Installing official Gingerbread 2.3.3(XWJVB) on Samsung Galaxy S

Samsung rolled out its Gingerbread

update for Samsung Galaxy S via Kies for some European countries.

If you don’t wish to upgrade your Galaxy S GT-I9000 over Kies then you can install Gingerbread 2.3.3(XWJVB) on your Galaxy S by following these instructions…

For updating Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000(SGS) to latest version of Gingerbread 2.3.3 you need the following prerequisites:

You need to have the Samsung drivers for your SGS installed on the desktop. To do so simply install Samsung Kies. Samsung Kies version 2.0.0.11032_12_9 can be downloaded from .

Make sure you have charged your battery, 50% or higher is preferable. (To be on a safer side charge your mobile to 100%)

Make sure you have

working. (Turn off your mobile by pressing the power button, once switched off press and hold “power button + menu button + vol down button” simultaneously)

The next important point is to download the firmware for upgrading. The official 2.3.3 Gingerbread is I9000XXJVB, here is the

for the firmware.(Password for rar file is samfirmware.com) firmware source http://www.samfirmware.com

You need to have ODIN v1.3(the software used to update your SGS), you can download ODIN v1.3 from .

Once you have all the things mentioned above you can now upgrade your SGS to XXJVB in a few minutes.

Kindly follow the instructions mentioned below:

Extract the firmware you will find a folder named “JVB-JV3-JVK” inside that folder there will be 3 files “CSC_I9000NEEJV3.tar.md5”, “PDA_I9000XWJVB.tar.md5”, “PHONE_I9000XXJVK.tar.md5”.

Enter Download Mode by pressing power button + menu button + vol down button simultaneously.

Open ODIN and then plug in the USB cable.

Ensure that you see something written in ID:COM after connecting your device.

NO NEED TO SELECT PIT.

Click on PDA and select the PDA file “PDA_I9000XWJVB.tar.md5” from extracted folder.

Click on PHONE and select the PHONE file “PHONE_I9000XXJVK.tar.md5” from extracted folder.

Click on CSC and select the CSC file “CSC_I9000NEEJV3.tar.md5” from extracted folder.(You should see something like this in odin)

DO NOT tick Re-Partition.

Check if both Auto Reboot and F.Reset Time are ticked.(both are ticked by default)

Press Start button to begin the flashing process.

You will see the progress in both ODIN and your phone.

Your phone will restart.(You should see green color in PASS and ID:COM fields)

You can now disconnect the USB cable from your phone and follow on screen instructions.

Here are some screenshots of the official Gingerbread 2.3.3(XWJVB)…

If you have any questions please feel free to ask!!

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