OK. I'm no computer dummy, but I'm a bit lost here.
I'm trying to get the custom recovery image installed prior to installing the MoDoCo ROM, as per the instructions here:
http://android.modaco.com/content/s...ed-recovery-image-on-your-device-permanently/
I followed the instructions to the letter for installing the ROM on a 'virgin' i7500, but hit a snag in that whenever I launched into FASTBOOT mode, Windows had a fit trying to find the driver for an 'Android 1.0 device', and by the time it had decided that it couldn't find one, the phone had just continued booting into the normal OS which effectively removes the Android 1.0 device from the system.
I've had a Galaxy for about a month now, it's on firmware H6, and it's hacking me right off that I can't update it, either 'legally' or 'illegally'! It's in Debug mode, as required, and the horrid horrid horrid waste-of-drive-space Samsung NPS software is installed. I can connect to the phone via USB and see the memory cards, but that's about it. As far as I can tell, that's all I SHOULD be able to see, correct?
I tried pointing Windows at the drivers from the Android SDK, but it told me that there were no drivers compatible with the device. This was on my Vista laptop.
Can anyone help me?
Please?
Before this phone goes through the window, and I start hunting down O2 and Samsung technical staff with a hunting rifle?
EDIT:
I've just tried this entire process again on a WinXP PC that has never had any of the Samsung software installed on it previously. Downloaded NPS (IH4 build) from the Samsung website, installed it. Plugged in phone and it found most of the drivers but was still left with an unknown device. Booted into FASTBOOT, got the Windows driver request for an Android 1.0 Device. Told Windows to look for it, no joy. Installed the 'USB drivers' from the CD that came with the phone, tried again. Same problem.
Help?
Before this phone goes through the window, and I start hunting down O2 and Samsung technical staff with a hunting rifle?
EDIT 2:
Tried it again, still no joy. Again tried forcing Windows XP to pick up the generic 'Android 1.0' device drivers from the SDK (android-sdk-windows-1.0_r2.zip), and again told that Windows can't find any suitable drivers for that device.
The biggest problem I'm having seems to be that because Windows can't find drivers, it can't find the phone in FASTBOOT, hence nothing else works.