[Galaxy S I9000 General] g00ndu:
Hi dr.b

What I'm about to tell you, you may not like it. But nevertheless, I would still like to share with you my opinion.

Caveat Emptor: This is basically based on the information provided over the internet and the discussions between galnet, you and myself. It just represent my views and opinion, after you have kindly do what we have asked you to do. I may be wrong totally in this case, but there is a high chance that I might be right too.

The initial way of recovery

The way you try to recover back is wrong. Instead of starting all over again, you have flashed the cm7 initial tar file to get it working minus the wifi. To get back to a perfect working condition, you went into recovery, format the partitions, and flashed the cm7 initial zip file. This is wrong, and what you should have done is to re-do the whole process again.

Restarting using JPU stock rom

Successful flashed to jpu without issue at all. However, upon flashing MIUI rom (beta6, RC2), you encountered that it got stuck at Samsung Screen and does not go pass the Cyanogenmod boot screen. To recover, you use cm7 initial tar to flash to get into MIUI rom, again minus the wifi. everything works except wifi.

We suspect that your JPU is corrupted, hence Rumble advise to use Resurrection Rom from darkyy.

Restarting using Resurrection Rom

Again you are successful getting into the custom rom. Unfortunately, again you can't get pass the Samsung screen after flashing MIUI RC2. Again, to recover you use cm7 initial tar file to flash and get MIUI working again. Situation is identical. galnet then advised you to use the rom located at his site.

Restarting using JPM rom

Situation is different. When it tries to boot, there was an error saying that your dbdata is not prepared. And as advised you proceed to flash MIUI again. End result is similar to the above 2 flash. Suspect now goes to the bootloader.

Restarting using DXJP1 rom

You flashed DXJP1 since DXJP1 has the boot.bin and sbl.bin in it and also as advised by me. When booted up, you were able to get pass the boot animation and able to use the phone. This shouldn't be the case, as the DXJP1 WILL not allow you to go pass beyond that, as the dbdata is not being formated. Hence something is not right. You proceeded to flash Resurrection rom and it is working. Everything so far is working. But upon flashing MIUI, it never goes beyond the Samsung screen. Again to recover you use the same method to get into MIUI.

Based on the above results, I can only conclude that somehow your bootloaders is locked. As to when, how and why, I do not have a real clue on that. Somehow, your bootloaders are locked to Samsung Roms and the first cm7 zip file, other than that, the phone just refuses to work pass the Samsung logo. It may not be a single incident that your bootloader is locked, and more likely a series of events that lead to the locking of the bootloaders.

Now, is your phone defective? Technically, yes and no.

Yes, is because you just can't flash to the cm7 updates and MIUI rom. It just refuses to work.

No, because if you are on Samsung Rom, you will have a full working phone.

Can you bring it to the service centre? You can't, because Samsung will never be able to replicate the error that you have, since you would have to flash back to Samsung stock rom. Remember your phone works just fine. And if you go into cm7 or MIUI, Samsung would have known that you have modded your phone, and they will refuse to recognise your warranty.

What is the next step? You won't be able to enjoy MIUI or cm7 updates for that, but you will be able to still use Samsung rom, which in my opinion is still fine.

Alternatively, if die die you want to use MIUI or cm7, you will need to be technically incline to solve the problems. The process of solving this issue will be EXTREMELY dangerous!!! and most likely will render your phone as a paperweight if you have done something wrong.

Possible solutions:

Try to unzip the cm7 initial zip files, and replace those files with the update zip files. However, one wrong replacement can make you gain an additional paper weight.

Try flashing JVK and use that as a base to get into MIUI. Again, we are not sure how your phone will behave, and we cannot be held responsible if this way also gives yo an additional paper weight.

So to cut the report short, you are not fated to use cm7 or MIUI. Just enjoy the roms from Samsung that they provided.

End of analysis.

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