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[tlowen40]

I don't know a lot about this techy stuff but enough to get myself in trouble. Now I am trying to use the HOB on my MAC. I run the program and get this

 

eady to flash  fxz_keep...

* Flashing will take about 10-20 minutes

[NOTE: Your phone must be in AP Fastboot]

 

Get Ready To Break Out Your Sudo

Press Enter when ready to start flashing

 

 

sudo: fastboot: command not found

sudo: fastboot: command not found

Press Enter to continue when the phone is back in AP Fastboot

 

I also get this which happens just before the above:

 

Linux/Mac House of Bionic Version: 1.6

 

Resetting ADB...

/Users/thomasowen/Documents/LinuxMac_HouseOfBionic/LinuxMac_HouseOfBionic_1.6/HouseOfBionic.command: line 585: adb: command not found

 

I don't know much about navigating unix or OSX. Really would like to get this Bionic updated. I'm on 902 version. 

Can someone help? root and utils folders are under the /HouseOfBionic1.6 folder.

[SamuriHL]

How are you running the script?  It needs to be started from a terminal in the correct folder.  Otherwise it won't find the proper files.

[tmyinc]

Sam does it matter if the MAC is 32 or 64 bit with HoB?

N00b question here lol.

[SamuriHL]

No idea.

[tlowen40]

OK I got the adb working. Got the fastboot option to work. and then I got this:

 

Password:

        sending 'mbm' (256 KB)... OKAY [  0.022s]

                 writing 'mbm'... OKAY [  0.796s]

     rebooting into bootloader... OKAY [  0.203s]

Press Enter to continue when the phone is back in AP Fastboot

 

   sending 'mbmloader' (41 KB)... OKAY [  0.009s]

           writing 'mbmloader'... OKAY [  0.311s]

        sending 'mbm' (256 KB)... OKAY [  0.139s]

                 writing 'mbm'... OKAY [  0.492s]

     rebooting into bootloader... OKAY [  0.263s]

Press Enter to continue when the phone is back in AP Fastboot

 

     sending 'cdt.bin' (16 KB)... OKAY [  0.008s]

             writing 'cdt.bin'... OKAY [  0.937s]

   sending 'logo.bin' (854 KB)... OKAY [  0.399s]

            writing 'logo.bin'... OKAY [  0.647s]

         sending 'ebr' (16 KB)... 

 

its just hanging there?

[SamuriHL]

It shouldn't hang.  So try a different USB port and/or cable.

[tlowen40]

Well, being the nooby that I am I realized that fighting with mac usb 3 was futile. I am using an older dell lap with vista. I ran RSD in XP compatible mode and started is as an administrator. started the program using the cmd window and it all started looking good. Then I ran into a low battery situation, lol. I'll get this 246 flash in there on way or another.

[SamuriHL]

Low battery is bad, yes.  That's why I use a factory adapter.

[tlowen40]

I'm just getting my feet wet here. Originally I needed hotspot so I rooted it. Could not get upgrades so that led me to the experts. I may need one of those factory adapters if I continue down this path, lol. I need to freshen up on the whole ROM thing. I don't see much on learning about ROM here so I better look around at some other sites. I did read one article about ROM Manager, that looked cool.

[SamuriHL]

No no no no.  Safestrap.  Not rom manager.  And you should look in the ROM and Development section of this forum.  There's tons of information here.

[tlowen40]

I will do my research for sure. earlier yesterday I had a black screen on the bionic. Thanks to your HouseOfBionic and recommendations I was able to go from

2.3 Ginger to the 4.0 Ice Cream. Got the 4.1 OTA the same day. Thank You

[geo73]

I did successfuly fxz and root in Ubuntu . However i did stumble once . I double clicked sh. File and chose open in terminal(was that wrong?). Cause adb would not connect until I installed the lib32 file from the start of the root procedure, then all went as expected.

[tlowen40]

I was using my mac at first to do the fxz. I went to file preferences for the houseofbionic.sh and changed the .sh to command. that way the mac OSX recognized it as an executable. then I told it to open in terminal. thats one way to work the .sh. Its been several years since doing anything at this extent with computers. My days with IBM were short lived. I work on power lines now, great money. Anyways, you can probably just open a terminal in Ubuntu and change directories to where the HOB is. to execute the command it looked like this in terminal ./houseofbionic.sh or ./houseofbionic.command.

you can leave the .sh if you execute the command from the terminal. However, if you want to click on the file so it brings up the terminal you need to change the .sh to .command using OSX and that probably goes for linux as well. 

I can't really speak much on the adb because my Mac Pro has USB 3.0 which keeps dropping the adb connection. But what I noticed was by opening up another terminal window and executing "adb devices" command I was able to verify throughout the HOB installation process if adb was connected with the phone.

Every time I would lose the adb connection I issued the commands adb kill-server then adb start-server.

That would reconnect adb again so I could continue the install process but the USB 3.0 won the battle.

After pulling my hair out on that I pulled out the MS Vista laptop and did it the easy way.