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Heimdall installation error

/e/ installation (more precisely the Heimdall part) on Galaxy S7 Edge, with a Windows 10

Summary

On page : https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/wiki/en/wikis/device/hero2lte/install

At step "Download and install the [Heimdall suite]" : the linked page allow to download the prebuild 1.4.0 version

And at step "type heimdall print-pit", i got an error

Steps to reproduce

Download the linked version in this page, then at the step 6, type heimdall print-pit

What is the current behavior?

There is an error and the rest of the installation is not possible

What is the expected correct behavior?

The device need to reboot at this step

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

The error is :

Initialising protocol...

ERROR: Protocol initialisation failed!

Releasing device interface...

Possible fixes

Fixed with the Heimdall 1.4.2 version. No need to compile to get this version, I found it on a github repo: https://github.com/tothphu/heimdall_build

Edited by Sébastien Gelsumini