yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeighB:
Turns out I like the Samsung launcher better, partly cause the sony launcher is at times a little slow.

ps: phone locked up again while I was on the phone. Had to pull the battery. First time thats ever happened. Which kernel do you use?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
That seems to happen more due to TW4 launcher. I use Talon
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andy.lai27:
Hey all,

Just wanted to first say that I've used both Apex and Pinnacle. Both are amazing ROM's. Thank you so much.

However, I think I have missed a step or did something wrong. I'm experiencing two problems (although one has a temporary fix).

The first is the email client. Whenever I try to use the application, it freezes and force closes itself. I've installed K9 mail in the mean time, but I am wondering why it isn't working. I took the advice from a post earlier in this thread to restore just the app only without the data, but it didn't seem to work.

My second issue is incoming calls. It auto answers, while my screen goes black. Then, it automatically drops it, and causes my phone to lose service (as if it just went to airplane mode) for about 15 seconds. Wierd thing is that I can make outgoing calls with no problems at all. I am using TiBU to restore all my apps and data, if that helps.

Thanks again for your time! :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
Well the email app included is from SGS II, so it doesnt like data restore from an SGS email app... As for second problem I have never heard of it, could be related to network?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andy.lai27:
Thanks for the tip about the email. I just deleted all the data when managing applications. It now works perfectly fine.

As for the second issue, I don't believe it is a network issue, although I'm not really sure how to check. After looking through this thread, I noticed someone else had this issue. However, I wasn't able to get a fix out of it after going through the replies.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
There can be a possibility of bad flash too, but I will start with taking SIM card out for a min, putting it back in to see if that solves the problem
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andy.lai27:
Just tried that. Did not work :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bushjt987:
Hello, I have recently put Apex 9.3 on my phone, and have been considering a switch to pinnacle. I have a few questions about the whole process, so any help is greatly appreciated. While I am loving Apex, it seems to be a bit unstable on my phone. It will freeze in certain apps and I'll have to reboot my phone. It seems to be a bit better now, after a day or so of use, but I had to remove the samsung email app because it was doing a force close loop without me even using it. I think the SGS II launcher may also have caused some crashing, as switching to GoLauncher seems to have made the system more stable. My questions regarding Pinnacle are:

1. Would it be more stable than Apex?

2. Does it include the same customization features as Apex?

3. If I installed Apex by following you guide to the letter, can I just flash Pinnacle onto my phone or do I need to replace the kernal, go back to stock eclair, turn off lagfix first, etc?

I realize this thread is for Apex and not Pinnacle, but seeing as I need help switching from one to the other, and that Pinnacle is derived from Apex, I hope it's alright to ask here. Thank you for your wonderful work and support!

Edit: After some more use, it appears I'm not getting random crashes anymore; I think switching launchers did it. I guess now all I want to know is if there is any real reason to migrate from Apex to Pinnacle. Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henrysmails:
File System Conversion

Wasta,

How to switch over from ext 4 to RFS?

Thanks, Henry
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helboy618:
Battery not Charging

I just made the switch to Apex 10 after running apex 9 up to 9.3 and I have to say an amazing job! Best Rom I have found so far.

I am post this more as an fyi:

While running Apex 9.3, I was running TIB every night on a schedule and had it set to reboot the phone when it was done backing up. I would get up in the morning and after having it on the charger all night, while it was plugged in it would say bat 100%. Unplug it and it would drop down to 85% immediately. Plug the phone back in and it would charge up to 100% and everything would be fine. So I don't know what the issue was with. I took the reboot off of the TIB schedule and the charging would work fine.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
from CWM --> Voodoo --> disable lagfix --> reboot
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miro781:
Overscroll

Awesome ROM Watsa!

There's just one thing that's bugging me, it's the overscroll glow animation. Any way to revert it back to "elastic" overscroll? Maybe for 10.1?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theevildevil:
Unable to change the home app/launcher

Hello watsa,

I just moved to Apex 10.0 and so far looks nice!

I chose Home as the Home App/Launcher during initial configuration but now I am unable to find how to change it from the 3 options it was showing then.

I installed Home Switcher app and it shows that my default Home app is Home but the 'set default' option isnt actually working (on pressing it shows on the top that default app changed but on pressing home button again, its the Home app launched) but the launch button does work.

Am I missing something here? I want to change to Touchwiz 3. Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
go to settings --> Applications --> Manage App --> All --> Find home here and click on it... When u scroll down u will see a clear default button.. click it... hit home and u will see all launchers again
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
I will make addon for it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seyaru:
hi first watsa thanks for the new version the apex 10 is very nice, and here one question, i have some problems with my headset samsung i cant answer or end calls with the button.

sry but i search and dont see any answer about this :S
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
Dont know what I can about this. Have u tried a different headest just to be sure.. Let me see if I can replicate this when I get a call :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seyaru:
oka thaks i try now with other headset and work without problem fuuu i think i need buy other :P

offtopic: any suggests?? XD
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vileladelima:
Touchwiz

Hi, did anyone knows were i found touchwiz 3.0 or 4.0 for apex 10,0 ?

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TonyStark R.I.P.:
also in market an app called HomeSwitcher or Home switcher

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see watsa's post #341. tw3 is already installed in 10.0
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongostylor:
Hey there,

first off, I love the Apex Roms so far. I´m back to Apex 9.3 with the latest Talon 0.5xx Kernel. I tried Apex 10 a couple of days ago and had some issues with the gps. On GPS Test I wasn´t able to get any satelites to show up. I allready tried faster fix with europe and germany, but it didn´t change anything. I allready tried other jvs based roms without any improvement. I don´t know if I´m making any mistakes while flashing. It can´t be a hardware problem because I get perfect gps on your Apex 9.3. I hope you can help me, because I allready tried everything I could find and it´s getting on my nervs.

thx
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vileladelima:
Sorry by the insistense, but where i found the tw4.0?

I did'nt foud when i search.

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bujji:
Upgrade Question

Hello watsa,

I never see any developer response so promptly and also get bug fixes and new releases so fast. Great job.

I have a noob question. I am on Cognition 4.5.3. (Froyo).

is there a step to step guide to how to get to latest Apex. I tried to look at ROM thread. It is so long and moving so fast. and most of you guys are so advanced users. I am checking QA as well but not sure.

secondly my build number is 1021 and I soft bricked once loading boot loader (from 2.1 to 2.2) so I am little concerned about loading bootloadeds.

it is still be the case now?

really appropriate the help
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TonyStark R.I.P.:
If you are looking for tw4 it will not work w/ Apex. That's why watsa installed tw3
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
On the contrary TW4 will work with Apex 10. There is a CWM flashable zip under sdcard/Apex folder... This is copied on your SD card when you flash the ROM...

However TW4 is made for dual core phones so using it on our phones causes instability when doing high cpu intensive tasks..

Install at your own risk
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dartdc97:
first off i must say, great rom watsa, thank you for the hard work! i literally just installed my first GB rom after being on stock eclair for a week ( refurb came with stock froyo but went back to stock jf6 before taking the plunge) and so far everything is amazing. my only problem now is after installing apex 9.1, i want to try apex 10 and put it on my internal sd, (after plugging my phone in and connecting flawlessly every step of the way while on stock rom), but my phone no longer connects to my pc... i was amazed at how quickly everything was recognized and drivers installed with the stock rom, but now that im on apex, my pc is giving me the red x when it tries to install drivers after plugging in my phone... any ideas or thoughts on what i need to do to make this connection? do i need i9000 usb drivers perhaps as opposed to i897 drivers? im not really sure but any help would be amazing
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
Nope drivers are same. I would try these:

1. Reboot PC and connect phone again

2. Reboot phone

3. Try another port

If everything fails then getting rid of drivers and installing them again. Yes you should try A10 its much better than A9.1 IMO :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 6XGate:
Boot splash.

I have flashed a modified version of the JVS param.lfs file onto my phone to remove the AT&T World Phone logo, but I want to use the same splash that the APEX kernel uses.

Is it possible to get a BMP, JPEG, or PNG of the Apex's default kernel splash.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
You mean SGH-I897 image? Thats built into DarkCore kernel.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 6XGate:
Actually yes, I wanted to get the image used to make its boot splash, trying to find it now, but I can't seem to find a thread for it. I guess I'll just PM Darkyy.

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I also found a bug in Settings -> Customization -> Statusbar Options. If I use something like radiooptions, or the *#*#INFO#*#* to disable the cellular radio, the Hide signal icon setting won't hide the little O with the dash through it that appears in the statusbar.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keananaho:
It sounds like the bootloaders to me.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 6XGate:
It's in the kernel, the bootloader has the AT&T world phone logo. To remove that I flashed the bootloader from the GT-I9000 JVS bootloader, only sans the logo file so I can replace it later. I just wanted to replace it with the same image used by the kernel. It's before the boot animation intro and loop but after the bootloader's image. I hope Darkyy will reply to my PM soon, and with the image :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dartdc97:
thanks! on apex 10 now... amazing help amazing forum. loving the rom. u da man
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbabbler:
Watsa, I just wanted to thank you for your tireless effort on Apex and Pinnacle. I teach classes at the gym and recently went from an Ipod to a Captivate for my Media player. I have hundreds of playlists and like the freedom of the Android system for getting music to and from my home PC and other sources.

I have been using Apex for a few weeks and love it. What, if anything will I gain by going to Pinnacle? Does the fact that it is made for the I897 give me anything substantial such as battery life or sound quality?

Thanks in advance. :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miro781:
wow, thanks for the feedback!

Another point, is there a way to fix swype to display the normal qwerty keyboard when using the french dictionary?

Stock rom was setup this way, but stock swype uses the french (as in from France) azerty layout which nobody uses except the french. Us poor quebecers have to single-type every word and fight with auto-correct in every text we send, unless we switch to a conventional keyboard. I was searching for a way to fix this on Swype's forum, and it seems this is a OEM customization unsupported by swype.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
Yes you get better sound and battery on pinnacle, however remember that pinnacle limits you to 3g speeds whereas Apex gives u H speeds
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbabbler:
Well, I flashed to Pinnacle 1.3 this afternoon and find it slower to respond than Apex. The screen is slower for sure. I wonder if the Voodoo lag fix on the Apex is the key there.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjcanales:
apex 10

I recently installed apex 10 and everything was going smoothly for the first day til I called someone but that couldn't hear me. Notice that only way they could hear me is if I were to press speaker then repress it for normal speak and it works. I have to do that for every time I maje a phone call or receive one. Does anyone have any ideas? Please help watsa.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
Tried reflashing? And calling someone before restoring anything?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TonyStark R.I.P.:
Deleted question. Found the answer.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjcanales:
I relflash and everything seems to be going great. I'm thinking it may be one of my apps that cause this problem ill report back when I figure out which one.[QUOTE=watsa;17856891]Tried reflashing? And calling someone before restoring anything?[/QUOTE]
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alyssa323:
Voicemail notification

Hi everyone,

I am now using Apex and everything works great except the new voicemail notification icon that always appear. I have tried going to setting -> Call settings -> Voicemail but I couldn't get rid of it. Some people have also fixed the issue by erasing some messages. I don't have a voicemail service so that is not an option. I have the AT&T version of the captivate unlocked and running on Fido. Thank you for any help!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
Same here.. I have an AT&T version running on Fido and everything works.. I know it sounds odd but try reflashing
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liowdanger:
hey i have one doubt what's the difference between APEX 10.X and Pinnacle 1.3?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phush:
So I flashed Apex 10 over Serendipity 7. At first I was okay, but then I flashed the latest Talon, which created a ton of problems with lag. I re-flashed DarkCore but the lag was still there, so I decided to reflash the whole thing. STILL had problems with lag, so I converted back to RFS to prepare for flashing a different ROM. Figured I would give RFS a shot for awhile and strangely enough all of my lag problems are completely gone. Oh, I also flashed I897 bootloaders after the second Apex flash, so maybe that had something to with it. Anyone have any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helboy618:
I myself had issues with lag on both Apex9.x and Apex 10. I have got the lag to pretty much disappear using

adrenaline tweak found here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1236779 and

talon 0.5.1.2 kernel here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1050206&highlight=TALONDEV and

the Talon ram management here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1221709&highlight=talon+ram

I am also using the i9000 bootloaders if that makes any difference and the overclock talon kernel and have GREAT battery life.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elad92:
Hey, please help me!

I've been using Apex for a long time, and after I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 the problems started showing up.

I tried to flash the version with no wipe (9.1 to 9.2) and the phone went into a bootloop, so I flashed back to JF6 and followed the Apex-Flasher package instructions.

The rom was working fine but the battery life are so bad that the phone is almost unusable.

I'm not charging the phone all night, I'm charging to 100% before I go to sleep, turning off WIFI and 3G, and when I wake up the battery is just 5-7% less.

But now with 9.2 the battery is 15%-20% less!!

I tried to flash Apex 10, but it's the same.

Maybe it's because the Apex Flasher package contains AT&T BL? I thing that before 9.2 I was using I9000 BL.

Even when the phone in flight mode and with no SIM the battery is draining in few hours!!

When I'm checking the battry use in settings, I always see "Cell standby" firse.

And another small thing, In Apex 10 you removed a lot of things, one of them was the Buddies Now widget which I like a lot. I tried to copy the APK to the app lib in system, but it didn't work. I also tried to install it but it didn't work. How can I get this widget?

Thanks in advance!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lordpipa:
If I were to move from Apex 10 X which is a I900 Rom to an I897 do I need to flash bootloaders or just full wipe and flash from Recovery?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shorty920:
Here's a problem I'm having recently. I flashed from Dlev's Rom to Apex 9.2 since I was having loads of problems with Dlevs (mostly with lag and the battery life was absolutely horrendous) and immediately the lag, battery life, and performance improved. However after flashing to Apex 9.3 and then flashing back and forth between Talon 4.3 and Darkcore 3.x (forget which version) kernels a couple of times to test performance, I've noticed that my phone's battery life is once again atrocious when data is activated and my phone goes through a bout or two of crashing and freezing every day (it would take a few minutes for the phone to restabilize). Would there be any way to fix this? Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
The freezing is due to TW4. I have removed it from 10.0 and added a good looking TW3. I would advice upgrading to 10.0
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shorty920:
Ok I'll do that soon then. As for the horrendous battery life, it just seems like using any of the HSPA+ modems on i9000 roms drain the battery. I may also switch over to Pinnacle. Thanks for the reponse Watsa:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bc_kimble:
The i897 ROM pages all say to flash AT&T i897 bootloaders before flashing the i897 ROMs (KH3, KI2, etc.) so I would ODIN flash the i897 bootloaders and then do a full wipe before trying to flash a ROM like Pinnacle. Hope that helped.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alyssa323:
Thank you for the advice. I did that and still the same...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
Instruction updated in ApeX ROM OP
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yaboydrew:
The jig is supposed to be to get into download mode. I installed Apex 7 and the phone would freeze at the galaxy S animation and loop it so i used odin to restore stock and after that its stuck at the at&t logo looping and i cant get recovery or download mode.

Do you think my problem is related to installing Apex 7 or when i flashed back with odin.

Thanks for your help. If i can narrow this down i can help others.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
if ur phone is alive that means u have proper bootloaders. which ODIN did u try to go back to stock?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abystus:
Great job watsaa! I am coming from Cog 2.8b and have gotten the rom (Apex7 Update1) up and running. The only issue is that the Icons in Launcher Mode under the app menu are fuzzy looking and not as detailed as the ones presented on the main screens. Is this a launcher problem or a rom issue? Switching to TW makes the icons appear clean like normal. I saw someone mention it in the main thread however I do not think they got a response.

Everything else seems to be rocking (other than wifi not instantly connecting when I reenter a building after an extended leave but this was also a problem with the Cog rom I came from so I assume it's device related). When installing this rom I performed a master clear in oden, loaded with stock (but did not perform a factory restore), loaded both talon/GB and installed the rom. Hopefully not performing the factory restore after reloading stock did not affect the rom install thus causing this issue (or the wifi one, but again I think that is a device problem).

Any help is appreciated and keep up the great work!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwnerman:
the low res launcher was an issue in the old Apex 7 rom u should update to 7.1 it will fix your wifi issues as well unless ur on 7.1 then take it up with the dev all those problems were supposed to be fixed

Also why were you on Cog 2.8b for so long? I was on that clear back in december i think it was lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abystus:
Unfortunately I was browsing the forums at work and saw the Apex build and figured I'd give it a try and the next day a new improved release comes out (my luck right? lol). So I've been working with the previous version (Update 1) (soft bricked the phone once installing it ha).

Well it was my first mod (Froyo was delayed for the umpteenth time and I wanted a good build and Cog 2.8 was it at that time) and figured that it was better than stock was. The other thing that kept me from getting a more recent version is most likely the fact that I'm lazy and didn't want to devote the hour it took to put 2.8 on as I was not as familiar with it as I am now (I'm still a noob to different kernels/modems, etc).

On that note to get the latest version out do I just install the kernel/gb again and reload the new rom from my phone or can I skip the kernel/gb bit and just load the new rom on top of the version I have now? I think the kernel version may have changed but I'm not entirely sure (As the previous notes have been removed for the version of the kernel). Again any help is appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yaboydrew:
The ondin oneclick thing in the forum with the Start button and Master clear. I also had CWM installed but cannnot load that neither.

BEFORE I flashed Apex I used a kernel swap thing i found to enable the 2e recovery so i could load unverified Zips. Could that be what messed it up? I rooted first to...?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dartore:
can someone help!!??