Hi!
I stopped using Windows recently, and have tried to find another way of changing the baseband on my phone. Is widows software the only option for doing this?
Seems like it at the moment, unless Smartflash works in WINE, which I doubt.
No, wine doesn't work.
Is there no way of doing this without a computer then?
It seems there is not another way, I used to upgrade my bb by virtual machine.
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babytux said:
It seems there is not another way, I used to upgrade my bb by virtual machine.
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I do like that too but it's not the best solution because when you plug in a usb cable is the host machine that deals with it first and then the guest virtual machine manages it. This little detail made me unable to update my x10 mini,with this phone you have to push the back button while plugging in the usb. In that situation you plug the cable, the phone doesn't see any "flashing attempt" because the host machine (linux) doesn't have the flasher software running and so the phone reboots without updating. When the device is "passed" to the guest machine is already too late. As babytux said it can be done, but if you have problems in the procedure a "real" windows machine can be useful.
no known linux sw at this time, sorry ...
i updated my BB to 20110725 with virtualbox (without hw virtualizing)-(64bit linux as host machine) without any problems (smartflash in winxp used only virtual modem(tty) for this job).
i'm thinking the lgos is a "real" open phone for all types of OS's, not to mention the super "last" flash fallback(nvflash).
hope, this is a little help for you ...
Unless there is a way to do it with Nvflash it might be impossible for now.
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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!
Hello guys
new question
I'm using ubuntu can I run smart flash tool over ubuntu with best performance
I mean without stopping or crashes ???
is there any method other than wine or mono????
I dont know but maybe by wine app, because smartflash its an app for windows. You have to get new wine from ubuntu servers and try first without phone. I afraid about brick, because i dont know how good is wine now. The last time I used linux a year ago. Maybe someone know it. I think only wine
wine cannot connect usb
you can try virtual machines
I tired VM with my previous phone but in kdz Updater in the middle of flashing (Stopped!!!!)
Every time why??!! I don't know so I don't want to use them
but I think we must make smartflash tool for linux
how we don't have one and ubuntu and android are brothers!!!!
in general thnx guys
..or is there another way? I have no Win machine .. Can I flash in other way to prepare upgrading to newer rom and kernel?
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Make it a dual boot, if you have linux or Mac as your main OS, will not advice in Virtual because this is related to USB and if it is not properly detected then it may corrupt the phone, so dual boot will be good
I have an LG Laptop that will not agree with Windows, not even original Vista and it's only a few years old.
Isn't there a mode like power button, volyme up and direct flash from a predestined directory. If I do a power button, volume up I can get to a number of directories and partitions in filemanager. Would this help? And, yes. I know about usb port problems while in Wine and others...
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Have you tried booting it with windows 7 or 8, you can download it legally. I think there's no laptop which cannot boot windows
I know, it's crazy! Harware related probably or memory. Always gets bluescreen after fresh insall of Vista or 7. Very unstable on original Vista too and updates. I'll check around for XP and will give it a try.
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I know, it's crazy! Harware related probably or memory. Always gets bluescreen after fresh insall of Vista or 7. Very unstable on original Vista too and updates. I'll check around for XP and will give it a try.
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hi
SUTL very much works on win7 im using it on win7 and have had no problem as of now
I have installed Ubuntu system, the main.
I use in Virtualbox a Windows XP for SUTLR to flashing ROM
You need to put into share use in the USB settings Ubuntu...
Google to the rescue!
Solved.
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Hey guys,
I just received a new LG Optimus 4X HD (P880) device today, and I thought that I would do the usual check to make sure everything was up to date.
Upon upgrading the device via the LG PC Suite, as soon as my phone entered its "upgrade mode", my Windows 8 PC crash, citing a driver error. Whilst whenever in this mode, connecting it into the PC would cause the PC to crash. Luckily, no data on the device had changed which allowed me to successfully forcefully restart the device with (so far) no problems.
I would like to know if anybody else has encountered such problems, and if possible, ways to circumvent them? If not, are there any alternative (read: unofficial) upgrade paths I could take? (software version: LG-P880-V10e-SEP-25-2012; Android version: 4.0.3)
Cheers,
Dan.
I got the same problem, reinstall the drivers don't work.
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Same here, surprised my 11 year old Windows XP desktop upgraded my phone perfectly.
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Mayazcherquoi said:
Hey guys,
I just received a new LG Optimus 4X HD (P880) device today, and I thought that I would do the usual check to make sure everything was up to date.
Upon upgrading the device via the LG PC Suite, as soon as my phone entered its "upgrade mode", my Windows 8 PC crash, citing a driver error. Whilst whenever in this mode, connecting it into the PC would cause the PC to crash. Luckily, no data on the device had changed which allowed me to successfully forcefully restart the device with (so far) no problems.
I would like to know if anybody else has encountered such problems, and if possible, ways to circumvent them? If not, are there any alternative (read: unofficial) upgrade paths I could take? (software version: LG-P880-V10e-SEP-25-2012; Android version: 4.0.3)
Cheers,
Dan.
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i think windows 8 has some compatability issues. Try calling your country's customer care.
Try on Windows 7
I had exactly the same problem, then I tried on my friends pc that runs Windows 7 and it was done smoothly. Looks like some compatibility issues. One more option may help; "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement in Windows 8". Follow the steps to do so:
From the Metro Start Screen, open Settings (move your mouse to the bottom-right-corner of the screen and wait for the pop-out bar to appear, then click the Gear icon).
Click ‘More PC Settings’.
Click ‘General’.
Scroll down, and click ‘Restart now’ under ‘Advanced startup’.
Wait a bit.
Click ‘Troubleshoot’.
Click ‘Advanced Options’
Click ‘Windows Startup Settings’
Click Restart.
I haven't tried it myself but planning to do while updating next time.
Also make sure you use a direct USB 2.0 on the motherboard of your pc (back side of your pc). I also had this problem, but it happened when I used the USB 3.0 port on the front of my pc. After I used the 2.0 port it installed the update without any problems from my Windows 8 machine.
I´m having this problem and I only have my win8 laptop available... is there a way?
I tried in all usb ports... when the phone gets in update mode I get the blue screen and the laptop restarts (dell inspiron)
there is a strange issue my laptop not recognizing my captivate in download mode. this is not os specific as since this issue began, ive installed 3 dists' of ubuntu, windows, and currently deb wheezy, with same results. lsusb shows no device during dl mode. recently, another issue occured while installing the sdk also. the adb server will not start, with a "failed to ACK" response. this was never an issue before with the sdk. anyhow, installing adb-tools via repository, i am able to access the device without issue.
on my desktop, my captivate is found during dl mode also heimdall w/o issue. my nexus however, is found by heimdall on my laptop and in dl mode/lsusb. i have installed multiple versions of heimdall/frontend and attempted running the one clicks'. i have one usb port on my dell c610 latitude and multiple usb/data cords. any suggestions?
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there is a strange issue my laptop not recognizing my captivate in download mode. this is not os specific as since this issue began, ive installed 3 dists' of ubuntu, windows, and currently deb wheezy, with same results. lsusb shows no device during dl mode. recently, another issue occured while installing the sdk also. the adb server will not start, with a "failed to ACK" response. this was never an issue before with the sdk. anyhow, installing adb-tools via repository, i am able to access the device without issue.
on my desktop, my captivate is found during dl mode also heimdall w/o issue. my nexus however, is found by heimdall on my laptop and in dl mode/lsusb. i have installed multiple versions of heimdall/frontend and attempted running the one clicks'. i have one usb port on my dell c610 latitude and multiple usb/data cords. any suggestions?
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The only thing I can think of is drivers issue. Is it connecting fine outta dl mode?
I wouldn't have thought it would be a driver issue with the Ubuntu releases. The android devices are built into the kernel. I haven't used any 'buntu releases to connect to my Captivate, but I have been connecting to it with Linux Mint since I bought the Captivate. I tend to use the LTS releases based on Ubuntu's LTS releases. I have used the versions corresponding to Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, and 14.04 without ever installing a driver. The same holds true to when I was using LMDE based on Debian Squeeze while it was still the testing release. It seems to be true for you that it is not a driver issue since you connected with adb-tools (was that while on Linux?).
I was going to ask if you had the Captivate set to either Mass Storage or Media Device (MTP), depending on your ROM version. But, thinking about it this should not apply to your question, since you are talking about download mode. I have further suggestions if you were talking about transferring files over a USB cable while the phone is booted for use; having mtp-tools (older Ubuntu versions) or libmtp packages (came as part of base install on latest LTS for me).
Even regarding download mode, I doubt it is a driver issue while you are using Linux. The reason I believe so is that I have read of connecting Android phones to laptops while running both Ubuntu and LinuxMint as a LiveUSB installs. In such a situation you don't install anything that is not part of the basic .iso file.
This brings you back to a connection issue that happens with the one laptop but not with the desktop. It happens from Linux OSes and Windows. If it were only Windows I would think a driver issue. You have ruled out your USB cable because you have tried several. I'm not sure if calling this an intermittent problem is the correct description. I guess there is still a possibilty it could be a hardware issue with either the one USB port on your laptop or the microUSB port on your phone.
By any chance were you running Linux as a virtual machine under Windows? Maybe that would bring it back to a drivers issue, a Windows driver issue. That would be a better problem to be working on than a faulty port.
i edited the heimdall permissions, android-adb permissions, added new permissions. nada. if i flash stock, and still no detection, yet detection on my pc, i can then verify my laptop as the culprit, which ive had problems with since i bought it. i actually took it apart and to placehold my usb port, jammed a penny in it. which has worked fine for years. the entire unit is sketchy. random reboots, broken back, trackball poultergeist. mostly i just want a backup hdd in the event this handmedown pc fails. so its a latitude c610 running 32 bit debian wheezy 3.2 pae kernel. once i researched/learned i could develop on 32 bit machines, i decided to dust it off. if i can get to the bottom of this issue, i would then buy some parts to make it decent. no heimdall/no way. im full throttle for my cappy atm.
im running natty on my pc because i was having dependancy issues compiling with precise. but heimdall was never an issue. i have a feeling the sdk issue and the heimdall issue are related. i started a thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2268539 regarding the sdk issue, but i marked it as solved as the reason was simply installing adb.
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. It seems to be true for you that it is not a driver issue since you connected with adb-tools (was that while on Linux?).
By any chance were you running Linux as a virtual machine under Windows? Maybe that would bring it back to a drivers issue, a Windows driver issue. That would be a better problem to be working on than a faulty port.
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yes and no. i think its either dl mode being finnicky or a little elf living in my laptop keeps unplugging the usb when i heimdall.
edit. interesting how i tested stock dl mode on my laptop, which failed. however, i connected to dl mode via my laptop (device not detected)(lsusb + heimdall)) i then checked for connectivity on my pc which failed also. i rebooted dl mode from my pc and then my pc connected fine. this method unfortunatly is not backwards compatible.
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since, ive tried dl mode with xp and 7. im filing it to the "aint tryin' to happen" category. i need to buy a new laptop anyhow. thanks