yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
WOW :D

Things are looking up it is amazing. And you know what, yesterday when things started to go wrong, I did get that funny character that now happened again when it was reboting... maybe it was all ok yesterday and because I didnt knwo what I was doing I messed it all up...

It still doesn't recognize my sim card... what do you think this means?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghalalb:
could mean a lot of things, a bad sd card, or its not being mounted for some reason. Check it in a PC/Laptop first to see if it can be read ok.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
I got it all from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1852546

It is Cygm9 but it doesn't recognize my sim... so I cant use the mobile to phone etc...

REMEMBER I am an old lady (almost 50) and never done anything like this before, so I dont really know what we are talking about,...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodman01:
yes that could be, perhaps you were only a bit impatient :).

Mhh with the simcard....usually i would say flash the or one modem only ontop.

But i do not hink you have one already on your device.....so you have to download one first, the again in recovery and flash the zip.

What you can try without internet is to take the sim card out clean it a bit, or try an other simcard?

And you can check again in settings->about phone: Baseband version: i9000 XXJVT for example. If its empty or unknown then you have to flash a modem first.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghalalb:
well you are doing very well in what can be the confusing world of rooting and custom ROMS. That is a good guide. So you have CM9 booting and you can use your phone but can't find your sdcard on it?

Where do you live Kaarina? I am in London, if you have no joy let me know and maybe we can find way to sort this out other than this cumbersome forum chat method.

sorry just realised you said sim card! ignore my SD card talk!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodman01:
here is a short list with popular modems to download: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25458898&postcount=2
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
A bit of polishing did the job :D

Do I need to do some more flashing? erm, could you tell me where I can get the stuff I need to do what needs to be done, and so forth?

:)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
this is where I get stuck... how do you know which one to pick? and what do they do? and later can I have google apps back? hum, it is funny I absolutely dont know what I am doing and what all these programms are good for, all I know that my mobile wasn't working very well it was very slow... so therefore I wanted to upgrade... :) Could you help me with this?

How come I only have 370 MB memory?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodman01:
yes and strike :))! Gongrats!

For usual and daily telephone use you should not need anything more.

But to use it as a smartphone you will want to have some more apps.

Those you will found in google play, its the market for the apps. Much free apps and many you have to pay for.

The app Google Ply is already installed with the rom, but you have tocreate a google account to use it. then you can check around and try what ever you are interested in or what you find.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
I live in Keighley close to Bradford :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodman01:
no need to flash the modem if the simcard is ok now and you have a signal....then disregard my post with the link.

All of the 3 you can use, they are popular, but for every region and provider there are individual differences....so its try and error till you find the best one for you.

Just flash like the rom zip ontop if you want.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
I use my mobile more for internet/FB/Skype/photos etc etc, texting etc but I hardly every use it as a phone :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghalalb:
Did you install CM9 successfully? It does not come with gapps, you need to flash that separately in recovery from your SD card. Follow the instructions here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1592131 for gapps
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodman01:
then you already knows much about that apps you need....just start google play and search for the apps you had before and install them.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
What is gapp then I thought it was something to do with google apps...?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodman01:
sorry that i didn't knew, thought they were already included....

Then sure you first have to install the gapps

Sorry my bad.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
What does this modem do? and did I have to recovery mode to flash it as usual? and wipe things etc?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
but my gapp was 'bad' so I can't flash it ... so do I need to download one again, or can I try to move the one from my laptop to the mobile and try again?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghalalb:
gapps is a package of all the basic google apps that you need, Google Play, Google Mail etc and links any google account you have to your phone. Importantly Google Play is where you download all your apps from

CM9 is a very stripped and stable version of Android for your phone, for that reason it has no bloat so doesn't include gapps and all the goodness it brings
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
I definetly need that gapp them, maybe I should try to move it again to my mobile and then see if it works? I will do that and have to log off while I do since I cant have to USB's at the same time since they are too close to each other, very irritating but so it is.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghalalb:
try to flash 20120429 http://goo.im/gapps which is the CM9 version, don't use any other version it wont work

download and flash it off your sd card in recovery. Remember to clear your cache and dalvik cache which are options in recovery (Do not full wipe/factory wipe) before you reboot the phone while you are still in recovery.

But only if you have CM9 running smoothly on your phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
so this one wont work http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1852546?

I have internet on my mobile now I can maybe download it to my mobile, is it big, since I dont have much data left?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghalalb:
Yeah that is the right gapps, but I would wait until you can do it form a PC, its about 80mb usually and it may not download cleanly on your mobile. You also want to check the MD5 so that you know the download is not corrupt.

Can you confirm that CM9 is running fine on your phone?

Use the link that I posted above so you can see the MD5 for the files you download. It is always important to check the MD5 so as not to flash a corrupt download.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
Cyan9 seem to be good so far, how do I stop the download???? what is MD5 ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghalalb:
http://goo.im/gapps look here, under each download link is a number, that is the md5. It is a way of knowing a file you download is not corrupt, you check that number against the number your file generates after download, if they match it is not corrupt

here is some help on how to check. This is all done on your PC, so download the file to your PC and follow this guide to check it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1135620
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
There is lots to take in. I will download that file tomorrow. and download that gapps as well and then hopefully I know what to do with them. The images are broken.

Do you do this with everything you download or just when you are installing stuff on your mobile??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghalalb:
a lot of things you download to flash to your mobile come with and MD5 just to be sure you dont have a bad flash. There is a lot to take in! I'll check in tomorrow to see how you are progressing. At least your phone is working, the hard part is done now that you have rooted, installed CM9 and have a working recovery. Gapps should be easy after all of that!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
Since I have gotten this far I would really like to install Jelly Bean, since that was what I was going for, but after all the problems I thought I just put in the ICE and make sure it works. Maybe before I do anything I should install the Jelly bean right away? Before I put anything else on, since right now the phone works which is GREAT I thought it would not be saved.

Im very grateful for all the help all of you have given me.

But it is late and I will continue tomorrow.

Many Thanks

:)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
Good morning,

I wonder if you would recommend for me to upgrade to jelly bean from this site http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/3...y-s-gti9000-android412-jellybean-codename.htm ? I will this afternoon install those files from last night as well.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
I have downloaded this file MD5 but it doesnt open, it says Forbidden does this mean my antivirus programme doesn't allow it, it doesn't mention Avira ...

My antivirus doesn't let me go to some sites, even if I turn it off, the firewall prevents me so I dont' really know how to get to these pages when I need to... any suggestions?

:)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghalalb:
I would only recommend CM10 or CM10.1 whichever is stable.

As for if it is your antivirus stopping you from downloading the file, I really don't know without seeing your system and how it is setup. The MD5 check is very helpful, but you can download gapps again on your pc and just try to flash it again via recovery using the instructions I posted earlier. It will work, but as other have said, you may have to flash it a couple of times
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
Hi again,

I have moved gapps to my mobile again, I think it wasn't completely there, since it this time said there wasn't enough space, so I deleted the ROM from the sd card.

I was to do something else as well, my IMEI, I was trying to look through the thread where we spoke about it but can't find it now, what was I to download to be able to back it up on my computer?

Also my contract on my phone goes out in 3 months time, what do you think, should I be content with the ICE on it instead of the jelly bean?? I would like to get my phone back up working, I hope it will be faster than it was before, it was difficult to go on internet/FP etc before... I will do the flash with the gapp now... hopefully it wont kill of that IMEI...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
PS

It is someting called the Wajam setup that says forbidden on it? where did this wajam come from???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
Do you happen to know if I need to download anything to be able to connect with Samusng Kies?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
I can't recover my back-up from Samsung kies since there is now no option on my phone to connect to it! Is there something I can do?? Please help.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodman01:
With ICS and JB Kies cannot be used anymore. Kies is only working (more or less good) till Gingerbread.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
OH DEAR and I relied on that programme to back up all my data..... !! what do now I guess there is nothing I can do???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodman01:
The only way to use Kies again is to reflash to an original Samsung Stocksoftware.

Here should be allt o find which you are need for restocking: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=14273101
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
Does that mean to go back to where I was in the beginning with Gingerbread etc and so forth, I can probably just ask everyone for their phone numbers again.... :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
I had backed up some on Lookout Mobile Security, and Im trying to restore it now, it is 5months old so we will see what comes out of it... but it might at least be some of the numbers... and the rest I have to just get as I go along..

What else can you use for back up for your phone numbers etc?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amerkiller1995:
It is possible to export contacts from kies and rename the file to .vcf, then open it on your mobile phone

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
How is that done exactly??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodman01:
I am not such firm with kies but i think you can't you open your contacts and so on without connect the mobile? Then you could import your missing datas manually, its a bit more work, but better then nothing?!?...Contacts are backuped in backup->PIMS folder on your PC....and pictures and so on should be also in that backup folder.

Just start Kies and klick on contacts on the left, then: open contact folder

Hope that this helps.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amerkiller1995:
Open your contacts in kies and there should be an option to export, then rename that file to something.vcf

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
Looks like all the files in Kies are empty!! ??????
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
I found another Kies folder but nothing that is called contacts :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amerkiller1995:
i meant open KIES, the program, and there you should have an option to see your backed up contacts, and then export them
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
I found this in a thread here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=983471 and this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1278347

I have found the .sbu file, but I don't quite understand how to do what they say on those two pages.... any clues?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
I have only an option to delete the file on my kies...its under preferenses/device
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amerkiller1995:
cant you click on contacts on the left panel?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
DOH, I never saw that, but when I did, it ends up in a place where there is no files :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
I think I leave it at that. I have gotten some contacts restored by the lookout mobile security, so at least I have some. :)

Could you remind me what I was to do with the IMEI? I needed to download a programme so I could backup this number? but when I look back in the thread I can't find the one where we where talking about it...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amerkiller1995:
Nitrality

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodman01:
Here is the post from colleague :):

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35887214&postcount=98
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
Thank you :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
do I do the full system backup on this one ? sorry for being so ignorant!! and then move it to my computer???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amerkiller1995:
you can see in the screenshots of the app that it can backup the EFS folder, look around the app
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
Thanks! I have done a backup on it from the general folder. :) I will see if I can transfer that to my laptop.... somehow
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaarina:
I give up, I don't know where the file is that needs to be moved, at least I have done it... I'm not a computer geek I don't understand these things...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amerkiller1995:
Its a folder called EFS

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mamad CJ:
Hello

could you mind porting this future for ous S3?

you can see this on you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Jr38k4Ias

Please Help Me

Thanks
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Bohra:
i have upgraded to latest ics update for xperia u but in the WDCMA/GSM mode i keep getting signal drops what do i do ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doctor_droid:
Which fw??

U sure it aint a network problm??
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Bohra:
Build 6.1.1.b.1.10

can you tell me how i could diffrentiate if its a network error coz im not sure i use vodafone in india and their networks generally dont drop that much
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Min3r:
Small possibility is due to high network load since its Christmas eve :D I often had same issues on nights leading up to a major holiday ;)

Wait it out till tomorrow and just maybe, if you're lucky, The problem will be gone :p Otherwise,try flashing stock FTF again to remove possibility of a corrupt software issue. If all else fails, you'll have to take it to service center :(

Anyway, hope its the first case :)

Cheers & Merry Christmas :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Bohra:
its not actually todays but in general i face this also the voice clarity of calls crack and sometimes cant hear whats being said by the other person i guess i should go to the service centre
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] MSK1:
Now I may be being stupid here. And let me know if I am.

But why on earth is there no such thing as a caller display in a blue tooth headset.

Say u have ur phone in one pocket and ur head set in another

You want to be able to see who is calling and answer without having to take out the phone.

You should also be able to do last few numbers redial so that you can make the majority of calls without taking our the phone as well.

Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp?
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] Tomo1971:
Cos you would have to take the headset off your ear and look at it to see who was calling?

Isnt that where most people have their headsets...

Some headsets/phones allow the caller name to be read out to you... but that assumes that you have the headset on your ear.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] JimSmith94:
Did you bother to search? There are many Bluetooth headsets with Caller ID displays. Here are some pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=blu...AWCn4HICA&sqi=2&ved=0CGoQsAQ&biw=1326&bih=931
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] Tomo1971:
Didn't know they existed to be honest but oh my god.... Why?

Sent from my Samsung Note II.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] MSK1:
There are two markets

One for people that constantly wear them on their head.

The other only putting it on the head once a call is coming in.

It's the second market I am in
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] finalhit:
Do you guys watch the tv show 24?

I noticed that jack bauer always uses a wired headset while terrorists always use bluetooth headsets.

Now I'm not saying you guys are terrorists or anything...but..that's a mighty big coincidence.

swyped all these spelling errors from my galaxy note 2
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] MSK1:
I have looked at those.

Most of those are not very good. (Or very old)

Maybe I should have said "decent display head sets"

The ones that have separate headphones don't count.

You need in-ear style for quick use.

I would have expected there were some excellent ones out there.

Especially with all the 7 inch tablets that are becoming more and more prevalent
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] T4rken:
Hahaha I got laugh out this
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] MSK1:
What a programme. ..

And a very good spot.

:)
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] D3_:
What's quicker, looking down at something clipped to your shirt and pressing the answer button, or taking something out of your ear, looking at it, then putting it back into your ear and pressing the answer button?
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] MSK1:
Only a plonker would have it in his ear all the time (unless their job necessitates it)

With clipping to your shirt 12 hours a day, you'd also look like a plonker. .....

Remember - you only actually use the phone for a fraction of that time....

Its the same argument for the note 2 vs a normal phone...

You use "media" more than "calling", so it makes sense to compromise with a big phone to get the most out of the "media" functionality.

So compromise by putting ur hand in the pocket.

Plus if u have the phone in your pocket you'd have to put your hand in your pocket, so there is no real difference.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] vizographic:
http://www.sharperimage.com/si/view/product/Bluetooth-Caller-Id-Watch/200659

Take a look at this bluetooth watch with caller id display. There shouldn't be a reason you can't pair both a clean discrete headset and classic looking watch to provide the necessary visual call info. Extra plus, you've got the time on your wrist again.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] JimSmith94:
Don't bother with that one! For one thing, you can buy it for half that price elsewhere, but it's a piece of crap at any price.

It only has BT v1 so it can't be connected at the same time as a headset. I learned that from experience, and most of the advertised features on mine don't work, even without my headset paired.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] MSK1:
I see a big future in these types of watches

A big big future.

But the only problem with your plan is that you still have multiple devices to think about just for answering a call.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] barry99705:
Depends on if the watch can control the headset. Phone rings, look at watch, don't want to talk, hit the ignore button. Want to talk hit the answer button and it activates the headset.

I just let my headset tell me who's calling. :victory:
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] MSK1:
Better than nothing. ..

But still means two gadgets being accessed to answer a call. ..

But I repeat. .. These watches will be big in a few years.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] MSK1:
What I can see happening is that you have a very small earpiece which is permanently in the ear...

And the mic is on the wrist so you talk into the wrist...

It will take a bit of time to get used to but the buck Rogers generation won't mind
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] pakure:
Wouldn't driving mode on phone tell who's calling. .. tried it?

Language and input settings/text to speech output / driving mode (press it for further options)

scribbled from my note 2 (N7100)
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] MSK1:
No.

But is this voice based?

That would be a bit awkward anyway I reckon
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] pakure:
When you get a call. ..it rings and a voice speaks out the callers name. .

Similar settings can be made for messages

Enable driving mode (you also have notification toggle for it)... give yourself a call to see how it works

scribbled from my note 2 (N7100)
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] JimSmith94:
Driving mode works for me. It announces the person's name for incoming calls and texts if they are in my contacts list.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] tbvnz:
Ever seen these. Theyre on my wishlist.

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-MW1BTWHP-Smart-Wireless-Headset/dp/B008ALHEM8
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] MSK1:
I will try this and reply with my thoughts.

What if u don't want the caller announced. ;)