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[Q] mac drivers

im sure these are posted somewhere, plz help.. i need the mac drivers for this phone

What are you looking to do? I have a Mac and mounting the SD card on my Mac to transfer files is very easy. If you're looking to root using a mac, the hack kit includes instructions on what to do.
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There are no mac drivers and you don't need them. Turn on usb debugging
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CWM recovery with mac?

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.

Rooting on a mac

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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onealvideo said:
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?

Ranelmcg said:
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.

kishke said:
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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OS problems

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

Moonshine help

Could someone please explain to me how to delete the HTC sync file on my phone so I can achieve s-off. I have tried deleting everything that seems remotely closer with titanium backup with no result. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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rompup said:
Could someone please explain to me how to delete the HTC sync file on my phone so I can achieve s-off. I have tried deleting everything that seems remotely closer with titanium backup with no result. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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You can not delete it. Freeze with titanium back up

Tried that. Couldn't get it to work
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I had that problem too, so I did in Linux. If you have a second hd and do not want to use the grub, unplug the win hd and install on second. At boot with F12 you can choose the hd you want to boot. I have Linux Mint v14 kde, but most people are using Ubuntu what let you install Linux alone with windows and easy uninstall.

rompup said:
Could someone please explain to me how to delete the HTC sync file on my phone so I can achieve s-off. I have tried deleting everything that seems remotely closer with titanium backup with no result. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I was also having problems trying to get s-off for awhile. I tried almost everything on windows installing and reinstalling drivers, adb, fastboot, etc but then I finally decided to download Ubuntu 13.04 onto my usb drive using Universal USB Installer and from there it was history, as they say lol
Here are the steps from the top of my head:
Load up Ubuntu from the usb by making sure that the laptop boots from it instead of the hd
Download adb and fastboot from ubuntuupdates.org
Download moonshine and extract it using the terminal (type tar -zxf moonshine_ville_<version>.tgz or just from the download folder itself
Open terminal and make sure to change the directory to Downloads (this way it knows that moonshine files are there)
In the Terminal type "sudo ./distiller" (without the quotes)
From there it should be the same process as on Windows and hopefully it should work.