Upgrading to Gingerbread

I'm sure many of us would had been quite eager to have a taste of GingerBread (Android v2.3.3) on their Samsung Galaxy S. Fred not because the new version of GingerBread ROM is out together with the source code. It means that the ROM will stable out and we will soon enjoy better and meaner ROMs.

Before you start, here are some steps to move to GingerBread (At least for the base)

1) Download the official GingerBread ROM from here
2) Power down your device
3) Go into download mode of your device (Press DOWN+ACTION+PWR and release PWR when screen comes alive)
4) Run ODIN v1.7 and place the PHONE, CSC and MODEM files into the appropriate locations
5) Flash and Reboot

Remember, base ROM means that the ROM is official. No rooting, plain RFS filesystems, no theming and all stock apps. Further flashing can be done using step by step from these 2 renowned ROM creators

1) Chainfire Root - To root your phone
2) ROM Kitchen (beta) - To create your own customized ROM, apps, themes and apply onto your phone (use zip method)
3) DamianGTO ROM - To change your ROM's kernel onto something more robust, stable and efficient (use odin method)

More detail guide on how to flash a base ROM can be obtain here