Hi folks,
Trying to assist a friend with a JH7 Captivate S (i897) to do a stock Froyo update.
From my limited reading it appears that a Win7 x64 PC is not a good choice for Kies Mini, and Samsung officially discourages the use of Kies for W7 x64. (W7 x64 is what I've got for better or worse)
[ FYI - Tried installing Kies Mini 11011_4 under a VirtualBox Win XP x32 guest; it actually crashes the guest VM during driver install phase. That, and USB pass-through in VirtualBox 4.1.x is not 100% transparent. Makes me a bit nervous to flash the phone using a VM guest. ]
So, a couple of questions:
Q1) Is KB1 the last official (Froyo) release from Samsung? (sorry for the lamer question)
I'm savvy enough to boot a Linux CD Distro and use Heimdall if necessary, so...
Q2) Anybody here ever use Heimdall for a stock install?
Q3) My (poor) understanding is that ROMs for Odin/Heimdall are slightly kanged versions of whatever Kies/MiniKies would normally download from Samsung - is that correct?
Q4) That being the case - and assuming I can find it (KB1?) for download someplace (where?) - has anybody published MD5 sigs for these (slightly kanged) "official" Samsung ROMs?
Any opinions or expansion on the above would be welcomed. I'm basically looking for a minimal-risk stock upgrade. As the phone is not mine, I'd prefer to avoid a multi-day adventure. (If the phone was mine, it would have been rooted a long time ago)
eu1
[ Edit ]
Answered some of my questions with more digging.
- It appears that UCKB2 appeared on some late-shipped Captivates.
- This XDA thread seems to be what I am looking for, although I suppose that the phone currently (JH7) doesn't have a Froyo bootloader, so I might experience some ... eh ... "kinks"
as I said before, comments are welcome.
.
Trying to assist a friend with a JH7 Captivate S (i897) to do a stock Froyo update.
From my limited reading it appears that a Win7 x64 PC is not a good choice for Kies Mini, and Samsung officially discourages the use of Kies for W7 x64. (W7 x64 is what I've got for better or worse)
[ FYI - Tried installing Kies Mini 11011_4 under a VirtualBox Win XP x32 guest; it actually crashes the guest VM during driver install phase. That, and USB pass-through in VirtualBox 4.1.x is not 100% transparent. Makes me a bit nervous to flash the phone using a VM guest. ]
So, a couple of questions:
Q1) Is KB1 the last official (Froyo) release from Samsung? (sorry for the lamer question)
I'm savvy enough to boot a Linux CD Distro and use Heimdall if necessary, so...
Q2) Anybody here ever use Heimdall for a stock install?
Q3) My (poor) understanding is that ROMs for Odin/Heimdall are slightly kanged versions of whatever Kies/MiniKies would normally download from Samsung - is that correct?
Q4) That being the case - and assuming I can find it (KB1?) for download someplace (where?) - has anybody published MD5 sigs for these (slightly kanged) "official" Samsung ROMs?
Any opinions or expansion on the above would be welcomed. I'm basically looking for a minimal-risk stock upgrade. As the phone is not mine, I'd prefer to avoid a multi-day adventure. (If the phone was mine, it would have been rooted a long time ago)
eu1
[ Edit ]
Answered some of my questions with more digging.
- It appears that UCKB2 appeared on some late-shipped Captivates.
- This XDA thread seems to be what I am looking for, although I suppose that the phone currently (JH7) doesn't have a Froyo bootloader, so I might experience some ... eh ... "kinks"
as I said before, comments are welcome.
.