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Heimdall 1.3 GUI Guide Using EE25 Full Flash

I used Heimdall 1.3 to flash Cellular South Showcase's EE25 Full update. All files needed are attached. Thanks to phidelt82 for all the necessary files. You can find tips for ODIN at phidelt's link, but you can do the same thing in heimdall 1.3.
Look for Heimdall and installed the frontend version
CS Full EE25 can be found here
Search for CS_FULL_EE25 and find the files (they won't let me post outside links
1.Once you download Heimdall-frontend, right click and choose open with GDebi
Package installer. Go through the steps to install.
2. Extract EE25_Full_Flash, then extract "EE25_fullOdin.tar.md5"
3. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and type heimdall-frontend. Wait for the GUI to load
4. Go to flash tab. Under PIT, browse for atlas_v2.2.2.pit
5. Under partitions, click Add.
Choose IBL+PBL
Browse for boot.bin
Click Add
Change partition name to SBL and browse for Sbl.bin
Click add (You will have to click add after every new addition)
PARAM = param.lfs
KERNEL = zImage
RECOVERY = recovery.bin
FACTORYFS = factoryfs.rfs
DBDATAFS = dbdata.rfs
CACHE = cache.rfs
MODEM = modem.bin
Turn your phone off. Take the battery out. Plug your USB cord into your computer (keep it out of your phone). Hold down the "Volume Down" button and then insert the USB capable into your phone. You should enter download mode (A yellow Android background).
Click start on Heimdall and wait for it to finish

I searched for cs_full_ee25 and cant find the file. Can you point me in the right direction?

Sorry, they won't let me post links.
Google search "rootzwiki full ee25" without quotes
should be the first page

How to Make an Odin .img Tar File...?

Hello,
I'm just wondering how I can make the .tar file with the recovery.img file in it and flash with Odin? Does anyone have a guide to how to do this? I recently downloaded the latest recovery from Clockworkmod website, but don't know what to do from there. I know how to flash with Odin of course, but don't know how to make the .tar file with the recovery.img file in it. I tried to (NOOB) rename the recovery file I got from cwm website to "recovery.img" and put it as a .tar file using 7Zip, thinking it would work, but didn't work. So I'm guessing there's another way, I'm sure I can figure it out with a good guide. Thanks!
P.S: Only reason why I want to know how to do this is because there's no actual place to my knowledge where I can update my cwm recovery automatically, but if anyone knows an automatic way of updating cwm that would be a big plus. Thanks.

you could use rom manager. As long as your device is rooted, Rom Manager will download and flash your recovery for you.
or...
You can also put your recovery file on your sdcard so that the path would be /sdcard/recovery.img Then using either adb shell or terminal emulator, the command would be
su
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18

lordmorphous said:
you could use rom manager. As long as your device is rooted, Rom Manager will download and flash your recovery for you.
or...
You can also put your recovery file on your sdcard so that the path would be /sdcard/recovery.img Then using either adb shell or terminal emulator, the command would be
su
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
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Oh yeah I know about rom manager, I just want to know how to make the file so I can, in the future update my cwm recovery version. I use Rom Manager to flash the recovery and do what I want in the recovery, that's not an issue, just updating it to a later version if one comes out is why I want to know how to make the file. I tried to download the latest cwm from Rom Manager, but when it gives me the devices list to download, the Galaxy S3 is not there.

A day or two ago I opened rom manager and it prompted me that there was an update for my recovery downloaded it and flashed it no problem

You are in luck, I needed a ODIN flashable tar of CWM 6.1.0.8 yesterday, and I made a flashable tar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30494477#post30494477
I run linux, and I"m not positive how to make your own ODIN flashable .tar from a .img file in Windows, but on Linux the commands are as follows.
Download the recovery from the CWM website.
Rename the file from <WhateverItsCalled>.img to recovery.img
Open a terminal window and get to the folder that recovery.img is in.
Type in the following command without the quotes: "tar -H ustar -c recovery.img > recovery.tar"
You will not have an ODIN flashable file called recovery.tar.
To flash it, open ODIN, make sure your phone is in download mode and ODIN sees it. Click on the PDA button, choose recovery.tar, hit start. The phone will reboot when its done.

DeathKoil said:
You are in luck, I needed a ODIN flashable tar of CWM 6.1.0.8 yesterday, and I made a flashable tar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30494477#post30494477
I run linux, and I"m not positive how to make your own ODIN flashable .tar from a .img file in Windows, but on Linux the commands are as follows.
Download the recovery from the CWM website.
Rename the file from <WhateverItsCalled>.img to recovery.img
Open a terminal window and get to the folder that recovery.img is in.
Type in the following command without the quotes: "tar -H ustar -c recovery.img > recovery.tar"
You will not have an ODIN flashable file called recovery.tar.
To flash it, open ODIN, make sure your phone is in download mode and ODIN sees it. Click on the PDA button, choose recovery.tar, hit start. The phone will reboot when its done.
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Ah thanks! I downloaded that tar file and updated successfully! I will try that command guide out and see if it works. Thanks again! :fingers-crossed:
lordmorphous said:
A day or two ago I opened rom manager and it prompted me that there was an update for my recovery downloaded it and flashed it no problem
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Hmm...that's really weird..I never got such a message.
EDIT: Tried the command guide, and it didn't work unfortunately, but it does show the recovery.tar file, won't let me open saying it is damaged. On the cmd it tells me: 'tar' is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file.
The recovery.tar file is made though, but can't be opened. Any tips?

Thr toolkit posted lets you do that
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app

is 6.0.1.2 much better than the version from the toolkit?

No I'm saying that the toolkit Lets you make img files into Odin flashable tar files
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app

drakeymcmb said:
No I'm saying that the toolkit Lets you make img files into Odin flashable tar files
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app
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Yes you're right! Thanks a lot. Made one using a recovery image downloaded from cwm website, makes tar file and everything, worked when flashing with Odin. Thanks again.

DeathKoil said:
You are in luck, I needed a ODIN flashable tar of CWM 6.1.0.8 yesterday, and I made a flashable tar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30494477#post30494477
I run linux, and I"m not positive how to make your own ODIN flashable .tar from a .img file in Windows, but on Linux the commands are as follows.
Download the recovery from the CWM website.
Rename the file from <WhateverItsCalled>.img to recovery.img
Open a terminal window and get to the folder that recovery.img is in.
Type in the following command without the quotes: "tar -H ustar -c recovery.img > recovery.tar"
You will not have an ODIN flashable file called recovery.tar.
To flash it, open ODIN, make sure your phone is in download mode and ODIN sees it. Click on the PDA button, choose recovery.tar, hit start. The phone will reboot when its done.
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To do the same thing in windows, you need to use Cygwin.

what is the toolkit u guys are talking about? Is there a link?:silly:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746665
I think this is the one they are referring to.

mrhaley30705 said:
To do the same thing in windows, you need to use Cygwin.
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I happened to have Cygwin installed so I used it to tar the image, but you could probably use 7-z

DeathKoil said:
You are in luck, I needed a ODIN flashable tar of CWM 6.1.0.8 yesterday, and I made a flashable tar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30494477#post30494477
I run linux, and I"m not positive how to make your own ODIN flashable .tar from a .img file in Windows, but on Linux the commands are as follows.
Download the recovery from the CWM website.
Rename the file from <WhateverItsCalled>.img to recovery.img
Open a terminal window and get to the folder that recovery.img is in.
Type in the following command without the quotes: "tar -H ustar -c recovery.img > recovery.tar"
You will not have an ODIN flashable file called recovery.tar.
To flash it, open ODIN, make sure your phone is in download mode and ODIN sees it. Click on the PDA button, choose recovery.tar, hit start. The phone will reboot when its done.
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I'm also running Linux, but my computer seems to have problems communicating with my S GS3 (T999V). It doesn't help that I'm new to linux, but where do you get a driver for the gs3 for linux? Also, if I were to package a ROM into a .tar or .tar.gz to be flashed with Heimdall, what do? just unzip my rom, repackage as .tar.gz and try with heimdall?

I stall out on flashing recovery image. Here's what I get. I'm using a tar where I manually swapped in the recovery image on my own.
<ID:0/004> Added!!
<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..
<ID:0/004> File analysis..
<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/004> Initialzation..
<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/004> recovery.img
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And it just stalls. The screen of the phone appears as if nothing happened. I don't see the progress bar or anything.
Odin shows the first blue bar of the progress bar but it never goes beyond that.
Any help?
EDIT - it worked fine using one of the tars from this thread. - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2015369 - So what am I doing wrong when substituting a recovery image on my own?

Help how to make stock to cwm flash ?

I'm trying to learn how to make my own ROM from stock. So far I learned how to use dsixda kitchen and adb. I'm stuck on how to convert stock.tar.md5 to cwm flash able . when I extracted the stock file it has 2 files ss_DL.DLL and the t999uvldja_t999MBDLJA_HOME.tar.md5. I decompressed the t999uvldja_t999MBDLJA_HOME.tar.md5. and there are several files in there but I don't see modem.bin cache.rfs factoryfs.rfs that i need to open with magiciso but I see other files like boot.img system.img.ext4 sbl2.mbn and such. This is where I'm stuck. Any developers out there that can help me? Thanks

[Q] How to flash baseband modem with Odin without rooting

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to flash/change/update just the baseband modem in my AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3 SGH-I747 without rooting the phone? After installing the latest update via the Samsung KIES software my phone reception has dropped a good bit. I no longer have service where I used to. My phone calls are also very choppy in the fringe reception areas, where before they were significantly better. I live in an area where 4G/3G coverage is fairly spotty, so EDGE is my primary network.
I wish I could remember which baseband version it had before the update so I could roll back to it, but I don't, so it may take a few tries before I can find the correct baseband version. Before the update I know I had ICS v4.0.4......not sure on Baseband version. Now I have Jelly Bean v4.1.1 (which I would like to keep) with Baseband I747UCDLK3.
I've tried using Odin v3.07 and the "AT&T Models Only! (I747U)" files via the link below and inserting the correct file path into the "Phone" section without any luck. Odin detects my phone, starts the process, but fails. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831898
I've read to only use the "PDA" section in Odin to flash, but the files via the link below dont seem to have the proper file to use with the "PDA" seciton in Odin......am I missing something critical here maybe?
I then came across the following link where other people have used Odin to flash the baseband modem and seem to have been successful. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=927568
Thanks for any help because I've spent hours searching the forum and Internet trying to find an answer!

I think using 7zip is your solution. Open the 4.1.1 TAR file with 7zip and replace the new modem with the older ICS one.
You would then flash this with ODIN. I haven't tested this myself, but I was advised that this works.

I've tried downloading three different stock ROM files and when I open or extract the files using 7zip, I'm unable to find any file or folder named modem or modem.bin. What am I missing or doing wrong here?
One of the extracted files contains files named, aboot.mbn, boot.img, recovery.img, HON-HLOS.bin, system.img.ext4, and some other misc files.
Another of the extracted files contains three folders, data, META-INF, system, and a file named boot.img. Within the system folder I see 19 other folders....app, bin, cameradata, csc, etc.........folders, but nothing named modem.
Thanks!

SideWinder4x4 said:
I've tried downloading three different stock ROM files and when I open or extract the files using 7zip, I'm unable to find any file or folder named modem or modem.bin. What am I missing or doing wrong here?
One of the extracted files contains files named, aboot.mbn, boot.img, recovery.img, HON-HLOS.bin, system.img.ext4, and some other misc files.
Another of the extracted files contains three folders, data, META-INF, system, and a file named boot.img. Within the system folder I see 19 other folders....app, bin, cameradata, csc, etc.........folders, but nothing named modem.
Thanks!
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i believe HON-HLOS.bin is your modem

SideWinder4x4 said:
and when I open or extract the files using 7zip,
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Do not actually extract the files or else you will ruin the MD5 checksum and the flashing process will fail. Simply replace the modem file with the one you want to use by taking a "peek" in the actual TAR file.

Non-hlos.bin is the modem. But, chances are just replacing the modem in the tar. Md5 will cause a check sum failure. To do what you want, you need to make a new tar.md5 with just the modem in it. Then load that into the phone slot in Odin.

mrhaley30705 said:
Non-hlos.bin is the modem. But, chances are just replacing the modem in the tar. Md5 will cause a check sum failure. To do what you want, you need to make a new tar.md5 with just the modem in it. Then load that into the phone slot in Odin.
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I've tried this method using Ubuntu Terminal to create a new modem.tar.md5 file, but everytime I try to flash with Odin, it fails. What am I doing wrong. Thanks for any further advice, this is driving me crazy!
My steps are as follows:
1.) I'm unzipping the correct modem files (modem_CWM_I747_UCLH9.zip) from this link - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831898
2.) I'm taking the "modem.bin" file and copying it to Ubuntu desktop folder
3.) I'm opening Terminal
4.) I change to the Desktop directory
5.) First command...without the quotes is "tar -H ustar -c modem.bin > modem.tar"
6.) Second command...without the quotes is "md5sum -t modem.tar >> modem.tar"
7.) Third command...without the quotes is "mv modem.tar modem.tar.md5"
8.) I copy that "modem.tar.md5" file back to my Windows 7 based computer
9.) I rename "modem.tar.md5" to "modem.tar"
10.) I press and hold the "Home" + "Power" + "Volume Down" keys on my phone, then when prompted press the "Volume Up" key
11.) On the screen I see the following: ODIN MODE, PRODUCT NAME: SGH-I747, CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No, CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official, SYSTEM STATUS: Official, QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE
12.) I then open Odin v3.07 using defaults
13.) Odin recognizes my phone on COM8 with a blue teal colored box
14.) I press the "Phone" button and select the "modem.tar" file
15.) I press the "Start" button and it shows "modem.bin" in the first box in white, but about 5 seconds later it turns red and says FAIL!
The Odin message box indicates the following:
<ID:0/008> Added!!
<ID:0/008> Odin v.3 engine (ID:8)..
<ID:0/008> File analysis..
<ID:0/008> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/008> Initialzation..
<ID:0/008> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/008> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/008> modem.bin
<ID:0/008> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/008> Transmission Complete..
<ID:0/008> Now Writing.. Please wait about 2 minutes
<ID:0/008> Receive Response from boot-loader
<ID:0/008> FAIL!
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

Well, try naming it NON-HLOS.bin instead of modem.bin. Also, don't rename it after you make the tar.md5 file.

Solution Found
I finally got this figured out. Thanks for all of the help and ideas along the way!
The key tip was found in this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1658809
Just to simplify things for others in the future, the steps I performed were as follows:
1.) Installed Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/
2.) Started Cygwin Terminal
3.) Put the SGH-I747_ATT_I747UCDLK3_I747ATTDLK3_Original.tar.md5 firmware file into the following folder I created "c:\baseband"
4.) In Cygwin, typed the following command without the quotes "cd /cygdrive/c/baseband"
5.) In Cygwin, typed the following command without the quotes "tar -xvf SGH-I747_ATT_I747UCDLK3_I747ATTDLK3_Original.tar.md5 NON-HLOS.bin"
6.) In Cygwin, typed the following command without the quotes "tar -H ustar -c NON-HLOS.bin > baseband.tar"
7.) Pressed and held the "Home" + "Power" + "Volume Down" keys on my phone, then when prompted pressed the "Volume Up" key to enter "Download Mode"
8.) I then opened Odin v3.07 using defaults
9.) Connected my phone to my computer using the proper USB cable
10.) Odin recognizes my phone on COM8
11.) I pressed the "Phone" button and selected the "baseband.tar" file I created in step #6
12.) I pressed the "Start" button and about 30 seconds later it finishes and the box turns green and the phone rebooted.

Thanks Sidewinder. Its very informative.. I am facing a strange issue on my Galaxy R ever since I upgraded to ICS and JB (stock/ custom ROMs).
Very often I get my calls disconnected while speaking. This was not the case with Ginger bread..
Today followed your procedure to extract the modem.bin from stock GB rom and flashed to my JB custom ROM (Carbon).. Looks good so far..tried
with test calls - seems to be OK.. Will observe for some more time.

You're Welcome asbalaji. I'm glad what I posted helped you out. My phone reception issues improved a lot after downgrading to an older modem.

Anonymously_Unknown said:
I think using 7zip is your solution. Open the 4.1.1 TAR file with 7zip and replace the new modem with the older ICS one.
You would then flash this with ODIN. I haven't tested this myself, but I was advised that this works.
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I am in desperate need of a baseband to flash via ODIN for a boostmobile galaxy S3
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mrhaley30705 said:
Non-hlos.bin is the modem. But, chances are just replacing the modem in the tar. Md5 will cause a check sum failure. To do what you want, you need to make a new tar.md5 with just the modem in it. Then load that into the phone slot in Odin.
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Basebadn boostmobile s3

[Tutorial] Heimdall and flashing mikeyman77's UVMC6.aio.tar.md5 file

Already posted this mistakenly in the Galaxy S2 International forum...
These instructions are specific to Heimdall and T-Mobile Galaxy SII Hercules CM 10.1
Since this is my first post, I can't post in the CM10.1 nightlies for Hercules, where it'd probably be much more useful...
In any case, after many hours of torture, I was able to flash the mikeyman77 md5 file and successfully upgrade the firmware USING HEIMDALL on my T-Mobile Galaxy SII on Ubuntu 13.04 (usually only Odin the Great Bungholio can accomplish this).
Instructions:
1. Download mikeyman77 md5 file (search the CM10.1 nightly forum)
2. Delete md5 extension, leaving UVMC6.aio.tar
3. Extract files (best to do all of this in the home folder unless you want to cd to your chosen directory)
4. USB connect phone - download mode
5. Open terminal: heimdall detect
6. sudo heimdall flash --81 sbl2.mbn --71 rpm.mbn --69 sbl3.mbn --76 aboot.mbn --70 tz.mbn --12 amss.mbn --143 mdm.bin
*IMPORTANT: These numbers were taken from my phone's partition identifiers and corresponding files.
You may want to double check that those numbers are the same in your partitions, otherwise the upgrade will not complete successfully.
This can be checked by:
sudo heimdall print-pit
Phone should reboot - then in android terminal, check to see if your system firmware has upgraded by typing:
cat /sys/devices/platform/msm_rpm/fw_version
Number listed should be 2.0.67419 (usually from 2.0.1115)
Since upgrading firmware, have been RR and SOD free in 36 hours - only 1 instance of upside down screen on wake from sleep...