yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
modem is not causing your wifi issues. kernel probably. or the rom.

you can find what modem you have by looking in Settings > About > Phone Info. > Baseband #########

baseband is modem.

i hope whatever you read that you think you are doing was about this phone. all are not equal.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcabia:
Thanks for your response... i'm still having the wifi issue after trying several roms, kernels and modems. I'm not getting any issue with other devices so i don't think its the router. I really have no clue of what else could I do. Im gonna try with a different router anyway.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Man... For whatever reason, whenever I try to flash the speedmod kernel, it just doesn't work. Neither Heimdall nor Odin seem to work. Heimdall actually fails, Odin just sits there. Hours and hours. And eventually I have to give up, and then get the stupid little icon and it won't boot up. Still get to download mode, thankfully, and can eventually get back to stock, but GRRR this is frustrating. Why won't speedmod kernel install?

Edit - on the plus side, at least Heimdall Front End's "Close PC Screen" seems to work :)

Aaaand 17th time's a charm? Lol. Tried the command line Heimdall to flash the speedmod kernel and that seemed to do the trick. Now, to move on to the next steps. Lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
^

Might want to invest in a new or at least different micro usb/usb cord. Because that in itself (cord actin up, etc.) is the cause of problems like u had and others have experienced as well. See the "Captivate Connection Issues..." stickied thread in the General forum for info about this issue and other great helpful advice.

(no hijack intended TRusselo)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
no prob. never meant for this to be "my" personal support thread...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
^

Once again want to say Thanks for this Guide u put together. I reference it a lot !
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hednik:
Was a good read. Thanks for helping a newbie out.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] themathers:
Awesome man!!! I went through the threads in Dev section, nothing worked. And your method worked like a charm and it was on the first try! Really appreciate this.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3men2:
This thread really helped me in what I needed to know before flashing ICS.

I was worried about the AT&T Bootloaders.... when I already had them installed. I almost screw up my capt if not for this.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mtro:
Heimdall issue with other usb driver

I used the Heimdall Method from the main post. Thanks a lot!! I got ICS running and my headache is over.

I do have another one, though- my first run on the Heimdall driver install, I hit something wrong, and it killed my Logitech wireless mouse drivers. Now I can't figure out how to replace them! And can't find it in device manager, either! Any suggestions what I can do?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
This is one of the reasons why I don't use heimdall, and never have. I don't like the idea of having to screw around with the second set of drivers.

The only thing that I can think of to suggest is try plugging it into a different USB port as the Heimdall drivers only get installed for that one port
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mtro:
plugging into a different port worked. Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sabbytown1:
When I downloaded the program for my Mac it just opens and then shuts down. Will it only open if it is in download mode?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helmkeren:
hi, all

i just bought captivate with eclair inside already unlocked and rooted. can i just straight upgrade to GB or need to upgrade gradually eclair > froyo > GB ?

thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
sorry i know nothing about crapple Facs. is java installed?

you do

not

need to gradually update. flash what you want to run.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sclin460:
How to I access the internal SD memory?

I have to apologize but I am a noobe.

I wanted to flash the Dark Knight ROM onto a stock Catpivate (KK4)

with the 3e Loader. I followed the Odin instruction on page 1 skipping steps

4-6 as per instruction. Unfortunately, I also forgot to copy the new ROM

onto the internal SD memory. I used the i897-Speedmod-K13E-GBbootloaders-One-Click.jar for the loader. Now, I can get into the recovery mode and flash new ROM. I just can not access the internal SD memory to copy a new ROM file to install nor can it see the external SD card. My phone will start but it will just stuck at the front load page where it saids it is a Galaxy S SGH-i897 phone and wouldn't go any further.

Can someone help? Thank you very much.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
3e loader? no such thing. there is 3e recovery, but that is stock and doesnt allow flashing custom roms. you flashed speedmod k13e kernel which has clockwork recovery (cwm) which is what you want. the bootloader upgrade is only needed for gingerbread roms. and a separate thing than recovery or kernels.

also if you used the .jar application you werent following the odin instructions. the jar is heimdall. < you may have read the wrong instructions.

one of the first steps, in both odin and heimdall instructions was to put the rom on your internal sdcard. < follow instructions.

to fix your situation, boot into recovery, go to "Mounts and storage" > " Mount USB storage" > Plug your phone into computer, copy rom.

please slow down and follow instructions before doing things. other phones are not as forgiving as samsung galaxy phones. with many other phones, you would have an expensive paperweight right now. not fixable.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sclin460:
Thank you very much

Thank you for the rapid respond and patience. I was expecting a verbal lashing. You're 100% right. Somehow I got the two setup mixed together. I will follow the instruction to the letter from now.

I was able to mount the USB storage and copy the Dark Knight ROM into the root of the internal USB storage.

Dark_Knight_v5.5_I897.zip

Now I will

1. Wipe data/factory reset

2. wipe cache partition

3. install zip file (Dark_Knight_v5.5_I897.zip) from sdcard.

(I have already done a nandroid backup already)

Then hopefully, everything will reboot to the new ROM.

Thank you for the save from my stupidity. I really appreciated it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
your saviour is that you were able to explain what you did wrong, on your first post.

we hate "it didnt work", ..."what didnt work!!@!?>>!"
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] docent000:
Very good guide.

Unfortunately, I had to learn the download mode glitch on my own.

The phone shows the connection error screen but it was actually in download mode and I was able to flash a rom. But before I figured it out, I was going crazy and didn't know what to do.

This only happened to me when I was switching from 2.2 to 2.3 stock.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helmkeren:
thanks for your help.:good:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] therealatri:
mad props for this guide. i thought i was stuck after installing speed because my phone just said galaxy and wouldnt go anywhere. i looked through the thread, and you kept telling people to read before asking questions. i finally realized i could just reboot into recovery via adb (i had been using adb for getting into dl mode). thanks again man, finally successfully flashed my first captivate rom after soft bricking my phone 30 times in the past week. props to 42 as well, and everyone in these forums. the captivate is a much bigger beast than my old eris, but you guys have made it all possible. hopefully i can put my homemade jig in drawer and forget about it now :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
You didn't need to use adb to reboot into recovery you could have just used the button combo.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] therealatri:
word, i was scared of unplugging and i still had cmd open anyways. plus i had to do a tear down the other day and clean the phone as my vol up button wasnt working. not to mention that i had been using odin to stock it after all my bricks which was killing my button combo ability. good to know its working again though. :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpgdev:
I have andromeda3 (2.2) on my captivate can I still use the "Heimdall Method (Any OS)" part to flash the GB loader and then boot into recovery to flash an ICS mod from there? Or could I just use this thread in order to put my captivate back to stock and then flash the GB loader from this thread, and from there flash a ICS mod?

I'm still trying to get my head around on how to jump from 2.2 to ICS :confused:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
ICS runs on any bootloader. so can skip that part. basically boot into cwm and flash ICS. ei just flash it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpgdev:
THANK YOU so much! I've been reading many threads in the last few days and it was never clear to me if I could just flash ICS with the cwm I already had. I'm guessing that all the cwm backups and stuffs will work too or will the ICS change the kernel and cwm version in any way that would render this backups unusuable to the updated versions now in place?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
possibly but you would only have to flash an older kernel that does support them to restore them, so they wouldnt be useless.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpgdev:
By flashing another kernel you mean flashing another rom? Like the andromeda3 I have right now?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
no i meant kernel.

kernel is a part of a rom. ... usually... kinda. but isnt...

the kernel is to a rom, like an engine is to a car. Different engines are built to work with different cars and you can just swap them and get different performance. Kernels are very similar.

its a collection of processor and memory management instructions bundled with much of your device drivers, and on the captivate the cwm recovery is bundled inside the kernel as well. Different kernels are built for different versions of android, and built with different modifications, memory management... ect.

Roms generally come with a kernel, but you dont have to continue using that kernel. you are free to try any other kernel that works with your rom. but sometimes you dont need the kernel to work with your rom if you only intend to use the kernel for cwm to flash a rom or restore a backup, as this guide does and as i was explaining a couple posts back.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helmkeren:
Please...someone help me...!!!!

I bricked my friend's phone.

I wanted to update his Captivate from eclair to GB using this thread but didnt works.

I following the step carefully but when using Odin, stopped until SetUp Connection...... (and didnt show any progress on odin or phone)

anything that possibly made me do wrong ??

the phone cant turn on. but i can still go to download mode using key combo + USB cable.

what to do ???
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
If you can get into download mode, your phone is not bricked. just flash what you were trying to flash again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helmkeren:
Finally, i can solved the problems. I am using another GB bootloader to flash the captivate and after that i flash with stock uckk4.

Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpgdev:
At the end of the Heimdall method my captivate just shows a blank screen with the Galaxy S logo, the captivate series and the samsung branding at the bottom. Is that what is supposed to show? I'm unable to get into recovery mode (but I can still get into download mode if I take out the battery to turn the phone off).

PS: I executed this guide with my phone having SlimICS as rom.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
this guide was for starting from stock, not custom rom. with custom roms you just boot into recovery and flash the new custom rom. trust me recovery still works. hold the buttons longer after the screen turns on.

i think what you are trying to explain is the boot image changed?? yeah cuz you flashed a different kernel..

please try to be more descriptive in you "i have a problem" posts...

I am assuming you just flashed the kernel and are unable to get into recovery to flash your new rom... your recovery does still work. thousands of people follow this guide. it works for every single person.

and unless you are running mac or linux.... why the hell wouldnt you use odin????
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpgdev:
I use ubuntu. In the end I had to use this guide from AdamOutler. Really cool since it formatted everything back to stock, the filesystem and everything and from there I could do what I needed to do. Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droyd666:
I need some help everyone. I just got a captivate that is already rooted but it has a stock gingerbread on it. I just wanted to know if i could still flash a CM rom using the current recovery. The phone has firmware 2.3.4 and the kernel version is 2.6.35-7I897UKH3-CL461307.

I know that i might have to flash a new kernel with cwm but how do i go about doing that using the current one?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
Simple. Spend a few days reading. Having someone tell you what to do will not help you

understand

what you are doing.

I'll give you one hint : Odin
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droyd666:
Thanks for the hint but I ended up using a completely different method. I went to the Cyanogenmod Wiki and I found the step by step instructions for installing CWM and it worked like a charm. I installed the latest stable CM7 and now i'm waiting for a stable CM9 or 10.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
cm9 is as stable as its going to get. CManything is never 100% stable.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lejolasho:
i have flashed helly_bean_i9000_20120803 and my phone can not detect networks, how can I solve this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
Captivate is not i9000...

No jelly bean Rom is out of beta...

If you want everything to work flash a Rom made for your phone and isn't beta

Or check your apn settings...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lejolasho:
i flashed it because people said, that everything was excellent, but i found so many bugs, that it is not worth...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lejolasho:
now I flashed with cappy (captivate) and everything is excellent, it is twice as fast as stock rom and battery lasts longer.

The only issue is, the responsiveness of dialpad is low.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matase:
got stuck on the boot loop between att splash and talon. what can I do now?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
Boot into recovery and flash a different rom. you got in a boot loop because you're kernel does not match your ROM
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matase:
having trouble booting into recovery. any guaranteed way to do it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
See this thread. There is a section on how to get into Recovery... Captivate Connection Issues and Download Mode Help by jmtheiss.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
Post two of the spread contains all the information in the link above as well.. (hey 4-2ndwin)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
Wuz up TRusselo...hope things r good ur way !

Later !
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matase:
What do i need to flash through heimdall to get cwm . what i currently have on my gb i can't enter recovery
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
If your phone turns on, you CAN get into recovery. Read post 2.

Flash a custom gingerbread kernel to get cwm, they all have cwm.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EsromTech:
very nice
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeftaliM:
How to flash Captivate back to stock! Weird case

Hi y'all

My captivate came stock froyo (second hand). Was able to use button combos to go into Download Mode and Recovery mode. I flashed to CM 7.2

Last week, after finding out a stable CM 9 was already out, I flashed and screen never went past CM 9 splash animated screen.

I tried to bring back to CM 7.2 and bricked the phone.

After many days of research (building a jig usb in order to get dl mode again) and trying everything out there, and i mean everything, the only way I was able to bring phone back to live was flashing it with I897UCKI2_noBL_BoogsKernel. Unfortunately i've lost all my button combos and there's no way I can get recovery mode. Tried the adb reboot recovery command in the sdk and phone won't go past AT&T logo.

The Odin one-click method is useless, for when it's halfway flashing (doing something to the cache file) connection is lost. The one click root wont work either. Still I897UCKI2_noBL_BoogsKernel makes phone functional with some minor screen glitches here and there. It just feels loaded and slower than it was with CM 7.2

All i want is get my captivate back to stock froyo in order to go to CM again!!!

Please advise!

Here's phone info:

Captivate: i897

Firmware: 2.3.5

Baseband version: I897UCKI2

Kernel version: 2.6.35.7-I897UCKI1-CL607313

No clockwork mod

No root access
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
Try a different usb cable with Odin. Or a different computer
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matase:
I can get odin to flash a gb kernel. i tried different usb ports but i get stuck at "<ID:0/017> File analysis..

<ID:0/017> SetupConnection.."
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matase:
figured everything out, used a different computer and it is fine. thanks for help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aamperera:
Hi

I am new to android and i just got a Samsung captivate i897ucjh7

i would like to turn this to ICS or JB

i didn't found any A-Z step for this

after some reading i thought first convert to GB and then to ICS or JB Is this the way?

so i try to Odin method but i unable to find the neat-o ROM which is in step 2

I am beginner and please help

Thank you
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
These instructions let you go from anything to anything. The neat-o rom means any ROM you think is neat.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nosebleedXD:
hey trusselo, sorry to bother again, i think i bricked it again LOL, it now shows the i896 bootup and i897 afterwards cause i believe the speedmod was only for i897

and also, the any os method seems alot easier, but the dl link for it is dead
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
I am Canadian that means that I as well have the i896. the speedmod kernel is only to get CWM, not to boot your phone. read the next step boot into

recovery
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dtone157:
I am noob

I've tried using many different method's for flashing clockwork recoverymod so that I can flash Cyanogenmod onto my Captivate, and specifically your Heimdall method has gotten me the farthest. Thank you for that.

With that said, I am still stuck! I have followed your instructions exactly as far as I can tell.

Now maybe it's because my phone is not rooted, or maybe it's because this kernel Isn't compatible with Cyanogenmod, but when I go to install Cyanogenmod from my sd card I get this:

-- Intall /sdcard...

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Verifying update package...

E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E:signature verification failed

Installation aborted

Before I try anything, I'd like to get a second opinion from an expert. Please let me know if I've done something wrong or what I need to do to fix the problem. I've tried both Cyanogenmod 7 and Cyanogenmod 9 stable releases, and I am currently running the newest Gingerbread update from Samsung Kies.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
When dealing with cyanogen mod use their instructions.

On the captivate, clockwork mod recovery is built into all custom kernels. Many custom kernels have an option to disable signature verification in the CWM options
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dtone157:
still need help

I've never had much luck using the Cyanogenmod method. I haven't had any luck using the mtcarey's kernel they say to use for captivate. When I tried before, I was running on FROYO, but now I'm on Gingerbread, so I will try again now and let you know what happens.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
personally never been a fan of cyanogenmod (though its a good rom).

for my captivate i run AOKP (android open kang project milestone 6) friggin awesome rom. and easier to install with this guide.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dtone157:
This is the first time I have installed any ROM to any phone, and I am also new to root.

Being new to root I came across cyanogenmod and I have to say that it looks better that the stock I'm using now. I'm sure in the near future I'll be suing something else but I'd like to try cm 9 first.

Am I replying correctly? When looking at the forums my replies look different from everyone else's..

Edit: I think I've figured out how to reply properly.

Edit: I now have Cyanogenmod! I don't know if I should credit you or if it's because I upgraded to Gingerbread but either way, thank you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
root just gives you permission to read/write to the system area.

all custom roms come rooted.

this guide lets you skip rooting and get straight to flashing.

AOKP uses many features of CM but take it a few steps further with more customization. if you think you will like CM, you WILL LOVE aokp. i promise.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aamperera:
Thanks bro :)

Ill try
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silvershadow:
guide works perfect, thanks alot!

very helpful..especially when in the situation of never using android before..and got a 'new' phone:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ne[m]o:
Can someone upload the "Easy CWM and Bootloaders Gingerbread" file? The link in the first post is dead.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
Unless you are using a Mac, just use Odin method.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aamperera:
Hi

Another information for my samsung captivate i897

I though to install ICS ROM so can you please tell me the best ROM for that?

If i install the SlimBean it will slow my captivate ?

What is the Best ?

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
All are good. Try them. find what you like.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chunklefunk:
Following these steps using the Odin Method,, I did the Gingerbread Bootloader Upgrade and it rebooted to this

appling multi-csc

installing multi-csc

I left it there for about 4 minutes and then the top half in blue had a Reboot Phone which I did.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
Follow the steps of the guide. Odin flash the boot loader, then reboot TO DOWNLOAD MODE then Odin flash the kernel.... the csc happens in recovery mode...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Klitoni:
Before chosing install zip from sd card do i have to make a wipe ?

Do i need to install GAAPS for the ROM that i will install ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
For aokp, and cm roms, yes you need to select factory reset before flashing and flash gapps after the Rom. All other roms, not usually. Always read the instructions of the Rom you are flashing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elyotbuang:
can someone PM me a brief details on how to do it converting my stock phone to Froyo... cant undrstand
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
One question first, why the hell would you want to put froyo back on your phone? Froyo was stock for captivate
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elyotbuang:
Details of Phone: Model Num - Samsung-sgh-i897

FirmWare V - 2.1 update1

Build Num - ECLAIR.UJH

nope... my stock version on my phone is eclair.

thats y im asking how ...and now im in froyo and cant update it using kies..any help then?