On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:24 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:23 PM, John Floren <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Installation is reasonably simple. You'll need the Android SDK >> (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html), with the platform-tools >> package installed for the adb and fastboot utilities. > > > I think things have changed since you started this work a while back > -- hey, it's android, right? > > First off, my phone when turned on says 'fastboot mode'. Does this > maybe mean it's already unlocked? It certainly doesn't match what the > various sites say I should expect to see. It does indicate that it is > locked, however. > > Second off, I just pulled this down: > http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html (the mac version), > patiently waited while I did a > tools/android update sdk > > and got lots and lots and lots of stuff, but ... no fastboot. > > The link on this page http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Fastboot goes > to an HTC site -- is that really what I want for a samsung phone? > > Ah, ok, went to the linux tools and it's there. > > So, first step, everyone: in spite of the docs you see on many Android > pages, you may not have fastboot on OSX. Just Linux. > > ron > >
We did all our development on Linux... had no idea fastboot doesn't ship with the SDK for OS X. And yeah, the link on the cyanogenmod wiki is outdated. Ugh. Just use Linux, guys :) I've looked around a bit but have not yet been able to find out where to download fastboot for OS X. John
