Does heimdall support Galaxy Ace? If so, how can i flash any of the roms published on this forum?
I use ubuntu so i can't use odin.
i see that with the i9000 exist specific firmware packages to use with heimdall. can this be done with galaxy ace?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1196179
thanks in advance for your answers.
Heimdall doesn't support Ace. You can start Odin in linux environment by means of Wine, but wine still doesn't support usb devices... I simply used VirtualBox and windows host machine to flash firmare. Not a native linux way, but I had no choice.
ok. i've installed virtualbox. i can detect phone when it's on but error when in download mode.
Any help with this?
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Does anyone know how to get a mac laptop to recognize my fascinate? I need to be able to push files to my fascinate with my mac laptop. I have installed heimdall and when I try to flash a file it says "failed to detect compatible device". I even installed parallels desktop and have windows on my mac as well and I can't use Odin because it says "no drivers found". I have downloaded the drivers and installed them but it still says "no drivers found". Any help would be much appreciated.
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Does anyone know how to get a mac laptop to recognize my fascinate? I need to be able to push files to my fascinate with my mac laptop. I have installed heimdall and when I try to flash a file it says "failed to detect compatible device". I even installed parallels desktop and have windows on my mac as well and I can't use Odin because it says "no drivers found". I have downloaded the drivers and installed them but it still says "no drivers found". Any help would be much appreciated.
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As another OS X user, I am faced with the same problem with Heimdall not recognizing my Fascinate. I don't know how to rectify this issue.
However, I have found that I have to enable USB Debug Mode (under Applications/Development) in the settings prior to connecting the USB each time I want to connect to my mac for file swap. I don't think I needed to do this before, so I think it's due either to the ROM or kernel I'm using.
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Does anyone know how to get a mac laptop to recognize my fascinate? I need to be able to push files to my fascinate with my mac laptop. I have installed heimdall and when I try to flash a file it says "failed to detect compatible device". I even installed parallels desktop and have windows on my mac as well and I can't use Odin because it says "no drivers found". I have downloaded the drivers and installed them but it still says "no drivers found". Any help would be much appreciated.
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This suggestion is for heimdall, i don't know if it works with mac or not.
Did you plug the phone in with it in DL mode, open the heimdall files, open the drivers file in there and run zadig? You have to have to be in DL mode while in zadig then you go to options, at the top, check list all devices, it will say samsung usb composite device, or samsumg android composite usb. Anyway it is something like that, heimdall wont work in windows either if you dont do this step. hope that helps. as for odin i think there is a program out there called odin clone but i have no idea where to find it, maybe google does.
Heimdall doesn't support the Fascinate on Mac, so either install Linux or Windows.
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iwasaperson said:
Heimdall doesn't support the Fascinate on Mac, so either install Linux or Windows.
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I have windows installed on my Mac via parallels desktop and when I put my phone in download mode and try to install drivers, where it says "list all devices" it doesn't have Samsung composite as an option.
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kidserious said:
I have windows installed on my Mac via parallels desktop and when I put my phone in download mode and try to install drivers, where it says "list all devices" it doesn't have Samsung composite as an option.
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The problem isn't with Heimdall or OS X. The issue is with Samsung's faulty secondary bootloader not adhering to the USB specification. As such the device won't be recognised by OS X or even a virtual machine running inside OS X.
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The problem isn't with Heimdall or OS X. The issue is with Samsung's faulty secondary bootloader not adhering to the USB specification. As such the device won't be recognised by OS X or even a virtual machine running inside OS X.
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So, basically what you are telling me is that I will not be able to push files to my fascinate with my Mac, correct? The problem is the fascinate communicating with Mac right? Can't be done?
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What I heard was get a real computer.
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Well I just wasted about an hour getting all of the necessary things to get Heimdall running, so this is disappointing to hear. From what I read, I thought that was an Eclair issue and that it might be solved with the Froyo update?
kidserious said:
So, basically what you are telling me is that I will not be able to push files to my fascinate with my Mac, correct? The problem is the fascinate communicating with Mac right? Can't be done?
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Assuming that Samsung haven't released a working secondary bootloader for the Fascinate, then you can't use OS X to flash. "Mac" and "OS X" aren't the same thing, if you want you could install Linux or Windows on your Mac and you would still be able to flash. That's hardly ideal but it's Samsung's fault and there's not a whole lot anyone else can do about it.
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Assuming that Samsung haven't released a working secondary bootloader for the Fascinate, then you can't use OS X to flash. "Mac" and "OS X" aren't the same thing, if you want you could install Linux or Windows on your Mac and you would still be able to flash. That's hardly ideal but it's Samsung's fault and there's not a whole lot anyone else can do about it.
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You're talking about partitioning my hard drive? Because I have windows running on my mac via parallels desktop. I would need to run boot camp or something like that?
I was just thinking boot camp myself, but if the issue is how Apple handles the USB on the computer, then the problem would still be there, cause the windows drivers installed through boot camp for the Mac hardware are still written by apple, and the physical hardware of the laptop will also remain the same, so....
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After several unsuccessful attempts, I have been unable to get my Samsung Galaxy S II in download mode to be detected by Heimdall on Linux or OS X. Does anyone have any suggestions (besides try Windows)?
Do you have drivers installed?
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After several unsuccessful attempts, I have been unable to get my Samsung Galaxy S II in download mode to be detected by Heimdall on Linux or OS X. Does anyone have any suggestions (besides try Windows)?
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I have a SGS II and it is well detected by Heimdall ver: 1.3.0 on Linux Kubuntu 11.04.
To flash a ROM you (maybe !) need to launch heimdall-frontend with admin rights. (sudo).
I began to flash the stock ROM KG6 but it's failed just after datafs file was downloaded. I don't know why....
No problem with odin in virtualbox
Hello!
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on 2 different machines and have been trying to root since I got the phone yesterday with no luck.
I have tried using Windows 7 and Windows XP running in VirtualBox with Odin using the method outlined in the video by qbking77.
I have also tried the same method but this time using Heimdall from within Ubuntu.
I've tried the Heimdall method on both computers and have run into a few different issues, one of them being that Heimdall (from the GUI) doesn't like the both the .tar file and the .img file when I extract it from the .tar file (it gives error messages but I'm not in front of the computer right now).
Another issue I'm having with Heimdall is when trying to access the device itself. I put the device into download mode and try to download the PIT file and it gives an error about not being able to initialize. I know the latest version of Heimdall isn't confirmed to work with this phone so I have not tried any commands that push data to the phone, only commands that pull data from the phone. Heimdall does detect my device without any problem.
I have rooted several devices in the past including a Galaxy Tab 10.1 (which also had trouble with Odin and Heimdall but I was able to root without them)
My question is: has anyone successfully rooted without Windows, and if so how?
As a side note: I have been searching the forums and Google trying to resolve these issues and cannot find answers, and other than VirtualBox I do not have access to any Windows machines.
I don't expect anyone to diagnose the specific issues I'm having without me providing exact error messages or anything but I'm looking for general information on rooting this device without Windows.
Thanks in advance for any input.
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I didn't install the drivers in linux, but you can run odin in linux [using wine], and assuming you have the drivers installed, you should be good to go.
Wow, I can't believe I never thought to try wine!
Would I install the Windows drivers under wine or are there Linux specific drivers?
Thanks for the reply, I'll have to try this when I get home.
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devi1 said:
Wow, I can't believe I never thought to try wine!
Would I install the Windows drivers under wine or are there Linux specific drivers?
Thanks for the reply, I'll have to try this when I get home.
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No prob man, here to help. I would try the windows drivers through wine.
Samsung USB drivers will not work in Wine, thus Odin has no chance of working there. Indeed Heimdall does not yet support SGS3.
Team Epic's instructions and CWM .tar.md5 is known to work with Odin and Windows with those Samsung USB drivers.
Okay, tried Odin under wine as teh roxxorz suggested and it did not work (as CMTeamEpic pointed out)
Came back to the thread and saw CMTeamEpic's reply so I tried a few more things in VirtualBox and got Odin to recognize the device now but when I go to flash the file the virtual machine reboots (scary!).
Phone is not bricked but also isn't rooted.
I think I have VMWare with Windows XP on my other computer so I will try that next. I know sometimes VMWare can run certain things smoother than VirtualBox at times so we'll see what happens.
I wish Samsung phones didn't need Odin (or Windows specific software in general) to root. I'm open to any other suggestions, I'm not a n00b and I'm comfortable with using ADB if I need to (no offense to any n00bs :laugh
Thanks for the help so far guys, I'll let you know what happens with VMWare.
Guide is now posted in development.
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Alright, tried Odin again under VMWare instead of VirtualBox and everything went fine. Flashed CWM Recovery in Odin and then went into CWM and flashed the zip file to get su, installed busybox and now I have root!
Thanks guys for your help. :highfive:
On a side note, I think it's pretty ridiculous that I spent 2 days wrestling with this and doing everything correctly except for the fact that it just wouldn't work with VirtualBox. Hopefully anyone who runs Linux exclusively who is trying to root this phone will see this and just avoid VirtualBox all together! VirtualBox runs well for most things but VMWare does some stuff better... and I'm pretty sure VMWare Player (as opposed to VMWare Workstation) is free.
Now to figure out how to compile a kernel and build a rom... maybe?
devi1 said:
Alright, tried Odin again under VMWare instead of VirtualBox and everything went fine. Flashed CWM Recovery in Odin and then went into CWM and flashed the zip file to get su, installed busybox and now I have root!
Thanks guys for your help. :highfive:
On a side note, I think it's pretty ridiculous that I spent 2 days wrestling with this and doing everything correctly except for the fact that it just wouldn't work with VirtualBox. Hopefully anyone who runs Linux exclusively who is trying to root this phone will see this and just avoid VirtualBox all together! VirtualBox runs well for most things but VMWare does some stuff better... and I'm pretty sure VMWare Player (as opposed to VMWare Workstation) is free.
Now to figure out how to compile a kernel and build a rom... maybe?
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Heimdall is open source and for Linux
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
Heimdall is open source and for Linux
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Code:
~$ sudo heimdall print-pit
Heimdall v1.3.2, Copyright (c) 2010-2012, Benjamin Dobell, Glass Echidna
http://www.glassechidna.com.au
This software is provided free of charge. Copying and redistribution is
encouraged.
If you appreciate this software and you would like to support future
development please consider donating:
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/donate/
Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
Claiming interface...
Setting up interface...
Checking if protocol is initialised...
Protocol is not initialised.
Initialising protocol...
ERROR: Failed to initialise protocol!
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. I've tried this command using Heimdall v1.3.1 64-bit and Heimdall v1.3.2 32-bit (64-bit has not yet been released for this version) and get the same error message (I even tried running the 'detect' action and it saw my device), so I did not dare to try flashing anything.
I also finished rooting before seeing your post in the dev section. It's pretty stupid that I can view the dev section when I'm not logged in but it's not there when I am logged in. It seems the mods could at least make it read-only for members logged in with under 10 posts.
devi1 said:
Code:
~$ sudo heimdall print-pit
Heimdall v1.3.2, Copyright (c) 2010-2012, Benjamin Dobell, Glass Echidna
http://www.glassechidna.com.au
This software is provided free of charge. Copying and redistribution is
encouraged.
If you appreciate this software and you would like to support future
development please consider donating:
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/donate/
Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
Claiming interface...
Setting up interface...
Checking if protocol is initialised...
Protocol is not initialised.
Initialising protocol...
ERROR: Failed to initialise protocol!
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. I've tried this command using Heimdall v1.3.1 64-bit and Heimdall v1.3.2 32-bit (64-bit has not yet been released for this version) and get the same error message (I even tried running the 'detect' action and it saw my device), so I did not dare to try flashing anything.
I also finished rooting before seeing your post in the dev section. It's pretty stupid that I can view the dev section when I'm not logged in but it's not there when I am logged in. It seems the mods could at least make it read-only for members logged in with under 10 posts.
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Hmmm... they probably need to update it with the S3.
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I amusing Ubuntu 12.4 lts I have a soft bricked galaxy attain. it will bootg into dowloading. I have installed the samsung usb drivers and other files to unbrick the handset. well when i plug in the usb the computer does not see the handset. so i can't download the drivers to use the Heimdall suite. I guess it all will work and unbrick the handset but this ubuntu will not show the handset. I'm very new to linux and learning on the fly. I think the other programs work if i can get this handset to show up when i plug in the usb. sch-r920. Any help?
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Hi everybody! I tried installing an official firmware without bloatware for my sister's Ace. It entered into bootloop and does not go over the logo of Samsung and Orange. I tried reset factory, delete cache etc., without success. When I tried to install something via Odin, the computer did not recognize it. I have tried on two different Windows with Odin and a Mac with JOdin, without success. It does not work with Kies as well. It seems that the computers don't recognize a mobile plugged, even trying with tdifferent cables, USB ports, Windows and Mac, etc. Any idea/alternative?
Thank you very much!!
There are two cases when my Galaxy Ace was not recognized on my computer.
1. Which version of the odin you tried to use to restore Galaxy Ace?
- Since Galaxy Ace supports "Odin Multi Downloader 4.xx", instead of normally known Odin. There might be confusion between two different versions of the odin, since they look almost identical. However, the way you can find difference is that "Odin Multi Downloader" have "OPS" button that you can load ops file and another have "PIT" button that you can load pit file. Since JODIN have "PIT" button, it is unlikely to work for flashing Galaxy Ace. (And Jodin requires PIT file, not OPS.)
2. Are you using Windows 8 or older?
- This could be an issue you have encounter, since most computers nowadays have Windows 10, 8.1, or 8. I experienced this problem when I tried to flash my Galaxy Ace I dug out from desk. When I connected Galaxy Ace in download mode to Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 computer, it said "USB Not Recognized". When I actively used Galaxy Ace back in 2012, I had Windows 7 and was able to flash Galaxy Ace successfully. I posted the solution if you have a Mac Here with VirtualBox. You also may try using computer with Windows 7 or older.
I hope these information were helpful for your successful recovery of Galaxy Ace.