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[Galaxy S I9000 General] swatsqad:
i installed the sgt tool (galaxy tweak crapware..) and tried to change the lockscreen, now the phone wont boot, stuck at gt-i9000 logo (but i can hear the intro music). i had a eclair rom (with ryanz One click lagfix), cant remember witch one. so my question is, can i still use these instructions? 3 button recovery and download modes are working. any suggestions, directions? thanks ^^ ..

wont this brick my phone again? (i had it bricked a month ago, and repaired with jtag, bad luck huh)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zox666:
Procedure in Block 2 worked perfectly for me. Thanks. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Actually, your phone is already performing more then 100% (if you count stock SGS as a 100%). To be precise, it is performing more then 180% now. Do not use Odin or other flash methods, if you really don't need them. All other usefull apps and tweaks can be done without it, in the phone itself. For example, you can change default Email App to the GIT repo fresh one, you can tweak GPS lock time, and so on. But you will not need Odin again. As you can read here, some users tried LockScreen changed theme, and how they ended? Not so good I think. So, do not risk further, be smart, young lady.

sure you can. Follow whole instruction set in the [Block 2]. Your Download Mode is working, so you can ignore [Block 1]. You will also lost all data stored in the device (I hope you have at least contacts saved to google or exported somewhere).

Because of OCLF already installed, you will also need to reformat sdcard storage after JPK flash.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] maesebit:
I finally flashed JPM and everything went smooth. ThankYou so much!

Sadly the phone doesn't get simunlocked after the flashing. So I'll have to go through another proccess for that.

Now, my Quadrant score with Voodoo 5-pre6 installed is 1492
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
strange, but I don't think it should be a problem...just find appropriate application in the Market, and unlock it yourself.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] afilopou:
Hi just a question (to make sure):

I have the PDA I9000XWJM9 PHONE I9000XXJM4 and CSC I9000OXXJM4. my download and recovery combo works. I think its ok to flash this ROM.correct?

I am with Vodafone Greece, the phone is unlocked and unbranded. If i flash the new rom am i going to have Greek keyboard and language ?(sorry for the question just a newbie).

The CSC you are using is containing the EUR . Correct?

I am going to back up my efs folder (already in my external sd card) just in case.

Thanks a lot
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jan-sgs:
What will

What do you thing there will be any changes with the official kies version of the firmware?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Yes, yes, yes, yes

You can proceed with no problem.

It is also possible to simply flash JPM directly, but I can't afford to say "yes, go for it".

Best option for you will be with following [Block 2] to the letter

And for Keyboard - Do not masturbate with Samsung Keyboard, which is useless.

After successfull flash, you can download AnySoft Keyboard and greece localization for it from the Market. It is free, and much, much better, than Samsung one.

This IS the official version of the firmware. And for Kies - well, as stated before, this IS Kies version. Only thing which deny you from update through Kies is, that JPM firmware is not compatible with all nationality modified firmwares. This is why we flash JPK firmware first, to ensure that everything will go OK.

From user's point of view, Kies' version of the same firmware will not differ from this one, because it is the same. Differences are only minor, and can't be seen by user.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] afilopou:
Thanks a lot for the quick answers :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
no problem pal :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tyxerakias:
Just a minor clarification, JPK/JPM does NOT have Greek localization, or Greek keyboard. You can of course install an alternative on top like Virnik0 says, but you will not be able to write in Greek until you do. The same applies for Swype, you have to be root and replace it with an older version that includes Greek.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
or use AnySoft Keyboard as I said, and you are done :-D

As I said, Samsung Keyboard is not so good to be horified as glorious...in fact, it was first thing I have removed from the partition.

And for root part of your message - my howto count with root access as a part user will do once JPM is flashed to the phone, so it is also not problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tyxerakias:
Sure, but my point was that this firmware does NOT include neither Greek keyboard, nor Greek Swype. It was a clarification, I didn't disagree with what you said...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
heh, I wasn't trying to offend you, and if you felt I had, I am sorry for my behaviour.

For the Swype - is there somebody who actualy use it? I have tried, and it felt very confusing to me, so I have left it unused...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tyxerakias:
You didn't offend me, don't worry :) Personally I find Swype fantastic, I can't use the normal keyboard now...but of course that's a matter of preference :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Meanwhile nobody is asking for help here at the thread, I have recieved interesting question from jwjosefy, asking for help.

He is first one, who managed to almost **** up whole process:

As I understand this, Sbl.bin and boot.bin are both already flashed to the phone, so he/she shall be safe to reboot to Download Mode again. I suppose that his/her problem came from unstable Windows install, or any other running application which interfered with the USB mass storage (modem, BT dongle, OviStore, Sony Walkman soft, etc).

I had wrote to him/her answer with such ideas, and suggesting him/her to try to reboot phone in Download Mode again, and to do the same with computer, killing all unneeded processess. In this case, he/she has nothing to loose already. I have never run in such problem.

This message shall work as a warning for others:

Even accepted as a safe procedure, anything can happen. From application interfering with Odin and it's comlink to the phone, to the Windows unstability.

Both has catastrophic ending - nice black brick.

I only Hope that Johann/jwjosefy will be lucky, and my thoughs are right. Sbl (recovery and Download mode boot loader) is already flashed, so it shall work.

Second problem: Brazil is in the Africa. This user is ****ed up his device (almost, it is not dead yet) by himself / herself, because he/she did not read whole howto properly. For example, South Africa shall use THIS firmware with THIS PIT (but except for language and keyboard selection, it does not matter in this case)

I have 0 dead score (all people following my instructions has been successfull, no dead devices till now), and I dont want to have it higher than that.

So, if you are reading this, accept the truth written with the red bold font in the first topic. IT IS REAL, IT IS DANGEROUS, AND IT CAN END UP WITH NICE BLACK BRICK.

So be cautious.

EDIT: UPDATE

So, story continues, and with good ending!

See Johann's last reply:

As it seems, problem between keyboard and chair shows up itself again...at least in this case. I am very happy for him/her, finally he/she managed to "unbrick" it as I said him/her to.

So, my dead score stays zero... :-D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jan-sgs:
Hmm

so i downloaded the files and an error came up basically it did not flash

so i removed the md5 extension and let it at .tar

now it still in download mode ad nothing is happening it has been more than 40min

should i try to unplug?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] [Ramad]:
Are you sure? :D

http://geology.com/world/south-america-satellite-image.shtml
[Galaxy S I9000 General] [Ramad]:
If you are trying to flash to JPK or JPM/JP6 then yes, you may unplug the phone, you need after that to remove the battery and try download mode again.

This happens when you have the phone connected to the PC in download mode then start Odin, Odin does not like that, so always start Odin, pick the files to flash, start download mode then plug the phone.

Don't remove the md5 extension, because the tar file might be corrupt and then you will have a bad flash, this is why the md5 extension is there, so Odin have to check the tar file before flashing.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
1) You haven't specified which error came up.

2) Did you followed each step by step from the howto?

3) *.md5 extension for theese files means, that they contain md5 checksum, and is used by Odin to check if the file is not corrupted. If you have removed it, it is your fault. Or did you found somewhere in the howto instruction that you shall remove *.md5 extension from the file?

4) Look into the Odin's log. If there is information, that Sbl.bin has been flashed and written to the device, it means that there is still chance to wake your device to life.

It simply means, that you can safely shutdown your phone, reboot it in Download Mode again, and start over.

I have written howto for noobs. What I have missed is possibility, that somebody will eventually make such foolish progress and will do some action on his/her own, without asking or confirmation if thing he/she wants to do is ok or not.

Write more info about what happened, else I can't help. I do not own crystal ball to look into.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Lol. OK, I am an Idiot in this one. I owe you and Jonnah appology, because I was wrong in this one.

Sure, Brazil is in the south America. I just misstyped continental name, and then, without checking, wrote that foolishness, with corresponding URLs to the fw itself...again without checking.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jan-sgs:
EDIT:

This happened:

android.modaco.com/content/samsung-galaxy-s-s-modaco-com/314062/odin-re-partition-hanging/#entry1351645

Ye sorry man i know to take wild risks.

i took out the checksums after nothing happened "<ID:0/005> Can't open the serial(COM) port."

now i closed odin removed the usb and i have ta black screen with a phone dotted line and ta pc icon.

bricked for good?

The thing is i will have to send it abrod to get it fixed. no samsung centres here.

me and my stupid patience.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] [Ramad]:
The phone should be fine..Take the battery out, then read my last post to you when you have posted your problem.

Good luck
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jan-sgs:
Yep in in download mode,

Trying with the original settings again

EDIT:

its flashing now, nothing like a good old f*ck up to get things working, at least you get some experience on what not to do from me
[Galaxy S I9000 General] [Ramad]:
You don't have to worry, when the download mode is working then it's almost impossible to damage the Galaxy S when flashing. But please don't flash your device to any Eclair firmwares older than JM8, please keep that in mind.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jan-sgs:
Everything great, on 2.2
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Hurrey! So finally, you have managed to finish flashing!

Good job, after all.

And as I and Ramad already told you, once Download mode works once, it shall be working forever, in case something goes wrong.

No go and take cigarette/coffee, and prepare for few last stepps, to finish whole procedure and tune it up a litte ;-)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bigdyl69:
Amazing guide! Just took the plunge and finished flashing my SGS now its back from repair (I screwed it flashing JPM but selected re-partition and killed it hehe).

Thanks to Virnik0 for such an easy guide to follow, many thanks :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aureusz:
Hi,

This was my first try, I have planned this quite nicely, I think.

But I failed it seems.

The phone is no longer starting up.

I removed the battery, waited... no avail.

It failed after the download using kies, kies told me the phone would boot back up, but it never happenned.

I mean, the download of the binaries went ok, android went into download mode and that seemed to work ok until the end, but the phone then shuts down.

What is the delay after the download is finished before it boots back up ? is it possible I removed the cable too soon ?

(I have 48 h replacement so no worries :) )
[Galaxy S I9000 General] [Ramad]:
When you have taken the battery out for 10 min. then place it back and hold Volume down + Home key and then press power button and keep holding all the three buttons, it should boot into download mode, if not, then kies did not flash it properly, but I doubt that.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Basically, it should be back in a few minutes.

But as written few posts up, if your download mode worked, you should be able to boot up the phone in the download mode yourself again, and proceed directly with JPK

1) remove baterry. count to ten

2) place baterry back

3) press download mode button combo (Volume down, Menu/Home, Power)

4) Phone should boot up in download mode

5) once download mode up, proceed directly with [Block 2]

Problem is, that Kies do not make md5sum check of downloaded firmware package, which sometimes may happen as a critical misstake (in case firmware downloaded by Kies is corrupted). Odin check firmware packages, if they contain *.md5 extension automatically.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
hell, how are you doing that you are most likely to be faster poster then me? ;)

with almost the same answer :-D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jjuraid:
still

i have done what is wrote, i still have the black screen with a vibration, i did the listed order in recovery mode exactly how it says...

should i go and flash my galaxy s one more time???
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Did Odin wrote info about successful operation after flash? If not, then you will have to repeat jpk flash again. Didn't you accidentaly forgot to tick re-partition option in Odin, before JPK flash?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jjuraid:
i did Odin flash twice actually, first time i tick re-partition, then it goes to same black screen-vibrating.

i am flashing JP6, and i have just puts the value of PIT and PDA.

in both operations, it says all thread completed!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
So you haven't followed howto, and now are you complaining? Read and follow howto! Read [Block 2]
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jjuraid:
i was a help request not a complain, i think someone has shortcut the process which i followed and suffered after, at the very first time, i meant that i did the 4 steps to fix the vibration/black screen issue which didnt work.

i will get back to you later, i did post a help request here because it seems you are so good to such.

thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
Your best option will be reflash with jpk, then jpm, according first post. Then you should be safe, and you will have latest jpm too. Follow [Block 2] of the first post for precise steps and explanation.

Most critical problem with shortcuts, especially with direct jpm flash which you have described (and failed, as I have expected) is, thath such shortcuts do not work everytime and on every previous firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BalloonaticFanatic:
Hello all, guess who's back :)

My phone is working GREAT, I just love it. Virnik0, you were right about 2.2 before I flashed my phone, I would be charmed and charmed I was ;)

I'm back wondering if my friend from overseas (USA) can do this same manual flash on his Captivate? He's desperate to use 2.2 and doesn't want to wait for forever like the rest of us did :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kaianuar:
Great How To... followed the instructions to the letter and now have 2.2 installed.

Just for reference before installing 2.2 (had JP2) my Quadrant score was 989. After installation and putting in all the fixes my score is now 1746! What more can I say :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
It depends what band frequencies is his provider using.

I am suggesting him to first unlock 3br, and then try direct flash of JPM without re-partitioning, as Ramad was speaking about before.

It may work. Once he'll got 3br, he will be able to reflash back to his actual firmware if something goes wrong.

Problem is, that american operators are using different band frequencies, and I do not know if european firmware will be able to work in usa. He have to try it out.

So answer is Yes, he can proceed with whole howto. Hardware of the phone is the same.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aureusz:
I did actually try the 10 minutes with no battery trick, replaced battery and pressed the 3 button combo.

The problem is that the phone is completely stuck, It doesn't light up at all.

I think something went wrong but I can't figure out what, the whole thing seems to be straight forward, and I thank you for this HowTo anyway. I might try the new (28/10/2010) method.

I get a new phone tomorrow morning. :)

The phone is Orange France branded.

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i9000bvjf3

i9000ftmjg2
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
did you unlocked 3 Button combo first?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aureusz:
The goal was actually to unlock 3 button combo. Flashing with Kies should have done that for me isn't it ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] brack11:
I flasheed my phone successfully following this how to, and want to say thank you. However, I didnt find Russian language in Swype so, I tried to remove it and install another version, nothing worked, neither replacement of Swype.apk and libSwype.so nor installation as stand alone software. Both were partually working - swype was in the list, installed, but whenever I choose it as input method I would get FC loop. So, I had to say goodby to JPM and using the same how to flash with JP6 which didnt have Russian swype either but I found Swype_JP6.zip somewhere in xda and extracted it into root directory. Everything working now. By the way, in my case Titanium backup restored apps AND data for a few essential to me apps. So, I found that Titanium backup restore works fine for normal simple apps like book reader or Bible or aCar, but problems occur when restoring apps related to system run, like stand alone swype.

Thank you for the excellent how to!

I have a question though: If I would want to move back to eclair would I have to check repartition in odin and add 512 pit PDA PHONE and CSC files? and then format internal sd as well as I did with JPK?

When I tried to follow your gide I had one problem with MODEM installation - the PHONE part was defined as UNKNOWN when PDA and CSC were JPM however, I solved it by flashing with sim card inside the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Darktori:
Well it looks like we have the same problem - I also wanted to unbrand my phone, using the method in first post.

I think the problem could be a corrupt download of the update from kies - the download finished suddenly with the progress bar about half way there. I feel like an idiot for continuing after that...

Anyway, I pressed continue, and it started updating, (the green robot on my phone appeared) and after w minute or so, I hearded the sound that windows makes when a USB device is removed, and a notification appeared that "my PC has to be restarted after instaling the updates", which is starnge because I didn't install any updates to windows (there were some pending to be instaled though).

So, after the USB sound, Kies informed me that everything was OK and my device should restart. It didn't. Pluging it in to the PC did nothing, even pluging to the charger didn't wake it up. A 100% brick.

So, yesterday I gave it to be repaired, and I'll probably have it back in 2 weeks. And I only had it since friday...

PS. More info: I was on Windows 7 64bit and the phone was from a provider in Poland (Play).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jan-sgs:
Hi,

i have been trying to apply the battery mod, and i tried all 3 methods nothing work

then i discovered that the root is in read only mode i cant delete or anything, u tried switching to r/w in root explorer but nothing changes and in the terminal when i push the commands i get the error read only root error.

andi ideas

i have applied the root use suggested and the voodoo lag fix not the one you suggested
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
This firmware is for EU, not Russia. For the Skype, it can be downloaded from Market. But id don't work properly, at least not for SGS.

If you want to revert back to eclair, you can use fw from samfirmares.com and follow instructions found there.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virnik0:
You have used different lag fix, so it is your problem and then you are on ypur own. Voodoo uses different kind of repartition procedure, I suppose that it is why your battery mod cant be applied. You can apply it manuaľy, you have to remount filesystem in rw access mode and.extract files from the zip yourself. At least little knowladge is needed in this case. But it is nothing I want to describe here, because any other person can try it out and brick his device. Keep in mind that this thread is focused to the howto procedure in the first post, nothing else. And I would like to keep it that way.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marty1976:
I have an issue I'd like to debug, but I need some information to help myself:

I charge my SGS (JM1) in the evening, when it's 100% full I disconnect the charger and go to bed (23:30), phone switches to airplane mode at 24:00. When I get up 8h after, my phone is off and has absolutely no battery left.

This happens every now and then, IMHO there's no app causing this (haven't installed anything lately). I can't reproduce the issue.

How would I best debug this and try to find out what's causing the battery drain?

Can I still read the battery log after a restart?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
What apps Di you have and what Firmware?

Sent from GT-I9000 Jpm OS kernel with z4mod
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marty1976:
Firmware JM1 (rooted)

Apps:

aContacts

Alchemie

aLogcat

AnDream

Angry Birds

APNDroid

AppsOrganizer

Asphalt 5

c:geo

CallTrack

Coloroid

Explorer

GC Tools

geniewidget

GeoHunter

GPS Test

handyCalc

ICD Auskunft

Jorte

K-9 Mail

Kitchen Timer

Meraki Wifi

N-TV

OpenSudoku

RTM

SGS Tools

Snowstorm

Solitaire

Stats

Terminal Emulator

Timeriffic

wetter.info

Xing
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
Don't see Amy bad apps.

You can.use sgs toolbox to see the battery usage is.

Some make the phone almost never go in powersave mode.

Sent from GT-I9000 Jpm OS kernel with z4mod
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marty1976:
Thank you so far.

I looked at the battery usage stats and saw that bluetooth was enabled for more than 7 hours (although it was disconnected). That IMHO shouldn't have completely drained the battery though...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SGSI:
I am seeing the same problem recently; the battery drains out really quickly in no time even when there are no major apps running. Even the battery usage menu shows nothing major. During this time I have noticed that the phone gets really hot and the battery indicator app shows that the battery temperature as b/w 40-50 C (its around 25-35 C when there is no issue). During this time I can't even make calls or send/receive SMS!!! Seems that it just cannot get a network signal.

There were no such issues for the last couple of months. I can't imagine an app directly or indirectly causing this.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
If an app keep the phone awake all.the time and use wifi/Bluetooth/gps it will drain the phone fast.

The only solution is to find out where the flaw is.

Personal i would backup the phone and do a complete wipe/ reset of the phone so it will be clean and like new. Then i would test to se if it drain the battery.

If it does then it is broken and need a.repair. Else i would start to intake the apps i need, but looking close what they do.

Sent from GT-I9000 Jpm OS kernel with z4mod
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marty1976:
Ex-act-ly the same for me!

I will disable all self-installed apps via pm disable and see what happens.

I'll then report back...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icejagans:
Have you installed any lagfixes recently? When I had voodoo lagfix on jg4 I would get at best 8 hours of stand by time. As soon as I flashed jpm I get 1% drain per hour