yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
Strange thing... although I can't confirm it as yet.

When my "Sales Code" was incorrectly set to KOR:

Factory Reset didn't have any bloatware on it. I guess i9000's sold in Korea don't come with any bloatware.

When I set my "Sales Code" correctly to BMC:

Factory Reset reinstalled all of Bell's Bloatware.

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Now thats not the strange thing. What I find strange is the battery life on my i9000m was far superior with the incorrect KOR Sales code than it is with the BMC code.

I wonder if the added bloatware or some other strange setting in the CSC causes the battery to drain more quickly.

I'm going to do a battery calibration and see if its confirmed, but thats my experience thus far.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bestjsg:
can you please let me know how to change the sales code ? mine is set to MOT for some reason and I suspect that is the reason why I cant connect to 3G...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] spaceroger:
cant see the update ether...

im on ugkc1 for pda & csc but ive flashed back the JL2 modem i tought it was better...

now im looking for a kc1 modem odin flashable, ive found somes but its unknow baseband...

so since my phone is my internet access (6gig data plan), ive flashed back to JL2. but it didnt work at first ! stock on analysing file in odin.

after that, i had that nasty computer to phone icon. cant get to download mode ! i freaked out, remove the external sd card and woo, download mode again. JL2 modem worked that time...

damn galaxy, my warranty is over and i dont want to ****up/brick my phone...

but i do want gingerbread... anyone have a reliable source for the officiel kc1 modem ? thats might be the problem trough kies..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
*#272*imei#*
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bestjsg:
I used this code to find out my sales code is set to Mot but in the list i dont see BMC so i hit install then phone reboot into recovery then i tried to install zip, a file says bmc csc in xda but cant install it ,it just says installation aborded...any idea ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tareks:
Is there anywhere to d/l a CM3 flashable version of the KG3 modem?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xpirozx:
to change csc

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=787163

must be rooted.. Ive noticed a few people posting looking to do this..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] grokon:
You have it in this thread...look back in the few first pages
[Galaxy S I9000 General] w98seeng:
Many Thanks haloimplant,

The rooted KG3 kernel worked great.

Ian
[Galaxy S I9000 General] An Droid:
Thanks xxbeanxx and haloimplant!

Rooted KG3 with custom icons (battery, etc) and CRT screen off animation.

I'm happy. Just a few more tweaks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xxbeanxx:
Don't thank me; go to lownoise's most awesome post and thank him: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1152740
[Galaxy S I9000 General] w98seeng:
I spoke too soon. I have nothing but FC's, about every 15 seconds or so. I have to go back to the stock kernel now.

Ian
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gfacer:
Anyone get a custom kernel working on this (or asked a developer to add it on)?

I know I can go the other way and take a custom rom and add the modem but I want to change as little as possible at this time.

G
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
anyone notice push email with Samsung email only works sporadically?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DeHann:
Yes. I have sent a request to Chainfire to see if he would create a CF-Root kernel based on I9000UGKG3.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HiKsFiles:
I stopped following this thread over the weekend, but is there any confirmation the update has been pulled or is it just people with wrongly configured SGS that can't see it?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DeHann:
Anyone experiencing issues with wifi with this firmware?

Both myself and fiance have noticed that, since flashing KG3, the phone continually tries to connect (going through the scanning/connecting/etc. process) without success. The strange thing is that I thought it may have been signal-related; but, the Wifi Analyzer app I use shows the wireless network and the phone does not connect.

Note: This is an intermittent issue and does not happen on each connection.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gfacer:
Funny I had that on jl2 at my house but not now even though I switched the modem back to jl2. Everywhere else was fine. Never did find a cause...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] midirt:
Unlock and flash?

Sorry for newbie questions, but it's not clear to me from reading this topic:

- How do I root this firmware in the easiest way? (does something like super oneclick root work?)

- How do I unlock it?

- Is there a complete tutorial how to safely flash Bell SGS to latest Darky ROM? Is it stable? I got few FCs and faster battery drain on this stock rom and I'm a bit disapointed. Is it possible and safe to flash from KG3 to latest Darky ROM (v10.2 Final?)

- If something doesn't work, how to safely reflash to stock?

Some tutorials I found are not Bell SGS-specific, and others are outdated. I'd appreciate good advice, I don't want to brick my phone, it's still new and under warranty...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] RyYYZ:
Go back a little in this thread, and find my reply to "Haloimplant" here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16630883&postcount=244 , download the files listed, and do as it says. It's really very simple to do, and if you're unsure about how to achieve download mode (volume down + "home" button + power button) or use Odin there are a ton of tutorials around on the subject.

So far it works fine for me to allow root access, and seems to be stable.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kpucci:
So there is no method to root 2.3.3 Samsung yet?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
Please read the thread. Method already mentioned.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mayo1973:
Has the update been pulled or not.anyone knows?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jpaik:
I launched Kies a few minutes ago. I'm seeing that the KG3 update is available (Kies is inviting me to proceed with the update).

I would like to know from others here, who have only done firmware updates from one stock version to the next, if the UGKG3 update is providing any real benefits over UGKC1 (firmware v2.2). Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HiKsFiles:
Coming from original KC1, if I were to do it again, I think I'd wait to see if another version would come out.

Too many bugs (battery drain, loss of shutdown and full charge sound notifications just to mention those) and no real benefits IMHO.

New look is great, but not worth the battery drain bug.

If no new official release is made available in a not so distant future, I'm thinking of reverting back to KC1 with voodoo lagfix + root as it was before.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jpaik:
Thanks for this. I won't rush to upgrade. I had a battery drain problem - don't know if it's the bug - - but resolved it with the Juice Defender app.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HiKsFiles:
No, it's not a bug you can solve with some app from the market. It has to do with a driver made by Samsung specifically for the SGS and whose sources are not public.

There's nothing we can do about it except wait for Samsung to take their hands out of their nose and release a fix.

Look in the general section of this forum for extra infos as this bug is present in each and every version of Gingerbread release for the SGS. It doesn't matter whether it's a Canadian or international version of the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Lightarrow:
Why don't you guys try jvr custom roms? I am running simplicity 0.31 on my i9000m without any issues whatsoever. Only custom thing I did was to flash this modem.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] haloimplant:
I have not seen the battery drain bug since clearing cache and dalvik cache after the upgrade. I got 1.5 days with 3.5 hours of screen time on a charge over the weekend, now I am sitting at 73% after 17 hours unplugged and almost 1 hour of use. Pretty comparable to what I was getting on 2.2.1 although apparently I do have to keep an eye out for android os bug re-occurring.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] urself25:
I too clear my battery stats and cache and i have been using the phone for the past 23 hours unpluged and i'm down only to 70%. I really like this firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] haloimplant:
As far as GPS goes I'm looking in the settings and seeing that the supl server is 'www.spirent-lcs.com'. I thought the default was supposed to be some google server?

The default mode is MS based, I changed mine to MS assisted and it got a lock eventually, took about a minute on my balcony for it to pick up 4 satellites. Perhaps MS based would have done similar I don't think I waited that long.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lgsshedden:
download and use gps aids from market or the post on xda

I get 9 satellites within 15-20 seconds -- app delivers
[Galaxy S I9000 General] got_milk:
Just bumping my original question in case anyone has done it or knows how to and is willing to share.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ChrisAG:
I don't agree. Battery life was not great with 2.2 KC1, and the phone developed terrible lag.

2.3.3 KG3 makes the phone much more responsive, and allegedly Gingerbread has safeguards against lag developing. Battery life is no worse for me than when I had Froyo, and maybe a bit better.

Yes KG3 has a few quirks as others mentioned, but speaking as someone that has remained stock all the way I am very happy with the upgrade.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DT3CH:
Why bother with the bootloaders, flash the ROM then voila! bootloaders loaded.......
[Galaxy S I9000 General] got_milk:
After flashing and bootlooping and flashing and bootlooping and more of that, I think I've managed to extract the entire bootloader from the new Bell I9000M KG3 Gingerbread release.

WARNING: I have NOT tested this! Flash at your own risk, I am not responsible for loss of data or device failure due to this package!

Known Issues:

- On initial startup on any ROM that is not KG3, graphic distortion appears instead of the Samsung I9000M logo. Does not affect boot process or device operation.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DeHann:
I agree. Any Gingerbread firmware I have used has much better battery life. Plus, you can track battery usage more accurately since all applications, as well as, Android components are tracked. This assists to determine what is / is not eating battery. I have read that the Android O/S drain can be resolved by clearing Dalvik cache; although, it seems to be a by-product of flashing without clearing caches / formatting phone from my experience of learning through osmosis. :D

I think I am going to revert to JVR and try both KG3 / KC1 modems to try and determine the cause of issues with signal for both mobile and wifi issues I am experiencing. Will post with results...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] masterslacker:
Where did you get the boot.bin from? In all the KG3 packages I've seen posted, none of them have a boot.bin in them. Did you extract it from your phone, or from a source online?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] got_milk:
Flashed KG3 and extracted it from the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tl_tiger:
Do you need to be in 'Debugging' mode to un-root?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rexyu38:
Does anyone try [MOD]-22/05- Hack i9000 Camera i9000 FROYO & GB (Low Battery + Shutter + Audio)?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=980835&highlight=camera+hack

Just wonder if this works on KG3. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
This question is for anyone who updated their phone to KG3 via KIES in the past couple of days only:

It has been reported that the KG3 update was pulled for a short period of time and then put back on the update server.

I'm wondering during this time if they made any tweaks to it. So, the only blatantly obvious bug I found prior to the past couple of days (I'm sure there are plenty more), is that the Microphone button on swype doesn't work at all even though its there. Does it possibly work now?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] RyYYZ:
The rooting is done once the phone reboots after flashing. I did not put it in debugging mode before flashing - I don't believe it would make any difference. After rebooting, I installed Superuser and Busybox with no problems - setting Debugging mode didn't seem to be necessary.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neoalucard666:
Battery life has been good for me so far, better than 2.2 I guess. Is there a good kernel with bln that I could use with this rom. I miss speedmod :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
I noticed the battery will only charge to 96-97% then immediately skip to 100%.

Battery will only charge to 4197mV. Not the usual +4250 I was experiencing before. This is probably why it is well below 100% when you unplug it. With Froyo, it showed 100% when unplugged. Not so for this Rom
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zeco:
I've also noticed the same thing, The max i ever got it charged was 99%, after re-plugging it whenever it decided it was fully charged.

The last time I charged my device It only got to 98%, however, after I unplugged it and checked a little while later, it had mysteriously gone up to 99% after a while (then continued downwards normally). This was verified in the battery stats where I saw a curious little bump in the graph.

After doing a full drain, then a full charge with the device turned off, then turning the device back on after it 'finished' charging, so far with essentially no usage (a little terminal work, and uploading of a few files to dropbox), i've gotten about 1% of drain per hour (for the last 10 hours). Although I don't have mail syncing on or any such activated currently.

Although i'm fine with that battery usage in this scenario, if I think of it in terms of me charging the device before sleeping, and then waking up with only 92% charge, it seems a bit more dissappointing. Oh well, we shall see how it holds up for the rest of the day.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DT3CH:
Its the battery drain bug in JVQ... so its normal for JVQ unfortunately
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HiKsFiles:
How do we go about clearing the dalvik cache with stock bootloaders and no CWM recovery ?

I'm willing to give this a shot if it works :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] haloimplant:
If you're rooted titanium backup will do it (in menu -> more).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] midirt:
If I want to flash to Darky 10.2 after updating to this factory ROM, what do I do?

The guide about safe flashing on 9000M here says to root it first, but Super OneClick Root does not work anymore, in the new KG3 firmware, right? So what do I do? Just Flash Darky 10.2 Resurrection with Odin straight away on top of plain unrooted factory KG3 I have? Will it overwrite the KG3 modem? Will I have to reflash it? How do I do that and where do I get separate file for the modem?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
Not only JVQ.. I'm running KG3, so I dunno.

Clearing out the Dalvik cache definitely had improvement on Battery life though... when it cleared it, it freed up 9mb of space... now at 14hrs 30 mins on battery and still have 67% left. Still not 100% great, but without doing that, the same amount of time would have me near plugging it in.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] joelhon:
So just talked with a sasktel tech and they are advising waiting because 2.3.4 or 2.3.5 are supposedly coming out soon for canada.

Swyped from a galaxy far far away.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
so... 3-4 months from now?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xxbeanxx:
Same here...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ChrisAG:
That's good news, but why wait if KG3 is faster than KC1 with comparable battery life? Why would Samsung advise anyone to wait?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] joelhon:
I said sasktel not samsung.

Swyped from a galaxy far far away.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zorxd:
Can we really trust that Sasktel rep? Most of them have no clue about the updates. My rep (Bell in my case) told me that 2.2 was coming in September 2010. We had to wait until december.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bestjsg:
same for me too ..in fact with the phone off fully charged the worse I got was 85%...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bestjsg:
btw ..for those who actually has the 9000M , after I have flashed this rom my phone no longer says 9000M anymore but just 9000, is there a way to get it back...notice even my signature is missing the M...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gfacer:
Thats controlled by the kernel and by the looks of your signature, its not stock.

G
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DT3CH:
JVQ = KG3

eatmybum10char
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DeHann:
I have read that this is a Gingerbread feature designed to help the lifespan of battery; although, I have no source for the information. Maybe it helps keep the temperature down; or, maybe it's a bug.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] masterslacker:
How do you know that?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HiKsFiles:
It has to be a bug.

How many phones do you know of that go straight from 100% to 85% upon disconnecting the charger? ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jack0131:
Hi, has anyone successfully installed the updated 3e CWM recovery using Rom Manager?

Hi,

Or 2e Recovery, can't get it to work, always returned with failed message on Stock Samsung Recovery screen...

Thanks.

Jack

SGS UGKG3 Rooted
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DeHann:
Definitely could be. Android is not completely bug free. I experience force closes from time to time. For example, Alchemy on Gingerbread.

Have you tried fully charging the battery and wiping the battery stats using either Clockwork Mod (CWM) or an app that does the same thing? I found that helped when I flashed to Gingerbread firmwares from the Samfirmware.com site when Gingerbread was first ported to the SGS i9000. May be a possible trobleshooting option...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DT3CH:
Its a guess, first off its 2.3.3 which is in the JV family, its not JVR since that is a recent leak, so it would most likely be JVQ (although that is supposed to be 2.3.4) but Im just guessing due to that version just being officially released in Europe, there is a possibility though that its a lower version JVH/JVO

Plus I dont remember JVO having the same battery bug (ala disconnecting the USB) there was the battery drain via the OS bug and from what I recall the USB issue only popped up in the 2.3.4 releases, which leads me back to JVQ

One way or another its in the JV family and all the JV builds had one issue or another (even persisting in JVR) so if it was in those builds its gonna be in KG3

If someone really wanted to know for sure they would just have to pull the files and compare them and compare the completed dates of the builds
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DeHann:
Isn't each provider's firmware release based on an Android O/S version, such as, 2.1 (Eclair), 2.2 (Froyo), 2.3 (Gingerbread)?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Speedum:
I have this problem. drops to 85% upon disconnect of the charger (50% of the time). Another 50% of the time it drops to 98% upon disconnect.

Tried wiping the battery stats yesterday and I am looking (waiting) to see if it fares better
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Sozage:
Success!

Bell (Ontario)

Upgraded last night - didn't notice any difference besides the new icons at the top.

Today I noticed two games that I stopped playing due to choppy graphics (Captain America & Robot Unicorn Attack) now play very smoothly.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
Anyone having trouble getting a GPS lock with the new Google Maps 5.9 update?

I can't seem to get a lock at all. Clear sky

KG3 - i9000m
[Galaxy S I9000 General] que3jxp:
I just installed it and tested and it seems that there is something wrong as it is jumping back and forth from cell tower to GPS for a fix.

This does not happen in Google Earth. It is behaving fine.

EDIT: I am also on the new 2.3.3 and it is a stock phone with no rooting or "stuff"
[Galaxy S I9000 General] urself25:
Be sure to have your data connection active. Wifi only does not work.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] que3jxp:
I do. I have the 6GB plan so it is never off.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] greeced:
Same here. I'm never on wifi.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
yes it seems to be way worse. took forever to get a lock.

oh this wasnt with 5.9 either, this was a couple of days ago.. the gps just seems worse in this firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HiKsFiles:
Let us (me!) know if it does help indeed!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Speedum:
My KG3 ROM locked the GPS "cold start" in 15 seconds.. also put into consideration that it is only seeing half the sky (the other half completely blocked by building) when the lock occurs.. Around the same performance as in KC1.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] krazykipa:
Though I am still unable to find a kernel that fully supports UGKG3, I just updated to this release from JVR, and flashed to CM7 afterwards.

I was able to do this by flashing the Galaxian SP5 kernel, and though it gave a bootloop I was able to get into recovery (VOL UP+DOWN+POWER) and install the zip via CWM.

I'm now happily on nightly 90 of CM7 with KG3 bootloaders+modem.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] joelhon:
So what is the consensus on how to flash this. Kies or odin? And had anyone found a rooted kernel?

Swyped from a galaxy far far away.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xWarMachine04:
I flashed using [Ramad]'s 3 file with ODIN

And xxbeanxx made a rooted zImage, but no custom kernel yet i believe (unless you want to try the Tornado kernel)

http://www.multiupload.com/957YOK5ENM
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lgsshedden:
flash with odin for rom/phone and csc, or just csc and modem

use cwm for just the modem

for rooted kernel, Tornado works as was stated several days and pages ago

not only do you get root, you get the best kernel available
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gfacer:
Cool, I was hoping that a custom kernel would get cwm loaded if I want to change. good to know it works.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MoSin_RioT:
I'm quite new to this world and I was wondering if it's certain that all the other kernels will work at some point ( semaphore, speedmod etc... ) with a stock update to KG3?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kmo_9000:
Alright so I read this entire thread and I have a galaxy S updated to 2.3.3 UGKG3.

I tried flashing it with Odin to the rooted kernel linked in a previous post (kg3root.tar) but it doesn't work.

Odin says this:

The box above COM9 says "fail!"

Wow I was just about to post this and I tried it for the 5th time and it WORKED, I am now rooted. Thank you to whoever posted the kernel and the detailed instructions. I am eternally grateful.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Speedum:
My first try is also a FAIL (using Odin) and it also automatically rebooted and displayed the error screen upon boot. Entered download mode and tried to download again and it worked the second time.

Now I am rooted with KG3 (THANKS!).

Comments after rooting:

1) For some reason the my original SU app is gone and have to redownload it. Running SU casuse a FC the first time but a subsequent startup of SU it is fine.

2) I haven't encounter FC issues as reported probably a few pages ago in this thread [touch wood]
[Galaxy S I9000 General] donpayman:
Same here, looking for a custom kernel that works with Stock KG3 rom.

Sound on KG3 is awfull.

Batterie life is great compared to froyo 2.2.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DeHann:
So, it is currently only the Tornado kernel that is compatible with KG3?

If yes, can anyone help me out by posting a link to it? Does it mention what it includes? For example, CWM and the like. Also, any comments about it would be welcome.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gfacer:
Tornado kernel: It's on Damien own website. Google it and it's 1st. Need to sign up and stuff but easy enough to find. Still need to try it though.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lgsshedden:
can't post you a link but easy enough to find: latest version of his kernel came out yesterday -- stunning.

New version of Brotuck's Tornado rom issued August 19.

In combination, Tornado kernel, rom and kg3 modem: quadrant scores of 3600 using ext2 and 1440 mhz -- settings all possible using recovery or app.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jack0131:
Hi, just installed Tornado using Odin, phone keeps looping between Tornado screen and Galaxy S GT-I9000M screen, am I doing something wrong?

Thanks.

Jack

Bell SGS Stock UGKG3 rooted
[Galaxy S I9000 General] haloimplant:
I have yet to see a single report of KG3 booting successfully with a non-KG3 kernel, just bootloops with everything.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jack0131:
yes, unfortunately..

Jack