Richard-BKK Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Okay I finally moved to a “smarter” more modern mobile telephone, so now I have a Samsung Galaxy S i9003M, works perfect of course. But it keeps complaining that updates are available, now I understand that the update is a firmware update. The main problem with the Samsung Galaxy S is that it comes with KIES software, which has no Linux version and seem not to work while using in a VMware Workstation (virtual machine) software running MS Windows XP. Samsung KIES software is needed (apparently) to upgrade the firmware of the Samsung Galaxy S mobile phone. In our office the last MS Windows computer left the building some time ago, we currently only have Apple Mac's, Ubuntu 10.10 systems and one Fedora 14 box (basically to lazy to change that one... too much data on it). So the obvious question is how do I connect my Samsung Galaxy S i9003M to my computer running Linux, or with VMware Workstation Windows XP VM, to upgrade the firmware... and maybe exchange some more data (maybe I ask with that too much). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaimite Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 (edited) Sorry I can't offer any real help, but I will be watching this topic with interest, as I will soon be in the market for a new phone and I like the Samsung models Currently I have a Samsung Omnia II and I managed to get the Samsung upgrade software working in an XP machine under Virtualbox. A task I had not been able to do with VMware. If you decide to try this, be sure to install Virtualbox from the Oracle web site and not the Ubuntu repository as the one in the Ubuntu Repositories does not offer USB support. Edited April 15, 2011 by thaimite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard-BKK Posted April 15, 2011 Author Share Posted April 15, 2011 The version of Samsung KIES I use is the latest, 2.0.0.1... something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derifo Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 I don't know if this will help. I'm also struggling to upgrade my LG on Ubuntu as well. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1523765&page=4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shriah Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 The only way is to root your phone and flash a custom rom. Hope this helps Stackexchange XDA-Developers . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard-BKK Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 The solution to upgrade a Samsung Galaxy S (Android) mobile telephone is http://www.glassechidna.com.au/2010/devblogs/heimdall-suite-1-1-1/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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