Hi all.
For the first time in many years of rooting and modifying android devices I seem to of hit a brick wall with this device.
My laptop is running Ubuntu 14.04 and my plan was to root the device using JOdin3, however there is an issue with it and newer Samsung devices as its unable to retrieve the .pit file. I've done some searching and there doesn't seem to be an easy solution.
Someone has suggested running windows 7 in virtual box and using odin, however I have a very slow internet connection and i currently have a 3 hour wait for windows to download, also some people have reported that it doesn't always work.
Have any other Linux users had any luck rooting the Note 4?
Edit 03/03/2015
What an absolute farce, finally managed to get recovery installed using Windows XP in Virtual Box and Odin v3.04.
Can't believe its taken me 24 hours to root this ****ing thing!
I've tried with Heimdall and had the same problem, couldn't generate a PIT file. I had an old Win7 laptop laying around so used that and Odin instead, no problems.
I think I'll just end up going to my mum's and using her Win7 laptop.
I can't believe that such a popular device has no method for rooting on Linux. I've had this phone for 9 hours and I think it's the longest I've used an unrooted device for
Finally got it done, I've put a brief explanation of how I did it in the OP but if anyone wants further info please PM me.
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I bricked a brand new verizon galaxy tab! It isn't even mine. it's my brothers and he's going to be pissed if i can't fix it
here is what i did:
i rooted it using z4root from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833953
no problems.
then i downloaded sgs kernel flasher from the market and flashed this file http://gunsforgeeks.com/Tab/kernel/KhasMek.Voodoo.plus.CDMA.Tab.v4.OC.zImage
which i got from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=941781
it auto re-booted when done and is now stuck on samsung logo forever! **** me! i can't reboot into recovery, but i can reboot into download mode.
only problem is i have an old mac ibook running osx 10.4 which is too old for hemidall and too mac for odin. for christs sake i can't even get bootcamp or parallels to work on that old of a mac so i can run windows and thus odin.
what can i do? i'd really like to fix this without having to ask my brother to use his newer mac that should let me run hemidall, cause if i bricked his tab he ain't gonna want me touching his computer.
any suggestions? pleeeeeeease
Get rid of your ****ty mac and get a windows based PC/laptop instead obviously, then flash using odin etc.
Also use the search function, there is an endless amount of topics on this exact issue so no need to create a new one just because you are scared your bro is gunna kick your arse.
Oh btw, your device isnt "bricked", I wish people would not use that term so loosely.
You're gonna have to beg, borrow, buy, or otherwise get yourself a machine that'll run Heimdall... don't think there's any other way around it...
Once you do that, do this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=967175
crisis averted
sorry ya'll. you'll have to excuse a noob. crisis has been averted. i borrowed a windows laptop and successfully restored to stock via hemidall. guess i have more reading to do before i attempt to flash a rom on this thing again. didn't think i was such a noob as i've never had such problems flashing all kinds of roms on my vibrant. different devices. chalk it up to a learning experience.
tkirkable said:
sorry ya'll. you'll have to excuse a noob. crisis has been averted. i borrowed a windows laptop and successfully restored to stock via hemidall. guess i have more reading to do before i attempt to flash a rom on this thing again. didn't think i was such a noob as i've never had such problems flashing all kinds of roms on my vibrant. different devices. chalk it up to a learning experience.
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Good to hear you solved the problem. Just out of curiosity what happened when you tried to run Heimdall on your mac? Theoretically the universal binaries I redistribute should run on 10.4+ with any processors architecture supported by OS X (i.e. x86, AMD64 and PPC).
Heimdall requires osx 10.5?
Apparently. That's what it says when i try to open the .pkg file. it says this package type requires osx 10.5 I can run it in windows 7 though. I had to three times yesterday cause i kept soft bricking my device if that's the right way to put it. read read read. i must be missing something. I had clockworkmod recovery and ext. 4 for a second but then froze on the samsung logo at reboot again. had to heimdall my way back and lost it all. back to the drawing board
So let me start by saying I'm not new to this. However I generally stick to nexus devices, so I haven't had to deal with Odin before. I have a Mac, and I have come to realize that Odin is a windows only program. Is there a good alternative to Odin for macs? I've seen heimdall mentioned, but from what I can tell, its buggy, and I haven't been able to find a good tutorial. What I'm looking for is a way to restore the device from a situation like a bootloop (so mobile Odin won't work)
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Fu5ion said:
So let me start by saying I'm not new to this. However I generally stick to nexus devices, so I haven't had to deal with Odin before. I have a Mac, and I have come to realize that Odin is a windows only program. Is there a good alternative to Odin for macs? I've seen heimdall mentioned, but from what I can tell, its buggy, and I haven't been able to find a good tutorial. What I'm looking for is a way to restore the device from a situation like a bootloop (so mobile Odin won't work)
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you could:
- use bootcamp to install and boot into windows to use ODIN in a windows environment
- run a virtual windows machine in OSX (i've tried this, it was too much trouble to get the usb devices to mount in virtual machine)
- find someone with a windows pc that you can use
- use Heimdall while booting from a live ubuntu cd
Hello everyone, I am trying to update my rooted vzw note 3 to 4.4 using heimdall frontend. I have everything installed and am a usual linux user but just need some assistance with heimdall. A quick 10 step tut or some pics or something would help tremendously. I have my files ready and have gotten as far as rebooting the phone into download mode but in heimdall i dont know how to load the firmware for the phone. I'm used to using odin but I understand from reading around the web that odin doesnt work in vmware so that's why I am using heimdall. Any help is appreciated.
Solved..Will write a tutorial in a couple days for anyone else needing assistance.
I tried a few times in internet cafes but was unable to root this phone, i got my young son a PC for xmas as his old one was broken, it runs windows 10, im wondering if anyone has successfully rooted this phone using windows 10, do you follow the same procedure or anything different?
anyone know at all?
of course, no difference to win8 or win 7, install samsung usb drivers if needed, and use odin to flash custom recovery, then flash su zip, done!
I have rooted mine with same procedures arter suggested in win 10 worked well
it works great too with odin and CF-Auto-Root
thanks folks ill give this a go tomorrow evening if i can drag the young lad off the computer lol
Hi,
I think I've tried everything and was almost losing hope, but decided to ask for help before giving up.
I just bought an used defy, because I've had this phone before and I love it. But since it's still rocking Android Eclair 2.1 and the Google Play Store does not work, it's not very useful. So I wanted to upgrade it to Kitkat (CM, don't remember if it's 7 or 11) like I did to my previous phone.
First steps: what worked:
I've downloaded and installed Framaroot and 2ndInit (v2.3) without much issues. The problems started when I've tried to use ClockworkMod to flash an update.zip image. No matter what I did, I could make it mount the sdcard problem. I've tried with multiple sdcards, formatted the card using the phone itself, transfered the files with the card in the phone, but ClockwordMod could not mount it for anything.
I have read somewhere (maybe here) that ClockworkMod with Eclair had these kind of problems, and I would have to flash an SBF and upgrade it to Froyo before flashing anything else.
For that, I needed RSDLite, fine, did it with my other phone a few years ago. The problem is, I only have a MacBook and a PC with Windows 10 and no version of RSDLite would work with Windows 10, I've tried multiple compatibility settings with different versions of RSDLite and Motorola Drivers and nothing worked. When I was about to give up, I found out about sbf_flash utility for mac osx and linux (from here). I thought my problems were solved, but when trying to flash the sbf with my MacBook, the phone freezes and I get a "Waiting for phone" message on the screen. If I disconnect the cable, the phone instantly reboots and when it comes back to the bootloader, I get an error on the screen (attached). Again, tried with multiple variants of sbfs found on this page, with and without sudo, always with the exact same outcome. Maybe it could be an osx problem, but the only machine with linux that I have access is a raspberry-pi with ARM arch, and the sbf_flash linux binary is for intel platform and it doesn't work, so I can't test it on linux.
I have a feeling this phone was downgraded back to Eclair after being flashed to be sold, and now I can't manage to flash anything else to it.
Does anyone else has any idea about what else I could try?
Thank you all in advance, this community is amazing.
First of all,make sure you have the correct firmware
Not using mac...But i'd guess it might be solved with a flash in windows7 or xp,you can just use a vitual machine and delete it later.
I faced problem like this bcuz i connected to the front usb rather than the back one,so notice this.
Hope it would be helpful,it is great to see there is still someone using our beloved defy:laugh: