Updating to Froyo

Here in South Africa we have a problem with Froyo updates for the Galaxy S.
Both the network operators and Samsung locally are now silent on all the issues.
With a “branded” firmware currently running on my phone I was left with to option but to “make ‘n plan”.

Below is the process that I used – obviously I will not accept any responsibility for any damage/bricking to your phone – but you are welcome to try it. So far I have tried on 2 phones with 100% success rate.

1. Check CSC version.
• This is done by “dialing” the following number: *2767*4387264636#
• You will then know what version of firmware you are using: XFA or XFV or XFM etc.

2. Set new market CSC
• This is done by “dialing” the following number: *#272*[current 24 hour time]#
• eg. At 19h55 you need to type in *#272*1955#
• Then select XFA… device is wiped and set to XFA device settings.

3. Root device
• Check out: http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/root-unroot-samsung-galaxy-s-i9000/
• Make sure that you unzip this file in a known location… you need to use the “adb.exe” file for another step

4. Download terminal app from Market
• Open up the market and search for “terminal emulator”

5. Copy the current product code info onto your PC and edit it
• Use ADB.exe from the command prompt (in rar from Step3) to copy off nv_data.bin: adb pull /efs/nv_data.bin
• Edit to say XFA using a HEX editor… Search for XFV/XFM and replace with XFA
• I used http://frhed.sourceforge.net/en/ as my HEX editor. DO NOT USE A TEXT EDITOR
• The info for this step is based on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780509

6. Terminal:
• Open up the terminal that was downloaded in the previous steps and then run
• su
• chmod 777 /efs/nv_data.bin
• mv nv_data.bin nv_data.bin.backup
• mv nv_data.bin.md5 nv_data.bin.md5.backup

7. Upload edited product code info
• Use ADB.exe from the command prompt (in rar from Step4) to copy off nv_data.bin: adb push nv_data.bin /efs

8. Terminal:
• Open up the terminal that was downloaded in the previous steps and then run
• su
• chmod 755 /efs/nv_data.bin
• chown radio.radio /efs/nv_data.bin (or chown 1001.1001 /efs/nv_data.bin)

9. Check new CSC version.
• This is done by “dialing” the following number: *2767*4387264636#
• This should now say XFA

10. KIES.
• Plug in to PC and update using KIES

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