https://home.regit.org/tags/android/ Recent content in Android on To Linux and beyond ! Hugo fr Sat, 14 May 2011 15:29:03 +0000 https://home.regit.org/2011/05/upgrading-galaxy-s-under-linux/ Sat, 14 May 2011 15:29:03 +0000 https://home.regit.org/2011/05/upgrading-galaxy-s-under-linux/ <p>After some time lost by trying in vain to have Kies (of Death) from Samsung oder Odin working under Virtualbox, I’ve found about the exitence of <a href="http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/">Heimdall</a>. This software has been developped to flash firmware onto Samsung Galaxy S devices.</p> <p>It did work quiet easily. <a href="http://wmarkito.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/flashing-android-froyo-in-a-galaxy-s-with-ubuntu-and-heimdall/">Upgrade procedure</a> only requires some files download and in my case some usage of the tar command.</p> <p>The command line was long but simple:<br> [bash]heimdall flash -pit s1_odin_20100512.pit –factoryfs factoryfs.rfs \<br> –cache cache.rfs –dbdata dbdata.rfs –param param.lfs \<br> –kernel zImage –modem modem.bin \<br> –primary-boot boot.bin –secondary-boot Sbl.bin \<br> –verbose[/bash]</p>