[Galaxy S I9000 General] xsenman:
The sticker on the back of the phone reads I9000GSMH and when the phone boots you see an Anycall Boot logo (this can easily be changed to Galaxy S logo too, so its not an indicator till you get into bootloops) and is installed with a lidroid i9000 ROM (Chinese developer)

But If you try to flash any custom ROM meant for i9000, thats when you get into a whole lot of problems and inability to get it back into operating status as boot loaders meant for i9000 will not function on this unit and phone will indicate wrong boot loader when trying to recover.

After trying to solve this issue for many users on this forum and the Android Forum, it has been finally solved by kbloodstone here

The fact is, this units are most likely an M110S (Korean Galaxy S) designed to be passed on as i9000 (international Galaxy S) by removing or snapping off the DMB TV Antenna, changing its back cover & sticker and altering the build prop to indicate it is using an i9000 ROM

[MENTION=4863394]AndroidAddiction[/MENTION] pointed out here that "reboot into recovery" should indicate that it would not be i9000 as the combo keys to enter recovery mode for i9000 = Vol up + home +power and for M110s = Vol down + home + power.

The download mode combo keys are Vol down + home + power for i9000 and

Home + Power keys for M110S. So indeed its a good observation, worth noting.

Nevertheless, most people I have came across, had mostly entered download mode (not sure as to which combo key they had used) and flashed, that is how they found out that they were unable to flash any i9000 ROM. And most of all Combo keys can be changed by ROM developers.

If we compare the specifications between M110S and i9000, you can also note that the M110S is heavier by 2 gram, which cannot be noticed.

The most distinct difference was reported by [MENTION=4972745]wilvic[/MENTION] about the different speakers here But Speakers too can be changed, if needed but very unlikely it would have been done.

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This is due to the fact that the M110S has Stereo Speakers and the i9000 has Mono Speakers.

The easiest way to know, IF your phone is, what it says it is, is by checking its IMEI here​

The M110s has a DMB TV used only in Korea and parts of China as such the hardware makes it impossible to use i9000 ROM's...hence those who have bought this units believing its an i9000 have been scammed by those who are making money out of this deals.

The solution to recover this fake i9000 to M110S is by using the repair kit at Pit Stop ​

The Galaxy S series of Android smartphones were the first to hit the market and the original flagship unit for Samsung, but the Korean version came out even before the i9000 International version was released.

Currently There are some 20 versions of Galaxy S, and their ROMS / Kernels may not be compatible with each other, so make sure you know which model and which ROM should be used for your unit.

Galaxy S	GT-I9000	Galaxy S	International

Galaxy S	GT-I9000B	Galaxy S	Brazil

Galaxy S	GT-I9000L	Galaxy S	Chile

Galaxy S	GT-I9000M	Vibrant	Bell

Galaxy S	GT-I9000T	Galaxy S	Latin America

Galaxy S	GT-I9001	Galaxy S Plus	International

Galaxy S	GT-I9003	Galaxy SL	International

Galaxy S	GT-I9010	Giorgio Armani	International

Galaxy S	SCH-I500	Fascinate	Verizon

Galaxy S	SCH-I510	Droid Charge	Verizon

Galaxy S	SCH-R910	Galaxy S	MetroPCS

Galaxy S	SGH-I896	Captivate	Rogers

Galaxy S	SGH-I897	Captivate	At&t

Galaxy S	SGH-N013	SC-02B	Docomo

Galaxy S	SGH-T959	Vibrant	T-Mobile (USA)

Galaxy S	SGH-T959D	Fascinate	Telus

Galaxy S	SGH-T959V	Galaxy S 4G	T-Mobile (USA)

Galaxy S	SGH-I997	Infuse 4g	At&t

Galaxy S	SHW-M110S	SHW-M110S	Korea Telecom

Galaxy S	SPH-D700	Epic 4g	Sprint

The reason why the M110S is targeted by these scampers, is the fact the largest number of units sold in Korea are currently available very cheap and need to be dumped in third world countries and refurbishing them and branding them as i9000 would indeed be highly profitable.

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