yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Sudds2003:
Thanks

Hi Virnik0,

Thank you for answering all my questions. Especially in such a detailed manner. I am confident that by following your steps i shouldnt have any issues.

Thank you again :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Strange. And for backuping, it should be possible. It really seems that you have broken filesystem, somehow. I have never faced such thing.

You should not. This howto has been proven working many times. And by the way, instead of using DeepBlue Theme included in the bundle from the first page, download updated package from DeepBlue Theme thread.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amayle:
Hi V,

Happy New Year.

I've been using your rom and deepblue theme since release and have been very happy with it, still the best on the i9000 for 2.3.4 IMO. Are you going to produce a KPS 2.3.6 rom at any stage as I've heard that this rom is particularly good.

Will you be looking at producing any for the Galaxy SII in the future as I will be upgrading my phone in a few months and would love to keep a similar look on it.

Thanks

Andy
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Hello, I am not using stock firmware anymore. It is too much work to make it run fast, stable and reliable. I have moved to MIUI ROM, which is much more fun.

For SGS2, yes, I am using SGS2 now too, and I have already made DeepBlue Theme for it. But I am still at 2.3.5 there, because I have a lot of work at my job, so less time for modding.

If you want any advice, help and so on, let me know via PM or this thread, I will gladly try to assist you, if needed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amayle:
Hi V,

Thanks for replying, I'll continue to use this rom and theme until I upgrade to the SGS2 or even the SGS3 if it is out soon then as it's perfect for me as it is.

Regards

Andy
[Galaxy S I9000 General] timmeke154:
Hi,

My phone has a I9000BUVJ3 baseband & I9000BUVJ9 kernel,

can i follow this guide for flashing other firmware?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Sure you can. Your whole firmware will be wiped off, so it does not matter what is your actual firmware. Or you can just flash MIUI, and my DeepBlue Theme for MIUI.

Just let me know if you are interested. DeepBlue Theme for MIUI has not been published yet, but it is ready and tested....

It seems that I will have to write down another howto :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] strumpfv:
Thank you dude, great!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gebazzz:
Hi,

the download link in the first post doesn't work (none of the 4 mirrors): can you point me to a working link? Thanks!

G
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Wait, you actually want to flash your SGS with Gingerbread ROM? And such old as JVQ?

This thread is discontinued in favor of other ROMs.

I am using Dark Knight 5 DeepBlue Mod ROM now...

And I will have to redo my theme for Dark Knight 6.

Send me PM if you'll need link to devel forums, where you can download stock ROM to flash from the scratch, Odin for flashing and latest DK ROM. It is ICS. I am not using Gingerbread anymore.

But if you'll insist, I can share latest JVQ themed ROM I've made almost year ago, I have it somewhere on my datastorage at home...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bujji:
Hi Virnik,

Can you share me that link. i am presently on GB rom. but my phone is not booting up. DL mode is fine. i want to wipe and go to ICS but will start from scrach. Can you please direct me?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Well, basically there are few things you have to do, to go over to ICS.

1) Root your phone and have working Recovery (use latest CF-Root for JW5 and flash via Odin)

2) Full wipe/Factory reset from CWM

3) Flash ICS ROM Zip (because you are comming from GB, first flash will semi-fail. Only ICS kernel will be flashed first time. Then you'll pull up battery, place it back and boot to cwm again. Continue by flashing again ROM Zip)

Try http://dk.nutcracker.cz

::Zip package have to be on SD Card

You can copy it there even when your phone is in CWM, search 'Mount USB Storage' menu item.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hassandx:
cant download the rom file.it says file does not exist....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hhamed:
Hi, thanks for this amazing howto. I just have one question, appreciate the help...

I have my original ROM and have Recovery mode and Download mode working but the version is <3e Do you recommend me to install the version you have here? In some other post the recommended revision is CWM, but I am unsure. I have tried to backup my current ROM using ROM Manager and it shows this error: "Failed to verify whole-file signature" which I am not sure if this is caused by Recovery mode version 3e

Thanks in advance for your help.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ansem:
hi,how can i download the I9000XXJVQ_by_Virnik.rar ? when i try i download an install file,and not the file .rar :/
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GrippingSphere:
@Virmik0

I never got the chance to thank you before (through posting). And now I'm taking this opportunity. Thank you!

I remember my first time of trying to root my SGS. Quite nervous and cautious of what might happen.

I saw your post in OP and I found it amazingly clear! It really helped me a lot.

Now i can't count how many times I've flashed a Rom already. I flash a new Rom an average of once a week.

But everytime I want to go back to GB, I always use your amazing Rom (GB 2.3.4 - I kept a copy in my hdisk).

Thanks again for a great Rom and an amazing detailed explanation of "howto". Maybe someday I will follow you on S2 which you mentioned is your current phone.

Cheers!:good::victory:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] farouk256:
galaxy s

my phone is bricked

i mistakenly installed galaxy s2 bootloader on galaxy s

now nothing appears after pressing power button

is there a way to fix it

pls help
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
1) This thread is no longer supported.

2) if you have overwritten bootloader, then try to switch your phone off, plug in JIGG, and it will boot in download mode.

3) download FULL (low) version of samsung firmware, prepare your ODIN, and reflash with "Phone bootloader update" ticked.

it will revive your phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
I am glad it helped you. I no longer support my old threads here, but I can share some of my actual work for SGS3 if you're interested. Just PM me.

This thread is no longer supported, and thus source files you are looking for inaccessible. If you'll need my help, just PM me with question. And don't forget to describe what are you trying to achieve. The I'll provide you with proper links to the needed files.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] somator:
why to hell flash old firmware while JWB is latest ????????
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GrippingSphere:
This thread is very noob friendly especially for first time rooters and first time flashing of custom Rom.

The user can then upgrade to whatever he wants to after learning from this thread.

---------- Post added at 11:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:36 PM ----------

Nice to hear from you. Glad you have SGS3 because it's probably my next phone coming next week.:):thumbup:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] paloma728:
plz provide a valid link. first link not working anymore
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
I won't provide anything, at least not regarding this topic, because you can't read.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jaagomes:
My cell brickd what to do?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] guido45:
Just read the PS and have installed Quadrant...

First time got 1670, then stopped everything and got 1925!!! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] onahum:
I think I'm using the new email app, it looks new....i tried removing the acct and re-installing it, still no go, contacts are partly synced and no calendars at all, one thing I noticed was that after the upgrade i still have some old files on the device, i thought the flashing it will remove everything
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
then use second one tip for email, which works for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] athadef21:
That is a good and clear tutorial. Plus great support in the forum from the author! Well done Virnik0
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BalloonaticFanatic:
I'm going to attempt block 2 in a few minutes. File is downloaded but having issues with my google account logging in on the 2.1-end. It's to do with my password though (saved on the old firmware, and I always forget it :rolleyes:) so going to be another delay for me, haha.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BalloonaticFanatic:
okay, first drama.

when I'm extracting I9000CXXJPK.rar it's asking for a password? :|

Edit: Wait, now that I've extracted the one file it's obvious they were both already extracted in the beggining when I opened the 1.0GB file as a whole, so why is it telling me to extract both of those files on top? confused.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Thank you

You do not need to extract this archive. It is only for failsave meassures, which means if (and it can happen sometime) main folder containing firmware itself is corrupted.

Nevermind, password for that file is "samfirmware.com" - But surely, you do not need it. trust me in this one.

Sometime WinRar supposes itself that extracting whole folder tree means that it shall extract packages inside too. Just ignore it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BalloonaticFanatic:
Okay. I'm going to give this another go then. I am more nervous now that I've had a nap, I was more in the zone with less sleep and would have done it by now :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Just calm down. No need to rush. Just calm down, take a deep breath, prepare yourself. If you follow howto step by step, you can't **** it up. ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] karapoutsoglou:
ok,i have flashed with goodbye rfs.

should i flash with this rom?

is this an official froyo?

from samsung?leaked?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SamuraiHQ:
Virnik0 - You may wish to strikethrough my link for DropBox at this present time. It seems too many people were downloading the file and they're not happy with the bandwidth LOL. Suffice to say I don't think I'll be using them again :D

In the meantime I'll look into uploading the files elsewhere with a new up-to-date Readme.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BalloonaticFanatic:
okay. i did the first install and the red text came up on the screen after the update. i clicked factory reset and then went to select yes and now theres a little android man on the screen with the exclamation point, should i be worried? :eek:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] [Ramad]:
Which first flash do you mean?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SamuraiHQ:
It sounds like you're up to this step...

As I recall correctly, after doing this, some text rolls around on the screen, but you're left with the same options as before. It's just a case of choosing the second task to do (wiping cache), before reboot.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
did you read whole howto? sure not, as I see.

To your questions:

1) You can flash safely, but after JPK flash, you will be forced to factory reset and sdcard wipe/format, because goodbye rfs rom uses different filesystem (don't worry, after JPM flash, you will install OCLF, which works similiar and will boost android's filesystem usage)

2) yes, it is official one

3) no, it is not leaked. it is full official firmware from Samsung.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
OK, I will remove that link.

You will have to boot to recovery mode again (volume up, menu, Power), and select sdcard wipe/format (internal storage reformat) too. Then do factory reset again. Then it will work. Factory reset and sdcard format may take some time.

Nothing is lost, don't worry.

If phone do not reboot itself after factory reset and writes red text again, do sdcard format, cache wipe, and again factory reset. Once Factory reset succeeds, it will reboot phone itself.

after successful reboot (JPK firmware), proceed with JPM flash.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] karapoutsoglou:
thanks for your answers.

i have read the whole walkthrough but maybe i missed some points.

what do you suggest as better?

the browser is fast coz in goodbye is laggy sometimes.

in 2.1 eclair it was superfast but with no flash.

generally is it stable?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
first to your question, do not use stock Browser. Try Dolphin HD instead. Flash can be installed from Market as a standalone package, even for stock Browser.

This firmware is rock solid, never crashed, reseted itself or anything else for me.

I am very pleased with it and I am very happy user of this firmware.

Only one glitch can be Email application, which cant make different signatures for each email account, and do not follow user defined signatures containing ENTERs (more then one text line) This glitch has been fixed by Google one week after JPM official release date by Samsung.

It can be workarounded by installing newer one (understand fresh from google git repository), see second link at the bottom of the first post.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BalloonaticFanatic:
But there isn't an option to wipe SD cache. the only options I have once I hit reboot is:

reboot system now

apply sdcard:update.zip

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

format internal sd card

I'm guessing it's wipe cache partition?

UPDATE: Did a reboot and I'm looking at the S now. I'm sure I'll get out of this mess soon hahaha

UPDATE 2: After the reboot the screen went blank and now it's ocassionaly vibrating.... again I feel like I've gone wrong here. haha :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
1) Wipe cache partition

2) Format internal sd card

3) Wipe data / Factory reset

4) Reboot

This is right order. I will update first post to be clear to everyone. If your Factory reset wrote red text, you have did this in bad order an will have to boot to recovery mode again, this time doing it right :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BalloonaticFanatic:
I definetly didn't do this in the right order. With the red text I just rebooted, got the S and now it's a blank screen with occasional vibrating. Do I just boot back into recovery and do it in this order again?

edit: I can't get the recovery mode screen back now, it just reboots when I do and then goes back to black screeen with occasional vibrating, again.... ahhh I could cry right about now :( I knew I would **** this up.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Calm down. You can't access Recovery Mode, because You have not switched your phone off. It is just cycling between off - reset - off - reset.

To be sure, remove your baterry. Count to ten, then place it back.

Then press Recovery Mode combo (Volume Up, Menu, Power, press in this order) and hold all three buttons till display lit up. Then you shall be back in the recovery menu.

To explain:

During JPK flash, boot loader has been installed. Even Factory reset or sd card wipe can't touch it, not they can change or modify it. What Factory reset do in fact is, that it actually delete all data from internal storage, and install factory selected applications itself. All of them has been flashed to the phone by Odin with the linux kernel, bootloader, and such. But without install to the internal storrage, done by Factory reset itself short after fist boot, they are unusable. And because you have ****ed Factory prep. procedure, they can't be loaded. That is why your phone resets itself in the cycles. It's system, which is intact, wants to load greeting apps, setup, and more, but it can't find them in the internal storage, which in the fact do not exist yet (only reformat creates it, and factory reset prepares it). More over, successfull power off of the phone is reached, when phone shade it's display, and shortly, once vibrate. In your case, it is just reseting itself, never shut down. It is why you can't get to the recovery. And again, it is why I am saying, that you MUST power it off. Best option is to remove baterry for a while. Then you are absolutelly sure, that phone is definitelly offline. After that, you can reboot in recovery. (damn, yes, I was newbie to the SGS flashing once too... first time I have flashed JP1 firmware - one of development version of Froyo, I had to do the same. Only thing which saved me from panic, was well rolled ganja joint, which worked as a cooling medium for my brain :-D ).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BalloonaticFanatic:
well guess whattttt.... IT WORKED!!!! Have Froyo on my phone!!! wooo woo!

I know it sounds kinda sat but the thing I got most excited for was when I went into settings on the phone and discovered all the options had different coloured icon and text, haha. I don't know why but it felt like a breath of fresh air on the phone!!!

Going to do the remaining few bits now like lagfix etc because I want to follow the entire list and do it all so I don't run into any issues. So I'm not quite done yet ;)

Quick question though, how do I make the application list do the 3D rolling wheel-type animation list like I saw in a YT video for the 2.2 demo? ? :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] [Ramad]:
Sorry to interrupt again in your thread, but I might need to correct some informations.

1.The update/upgrade to Bell firmware JH2 does install an SBL.bin (Secondary Boot Loader) and it also does install a boot.bin(Boot Loader), these two files will enbale the 3-Button Download Recovery mode(known as 3BR).

2. If the purpose of this HowTo is to flash Froyo 2.2 JPM/JP6 firmware only, then when download mode is enabled right after upgrading to JH2 a user can flash directly to JPM/JP6, JPK flash is not needed then. But if the purpose of this HowTo is to enable the disabled 3BR then flashing to Bell JH2 is all that you need and you now can flash whatever you like, But don't flash to Eclair JM1, JM2 and JM5, because they include an SBL and Boot images that will disable the download mode, so please ceep that in mind.

3. If JPK flash is a must (I still don't know why), then use 512.pit with re-partition checked, JPK will not boot completely when 803.pit is used, it will hang on the glowing "S" and the screen will turn black, the device is fine at this stage (3BR and recovery modes are working) but it will not boot to the user stat.

4. To flash from JPK to JPM/JP6 then no pit file nor re-partition is needed, just flash using Odin with tar as PDA.

PIT file (Partition Information Table) is not needed for most flashes, Odin will check the PIT on the device and then flash using the partition table that exists in the device.

I hope that can help, and wish you all good luck :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Some people can't be helped as I see :D

Once again READ THE ****ING HOWTO AS A WHOLE, DAMNIT!

To be short, RTFM!

Ok, now when we have cultural parenthesis behind us, I will continue answering your funny questions ;)

To have 3D Drawer, you need to install Launcher Pro. Buy it's full version, it is cheap. Then, in Launcher Pro settings, find option for 3D Drawer :-D

To use Launcher Pro, download Home Switcher from the Market.

Launch it, and sed Launcher Pro to be default, and press start Launcher Pro.

One another tip, because I am really nice guy: In Launcher Pro, set dock theme to Froyo Wide. It will give you five icon positions in the dock, which itself is scrollable! To get better performance, set Launcher Pro to stay in the memory in it's settings.

More over, where are you from?

I am asking, because another thing you will propably want, will be better keyboard. From Android Market, download AnySoft Keyboard, and its localization for your language. In Phone settings, disable Samsung Keyboard, and set AnySoft Keyboard to be default. Then, in AnySoft Keyboard settings, set your localization to be default, and disable original, english one (in case you are not from Great Britain, US or Australia).

AND PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE, FOLLOW ALL STEPS IN RIGHT ORDER, FOCUS ON IT!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
You are right, but only partly. As stated before, flashing directly from JH2 makes system unstable in some cases. It is proven to be like this. I still don't understand why, but it is confirmed to me by at least ten users for now. Theese users didn't flashed their SGS for the first time, so I trust them.

PIT file is not used in my howto, at least not for JPM itself, which is flashed directly without any other file, because 803 PIT was used by JPK flash, and thus JPM can use it.

both JPK and JPM itself uses 803 PIT, at least from what I know.

According my howto, user shall flash with re-partition and 803 PIT with JPK, then JPM.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BalloonaticFanatic:
Hahahahaha okay okay I am reading the whole steps. Lagfix and all the other mumble jumble done. Phone is running lovely and smooth my mother is jealous but wont let me do it to her phone ;) To be honest I would probably end up bricking hers though..

Minor problem though, and I sweaaaar I've done it all right, but when I renamed the battery file to update.zip and went down into recovery mode, the apply sdcard:apply.zip was there but when I applied it it said no such directory existed. Do I need to put it in a different part of my SD card in storage mode perhaps? How annoying, stuck on the very last bit haha!

Im a student Nurse and the most I've ever done is unlock the region on on my DVD player so pardon me for being so.... thick :D But this was a great guide and your support has been great throughout it all, you've been amazing so thanks if I hadn't said it before :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
ROFL. How can you miss another one important bit of information? Nevermind:

1) Connect your phone via USB cable to the PC in Kies mode

2) Once Kies starts, it will allow you to access Phone internal storage.

3) Phone internal storage is it's internal sdcard (note: phone have internal SD Card, and External SD Card slot. If you have placed update.zip on your external card, ie card which is placed at the slot near your SIM, you did it wrong.)

4) place update zip on the Phone memory disk accessable from the Kies

5) reboot in the recovery mode, then apply sdcard://update.zip

Now you shall be done.

PS: You are woman? Geeze.... never though that girls will be willing flash their phones :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] brack11:
Can I flash csc alone? Without other files? And what does csc do?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
You can find answer for your question here

To be short, CSC describe provider's settings. Most firmwares found here are comming with multi-csc file, which means that it is independent.

You can flash different CSC file alone, and it will factory reset your phone to the selected vendor's setup.

In this howto, we are using Central Europe CSC file, which simply means, that it will also unlock your phone, and then it can be used everywhere (mentioning under provider of your choice).

It is also possible to flash JPK with CSC from older firmware released for specific country, and then update to JPM. But I have not tried.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BalloonaticFanatic:
Yes I am a lady so what!!! I now am more wiser than 5am this morning... and have sucessfully "hacked" my £300+ phone or whatever the expression is. Hooooray!

As for the update.zip issue yes I did originally put it on external SD, put it on internal and didn't work again, felt like I was doing something blatently wrong and I knew what it was... lit a cigarette and took a good hard look, then realised I just needed to remove the .zip from the file name as it was already a zip and it worked. LMFAO. I must say the battery icon is much better so thanks for that, that was a foolish error on my behalf and I've done it before in another context.

Thanks soooooooo much for helping me with this you have been very patient and then some, because as far as this excercise has gone I have no been very patient with myself so you have been fantastic!! thank you thank you. I'm going to download launcher pro later. Are there any threads on this forum that contain any other "hacks" to add through odin on the SGS for 2.2 that I could do with on my phone? Want my phone to be performing 100% from now on I didn't realise how frustrating everything was a 2.1 until I have had 2.2 now and seen how quick it is. It's amazing!

Emily