Le jeudi 14 septembre 2017 à 21:51 +0200, Frédéric Lochon a écrit : > Le 13/09/2017 à 00:26, Frédéric Lochon a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > I just got a samsung galaxy S2 but, unfortunately, the USB is not > > working properly. > > > > So, by the time I try to repair the USB connection, I'm asking if > > that > > would be possible to install replicant without a USB cable. > > > > As I have root access on the phone, I was wondering if "mobile > > odin" > > could do the trick (or maybe busybox). > > > > > > OK, my message was not crystal clear... Even if managed to repair the > USB, let me rephrase my question because I'm curious to know the > response. > > I have a galaxy S2 but USB is not working properly. > So, if I follow the recommended installation procedure I cannot > proceed. > One of the steps is to flash the KERNEL partition. But, without a USB > cable that's not possible. > > So, my question should have been: "how to flash the KERNEL partition > without a USB cable ?". > One of my guess was to use "mobile ODIN", but the image which can be > found is a .img file and "mobile ODIN" doesn't want such a file. > Maybe there is some way to "convert" the .img file but I'm not really > used to that, and because the target is a smartphone, it can be quite > difficult to recover from a bad operation. > > Another guess was to use some utilities (something like "dd" from GNU > coreutils) to write the KERNEL partition. > But, again, I'm not comfortable with eMMC storage. > > Maybe there are some other way of doing it. > > > Anyway, I have repaired the USB connector, so I have been able to > follow > the recommended procedure to flash the KERNEL partition. > But I'm just curious to know if any of my ideas is feasible or not. > > Frédéric, proudly running replicant ! > > _______________________________________________ > Replicant mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
Hi, If I'm not wrong, you can put the image files on your SD card and then use those to flash your phone by booting into some special recovery- mode (some combination of home, lock/power and volume up/down). _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
