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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">I must admit, I just
used Odin under VirtualBox with a Windows 7 guest... it worked
great.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">But yeah it looks
like you're going in the right direction.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Stock Android does
RTL, but it has a bug where numbers are reversed in RTL, which is
a bit unbearable (think phone numbers, dates, bank balances,
etc). As mentioned CyanogenMod has great RTL support (thanks to
Omri Baumer), but the experimental versions for the Galaxy S are
not usable for daily use.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">For "full" Hebrew
support (fixes for specific apps, etc) you'll need a locally built
rom. I'm using the PilotX ROM, which I'm very happy with... I
have the v3, but I see v4 is out too. It's still based on 2.2.1
though (Froyo, not Gingerbread), so you might have to decide
what's more important for you.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sgsil.mobi/showthread.php?t=46">http://sgsil.mobi/showthread.php?t=46</a> (see also
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.iandroid.co.il">www.iandroid.co.il</a> forums)<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">There are full
instructions on the site for how to install; as was pointed out,
you only need Odin to replace the bootloader, and from there it's
just a matter of putting all the files you need on the internal
memory and flashing them. Obviously you could use Heimdall
instead of Odin for that step.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">A lot of ROMs are
expecting to be flashed over a certain version of the flash rom; I
think because the partitioning is done differently. Also ***very
NB*** is to make sure that you can get to download mode (vol-up
home and power-on at same time) before you start flashing things;
if you have an older Galaxy S you have to get this working first.
To leave recovery mode if you don't flash anything (and only
then), you have to remove and replace the battery.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">To get to recovery
mode with vol-down,home,power can be sketchy sometimes, but it's
possible with some effort (usually by plugging the phone in to
power with the phone off, holding that key combo in for 3 reboots
(without letting go, it restarts on it's own) and then it goes in
to recovery fine. The other solution was - believe it or not -
heating the device up with a hairdryer, which also seemed to work
according to a lot of forum reports. If you have adb working, you
can also just "adb reboot recovery".<br>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">I realize your main
question was probably about Heimdall and Gingerbread, but I hope
some of the other info here will help you.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><br>
Gadi</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">On 04/05/2011 17:38,
Amichai Rotman wrote:</p>
<blockquote
cite="mid:BANLkTi=4Sa4U_wd28_=Kbanz8qUQb+i_7g@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">Hi all,
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I recently switched from Nokia N97 to Samsung Galaxy S
GT-I9000. It came with Orange's ROM (Based on Android 2.2). </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>It is lightning fast compared to my "old" N97, but still -
it hangs and has a bunch of Apps I do not need or like...</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I'd like to upgrade it to version 2.3.3 (Gingerbread). Can
any of you tell me how to do it under Linux? I am running
Ubuntu 10.04.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I found out that Heimdall is the equivalent to Odin, but I
get a dependency error on the C Libraries when I try to
install it.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thanks!</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Amichai.</div>
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