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[Galaxy Tab General] Adapt0r:
I don't see why not. You can use it on both Att and Tmobile.

Tmo has prepaid service including voice and sms for about $0.13 per minute. If you pay in advance $100 you will get $0.10 per minute good for whole year.

Att likes to charge you evry month.
[Galaxy Tab General] Roism:
Hello,

Just wanted to update my original post.

1) I picked up the international version of Samsung Galaxy Tab, and it seems to have capability to join either CDMA or GSM network, which I was pleasantly surprised to find as it gives options of network providers.

2) Popped in my prepaid sims from Puretalk USA which uses ATT network but Edge Network for prepaid calling and after going into settings and picking the network, I was able to make and receive calls on it

3) The phone came unlocked, but its not rooted so not sure if I should root it?

Please advice on point 3

Regards
[Galaxy Tab General] Adapt0r:
Rooting is not necessary unless you want full control over your Tab.

You will be able to

- remove apps and services you are not using,

- install firewall,

- make full backup of your Tab

- upgrade to a better firmware yourself etc.

Basically, you will gain ability to do whaterver you want including bricking it.

It is a matter of choice and absulutely not mandatory. Typically stock software is not bad.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJJ010101:
Hi, I'm not sure where to post this or what details I need to provide..

Basically I flashed CM7 RC2, and after few hours of usage, my phone receives no service/signal at all (with the grey cross icon on status bar).

I can't do a manual search for my network, reboots won't work, taking out battery and SIM card won't work either.

I flashed back to my nandroid and back to RC2 a 2nd time and the same thing happened. Tried different kernel and same thing happened. and during the "no service" state, a process called something like "android.phone" process keeps force closing non-stop every few secs.

any idea/advice what might have gone wrong? any way I can troubleshoot it?

P.S. I was using Stock 2.3.3 rooted with netarchy CFS 1.2.5 before flashing CM7
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJJ010101:
Hi. I narrowed down the problem. My phone receives no signal when I use the toggle 2g/3g button, then the android.phone process force closes continuously.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jowabi:
I had the exact same problem 2 day ago with RC2. The problems started after running fix permissions. I discovered that if I go into airplane mode, the force closes stop. But as soon as I tried to go back to cellular service, the fc's came right back.

I was able to fix the problem by putting it in airplane mode, wipe data/cache, and then flashing cm7 RC2 again right on top of the existing install.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarkVis:
currently the 2g/3g notification toggle doesnt work for the nexus s cm7 all the way to RC4.

why are you still using RC2 when RC4 is already out?

update: nvm, i saw your original post was 2 days ago :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJJ010101:
hi thanks for replying.. I got another qns though - what's the usual procedure for changing from old RC to new RC? I just changed to RC3 and RC4 is released, and I did a full wipe and restored using titanium backup.

Can I not wipe data? just cache, dalvik cache? and do I use fix permissions before or after the flash?
[General Questions and Answers] Paulenski:
Hi, I'm new to the Android modding world, I picked up on the stuff pretty quickly tho, already got rooted and using optimusXrom. Although ive run into a little problem.

His rom was very clean and large group of system apps were taken out, I went and registered for the Swype beta and got the app installed, yet it still uses that plain android keyboard layout. I made sure it was turned on and rebooted incase that was necessary. What is missing or what needs to be turned on to allow it to work?

I know I should probably ask on his thread but again I'm new and don't have the access yet.
[General Questions and Answers] Paulenski:
I did some more searching around for a possible problem, so I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Full beta instead and now it works. Thanks anyways to anyone who read.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snapper915:
I'm running the redemption rom 2.3 and I wanting to knw what kernel I can use to boost performance. Or a good kernel I can overclock with this rom.

Dinc
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitedragon551:
I like the HeyItsLou v8 and v9. They seem to give me the best performance/battery life ratio.
[LG Optimus 2x] TBarnabas:
Is it possible to tweak the cameras fps, I use my phone to record my golf swing, and it would bee nice to tweak the framerate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
TL;DR - Stuck in boot loop, can't enter recovery mode, but can enter download mode. Odin says it is successful, but the phone is still in the boot loop.

I've had Cognition 2.3 for a few months now and decided to update to Cognition 4.3. I used the AIO toolbox 2.5 to Odin one-click back to stock, rooted, and flashed to 4.3. Everything went well and I restored all my apps with Titanium and loaded some music.

At some point later the screen was completely blank and the only way I could get any response out of it was to hold the volume buttons and power buttons. Instead of going into recovery, though, it would boot to the Cognition boot screen and hang indefinitely.

I was able to get it into download mode by removing the sim and battery and holding the volume buttons while plugging it into USB and replacing the battery. I ran Odin one-click again, it said it was successful, but the phone was stuck in either a battery screen or AT&T screen boot loop (depending on whether or not it was plugged into USB).

I've tried using regular Odin with both the ROM included with AIO 2.5 (JF6*) and JH2 (from http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10056254&postcount=36) to no avail. Every time Odin shows that it is successful, but it always ends up in a boot loop with no ability to enter recovery mode.

What can I do? Will getting a jig help me in any way?

*Edited for correct ROM
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beny The Kid:
Use the normal ODIN (v1.7 or v1.8), a full stock JF6 ROM and PIT file. Make sure "repartition" is selected and if possible, do a master clear with ODIN first (though shouldn't be critical.........then start over with Cog 4.3 if that's your ROM of choice (good choice by the way).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
I tried the JF6 ROM again with the same results (using http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=818439#8802897). It looks like AIO 2.5 used this ROM all along.

I can't master clear because I can't boot past the AT&T screen. The only way for me to get Odin (or Windows for that matter) to recognize the phone is by putting it in download mode. From what I understand you don't master clear from download mode.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beny The Kid:
Are you using the PIT file and selecting repartition?

When I get home today, I will upload the ROM and PIT that I use to flash to stock and see if that helps but you do need to use the PIT and repartion which will only help if you have a FULL copy of JF6 that reloads the bootloaders.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
Just out of curiosity, what is your build number?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
I am using the PIT and selecting repartition. I've done this every time I've tried Odin (besides when using one-click of course) Is the PDA.tar listed in that link not a full copy of JF6?

My build number is 1008.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
May sound crazy, but you could try using a different computer. I ran into a lot of problems using odin on my pc. Switched to laptop (more ram and windows 7 64 bit ) with great success. Also make sure you have the right drivers. Your build# should allow you to use odin one click.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
I've actually already tried it from both my PC (Windows 7 x64, 4 GB ram) and my laptop (Windows Vista x86, 2 GB ram). In both cases I used the drivers in the AIO toolbox 2.5 (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=944418)

Are those the correct ones? If not, could you point me to a resource with the latest drivers? There are quite a few versions floating around and I'm not sure which ones I should be using.

Any other suggestions?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
Those should be the correct drivers

Also, make sure odin is completely open before connecting your phone.

That'd all I can think of.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
I definitely did that.

Since I'm able to get into download mode, I should be able to un-brick it right? I can't figure out why Odin says it's successful but I still can't boot.

Does anyone else have any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beny The Kid:
You may have to give it a few minutes or so as I am uploading now but the link for the PDA and PIT is:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24576569/ATT%20ROM%202.1.rar

Try using this version of ODIN:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24576569/Odin3%20v1.7.rar

Hope this helps otherwise I am out of ideas except flashing a kernel with a recovery included through ODIN, going into the recovery and formatting and wiping absolutely everything and then reflashing JF6. But try the files I linked first.

Good luck.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
It's been 30 minutes and the ROM link still isn't up. Is it working?

Also, I'd like to change what I said slightly. When using regular Odin 1.81 it says PASS when it's finished. When using Odin one-click it gets to the point of cache.rfs and then says removed. The box turns blue and says Reset. Meanwhile, the phone is busy rebooting indefinitely on the battery screen.

I'll try your ROM and Odin version as soon as the link works. Also, do you have a ROM with built in recovery that you would suggest? Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beny The Kid:
Drop box seems to be running slow. So the JF6 that I am uploading may take a bit. The version of ODIN that You are running should be fine.

Try this Kernel. It's not a complete ROM just the kernel. If it works, you will have to flash a ROM too. Cognition is a good start. You can find it in the Dev section and actually, even if it's not the recommended way of flashing, I moght try flashing a custom ROM anyway just to rule out ODIN and your phone. If you can successfully flash a custom ROM then it's probably the version of JF6 that you are using.

Anyway, let's start with the kernel first:

Onix by existz:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=930679

make sure you download 2.0.3 "tar" file for ODIN

you know how to get into recovery after you flash right? From powered off, hold the up and down volume buttons and then power all at the same time for about 5 second......
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
Ok, so there seems to be some progress. I flashed the kernel and the phone rebooted to what I'm assuming is the Onix splash screen and hangs. The power button won't turn the phone off, but at least the softkeys do seem to respond, even if they don't do anything.

Odin now recognizes the phone in both download mode and at the splash screen. Although, to reach download mode I now have to take the battery out, whereas I did not have to before.

I'm still unable to enter recovery. The only way to get any response out of the phone at the splash screen is to hold both volumes and the power button, but the phone just reboots back to the splash. It also does this when attempting to enter recovery from a power off state.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beny The Kid:
The three button combo should work to reset the phone when it's stuck as well as getting into recovery. It sounds like you aren't holding the buttons for long enough. If the phone is frozen, you have to hold the button combo for quite a while to get the phone to reset. Weh trying to get into recovery, push both volume buttons and then hold down the power button and don't let go till yoiu get past the AT&T screen.

If that still doesn't work, then try and load up the ROM and see if at least you can get a working phone back in the meantime. Like I said, I recommend Cog 4.3 but serendipity is a good choice too.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
Awesome. I must have been holding the buttons for half a second too little. Now I can get into the Onix Recovery, but I'm getting:

"E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory)"

when trying to mount the SD card.

Searching around I've found these two threads:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=563298

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=792708

but I'm not exactly sure what to do with the information. I don't particularly want to go guessing at what to do next and ruin my progress. Could you give me a little guidance on what steps to take next?

From "adb shell mount /sdcard" I'm getting:

mount: can't find /sdcard in /etc/fstab
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beny The Kid:
OK, so I've never had to mount SD from those options so not too familiar with this problem but, i am going to guess that we shouldn't have to play with this right now. Onix will let you install a zip from your external SD, so i recomend finding a recovery flashable ROM (almost all custom ROMs come this way....it'll be a ZIP file) Again I recomend using Cog 4.3 or serendipity (both of these may change your kernel but it's ok because they will both have a custom recovery).

Follow these steps:

1. Remove your external SD and insert it into your computer.

2. Remove any files you want to keep and place them somewhere on your computer for future recovery (Titanium backups, music, pics, etc....)

3. Format your sd (FAT32 should be default)

4. Download the ROM of your choice, copy it to the root of your external SD using your computer

5. Replace the SD into your phone power up into recovery

6. From the Onix recovery menu select "advanced options"

7. Pick wipe dalvik/cache and confirm

8. Select go back untill you get to the first recovery menu

9. Select install zip from SD and NOT "install update.zip"

10. Navigate to your external SD (it should look something like "/extsd" in the file menu

11. Pick the zip you put on the external SD and confirm

12. Wait till the recovery indicates instalation done

13. Navigate back to the first recovery menu and select reboot phone

14. Sit back and relax, your phone will likely take 3-5 min to boot up the first time

If after 10 min of waiting you get no response from your phone, use the 3 button reset to get into the custom recovery and select advanced features again, format absolutely everything you can format (you'll have to do it one at a time) and do that. Then repeat the steps above.

Installing a custom ROM isn't normally this complicated but I am trying to eliminate as many variables as possible here that might cause complications with instalation.

Let me know how it turns out.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
FYI: Continuum v4 has the Onix kernel in it (recovery is a blue color)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beny The Kid:
ROM Files

This is the link to the good JF6 stock ROM. You will have to download it and the ODIN version. All you need is the PDA.tar and the PIT that comes with the ODIN package in the thread. You can still use ODIN 1.8 once you get the PIT file out of the ODIN ZIP.

So, after all is said and done. When you feel like trying this:

1. Open ODIN

2. Phone into download mode (with phone off hold down both volume buttons and plug in USB)

3. Make sure phone is recognised by ODIN

4. Select PIT file that you downloaded

5. Select PDA file that you downloaded

6. Make sure "repartition" IS selected

7. Hit start and sit back and relax

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=818439

Again, let me know how it all works out.......
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
Ok, I'll try flashing Cog 4.3 after I get off this afternoon. I'll have to buy an external SD, but that's better than buying a new phone.

I skimmed those threads on the internal SD problem and it looks like there's either some corruption on the SD or it's not formatted correctly or something. How can I fix this problem? Doesn't the ROM need that internal SD card space? Or can it use the external SD card as a replacement? If it does need the internal SD card then won't the ROM fail to install if that SD is corrupted?

Thanks for all your help by the way. When Odin wasn't fixing the problem I was afraid it was completely bricked.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
After looking through this thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=792708) more closely I think I might be having a similar problem.

The theory goes that somehow the SD card got some ext4 data on it, which the stock kernel can't understand. I need to flash a kernel that can mount ext4, format the SD, and flash back to stock.

I'm not sure which update.zip is still on the SD. It should be clockwork recovery, either a native version or the version installed from ROM manager. I'm going to try to mount the SD and format it with clockwork. If that doesn't work I'll try to get it mounted and see if I can push over parted with adb and get it formatted.

So I guess my only question is whether Onix supports ext4. If so, then all of this is wrong, but if not I'll try flashing Unhelpful's kernel tonight.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
Onix supports ext4
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
I haven't read the entire thread, so excuse me if I miss something already discussed:

I think in the link you provided, the first issue I see is he flashed but mentioned nothing about Master Clear. I

ALWAYS

Master Clear, even more important when changing ROM bases

When I FTS/MC, I always use http://www.mediafire.com/?0w2y31maz8mdom4

I have heard of issues when people are flashing using AIO. Which may be where some trouble started. I would recommend going back to stock JF6, MasterClear, and start over

I've used a particular method each and every time I change ROM's. I suggest trying it, and see where it gets you. I'll send you a PM with it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
At this point I can't master clear though. I can only boot to Onix recovery or the Onix splash and I've tried master clear at both and it just hangs with no progress on the bar.

I'll try flashing back to JF6 again, but I don't know why the results would be any different from the last time I was flashing JF6 (I've used every combination of Odin, Odin one-click, and JF6 ROM I can find)

Otherwise I guess I could try flashing a ROM from an external SD, booting, and master clearing from there, but that still wouldn't fix the internal SD problem would it? Is my internal SD corrupted? How can I get it formatted and usable again?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beny The Kid:
Hey kangi. Appreciate the input. i was just trying to avoid doing anything but the basics so we could establish a baseline.

Onix does support ext4.

Incidentally, Onix is a reoriented I9000 kernel and should have installed the jk4 modem on your phone, which is a good reliable and fast modem as far as data speeds go. You will need to check (once you get your phone running again), if you continue to use Onix, that you do have an I9000 modem. It will say in settings/phone info/software/baseband. Consequently this also means that if you switch back to a Captivate kernel, you will have to make sure you have a captivate modem. This isn't important right now but will be later. Existz has done a really good job with Onix.

I would try following the post I laid out about installing a custom ROM first, which includes formatting everything as a step and then if it works and you still want to go back to JF6, follow the post a little ways up where a linked a good JF6 thread. After that we can explore other options but you should find that things should work out with teh steps i have provided.

Incidentally, flashing back to JF6 using PIT and repartition does completely wipe everything. It's how I flash back to stock. This is why I suspect it's the file he was using or the AIO tool. As long as you can get back into download mode, you should be able to use the links to the JF6 thread that I provided above and the steps I mentioned and you will have a stock phone again.

If we start bouncing, we may create more problems than solutions, again, not because what kangi wrote is in any way incorrect but because we are just going through some basic trouble shooting.

You shouldn't need to mount anything in the onix menu, and there's no need to switch recoveries. Just use the Onix recovery for whatever we are doing for now.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
Ok, I'll give it a shot. I'll grab an external SD on the way home.

I'm still concerned about the internal SD though. Is there some reason why it won't mount? Does flashing only the kernel without any PIT make it impossible to mount the internal SD for some reason? Would a problem with the internal SD produce the boot looping problem I was seeing with JF6?

Also, your link to the JF6 ROM still isn't working.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beny The Kid:
It's fairly likely that something about teh ROM is corrupt and what we need to do for now is get the phone up and running. Loading a custom ROM will fix that and flashing back to JF6 will also but primarily if you use the PIT file. Use the link below to get the appropriate pit file and JF6 file.

This is the link to the good JF6 stock ROM. You will have to download it and the ODIN version. All you need is the PDA.tar and the PIT that comes with the ODIN package in the thread. You can still use ODIN 1.8 once you get the PIT file out of the ODIN ZIP.

So, after all is said and done. When you feel like trying this:

1. Open ODIN

2. Phone into download mode (with phone off hold down both volume buttons and plug in USB)

3. Make sure phone is recognised by ODIN

4. Select PIT file that you downloaded

5. Select PDA file that you downloaded

6. Make sure "repartition" IS selected

7. Hit start and sit back and relax

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=818439

Again, let me know how it all works out.......
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
Ok, so I got Cog 4.3 installed from the external SD. It now boots to the Cog splash screen, sits there for a few minutes and then reboots.

I can enter android recovery and I get the error message:

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

(Invalid argument)

E: copy_data_default_apk:Can't mount DBDATA:

I've tried formatting the internal SD from the recovery menu. It says:

update media, please wait

update media, finished

When I reboot after formatting I get the exact same behavior.

I'm going to try to repartition and flash back to JF6 again now. I'll update in a bit.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beny The Kid:
Alright, hope the JF6 works out cus I am running out of ideas.

Good luck
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharden:
JF6 finally worked. I'm able to boot now. I still have a few problems though.

It is still unable to mount the internal SD card. It gives me a notification after boot saying just that.

It also gives me another notification:

Can not mount External SD card

Mount point absent or incorrect. Please unplug

Removing and reinserting the external SD doesn't fix the problem.

Should I try pushing parted and see if I can repartition the SD (i.e. http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/6433-solved-messed-up-partitions-on-internal-storage)? I think I'll need a rooted kernel or ROM to do so though.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beny The Kid:
I apprear to be out of my league now but I am going to recommend against using a solution that unless I miss my mark is intended for a different piece of hardware (phone). Especially when it comes to using code. Keep searching under the captivate forum, likely in the Dev section. I will hunt around for a bit and see what I can find and in the meantime, hopefully someone else here will chime in. At least we solved the problem of JF6......