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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rcllcr:
Hello all,

I have a few general questions that I would really like some help with:

1.) I understand some bootloaders are not compatible with some ROMs. How do you know which bootloader you are running? How do you change your bootloader, must you use ODIN?

2.) How does the kernel come into all this, are some kernels not compatible with certain ROMs and bootloaders? When you flash a new ROM, does it sometimes come with a new kernel?

The main reason I am curious about this, is because I wish to flash the new Cyanogenmod 7.1 and want to be sure I am successful and do not brick my captivate. I am currently running Serendipity VII Build 2 and want to be as safe as possible when flashing Cyanogenmod 7.1.

Would the safest way be to flash to stock first using the following Odin one click method: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731989

Then from there, follow the instructions normally?

All help is greatly appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
There are basically 2 types of bootloaders, Eclair/froyo and Gingerbread bootloaders. GB bootloaders are compatible with preatty much everything (not counting cm7 or MIUI).

Kernels are specific with a type of rom, example Boogs KH3 kernel worked with any rom that was based on KH3 (2.3.4). Some are tweaked specifically for a rom.

On CM7 and MIUI from what I can make out you can run it on either eclair/froyo bootloaders or GB bootloaders but some kernels are specific for bootloaders.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viny2cool:
If you are on Serendipity then I am sure you used ODIN to flash i9000 boatloader (BL).

As the above person said there are eclair/froyo BL and GB BL....in GB BL we have captivate BLs and i9000 BLs. earlier GB roms used i9000 BL...then Samsung leaked captivate specific roms...so we have captivate BLs now..

All the one click Odins are used to flash captivate specific BL...

To go to CM7, many people flash it over GB bootloader and have no problem....but the safest way is to odin back to eclair/froyo stock...then go from there.....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rcllcr:
Thank you for the help guys, I really appreciate it.

I will be flashing back to stock using the following method:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731989

Then I will simply flash CM&.1 on top of that.

I will report back to let everyone know how it goes.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
did your phone come with froyo on it/what is the build number of your phone? its a 4 digit number on a sticker under the battery, for example mine is 1010, meaning oct. 2010. many phones built later than this, and/or came from the factory tend to bootloop from jf6 (the firmware containedin that one click) and have also been known to lose button combos for recovery/download mode which would need both if you were bootlooping and for cm7.

if you have a later build phone it would be better to flash a leaked gingerbread firmware with bootloaders included and then flash a custom kernel with cwm included so that you can then flash cm7 from there.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rcllcr:
I purchased my phone at the end of August in 2010. The only 4 digit number I can see reads " 0168", it is the largest number located behind where the battery is held. And yes, I have lost my three button combo for recovery/download mode. It stopped working, and I bet it was because I used that one click method you mentioned.

Do you recommend I flash this one:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1129821

It says Cyanogen Mod users stay away, why is that?

or one from the official list, and if so, which one:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1300843

Also, I am a bit unclear. After I flash one of the stock ROMs with the bootloaders, how can I then flash a kernel with CWM. Can I do it through ODIN?

And just out of curiosity, why can you not use these stock ROMs for everyday use? It seems we always flash other ROMs on top of these?

I know I asked a lot, I would appreciate the help!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
You can use the bootloaders in the first link. At the time of that thread's opening, cm7 didn't support GB bootloaders. But, if your not sure how your phone will work with a1 click, I would recommend using the ones linked in my sig.

As for how to flash those roms, there are directions in the first post of their respective for flashing.

You can use a stock ROM everyday, most just prefer not to.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rcllcr:
Which kernel would you recommend I flash before I flash CM7.1?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viny2cool:
No one said you cannot use stock leaked rom as dialy driver, i actually used KH3 for some times and it was very good.

You should flash the kernel according to the rom you have flashed. For example, For KH3, there is a Boog's KH3 kernel with CWM. For all leaked stock rom, there is one click Odins and compatible kernels with CWM injected.

To go to CM7.1, u shud be on stock (Eclair/Froyo or GB) and should have CWM....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bud Wilkinson:
I need help too please. I have a Cappy that was originally on eclair 2.1 rooted. froyo 2.2 Kies mini update and rooted but didn't like it's battery use and slow action. I reflashed an Odin 1 click stock 2.1 back, rooted and then did a Gingerbread 2.3.5 I897UCKJ3_withBL_ Odin 1 click flash and am liking that quite a bit more. The only trouble I am having is rooting 2.3.5. I want to do the fugu kernal swap method with Odin3 zimage-root.tar then flash boog_KJ3_kernel3.tar. I can get into DL mode and hit the start button ok.

Here is the question I have. Where in Odin3 v1.83 do you load the kernal path? PIT,BOOTLOADER, PDA, PHONE or CSC. I can't seem to find a comprehensive Odin3 tutorial on my own and I don't want to flash the kernels to the wrong place. I don't think the first 3 options are right based on their names or info I have found. Can't use CWM till I get rooted so Odin or possibly Hiemdall are my only choices. I have Odin3.

HELP and TYIA

Bud
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
Kernels go in pda
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
When flashing a single file, unless its a modem or csc file, it will usually go into the pda slot. Modems go into the phone slot. Csc file is a no brainer. I've never saw anything that uses the bootloader slot on a captivate. Pit slot must have a pit file AND repartition must be checked. If you are flashing a kernel to get cwm just to flash a custom ROM, kernel goes into pda slot. If you want to user Odin to flash a modem, it goes into the phone slot. All files flashed in Odin must be a tar or tar.md5 file. Don't change the name of a tar.md5, it can cause a md5 check sum error.

There you go, cliff notes for Odin.

Edit

If I missed something or messed up something, please correct me.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bud Wilkinson:
Found Odin3 Answers. Yeah!!!

Studacris,

Thanks for that. Didn't see it before I found the below.

Sorry for the Noob impatience but there is a lot of info that won't show in a search right away. Anyway there is a cool little short video by 4-2ndtwin here on xda with a link here. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17788928&postcount=6 The system won't let me post outside links yet.

viny2cool

Hope this helps you.

Bud
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pechkin000:
I Flashed and unbricked and reflashed and restored so many roms now, i have no idea what bootloader I am on. Is there any way for me to tell either through ADB or on the phone directly?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
When ur phone boots up and u see the i9000 bootsplash, then u have i9000 Gingerbread bootloaders (we didn't have eclair/froyo i9000 Bls). Also, button combo to get into recovery or download mode is different with the i9000 gb bootloaders.

And if u try and flash an i897 gingerbread rom (and don't see the i9000) but u have a "pixelated" screen, then u have i897 eclair/froyo bootloaders. If ur flash to a gingerbread rom is successful and u see the i897 (att world phone) bootsplash, then u have i897 Gingerbread bootloaders.

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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pechkin000:
Gingerbread it is then, THANKS 4-2ndtwin
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Woody:
I use PowerAmp as my music player and have been waiting for 2.0 to come out.

Here is the beta version. Have to sideload it and not sure if it is only a trial like the original version or not. The original version gave a 5 day trial. I like it.

http://powerampapp.com/download/Powe...430-beta-1.apk
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] JiroPrinz8:
Link's not working. Would love to try out 2.0
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Woody:
Give this a whirl

http://forum.powerampapp.com/index.php?/topic/1670-poweramp-v20-beta-1/

Remember this is a beta so there are some issues to be worked out but I have used PowerAmp from day two and I like it way better that Winamp or stock music player. Haven't tried Player Pro yet ($). I'm kind of a "stick with it if it works kind of guy".
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sweetrobot:
I made a custom animation for my CM7 modded Galaxy SII (AT&T).

It's here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/wxui88597m6w1le/bootanimation.zip

The zip contains the animation, with only two frames included (of the 200+), which is what I am currently testing, but it doesn't seem to work- the boot screen stays blank until it just loads the home screen.

I have tested other animations, and they work fine.

Anyone mind taking a super-duper quick peek into the zip and tell me if I perhaps mis-configured the desc.txt

I did test the animation with success using the Boot Animation Previewer 2.0 Beta (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1133703).

RESOLVED -

Seems my 24-bit images were not liked by the phone for some reason, which were batch-processed with Irfanview. I re-saved all png's using an Action in Photoshop, via Safe for Web, PNG-24, with transparency disabled. It worked that way.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fazuvpk:
When I turn on my wifi of ma s2 it automatically turns off wifi by itself after som sec. It does not show any available networks in these sec. Please Help i tried flashing another rom ,i have done full factry deflt...

it wrked couple of times yesturday after a restart but now i am not able to....

MAC adresss is not available..

but the portable wifi hotspot works fine i have done odin sftware resetting upgraded, tried cyanogen but nothing works
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Unable to follow rules .

Return to a service centre warranty void .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fazuvpk:
so can replace wifi modem or is t attached to board????? i thnk my warranty is void so ll t cost much..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fazuvpk:
not yetttttt wht abt urs,.......
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
DIal *#*#4636#*#* from you dialer , got wifi information-> wifi status. Take a screenshot and post it here,

Note: turn on your wifi before taking the snap.

Btw, have you checked your wifi router for problems?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fazuvpk:
here u go

turning wifi on nd off automticallii.. tried resetting n evrythin curentli running galnet miui ics
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
Im sure your wifi is good in you mobile.

1. HAve you ever connected your mobile to a wifi router or this is the 1st time.

2. Some routers have problem in accepting wifi connections, you have to manually add your mobile wifi mac address in the whitelist to your router.

3. You can also set your ip address to static one from the advanced config in wifi page.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fazuvpk:
i hve used this for monthssssssssss.... sudenlli 1 night prbllm strted my wifi neva b in on position it keeps on turning off by itself
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fazuvpk:
m sure t s hrdware prblm can ny1 sygst hw much t would cost to replace t
[HTC EVO 3D] munsterrr:
Running latest infected.

Curious if anyone has a way to make beats run permanently.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iHeartzYou:
So i put the Desire Hboot on My g2 to run the Virtuous Sensation Rom and i need to Unroot my Phone to send in for warranty.

I have the stock G2 Rom from when way before i restored it and kept it. and its on the stock rom but the S-off will not go back to on.

And i have tried several times to use the G2 unrooting Tutorial and i have tried 2 different Tutorials and non seem to work i get stuck when the PC10IMG is being read after you power down and press the volume button to go into the little white menu with all the information of s-etc.

Well since i have the Desire Z hboot is this why i can unroot my G2? Some please help me.

what it says right now on my screen of my G2 is "Hboot-0.84.2000 (PC1010000)"

and i think i cant unroot bcuz the img im trying to put on is lower then the current one i have on my G2 and it wont give me the option to update when i go into the Setting.

Someone please help me i need to send in my phone for warranty ASAP.

Thanks,

iHeartzYou
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sa55m:
I was also trying to figure this out, did you ever figure it out?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] T_Dog:
When i go to add a new contact + Sorry! The application Contact Storage (process com.motorola.contacts) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

Anyone having this issue? Know of a fix? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tysnow22:
Maybe clear the data in manage applications I don't think it will erase ur contact's but I mean there r many ways to back them up just in case
[Motorola Droid Bionic] T_Dog:
:(Thank you, I cleared the data and same error. IT even comes up when i try and open a contact to view it.:(
[Motorola Droid Bionic] DroidTh3ory:
If you installed the new Google+... Uninstall it. It breaks Contacts. :)

Also, if you froze or deleted anything to do with with yahoo.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] T_Dog:
When i look in my programs I'm not seeing any google+ is it called something else, I did remove Yahoo from my phone i bet thats what broke it, So how do i fix it.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JimzFreebies:
hi all, here's the 6months old question. Everyone wants this not only me.

Here's my question:

I want this iPhone/iPod screen ROTATING effect with the accelerometer. (Landscape/vertical) in our android. I ask this question when i was on android 2.1 but now its 2.3(gingerbread).

Also, i got this COMMENT when i asked this ques. 6 months ago.

"Once the new custom kernels are released with the FPS cap removed, screen transitions and other animations will be as smooth or even smoother than the iPhone's. I suggest waiting, jerpelea is working hard his own, as well as zdzihu."

So now, custom kernels are released and bootloader is also unlocked. Still, no one is working on this transition rotation effect.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waymon31:
work in progress....
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark Nightmare:
Doesn't our phone already do that? Auto rotate?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JimzFreebies:
I am talking about this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBcrdk0p1X8

check the video. I want this screen rotation transition effect in all menu as well as in homescreen
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cebees:
tbh, I don't think android will do that.

API must be integrated in the OS from the very beginning since OS itself need to interrupt particular apps to draw the rotation.

This is not kernel/bootloader layer but the OS itself, which I guess Google also doesn't want to have some stupid patenting conflict with Apple. (same to WM7, W8, WebOS, blah blah)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JimzFreebies:
Excuse me dear. . .don't you know "FLOATING IMAGE.APK"? its an android app that can do same transition which iphone does while rotating the screen. But this app rotates only images only. But i want it in every menu and on homescreen as well
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acerulz:
if u want that thing then go for launcher Pro in these u can even get the homescreen in landscape mode but not ur default launcher ..make Launcher Pro ur default launcher then even landscape works in homescreen !!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JimzFreebies:
I think your english is so bad. M talking about orientation transition effect. .See the above video what am talking about. .u will know. .
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arabbitte:
Well, hardly cheap - I didn't even know this was available yet, but I see it's on special offer in http://www.ibood.com/ie/en/ today for € 349,95

It's basically an S2 with a slightly downgraded screen, storage and camera using a Tegra 2 CPU in place of the S2's Exynos chipset.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruflot:
Old news.

And what does this have to so with the GS2? Shouldnt be in this section.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arabbitte:
This was something I came across and thought it might be of interest to others. I don't think there is a seperate "R" forum and I thought it best to put it here because of the similarity of it to the S 2 - I believe others have posted 9103-specific stuff in this forum in the past.

Apologies if this post was incorrect or irrelevant - MODS: Please delete if this is the case.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
I9103 as like many other 03 series of Galaxy S or Galaxy S2

are always a downgraded version of the flagship model

usually with sLCD and other minor changes
[Epic 4G General] dzl:
I haven't seen anyone doing stuff for the Epic talk about Heimdall.

Thread of interest - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1164449

I'm sure there is some desktop *nix users like myself that hate having to use a separate Windows VM just to use Samsung's crappy flashing software. Thoughts? :D
[Epic 4G General] nikon120:
Posts on how to flash the Epic using Heimdall have been posted in the past. The search on XDA has been known to suck hardcore, but try adjusting your keywords and you should be able to find those older threads.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Just install Heimdall and break down the tar with 7zip and put in the right slots...easy!
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
Have you seen the new heimdall? 1.3.

Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
[Epic 4G General] pvtjoker42:
as far as general usage, Odiin is faster (all files in 1 archive) but i do like heimdall for it's flexibility (single files, and ALL OS's) So it's kinda a toss up. Haven't seen the latest heimdall, so if they added the ability to do the full tars as well as individual files, I need to go get it.. :)
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
Nope I was playing with it yesterday. (Installed drivers on one windows xp box) and it does not do tars as far as I could tell. But go downlaod it its kinda cool. I only with LG had odin or a heimdall. Let me tell you we are lucky so have the two apps. Try updating a modem on LG omg what a bs pita

Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
[Epic 4G General] Benjamin Dobell:
Since version 1.3.0 (the latest is 1.3.1) Heimdall Frontend has supported Heimdall Firmware Packages. They're a compressed (gzip) tar that contains an XML file with details about the firmware and how it should be flashed. These are by far the simplest means to flash a device as there's only one file to pick.

Odin's obscure three tar.md5 format was never designed for use by end-users and it has a number of flaws as a result. The worst of which is that there is no information included with the firmware. Heimdall will never support such a flawed format ;)

Heimdall Firmware Packages include information such as the firmware name, firmware version, OS name (presumably Android), OS version, supported devices, developer names and developer homepage. The most important feature is by-far the list of supported devices. If properly adopted this could save a number of bricks caused by users flashing firmware not designed for their device.

On top of this Heimdall itself is substantially better software. Aside from being open-source and cross-platform. Heimdall flashes substantially quicker, uses reliable open-source drivers and allows a lot more user freedom. For instance, even if you chose to flash with a Heimdall Firmware Package you're still provided with an opportunity to customise the what files are being put on your phone before you actually start the flash. This is useful in circumstances where you might be flashing stock firmware but want to use a custom kernel or param.lfs (custom boot images) etc.
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
^^^ ya I really like it, looks nice.

But there not many file / roms in that format for the Epic 4G :-(

^^^^^______

Dumbass epic hw keyboard. My last post is missing words dho! Come on sunsung fix it all ready!

Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
As mentioned just open the tar with 7Zip and put the files where they are supposed to go. I use this to install custom recovery on the leaks as soon as they come out.
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
How do you do that with 1.3.1? On 1.1 I understand what you mean

Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
[Epic 4G General] nubecoder:
I've been a proponent of Heimdall for a while now, I liked 1.1's simplicity.

With the new interface changes in 1.3.1, it does make things a bit more confusing.

Here is a quick guide for grabbing the PIT from your device:

1 - Boot phone into "Download mode"

2 - Open Heimdall.

3 - Go to the "Utilities" tab.

4 - Under "Detect device", click "Detect". (You should see that your device was detected.)

5 - Under "Download PIT" : "Destination File", click "Save As". (Doing this will enable downloading.)

6 - Under "Download PIT" : "Destination File", click "Download". (You should see progress reported and your device should reboot.)

Done.​

Here is a quick guide for flashing files to your device:

1 - Boot phone into "Download mode"

2 - Open Heimdall.

3 - Go to the "Flash" tab.

4 - Under "Options" : "PIT", select the PIT file by browsing for it. (Doing this will enable the "Add" button.)

5 - Under "Partitions (Files)", click "Add". (Doing this will enable the "Partition Name" selection box.)

6 - Under "Partition Details" : "Partition Name", select the partition type of the file you are about to add.

7 - Under "Partition Details" : "File", select the file to add by browsing for it. (Doing this will enable the "Start" button.)

8 - Repeat steps 5~7 for all files you want to flash.

9 - Click the "Start" button. (You should see progress reported and your device should reboot.)

Done​

Here is a list of Partition names and their corresponding files:

PARAM - param.lfs

KERNEL - zImage

RECOVERY - recovery.bin

FACTORYFS - factoryfs.rfs

DATAFS - datafs.rfs

CACHE - cache.rfs

MODEM - modem.bin

IBL+PBL - boot.bin

SBL - sbl.bin

SBL2 - sbl.bin (Epic only has one sbl.bin, if I am not mistaken, SBL2 is simply a duplicate of SBL.)​

The files in red above are the bootloaders.

Some people feel you should not flash bootloaders.

It is one of the most dangerous things you can do to the phone (since if it fails, you will likely have a full brick).

I personally do not include the bootloaders when I flash to my phone using Heimdall.

Yes, the new interface is a little more difficult to navigate, but if using a Heimdall Firmware Package, it's much simpler (load the package file, select your device, load, and start).

And I agree, the Epic Rom devs need to start stepping up and using the new Heimdall Firmware Packages. (I know I will be using it when I release my kernel...)

Also, thanks Benjamin for chiming in, I always enjoy reading your posts.

=]
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winwiz:
This seems to have stopped working around 4 weeks ago.

Can this be due to custom ROMs that I am using or is it fault on the Orange network?

Can you please share your experiences?

SEE POST 6 FOR RESOLUTION