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Froyo Firmware upgrade on Mac...
- Thread starter ingaman
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goodm0urning
Member
what are you asking? this makes no sense
Frisco
=Luceat Lux Vestra=
Yes, it does make perfect sense. And using another PC or laptop on Windows would be the way to go with that issue for now. I've been unable to find a Mac guide for doing the upgrade.
ingaman
Lurker
Hmmmm... This seems more difficult than it should be. I don't have a PC running an os later than Windows 98. Also I have no interest in unloading my wallet on any of the newer Microsoft OS's that I wouldn't use for anything else but upgrading my firmware. I guess I'll have to reluctantly call one of my friends who uses a pc.
Frisco
=Luceat Lux Vestra=
Sorry you're in that situation, ingaman. I've been hoping that I could find a true guide for that, or even a post somewhere at XDA or other site; I've been searching off and on since I saw your post early this morning (I'm not used to not finding a thing at all on a subject like this one).
I was also thinking that by now another Captivate user with a Mac would chime in with their method, but it looks like most of them have received the OTA or used Windows computers to load the update.
Yer pretty much SOL with trying to do a firmware upgrade using OSX...
I tried to initially do the update using a Windows VM within OSX, but that didn't work... I eventually had to pull out my wifes old Toshiba laptop that's been collecting dust for 2 years and had to do the update that way.
I tried to initially do the update using a Windows VM within OSX, but that didn't work... I eventually had to pull out my wifes old Toshiba laptop that's been collecting dust for 2 years and had to do the update that way.
sremick
Android Expert
It sucks that a MacOS user has to resort to that and better options aren't available, but when it comes down to it it's a matter of cutting your losses. You can only work with whatever tools are available, and in the long-run it's less time and effort to borrow someone's Windows PC for a few minutes than it is to try and make things work on a Mac.
It shouldn't be that way, though. I agree.
It shouldn't be that way, though. I agree.
ingaman
Lurker
Well I managed to find a friend who will let me borrow his PC for a couple hours. I hope Google does make their future firmware updates cross-platform in the near future. It's kind of ironic that Apple makes iTunes and their firmware updates cross-platform, but Google doesn't?
Anyway, thanks for understanding my predicament and thanks for the advice -- it has been useful.
Anyway, thanks for understanding my predicament and thanks for the advice -- it has been useful.
The firmware update has nothing to do with Google and everything to do with Samsung creating Kies and not making it a cross platform application.
MonteMuscle70
Newbie
That does suck. Though, I'm not surprised considering its for a phone running an open source platform, and a computer running a proprietary platform, and they're competitors. Mac's never been well supported for any software. Poor bastards.