Why 'Heimdall'?įor internal use, Samsung developed their own firmware flashing tool known as'Odin', named after the king of gods in Norse mythology. Loke and Heimdall communicate via the customSamsung-developed protocol sometimes referred to as the 'Odin protocol'.Low-level USB in Heimdall is handled by the popular open-source USB library, libusbx. Heimdall connects to a mobile device over USB and interact with software runningon device known as Loke. Heimdall is a cross-platform open-source tool suite used to flash firmware (akaROMs) onto Samsung mobile devices. One thought on ' Install Heimdall Suite on Mac OSX ' MVE says: Septemat 6:30 am Installing Cask heimdall-suite. Lets get on with the Mac OS Sierra Download. I will be uploading some older versions of Mac OS suitable for older macbooks here. The reason why we uploaded this here is to keep everything in one location. The Mac OS is in a.zip format so you will need to extract the file first.