yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Tox:
if you want to stay to 2.3.6 you can just factory reset your phone

Try this

Shut your Android Galaxy S down (Power off) or remove Battery.

Now press Volume up, Home and Power together.

If the Samsung Symbol is coming up leave the Home Button.

Then there is a boot Menu

Volume Up and Down to Navigate , Home to select the chosen option. ( factory reset )

---------------

if you want to upgrade to ICS or JB rom

root your firmware , choose the right cf-root from this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=788108

download ICS rom ( i suggest this one )

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1687727

install it via recovery

if you want to upgrade to JB

go to development section , chose any custom rom you want

and install via recovery

push thanks :good: if i helped you
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saiko7:
Thank you mistrp74 and The Tox for the help.

I am still a bit confused, I cant seem to locate the right cf-root [Ginerbread 2.3.6 (I9000xxJVU)] from the thread you mentioned. :(

One more thing, how is your experience of running the Custom Roms, is it much better than the Samsung Firmware? Does all the function work fine?

I will need a bit of spoon feeding in the beginning for the update... as I have never tried it before and I am scared of bricking my phone.

So, please don't give up on me :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
The right CF-Root is in the seond to last post on the first page I believe- if you can fnd the one for XXJW4, the one you need is right above it

Custom ICS/JB roms are definitely smoother in many ways, although bear in mind because stock Jelly Bean don't include them, both FM Radio and 3G video calling won't work by default (two features of stock roms, I guess AllShare is another if you use it like me). Otherwise every other function is stable and rock solid. Except for the CM10.2 builds, which are still in an initial stage, the JB roms here should have everything working fine.

Sent from my GT-P7510
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saiko7:
Thanks a lot guys!

I finally managed to do it.

I installed the CF-Root without any problem but RemICS-UX v1.3.1 (Team Remics) didn't load. It was stuck at the boot screen.

I thought I bricked my phone... but then I installed Ginerbread 2.3.6 (I9000xxJVU) using Odin and then installed plain vanilla ICS 4.0.3

Coming from Ginerbread 2.3.6 I find a lot of new things and the phone is also snappy and responsive... my old Galaxy S is acting almost like a new phone! So I am really happy.

Now that I am familiar with the process I am confident to tryout other ROMs...

I would like something simple, lightweight and fully-functional/bug-free.

So please let me know if there is any other better ROM I should try.

Thanks again guys!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Tox:
Go to development section and browse thread and read members feedback , and give a try for each rom until you find your best rom :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saiko7:
Thanks!

Just one more question, what's your backup strategy that you guys use?

Or else it a lot of work to update each and every app... one by one... also what about the SMS, call log etc?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
Because I'm a person who 1.) doesn't use too many apps and 2.) tries to be as economical as possible, I don't have a large amount to backup. My contacts and calendar are always through Google, and for SMS I use SMS Backup and Restore on Play Store. Call log I don't keep, because I'm not a person who really cares for call logs. I only have one other app, Colornote, and that's cloud-synced as well.

Everything else I need is in internal storage :3

Sent from my GT-P7510
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Tox:
I use G CLOUD BACKUP just for Sms and system settings
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bootism:
More or less similar situation as TS

Hey guys,

Im in a more or less similar situation as the topic starter. My Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000 has gotten slow and unresponsive with time.

I would like to update to a custom ROM, and got a little curious about the Slim Bean. But I feel a little unsure about how to proceed.

I'm currently running a custom Gingerbread 2.3.3 ROM, my device is rooted. I flashed this ROM from the Froyo that came with the phone about 2 years ago. It's been so long since I flashed this, I need some directions, as Im afraid I will brick my device.

When I go to recovery mode I see it runs ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.1.3 - Voodoo lagfix.

Can I just put a Slim Bean 4.2 android version on my internal sd card and run "install zip from sdcard" in ClockwordMod? I would prefer to flash the latest stable version of Slim Bean, which would that be 4.2.2.build7-OFFICIAL?'

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Bootism
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Best way to update from gb or even older to jb is imo the way over cyanogenmod.

Follow this tutorial for 10.1: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_galaxysmtd

And then you can upgrade via cwm to the very good slim bean.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bootism:
Thanks for the answer!

I recall reading about lots of issues with the lagfix and flashing ROMs. My file storage system is in ext4 instead of standard rfs, I think I should somehow undo this if I recall correct. Is this true?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Do you have an option to unlagfix in recovery?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bootism:
Yeah, I can choose "voodoo lagfix" in recovery.

It has the following options:

- disable lagfix

- enable lagfix (default)

- /system lagfix on (default)

- /system lagfix off

- debug off (default)

- debug on
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Enter disable lagfix and reboot
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bootism:
Ok, so I got Cyanogenmod 10.1.0 running! so far so good :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Good job. Now you can flash a zip in cwm.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bootism:
Yeah, it's a whole new world opening up. Old phone runs relatively smooth, at least way better than before :) thanks for helping. I will stay on this Cyanogenmod for a bit and explore. Can I just flash in any of the ROMs as .zip in CWM later? I will look for a lightweight ROM for my old phone, any suggestions?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
im using slimbean (http://slimroms.net/index.php/downloads/dlsearch/viewcategory/402-galaxysmtd). Its stable and compared to other roms pretty smooth. Just do a backup before, wipe data/factory reset and format /system before flashing.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] medovici:
or try carbon rom(unofficial by aways) with devil kernel....lot of free ram,very fast and stable. and feature packed.awesome rom
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I have it on my tab. Is it running good on the old sgs?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] medovici:
Like a charm:) p.s. i have it on my tab2 too:)...but somehow i like it more on my "old" SGS:))
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loiphin:
Hey all,

Never thought I would say this, but I am REALLY happy with with my HTC One, after being an iPhoner for the past 5 years. Sure it has some minor niggles, but I am really pleased with it. And I love the fact that I can easily tinker with it.

My only concern is will the HTC One support Android 5.0 when it comes out? I have read horror stories of HTC discontinuing support for some of their phones after less than 18 months!

(My first post since joining seven years ago! This brings new meaning to lurker :)

Thanks,

loiphin.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .vermilion:
Congratulations to your decision to come to Android :)

Android 5.0 isn't even announced so why bothering about it yet? :D

18 months is pretty long to support a device xD HTC is producing many phones per year, we can't force them to support every phone until eternity ;) Besides that it's not very economically for business.

You can root and flash your phone to have the newest versions when official support ended.

Sent from my HTC One
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 99piotrek:
R U really planning to use this phone more than 18-24 months?

im looking forward to the "NEXT" HTC ONE :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matt:
Most people here probably get a new phone every 6 months or so, so 18 months is plenty of time :D
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .vermilion:
I used my desire for 3 1/2 years and plan to use the One that long too ;) But still (to OP): You can't ask for supporting a device for that long.

Sent from my HTC One
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllAboutTheCore:
I'm a previous iPhone user and tbh Apple aren't much different. You get 2, maybe 3 years of support before you start getting no update support or you lose half of the new features anyway because they aren't compatible with older devices so it really isn't much different with HTC ... The worst IMO for support are Sony. I had an Xperia Ray and they promised at least 2 years support at the time I purchased it and it received 1 update and it's stuck on 4.0.3 I believe to this day.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .vermilion:
I'm not well-known to iPhones but you won't get 2 or 3 years official support (= updates) at HTC or any other manufacturer ;)

I remember the time with my HTC Desire (bought it unbranded), which was a flagship long time ago xD (2010). I bought it immediately when released with Eclair 2.1. It was updated to Froyo 2.2 and everybody was happy :D HTC promised an update to Gingerbread 2.3 but then cancelled this plan. Because of very annoyed customers they rolled out Gingerbread 2.3, but left out many features (as of less internal memory) and recommended the update only to developers (it was not accessible through software update function on the phone). The Desire was THE phone but only got this amount of support (I guess it was one year?) ... So we can't expect much more for HTC One ;)

Sent from my HTC One
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iElvis:
18-24 months seems about typical for HTC. It's worse if you're on a US carrier; they tend to abandon you after 18 months at best. I got a One XL on AT&T last May, and as far as I know, it's not getting 4.2 (mine is actually dead, but the update doesn't appear to be coming anyway).

Apple supports its phones longer, but its a bit deceptive since they don't give older phones all the features of the latest one. So you'll be on the newest version number but won't really have a complete update. With Android, you usually get everything, which is why older handset stop getting updated sooner.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cresp0:
You won't have to worry about software-related support if you learn how to root your phone. I had an iPhone for a few years myself before jumping to Android with the One, and I couldn't be happier. Fantastic phone.

Learning to root can seem daunting at first (actually, it IS daunting at first :cyclops: ), but it is so, so, so worth it. Not having to depend on the carriers or the factory for the latest updates is a great feeling.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xbiggyl:
First of all, if you are someone who enjoys tinkering with phones and gadgets(in other words a geek) you are going to have a blast now that you're on htc/android. The opportunities are endless. And one additional thing, you are in the right place(XDA) for doing that.

Second, I dunno about you but in my country android phones come cheaper than the latest iPhone in stores(even the flagships). So upgrading phones every year or so is a common not-too-expensive thing for android folks.

Welcome to the community and enjoy your One!

:)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biohaz55:
If android 5 is released September/October as rumours suggest then we may well see it from HTC for the 'One'

One thing I can guarantee though is that the guys here on XDA will certainly be building roms on 5
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shopsdesire:
If you can think of something u want the one to do or b like chances it's been thought of these aren't iPhones android is run by people or devs for each Rom. Once u learn how to flash rims and kernels updates will b a thing of the past

Viper121,.elemental it's mental.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonny68:
I've no plans to get another phone until next year at least, I'm extremely happy with my One like no other phone.

KLP - Key Lime Pie should be released this year so I'd highly imagine HTC will upgrade their flagship phone to it but I'll just have a custom ROM anyway way before any official HTC One is released so not applicable to me
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spitfire2425:
Even if we aren't supported by HTC, that doesn't mean all the devs will have up and left us. Someone will port Android 5.0 and maybe even more. We will definitely get many aosp ports and a few newer sense versions. Don't worry about that.

Sent from my HTC One
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllAboutTheCore:
I said 2-3 years, tops, 18-24 months for the One really isn't that much less that 2 years is it? :rolleyes::)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] avimonina:
hi

I have JAM ver 1.03.153 ita & version rom 1.03.04.ita

how can i upgrade to english version

AVI
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snakemetal:
Hi

I decided to try one of the leaked 4.2.2 roms for my Samsung galaxy S3

I made a nandroid backup in CMW recovery before doing so

Flashed the rom and all worked ok but would not connect to my network (EE/Orange UK)

I tried another custom rom same story

Ok so i thought i better recover my nanroid recovery

booted into CMW and it cant mount the SD card

So i used S3 Toolkitv7 to download a stock rom and flash via odim

Again stock rom will not connect to EE/orange

So now im truely stuck

Help
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinsb:
Did you make sure you backed up your efs partition?

What is your IMEI showing (DON'T PUT THE WHOLE NUMBER, only the first 7 digits)

IMEI is in Settings --> Device --> Status
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snakemetal:
Hi

No i didnt back that up it wasn't an option i remember seeing in the CWM backup

The IMEI just says unknown
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinsb:
If your IMEI is unknown that's why you're not registering on the network and with no efs backup that's a problem.

Who did you buy the phone from?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snakemetal:
I bought the phone from Phones 4 U in the UK
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinsb:
You could try ringing them and tell them it happened during a kies update and see if they'll repair it under warranty, else whereabouts in the country are you?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snakemetal:
Ive flashed another stock rom and its now showing a IMEI number

0049990

But still will not register on any network

So have i bricked my phone?

i still have the nandroid backup on my pc
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinsb:
See my previous reply.

0049990 is a generic IMEI if your efs gets deleted/corrupted..it won't register on the network.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snakemetal:
Does the nandroid backup not contain this information?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
NO

But if you did not backup EFS folder .

you can try a restore of Nandroid .

Fails try flash stock rom via Odin .

Fails its a paid for service repair .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snakemetal:
Yes they all failed :(

My EMEI number is written on the phone is there no software i can get to rewrite it?

Who can i pay?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
A service centre .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jae1512:
Hi if you flash your phone back to stock firmware the original firmware you got with the phone then take it back to phones 4 u and just say i rebooted my phone and now my imei has changed and they should repair it for free or give you a replacement if its new they should just replace it
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snakemetal:
Im going to try that

Any idea what stock firmware Orange/EE use

Ive had a look and can see a orange and a UK generic stock rom but i dont remember my phone coming with any orange branding

which make me think as they changed to EE they might of used generic

If i guess wrong im sure they will know
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snakemetal:
I flashed EE stock firmware and also followed the guide on this site for resetting the yellow triangle

Sent it back to Phones 4 you they had it for nearly 1 month

But got it back fixed and done under warranty

Next job to backup the IMEI
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trashkutys:
You couldve just flash Mg4 baseband, because your efs partition was changed. Because the latest MG4 baseband does that. Read Efs /IMEI sticky in general section.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mooshok:
Hi Guys

I Have a Samsung Galaxy S4

Two Days Ago When i Updated it whit internet Not whit Odin

It Goes Off and wont turn on

and it don't go to downloading mode or recovery mode

doing nothing , it's dead

how can i fixed it?

please help me
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
Pull the battery, wait 30 sconds. If you have a Jig insert it in the phone`s usb port to get into download mode. If not press volume down and the power button and you will get into downloadmode and then flash a stock rom with Odin. See item 1 and 2 of my signature.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mooshok:
It's Not Working !

nothing happend
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mooshok:
Hello???

Some One Help Me
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twisted_twice:
Is it a I9500 or a I9505? what and where did you download the firmware?

Is your pone rooted or stock?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oniyuri:
Did this happen after using Kies? If it did (and you weren't rooted), you could either take it back to the store where you purchased it or get in touch with Samsung for a warranty repair.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyber71khan:
pull of battery -->plug usb jig --> pull battery --> download mode --> unplug usbjig --> odin flash stock firmware
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mooshok:
It's I9500

and it was self downloading , didnt update it
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oniyuri:
...sounds like an OTA bricked your phone. If that's the case (and you don't have a jig), you've definitely need to take it back to where you got it.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Obagleyfreer:
A totally legit brick by the sounds of it.

Take it to service for fix or replace. Easy
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 007math:
Hi, I am currently running the latest MeanBean and I decided to try AOSP out one day. I am S-ON so I installed the Rom zip and then used fastboot to install the boot.img in my rom zip. I booted up the phone, but I get stuck at the CM boot animation screen (it just keeps on spinning). Anyone know how I can fix this? I can't go S-OFF at the moment since that would require reprovisioning and I'm travelling internationally right now. Thanks!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] :
You have to flash the kernel separately.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] a senile fungus:
He did flash the kernel separately using fast boot.

Try restoring your backup that you surely made, then using flashimageGUI from market to flash boot image while running sense ROM, then immediately flash CM
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Magnum_Enforcer:
View attachment 2155548

Seriously, S-off makes life with this phone so much easier. I understand you're traveling at the moment, but you need to look into it once you get back home:cool:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 007math:
Thanks guys, I'll try the market app to flash the kernel and see how that goes. I'm going S-Off as soon as I get back to the states, don't worry :D
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Threevo:
Did it work?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 007math:
It did not sadly. I'm just going to go S-OFF and flash.
[General Questions and Answers] saqawat:
i flashed with a custom rom called "canva4" created by mr.abhishek. everything works fine except camera. there he already defined that there is an bug related to camera which is "dark back camera". so i want to know how to fix that if there is any chance.. please any help would be appreciated. thanks -saqawat
[LG Optimus 2x] milindchitale:
My question is : for the O2X,

Are all the Cyanogenmod 10.x development versions (official ) based on the old bootloader only or are there new bootloader official versions also?

thanks in advance
[LG Optimus 2x] rugglez:
All official versions are for old bootloader only
[LG Optimus 2x] Kinimod01:
In the development section is a CM10.1 unofficial version which can be used for the old OR new boatloader. tonyp T build http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2265329

This version is pretty close to the latest CM10.1 nightlies and it solves some BUGs which are on the old boot loader official CM 10.1 version.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vikas Rao:
I was running TWRP with the franco kernel and stock rom on my nexus 4 4.2.2. When I got my OTA update notification, I did the needful and reverted back to stock rom and un rooted the phone using wugs root kit. Like wise the update was successful and I went about restoring all the backup's i created using wugs root kit 1.6.4.

Now the issue is after all this when I went about rooting the thus phone, I faced horrors for which I couldn't find exact answers on this forum. I want to flash TWRP 2.6 and to do that I went into fastboot and tried to flash it, but i keep getting an error saying "cannot load recovery.img: No error. And when I do try into get into the stock recovery then I get an image of fallen droid with a red exclamation mark and a message saying "No Command". Can anyone tell me what is the issue and how can i fix/workaround it..

Thank You:good:

EDIT: when I get the no command "fallen android" when i select recovery from the bootloader on pressing power+vol up does give me acces to the stock recovery. But even on using wug's 1.6.6 root kit I'm unable to root the device and install a custom recovery
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hogyoku:
Have you tried redownloading twrp seems like a bad download?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vikas Rao:
Tried Twrp, CWM and stock recovery too!! No luck, Still can't access recovery!

PS I tried to flash recovery buy using wug nrt which has not still been updated for JB 4.3 to begin with that is, later used fastboot
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hogyoku:
I would try to flash the full stock google image with fastboot and see what happens ?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
Using fastboot to flash the recovery definitely works as I've done it, just have to make sure you use the right command:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Make sure you're using the correct filename of the recovery image you have, I prefer to rename mine recovery.img so I can't get it wrong. Also make sure you're not putting recovery.img.img - sounds silly but people do do it!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdamLC:
I also did it this morning, works fine :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vikas Rao:
Nope did the same thing! gives me the cannot load error, I just copy pasted the filename so can't go wrong there. And a stock rom flash is an option but the thing is i don't have a custom recovery nor root access for titanium backup :( don't wanna spend time again personalizing. I'm sure there is a simpler way.