want to say thank you to silenster on here for his previous answer to my query.

and viva la galaxy S

that looks so nice o.o

same thing here for me. i'm on stock 2.2.

i turn off the background data and yet it sometimes still gatal-gatal connects to HSDPA. is this normal? how do i stop it?

can someone give me a link to the latest kies?

thanks mate my kies stayed in 1.5 for some reason

"Do I need to root first before flash the firmware?
No need to root before flashing stock or custom ROM."

Hi sifus, need some guidance on this. It says here I don't need to root to flash a custom rom? my guess is i can just straight away download odin and get a rom in. anything i should look out for?

correct me if i'm wrong

ah that makes sense. do you use superoneclick? the link in the original site here is giving me trojan warnings. normal?
shortfuse

i'm using z4root now. i've selected temporary root and it hangs and force closes. should i just try the permanent root? would this mean i can't unroot my phone after this?

Hi peeps, update about my first ever root here:
I installed the z4root app and used the temporary root function. it hangs halfway and force closes. There is no superuser app that is supposed to pop up(i think) but i noticed that in my settings->about phone, it says my kernel is 2.6.32.9 root@SE-S604 #1.

what is this and what should be my next step?

root access failed! tried out super one click instead, restarted and it worked now i'm going to flash my first custom rom. any particular ones a noob should use first?

yea i clarified this before i did anything. this forum is really helpful so far. gmhafiz continued to explain titanium backup. you can follow this quote to see what he explained because those posts are rather long i don't want to quote the full thing here

for swype, long hold the dialogue box and choose input method swype

guys how long does it take to fix the 3 button download mode?

edit: because i realised my phone didnt have the 3 button thing and had to fix it. doing ADB now and followed the steps up to the command prompts and connecting the phone. phone is now in download mode but it's taking a while.

This post has been edited by FormalCat: Mar 17 2011, 11:30 AM

phone rooted but no custom rom.

can i go settings now? phone still in download mode

just want to clarify how long the download mode is supposed to stay on? if the phone is stuck in download mode(which i think it is now) what do i do?

yea and it's still in download mode

so do i restart it or something? screen says do not turn off target

not yet i'm before the odin process. which method did you use to fix the 3br?

okay pulled the battery. restarted and looks normal.

ah ok. well i guess i should continue another time starting to pening already haha

wooohooo that's some scary stuff. will think about it definitely