[PROGRAM] Heimdall - Open-Source Cross-Platform Flashing Suite (1.3.2 Now Available)

letinsh · 21st August 2012, 12:52 AM

Great question. I'm dual booting, so I can always run in Windows and use Odin, but I was kinda hoping to get Heimdall running...

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damaa · 31st August 2012, 02:33 PM

Download Link doesn't work. Does anybody know a mirror? I need the linux version.
Thanks.

liamwli · 1st September 2012, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by damaa

Download Link doesn't work. Does anybody know a mirror? I need the linux version.
Thanks.

Completely correct. The link has been dead for months!

jerryp7 · 1st September 2012, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by liamwli

Completely correct. The link has been dead for months!

It should be in your repos. That's where I found it in Synaptic.

appagom · 7th October 2012, 03:14 AM

I am getting large amounts of data corruption, some bits in nearly every file, using heimdall in linux to flash factoryfs.img to SGSII (SHW-M250K).. probably this bug:

https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall/issues/37

and I did then pull the latest version from git (which does claim to be 1.4RC1 when executed) and I still get corruption.

This is bad. Most people don't diff the binaries on their phone against the ROM when things are acting weird (since most don't even know how to access the files on their ROM from a PC). Bad flashing wasn't my first guess either so it took me quite awhile to track this down. I hope nobody else needs to. The worst part is the ROMS usually boot, just very buggy. If it was bad enough to completely fail, most people would assume a bad flash I think, but it's not.

Of course I did then test with Odin. It was a linux machine so to test identical hardware I actually installed odin in a windows vm, maybe a little bold, but it actually worked with no corruption for the same ROM.

I've used heimdall to flash many kernels, but it is certainly not suitable for flashing full ROMS on this phone. This needs to be a big red warning

---------- Post added at 04:14 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:03 AM ----------

In all fairness, I can't find where it's advertised to work on this device. It is recognized though, and now that we know, I think some warnings for this device beyond just "it might not work" are appropriate for now.

edo_xda · 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Benjamin Dobell

Anyway, for some reason OS X doesn't provide a method to uninstall packages. Well it does actually but it is hidden away and there isn't a user interface. It's apparently the "Mac way" to only remove the applications themselves. Personally I would only worry about removing Heimdall Frontend (i.e. drag it to the trash) and I wouldn't bother removing libusb or the kext. However if you really want to delete everything then you need to remove the following:

/usr/local/lib/libusb-1.0.0
/System/Library/Extensions/heimdall.kext
/usr/local/bin/heimdall (it's actually missing in the existing package, see above)
/Applications/heimdall-frontend.app

Thanks for this post - I tried it out and this is what I needed to uninstall / remove Heimdall 1.3.1 (installed after a 1.3.2 install)

Code:

macbook:~ root# rm /usr/local/lib/libusb-1.0.0.dylib 
macbook:~ root# rm -rf  /System/Library/Extensions/heimdall.kext
macbook:~ root# which heimdall
/usr/bin/heimdall
macbook:~ root# rm -rf /usr/bin/heimdall 
macbook:~ root# rm -rf /Applications/heimdall-frontend.app

screamwork · 15th October 2012, 02:35 PM

alharaka · 29th October 2012, 08:50 PM

Anyone successfully flashed a recovery on any Samsung Galaxy device, particularly the Galaxy Note (GT-N7000)? I was able to successfully flash using Mobile ODIN Lite as instructed by people using the Team Win Recovery Project on this device, but did so because Heimdall said it flashed the recovery successfully, but then clearly did not when I rebooted recovery and was still ClockWorkMod 6.1.2. Here is the verbose log of the op from Heimdall 1.3.1 CLI on OS X 10.6.8.

Any thoughts? Is Benjamin still working on this tool or is what he said many pages back about being too busy still hold true?

Code:

my-bacbook-pro:~ root# heimdall flash --recovery /Users/myusername/Downloads/boot.img --verbose
Heimdall v1.3.1, Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Benjamin Dobell, Glass Echidna
http://www.glassechidna.com.au

This software is provided free of charge. Copying and redistribution is
encouraged.

If you appreciate this software and you would like to support future
development please consider donating:
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/donate/

Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
      Manufacturer: "SAMSUNG"
           Product: "Gadget Serial"

            length: 18
      device class: 2
               S/N: 0
           VID:PID: 04E8:685D
         bcdDevice: 021B
   iMan:iProd:iSer: 1:2:0
          nb confs: 1

interface[0].altsetting[0]: num endpoints = 1
   Class.SubClass.Protocol: 02.02.01
       endpoint[0].address: 83
           max packet size: 0010
          polling interval: 09

interface[1].altsetting[0]: num endpoints = 2
   Class.SubClass.Protocol: 0A.00.00
       endpoint[0].address: 81
           max packet size: 0200
          polling interval: 00
       endpoint[1].address: 02
           max packet size: 0200
          polling interval: 00
Claiming interface...
Setting up interface...

Checking if protocol is initialised...
Protocol is not initialised.
Initialising protocol...
Handshaking with Loke...

Beginning session...
Session begun with device of type: 131072

Downloading device's PIT file...
PIT file download sucessful

Uploading RECOVERY
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RECOVERY upload successful
Ending session...
Rebooting device...

shag_on_e · 5th December 2012, 11:18 PM

I can't wait for 1.4 to be released! When news of its source hit I desperately tried for weeks to get it to compile but just could not get it to work. After the prop file was added, which was the error I was getting before when building, I now get errors that files are missing for heimdall-frontend ui window or something to that effect. I have the correct version of QT along with the pro version of Visual Studio, and I just can't get it to work. I can post the errors if anyone feels froggy enough to help a bother out! I am excited to be able to dump a working PIT file for the Toro Galaxy Nexus using this, so hopefully I can get it figured out soon!

FunkyELF · 6th December 2012, 03:54 PM

Heimdall vs. CWM / TWRP

What are the advantages / disadvantages in using Heimdall vs. CWM or TWRP?
Does Heimdall provide additional functionality?

I rooted my GS3 with kies or something like that and now that I have TWRP installed I don't see why I'd need anything else.

Just asking, not trolling. I'd like to understand.

Thanks,
~Eric