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Obtaining the Galaxy Gifts Card Back & 3 Free Packs
Last night the Galaxy Gifts card back promotion went live and is only available to those with a Samsung Galaxy S6. We’ve put together a guide on how you can do this from the comfort of your own PC using an Android emulator. This guide was inspired by n4ru’s guide.
This requires that you have Amazon account to use their Appstore. You can create one for free on the Amazon website. You can later use this account and emulator to buy Hearthstone packs cheaper than normal when Amazon runs Amazon Coin promotions!
This will work on Windows, Linux, and Mac. We’ve got instructions and a video below to help you get your card back and card packs.
Quote from HearthPwn
- Download Genymotion, an Android Emulator. (Download requires account login, you can create an account or try one of these)
- Direct downloads: [MAC OSX] [Windows with VBox] [Ubuntu 32] [Ubuntu 64] [Debian 64]
- Run the Genymotion installer. This can take a bit while it downloads the needed files, so be patient.
- Run Genymotion, add a new virtual device as it prompts you to.
- Login using your account or one of the bugmenot accounts to display all the devices you can create.
- Select “Samsung Galaxy S5 - 4.4.4 - API 19 1080x1920” from the available virtual devices. Hit next, hit next again. Finish. Launch the newly created virtual device.
- Go to Settings -> Security and then enable “Unknown sources”.
- On the search widget at the top of your home screen, search for “Amazon Appstore”. Click on “Amazon Appstore: Getting Started” to get to the download page. Download it.
- Pull down your notification frame, click on the downloaded AmazonApps-release.apk. Click next, click install, click open. Login with your Amazon account.
- In the search bar at the top type in Hearthstone. Download it by clicking on Free and then Get App. Once it finishes downloading, your device will ask if you want to install it, say yes. Do not launch the game when it is done downloading!
- Go to your apps and open up File Manager. Click the menu button of your emulator (or press ctrl+m) to open the menu. Hit the Settings button at the bottom left. Click on “General Settings”. Look for “Access Mode” and set this to “Root Access mode”. Select “Remember choice forever” and then click “Allow”.
- Once again open the menu, this time click on “System folder”. Inside of this look for a file named “build.prop” which should be at the bottom. Click on this and open it with “Editor”.
- Find the line “ro.product.brand=generic”. Change generic to samsung.
- Insert a new line after the previous line and type in (with no quotes) “ro.product.model=SM-G920F”.
- Save the file by using the save icon in the top right of the app.
- Close the emulator by hitting the X button. Launch it again and then go to your app screen and start up Hearthstone. Login with your Battle.net account to get your card back. Don’t forget to login to each region which you want the card back in.
- Bonus: If you’ve never played a game of Hearthstone on Android before, you can get a free card pack by playing a single match within the emulator.
Deck Spotlight: Budget Friendly Decks!
Today we're doing things a bit different with our spotlight - we're showcasing 11 decks!
WingsOfWax has been hard at work over the past few weeks crafting an excellent selection of budget decks (and guides!) for the community, some of which you may have seen in our top decks widget. In this list, every class is represented with a popular budget-friendly archetype.
The following decks have been built to stay under 2000 dust and assume that the player using them has unlocked the Naxxramas adventure, which for the record is a fantastic purchase if you don't already have it. BRM cards have not been included as the cards within it aren't entirely necessary for solid deck building.
Will you be taking any of these decks out for a spin on the ladder?
Deck | Cost |
---|---|
Zad + Combo Druid | 1900 |
Hybrid Hunter | 1080 |
Mech Mage | 1360 |
Tempo Mage | 1200 |
Aggro Paladin | 1820 |
Control Priest | 1400 |
Burst Rogue | 1380 |
Tempo Oil Rogue | 1960 |
Mech Shaman | 1580 |
Zoolock Aggro | 1340 |
SMOrc Warrior | 920 |
Card Design Competition #25
Our twenty-fifth instalment of the card design competition is underway, and you're invited to create a card of your own. This week's theme is "HS Top", which requires you obey the following rules:
- The card must be a minion;
- The artwork must contain a character with a beard;
- The effect must activate off of the minion taking damage.
An excellent example of a card which meets these requirements is none other than Grim Patron.
The submission phase closes on July 21 at 18:00 UTC, so get those entries in! You can submit your own card in the submission thread, or comment on other cards in this week's discussion thread. Don't forget you vote on your favourites by using the voting button!
Card Design Competition #24 Winner
Congratulations to literleck for winning last week's More Than Meets The Eye competition with Druid of the Talon!
Just the norma version? Or also the extension pack? Can you give me a link? :)
If you're on windows, you want to install the version with virtual box which is a ~125mb download.
http://files2.genymotion.com/genymotion/genymotion-2.5.2/genymotion-2.5.2-vbox.exe
Great tutorial, thx. It was very well made and I believe that anyone can follow it.
Thanks ;)
I'm able to see it here on both a fresh emulator and my real phone.
"Sorry! Hearthstone cannot run on this device as it does not meet the minumim specifications."
Can someone tell me what I have done wrong? I believe that I have done everything that was in video and yet ...
Out of curiosity, how much memory do you have on your pc?
I would try upping the ram usage and possibly cpu cores on your virtual device. Close your device if it is running, click on the wrench icon and you'll see the configuration. Try upping the base memory or processors.
This is mine which has worked with no issues.
There was a post by jhascal on /r/hearthstone talking about enabling virtualization in your bios if that didn't work, but if you've gotten the emulator to run and you're just stuck at the hearthstone part, I don't see why you'd need to enable it if it was disabled.
I also won't be held responsible if you do decide to go tinkering in your BIOS :P
My configuration settings look exactly the same but I'm getting the same error message: "does not meet minimum specifications."
ok, since i am unable to go to bios i believe that this simply won't work for me ... sad panda
It is quite easy to go to BIOS. Not at all as annoying as I thought it would be.
Going into "Configure Virtual Device" and upping CPUs from 1 to 2 and Base Memory from 2048 to 4096 sorted me out. Thanks!
not at all, my computer is booting too fast and I have no idea how to start bios because of that and pressing all keys is not kinda working ...
Usually, press del+F2 or del+F10 or del+F12. and spam it as soon as your manufacturers menu shows up/computer turns on. I have never even seen my manufacturers screen lol. Hope it helps.
Hearthpwn teaching how to get the cardback and packs? Now i feel secure to do this guide.. xD
I feel the same. Some people are saying that Blizzard will ban anyone who use this method, but the guide was posted here and by our loved Flux, so... Must be legit, right? o.ô
Definitely won't be seeing bans by Blizzard, that would do a lot more harm than good. They won't be able to detect if you get it via an emulator anyway since their device detection method is just those 2 lines of code you edit/add to the file.
Good luck on the card pack opening!
Blizzard already knows our accounts :P
Yeah, it isn't illegal, most people will borrow a S6 from a friend or do this guide, and both methods don't help S6 sales..
I've done this tutorial, got an Ancient Lore! Good luck