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i use linux on my home pc and i have not seen a thread or qestion answered about flashing odin from linux so i tried it myself, forgive me if it has been covered before.
i was able to successfully flash with odin using windeows running inside a vm. my vm software is sun virtual box.
before you do this read the instructions for running odin in widows as i dont go into odin specific detail here.
1. created virtual machine.
2. installed windows XP sp2 on virtual machine
3. installed the newwest version of .net framework(i read that helps but it may have been in reference to kies)
4. dowloaded odin and the proper windows drivers and .pit file and jh2
5. shut down the virtual machine
6. put phone into download mode
7. plugged phone into usb port
8. went into virtual box without the VM running and select
machine>settings>usb
9. clicked the add device icon on the right and clicked on samsung_android[0400]
10. started virtual machine
11. started odin and added the proper .pit file and .tar file
12. pulled batery from phone and put into download mode again and connected the usb and selected devices from the top of the window, selected "samsung_android [0400]"
at this point odin should see the device. if not you may need to reselect the phone in the vm window, do this quickly as there seems to be a time window to start the conection.
simply click start!
this may work in vmware and other vm type software for mac and linux as long as you can mount usb devices to the vm as soon as they are hooked up. if it can be done by com port and not device that may be even better.
i have only done this with virtual box 3.2 running widows XP inside mint 9
if it fails i am not responsible for damage to your device. and in the event it doesn't work go find a friend with windows and run it the proper way! windows machines aren't hard to find!
this worked for my iphone with itunes but was trickier as the driver changes halfway through and that is why i thought this would work.
wine does not work, i have not been able to use wine with software for any device that need drivers when running in widows. so please dont ask!
Not running Linux except for my G1 theme dev,but thanks for the info.
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I can verify VirtualBox works great for this. Qemu didn't, afaict none of the host USB access options work as documented.
Vmware also works perfectly.
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Wouldn't Wine work as well? I haven't tried yet from Wine, but I might now that I read this.
I can never get the USB to attach using VBox, everytime I try to attach the device to my client, I get an error message.
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Wouldn't Wine work as well? I haven't tried yet from Wine, but I might now that I read this.
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wine will not work. it doesn't support USB plugging
Wine is a set of libraries and a loader providing a windows-compatible environment for applications, so in general windows drivers do not work with it. There are patches for USB driver support, but installing drivers is a tedious manual task and results are not consistently very good. VBox is known to work and is fairly easy to set up.
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Wine is a set of libraries and a loader providing a windows-compatible environment for applications, so in general windows drivers do not work with it. There are patches for USB driver support, but installing drivers is a tedious manual task and results are not consistently very good. VBox is known to work and is fairly easy to set up.
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Yeah, I figured that out after I posted - I was like wait, there's drivers that need to be installed. Oops.
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Wine is a set of libraries and a loader providing a windows-compatible environment for applications, so in general windows drivers do not work with it. There are patches for USB driver support, but installing drivers is a tedious manual task and results are not consistently very good. VBox is known to work and is fairly easy to set up.
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Couldn't have said it better, I have tried wine with lots of software but never got the usb end of things to work. Odin does open under wine but I have no idea how to tell it to see the phone as it would see a windows driver that sees the phone.if that makes sense.
There are things I can try but if feel I'd be wasting my time as I don't know enough to be sure I'm on the right path.
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I can never get the USB to attach using VBox, everytime I try to attach the device to my client, I get an error message.
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I'm not sure if I'm on the right track here. To use usb you need to add the device to a list of mountable devices to the vm. With the virtual machine off go settings> devices> usb. The phone should be hooked up and in download mode to ensure that it is seen to the vm exactly as it will be during the odin flash. Once it is on the list it should work. If this is what you are doing I'm not sure I can help, maybe the devs will have more insight.
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I'm not sure if I'm on the right track here. To use usb you need to add the device to a list of mountable devices to the vm. With the virtual machine off go settings> devices> usb. The phone should be hooked up and in download mode to ensure that it is seen to the vm exactly as it will be during the odin flash. Once it is on the list it should work. If this is what you are doing I'm not sure I can help, maybe the devs will have more insight.
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So if you do a "lsusb" form the linux box when your phone is in "download" mode do you see the phone?
I can only get it to show up in "recovery" mode... there for I'm having a bit of a problem getting the VM to see it is not seen in linux...
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So if you do a "lsusb" form the linux box when your phone is in "download" mode do you see the phone?
I can only get it to show up in "recovery" mode... there for I'm having a bit of a problem getting the VM to see it is not seen in linux...
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well I can see it in download mode now... It was just the stupid front ports on my computer. Seems to prefer the back ones...
so now a device is visible in my windows VM but it is called "Gadget Serial"
When it is in "recovery" windows VM can see it as Samsung etc.. and Odin can connect... But obviously odin needs it to be in "download" not "recovery" for it to work.
I've problems trying it...
In normal mode all works and VM detects correctly...
But when I put the phone in Download Mode, "lsusb" freezes...
any ideas?
Maybe I'm missing the point of this thread, by why would you go to all the trouble of hacking around to try to make buggy Odin work under Linux instead of just using Heimdall, which is supported natively under Linux?
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Maybe I'm missing the point of this thread, by why would you go to all the trouble of hacking around to try to make buggy Odin work under Linux instead of just using Heimdall, which is supported natively under Linux?
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I swear, I was just about to ask the same thing.
Seems pointless and convoluted to muck around in VMs when there is a native solution.
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Maybe I'm missing the point of this thread, by why would you go to all the trouble of hacking around to try to make buggy Odin work under Linux instead of just using Heimdall, which is supported natively under Linux?
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I swear, I was just about to ask the same thing.
Seems pointless and convoluted to muck around in VMs when there is a native solution.
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this thread was risen from the dead.....
for no reason as you have mentioned. look at the date of the OP, and realize that heimdall wasnt always available
Does anybody run Linux at home, and if so does the I9000 pop up as a removeable device? Do I lose any awesome features by not being able to use Kies? Remote control of phone is not that useful to me.
I'll be spending the latter part of today (hopefully) finding this out for myself, but it may help if I can just return the phone on the day of delivery that faff about sending it later in the week.
Ubuntu - use usb select on connection in about phone usb and debug off in development usb Then connect phone and choose mount from the homesceen dropdown. Ubuntu will mount the sdcards I also got Kies to work with Win7 on virtual box under ubuntu - you must have the default launcher though
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Excellent, although I've just remembered that I'm getting Windows 7 anyway. Gaming through WINE is a PITA.
Yay for education discounts!
On Ubuntu Mass Storage mode works fine, mounts the internal and external SD cards. You can also use ADB to access the phone if you set it to debug mode. There is just a funny where you need to register the USD device but if you are only wanting to access the data then you don;t need to worry about this.
Is'nt it sad that you have to use MS to work with a linux device?
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Is'nt it sad that you have to use MS to work with a linux device?
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I'm a little concerned that they will be issuing updates via Kies... since I don't have a windows disk to run in a Virtual Machine. So I guess that means I don't have the option of running a stock Froyo... Linix only people will probably have to wait for a friendly DEV to produce a custom rom based on the stock update. you can use the tool called Heimdall for that sort of thing in linux. (it's like Odin but command line based.)
are you guys using the ubuntu for netbook or regular ubuntu desktop, or the server version of ubuntu ?
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are you guys using the ubuntu for netbook or regular ubuntu desktop, or the server version of ubuntu ?
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Ubuntu 10.4 Desktop
Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop
Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook
haven't tried with the server variant
the phone is recognized via USB all modes. regular boot as a Removable device, regular boot in Debug mode, Recovery mode, and Download mode.
I've had this phone since its launch, but I'm now encountering this strange problem.
While I can get into Download Mode without difficulty, I have an issue with connecting it to my PC. While it'll pick it up fine while the phone is in recovery or normal modes, DL mode causes it to give me this error, thus blocking Odin and my chances of returning it to stock.
I desperately need to flash my way out of this battery-draining and unstable OC/UV kernel, but Odin won't recognize it because Windows won't recognize it.
I am using Win7 x64 and WinXP x86, both with appropriate drivers and both not working and having the same issue.
CWM is similarly failing to work, producing a "failed to chown" something or other. Is my phone basically gone at this point?
My suggestion is to reinstall the drivers for the device and if cwm is not working right then use rom manager to install another version of it and if that doesn't work im pretty sure in the development section u can dl the update file with cwm on it
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I've done the former, I'll try the latter after work today.
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command symlink
calling command set_perm_recursive
E:Can't chown/mod /data/
(I/O error)
E:Failure at line 69:
set_perm_recursive 0 0 0777 0777 DATA:
Installation aborted.
Failure at line 6:
install_zip SDCARD:/Perception-Build-8-non-oc-uv.zip
Here's my error message from CWM. This is after reinstalling both ROM Manager and CWM. This is preceded by a million "command symlink" commands, leading me to believe that something is failing to work here.
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calling command set_perm_recursive
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E:Failure at line 69:
set_perm_recursive 0 0 0777 0777 DATA:
Installation aborted.
Failure at line 6:
install_zip SDCARD:/Perception-Build-8-non-oc-uv.zip
Here's my error message from CWM. This is after reinstalling both ROM Manager and CWM. This is preceded by a million "command symlink" commands, leading me to believe that something is failing to work here.
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If ur trying to flash a new rom I've had this problem before the reason it isn't working is u need to flash back to stock first before u can install a new rom but it will work if u want to flash the same rom over the one u have something to do with the kernel I believe not quite sure but the way I've fixed that is to flash back to stock before flashing a new rom
Edit:::: or u need to disable lagfix by putting a file in ur root folder named disable-lagfix
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okay thanks unhelpful guy
if you read his original post, he can't get his pc to recognize the phone in download mode. big problem.
same problem i've got.
Have your tried different usb ports. If you are using a pc try the port in the rear of your tower.
Are you using oem usb cord?
Have you tried running odin as administrator
Where did you get the drivers from
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I've had this happen and I was pissed. No matter what I did, my computer would not see this phone and the phone was bricked with cognition. So I don't know exactly what I did BUT this comes close. Uninstall keys and go to control panel and unistall any samsung drivers. Restart computer. Install only the samsung drivers found on the samsung support page at the official samsung website. And then try putting it in download mode again. I seriously spent 7 hours on getting this to work. If this doesn't work.then you need to find the right drivers. I know there's like 3 different driver packages and kies that have the ring one, but some just completely mess you up. So.find the right one with the right drivers. Good luck! Oh and have patience, that's key.
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Okay, I'll take your advice. I thought I tried every combination of installing and uninstalling until I nearly ripped my hair out. I tried patching the GPS and it totally boned all GPS functionality, so reverting to stock is apparently my only option... and my phone isn't recognized in download mode. So I guess a few more uninstalls and restarts and we'll see if I blow my brains out today...
Yeah. I just uninstalled Kies, Samsung Drivers, and Samsung New PC Studio. I rebooted twice, and then reinstalled the drivers (from the OP, which are identical to the ones on the Samsung site) and rebooted.
Guess what? No effing luck. Nothing shows up in Odin (remove battery, run odin, plug cable in, plug phone in, return battery and enter download mode) and my taskbar tells me that "A USB Device has malfunctioned and is not recognized."
What the HELL is going on? There are several people with this problem and nobody seems to have an answer that isn't "buhhh you have the wrong drivers."
I had this issue, used a different computer and it worked. I did have to try multiple drivers to get it to work though.
What usb jack are you using
Have you tried running ofin as administrator
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CHECK OUT THIS POST FROM SteveVHT ON THE ANDROID FORMS:
Had this problem this past week.
You need to uninstall all Samsung software and drivers completely. Do this the normal way through Control Panel.
After that, you need to go into your registry and delete all Samsung folders.
You open up Regedit in Windows
Then go to HKEY CURRENT USER, Expand that (+), expand Software
and delete the Samsung folder
Do the same for HKEY LOCAL MACHINE
When you simply uninstall Samsung stuff, it leaves a bunch of junk in the registry of the computer even after uninstall.
Reboot the computer with no phone attached.
Download the Samsung update from Sprint
http://www6.sprint.com/downloads/samsung/executables/SamsungMoment_Update.exe
Install the updater. After its installed, right click the SWUpgrade and run as administrator....Follow all on screen instructions, and you should be good.
If you do not need the updater, then you can skip the software install and just download the drivers for the phone from the SDX forum. Just do a search.
But I suggest you do it this way, it was the only thing that worked for me...
Running Windows 7 Ultimate 64
Hope this helps
Steve
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I'm trying it right now.
edited:It was for a Samsung MOMENT, but imagine a company flubbing two series of drivers the same way.
FFS
it's still not working
Same problem here. Windows 7 will not detect my phone in download mode. I have tried every set of drivers out there. Detects it in regular (mass storage), and USB debugging mode though.
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Same problem here. Windows 7 will not detect my phone in download mode. I have tried every set of drivers out there. Detects it in regular (mass storage), and USB debugging mode though.
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If you are using a pc, are you using the rar usb port
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Tried all 4 ports on the back of my computer
delugeofspam said:
FFS
it's still not working
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If you are using a pc, are you using the rar usb port
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I believe if you right click odin you can run as administrator. Some say this has helped
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I don't believe this to be a problem with Odin (even though I tried that method). Odin picks it up perfectly fine while in USB debugging mode. Windows simply will not pick it up when it enters download mode.
Any other mode Windows will "chime" when the phone is connected. Download mode doesn't do anything. No sound, chime, icon, nothing....
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I believe if you right click odin you can run as administrator. Some say this has helped
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Did you try deleting all drivers then going into download mode and letting windows install the drivers by itself?
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Did you try deleting all drivers then going into download mode and letting windows install the drivers by itself?
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You know, this might be the only thing I haven't tried.
Here goes.
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Exactly the same megafail.
Okay today I bought a SanDisk Cruzer 4gb USB stick as a back up for school and to install the windows 8 iso. Upon first plugging it in, in ubuntu, i deleted everything in it which i believe may have included startup files because after using unetbootin to make a flashable iso file i was unable to start it up from boot device options. I can open up the drive and edit anything as it is obviously Read-Write but im wondering if there is a problem why I cant flash the iso.
You are going to have to use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool.
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool
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Do you know a way for me to do this out of ubuntu 10.04 lts
[Q] SUT LR does'nt install & also the importance of flashing RC3 or sharp before CM9
Hello I'm stuck SUT LR does not install I'm on Windows 7 x64, while installing i get an error that says ''unexpected error'' I do have the ADB, java SDK kit and everything but why does this happen? I also tried renaming the RC3's .nb0 file and flashing it via stock recovery but doesn't work, I'm right now on FR's MIUI 2.3.16, cant i directly flash the CM9 directly? Please do reply looking for answers everywhere
1. Device in download mode
2. Flash using SUT 1.8.2
If you have already done that, well... use windows 32 bit . May be with win32 bit on virtual machine.
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1. Device in download mode
2. Flash using SUT 1.8.2
If you have already done that, well... use windows 32 bit . May be with win32 bit on virtual machine.
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Sir the application that is ''SUTLR.msi'' doesn't install at all and why am I unable to flash it via sd card even after renaming it firmware.nb0?
superviked said:
Sir the application that is ''SUTLR.msi'' doesn't install at all and why am I unable to flash it via sd card even after renaming it firmware.nb0?
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1. There is also SUTLR.exe if you don't want to install msi installer from microsoft.
2. Are you sure has changed the cwm recovery image to stock recovery?
3. And also consider to redownload rc3 again, your downloaded file could be corrupted. Just check the md5 file to make sure it's ok.
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SUTLR for 32bit and 64bit
http://www.mediafire.com/?hg583a51yqkz3y0
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SUTLR for 32bit and 64bit
http://www.mediafire.com/?hg583a51yqkz3y0
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Ardx thank you so much for that link SUT LR now works from the above link you sent, finally tasted cm9 not happy with it for now though so switched to modded sharp thank you !! and by saying you're not a thanks hunter you're making yourself seem modest and people like me are compelled to hit thanks
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SUTLR for 32bit and 64bit
http://www.mediafire.com/?hg583a51yqkz3y0
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You are a saviour ardX!
I was not able to install x64 version on both my Win 7 & Win 8 machines, but now, this file is installing in both the machines
No more relying on my roomie's lappie for x86 version
XT557
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I never get a prompt to of anything with the FXX_PR3_NV xml file.
I've walked through the instructions several times. What confuses me the most is the step to install the SUTLR file then select the xml file then essentially install the SUTLR file again? This seems redundant (but either way) it does not prompt me for anything, it just runs directly through the install.
thoughts?
This is for a DEFY XT557
thecolor said:
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I never get a prompt to of anything with the FXX_PR3_NV xml file.
I've walked through the instructions several times. What confuses me the most is the step to install the SUTLR file then select the xml file then essentially install the SUTLR file again? This seems redundant (but either way) it does not prompt me for anything, d it just runs directly through the install.
thoughts?
This is for a DEFY XT557
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To install xml file, you should connect your device in download mode..... What I remembered about flashing process of defy, it never include installation of sut lr file again.
Any way why are you not trying rsd lite instead of sut let.... It mean for Motorola devices only. It is easy to operate also
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spc / mls code...
Thanks. Now my challenge is obtaining the SPC / MLS code that the provider will not "provide". :| numerous different things have been done to try and detect it, adb logcat, device logcat, ## comands, etc. with no avail. Thoughts on cracking that?
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To install xml file, you should connect your device in download mode..... What I remembered about flashing process of defy, it never include installation of sut lr file again.
Any way why are you not trying rsd lite instead of sut let.... It mean for Motorola devices only. It is easy to operate also
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not working on win 64bit
i don't know what am i doing wrong, but i've tried to install sutlr 1.7.5 & 1.8.2 and none work, when i run it it says something about an incorrect format and opens a useless, empty gray window.
is there any trick to install it, is there any other way to successfully root my phone(motorola xt615)?
any help would be appreciated!