[Q] Odin and Mac Parallels Desktop VM

jsamuels · 7th August 2010, 04:48 PM

[Q] Odin and Mac Parallels Desktop VM

Has anyone successfully completed Odin One-Click on a Mac using a VM? Odin can see the COM port just fine before I complete the battery/sim/downloader ritual. No problem getting into download mode - but I am unable to make the USB connection as before. I'm stumped.

Anim8ED_1 · 7th August 2010, 07:13 PM

Same boat (using Parallels).
I had to revert back to my 7yr old Sony Vaio to do it. Couldn't get Odin to recognize the device.

NukaCola · 7th August 2010, 09:22 PM

Try using virtualbox works great on linux hosts, should be fine on Mac as well.

gothdroid · 29th August 2010, 04:33 AM

I had to partition my hard drive and use boot camp to get ODIN to work on my mac. That's about the only way I got it to work. I tried Parallels and got the same as you couldn't get it working.

gunnyman · 29th August 2010, 06:02 PM

Odin won't work in a VM. I ran into this same problem flashing firmware on the Moment as well. I think it sucks that there isn't a Mac version.

cebb · 25th October 2010, 08:10 PM

has anyone gotten odin to work on a mac yet?

er1cha · 24th April 2011, 06:04 AM

Yes! i got it to work tonight (on my i9000). I couldn't find anything confirming it working on either phone, so i thought i would just try it out myself.

Using Parallels 5 on OS X 10.5, just make sure you get the windows drivers for the phone, ODIN will recognize.

Sorry for rezzing this thread, but i wanted to let people know it will work through parallels.

TRusselo · 24th April 2011, 10:12 AM

lol might want to explain " drivers " to the mac guys
hahaha

mrd49 · 25th April 2011, 02:12 AM

Are you using parallels? I've had trouble with parallels and getting the usb connection through from the mac hardware into windows. I've found a way to get it to work:
1. Connect the phone while booted normally, USB debugging on.
2. Use the version of odin in the AIO captivate tool. Opening odin here will automatically put the phone into download mode. I suspect that this is the same as giving the phone an adb download command from command line in the PC, but I haven't bothered to install the android sdk in windows to find out.
3. For some reason, telling the phone to reboot to download mode from windows makes it stay connected. You can now use odin.

Downside to this method: it doesn't work if your phone can't boot.

I've actually had occasional luck getting it to connect while forcing the phone to boot straight into download mode with the buttons on the phone. This seems to be a bug in parallels and/or the usb drivers in mac os.