So I am primarily a mac user (yeah, yeah) and have been for years. I haven't used anything windows in 10+ years, but I just got a netbook today that I've upgraded to windows 7 ultimate. I have flashed several roms, but never flashed back to stock mainly because there isn't as much out there on heimdall and honestly didn't want to bother with bootcamp.
I guess I'm wondering if anyone has used ODIN on a netbook, or if it would be inadvisable to do so?
ansleyj44 said:
So I am primarily a mac user (yeah, yeah) and have been for years. I haven't used anything windows in 10+ years, but I just got a netbook today that I've upgraded to windows 7 ultimate. I have flashed several roms, but never flashed back to stock mainly because there isn't as much out there on heimdall and honestly didn't want to bother with bootcamp.
I guess I'm wondering if anyone has used ODIN on a netbook, or if it would be inadvisable to do so?
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The fact that your computer is classified as a netbook is unrelated to whether or not Odin or Heimdall run. It's usually just a matter of USB port quality on both the PC and the phone itself.
Nonetheless both Heimdall and Odin should run fine in Windows 7 on your netbook.
I always use my Acer Asprie netbook when I need to use odin. It is running Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit, but I'm sure Win 7 Ultimate will work just as well.
I prefer to use my netbook over my several windows desktop computers because it is very portable and the battery will run for many hours. Consider it a built in UPS. If I lose house power during a flash, I can rest assured that odin will continue working on battery power.
It's also nice to be able to continue using my main desktop PC while odin is doing it's thing by my side.
You can rest assured and odin to your hearts content.
I use ODIN on my Win7 ASUS netbook every time and it works like a charm.
do you ensure you have installed the driver correctly?
I just used odin today on my acer. Everything went smoothly very easy just had to look up alot of information on what to download
Also I'm just running the basic windows 7 that doesnt let you do anything
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Dammit Dammit Dammit! lol I have had the Dev preview on another SSD since the day it launched, and guess what happens? My Win7 Ultimate SSD crashed, so I feel all high and mighty I start diving into Win8 for real instead of just playing around and BAM Moto Drivers don't work with Win8 yet because they "Don't recognize the OS". My computer basically told me to get ****ed and that I can't root my brothers phone. I refuse to go back to Win7, guess I will go play on someone else computer!
Just thought I would give you guys a heads up, in case you wanted to migrate onto the Dev Preview or an Alpha/Beta. This is where it stands right now.
Windows 8 Dev Preview has Windows 7 compatibility mode... Right click the installer and set them to install that way. Let us know if that works....
Nope, I had tried that already.
Damn.... That's a pretty crappy bro... I tried it out on a spare HDD I had for a few days and the whole Metro interface being designed for a touch screen device just got cumbersome and I only tried installing some basic stuff like office, chrome, skype, and other things like that....
Most software works(even processor intensive CAD/Revit, Adobe CS5 products), and I rarely even see the Metro UI, I don't use it for anything. I just have my desktop extended across both screens.
True... I have an old dell lappy I might throw it on there and play with it some more.... Maybe that will make it heat up less....
I had to revert back to Windows 7 (no big deal) because I had trouble SBFing in Windows 8.
Meticode said:
I had to revert back to Windows 7 (no big deal) because I had trouble SBFing in Windows 8.
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Yea, for the same reason, lol. I am not too worried though. I am upgrading to the ReZound on Monday. But, I thought I would post this. I am sure there is someone smart enough to adapt the drivers, or knows another way we are not thinking of.
Could probably always partion the drive and have 7 or xp on another partition...
Hopefully this will be fixed when they decide to release Windows 8.
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Could probably always partion the drive and have 7 or xp on another partition...
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I have 4 500GB HDD's 1 1TB HDD and 2 256GB SSD's. I have plenty of space for Win7, but after being on Windows 8 there is no going back. Not to mention I don't want to set up an entire system just to root a phone I will only have for 3 more days
I was thinking about trying that other root method because it doesn't say anything about drivers, although, that might just be an obvious given. We will see, and I will let you guys know probably tomorrow. I am a Veteran, got things to do today that don't involve sitting in front of a computer lol.
BTW, Happy Veteran's Day to my fellow Brothers-in-Arms and Veterans alike! RLTW!
No Bueno...
I found elsewhere on the net a solution to windows 8 problem...
Extract the usb drivers from the motorola's driver MSI using Uniextract to a easy to find folder, then go into device manager and find the 'unknown usb device' and manually update drivers by pointing to the drivers you just extracted. Hope all that makes sense....
I should note that while this method has gotten me farther than I had previously, and allowed RSDlite to work SBF'ing my phone back to stock, but it seems ADB doesn't want to play nicely with windows 8. I've tried windows compatability mode, run as admin. no luck so far.
I don't have much of a clue of what I'm talking about but maybe its worth a shot...what if you ran a virtual of 7 inside of 8? Would you be able to use the drivers that way?
Sorry if I woke an older thread. Just curious..
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I had this same issue with the Moto drivers, I tried compatability mode, didn't work. I don't want to install another iteration of Win7 just to be able to root my phone lol.
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I had this same issue with the Moto drivers, I tried compatability mode, didn't work. I don't want to install another iteration of Win7 just to be able to root my phone lol.
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I'm in the same boat with you, it sucks. So far, every other program and software I've installed has been compatible with the dev preview, but not drivers. But you don't have a lab top, or another computer sitting around to use to root it? Either that, or going back to Windows 7 is the only way to solve it, that I know of
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I'm in the same boat with you, it sucks. So far, every other program and software I've installed has been compatible with the dev preview, but not drivers. But you don't have a lab top, or another computer sitting around to use to root it? Either that, or going back to Windows 7 is the only way to solve it, that I know of
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Nah, I basically have a super computer I built 4 years ago while in South Korea. A couple weeks ago my SSD with Win7 Ultimate went down, and I like Win8 so much more, there was no turning back. I have a recovery I could throw onto another SSD or HDD, but it's too much effort, especially for only a "temporary" root.
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Nah, I basically have a super computer I built 4 years ago while in South Korea. A couple weeks ago my SSD with Win7 Ultimate went down, and I like Win8 so much more, there was no turning back. I have a recovery I could throw onto another SSD or HDD, but it's too much effort, especially for only a "temporary" root.
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That's true, so are you just gonna wait for an s-off method? I don't yet have the phone, but by the time I do, I'm just gonna use my school lab top to root it. But building your own computer? I would really love to do that one day, sounds accomplishing
lol, I have honestly been a computer geek since I was 5/6 I turn 24 X-Mas eve, so I have been doing it a LONG time. I made a killing building this over there. At the time, I priced the parts total cost equivalent in the US was $4,800. I spent $1,300, and have since upgraded my monitors, but that was still only $400. That was 4 years ago, my Windows experience rating is still 7.2 out of 7.9.
Would you be willing to use a thumb drive and boot into ubuntu? Most hacks have a linux equivalent at some point.
I actually have Ubuntu, lol. Didn't even think about it!
Does the Zergrush exploit have a linux version?
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I actually have Ubuntu, lol. Didn't even think about it!
Does the Zergrush exploit have a linux version?
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I know the inc2 did, so I'm sure it does for the others
A while back I had messed with BlueStacks. Note: Bluestacks is the applications for Windows (and other platforms) that allows you to run Android apps on your PC. But I eventually uninstalled it, because of a few annoyances. But I think it was not even 1.0 at the time. Is anyone running it on a consistent basis?
I have the desire to get a Windows-8 tablet in the future. If I can ever convince my wife of the expense..hehe. But I was looking into the Acer w700 that I can dual-boot with Android. However someone just the other day mentioned for me to try 'Bluestacks'. I told him, I had already tried it, about a year ago, when I had looked into buying a Windows-7 tablet. At the time, my wife and I had lost one of our Android on the ground near an apartment complex, and we were looking for a new tablet. A funny story ensued, but we actually got that tablet back... (d'oh...) Who doesn't want new stuff?
Anyway back to my BlueStacks issues, at the time: When installed on my PC: It was an unacceptable big-memory hog. It would start-with windows, and the settings for this, was not well managed. I imagine, If I had it on a tablet, the memory problems on a smaller device would be multiplied. I could not get to the PC file system within Bluestacks. However, It was not till-later that I started using Google-Drive, so, perhaps that problem might be solved (assuming Bluestacks allows Drive). There were certain apps that would not run, that would not transfer. So my PC would be on the same account as my Android Tablet/phone, but not see all the same apps.
Last time i used bluestacks it was still running GB.
I've been thinking of a windows 8 bay trail tablet if I can dual boot on them.
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I uninstalled Bluestacks the last month, cause it was making my Windows 7 go crazy. I hope they fix it.
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I uninstalled Bluestacks the last month, cause it was making my Windows 7 go crazy. I hope they fix it.
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Yes I had it on my work machine, and my work machine is basically a 'beast', but still I noticed it was eating into the machines processes and memory enough to cause problems, just like you said --- 'go crazy....' It must be more transparent!' If this is to work.
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Last time i used bluestacks it was still running GB.
I've been thinking of a windows 8 bay trail tablet if I can dual boot on them.
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On this very xda-site they have the instructions for dual-booting with the Acer-w700. I think in the forum it does give some other models the instructions will work for as well. https://www.xda-developers.com/android/dual-boot-windows-8-and-android-on-your-acer-iconia-w700/ - But I haven't tried any of it myself of course.
Hello. Used to be on XDA a lot when I was addicted to ROMing my Galaxy S2, so I'm comfortable with this whole process. Since Asus decided the Prime was at end of life (even though it's better than some of the new tablet out there), I decided it was time to start modding mine and try out some of the good looking ROMs I see out there.
The unlock tool worked perfectly the first time (I know, rare). However, I cannot go farther than that because I cannot get Windows to detect my prime in any way (it doesn't show up at all in Device Manager...so I can't even install drivers for it). The most recent thing I've tried is completely wiping and not setting anything up (no google account, etc).
Windows 8.1 Pro w/Media Center (64-bit)...I've also tried my kid's Windows 7 machine (also 64-bit)
Debugging mode on tablet is on
Tried both MTP and PTP modes
I've tried multiple USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports
Using an official TF201 cable from Asus (brand new, have also tried my generic cable that I use with my wall charger)
Currently running 4.1.1 everything stock (again, only did the unlock, no rooting or anything else)
No dock (that can't be required can it????)
Any suggestions at all?? I don't think it's a driver issue because again, Windows doesn't see it at all, let alone an "unknown" device.
no ideas at all?? really?
Hey guys,
I've been around these forums for a while.
I've had pretty much every Galaxy S phone that has been out for T-Mobile back to the Vibrant days.
I recently went on a journey to the dark side and had switched over to AT&T and had gotten a White 16GB iPhone 5S. Four months later, here I am.. back with T-Mobile and a White 16GB Galaxy S5. I was so close to getting the Note 4, but meh.. too big for me I think.
Anyway, back to my rant..
Never have I ever had so much trouble flashing a custom recovery on a phone, lol. It wasn't anything I was doing wrong I knew for sure, but it just kept failing, even going back to stop kept failing. I was up until like 3:30 AM last night trying to figure it out. I was going crazy. Tried different .tar files, ODINs, heimdall, etc. All this was in both Windows XP VMWare and Windows 7 VMWare, which I've never had an issue using before. Then I thought.. -sigh- it's probably stupid VMWare and ODIN / drivers / something not getting along. So I dusted off my dinosaur Windows XP desktop (Keep in mind I have a Macbook Air) and my god, never have I ever been as happy to own a dinosaur Windows XP desktop. I flashed back to stock, then flashed a custom recovery, then finally flashed Cyanogenmod.
Feels good to be back.
Welcome back to Android! how does it feel?
decimater said:
Welcome back to Android! how does it feel?
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Thanks!
Feels good.. can't keep my phone down now.
Miss the community here too.
Exel said:
Thanks!
Feels good.. can't keep my phone down now.
Miss the community here too.
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My phone stays down if I eat it with crackers or maybe take some Pepto.
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My phone stays down if I eat it with crackers or maybe take some Pepto.
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Lol. :silly:
I too have a macbook air, but I'm running win 7 in Parallels. What I found is that Odin doesn't like when you have the tars on the mac side. I have to copy them all to the virtual C: drive. Also it doesn't like when the exe is run from the mac side, even though it still opens in windows. For some reason I have to actually run the exe from windows explorer.
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I too have a macbook air, but I'm running win 7 in Parallels. What I found is that Odin doesn't like when you have the tars on the mac side. I have to copy them all to the virtual C: drive. Also it doesn't like when the exe is run from the mac side, even though it still opens in windows. For some reason I have to actually run the exe from windows explorer.
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Strange, thanks for the heads up.
Hopefully I can get this working on my mac cause I don't want to have to plug in my Winblows everytime I need to ODIN.
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Strange, thanks for the heads up.
Hopefully I can get this working on my mac cause I don't want to have to plug in my Winblows everytime I need to ODIN.
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Well then you should plug the windows computer in and unplug the mac and leave the mac alone. Only pull the mac out if you ever get a iphone.. LOL
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Well then you should plug the windows computer in and unplug the mac and leave the mac alone. Only pull the mac out if you ever get a iphone.. LOL
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LOL, well I did have an iPhone for 4 months..
No but in reality, my Mac handles Photoshop and Illustrator so much better than Windows.