[Galaxy Ace S5830i General] Munchkin86:
I know many threads are already handling the one or the other problem.

But I tried to follow all the recommended steps of several guides and instructions.

Most of the parts also worked, but now I got stuck which results in always bricking the phone.

What I want:

Transfer from a Stock ROM (S5830i_XXLD3_S5830iDBTLD2_S5830iXXLD2 Germany)

towards Simplicity v3.5 SG2 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2041264

including newest Rafael Kernel (2.6.35-7) #201212101860 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1818830

and using this script/guide in order to use a second partition of my sd card http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2082465

I already was at one point where Simplicity v3.5 was running on the phone and the script for increasing internal memory was almost working

(it was strange because even though the size of 2nd partititon (sdext2) was increasing after an app installation, the size of the internal memory was also increasing.

Someone said I should install the latest kernel, result = bricked phone.

Now I got several recommendations that I strictly have to follow the order of the instructions, what i always did.

Now here the order/sequence of the guides how i should operate and then I tell u what worked and where it stopped. Actually everything worked until I was about to flash the kernel.

Sequence:

Flash back to Stock Rom using Odin 1.85

Stock rom fully loaded and no problems

Red color are the explainations by me, so you can see what i did and how i used the guides.

CWM 5.0.2.6

Using this guide for the internal memory/sd-card solution : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2082465

1) Open CWM Recovery

2) Go to "Advanced"

3) Select "Partition SD Card"

4) Choose your SD-ext size (I have 16GB, that is why I chose 2048MB in CWM)

5) Select "0M" Swap.

6) Wait for the procces finish.

7) Reboot.

New step, forgot to root the phone before, so I have to put update.zip on SD-card and flash it in CWM

used from this source http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1552792

reboot --> SuperUser

8) Now download Link2SD from Playstore.

9) Open Link2SD you will be prompted to choose between ext2, ext3, ext4 or FAT32.

10) First , Choose ext2. <-- this works for me (a little bit strange, because some other people said CWM usually creates ext3 2nd partition

11) It will say mount script created. Reboot your phone now.

12) Open link2sd and if the message doesn’t show up, you succeded.

13) Go to Link2sd>Settings>check the autolink.

So first sequence finished.

15) Now your SD Card is formated .

16) Place the CronMod Script on your SD Card ( data2ext-fixed file ) <--- i assume the author just means the data2ext-fixed file from this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1955422 <-- the other means the other versions lag and not support GPS

17) Open CWM again

18) Format /data /sd-ext /system

19) Mount /system

20) Flash custom rom

Now here I use the guide from Simplicity thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2041264

2) Boot in Recovery. (HOME+VOLUME UP+POWER).

3) Wipe data/reset, Wipe cache partition.

4) Then go to advanced & wipe Dalvik cache , wipe battery stats...

5) mount system/data in mount & storage menu of cwm

6) Then choose zip from sdcard & Flash. flash the custom ROM Simplicity v.3.5 SG2

Now another user "kewkie" helped me, because I was asking about this problem in the Simplicity thread, about the order sequence for installing the rom and the kernel. He said I should first flash the custom rom and then directly without a reboot the kernel and the modules and then reboot

Kernel and modules are taken from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1818830

in this thread i selected <<< Custom Kernel and Modules >>> from this source

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=68fa...#cid=68FAEF65039E2178&id=68FAEF65039E2178!287

After flashing kernel and then modules (without problem) i restart the phone

I also tried to do the steps above and also include the usual step from the "increase internal memory guide" before the restart and then reboot the phone, these steps would include the following:

21) Remount /system

22) Flash "data2ext-fixed" script.

23) Reboot

And now here is the problem, it is bricked.

So i have to do everything again.

I can't flash the Kernel before applying the custom rom, because then the custom rom (which use stock kernel) will override rafael kernel.

So it is a quite complex idea.

U ask why I want to apply the latest kernel?

First of all, shouldn't it help to reduce battery power (maybe I also got it wrong)

but on the other side, some people mentioned the problem with the increasing memory size even though I did all steps of the guides has to do with the fact that I don't have the most recent kernel.

I've done several steps of those guides already several times and I get kind of tired doing it again and again without success.

Everything was working, I could complete all steps (without the kernel update) without any problem, but then the internal memory problem would not be solved, because it is still increasing.

If someone is not believing that the internal memory is increasing even though I made all these steps, I wrote it down in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36371414&postcount=23

Hope someone can help me, I'm really desperate.