Essential Pre Requisites:
- Before proceeding, you need to ensure that you are on the rooted XXJVU Firmware. You can check the current firmware from the path “Settings > About Phone” while you can check that whether your device is rooted or not from the app “Root Checker” which you need to download from the Play STORE.
Procedure to Update Galaxy S with XXJVU 2.3.6 Value Pack Firmware
- Just in case if you are already on the XXJVU Rooted firmware, then you need to back up the data with the help of below mentioned steps. Since this IMM76I is not a stock ROM, you should not use KIES to back up the that as KIES won’t recognize the device on non-stock ROMs.
SMS – Use “SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Contacts – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log – Call Log and Restore
Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to internal / External SD Card,
APN and MMS Settings – Note down from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”
- Minimum charge left in the device should be at least 60% so as to ensure that device doesn’t get turned Off in the middle of firmware update. Enable the USB Debugging in your Galaxy S GT I9000 from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. The USB Debugging option should be ticked.
- Disable all the antivirus suites in your computer and uninstall the same in your device as these tools generally tend to interrupt the process of firmware update.
Special Instructions for users on Custom ROM Firmware:
- Ensure that Voodoo Lag fix or any other Lag fix is disabled in your device which you can do the same from the recovery mode. Also, additionally from the recovery mode, in “advanced” option you need to clear the Dalvik Cache before applying this update or else it may hamper the process of firmware update process.
Assuming that you have followed all the instructions mentioned above, it’s time to proceed to next page where we have mentioned a detailed tutorial on how to install this IMM76I firmware release.
