Can you load the captivate rom into the android SDK? I found one thread with someone working on this a while back that has not been updated.... I know the biggest issue would be switching drivers etc to support the virtual machine. Perhaps the easier way would be for someone to pull all of the applications off their phone and load them into the VM as one collective file; if anyone has done this let me know thanks
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Hi, i bought a motorola milestone from ebay and was working fine so i decided to upgrade to android 2.1. now the touch panel on the phone does not work and cant find any information on how to fix this. i am getting very annoyed to the point where the phone will come in contact with the wall very hard. if anyone can please help me try and fix my amazing phone then you can contact me on here or at carter_noel at hotmail dot com. thanks guys
First, make sure you applied the right firmware update for your phone...there's several versions floating around depending on what market you live in and putting the wrong one on your phone can create issues (but usually just connection issues, not screen issues).
Did you do an Over The Air update or USB? It's possible that even if you used the right firmware, that the update wasn't applied properly, and that can cause all kinds of problems.
You can always manually re-flash it with RSD Lite via USB. Keep in mind that will wipe the phone just like a factory reset.
Very clear instructions and download links for all version of the Milestone here: http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-milestone/75460-milestone-2-1-update-root-guide.html
It's a better guide than the one here on XDA.
thank-you for replying to my problem. could it also be to do with the version of windows im using as it windows 7 64 bit but need to reinstall as loads of problems with various things including .net framework (which might be the problem?). which operating system do you or anyone reccomend to use?
Hello all.
First of all, before people shooting at me and saying "please search", I come from many Google and xda search with "MacOs, download mode, failure vm, virtual machine, odin , kies" in every combination you can imagine and no result.
So, the problem is the following one:
I remarked, with some friends from a french forum that we all succeed to use KIES in a virtual machine and connect the phone:
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That work like a charm.
Then w wanted to flash, then reboot the phone in Download mode ( yellow android at work ) and then there is a big crash telling us that the device is not recognized:
"unable to connect USB device to virtual machine"
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I would really be pleased to have more info on this issue and if we are only a little group to have this issue.
For info, I am using MacOS Snow Leopard and the trial of parallels desktops 6.
It doesn't work with VMware Fusion either. Must be something to do with the USB interface on Samsung.. I've heard some people have it going on Virtualbox running on Linux - but not Mac.
Works fine on VirtualBox on Ubuntu.
Why don't you give Heimdall a go? Haven't tried it personally, but OS X is in the list of supported OSes
Maybe I found the explanation , thanks to ed link:
Although Heimdall runs on OS X all Galaxy S phones tested thus far contain a bug in the secondary boot loader that prevents the phone registering itself with OS X. This may change if Samsung release an updated secondary boot loader.
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Maybe there is the same problem.
Does the secondary boot loader has a link with download mode? If yes, that might be the problem!
profete162 said:
Maybe I found the explanation , thanks to ed link:
Maybe there is the same problem.
Does the secondary boot loader has a link with download mode? If yes, that might be the problem!
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Saw that today too.. .pretty sure its the issue since it affects all parallels, fusion and virtualbox on Mac OSX.
profete162 said:
Maybe I found the explanation , thanks to ed link:
Maybe there is the same problem.
Does the secondary boot loader has a link with download mode? If yes, that might be the problem!
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Yes, download mode functionality is provided by the secondary boot loader. If you really desperately want to get it working with OS X then you would need to download the source for, modify and install a custom IOUSBFamily.kext that contains a work-around specifically for the Galaxy S.
The only options for we Mac users right now are to find a Windows machine, install boot camp on your Mac (then point your vmware machine to it to save duplicate Windows wasted space), or possibly find a way to boot from an external drive with Windows (like a thumbdrive or livecd if possible).
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The only options for we Mac users right now are to find a Windows machine, install boot camp on your Mac (then point your vmware machine to it to save duplicate Windows wasted space)
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Exactly what i have done. And I HATE it :|
I had this same problem, and I just saw this thread after spending hours last night trying to figure out why XP in Parallels stopped recognizing the phone as soon as it went into download mode. So irritating!
it works for me on VMware 7 + WinXP SP3
because my Win7 64bit PC is crazy it won't recognize the phone randomly, twice it bricked my phone doing the Flash on the Host PC
so after setting up my ROM FLASH VMware machine, now i no longer have problem
stupid windows, no time to mess with the system registry to figure out what is the madness with the USB detection
i'm pretty sure you should have no problem as well if you use VMware 6.5
I posted this in the Heimdall thread but thought I should let followers of this thread know also.
I sent Samsung the OS X USB failure log and since then Samsung have informed me that the Froyo update (specifically the Nordic version released October 15) includes a fixed bootloader which should allow the phone to be recognised in OS X. I'm yet to verify this but hopefully this is the case!
Heya, Im kinda New to the Whole android thing but I got my Samsung Galaxy S at Xmas, and recently figured out it needs an update to be on the android platform 2.2 or somthing im not totally sure, im on 2.1 at the moment and a guy who worked for samsung said I needed to update using its inbuilt 'Kies' setting,
However when trying to use it it never works -_- and he also said if that didnt work use this website its ment to tell you everything. But im not totally sure what im looking for, and found lots of sites with this and that but im rather confused about the whole thing and need a little help Is there a simple way to update my phone?
So any one willing to help the newbie hehe??
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Heya, Im kinda New to the Whole android thing but I got my Samsung Galaxy S at Xmas, and recently figured out it needs an update to be on the android platform 2.2 or somthing im not totally sure, im on 2.1 at the moment and a guy who worked for samsung said I needed to update using its inbuilt 'Kies' setting,
However when trying to use it it never works -_- and he also said if that didnt work use this website its ment to tell you everything. But im not totally sure what im looking for, and found lots of sites with this and that but im rather confused about the whole thing and need a little help Is there a simple way to update my phone?
So any one willing to help the newbie hehe??
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Hi and welcome,
Since you don't Look familiar with flashing, the best/secure way to update your device is Kies.
First you have to do is to make kies working properly. To do so uninstall your previous version and reboot your PC.
Then download the last Kies directly from samsung website, install it (follow all usual screen tips). Open Kies, click on tools > drivers install, wait till it's finish, reboot on more time.
When the PC up again, Launch kies, plug your SGS USB cable, kies should detect your device and provide you an update, just follow the howto on screen.
Be sure:
- nothing more than kies running during the process.
- Use the Samsung stock USB cable!.
pippa and piggy said:
Heya, Im kinda New to the Whole android thing but I got my Samsung Galaxy S at Xmas, and recently figured out it needs an update to be on the android platform 2.2 or somthing im not totally sure, im on 2.1 at the moment and a guy who worked for samsung said I needed to update using its inbuilt 'Kies' setting,
However when trying to use it it never works -_- and he also said if that didnt work use this website its ment to tell you everything. But im not totally sure what im looking for, and found lots of sites with this and that but im rather confused about the whole thing and need a little help Is there a simple way to update my phone?
So any one willing to help the newbie hehe??
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I recomend you to read this link over and over again so you rly understand the risk of flashing. And then think if you want to do it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723596
If your on Windows 64 bit your going to need the 64bit drivers or else Kies won't recognize your phone. for windows 7, it automatically does this for you(atleast it did for me). Once you've done that, the rest is just through kies.
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If your on Windows 64 bit your going to need the 64bit drivers or else Kies won't recognize your phone. for windows 7, it automatically does this for you(atleast it did for me). Once you've done that, the rest is just through kies.
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Kies choose the driver properly and alone during the install, 64 or 32bit. So he have nothing more to do.
ok, so here's the thing... i been up allll night followed like 20 different guides and im at the point where im going to break every electronic device in the house!! lol im trying to build a froyo rom from source! and many people have helped in the proccess lol but i cant seem to figure out how to get java5 and sdk on my friggin ubuntu... i have it installed as the main OS, it not on a vm!!! can somebody pleeeeeease help me get this working?? everytime i try i keep getting errors saying things dont exist and many other errors.... how the heck do i get java5 and sdk on ubuntu 10.10 64-bit? please somebody help!!!
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ok, so here's the thing... i been up allll night followed like 20 different guides and im at the point where im going to break every electronic device in the house!! lol im trying to build a froyo rom from source! and many people have helped in the proccess lol but i cant seem to figure out how to get java5 and sdk on my friggin ubuntu... i have it installed as the main OS, it not on a vm!!! can somebody pleeeeeease help me get this working?? everytime i try i keep getting errors saying things dont exist and many other errors.... how the heck do i get java5 and sdk on ubuntu 10.10 64-bit? please somebody help!!!
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Google shows: http://tech.ruimaninfo.com/?p=43
(after a link back to this post)
I use debian not ubuntu but the idea is install the java5 package from the older version (keeping your java6 package) then use the alternatives command to switch between them.
If you primarily use java6 and don't want to be constantly switching the alternatives you can always in part of your build setup (just before running '. build/envsetup' add the java6 bin directory to the beginning of your path. (That or take a moment to allow java6 to work with froyo.. I'm not sure exactly what needs to happen but it ought not be that bad [edit: seems the same person has some instructions for java6: http://tech.ruimaninfo.com/?p=49 ])
i posted the steps to install it for ubuntu 11.04 @ grp already if u havent seen it
http://greenromproject.com/showthread.php?294-java-jre-jdk-1.5-on-ubuntu-11.04&p=2538#post2538
i finally fixed the issue, thanks though guys i really appreciate the quick replies
Hi, I think this is my first post here at xda although I have read a ton. Anyways, I am a Motorola Triumph user and was wanting someone with one of our phone's brothers to do an entire backup of their internal memory for me..
You would have to be running Linux, put your phone in download mode, then connect to a Linux PC via USB and run the following command:
dd if=/dev/sdX of=some-filename.img
replace the X in /dev/sdX with the device your phone is connected as (see dmesg), the some-filename.img can be whatever filename you want to make it. I'd prefer name-of-rom-installed-phone-model.img to make things easier on me, but it really doesn't matter.
I would like the rom installed to be an ICS rom with camera working. I think would be paranoidandroid, icecoldsandwich, and I think you guys have a few others I can't think of off the top of my head.
What I'm hoping to do is take your device img you give me, rip it apart, toss it on my Triumph, edit out all your GSM files and try to work in our CDMA files and see if I can get a working system using your rom/kernel on our CDMA phones.
Thank you to anyone willing to help me! If anyone needs a place to upload their device's backup image to let me know and I can have you toss it on my ftp server or something. Thanks!