Hi,
I have not used the phone gap mobile stuff yet. When I start playing around with it I would creating a blank bsv, create a single BO, with a simple form, buttons and menu, keeping things nice and simple and making sure its configured as mobile and try export it after testing it out in the browser.
I would read the user guide, how-to manual and anything else I could find, I'm sure you have and yes sometimes its not entirely helpful.
And if I could not get it working with such a simple BSV I would post it up to the forum as a zip file so the very helpful guys way smarter than me could help me out way quicker than them trying and guess what I may or may not have done to try to get things working.