All appeared to be going well. I had got through quite a bit of the easy-installer process, and then, my PC decided to overheat and shut itself off. The PC is back on with Easy-installer back up, and I have kept pressing the ‘continue’ button to where it says ‘Device detection Looking for your device…’ but then nothing happens. My Samsung Galaxy s9 is stuck on this screen (please see below), and I have no clue what to tap, or what to do to continue the process. Can anybody help please?
After looking at the installation guide for this phone, I have tried tapping ‘Advanced’ and then ‘adb sideload’ and this resulted in some action, but I am not sure what it did, if anything. When I repeat this (tapping on ‘Advanced’ and then ‘adb sideload’), I get two options: Wipe Dalvik Cache, and Wipe Cache. I don’t know which I would choose, if any.
I’ve got no experience with the easy-installer but now you are in the TWRP-Recovery-System. This is the instrument to install the custom rom (/e/OS).
You may try following this installation guide for flashing /e/OS at the S9: Install /e/ on a Samsung Galaxy S9 - “starlte” beginning with the section “1. Boot into TWRP”
As preparation you’ve got to install adb and fastboot in Linux Mint by the command “sudo apt-get install adb fastboot” (or follow this guide: Installing adb and fastboot on Linux PC)
You already are in TWRP, by default it has an automatic lock after some inactivity.
Swipe right and use the middle bottom button to return to main menu if needed.
For the sideload you got to connect the phone with your PC via usb.
Then these are the steps following the guide:
"* In TWRP return to main menu, then tap Wipe
Now tap Format Data and continue with the formatting process.Here a new screen may show where you will have to type Yes and confirm the action by clicking a button.
Caution: Format Data will remove encryption as well as delete all files stored on the internal storage. Remember to take a backup first. Check Requirements section above.
Return to the previous menu and tap Advanced Wipe.
Select the Cache and System partitions to be wiped and then Swipe to Wipe
Sideload the /e/ .zip package.
Tip: Sideload requires actions in two places to be done. One on your phone in the TWRP UI and secondly on the connected PC which should have adb enabled. Also note the sideload process while running may stop abruptly around 50%. The console would show a message Total xfer: 1.00x. This would mean that the transfer has successfully completed.
On the device in TWRP,
select Advanced, ADB Sideload, then swipe to begin sideload."
This is on the PC in Terminal:
On the host machine, in the console , start the sideload of the package by typing
adb sideload filename.zip
You got change into the folder which contains the zip-file (cd…) or paste the whole path (for example “/home/YOURUSERNAME/Downloads/FILENAME.zip”) Tip: Change the filename to the name of the file you downloaded
Once installation has finished, return to the main menu, tap Reboot, and then System"
As far as I can make out, the Easy-Installer has ceased working, and I am having to do things manually. The problem is that I am not sure what stage the Easy-Installer gave up the ghost, but it looks like I am up to the ‘patch’ point in the manual process?
Sorry, but how do I search a file when I don’t know what it is or what it is called? And how do I download it again if I need to? I didn’t really understand your previous post. Sorry - I am not very computer savvy.
On this site: https://doc.e.foundation/devices/starlte/install
You’ve got to klick on either “Q dev” or “Oreo Stable”
Q is a newer version and Oreo is older but more stable.
This is how you may download it.
Or you open your file-manager (nemo if you got Linux mint Cinnamon) and tab strg + f (search) and try the phrase “starlte.zip” or “e-0.19” to find the file that maybe easy-installer has already downloaded.
