Heimdall (c) 2010-2014 Benjamin Dobell, Glass Echidna http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/ DISCLAIMER: This software attempts to flash your Galaxy S device. The very nature of flashing is dangerous. As with all flashing software, Heimdall has the potential to damage (brick) your device if not used carefully. If you're concerned, don't use this software. Flashing ROMs onto your device may also void your warranty. Benjamin Dobell and Glass Echidna are not responsible for the result of your actions. These instructions were written for Windows 7 / Vista / Server 2008 however the procedure should be essentially the same for all supported versions of Windows (XP onwards). Troubleshooting: 1. If when you try launch Heimdall or Heimdall Frontend you receive a similar to: The program can't start because MSVCP110.dll is missing from your computer. This means that you haven't installed the Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 runtimes. The runtimes can be downloaded from Microsoft's website: http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=30679 Driver Installation Instructions: 1. Put your device into download mode and plug it in. 2. Run zadig.exe included in the Drivers subdirectory. 3. From the menu chose Options -> List All Devices. 4. From the USB Device list chose "Samsung USB Composite DEvice". 5. Press "Install Driver", click "Yes" to the prompt and if you receive a message about being unable to verify the publisher of the driver click "Install this driver software anyway". 6. Done Driver Uninstallation Instructions: 1. Put your device into download mode by holding Volume Down + Home + Power. 2. Plug your phone into your PC. 3. Open up Device Manager on your PC (Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager). 4. Under "Libusb (WinUSB) devices" right click on "Samsung USB Composite Device" and chose Properties. 5. Go to the Driver tab and select Update Driver. 6. Chose to browse your computer for the driver. 7. Chose to pick from a list of devices drivers on your computer. 8. Pick the original Samsung Composite driver, press next and then follow the prompts. 9. Done Flashing Heimdall Firmware Package with Heimdall Frontend: As of Heimdall Frontend 1.3 there are now two main ways to flash a ROM from Heimdall Frontend. The simpler and preferred option is to download a Heimdall Firmware Package and follow the following steps. 1. Fully charge your device (use the wall charger as it's faster). 2. Open the Heimdall Frontend (heimdall-frontend) executable. 3. From the "Load Package" tab, under the "Heimdall Firmware Package" section click the "Browse" button. 4. Use the dialogue that appears to navigate to, and select, the Heimdall firmware package that you wish to flash. 5. You will see progress bars appear as the package is decompressed and extracted. When the package has finished being decompressed you should see information about the particular firmware package that has been selected. 6. Verify that your device is listed under "Supported Devices". If it's not then STOP immediately! DO NOT flash this firmware to your device! Instead search for an appropriate firmware package for your device. If you believe there is a mistake and your device is actually supported please get in contact with the firmware developer (not Glass Echidna!) and ask them to rectify the issue. If the developer provided a URL you may be able to contact them by pressing the "Homepage" button. 7. If you've verified your device is supported you may continue to press the "Load / Customise" button. 8. You should now be looking at the "Flash" tab. If not verify that you did in fact push the "Load / Customise" button. Generally, you won't NEED or WANT to customise a firmware package! In which case you can safely move on to step 9. Nonetheless, the "Flash" tab provides you with a means to customise the firmware package before flashing it to your device. See "Performing a Custom Flash with Heimdall Frontend" for more details. 9. Put your Galaxy S device into download mode and plug it in to your PC. Download mode can be accessed several different ways depending on your particular device model. If you're unsure how to do this please search online for the appropriate method. 10. Press the "Start" button. 11. Heimdall Frontend will display the progress and inform you when the flash is complete. If something went wrong i.e. your device wasn't detected because it wasn't in download mode, then the status section will let you know the cause of the problem. Performing a Custom Flash with Heimdall Frontend: This is the advanced means of flashing firmware to your device. If you're not an advanced user or a developer, in the event that a Heimdall Firmware Package doesn't exist for the particular firmware (or files) that you wish to flash, then I strongly recommend you get in touch with developer of the firmware (or files) and politely ask them to create a Heimdall Firmware Package for you. In doing so then you don't have to worry about making mistakes due to inexperience. If you're looking to customise an existing Heimdall Firmware Package then follow steps 1-8 of "Flashing Heimdall Firmware Package with Heimdall Frontend" then start from below with step 5. 1. Fully charge your device (use the wall charger as it's faster). 2. Download a decrypted device ROM or a Heimdall Firmware Package and extract everything to the one directory. 3. If the ROM is not a Heimdall Firmware Package it may instead be provided as multiple archives (nested or otherwise), extract them all to the same location. NOTE: If you want to use the CSC then extract it last. 3. Open the Heimdall Frontend (heimdall-frontend) executable. 4. Select the "Flash" tab. From the "Flash" tab you're able to completely customise a flash. 5. Before you can chose which partitions you want to flash with particular files you MUST first select a PIT file. To do this click the "Browse" button in the "PIT" section. This will open a dialogue allowing you to navigate to and select a valid PIT (.pit) file. If you do not already have a valid PIT file stored on your computer you can download your device's PIT file from the "Utilities" tab. 6. If a valid PIT file has been selected then "Add" button below the "Partitions (Files)" list-box will become enabled. Press this button to add a partition to your flash. 7. When you first add a partition you will see the "Partition Name" and "Partition ID" be populated with information. Use the "Partition Name" drop down to select which partition you wish to flash. "Partition ID" will automatically update and is never directly editable. 8. You must then select a file to flash to the partition that you just specified using the "Browse" button under the "File / Partition". You will not be able to flash, create a firmware package or add another partition until you have selected a file. However, you're still able to press the "Remove" button if you've decided not to flash the partition you've just specified. 9. When you've specified a file name then you'll be able to see the updated information in the partition list to the right. You can select any partition from this list and customise it as you see fit. You can also remove a partition from the list by selecting it and clicking the "Remove" button. Removing a partition from the list doesn't remove it from your device, it simply means it will not be flashed. 10. Repeat steps 7-9 as often as needed to specify all the partitions/files that you wish to flash. 11. Now you can chose whether you would like to repartition your device as well as whether you would like to prevent the device rebooting once a flash has been completed. These options can be enabled or disabled by toggling the "Repartition" and "No Reboot" check-boxes. In the general case you will only need to enable repartition if you wish to change the PIT file on your device. Keep in mind that repartitioning will wipe your device! The "No Reboot" option is rarely required. It's mostly in place so you can manually boot straight into recovery mode after a flash (rather than booting up normally). 12. If you've added at least one partition to your flash (and selected a file for that partition) then the "Start" button will be enabled. Press the "Start" button to begin the flashing process. You may notice that the "Create Package" tab becomes available at the whenever the "Start" button becomes available. From this tab you're able to create a reusable, redistributable Heimdall Firmware Package with the files and partitions you just selected. See "How to Create a Heimdall Firmware Package" for details. 13. Heimdall Frontend will display the progress and inform you when the flash is complete. If something went wrong i.e. your device wasn't detected because it wasn't in download mode, then the status section will let you know the cause of the problem. Flashing Firmware from Command Line: 1. Fully charge your phone (use the wall charger as it's faster). 2. Download a decrypted device ROM or a Heimdall Firmware Package and extract everything to the one directory. 3. If the ROM is not a Heimdall Firmware Package it may instead be provided as multiple archives (nested or otherwise), extract them all to the same location. NOTE: If you want to use the CSC then extract it last. If you're asked to overwrite files then do so. 4. Put your Galaxy S device into download mode and plug it in.. 5. Open command prompt and navigate to the directory where you installed heimdall. NOTE: Adding Heimdall to your PATH variable will allow you to run Heimdall from any directory. 6. Type the following to list all the functionality Heimdall supports: heimdall help 7. Before flashing, you must first know the names of the partitions you wish to flash. These can be obtained by executing: heimdall print-pit --no-reboot The inclusion of --no-reboot ensures the phone will not reboot after PIT file has been downloaded and displayed. After executing a command with the --no-reboot argument, the next command should include the --resume argument. NOTE: You can still safely reboot your phone manually (with the power button) after executing --no-reboot commands. 8. Use the help and print-pit output to construct a command with all the file you want to flash. Here is an example that does a full flash and repartition on a GT-I9000: heimdall flash --repartition --resume --pit s1_odin_20100512.pit --FACTORYFS factoryfs.rfs --CACHE cache.rfs --DBDATA dbdata.rfs --IBL+PBL boot.bin --SBL Sbl.bin --PARAM param.lfs --KERNEL zImage --MODEM modem.bin NOTE: The above command assumes the files specified are installed in the same directory as Heimdall. 9. Heimdall will display the progress as it flashes so that you know things are working as they should. How to Create a Heimdall Firmware Package: Firstly, Heimdall's firmware package format is just a regular TAR archive compressed with gzip. The only two real requirements are that a valid firmware.xml must be included (refer to Appendix A) and you can only include files (no directories, links etc.) As such if you'd like there is nothing preventing you from creating Heimdall packages manually. Of course Heimdall Frontend provides a simple user interface that takes care of all the hard work for you. There are two ways in which you can create a firmware package. You can create a package from scratch, or you can load an existing package, apply modifications and then save the package. Creating a package from scratch is the preferred approach, by taking this approach you're far less likely to run into file name length limitations. These are not Heimdall's own limitation but rather a limitation of the TAR archive format. Before you can access Heimdall Frontend's firmware creation functionality (available from the "Create Package" tab) you must first specify which files will be included in your package, as well as a few flashing options i.e. Whether or not users should repartition when flashing. This information must be filled out from the "Flash" tab in exactly the same fashion you would provide information to flash your device (see "Performing a Custom Flash with Heimdall Frontend"). As mentioned above, it's not the preferred means, but you're able to load an existing package as a starting point for this information. Once you've specified the files/partitions you wish to include in your firmware package the "Create Package" tab will become available. Clicking this tab will display additional information that you can include in your package. In order to continue you must fill out all sections except for the URLs section, which is optional. The following is a break-down of what all these options mean. - General Firmware Information: - Firmware Name - This is the name of your particular firmware. An example would be "Cyanogenmod". Firmware Version - This is the version identifier for your package. Any valid string will be accepted although a the inclusion of decimal point version number is preferred i.e. "7.1". If it makes sense then feel free to append a text string like "RC1" or "Beta 1" to the decimal point version. Platform Name - This is the name of the platform (or operating system) that your firmware is based on. In most cases this will simply be "Android". Platform Version - This is the operating system version that your firmware is based on. Again decimal point version numbers are preferred over text, i.e. "2.3.4" is preferred over "Gingerbread". - Developers - URLs (Optional): Homepage - Here you can enter your personal URL or a URL particularly pertaining to the firmware being packaged. The URL must be well formed for it to work. An example of a well formed URL is "http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/". It is important to include "http://" in order to specify the protocol as other protocols such as "ftp://" are equally valid although unlikely to be used. Donate - Here you can enter a URL that will link users to a page to make donations for the effort you've put into developing your firmware. Once again the URL must be well formed but there is no requirement on how your donation page should work. For instance both "http://www.glassechidna.com.au/donate/" and "http://forum.xda-developers.com/donatetome.php?u=2710388" are equally valid. Developer Info: Name - Here you can enter in the name of individual team members or a team name. Click "Add" and the developer will be added to the list on the right. If you make a mistake you can select a developer from the list and click "Remove". You can list as many developers as you like however visual constraints of the "Load Package" tab means only a few names will be visible. Where possible you may want to opt for team names over listing individual team members. - Supported Devices - This section allows you to create a list of devices that are supported by your particular firmware. Although Heimdall isn't capable of enforcing this we strongly recommend you take this section seriously. If filled out correctly you could help save a number of accidental bricks! Device Info: Manufacturer - This is where you can enter the name of the manufacturer for a particular device. For now this will most likely be "Samsung". Name - This is the human readable name for a particular device. "Galaxy S", "Galaxy S II", "Droid Charge", "Vibrant" and "Galaxy S (Telstra)" are all valid names. There are a lot of possible variations here so be as specific as you think is necessary. Product Code - This is by far the most important bit of device information. Device names tend to be region specific and further subject to the whims of telecommunication companies and resellers. Product Codes (or product IDs) are designated by manufacturers and are generally the definitive means of referring to a particular device. Examples are "GT-I9000", "GT-I9100" and "SCH-I897". If you're unsure of a particular product code then both Google and GSMArena are your friends! After filling out all the necessary information the "Build" button will be enabled. If it's still disabled then you know you're missing some required information. In particular you must specify at least one developer and at least one supported device. Pressing the "Build" button will bring up a save dialogue where you must chose a file name for your particular package. Don't worry about specifying the ".tar.gz" extension Heimdall Frontend will take care of this automatically. Once you've chosen a file name Heimdall Frontend will begin the process of building the firmware package. In doing so a valid firmware.xml file will be generated from the information entered. All files will be archived in a single TAR file then the TAR archive will be compressed via gzip compression. Compression will take a little while but you will see progress bars so you know the application hasn't hung. When the progress bars disappear you're finished making your package. Congratulations! You're now ready to redistribute your firmware package online or by any means you see fit. Appendix A - firmware.xml The following details a part of the Heimdall Firmware Package format. This is only relevant to developers or advanced users who wish to create Heimdall Firmware Packages outside of Heimdall Frontend or in some way integrate support for the format in their own software. All Heimdall Firmware Packages must contain a file called firmware.xml. This file stores flash information and meta-data for the package as well as information about other files contained within the package. The format is fairly straight-forward so it won't be explained in great detail. Nonetheless the following is an example of a valid firmware.xml file. Test Firmware 1.1 Android 2.3.4 Benjamin Dobell Hedonism Bot http://www.glassechidna.com.au/ http://www.glassechidna.com.au/donate/ Samsung GT-I9000 Galaxy S Samsung GT-I9000T Galaxy S (Telstra) Samsung GT-I9000M Vibrant Nl3276-I9000 s1_odin_20100512.pit 0 0 0 gq3276-boot.bin 24 Uh3276-cache.rfs 22 em3276-factoryfs.rfs 11 fl3276-modem.bin 21 Xd3276-param.lfs 3 if3276-Sbl.bin 6 cr3276-zImage New lines need not be included and the order in which elements are specified does not need to match that of the above example. One and only one element must be included. The element must also have a version attribute specified. The version must be parsable as an integer and indicates what version of the Heimdall Firmware Package specification the package adheres to. All data is stored as strings, however a 's element must be parsable as an integer. The value represents the partition ID (according to the specified PIT file) that the file should be flashed to. A 's and elements must also be parsable as an integer. However, as they represent boolean values, a value of zero ("0") means false (or disabled) where as a non-zero value (typically "1") means true (or enabled). File names are specified relative to the TAR archive in which firmware.xml and all other files are to be stored. Heimdall Firmware Packages do not support directories or links, as such file names should only be a name and not a path. and are the only optional elements, all other elements must be included. Appendix B - Installing Heimdall Suite from Source 1. Ensure that you have both a version of Visual Studio 2012 with C++ support and Qt Developer Framework (4.7 or later, but prior to 5.0) installed on your system. A free version (Visual C++ 2012 Express) can be downloaded from Microsoft's website: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-express-products Qt can also be downloaded freely from: http://qt-project.org/downloads 2. Open msvc2012.sln 3. From the Solutions Configuration drop-down change from "Debug" to "Release". 4. In the Solution Explorer right-click on the heimdall-frontend project and chose "Build". 5. Depending on how you've installed Qt on your system you may need to copy "QtCore4.dll, "QtGui4.dll" and "QtXml4.dll" from your Qt bin/ sub-directory to Heimdall's Win32/Release sub-directory. 6. Heimdall Frontend can then be run from Win32/Release or command line can be used to run Heimdall (command line) from the same directory.