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My housemates old phone, a 2010 model Samsung Galaxy S i9000 over time became unuseable and would freeze and/or crash. Factory resets didnt help apparently. Not sure if he lost data in this but he's now the owner of an iPhone and i volunteered to try and resurrect the device.
The thing was still on whatever was the last supported OS, in this case Android Gingerbread 2.3.6, with Samsung's awful cartoony TouchWiz UI over the top. I thought, why not get Android Jellybean 4.2.2 on this and breathe some life into it, and perhaps fix lots of problems at the same time.
As an iPhone owner myself i'm not too sharp when it comes to Android but i do have a Nook Color i've Jeallybeanized, so i've got some previous experience. Its quite a daunting thing if you've never done it before so I thought i'd make a note of it. Here's what I did.
- Completely charged the phone.
- (You will lose your data during this process so you may want to make a backup). As I was starting from scratch, I didnt pay too much attention to this.
- Enabled USB DEBUGGING in developers option (Settings / Developers I think)
- Installed Samsung USB Drivers: I got these from here (these are just the drivers so you dont need to install Samsung Kies).
After that it was just a choice of which rom to choose. As i'd heard that the Galaxy S had limited memory and could get bogged down, and that Samsung chose not to release Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for it because that and the TouchWiz UI would leave it unusable, I looked for a rom that would be fast and cut down on the bloat. For this I chose Slimbean. (I also had my eyes on CyanAOSP and SuperNexus).
All I needed to do now was get the rom and Google Apps package on an SD Card and install them from the CWM boot menu. So this is what I did:
- Formatted a microSD card in FAT32
- Downloaded the latest Slimbean custom rom
- Downloaded the matching Google Apps package from the same site
- Put both files (still zipped) into the root of the SD.
- I booted up the phone into the Recovery Mode (You can enter Recovery Mode by pressing volume up & the home button, and holding both simultaneously while pressing the power button)
- Performed a full data wipe in ClockworkMod recovery. After that selected “flash zip from SD card” and pressed the Home button to select it. I used the volume up and down to move around.
- Pressed home button to “choose zip from sdcard”.
- Selected the Android 4.2.2 ROM zip file that I copied to my SD card with the help of the volume keys. I had to browse to "External SD Card" first. Confirmed the process and the installation procedure started. it didn't take very long!
- Repeated this step for the Google Apps zip file as well.
- After all this process I clicked on “++++ Go back” and rebooted the phone by selecting “reboot system now” from the recovery menu.
- The device booted up!
Everything seems to work just fine so far. the most difficult thing was finding good pages on how to perform it. These custom rom makers assume everyone knows how to do it!
Anyway, I'm just passing on these instructions so I hope they help!
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