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Rooting SGS

Okay, first I tried to root my galaxy s but fun know what I do, broke my motherboard, luckily it was still under warranty and got it fixed for $50, but I still want to root my SGS but afraid that if I root again, my motherboard would break again.
Samsung galaxy s
Firmware DXJV9
Gingerbread
If there is way to root my SGS with a 100% chance of working please post below.
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First of all I'd come off that firmware version as that's your network providers version....flash JVK, JVQ, JVP, JVH any of them...then rooting will be easier....you need Odin, and your chosen kernel. First flash one of the firmwares above using Odin (theirs loads of tutorials on YouTube) then once done boot into download mode vol down + home + power, connect to computer, open Odin, their should be a yellow box to let you know your phone has been recognised, then in the PDA box, put your chosen kernel in and click start....done, make sure its a kernel for gingerbread and not CM7, froyo or something ok??
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Yeah. That's exactly what caused my motherboard to break
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Why don't you just read the sticky on rooting and flashing in the development section - then you won't need to post here.
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can you give me the link as i can't find it

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Bricked Phone, Help!

Well, here's the history how I got my phone Samsung Galaxy S I9000 bricked.
5 months ago, I rooted my phone with One Click Lag Fix, and recently it's starting to force closing my apps, so I decided to factory reset my phone.
After that, my phone nows only boot into the splash screen, and vibrates once, and then twice ( I think it means force close.)
Any help would be nice. Help! I really need to get my phone fix.

You need to download Odin and any gingerbread or froyo rom you please, and flash with Odin, would you like me to explain how??
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...I'd suggest Clockwork instead w/busy box...
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...I'd suggest Clockwork instead w/busy box...
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That wouldn't do anything, from the sounds of it his bootloader is corrupt, he needs to go back to basics and restart dude
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djice000 said:
That wouldn't do anything, from the sounds of it his bootloader is corrupt, he needs to go back to basics and restart dude
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unbrick with the JIG method !!

Core_Master_ROM said:
unbrick with the JIG method !!
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Its not bricked....his bootloader is corrupt
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djice000 said:
You need to download Odin and any gingerbread or froyo rom you please, and flash with Odin, would you like me to explain how??
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Yes I would love you to help me explain.
I have no experince in odin... So it's going to be a hard time explaining to me.
But if you managed to fix my phone. It'll be HEAVENS!

Bump due to that my phone isn't fixed yet.
HELP!!

OK: Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102881#14273114
Download Odin, pick a stock firmware for your region (for now try to match it to froyo 2.2 (or 2.2.1) or GB 2.3.3 (or 2.3.4).
Follow the guides on the linked thread, reflash (I'd try without repartitioning to start), test.
follow up with any questions or problems once you look and try the stuff linked.
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help please

k so my phone i9000m was recently running a mod version of gingerbread which made it a i9000. I wanted to get the real version which is out for bell. anyway long story short stuck in download mode and need a file to plug into odin and have my phone working running any bell issued firmware.

Hi, here is a link to ramads thread for stock roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102881
[Firmwares]Stock I9000 and I9000M Firmwares collection [Latest: XWJVN, UGKG3, DDJV9]
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do you have any recomendations on which rom to use?
trying now with ugkc1 and odin stuck at param.lfs

Sure, if you want a clean customrom i recomend surface by sam. Its a lot of other nice roms, but i like that one
I,m on stock jvr rom for the time, only cfroot to remove som samsung stuff.
And it's really good
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Thanks
Checking it out now!

If you want to go to the stock, go to the thread by ramad mentionned above and flash UGKG3, it's the latest and greatest stock bell firmware, as well as being rooted and deodexed. I'm running it now, works great.
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Ok ill take a look at that too. How long have you been running that on your phone? Will I be able to update my phone in the future via kies if I wanted to?
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You can update using kies, it's detected and read by the kies client. I've been running it for a few weeks, never a single problem. It has busybox 1.19 installed in the bin folder, but you can just install an older one to sbin or xbin if you really need to. I really recommend it, I had a lot of trouble trying to root the stock 2.2.3 on my own.
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Galaxy s gt i9000 ics rom

Hey guys im trying to.put ics on my phone but not.having much luck lol am not very good at this lol any help would be great my phone is rooted its on 2.2.1 at the minute just really want ics on it please help me pleeeaaaasssseeeee
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scouse83 said:
Hey guys im trying to.put ics on my phone but not.having much luck lol am not very good at this lol any help would be great my phone is rooted its on 2.2.1 at the minute just really want ics on it please help me pleeeaaaasssseeeee
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You need to be on Gingerbread first before you can flash your phone with an ICS ROM. The following web site gives an easy step by step tutorial plus download links to get ICS on your SGS.
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/android-4-0-4-rom-galaxy-s/
Ray.

or get 2.3.x updated from kies , than root it and then do cyan9 , its best. worked like charm. just read the instructions and follow it.

Kies says am upto date with latest software can i get gingerbread without kies?
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You can update your device till 2.3.6.
Unfortunatelly I only have a german page with the explanation.
Actual firmware you find here for example: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1570488
I think in this thread the users could help you.

Yes, using the Odin. Look here:
w*w*w.theandroidsoul.com/galaxy-s-gets-android-4-0-based-aokp-rom/
For install ICS, you need first install a GB 2.3.6 rooted, look here :
w*w*w.theandroidsoul.com/xxjvu/
end enjoy.
Atencion, take very carefull in this journey. Read all with very carefull.
Sorry for my poor english.

BEWARE: You are coming from Froyo - so you have to flash an android version that includes a socalled "bootloader" (some versions don't include that, as far as I know).
Reed carefully first before flashing.

Thanks guys I did it through Odin now on 4.0 whoooooo lol
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[Q] Captivate won't enter download mode...

First time posting on Xda, but i've been browsing for awhile, nothing helped my scenario so I'm gonna post about it;
So recently I got a used Captivate I896 on ROGERS from my friend as he wasn't using it. Nothing was wrong with it, worked fine and I got the captivate when it had 2.2 stock FROYO. Through a bit of research and a different friend informing me, I figured out I could update it to stock 2.3.3 on rogers through Kies which I did. Everything was going well, phone did everything I needed it to on Gingerbread. Then... The same friend who told me about updating to 2.3.3, started talking to me about roms and rooting, this is when I found out about Xda. So for awhile I was looking into roms and trying to find a decent ICS rom to put on to my cappy as I saw countless videos on youtube and threads here on Xda of people running ICS with few problems. So... with my friend's help I took the bull by the horns and successfully rooted my cappy on 2.3.3. Downloaded Rom manager.. and then we figured out it wasnt supported for the captivate so I flashed the CornKernel which got me the correct version of CWM. This is where everything started to go downhill... We found TeamHacksung's ICS rom for the cappy on youtube. I downloaded the files onto my device, made a backup, and booted into CWM. Everything was going smooth, we wiped the phone, did everything correctly from the video instructions and then went for the reboot. It booted but... Soon after it started to bootloop. At this point I was panicking as it was my current phone I was using. I managed to get it back into CWM and we tried the files again... Same result in a bootloop. Oh, might i mention, the Backup file didn't work for some reason. Maybe I did something wrong? But anyways, at this point I thought I was bricked as the phone would only Bootloop. Talking to my friend on skype, he linked me "Odin" I had heard about it at the time but I was unaware of what it could do. He then linked me "How to get Samsung Captivate into Download mode" which i followed the steps and got my device into download mode and restored it using Odin. It was a successful restore, it worked... but... As I mentioned before, had the rogers boot screens and it WAS an I896.. but when i rebooted the phone it was now running 2.1 Eclair with At&t boot screens and it now thinks its a I897. At this point I was like, I'll just use it for awhile and hopefully we can try this again soon as it was getting late and I needed my phone the next day. After about a week of using Eclair, I was ABSOLUTELY sick of it, everything felt outdated and old. So I looked into flashing my phone back to either stock 2.2 or stock 2.3.3 OR even all the way to ICS. Then bad things started happening again... Whatever my friend linked me to restore my phone using Odin it left me with this:
Model number: SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 <---(Was I896)
Firmware version: 2.1-update1
Baseband version: I897UCJF6
Kernel version: 2.6.29 [email protected] #2
Build number: ECLAIR
None of this seemed right to me, which now, I THINK it's not right. I tried all button combos to get it back into download mode to possibly flash 2.2 or 2.3.3 again... But NOTHING, download mode won't work after all that, which it did in the past otherwise I wouldn't have this problem right now. So I decided to Root my phone again, which I successfully did through a OneClick method (Forget which one I used). I decided maybe I could download ROM manager on the market, seeing as my phone is outdated and I can't use Google Play. Soon I found out Rom manager (Atleast the free version) doesn't exist on the Market. I tried 3rd party websites like 4shared to download it but Eclair has no options to allow untrusted sources. ALSO, I tried settling for Kies and Kies Mini, both of which recognize my phone as a "unregistered device" even though I used Kies in the first place. I feel i've dug myself into quite the hole now, so sick of this phone at this point
P.S. I've debated making a Jig to force it into Download mode... but would this be the solution? And if so, what could i use to flash back to stock? AND sorry about the long post, I wanted to include as much info as I possibly knew about my phone.
I feel I should mention again, the phone DOES work, but I'm sick of Eclair and I would like to get back to stock. Please help, anything would be great at this point.
Thanks

You really shouldn't flash back to eclair for that reason. You should update to gingerbread with bootloaders. To get download mode, you will need either a jig or adb reboot download.
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Okay, I'll go buy resistors to make a jig sometime this week. But if I did, what should I use to flash 2.3.3 gingerbread? And which stock rom should I use?
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camxv said:
Okay, I'll go buy resistors to make a jig sometime this week. But if I did, what should I use to flash 2.3.3 gingerbread? And which stock rom should I use?
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trusselo has a thread for Rogers one clicks in the development section. Those should work for you.
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Ok thanks for the help. Once I get back to 2.3.3, do you recommend any ics or jellybean roms?
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camxv said:
Ok thanks for the help. Once I get back to 2.3.3, do you recommend any ics or jellybean roms?
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Well, depends what you're looking for. If you want to be on the latest, and not the greatest, I would choose any of the ICS roms. The Collective has some good stuff, and so does Cyanogen. CM10 is updated "daily" where I'm not sure what the Collective's release schedule is. You'll find that both of those are "laggy" though, as that's been my experience. I had CM9 ICS on my Captivate and it was certainly a good "daily driver".

I was looking into Jellybean.. But I'm not sure. Is CM9 a good choice? Cause I've been look at it, and considering it? Can you link me to CM9?
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camxv said:
I was looking into Jellybean.. But I'm not sure. Is CM9 a good choice? Cause I've been look at it, and considering it? Can you link me to CM9?
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Honestly, you could go either way. Generally, I felt like CM10 ran a bit slower, but that may have changed with the recent partition change. If you want the latest and most up to date, go with CM10. CM9 may perform better but it won't get new features. It's up to you to decide which you like better. You can find nightly threads for both in the development section.

In the development section, is the thread by illuminatedone the correct thread? Cause it's the only stock rom thread I could find. And can I ask what Nightly means?
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camxv said:
In the development section, is the thread by illuminatedone the correct thread? Cause it's the only stock rom thread I could find. And can I ask what Nightly means?
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The fourth post in that thread links to the Rogers one.
Nightly builds are built almost everyday by the buildbot, and they contain all the latest changes. They are generally considered to be less stable than the stable releases.
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Are they stable enough for daily use though? And are you sure it's the 4th post in the development section? That post is just modems its a thread by devz3r0
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This thread this post here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18371028
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camxv said:
Are they stable enough for daily use though? And are you sure it's the 4th post in the development section? That post is just modems its a thread by devz3r0
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I consider them good enough for a daily driver, yes.
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Ok. I shall give it a try then... But final question. What kernel should i flash when im back on 2.3.3 to get CWM? Im also nervous to flash back to Gingerbread, i dont want to mess up my phone again :/
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camxv said:
Ok. I shall give it a try then... But final question. What kernel should i flash when im back on 2.3.3 to get CWM? Im also nervous to flash back to Gingerbread, i dont want to mess up my phone again :/
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Really any GB kernel, but I'd go with Corn.
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Hm, thats what I used before. Thanks though ill flash it again
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Hello again everyone in the Q/A cappy forums. I know ive had the questions i needed answered in this thread but... I've yet to flash my cappy back to stock 2.3.3 rogers cause ive been reading about bootloaders and ive just been scared to do it. How do i find out about the bootloaders on my phone and are they nessessary? Thanks
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U have bootloaders on ur phone regardless.
If u r running eclair/froyo, then u have those bootloaders. If u r running gingerbread, then u have those gb bootloaders. Simple as that.
If u try to run a gb firmware on ur phone and u have a really bad pixelated screen when it boots up then u r trying to run a gb firmware with eclair/froyo bootloders. U need gb boots to run gb firmware.
If u have a running gb firmware on ur phone then u have gb bootloaders... Also they are backwards compatible and u don't need to flash bootloaders again.
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Im currently running eclair, but i was on stock gingerbread before this whole mess. Does that mean i still have gb bootloaders or what...?
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That depends on whether the eclair firmware that u used contained bootloaders or not...
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