-(. But searching the XDA this morning I found this thread and BAAAMMMM my phone is working again. I dunno how it works but I know You put effort on doing this so again Thanks a Lot!!!!!
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Hello. First of all I want to thank you for this wonderful rom. I know how to use Odin but recently I got a Mac so I'm still learning how to use it. I decided to upgrade to gingerbread last night and then hell went broke loose I almost BRICKED my phone:-(. But searching the XDA this morning I found this thread and BAAAMMMM my phone is working again. I dunno how it works but I know You put effort on doing this so again Thanks a Lot!!!!!
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Awesome, I'm glad it worked for you. I'll be making the Froyo portion of the heimdall package available soon in order to update my GB Starter Pack guide for mac/linux.
How straightforward was the install by the way? I'm still trying to get feedback from users.
I am very happy heimdall is working for you and you got the ROM flashed.
Very frustrated that I can't get heimdall to see my phone. I have CWM installed and I have the RootExplorer app working and I can see my SD card as a USB drive on my Mac. Is it possible to flash with just those three tools?
All the guides I see seem to focus on Odin or Heimdall. Do they do some magic that I can't accomplish on my own?
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I am very happy heimdall is working for you and you got the ROM flashed.
Very frustrated that I can't get heimdall to see my phone. I have CWM installed and I have the RootExplorer app working and I can see my SD card as a USB drive on my Mac. Is it possible to flash with just those three tools?
All the guides I see seem to focus on Odin or Heimdall. Do they do some magic that I can't accomplish on my own?
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Sadly there's no safe way to flash bootloaders using CWM, which is the only reason we're using Odin/Heimdall. I can't diagnose the problems on a mac since I don't own one, but have you tried removing heimdall, restarting, reinstalling, restarting and trying again? Might make it work.
Thanks A Lot
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Awesome, I'm glad it worked for you. I'll be making the Froyo portion of the heimdall package available soon in order to update my GB Starter Pack guide for mac/linux.
How straightforward was the install by the way? I'm still trying to get feedback from users.
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Well I mess up with the bootloaders cuz Im coming from trigger rom froyo. But luckily for me I able to put the phone on Download Mode and the Heimdall just detected it. I just follow the read me files on the Heimdall then put your files on it. Press start and it work like magic... I have Gingerbread Phone
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ustamills said:
I am very happy heimdall is working for you and you got the ROM flashed.
Very frustrated that I can't get heimdall to see my phone. I have CWM installed and I have the RootExplorer app working and I can see my SD card as a USB drive on my Mac. Is it possible to flash with just those three tools?
All the guides I see seem to focus on Odin or Heimdall. Do they do some magic that I can't accomplish on my own?
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Just try to put your Phone on Download Mode and pray that Heimdall can detect it. Then your good!!!!
i tried flashing my sgs4g with odin and now all i get is the samsung galaxy s 4g from tmobile screen and it just keeps loading like that in a loop.
at first when I tried odin, i was not able to reboot and my screen displayed all sorts of colors and just did not work. I unplugged and tried odin again and came up to this point. now i'm trying to just get my phone working again. help anyone?
Hi gang.
I recently ditched my Windows partition since I never use Windows anymore. I also went back to stock. It has been fine but I realized I want root for a few things.
My question is, is there a way to root 2.3.6 on Linux? Heimdall doesn't seem to be able to communicate with my device. Can't even grab a PIT. Obviously, not having Windows means no ODIN. And the one rooting method that did have a Linux script (zergrush over adb) didn't work.
I hope I'm missing something easy! If not I'm kinda hosed. I can't use ODIN to revert to 2.3.5 and I have no way of getting CWM on there.
carrett said:
Hi gang.
I recently ditched my Windows partition since I never use Windows anymore. I also went back to stock. It has been fine but I realized I want root for a few things.
My question is, is there a way to root 2.3.6 on Linux? Heimdall doesn't seem to be able to communicate with my device. Can't even grab a PIT. Obviously, not having Windows means no ODIN. And the one rooting method that did have a Linux script (zergrush over adb) didn't work.
I hope I'm missing something easy! If not I'm kinda hosed. I can't use ODIN to revert to 2.3.5 and I have no way of getting CWM on there.
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Just throwing an idea out there. I have not tried it so wait till a more experienced person confirms. I may be talking nonsense!! I don't want you to have a paperweight
Is it possible using adb to manually carry out all the steps in the updater script inside the superuser zip?
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Just throwing an idea out there. I have not tried it so wait till a more experienced person confirms. I may be talking nonsense!! I don't want you to have a paperweight
Is it possible using adb to manually carry out all the steps in the updater script inside the superuser zip?
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Good thought. I tried it, and unfortunately after running zergRush I could not remount. This leads me to believe that zergRush doesn't work on 2.3.6 on our phone. Any other suggestions? I wish Heimdall+cwm would work. That's so easy! :-/
Oh well. I guess I'll bring my USB cable to another computer.
Has anybody been successful? The previous way using one click only works on 2.3.5. Using heimdall is unsuccessful. Im unable to flash cwm recovery using rom manager. All I have is my imac and I'd rather not have to install Odin and files and somebody else's PC. Any help?
I own both a pc and mac but I rooted mine on 2.3.5 using zerg rush and its rooted ever since. I can't be that helpful but you could always use parallels or VMfusion or even bootcamp to install windows on your mac just for the root.
It's not our model but you can check this as a guideline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU-fm6FOyKo
AFAIK, you have to flash CWM and use it to flash Superuser to root any version of Android higher than 2.3.5, but to do that you need Odin, which only works on Windows.
If Heimdall worked with SR we could use that to flash CWM but it doesn't. I had the same problem on Linux. Good luck!
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kishke said:
I own both a pc and mac but I rooted mine on 2.3.5 using zerg rush and its rooted ever since. I can't be that helpful but you could always use parallels or VMfusion or even bootcamp to install windows on your mac just for the root.
It's not our model but you can check this as a guideline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU-fm6FOyKo
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My buddy recently rooted his phone using VMware Workstation 8. If you're going to go that route, just make sure you attach the USB device to the VM, and disconnect it properly before shutting down the system. Overall it was a fairly painless process. And if memory serves me correctly Workstation has a free 30 day trial.
Solution: rid the mac.
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Yea there is nothing for Mac as of yet. I tried heimdall also. Had a connection error and also couldn't find the tar with the .XML file in it. So boot camp virtual box or borrowing a windows computer. Something like that is your only option. I will say its a quick root. Took me less then 30 seconds.
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you should borrow a pc , dont use mac espicialy if you are a newb w/comps.
read my sticky in my sig about rooting, its made for newbs, copy the files you need to a usb stick, dont forget the drivers for the phone, there in my first link in my sig in the dl section. then use someones comp
Hello all, could someone perhaps assist me? Now I know how to get my phone back to fresh out of the box, I have done it before to unbrick my device. However I am having major issues with doing this again. Last night I wanted to try Slim Bean, The ROM is beautiful and fast, but Tethering is buggy and my device frequently freezes and reboots, so I tried to flash Valhalla Black Edition, my device then was stuck on Team Kick Ass bootscreen forcing me to flash back to Slim. I cannot seem to get my phone recognized with Windows. I have a netbook with Win 7 Starter 32bit, a Desktop with 64bit Windows 7, and a Laptop x64 Windows 8. I have tried multiple drivers and Mini Kies and cannot get my pcs to recognize my phone. What am I doing wrong, somebody please help. My device is highly unstable. I have everything I need to get back to stock except to get my machine to recognize my device.
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I used Heimdall on Win7 32bit and also on Win8 64bit.
You just need to make sure you delete all SAMSUNG drivers.
Then, when you plug phone to a USB port, try to make it to a USB port you haven't used yet.
If you do get the Heimdall screen after running the JAR - ask it to reinstall driver for the "Gadget" device.
You may also try to do it with both SDcard and SIM card removed.
Good luck!
Thanks, Ill give that a try, however I believe when I first tried it on Windows 8 No drivers were installed at all, my pc just states my device as an Unknown Device. I only have 2 USB ports on my 8 machine.
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Thanks, Ill give that a try, however I believe when I first tried it on Windows 8 No drivers were installed at all, my pc just states my device as an Unknown Device. I only have 2 USB ports on my 8 machine.
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Windows 8 prevents unsigned drivers from installing, thus stops the Zdiag drivers from installing the drivers Heimdall needs. I'm in a rush but if you google disable driver signing Windows 8, you'll find some links that tell you how to reboot Windows 8 into a mode that allows unsigned drivers, then you can use Heimdall. PITA, but the only way around it for now.
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Windows 8 prevents unsigned drivers from installing, thus stops the Zdiag drivers from installing the drivers Heimdall needs. I'm in a rush but if you google disable driver signing Windows 8, you'll find some links that tell you how to reboot Windows 8 into a mode that allows unsigned drivers, then you can use Heimdall. PITA, but the only way around it for now.
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I tried this yesterday actually, The problem is Heimdall doesn't Prompt me at all to install drivers. Which Last time i returned my phone to stock I remember a utility coming up and installing my drivers for me. I have the one click jar file. Do I need something else?
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I tried this yesterday actually, The problem is Heimdall doesn't Prompt me at all to install drivers. Which Last time i returned my phone to stock I remember a utility coming up and installing my drivers for me. I have the one click jar file. Do I need something else?
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Go download the Heimdall suite 1.3.1 with the frontend (don't get 1.3.2, it was buggy), and unzip it, do the driver thing for windows 8, then inside the heimdall frontend folder, there is a drivers folder, in there is zdiag. Run that, that is the driver program, and do the steps to select the gagdet device, install drivers, then close that, then run the one click jar and see if that does it. Zdiag is the program you seem come up before probably, and for some reason it's not, but it's just part of heimdall suite, so you can run it separately and get the drivers installed, then the one click so go through.
Thank you, Once I get a chance after school I will give this a try. And major thanks on the 1.3.2 fact of it being buggy, I had googled zdiag and found out about the suite. I'm hoping this works, Ill reply later to report my results.
Could you provide me with a direct link for 1.3.1 frontend. Looking through the github I am only seeing frontend versions for mac and debian.
EDIT: Scratch that, upon extracting 1.3.1 I saw Heimdall frontend.exe Github just didnt have it listed as the other versions were
MANY MANY MANY thanks!! I was able to restore everything using my windows 8 Laptop Now a quick question Do i need to use the one click to flash bootloaders? I do want to flash Valhalla Black Edition to this phone.
Yes.
Actually you should not have to. If you were on ICS or the kj6 based roms then there is no need to flash bootloaders.
glad that worked for you. I ran into this a bit ago with Windows 8 and my first trying to use Heimdall since I installed 8 and had all those problems and driver signing off plus zdiag worked like a charm. PITA because as soon as you reboot, driving signing is back on again.
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Actually you should not have to. If you were on ICS or the kj6 based roms then there is no need to flash bootloaders.
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Almost everything from CM7 on uses MTD partitions. Slim uses MTD partitions. Valhalla black uses BML partitions. If you don't flash bootloaders you WILL bootloop.
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Almost everything from CM7 on uses MTD partitions. Slim uses MTD partitions. Valhalla black uses BML partitions. If you don't flash bootloaders you WILL bootloop.
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Wanna put a c-note on that?
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Wanna put a c-note on that?
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If I had it I would. lol If it did change I missed it. So what am I missing?
Actually give me a few minutes and I'll put VB back on my sdcard. Oneclick without bootloaders. Then flash and see what happens.
You only need to flash bootloader when the current ones are corrupted or coming from a different version of bootloaders IE: froyo or early leaks of Gingerbread.
Nothing is changed in the bootloaders when flahing MTD roms. We dont have MTD bootloaders therefore we cant change them.
You are indeed correct. Just flashed a one click without bootloaders. Then flashed VB. Booted up and runs fine. Thanks for the catch.
EDIT: You are indeed wrong. lol So after it initially booted into the OS I just rebooted the phone. Now I'm stuck in a bootloop at the splash screen. I'll be back after some further investigating.
EDIT2: Just rebooted recovery. Wiped cahes and fixed perms. Still stuck in a bootloop. Give me a few to do it my way. Like flashing the oneclick WITH bootloaders. I'll be back.
Well now I'm back to stock GB with.a custom kernel and I tried to flash Valhalla Black Edition but it changed nothing except the team acid boot screen from the custom kernel
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The bootloop has nothing to do with not flashing bootloaders. There is nothing changed in the bootloaders. We dont have bootloaders for ICS/JB. When partitioning the phone for mtd the bootloaders are not touched. Seriously its been explained by bryan and max I think even FB talked about it. Without ICS/JB bootloaders there is no reason to touch that partition therefore no need to flash them.
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DroidWizzy said:
Well now I'm back to stock GB with.a custom kernel and I tried to flash Valhalla Black Edition but it changed nothing except the team acid boot screen from the custom kernel
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In cwm make sure to mount system. Ive been having some issues with it mounting properly. Not sure if the script is borked or CWM.
Okay ill give that a try
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