yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
Can anyone confirm if the bell bloatware is included in this Rom?

I was rooted before on 2.2, removed all the bloatware, and before updating to this rom, I unrooted.

Then I updated via KIES, but the bloatware is still not there.

I`ve also noticed there is no shutdown sound anymore. Is something corrupt in this installation?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mk_ln:
you flashed the phone.tar file or extracted the modem and flashed that?

thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DT3CH:
The tar wont work, you need to extract the modem file
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sci05:
I'm coming from stock, I just rooted so that I could unlock my phone. But I guess after the update all my apps that need root won't work but will still be installed (titanium, adfree, etc) our should I uninstall them first?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TheJaff22:
I am having the exact same issue and have tried way more than 5 times. Did you do anything special to finally get this going?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hansonator:
Thanked you for this. Nice work!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lgsshedden:
If you have trouble installing use check fus down loader and flash using odin. Re root by flashing a kernel that has root, Tornado kernel worked for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] davanw:
I just flashed the extracted modem.bin file.

I'm running JVQ pda, JVQ csc, and now KG3 phone. With Semaphore kernel.

I'll test for a bit then update!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
dont uninstall anything. apps that require root just wont work until you get it rooted again

i updated stock 2.2 to stock 2.3 with kies and the only thing that loses its settings is the icons and widgets on the home screens
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJNutty:
Anyone else notice the battery bug is present? I plugged my charger in last night and this morning my battery was at 92% as soon as I unplugged it. :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
well the battery life itself certainly isnt any better. it ran out so quickly. and theres NO SHUTDOWN SOUND. my phone turned off due to low battery and i had no idea it did because there was no sound. VERY disappointing.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
Well that confirms the shutdown sound missing... I too am disappointed in this... I wonder why they omitted it.

Now.. just wondering if the bloatware and update.zip is a part of this ROM. I think when testing JVQ on my phone and repartitioning, it somehow deleted the update.zip and bloatware, now I don't have either on my phone even with this new update.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gfacer:
Maybe because a lot of users (like me) hated it and the start up sound. Why have a huge noisy sound when you are trying to turn off the phone, like say when it was ringing at an inappropriate time and place.

I know that you can mute it faster but the average user might just try and turn it off. I just dislike it as it makes a racket when I am screwing around with my phone late at night when the wife's gone to bed.

But I agree that its a mid day battery death.

PS: upgraded via kies perfectly once I changed the csc. Now I just need to reroot with the kernel in the link here (thanks man!) and see how it is overall.

G
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
I'm not having any issues with battery... Updated at 7pm last night with battery at 90%, did a factory reset. Spent a good 2 hours with full blown H/3G connection downloading all my apps and setting up all my emails and Home Screen Appearance, testing GPS, didn't let the phone rest till about 10-10:30pm...

I only put it back on the charger now at 11:30 this morning.

So thats roughly 16 1/2 hours of hard usage... Still not the 2-3 days people claim to get, but I never got more than 24-30 hours with my phone on Froyo anyway, and that was with minimal usage.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
um. you just have to place your finger over the speaker if you are turning it off and dont want to hear it. fast and simple.

its more for when the phone runs out of battery and shuts down when you arent doing it manually, its VERY handy to know your phone is shutting down..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
Think about it guys... every phone out there in one form or another has a startup and shut down sound.

At least all the phones that I've owned through Bell Anyway.

Whatever the case... makes absolutely no sense why they removed the shutdown sound, but kept the startup one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] davanw:
The startup/shutdown sound was gone for me when I flashed to JVQ, so it's not specific to KG3.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] midirt:
Updated through Kies - went smoothly. Seems faster.

Where is the famous Gingerbread CRT shut-off animation??? Also, the unlock screen is still a stupid "wipe glass", no other options. Am I missing something? I'd love to have the CRT animation when turning off the screen...

Also, I can't see the flashing end scroll thing that's supposed to be in Gingerbread...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zorxd:
has someone uploaded the full rom somewhere yet?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dcarr622:
Sure, here's one. Flashable KG3 modem for Samsung kernels (non CM7/MIUI).

Modem KG3.zip
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dcarr622:
I'll upload it, be done in ~30min
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
Will your upload include everything? Including the bloatware and update.zip? Can you tell me (I'm new to ODIN)... how I go about installing it via this method? I'd like to return my phone to 100% stock.. doesn't appear to be that way now.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dcarr622:
I'm just going to upload the single tar file straight from Samsung which includes everything and can be flashed as PDA in Odin.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Concession:
Root, and Shutdown Sound

Yeah I found that by Googleing it. It doesn't seem like anyone found a solution to that problem though.

Now I'm going to be paranoid of my phone dying in my pocket without me knowing. Before I'd just swap in my spare battery once I heard the noise.

On a side note, anyone figure out how to root this yet? I had to factory reset my phone to get Kies to finally work, and hoping to regain access to titanium backup.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJNutty:
My issue is not with battery life. My phone was left on the charger all night and should be 100% until I unplug the charger. When I unplugged my phone, the battery showed 92%. I have read that other people are having the same issue where their battery charges to 100% then stops charging and begins discharging even though it is still plugged in. I started with 92% battery at 7:00 and have 53% left at 2:47. Doesn't seem bad but I don't like the idea that I will never be able to leave the house in the morning with my battery at 100% UNLESS I turn it off and then charge it. I use it for my alarm so that's not going to happen. Sux
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
Great thanks... So to understand.

1. Can this be done on top of the already installed KG3?

2. Do I use ODIN 1.82?

3. Do I have to select repartition with 512 pit?

4. Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time checked right?

5. Your upload into the PDA Section only? or all 3? (Phone and CSC too?)

5. Then put the phone into Download mode - (VolDown+Home+Power)

6. Connect the Phone

7. Odin should say added and show a comm port.

8. Then Start

9. Wait till finished

Sorry, I just don't want to brick my phone.

Finally, if I downloaded and updated via KIES, shouldn't the Update.zip and bloatware be a part of it already? For some reason it wasn't.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
From what I've read...

The phone when plugged in continues to cycle the charge to not kill the battery.

1. Charges to 100%

2. If still plugged in, it stops the charge.

3. When it reaches either 92% or 94%, it starts up the charge again.

4. Rinse and Repeat.

I just had my phone on the charger... noticed it didn't make a sound when fully charged as it usually does (or I may have missed it). I picked up the phone, saw 100% fully charged, but when unplugged it was at 97%. So I think thats what it does to not kill the battery.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dcarr622:
This is a single tar which means everything is inside "PDA." So don't specify phone/csc, and don't use a PIT.

Possibly somebody might be able to package this as a 3-part ROM that can be flashed with PIT, but I don't know how to do this so I'm just uploading it as Samsung provided.

This can be flashed on top of existing UGKG3, do a data wipe too, will be "factory stock."

That version of Odin is fine, and leave the checkboxes as they are on default.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
Ok thanks... hopefully it will restore the Update.zip and bloatware as it now seems to be missing from my phone.

Not that I care about the bloatware, but its a failsafe I guess.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dcarr622:
Here it is:

I9000UGKG3-homebinary.tar
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJNutty:
LOL, good way of looking at it I guess.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ChrisAG:
Try the Gingerbread keyboard from the market. It's not swype by it has good predictive text and lots of shortcuts with speed in mind (hit the word before you finish typing and it inserts the word along with a space).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
Thanks man... downloaded it and put it on as you stated.

But, by the looks of it, update zip is not there.

Did a factory reset.

Recovery works if you press both Vol UP and Vol Down (in the middle), home and power..

States something about CSC/KOR or something that doesn't work, just as my previous KIES installation of KG3 does.

Bloatware still not there, so I'm guessing Samsung didn't add it. :)

Oh well, at least the phone works and is lightning fast compared to Froyo.

Thanks again.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
By the way, anyone notice the Mic Button (Speech to text) doesn't work on swype or is it just me?

The one on the samsung keyboard works though.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HiKsFiles:
You didn't miss it ... it's gone on mine too! :confused:

The phone's right in front of my face, underneath the monitor here at the office, so it's impossible for me not to hear it.

Moreover, I saw the screen turning on when the phone reached full charge and never heard the sound it used to make.

Now, it may be a good thing as it will no longer wake my girlfriend in the middle of the night as I also use my phone as my morning alarm... :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
But, but, but -- I like waking my wife! LOL
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
yes i also noticed that. confirmed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] haloimplant:
Ugh...really should have thought ahead and done the factory reset BEFORE undoing lagfix to get ready for the update. It's taking forever to convert the file system...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Polaris_999:
Do you recall what you did to get it to work after the 5 more tries? I'm experiencing exactly the same thing. My phone will connect to Kies....once. If the connection drops after that, the only way I can get it to connect again is to reboot the phone. Which starts the cycle again, but as you know, part of the process includes the device's connection dropping...which means my phone won't reconnect.

And if I just try to reconnect it and start over without rebooting my phone, I get the following error:

Cannot start service on the device. Please disconnect then reconnect the device.

Which does nothing, unless I reboot the phone again.... I'm sure you can see my dilemma! Argghhh!!!

Polaris_999
[Galaxy S I9000 General] CADmonkey:
I had the same trouble tried kies on 3 different machines all with different versions of windows, eventually I took the wise advise of others and used odin, quick and simple. Now if only I could get back all those hours spent trying to get kies to work
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bestjsg:
this exactly happened to me last night, tried many time rebooting phone and computer just won't work, so I decided to flash using Odin3, this is btw my very first time flashing a phone.. !

check back page 14, chambo622 is kind enough to post the tar file 'i9000ugkg3-homebinary' , used that as PDA in Odin, left everything as default, put the phone in download mode by vol down+home+power, plug in the phone, hit start in Odin, took a few minutes, then the phone reboot itself into recovery mode which I thought I had to choose 'reboot now' but it splited out some text then reboot again, was stuck at the 'S' logo screen longer than usual but waited a bit, got into the phone, all data and settings are remained there, just the icons are re-arrangement and the shortcuts are back to factory default, no data lost either.

thank you all who has helped/posted..!

now I think I wanted to root the phone finally to get rid of the Bell bloatware, how do I do that ? :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HiKsFiles:
I don't recall seing this information in this thread, but I can confirm the presence of the infamous battery drain problem on this release on Gingerbread as well.

Phone was hooked up to job computer, said that battery was fully charged, and as soon as I unhooked it from the computer, it went straight down to 86%!

Think I'm going to open an official ticket at Samsung AND Bell regarding this issue...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
Anyone using this rom only have one homescreen and use a 'Flikie Wallpaper HD' Wallpaper on it?

I've noticed the wallpaper no longer centres the way Froyo used to (once you delete all unused screens). It seems to be left of centre as if you have 2 screens set up.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] haloimplant:
After a bit of trouble with the "preparing firmware upgrade components" problem (I think because it was blocked from downloading the firmware by the work firewall) I got it installed through Kies. (I really wanted to do the initial GB upgrade the official way in case it got perma-bricked with a hosed bootloader.)

Seems pretty good. Neat new notification icons, pretty fast and no FCs. I'm sure all the usual 2.3.3 bugs are there though.

Now to get on rooting this sucker.. Someone a while back posted about rooting the stock kernel pretty easily and flashing that so might give that a shot. Or just go straight to custom 2.3.4 firmwares/kernels. I did have quite a time flashing firmwares, kernels and modems with CWM back in the heyday of Froyo, and Voodoo and BLN will be hard to live without...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] archangelz:
Can someone repost the Bootloader tar file? Chambo's dropbox link is dead.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] haloimplant:
Flashing that tarred zImage with Odin worked for me the 2nd time I tried it. Maybe the phone just needed another reboot or something. Thanks dude I really wanted Titanium to restore some apps.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Spudsicles:
Anyone elses [volume up]+[home]+[power] function not work? I want to reset my phone to give it a fresh install now that I've upgraded. Have they changed the button sequence for doing a factory wipe?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
try reading the thread maybe? do a little research first.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SaneinOne:
I'll just help you instead, hold volume up+down (middle of volume rocker), home and power.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sci05:
Just updated my phone. Incase anyone else runs into the same problem when updating with kies, if you get an error at one point saying your phone can't connect and you have to reboot. You'll most likely have to:

Remove external sd

Format internal

Reset to factory

And then try again on kies
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DeHann:
So, I downloaded the zImage. Noticed that it was a file without an extension. Odd. Tried to add it to a .tar archive using WinRAR without success. Did some searching via with the help of our friend Google and found a program called IZArc. Added the zImage to a .tar archive using this program and was able to flash using Odin. Now rooted successfully...

Hope this helps out anyone trying to root KG3 on the I9000M.

Thanks to xxbeanxx for the modified zImage. Great work!

P.S. I am going to ask Chainfire if he will create a CF Root kernel for KG3...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Spudsicles:
Thanks you rock!

Sorry I didn't have time to scourer 16 pages... :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Concession:
Thanks xxbeanxx for the rooted kernel! I got all of my app data back in titanium backup now :)

And thanks to haloimplant and DeHann for answering questions I had before I even asked them :P
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gfacer:
Anyone else having trouble with the gps? I can't get a lock here in Vancouver...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xWarMachine04:
can someone please re-upload the rooted kernel xxbeanxx made? the file isnt available on megaupload anymore for some reason...

Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gaelynx:
I noticed that there is a little bit more RAM available:

On Froyo KC1: max 304 MB

On Gingerbread KG3: max 329MB

Not much more but better than less RAM available!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bestjsg:
newbie question ..how did you figure this ? from the running services setting?.. my used plus free = 273 MB only...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gfacer:
I have this issue too, but never had it before and it is annoying. Simple to fix as you mentioned but still annoying.

The
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rexyu38:
I'm also looking for that rooted kernel. Can someone upload the file again? Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dcarr622:
The bootloader seemed incomplete (it only had sbl.bin and not boot.bin) so I opted to pull it until I can figure out what that means and why.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dcarr622:
That's a good tip, as 7zip hasn't worked for me. But I just use Heimdall instead of Odin, can handle zImage's no problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xWarMachine04:
It works again :cool:

http://www.multiupload.com/957YOK5ENM

Edit: Added a Multiupload link.

ALL credit for this zImage goes to xxbeanxx (original post of zImage = http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16535104&postcount=82 dont forget to give HIM thanks!)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gaelynx:
Hold Home button, press task manager, select RAM tab, see RAM status. And voilà!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] scmlee:
I'm also trying to update my phone this way. How long should it take for Odin to upload/install the PDA file? Mine seems to be stuck on 'factoryfs.rfs' for a long time (>15-20 min now)...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dlockhart:
usually only a couple mins at worst, yours sounds stuck
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BoDoP8690:
Since update to 2.3.3 my GPS has not worked at all.

Discovered that if I turn Off WiFi then I can get a GPS lock within secs.

I can then turn WiFi back on and both work!

WiFi on and GPS can not get a lock at all regardless if there is a WiFi connection or not.

This was not an issue under previous versions 2.1 and 2.2.

Region is set correctly to North America for GPS.

Why this is I do not know.

Hope this helps others who may be having a GPS issue like I was/am.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] archangelz:
Alright, I'll wait until later when you've had time to take a look. Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] scmlee:
Turns out the file I downloaded was incomplete. Re-downloaded the file and tried again and was up and running in a few minutes! Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] blackstrr:
I Rooted the 2.2 Froyo just to unlock the phone Will I lose my Unlock when I update to 2.3 ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] haloimplant:
Hmm when I was playing with rooted stock KG3 last night I thought it might be good enough to keep for a while. It's fast and the battery held up while I used it but this morning I am not using the phone and seeing the Android OS battery drain bug.

The battery seems to be draining at 4-5% per hour with over half of it coming up Android OS. Deal killer, I am used to 1-2%/hour idle use on 2.2.1 where the phone could go for 2-3 days when I wasn't using it much. I'll flash to something 2.3.4 this weekend but I feel bad for 'stock users' who will be stuck with this.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] donpayman:
It's just what i am looking for, is it possible to get this kernel.

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bestjsg:
newbie question again...I did the kg3 upgrade no problem and also just downloaded the rooted kernel ...I understand I need to flash the zimage.bin with Odin but do I put it under pda,csc,phone or bootloader ?
[HTC EVO 3D] Golf Nut:
Is it possible to do this on a non-rooted, stock EVO 3D? WIll it help improve battery life? Everything I've been able to find from searching seems to apply to rooted devices. Maybe I just suck at searching or I am misreading? :confused:

Thanks in advance for helping set me straight.
[HTC EVO 3D] wrapkgb:
You can definatly calibrate the battery, but unfortunatly there is no way to wipe batt stats on an unrooted device. (that I am aware off at least)
[HTC EVO 3D] saltorio:
Short answer: No. Root is required.

Though wiping the battery stats shouldn't be required on a straight-from-factory device. Battery calibration is normally only required after installing a new ROM in my experience.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pholt1:
I just flashed synergy rsl1 on my phone and I'm loving it but is there anyway to put my appoinments on the lockscreen? I would love to keep the rings if I could.

Thanks
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mikdiamon:
Anybody get this to work in g2x?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] KingDavid63:
havent tried on g2x yet... works perfectly on my transformer...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jeffrey5241:
I've done some research when i read this post and the developer was actually using an LG G2X in the video demonstrating that it works.... I'm also confirming because I just bought the app... thanks for letting me know about this app :D
[T-Mobile LG G2x] samir5421:
It works on cm7. I used it to navigate around my phone, but I don't know of any games that support it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Xargon321:
it works just like the wiimote app does have to use cm7 to get it to work however
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mikdiamon:
Dag, I'm running weapong2x and not willing to give it up
[T-Mobile LG G2x] blackerwater:
No he is running an o2x not a g2x and I can't get it to work
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Xargon321:
again need to be using cm7 to get it to work
[T-Mobile LG G2x] drifta240sx:
Works great on miui latest but speaker pops after I use it. Stops after I reboot
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jeffrey5241:
Xargon321 is right.... It failed to work with any other rom
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mikdiamon:
Gonna load up miui after update. Wish I could dual boot that would rock
[T-Mobile LG G2x] samir5421:
Like emulators?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] erikiksaz:
so far I have gotten snes 9x to work but fpse does not.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] C0dy:
FPSE and SNES9X works for me.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] erikiksaz:
Could you please post your settings for FPSE
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Debel:
Working fully,

Eaglesblood 2.3

G2x

And on my Acer a500
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Simer03:
ugh....this is what i get for having a mac....there's no pairing tool for a mac! :/
[Galaxy S II General] AznImport:
I've tried everything to improve the horrible sound on the Galaxy s II (poweramp,equilizer,etc.)...nothing beats the combination of Cyanogen Music Player and DSP Manager...just installed both on my S2 and its FINALLY sounding like a decent music player! Download and install from here:

www.theandroidsoul.com/galaxy-s-ii-s2-gets-cynogenmod-7-music-app/
[Galaxy S II General] AznImport:
Tell me what you guys think :)
[Galaxy S II General] zkyevolved:
I guess I'm ignorant, I listen to music every day with headphones and the music sounds all right. Stock 2.3.3 unrooted, using Ubermusic and google music as players.
[Galaxy S II General] drreality:
same here with stock player
[Galaxy S II General] cr0wnest:
+1 stock music player user. I'm kinda ignorant about this too. Maybe its because the SGS2 audio quality is already far better than my nexus one, therefore I'm quite satisfied with my upgrade. :P
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
Likewise same as last two post . But with an enormousness variation in hearing and music played its only to be expected that some need adjustments .

Crap music is crap music no matter how you try to improve the sound .

Worth a look/try anyway .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] Aymara:
Combined with Poweramp equalization and an AKG K319 my stock SGS2 with 2.3.3 sounds quite good ... no need for further hassle.

PS: It might be worth mentioning, that I only play Ogg in 224 Kbit ... MP3 is junk even at 320 Kbit ;)