Spending today fighting with my new Samsung galaxy tab & my Linux PC to get Lineage OS shoehorned in.
Break for late lunch after frying my brain reading through then instructions & looking for Odin alternative (found one 🤞).
The battle will commence after the army is good & fed.
Progress is shit. I'd downloaded a MAC flasher instead of the Linux one.
I looked at the options on the site they linked to & it's Heimdall 1.4.1 & I need to download two separate packages front end & backend but no clue as to which ones are what in the list of versions.
Pulling my hair out as there seems to be no option for Linux mint. Having a browse on their forum now, on the off chance.
This is why, as much as I love them, I absolutely hate custom ROMs (yes, I know it's the big companies/device manufacturers who cause this headache) but how awesome should it be to have an existing tool that can do the job rather than, here compile this random pile of code & vague instructions 🤷.
Too complicated for someone who isn't (borderline) into coding or building or compiling from scratch. I'm just a lay user. Finger 🤞 I figure something out.
Final attempt & downloaded Thor & Galaxy Flasher & all fine just apparently stuff is missing.
Installing Flasher as Flatpak but does it (or my Linux) have what it needs 🤷, apprently not.
I need:
You need to install glib-compile-resources to use this script.
Is what it say.
A dead end or an easy fix?
Sensible says, quit before I break LM (currently my only PC so very difficult to fix/create new pendrive to real-install & I'm really not in the mode (no spoons, dice, etc).
Have looked on Linux Mint forum as well as a browser search for anything helpful & it looks like a dead end for me.
@Kurt
That has been percolating through my mind. I did consider digging up my long neglected Surface but can I find the little prick? Nope, charger & adapter yes but the thing itself, nope 🤣.
I'm going to have to leave it for now & reinstall Linux on my laptop as like a moron I've forgotten my password 🤦.
(Edit: Then I can at least lug that beast with me when I go away for xmas.)
That I can handle but on another day as it's nearly 18:30 here.
Heimdall is a cross-platform open-source tool suite used to flash firmware (aka ROMs) onto Samsung Galaxy S devices. - LineageOS/android_external_heimdall
@nekocake
From my post (the one you are replying to)
”I looked at the options on the site they linked to & it's HEIMDALL 1.4.1 & I need to download two separate packages front end & backend but no clue as to which ones are what in the list of versions.
Pulling my hair out as there seems to be no option for Linux mint. Having a browse on their forum now, on the off chance.“
https://xdaforums.com/t/official-samsung-odin-v4-1-2-1-dc05e3ea-for-linux.4453423/
this should work
(oh wait this is a dupe post I'm new to mastodon sorry about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Try out my new Linux flash tool called Thor - https://xdaforums.com/t/dev-thor-flash-utility-the-new-samsung-flash-tool.4597355, which has all the features of this tool + extras, like the usual Windows Odin ones which are missing in this leaked...
@frumbly
The problem is, do they have a version compatible with my specific tablet? Probably not but will have a look as I can switch to doing that if they do & if I like the but of graphene OS's jib.
Edit: just checked & they only support Pixel & Google devices.
sorry about that. I'll buy a myself a KitKat if you do manage to get the custom rom working.
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