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[Galaxy S I9000 General] fatjoez:
Heres a quick and easy guide to upgrading your phone,

to android 2.2.1 & a custom rom called Darkys Rom

Its better than standard 2.2 or 2.2.1 updates you get from Telstra/Optus

MUCH better. Faster. More Stable etc.

Here are the instructions from the start

Step 1

Download z4root to your phone http://www50.zippyshare.com/v/70574271/file.html

Install, Run & press "Root". Be patient till its done

Step 2

Download darkys rom http://www.zshare.net/download/86121646fdc63834/

Extract on your computer

On your phone: If you have lagfixes enabled, disable them, else ignore this

Backup your data. This will wipe your entire phone

Step 3

Turn phone off

Press & hold VolumeUp , Power , HardMenuButton for a few seconds

Recovery Menu will load

Use VolumeUp & VolumeDown keys to navigate, HardMenuButton to select options

Choose wipe data/factory reset

Once finished turn phone off

Step 4

Press & hold VolumeDown , Power , HardMenuButton for a few seconds

Downloading Screen will load

On your computer, run Odin from the files you extracted

Connect your phone to the computer, you should see a message in Odin "Added"

Tick 'Repartition' option & Select the following files from the extracted package

PDA: darky_odin.tar.md5

PIT: s1_odin_20100512.pit

Press Start & Wait Before & After Screenshots below

Phone will reboot & screen will come on Android System Recovery <2e>

Select reboot system now using the HardMenuButton and the phone will restart

Before

After

Optional Extras

Configure the rom to add extra features

1. Go to android market place

2. Download install & run DarkyROM Configurator

3. Configure whatever options you like here, theres not many - Dont select "wipe" then click menu save & exit

4. Copy the file resurrection.zip (extracted from the original zip file you downloaded) to your INTERNAL sd-card

5. hold the power button down till you get the options -> reboot into recovery

once in recovery mode

5A. choose "install zip from sd card"

5B. choose "choose zip from from sd card"

5C. Find the resurrection.zip file & do it

5D. go back to main menu & reboot system

DONE

update to darkys rom updated version 9.5

1. download here & copy to your internal sd card http://www.multiupload.com/3GOGVFRY35

2. Copy the file to your internal sd

3. reboot into recovery

4. choose install zip from sd card

5. choose choose zip from sd card

6. choose the rom file & flash

7. reboot

Flash a new modem

1. Go here and download whatever modem you like

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=876391

2. Copy the file to your internal sd

3. reboot into recovery

4. choose install zip from sd card

5. choose choose zip from sd card

6. choose the modem file & flash

7. reboot

Flash updated kernel

1. download kernel here http://www.darkyrom.com/apk/Dark_Core_1.2_cwm.zip

2. follow "Flash a new modem" from step 2.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] g00ndu:
And upgrading your post to the General Section would be the best situation. This is not development. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jaju123:
Needs to be in the general section and double posting...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] fatjoez:
sorry I mixed up clicked the wrong forum before writing the post

can a mod please move this to General!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] x86-Dark:
Everything you wrote here, it's also explained in the Darky's thread and in bunch of other tutorials.

I can't find the usefulness of this guide.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Chatbox:
Consider it consolidated.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] markywylder:
You guys are right....wrong section....but wow take it easy on him! He was only trying to help. ....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] fatjoez:
It's a more clear & consolidated guide as chatbox pointed out

I've tidied it up to make it easier to read.

I'm sure now you'll see it's more useful / easy to follow than all the other guides out there
[Galaxy S I9000 General] txt3rob:
you do not need to root the phone before hand as darkys is pre routed for you once you have flashed it with the rom :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] redzone321:
how about adding instructions for us that need to use a different modem? (i8000m)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alexanbj:
Very helpful. Thanks!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VisualAssassin:
My phone is rooted and I wanted to install a rom and theme. What steps do I have to take in order to do it? Thanks

Sent from my Droid Incredible
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k_nivesout:
The instructions are generally in the first post of the thread with the download. But typically you put the zip on your card, boot into recovery, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, install zip from sd, then reboot.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWhetstone02:
If you are new to this and not know what booting into recovery is, then you will need to flash clockworkmod. Clockworkmod is used to do all the installing and wiping as k_nivesout mentioned

You can get the clockworkmods from http :// dougpiston . com/?page_id=85

Just rename the file to PB31IMG.zip and place it onto your sdcard, boot up into HBOOT and update when the system prompts you. (it will automatically find the file and ask you) The file has to be on the root of the sdcard, not in a folder.

once you flash the clockworkmod, then you can go into recovery and wipe data, cache, davlik and factory reset. then install your ROM (place the ROM.zip file on SD card and navigate to it)

make sure your rom matches the clockworkmod version you have, otherwise you will end up with amend script errors
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doug piston:
Flashing tutorial
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babyschmoof:
What's so special with the new alliance between Sprint and Google Voice? I've been using Google as my voicemail forever. I guess Sprint wants to offload all their voicemail to them.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt2053:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1001947
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babyschmoof:
I've read that. Being able to have 2 different numbers is a feature I would hate to lose.

As much as I love Google, getting support is terrible (even with their premier package). I can't imagine what would happen if you had an issue with your number.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flying_low:
I think the only difference will be you can decide to have all your incoming calls go through GV without having to port your sprint number. Otherwise it just stays just the way it is
[Galaxy S I9000 General] espada87:
hi guys ,i tried to search with the keyword "flicker" but there's no similar result returned, so i decided to start this thread.

I'm using I9000 Asia set, stock firmware is DXJPA. Currently on Darky Rom 9.4.

Before this i was on DXJPA + speedmod K13A, things was fine(i suppose). Right after i flash my kernal to K13C, i notice sometimes my screen flickers, i thought its just some magnetic interruption. But the longer i observe, it seems to appear once in a while.

So i thought its the kernal that causes it, i flash it back to stock kernal and did a reset, apparently the problem still around. And even now i'm on darky rom 9.4, i'm still having this issue. So guys, did any of you faced the same problem ? and any of you manage to find a solution to it?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xmfpdlemalnz@hotmail.com:
Ya I'm having the same problem. I always thought it had something to do with automatic brightness.. Not sure though...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] potfor:
Same with mine:(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] opica:
I have the same issue, but only on wifi - while turning it on or when the signal is weak.

It must be hardware though - my roommates SGS, bought on the same day, doesn't have this problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neonal:
I have the same problem too.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] espada87:
you guys on stock or custom rom?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xmfpdlemalnz@hotmail.com:
I'm on stock.

Come to think about it, I only had this problem when I'm browsing internet..

So it could be related to wifi as mentioned above.

Anyone have better ideas?

I'm not really concerned about it since it rarely happens, but if someone can tell us the fix... it would be awesome!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJEgan:
Clear your phone flash stock rom Eclair with pit 512 and repartition checked .

If that solves the problem you can upgrade to Froyo .

That way you eliminate fault from a custom rom .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 General] opica:
I'm pretty sure it's not sw related, but it's hw defect - at least in my case.

I have the problem from the start and on 5 different roms - all stock (JG1 - stock default, JP3 and JP5 - got at the Samsung service, JPO and JPY - via Kies).

Someone with the same problem went to the service with the phone, where they've replaced the screen and the problem was gone. So I can assume that the screen was faulty or some connectors or something similar.

I wasn't comfortable when I first noticed the flickering, but it's not a big problem for me now. Thankfully it's not getting worse, but if it's going to, I will certainly service the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] oswade:
I also have this problem, mainly when browsing internet (on both stock and opera browser), but occasionally in other apps too.

I am running an older docrom with damien's ultimate kernel.

I figured it is a hardware issue, because it only started happening after my phone got dipped in sea water (lol).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] espada87:
lets try to gather some info among us so that we can narrow down the possibilities.

I shall start 1st. Below are my configurations

1) Always on Edge (for battery saving purpose)

2) On Darky Rom 9.4

3) Flicker mostly in browser, sometimes in other apps, and homescreen as well
[Galaxy S I9000 General] opica:
I'm still sure it's a hardware problem, but still, if it's going to help anyone:

- also always on GSM mode only (have tried on 3G - no difference)

- stock JPY (the problem persists through 5 different stock ROMs)

- only get it when turning wifi on until it is connected or it keeps flickering when wifi reception is bad and it doesn't connect

- it can be best seen if I pull notification bar down and turn on wifi
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nadram:
Now that I think of it, i've only noticed it with wi-fi on, and it doesn't matter whether i have an app running or not. i've seen it on the home screen many times.

GB 2.3.3 xxjvk
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sOt0nGx:
Change your bootloader

I also had it when I was using Darky's v9.4 and v9.5.

I flashed a new bootloader and upgraded to v10 RC3 and its gone.

To solve it, you will probably have to flash 2.3.3 with new bootloaders and then back to v9.5 if you want to keep Darky's FroYo. v9.5 is stable
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sOt0nGx:
Oh found the thread here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1011701

Flashing bootloader is 1 thing that will likely brick your phone if accidents happen.

Kids, please do not try this at home.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] espada87:
is it possible to change my bootloader without flashing my rom?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mothatt:
Yes, but that's even riskier. If you flash an entire rom and it's going to fail, it will most likely fail during the factoryfs part as opposed to the bootloader part if flashing alone
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] hitman_dreams:
I found this thanks to hesh.monster asking for someone to port it. The original thread is here.

Credit:

-obdobber for making this on the Nexus

Description:

You can preview it at the post in the link above. The version I have for you includes the whole thing you see. You could just download the one in the link, but you miss the whole section where you watch from afar. There is also an inverted version for you to download if you don't like the movie theater style black bars above and below the animation. Enjoy!

How to Install:

- Download the zip below and put it on your sdcard

- Reboot into recovery

- choose 'install zip from sdcard' -> 'choose zip from sdcard'

- select 'zombieBoot-(wh/blk).zip'

- select 'yes'

- reboot :0)

Downloads:

White Background

Black Background

***nothing should get messed up, but as usual, I am not responsible for any damage***
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] hesh.monster:
FANTASTIC! You sir are now my hero. I really didn't expect anyone to pick this up. Kudos

Edit:

I may try to increase the resolution a bit. If I succeed I will upload for you.

Samsung Fascinate

Frankenclean 2.9

Peanutbutta Jelly Time

hitman_dreams' Erebos 1.3 port

Sent from XDA Premium App
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] hbc.ciccone:
this looks promising

EDIT: resolution could be better i think. but i dont know how to do so i cant expect it to be done. and my phone boots up to fast to see the whole thing. cool otherwise

Sent from my SCH-I500 using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] hesh.monster:
I just raised the framerate to 30 fps and it makes it almost to the end. I'll throw the images in photoshop later today after work and see what I can get for resolution.

Samsung Fascinate

Frankenclean 2.9

Peanutbutta Jelly Time

hitman_dreams' Erebos 1.3 port

Sent from XDA Premium App
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] hitman_dreams:
that's funny, my phone makes it through the whole thing and my lock screen pops up right as the last zombie is shot, wonder why it varies from phone to phone. I can try to raise the res, problem was the original size. I had to take the gif from the op to get all of the animation images, which was smaller than the images in the download. I'll see what I can do.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] hesh.monster:
Woo Hoo! The race is on! :-D

As for the timing,i imagine it varies on different set ups. Mine ran little short as well.

Samsung Fascinate

Frankenclean 2.9

Peanutbutta Jelly Time

hitman_dreams' Erebos 1.3 port

Sent from XDA Premium App
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] hesh.monster:
Not having a lot of luck with the existing images. It may be a while but I'm going to try redrawing the images and cropping them so we can get full screen and proper resolution.

Samsung Fascinate

Frankenclean 2.9

Peanutbutta Jelly Time

hitman_dreams' Erebos 1.3 port

Sent from XDA Premium App
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] hitman_dreams:
Yeah, it's tough getting better resolution out of something that doesn't have good resolution to begin with. I thought about rotating the image to take up more screen, but that won't solve anything. Also thought about re drawing...300 images! eh, maybe after the semester is over. I'll keep watch here, if you get it working better, let me know. You can throw it up in a thread or I can replace the dl in this one, let me know when you're ready.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] kr8r:
Heh heh this is pretty awesome, shame i get through like the 3rd zombie being gunned down before i'm booted. Thanks for it though!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] exzacklyright:
works well with me. It loads after like the 5th or something zombie. getting shot in the head.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mid_life_crisis:
Does anybody know what is in an update package? Is it like a Windows Ghost image of a functional operating system or is it a collection of stuff that gets installed? What I'm looking for is, is it possible to edit the package to remove programs you don't want prior to installation?

I ask because I question how cleanly rooting and deleting apps through a file manager actually removes apps. Of course this is probably because I have a lack of knowledge as to how this OS works.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheManii:
If you want a clean image, flash stock (if that's what you want to start from) -> root -> delete apps you dont want -> unroot (if you want) -> nandroid

Uninstalling apps is just about the same as deleting them manually, only you need to restart so android knows it's not installed and clears it's cache (uninstalling does it automatically i think?) Data should be removed either way (in same manner as cache)
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mid_life_crisis:
Nandroid?

Can you point me to the best description of how to perform this backup/restore?

Do I need to download anything else to do this?
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lufc:
Not Android Development

Please post in the correct Forums Please

Moving to Q&A
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mid_life_crisis:
I have installed Quick Boot which does nothing terribly useful that I can see so far. On my Streak (rooted), all it does is a simple reboot.

Do I need additional downloads to be able to make recovery images?
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdzo72:
Nandroid backups

To do a nandroid backup (which I think is something similar to a disc image in Windows) you have to install either Clockwork Recovery or StreakMod Recovery. Personnally I had to use StreakMod because Clockwork gives me errors when it tries to backup all the files.

Just do a search here in the forum for either and they both have threads stickied with all the information you need.

One thing to be careful of is installing drivers, follow any directions to the letter and constantly check to make sure windows hasn't tried to install it's own drivers once you connect your Streak to the computer.

That has to be bar none biggest problem we all face, drivers, which are the way of communication between the computer and your phone.

What I finally did was used what is called the QDL tool to repair my phone, then took the necessary steps to install StreakMod recovery. QDL tool will put a Stock Froyo system on your phone. Once you have Streakmod installed then you can make a nandroid backup to get you back to that stock system (just as you would in windows) if you screwed up your phone by fiddling with it.

Once I made a nandroid backup of my Stock Froyo and installed all apps I wanted and got all accounts setupd, I went back and made ANOTHER nandroid backup of my system....

I forgot to mention the reason for making a nandroid backup after using the QDL tool to get back to stock froyo. The QDL tool will leave you with the stock DELL recovery which doesn't allow you to flash custom roms. So, install the custom ROM and then make an image of your system and then you won't ever have to go back and take all those painful steps to get StreakMod on your phone again, it will be a part of the image you created with nandroid.

Now with all that said, and Streakmod installed, it's a very simple process to flash Streakdroid to your phone, actually the EASIEST step out of everything I had done so far, but everyone has to jump through the hoops first I guess.

Don't worry about making a nandroid image after your initial install of StreakDroid, you already have it in the form of the .zip file you will have on your SD card.

So after getting StreakDroid installed, I setup all my apps again, with the launcher I liked, accounts and everything else, and THEN made another nandroid image.

So now I have two images to choose from, the stock installation with apps and accounts, rooted and StreakMod installed, and then a StreakMod image with all the same things, apps and accounts... I tend to go back and forth depending on my mood. It's only about a 10 minute process going from one system to the other, kinda like dualbooting a computer...

Whew!!! Have fun!!!
[Xoom Accessories] Kozdoba:
Hi

If somebody has physical keyboard connected via Bluetooth to XOOM please check is it possible somehow to use 2 different languages on it. And how to switch between it.

Normally I use 2 virtual keyboard English and Russian one, but I'm thinking to buy Motorola Bluetooth keyboard to type letter and etc. I know that on Moto keyboard only English alphabet, but it's easy to make engraving on it to have 2 languages, so I need only to check is it working or not.

As I know original Moto keyboard somehow could have only English language (even when you set language strictly to russian. The on screen keyboard will show Russian keyboard, but when you will touch the physical keyboard it automatically just types the English letters). So is it possible to change somehow?
[Xoom Accessories] dreys:
Which virtual keyboard you're using for Russian? I've tried SmartKeyboard Pro, but the layout is not that good...
[Xoom Accessories] Kozdoba:
I use standard virtual Honeycomb keyboard)) But know I prefer to use bluetooth keyboard
[Xoom Accessories] dreys:
I figured out how to use native keyboard after posting :)

I believe the regular keyboard will work once we figure out how to set Locale to Russian as well. I know Russian is supported by Honeycomb, but by default only English and Spanish are the options. Anyone knows how to enable other locales?
[Xoom Accessories] supremecream06:
Tablet keyboard

i use an on screen r virtual kwyboard on my zoom that i downloaded from the market. it is call "Tablet Keyboard" made by "Pretty Easy" ther isa free onethat i tested out and it was great. it has an option to use a full keyboard or it split the keyboad in half with one half on the left for the left tumb, and the other half on the right. it also works in connection with the build in keyboard onmy zoom. so there always the option in th lower right hand near the time where you can switch between the two keyboards if you like. you do have to check the boxx in keyboard setting to make it active. i think they even have a paid version for only ¢99.
[Xoom Accessories] Kozdoba:
I know such app, but I'm trying to find answer is it possible to connect Bluetooth keyboard to Motorola XOOM and use it with 2 languages. Like it's possible in virtual. Right know I got answer from Motorola support that their Bluetooth keyboard support only English language, also I got the same reply form one of the owner of such keyboard.

Now I'm trying to find solution to print on 2 languages English and Russia from any Bluetooth keyboard that could be connect to Motorola XOOM.
[Xoom Accessories] dreys:
Try this:

Select Russian virtual keyboard as input and start typing on Bluetooth keyboard. I think it should type in Russian... But I don't have a keyboard to try it. Mine should be here in a few days, I'll give it a shot.
[Xoom Accessories] Kozdoba:
One owner of Moto keyboard and XOOM tired and told. Even if you have only one language Russian, the Moto Bluetooth keyboard still type on the English language(

But if you will get it, try to click SHIFT+CTRL or SHIFT+ALT (if you have such keys on the keyboard), may be it will recognize it. I read somewhere that Moto keyboard support hot command like CTRL+C or V to copy and past command. So may be it will change language of keyboard like a normal PC.

Thank you in advance.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] devildog25pr:
Thanks can't wait for it to finish uploading
[myTouch 4G Android Development] epsix:
Sweet ....can't wait till it's finish uploading now i can play my games.:D Getting the mirror up ASAP:-)

Mirror: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F790LHZO

"What's a Mirror?"
[myTouch 4G Android Development] devildog25pr:
Yeshhhhhhhhh downloading!!!:)
[myTouch 4G Android Development] daprince047:
does any type of video recording work on this?
[myTouch 4G Android Development] epsix:
yeah bro video recording work except 720p
[myTouch 4G Android Development] xl DIGITAL lx:
Going to try this out.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] daprince047:
Thanks I'm going to definitely try it out now
[myTouch 4G Android Development] xl DIGITAL lx:
Does this have the screen-off animation?
[myTouch 4G Android Development] xl DIGITAL lx:
Nevermind, just found out it was 2.2.1
[myTouch 4G Android Development] woldy2:
its not gingerbread...so i doubt it
[myTouch 4G Android Development] wibul_10:
this rom is great but my phone has a problem on volume up down menu...there may be a shock on volume...the result is that I can not use volume down anymore...that also effect my phone when I try to install rom from HTC, my phone will access into a safe mode...any idea how to get out of it...

one thing, if I install stock rom and rom from cm7, it won't get into safe mode

any idea for help
[myTouch 4G Android Development] epsix:
I have no idea what you're talking about my volume up and down works just fine. You do know this rom is froyo 2.2.1 with Sense 2.1...using recovery 2.5.2.1 or 3.0.0.6?:confused:
[myTouch 4G Android Development] daprince047:
Best Rom I've used so far sad that swipe isn't included