Well, I finally realize that usbflash.dll from SE has never been cracked to work with flashtool on linux to flash my X8 so my next practical thing to do is to install windows. I have oracle virtual box and I intend to install windows on it so I never have to leave my beloved OS. Here's the deal: I only got an old windows disk. It is a windows2000 professional edition. I just wonder if most of the tools listed by SE and flashtool would work with windowss2000 at all? Or do I need to borrow a more modern one like XP/vista/wndows 7?
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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!
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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!
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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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.
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
I recently converted my windows 10 laptop completely (accidentally) to ubuntu studio and am having a hard time finding what can be used in replace of odin. I have heimdall but read it doesnt work above 4.4.2 and cant find jodin3 as links to it dont load. Anybody here use linux and can give a few general steps on what to use and how to get it?
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I recently converted my windows 10 laptop completely (accidentally) to ubuntu studio and am having a hard time finding what can be used in replace of odin. I have heimdall but read it doesnt work above 4.4.2 and cant find jodin3 as links to it dont load. Anybody here use linux and can give a few general steps on what to use and how to get it?
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Install a Virtual Machine or VirtualBox and download a version of Windows that you can run on it with a key to activate windows or just use a temporary one but you'll have to learn how to use the VM'S they're not hard at all though.
I will deff try that and appreciate the help. That doesnt seem difficult at all or anything but other then that is there a method that is for linux such as heimdall? Heimdall may be ok i just read it doesnt work after 4.4.2. Right now the virtualbox does seem best as i am used to windows but wondering if there's something specifically for linux or Linux compatible.
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I will deff try that and appreciate the help. That doesnt seem difficult at all or anything but other then that is there a method that is for linux such as heimdall? Heimdall may be ok i just read it doesnt work after 4.4.2. Right now the virtualbox does seem best as i am used to windows but wondering if there's something specifically for linux or Linux compatible.
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Unfortunately I have not found anything capable of being used after 4.4.2 on Linux which is why I said the VM.. I use VirtualBox and it works great running Windows 7 but you need to make sure that you have all the software it needs to run installed.. This isn't like Windows where you just install a .exe and it works, there's a lot more involved than that. With VirtualBox after you install it you'll have to also install a VirtualBox Extension Pack. You should make sure you read up pretty good on it and you should be ok.
Will do and I appreciate your help. Which linux are you running or have you? I am running ubuntu 16.04lts ubuntustudio and whenever i try to open stellarium the screen flickers bad and freezes up. By chance do you have any experiences with that or have i shot way too left field.
winetricks is what you want.. in the app store unbuntu
I'm trying out DeX since my computer is down. I'm basically wanting to play a game I have installed on Windows and I've actually never configured WineHQ before.. I've heard there's an Android version and that for my phone, I'll need the ARM version vs the x86 version. Please correct me if I'm wrong about that. I did inadvertantly mess up and get the x86 version but I didn't really see it install so then installed the ARM version.
I launched it, then it hands on SETTING UP WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT.
Does this process even work or is this one of those things where I'd need to have a rooted device?