On 11/05/2011 15:48, Amos Shapira wrote: > I'm following the forums around it but from what I heard CM7 doesn't > fully support the SGS yet though this might change soon since Samsung > released the kernel sources a few weeks ago.
First piece of news is this: "Samsung Delivers Galaxy S II to CyanogenMod Dev, Says Get to Work" http://phandroid.com/2011/06/06/samsung-delivers-galaxy-s-ii-to-cyanogenmod-dev-says-get-to-work/ > If someone can point me to *detailed* instructions how to achieve that > without Odin then I'd love to hear - I don't have time to mess with a > dead phone if I screw things up or to sit through tons of text which > assumes you already know tons of jargon TLA's etc. I tried following > instructions but they all either start by assuming you know the > acronyms and the basic stuff or I end up chasing explanations of the > terms used in the instructions. Right, I finally overcame my fears and successfully flashed my SGS II I9100 in Linux yesterday. I'll be as detailed as I can, but ultimately exact instructions would depend on which ROM you want to flash. Basically: 1) Download and install Heimdall from here: http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/ There are debian packages (.deb) which can be installed in Ubuntu/Debian or converted to RPM. 2) Download whatever ROM you want. Unzip/unrar/etc to get the .tar.md5 file. This is just a regular tar file. Odin can read it all in one go. For Heimdall you need to untar it, and specify each file separately. 3) Get the phone into download mode. >From a powered off phone, hold down vol-down, home, and power. 4) There's a Heimdall GUI which I didn't use (since it's not updated for the latest version). But the command line is very easy. Run heimdall with no arguments for a list of options. Then it's a matter of specifying what each file is. The (possibly) less obvious ones are * zImage is the kernel * Sbl.bin is the Secondary Boot Loader Then it's just (as an example): heimdall flash --factoryfs factoryfs.bin --kernel zImage Yeah, it's that simple. For a full (stock) ROM it would probably be: heimdall flash --primary-boot boot.bin --cache cache.img --factoryfs factoryfs.img --hidden hidden.img --modem modem.bin --param param.lfs --secondary-boot Sbl.bin --kernel zImage Some ROMs require you to repartition how the memory is divided, in which case you'll also need, for example, "--repartition --pit 512.pit". 5) When Heimdall finishes, the phone reboots automatically with the new ROM. Note, that's the flashing part, which is "easy", but ROMs in general might be a bit more complicated. e.g. especially for the Galaxy S II which is new, you might need to e.g. wipe the phone before flashing. You should definitely wipe the cache if you don't flash a new one. You can do these actions from recovery mode (power on with vol-up, home, power). Note, the SGS I is sometimes hard to get into recovery, see my previous note in a previous email about that. The point is, even if you flash successfully, other things could still go wrong. But then it's not a problem to just reflash the device. Just make sure you don't unplug or power off during the middle of a flash! Generally speaking, if you aren't trying to keep your user data between flashes, more than likely if you flash a base ROM, and then a custom ROM known to work on top of that base rom, your chances of success are very high. Let me know if anything wasn't clear, and good luck :) G -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer <dra...@wastelands.net> www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 // _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
