[General Questions and Answers] jobeeey:
HI guys, I'm hoping you can help me with a problem that's led me to start threatening my galaxy ace

(S5830i)

with a hammer.

Actually it's not the phone's fault it's purely my own stupidity, but none-the-less I'm here for help because I've spent all day and night trawling the net, trying to figure out how to proceed to resolve my issue on my own but I simply cannot make sense of the conflicting information I'm finding.

I promise you thing thing if nothing else, I have tried my very best to read around a hundred other forums, pages, and how 'to's but I'm finding that I have no resolution that I can work with because either:

- The tutorials turned out to be for the S5830 - not the i model - when I got to the forum

- The youtube videos all seem to be spoken in accents I cannot understand or not explained clearly, or are too technical

- Links I go to to get apk files etc are broken, wrong or leading me up another path I cannot follow

- Software does NOT look on my screen as it does on tutorials or websites (SDK for example)

- The people explaining the resolution type with such poor English I cannot understand what they're actually saying

- The solutions that work for others are too technical or advanced for me to understand and I'm finding it difficult to learn as I go (apart frm the root instructions which I found quite easy)

Anyway, I'll start at the beginning:

I have a samsung galaxy ace (S5830i) running:

- Gingerbread 2.3.6

- Baseband version S5830iXXLK1

- Kernel version 2.6.35.7

- Build number GINGERBREAD.XXLK3

I've already rooted it so I have superuser access, and I managed that perfectly well on my own

I installed titanium backup and somehow I managed to uninstall the stock email that comes with the phone. I think this is my problem because I now cannot download anything from google play, nor can I add a new gmail account to do so, so I'm stuck in no mans land not able to use googleplay (because my gmail account is now missing from my phone) nor can I seem to figure out how to get th apk file directly into the phone so that I can start fresh.

I'm also absolutely stuck on how to flash the phone and start again because nothing I seem to read is explaining it in simple clear terms that a layman can understand. When I do find a simple explanation, I find it's only for the non 'i' version of the phone, or if I find a simple instruction it's zip files for the rom do not contain all the files I need to use with odin v1.5

Also, there are conflicting explanations on flashing the rom on different forums/sites so I dare not use one over the other because another one contradicts it. I do not want to ruin my phone as right now it still basically works for now as a phone.

In my phone menu, the gmail icon is still there, just not the icon/app that said "email". The icon is now missing from my menus and with it there is now no way to use the play services without a gmail account on the phone.

When I click the gmail icon, it stats to open and then just shuts off quickly, not opening gmail, so I'm pretty sure all this is due to me deleting the email app using titanium backup.

Make sense?

What I'd really be grateful for is if on of you guys could help me out and explain in very simple terms what I need to do to either install the apk directly (preferred) so that I can add a gmail account to the phone and get access to google play again, or failing that a simple how to flash the rom with stock gingerbread, together with links to software that's known to be bonafide.

I am literally being driven mad going around in circles on forums and sites to keep going back to square one.

Any help will be very gratefully received. Or I'm afraid this may mean I'm going to smash my new phone int a wall and never use a smartphone again, because obviously I'm too stupid to play around with them on my own.

I really appreciate your help if someone would be able to invest a little time here.

Thanks very much for your time, guys

Jobeeey :)