[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] supercurio:
UPDATE statement.

As original author for this thread, videos and first demos, I'm not currently working on the Gingerbread port these days (heavily busy working on Voodoo sound improvements).

It doesn't mean I lost interest in it, only that I miss time at the moment.

CyanogenMod team work on a serious port of Gingerbread for Galaxy S, witch won't be just a technical demo like the original spirit of this one.

Of course, such goal requires a lot of work, dedication, and also some calm.

There is a lot of natural interest about Gingerbread on Galaxy S, and it's perfectly understandable too.

Giving an ETA until the porting work is done or some major advance is made would be dishonest.

It means that not asking for ETA will be appreciated. However, you're welcome discussing other aspects.

If you want more technical insights and a few updates by most actives developers for this port, i would recommend to follow:

http://twitter.com/CMSGSTeam

http://twitter.com/codeworkx

http://twitter.com/dumdidum

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Thank you!

Original post:

Galaxy S with Nexus S kernel - Booting Nexus S Android Gingerbread

Videos are here:

http://www.youtube.com/supercurioxda

Early demo Releases - V6

Requirements

You must be root on your phone

Your /data must be converted in Ext4 by Voodoo lagfix or another Ext4 lagfix.

Verizon Fascinates are not yet supported - Epic4G will require a lot more development.

You must have proceed to complete backups before

Some busybox installation is also useful for tar.

Another Important note

Be sure you have access to the download mode using the 3 buttons combination.

If you don't, it will be extremely difficult (even if in theory not impossible) to to flash another kernel back.

Steps:

1/ Download this system dump on your sdcard:

system dump archive

2/ Run these commands

adb shell
su
cd /data
mkdir gingerbread
cd gingerbread
busybox tar zxvf /sdcard/system-dump-as-root.tar.gz
busybox cp -a /efs efs
sync
reboot download

3/ unzip the attached nsonsgs.tar.zip to nsonsgs.tar

4/ flash the kernel with Odin or Heimdall - no pit - no re-partition

Watch Gingerbread boot on your phone !

How do I get back?

Everything is still in place on your phone - no harm done.

All you need to do is to flash your preferred custom (that support Ext4 obviously) Kernel back on your phone

What's about this port:

- It uses the Nexus S kernel compiled from sources

- It runs the exact /system image release, we dumped on IRC from an actual Nexus S device.

Am i French ?

Now you don't have any doubt anymore :D

Which filesystem ?

This early preview runs on Ext4. no RFS at all, the kernel don't support RFS.

Does everything work ?

Nope, but there are progresses.

Don't work: GPS / Voice / camera

Work: everything else: like sound, GL acceleration etc

Will it work ?

I think most of it will work after countless hours spent on it.

Is it flashable with Odin ?

Won't be so easy, but it's one of the goals

Do you work alone ?

Credits go the IRC channel #NSdev on freenode, and now a team formed regrouping most Captivate/Vibrant/Fascinate/I9000 developers and CyanogenMod team, with Kernel and ROM developers and also newcomers.

When will this/that work ?

The only honest answer is: there is no answer.

Please don't ask for ETA, don't pressure developers, they need peace of mind :)

Is this Open Source ?

Everything is fully published under an open source license

Latest initramfs: https://github.com/project-voodoo/nsonsgs-initramfs

Kernels: https://github.com/galaxys-kernel

Who are the actual contributors to the code?

For the kernel, you can follow works here : who / when.

https://github.com/galaxys-kernel/linux_samsung_galaxys_port/commits/galaxys-port

As it is a team work, sometimes it's not the guy who had the idea who commits the code, but still :)

Articles:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/18/samsung-galaxy-s-receives-gingerbread-port-right-from-the-nexus/

http://briefmobile.com/samsung-galaxy-s-android-2-3-gingerbread

And a lot of other ones now!

Versions:

V6

- Easy root. You only need to install Superuser app from Market.

Downloads :

Kernel you can flash with Odin / heimdall / kernel flashing apps

ClockWorkMod unsigned update.zip

V5

- Wifi semi-working (tend to crash the phone on Wifi sleep timeout)

- Calls working but no DATA for me (coolya had data, which means: erratic) - voice not tested.

- kind of laggy, but there is a lot of headroom.

- GPS working only by Wifi/Triangulation networking - No satellites.

Fantastic job by coolya who did most of the advancement, for Wifi, baseband and also OneDRAM partitions configuration. Really really awesome work.

We were so lucky the snow forced him to stay at home instead of going to work :D

This time you can really start to play with the phone, install apps, surf on the Internet all this with Gingerbread! kind of cool :)

V4

Buttons fixed thanks to the contributions of xcaliburhands, pawitp, fenfir

No need to create some directories manually anymore.

Kernel available as ClockWorkMod recovery update.zip - be sure you have access to 3 buttons !

V3

SDcard now works

- As internal storage

- As USB storage

V2

improved pre-init script and mounts:

no more insufficient space

improved dual-boot solution

faster boot

faster disk I/O

V1

initial

Edit: we started working now as a team, joining XDA forces with CyanogenMod.

Gingerbread CM is AOSP, which means the port will be the real Google experience, using clean source modified just as we need to.