Heimdall: ERROR: Failed to receive file part response!

I was trying to flash twrp recovery on my SM-A310F and this is what i always get `$ sudo heimdall flash --RECOVERY /Users/Daniele/Desktop/recovery.img --no-reboot Heimdall v1.4.1

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Initialising connection… Detecting device… Claiming interface… 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.

Uploading RECOVERY 0% ERROR: Failed to receive file part response!

ERROR: Retrying… ERROR: Expected file part index: 0 Received: 1 ERROR: RECOVERY upload failed!

Ending session… ERROR: Failed to receive session end confirmation! Releasing device interface…

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Created 8 years ago
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Comments: 17

Commits related to this issue

Add hack for header for file part See https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall/issues/347 — committed to changlinli/Heimdall by changlinli 7 years ago
Skip first file packet (fix #347) It's more like a hack, but worked for SM-A310F — committed to alexax66/Heimdall by alexax66 3 years ago

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Finally I found solution to the problem. It’s more like a hack. Be careful. You have been warned!

I noticed that we get error when trying to receive response from our device that it have received first file packet (BridgeManager.cpp, line 1115). It seems to me that device actually do not send response for the first file packet. If we skip this first response error, then file will be successfully sent to the device.

In BridgeManager.cpp replace code from line 1117 till 1153 by this code:

if (filePartIndex == 0)
{
    // Hack
    success = true;
    receivedPartIndex = filePartIndex;
}
else
{
    for (int retry = 0; retry < 4; ++retry)
    {
        Interface::PrintErrorSameLine("\n");
        Interface::PrintError("Retrying...");

        // Send
        sendFilePartPacket = new SendFilePartPacket(file, fileTransferPacketSize);
        success = SendPacket(sendFilePartPacket, kDefaultTimeoutSend, sendEmptyTransferFlags);
        delete sendFilePartPacket;

        if (!success)
        {
            Interface::PrintErrorSameLine("\n");
            Interface::PrintError("Failed to send file part packet 2!\n");
            return (false);
        }

        // Response
        sendFilePartResponse = new SendFilePartResponse();
        success = ReceivePacket(sendFilePartResponse);
        unsigned int receivedPartIndex = sendFilePartResponse->GetPartIndex();

        delete sendFilePartResponse;

        if (receivedPartIndex != filePartIndex)
        {
            Interface::PrintErrorSameLine("\n");
            Interface::PrintError("Expected file part index: %d Received: %d\n", filePartIndex, receivedPartIndex);
            return (false);
        }

        if (success)
            break;
    }

    if (!success)
        return (false);
}

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iamantony on Nov 8, 2016

Hello, i found a solution too. I had exactly the same problem, and even the code replacement didn’t work. To succeed flash, i’ve just changed permission of the file(s) i would flash as executable for heimdall, with the command " chmod +x recovery.img (or anything else)"

eddydonk on Jun 19, 2017

Just wanted to report that this hack also worked on a Samsung Galaxy S5 neo (SM-G903F). Standard Heimdall build indeed gave me the ERROR: Failed to receive file part response! message. The phone had stock firmware with Android 5.1.1 to begin with (in case it matters). The hack enabled me to upload the latest TWRP as well as the Android 6.0.1 stock ROM and afterwards a crDroid (Android 11) build flashed (via TWRP) cleanly. Due to my laziness I actually compiled the fork with the hack applied in https://github.com/alexax66/Heimdall, thanks @alexax66!

smartass101 on Apr 25, 2022

Hack worked with my A510F too

LittleZombie1 on Aug 20, 2021

I got a Samsung a5 (2016) A510F and heimdall was failling on all uploads with : “ERROR: Failed to receive file part response!” That hack worked for me.

sletuffe on Oct 14, 2021