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Solved: Ubuntu Linux user needs assistance with CMW that won't see sd card..

Guys,
I recently purchased my phone from someone already rooted and with Rogue recovery 1.10 on it. Today I had to recover from a weird screen lock loop and nothing would get me out of it except loading a recovery rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272585&highlight=service+loop
After loading this rom, my recovery changed to clockwork and now won't recognize any of my sd cards. I can boot up the phone fine now at least though, but I would like to flash another Rom.
I have Root explorer installed so I can go that route. Heimdall will work on my pc but not the gui frontend.
So, I was wondering if anyone can help me or guide me to a link to show me how to flash a new recovery from linux, Root Explorer, or Heimdall?
Has anyone had an issue with clockworkmod not seeing their sd card? I can see it fine from any file explorer installed on the phone.
Thanks.

Man... you got that info from the bad old days when CWM didn't like your internal SD card. So, here's what you do:
EK02 just officially came out, and it's pretty stable so far. You want to use Heimdall to flash a kernel that has the latest CWM and EK02. I suggest the latest Rogue EK02. Download that, and unzip it somewhere. There's a file named zImage, which is your kernel. If you have heimdall installed:
Code:
heimdall flash --kernel zImage
That will not only install the latest EK02 kernel, but the latest CWM that works with your internal SD card. After that, I suggest flashing the EK02 modem.
From there, you should be fine doing whatever other MOD/ROM flashing you want from the internal SD card without without worrying about mismatches between the kernel and the modem. You can do the modem with heimdall too, but I figured it's easier just to use CWM, and the fastest path to CWM, is a kernel with it packed in.
Warning: They've remapped most of the softkeys in CWM. Select is the search button, back is the back button, moving to the next item is the menu button. I didn't check the home button.
Edit: I just noticed you didn't say 'internal' sdcard. Do this anyway. If the latest stuff can't see your SD cards, I'm not sure what else you can do.

Heimdall....
trifthen..
Thanks for your reply.. Yes, I have not been flashing for a long while but am getting bakc in the game. Good info you gave me.
There's more to my situation that I didn't mention. While trying to fix this issue I also found Heimdall. But I have been looking for a version that will work with Ubuntu Lucid (which is what I have installed) to no avail. Here is what I have found:
Heimdall:
v. 1.3: the Deb will not work at all w Lucid. Dependency problems.
v. 1.2: same thing as above.
v. 1.1: I found a PPA with the command line version which works, but the frontend to 1.1 does not work.
I contacted the dev and am waiting to hear back.
I imagine it will be a nightmare to do this via command line with Heimdall.
It seems when I find a tool to fix this, another obstacle stands in my way. Im not giving up though...
So, I might have to borrow a windows pc or re-install windows in this one....Or dual boot a version of Linux that works with heimdall. Which version of Ubuntu will work for sure with it?
What a pain.

killabee44 said:
Or dual boot a version of Linux that works with heimdall. Which version of Ubuntu will work for sure with it?
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I'm running Maverick, which itself is pretty old. I installed the 1.3.1 version just fine. Lucid? That's a good question.
I think it's time you upgrade, bucko.
Though, if you want to avoid Unity, you can just go to Maverick, or think about Mint. I'm going to be upgrading soon... there's a few tools I want to use that are too new for Maverick.

Yeah, there's a whole lot of candy in Oneiric Ocelot but Im hearing its pretty stable. You just have to get used to the interface. We'll see. I don't really like Unity too much but maybe a workaround can be found.
I like some of the features they implemented in Oneiric though.
I ended up installing 11.10 Oneiric in a VM. Im downloading the files needed now. Ill post back results.

Ok, I am getting an error from Heimdall:
"failed to detect compatible device"
My phone is in download mode and connected with a good cable. I have switched cables to no avail.
Another obstacle.. damn!
Im still researching this.

killabee44 said:
Yeah, there's a whole lot of candy in Oneiric Ocelot but Im hearing its pretty stable. You just have to get used to the interface. We'll see. I don't really like Unity too much but maybe a workaround can be found.
I like some of the features they implemented in Oneiric though.
I ended up installing 11.10 Oneiric in a VM. Im downloading the files needed now. Ill post back results.
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If you don't like unity, you can always install gnome 3
sent from my Epic 4g Touch

coldblooded79 said:
If you don't like unity, you can always install gnome 3
sent from my Epic 4g Touch
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Yea, but I thought that they finally did away with that ability..

I tried booting windows but was not able to install samsung kies for the drivers. I get all kinds of registration errors. Very flakey software...
So, the phone could not be detected in Windows because kies installs the drivers.
If anyone knows how to install those drivers manually, please let me know.
I decided to try heimdall again but this time via the command line. Same thing, can't detect the phone. Error is:
"Failed to detect compatible device"
The rom I had originally installed to get out of the device lock loop was:
Kernel: 2.635.7
Build: Gingerbread EG30
Baseband; S:0710-10.s.EG31
Could that have something to do with it?
Thanks..
Edit:
The only way I have been able to flash anything since the loop was to use this procedure:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272585&highlight=signal+loop
(the CWM restore procedure)
Are there any roms that you guys can recommend for me that I can flash in this way? Thanks.

Well I got it flashed. All of a sudden the version of CMW that wasnt working saw my sd card on one of the reboots. Go figure.
I just hope that there isn't anything wrong with my phone hardware wise...
Thanks for the replies and help. My nightmare is over.. for now lol.

killabee44 said:
Well I got it flashed. All of a sudden the version of CMW that wasnt working saw my sd card on one of the reboots. Go figure.
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Wow. Glad you got that sorted out.
I'm not entirely sure why you were having trouble with Heimdall, but it might have something to do with trying to use it from a VM. There may also be some setup steps you missed after installing it. I'm guessing there's a config file somewhere so it knows device configs or something. You probably want to get that working eventually in case of emergency.
In any case, you should be fine with CWM from now on.

killabee44 said:
Yea, but I thought that they finally did away with that ability..
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No. I use gnome 3 as my desktop.
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[Q] Semi(Soft)-Bricked Unflashable Epic - What to do now?

*First of all, let me say that this is a repost from here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1153310&page=27), and I apologize for that fact. I have been severely neglecting food and sleep trying to fix my phone, and I really, really didn't feel like typing the whole damned story up again. Any assistance or insight would be deeply appreciated...
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Well, I did it this time I think. I've hacked, modded, wiped, and flashed my phone since I got it last year, and although I've gotten to places where I thought I had totally fuxored things up beyond recovery, every single time in the past I've been able to bring it back from the brink of oblivion. I am exceedingly resourceful and tenacious, which can be both a good and bad thing. Good thing when I am able to fix things that seem unfixable. Bad when I forget about things like eating or sleeping.
Here's the present situation: 4 days ago I was trying to flash a new modem (FB15)(something I know well how to do as I've done it many, many times before) through Odin, when it stalled out near the beginning of the process. This is not unusual with Odin, so I've gotten into the habit of closing it, pulling the battery, and starting again. This time, however, no matter what I've tried, I cannot get Odin to successfully flash. It fails every single time. Either that or it stalls yet again.
At the moment I can only get into 2 modes on my phone: download mode (which can't actually download anything apparently) and the very unpleasant computer--!--phone screen when I try to boot it up or go into recovery. This is the longest my phone has been unusable. I've been intensely focused on fixing it since it was semi-bricked. The ridiculously frustrating and annoying thing is that the computer I'm using (and I've used multiple to try to fix this across Windows, Linux, and Mac) usually says "USB device not recognized" when I plug my phone in while in download mode, no matter the state of the drivers, and when it does recognize it and it is visible in Odin, it means nothing because Odin fails no matter what file I'm trying to flash. When the computer and Odin DO recognize the phone, and when Odin doesn't hang, very occasionally it will give me some odd error message like "PIT mapping not found" or "cannot open COM port". I've tried so many of the things I've tried in the past that have worked: changing USB ports, rebooting the computer between attempts, uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, going into download mode with the SD-card and battery out and in, loading Odin after or before putting the phone into download mode, trying on different computers with different versions of Windows (I even tried one Mac with iOS 10.4 and a Linux notebook with Ubuntu), trying different USB cables, flashing with the battery and SD card out, trying to flash different files (besides the original modem.bin which stalled), running Odin as administrator, yadda, yadda, yadda...on and on, for days. I even just went out and bought a high-performance, super-short USB cable (6-inches) and a USB 3.0 PCI card so I'd have dedicated USB. Nada.
Basically my phone seems to have a broken download mode with potentially wonky USB (Samsung USB has never been good). I've been seeing if I can get Heimdall to work, though there is a bit of a learning curve with that program, no matter how easy people say it is. I've never even tried flashing it with it yet since I haven't gotten together all of the apparently necessary files. I also just found One-Click Unbrick, and while I was excited originally, it seems that the same outcome is the result. No matter what I do to get everything just right to be able to succeed, it fails. Java is installed, Heimdall is apparently installed, and the One-Click Unbrick drivers have been installed every time I've tried to run it. Nada again.
If my phone is able to get into download mode, yet that seems to be borked, what is my recourse? I'm at the end of my rope...*sinks into a depressed lump on the floor*.
ANY assistance would be immensely appreciated. Thank you all in advance. I'm not incredibly hopeful at this point, but I am (fortunately or unfortunately) still tenacious as hell. :-/
Setup:
Phone: Samsung Epic 4g
ROM: SleeperROM 2.0.04 EL30/MTD (Gingerbread 2.3.6)
Kernel: The last available Samurai kernel
Recovery: ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.7
Filemap/Filesystem: MTD/Yaffs2
Present Computer: Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit/AMD desktop
Modes available on phone: download and computer--!--phone screens
Issue: cannot flash anything in download mode via Odin on present computer

Wow im glad i didnt have to go through this i was trying to flash the fb15 modem recently as well and it wouldnt go through all i did was go and find the el30modem tar and flashed that and i was all good again. ... youve tried literally every suggestion i was going to say. other than try flashing the el30modem.tar? I know for sure its good its in android development if you can get odin to COM im sure it will work...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1501424
add me on gtalk
crystylizd[email protected] and ill see if i cant help you out.

Big Goron said:
Wow im glad i didnt have to go through this i was trying to flash the fb15 modem recently as well and it wouldnt go through all i did was go and find the el30modem tar and flashed that and i was all good again. ... youve tried literally every suggestion i was going to say. other than try flashing the el30modem.tar? I know for sure its good its in android development if you can get odin to COM im sure it will work...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1501424
add me on gtalk
[email protected] and ill see if i cant help you out.
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I thank you much for your suggestion. I've tried flashing the EC05 modem tar and both the tar.md5 and the straight tar file of the stock EL ROM, though surprisingly I haven't tried the straight EL30 modem tar yet. I'll try when I get home. The main problem is not getting Odin to COM, but getting it to flash anything. It either stalls, fails, or doesn't see the phone...download mode seems to be basically useless.

homam_france said:
@+Que ppc really your BA downgrade and upgrade is long story,did u finish it?i hope the answer is yes,about the hexaguns we cannot return back to it,but i can make modification to the new components of the new build,capish
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If you get it to recognize still then Odin with the battery and sd card out.
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kennyglass123 said:
If you get it to recognize still then Odin with the battery and sd card out.
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I usually flash in Odin with the battery and SD card out. No go.

tydynrain said:
I usually flash in Odin with the battery and SD card out. No go.
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It is possible you have some crap in your phone's port. Or even the new cable is flaky. Get a bright light and magnifying glass and look in your phone's port. Also try fresh downloads of the files.
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kennyglass123 said:
It is possible you have some crap in your phone's port. Or even the new cable is flaky. Get a bright light and magnifying glass and look in your phone's port. Also try fresh downloads of the files.
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I'l check the USB/charging port when I get home from work. Most of the files I've used, including the various versions of Odin, came from my synched Dropbox folder. I'm wondering now if Dropbox synches files accurately. I'll try redownloading every file I use to flash to see if it has a beneficial effect. Thanks for the suggestion.

hope this helps
tydynrain said:
I'l check the USB/charging port when I get home from work. Most of the files I've used, including the various versions of Odin, came from my synched Dropbox folder. I'm wondering now if Dropbox synches files accurately. I'll try redownloading every file I use to flash to see if it has a beneficial effect. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Let me find you some reliable files
Odin 1.85
Stock El30
Windows 32 bit and 64bit drivers
This should be enough to get you on your way. Oh and if you can at all possible reinstall windows prior to loading these drivers. i know someone who had to do it before their computer would recognize their phone. I've been in this kind of situation i had someone root my phone and is computer was fubar'd and it took him 3 days to unbrick my phone. This is what helped him he kept recieving unknown device. This is what helped is what helped him id advice the same. Once you have windows reinstalled download the three things and install the drivers and give it a shot.

Big Goron said:
Let me find you some reliable files
Odin 1.85
Stock El30
Windows 32 bit and 64bit drivers
This should be enough to get you on your way. Oh and if you can at all possible reinstall windows prior to loading these drivers. i know someone who had to do it before their computer would recognize their phone. I've been in this kind of situation i had someone root my phone and is computer was fubar'd and it took him 3 days to unbrick my phone. This is what helped him he kept recieving unknown device. This is what helped is what helped him id advice the same. Once you have windows reinstalled download the three things and install the drivers and give it a shot.
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Thank you so much for the time. I'll see about reinstalling Windows, though since it's not my computer I'm not too sure how that will go...hehe. I may be able to restore from the backup partition if he doesn't have a CD.

well you can do it over a virtual machine but unsure how to do this and if this will work entirely it might it might not im not too fluent with virtual machines.. but it simulates a working computer so id imagine you can install drivers and see if it will then recognize your phone.

Big Goron said:
well you can do it over a virtual machine but unsure how to do this and if this will work entirely it might it might not im not too fluent with virtual machines.. but it simulates a working computer so id imagine you can install drivers and see if it will then recognize your phone.
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So interesting that you mention running a virtual machine, as since I can't reinstall Windows Vista on this system, I was considering partitioning the hard drive and installing a version of Linux, then running WINE under that.

Lol try that... or windows i think windows might be your best bet...
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Whoa whoa, tdy...queston. have u manually installed ur driers directly from samsung website?
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Kies drivers worked for me
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I FIXED IT! My phone which has been dead for 5 days lives again! Resurrected!
I thank you all for your time and assistance. It was very deeply appreciated.
I fixed it by circumventing Winblows entirely. I created a second partition on my friend's hard drive, installed Ubuntu Linux 11.10, then went through the pretty simple process of setting up Android SDK/ADB and Heimdall, and all of the dependencies that they required. The ridiculous thing is that I fixed it without even trying. I was simply seeing if Heimdall could detect my phone (which I had connected and in DL mode), which I noticed that it did. I had no idea what Download PIT did, so I pressed it, and lo and behold, it did something amazing, and rebooted my phone. I am elated, exhausted, triumphant!
WHOOT!!!
I kNEW I would figure it out. I always do...lol.
In messing up my phone so many times, I have gotten VERY good at fixing whatever nonsense happens to arise.
Thanks again all.
Tydyn.
EDIT: I meant PRINT PIT, not Download PIT. ;-)

YAY!
tydynrain said:
I FIXED IT! My phone which has been dead for 5 days lives again! Resurrected!
I thank you all for your time and assistance. It was very deeply appreciated.
I fixed it by circumventing Winblows entirely. I created a second partition on my friend's hard drive, installed Ubuntu Linux 11.10, then went through the pretty simple process of setting up Android SDK/ADB and Heimdall, and all of the dependencies that they required. The ridiculous thing is that I fixed it without even trying. I was simply seeing if Heimdall could detect my phone (which I had connected and in DL mode), which I noticed that it did. I had no idea what Download PIT did, so I pressed it, and lo and behold, it did something amazing, and rebooted my phone. I am elated, exhausted, triumphant!
WHOOT!!!
I kNEW I would figure it out. I always do...lol.
In messing up my phone so many times, I have gotten VERY good at fixing whatever nonsense happens to arise.
Thanks again all.
Tydyn.
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CONGRATS im happy you got your phone back i know how you feel finally getting your phone back i went through the same deal cept it was with someone else. Oh and im jealous you have 11.10 working i couldnt get it working right with my laptop gpu drivers.. fail. anyways glad you got it

Big Goron said:
CONGRATS im happy you got your phone back i know how you feel finally getting your phone back i went through the same deal cept it was with someone else. Oh and im jealous you have 11.10 working i couldnt get it working right with my laptop gpu drivers.. fail. anyways glad you got it
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Thank you brother! I am practically jumping around the house singing...lol. Ubuntu 11.10 is freaking gorgeous! It is the most amazing operating system I have ever used. I am in love!

tydynrain said:
Thank you brother! I am practically jumping around the house singing...lol. Ubuntu 11.10 is freaking gorgeous! It is the most amazing operating system I have ever used. I am in love!
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Yeah i love it as well im sadly stuck with 10.04 which isnt bad but i like the newest ones UI its just so much more appealing than 10.04 but 11.10 doesnt like my GPU and is incompatible i do know a work around but have already got settled in 10.04

Big Goron said:
Yeah i love it as well im sadly stuck with 10.04 which isnt bad but i like the newest ones UI its just so much more appealing than 10.04 but 11.10 doesnt like my GPU and is incompatible i do know a work around but have already got settled in 10.04
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My housemate is running 10.04, so I'm familiar with how it looks. If it makes ya feel any better 11.10 doesn't like my new usb wireless network adapter (Netgear N900 Dual Band), which is MUCH better than the one to which I had to revert to get internet access, though I'm hoping that I can get it working somehow soon.

tydynrain said:
My housemate is running 10.04, so I'm familiar with how it looks. If it makes ya feel any better 11.10 doesn't like my new usb wireless network adapter (Netgear N900 Dual Band), which is MUCH better than the one to which I had to revert to get internet access, though I'm hoping that I can get it working somehow soon.
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I had alot of trouble even getting internet to comply... i finally got it to speed up using wifi and even that was a pain in the arse luckily other people had my same issue and had a resolution for it. I know you have to have the drivers for said wireless adapter installed for it to work correctly otherwise its not going to work

Using Heimdall with Mac to flash stock roms

Okay i feel ultra stupid for asking but..
I have my S3 softbricked and I have downloaded the latest Heimdall and Downloaded a firmware from the samsungupdates website
now I have NO idea what to do. Heimdall frontend only gives options to flash pit and then when i try the package thing, it says Firmware.xml is missing. I only have access to a very crappy iMac right now (512 mb of ram lol) and I need my phone up and running ASAP
Thanks in advance

ProjectA1xx said:
Okay i feel ultra stupid for asking but..
I have my S3 softbricked and I have downloaded the latest Heimdall and Downloaded a firmware from the samsungupdates website
now I have NO idea what to do. Heimdall frontend only gives options to flash pit and then when i try the package thing, it says Firmware.xml is missing. I only have access to a very crappy iMac right now (512 mb of ram lol) and I need my phone up and running ASAP
Thanks in advance
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If you haven't already worked it out, please read the README. It answers all your questions.

"Failed to confirm end of PIT file transfer" message
Hi everyone,
I wanted to upgrade my Samsung Galaxy S I9000 to Android 4 (as some apps I'd like to use require this) so I did some research as I know that flashing devices can be a dangerous operation.
I'm a MAC (Snow Leopard) and Linux (Ubuntu) user so Odin was not an option for me. I read a great deal of nice things about Heimdall so I decided to try it to flash the ROM and install Jelly Bean.
I first made a backup of my phone.
I then downloaded the program (v.1.31), the xxjvu_heimdall.tar.gz package and opened it in Heimdall (after ungzing it of course).
Everything seemed to be okay (all fields filled as I read they had to) so I switched my phone off, started it on upload mode, connected it to my computer and pressed the "Start" button.
A few seconds later I had this message : "ERROR: Failed to confirm end of PIT file transfer".
As nothing happened in the next few minutes, I disconnected the phone, removed the battery and tried to start the phone.
Nothing.
I then tried to start it in upload mode and it worked (so I believe my phone is "soft bricked").
I've been trying different things along the past 5 or 6 hours : installing v.1.32 of Heimdall, trying to upload only the PIT and BOOT files. But nothing seems to work, I always get the same message.
I read that it could be a problem with Heimdall and my OS X distribution (Snow Leopard). But nowhere did I find a thread where people had been able to deal with this specific situation successfully.
I would be very grateful if someone could give me a hint. I only have access to my Mac for now and won't be able to try it on Ubuntu for a few days...
Thanks in advance,
Gael

You will get better help in the i9000 forums. Cheers

xBeerdroiDx said:
You will get better help in the i9000 forums. Cheers
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That's true, thanks.
I'll post there and tell the good news... As I just managed to falsh my I9000 using Heimdall v.1.30. Everything went smoothly. So in case someone with the same issue lands on this thread : try the 1.30 if you have problems with the other versions on OS X !

Odin for Mac OSX?

Hi.
I'm reading this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2189539
which is very useful, trying to flash a stock ROM using Odin. My GT-N7100 is bricked, possibly with SDS. I'm on Mac OSX 10.8.4 and as far as i have read i need to download Odin 3.0.7 to my Mac (do they have a .dmg of this?). Samsung USB drivers to my Mac and the stock firmware from Sammobile.
The problem it is that everything is made for Windows. I'm seeing Samsung drivers in only Windows enviroment.
How can i flash using Odin on Mac OS X. Any links?
Thanks.
Another pal with SDS.

Hello there, Unfortunately I'm in the same boat as you. I'm on a Mac primarily but do have a windows desktop I can turn to when I come across windows only solutions as we have here. You can install a windows os using bootcamp or virtually through something like virtualbox on the Mac. For me though the windows route isn't getting anywhere. I don't think you have a full SDS situation where your phone is a complete brick like mine though. From your posts it sounds like you can at least get into download mode correct? If so you should be able to download the original 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 firmware for the Note II and flash via Odin. I wish I could at least try this step but as it is my phone is completely dead and won't boot at all. I'm trying to figure out how to submit a support request in the US right now which is proving very unsuccessful so far since we have the Galaxy Note International version (GT-N7100) which Samsung USA does not support in any way. I'm taking my phone to a local cell phone/tablet repair shop tomorrow to see if they can get anything accomplished. Good luck in your quest!

I have done more reading and have downloaded Heimdal 1.4- as well some random country GT-N7100 stock sammobile build .tar file (June- 4.1.2)
Please i need some incredibly generous person that might have an idea how i can flash a custom rom using Hemdal 1.4. My phone doesn't boot. I only have access to the "download mode". (No- recovery mode). I'm almost sure i have SDS (Sudden Death Syndrome) and i'm using OSX and my only choice is to try to flash the Note II with Heimdral.

Check if this helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1240136
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265

i am also a macbook user, and using note 2.
i installed also windows 7 on my macbook and choosing windows partition if i need to do something to my phone.
easiest way for me. its better to install windows too...

Thanks guys, i am going to try and get a windows computer tomorrow for a more straight forward process.

mvtm said:
Thanks guys, i am going to try and get a windows computer tomorrow for a more straight forward process.
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kinda late reply but you could use mobile odin to unroot.

Did anybody tested Heimdall ?
You can find it in mac softpedia, and it's an Odin equivalent..

elmanu13 said:
Did anybody tested Heimdall ?
You can find it in mac softpedia, and it's an Odin equivalent..
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I confirm that working, heimdall 1.4, gt-i9505 and 10.8.4, flashed cache and recovery successfully... first ofcourse downloaded .pit. Two times gave some errors, third time success.

zabenoid said:
I confirm that working, heimdall 1.4, gt-i9505 and 10.8.4, flashed cache and recovery successfully... first ofcourse downloaded .pit. Two times gave some errors, third time success.
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Something went really ****ed when I tried to flash CM 10 on to my GS4 using Heimdall front end (1.4). Took it back to the store and they said they had never seen one fully "bricked like that"...
What steps did you follow if you dont mind? Explain like I'm 5 - they won't replace another phone for me haha

sybau said:
Something went really ****ed when I tried to flash CM 10 on to my GS4 using Heimdall front end (1.4). Took it back to the store and they said they had never seen one fully "bricked like that"...
What steps did you follow if you dont mind? Explain like I'm 5 - they won't replace another phone for me haha
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You don't use heimdall to flash cyanogenmod. You use it to flash the recovery, then you root from the recovery and then you flash cyanogenmod from the recovery.

djpimpbot said:
kinda late reply but you could use mobile odin to unroot.
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Not if you are running Android 4.3

alternative for mac osx
You can download kies as alternative for maintaing samsung devices
do a google search for kies mac

For anyone still wondering about this. Get VMWare Fusion pro, install windows(I have windows 7 basic), then install odin(any version, i tested all of them), then flash that way.
And my specs are Macbook pro late 2011 2.4ghz quadcore running mavericks. Ive had no problems flashing whatsoever. Windows loads very quickly too
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mr_villagomez said:
For anyone still wondering about this. Get VMWare Fusion pro, install windows(I have windows 7 basic), then install odin(any version, i tested all of them), then flash that way.
And my specs are Macbook pro late 2011 2.4ghz quadcore running mavericks. Ive had no problems flashing whatsoever. Windows loads very quickly too
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Any hiccups? And how you had VMWare set up?

DMCrimson78 said:
Any hiccups? And how you had VMWare set up?
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No hiccups, i just installed everything recommended. No special anything. And run odin as administrator. I probably flashed over 70 times already with 0 hiccups.
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Http://jodin3.casual-dev.com is Odin for Mac. Because of limitations to Heimdall, I don't recommend flashing large files though. Its awesome for CF-Auto-Root and TWRP though.

i need Odin for mac
How to restore Firmware stock for Galaxy Note 4 N901K?

AdamOutler said:
Because of limitations to Heimdall, I don't recommend flashing large files though. Its awesome for CF-Auto-Root and TWRP though.
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Thanks for jodin3.
Using this to flash Lollipop (1.5 GB) will then not work using my Mac?

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kflanegan said:
Hello there, Unfortunately I'm in the same boat as you. I'm on a Mac primarily but do have a windows desktop I can turn to when I come across windows only solutions as we have here. You can install a windows os using bootcamp or virtually through something like virtualbox on the Mac. For me though the windows route isn't getting anywhere. I don't think you have a full SDS situation where your phone is a complete brick like mine though. From your posts it sounds like you can at least get into download mode correct? If so you should be able to download the original 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 firmware for the Note II and flash via Odin. I wish I could at least try this step but as it is my phone is completely dead and won't boot at all. I'm trying to figure out how to submit a support request in the US right now which is proving very unsuccessful so far since we have the Galaxy Note International version (GT-N7100) which Samsung USA does not support in any way. I'm taking my phone to a local cell phone/tablet repair shop tomorrow to see if they can get anything accomplished. Good luck in your quest!
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hey can you still get where you can factory reset. because i bricked my phone trying to root it, and all i did is flashed the the stock firmware on it and it worked it again.

[Q] Odin Alternative: Heimdall

hey guys/gals, I was wondering if anyone in the Note 3 world has used Heimdall (open source alternative to Odin) to sucessfully root their device. The reason I ask because I do not have access to a Windows machine and was wondering if this tool will work. I wanted to know before hand before I have to create a Windows environment. Thanks guys.

It's my understanding that it needs to be updated to work with the note3. Until that's been done it won't work and I don't know how soon that will be as most now use Odin.
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chstewart said:
It's my understanding that it needs to be updated to work with the note3. Until that's been done it won't work and I don't know how soon that will be as most now use Odin.
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Actually this isn't strictly true.
I think technically Heimdall does't support the Note 3, however I and at least one other person on the forums have used it successfully under Mac OS. In my case, something went wrong in Odin while I was applying RDLV to my device and I ended up with a partial flash. After trying a bunch of troubleshooting with Odin to no avail, I decided to give Heimdall a shot. Fired it up through the GUI, hit "read PIT", and got a reasonable partition map on screen. A bit of experimentation later, I had my phone back up and rooted!
One thing I found, which may have been an issue with the partial flash but may not have, is that the "resume" mode didn't seem to work completely. At least most of the time, any command that wasn't the first one after a fresh boot into download mode would fail. I haven't yet used it since then, so I don't know if this is still an issue with a completely consistent system on the phone. To be safe, I recommend rebooting into download mode before each Heimdall command - that means boot into download -> download PIT into file -> shut down (hold power button for ~10s) and boot back into download -> flash (or whatever).
[Having just started Heimdall to check version, it's slightly possible that I didn't have "resume mode" checked under the "advanced" menu]
This was done using Heimdall 1.40, which was current release as of a month or so ago.
Hope this helps! Good luck with Heimdall - in my experience, it's much more functional / stable than Odin!

fcmugen said:
hey guys/gals, I was wondering if anyone in the Note 3 world has used Heimdall (open source alternative to Odin) to sucessfully root their device. The reason I ask because I do not have access to a Windows machine and was wondering if this tool will work. I wanted to know before hand before I have to create a Windows environment. Thanks guys.
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I wrote a post about this a while ago:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2475262