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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulomario77:
Yes, it worked for me as well. Don't know if I did the same as you, I just changed some text strings inside the "root.zip" file within the package. Here is my modified version, but I haven't tested the unroot option.

Now, I tried "Eris Market Fix" but it didn't work. Any help?

Thank you all for your support.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulomario77:
Getting a decent data plan in Brazil is not just a question of how much money you're willing to spend on it; 3G coverage/bandwith in this country, at least in the city I work in (Duque de Caxias-RJ), is poor. Specifically, I work in an oil refinery and even voice call reception is poor, but at least I can watch the news during lunch break :)

OK, granted that digital TV coverage is limited as well... I agree with you that open TV sucks program-wise, but having it on your phone IS practical. When I'm on public transport (the fact that I afforded a R$1,500,00 phone doesn't mean that I won't be taking the bus or a taxi to go downtown Rio de Janeiro) I'll be able to watch a soccer game for instance.

I don't see having digital TV as an argument AGAINST a particular phone model, UNLESS the manufacturer sacrificed other features to make room for it (which doesn't seem to be tha case with the GT-I9000B).

Then again, if one would be getting a Brazilian version just for the extra TV reception, instead of an International version with much more modding/upgrading possibilities, I wouldn't think it would be a wise choice. In my case, the TV is a bonus, but I like the warranty, the pt_BR interface and the ANATEL label on it (so I can rest assured that my phone will work anywhere in Brazil, in any network... or am I being naive?).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinivius:
hi...

im from brasil too, but im using the international sgs to get paid apps i used an apk called marketaccess.. it worked for me...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsilveira:
I'm using Market Access as well and it works fine on i9000b.

The only thing I wasn't able to make work is the Gmail App. I tried dozens of different apks...

Anyone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulomario77:
Thank you man, it worked!

But perhaps I missed something: is there a way to pay for applications using a Brazilian credit card? Brazil doesn't appear on the country list. By the way, I chose T-Mobile USA in Market Access.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
Sorry, but having 2 available bands on a phone is better than having to possibly switch a carrier because you are misinformed about a product.

Ok, now I'm confused. What people mean by branded I9000's are actually T-Mobile Germany phones and stuff like that. The Vibrant/Captivate/Fascinate and other US version are separate phones. They are not considered the branded phones. They are separate phones, with separate forums on here.

You can do all of the same wrong things with the US variants and the Branded I9000's and still go into download mode for an odin flash recovery. They all function the same way when it comes to this (minus the ones without 3 button mode working, which is completely random).

The reason people do it is because they do not read enough and do not know the difference between all the phones that are talked about in these forums, much like yourself. I see a lot of people cross flashing firmwares on both sides. People with I9000's flashing captivate/vibrant roms and people with the Captivate/Vibrant flashing I9000 roms. Both end up in a brick.

It's a new thing. The new UNBRANDED I9000's are also showing with the issue. Look at all the Australian ones for instance.

ok, This explanation doesn't even deserve a response. From a technical standpoint, a locked phone that had been unlocked is now no different than a factory unlocked phone. In fact, you can relock/lock either of them in the exact same manner. It's a simple code you enter into the dialer.

As for the Iphone stuff... These are not iPhones and do not have the same problems when it comes to locking and unlocking. The SGS has the ability to be unlocked by a manufacturer code as apposed to having to hack the software.

I suggest you do a little more reading up on how everything works with these phones before you start giving misinformation as fact.

Take care.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BackfireNL:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=728754

Added a new easy method for rooting the 9000B!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richardbroder:
Hmm, I don't know how things are in Dq de Caxias, but Claro's 3G coverage in the South is very satisfactory. In Curitiba (where I live) you get 99% of 3G coverage, you only loose 3G signal (and go back to 2G) in some extreme situations, like closed elevators, underground garages and stuff like that. In the last 2 years they have also expanded their 3G signal, I travel a lot to SantaCatarina and other cities in Paraná, and you get 3G almost everywhere, even in small cities. The Internet speed is also very satisfactory, in fact, sometimes my home DSL connection gets so slow (youtube videos not streaming in real-time) that I simply disconnect the DSL modem and hook my phone as a modem... and then I get youtube streaming in real-time again ;)

Though your mileage does vary. At my work we use TIM 3G-enabled phones, and their signal is just crap. Weak 3G signal (phone switches back to 2G all the time), Internet is clearly slower then Claro, and traveling with a TIM phone means loosing 3G very easily...

About the TV feature, I wouldn't care having it in my phone if it didn't compromise anything, but the 9000B does have an antenna that uses up space (even it's retracted, it's still using up phone space), that's already a minus for me ;)

Open TV for me is simply totally useless, since I don't like soccer, I don't like novelas (lol), neither do I like any of their brainwashing 3rd-world programs, the last thing I did use to watch on open TV where the news programs, but today I use the Internet as my main source of information, so even Jornal da Globo has become obsolete for me, simply put, I simply don't watch open TV anymore, but that's just me :)

Btw, wich is the operating frequency of the 9000B? Is it 850/2100? I'm asking that because I remember the Nokia 5800 case, the variant that worked @ 850Mhz was diferent from the one that worked @ 2100Mhz, but both of them where certified by ANATEL. Depending on your operator/location, you would either receive the 850Mhz or the 2100Mhz, but you would loose your 3G reception if your operator used a diferent 3G frequency or traveled to some place where the 3G frequency changed... so having the ANATEL certification doesn't assure you of anything.

But yeah, having the original warranty really is a plus, though I don't expect to be destroying my i9000 anytime soon ;)

Saudações
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heduardo:
I live in São Luis - MA, and the reception here is crappy, i've tried every operator: Oi, Tim, Vivo and Claro. Here, vivo is by far the "less crapier" (lol). Maybe i should move to Curitiba.

And about the TV, its no really a drawback, but its the first thing people ask:

"Does it has TV?"

When i say it doesnt its funny to hear: "My ChinaPhone was way cheaper and it has." LOL
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsilveira:
Hi Backfire, thank you very much for your contributions! (the ones that are ACTUALLY worth, instead of trying to show who know more about the technicalities of cellphone networks).

I'm still looking for a way to reinstall google apps that were removed by Claro carrier, particularly gmail (all the apks I tried didn't work).

If anyone know why or have already reinstated Galaxy S' original apps, please share.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marken:
qual é sua operadora cara e qual é o problema com seu SGS?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fioda:
I've brought the same phone as you, but i want to remove all the operator customization... If anyone can help me with this, share with us...

PS: Bad english... Sorry...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsilveira:
Titanium Backup is a very good app that allows you to delete stock apps. I removed all of Claro's stuff (except for the opening screen). You'll need to Root your phone, check early threads here.

Be sure that you know what you're doing, backup everything, you'll risk deleting the wrong files.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heduardo:
Is there any way to extract the CSC from your firmware? I'd like to use the pt_BR locale, i hate the word "Contactos" ><.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsilveira:
I'm not really into programming, so if you find a way I'll be glad to exctract it for you. (I'm also interested in installing other languages to my mobile, so it can come in handy for me as well...)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
Bell Mobility Canada I9000M. Check it out......

See above.... Canada = North America. Bell Mobility Vibrant is an I9000.....

Ok, no problem. But in the future it wouldn't hurt if you followed the general understanding of the term that this forum and it's users use.

See Here. Piles of people flashing the fix to unbranded international I9000's to fix the 3 button issue.

As stated above. I am referring to the Canadian Vibrant, which is the I9000M, locked to Bell Mobility.

As I stated several times, I think you need to do a little more reading, or a geography class or something. Canada = North America. And the Canadian I9000M is the best possible phone to be used in Brazil. That or the AT&T Captivate. Both are north american phones and will function on both Brazilian UMTS/HSDPA Bands. The better phone is the bell canada phone as it can be flashed with all the same firmwares as the international I9000, but supports the correct bands for Brazil. The Captivate is stuck with the AT&T firmware for now, but once unlocked, will still function perfectly fine on ANY other network supporting it's bands.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulomario77:
Saudacoes,

Well, according to the packaging, it supports:

* HSUPA 5.76Mbps Tri-band (850/1900/2100 MHz)

* EDGE/GPRS Quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laggedHero:
Can't you do a full firmware dump with nandroid? plz....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgkahn:
well not 100% true. i have both a i9000m and i9000 and while the i9000m can be flashed with any euro f/w i did flash it with jm7 and latest jm4 modem but kept bell ugjh2 csc i still lost 850 3g.. i had to go through some hoops getting it back.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
you can modify one of the update.zip packages for i9000 or i9000m

and the zip it up again to say i9000b
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richardbroder:
Yep. And from what I've heard the opposite seems to be equally true. Someone here in the forum flashed his i9000 with Captivate firmware, obviously the phone didn't work, but when he flashed back to i9000's firmware (not changing the csc) he managed to get 850Mhz working.

It's important to note that his i9000, just like all others, didn't have 850Mhz working stock...

Apparently the 850Mhz functionality is directly related to the firmware you use, though it's not as simple as flashing a non-850Mhz device with 850Mhz and trying to get it to work. If that is true, it will be interesting to see that the non 850Mhz devices actually did have 850Mhz hardware reception onboard.

That would also explain why 850Mhz devices actually loose 850Mhz compatibility once they are flashed with non-850Mhz firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sérgio Luís:
I got my I9000 from Amazon, unblocked without having to get stucked by any kind of contract or operator.

I don´t mind if it doesn´t have a Digital TV, because I have a Samsung I6210.

I´d like to have at least the full Brazilian translation, because Portugal translation has many bugs, including many words without translation, so I´m using the English version.

Is there a way to get at least the Brazilian Swype and the full translation ?

Thanks a lot.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgkahn:
again i say bs.. no proof provided.. i read the thread... no screenshot showing 850 cdma 3g.. my guess is he had 850 gsm working.. also need a screen shot showing model number.. the firmwares i flashed on my i9000 trying this.. work perfectly on the i9000m phone and have 850 mhz 3g.. i wasnt just trying to turn it on.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexmfreitas:
Hello,

I Have a SGS I9000B too and i'm interesting in install Voodoo LagFix. In his page, they say that root my device is not necessary to install voodoo. Someone tried to install? Worked?

Sorry My English.

Thanks

Alex

Now in Portuguese:

Salve galera, eu tambem tenho um I9000B e estou pensando em instalar o voodoo lagfix, que segundo a página dos caras, não necessita do aparelho em modo root. Isso confere? Alguem já tentou instalar pra ver se funfa?

Grato,

Alex
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sérgio Luís:
Mine is:

WCDMA 2100 Band 1

Freq DL: 10612

Freq UL: 9662
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richardbroder:
Hello there. As long as you understand English (and I´ve seen you do), my opinion is that you´re better off using English as your system language. It´s not only personal, it´s also useful, since every information about the SGS you get over here is in English, having your phone in English will just leave it aligned to everybody else. That makes it easier to set configs and other things, since you won´t have to translate specific technical terms from the phone´s menu/configuration etc. Plus, we all know how Samsung´s menu translation from English to Portuguese is unpolished....

And about the writing language, well, I use QWERTY with T9 enabled with Portuguese, for me this is the fastest writing configuration, I couldn´t get used to swype. That doesn´t really matter, since qwerty-T9 and swype both use the same database from the phone´s dictionary. And although SGS´s Portuguese is from Portugal, for writing it sincerely makes no difference. I think writing is great, the standard dictionary has a lot of words, the spelling system is great, accentuation is excellent, guessing system and learning systems are also great, typing sms-messages or e-mails is just flawless in this device, Portugal Portuguese goes just as good as Brazilian Portuguese imho. Swype should be just as good...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sérgio Luís:
Thanks a lot for the tips.

I don´t mind using English version, but won´t use a buggy translated version.:D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyle katarn:
So pals...not good news for Claro Brazilians users , right ?

Im this close to pick a Galaxy S with a huge discount available for me in my plan...but I am afraid ...

1 - What exactly did Claro chopped from its GS ? The Gmail is functional ?

2 - Will be Froyo for us ? I mean, officially ?

Have anyone rooted the GS from Claro so far ? Any light at end of the tunnel in this matter ?

Android in Brazil is being a pain , despite some good news. The X10 has 1.6 ; the Milestone will get Froyo only next year , the unlocked GS is pricey as hell , no current HTC models being sold here (Magic ?)...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tgcardoso:
I'm gonna watch this topic very closely as I'm about to buy a GT I9000B here in Brazil.

Even if Samsung does not release a 2.2 version in the future, I'm sure there will be some custom roms. But will they be compatible with our version? Does anybody now this?

As far as I have seen, our kernel is very different, it's not only a matter of drivers. I remember seeing a guy who almost bricked his phony by trying to apply the Voodoo fix.

Thx,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guto ViP:
Some news about use Froyo with I900B?? Any Dev discovered the files responsable for TV Digital and Squewry Portuguese-BR??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fraknet:
The i9000B is seeling from Claro and Entel (vodafone) in Chile, i think have the same firmware of Brazil
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guto ViP:
Yep, i will buy mine today from Claro.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tgcardoso:
Guto,

If you have the choice, don't buy Claro I9000B. They have taken out a lot of apps like Gtalk and gmail and if memory serves me correctly you can't even access Android Market.

As far as I have seen, both Swype-br and TV app can be backed up using Astro file manager or Titanium Backup. Just need to confirm this.

Although I have not tested it yet, it seems Root and On Click Lag Fix can be used with no problems.

As for the Froyo update, look at this: http://twitter.com/samsungbrasil/status/25689074539

To anyone out there: It's Oficial Twitter from Samsung Brazil. They're promising to release Froyo in December.

Regards,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guto ViP:
I see, but from CLARO i will pay only R$ 590,00 to buy Galaxy S, i dunno how much i will pay if i buys on VIVO...

Can be possible use VIVO firmware or debranded Firmware in CLARO's Galaxy S???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sérgio Luís:
I hope Froyo will be released first for foreign countries than Brazil.

I have a unblocked version bought at Amazon.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tgcardoso:
Guto,

It may be possible but will not be easy to find a Vivo Firmware dump. Trust me, I've looking almost everywhere.

There's a chance you can do it by changing a registry key and using Kies. But again, I have not tested it yet.

If you can, try porting you number to Vivo ;-)

So do We friend, so do we! =]

Regards,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dimas4u:
I hav a clue

Well... maybe the update.zip has an If-then condition where it searches for Gt-i9000 and there is no i9000B (B) for the brazillian version...

So i believe if change the IF part maybe it will work...

I am a noob into android :) but i was a embedded programmer in the past...

IHTH,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dandarebr:
You will pay much more than R$590,00 but you'll be paying it in your monthly statement. I purchased an I9000 from US and now I use TIM. I pay, for my plan, R$ 100 for 400 min plus free data plus free long distance call. How much would Claro charge for a similar plan?

Abraços
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guto ViP:
I paid exactly R $ 590.00, bought the device attached to the plane of my mother and I decided to make the portability of my line of HI for LIGHT and created a plan for $ 99.00, with 80 monthly minutes (more 1,200 minutes of monthly bonuses to call phones in the same carrier), 30 or 60 torpedoes and a monthly data package of 250MB.

I think everything went well this regard. ehehehehehehe
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyle katarn:
So as long as I can see, no Galaxy S from Vivo or Claro have been rooted so far , right ?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lionheartk:
VIVO Firmware for I9000B:

http://211.189.38.84/Phone_Binary/9...ZVVJG7_I9000BVJJG8_I9000BVJJGA_VJ_ZVV.zip.enc

If someone can guess the debranded one.... post it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tgcardoso:
Nice opost, lionheartk! This file ensures us a backup should we need.

Thing is, this .inc is encrypted and need to be open before use. Have you found the encrypt key?

EDIT:

Found a little nasty program to Decrypt the file: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=773040

Can you guys help me to find the decrypt string needed?

Regards,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] betoNL:
Hallo There,

Congrats for all your posts. Very insightfull and informative.

I only disagree with the writing language thing. As a Brazilian living in Holland, I have Dutch and Brazilian friends and while I keep using English (UK) as the phone system language, when I am typing I can easily and fast swap between languages ( English - Portuguese - Dutch) just by pressing and holding the right keyboard keys, and in both input methods (Samsung keyboard or Swype)

I just would prefer when typing a sms message to a Brazilian friend to use Brazilian Portuguese instead of the European one; it's just a detail, but if it's possible, why not? I dont dont like those ilogical extra c's (correcção?) and other

Portugal stuff... really, it's weird....

Eventhough I am new to Android, I would like to add one more language. Even if I have to learn how to use the SDK tool...or maybe not; maybe I can just use a good file manager to put the file in the right folder ( wich is it, by the way?)

I have the sgs ( I bought a simlock free one, here in Holland) for 6 weeks now, and moved from eclair to Froyo JPK and the to JPH using the Kies method, following the instructions to the letter, so I am not really that experienced with (android) flashing yet, but I did spend some time with the GPS thing, and it's just great now.....

But going back to the issue, for you guys that succeeded to root the Brazilian sgs:

Any chance to make that Swype- Pt-Br file available for download?? Or dump the firmware or whatever necessary? In wich folder can I find the language files in Android ?

By the way Richard, in the beginning I found swyping a little odd, but once you get the hang of it, you wont go back....

Com toda a certeza!!

Just give it a good try and you'll see....and with swype, XT9 or word prediction settings are superfluous....

But then again, I just became a sms sender....before swype, I was only calling or emailing, never sms-ing....

Greetz

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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] betoNL:
Can I find the pt-br file here?

Tks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oozaki:
Almost bricked my SGS I9000B

I was trying to get rid of Claro's lock on my phone and without knowledge I updated my SGS to a different version that I was able to "recover" just in the download mode.

As I was unable to return to the stock firmware I got a french firmware and installed in my SGS but my "Home" button stopped to work and the system is working really slowly. (At least GMAIL and GTalk as Google Navigator is working)

But I want to return to I9000B firmware and I hope someone could help with the String code for this I9000B firmware posted above. Maybe Claro's firmware will help too because my SGS is almost unusable. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsilveira:
It is quite easy to restore Gmail and Gtalk, by simply downloading apk files from the Galaxy package and using simple unix commands to reinstall them.

What I couldn't loose was Yahoo Search Bar, but I'm looking forward to the Eclair update, it might solve many of our issues.

I reckon Claro is a sh*thole, but they do give away SGS! And having your phone working properly with your network and native language is fairly good.

There is ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM with the Android Market, it was also recently opened to paid apps. If you want apps from other countries, use Market Enabler, Market Access and such.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tgcardoso:
oozaki,

This file posted above is an encrypted one, so you should no be able to flash it directly using Odin.

As far as I see, you have only two options:

- Find the String Code which unlocks this file (The app you need is in one of my posts in this topic) and flash it or;

- Flash a stock firmware. You should find some of them on samfirmware.com.

Either way you should really be careful. Odin is kind of an unstable piece of sofware and also there is no guarantee that a stock firmware will work fully. There's always a chance you are going to have reception problems (mainly due to frequency differences), missing apps like the TV one and so on.

Regards,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lionheartk:
Hello, I also dont have gtalk and gmail, I have the galaxy package thou. Would you please explain wich apk's I need to install and those unix commands i need to type on ADB to do so? I tried to install the .apk's normally but gmail locks up when I open it.

Thanks!