Migrating to CyanogenMod – the dragons that I summoned

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 …

Using Samsung Mobile Tracker on Galaxy S in any country.

If you’ve tried to activate the Samsung Mobile tracker on your Samsung Galaxy S I9000, you’ve undoubtedly encountered numerous pointless error messages like ‘SSO_2012’ or ‘For legal reasons, this function not in service in some countries.’. I, for one, am sick and tired of living in a technological 3rd world country that always gets the short end of the stick for anything on the World Wide Web and since moving is not an option, here’s the procedure to set up Mobile tracker despite the arbitrary limitations.

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