Comments on: Flashing Samsung Galaxy S (I9000) ROMs with Heimdall

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:15:42 +0000

mmislam72,

As far as I am aware, it’s only possible to do this if you have 3-button recovery enabled.

(press and hold Volume Up & Home Key. Now also press and hold the power button, when the logo comes on release only the power, keep the other two held until you’re in recovery mode.)

If that method doesn’t work, it might be possible to force it through adb (http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html).

If you can get to recovery mode, you can fix your bricked phone.

By: mmislam72

mmislam72 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:00:59 +0000

Could you please confirm, how can it works if my phone is completely dead, black screen, no phone or computer icon……thnks.

By: ewwv

ewwv — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:58:07 +0000

can this also work for the galaxy gio, and if yes were can i find a rom with a PIT file ?

By: sam

sam — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:25:19 +0000

Thank you so much for this, works perfect except when i pushed “Alt+F2 and then type “heimdall-frontend”” it didn’t show up so instead just type “heimdall-frontend” into the terminal

By: kernowJoe

kernowJoe — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:59:57 +0000

awesome thanks bud, just bricked my phone using the fail windows, with this I can use a proper os when my jig arrives, hopefully have a working phone again

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By: Bala

Bala — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:40:06 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial, I managed to unbrick my mobile with it!

By: DomS

DomS — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:31:37 +0000

Thanks a lot for this simple tutorial. It worked for me. However, ca you explain the repartition because i don’t understand what do the files mean ? If i want to try another ROM i wouldn’t be able to replace the files.

By: Bruno Miguel

Bruno Miguel — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:22:52 +0000

Using this guide under Ubuntu 11.04, I bricked my SGS. I’ll try with Odin and see how it goes

By: rory

rory — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:13:20 +0000

Just wanted to to say thank you. I bricked my SGS with a failed flash about 2 weeks ago. I scoured the internet trying to find something on how to fix this is OS X. Your guide is the only one that was able to help me. Thank you!