How to get the official firmware now.

What a day, I finally get windows up and running only to find out I don't have my drivers. So to settle that crap took a while, I would have skipped them but Kies wants Internet or it wont install. (well sort of makes sense). Anyway after doing the whole charade and getting the software installed. It gives me a new error.

Your battery is depleted or something of that sort, but the battery is full. So I guess they have a problem with the battery full. (I am going on bad translations here. Like "Do you want to Finish Firmware upgrade", what they really mean is Do you want to quit the upgrade). Well I am trying to drain some battery to see if that works.

Will keep updated. Sigh.

Do a factory reset if you are missing icons.

Sure I am happy to help.what do you need?

The instructions are pretty clear the only thing I did differently was use virtual box. To get it to accept the connection I had to use sudo.

I can't make a video cause I already upgraded. Theoretically I should be able to redo the whole process. Hmmm. I will write up a step by step when I get home.



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Step by Step to get Froyo GPO now. Please refer to link in First Post.

Please Read Everything before you begin it may actually save you time.

First you will need:
Kies 1.5.3.10093.82. (If you can't find it you can get it from my personal server. )
Windows XP
Virtualbox (Optional if you can't get the Killers to connect).


For the purpose of this guide I will be focusing on Virtualbox as I think you probably won't get it to connect.

A bit about VirtualBox:

Virtualbox is a open source OS-independent hardware emulator. Basically a Virtual Machine that runs on top of your Operating System Layer (Windows, Linux, Mac, and OpenSolaris). What this lets you do is install another OS in your OS, and let it act as another piece of software of your machine. For Example Windows on Linux, Windows on Linux, Mac on Windows, Windows on Windows, etc. I think that is enough for our purposes.

System Tested: Linux Ubuntu X64 Maverick on root privilege for Virtualbox 3.2.10 r66523 NON-OSE emulating Windows XP Professional SP3

Assuming the following givens:
VirtualBox is installed
Windows XP SP3 is installed in VirtualBox
Samsung Kies 1.5.3.10093.82 installed in WindowsXP on VirtualBox.

If you are using Windows then run Virtualbox as Administrator by right clicking on Virtualbox icon and click "run as" a window will pop up click the option for Administrator.

You may get an error something about restricted privilege. To fix this goto start -> run and type "regedit".

Now once there on the left pane Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

and double click on limitblankpassworduse and set it to 0 and press OK. You may close regedit the change is instant.

If you are running Linux then just goto terminal and type sudo VirtualBox. (I believe it is the same for Mac)

When you run as Administrator or root, you profile will be new and you may not see your Xp install. this is fine just create a new Profile and when it asks for the Virtual Harddisk just select the one you have your XP install on.

Once you are in XP with Admin/root privileges Load Kies and plug your phone in under the Kies option. Let the Phone status change the Connected (This makes all the difference).

Then Once The phone says connected and Kies is running on your virtualbox setup. Right click on the USB options on Virtualbox (Refer to Diagram 1 and 2) and Select Samsung_Android [0400].

Once the phone shows up in Kies half your headache is over. If it doesn't connect look worried and try again. Remember Kies hates you and likes to mess with you.

DO NOT CONTINUE IF KIES DOESN'T CONNECT!!!!
Now click Start and click Run. Type "Regedit" without quotes. Then find the following Entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Samsung\Kies

Once there change LocalVer to 1.5.3.10103.100
Then Find: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Samsung\Kies\DeviceDB
Expand that entry by clicking the plus sign.

You will see Folders labeled 1,2,3,4,etc it doesn't matter how many folders it shows click on each to find the one with most entries on the right.

On My linux Machine it was 3 on my media Machine it was 4 and on the fresh install it was 1 so it can be either of them.

Once you find which folder has the most entires you need to make the following changes:

"SoftwareRevision"="I9000XXJF3/I9000OXAJF3/I9000XXJF3/I9000XXJF3"
"ProductCode"="GT-I9000HKDXEU"
"HIDSWVER"=""
"DEVCONINFO"="
credit to link in first post

Now leave regedit open goto Kies and Click Upgrade. it should let you upgrade. Now you must wait.

Some branded phones need more information and may spit out a random error in that case make the following changes
Do this only if the previous doesn't work
"SoftwareRevision"="I9000XXJF3/I9000OXAJF3/I9000XXJF3/I9000XXJF3"
"ProductCode"="GT-I9000HKDXEU"
"HIDSWVER"="I9000XXJF3/I9000OXAJF3/I9000XXJF3/I9000XXJF3"
"DEVCONINFO"="MN(GT-I9000);VER(I9000XXJF3/I9000OXAJF3/I9000XXJF3/I9000XXJF3);HIDVER(I9000XXJF3/I9000OXAJF3/I9000XXJF3/I9000XXJF3);PRD(GT-I9000HKDXEU);SN();IMEI(enter your imei here);PN( );CON(AT,MTP,MTP);LOCK(FALSE);SDP(CACHE)#OK#OK"
credit to link in first post

When the Download finishes Your phone will a get a Yellow Droid with a shovel and the following text will be there !!!! DO NOT SWITCH OF THE TARGET !!!!

Now you need to right click on the usb and quickly select Serial### I don't remember the exact text but it is distinguishable.

Now either of the 2 things will happen:
Kies will say failed or it will go through and finish the upgrade. (Don't worry it says failed).

It will most likely fail.
Now what you need to do is Click ok on KIES and it will ask you if you want to finish the installation (lol). Click yes. Then click upgrade wait a few seconds and it will say Recover Now.

Read what it says. I almost bricked my phone cause I didn't read the instructions properly.

FIRST UNPLUG THE CABLE
THEN TAKE OUT THE BATTERY
now press Down volume button Home and Power Key (Yes I said Down not UP).
It will bring you back to the yellow droid, now click next on KIES and it will download a few more things and start the upgrade.

The wording of the recovery seem to suggest that it will restore the old firmware (this is where I wasted so much time). But what they mean is resume the upgrade.

Wait 10 more minutes and let the phone Reset. AND let me be the first to congratulate you on your froyo upgrade.

Please understand that you are doing this at your own Risk, I tried to be as descriptive as possible for beginners (At least I think I did). If it looks difficult then don't do it.

Please leave comments on your success.

Peace

I too used Kies 1.5.3.10093.82 and the Regedit as per IronSingh's post. Very simple and fast upgrade, using a Windows 7 PC.

I went from a branded Orange 2.1 Galaxy S to an unbranded 2.2 which is exactly what I wanted as I am using this phone in the US (AT&T) and in Europe (Orange).

 

I'd love to "applaud" the person, but it is not IronSingh. My post was to testify that a similar process was used successfully (and very easily) by me on my Galaxy S to load:

PDA: JPA (previously JG2)
Phone: JPP (previously JF3)
CSC: JP3 (Previously JG2)

The phone is debranded, much faster, runs Skype and the battery life is incredibly better than with Orange's bloatware.

I did not lose any data or any Apps.

 

I Had an Unlocked arabic Firmware. Now I have an Unlocked UK firmware.

I wanted to get rid of the arabic firmware anyway. So this killed 2 birds with one stone.


Which settings did you use? I thought JPO is the newest Firmware.

When I press *#1234# on the dialer I get
PDA: JPO (JG8)
Phone: JPP (JG2)
CSC: JPO (JG9)

Build Info 2010. 10


My post is about doing the upgrade in Linux Using Virtualbox, as the technique is described easily enough by other forums namely on xda link provided in first post.

Peace