yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joe98200:
From a quick search, it seems that it's general knowledge that enabling fast transitions via Spare Parts disables the CRT animation in 2.3. Is there a specific explanation for this? I'd just like to know out of curiosity :P
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasunsrule32:
Because it is a fast animation, in timing. That mode disables any slower transistions, such as the CRT animation. :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joe98200:
:

So there's no current way to make the CRT animation any faster is there?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geoffcorey:
Lol, I can't believe I'm asking this, but updating to the newest nightly, if I don't want to go about reinstalling everything like if it was a fresh install, would I just clear dalvil and cache and flash the nightly, or would I need to do a factory reset anyway?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Just flash, that's all I do on the Captivate. I only clear stuff if things aren't working right and I get lots of FC etc.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geoffcorey:
Ok. My usual way is to clear everything, flash initial.zip, then right on top of that flash the nightly I want to use, just to make sure. But i just got the 5/4 nightly setup last so I figured I'd see about doing an inplace update.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
You don't need the initial except if you're coming from stock. Otherwise just flash latest update nightly.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charbo:
I have the last version from the old cm7 thread before it was closed, and I want to go back to stock to try some other roms. My phone is recognized fine when i start it up normally, but when I put in in download mode, odin wont recognize it and it comes up in device manager as unknown device. I tried to tell it where the drivers were but it wont install them for it. I have windows 7 can anyone help me get it back to stock to start over?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geoffcorey:
Do you have the original vibrant drivers installed? Do you have the nexus s drivers installed?

To install the nexus s drivers, don't point the system to the i386 or the amd64, but rather the folder containing those. Or try Googling nexus s driver install.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charbo:
I have tried with both, I have the nexus s drivers (the latest usb ones in the sdk) but when i put the phone in download mode, it comes up as unknown device and wont let me use any drivers i try.

EDIT: I got it fixed by unistalling all the drivers for my phone and retrying. Thanks to Krylon360 for recommending USBDview
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glenelgstudio:
Nightly 5/6 has ffc working!!! I have the s4g cam in my Vibrant and i changed the ro.product.model to SGH-T959V and Tango and Qik work perfect. You need to give your phone about 15 or 20 min for the os to settle in but after that it's great. I will still try other configs but right now GPS is the only thing to do. GPS can be fixed because I fixed it on a older nightly but I dont remember what I did so I have not been able to recreate it. But I backed it up and if I restore it from my phone gps works so I'm sure it will be fixed.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karimsaud21:
Can anyone confirm this?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soldi3rxx:
When you flash the KB1 radio, why doesn't it change the baseband info?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ninjuh:
I'm trying to revert my girlfriends vibrant from cm7 to a non-2.3 rom.

I've read I need to flash a 2.2 rom via odin with re-partition selected, which is fine, but where do I get a odin flashable 2.2 rom? I can't find anything on samfirmwares.com and all the links ive found on xda are invalid links or arent working anymore.

So end result my girlfriend wants a custom 2.2 rom flashed on her phone, so I just need to get out of cm7 since it has different bootloaders than 2.2 correct?

any help would be greatly appreciated
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geoffcorey:
You will end up with mount errors in recovery if you flash a 2.2 Odin rom coming from CM7. You need to flash jfd to get back and working. As for links, I don't suave any at the moment, I'm on my phone.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] granduke:
Haven't seen this mentioned in awhile. Is that crazy bug when formatting your external sdcard, the internal memory gets erased instead- been fixed yet?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
I'm not sure what method you're using to flash, but you can't use a zip designed for use with Samsung ROM's nor can you use ODIN to flash the modem. you must use one of the MTD-compatible CWM zips (like the kind provided on sourceforge)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geoffcorey:
Only format your sdcard using the settings menu while running the rom.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] db3:
Hi, can you access the external sd with cm7?

I've not seen any information on this, but I was trying out cm7 yesterday (for the second time) and thought that my external sd got wiped during the install -- there was a link, but nothing showed up except for eula.txt and an empty titaniumbackup folder. I had some trouble getting titanium backup to restore data so i decided to flash back to bionix 1.3.1. much to my surprise, all of my external sd data was intact after loading it up.

is this a known issue or did i mess something up along the way? i only installed the initial kernel, update, and gapps. didn't bother with the nightly since i wanted to make sure everything was ok before hand.

thanks.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
external SD card is located at /mnt/emmc... on a samsung ROM it was stored at /mnt/sdcard/external_sd in froyo... basically the location has moved but yes it is still accessible.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] db3:
oh ok, makes sense. thanks.

another thing i noticed was that titanium's interface was a little different -- it forces you to 'detect' the backup folder and you can't just browse to it (at least i couldn't figure out how to do it). if the external is accessible, shouldn't titanium have detected the correct folder?

well, I'll probably go back to cm7 tonight and play around with it. i'll put the backup folder on my internal sd, just in case. might make it easier to work with anyway....

thanks again.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
tibu doesn't think to check /mnt/emmc because it doesn't think it should.

when opening the app, click "menu", "preferences" and scroll down to "backup folder location"... hit your back key until you are at "/mnt" (at the top next to the DETECT! button), then select emmc, then titanium backup
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geoffcorey:
You also have to be running something newer than the initial for your internal and external to be useable, assuming the initial hasn't been updated yet.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
newest initial has working sd cards. initial install has changed drastically and required a whole new set of builds.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saniltison:
Help with a soft brick

i appear to have soft brick my phone. vibrant with froyo 2.2.1. i placed the required files onto the internal SD card and 3 button restart into recovery where i installed the initial kernel. i then rebooted like the instruction told me but am the phone will not go past "galaxy S cyanegen mod" and it just sits there. can anyone help this noob recover his phone. i also had CWM recovery on there also.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
have you tried entering recovery manually (aka 3 finger salute)?

also when you went into recovery the first time, you didn't happen to deviate from the instructions and do something silly like "adb reboot recovery" or "reboot recovery" form an extended power menu of some sort (or even ROM Mangers)?

if so, that could be the source of your troubles.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soldi3rxx:
I've ready the questions and answer section about the 100% battery charge but can some elaborate please. If other custom roms can get to 100 why can't CM7?

Also, whats up with not being able to charge the phone while its off?

What purpose do they "cm7-vibrant-radio-xxx.zip" file serve. Like what exactly do they do

I'm only asking questions to inform myself and possibly inform other people, sry if i seem like a noob but I'm coming from Bionix and just trying out new things.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinnydakid:
Other roms don't actually charge to 100%, they just display 100%. This has been discussed many times before. Same goes for the charging while off thing. It's a bug but it isn't high on the list of things they need to fix. To be honest, it isn't really that big of a deal if you just set the phone to plane mode.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saniltison:
i have taken the batt out to have the phone shut off, then try the three button restart into recovery and i see the vibrant logo come up then i drop the three buttons. when i do that i see the cm7 logo come up then the screen goes black. the soft keys lite up when i touch them but that is about. i have also tried to use odin but the computer have the drivers for the galaxy s but odin does not see it and it does not go into download mode.

plz help.

i miss my phone.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vvsnail:
Excellent. Thanks. A simple "No" would have sufficed, but I do appreciate the link to current issues.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elmel:
How can i get into download mode ? I tried Battery pull and holding down volume key but nothing
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flipnotiq:
Pull the battery plug the usb hold both volumes then put back battery while still holding the volumes

Fast Dont Lie
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boothten:
I posted the same question in the development thread, but I figured I'd ask it here too:

"Just a quick question to the OP, do you only recommend/support we use the modems available on your sourceforge download page?

Could we use one from the CM7 flashable modem threads somewhere in the Vibrant Development section, or is that not suggested...?"
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jnorth89:
I've flashed almost all of the CM7 modems from scrizz's thread without any problems. I couldn't take the 2 bars of edge I was getting on the KA7 modem that comes stock with CM7. I settled for the KB5 modem and its been running pretty well for me through the last 2 nightlies.

Here's the link to scrizz's thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1036215
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theblackguy:
help please // vibrant-efsbackup.zip

maybe i am loosing my mind. but i can not locate a download for the

"vibrant-efsbackup.zip"

i have been trying to install cm7 for the past 3 hours before realizing i am missing this zip. PLEASE SOMEONE UPLOAD IT AGAIN. :(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] archie53:
You don't need it anymore, read the instructions that are linked from the first page of the CM7 Rom thread, that will help you. You only need the files vibrant initial, the gapps, and then the newest nighlty. They have made it easier than of was.

Sent from my CM7 Powered Vibrant
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Changelog:

20110511

- Revert samsung_modemctl to 2.3.4

May fix the disconnect issues related to modem crash.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsnow247:
Anyone else having trouble downloading the new nightly?

EDIT: Nevermind
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsnow247:
If I were you I'd just Odin back to JFD and try again.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boothten:
I am, sourceforge won't let me download the full 91.4mb file...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsnow247:
I clicked the "direct link" in the line that says "having trouble downloading." It finally worked.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laword:
android.process.media

I haven't flashed the newest nightly from CM, but when I load music onto my phone, and try to play music using Power AMP I get the same FC message android.process.media has stopped.

has anyone else received this same problem

P.s if this has already been covered already forgive the noob question

Im running CM7-05062011 no custom kernels
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Longcat14:
Well, now we have a 2 zip flash, but it doesn't require a cable, so it's not that bad.

I love the fact that the initial file now has the latest update, not the very first version released, saves a BUNCH of time.

You are amazing, you have made the Vibrant CM7 much better.

I do have one question, my extended battery was fully charged when I flashed, but now, it loses power quicker then my stock (and on 2.2, it lives FOREVER). Did I do something wrong, or should a simple recalibrate help?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] db3:
Is there any way to disable the notification backlight? Thanks.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boothten:
Follow the instructions here

I had the same issue.

:)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afgwahid1994:
is it the

update-cm-7-05112011-NIGHTLY-Vibrant-signed.zip

or

update-cm-7-INITIAL-Vibrant-signed.zip

?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonhdoe1000:
Problems with usb cable connection

After installing the latest nightly update update-cm-7-05112011-NIGHTLY-Vibrant-signed.zip I have troubles connecting the usb cable.

When connected the phone usb i see that the phone charges however i can not mount neither of the sdcards to the computer.

Also when working in usb debugging mode i see that the phone does not recognize and is not in this mode (i.e. i can not use adb as adb does not see any devices attached (already installed the nexus s drivers and was working perfectly on all latest nightlies until this one).

Does anyone else encountered any problems like this?

Do someone have a workaround to this issue?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geoffcorey:
You need to install the nexus s drivers (if you Google nexus s drivers, the Google specific sdk link tells you how to install the drivers)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonhdoe1000:
like i wrote before,

the nexus s drivers are installed and working (or at least were working fine until updating to this nightly)

any other suggestions?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indierocker774:
CM& MAJOR Battry drain issues

Alright guys. I need some serious assistance here. I've been running CM7 for a few weeks now and it had been pretty much perfect until I went Cm7 update/kernel happy one night and botched my phone at work. I promptly went home, odin'd back to stock 2.1 and re-installed CM7 via the official how-to. Since then, my battery life has been terrible. First, battery stats went from saying 7% left, "please shut off your phone" to saying I have 25% left. Then as that hit 7% (ish) it jumped back to 15% left...and then it finally died. So after that fun event, I odin'd back to official and then CM7 again, and I've made sure to fully charge it, drain it, fully charge it, wipe the battery stats, let it drain ect. It's done nothing. I can watch my battery die in 8-9 hours, while my phone is asleep 95% of the time. I mean, I can be inthe middle of a text conversation of, say, 15 texts, back and forth, and watch my battery drop 5-7% during the convo. It's bad. :(

So I've re-installed CM7 4 times now via the official how-to, charged and wiped battery stats multiple times via both CWM and an app called Battery Calibration (which does the same thing, just minus having to reboot into CWm). I don't know what to do. After my first install of CM7, I had my phone going for 18 hours+ under moderate usage. Moderate being defined as texting and occasional web browsing-nothing truly anti-battery. So my question is, what have I done to screw up my phone so badly and is there any way for me to truly get some normal battery usage back? :confused:

Edit again- I just remembered that my phone has been charging kind of odd since that botched event, as well. Yesterday it took me 8 hours to reach full charge, and today it took 2. Just now, I charged my phone from 22% to 95% in 1.5 hours.

-The guy in need of some serious XDA help

EDIT: That should read "CM7" up top...my b =/
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boothten:
When you first flashed it, was it fully charged?

Before, when I was having horrible battery issues, I tried exactly what you did.

Whether I tried to delete the battery stats through recovery, or through that battery callibration app, nothing ever really solved it.

I only ever got it back to normal when I bought Root Explorer, and deleted my batterystats.bin file manually.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indierocker774:
Yep, yep. I've been fully charged every time. I've fully drained/re-chagred/wiped stats/drain again once a day for the past three days and I'm still seeing massive battery drain. I haven't wiped via root explorer tho...which I do have, so I'll give that shot and pray to the Android gods lol
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boothten:
That's the only method that ever worked for me, so here's to hoping it works for you too!

:)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PaiPiePia:
Q: Why can't I play .avi or .mkv files? They worked fine with Samsung's ROM.

A: Due to codec licensing issues, this can't be provided out of the box. Several apps from the marketplace should be able to replicate this feature (such as RockPlayer)

Does this mean that mkv will never be hardware accelerated in Cyanogen Mod? I thought it is a hardware problem and not a software one.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indierocker774:
Boothten...you...are...

MY HERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My battery is back to normal...and it's awesome!! Thanks for your help! =D

PS..I clicked your thanks button lol XD
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kelmerp:
gapps not installing for me

Installed gapps universal from here: http://goo-inside.me/gapps/

Both from the ROM Manager app and by rebooting into recovery. No go. Tried downloading directly from within ROM Manager (same date) and that didn't work.

Since I can't seem to flash it, can I manually copy all of the files to their correct locations?

Nope, didn't work.

Solution: I was booting into the wrong recovery (green font) using Rom Manager. Using the three button technique I got into the correct clockwork recovery (orange text) and was able to flash gapps.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
It is a problem that the codecs aren't open source. And no software out there uses the hardware right now except for Samsung themselves because they have the license. Someone needs to write software that supports hardware acceleration, but it isn't done yet. We have seen rumblings about this on CyanogenMod for all devices, and that someone is working on it. We don't have it yet.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skilliona12e:
Help with my Phone!!

HELP!! I tried flashin m phone last night with the new cy7 2.3.4 and all im gettin when i turn on the screen is the vibrant logo....then the galaxy S logo and the cyanemod logo but then it goes black!! I kno the phone is on because the buttons on the phone light up but nothing is showing.. I tried to go into recovery mode by holdin the 3 buttons but nothing happens!!! PLEASE HELP!! If you can please PM me so I kno a post was made regarding my issue THANKS!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] german103:
You have to ODIN to stock, there's a sticky about it on this forum.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grundlestain:
ffc issue

I am running cm7 5-11 nightly, it works great but i was playing with the camera and i switched it to ffc but i dont have one installed, and now my camera app force closes as soon as i open it... any ideas on changing it back? i tried rebooting and then i tried fixing permissions and rebooting but it wont open any more... Thanks
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PaiPiePia:
Sorry for the late response, were busy with finals. Thank you very much for sharing the detail, fingers crossed that someone will figure out a way to harness the power. :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbg17891:
Hey guys i have installed the CM7 and it works fine but i cant get the gapps to load. I tried to download them and put then on my SD card and flash it using the rom manager and i also downloaded the rom manager. Neither of these two methods are giving me the markets or other apps. :( anyone know how i can fix this? Thanks
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roxva:
Install failed / aborted

Need some help. After the "Verifying update package..." step, i get failures:

E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E:signature verification failed

Installation aborted.

Thanks in advance
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CTown:
Is it possible to...

Is it possible to just go back be on Eclair or Froyo and Just do this (this is a Q&A thread, right?):

1)Root and get recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.2-vibrant.zip (which is ClockWorkMod 2) and rename it to update.zip: http://mirror.sea.tdrevolution.net/cm/recoveries/

2)Go to recovery and "Reinstall Packages" and you should be on CWM2. From there I think you can just apply the kernel-cm-7-INITIAL-DEVICE-signed.zip AND REBOOT.

3)Go back to recovery and you should be on CWM version 3. Apply the update-cm-7-INITIAL-DEVICE-signed.zip

I'm on CM7 now (I know how to use Odin and Heimdall) but the new instructions are very confusing. I just wanted to know if they could be simplified and I don't feel like going back to stock now in order to see if these instructions here work or not. So, can I get some confirmation! If I am wrong, what is missing?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
the instructions clearly imply that all you need is either 2e recovery OR CWM of any sort.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CTown:
Thanks for the clarification

Thanks for the clearification. Also, can one just apply something like KA7 through the recovery, or is that still impossible? Would it be possible if one could flash a CWM 2 kernel over CM7 or is that also impossible (or not just available)?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
I'm not quite sure what it is you're asking, but if you are asking about switching to a Samsung ROM off of CM7, you cannot use CWM to apply it. To go back to Samsung and it's bml partition layout, you *must* use ODIN or heimdall with a full firmware, pit file, and repartition selected.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gfropr:
I am a complete IDIOT, I flashed the Galaxy S I-900 version of Cyanogen on my phone and now all my buttons are backwards. Is it possible to just flash the Vibrant version thru Rom Manager? Or do I have to Odin back to stock, if so, is it possible to get into download mode? I feel like a complete jackass flashing the wrong version, never made a mistake in two years of flashing. One last question is it also possible to just flash the right kernel on top thru SGS kernel flasher? Thanks ahead for the help :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
a) I recommend going back to stock and starting over as the instructions are now much easier to go from stock eclair or CWM'd froyo to CM7 (note: you will need a FULL firmware with a pit and repartition selected)

b) download mode method should not have changed from beforehand with 3 button combo

c) SGS kernel flasher is not compatible with CM7 ROM/kernels (also, much is stored outside the kernel in the ROM)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffeb3:
Fixing the camera and ffc mode

Yeah, I did that too. I think it was someone in this thread that mentioned the solution, but I'm not judging. ;)

The solution is to go to settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> All -> Camera -> Clear Data. This reset the setting (the one to choose ffc at the beggining). It didn't remove any of my pictures either. If you are feeing particularly charitable, you should find out if this bug has been reported yet.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aeok18109:
Well after sitting through this thread and READING. Im gonna attempt CM7 on my vibrant. Im a long time TW/EDT user so ODIN/3 button salute and generally doing everything from a clean slate isn't alien to me :)

Just got done going back to JFD and rooting. onward to market to get rom manager (cwm recovery) from there...following instructions in thread. wish me luck.