[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JulesBell:
Noob with a similar problem

Hi Gardar, hi xsenman,

I stumbled upon this thread by googling the same error message that Gardar initially posted (The error code 7 on attemping to flash CM 9.1).

Unfortunately, being a somewhat naive noob, I feel I am not proficient/confident enough to try the solution that Gardar found for himself just yet.

My problem is that by some dumb attempt to restore to the original GingerBread 2.3.3 after initially successfully installing CM9.1 and then some time later facing some problems concerning the phone not recognizing the SIM card anymore (it said "no service" and couldn't scan for networks and wouldn't ask for the PIN after rebooting the phone), I now seem to have completely messed up the phone's system. The phone won't boot and when I try to flash it to CM9.1 again from CWMR, it aborts, giving me the code 7 error message that Gardar posted.

I was browsing through the forums here, following the links given in this thread, trying to find some answers by myself and stumbled upon this:

" Problem:- ClockworkMod Recovery giving Status 7 error "Installation aborted".

Solution:- One or some of the prerequisite requirement for the needed upgrade is missing or corrupted . So you may need to identify and

replace that requirement for the installation to continue. Most likely could be due to wrong bootloader, wrong CWM, Wrong IMEI, Wrong

Radio etc "

in xsenman's "Android Solutions for Galaxy Phones" thread

( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=30415128#post30415128 )

This seems applicable but I have no idea what to make of it. I am really lost now, so some dumbed down step-by-step guide of what to do now would be really appreciated.

A quick sum up of what state my SGS i9000 is in right now:

- The phone doesn't boot into operating system (gets stuck on the first Samsung Galaxy S logo screen)

- I can start download mode

- I can access CWM Recovery (v2.5.1.0 SpeedMod Kernel)

- through that I can mount the usb storage to connect it to my Windows PC and access the internal SD card

that is (from my noobish point of view) about all i can do.

What backup I have available:

- NANDroid backup from earlier this day, including

- cache.img (23 KB)

- data.img (51,503 KB)

- dbdata.img (17,016 KB)

- nandroid.md5 checksum file (1 KB)

%note: from what I read somewhere (and tried out), this backup seems useless for recovering to the stock android, because the sys.img is missing. Am I right about that?

- unfortunately, I have NO "EFS"-folder backup. Yes, xsenman will hate me :P but I can't help it now :'(

%note: I think this might be relevant concerning my phone not getting service and not asking for the PIN after booting.

A chronologic/structured sum up of how I got into this mess and when which problems arose

- I started out with the original GingerBread 2.3.3 (Phone was working fine)

- following this guide step by step ( http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Full_Update_Guide ) and using the files linked there, I

- successfully flashed the SpeedMod Kernel and ClockWorkMod to get root access using Heimdall

- successfully installed CM 9.1 via CWM Recovery (from internal SD)

- now the phone worked fine with CM 9.1

BUT

- GPS wasn't working and I didn't have FM radio

- so I got myself the JP5 radio zip from here (http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Support_Downloads)

and a GPS fix from here (http://www.android-hilfe.de/root-hacking-modding-fuer-samsung-galaxy-s/250698-fix-gps-fix.html)

- and installed them both at the same time via CWM Recoevry the same way I did with the CM 9.1 zip file

This was probably the first big mistake I made, because

- now I had GPS working again, but from now on

- the phone wouldn't ask for the PIN after booting

- I didn't have service anymore

- the phone failed to scan for networks

- but it wasn't showing the "no sim card" icon in the task bar

I tried rebooting the phone and when that didn't help I started messing around in CWMR

- wipe data/factory reset

- wipe cache partition

- wipe Dalvik cache

When that didn't help either, I

- tried to re-install cm9.1, getting the abort with code 7 error

- then tried to recover the original rom from my backup folder

- that looked promising in CWM as it didn't abort like cm9.1, but when rebooting once it was done in CWM the phone got stuck on the logo screen immediately and won't boot since.

- I retried wiping user data and caches and installing cm9.1, to no effect.

Then I started digging into the forums here and elsewhere but couldn't find specific advice aseful to me in this situation.

Now I'm sitting here with my fubar phone and don't know what to do next -_- crying for help

Please excuse this wall of text, I tried to give as much useful info un my problems as possible.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Jules