Wednesday, February 24, 2016

samsung galaxy s 4 - Heimdall errors, "ERROR: Partition "recovery" does not exist in the specified PIT."


When I try to flash my S4 with Heimdal and put on clockworkmod, i get the follow,


$ sudo heimdall flash --recovery ./clockworkmod_6.0.3.2_jfltespr.img --no-reboot
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Initialising connection...

Detecting device...
Claiming interface...
Attempt failed. Detaching driver...
Claiming interface again...
Setting up interface...

Initialising protocol...
Protocol initialisation successful.

Beginning session...


Some devices may take up to 2 minutes to respond.
Please be patient!

Session begun.

Downloading device's PIT file...
PIT file download successful.

ERROR: Partition "recovery" does not exist in the specified PIT.

Ending session...
Releasing device interface...
Re-attaching kernel driver...

So why is it telling me,



ERROR: Partition "recovery" does not exist in the specified PIT.




Answer



This is because the command you used to invoke heimdall was,



heimdall flash --recovery

And, heimdall is caps sensitive, try this instead.


heimdall flash --RECOVERY ./clockworkmod_6.0.3.2_jfltespr.img --no-reboot

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