Hemidall, not sure if its spelled right, lol. Probably not. Someone please correct me. Where are you flastnoles? Lmao. Yes it works just as good from what I have heard.
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Close, it is spelled Heimdall (you reversed the i and the m - hemi-dall gave me a chuckle)
And on linux, it is at least as reliable as Odin. You can't use Odin tars directly - if a Heimdall package has not been made, then you'll need to extract the Odin tar and manually add each component.
First time users may need up to a half hour of reading to be on the safe side - you don't want to flash, for example, the modem as the kernel, so you'll need to be sure to correctly assign each component. I don't actually know if Heimdall would "just do it" and mess up the device, or if it would call you stupid (I mean, give an error, lol), but I don't want to find out the hard way
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