yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monoespacial:
I tried holding both volume buttons and power, volume up and power, only volume buttons, then usb, then power. I spent about an hour or two trying different things. Is there another combination?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harryk92:
I got it working after going back to stock. However, after rebooting several times and wiping the cache of the android market, my downloads still all fail. any idea how to fix this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monoespacial:
Edited, nevermind!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike662:
Hello, I am having troubles with my Captivate connecting to my Vibrant's wireless tether. Captivate is running Apex 7.3, Vibrant is running Hybrid SGS II JVP. My brother's MyTouch 3G running Cyanogenmod can connect to the tether, but the Captivate can't. Any suggestions? I tried searching around but couldn't find anything. Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monoespacial:
Text reflow and double tap zoom in default browser seem off. Zoom is too far away after tapping and text doesn't reflow again after pinch zooming.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] james.arroyo:
If you happen to get it into download mode then just follow connexion video, it saved me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOyx5JQ_8_I

all you really have to do is:

get it in download mode and run GB bootloader in the PDA slot (linked below the video)

put it back in download mode again and run the kernel also in the PDA slot (linked below the video)

then put it in recovery using key combo and install the ROM.

[EDIT] doh! see that he already got it fixed
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadowryven:
OK so I just tried to flash this and everything went smoothly till I booted it up after the flash. I got the At&t logo and then suddenly, my phones screen just had a bunch of well...static I guess would be the best way to describe it. I left it alone for a couple of minutes and it then just shut down. Now when I try and boot it up, I get the AT&T logo and after that, all I get is a black screen.

My home keys and such light up but they won't respond at all. I've tried to see if I can get it into recovery mode, no dice on that. Odin won't recognize it and I really have no idea what to do now. I really don't want to have to buy a new phone if this just remains unresponsive. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
have you followed installation instructions? specially have u flashed bootloaders? Can you get into download mode?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadowryven:
Followed them to a t and I've been trying on and off to get it into download mode. No such luck. I'm gonna see if I can build a jig and try that. If that doesn't work...well there goes a nice sum of money to buy a new phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slackingoff7:
I am about to install APEX from start to end using Odin and then recovery. Are there any concerns I should have coming from Serendipity VII?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
What key combos have you tried?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] punpun214:
apex 8 help please

so i have a very weird problem i cant seem to understand. i have i9000 bootloaders on the kernel that apex originally has. so my problem is that i tried using cwm to flash apex 8 from 7.3 (i did the same thing from all gb roms) and i get stuck at the kernel screen. and now i cant even use odin to go back to stock 2.1. it just says it fails when i start. any help would be great. thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
Can u get into CWM? Try reflashing apex 8 again
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] punpun214:
nope.. cant.. just download mode
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
so if u r in download mode, u cant flash anything? did u try flashing talon kernel again from apex flasher? Not bootloaders just kernel
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] punpun214:
yea i just tried that.. it just goes to the kernel screen.. i was wondering.. am i supposed to flash the stock 2.3 rom before flashing apex 8 over it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] punpun214:
ok i got it back to stock 2.1 now.. sorry i never had these problems before lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlmay52:
Incomming Volume Control

When I make a phone call or receive a call I have to adjust my volume to hear the call at its loudest. The adjustment won't stay and each time I make a call or receive a call I have to raise the volume. In settings all the volume settings are at their maximum.

Is this normal for Gingerbread roms? I did not have this problem in Froyo roms.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pidluz:
7.3 to 8?

I installed 7.3 as per instructions (i9000 bootoaders etc). Now I tried flashing 8 using recovery, like the instructions state, and I get a bootloop (Talon screen, to i9000 screen and back again). Luckily I still had 7.3 zip on my phone, so I've flashed back and things seem fine. Any idea what the problem is?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
which kernel were u running before flashing 8.0?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pidluz:
The one from the Apex Flasher that I found in the 7.3 install instructions. Is there a different one for 8?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
This should be fine.

BTW were u running any theme before flashing apex?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pidluz:
I was the first time, then after I reinstalled 7.3 I didn't apply one, and tried again, but received the same result.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pmaw10:
I have Apex 8.0 installed. Apex is by far the best rom I have used. However, in 8.0 is there really no way to have the apps arranged in alphabetical order? Or am I just missing something?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
If u r using Arc launcher u can rearrange
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jvc73:
No recovery menu after bootloop

Hi!

I hope these are not too stupid questions.

I have Froyo Cognition 4.5.3, flashed back to JF6 and followed the procedure to install Apex 7 (8 was not out yet).

After the bootloader and kernel, I have the bootloop with att logo+garbled screen.

Keycombo not working (strange), so put it in recovery from ADB, but the screen is black so I can't continue!

Reflashed it all back to starting point, so back on the Cognotion 4.5.3 with CWM.

What would be the best way to proceed?

I tried all of this twice and soft-bricked in the process.

Last question is, once installed, is there a way to safely go back?

Thanks for all your help!

I can't wait to see this rom!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
If you have garbled screen means u havent flashed bootloaders. May i know process that you are following?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jvc73:
That is possible, since I am quite new at this.

I'm sure there is some stupid error in the process that I am doing.

reflashed JF6 with Odin3 (once click)

Downloaded Apex pacakge:

flashed the galaxys-bootloader-JVB.tar.md5 with Odin (it reboots if I recall)

flashed the Talon_Kernel.tar with the odin kernel flasher

At that point I am getting the bootloop as described in the procedure, however with the att logo alternating with the garbled screen.

Pulled the battery, keycombo not working to get recovery, so adb devices, once present adb reboot recovery, black screen

Nothing more I can do at that point I think.

Sorry I would like to be more precise but it was a few days ago.

Thanks for answering!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
You have flashed bootloaders - Correct

You have flashed Talon kernel - Correct, but now you wont be able to reboot. You have to reboot into recovery and flash Apex from there. To reboot into recovery the key combo is 'Volume up + Power'

Once you have rebooted into recovert flash apex.zip and you are done
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jvc73:
Sounds good, but any clue about why I couldn't see the recovery menu on the display?

I tried the key combo you suggested many times, that's why I used the adb (or is that actually different?).

I'll let you know how it goes!

Thanks!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pmaw10:
Well one of the biggest reasons I installed Apex was it has touchwiz 4 so I dont want a different launcher. It just doesn't make much sense since you could arrange them alphabetically in 8.0
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reynaldinho111:
Oops. xda hates me :(

Delete pleeeeease
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] parkerdjohnson:
Hello! I'm running Apex 8.2 (as of last night), and I have a couple of questions...

1) I flashed it once, an it seemed kind of laggy. The launchers were very slow, overall performance was not so great. I flashed it all again, following the updates in recovery, and it seems tobe better, but its still pretty slow. Is there some boost that I'm missing??

2) Is there a way to get rid of the miui music app? It's hideous.....

Thanks!!

And for the record, this rom is great(!!!), but I feel like Im missing something, and it could be better!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suicideclown:
Hello, Wanted to say thanks for the apex rom.

When I first installed and ran the first day it was AWESOME!

Second day, slow as hell

Patched Maps, market, and updated to 8.2 from 8.1 and most of the lag was gone and seemed to run like the first day.

I am on a Talon Kernel and it still seems a little slower than other roms like Cognition or continuum

Soon I will try another kernel to see if I can correct this lag.

On the talon rom I have even tried overclocking and lag does not change.

Thanks again for your work!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MZCaptivate:
Apex 8.2 is awesome, Runs real fast and real smooth on my cappy I896. Running talon for a few days before I switch to Dark core. Of course there will be some other toy to play with by then.

Correction had a couple of soft reboots trying DarkCore now after reading the Developement thread. People seem to be having more luck.

I was getting not enough memory errors while running various apps
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pasarillo:
In the development thread, it was mentioned that Apex 8.2 performance better when using Talon kernel 0.4.1 VR scheduler. But how to set it? I am new with Andoid.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jobankler:
quick question! does this rom have the task manager app(job manager) from the one in stock 2.2?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
Nope from stock 2.3.4
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jobankler:
what u mean nope from 2.3.4? does it have the same app but one suited for 2.3? or it just doesnt have it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
It has task manager but the one from 2.3.4

2.2 is old my friend
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uncle Irish:
Get Voltage Control from the market. When you open it, the dropdown on the left has a setting for VR. Select it, apply it, then hit the menu soft key and choose Save as boot settings.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suicideclown:
Update to one of my previous posts. My wife and I were using Talon Kernels with this rom and experienced much lag when making and receiving calls, browsing the contacts and the thing almost became useless. I then downloaded the darkcore kernel and flashed it over what was already there, rebooted and is working 10X faster than the Talon Kernel with Apex. I saw on the survey that most liked Talon... but my personal results are that talon lagged out my system and Darkcore brought it back to life. But it appears that most will agree that a lagged out system can be corrected by switching the kernel and making sure you dont update the map pack. Thanks to everyone for their troubleshooting and comments and thanks for the rom!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamusxervantes:
hello from mexico, sorry for my English is not very good, I'm new to this topic captivate, I have many questions to them starting with:

1 that the advantages of flashing the modem and see that everyone has a different version of modem.

2 I have installed the rom apex with the kernel and bootloader heel Chef hails recommended that if I want to change rom what steps I have to do.

thinking about it I got the idea to flash a rom each other back to a stock rom and use the master of odin clean and install everything again but I find it very difficult which leads me to ........ ..

3 if I have the heel kernel and want to change a dark core kernel use the flasher you provided odin apex or to do another process, the kernel can flash without affecting Many times the phone or the Prosesa.

4 as the i9000 delete the apex bootloaders or you can flash it countless times

thank you very much for your time and kind attention, greetings from mexico
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sa1yan:
So with this option, you say that Talon is a much better kernel vs DarkCore? Cause I am currently on DarkCore and find it to be a bit laggy...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cnu4u:
Generic Question on Apex 8.2

Hi,

I have recently installed Apex 8.2 by

a) Flashing back to Stock

b) Copy Apex 8.2 full ROM on SD Card

c) Flash I9000 Boot loaders, TALON 0.4.1 kernel

4) Using recovery, flashed ROM.

I am overall happy with ROM but question I have is related to apps.

When I looked at app versions Calendar is 1.1, Clock 1.0, Camera 1.0, Contacts 1.0, Gallery 1.1.xxxx, Message 1.0 and so on. Since this ROM is based on 2.3.4, I was thinking most of the apps will be based on 2.3.4 but looks like these are way behind.

Am I looking this right? Did I flash it correctly? Can someone clarify this?

Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
If app version is 1.x doesnt necessarily mean that its from android 1.x
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbto:
my cappy is stilll on custom 2.2 rom, will i able to flash to APEX with your steps?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cnu4u:
Agreed. But the icon image shown in screenshots is different from what I see in my phone. Hope that is because of some custom theme but not sure. :mad:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cnu4u:
On a high-level it should work. More details can be found in Development section under Apex 8.2
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tbcheese:
slow battery charging

Just a quick question. How long does it take to fully charge the battery on apex 8.2? Seems I plugged it in for 3 hours and only got 10% charge. Using an htc legend wall charger.

edit: seems to be charging fine now
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
did u flash some theme?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cnu4u:
No theme is installed.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaquez4:
ok, first off i heard great things about Apex 8.2 and the operating features are awesome. It is smooth and does seem to be faster than other roms i have tried. But i have seem to run into a bit of a problem. When I installed the rom the phone and you try to go to the recovery mode, there is a hiccup. Once the phone shuts down and restarts, I am brought to a screen that is half snowy (like the television when you dont get a certain channel) and the other half with lines of red, green, and blue. From here I cannot tell what is going on when I use the volume key to go up or down. Then with a double click of the power button the phone just restarts normally. I am not sure what this means, and am wondering if the Odin3 process will help alleviate this.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
Sounds like you missed out a step of flashing GB bootloaders?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaquez4:
whatever it was I tried the Odin1 Click and made my phone stock. Gonna try and give a go again. This thread was a huge help. You guys are like life savers, Thank yall!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
When trying this time try to follow steps word by word.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobbylx:
http://apexrom.weebly.com/installation-instructions.html

Yep, do all the steps there and you should be set. That Apex Flasher is an important one, :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cnu4u:
Battery not charging to 100%

Hi,

I am not able to charge my phone to 100%. This is happening even before coming to Apex 8.2. I heard Apex ROM will fix it but I might have got wrong information. Can someone suggest how to fix it? Thanks in advance.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
welcome to gingerbread :)

If it goes upto ~95% then its not a bug, as samsung has implemented some sort of feature to avoid over charging. The bug is when it drops to ~95% and doesnt charge upto 100%
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cnu4u:
Thanks Watsa...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cnu4u:
SNS Restart

When I see running applications, I see SNS is restarting always and draining my battery :(. Manually, I am stopping it. But does anyone know why it is happening? I am on Apex 8.2?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KLRKttn:
I just redid my phone to run the latest ApeX, now I have a complete loss of sound.

Ringtones, Notifications, Music, YouTube, it's all dead. Anyone else having this issue?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
did u restore system data?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KLRKttn:
I did a double wipe + Dalvik wipe. I haven't restored any apps through the Market yet, and I haven't messed with any settings in Voodoo or EDT.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alcalina:
where do I start? I have a phonix ultimate, clock work.

evertyhing is fine.

I see I need flash to stock. I get the flash from the site http://apexrom.weebly.com/installation-instructions.html

My doubt is about kernel and modem.

Because after apex flash, I dont know "order" of the things.

kernel(TalonDEV-0.4.2-BIGMEM-CWM3_kernel)

modem(TDVJP9_CWM3_MODEM)

or apex

what do I do first?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
the order is written in read me file in apex flasher
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Keepone:
Uhm I'm having a bit of an issue flashing 8.3. Post-flashing I get a screen with random lines of randomly colored pixels, the it boots, and when I try to start it up, I get mass FCs, help? :x
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
did u flash gingerbread bootloaders?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irixrilex:
I'm having an audio issue with 8.2 At first, I was on 7.1 (?) and twlauncher suddently started force quitting on me with no way out, so I wipe-upgraded to 8.2. I swore after I did that install that I got audio on feedback/new emails/etc, but now I'm getting no key press or notification audio (this includes incoming calls). The speaker itself works just fine, I can hear audio during a conversation.

Audio is not muted or set to vibrate only. Ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
flashed anything on top of rom? any app kernel?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irixrilex:
No, flashed according to the instructions and everything seemed OK. Just a day or two ago audio stopped. Also saw that a media player doesn't output sound.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
any app from market that u think could do this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irixrilex:
I've got:

Facebook

WSDOT

Gmail

Google Maps

Craigslist Mobile

Pandora internet

YouTube

Alchemy by Andrey 'Zed' Zaikin

reddit is fun

Had a camera to scanner app installed, uninstalled that one.

EDIT: Doesn't look like it is APEX, fortunately - http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-761359.html
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sovinahlinkmed:
Apex 8.3

hi: Flashed Apex 8.3 ROM yesterday over my Apex 8.2, screen looks clearer than the 8.2, however the sgs dailybrief widget is missing, did you take that widget out? how can I get it back in 8.3? Love the wheather theme and its colors in that widget. Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphaleo26:
Have a weird problem. Running apex 8.3 and now everytime I power off the phone or reboot the phone loses all the app I put on the phone minus the ones that came with apex. I'm lost I reflashed apex and still have same problem. Anything I side loads disappears after reboot can't even keep rom manager on there.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
This happened after you followed all steps? Did you flash it from CWM2?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphaleo26:
I followed all the steps. I've flashed plenty of times but this is the first time this has ever happen. I fixed the problem by going back to stock kf1 gb and starting all over. Now no more symptoms I guess it was just a weird thing not sure lol.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sportyankz:
I have Captivate I896 rogers, i flashed the rom Apex8.3 and after installation my phone won't load past the kernal screen :S

Please help.. i get some weird noise coming out of my phone "partition" "2minutes remaining" etc..

I tried everything but it won't get past the default kernal screeen:(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slackingoff7:
So I am having a little difficulty. I flashed this rom before and didnt have trouble.

This time, I wiped the cache and dalvik cache before installing the rom.

Now, it freezes up and acts as if I am pressing the lock screen button every 30 seconds. Along with this, it runs the media scanner every time the lockscreen comes up.

If there are any solutions, I would greatly appreciate it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toy028:
That sound is Voodoo Lagfix and its probably trying to convert your system to EXT4 file system. Im guessing it errors out and stops the conversion. Can you get into recovery?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toy028:
I would flash again this time do a factory reset and clear cache/dalvik cache just before you install the rom.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slackingoff7:
Yea, you do something a thousand times and it goes weird a couple times. Did that the first time it didn't work and second time it did. Thanks!

I was deleting the system cache to hopefully solve an issue that I have been having with all ROMs (tried serendipity 6, serendipity VII, GM12, Apex 7, Apex 8) except stock. Sometimes the phone acts as if I were pressing the back button even though I have not.

Have you ever heard of an issue like that before?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toy028:
Yes Ive heard of it. Im not sure if its faulty hardware or moisture but some cappys are just picky and plain strange. Luckily for me I got a good one.

How did everything work out for you?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PizzaAmerican23:
Im having a problem on step one when flashing.

I just reverted back to stock JF6 by using one click odin.

I opened 1 - bootloaders, and plugged my phone in download mode.

I think it goes through, because it says this:

<ID:0/027> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/027> Initialzation..

<ID:0/027> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/027> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/027> boot.bin

<ID:0/027> Sbl.bin

<ID:0/027> param.lfs

<ID:0/027> Completed..

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0)

<ID:0/027> Removed!!

but then my phone resets into android system recovery 2e and seems to be stuck.

It says: manual mode

-- appling muti-csc...

installing muti-csc

and then does nothing.

I can choose to reboot or reinstall. When I choose reinstall I get an error that it cant open /sdcard/update.zip

Did my bootloader flash go through and it just wants to restart in recovery for some reason?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harryzee:
I just manual nootered 1.2 on the eMMc with mn 4.5.18.

Current Flash version is 10.1 and I need to get updated to 10.3 for the current Netflix to run properly. (Has no image and the sound is "chipmunks")

I know I saw the solution sometime ago which was to completely delete flash 10.1 and then install 10.3 as a new app, not as an update. Updating to 10.3 causes MN to go into a boot loop.

Cannot find that thread so would appreciate instructions on how to completely delete 10.1 under mn 4.5.18.

Have successfully run Netflix under both CM7.0.3 and Phiremod 6.3 so I know it works and with the latest version you no longer have to edit the bulid.prop file.

Thanks in advance.