Please help me with my XXJW4. - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi ! Have tried many, many ICS and stock Roms like Mandana, Simplicity, Amestris, etc., and while I really do highly appreciate the developers, I am not still getting what really I need - until XXJW4.
Its awesome ! ICS is the best but all the BUILDS have issues and after a couple of days makes me miss the GB stability. But why does XXJW4 lags ? Day one is great but after this the phone starts lagging as if the cpu in my phone is thinking before taking any action ! I have Semaphore kernel and even when I did not have it earlier ( have come back to XXJW4 4 times from ICS ) I still had suffered in the same way. But I really then don't know in this case which stable rom should I have ? I like the Facebook syn and like the Calender and camera in GB rom but it's slow and hangs at times ! Like when I swipe lockscreen to open at times the phone ' thinks' wheather it should open or not ! Pls help ! Can anyone make any suggestions ? Thx !
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[Q] your advice on roms

Hi at all,
after several try , i m actually on a stock gb rom JV1 a bit modded by me.
everything is really nice, GPS ultra fast battery not so bad perf are good.
i had before that tryed a lot of roms, but always get issues with gps not taking signal, or things like that.
i m thinking goin back on froyo, bacause got some annoying bugs (phone lagging as hell when i use orange radio, sometimes after a tel conversation i just cannot open phone screen won't turn on, and some reboot / fc.).
The problem is i m almost happy with this rom, and because it s ginger with 3 recovery, i cannot back up it, or i don t know how.
Could you give me some advices ???
-should i got back to froyo with a CWM working to test/backup all romsuntil find one good.
-should i stay with the little issues i have until official GB rom ?
-or do you have a trick to backup up my GB, test froyo and restore it if not happy ???
Thanks at all for your experiences returns, the gps is really my problem with foryo rom, even with the stock one.
should i stay with the little issues i have until official GB rom
personally i would wait and whilst waiting read the varying GPS faqs and posts and try some of the fixes .
jje

i love cm7 but .. :(

thank you guys for your effort in this rom ,, but what i'm really missing in this rom is stock phone dialer & contacts ... and when i'm making call for some one how already in call .. didn't show me that the call is in waiting .. which i can find this feature in stock rom ... so plz try to put this things in the next update .. will appreciate it
ae_cheetos said:
thank you guys for your effort in this rom ,, but what i'm really missing in this rom is stock phone dialer & contacts ... and when i'm making call for some one how already in call .. didn't show me that the call is in waiting .. which i can find this feature in stock rom ... so plz try to put this things in the next update .. will appreciate it
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Hmm ..i just gave up at all this roms and i use official 2.3.4 rom with root acces.
Tons of this roms have too much bugs,even official results of Benchmarks are better on roms than on official i found out lots of issues somethings as lagy phone movements,sound bugs,wifi issue, and worst for me is GPS that works suck on roms.
Roms made by people are nice but bored after each installation to apply tons of patces to see if works or not.
Yes it is nice to see people working to make thinks better and i apreciate they efforts but unfortunaly roms are not very stable an functions as contacts and call apps are by far better on stock roms.
Tested for example my phone on Cyanogen Mod 7.1 that runs OC kernel at 738 Mhz,and if i install Ivona tts + Voice notify + some push apps as yahoo mail and facebook messenger ,Ivona will speack very lagy and after a wile phone will crash due of ram colaps.After gave a try to stock kernel 600 Mhz and Cyanogen with no twicks ,same issues with GPS,WIFI,lagy phone,ram colaps and lagy speach engine.I went back to stock rom 2.3.4+root acces .Event Antutu say 1600 points results,and on Cyanogen was around 2200,my phone is stable and runs faster,funny contradiction but that is ...
If you get bored of your phone you can play around with roms ,but if you want a stable phone and 100% functional use stock rom with root acces.
thanks for you replay .. i'm with you that stock rom is the stable one .. but i have a stable custom rm & i love it too (FlatzikROM_V.2) this rom has every thing also stock contacts & dialer ,, waiting call feature ...
but i liove CM7 cause it's very fast ROM with so many feutures as i told you before what i'm missing in this ROM is stock contacts & dialer ...
i don't know what's the problem to put the stock contacts & daler in this rom !!!!!!!!!!!
ae_cheetos said:
thanks for you replay .. i'm with you that stock rom is the stable one .. but i have a stable custom rm & i love it too (FlatzikROM_V.2) this rom has every thing also stock contacts & dialer ,, waiting call feature ...
but i liove CM7 cause it's very fast ROM with so many feutures as i told you before what i'm missing in this ROM is stock contacts & dialer ...
i don't know what's the problem to put the stock contacts & daler in this rom !!!!!!!!!!!
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they are base on twframwork-res.apk which is missing on cm7.
so we can't using stock contact here.
is whatsapp can be installed on cm7??
i am using cm7 music edition v1.1 but i cant install whatsapp (
i love cm7 but... T.T

To update or not xxla6

I'm on the latest stock gb.
Curious if I should update to stock isc if available for xxla6, I'm aware of the dam emmc bug , battery drain , is it worth it any actual changes to os or real functionality? Thank you
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Dear sonkameja,
I would wait. I recently returned to GB and I am waiting for a major update before I'll try again.
Greetings
c.
I have rooted, upgraded to ICS , running custom rom Criskelo with speedmod k3-3 after 3 days of purchasing the phone and have no issues with battery drain or other things. The phone is smooth like butter , no bugs , have all the GPU hardware accel, and all is looking perfect. However, it took patience, perseverance, and a lot of reading through threads by myself , as it's not just a 1 click upgrade to achieve what you desire.
Don't know about you, but I get : almost 4-4;30h of screen display time , all of it connected to wifi and browsing, checking stupid things online with an overall 15-18h "endurance time"... I mean, more of a tablet experience.
Cheers.
corcovo said:
Dear sonkameja,
I would wait. I recently returned to GB and I am waiting for a major update before I'll try again.
Greetings
c.
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I appreciate the honesty
I think I'll just my gb and install a launcher
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[Q] Gingerbread Stock Rom or Cyanogenmod 9

Hello guys
I need you help to decide either to stay to my stock gingerbread rom or root my phone and install cyanogenmod 9 on my Samsung Galaxy S GT-i9000
Please tell me which one is more stable and better to use..
Thanks in advance
Should just go with Cyanogenmod 10 Nightly. I use my phone every day and get no random reboots, stability issues or incompatible features/apps. Everything seems to work great. I can't see much of a reason to use CM9 since CM10 works so well
I moved to CM10 from XXJW4 2.6.4 and have no plans on rolling back.
sasomkd said:
Hello guys
I need you help to decide either to stay to my stock gingerbread rom or root my phone and install cyanogenmod 9 on my Samsung Galaxy S GT-i9000
Please tell me which one is more stable and better to use..
Thanks in advance
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Go with CM10! very recommended!
if you want, here there is a tutorial that shows you how to ROOT
your Galaxy s1 stock ROM 2.3.4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k274AsTleAc&feature=plcp
I've been using CM9RC2 for a few months now and it's good. I find it a lot more stable and a lot faster than stock. However, I find I miss a lot of the small things about the stock ROM that just aren't in CM. The Contacts app is poor (can't link contacts, no Facebook integration) as is the stock Calender and the default music player that comes with it is atrocious.
If you can live with those, or are willing to pay for some appropriate replacement apps then I can definitely recommend going with CM
I'm always on gb, lately JW7 gb rom, ext4 format, Semaphore 2. 7.4. Reliable and fast.
Since a week I turned on a CM10. I like a lot, it's stable but very battery drainy and no faster than my previus gb JW7.
I think GB is still the best for our poor i9000...
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I switched from Samsung GB to CM9 when it became stable mi-August (now I'm on CM9.1).
I don't plan to switch to CM10 until it is stable (or at least in RC stage) => and I hope it will become stable before 4.2 goes open source and pawitp starts working on next CM!
For me, my phone is much better with CM9: less reboots (I only had one in two months instead of one per week with GB).
My phone is generally more enjoyable: it is difficult to point specific functionnalities (there are many), but the user experience has been a big focus for Google in ICS, and the result is really great for me. I like stock applications a lot (even though contact app may indeed have less functionnalities than Touchwiz one). One the other side, I could not say if the phone is faster or not: so it your main concern is speed, the switch won't change much (unless you go with CM10 which is supposed to be faster). Main drawback for me is that MMS don't work anymore, but I guess it's a problem very specific to my case as I didn't find other people having my problem (and as I didn't use MMS a lot, I didn't take time to investigate heavily the issue).
clement.contet said:
I switched from Samsung GB to CM9 when it became stable mi-August (now I'm on CM9.1).
I don't plan to switch to CM10 until it is stable (or at least in RC stage) => and I hope it will become stable before 4.2 goes open source and pawitp starts working on next CM!
For me, my phone is much better with CM9: less reboots (I only had one in two months instead of one per week with GB).
My phone is generally more enjoyable: it is difficult to point specific functionnalities (there are many), but the user experience has been a big focus for Google in ICS, and the result is really great for me. I like stock applications a lot (even though contact app may indeed have less functionnalities than Touchwiz one). One the other side, I could not say if the phone is faster or not: so it your main concern is speed, the switch won't change much (unless you go with CM10 which is supposed to be faster). Main drawback for me is that MMS don't work anymore, but I guess it's a problem very specific to my case as I didn't find other people having my problem (and as I didn't use MMS a lot, I didn't take time to investigate heavily the issue).
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Thanks for your reply I will root my phone now and install CyanogenMod 9.1
Problem with CM9
can any body explain me I've flashed CM9 with brightside evaluation ics 4.0.4 (tablet UI)but after few day i've tried to restore it to stock ROM GB but it was stucked in Bootloop and giveing error E storage missing in recovery mode ..... Can any one help me out ... I m very much tensed Please please help me....:crying:
Just pull out the battery and then insert it after couple of minutes. Then power on while pressing 3 button combo and go to the download mode. Start Odin 1.7 in your PC and try to flash any stock gb rom.
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You need to use Odin to get gingerbread bootloader before you can flash custom gb roms
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chaddhaaman said:
can any body explain me I've flashed CM9 with brightside evaluation ics 4.0.4 (tablet UI)but after few day i've tried to restore it to stock ROM GB but it was stucked in Bootloop and giveing error E storage missing in recovery mode ..... Can any one help me out ... I m very much tensed Please please help me....:crying:
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you dont need odin but you have to flash a gb rom before you restore a gb backup (for the next time ) for now odin is the only way
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I've installed CM10 after I was on CM9 for almost 2 months and I can say my phone works much better compared to GB and CM9. Everything's much faster and much smoother.
Gingerbread with root is very nice !! But me i use Macklay Rom ( jb)
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Lucenzo7 said:
I've installed CM10 after I was on CM9 for almost 2 months and I can say my phone works much better compared to GB and CM9. Everything's much faster and much smoother.
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Are you on some of the nightlies or on a stable?

[Q] Stuck with Ginerbread 2.3.6, Slowdown. Need Help

Hi Guys,
I am a Galaxy S user. My Galaxy S was bought in Finland and still running (basically stuck with) Ginerbread 2.3.6 (I9000xxJVU). The phone's hardware is just fine (except slow GPS) but it has become paninfully slow and sometime shutting down/restarting on it's own.
Is it a good idea to reset the existing GingerBread 2.3.6 or get a different ROM?
I am a total novice and have not tried any other ROMs on it. I did some research about the alternative ROMs but there are so many options it made me really confused.
Could you guys suggest any stable and fast option for my Galaxy S i9000?
Also, if you could guide how I could migrate to that particular ROM from present Gingerbread, it would be really helpful.
Thanks in advance for your support and for this great forum.
Cheers
SKT
No reply?!
Could anyone please help?
Hi,I'm not going to be much help as I'm a noob myself but I can say I had same stock laggy gt 19000 which through like u said a lot of confusion about rooting and ROMs researching XDA and YouTube you can do it my galaxy s is like a new phone so stick with it,one tip is always stick to you model and kernel version and write things down and I hope it goes as well as it did for me. Btw I used Odin 3.1 and clockwork to root and Flashed ROM with Cm 10.1 stable.
Sent from GT-19000 CM 10.1. stable
saiko7 said:
Hi Guys,
I am a Galaxy S user. My Galaxy S was bought in Finland and still running (basically stuck with) Ginerbread 2.3.6 (I9000xxJVU). The phone's hardware is just fine (except slow GPS) but it has become paninfully slow and sometime shutting down/restarting on it's own.
Is it a good idea to reset the existing GingerBread 2.3.6 or get a different ROM?
I am a total novice and have not tried any other ROMs on it. I did some research about the alternative ROMs but there are so many options it made me really confused.
Could you guys suggest any stable and fast option for my Galaxy S i9000?
Also, if you could guide how I could migrate to that particular ROM from present Gingerbread, it would be really helpful.
Thanks in advance for your support and for this great forum.
Cheers
SKT
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if you want to stay to 2.3.6 you can just factory reset your phone
Try this
Shut your Android Galaxy S down (Power off) or remove Battery.
Now press Volume up, Home and Power together.
If the Samsung Symbol is coming up leave the Home Button.
Then there is a boot Menu
Volume Up and Down to Navigate , Home to select the chosen option. ( factory reset )
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if you want to upgrade to ICS or JB rom
root your firmware , choose the right cf-root from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788108
download ICS rom ( i suggest this one )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1687727
install it via recovery
if you want to upgrade to JB
go to development section , chose any custom rom you want
and install via recovery
push thanks :good: if i helped you
The Tox said:
if you want to stay to 2.3.6 you can just factory reset your phone
Try this
Shut your Android Galaxy S down (Power off) or remove Battery.
Now press Volume up, Home and Power together.
If the Samsung Symbol is coming up leave the Home Button.
Then there is a boot Menu
Volume Up and Down to Navigate , Home to select the chosen option. ( factory reset )
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if you want to upgrade to ICS or JB rom
root your firmware , choose the right cf-root from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788108
download ICS rom ( i suggest this one )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1687727
install it via recovery
if you want to upgrade to JB
go to development section , chose any custom rom you want
and install via recovery
push thanks :good: if i helped you
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Thank you mistrp74 and The Tox for the help.
I am still a bit confused, I cant seem to locate the right cf-root [Ginerbread 2.3.6 (I9000xxJVU)] from the thread you mentioned.
One more thing, how is your experience of running the Custom Roms, is it much better than the Samsung Firmware? Does all the function work fine?
I will need a bit of spoon feeding in the beginning for the update... as I have never tried it before and I am scared of bricking my phone.
So, please don't give up on me
saiko7 said:
Thank you mistrp74 and The Tox for the help.
I am still a bit confused, I cant seem to locate the right cf-root [Ginerbread 2.3.6 (I9000xxJVU)] from the thread you mentioned.
One more thing, how is your experience of running the Custom Roms, is it much better than the Samsung Firmware? Does all the function work fine?
I will need a bit of spoon feeding in the beginning for the update... as I have never tried it before and I am scared of bricking my phone.
So, please don't give up on me
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The right CF-Root is in the seond to last post on the first page I believe- if you can fnd the one for XXJW4, the one you need is right above it
Custom ICS/JB roms are definitely smoother in many ways, although bear in mind because stock Jelly Bean don't include them, both FM Radio and 3G video calling won't work by default (two features of stock roms, I guess AllShare is another if you use it like me). Otherwise every other function is stable and rock solid. Except for the CM10.2 builds, which are still in an initial stage, the JB roms here should have everything working fine.
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Thanks a lot guys!
I finally managed to do it.
I installed the CF-Root without any problem but RemICS-UX v1.3.1 (Team Remics) didn't load. It was stuck at the boot screen.
I thought I bricked my phone... but then I installed Ginerbread 2.3.6 (I9000xxJVU) using Odin and then installed plain vanilla ICS 4.0.3
Coming from Ginerbread 2.3.6 I find a lot of new things and the phone is also snappy and responsive... my old Galaxy S is acting almost like a new phone! So I am really happy.
Now that I am familiar with the process I am confident to tryout other ROMs...
I would like something simple, lightweight and fully-functional/bug-free.
So please let me know if there is any other better ROM I should try.
Thanks again guys!
saiko7 said:
Thanks a lot guys!
I finally managed to do it.
I installed the CF-Root without any problem but RemICS-UX v1.3.1 (Team Remics) didn't load. It was stuck at the boot screen.
I thought I bricked my phone... but then I installed Ginerbread 2.3.6 (I9000xxJVU) using Odin and then installed plain vanilla ICS 4.0.3
Coming from Ginerbread 2.3.6 I find a lot of new things and the phone is also snappy and responsive... my old Galaxy S is acting almost like a new phone! So I am really happy.
Now that I am familiar with the process I am confident to tryout other ROMs...
I would like something simple, lightweight and fully-functional/bug-free.
So please let me know if there is any other better ROM I should try.
Thanks again guys!
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Go to development section and browse thread and read members feedback , and give a try for each rom until you find your best rom
The Tox said:
Go to development section and browse thread and read members feedback , and give a try for each rom until you find your best rom
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Thanks!
Just one more question, what's your backup strategy that you guys use?
Or else it a lot of work to update each and every app... one by one... also what about the SMS, call log etc?
saiko7 said:
Thanks!
Just one more question, what's your backup strategy that you guys use?
Or else it a lot of work to update each and every app... one by one... also what about the SMS, call log etc?
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Because I'm a person who 1.) doesn't use too many apps and 2.) tries to be as economical as possible, I don't have a large amount to backup. My contacts and calendar are always through Google, and for SMS I use SMS Backup and Restore on Play Store. Call log I don't keep, because I'm not a person who really cares for call logs. I only have one other app, Colornote, and that's cloud-synced as well.
Everything else I need is in internal storage :3
Sent from my GT-P7510
saiko7 said:
Thanks!
Just one more question, what's your backup strategy that you guys use?
Or else it a lot of work to update each and every app... one by one... also what about the SMS, call log etc?
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I use G CLOUD BACKUP just for Sms and system settings
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More or less similar situation as TS
Hey guys,
Im in a more or less similar situation as the topic starter. My Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000 has gotten slow and unresponsive with time.
I would like to update to a custom ROM, and got a little curious about the Slim Bean. But I feel a little unsure about how to proceed.
I'm currently running a custom Gingerbread 2.3.3 ROM, my device is rooted. I flashed this ROM from the Froyo that came with the phone about 2 years ago. It's been so long since I flashed this, I need some directions, as Im afraid I will brick my device.
When I go to recovery mode I see it runs ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.1.3 - Voodoo lagfix.
Can I just put a Slim Bean 4.2 android version on my internal sd card and run "install zip from sdcard" in ClockwordMod? I would prefer to flash the latest stable version of Slim Bean, which would that be 4.2.2.build7-OFFICIAL?'
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Bootism
Best way to update from gb or even older to jb is imo the way over cyanogenmod.
Follow this tutorial for 10.1: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_galaxysmtd
And then you can upgrade via cwm to the very good slim bean.
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Thanks for the answer!
I recall reading about lots of issues with the lagfix and flashing ROMs. My file storage system is in ext4 instead of standard rfs, I think I should somehow undo this if I recall correct. Is this true?
Do you have an option to unlagfix in recovery?
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Yeah, I can choose "voodoo lagfix" in recovery.
It has the following options:
- disable lagfix
- enable lagfix (default)
- /system lagfix on (default)
- /system lagfix off
- debug off (default)
- debug on
Enter disable lagfix and reboot
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Ok, so I got Cyanogenmod 10.1.0 running! so far so good
Good job. Now you can flash a zip in cwm.
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Yeah, it's a whole new world opening up. Old phone runs relatively smooth, at least way better than before thanks for helping. I will stay on this Cyanogenmod for a bit and explore. Can I just flash in any of the ROMs as .zip in CWM later? I will look for a lightweight ROM for my old phone, any suggestions?

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