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[Captivate Android Development] Soccer_Dad:
Mostly for former Continuum 5.5 users

I see a lot of issues cropping up from those of us coming from Continuum. If we can ignore the people who assume that things

can't

be going wrong for us, or the people who insist

we must have not followed directions

(which were 'flash in CWM and enjoy' since we were already on GB), maybe we'll find out that there are some incompatibilities to a straight flash, somehow.

So has anyone coming from Continuum 5.5 had a good experience flashing this ROM? Because all I've heard from are bad ones - for those people who announced where they were coming from. I'm not saying this to run down one ROM or another - but perhaps there is some issue (smarter people than I can speculate on what that might be) that would require a little more work (to stock, to an intermediate kernel, to RFS, factory reset, master clear, etc.) before flashing S7.

But maybe there is no "problem", and that my issues (and those of others) were simply due to a bad download or any other number of things that makes my experience different than yours.
[Captivate Android Development] abee_13:
i came from continuum and have had no issues at all
[Captivate Android Development] pwnerman:
Im very sorry idk what went wrong I used it and it worked for me
[Captivate Android Development] cbasse:
1) How did you put Talon on your phone? I just soft-bricked trying to put it on via Odin3. Is it CWM-able? Any special instructions?

2) I could be wrong, but I think I was suffering MAJOR battery drain on the Serendipity Kernel (build 2.0) -- before putting build 2.0 on my phone battery life seemed fine, but once I put build 2 on it was terrible. I can't point to anything else that might have been the cause of the drain.

Has anyone else experienced this using build 2.0 of the Kernel? Is there some setting I could check that might be causing the drain I'm experiencing? BLN maybe?

Thanks in advance!
[Captivate Android Development] streetsmart999:
After Flashing the ROM ,Before Reboot... Do a Factory Reset, Clear Cache and Clear Dalvic Cache and then Boot. 99% will not have issues. at-least that worked for me all the time. I hope this will help. Good Luck.

Thats the Rule I follow for every flash (for all new RoM's). never had Issues.
[Captivate Android Development] pwnerman:
There was no battery drain for me while i was on that kernel im now on Talon. And to put it on your phone you download the tar file and put it in the PDA slot and make sure re partition is not checked then hit start
[Captivate Android Development] MikeyMike01:
It doesn't, and it never will. The screen and radio are the major battery guzzlers, not the cpu.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Android Development] Nickel Dime Bay:
Loving this ROM, i came from C5.5 also. Might not go back :D
[Captivate Android Development] tietherope:
It's a bad placement because I just threw it on to show you, but let me know if you want this search bar.
[Captivate Android Development] H3llstorm:
I watched the 1080p trailer for the new Transformers movie in "HQ" mode, and then I watched a clip from the office on Hulu.com.

Of course, my Flash 10.3 is appropriately hacked. :cool:

I also changed /system/build.prop to the following settings:

media.stagefright.enable-player - false

media.stagefright.enable-meta - false

media.stagefright.enable-scan - false

media.stagefright.enable-http - true

media.stagefright.enable-rtsp - true

I also watched the diner scene from the beginning of Reservoir Dogs using Netflix streaming. All of these videos look great & the audio is in sync.

In other words, no, I'm not having the same issues.
[Captivate Android Development] crazililazn:
HQ isn't nearly as intensive as actual 1080p playback, since it is not actually 1080p resolution. If you see "HQ" mode, then you are on the mobile site of youtube. Change it to desktop mode by going to the bottom of the page and clicking "desktop". Then try watching that Transformer trailer in '1080p'.
[Captivate Android Development] stojkov.matt@gmail.com:
Where'd you get the transparent power controls?
[Captivate Android Development] OBatRFan:
I'd like that Search widget, if you don't mind!
[Captivate Android Development] stojkov.matt@gmail.com:
Any one get twlauncher to work?
[Captivate Android Development] tietherope:
It's called "Power Widget" from the market. You can set colour, transparency, which toggles to use, widget size and more. I use the paid version, however there is a free one. It has pop ups to buy it from time to time though.
[Captivate Android Development] tietherope:
Here you are.
[Captivate Android Development] musavvir:
Do you guys remember the samsung calendar agenda widget that came with GR-12? I seriously need that widget. How do I get that widget and make it work on S-VII ?

Mikey? Anyone?

Just for the record, I'm using GO launcher and it's working just fine.
[Captivate Android Development] DrGoodspeed:
yea same here
[Captivate Android Development] RuizGT:
Post that apk, please.

Oops, just saw the file, thanks!
[Captivate Android Development] H3llstorm:
In the Dolphin HD browser (with user agent set to "Desktop), 1080p video stutters, but 720p plays flawlessly.

With that, I find it hard to get worked up because my phone doesn't reduce 1920x1080 streaming video to 800x480 very well.
[Captivate Android Development] DrGoodspeed:
lol. its literally 3 posts above yours
[Captivate Android Development] abee_13:
Anyone want a battery mod from 6.4 ? ... i want to try and port over some of the ones you guys want
[Captivate Android Development] RuizGT:
Yep, I thought I was on the last page, lol.
[Captivate Android Development] abee_13:
mikeymike ... you do anything in the framework other than theme it? going to try and port over a theme
[Captivate Android Development] gspears:
It's working fine for me.
[Captivate Android Development] Soccer_Dad:
So the three of you that have had a good experience coming from Continuum - you were all on Talon? Did you disable the tweaks? I'm just trying to see if there's anything you did that I didn't do. I was on RFS, so EXT4 wouldn't have been an issue. And I cleared the cache and Dalvik cache, so those weren't the issue. And I flashed a second time with recovery 2.5 and it still didn't work.

I'm just following through to see if there's anything systematic about what gave some of us fits, and let you three (and presumably a lot of others) do fine.
[Captivate Android Development] crazililazn:
Wrong. It still processes 1920x1080 worth of pixels AND THEN downsizes it to 800x480 because that is the highest resolution the screen has. The point of this is to show how much power our phone has. It obviously has enough power, revert to Flash Player that comes with the ROM, and you will see for yourself. However, if you really don't care about how much power your phone has, get a flip phone or something. With that attitude, we would have stopped at Pentium 3's... The reason you are using this Galaxy S is because people wanted to continue to push technology. It's sad to hear something like this from a forum such as XDA-Developers. The whole point of this forum is to improve our devices...

Either way, there is a definitely some difference between the Flash player 10.1 that comes with the rom, and the 10.3 that is from the Market. Seems like Samsung themselves did something to the Flash player to tweak performance. Wondering if anyone can bring those tweaks and integrate it with the interface fixes of Flash player 10.3. That would be the best of both worlds.
[Captivate Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
this happened to me. went from 40% to 10% when i rebooted. i was ok with it though because it seemed to stay at 50% for WAY too long. just some calibration issue i think.
[Captivate Android Development] abee_13:
Well try flashing talon with odin ... also ive read that its better to flash it with auto reboot unticked and then pull battery and go into recovery to wipe cache ... hope it works for you .... if anything p.m me ill try and help as much as i can
[Captivate Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
+1 (10 char limit)
[Captivate Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
I turned on airplane mode for the hell of it, and I could not get reception again without a reboot. Has anyone encountered this issue?
[Captivate Android Development] H3llstorm:
Put another way, it's sad to hear another forum member suggest that I should "get a flip phone" just because I'm content with my phone's ability to play 1280×720 streaming video on its 800x480 screen, rather than commiserating because it's stuttering on 1920x1080 streaming video.

I never said that the world should stop developing technology. All I said was that I'm not bent out of shape because my phone stutters on video with a resolution two-and-a-half times its native resolution.
[Captivate Android Development] rompus:
Yeah, I would like that search bar. Looks nice.
[Captivate Android Development] Joecascio2000:
After 11h 21m 48s I'm at 50% exactly. Display Time On is 2h 7m 50s!

WiFi always on, auto sync every 6 hours.

Sent 7 Text Messages and Talked to my Grandma for 21 mins.

Battery Life is unbelievable. I thought 6.4 was good.

On a side note, the included modem is amazing for me. No issues, great reception.

EDIT: Also I ran a speed test today with mobile data and pulled 3.2 up and 1.1 down
[Captivate Android Development] crazililazn:
Basically you are fine with something not working. That's like someone who bought a Ferrari able to hit 190 MPH top speed. Then, the next day, it can only hit 160 MPH. Sure, its still drivable and faster than most cars, but it isn't what you paid for. You paid for a top of the line sports car.

Same case here. I paid for a top of the line phone. I am expecting great performance out of it, especially when I have personally seen it working well w/1080p videos before installing 10.3 from the Market.

This is an enthusiast forum. The fact you are here shows that you want to improve the performance of your phone. So you do one thing and say another. Quite hypocritical if you ask me :rolleyes:
[Captivate Android Development] H3llstorm:
I'm not fine with something not working. If you've bothered reading this thread, it seems my phone is working a lot better than a lot of other people's phones.

I'd say it's more like complaining that my 720p HDTV doesn't display 1080p video very well, when I'm smart enough to set my FIOS & Blu-ray player output to 720p.

I've run Assonance; Serendipity 4.0-6.4 (Froyo); GR-10, 11 & 12 and now Serendipity VII, and I never had good performance with 1080p. OTOH, 720p has always looked/run great.

I have improved the performance of my far-from-stock phone. Just because you say one thing and I do another doesn't make me a hypocrite.

What your ridiculous, unfounded and uncalled for accusations say about you is something else entirely.
[Captivate Android Development] splitnail:
you two should start your own thread
[Captivate Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
it is amazing to me how some people can get up to 4h display time while others can only get 2h. I have flashed 18 different roms now (odin logs) over the lifetime of my phone and never have had more than about 2.5 hrs of screen time.
[Captivate Android Development] Joecascio2000:
I could get 4h of display time. I got 2h at 50% so i should get 4h with close to 0%. But I could upload a screenshot to prove my statement. Not so sure about others.

Edit: also I could turn airplane mode on and have screen timeout set to never and get a **** load of screen time. But my statement refers to real life use.
[Captivate Android Development] JayFReaZy:
I think the modem plays a big part in battery drain. Like MikeyMike stated earlier in this thread, the radio (modem) is one of the biggest culprits for battery drain. I've been using JL2 since about March and noticed I can only have about 2 to 2.5 hrs of display before my phone dies. When I flashed S7 which came with the JV6 modem, I had about 2hrs and 40min of display and still had a good 30% of battery life left. I decided to flash JL2 yesterday to improve my GPS performance and wouldn't you know, at about an hr or so of display, my battery was at 50%. You just have to find the right modem to optimize battery life.
[Captivate Android Development] Joecascio2000:
Well now that I have everything ironed out. My ONLY gripe about this ROM and/or Kernel is there isn't enough RAM available (329M Total). My phone sits at about 40-70M of RAM free. This is why I miss Speedmod with 341M Total. I always had at least 90M Free. And that extra 12M of RAM really helps.

Every time I open an app up and use it for about 5 mins my launcher needs to reload cause there isn't enough RAM to keep it available. The System Persistent option helps a little though. Anyway after a fresh boot things are good for a while.
[Captivate Android Development] ou812bkewl:
+1 For sleep death. Has anyone found a workaround for this yet? I had it within an hour of installing the rom with the pre-installed kernel with nothing else installed (just booted and got through to the home screen).

I started from 100 percent battery while off charger about an hour and BOOM, sleep death, as I remember it (a non-responsive, non-rebootive black screen. battery pull required for restart). I then unvoodooed, installed talon 0.2.1, (blisteringly fast btw, no offense MM&CM y'all's was great too :D) reapplied lag-fix, waited four hours and all seemed well.

I reinstalled all my apps from Cog by re-downloading from the market. Today the sleep death happened again. I thought I had escaped but death found me...

At this point, its not enough to cause me to jump back to Cog, but I was just wondering if there was a fix. I searched but found nothing but a few mentions of the problem buried under unrelated posts.
[Captivate Android Development] eep2378:
Hmm. I haven't encountered any sleep death issues since I've been running S7

for about 2 days now. I'm using the default kernel as well.
[Captivate Android Development] jswclw:
Day 2 Summary

Day 2 on S7 say some serious use. When on a bike ride for almost 5 hours, with music the whole time, and GPS in use by RunKeeeper tracking my path, pace, and so on. Started with 90% battery, arrived home with 54%. I'm really pleased with that!

One note on the music. I cannot say for sure, but my initial impression (the day before) was that the music player that came with S7 was a little power hungry. I reinstalled google music beta, and told it to only deal with the local music. I like this interface, of course it pretty close to the one that came with S7.

Later I messed with album art which is still an issue. Used "Cover Art Downloader" to restore it all again. Was messing around with other stuff at the same time and got the phone in a non-responsive state, requiring a reboot. Album art at all back now.

Found that after each reboot, BLN gets reactivated. I don't care for it, so I have to remember to re-disable it after each reboot.

Just installed the 2.0 Kernel, will see how that goes.

Coming from Talon Kernel, I had disabled EXT4. Consequently (I guess) it did not auto-convert back to EXT4 when I installed S7. I haven't really seen any reason to so far. S7 is running very well without it. May give it a try after another day or 2.

In summary, S7 is great so far. The only bug that I think I've seen is the BLN re-activating after each boot...and that is just a minor nuisance.
[Captivate Android Development] xtremesv:
Mikey, would you recommend Serendipity VII over 6.4 or should	I continue on S6 if I want full stability and zero weird battery drains?
[Captivate Android Development] mbc663:
i feel like an ass. 3 button fix didnt get me into download mode, but home button, volume down and power did. wahoo!
[Captivate Android Development] streetsmart999:
Let me know if u can go past Download mode.. as Its not for me.. even after new kernel.
[Captivate Android Development] LimaI896:
Been awhile since I have flashed my phone, on 6.2 currently

For v7 do I still follow the odin back to stock to flash or can I just flash this rom on top of 6.2?

Thanks in advance =)
[Captivate Android Development] mbc663:
go for the new one. thats like saying "should i opt for the v8 mustang with all the fixings or the v6" ;]
[Captivate Android Development] Dungeon47:
I just finished flashing and starting my TiBu restore. more when i've played with it a while. I flashed directly over GR-12 with Xcal's kernel, and voodoo disabled. Wiped batt stats. No problems at all.
[Captivate Android Development] phatninja13:
at long last the beast is unleashed, downloading now

lmao just saw the credit to al gore hahaha thank you al gore
[Captivate Android Development] mbc663:
follow the instructions on the site. download the package with the boot loaders for GB, and the rom zip. (big download link)
[Captivate Android Development] streetsmart999:
At last It worked for me... Phewww.. Thanks for everyone who tried to help me.
[Captivate Android Development] LimaI896:
Thank you I saw it after I posted :p

Looks like I have to do a fresh flash since 6.2 is a 2.2.1 rom
[Captivate Android Development] mbc663:
gonna try again now, whatd u have to do?
[Captivate Android Development] smanzor88:
alright good job man....so how did u get it to work ..just curious :) so are you going back to stock 2.1 right now ?
[Captivate Android Development] :
It really is as smooth and stable as 6.4 was... but its got all the goodies from GB too. Make the jump.
[Captivate Android Development] WickedNite:
There's no toggle for the clock yet, right?
[Captivate Android Development] Bren Dekura:
It looks beautiful... As always
[Captivate Android Development] mbc663:
worked for me 2nd time around too. seems like we downloaded the package before it was fixed. no harm done.
[Captivate Android Development] silverslotcar:
Booting up. Ill report back later.
[Captivate Android Development] KC108:
So far, I've gotten 2 random restarts.
[Captivate Android Development] tysj:
Nope. At least I couldn't find one in the Data and Time settings. It would be nice to have the AM/PM toggle. But I can wait :)

S7 is running beautifully :D
[Captivate Android Development] rizzo269:
Flashed and all is great. Only thing I'm missing is an email client. The only other feature I have came across missing is the linking notification and ringtone volume.

Nice job on this. Modem is working good so far for me. Thanks for the hard work!
[Captivate Android Development] jlsesler:
Where is the 2.0 kernel? I must be missing something.
[Captivate Android Development] mark1962nc:
Post 3 in the OP
[Captivate Android Development] rkkaranrk:
Currently i am on serendipity 6.4, I don't have the 3 button DL mode active on this particular phone, I know i can get into Dl with the help of a JIG but i don't have one.

Can i flash Serendipity over the 6.4.

Can i get into DL mode from the power menu.
[Captivate Android Development] jswclw:
If "Download" it is on your power menu, try it. If it works, you should be good to go. After the first step in getting to this ROM you will have the new boot loaders. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the new boot-loaders, with their new ways to access download and recovery modes, should eliminate the "no 3-button" problem.
[Captivate Android Development] reinbeau:
The go back one page and get it :)
[Captivate Android Development] rkkaranrk:
Thanks for replying, I agree the new boot loaders will fix the 3 button what are the risk in flashing the boots from the odin will ill be safe.

If I don't have the DL on my menu should I try this ?
[Captivate Android Development] jswclw:
Yea, I can understand your caution. I would think it would be OK wince you can get into download mode that first time. However, my phone didn't have the 3-button issue, so I cannot tell your for sure. Maybe someone with real experience will chime in shortly. It's still early.
[Captivate Android Development] rkkaranrk:
Will wait for it.
[Captivate Android Development] MikeyMike01:
Quite a bit, clearly.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Android Development] abee_13:
hmm .... can you try and p.m me what you've changed please
[Captivate Android Development] conundrum768:
I don't have the three-button on my phone either. Just download ADB and use it to reboot into download -- that's pretty much all that I use it for.

Sent from my Captivate, proudly sporting Serendipity VII.
[Captivate Android Development] Coak5:
Just came over to this ROM 2 days ago after being on Ryude's Precision 3.5 ROM for about 7 months. It was the best battery life I had until I finally decided to switch over to this ROM after first trying out Obsession (which was laggy as crap for me). This ROM is by far the most responsive, quick, and efficient battery life ROM I have ever used. Good job Mikey and Chance.
[Captivate Android Development] xpakage:
There is a risk whether you have button combos or not. Bay_wolf's AIO is a good tool to get into download or recovery without the button combo.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=944418

Read how to use it and if you feel good with the instructions, go for it. I used to use it all the time but have bought a jig. The GB bootloaders are really nice. vol up + power is recovery (release both as soon as you see anything on the screen. You do not have to hold like Froyo) and vol down + power is download mode. Easy and painless.

You can also try AIO without doing anything to the phone. Put it in recovery or download (will have to do a battery pull to get out of download). As long as that is all you do, you will not change anything but you will get some practice and feel more confident.
[Captivate Android Development] rrieter:
At 30% battery after 1 day 3 hrs 20 minutes! I've used mikey's rom's exclusively since I got my phone. But I've never seen battery life like this. Normally, with my usage, it would have lasted 10hrs max. I haven't updated kernal yet, btw. Amazing!
[Captivate Android Development] MikeyMike01:
No? If you intend to theme something you start with that ROM's files.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Android Development] abee_13:
i know but i just wanted to make sure i didnt remove anything youve worked on ... ill be mostly just editing the framework.res so i probably wont
[Captivate Android Development] RichMD:
I found more issues when using the theme above and have reflashed the ROM. Does anyone know what themes should be supported rather than trial and error? A personal preference but I hate bland grey menus so I want to replace all of those. I will probably use the UOT kitchen after to modify the icons, notification menu, etc - it just doesn't modify all the others yet. If the answer is "There are no fully compatible themes yet" then that's fine - I won't waste my time looking for any...
[Captivate Android Development] reinbeau:
The pesky clock is gone (thanx, ATT Intruder!), now, can anyone come up with the colored settings menu? I've given up on the colored power menu, all versions on Serendipity 6.4 reverted after a reboot.
[Captivate Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
thanks for the info. i just wish JV6 worked for me. I have been on JK4 in the northern NJ area for a long time now. that is probably why i cant get more than 2.5 hrs most of the time.
[Captivate Android Development] richsale:
I just flashed over from Continuum and so far all is well except Allshare. When I try to restore from Titanium it force closes and restarts the cappy.

I have searched the internet for a new Allshare to download with no luck.

Allshare is one of those apps that is a must for me. Has anybody tried to use Allshare and what has your experience been ?
[Captivate Android Development] RichMD:
I also am trying this after Continuum 5.5. I used the "add-ons" in the link below from the Serendipity 7 website and included the Samsung DLNA and I have already streamed video successfully so I know it works.

http://serendipity7.weebly.com/add-ons.html