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Hello all,

I am having a couple issues using Heimdall on Arch Linux and am hoping someone with more experience than I can help. I am trying to flash a kernel on my Galaxy S5 (kltetmo)
The first command I ran was:

Code:

heimdall flash --KERNEL zImage  --verbose

Initialising connection...

Detecting device...

      Manufacturer: "Sasmsung"

          Product: "MSM8960"



            length: 18

      device class: 2

              S/N: 0

          VID:PID: 04E8:685D

        bcdDevice: 0100

  iMan:iProd:iSer: 1:2:0

          nb confs: 1



interface[0].altsetting[0]: num endpoints = 1

  Class.SubClass.Protocol: 02.02.01

      endpoint[0].address: 82

          max packet size: 0010

          polling interval: 09



interface[1].altsetting[0]: num endpoints = 2

  Class.SubClass.Protocol: 0A.00.00

      endpoint[0].address: 81

          max packet size: 0200

          polling interval: 00

      endpoint[1].address: 01

          max packet size: 0200

          polling interval: 00

Claiming interface...

Setting up interface...



Initialising protocol...

Protocol initialisation successful.



Beginning session...

WARNING: Empty bulk transfer after sending packet failed. Continuing anyway...

ERROR: libusb error -7 whilst sending bulk transfer. Retrying...

ERROR: Failed to send request to end PIT file transfer!

ERROR: Failed to download PIT file!

Ending session...

ERROR: libusb error -7 whilst sending bulk transfer. Retrying...

ERROR: libusb error -7 whilst sending bulk transfer.

ERROR: Failed to send end session packet!

Releasing device interface...

Note that I only included the errors and removed duplicates of them. Also note that my phone is apparently detected as an S4. I would think this could be part of the problem but I could find nothing about Heimdall detecting phones improperly or how to fix such an issue

After this failed I uninstalled Heimdall from the main package repository of my distribution and then compiled and installed Heimdall via the AUR (Arch User Repository) and tried the same command again as I saw some users had better success with their own compilations of Heimdall. At this point it was successful in downloading the PIT, but I still received the same WARNING and ERROR in addition to

Code:

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

Ending session...

WARNING: Empty bulk transfer after sending packet failed. Continuing anyway...

ERROR: libusb error -7 whilst receiving bulk transfer. Retrying...

I tried this command with both --kernel and --KERNEL as I saw in other threads of similar problems that heimdall is case sensitive, this made no difference however.
I then ran

Code:

heimdall print-pit

and found that there is indeed no partition with the name kernel or KERNEL.
I then tried downloading a PIT from elsewhere and tried to flash adding the --PIT option to my command but received the same output as above.
After a little more research I found that the partition name might be something else, but I found no way of determining what it might be. Obviously I can look through the output of print-pit, but I am not sure which is the proper partition and don't want to flash blindly.

Does anyone have any ideas? Or know the proper name of the partition for the Galaxy S5?