Hello, everybody. I just wanted to pass something on that more knowledgeable folks might already know, but I didn't know until now, so maybe someone else doesnt know and might benefit from something I just found out. I was under the impression that you couldn't use heimdall to install a custom recovery on a sammsung galaxy note 3 sm-n900t (tmo model) but had to use Odin instead. Well, what a PITA to borrow a windows puter for flashing and rooting when you are a ubuntu user! Yeah odin probably runs under vmware just fine and possibly wine too, but do I really want to try to make my linux laptop more windows-like? Nevertheless that is how I had been doing it until today.
last week I took my old tab 2 for a spin and decided it could use a more modern recovery and OS. I followed instructions (darn... i cant post the url! but just google for the title, "How to Install CyanogenMod on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (GSM) ("p3100")") on the CyanogenMod Wiki for installing recovery using heimdall and it went off swimmingly. I already had 3 sm-n900t devices all on CM12 and just got another one for trying other ROMs. Well, that meant I had a totally expendable note 3 to experiment with, so I thought I would give heimdall a stab at it even though I was doubtful of the outcome.
I had just bought this phone on a certain popular auction site, and rushed into flashing it without doing my homework. I stuck a TWRP 4.4 recovery in it and it took just fine, but the stupid phone wouldn't boot into recovery. Okayyyyyy... looked in About Phone and noticed the android version was 4.3. The 4.4 TWRP couldnt boot with the 4.3 bootloader onboard. So I downloaded a 4.3 TWRP, flashed, and wa lah! Now it boots right up into TWRP recovery! Just to kind of check it out and make sure it was fully functional, I flashed a CM12 nightly, a GApps package, and the most recent SuperSU straight from the sd card using TWRP and it works just fine! And it all started with flashing TWRP to the Note 3 with Heimdall on Linux instead of the usual Odin on Windohs.
So fellow linux users, don't despair. Apparently heimdall v1.4.0 will work with the Note 3. At least it did for me.
I would be most interested in anybody's results, or lack of results, of attempting to install custom recovery on the Note4 or Note5, or the latest S phones., using Heimdall/Linux.
last week I took my old tab 2 for a spin and decided it could use a more modern recovery and OS. I followed instructions (darn... i cant post the url! but just google for the title, "How to Install CyanogenMod on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (GSM) ("p3100")") on the CyanogenMod Wiki for installing recovery using heimdall and it went off swimmingly. I already had 3 sm-n900t devices all on CM12 and just got another one for trying other ROMs. Well, that meant I had a totally expendable note 3 to experiment with, so I thought I would give heimdall a stab at it even though I was doubtful of the outcome.
I had just bought this phone on a certain popular auction site, and rushed into flashing it without doing my homework. I stuck a TWRP 4.4 recovery in it and it took just fine, but the stupid phone wouldn't boot into recovery. Okayyyyyy... looked in About Phone and noticed the android version was 4.3. The 4.4 TWRP couldnt boot with the 4.3 bootloader onboard. So I downloaded a 4.3 TWRP, flashed, and wa lah! Now it boots right up into TWRP recovery! Just to kind of check it out and make sure it was fully functional, I flashed a CM12 nightly, a GApps package, and the most recent SuperSU straight from the sd card using TWRP and it works just fine! And it all started with flashing TWRP to the Note 3 with Heimdall on Linux instead of the usual Odin on Windohs.
So fellow linux users, don't despair. Apparently heimdall v1.4.0 will work with the Note 3. At least it did for me.
I would be most interested in anybody's results, or lack of results, of attempting to install custom recovery on the Note4 or Note5, or the latest S phones., using Heimdall/Linux.
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