[Galaxy S I9000 General] djmichaelb:
Thanks Virnik0 for the great post.

Normally I wouldn't write to the forums, however in your post you specifically mention we should ask if we have questions so here goes:

I have an sim-unlocked Australian i9000 that can 3BR and last night performed your upgrade line by line from the pre installed Froyo to Gingerbread. The only non-stock thing done to the phone in the past was to add OCLF and Superuser apps.

Everything went smoothly in the install up until the step adding FuguApp. At first I had trouble getting onto the market but a bit of XDA searching revealed that hitting the home button quickly whilst loading the market app will reveal the EULA and then it was working. I paid for Fuguapp on the store, however every single time I try to start the app it crashed (fuguapp stopped unexpectedly) and had to be forced closed.

The red fugu fish was on the start up screen every time I reboot, however it simply would not let me start the app under any circumstances (every time I start the phone my Handcent sms app also crashed in the new OS on startup). After rechecking your steps roughly 10 times and making sure I was doing absolutely everything by the book (I'm very meticulous) I decide to skip that step and install 04_zImage-Ultra to continue with the steps hoping that skipping the EXT2 step won't be a huge issue. Once I did that my phone would completely freeze on the Fugu fish loading screen.

Panicking after waiting a good 40 minutes with the phone not loading and thinking I must have bricked my phone I booted the phone into Download mode and started the steps again from point 1. However this time I stopped doing the steps at point 22. So I installed the deep blue theme and then left it there.

So now I am running Gingerbread with no speed hacks or fugumod. Here are the things I now notice:

Phone doesn't allow a PIN for the lock screen. Trying to enable any PIN, Pattern or Password lock simply has no effect and you always get a swype to unlock screen

Using the power button to lock the phone sometimes causes the phone to switch off completely (crash?)

FuguApp will still not run and I've had to uninstall Handcent SMS app as it crashes everytime I turn the phone on.

Front facing camera can be activated during camera use, however it is "very" broken, image is heavily distorted and wrong

Many other general bugs or annoyances including volume during alarm being very soft, strange WiFi with red Alert icon appearing in notification area from time to time, using Maps app results in "Network Failure" warning and no maps running.

My question is this: whilst you obviously take no responsibility for the results has anyone else experienced this problem and not been able to complete the install, or having similar issues with this version and...

secondly, as the phone will not be recognised by Kies now, what is the easiest way to go back to my original OS as supplied at factory with original Theme?

I like the phone and would hate to have to send it off for repair and it seems so many other people could get this running fine on their systems... so I'm hoping there is something I can do to repair the phone to working order, preferrably on Gingerbread, but failing that simply on Froyo again???

Thanks for your time.

Mike.