After seeing JI5 and JI6 come out today, and hearing that the new updates fixed the GPS issue, I decided that I wanted to update.
But, I have a Mac.
Is there anyway to get this to work with a Mac or at least on Parallels? I am not going to go to all the trouble to get boot camp just for this purpose.
It worries me that when the full froyo comes out that I won't be able to upgrade to that either.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
jonjacobmoon said:
After seeing JI5 and JI6 come out today, and hearing that the new updates fixed the GPS issue, I decided that I wanted to update.
But, I have a Mac.
Is there anyway to get this to work with a Mac or at least on Parallels? I am not going to go to all the trouble to get boot camp just for this purpose.
It worries me that when the full froyo comes out that I won't be able to upgrade to that either.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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The thing to keep in mind is that Samsung Kies is *NOT* a supported update method for any of the U.S. market Galaxy S phones. The only method officially supported by the 4 U.S. carriers is OTA updates.
In other words, anything crazy people like me (and a few others obviously LOL) find via Kies, or Samfirmwares.com, or modaco, or wherever...are likely to be leaked builds (not final builds) and builds that are not involved with official OTA updates.
Though we may eventually luck up on getting what ends up being OTA updates to 2.1 and 2.2 between now and whenever by doing these things, there are no guarantees.
Now, having said that, you are most likely to receive what ends up being an OTA update from HERE, due to the way OTA updates are staged out in batches. Just because an OTA update goes live on a given date does not mean that every single solitary phone will receive the update that day. It could take days or weeks for your phone to fall into a push batch for an OTA.
So, it depends on what you want to do. If you want to tweak, tinker, and experiment, you're going to have to have a Windows environment at this stage of things.
If you want to just enjoy your phone and be able to get an OTA when one drops...Just wait until it drops and with a dose of patience you'll be fine.
I dohave mac.. but that doesn't stop me from loading os.. I know for sure that someone on the development section will make a flashable version of it in which you use via rom manager or clockworkmod..
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pinoiryder said:
I dohave mac.. but that doesn't stop me from loading os.. I know for sure that someone on the development section will make a flashable version of it in which you use via rom manager or clockworkmod..
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Rom Manager/Clockwork installable zips are made for EASE, not rock-solid-guaranteed-to-have-an-exit-strategy-reliability. Not that clockwork recovery is unreliable, but if you think that clockwork recovery is enough and will always save your bacon, your mistaken.
Even this can have its problems, especially if you encounter problems with a newer build and decide to (mistakenly) nandroid back to a JFD based build.
All of these newer builds are using a newer kernel, and nandroid will not restore a kernel. This is the reason WHY so many people had problems with JI5 dropping today because they didn't do their homework.
They see people like me, and others of course, who jump in and are successful with it. But I and a lot of people leave "understood" and obvious (to us) things unsaid because we at least vaguely think we know what we're doing LOL. And we are fully aware of the need for a reliable Odin setup as a necessary strategy to be this carefree with firmware testing.
At the end of the day, assuming you had a hardware button working Vibrant, the only way out of a bad scenario is Odin3. And that requires a Windows environment.
If you're going to hack android devices, rather than simply use them and rely on your provider for OTA's....you need a windows environment....or you had best really be on top of what your doing and be very careful. The need to have Odin available as a backup strategy when things go wrong really isn't optional.
Although I haven't tried it, I'm not completely sure that Odin won't work in a WINE bottle.
I'll give it a shot when I go home tonight and post a tutorial tomorrow if in does in fact work. I've read where it didn't recognize the Behold II's download mode under linux, but I'm giving it a shot either way.
i have an imac, had it for almost a year now. wouldnt trade it for a thing, but as a mac users; we need to realize, we can never ever ever push windows out of our life... ever. kinda defeats the purpose of buying and owning a mac, i know...
but still, i used odin on my sons laptop so i can get ji5.
I haven't had time to try it on my Mac, but on Linux you can use Virtualbox (free download from Sun/Oracle) to create a Windows XP VM to flash with Odin. It's pretty easy. I think Odin needs the Samsung drivers, so you might not be able to use Wine.
US updates are OTA--as said above. No need to use the computer.
Having said that, I run OS X 10.4 and I know I cannot really do anything with it. I wait for solid builds to come out/keep it simple/research any time I want to mess around inside the code. I bricked a phone and had to use a friend's computer to try and get ODIN to restore.
Bottom-line: If you are OS X dependent, USE CAUTION!!!
TheSneakerWhore said:
US updates are OTA--as said above. No need to use the computer.
Having said that, I run OS X 10.4 and I know I cannot really do anything with it. I wait for solid builds to come out/keep it simple/research any time I want to mess around inside the code. I bricked a phone and had to use a friend's computer to try and get ODIN to restore.
Bottom-line: If you are OS X dependent, USE CAUTION!!!
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Question: When's the last time you got an update OTA?
Having said that, I run OS X 10.4 and I know I cannot really do anything with it.
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10.4?!! You're running a PPC mac and yes, there's nothing that YOU can do with it. That said, don't give you false advice to others.
jonjacobmoon said:
After seeing JI5 and JI6 come out today, and hearing that the new updates fixed the GPS issue, I decided that I wanted to update.
But, I have a Mac.
Is there anyway to get this to work with a Mac or at least on Parallels? I am not going to go to all the trouble to get boot camp just for this purpose.
It worries me that when the full froyo comes out that I won't be able to upgrade to that either.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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First, any official update will be an OTA and therefore will not need a computer. So the fact you're on a Mac won't be an issue at all.
Second, just do BootCamp. It's not really much of a hassle at all, and it's the best experience you can have running Windows on a Mac. I used to run into a lot of driver issues running Windows XP / Vista / 7 through Parallels and VMWare. Plus with how slow it ran and the amount of resources it ate up, I decided to go BootCamp and never looked back. Trust me, it's worth it.
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Question: When's the last time you got an update OTA?
10.4?!! You're running a PPC mac and yes, there's nothing that YOU can do with it. That said, don't give you false advice to others.
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Right..false advice. Good luck with that. This isn't my first rodeo...i love my 10.4 but it is pretty useless as per odin. You need a good platform if anything goes wrong.
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And yes, you will need to run parallels et al. Or rock a non osx device for an easier time.
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And yes, you will need to run parallels et al. Or rock a non osx device for an easier time.
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Odin does not recognize our phones in VMware or Parallels. Your only solution is boot camp. I don't now why you're moaning that it's so hard to install. It's literally 3 clicks, then you insert your Windows disk and reboot. If you want to play with leaked firmware, you're going to have to get over yourself.
OK I got my hd2 at a place that would install android and also get my hd2 working on simple mobile at the same time, and so far it has been great but I'm having some issues with the battery life report (it never resets how long it has been unplugged) and also a newer version of my the Tom that I am on has been released. Be I want to move to either that or cyanogen mod 7. My issue is how exactly do I flash a different ron and after I do it how do I get it working right again on simple mobile?
Kinda a noob but I have rooted and installed custom roms on all of my families devices including a evolution, a Droid global and a Samsung intercept?
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deadant2 said:
OK I got my hd2 at a place that would install android and also get my hd2 working on simple mobile at the same time, and so far it has been great but I'm having some issues with the battery life report (it never resets how long it has been unplugged) and also a newer version of my the Tom that I am on has been released. Be I want to move to either that or cyanogen mod 7. My issue is how exactly do I flash a different ron and after I do it how do I get it working right again on simple mobile?
Kinda a noob but I have rooted and installed custom roms on all of my families devices including a evolution, a Droid global and a Samsung intercept?
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Well first off, if you payed someone to install android I suggest you do and demand your money back as its free software. Secondly, to install a new rom you have to either use the DAT.exe that comes with your rom, or if you have a ZIP file, put that on your SD card and boot into clockwork recovery and flash it that way. Simple mobile is just a network provider so your phone should still work perfectly. However, as im not american (and where I live all providers use the same signals) I dont really know.
who says he paid for android? he paid for the persons time to install android by the sounds of it
you should read the guides on how to flash etc plenty of information there
Well my isssue was making sure it would work properly on simple ( although they do use T-Mobiles network)
So nobody here knows what to do?
Shouldn't it just be having the right similar and changing a few settings?
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...thats what they are saying, read the stickies and use the search function. All you need todo is boot into MAGDLR and flash a new ROM from the DAT.exe file that most NAND builds of Android come with. Simple Mobile is just your carrier, and you will need to enter in their APN settings once you flash a new ROM in order to get data but other than that your phone should work fine.
i cant seem to get the new samsung -att update now. i have tried several things mentioned here. but to no avail. The only thing i can think of is that im using my work pc and not the original pc at home for this. Could this be the reason im not getting the new update ?
MRWRANGLERS1 said:
i cant seem to get the new samsung -att update now. i have tried several things mentioned here. but to no avail. The only thing i can think of is that im using my work pc and not the original pc at home for this. Could this be the reason im not getting the new update ?
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crap now im getting the update. lol
Hi,
Do any of you guys know if I can get my i9505 back to stock only using mobile odin?
I don't have a Windows PC to use odin with as I use linux so was wondering if I could revert this way, I'm currently rooted running CM11
spences10 said:
Hi,
Do any of you guys know if I can get my i9505 back to stock only using mobile odin?
I don't have a Windows PC to use odin with as I use linux so was wondering if I could revert this way, I'm currently rooted running CM11
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Hi mate ,
Not sure about that but if you are interested:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1240136
You could use Heimdal.........
MAX 404 said:
Hi mate ,
Not sure about that but if you are interested:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1240136
You could use Heimdal.........
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I think I used it to root it originally but have a faint recollection of it being a complete ballache
I'll go with that then, I was hoping to be able to do it before I got home from work today but I suppose I'll have a crack with heimdal
Thanks breh!
spences10 said:
I think I used it to root it originally but have a faint recollection of it being a complete ballache
I'll go with that then, I was hoping to be able to do it before I got home from work today but I suppose I'll have a crack with heimdal
Thanks breh!
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Sorry i could not be more helpful, the only thing i know for sure mobile odin is very sketchy and is not a reliable as the pc format, i would not use it for flashing a full rom
Good luck
Good point
Hey guys
Not sure how active it is here anymore. Just wondered if anyone could help me I've been away travelling for nearly three years and haven't really touched my 10, just saw on reddit a cool build I'd like to try on it. But, I'm on a rooted device running 4.2.2. And an OLD AOKP build. Now to update to the official lollipop how do I go about that? My macbook is broken too so thats another issue can it all be done from my device? Sorry for my ignorance not touched or messed with rooting etc for a long time...
Thanks very much for any info
Use wugfresh's Nexus Root Toolkit:
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/
W3bby said:
Hey guys
Not sure how active it is here anymore. Just wondered if anyone could help me I've been away travelling for nearly three years and haven't really touched my 10, just saw on reddit a cool build I'd like to try on it. But, I'm on a rooted device running 4.2.2. And an OLD AOKP build. Now to update to the official lollipop how do I go about that? My macbook is broken too so thats another issue can it all be done from my device? Sorry for my ignorance not touched or messed with rooting etc for a long time...
Thanks very much for any info
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You can't flash bootloaders or radios within the device. You need fastboot to flash those and you'll need a computer to use fastboot. If you get access to a computer you can set up adb and fastboot pretty easily or use WugFresh's toolkit that was previously recommended.