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Root for mac?

Is there root tool for mac to this tmobile gs2?
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thepiratebay.org/torrent/6629819/Odin_[Samsung]_for_Mac
You can give this a shot
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thepiratebay.org/torrent/6629819/Odin_[Samsung]_for_Mac
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This wont root the phone for him. He will have to run Odin to install cwm & flash a rooted rom or run zergrush on the stock 2.3.5 rom
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Yes I know. It a program so he can do it on a mac
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Not sure that alone will do, he needs the Samsung drivers. To avoid issues just bootcamp windows and root there, that's how I did mine
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Yes I know. It a program so he can do it on a mac
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Do what? Keis wont root his phone.
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This has been asked and answered here previously, (1,2).
The file mentioned in the post above is a Wineskin wrapper for the Windows Odin program to run on Mac OSX. In other words it's the Windows Odin program running on Wine, on Mac OSX. However, the person that developed it posted this thread over on the android forums and the folks there that tried it, state that it didn't work. (Probably because the Wine emulation doesn't provide correct access to the USB ports).
To the OP, currently the only way to root the SGH-T989 is by using the Windows only program Odin. (The cross platform program Heimdall may be able to in the future, but right now there's this bug that keeps it from correctly accessing the SGH-T989). So this means if you have a Mac OSX computer, you need to install a full Windows OS. Either a multiboot installation of OSX and Windows using Boot Camp, or a full Windows OS, running in a Virtual Machine, like Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion, or VirtualBox. In terms of running Odin in Windows VM, this post describes success using Parallels, this post success using VMWare Fusion, and I posted here, that I successfully rooted my SGH-T989 using VirtualBox on Linux, (it should work similarly on OSX).
Good Luck..

jasnn said:
This has been asked and answered here previously, (1,2).
The file mentioned in the post above is a Wineskin wrapper for the Windows Odin program to run on Mac OSX. In other words it's the Windows Odin program running on Wine, on Mac OSX. However, the person that developed it posted this thread over on the android forums and the folks there that tried it, state that it didn't work. (Probably because the Wine emulation doesn't provide correct access to the USB ports).
To the OP, currently the only way to root the SGH-T989 is by using the Windows only program Odin. (The cross platform program Heimdall may be able to in the future, but right now there's this bug that keeps it from correctly accessing the SGH-T989). So this means if you have a Mac OSX computer, you need to install a full Windows OS. Either a multiboot installation of OSX and Windows using Boot Camp, or a full Windows OS, running in a Virtual Machine, like Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion, or VirtualBox. In terms of running Odin in Windows VM, this post describes success using Parallels, this post success using VMWare Fusion, and I posted here, that I successfully rooted my SGH-T989 using VirtualBox on Linux, (it should work similarly on OSX).
Good Luck..
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Bootcamp ftw. The only thing I do with my windows partition is run Odin, qpst and zergrush.
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I have a Win7 virtual machine installed on my Mac using VMware just for my occasional need for windows only apps, I booted into the VM and rooted 3 SGSII using that method. Virtualbox(free) should also work, but I haven't tried it.

(Q) easiest way to root and flash cwm without a pc

Is there even a way to do this my laptop was sent in for repairs and I just bought a sgs2 but its not rooted and I cannot stand stock. Please help will be very "thank"ful for any info. Searched stickies but was not successful.
Location: Earth
Provider: T-Mobile
Device: HTC Amaze 4G
Rom: NM Sense
Version: 1.1
Kernel: nmkernel 1.1

you really have to flash cwm with Odin via windows. Maybe you could use adb to push super user app to your system forward slash app. But of course you need a PC for that as well... No I don't think you can easily root your sgs2 without a pc.
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Rushing said:
you really have to flash cwm with Odin via windows. Maybe you could use adb to push super user app to your system forward slash app. But of course you need a PC for that as well... No I don't think you can easily root your sgs2 without a pc.
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[Q] how to connect phone to Ubuntu desktop.

I wiped my computer with dban then installed ubuntu 10.04and my computer doesn't recognize my phone. Any help?
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Does adb recognize it?
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Do you have a link for the tool on Ubuntu?
Never had a need for adb and I don't really know what I'm talking about..I f'd my computer so I'm learning Linux from scratch
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TerryNever had a need for adb and I don't really know what I'm talking about..I f'd my computer so I'm learning Linux from scratch
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You can _blair;36709215]Do you have a link for the tool on Ubuntu?
You can install it with apt
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Here is a link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11823740
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For transferring files I use airdroid - I've tried to follow various how-tos for getting mtp to work on Ubuntu (12.04), with limited success.
Any particular reason you went with 10.04 btw? 12.04 is also LTS and few guides will cover 10.04...

well originally after I wiped my computer I was going to install window xp..I received the blue screen of death..code 0x0000007b. So with no other operating system installed I found by ubuntu disk which I made to dual boot with windows to try out a while back and installed it. My only other resources to download anything is my phone
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New Sgh T989

Hello.. I have a New sg2 my second one. I want to root it right now but leave it on stock. How do i do that with my mac? I Dont have a pc.
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That's a very good question but from what I know if I'm not mistaken is that you possibly can't root your phone with a Mac
that's just my knowledge...
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From my understanding no, Odin will not work unless it's on Windows, I've heard people run it on a virtual OS on a Mac. You should just ask a friend really to save you time.
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Install windows on your Mac is an option
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Yeah, running a virtual OS is possible but a risk, so I suggest you go to a friend or install windows with bootcamp

Duel boot Linux or Ubuntu s latest . then get adb working in my Sig on PC or desktop view are three lines in my Sig .open terminal and paste those in one at a time and enter.you have adb. Then unzip the zip push the root and push its su file via adb to their rightful place that should root your phone without Odin or just get adb working on your Mac and do the same. I like Linux and Ubuntu though, over Mac. Or here *-X-*
also get fastboot working so that you can use it to install a custom recovery like twrp with this command `~ fastboot flash recovery recoveryfilename.img
Before Odin was ADB.
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I will fail terribly at tht Im sorry
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I will fail terribly at tht Im sorry
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At what part are you thinking you will fail?
just get a windows7 and use odin macs complicate things for Android users.
or dual boot Linux Mint for free.
Or Root with Mac via ADB
that guide is for the Nexus Toro so of course you will use only recoveries and files for the t-989.. the su file is somewhat universal as in the newer su files will work with most if not all devices Ive encountered certainly a su file that works for nexus would work for our device and so would superuser .apk but recoveries are device specific and the wrong one will result in a possible brick, very likely.

google heimdall

[Q] I HATE KIES!!! Is there another way?? to upgrade?

I HATE KIES!!! Is there another way?? to upgrade to Jelly Bean?...I have been trying to install from a Windows PC, but like always KIES gives me problems?
There has to be another way to do this other than the Samsung program?...any clues as to how I might to this

You can flash the jellybean update thru odin.
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U-bone said:
You can flash the jellybean update thru odin.
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Can I use Linux with odin?, I use Fuduntu as my main pc it's an Ubuntu type distro, as I have to borrow a windows device everytime I use Kies, my other machine is a Google Chromebook and I don't think it will work there but I'm looking in to it??

Galaxy-Shadow said:
Can I use Linux with odin?, I use Fuduntu as my main pc it's an Ubuntu type distro, as I have to borrow a windows device everytime I use Kies, my other machine is a Google Chromebook and I don't think it will work there but I'm looking in to it??
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As far as i know odin only works on windowa os.
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can you tell me how can i install throug odin ,,, and is there any difference between the rom with odin or kies installation

mina_munchy said:
can you tell me how can i install throug odin ,,, and is there any difference between the rom with odin or kies installation
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Its in the development thread. .its just the same the method of flashing is only the difference.
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Heimdall is an open-source cross-platform tool similar to odin that is reported to work on linux. Options for linux are .deb binaries or sources you compile yourself.
You can also dd image files with adb.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you want to though. It's not hard to brick your phone using these tools.

mina_munchy said:
can you tell me how can i install throug odin ,,, and is there any difference between the rom with odin or kies installation
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Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2226886
Use this thread if you want to root afterwards:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2226774