Hi everyone,
Is there a mac tutorial for s-off? I really want to move up to ICS, but kinda wanna have S-off before I do.
Since the tool required for achieving S-Off is Windows only, your only option is to either install windows in Bootcamp or possibly a virtual machine, or use a Windows PC.
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Hey guys, maybe someone of you knows how to use Hero RUU on mac. I really need restore the official android 1.5 with no root.
There is no restore function for the MAC. You will have to use a virtual PC on a MAC to do this.
There was something called openRUU a while back for mac users,... Not sure what it does though....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=708210
i dont understand how to use this. :S
Does anybody know how to root a gtablet using a mac computer.
I have searched through several websites and gone through the instructions, and
now am stuck in clockworkmod.
I next tried to nvflash, but get stuck at the stage where you go into apx mode and can't do this instruction:
Click on computer icon-->Properties --->Device Manager -->right click APX and choose update driver.
Is it just a matter of finding the mac equivalent instruction and if so, what is it?
I have thought about turning my mac into a windows machine and then going through the instructions, but this requires partitioning my computer into part windows and part mac- which i want to avoid because it involves decreasing the mac memory portion. Another option is just borrowing a friend's PC to root my computer.
Any other suggestions? Thank you!
There is no Mac native nvflash. I use Ubuntu Linux running in VirtualBox. It doesn't require partitioning your Mac just set up a virtual drive for it and it has the added benefit of not needing special drivers for APX mode.
I was getting prepped to get my unlock code and was finding out how to install Android sdk and adb on this site:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html
Went to System Requirements and for Windows it only lists XP And 7.
Would that be only if you're going to actually write something for Android? Atm the only windows computer I have up and running is my Vista laptop. I suppose I could try pulling out my old XP desktop system but I don't think it can even use my new monitors. I do have a nice Mac desktop running Snow Leopard but I prefer to do my hobby stuff on Windows as I'm much more comfortable with tinkering on that. I'm much more mystified by OS X than Windows.
I'm running 64-bit Vista and had no problem with ADB. The .zip I got was "android-sdk_r16-windows" and had a flawless unlock/ root process.
That said, I did have to do some more advanced settings within Windows. If you have any troubles let me know and I'll hunt down the ADB tutorial that I followed.
I've been using it on a 32 bit vista. Works fine
sent from my newly unlocked Rezound
Am a Linux (Ubuntu) user that knows my way around adb and fastboot.
I have only seen instructions how to root SGS3 by using Odin. Odin seems to be a Windows program. How do I root with Linux?
I see in the root tutorial there are some exe files needed to run (I don't dual boot), is there any way to root on a mac yet?
You could try a virtual machine.