yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] Benjamin Dobell:
In regards to sudo permissions being required, I just did a bit of searching and I found some information (although it may have been old) that Kubuntu's udev rules are in a different location to Ubuntu's. I also found separate information indicating that Kubuntu is using an outdated udev rules specification. Either of these two things would cause the -3 permissions error without running Heimdall as a super user.

Do you know exactly what the error was you received from Heimdall when flashing failed? The output from Heimdall Frontend only contains the permissions errors and aren't related to the flashing process. When you use Heimdall Frontend, Heimdall's output is displayed in "Status" section of the "Flash" tab so that it can easily be copy and paste.

By the way if your phone gets stuck in a "half-bricked" state again then it can usually be fixed by going to the "Utilities" tab and running the "Close PC Screen" action. This doesn't repair any corrupted files on device (if there are any). This literally just tells the phone that it should at least try boot up, instead of displaying the phone <--> PC screen.
[General Questions and Answers] Crappyvate:
Help please

trying to run heimdall 1.3.0 on Mac OS 10.5.8, I have qt/xcode installed, still doesn't seem to work. everytime i run frontend and try to detect my device (samsung captivate)or save my .pit file I get "FRONTEND ERROR Heimdall crash"

Any suggestions ?
[General Questions and Answers] Bec07:
ERROR: Failed to access device. libusb error: -12

Win7 x64

Installed drivers:

Heimdall v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Benjamin Dobell, Glass Echidna http://www.glassechidna.com.au

This software is provided free of charge. Copying and redistribution is

encouraged.

If you appreciate this software and you would like to support future

development please consider donating:

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Initialising connection...

Detecting device...

Claiming interface...

Setting up interface...

Beginning session...

Handshaking with Loke...

Uploading PITERROR: Failed to send end session packet!

ERROR: Failed to send file part packet!

PIT upload failed!

Ending session...

Odin works, back to odin.
[General Questions and Answers] Crappyvate:
Problem with heimdall on mac 0s 10.5.8

@benjamin

Problem solved after updating to osx 10.6

there seem to be issues between Heimdall 1.3 on Leopard 10.5 and certain binaries. Heimdall command line does not execute and just crashes.
[General Questions and Answers] elasticdog:
I'm getting a similar error on Arch Linux running Heimdall v1.3.0 with my Fascinate:

Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
ERROR: Failed to access device. libusb error: 4

I do have the proper udev rules in place:

$ lsusb | grep Samsung
Bus 002 Device 068: ID 04e8:6601 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Mobile Phone

I couldn't get Heimdall to even detect the device on my MacBook Pro running 10.6.8. I don't have access to a Windows machine to do further testing, and have had a lot of issues trying to update pretty much anything on my phone after I rooted and put a Superclean ROM on a few months ago. Here's my current setup: pastie.org/2358372
[General Questions and Answers] Django313:
Today I tried to flash my SGS-II with heimdall 1.3.0 on Linux Kubuntu 11.04.

I used the latest firmware XXKH3 and it failed as it did with the firmware XXKG6 few weeks ago. Just after it downloaded the file "datafs" it freeze resulting in a half-bricked phone.

Certainly there is a bug in heimdall at this point because all the others files are correctly downloaded.

the question is : why ?
[General Questions and Answers] DarthIA:
I'm on Mac OsX 10.6.8, and after tried to flash my firmware using the downloaded PIT from my device, Heimdall told me that there were an error with libusb while it was trying to upload the PIT.

My SGS got semi-bricked, and after putting it to download mode again and unchecking Repartition in Heimdall, everything was fine with the flashing.

So, the question is... is there a bug with repartitioning? is it possible to use my device's PIT to repartition?
[General Questions and Answers] pboggini:
Need new bootloader for EPIC? How do I tell?

All, I picked up an EPIC from someone and they put DK28 on it which is a bit of a dead end. All searches turned up needing Odin and I don't have a Windows box. I then found Heimdall and then this thread here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1353310

This all looks promising but then I've read where I need to update the bootloader if I'm using a Mac. My question is, with an EPIC of somewhat unknown past, how do I know if I have the right bootloader on it? DK28 is the leaked Froyo that never got OTA'd. I want to get this EPIC back onto the OTA track so it can get Gingerbread. I've found CWM flashable images but the modem seems to be the biggest struggle. Of course, if Heimdall works, the thread above looks like it will get me all that I want.

So if anyone can help and tell me how to figure out if I've got the right bootloader and won't get the black screen problem, that would be cool.

thanks peterb
[General Questions and Answers] ROOT_Neko:
Heyo guys, idk if this can be seen as somehow relate to this topic, cuz its a diff problem with heimdall than originally mentioned in this thread, but my problem is that while trying to flash twrp, my sm-a750fn got half-bricked, and odin didnt want to flash the phones stock ROM, beeing stuck at establishing a connection, so i went and tried to flash it via heimdall-frontend, without sudo cuz else id have issues with the pit not beeing recognised, and everytime i try to flash smth, no matter what .img, be it recovery, boot, misc, etc, heimdall gets stuck at 93% and later gets a fail msg:

"Heimdall v1.4.1

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This software is provided free of charge. Copying and redistribution is

encouraged.

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Initialising connection...

Detecting device...

Claiming interface...

Setting up interface...

Initialising protocol...

Protocol initialisation successful.

Beginning session...

Some devices may take up to 2 minutes to respond.

Please be patient!

Session begun.

Downloading device's PIT file...

PIT file download successful.

Uploading BOOT

0%

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5%

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93%

ERROR: Failed to confirm end of file transfer sequence!

ERROR: BOOT upload failed!

Ending session...

ERROR: Failed to send end session packet!

Releasing device interface..."

The phone also shows like bout 45% of progress:View attachment 5655723View attachment 5655715View attachment 5655719
[Thunderbolt General] akanatrix:
Take a look at this article about Verizon crippling unlimited data plans. I know they are specifically targetting the iPhone with this proposed money grab by forcing people to drop their unlimited data plans, but it signals dark and terrible things. What happens when they expand this draconian rule to Skype, Tango, who knows? Not a good sign, IMO.

http://gizmodo.com/5825890/verizon-wants-3g-facetime-to-only-work-with-tiered-data-plans
[Thunderbolt General] mike.s:
It's not a "money grab," but a desire to ensure that all of their users get reasonable bandwidth. Especially on 3G (which is what this is all about), there's a limited amount of bandwidth available to all users on a tower. Introducing a high bandwidth app to a limited subset of users will only harm other users. Apple wants a uniform feature set, Verizon is trying to accommodate that by discouraging unlimited high bandwidth use on 3G. Do you really want to allow a few iPhone users to force everyone else's web browsing to a crawl?

Note that there's no mention of discouraging 4G use.
[Thunderbolt General] akanatrix:
I think they are blowing out of proportion the amount of people who will first of all be using 3G facetime and the amount of bandwidth it uses compared to their total capacity. The only time I have ever seen a tower hit capacity, or anywhere near capacity, was during a conference of 20,000 people where we were all asked to make calls at the same time to stress the towers. That is a crutch that the wireless carriers use to draw more money and implied limitations from customers. The wired internet industry does the exact same thing.
[Thunderbolt General] mike.s:
LOL. You're obviously unfamiliar with EV-DO (3G) limits. Sector/cell capacity for EV-DO rev A (1.25 MHz carrier), has a theoretical max of 3.1 Mbps, and is shared by all users in that sector. Real world is lower.

I did a quick look for how much bandwidth Facetime consumes, and came up with 667 kbps. Do you have a better number? If that's correct, two users in a 3G sector will consume over half the real world bandwidth available. Isn't Facetime currently limited to WiFi, due to 3G bandwidth concerns? Why would that change when it's allowed to be done on a 4G network?

Oh, and I call BS. You didn't make 20,000 calls through a single tower.
[Thunderbolt General] akanatrix:
I never said the 20,000 calls were successful, just initiated. And I also never claimed to be an expert on 3G limitations. 3.1 Mbps sounds obscenely low though, can you link some reference documents? Everything I read is in reference to a radio receiving at a maximum of that speed, not a cellular tower being limited to that as a broadcast speed. The prospect of a single tower being limited to 3.1Mbps and possibly servicing hundreds of people sounds far fetched.
[Thunderbolt General] akanatrix:
Here's some reference information I was able to find.
[Thunderbolt General] mike.s:
No, but you implied ("or anywhere near capacity") that magnitude was what's required to saturate a sector.

So, your claims were based on a guess, and not facts. Look at the answer from Qualcomm, dated August 23, 2010, 12:28 PM. And, it's not a "tower" limit, it's a sector limit. A tower may support multiple sectors using multiple antennas (sectors are pie slice shaped). That's done in areas of higher density to increase capacity. When done, there are usually 3 sectors supported by a tower.
[Thunderbolt General] akanatrix:
This is a direct quote from the CDMA Development group. The answer you are quoting is incomplete. He does not specify that the limitation is per channel, as the CDMA Development group clarifies.

http://www.cdg.org/technology/1xevdoreva.asp
[Thunderbolt General] akanatrix:
And no one said a single tower. Hypothetically, let's break down those 20,000 people. At the time, Alltel was still a carrier. For the sake of simplicity, break down the 20,000 people to five different carriers; Verizon, Alltel, Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T would give you 4,000 people per carrier. Now assume only 50% of the people actually humored the speaker and made a call on their cell phone. I know there were quite a few people around me who did not bother. That would leave you with 2,000 people per carrier. This conference was in the middle of the Dallas convention center, which is inside a major metropolitan area. I would be inclined to believe you would have overlapping cell sites to distribute the load, but that's an uneducated guess.
[Thunderbolt General] mike.s:
Why don't you do a bit of study, before diving deeper into that hole? You keep quoting generic statements about cellular technology, without understanding how Verizon actually implements those technologies.

Do you even know what a 5 MHz FDD channel is? I didn't think so.
[Thunderbolt General] akanatrix:
I never claimed to be an expert. Just pointing out that the claim you made of all users in a sector sharing a total of 3.1 Mbps bandwidth seems very unlikely to me, especially after doing a bit of light reading.
[Thunderbolt General] mike.s:
:rolleyes:
[Thunderbolt General] nbdysreal:
"A study of the global network indicates that the average cell site currently consumes 15Mb-30Mb"

http://www.overturenetworks.com/sites/default/files/white_paper/10GigEMobileBackhaul_r3.pdf

Keep in mind this was most likely before the deployment of most of Vz's lte, but that average would be for both data and voice. Another thing to keep in mind is CDMA uses less bandwidth on VOICE, i emphasize voice before someone flames. So Vz can get away with less bandwidth than ATT without the call loss. Slightly off topic. But looking at this, Mike.S's ~3mb per isn't too far fetched. Obviously this can go up or down based on if its a copper backend or fiber, equipment upgrades, etc. Metro cities have far more bandwidth than rural. Just throwing some more out there to the conversation.
[Thunderbolt General] voxigenboy:
does it say anything in our TOS/contract that we agreed upon when he started service that they can do this?...

if not, then i see a possible lawsuit coming a long.
[Thunderbolt General] nbdysreal:
I imagine new contracts do, but even without it, we have no stated "3g/4g will receive this much bandwidth" QOS clause, so i don't see that as being a legal issue (for Verizon, forgot to mention for who).
[Thunderbolt General] akanatrix:
I doubt our contracts would protect us in any way, although it may violate the spirit of net neutrality.
[Thunderbolt General] RunNgun42:
lol, the contracts are designed to protect verizon, not you.
[Thunderbolt General] bogatyr:
3.1Mbps is about 388KB/s. I highly doubt that is any sort of maximum as I've frequently hit 300KB/s or higher using my Verizon 3G phones. There is no way one person is going to about saturate the capacity of a cell site. If that was the case, they would have had major capacity issues over the years.

EDIT: And if they wouldn't need a 1Gbps or higher backhaul either.
[Thunderbolt General] bogatyr:
Also, the easy way around a limitation on Facetime/Skype/Netflix/whatever is using a VPN.

Of course they could block VPN or limit that too, but then a lot of businesses would drop their service.
[Thunderbolt General] nrfitchett4:
actually, 3.1mbps = over 3000 kbps....
[Thunderbolt General] nrfitchett4:
I don't like what verizon is doing, but by negotiating with apple, they are trying to get a verizon iphone that will not allow 3g video chat.

So it wouldn't be breaking any contract rules if a phone could not do this. Of course, people will just jail break the phone...
[Thunderbolt General] zeeza57:
Seems very simple. As usual in the world of greed all the wireless companies shove the cart far in front of the horse. They push to get Mega data smart phones and such developed and sold, all the while neglecting the data capabilities of their equipment. Then its the consumer that ends up with price gouging until the capabilitys catch up. On and on goes the insanity. Verizon did some thing similar to this years back with altel. Took over company and customers but forgot to include use of altel towers. so had many inraged new customers on constant roaming charges. Lost a lot of said customers including myself because of no service areas and constant roaming charges for every call. So now we try it again. Guess we will all be slowed down, and pay premium cost,or be on data roaming charges
[Thunderbolt General] animez:
Actually the original number is correct 3.1 megaBITS = 387.5 kiloBYTES. It's all about the capitalization. 1 bit (b) = 0.125 bytes (B).

I also have to agree that 3.1mbps sounds unrealistically low. It's not uncommon for me to hit 2mbps on 3G in an office building in West Knoxville. Seriously doubt I'm the only person on VZW in my sector at any given moment.

Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt
[Thunderbolt General] akanatrix:
Kbps is different than kbps.
[Thunderbolt General] animez:
Uh, you sure about that? :P

Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt
[Thunderbolt General] orkillakilla:
I'm in Knoxville, TN, we just got 4G last week.

I've been doing speed tests lately, and I'm getting 2MBs on 4G! When it was first turned on here, I was getting 20MBs.

I'm returning to complete stock, run some tests, and if I'm still getting 2MBs, I'm going to give Verizon a piece of my mind....
[Thunderbolt General] animez:
I'm in	Knoxville too and just did the 7MB test on http://www.mobilespeedtest.com and got 8563kbps.

I'm bone stock and have been getting 5000kbps on the low end on the scale.

Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt
[Thunderbolt General] yareally:
It's not a "money grab," but a desire to ensure that they can keep their current infrastructure and make more money while keeping reasonable bandwidth.

I thought that sounded better than your previous comment.

Upgrading infrastructure does net a company money so it pains them to do it even if it's what is needed.
[Thunderbolt General] mike.s:
Yeah, Kbps is meaningless. Capital "K" is not an SI prefix.
[Thunderbolt General] RunNgun42:
Theres nothing meaningless about it, it just has to do with maintaining a familiar constant. For real world application people like to have data measured in how many bytes/sec, since that is a closer indication of overall file transfer. We like to see Firefox state 657K/sec, or 1.3M/sec. But service providers have been converting to bits since the dialup days to make their service speeds sound faster. Oooooh, 56.6k modem sure sounds fast doesnt it?
[Thunderbolt General] yareally:
It's Kbps for bits or kBps for bytes, but obviously KBps looks a bit better aesthetics wise.
[Thunderbolt General] mike.s:
Whoosh. You don't know what the SI is, do you?
[Thunderbolt General] mike.s:
In exactly the same way that saying "ain't" makes you appear more educated.
[Thunderbolt General] yareally:
your anal retentiveness is showing ;)

however, I do agree that using K is wrong, since K is kelvin.
[Thunderbolt General] satseaker:
really you guys are fighting over the SIZE of the k,really you need to get out more,get some son,the tubes are getting to your brain.
[Thunderbolt General] animez:
Whether it's correct or not it's very common to see the uppercase k used when referring to kilobytes. To argue about it's usage puts one in the unenviable position of being a tech grammar nazi.

Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt
[Thunderbolt General] mike.s:
Thanks for proving the point.
[Thunderbolt General] KidJoe:
Their TOS makes statements that makes it "OK" for them to take steps/measures to ensure network integrity and bandwidth... and now include the following statements...

"...To help achieve this, if you use an extraordinary amount of data and fall within the top 5% of Verizon Wireless data users we may reduce your data throughput speeds periodically for the remainder of your then current and immediately following billing cycle to ensure high quality network performance for other users at locations and times of peak demand..."

"...We further reserve the right to take measures to protect our network and other users from harm, compromised capacity or degradation in performance. These measures may impact your service, and we reserve the right to deny, modify or terminate service, with or without notice, to anyone we believe is using Data Plans or Features in a manner that adversely impacts our network...." (copied/pasted from -> http://support.vzw.com/terms/products/vz_email.html )

because of this second one... VZW can argue that its perfectly within their rights to limit features of a device that they think will cause a negative impact on their service.

Personally, I think its BS. I would think that NETFLIX (available for iPhone and Android, and most movies are 2hrs long) would be a bigger bandwidth hog than Facetime (only on iOS devices, and I doubt anyone will be using it for more than about 10 or 15 min per call)
[Thunderbolt General] satseaker:
somebody needs a hug
[Thunderbolt General] stopswitch:
At least were not throttled like tmobile or att yet.
[Thunderbolt General] RunNgun42:
I cant imagine what they would throttle us to. I'm a pretty light thunderbolt user. I watch an hour of youtube per day during lunch, and thats about it. Maybe some web surfing if I'm waiting to get my hair cut or something like that. I've used 6GB this month. 2 GB seems incomprehensible. Thats like, 1 youtube vid per week after you factor in daily background stuff like gmail syncing, downloading misc apps here and there, etc. I'd be pretty pissed, probably just cancel and go to sprint or whoever is left.

2GB is really an absurd cap.
[Thunderbolt General] nrfitchett4:
agreed. I'd probably go prepaid flip phone, snag a tablet and use it with my time warner hotspot which is still unlimited.
[Thunderbolt General] stevebro6510:
I believe I see the entire industry heading toward a flip of talking minute charges and data charges. Just look at how our smartphones can bring these networks to their knees. Right now the demand is high and the charge is low. I don't think this will last long.
[Thunderbolt General] htcdesirezgeorge:
Mike.S I believe you be trollin lol!
[Thunderbolt General] ece4free:
This is because the characterization of how EVDO works given on the first page is misleading since it only considers the capacity of a single carrier on a single antenna.

Multiple 1.25MHz carriers are deployed within the 10MHz-20MHz+ bandwidth allocation, though Rev. A only allows a user use of a single carrier at a time. Each carrier has variable code and time slot parameters and each time slot/code combination can be independently modulated up to 16-QAM. So if we have three antennas (sectors), and are using 6 downlink carriers per cell, the actual per cell capacity is more like 3.1*6*3=55.8Mbps+. In addition, the ability to dynamically allocate resources across several carriers means that EVDO does not suffer from the same scheduling problems as WCDMA based systems.
[Thunderbolt General] htcdesirezgeorge:
I dunno, I am on 4g right now and going on almost 50 gigabytes of usage :-P I hope to God we dont get throttled or I might "throttle" somebody.
[Thunderbolt General] idkwhothatis123:
Use oovoo or tango...
[Desire General] Mr Paul:
Desire is currently rooted and S-OFF'ed. Is it possible to "debrand" this way? Also this means I'll get the GB update (as I'm pretty sure VF won't release an update)

Thanks for any potential advice guys

Paul
[Desire General] wackymix:
It works on me.

I bought last year a HTC Desire from Vodafone, and rooted + S-OFF and i flash ruu for europe froyo 2.29.405 and now i`m expecting gingerbread.

Same think i made when i expect froyo update.
[Desire General] MatDrOiD:
Yes, you can. But you need goldcard to avoid cid error and furthermore, you will loose root access and s-off. So imho it is easier, to flash one of the many custom sense roms with gingerbread you can find here. On this way you won't loose root access and s-off status, but you will have a gingerbread sense rom (which is what you want I guess).
[Desire General] Mr Paul:
or is there a easy way to unroot? I rooted via unrevoked......
[Desire General] MatDrOiD:
There is no easier way to unroot as flashing a ruu, imho.

Swyped from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App
[Desire General] Mr Paul:
Ok so I guess if I flash the Voda RUU, the phone will have to do a few updates...... as the RUU is pretty old 2.1 I do believe...
[Desire General] therealsebo:
if you instal the Vodafon RUU you will be branded again. And what is the point of unrooting? You can always find a rooted stock Rom, I am sure one will come out as soon as Gingerbread will be released.

And another problem would be if they release the update by IMEI and then if you are not at the original state of your phone you will not get the update even if not rooted.
[Desire General] Mr Paul:
True, best wait for a stock rooted ROM from here then and flash that via ROM manager :)
[Desire General] MatDrOiD:
Please do not use rom manager, it is a horrible software which causes many heavy system problems here. Just do it directly from recovery.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ralf_g60:
[Q] I have a adata 16gb class 10 microSd.

Antutu benchmark says 8,5MB/s write and 18MB/s read speed.

Why so low??
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vangelis13:
Benchmarks are never accurate, many a different thing can affect them. Try SD Card Speed Booster in the market. Or any of the other apps that come up when you search for sd speed.