Migrating to CyanogenMod – the dragons that I summoned
Categories: Projects, Rave.
Tags: Android, boot, CyanogenMod, fix_permissions, Force Close, Galaxy S, i9000, loop, Samsung.
Disclaimer: Below you will find a “quick” recount of my personal experience in migrating my Samsung Galaxy S GT-i9000 Android phone from the Samsung stock ROM (2.3.5 / XXJVS) to CyanogenMod 7.1.0. Following any of the procedures listed here may wipe your data, kill your apps, destroy phone, eat your dog or cause the end of Life, the Universe and Everything, so consider yourself warned.
It all started harmlessly enough: My phone was already rooted and equipped with the ClockworkMod recovery so I downloaded CM7 off the CyanogenMod website
, made sure I had a backup of all my apps and data on my PC (Titanium Backup is very handy for this), enabled the USB-Debug mode for apps and ensured I could get into Download and Recovery mode using the 3 finger salute. (The last one is actually very important. If you cannot get into Recovery or Download mode, you run the risk of bricking your phone.)
Next, I did as instructed, rebooted into recovery, did a wipe data/factory reset from there and used the ‘update from zip’ function to flash the new ROM. The next reboot went from showing the stock Samsung logo to the modified CM7 boot screen, then spat out some text and promptly caused the phone to reboot… Whoever they said ‘here be dragons’ in the upgrade instructions wasn’t kidding. (more…)
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