yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Android Development] zmore:
Any video recording above MMS-quality is jerky, and this is my only real complaint about running CM7 instead of a rom like Cognition 5 that has the Samsung secret sauce baked in. In just about every other way, CM7 is superior, so the trade-off is worth it (and I don't think my kid (or wife) will mind a few jerky videos for a ~1 year span of his toddler life before I upgrade to my next phone that should be fast enough to software encode without h/w accel and speshul codecs being necessary; pics are good enough :)
[Captivate Android Development] sa1yan:
i need help...just flashed it and am having problems with it...

But I can't seem to get into download mode..only recovery...someone help a noob? thanks. button combo dont work either...

adb doesn't find my phone...help!
[Captivate Android Development] melbourne408:
Have you tried reinstalling 7.1and gapps?

Sent from I'm sure glad Danger went under, else I'd still be on a Mr.Cartoon SK2.
[Captivate Android Development] zmore:
Nope. You just have to remember to run it once after flashing to rewrite the hosts file.
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Not really sure what you mean by your having problems with it. That could be a bunch of stuff.. did it even boot up for you?
[Captivate Android Development] SweetwaterBurns:
There's some complaints about it in the adfree thread. Seems to be an app issue.
[Captivate Android Development] waghoba:
I have been away from CM7 party since KF1 came out, just wanted to ask one quick question: are the new bootloaders compatible with CM7? or do I have to go back to stock 2.1 and start again? Pardon me if it is already answered but logically thinking it should be compatible and I do remember someone mentioning so...
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
if its not stated in the directions.. i would just assume no but that's just me. If you want more confirmation:
[Captivate Android Development] jojomoulder:
To let everyone know. It is possible to load this with the new bootloaders. I flashed it straight over Cognition 5. I have no problems at all. Not saying go against what the op says. For some reason I never remember to do all the steps.

Next I would like to say thanks for all the hard work everyone has put into this. Now I see why people like it so much. Once again thanks
[Captivate Android Development] waghoba:
well...no offense but TBH I have never flashed CM7 from froyo! if required a fresh install, I would just go to stock 2.1 and install it via cwr just by replacing stock 2e recovery(just saying instructions are not always the only correct way to do the things ;) )...without even rooting the phone...that is why I said logically thinking it is possible to flash CM7 using GB bootloaders..
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
the only reason you don't have to root from 2.1 is because samsung failed miserably at making a secure recovery (it accepts test-signed zip packages). the reason the instructions are for 2.2 and 2.2 only is because not every captivate is capable of going back to JF6/JH7 (2.1), and we won't give instructions that not every phone can follow.
[Captivate Android Development] waghoba:
well, this makes more sense...I never knew that not all captivates are capable of going to stock 2.1!
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
instruction's are the safe way to do things;) ... that's all i was saying.
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
Safe is for the people still running AT&T's ROM. ;)

Actually, I agree with you. While I might try crazy things that are not in the instructions, I only direct other people at the instructions if they have questions.
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Same :D
[Captivate Android Development] rabi347:
A little confused here. I presume this ROM is based on UCKF1 baseband and does the ROM utilize the Audience Chip ?

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] morehush:
No, it's not. No, it doesn't.
[Captivate Android Development] smeltn:
Keep us posted on battery life. Currently running Apex and like it, but miss my CM7.. Waiting to get a better idea of how good this RC is though before switching back
[Captivate Android Development] markdexter:
Anyone tried the latest Kernel by the escapist on this Rom yet? he just uploaded it today? about 1hr ago
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Looking at his thread ..kernel build #5 is working with latest nightly :) ..except BLN.. maybe :p
[Captivate Android Development] wvmstr:
It seems battery life is better with V7.1.0 vs nightly 05212011
[Captivate Android Development] Loremonger:
Benchmark and Battery

If anyone is interested, and if you don't already know this, the Quadrant score looks legit:

It was 2045 that time, but the CPU was actually 5253 of that.

The OS eats up about 25% of the battery. I can make it about half a day on a full charge, moderate use.

No issues otherwise.
[Captivate Android Development] RockRatt:
I am using it at this time and no real issues so far except bln is not working. Wait I think I four.d something as I am typing, I can type with the phone upright and see the text but in landscape it types but no words are showing until I put the phone back with the phone upright. Maybe a reboot will fix this so I will see.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.5Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Android Development] Uncle Irish:
Seriously?!!? 25%

That's terrible. Try running OS Monitor to see if Android OS is always running. That's not normal far as I know. I haven't tried RC1 yet, but that doesn't seem right
[Captivate Android Development] singlebeam:
Has anyone else been getting the "welcome to nexus s" email over and over again? They just keep on coming... Also I'm finding that the wi-fi is inactive when my screen turns off - YES - I DID change the sleep policy to NEVER. I was downloading an update and turned the screen off only to find out that the download paused until I turned it back on again. Perhaps I need to reflash but I'm fairly certain I have a clean install. Can anyone else confirm these issues? Thanks.
[Captivate Android Development] imb951:
Yes, it's working beautifully :D

Just pulled a 2322 in quadrant @ 1.5ghz with the Escapist's nightly kernel #5 on CM7 nightly #42.

Pretty sure that's my Cappy's personal best score of all time!
[Captivate Android Development] amucinom:
hey guys!! what kernel do you guys recommend for this fine RC1?
[Captivate Android Development] bentonhall:
This is an hour and half with display on and 3 hours of listening to music with winamp.

http://db.tt/mHGYonQ

EDIT: battery is at 34%
[Captivate Android Development] n0stalgia:
Battery life is awesome!!!

42% charge left after 8hrs of almost no usage with all radios turned off
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
I can get 50% or higher charge left after 9 hours of "normal" usage with radio's turned on. Generally to get over 50% after 9 hours, I need to turn off cellular data and use wifi instead, which seems to be lighter on the battery.

Regardless, 42% after 8 hours of no use and no radios sounds pretty bad to me... I'd take a look at "Android OS" to see specifically what is causing so much drain when you are not using the device.
[Captivate Android Development] novagator:
Yeah, I'm hoping he was being sarcastic, because that's pretty terrible.
[Captivate Android Development] datapunkk:
Flash player

Youtube desktop flash video playback is never smooth on CM7 nightlies. Same story with this one. Its buttery smooth the GB roms. Does anyone know if that can be fixed. That's the only reason why I cant use this on a daily basis
[Captivate Android Development] morehush:
I'm having a problem where the youtube app will only play about 60 to 75% of a video. It plays fine for a while, then says "There was a problem playing this video." It's happened with all of the videos I've played. Anyone else?
[Captivate Android Development] jhernand1102:
Smooth as butter for me on CM7 using the built in browser.
[Captivate Android Development] wvmstr:
BLN no longer works

I am sad to report that BLN has stopped working.

It was on nightly 05212011
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
It was taken out a little while back.. escapists kernel as far as I know has working BLN. Also glitch kernel has led notifications..

You can always grab the cmparts from an older build to get it back too.
[Captivate Android Development] ls377:
Wait...you can just replace the cmparts on stock and it works?
[Captivate Android Development] bentonhall:
WIFI tethering does not work for me. Anyone else tried it yet?
[Captivate Android Development] srivers33:
hey mates, have a problem flashing this for a friend on his captivate. Get done formatting and resetting then i go to flash and i get this error after it says installing update...

assert failed: getprop ("ro.product.device") etc etc etc....this goes on for a while then at the end it says (status 7) Installation aborted.

any idea's??? Get the feeling i may not want the "captivate" rom specifically but i really cant say for sure. Thanks in advance
[Captivate Android Development] zmore:
WPA2 hotspot working fine here. Sometimes you have to enable it twice, as you'll get 'error' the first time.
[Captivate Android Development] mikey98277:
I got that issue when i downloaded it with ROM Manager and tried to install, I had to download on my computer and move over to my sd card, and install it that way and I had no problem. Not sure how your trying to install but hope that helps.
[Captivate Android Development] srivers33:
hey, yea im trying from recovery, i have no idea why this is happening. i have a MT4g and the process is always alot simpler. Us htc users dont seem to incounter the same stuff. You samsung guys have alot of patience. Also why does the phone talk to me when im trying to restore his old backup? Or even a new rom? So weird.
[Captivate Android Development] bentonhall:
I didn't get any errors. I'm able to connect to the hotspot from my laptop at wpa2 but it has no access to the internet.
[Captivate Android Development] smeltn:
working fine here. Used it to connect with my laptop 4 different times today and all 4 worked great. NO issues. Changed the SSID and set password to WPA2.
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
LOL, that talking is probably the voodoo lagfix giving you status updates as it activates. The first time I heard it it was a bit freaky. Voodoo lagfix is used with Samsung based ROMs to improve performance due to Samsung's use of the RFS file system. It is unnecessary with CM because the file system is ext4.
[Captivate Android Development] bobbylx:
I had the same issue when I first tried to flash. I got impatient and tried going directly from Continuum. I think it was not working because I wasn't starting with a true Captivate platform. I One-clicked back to stock 2.1 then upgraded to 2.2. Flashed CM7 without an issue after that.
[Captivate Android Development] mikey98277:
Yeah i started on a G1, Samsung is different but this is my second Samsung so i guess i have just gotten used to it, the only other suggestion is maybe the download got corrupted, so you could try another download to eliminate that. Other than that you may have to use Odin to take it back and flash from there.
[Captivate Android Development] bentonhall:
Okay. I went back in the settings and changed it to open and then reset back to wpa2 and it is now working fine. :)
[Captivate Android Development] phaedrusiszen:
Mostly yaffs2, actually. But the point remains.
[Captivate Android Development] srivers33:
wow, thanks for the help guys. So just so i dont revert if i dont have to, i need to wipe everything, then flash just as i always have and it should just go yes? 2 things i noticed. the CWM recovery is now red.....changed from green earlier, is that ok? also the computers we have are not recognizing the phone now and its not letting me see things ive moved over to the card since the last time the usb did see it.....ugh. i feel like such a noob with this thing.

From what im reading i may need to revert back to 2.1 and reroot and flash every time he wants to change a ROM?????? Cant be......
[Captivate Android Development] TheShamsMan:
Hey guys,

Had a couple questions to clarify instructions.

Are Gingerbread bootloaders required before flashing this ROM? Does this ROM include a kernel or is that something that needs to be flashed after the bootloaders and before the ROM?

Thanks!
[Captivate Android Development] bobbylx:
Not necessarily. As for CWM colors, I don't really bother keeping up. Here's my experience. Lets say I start with a stock phone. If I load a custom ROM that's made for the Captivate or ported to it using an i9000 ROM, I can usually go from ROM to ROM without the need to go back to stock. CM7 seem to be a little different for me at least. I don't know if it's the bootloader or what, but if I'm on any other ROM, going back to stock before loading CM7 works best.

And no need to root. I haven't rooted my phone in about 10 months. If you get the CWM update.zip file and save it to the root of your internal SDcard, it should always be there.

So for example. You're running a custom ROM. You go back to stock. Copy new custom ROM to internal SD. Boot phone into stock recovery, reinstall packages, it reboots, reinstall packages again, and you're in CWM. Flash new ROM and you're done. No need to re-root.
[Captivate Android Development] pparavas:
No!!!! Gingerbread bootloaders are not required. Instructions clearly recommend you to flash from froyo or stock eclair. I have seen people posting that they flashed from gingerbread, if you wanna do that go ahead, but no one is responsible if you lose your wife or house by doing that. You need not flash anything apart from the gapps that has been attached. Go back to stock. Install clockworkmod recovery. Copy the rom zip and gapps on ur phone and flash and have fun...
[Captivate Android Development] pparavas:
No proper conclusions about the battery on the RC

I somehow feel that the standby battery consumption has improved, but on moderate usage my battery has been dying down in 10 hrs....:(:(
[Captivate Android Development] mikey98277:
No just when flashing CM they recommend it, but not always necessary, i only suggested if the wipe and re download didnt work as an option as it is what they suggest in the OP. I was able to just flash it, but then again all these phone differ on what will work and they said earlier in the thread they will only put out what works on all phones, not every option. Good Luck
[Captivate Android Development] jhernand1102:
Battery has been and most likely always will be an issue. If you need long battery life then flash a different ROM. I usually get about 15 to 18 hours the way I use my phone, so that works for me. Since Samsung uses a closed source for some of their stuff on the Captivate the CM7 developers will never be able to fix the issue which is causing the battery drain ( it has to do with the radio not letting the phone sleep properly) . For me I can live with this small issue as long as I can get through my work day which I can.:)
[Captivate Android Development] melbourne408:
Yes the drain has been a issue, but none the less since before the buildbot and the beginning it has gotten far better than I had expected!

Great to see the improvement from the initial efs zip and then the whole shibang to what it is now.

One hell of a beautiful transformation :D
[Captivate Android Development] xtsuname:
Noob Question.

But, can we change the modem in this rom to the ATT KF1 modem? So that the audience chip will work?
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
the audience chip won't work without kernel support, and the CM kernel does not have the audience chip codecs or drivers.
[Captivate Android Development] serialtoon:
Can i move from RC1 to nightly without a wipe? Or will i have to wipe?
[Captivate Android Development] melbourne408:
No wipe, you don't have to click it.

Sent from I'm sure glad Danger went under, else I'd still be on a Mr.Cartoon SK2.
[Captivate Android Development] serialtoon:
Love your sig. I remember when i had that SK. Great phone at the time. Thanks for answering my question as well.
[Captivate Android Development] TomMelee:
Dumb question:

I flashed over stock eclair using CWM because recovery was being a pain. Now after it's installed and I go in to RomManager, it tells me CWM isn't installed---I'm assuming CM7 uses its own system? I'm afraid to flash it b/c I don't want to break it.

How do I get my google package installed w/o it? I've got the zip from the CM7 site...

Edit: Ok, so I tried 3 button combo and that boots me to recovery just fine. Why does Rom Manager say it's not installed?
[Captivate Android Development] TheShamsMan:
I was wondering if someone with this ROM flashed can post their Quadrant results?

I know the score doesn't matter, etc. I'm just curious.

Thanks!
[Captivate Android Development] Thnikk:
Open rom manager> menu> manual override> captivate> cwm 3.x
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
You are right, quandrant scores don't matter and are essentially meaningless. If you are curious, try flashing the ROM to see what it is all about.

One of the big issues about quandrant is that it tells you absolutely nothing about the experience of using a ROM.
[Captivate Android Development] wvmstr:
Mine works.
[Captivate Android Development] jhernand1102:
1st run - 1592

2nd run - 1963

3rd run - 2050
[Captivate Android Development] TheShamsMan:
Damn. That's lower than I expected. A lot lower.
[Captivate Android Development] xtsuname:
Does anyone know a method that works with CM7 to change the first boot screen? I don't really like the AT&T Boot screen. (The one that says world phone) I tried the one from mobiletechvideos and that broke it...

I have Captivate Gingerbread Bootloaders.
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Does the one from mobiletechvideos do it from gingerbread bootloaders? .. that's probably your problem.
[Captivate Android Development] xtsuname:
It was for Serendipity 7 which means that it was for Gingerbread. Not sure i it was for I897 Bootloaders or not. That might be the problem.

Although, back to my question. Does anyone know how to change the AT&T World Phone boot screen?
[Captivate Android Development] jhernand1102:
Like other people have said Quadrant is a poor judge of the ROM's performance. Trust me CM7 is the smoothest ROM I have ever flashed and I tried most of the ROM's posted here. Give it a try and you won't be going back to anything else if you can live with the shorter battery life. I get any where from 14 to 18 hours the way I use my phone.
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
you have to do it before coming to CM7. CM7 doesn't have the proprietary filesystem drivers necessary to write to the .lfs partition.
[Captivate Android Development] melbourne408:
Agree 100%

Why not try using a real benchmark that would actually you give a feel...if you could recognize it, not a taste of something so sweet your salivating mouth is lost in the euphoric bliss, when its dawn here and still, not dusk setting flaw.

(The demeanor was not the intent; if it came across in that way :)

I often pay no mind to the sarcasm mixed in the concoction of my rambles.)

Sent from I'm sure glad Danger went under, else I'd still be on a Mr.Cartoon SK2.
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
Don't apologize for the sarcastic demeanor. Anyone who uses a quadrant score to pick a ROM or decide the value of a ROM deserves to be lambasted.

Quadrant scores are so easy to fake that they are completely worthless (putting aside the fact that Quadrant is optimized to run on Snapdragon and runs poorly on Hummingbird and other processors). If one of the Quadrant tests fails to run, you get a higher score. I guess that means that the "best" ROMs are the ones that can't run Quadrant properly and give artificially high scores.
[Captivate Android Development] kpriess:
Any idea why the USBtoUSB/3.5 jack for the car dock is not working..?

It this kernel related..?
[Captivate Android Development] bettingpython:
smooth as butta,

Linpack scores.

Single thread 18.002

multi thread 16.193
[Captivate Android Development] techjeep:
It is kernel related. If you want this function, you'll have to use one of the fine third party kernels (Escapist's, Platypus or Glitch).
[Captivate Android Development] markdexter:
I also have a HTC Desire, Yesterday I loaded the same version of Cyanogenmod RC7.1 onto it.

That was at about 6.30am yesterday morning, the battery has finally just gone now almost 24hrs later.

I had my Radio and data on the whole time (3g/H) I had 4 hours screen on time, about 3 hours browsing web, video recording my son for about 20mins, and game playing for about an 1hr.

1.5hr voice calls!!

Thats fantastic!!! I just wonder why we cant get that with our Cappys?? It has to be something to do with our Radios?? We can undervolt, and use setcpu, I know when i had CM7 on my Captivate, if I turned off mobile data, and Auto sync I could get about 20hrs! Is it really a smart phone then?? I might as well go and buy a old Nokia flip phone!!!

I just really wish we could get it running like alot of other Phones do!!

Dont get me wrong the Devs, ahve done an amasing job, to even get it for us, and I greatly appreciate that. However, think Im gonna stick with my Desire, and sell my Captivate, dont know if im a huge Samsung Fan, especially with no L.E.D. indicator!!!!

Anyway enough of my boring rant! Boring myself. Please dont take this the wrong way, Im not complaining about the Hard work the DEVS are putting into this project, just frustrated!!
[Captivate Android Development] atinm:
Next time around will be better - Samsung just didn't really know what they were doing the first time around (Galaxy S), and did a lot of hacking around that we are just unable to duplicate without source or documentation. Maybe things will be better when Gingerbread source drops and if we can use it. SGS2 is definitely better - I'm running CM on it now (not quite done yet), and it has the "normal" battery life - same as stock, for real. :)
[Captivate Android Development] atinm:
Question: do the other kernels require a 3rd party app to set up the dock? That's what has made me not merge the dock thing in yet.
[Captivate Android Development] techjeep:
Well, yes and no.

The only way it really works on the stock Captivate is using the Samsung Desk and Care Home apps, which was included with the phones...but this isn't AOSP.

Dock Sound Redirector by xcaliburinhand also does it but is free on the market.

I understand your position on non-app assisted support, but it doesn't even work that way on stock, and I used the Redirector app even then to get the sound out using MIUI Music or Google Music.
[Captivate Android Development] Yaantra:
This might be a really stupid question, but, could anyone tell me how to set the camera to save pictures to the SD (emmc) card?

I also use the vignette camera, which has an option for SD storage, but actually stores pics to the internal SD card folder called SD...

The miui camera, like the stock, has no options to choose location either...

Any help / hint is appreciated!
[Captivate Android Development] jhernand1102:
As far as I know there is no way to point it to save on your external SD card. I just manually copy them over after I take a bunch of pictures.
[Captivate Android Development] jimlmackjr:
Day 3 with CM7

Ok i have noticed that when u power off the phone and then plug it in to charge it will make the phone reboot and when u have the phone plugged in and turn off the power it will also reboot

This morning my phone was turned off but i couldn't get it to turn on unless i pulled the Battery

has anyone had this problem yet i have not see any post about that

Last ? is there a way to request to put in where we can save web site to folders (i like having different folders for my web pages)

Also on the nightly build do u just flash them will it change any settings or docks that i am running

Android Version

2.3.4

Base Version

T959TLJL3

Kernel

2.6.35.7-gel130c6c

Mod Version CM-7-06292001 nightly

Build #

GRJ22