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[Q] PURE Heimdall Stock GingerBread Upgrade

All the current upgrade methods involve ODIN or don't explain the heimdall version in depth..
I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS YET - waiting for confirmation from someone who knows more than me.
Heimdall 2.3.3 Update v0.9 - UNTESTED
1) Back everything up. Titanium etc..
2) Download the new Stock 2.3.3 file, as found in Overcome 2.0beta http://www.multiupload.com/F6D7U1RUHD
2) Extract GB-stock-safe.zip into a folder.Go into the folder.
3) Now extract the GB_Stock_Safe_v1.tar file into another folder.
3) Copy the gt-p1000_mr.pit and the correct modem.bin into the extracted GB_Stock_Safe_v1.tar folder. So all the required files in one place now.
4) Plug Tab into computer and go to Download mode. (You can do this, by shutting/powering down your Tab. Once shut/powered down, hold down the Volume Down button and the Power button together until Download screen appears) or much easier if you have adb
Code:
adb reboot download
5) (Once in Downlaod mode) From the command line, run this function from the folder where the GB_Stock_Safe_v1.tar file was extracted, and you copied the gt-p1000_mr.pit and modem.bin file.
Code:
heimdall flash --repartition --primary-boot boot.bin --cache cache.rfs --dbdata dbdata.rfs --factoryfs factoryfs.rfs --pit gt-p1000_mr.pit --modem modem.bin --param param.lfs --secondary-boot Sbl.bin --kernel zImage --verbose
6) basically the movinand.mst and hidden.rfs files are still in the folder but not referenced.
Is this correct !? Can someone confirm or deny please?
I'll update this post with corrections

Just used these instructions to take a stock Froyo Galaxy Tab to Gingerbread stock version (Overcome restock v5) using only Linux.. and then to CM7.
I installed the deb package from the Heimdall web site and installed it into my Ubuntu 10.10 install. Worked like a charm. Thanks a bunch for posting this. Saved me trying to mess around with Windows.

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?

[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...

[Q] Issues installing 4.2.2 Update with Odin

Hello,
I've just acquired a GT-5120 and am trying to install the 4.2.2 update using Odin.
I downloaded the update zip for my device (1.4GB), unzipped it to see a .tar.md5 file. Opened up Odin, checked PDA, selected the .tar.md5 file. Pressed start and got a failed message.
Here's the log
Code:
<ID:0/006> Added!!
<ID:0/006> Odin v.3 engine (ID:6)..
<ID:0/006> File analysis..
<ID:0/006> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/006> Initialzation..
<ID:0/006> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/006> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/006> sboot.bin
<ID:0/006> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/006> FAIL!
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
I thought there was an issue with my connection / Odin, but I was able to successfully flash a custom recovery and root the device.
Any pointers to get the flashing working?
Thanks!

Somethings to check
1) What is the version of the ODIN you used? I suggest Odin3 3.07.
2) When you try to flash, did the ODIN complete md5 check of the file you added to PDA? (Because it's note in the log you provided or it's different).
3) From where did you download the .tar.md5? "www.Sammobile.com/firmwares" is the best.
4) Did you rename the .tar.md5 file, probably a silly question, but sometimes funny things happen.

AkiOrpheus said:
1) What is the version of the ODIN you used? I suggest Odin3 3.07.
2) When you try to flash, did the ODIN complete md5 check of the file you added to PDA? (Because it's note in the log you provided or it's different).
3) From where did you download the .tar.md5? "www.Sammobile.com/firmwares" is the best.
4) Did you rename the .tar.md5 file, probably a silly question, but sometimes funny things happen.
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Thanks for the reply, Aki!
I'm using Odin 3.07
The log may have not reflected it since I've tried removing the .md5 extension and flashing with just the tar (same extension as the recovery that successfully flashed). After selecting the file, it takes a few minutes before I'm able to do anything (md5 check?).
I downloaded the file from a thread in this forum with a bunch of mirrors. I'll check out sammobile and report back after testing the file downloaded from there.
I tried leaving the .tar.md5 and renaming it to just .tar (since I successfully flashed a .tar file).
Thanks for the help!
AGH Disregard
I was trying to flash an 5120 ROM on my I467M :crying:

danada said:
Thanks for the reply, Aki!
I'm using Odin 3.07
The log may have not reflected it since I've tried removing the .md5 extension and flashing with just the tar (same extension as the recovery that successfully flashed). After selecting the file, it takes a few minutes before I'm able to do anything (md5 check?).
I downloaded the file from a thread in this forum with a bunch of mirrors. I'll check out sammobile and report back after testing the file downloaded from there.
I tried leaving the .tar.md5 and renaming it to just .tar (since I successfully flashed a .tar file).
Thanks for the help!
AGH Disregard
I was trying to flash an 5120 ROM on my I467M :crying:
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I think u should be glad that u didn't sucsess
coz I think success will be a bricked phone