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Followed this guide and everything seems to be working fine (on 3 UK), my only issue is the speaker volume is now much louder, but I can live with this.

May be an obvious question, but if a newer firmware comes out is it just a case of following the 'one package' section of the guide with the newer file?
 
I have a Samsung Galaxy I5500. I want to root it so i can install apps on the SD card. Will this method work for my phone?
 
stu1978 said:
Followed this guide and everything seems to be working fine (on 3 UK), my only issue is the speaker volume is now much louder, but I can live with this.

May be an obvious question, but if a newer firmware comes out is it just a case of following the 'one package' section of the guide with the newer file?
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It depends on if you simply updated the firmware, or if you rooted as well.

If you only updated your firmware, then yea, just reflash with the new file. However, you might want to make sure that the new file for the update us a one package file, or not, if its not, then you just have to select the right files in odin on the lower right, under the ops file selection, also untick the one package file option on the lower left of odin.

If you rooted as well, then you just need an up to date ops file and the new updated .pda. file and reflash.

If you also have a kitchen mod, backup the kitchen download xxxupdate.zip file and reapply this after root update. (I'm assuming)

Back up as much as you can, apn settings, google sync, I use pi.soft for texts/bookmarks etc. I also do a backup of launcher pro settings, and alarm plus settings, and use appbrain to get my apps back. Hope this helps.
 
Just want to know, my baseband version is i570EXXJH1, do I still need to update it to JH6 or can I root it straight away from my current BB version?
 
As JH1 is newer than JD1 you can just go ahead and root. Once you root you'll notice that your baseband version will go back to JD1 as thats what the rooted .pda file is based on. Or is that the case for the samdroid kitchen mod, can't remember.

If I was you, id update to JH6 just for the sake of being up to date. Then if rooting does take you back to a JD1 baseband, then oh dear you just wasted 3 mins. Its all good.

Do you have any plans for once your rooted?
 
Well once rooted, I want to put 2.2, then that's it really, 2.2, apps2sd and multi-touch and I'll be happy I guess lol, what's the best 2.2 version to go for?as in the most stable?
 
If your going down that route, I believe 2.2(froyo-(frozen yoghurt)) should have multitouch and apps2sd or link2sd built in. As for whats more stable, ive only tried cynogen so far, im waiting on a delivery of some new sd cards (one each for me n the mrs) before i try 2.2 again.

What got me the last time was that after ever reboot of the phone, i had to tell it to use swype as my keyboard, for some reason it wouldnt retain the setting as default. But that could have been down to installing cynogen over the top of samdroid, next time it will be a clean install. (2.1 JH6 flash > root > cynogen kitchen)

Cynogen: or at least 2.2, does seem to have a whole bunch of extra preferences and settings though. Much fun to play around with. And of course you can get a bunch of different kernels if you wish to overclock the CPU from 800mhz to upto 1.2ghz i believe.

Samdroid: im assuming will pretty much be the same as what i already have, with the addons that 2.2 brings, not sure how stable it is, but it might be worth you looking over at forum.samdroid.net for yourself and see what bugs are being reported/fixed with all the mods, not just this one.

Spicagen: I get the impression that this is a dedicated spica kernel/rom and as such has been streamlined and recoded for the purpose and as such gives a better linpack / quadrent benchmark score without any over clocking of the CPU, and thus also increasing battery life (maybe) alone with the 2.2 updates this could well be a pretty sweet option to go for.

You might want to also consider the new 'in thing' called 'all2ext' i think that this basically puts ALL of the firmware and cache onto your SD partition (as long as its big enough 512mb+ probably)
 
Ahh thanks, hmmm well as I said, as long as it can handle everything fine which 2.1 can do + more and the features I mentioned, I'm not that fussed. At a later date when I decide to play around then I could OC it.

Also I've tried updated to the newer BB (since I have JH1) but, when i attach the phone to my pc I get the message "One of the USB devices has malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it." ?? Even though kies can identify my phone fine....?
 
Ah ... Are you intending to use kies software when your phone is connected or odin?

If you intend to use odin, you need to do ctrl+alt+del wait for task manager, goto processes tab, and kill any/all processes that have kies in the name/description. Then re-connect your phone and odin will recognise, if not try different usb port.
 
I was using odin, and i did ctrl alt del ended all Kies related processes, but still says "one of the usb devices attached has malfunctioned..." tried a different port too
 
Maybe you just need to reboot your pc. But if odin/kies still recognise the phone even with the windows error then i wouldnt worry too much. It could be the drivers maybe, but they obviously owrk for the software.
 
I've restarted the pc multiple times, I have dual boot xp and w7 so I tried it on both, yet each time I connect the phone when in download mode, It just wont recognise by odin and says malfunctioned :S
 
Are you connecting the phone to the pc then putting it into download mode? Or download mode first, then connecting?

Maybe you need to update kies? (to get newer drivers)
 
I've updated kies, and I put it in download mode first, then I connect it. Right now I have uninstalled everything, New pc suite or whatever, kies, the drivers, going to reboot the pc, re-install kies and drivers and then going to see what happens then, will post again once I've done that.
 
Well, tried it on windows 7, nothing =/ still did not work, Going to try it once more on xp, run out of ideas :S
 
Ok i tried it on my bro's laptop win7 and finally odin has found it, under 1 com(10 , so i clicked start...but it's been stuck on
<1> StartThread Detected : 1
...etc etc
<1> Setup connection.....

edit:
I then reset the phone and then odin too and plugged it in again then second time i got
<1> --- Cannot open USB serial port period code: 5
 
Ahh finnaly got it done, but I accently unplugged the phone before Odin said "pass" but it said "reset" ? anywho 2.1 booted up but...its JD1? so what now?
 
the files mentioned in the guide, well its done!
BB: i570exxjd1
kernal: 2.6.29 leshak@i5700-dev7
lk2.08.1
:D thanks for your help dude...now I gotta find out which 2.2 to flash it with so in your opnion which one would you recommend for me then?given what I said i wanted?
 
Cynogen could do well for you, atm there are a couple of versions out there. Mainly 8.3 and 8.4 - I think 8.4 is still in beta (perhaps both of them are) the only thing that puts me off 8.4 is on the change list, usb tethering has been struck off ... and, im not too sure what this means to be honest.

People do report that a 'stock' CM 8.4 (CM being Cynogen Mod) without any tweeks/mods does run fine. but bear in mind, its a custom rom, as with the rest, spicagen & samdroid, so if you do find a bug/glitch dont be surprised.

get it here CyanogenMod-6.1.1-Spica-alpha8.4

Or a kitchen here (no spicagen option tho) Kitchen v.2 'All in One' - Android 2.2 Froyo for Samsung Spica i5700 [EN] note this is for CM 8.3 not 8.4

The good thing about the kitchen is you can select the things you want in it, these options will be installed and the rest wont be. (for instance i never install facebook, twitter, estrongs ect)

Or for spicagen Mod look here SpicagenMod-froyo-BETA2
 
Just a quick word of warning. To apply your chosen mod, you do NOT do it with odin. ;)

You download the mod's zip/rar file, copy this to your phones SD card root.

Once there, reboot your phone by pressing vol down + call + power for recovery mode.

Once in recovery use the D pad to navigate to 'install any zip' and press ok.

This should find the zip and you have to scroll down to teh zip's name to press ok to install again.

After that, and phone reboots, let it reboot twice. (it may just loop on a constant reboot)

After 2 reboots, replace phones battery, go into recovery again, and "wipe data/cache" and look in advanced for "wipe davilk cache" and "wipe battery stats" once done reboot and enjoy Froyo ;)
 
hmm i think the kitchen version sounds good, and then once 8.4 gets finalised i could just go for that. Well then time to get cooking! Thanks again for the help!

edit: So if I flash the kitchen mod now, and say I want to change, do I just do the same method? and it would just overwrite the previous one?
Also it did not reboot it self, i just selected reboot, and now its been on the cyanogen mod boot up animation screen for a while....but then i rebooted it, wiped it all, I don't know if i wiped devlik cache, so i did it again i think and second time it said failed?
 
Will your phone boot? The first boot will take longer, but no longer than 5 mins, as long as it gives a lil vibration it should be good
 
Yuppp its done :) It booted, but I accidently deleted the small menu thing at the bottom, where you have "phone, browser, menu" I don't know what i did...so i just reset phone to factory settings lol, now its just booting back up again.
Is there a way to recover that in case I do it in the future? lol
 
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