[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] Rabendoktor:
Hi there,

as I never owned any Windows-based PC but only Macs and nevertheless use Samsung phones and tablets I searched for a possibity to flash my N5100, which is not supported by the Cyanogenmod-installer. After a lot of looking around, I here compile the way it worked for me.

As always: I take no responsibility at all - be sure you know what you do or don't do it. Your device can be bricked, although the risk is small if you follow the instructions step by step.

Credits and thanks to Chainfire for his wonderful work and to Bill Anderson, whos guide helped me a lot and is the base for the heimdall-part of the guide.

If the nerds here complain about this guide being too simple, I don't mind - folks like me need it that way...

1. Download and install Heimdall

2. Download and install an app to unarchive tar.md5-files (p.e. The Unarchiver) – Mac OS won't do that on its own.

3. Create a folder for the process, p.e. /Autoroot, wherever you'll find it when you need it.

4. Download the CF-Auto-Root for the device (here) and save it into this folder

5. Extract the CF-Autor-Root-mxxxx-yyyy.tar.md5 – file – you'll get 2 files: cache.img and recovery.img

6. Start Heimdall, klick the Utilities-tab

7. Shut down your Samsung device.

8. Start it in „download-mode“: press the VolumeDown + Home + Power keys. You'll get a warning and press VolumeUp to proceed.

9. Connect the device to your Mac via USB.

10. In Heimdall, press the Detect button. The display should show „Device detected“.

11. Click on the Utility-tab and then the Save as button of the Download PIT section - browse to the folder created in step 3 and enter a file name such as Samsungxxxx.pit. Save.

12. Once you got the PIT file, you can click the „Flash“ tab.

13. Use the Browse button to select the PIT file downloaded in Step 11.

14. Click the Add button to add a partition.

15. From the Partition Name menu, select Recovery.

16. In the File box, browse to the recovery.img file that you retrieved in step 5.

17. Repeat steps 14 through 16 for the Cache partition.

18. Click each partition in the Partitions box to verify that it is associated with the correct file.

19. Check the No Reboot option, as you do not want Heimdall to automatically reboot the device – if the process fails with checked No Reboot-option, try it again with No Reboot unchecked, for me, it worked this way and I proceeded with step 23.

20. Click the Start button, and watch the Status text area where the progress of the flashing can be seen until the "Flash completed successfully!" message.

21. Hold down the Power button and unplug the USB cable. Keep holding down the Power button, and press the VolumeUp button until the Samsung device boots into Recovery mode.

22. Your Samsung device should automatically reboot after CF-Auto-Root installs.

23. You should by now have a superuser-access. Verify this with any terminal emulator app by entering su command and granting SuperSU root privileges to the emulator app You use.

24. Install Mobile Odin onto your device.

25. After starting the app, grant superuser-access.

26. Download the recovery you like, p.e.PhilZ Touch Recovery (for your device) and copy it onto the SD-card of your device, p.e. using android filetransfer.

27. Download the custom-ROM you like, p.e. cyanogenmod (for your device) and copy it onto the SD-card of your device, p.e. using android filetransfer.

28. In Mobile Odin click on Recovery → Internal SD-card and choose the recovery you just copied onto it.

29. Restart the device into the recovery mode, holding Home + VolumeUp + Power

30. Choose Install from zip and choose the custom-ROM you just copied onto the SD-card

31. Done!

Hope these lines could be helpful for Mac-users...

Best regards,

Rabendoktor