I have always played with my Samsung Handsets (Rooting, Multi-Booting, trying different ROMs) using the standard Odin software on Windows. Somehow have never loved the easy life on Windows and always fancied to work on the Macintosh OS (Being from a Unix Background, I liked it even more). I own an Apple MacBook Air, and have been doing a lot of stuff lately using it.
The latest was trying to install the stock rom on my Galaxy S2. The steps I followed will be briefed in the below blog.
Pre-requisites
1- Samsung S2 phone (Or any other phone model)
2- USB Cable
3- Battery at-least 50% charged
4- Download the required Stock Rom (can use http://stockroms.net)
5- Install heimdall-suite-1.4.0-mac.dmg on your Mac. Download here
In my case I downloaded ICS Stock Rom for Galaxy S2
Step 1 : Connect your phone
A- Open Heimdall
B- Connect the USB cable on the phone
C- Restart the phone in download mode (Vol Down + Power + Home)
D- Vol UP to continue download mode
E- In Heimdall GUI, click on Utilities
F- Click on detect on the top left. The output should say "Device detected", if not, repeat the steps again from B.
Step 2 : Download the current PIT file.
If you need to save your current partition instruction table, you have to create a PIT file of the current set up.
A - Follow step 1 to connect phone
B- Once device is connected, in Utilities screen, click on save as.
C- Give a path where you want to save the PIT file
D- Click on download. This will download the pit file on the location you mention. If it hangs in the process anywhere, repeat the steps and try
Output Screen Heimdall+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Successful Rom Updates using Macbok - Heimdall
Heimdall v1.4.0
Copyright (c) 2010-2013, 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...
Claiming interface...
Setting up interface...
Initialising protocol...
Protocol initialisation successful.
Beginning session...
Some devices may take up to 2 minutes to respond.
Please be patient!
Session begun.
Downloading device's PIT file...
PIT file download successful.
Output Ends++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Step 3 : Installing the ROM
The ROM you download, should have the below mentioned files to continue install
Output Screen Heimdall+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Successful Rom Updates using Macbok - Heimdall
Heimdall v1.4.0
Copyright (c) 2010-2013, 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...
Claiming interface...
Setting up interface...
Initialising protocol...
Protocol initialisation successful.
Beginning session...
Some devices may take up to 2 minutes to respond.
Please be patient!
Session begun.
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BOOT upload successful
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SBL1 upload successful
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HIDDEN upload successful
Ending session...
Rebooting device...
Releasing device interface...
Output Ends++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Enjoy Flashing your handset.... Cheers.
The latest was trying to install the stock rom on my Galaxy S2. The steps I followed will be briefed in the below blog.
Pre-requisites
1- Samsung S2 phone (Or any other phone model)
2- USB Cable
3- Battery at-least 50% charged
4- Download the required Stock Rom (can use http://stockroms.net)
5- Install heimdall-suite-1.4.0-mac.dmg on your Mac. Download here
In my case I downloaded ICS Stock Rom for Galaxy S2
Step 1 : Connect your phone
A- Open Heimdall
B- Connect the USB cable on the phone
C- Restart the phone in download mode (Vol Down + Power + Home)
D- Vol UP to continue download mode
E- In Heimdall GUI, click on Utilities
F- Click on detect on the top left. The output should say "Device detected", if not, repeat the steps again from B.
Step 2 : Download the current PIT file.
If you need to save your current partition instruction table, you have to create a PIT file of the current set up.
A - Follow step 1 to connect phone
B- Once device is connected, in Utilities screen, click on save as.
C- Give a path where you want to save the PIT file
D- Click on download. This will download the pit file on the location you mention. If it hangs in the process anywhere, repeat the steps and try
Output Screen Heimdall+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Successful Rom Updates using Macbok - Heimdall
Heimdall v1.4.0
Copyright (c) 2010-2013, 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...
Claiming interface...
Setting up interface...
Initialising protocol...
Protocol initialisation successful.
Beginning session...
Some devices may take up to 2 minutes to respond.
Please be patient!
Session begun.
Downloading device's PIT file...
PIT file download successful.
Output Ends++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Step 3 : Installing the ROM
The ROM you download, should have the below mentioned files to continue install
A - Follow Step 1 and Step 2 above
B- Click on Flash in Heimdall GUI frontend
C- Browse the PIT which you downloaded in Step 2, Once you do that the partition name field gets active
D- Select Partition name and assign respective files from the ROM which you need to install e.g
BOOT=boot.bin
CACHE=cache.img
FACTORYFS=factoryfs.img
HIDDEN=hidden.img
MODEM=modem.bin
PARAM=param.lfs
SB1=SbI.bin
KERNEL=zimage
E- Then click start. The magic will begin. Post install the phone will reboot, and Heimdall GUI fronted will look as below :
Output Screen Heimdall+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Successful Rom Updates using Macbok - Heimdall
Heimdall v1.4.0
Copyright (c) 2010-2013, 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...
Claiming interface...
Setting up interface...
Initialising protocol...
Protocol initialisation successful.
Beginning session...
Some devices may take up to 2 minutes to respond.
Please be patient!
Session begun.
Uploading BOOT
0%
100%
BOOT upload successful
Uploading SBL1
0%
80%
100%
SBL1 upload successful
Uploading PARAM
0%
94%
100%
PARAM upload successful
Uploading KERNEL
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KERNEL upload successful
Uploading CACHE
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CACHE upload successful
Uploading MODEM
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MODEM upload successful
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HIDDEN upload successful
Ending session...
Rebooting device...
Releasing device interface...
Output Ends++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Enjoy Flashing your handset.... Cheers.
