yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
Also unless you are running linux or mac OSx, Keep it f-ing simple and use Odin.

Also you should probably get used to saving your contacts to Google, not your phone, that way you don't need to worry about backing them up they will be automatically sync as soon as you login on setup.

Titanium backup is an app used for backing up your applications but you need to be rooted to use it.

And I think you need to read the first post instructions a few times again you aren't describing the process correctly
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohit29:
Thanks for the prompt response, I am rooted, the phone has been rooted for a while now, I used basic root checker to confirm its rooted and it is. I will try what you suggested and do the upgrade to CWM with Odin. I will let you know how it goes. Thanks again! I did re-read through the instructions a few times to make sure I understood everything properly.

Thanks,

Rohit
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohit29:
I was successful in flashing the phone with the ICSSG rom 4.0.4. It went pretty smooth. Thanks again for the help and guidance! I was able to back everything up on to my external SD card and restored it all from there as well.

Thanks,

Rohit
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdithug:
After playing around with AOKP ICS Rom the past few days Ive noticed a few things:

1) I cant send Picture Messages. It keeps saying the service is unavailable. I have put in the same APN settings I had before and it still doesnt work. Is that a bug with the ROM?

2) I cant seem to sync my Contacts with google. I did initially, and for some reason it brought in my contacts x2. I had duplicates of everyone. So I deleted one of every contact. The phone then told me I had deleted too many contacts and asked me if i wanted to undo the changes or delete them. I chose delete. Now I cant sync contacts anymore. It tells me "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly."

3) Battery life still seems to drain a little faster than GB, Ill still give it more time before I can accurately say its happening for sure. Funny though because when I updated from Froyo to GB, I noticed a battery life decrease as well.

4) I can no longer access my internal SD card on my computer. When I plug my phone in, only the external SD card pops up to view. I want to be able to access my internal one so I can move files around and delete crap I no longer need. My phone is saying I have some music files I want deleted. But when I search my external card, I have no music on there whatsoever, so it has to be on my internal card.

If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions about fixing any of those problems, your feedback would be much appreciated

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
1) AOKP has its own website (and xda thread) with lists of known bugs and work arounds, ect. MMS is a known bug

2) havent heard of that one but try logging into Gmail and manage your contacts from there, then do a factory reset, then they should sync correctly.

3) battery seems worse because you dont stop playing with it and oogling the eye candy. even just looking at the cool stuff uses battery power. if you want better battery life, leave the phone in your pocket until you need to make a call.

4) read the aokp thread and its website.....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suganthan6a:
Downgrade Stock ROM

All,

I have been trying to get my Captivate rooted for a long time. My phone does not get detected by my PC so I have to do everything from the phone. I know you can root the using apps on the phone but I need to downgrade my phone to Froyo or Eclair. Please advice on how this can be done. I can bluetooth using my PC but I cannot use Odin. Please HELP. I appreciate your help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
this thread is not about rooting. it is about installing custom roms.

read post 1 and 2 of this thread about DRIVERS. drivers are what let your computer see your phone. if you dont have windows 7 install drivers manually. they are in post 1 if you need.

you may also want to look into "mobile odin" app if you dont care why you and your phone is the only one in the world that " does not get detected by my PC"
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdithug:
Almost everything working

Regarding everything in my last post.... i have almost everything working now thank god.

1) MMS is still not working, although that is an issue with the rom i believe.

2) Contacts not syncing - I deleted all my contacts on my phone. The phone asked me what I wanted to do because I deleted so many of them, I selected Delete. I logged into my google account on my laptop, and selected contacts and they were all gone. So I restored my contacts (Google I guess has a backup of your contacts dating back quite a bit) . I went on my phone and deleted my google account information. Rebooted, and added my same existing google account again, sync'd and everything worked fine.

3) Battery issue, I flashed the glitch kernel, which not only gave me more options with this rom, but I think its also increaased my battery life. Ill know for sure in a couple days I guess

4) After flashing the glitch kernel, and changing the USB Storage mode, I could now access both internal and external storage. I fixed my multiple music files by deleting the Storage Data (cache) and rebooting, allowing the phone to properly scan the memory cards and update the storage data.

Hope that helps for anyone having those issues
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gps1539:
Install failing

Preface

Long story, but I was running CM 7.1 for a long time, tried CM9 and it failed to install. To try to get back to CM7.2 I flash back to UCKB2 stock (which worked), but it failed to install the CM7 zip from there. I then tried Darky 10.2 recovery, which installed and from there tried to install CM7 .zip again, again it failed in a boot loop.

Then I found this cool post.

I used i897-Speedmod-K13E-GBbootloaders-One-Click.jar, hopped into recovery, tried to install CM7 zip and it fails, but differently.

Now

I'm getting several assert failed errors ",,,,,==SGH-I897".

I'm stumped and out of ideas, please help
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
that would be a cm7 script error.

but.. try.. wipe system then flash, if not, flash a cm7 kernel, reboot, let it bootloop once, then boot into recovery and flash cm7

reboot cwm after every error.

goto cm7 for further assistance
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gps1539:
Thanks, I finally got CM7 to reinstall. I think rebooting cwm after the error was the key.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
Yes if CWM gives you an error, it will continue to give an error even if you're flashing something that does not have an error
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gammonjoshua:
In number 4 of your post where did you change the USB storage mode? I can't find it. I can't see my external SD card from my PC ether.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
Boot into glitch CWM recovery> glitch options >USB mode
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gammonjoshua:
For god sake! Got it. I can see my internal SD card but not my external. I'll keep looking. Thanks TRusselo.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdithug:
What I find is if I switch my USB mode to USB Mass Storage, I will only be able to see my internal storage. When I switch to MTP Mode and reboot, I then see my phone in My Computer. When I select it, I can view SD Card (external card) or USB Storage (internal).

Hope that helps
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jessie57:
this method worked flawlessly on my captivate. running slim ics now and i'm loving it. thank you for this.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtfuel76:
Thank you so much for the step-by-step.

Worked great on Rogers I896 which was running 2.3.3
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caanda45:
Hey TRusselo coming back to the old captivate while my SGS2 goes into Sammy for repair, can I use the Odin 1.85 as the flashing utility? I read the bootloader warning. Let me know and thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
You can use any version of Odin, But if you are flashing boot loaders, use the PDA box not the boot loader box. Just like the warning said..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caanda45:
Okay ran into a bit of a problem last night, fixed it with your back to stock odin. I re rooted and want to get cwm on the phone...can you direct me how to do this and then I can flash a new rom??? I think I will re read your 1 st post, that seems like what I should do, as i have a thick head maybe the issue was the bootlaoder...please explain it again...sorry did this last night when I was tired which was probably very very stupid or me!!! Please advise. I am on GB 2.3.3...thanks!!

Reboot phone into DOWNLOAD mode (instructions below)

Click RESET button in Odin (beside START)

Click PDA button in Odin and find your kernel.tar file (speedmod kernel (this kernel isn't too important as it will be replaced by custom rom's kernel, but speedmod kernel understands both froyo (amend) scripting and gingerbread (edify) scripting so is great for this purpose to install any rom cwm zip file next.)

Click "Start" in Odin

Reboot into RECOVERY mode (instructions below) ** Use volume buttons to navigate up/dn and pwr for enter.

Select "flash zip from sd card"

Find your rom of choice on your SDcard and select Yes

So as I have GB 2.3.3 I only have to do the speedmod kernel and then flash Darkknight rom???

Thanks sorry for being such a noob, the SGS2 is easier and it seems that I have forgotten all my Captivate stuff, just can`t stand stock even if it will only be a month or two....lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
if you have gingerbread, you have gingerbread bootloaders.

so yes odin flash the speedmod kernel,

immediately reboot to recovery (dont need to boot to android)

flash rom.

done.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whisky23:
thanks for the help

Thanks to all the info on this thread, my transition from GB to ICS was relatively painless. Now comes the more difficult task of figuring out which rom works for me. So far, Slim ICS has been pretty much trouble-free, while adding the Semaphore kernel gave it a dash of speed. So far so good.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
My personal preference at the moment is aokp
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reverend Joshua:
I just got my phone back to stock JH2, should I treat that as "out of the box" for the purposes of this guide or do I need to get to something else first? OTA JH7?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
The guide is meant to work from absolutely any stock software, just follow the guide.

The question you should be asking is if you need to flash the boot loaders again, and I would ask you have you been running gingerbread? You have ever run gingerbread you don't need to flash the boot loaders, Most stock ROMs do not downgrade your boot loaders.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reverend Joshua:
I realized the boot loader question after I had shut down and gone to bed, but the answer to what I asked was also very helpful. I had not done GB before, so using this guide and stepping on my own junk and then starting all the way over, I now have ICS on a Captivate that was stuck on an old Cognition for a long time. This guide is fantastic and the only suggestion I would make is adding a note to use USB ports that go directly to the motherboard, as that was no small part of my problem. Thanks again and again and again...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killer from space:
Great guide - thanks for everything and sorry for the noob question (and the face palm I know I'm going to get). Currently I have the Samurai kernel with lagfix and stock KK4. To confirm, all I need to do is disable lagfix in CWM per your earlier post and then flash a ROM? I897 bootloaders work with all ROMs and kernels, right? I would like to try the newest Mosaic or even one of the AOKP ROMs like DOC's master ICS.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
Lol lagfix... Haven't heard that term very much since ice cream Sandwich came out I'm not sure but I would try disabling it first just to be safe

Yes the captivate gingerbread boot loaders work with all roms but the i9000 gingerbread boot loaders have less shut down issues with ice cream Sandwich.

Ice cream Sandwich ROM i use and like the best personally is "android open kang project" aokp, the original by team Kang, posted by sixstringsg
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killer from space:
Thanks for the quick response. I'll try the AOKP you recommend first.

If I get the shut down issues you mentioned, can I just flash the i9000 bootloaders w/o wiping or do I need a fresh install if I start having trouble with the I897 bootloaders?

I'd rather not flash the bootloaders if I can help it. Kies hard bricked my phone when I was updating to GB. I had to send it to MobileTechVideos for a jtag repair (great fast service btw, highly recommended).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
No you don't have to wipe for reflash the ROM to Upgrade bootloaders. Just flash the boot loaders and you're good to go.

However when you sent your phone to mobiletechvideos.com you could've gotten the unbrickable mod, and you wouldn't have to worry about bricking your phone ever again..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JScott65:
Doc's Master ICS ROM

Thanks to all the info on this thread, my transition from Eclair to ICS was relatively painless. Doc's Master ICS ROM is hands down my favorite...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geeksquad2:
As a complete new guy I'm shy about flashing and even bought a USB jig from Montreal before I flashed anything. And I've been reading and reading and reading. This thread was clear and concise.

Five months ago, I managed to muddle my way to flashing my Rogers I-896 from stock 2.2 to FireFly 3.0 and even managed to install voodoo ext4 lagfix.

I like it, but I'm keen on trying a 2.3 rom. I think I've settled on dlev 4.2, but the GB kernal upgrade has been my hangup where I was unclear, so I've stayed with FF.

Anyways, I just wanted to say thanks for posting this.

It has helped answer a few of my questions. :)

EDIT: Just got me a THANKS button. I used it!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aex90832:
Much better guide! js
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donmateo:
Thank you for redirecting me here TRusselo this has been a huge help. I was hoping you could answer one question for me. After reading several times I am still a bit confused about which kernel to use whether its the froyo cwm kernel or the gingerbread cwm kernel. I am planning on flashing from rooted stock 2.2 (which is what I am currently on) to the latest gingerbread version of miui.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
The Miui instructions wants you on stock froyo. So use a froyo (2.2) kernel with cwm
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donmateo:
Great thank you so much! I was also wondering about the gingerbread bootloaders. I downloaded them and what I got was I897_BL_Odin.7z as a file in my downloads folder. However when I begin the process and select PDA for the first time that file isn't available for me to select like it says to do in the guide.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
It should be a tar file. ... ? Try using 7zip to UN zip it and there should be a tar in there then. Sorry not at pc
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donmateo:
No worries I appreciate all the help your giving! I extracted the .tar file and am good to go. One last question with regards to Odin, should I have the auto reboot feature unselected for this process?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
yes use auto reboot
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
bootloader link fixed to just tar package now to avoid that issue again
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donmateo:
So when I select the bootloaders in the PDA and click start, it does its thing, then it would auto reboot the phone? Or should I disconnect as soon as its done, pull the battery, put the battery back in and then reconnect it getting back into download mode? Sorry for continuing on this is my first time flashing and I can tell you've done this a time or two haha.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
in either case that you just stated, the phone ends up rebooting, does it not?

and then the next step is?.... reboot into download mode!

actually flashing bootloaders, it's best not to touch your cable, unless you wanna brick. let it do its thing. bootloaders are the only dangerous thing to flash
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donmateo:
After attempting to flash the bootloaders I recieved this message in the message box

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> MD5 hash value is invalid

<OSM> i897.GB.Bootloaders.PDA.tar.md5 is invalid.

<OSM> End...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
Hmm... the package must be corrupted. try downloading it again and if it still doesn't work I'll have to check when I get home.

md5 is a checksum method to make sure a file is not corrupted. google "what is md5" for more information
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donmateo:
Googled md5 and found an interesting read, very neat stuff. I did another download and decided to plug the phone into the computer at which point I was notified it was downloading the Samsung drivers. Very odd because I could have sworn I had already done this but I'm guessing this could be a cause of the problem. I'll give it another shot and keep you updated on the result

(Edit)

Got the drivers installed, redownloaded bootloaders, executed steps 4 through 6 but got the same result and same message.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
windows will redo drivers for each usb port.i fixed the download link, never knew changing filename will break .md5. live and learn. unzip to find tar.md5 now
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
and the drivers that windows automatically downloads work just fine
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donmateo:
Awesome thank you for all the guidance. Before I flash there shouldn't be any similar problems with the cwm2 kernel as with the bootloaders should there?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
no the kernel packages are not md5 tars just regular tars
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donmateo:
Just flashed the bootloaders, made it to recovery screen. Now select "reboot system now"?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
No advanced> reboot to download the next step says get into download mode right?

it doesn't matter how you do it just getting do whatever it says to do
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naamanlima:
Hi TRusselo

i need u help... I tried to make some changes following the tutorials forum and installed rom wrong with taking my buggs (model i9000 - auto rotation inregular, without command buttons and changed and others...) in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1045734

after lots of tries, i put it in this configuration: Model sgs i897, firwmare 2.3.3, baseband and kernel i897UCKF1 2.635.7-i897UCKF1 with GINGERBREAD.UCKF1.

pls, give me a hand, i want to install CM9 with linguage pt-br and get some benefits for the performance of the phone.

ty
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
sorry but you will have to describe your problem better.

i think you are saying you have a i897 captivate, but installed i9000 software which didnt work.. obviously. And now you are on gingerbread stock KF1, which would be correct.

what problem are you having now??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naamanlima:
i researched how to go back to stock to take the problems off and return to operation of the phone, and now I'm simply trying to install a rom, because of the changes I made , the unregistered device firmware kies shows, is it because of the root? and ...And I followed the tutorial to try to flash custom rom, but when I was going to install ClockworkMod, the power button “ok” didn’t work (installed Superuser too). And when I install Rom manager there’s no captivate option, that’s the problem.DID I DO SOMETHING THAT I SOULDN’T? Or what I did is disturbing the roms installation?

I'm confused, could you please guide me how to install the Cm9 and a good kernel.

I'm afraid that it has "bricked" or that other defect happens in the equipment.

what do you think I should do first?

ty
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
This guide does not require rooting for clockWorkMod recovery.

Read the first post and use those instructions. if you don't follow those instructions I'm not going to help you
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naamanlima:
ok, if I have any doubt, i'll come back to ask you something. i hope I get lucky.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
There is no lucky there is only reading
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MDKG:
Thanks

I used this tutorial, among others, and managed to get my phone running ICS. Thanks a lot!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ravi kumar:
my samsung captivate doesnt recognised by odin

this is Ravi kumar.

I m using samsung captivatei897..froyo..

previously one time during flashing with odin, my phone is bricked..

at that time i used hemidall oneclick stock froyo package..

then works fine..

then flashed with hemidall oneclick stock gingerbred kh3 package..

then i got cmw...

so then onwards i flashed with so many custom roms via cmw..

recently,

my phone doesnt recognised by odin when put in download mode..

it is recognised when its on...

i dont know what happened..

now i came back to stock froyo..

by using heimdall 1.1.1, i flashed speedmod kernal, then via cmw i flashed cyanogenmod...

but my phone is become slow while scrolling.,

opening any application, and lost its smoothness while drawing apps,screens..

pls guide to wipe off all data regarding all about kernals,modems from my phone..

bring back my captivate as earlier...

&what about odin???
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
When you use heimdall, Odin will work no longer work on that USB port.

heimdall and Odin use different drivers. Plug your phone into a different USB port code and Odin will work again....

To clear all the data off your phone boot into CWM and select "factory reset". But that isn't your problem your problem is that you're running froyo...

I highly suggest that you start reading more before more flashing because most of your questions are very basic things...

This guide is for installing custom ROMs not stock ROMs. stock roms are garbage
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ravi kumar:
thank you

thank u for ur reply...

actually what happened is when i came back to stock rom gingerbred, if i flash any cmw kernel, it doesnt work i.e 3 button combo didnt work... and on rebooting after at&t logo some colored screen appers...then normally boots....

every time i get back to 2.2 stock then flash with speed mod kernel2.5 cmw..

then only it works.....

whAT IS THE PROBLEM??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcabia:
my phone doesn't boot

Is it necesary to flash a rom through recovery? because my phone is not booting. i used the hemidall method and flashed the kernel and the gb bootloaders and it seemed to work but the phone is not booting... im sure i've never flashed the gb bootloader nor any gb rom but in case i flashed the bootloaders a second time what are the consequences?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
Download mode and three button combo have nothing to do with the kernel. it is all in your head, always has worked and it always will. Period.

The green screen it's because you don't have the gingerbread bootloaders.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcabia:
question

I used the Heimdall Method (Any OS), and it worked perfectly, the thing is that now i'm having wifi issues because of the modem, so i need to know which modem is flashed during this procedure so i can flash it back