The Free-Software Movement

Flash Samsung firmwares on Gnu/Linux

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Published: November 10, 2025

I wanted to upgrade a firmware of a Samsung S24 Plus to Android 16 but was too lazy to the old way of installing VirtualBox with Windows, then Odin in there, searched around, found this: OdinV4 for Linux - worked like a charm! Just make sure you put all the files you get from samfirmware in their respective param/arguments to the odin binary - I wasnt sure which arg for the HOME_CSC_OXM_S926BOXMACYJ7_MQB102650869_REV00_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5 file but tried -u and it worked and now phone is working fine with android 16.

Markdown a website with Jekyll Academic Pages

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Published: November 07, 2025

Testing Python projects with commands like make -j4

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Published: April 23, 2020

How to use Bluetooth Xbee Module on ardusimple ublox F9 UART1 with UBX message support instead of UART2

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Published: January 02, 2020

Normally the SimpleRTK2B board’s XBee mount point only supports UART2 which doesn’t support UBX messages, below video shows how to map UART1 to UART2 and thus using UART1 on the XBee port: