Does anyone know of a way to flash the new 2.3.4 update with the latest baseband from ubuntu? Both my machines are win7 native thus their aren't any drivers to support winXP. Each time I run it on my second partition with win7 it fails so I was curious if it's possible to run it from my ubuntu partition. I'm running 10.04 on a Dell XPS M1330. Not afraid of ADB or Nvflash just really hate windows in general. Any help would rock.
ian577416 said:
Does anyone know of a way to flash the new 2.3.4 update with the latest baseband from ubuntu? Both my machines are win7 native thus their aren't any drivers to support winXP. Each time I run it on my second partition with win7 it fails so I was curious if it's possible to run it from my ubuntu partition. I'm running 10.04 on a Dell XPS M1330. Not afraid of ADB or Nvflash just really hate windows in general. Any help would rock.
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Hi!
I'm surprised, nobody asked this already, at least I haven't found it:
Is there a way of flashing/upgrading my GT-S8500 phone a custom firmware/newer stock firmware using linux?
I know, s1 have to use multiloader for flashing, and it's windows only, but maybe some expert can tell me, if there's some alternative, even if it's harder/longer, way of reproducing what multiloader is doing, in linux. Thx in advance!
konrad.lorenz said:
Hi!
I'm surprised, nobody asked this already, at least I haven't found it:
Is there a way of flashing/upgrading my GT-S8500 phone a custom firmware/newer stock firmware using linux?
I know, s1 have to use multiloader for flashing, and it's windows only, but maybe some expert can tell me, if there's some alternative, even if it's harder/longer, way of reproducing what multiloader is doing, in linux. Thx in advance!
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What exactly are you trying to do. I'm not familiar with the s1 and it's 'multiloader'. Are you referring to dual booting? Sorry if i'm missing your question completely. Some of us at ArcDatum do embedded systems research with ARM boards and have various multibooting devices booting anything from basic stock android stuff to gentoo/arch linux distros both separately and in dual booting environments. We use dev boards like the BeagleBoard and Pandaboards.
If you're trying to flash something weird onto ur phone though, chances are you can't or shouldn't. The only reason why it's safe for us to do it with the dev boards is because the System on a Chip is configured (by pulling specific pins high or low) to boot from the SD card and read the bootloader from there. In the case of most phones, you have locked bootloaders and no way to change that without risking destroying your boot process.
I'm trying to upgrade the factory system of my phone to a newer factory one, or to turkocfw (at first try, i'd be happy with the factory one).
Basically this is done through Kies -but thats windows only- or Multiloader -which is also windows only-, but my laptop has linux on it. I want to know, if there is a way, if I can manually do on linux, what kies and multiloader does on windows.
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What exactly are you trying to do. I'm not familiar with the s1 and it's 'multiloader'. Are you referring to dual booting? Sorry if i'm missing your question completely. Some of us at ArcDatum do embedded systems research with ARM boards and have various multibooting devices booting anything from basic stock android stuff to gentoo/arch linux distros both separately and in dual booting environments. We use dev boards like the BeagleBoard and Pandaboards.
If you're trying to flash something weird onto ur phone though, chances are you can't or shouldn't. The only reason why it's safe for us to do it with the dev boards is because the System on a Chip is configured (by pulling specific pins high or low) to boot from the SD card and read the bootloader from there. In the case of most phones, you have locked bootloaders and no way to change that without risking destroying your boot process.
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Anyone?
That sounds a bit odd..I still dont quite understand how linux comes into play here. All the phones I've had deliver official Samsung updates over the air. Have you tried upgrading directly from ur phone?
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It should work under Wine or in a Virtual Machine. If you don't know what these are, you can easily Google them up. A basic concept
Also, for S8500 I would like to recommend http://darkforestgroup.com/forum/ a decent forum for all those older Samsung handsets.
Thats a good point. I havent used wine In a while. Although Id be careful of that, u kno, with the magic wine stuff that they pull off. Might cause some issues and risk ur phone
Edit: vm on the other hand id be more comfortable with
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I still dont quite understand how linux comes into play here.
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That's the operating system of my notebook. I want to use that computer for upgrading/flashing my phone.
ArcDatum said:
All the phones I've had deliver official Samsung updates over the air. Have you tried upgrading directly from ur phone?
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Yes, but the function is 'defect by design', it is FUBAR, that function doesn't work (not only for me, it doesn't work for anyone using the same system on their phone (bada1.2)). I don't know, if it is working on bada 2.0, because I can't upgrade it.
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It should work under Wine or in a Virtual Machine.
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It should, but looks like it doesn't. Wherever I've looked (looks like I cannot post outside links to prove my point, sorry :S), I've found the same advice: "Don't use Kies in a VM!"
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Also, for S8500 I would like to recommend darkforestgroup.com/forum/
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Thanx, I had a look at there, but didn't see anything related
So, the question remains the same, if anyone knows, how (exactly) multiloader works, and that working can be reproduced on linux (without multiloader)...
Or can this be achieved using Heimdall?
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I would like to know if it is possible as well. Otherwise I might test it, but I'm afraid to break my phone
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autra said:
I would like to know if it is possible as well. Otherwise I might test it, but I'm afraid to break my phone
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Ok, I can confirm it works using VirtualBox and Win7... No particular things to know, just follow the step as you would do on Windows !
Greetings All
I'm a noob who has performed due diligence with the search function as best I could. I'm trying to do to my tablet what I thought was pretty easy with my phone. I'm just can't seem to get my xp box to see the tablet when its in boot loader mode. Why does the same computer that I used Odin with to do my phone not see this tablet? Anyone? Is there a tutorial for SDK setup for xp?
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Ameri said:
Greetings All
I'm a noob who has performed due diligence with the search function as best I could. I'm trying to do to my tablet what I thought was pretty easy with my phone. I'm just can't seem to get my xp box to see the tablet when its in boot loader mode. Why does the same computer that I used Odin with to do my phone not see this tablet? Anyone? Is there a tutorial for SDK setup for xp?
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Please, have you search and read a little before to post something
Use the research by search all forums, type your request...that's all
I know the easy solution is "Use a PC", but I won't have access to one for awhile. After searching the net, I was able to find a way to root the phone via Mac, but unfortunately that didn't assist with the bootloader. I'd like to try out some ROMs, but if I can't boot CWM, that won't be happening. I was hoping it would be as easy as flashing VLRE6 in standard recovery, but no dice.
Any idea?
Sorry this probably should have gone in the help section...is there a way to move it?
Easy solution
Bootcamp your Mac into Windows.
Unless you have of those ancient PowerPC based Macs.
-Mike
mcapozzi said:
Bootcamp your Mac into Windows.
Unless you have of those ancient PowerPC based Macs.
-Mike
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I'm aware of that option, but unfortunately I don't have a Windows OS license. I'd rather avoid the need to get it through other means...
I've looked into Heimdall, but can't find instructions referring to the bootloader. In Odin you have to put the file in the PDA slot and Heimdall doesn't seem to have a correlating section.
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Is it possible to do a bare device install of the android OS? Something similar to doing bare hard drive install of an OS to a computer?
Thanks.
caffewmilk said:
Is it possible to do a bare device install of the android OS? Something similar to doing bare hard drive install of an OS to a computer?
Thanks.
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What are you trying to do? flash Android on a blank emmc?
arm devices don't have BIOS or UEFI. Most of the bootloaders on production runs of phones are very locked down. Samsung phones need either download mode or a recovery to flash a os. If you don't have either you would need to use the JTAG to flash everything on the emmc but that's a lot of work and there's not really any publicly accessible tools for the full processes.
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Is it possible to do a bare device install of the android OS? Something similar to doing bare hard drive install of an OS to a computer?
Thanks.
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What are you trying to do? flash Android on a blank emmc?
arm devices don't have BIOS or UEFI. Most of the bootloaders on production runs of phones are very locked down. Samsung phones need either download mode or a recovery to flash a os. If you don't have either you would need to use the JTAG to flash everything on the emmc but that's a lot of work and there's not really any publicly accessible tools for the full processes.
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I think he wants a stripped down os, no extra apps/bloatware and just enough to boot the phone, idk, a few users asked if I could make a real lite version just for playing music but never got around to it
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I was just curious about it. I was thinking maybe there was something out there for android phones like Linux From Scratch.
I've already tried vincom's SuperLite and other ROMs, though. :good:
Thanks guys.