If you try to root on windows 8, you may run into an issue where the phone seems to brick.
I found that the best solution is if you have a windows 7 machine, try from there. I just went thru this headache and just want to try to save people some grief.
What step? My root went flawlessly running on Windows 8.
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My buddy said the other day he had issues with Windows 8. He said the problem is that if the driver is unsigned, Windows 8 will simply ignore it without giving you a notification. Rather bad programming but hey, it's windows. I think they're trying to keep people from saying windows gets viruses constantly or something
Anyways check to make sure the drivers are actually installed.
i didnt have a problem either on windows 8
Went without a hitch on my Windows 8 pc as well
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as soon as i flashed the first kernel is where mine bricked. I could not do anything on the phone period. Put it on my windows 7 machine, and it went flawlessly. I showed no driver conflicts either. I am not sure what the hell happened lol.
No problem here on Windows 8, in fact it worked even though my Windows 7 PC didn't.
I did mine last night Windows 8 works perfect.
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So had to reformat the computer. Long story short, my phone won't connect anymore to my pc. I've downloaded the windows drivers our samsung ones rather but windows won't let me install. Says it is not windows approved our something.
How can I install the drivers our get my computer to let me into my drive do I can flash nero4 lol. That is my problem
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Are you sure are installing the right version (32-bit or 64-bit)?
Windows 32 with service pack 3. Sorry to forget that part
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maybe a corrupted download??
You can try downloading them again
Here I got you the link:]
http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOBILES/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-USB-Driver-for-Windows-x86.shtml
Sweet thank you. Ill give it a shot when I get home. Will at least let you know if it worked. Damns welding job with no computer...
:'(
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Nerov3 with voodoo
I have to buy the downloads threw the program. dont think im going this route
i didnt have to purchase anything to DL?
Make sure you look carefully on what you click to DL, there is a lot of Random "CLICK TO DOWNLOAD" buttons.
my bad yeah i read your post and went back and looked sure enough i am putting the horse infront of the carrot. thank you both
I just recently went through this on 32bit Windows XP w/SP3 and the only way I could get the phone to be seen by the PC was to install Kies. Something about the drivers that Kies installs.... Once the phone was seen I was able to remove kies and the phone continues to be seen by the pc.... beats me.. but at least it works. May not be perfect, but it worked for me.
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'm trying to run CASUAL on my macbook; it starts up fine, begins to run, and puts my phone into Download mode, then hangs up. The phone never leaves Download mode (with the android logo, says "Downloading...do not turn off target!!"). I've tried both ports on my MB, tried using my OEM cable and my Nexus 7 cable, and I'm at a loss. Do I need to put my phone in ADB mode (voldown+home+power) first, THEN run CASUAL? I've updated Java, rebooted phone and mac, and made sure I'm running the latest mac-enable update for CASUAL.
Any help would be awesome!!
Just throwing a guess out there. Is your phone set to debugging mode? Needed.
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Just throwing a guess out there. Is your phone set to debugging mode? Needed.
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my thoughts also.
If it's getting to Download mode it has to be set to debugging, because it wouldn't get the adb commands to reboot otherwise. I had the same issue on my Kubuntu machine and never found a fix. I ended up doing on on a Win7 laptop instead (because my Win8 desktop was failing too).
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If it's getting to Download mode it has to be set to debugging, because it wouldn't get the adb commands to reboot otherwise. I had the same issue on my Kubuntu machine and never found a fix. I ended up doing on on a Win7 laptop instead (because my Win8 desktop was failing too).
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good info! i have only used windows 7 so never had that problem.
I am definitely in debugging mode. That was one of the first things I turned on when I got my phone. haha
I'm still getting the hangup. I think Adam said CASUAL for mac is working for some, but others are having the same problem as I am. I just figured I was the only one, since no one posted on the forum about it.
I honestly think there is some dependency somewhere that Heimdall needs that we're not getting...something that's on some machines and not on others, and probably something Adam isn't even aware of. I was using my Kubuntu Linux machine that is specifically built for Android development and it was stopping at exactly the same place as your Mac. It was seeing the device just fine, able to send adb commands to it all day long, but as soon as it went into Download mode, it could no longer communicate. If you figure out the issue, I'd love to know what it is. I didn't spend much time on it since I had alternatives.
Yea I'm just waiting to hear any word from Adam on a fix. He confirmed to me that it does work on some macs, and not on others. I, apparently, am in the "others" category. haha Wish I was lucky enough to have a Windows PC layin around. The only computer I have is my mac, and it's the only thing I have for work and personal, so if something goes screwy (like a VM or Bootcamp installation), I'm effed. lol
Guess I'll just have to wait till someone figures it out.
You're connected to the internet right?
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You're connected to the internet right?
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Yea I have impeccable wifi in my house.
Why?
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Yea I have impeccable wifi in my house.
Why?
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My phone is my Internet. So when I ran through with no connection I got hung at the same spot.
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My phone is my Internet. So when I ran through with no connection I got hung at the same spot.
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Ahhh gotcha. That makes sense.
I'm getting an error stating that protocol initialisation failed and my phone gets stuck in download mode. Even if I disconnect the USB cable, Casual still says "device connected".
Latest Java program Java 7 for Winblows. For Mac Idk.
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I'm sure you guys have checked this, but make sure you have the correct java. It will firebird the 32 bit by default and if you're on a 64 bit system it won't work.
I had this problem with apk multi tool. Was going crazy until it hit me. Felt like an idiot.
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Okay so I installed Windows 7 ultimate 32-bit in VirtualBox on my mac, got it up and running, got the latest Java update installed, installed CASUAL and got IT updated, now I can't get VB and Windows to recognize my phone. I've tried to install the latest drivers direct from the Samsung website, but they don't install (little popup in the taskbar tells me so...). At this point I'm ready to download Ubuntu and run that in VB. This whole thing reminded me why I hate Windows. hahaha
Any confirmation that CASUAL runs correctly in the latest Ubuntu build?
Plenty of people have gotten it to work. I didn't, but others have. I recommend a LiveCD instead of a VirtualBox. No weird VM issues that way.
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Was trying to jailbreak GN2 using Casual but my phone is stuck in the download mode and says,"do not turn off target" HELP!!!
Ok well I'm trying to get S off on my Rezound. But i see that the group that everyone tells you to use there stuff no longer supports Windows. i am on win 7 64 bit . Can anyone point me to another way to do it or am i screwed ?? and stuck with S on
Nothing has changed with the process, windows should work fine.. worst case, fire up linux on a live cd...
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It said the same thing when I did mine. And I am also on win 7 64 bit.
i don't know linux at all or how to have it on a live cd .. from what i have read the program no longer works on windows . they no longer have the windows download anymore ...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
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.