Good news to all you Mac & SGS owners!
The latest update to VMWare Fusion SPECIFICALLY says it is NOW compatible with Samsung Galaxy S phones!
I'm going to boot into Win 7 and give you all a report!
I'd imagine that's an incredibly tiny demographic, but good to hear nonetheless.
Haha Awesome! Thanks for sharing this. I hate booting into my bootcamp partition just to use Odin and such.
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This isn't necessarily constructive, but I've been connecting to my phone via Kies with Parallels 5/6 since I got it.
However, I do have to go bare metal to do a firmware flash.
Meh, does not work for me!
that would be good if it worked, i tried parallels and it didn't work, but i'm not a big fan of vmware
This is awesome if it works.!..
Odin never detected earlier on Fusion for me.
Downloaded latest version on trial yesterday. Works fine!
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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!!!
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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.
There have been several people that have been looking for a Mac solution to flashing their Epic back to stock. I've not personally tried using this software, but I think it's worth a shot for you Mac users. It's called Heimdall and can be found here:
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
Apparently it will work on any Galaxy S phone. It also may be worth trying for those of you that can't get Odin to work for you on your PC.
Thanks to drakkahn and n0esc for finding this.
i am very interested in knowing whether or not this will work, as odin is a *****
leatherneck6017 said:
There have been several people that have been looking for a Mac solution to flashing their Epic back to stock. I've not personally tried using this software, but I think it's worth a shot for you Mac users. It's called Heimdall and can be found here:
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
Apparently it will work on any Galaxy S phone. It also may be worth trying for those of you that can't get Odin to work for you on your PC.
Thanks to drakkahn and n0esc for finding this.
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This works fine. There's, like, three posts here in this section alone on the program. I use it, on Linux, and it works great. It's more reliable and quicker than Odin, too.
It's not for the feint of heart, though. It's a command-line based.
EDIT: Oh, look, the thread started by the dev who works on it... >.>
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=801155
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Guys any help on flashing sgs5 on mac os?
Tried heimdall but seems it is not supporting sgs5 yet.
dmitriyap said:
Guys any help on flashing sgs5 on mac os?
Tried heimdall but seems it is not supporting sgs5 yet.
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Do you mean you want to download ROMs off XDA and move them from your Mac to your phone, then flash ROM? If you want to move files from Mac to phone use Airdroid on Wifi. No better choice.
Edit: sorry you want an Odin like tool, not sure about that sorry.
dmitriyap said:
Guys any help on flashing sgs5 on mac os?
Tried heimdall but seems it is not supporting sgs5 yet.
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Unfortunately, the only other option is to try using a VM. I am in the same boat. You may want to comment on the issue I created on the Heimdall github https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall/issues/203
The more information that can be gained the better.
Parallels are way better than vm i have tried vm many time.. on my note 3 i got error while flashing through odin..
then i install parallels and it really worked nice...
for transfer your data you can use android file transfer on mac.. jss google android file transfer...
I've softbricked my phone just following this guide over here: http://nasirtech.blogspot.com/2014/05/n9005vjuend1-android-442-kitkat.html
After following that, just after trying to root the phone bricked and would restart anymore. So far i have followed different guides like:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2627291
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2628435&page=8
But it seems to happen the same thing over and over. The flash just fails every time even if i flash only the pit, only the AP and so on. I've used odin 3.06 and 3.07 and the stock firmware that used to come with the phone (N9005VJUEND1), the phone is unlocked and is the one that has written 4G at the back.
The info behind the battery is:
Model: SM-N9005
FCC ID: A3LSMN9005
SSN: -N9005GSMH
And says that is made in korea. Also is a 32GB version.
What is important to mention is that i'm doing all of this in VMWare at a macbook. Don't know if this actually hurts the process but it shouldn't.
Does anybody has been through something similar?, please all help is needed
Good you mentioned u r using vm in mac, otherwise sort out your problem will be longer, bro use windows pc or partition in your mac threw bootcamp will do the job.
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jdomadia said:
Good you mentioned u r using vm in mac, otherwise sort out your problem will be longer, bro use windows pc or partition in your mac threw bootcamp will do the job.
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Or parallels. The problem is the usb drivers in vmware. Parallels works perfectly.
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toastido said:
Or parallels. The problem is the usb drivers in vmware. Parallels works perfectly.
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I will try with parallels.. if that doesn't work i will try with a windows pc.
Confirmed,
VMWare have issues with samsung driver, if you have a mac you can flash your international n9005 with parallels. DON'T USE VMWARE.
Ok, flashed successfully, but now the phone has no sound, the camera doesn't works and the dial panel doesn't work either. I'm trying to do a flash and then open it in recovery mode so i can do a full wipe. But even after doing the full wipe doesn't have any sound or camera. Any pointers with this?, i'm flashing it with aN9005VJUEND1_N9005UUBENC1_N9005VJUENC1 from Chile.
any help with this could be amazing. I've installed now CWM 6.0.4.7. With it i've installed bobcat 9.0 and same thing. Only a little faster. But still laggy, no sound, no camera and no dialer. Now i'm installing HAWKISH elite serie version N9005ZHUENE6. I will tell you later how i'm going with it.
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Nope, still the same, no sound. It's kind of desperating to still don't have nothing working. Please give me some pointers. Almost tryed everything.
New info, the 4g works, wifi works, is just the camera and the sound. Also it reboot's sometimes. Very anoying.
Finally i delivered it to the samsung service. It seems that i damaged the bootloader for what they are telling me and that's the reason why i had trouble with the keyboard, sound and dial.
So no more playing with the phone for now . Or use a windows to make the flashes. Any comments on this?
So, is working now??
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I am using a Mac, and I have always used heimdall with no issues on my S4.
I am running into a lot of issues with my S5.
What is the best solution for Mac users to flash recoveries.to their device these days?
Also what is best recovery for S5 currently. It seems latest TWRP is very buggy.
I also found Heimdall to be a major pain in the backside on the S5.
I ended up using Odin and PhilZ CWM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2706253)
Check the github, theres a few forks that people have said make it work on the s5, havent personally been able to try them since i havent had to reflash, but if you get it working let us know.
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Yep, sadly heimdall is not 'officially' supported for S5> which does my head in. I mean, surely a Linux based OS should be better than windows for working with android?! But, no, that isn't the case at all...
So how are guys on Macs doing it? Odin is just for PC...
Ive seen a lot of people on macs do it in a VM, its finnicky at best though and i dont think it even works on linux, didnt for me at least. Like i said, check the github for heimdall, theres some issues that refrence some pull requests you can try.
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