Hi guys, was wondering if anyone could help me...
I'm trying to root my Samsung Galaxy S II GT-I9100 on my Macbook Pro (Lion) using Heimdall but to no avail.
I've got Heimdall 1.3.1 and Kies installed on my mac and have tried through both Terminal and Frontend to just detect the phone to start off with; every time it just comes back with the 'Failed to detect compatible download-mode device.' message.
Oh and I also tried putting into download mode through ADB as I read somewhere that doing so this way might possibly make the Mac detect it. Not true. Garbage.
Does it make a difference that I'm on O2 (UK)? I've seen so many posts talking about network specific methods...
Anything would be a massive help at the moment, I'm pretty lost right now...
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Hey,
so i received my S II two days ago and today i wanted to flash the lightning ROM on my mobile. So first I tried Odin at my VM but when I tried to connect my mobile in download mode to my VM there is an error. Then I read about heimdall and tried it. The problem is, that it won't detect my device (I'm in Download mode).
Does somebody, maybe a mac user how had the same problem, an advice?
- Cole
Yes, my advice is boot camp! Always have it at hand, you never know when you might need it.
I only succeded to have ADB working on mac.
Hi guys,
I'm pretty sure I soft bricked my s3, upon reboot I get the samsung logo followed by a black screen with the bootloader sound in the background. I have looked into "unbricking" guides, but I can't follow them correctly because of the problem I wil explain below.
The main issue here is that I can't get a PC or Mac to read my phone, so technically I can't unbrick it until i solve this issue. On PC, I have installed the correct drivers multiple times without success, and as for Mac I am using Android File Transfer.app which was working for me fine up until I soft bricked. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I've had this phone for 12 hours and now I can't use it lol.
sW333t11 said:
Hi guys,
I'm pretty sure I soft bricked my s3, upon reboot I get the samsung logo followed by a black screen with the bootloader sound in the background. I have looked into "unbricking" guides, but I can't follow them correctly because of the problem I wil explain below.
The main issue here is that I can't get a PC or Mac to read my phone, so technically I can't unbrick it until i solve this issue. On PC, I have installed the correct drivers multiple times without success, and as for Mac I am using Android File Transfer.app which was working for me fine up until I soft bricked. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I've had this phone for 12 hours and now I can't use it lol.
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Kies firmware fix? There's this re-inisitalization for firmwares on kies if you don't wanna mess with Odin and whatnot.
The only problem with this is that my phone doesn't even show up on Kies.
bump.
still can't figure this out.
Use a jig to force it to downlod mode find a friends pc with windos and flah it via odin mac have a serius problem with androids
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I do have a mac, but have tried the PC way via VMWare with no success. But I guess there's not harm in trying it on another computer. Will report back
Hello, I'm trying to connect my rooted samsung galaxy S3 but everytime I get this message.
I've tried to install the google driver and samsung driver, nothing works. I also tried to search and ask people nobody knows a thing.
Thanks
Hi Everyone,
Earlier today, I tried using Samsung Kies to update my Smasung Infuse 4G SGH-i997 to 2.6.3 GB, but it fialed and I was unable to reboot. I tried to use the emergency recovery and I was not able to recover. So i turned to Odin, and that didnt work either. So i found the Heimdall one Click flash and I tried using it. At first, it did not work on my computer, so I thought it must have been a conflict with Kies... so I used another Computer operating on Windows 7 64 Bit. WHen i tried to use Heimdall on that, I got
Protocol not Initialized
Unable to Initizalize Protocol.
And then the Flash operation just stopped there.
Could anyone have a solution to this? My phone is stuck in recovery mode right now and the only screen I can ever get is "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue, please use Kies recovery mode.
Anyone help would be appreciated, much thanks
Hi, I managed to soft brick my S7 and I'm nearly done unbricking... except not really.
I've downloaded my devices firmware and tried to flash it using Odin but for some reason its not working, I get stuck at 'setup connection'.
After reading some other threads, I think the problem is my USB drivers, I'm a noobie so I'm not sure what the relevance of USB drivers are however after installing both Kies and Smartswitch, both are not recognizing my device (smartswitch apparently doesn't work for rooted devices which would explain why).
Any ideas for a fix? Thanks in advance