I understand that the radio-only from EPIH has been made available for install through ODIN. I'm wondering whether someone kind soul who knows what they are doing could make a version of the radio available in zip form for flashing with CWM? This would make things much easier for people like me who are on Macs. Whenever an ODIN file is involved, I have to find a friend to let me use their PC for the purpose.
(BTW, I do have Heimdall installed, but so far have been hesitant to use it as I've heard that it is not as stable as ODIN).
Thanks!
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Unless it is an OTA update.zip I am not real sure on how to package a modem in a zip. Here is an odin package that you can unpack and use in heimdall.
http://www.mediafire.com/?2j215sbjd2ernr7
You could also run a windows VM on your mac and use Odin too.
Thanks. Coming from the non-Odin world of the Evo, I guess I've just become accustomed to doing everything in CWM. I'll give this a shot in Heimdall.
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Ok.. I tried using Heimdall 1.1.1 (latest) last night to restore my i897 Captivate to stock. It failed and I got the connect-to-pc screen. Easily fixed by going back to download mode and using ODIN 1-Click.
I have been searching and reading for 2 days trying to get this to work and failed on my first attempt.
When I tried to flash JF6 I included the 512 PIT file that we use with ODIN. However, in the directions on the i9000 for flashing with Heimdall (LINK) - they say you don't need the PIT file unless you'r flashing a firmware that uses a different PIT file, but to my knowledge all Captivate ROMs use the 512 file.
So I'm wondering if you need the PIT file to flash to stock from a custom ROM? It's always used when using ODIN so I don't understand why it wouldn't be needed with Heimdall.
Just trying to be cautious as I don't really want to brick my phone and doing random stuff without any knowledge of it sounds like a good way to get an expensive paperweight. I am running Heimdall on ArchLinux btw. I have to steal my friends Windows PC to use ODIN.
Any insight is much appreciated. If I can successfully get this to work I plan on posting an easy step-by-step guide for using Heimdall for those of us that don't use Windows.
You can opt out of flashing the PIT, since some thing it's safer that way.
Also check this out, it's a pretty easy guide to follow:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878686
That's the post I followed and failed. Its linked in the OP.
Following those directions got my phone stuck on the "computer -> phone" screen.
I also have an issue with Heimdall. I couldn't get it to recognize my phone. Yes... I did install the drivers and it was in download mode. Any suggestions?
Did you reboot after installing drivers?
i've flashed with and without pit files. both work fine.
i was flashed my phone with the Perception-II-Beta-1 rom and now i cant enter to the recovery or fastboot mode,i need the flash.img of clockwork recovery or like that...to flash the recovery via terminal emulator,please help me.
i only was found the zip archive in the net...
when i try to enter to recovery mode the at&t logo appear and dont change...and when i press power is reboot...
:S when i can say the recovery when the capture program of sdk qtadb...
i was try to flash a zip watching the capture image but,the phone reboot...
Hi, you must be new here. There is no 'fastboot' on galaxy s phones, and you don't need to actually flash clockworkmod. What you need to do is get your phone into download mode and fix it with odin. Take a deep breath and a timeout to peruse the Captivate subforums. There is a wealth of information here about your very problem (particularly the stickied threads).
yes im new here,my old phone was a htc g1...and i was get the captivate on april 23...the problem is that i dont have windows and dont have any way of get it...im using gnu/linux,and odin is only for windows.
pd:sorry my bad english,my national language is the spanish...
That's what you get for being a non-conformist
Anyway, I think there's a linux version called heimdall. Or, you can simply run windows in a virtual machine, or try your luck with wine.
modest_mandroid said:
That's what you get for being a non-conformist
Anyway, I think there's a linux version called heimdall. Or, you can simply run windows in a virtual machine, or try your luck with wine.
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Odin doesn't like virtual desktops. You need to use heimdall on linux or (barf) mac.
thanks guys,im downloading heimdall to try it...
studacris said:
Odin doesn't like virtual desktops. You need to use heimdall on linux or (barf) mac.
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works great for me
i run vmware workstation on my laptop thats running ubuntu. thats the only way i use ODIN...in a VM, unless i'm at work
install a VM?? oh i dont know about that.. my computer is at least 200 times bigger than my phone... i dunno if i can program something that big and complicated.....
*sarcasm* aiming for that 51%
nothink...i cant compile heimdall in fedora...is no any form to do that with the terminal emulator? or some like it...
Wait a second.. did you try to flash Percep 2 without flashing the new 2.3.3 bootloaders? If so, you won't be able to reboot back into recovery until you either use odin to go back to a 2.2 rom and keep your old bootloaders, or use odin to flash the stock JVB with the new bootloaders. Either way, the only solution at this point (if my assumption is correct and you flashed a 2.3 rom without the new bootloaders) is to use odin.
i was resolved my problem with odin how you say thank you ...sorry for the disturb...
Request for custom odin gingerbread rom, since there is a problem with cwm.And is there a way to do a backup on the phone in odin format from pc.This way we dont have to use cwm.
are you talking about this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1146145 its a gingerbread rom for odin..im not sure if thats what you mean
the above link sounds like that is what you are looking for. but for future reference, you can find everything organized nicely in the bible.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117554
no i believe odin in not able to do a backup, you will need cwm for that. program called AIO tools might be able but i think that uses cwm too, but i could be wrong. give it a try and let me know.
First, great work by all.
I see this on a few other Samsung devices which takes a long time and makes it more difficult to flash.
Why not just make a CWM ODIN file for the first time flash?
The Cdn phone is different from ATT so that option does not work and neither does the Unbrickable ROM btw.
It just seems from my experience flashing all these different Samsung phones to just have a CWM ODIN file and in 2 steps the person is done.
Is this possible?
Please leave in Dev area.
droiduzr2 said:
First, great work by all.
I see this on a few other Samsung devices which takes a long time and makes it more difficult to flash.
Why not just make a CWM ODIN file for the first time flash?
The Cdn phone is different from ATT so that option does not work and neither does the Unbrickable ROM btw.
It just seems from my experience flashing all these different Samsung phones to just have a CWM ODIN file and in 2 steps the person is done.
Is this possible?
Please leave in Dev area.
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Not sure exactly what you are asking, but I think that it has something to do with 3e recovery. And this does NOT belong here, in the Dev thread.
The 3e Mod recovery is not working.
signature verification failed
I tried it a few times.
Let me try to explain another way.
1. got new phone
2. use an ODIN file to flash a kernel with CWM
3. put new ROM on phone or external sd
4. reboot into CWM and install rom
5. done!
Agreed this is not development related. And the last thing anyone needs it foe things to be any easier then they already are. Even as simple as things are people still don't do the needed research and end up with bricks.
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Alright, this is just odd.
Generally, I want to get rid of the bloatware and make it so my phone doesn't run so much crap in the background, so I have turned to rooting it. However, this is more of a pain than anything.
I followed the Odin guide in order to get CWM, bloat removal, root, stock kernel, stock rom, etc, and its odd whats going on.
When I connect my phone to my computer, outside of download mode, and have it in USB debug, then it detects my phone in odin just fine. However, when I put it in download mode, it decides my phone is in a different dimension. Why is this?
When I unbricked it, I had to use heimdall. Odin detected it then, but couldn't fix, which turns out because I was using a crappy cord. I'm using the new cord now, and still getting problems with it detecting it in Odin.
Other info: I have the drivers installed from Kies Mini, I am currently trying to root with superoneclick, I have already cleared data via recovery mode, and oppan gangnam style.
Anyone able to help me understand why odin doesn't wanna detect my phone?
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Alright, this is just odd.
Generally, I want to get rid of the bloatware and make it so my phone doesn't run so much crap in the background, so I have turned to rooting it. However, this is more of a pain than anything.
I followed the Odin guide in order to get CWM, bloat removal, root, stock kernel, stock rom, etc, and its odd whats going on.
When I connect my phone to my computer, outside of download mode, and have it in USB debug, then it detects my phone in odin just fine. However, when I put it in download mode, it decides my phone is in a different dimension. Why is this?
When I unbricked it, I had to use heimdall. Odin detected it then, but couldn't fix, which turns out because I was using a crappy cord. I'm using the new cord now, and still getting problems with it detecting it in Odin.
Other info: I have the drivers installed from Kies Mini, I am currently trying to root with superoneclick, I have already cleared data via recovery mode, and oppan gangnam style.
Anyone able to help me understand why odin doesn't wanna detect my phone?
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bleh windows and odin problems. it might be a usb controller problem. or a driver problem... the usb chord should always be plugged directly into the back of the computer into the ports on the motherboard preferably. no hubs or anything. also the heimdall driver might be messing with the samsung download mode driver. there is actually different drivers for download mode and normal connections from samsung. it looks to the computer like different devices. for odin to work you need to connect in download mode and wait for windows to install the drivers or download the drivers from the samsung support website and install them manually. this might require removing all existing samsung drivers and the heimdall driver and starting over.
i have to ask though, if you unbricked the phone with heimdall why not use heimdall to flash the cwm kernel? all you have to do is extract the zImage from the .tar and flash it to the kernel partition.
also fyi super one click can not work on official gingerbread. the att official gingerbread is apparently very secure. or the real hackers never paid it any mind because it is so easy to work around that limitation with odin or heimdall.
Well, I can try digging through and see if the heimdall driver might still be there, idk if it is or not. Also, when I plug it in in download mode, it installs a driver, but when I look through device manager, it says the device isn't there.
Also, I read somewhere you couldn't root the phone with heimdall using the same method I was trying to get ahold of, so thats why I didnt use heimdall. But in that case, any chance you could link me to a guide on how to do that? The main thing I want is to get rid of this bloatware and crap.
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Well, I can try digging through and see if the heimdall driver might still be there, idk if it is or not. Also, when I plug it in in download mode, it installs a driver, but when I look through device manager, it says the device isn't there.
Also, I read somewhere you couldn't root the phone with heimdall using the same method I was trying to get ahold of, so thats why I didnt use heimdall. But in that case, any chance you could link me to a guide on how to do that? The main thing I want is to get rid of this bloatware and crap.
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what link were you following? so i can see what you are working with..
the only ways to root is to flash a pre-rooted /system image(but i haven't seen one, i've been too lazy to make one myself) or flash a cwm kernel and use it to flash an su and superuser package. some of the older kernels had a rooting script but it sometimes borks su if you update it and will downgrade su when you reboot so the devs took the rooting feature out of the kernels. both the /system image and the kernel method need heimdall or odin. anything that odin does heimdall does but heimdall uses different packages or no "package" at all.
heimdall can be done in command line and it's easier to explain that way than the ui. are you comfortable with command line?
THis is the link to the guide i was using. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613523
And I'm not too great with command lines. I have next to no experience with linux os, and though I've tried to learn some, it just doesn't seem to stick.
Hell, most of what you said doesn't entirely make sense to me.
New info. Computer detects it in download mode, but odin doesnt. Grr to this stuff.
I think I found the main problem.
When I unbricked my phone, I upgraded to GB. Now I'm at GB, and according to what I read, thats where all the problems are stemming from. Is there a way to root when you are on GB? Or do I need to downgrade to Froyo, root, then go back to GB?
If I have to do the latter, then I'll just skip GB and figure out the CM9 stuff.
you should still be able to use heimdall, and i think it can work with the samsung drivers, the open source driver heimdall uses may help in some situations but i dont think it's needed. odin can be weird. i never use it.
you have 2 options asuming heimdall works(i think it will). you can use option a from that thread but flash it through heimdall, or you can go to the thread for entropy's kernel and download the zImage and flash that through heimdall.
for heimdall download this and extract it to a folder somewhere. https://github.com/downloads/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall/heimdall-suite-1.3.1-win32.zip
you may also need this but it may already be on your system http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...5E-6DE6-4D3A-A423-37BF0912DB84&displaylang=en
download the rom .tar file (or kernel zImage if you want cwm) that you choose and extract the contents to the folder that contains the heimdall files.
if you are using the rooted rom, stock kernel no cwm package it is in .rar and there is a .tar or .tar.md5 inside of that. remember to extract the .tar and not just the .rar.
now if you are already on the att release if gingerbread uclb3 you will only need the factoryfs.rfs remeber that it should be in the same folder as the heimdall.exe file
put the phone in download mode and connect the usb cable then open a command prompt and navigate to the folder with heimdall and the factoryfs.rfs (c:\users\<login name>\<whatever folder you made or chose>\ ) and type
Code:
heimdall flash --factoryfs factoryfs.rfs
if you chose to use a kernel with cwm instead then you will use the zImage file. download the kernel you want and extract the zImage file into the heimdall folder or what ever you called it. go into a command prompt and type
Code:
heimdall flash --kernel zImage
after you have cwm you can download this http://downloads.noshufou.netdna-cdn.com/superuser/Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip for root, move it to the sdcard and reboot to recovery and flash it in cwm
if you are not comfortable with command line you can use the frontend but it requires the pit file which you need to get from the unbrick packages.