[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fadelabu:
The history:

1. I have a spanish vodafone branded SGS I9000, I decided to root and change ROM with “Paranoid Android for the Galaxy S I9000” following the instructions I found in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2410699

2. For two days I tried to connect my phone to PC without succeeding (Drivers, Kies, Odin, Mass storage…), seemed like USB) had several problems. When I checked Hardware ID (because computer doesn’t recognize my I9000 in properties) it appears “Device Unknown”.

3. I decided to try rooting the device directly. After surfing the WEB and reading a lot, I found "Framaroot” and I installed it in the phone and rooted in SuperSU, following properly the recommendations and instructions I found.

4. Then, for I must had a custom recovery installed, I installed “ROM Manager” and tried to create the recovery, but… the phone entered Recovery 3a mode. I started to looking for a solution without Odin, directly by phone, and found "SGS kernel flasher”. I read a lot to found the correct kernel to flash and I decides for “Gingerbread-GT-I9000-XXJVO-stock-kernel+hacks” (found it in the Voodoo repository).

5.- At this point the phone entered Recovery 2a mode and I was able to use CWM Recovery and create my custom recovery. I downloaded and installed it.

6. Then it seemed to me that the phone was prepared for the ROM installation. I followed step by step the instructions from the topic (like Wipe, etc.). After that, I launched the installation of the file “pa_galaxysmtd-3.99-RC2-20130921”. The first I launched the installation the phone suddenly froze in the Semaphore screen. I searched for a solution and simply try to install it again. This time it all goes smoothly and done. The last step before using the phone was installing the “pa_gapps-full-4.3-20130917-signed” and it worked all right. I waited for the first boot, and when everything was loaded I tried the INCREDIBLE AND AMAZING work that the developer team do in this ROM… No words to explain my gratitude and respect for them…

Until now I’ve just been explaining step by step everything I did in the phone in order to provide the maximum and accurate information to the people that would like to help me…

The Problem:

7. After my completely satisfaction with the new life of my phone, I decided to try the possibility of increase the RAM… MISTAKE!... I think I didn’t read enough. I booted the phone in CWM Recovery mode (“Semaphore CWM Recovery v6.0.3.6”), use “advanced” option and then “ partition SD card” feature… I can’t remember exactly the options I chose but I think it was “512M”.

8. After this I switched on the phone but the start menu remained with the Semaphore logo. I only have access to the CWM Recovery mode, I’ve been trying all the possibilities and options in the menu, putting the files in the external or internal memory, using different wipes… and reading a lot of forums but until now it’s been impossible to solve this issue.

This is the error message:

“Installing update...

E:Error in /sdcard/update.zip (status 0)

Installation aborted”

9. I’ve tried to install Update.zip and the ROMs but without succeeding. I’ve read different posts in XDA referred to “Status 0” topic but every solution proposed requires computer connection.

Thanks in advance for any reply and anything that you can suggest to solve the issue and give life back to my useless phone… I know, it’s my fault…

I read diferent pos about Unbrick and sd card partition but My USB couldn't recognize by Heimdal or Odin... Thanks for reply.