I must admit, I just used Odin under VirtualBox with a Windows 7 guest... it worked great.
But yeah it looks like you're going in the right direction. Stock Android does RTL, but it has a bug where numbers are reversed in RTL, which is a bit unbearable (think phone numbers, dates, bank balances, etc). As mentioned CyanogenMod has great RTL support (thanks to Omri Baumer), but the experimental versions for the Galaxy S are not usable for daily use. For "full" Hebrew support (fixes for specific apps, etc) you'll need a locally built rom. I'm using the PilotX ROM, which I'm very happy with... I have the v3, but I see v4 is out too. It's still based on 2.2.1 though (Froyo, not Gingerbread), so you might have to decide what's more important for you. http://sgsil.mobi/showthread.php?t=46 (see also www.iandroid.co.il forums) There are full instructions on the site for how to install; as was pointed out, you only need Odin to replace the bootloader, and from there it's just a matter of putting all the files you need on the internal memory and flashing them. Obviously you could use Heimdall instead of Odin for that step. A lot of ROMs are expecting to be flashed over a certain version of the flash rom; I think because the partitioning is done differently. Also ***very NB*** is to make sure that you can get to download mode (vol-up home and power-on at same time) before you start flashing things; if you have an older Galaxy S you have to get this working first. To leave recovery mode if you don't flash anything (and only then), you have to remove and replace the battery. To get to recovery mode with vol-down,home,power can be sketchy sometimes, but it's possible with some effort (usually by plugging the phone in to power with the phone off, holding that key combo in for 3 reboots (without letting go, it restarts on it's own) and then it goes in to recovery fine. The other solution was - believe it or not - heating the device up with a hairdryer, which also seemed to work according to a lot of forum reports. If you have adb working, you can also just "adb reboot recovery". I realize your main question was probably about Heimdall and Gingerbread, but I hope some of the other info here will help you. Gadi On 04/05/2011 17:38, Amichai Rotman wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently switched from Nokia N97 to Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000. It > came with Orange's ROM (Based on Android 2.2). > > It is lightning fast compared to my "old" N97, but still - it hangs > and has a bunch of Apps I do not need or like... > > I'd like to upgrade it to version 2.3.3 (Gingerbread). Can any of you > tell me how to do it under Linux? I am running Ubuntu 10.04. > > I found out that Heimdall is the equivalent to Odin, but I get a > dependency error on the C Libraries when I try to install it. > > Thanks! > > Amichai. > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer <dra...@wastelands.net> www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 //
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