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[Q] Somebody fluent in Linux, Want to help me out?

Just need some questions answered/ suggestions.
I have ubuntu 10.04 on my HP Pavillion DV6z, and it works.. but is very crippled. It took me to hell and back to get my screen to work.. even though it won't detect my monitor but displays and I get random graphical glitches. My internet won't work through a cable anymore... and is supper slow and unreliable. I had to frakenstien my wifi drivers to make wifi even partially work. I have the windows wireless drivers for linux installed, as well as some other official drivers for my RTL8189ce wifi card that I installed via terminal. My wifi drops and reconnects quite often even though my router is RIGHT next to me. My battery lasts at the most 3 and a half hours... its a high capacity 6-cell li-ion battery. It lasts 7 hours or so on Windows and windows is a battery hog... and uses 30% of my 6gb's of RAM... Ubuntu uses 7%.
Okay now to the suggestions/questions... will newer builds help? I tried 11.10 and it wouldn't get my screen to turn on but found out about using "nomodeset" at the bootscreen and it should work... then permanetly adding that to the boot kernel. Not certain but may work. Is there a flavor of linux that is very similar to windows... or to better put universally compatible with more windows pc's? I was going to try deving and learning code but don't even think its worth it with such a crippled laptop ='[. PLEASE help me... I'm tired of being stuck with windows... love me some linux.
Not to offend/discourage anyone from helping but googling and pasting me some links isn't going to cut it trust me I've spent days on trying to fix this... and it is what it is now because of that.
So I need some real pros or someone who's been through this type of ordeal... even tho I hear most don't even get such issues.
Specs:
AMD A8 3550-mx with Radeon HD 6220g [discrete class graphics]
6gbs of RAM
Windows 7 64 and ubuntu 10.04 64bit
560gb HDD 5400rpm.
It gets the job done...
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Try LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). It fixed aprosamurai's issues. After you install it and boot up, open terminal and run this
Sudo apt-get update
Sudo apt-get upgrade
And then reboot
Ubuntu is super picky about drivers and mint debian edition 'just works'. In my opinion, Ubuntu is on a downfall as an OS for developers and has become an OS geared toward kids who want a super simple UI for just using the internet. It doesn't even natively support a full root user and the UI is incredibly hard to multitask on.
Aprosamurai had a similar graphics card (ATI built in). I have an ATI dedicated.
You shouldn't have to run any other mods after installing LMDE and doing what I said.
Ubuntu is touchwiz, LMDE is AOSP

I wouldn't call myself fluent in Linux but I am familiar and do use it on occassion (my laptop is triple booted). Have you tried the Ubuntu forums? I have had some luck with them but in general I don't think their forums users are very helpful and often ass holes. I would also try linuxquestions.org if you insist on using Ubuntu. I find them much friendlier. I also echo the above. I haven't used mint yet but only read good things about it. As soon as I am done with these last few weeks of school I am going to be replacement Ubuntu with mint.

Awesome =]. So I can just burn an iso and install it over my current partition right? I can't put it on another parititon I have to many apparently... windows, recovery, and ubuntu. Even had to delete my "hptools" partition which was used for "bios upgrading" but just recently got an update from HP and my bios updated just as it should.... hp fail.
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I would reformat the partition but when you boot up into the live cd I am sure it will give you the option to do so. Running the live cd first to make sure everything is working properly is always a good idea. If it isn't then you would want to hit up their forums and see if what is not working in your case is just a missing driver from the live cd and it would start working when you install it and update the OS or if there is something else going on.

Big Goron said:
Awesome =]. So I can just burn an iso and install it over my current partition right? I can't put it on another parititon I have to many apparently... windows, recovery, and ubuntu. Even had to delete my "hptools" partition which was used for "bios upgrading" but just recently got an update from HP and my bios updated just as it should.... hp fail.
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I would delete the Ubuntu partition and make a new one for LMDE to get a fresh start.
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marcusant said:
I would delete the Ubuntu partition and make a new one for LMDE to get a fresh start.
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=] alright thanks ... stupid xda and their 8 limited thanks..

So I'm installing mint and its asking for me to review the bootloader "install grub bootloader" is select for /dev/sda... is that where it goes? My partition is on sda4.
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Big Goron said:
So I'm installing mint and its asking for me to review the bootloader "install grub bootloader" is select for /dev/sda... is that where it goes? My partition is on sda4.
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Just do what it recommends. Grub is the part where it asks windows or Linux so it should be on /dev/sda
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Gotcha installing now =]
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Thank you SOOO much everything works perfect graphics and the wireless.
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Big Goron said:
Thank you SOOO much everything works perfect graphics and the wireless.
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No problem.
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Last question... upon sudo apt-get update its taking forever on 99%.. saying connecting to debian.linuxmint.com ?
Nevermind... its fine upgrading now..
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Big Goron said:
Last question... upon sudo apt-get update its taking forever on 99%.. saying connecting to debian.linuxmint.com ?
Nevermind... its fine upgrading now..
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It is 156.34% better than ubuntu
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marcusant said:
It is 156.34% better than ubuntu
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Yep.. its working flawlessly the sound doesnt crackle like it did on ubuntu.... . Im very tempted to remove my windows partition altogether .. but i wont. one issue though everytime i go to the update manager and try to let it update to 1.5 it keeps sticking.. ? wont do anything and i have to force quit it. is it normal that it freezes and is it just me jumping the gun?

Big Goron said:
Yep.. its working flawlessly the sound doesnt crackle like it did on ubuntu.... . Im very tempted to remove my windows partition altogether .. but i wont. one issue though everytime i go to the update manager and try to let it update to 1.5 it keeps sticking.. ? wont do anything and i have to force quit it. is it normal that it freezes and is it just me jumping the gun?
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I don't use the manager. Apt-get upgrade should update everything you need. I have not yet updated to 1.5
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marcusant said:
I don't use the manager. Apt-get upgrade should update everything you need. I have not yet updated to 1.5
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hmm alright becuase i did that and i said that not everything could be downloaded and that it either is old or really couldnt connect to it.

Thanks for this thread guys; my ubuntu vm will go be bye tomorrow morning after reading this.
I just got CM9 repo setup too ... lol. Its good practice thought!!

jdelano said:
Thanks for this thread guys; my ubuntu vm will go be bye tomorrow morning after reading this.
I just got CM9 repo setup too ... lol. Its good practice thought!!
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Right??? its working flawlessly and the battery is outstanding i start this project this morning at 9 and im still at 30% loving it.
Oh you might want to note that i didnt delete my current ubuntu partition i just installed it right over it.. i pretty sure gparted formats the disk prior anyways.. but whatever. If you need any help ask me/ here and im sure marcusant will have an answer .

Lol nice, second suggestion about lmde in one day.
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Linux?.?.

Do any of you e4gt owners use ubuntu strictly as your OS?
I want to install this instead of windows (no point in paying for problems)
I understand there is heimsdale (spelling?) in place of Odin.
But what I'm wondering is how much more difficult is it to flash things and such to or phones?
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Use Linux Mint. It's based on ubuntu so you get all the same stuff plus a better interface and a better appearance. The cinnamon build is the better one atm imo...
Also, odin/heimdill(sp?) are not necessary. I have run Linux as my os for years and haven't had any problems trying any roms... Where there's a will, there's a way.
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I use Linux Mint which is a different distro than Ubuntu but built off of it. I use it as my daily OS on my laptop and love it. As far as Heimdel it's just as easy if not easier than Odin once you know how to use it.
I would suggest a dual boot system as sometimes you just need windows or in case you don't like Linux. Both distros make dual booting fairly easy. Hope this helped some. Good luck!
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I use linux on 3 of my laptops.. Kubuntu us nice.. but i prefer PinguyOS.. its a modified ubuntu that i like alot more than mint. just my input
And yeah.. dual boot is the only way to go.. just somethings end up having to be done in windows...
http://pinguyos.com/

Thanks fellas. I'll definitely be dual booting, i plan on buying another internal hd and running windows off of that.
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Heimdall isn't that hard to work. And my spelling is correct
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heimdall is astounding. Better than Odin. Odin is literally a piece of crap, I'm amazed that people still use it, even on Windows.
I've ran Linux/Android as my main OS for more years than I can remember. These days I use Arch Linux almost exclusively.
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i dont see how odin is crap when it's done it's job correctly every time for me and a lot of other people.

I really tried to like Linux, even with the slick Mint interface, but man, all those archives and issues. Then there's wine and the programs just don't run the same as they do in Windows, just my 2 pennies....

Unbuntu 11 side-loads on our phone nicely..
Don't expect to watch any video or compress large files,
But there is some interesting software that having full Linux can bring to our phone..
It's super slow, but everything works software center and all!

gilbydakid said:
Do any of you e4gt owners use ubuntu strictly as your OS?
I want to install this instead of windows (no point in paying for problems)
I understand there is heimsdale (spelling?) in place of Odin.
But what I'm wondering is how much more difficult is it to flash things and such to or phones?
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Id avoid Ubuntu. After 11.04 they took alot away and force you to use Unity, that thing is horrid. Stick with Mint.
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stargaterules said:
I really tried to like Linux, even with the slick Mint interface, but man, all those archives and issues. Then there's wine and the programs just don't run the same as they do in Windows, just my 2 pennies....
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Not sure what you mean by " all those archives and issues" the learning curve can be a little steep if you've only ever used windows, but if you put the effort to learn basic Linux tasks and terminal commands Linux can be a hell of a lot easier and more useful than windows on a daily basis, additionally IMHO wine is an unnecessary crutch, there is a native linux program for most everything outside of windows based games that is 9 times out of 10 more functional and useful than the windows program you're trying to use. I guess you could say there is no iTunes, but really if you use XDA I would assume you'd be capable of flashing your I pods firmware over to the far superiour rockbox.... so to answer the op's question yes I use Linux, usually ubuntu, as my primary os, heimdall works great but I mostly use mobile Odin... I have a windows 8 and an osx partition as well, neither get much use and windows 8 does not very much impress me...
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I suggest dual boot also. If you have the hardware for it, vm is more convenient. Virtualbox suits my needs a large percentage of the time.
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linuxtad said:
I suggest dual boot also. If you have the hardware for it, vm is more convenient. Virtualbox suits my needs a large percentage of the time.
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Id do this to. I dual boot. Im not sure Linux Mint has a easy installer like Ubuntu does. But making a partition is quite easy. But virtualbox is much easier. Its just whatever suits you.
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Unbuntu 11 side-loads on our phone nicely..
Don't expect to watch any video or compress large files,
But there is some interesting software that having full Linux can bring to our phone..
It's super slow, but everything works software center and all!
What do you mean it side loads nicely?
I was thinking about doing a Linux install on my phone, opinion?
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Dual boot!! I use Linux mint. Cinnamon is the best. But I've never had to use anything but cwm and mobile Odin.
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[Q] Dual Booting

I've been thinking a lot about putting Linux on my E4GT, which I know can and has been done, but I don't want to have my phone running Linux only. I'd like to be able to dual boot AOKP and Ubuntu or whatever is available. I haven't heard much about dual booting the E4GT and I'm not sure it's even possible. Can someone help me out here? Thanks a lot guys.
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'Comeplete linux installer'
Off the market.
Follow the guide.
It's exactly what you want.
GL!

Check this youtube video

Thanks guys! I'll check it out when I get off the road!
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good question op, i was just thinking of doing this myself... the complete linux install app makes it stupid easy, which was somewhat of a disappointment as i was expecting a project! not a bad thing though.. i would recommend going that route

So I've got Ubuntu 12 up and running and it's pretty good. I don't like how I have to connect through a VNC client because it makes the GUI harder to user, but I understand that its the easiest way.
Does anyone know if you can run a working Linux system in place of the Android OS? No dual boot, just Linux only.
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How about just set up dual boot in general for when ubuntu phone os comes out for this device and say mozillas boot 2 gecko.... And android...
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Linux

I've been looking for a dual boot option to put linux on my G2, has one been developed? I have a chroot already, but the minimalist cli command set sucks. Any ideas? Thanks
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I looked into running some form of nix on the g2 a while vack and most of what I could determin was don't bother the phone doesn't have the horsepower for it. I ssh into a box and go from there myself.
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Could have sworn I saw some nix flavors for the HD2, so I dont see how the G2 couldnt handle it. Guess I need to keep digging.
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CWMR using linux. Anyone have the files and instructions?

I have linux installed on my laptop and all the files and instructions are aimed towards windows. I have the cmwr file but need the bash scripts and instructions for linux. Anyone??
Btw, i'm coming from the G2x. I have flashed tons of roms.
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Anyone???
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codecaine21 said:
Anyone???
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Which instructions have you looked at? And have you tried seeing if following the Windows instructions worked? It should work about the same when running programs such as Odin or Heimdall. The hardest part will probably be finding the proper phone drivers and software that work with Linux.
Edit: If possible, try using a virtual machine in linux. Apparently some people in other forums were able to use WINE in Linux when using Windows software. (I currently use Windows so that's as much information I can give you).

codecaine21 said:
Anyone???
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Good to see a fellow ex-g2x comrade. :thumbup:
Just like FineTalent suggested, try Odin via Wine.
At the bottom of the page there are some details about a similar scenario :
http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/33547-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-t-mobile-sgh-t989/page__st__140
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Don't know why I never thought of wine <face palm>. Thanks I'll let you know what happens I'll let you know what happens.
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DupleX01 said:
Good to see a fellow ex-g2x comrade. :thumbup:
Just like FineTalent suggested, try Odin via Wine.
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Yeah the G2x was by far the best phone ive ever had! The dev community was awesome!! The battery life on this s2 really sucks!! Half of my battery is already drained and its been 15-20 minutes since i took it off of the charger. The keyboard sucks too!! I really miss my G2x!!
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codecaine21 said:
Yeah the G2x was by far the best phone ive ever had! The dev community was awesome!! The battery life on this s2 really sucks!! Half of my battery is already drained and its been 15-20 minutes since i took it off of the charger. The keyboard sucks too!! I really miss my G2x!!
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I'm still sporting the koodo stock rom(too busy) rooted and a bit debloated and getting awesome battery life compared to the g2x. I'm in Canada and my carrier is wind mobile (3g/wcdma only service) on the g2x with a 1980 mah battery barely made it over 14 hours. However, this setup gives me around 24 hours uptime with approximately 3.5 hours screen on time. So once you spanking it to your like, should be good.
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DupleX01 said:
I'm still sporting the koodo stock rom(too busy) rooted and a bit debloated and getting awesome battery life compared to the g2x. I'm in Canada and my carrier is wind mobile (3g/wcdma only service) on the g2x with a 1980 mah battery barely made it over 14 hours. However, this setup gives me around 24 hours uptime with approximately 3.5 hours screen on time. So once you spanking it to your like, should be good.
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yeah i guess im just going to have to root, debloat and flash a diff kernel and see if the battery life improves. my main concern is tethering though. i remember once i flashed CM7 on my g2x, i had free tethering capabilities. So im hoping that will come with CM9. Not sure how stable CM10(Jellybean) is for the S2.
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codecaine21 said:
yeah i guess im just going to have to root, debloat and flash a diff kernel and see if the battery life improves. my main concern is tethering though. i remember once i flashed CM7 on my g2x, i had free tethering capabilities. So im hoping that will come with CM9. Not sure how stable CM10(Jellybean) is for the S2.
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Liquidsmooth jb ROM is definitely a DD. You should check it out. Aosp
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finally got some time to get down to business only to find out that i cant run odin through wine.
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Use heimdall on linux. I've flashed my S3 on it, no problem. It works a little differently than Odin though, so look up instructions.

i actually found a linux distro that comes with heimdall preinstalled as well as the android sdk. It's called Santoku. Find it here -> https://santoku-linux.com/ here is directions for using heimdall on santoku -> https://santoku-linux.com/howto/development-tools/howto-run-heimdall-samsung-devices-santoku-linux
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......dude the whole point of having a linux OS is so that you can customize it, and control its every aspect. You should not be getting a distro just because it has something preinstalled.

bsd1101 said:
......dude the whole point of having a linux OS is so that you can customize it, and control its every aspect. You should not be getting a distro just because it has something preinstalled.
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Maybe thats the reason you have a linux box. I have one cuz i like the freedom and power it provides. Which in turn allows for easy and awesome customization. You can customize a Window OS a great deal too. Again for me its the freedom and power. I have been using arch awhile now. A little before the glibc symlink issue. Which broke your system if you updated. So im not new to Linux nor am I wet behind the ears.
i figured i would share with someone who isnt an elitist bsd user like yourself. Who just wants a distro with everything already installed. Some people dont have the time or are just new and havent learned that much yet but want to root their phones. idk either way i thought it was cool.

the bsd in my name is actually just a coincidence, but there is a good chance of arch having heimdall. open terminal and do "pacman -Ss heimdall" you will get a result. you would then do "sudo pacman -S result" it would download and install it. There may also be a heimdall-frontend get it as well, so you can do everything with a gui. Once you have them installed run it as root, or else it won't work. Arch is an awesome distro. Never switch distros and learn.

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the bsd in my name is actually just a coincidence, but there is a good chance of arch having heimdall. open terminal and do "pacman -Ss heimdall" you will get a result. you would then do "sudo pacman -S result" it would download and install it. There may also be a heimdall-frontend get it as well, so you can do everything with a gui. Once you have them installed run it as root, or else it won't work. Arch is an awesome distro. Never switch distros and learn.
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are you really trying to school me on using pacman? lol Ive been using Arch for over a year and a half i would hope i know how to use its package managaer! i told you ive been using it since before the glibc symlink issue so i dont know what your trying to accomplish here?! i can program in a few languages too.
i asked this question cuz im new the samsung galaxy. im comkng from the g2x. Which was an awesome phone!! ive had it for 2 years and the tools to flash cwm were linux scripts. Flashing roms was as easy as downloading it then rebooting into recovery from the terminal, wiping, then flashing. So now im back at square one cuz my g2x screen broke for the 3rd time. so i figured i try something new.
on top of it my laptop hard drive crashed and i havent had the time to transfer my data from the burned out hdd to the new one. so i just run live cds. i roof for a living too. 5 days a week and have a fiance and a kid. so my freetimebisnt spent on a computer. idk where this thread is going but i got what i need to know... heimdall. yeah thanks
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when you said I found a linux distro with heimdall built in I got the wrong idea.

well heimdall doesnt seem to work no matter what i seem to do. So rather than spend forever and a day trying to fix what might be fixable ag this point, i got ahold of a windows computer. so a few questions for someone who would know. one, i have found directions and the apps for the tmo s2 but it says it is for the hercules s2 and it will brick any phone that isnt a hercules version of the s2. how can i tell if i have the herc version? I just want to root for now. so can someone point me in the right direction.
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codecaine21 said:
well heimdall doesnt seem to work no matter what i seem to do. So rather than spend forever and a day trying to fix what might be fixable ag this point, i got ahold of a windows computer. so a few questions for someone who would know. one, i have found directions and the apps for the tmo s2 but it says it is for the hercules s2 and it will brick any phone that isnt a hercules version of the s2. how can i tell if i have the herc version? I just want to root for now. so can someone point me in the right direction.
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Use the Galaxy S2 Tool (based on Odin) here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650908
T989 is the Hercules. So you should be good.
As for recovery, go with the new Twrp it is just bulletproof. CWM has some issues with some of the newer roms along with some wiping issue.
So first flash a recovery (CWM or touch) via the above tool (some older versions are included), then once you reboot to CWM /CWM touch simply flash the below TWRP recovery. It will replace the existing recovery after reboot. Make your stock nandroid with
TWRP, CWM backups are not compatible with TWRP and vice versa.
TWRP recovery :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768742
Good Luck!
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DupleX01 said:
Use the Galaxy S2 Tool (based on Odin) here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650908
T989 is the Hercules. So you should be good.
As for recovery, go with the new Twrp it is just bulletproof. CWM has some issues with some of the newer roms along with some wiping issue.
So first flash a recovery (CWM or touch) via the above tool (some older versions are included), then once you reboot to CWM /CWM touch simply flash the below TWRP recovery. It will replace the existing recovery after reboot. Make your stock nandroid with
TWRP, CWM backups are not compatible with TWRP and vice versa.
TWRP recovery :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768742
Good Luck!
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I have been trying to use Odin with no luck. I am using win xp, recovery-clockwork-5.0.2-hercules.tar(from xda), Odin v1.85. I put my phone into download mode and select pda and chose the cwmr-hercules tar file but i keep recieving this error -> <OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0). WTF is going on?
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