yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
I don't mind if you ask for opinions on different roms, because I haven't listed every rom here and so there are more out there waiting to be discovered :)

However, please read the guide carefully and use it for reference - while the thread can't specifically answer which rom's for which person, its meant to point you in the right direction :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotboyburnz:
Hey guys what happened to gamerzrom?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
The last official post from their official blog was from August 26th 2013, and not for Gamerzrom.

Their Facebook page however was active right up until November 17th.

The last Gamerzrom-related information is this post in October saying their new base would be Omni instead of Cyanogenmod.

And that's all we can really dig up at this stage. They have a seperate forum, but that's related to the stuff for General Discovery devices (regional Turkish devices it seems).

Although, interestingly, there was a 4.3 build in the works, before being scrapped for Omni I guess.

They've said that they're planning something bigger than Gamerzrom, so maybe something to wait for...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotboyburnz:
Thanks for all the info bro :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klaymaniaf:
SlimKat

I think the most stable for daily use is CM stable, but I use SlimBean and SlimKat now. The RC2 is Out.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotboyburnz:
Hey soryuu , I need one last help..i need to flash a modem! I tried flashing it earlier but was getting unknown baseband...right now I am on cyanaosp v8.0 (android 4.2) with devil kernel..my ROM's baseband is xxjvt but as I live in india so i want to flash ddjv5 or ddjv7,please ..please help..thank you
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicanor Junior:
[ROM][4.2.2][UNOFFICIAL] Resurrection Remix® v4.0.7 PA.AOKP.CM :D I installed this ROM yesterday and am enjoying it very, very much
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
There was a modem thread somewhere...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shubhkirtisharma:
Just search for the kernel for cm7 and flash it. For me it worked with cm11
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tolazace:
CM 11 with Mackay Kernel SwapSD (broken emmc :/) and works great :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhngu930:
Thanks it helped me choose what governor
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] need4steer:
bluish screen - dark blue tint / hue after flashing AOSP ICS and above on GT-I9000

There's a known problem for a little amount of Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000 devices that are getting bluish screen after flashing AOSP Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.x) and above.

By bluish screen I mean that there's a dark blue color, a blue tint / hue all over the screen.

This bluish screen appears everywhere in the ROM, in the recovery, and even when charging the phone while it's off.

According to DerTeufel1980 and pawitp, this issue is caused by the updated framebuffer driver of the Nexus S in the CyanogenMod 9 kernels, and the actual problem is that some devices contain incorrect calibration data.

This issue is fixed thanks to pawitp.

We can flash this fixed CyanogenMod 11 nightly.

Any release from now on will be updated with this fix.

In addition, SferaDev announced that he will patch all of the future releases of his ROMs (OmniROM, Paranoid Android and Nameless), so we'll have other great ROMs to flash.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arhamiq:
Im flashing the resurrection remix (4.2)

Im currently on gb. So will it be ok to flash on gb and there ain't any temporary cwm?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
It wouldn't be wrong to flash some ICS rom like CM9 as step between GB and JB. It will upgrade your CWM recovery and minimize the possibility to lose the IMEI no.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
Added to OP, under the start of Chapter 2
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] need4steer:
Thanks!

I appreciate it a lot!

Though it is for a minority, I truly hope it'll save time and be help for others who are having the bluish screen issue.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banu_hashem:
THANKS

hank you for putting everythin i one place to make it esasy for us :good:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diaboliku123:
Can any1 tell me if upgrading from GB stock to stock CM11 is good? I just need a stable fluid rom.

Is it a difference between CM10 and CM11 , performance wise?

what's the most stable CM9 , CM10 and CM11 rom?

how does JB run on S?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] need4steer:
Yeah, you can upgrade from rooted stock Gingerbread to KitKat. That's what I did - I upgraded from modified rooted stock (2.3.6 201111 I9000XXJVU with CFROOT) with ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.0.5, directly to the latest CyanogenMod 11 nightly (currently cm-11-20140221-NIGHTLY-galaxysmtd.zip)

However, there is no stable KitKat yet. The latest stable version is Jelly Bean.

Mind you, I'm using CyanogenMod 11 nightly which is AOSP Kit Kat - and it's pretty stable regardless the fact it's nightly - which considered an experimental and under development release.

Go to this link to see the latest available CyanogenMod stable version, or to this link for the latest version available.

Whatever ROM you're using, make sure you're looking into the appropriate ROM's thread so you'll know the right instructions and issues for any ROM.

Use this thread's first post for links for them.

Good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
KK roms are in general stable in terms of reliability. If you mean "stable" as label, need4ster answered you well. No matter if CM11, SlimKat, OMNI Mackay, Mackay, Cyan, etc, if you install with full wipe including formatting /system, it should work fine.

On the i9000 ICS roms and KK are in general better for battery life than JB. KK is the smoothest, JB possibly bit faster than others.

If you upgrade stepwise, your IMEI will be safer. Upgrading to KK needs the newest recovery, so direct upgrade from GB may not work. CM10.2 should be step between, this upgrade will enlarge your system partition size and give you CWM recovery version higher than 6.0.4.4 with which you can flash KK roms.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] need4steer:
Thanks a lot for this information.

In my case, I upgraded from modified rooted stock (2.3.6 201111 I9000XXJVU with CFROOT) with ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.0.5, directly to the latest CyanogenMod 11 nightly (currently cm-11-20140221-NIGHTLY-galaxysmtd.zip)

I modified my previous comment accordingly.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Some new patch must has been included to CM11, it wasn't possible before. Thanks for info, [MENTION=5157668]need4steer[/MENTION] :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diaboliku123:
Thanks for all your replies.

I've used Xperia Phones in the past ( U & Z ) so I'm kinda used to flashing rom &stuff , It's the same thing on samsung devices aswell right?

At the moment the phone is not even rooted , it's just pure samsung unmodified.

I've been thinking about this : root 2.3.6 ( using google play store app ) -> flash 4.4 kernel + cwm -> flash stock cm11 rom ( since I think it's the most stable )

What should I avoid to do to NOT lose my IMEI
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
It is different, as the i9000 has no lockable bootloader and fastboot mode, but a flashing mode called download mode instead. Check my guide in this same section (also sticky one) and all is described there, root, flashing a kernel (your preferable way to get root on the i9000) as well as backup and restore of IMEI.

If you have patience to read through, you will have very clear overview what to do. Specific for the i9000 is that the kernel and recovery are always in package, so after each upgrade or flashing a different ROM, you will also find different recovery version. Therefore, nandroid backups made across different kernels/recoveries will not work and result in error/soft brick. Flashing a stock ROM would always get you out of there, tough.

I have flashed my i9000 at least about 150 times and never lost IMEI. But some people lose it quite quickly. Also I seldom had any bugs with my i9000 while I read often people to suffer from various things. It is in general good to upgrade stepwise (in order GB, ICS, JB, KK).

For downgrading it needs way around: you must mind that roms from 4.3 or later use bigger partition size of the /system. So while upgrade works good all way from 2.2 upwards (CM10.2 will warn you about it and resize your system partition) but downgrade from >4.3 isn't predicted by the developers and it is better way for example if you downgrade from KitKat to JB 4.2.2 or earlier to flash a stock GB rom with PIT file that will do proper partition size of the system. From there on, just root and upgrade is no problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
So you may notice that...

I need feedback on this - does it work? Does it not? Should I just hide the links and leave descriptions unhidden? etc etc.

If you guys don't like it, I'll happily change it back, so please give some feedback on this new format :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] need4steer:
Thanks a lot for your great effort in making this great thread even greater!

I love the new design.

One thing I'd consider is using lists in order to make it even more clear and clean.

Here is an example:

Another good way to do this is to use lists that contains numbers and letters - this way you can save some text.

Here is an example:

You even can use dots in these lists, so you have at least 3 different distinguishable levels.

BTW, I know that you're only testing how users will react to the new design, but I truly think that in this test period you should consider making the same changes to the 2nd post so the design will be unified (though alternatively it's better because this way we can compare easily the newer design to the older - and then you should post a note in the head of these threads so users will know what's going on)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
Hmmm I'll try get that working, thanks for the heads up.

With regard to the second post, I haven't done the same thing yet because I want to see if the first post works any better and also cause I'm figuring out how this will work etc etc.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diaboliku123:
[MENTION=5051515]tetakpatak[/MENTION]: Thanks for all your help!

I read your whole topic , really helpful. But I still have some questions:

1.What backups (call log/sms log/apps + data) should I avoid to transfer to 4.4 ?

2.What do you think about this order? is it ok do not lose my IMEI and get everything working smoothly on 4.4?

-Backup everything I got with Titanium Backup

-Flash latest samsung stock rom with odin v1.8.3

-Root stock rom with odin (speedmod kernel)

-Flash in CWM in order: GB CM7 -> ICS CM9 -> JB 10 -> KK CM11

-Reboot.

-Flash gapps and Titanium Backup apk -> restore everything with Titanium Backup.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
[MENTION=5057839]diaboliku123[/MENTION] Mate, I will answer you soon in my thread, as we are getting off-topic here ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Guys, there is an amazing new ICS rom for our phone! Our elite developer kasper_h has re-built his old 4.0.4 ROM and now we have Mackay CM9, that is so fast and responsive - just fantastic!

Improved new ROM, kernel nearly the same like his JB and KK kernel and it features wonderful TWRP recovery!

Follow the development here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2660668

Use the very newest 4.0.4 gapps (dec 2013) from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2294152
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
That... is quite an interesting move. Will add to OP under either Cyanogenmod-derived or Function over Form
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Yes, indeed really interesting! About week ago someone in Omni Mackay 4.4.2 thread had cried after ICS speed and responsivity that got lost with JB and KK and suddenly the developer decided to give a try with rebuilding his 4.0.4 rom.....

What a present for i9000 users!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robert2000:
SuperNexus 4.0 BUILD1.2 - FIXED 28/01

An all-day use ROM with the following drawback:

- video capture at 720p is laggy even when bigmem installed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robert2000:
Can someone tell why camera video recording (720p) is so laggy on 4.4 ?

I've tried different ROMs, different KERNELs, still the video shooting is laggy.

I'm on CM11 right now and the same problem on video (tried SUPERNEXUS 4.0 1.2 , kernels default, Mackay, Semaphore, SlimKat 4, CM11).

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
IMHO, our i9000 is bit too slow for KK roms.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
Post has been updated. Please read the changelog, I've left a bit of an important note there :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Audi22:
In my point of few is the best on the KK, below the link to the Page.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2579431

Best speed and Battery live I even had with my phone.

I started with 2.6.2

Than 4.0 - 4.1 - 4.2 - and at now 4.4.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkztar1:
i strongly recommend Greenify for those speedfreaks out there (ofcourse for the rest too), if you greenify the right apps, your phone will fly and run smooth for weeks! I got my s1 for a long time already, but only found out about greenify some months ago, and im really stunned by my phones perfomance!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enkelad:
Guys, please help me out, I need to install newer version of Android on my friends galaxy s,

Can U tell me which rom is totally functional without any bugs and good battery life,

doesn't matter if it's GB, ICS, JB, official or not, just so everything works?

He's not tech savvy so I gotta help
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
In fact all the ROMs for the i9000 work really great. If I compare it to other devices, we have awsome development level here.

For the speed and good battery life custom GB SauROM or new ICS Mackay CM9 2014 are in advantage.

You're good adviced to upgrade from stock GB, not Froyo or Eclair (to get the proper bootloader)

And best upgrade stepwise, to keep the IMEI.... (GB, ICS, JB....) actually backup it as first thing after root.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enkelad:
Tnx, i c he is still on eclair, he didn't do any.updates, now anything is barely functional on the phone. I'll try that ics rom.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
OK, then just backup all his data, flash right after that some recent stock GB rom and after that a kernel with custom recovery.

Visit my sticky thread here under Help & Troubleshooting, all is described there with download links.

After that, you can flash the custom ICS rom. After first attempt, only recovery will be updated and recovery reboot will happen. Then flash in your new recovery the ROM zip again and the gapps.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qu4nt1n:
Actually if for some reason you are satisfied with eclair, i would suggest you upgrade to GB and stick with it, since this is the only ROM that gives you optimal battery life. And if after some time you find your rom sluggish, you could try first to go into the recovery and do a wipe partition, and a wipe dalvik, to check whether it helps or not. If it does not, then you can go a step further and do a factory reset: as the name suggests your phone will feel as brand new after that!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Welcome to the XDA forum, new mate- your first post.

You have quoted wrong person (me) and posted bunch of wrong information.

IMHO it would be better to collect your first 10 posts with questions than answers.

;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qu4nt1n:
Interesting,

So here is my first question to you:

i would be glad if you could share with me why the info i just posted are wrong?!

i mean are you stating that:

you can't expect a fluidity boost just by wiping the cache partition, and dalvik of your phone?

You get worst autonomy with stock GB than any CM based custom ROMs

That it's wrong to opt for a factory reset, in any case when it comes to that, it's better to flash the phone again with odin!

i am looking forward to reading your answer
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
1.) I think this is correct though not a very efficient way of doing things in the long run especially because wiping Dalvik forces the system to recompile the executable programs every time you wipe it. If anything its a short term fix

2.) This point doesn't make sense I'm afraid, I don't understand what you're saying here

3.) It is better to factory reset, however I don't think [MENTION=5051515]tetakpatak[/MENTION] was referring to this

My information is probably old and outdated as I've retired from custom roms for the most part. So feel free to correct me if I'm wrong...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qu4nt1n:
thanks for trying your best to answer my question ;)

So i admit in my second point i talked about autonomy, when i should have used the term "battery autonomy" or stick to battery life like in my first post. In any case the question i raised was whether i was wrong when i initially stated that you get better battery life when running a Samsung firmware than any other CM custom based Rom?

Apart from that your argument regarding my first point is to say that wiping dalvik is not very efficient, well i never said it was, nor do you have to do that any other day, but what i am really interested in is: you say it is not very efficient,big deal, but as opposed to what? leaving one's phone sluggish as it is and buy another one?

I am just wondering if it is wrong to use a way that might not be "very efficient", but that can render your UI smoother? I am just saying because well do know any more efficient path that you could share with us?

One last thing, you refer to it as being a short term fix. Do you know any permanent fix?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Hm, I can bet you'll not find a single post of mine where I liked the crappy Eclair :D LOL

GB has no better life than Froyo or ICS

Please explain what "do a wipe partition" means?

...and loose all user data. Less experienced users might be grateful for that information. And they need a root/custom recovery to wipe any specific partition.

Wipe cache is in general not a bad idea on custom ROMs, but on some stock ROMs it causes bootloops. Especially i9100 users have problems with that.

This awsome thread is created by Soryuu to help less experienced users to decide something they are trying to decide. As very many people from all over the world read these threads, I just think we should provide them exclusively correct, full information.

tetakpatalked from my N7100
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qu4nt1n:
whatever man, i can see you are just in for the polemic the way you fault me with the way i say things while at the same time feigning not to understand what i am trying to say.

you rightfully noticed that i wrongly responded to one of your posts, so why on earth are you going back at it and state that when i said "if for some reason etc...." it was directed to you!?

Did Samsung ever publish an ICS firmware for the SGS i9000, i believe that the readers of this thread will have a hard time finding it. So any version of android from ics upward will have a worse battery life than GB because they are all custom roms #wrong information.

If you go into the recovery, the only option you have is "wipe cache partition", so when i wrote "wipe partition", it obviously doesn't mean that you are going to wipe an entire partition and cripple your phone, all the more so that you aren't even given that possibility in the recovery. #uselessPolemic,#hypocrisy

a factory reset does indeed wipe all your user data. It does not obviously turn your sgs into a nexus 5! => same as above

Essentially what i was advocating to the guy with a sluggish eclair on his sgs before you wrongfully came interfering with what i said is:

1/a wipe cache partition, and a wipe dalvik could help improve things,

2/a factory reset takes things a step further, but in the end you get a brand new phone,

3/but it's better to upgrade at least to the latest GB firmware.

i do not believe this to be wrong information!

i have just been trying to share my experience, you came here stating that

it was all rubbish

, although i have been making do with this for 3.5 years now without a single problem, and the worst is that you did not share A single alternative to what i was advocating, and for good reasons because there is none.#troll

I am totally done with you, dude!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
No need to get worked up over something like this... let's not blow this out of proportion

As I said, ever since I gave away the SGS I've mostly stopped custom romming so what I said is liable to be faulty - I'm open for correction.

From what I remember, 4.1+ did turn out to have worse battery life (thank you Project Butter), but custom ICS wasn't so bad with battery (though still not better than GB for obvious reasons without heavy tweaking)

Permanent fix for most people would be custom roms but you'd face the same problem (though 4.3+ has TRIM enabled by default which helps increase performance a bit) :P

For me... the S3 #shotsfired
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Yep, agree.

JB in general wasn't good for battery life, yet its UI performs bit better on the i9000 than KK, which, in contrary provides better battery life than JB, but is bit laggier.

Who likes fast device can try lightweight JB 4.3 like SlimBean, or fast new ICS Mackay 2014- its stock kernel is nearly identic like Mackay KK kernlel and uses the benefits of development experience all between ICS and KK.

tetakpatalked from my N7100
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
I also remember that JB4.2 was a mix between the worst performance and battery but maybe that was just me...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
LOL :D +1, fully agree!

BTW which device do you use now?

I attend to keep my i9000, I need at least two phones anyway (still my first choice). Sorry for off topic

tetakpatalked from my N7100
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
I use a S3 as a primary device and a Tab 10.1 as my work/entertainment device :3 my I9000 went away to a parent's friend's relative...

(I don't mind off topics too much unless they're flame wars of course)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] true_lies:
Thanks for the guide, really informative:good:. Helped me in choosing the right ROM and Kernel for a first time flash.

Currently on CM11 M5 Snapshot with Semaphore Kernel, and my SGS is reborn.

Everything running smooth for a week now. will try out other ROMs as well.

As a general question how long does it generally take for a stable build release of any ROM.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
Glad this thread could help :)

It depends on what you define as stable. Most roms except betas and those that do nightly releases can be considered stable with each update.

CM only puts out what they call their RCs and Stable builds once they're ready to move on to the next iteration of Cyanogenmod/Android.

In the end it really depends on the developer when they can release a "stable build". Most developers generally label their roms as final/stable when they're ready to move onto the next version of Android.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IceTe:
Does battery perform better on kitkat on the 9001 /s plus?

Via Tapatalk@Note2
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Better than JB but worse than ICS or GB

tetakpatalked from Nexus 7