Flashing Galaxy S devices under Linux (Was: Upgrading Android Under Linux)

[Amos Shapira]

On 16 June 2011 19:59, Gadi Cohen <dragon at wastelands.net> wrote:

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> On 16/06/2011 10:15, Amos Shapira wrote:
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>  Once you go through it with Heimdall the anxiety level drops...:)
>
>
> Haha I can relate to this!
>
> Don't have any solution for the keyboard, unfortunately.  (As I mentioned,
> I'm using SlideIT and it works great).
>

I'll try to look at it. Thanks for the pointer. So far I always went back to
"regular" keyboards after trying new methods for a while.


> Glad Heimdall is getting a good response from Israel... donated to that
> too.  Was such a pleasure not to have to load up W7 in VirtualBox, it's the
> only thing I've needed Windows for in a very, very long time.
>

This one would actually count towards Australia's credit. :^).

I actually went with Heimdall after trying the "more tried route" of windows
7 + Odin (because Odin gets so much more examples on the web) but Windows 7
+ Parallels on top of Mac OS-X + SGS in Kies mode = Fail to recognise the
device.


>  It looks like the Gingerbread ROM with the newer root'ed kernel and some
> tweaks turned via an application could sustain for about ~35 hours on one
> charge. Still not ideal but far better than what I had before.
>  I'm still looking for ways to squeeze more from it, though.
>
> Dude, 35 hrs is like... ridiculously good!  I hope you're not looking for 3
> days like we used to get with Nokia's from a smart phone.  Great battery
> life for me is finishing the day with above 50%.  It was a massive
> improvement over original Galaxy S use (with stock ROM) where the battery
> would be dead in the middle of the day, and would have to charge at work,
> etc.
>

Yeah, pretty much same here except that I usually managed to get a full day
out of it. (with WiFi/GPS/Bluetooth turned off when not in use). Today I got
44% left after 14 hours since last charge, with WiFi on all that time.


>  Yeah I guess I have something similar called Juice Plotter.  I judge
> battery life now based on how long it takes to discharge 10%.  Good = 4
> hrs.  Bad = 1 hr.  That "good" was on my Galaxy S II though, but sometimes
> it still gets "bad", still working things out here.
>

Cheers,

--Amos
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