yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
Which is precisely what he said he is doing.
[Captivate Android Development] mrhaley30705:
Flash the safe kf1 on my sig, then the kk4 file. Should be good to go after that.

Edit

Ive used the kf1 in my sig several times, and it will put you back on a rfs file system. It should be noted that my kf1 does not have a pit file in it, because you aren't actually changing the pit, but the format (ext4/yaffs2 to rfs).
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
I thought CM/MIUI changed the partition tables as well as the format... Either way they'll probably need the bootloaders since CM/MIUI run on the froyo bootloaders by default (unless they changed it recently) and he probably doesn't have the I897 GB bootloaders installed.
[Captivate Android Development] mrhaley30705:
MIUI will use either one,I think cm will also.
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
I think so too but I was refering to what they say to use and thus what most tend to use.
[Captivate Android Development] nbell13:
CM works fine with the GB bootloaders, I flashed CM7 from the KJ2 leak without any problems.
[Captivate Android Development] jetpuck73:
When I receive a call and hang up it stays in the notification bar for about 20 seconds before it ends.
[Captivate Android Development] tmanonyx:
I noticed the same thing.
[Captivate Android Development] jetpuck73:
I just restarted my phone and now it seems to be working fine.
[Captivate Android Development] tmanonyx:
If you restart then it will be fine. I noticed that if you wait over twelve hours the phone will lag when initiating / ending a call. I did not notice this on KK2.
[Captivate Android Development] LR07:
can somebody help me? im trying to flash this rom but it wont show up in recovery
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
It's only flashable through odin/heimdall
[Captivate Android Development] LR07:
thanks! been killing me for the past hour lol

---------- Post added at 06:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:47 PM ----------

can somebody tell me how to flash using odin? im still new too this
[Captivate Android Development] 4-2ndtwin:
Download the i897uckk4 .rar file and then extract the .tar file out of it. Back up ur stuff on ur phone that u want to save. Then do a factory reset because this is a non wipe firmware, so if u have some previous stuff come over from whatever u were running before it could cause problems. Open Odin3 v1.83 or similar (right click and run as administrator) and select the PDA tab. Then navigate on ur computer to where the kk4.tar file is and double click to select it. Put ur phone into download mode and connect it to ur computer (usb port in back if desktop or 1st port on laptop). Now select Start and in just a little bit (between 2 or 3 minutes) u will have the kk4 installed. U can unplug the micro usb from ur phone after Odin is finished and u see the att world screen.

Here is the Odin if u need it. Just extract it from the zipped folder. View attachment 794099
[Captivate Android Development] david007co:
Hi, first of all. Please bare with me lol...

I have again Eclair (Had CM7.1 before, but needed to restore again with OCD Odin).

For flashing this rom, I want to know the following:

1-Do I have to root the phone again;is it necceessary?

2-Do I have to install CWM?

Or is the procedure just flash it on Odin, without doing any of the above??

OR even better. Plese someone give me a clear tutorial to flash this kind of ROMS. I see its a very different procedure than Installing CyanogenMOD

Thank you.
[Captivate Android Development] mrhaley30705:
Read the first 5 pages of the thread, it answers all your questions.
[Captivate Android Development] 4-2ndtwin:
"OCD Odin" from 2 posts up.

Gotta little laugh out of this...:D

david007co, Read the post right before yours... ;) ^^^

All of the i897 leaked firmwares are pure stock and are kindly provided by Przekret

And the password is sampro.pl when u try to extract the .tar from the .rar
[Captivate Android Development] david007co:
OCD

Hey.. yes, thepost inmediately before mine had the answer lol... Thank you..

Btw.. why is it funny the "OCD Odin" thing hehe .. isnt that correct?

Im learning.. im learning....
[Captivate Android Development] 4-2ndtwin:
Yeah, there is a "One Click Odin" or "One Click Downloader by Odin" however u want to call it.

I just got a laugh out of the OCD... a.k.a. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder... We that flash A Lot have this. :D

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[Captivate Android Development] twotone8:
recently switched from at&t to t-mobile.

traded the captivate for a vibrant.

can i just say....you guys are so lucky.

I miss updates.
[Captivate Android Development] TRusselo:
really?? you have 2.3.6 posted here...http://sampro.pl/firmware/android/samsung-sgh-t959v/

http://hotfile.com/dl/133578504/1af6bfd/SGH-T959V_T959VUVKJ6_UV_TMB.rar.html
[Captivate Android Development] david007co:
Working perfect!

Thank you so much. This helped me a lot. People can safelly follow this instructions. I have my Gingerbread now working perfectly...:)

Time to root lol...

(OMG getting the OCD xD) (dissorder way):eek:
[Captivate Android Development] twotone8:
that's for the vibrant 4g i'm 'fraid.
[Captivate Android Development] TRusselo:
oh bummer.. sorry.
[Captivate Android Development] david007co:
Rooting

What about Rooting with Hardcore's SpeedMod Kernel, that is refered on CM 7.1 installation instructions? Will it work?

I see FUGU is kind of something similar to CWM.. isnt it?

So may be if I use that Hardcore's SpeedMod Kernel Ill have CWM.. am i correct?? will it make any conflict? what do you think?

Thank you
[Captivate Android Development] 4-2ndtwin:
U should only use i897 kernels with i897 modems because u will have issues if u use an i9000 kernel with i897 modem or i897 kernel with i9000 modem. It is best not to mix match.

This is an i897 leaked firmware, so stick with the stock kernel or there are other developer's kernels that are compatible with this kk4 based firmware.

FuguRoot Mod is just a kernel swap method of getting root nothing more. It is done through Odin and probably the "sgs kernel flasher" app not CWM.
[Captivate Android Development] stoobie-doo:
Anyone running into random soft reboots on KK4? I had been fine for about a week, and now I am having them happen all the time, I had similar problems with other leaked AT&T ROMs, and saw people commenting that at least some of the previous builds had issues that showed up when too many apps are installed on the Captivate (not sure if that really is the case, but would explain why the problems come back over time and not immediately).

More importantly, anyone know a fix?
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
I had the issue when I had too many apps installed to the SDCard, but it was something I would have to reflash from since my phone wouldn't stay booted long enough for me to do anything most of the time. That was back on KJ# though. I keep all my apps on my phone and my games on my SDCard and I try not to install too many games at once now.
[Captivate Android Development] stoobie-doo:
I would get those reboot cycles as well; I had hoped they had been squashed, but I guess not.

I removed some already, and may move a few more to main memory to see if that helps. When I was on KJ3, I noticed I never had the issue when I did not have the SD card in. Whatever the issue is, it probably still exists with KK4.
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
Just out of curiosity how big is the external SDCard you use?
[Captivate Android Development] stoobie-doo:
16GB; I had a class 6 originally and thought that might be the issue and replaced it with a class 10 - same problems with both
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
Another question out of curiosity how full is it usually?
[Captivate Android Development] stoobie-doo:
Right now between 9 and 10MB free.

If you've got an idea of what to test (and if anyone else monitoring this thread has ideas), I'm game. This is my work phone - so I need it to be reliable; I'd love to solve this.
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
Well I was thinking that it might have something to do with the OS looking at how much is free on the internal SD Card but actually installing the apps on the external SD Card (I only have a 4G external with a few hundred Mb free before app install) so the OS thinks it has more space then what's really there and attempts to install to it and breaks something. Though I'm not really sure where the apps are installed outside the phone. What I do know is that the built in App Manager shows me the size of my internal SD Card under the SD Card tab.
[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
just a few questions that i cant seem to find the answers to in this thread. firstly, after reading a post on how to install this rom (ive always used cwm), im consused, as it says that the rar contains a tar file, but the only file i see is a md5. secondly, id like to flash a kernel with cwm (probably samurai, since its the only kk4 kernel), and i notice that inside the md5 are the files that are being flashed to the phone, including the zImage (kernel). can i just replace the stock kernel with samurai inside the md5 before flashing this package? and lastly, ive seen a little talk about how to root this using fugu, a kernel swapping method, but instead can we just download superuser from the market to get root? thanks! and sorry for the many questions!
[Captivate Android Development] nbell13:
the mp5 and the tar file are one and the same, i wouldn't recommend the 2nd question, and the 3rd is no. if it were that easy, the fugumod kernel swap method wouldn't exist.
[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
in the samurai thread, the op says to just download superuser.apk from the market, thats why i ask. that kernel is specifically for kk4 and it says to download the app. it would be a lot easier than the kernel swap method =/
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
Downloading the superuser app from the market should be all you need to do if you flash Samurai. There's one other binary file that's needed other then the Superuser app to get root. That being the su binary file which most I897 GB kernels install. Some install both, but Samurai only installs su due to the limited space allowed when modifying the initramfs which is why you'll need to download the Superuser app from the Market to get root if you use Samurai.
[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
thank you!
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
Sorry I should have been more specific. Custom Kernels will install the su binary. Stock Kernels will not.
[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
ya, i understand that now. was never really sure as to how root exactly worked, so i did some research =D good to go now!
[Captivate Android Development] mrhaley30705:
Technically, its a .tar.md5
[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
i am curious though, why cant we use update.zip's to install root and cwm like back on eclair? is it becasue the stock recovery wont allow for it?
[Captivate Android Development] 4-2ndtwin:
Basically yes. The 2e recovery on eclair versus the 3e recovery on froyo and now on gingerbread leaks.
[Captivate Android Development] nbell13:
My bad, I thought you were asking about rooting a stock kernel :)
[Captivate Android Development] stoobie-doo:
Anyone with a work around for soft reboots when too many apps are installed? With Google's 10 days of 10 cent apps; I can see this becoming a problem again with this build, just like it has been with other leaks.
[Captivate Android Development] El Niche:
Im having reboots every 4-5 days with all the GB leaks. I dont know if this a common thing but Ive done a total wipe and install of GB with 3 leaks and this happens everytime. Is it because of too many apps? I dont have too many and I dont use my phone intensively, could it be Go Launcher? Anybody know what I could do to fix this? Thanks in advance

If this continues Im tempted to leave the stock rom and go for something like illuminance...
[Captivate Android Development] stoobie-doo:
I know it is not due to Go Launcher, because I have had these problems with the stock launcher installed, as well as with Go.

To be clear, what I am seeing is a soft reboot, i.e., the screen briefly wakes up, the boot-up sound plays (but not the animation), and after a minute or so, the phone goes through the startup pattern of media scans. The phone itself recognizes that it has stayed on (by looking at uptime in Settings->About Phone->Status->Up time.

My experience has been with all of the GB leaks that the builds are initially stable, and then problems start re-emerging after a few days, usually after I have re-added more and more of my applications onto the phone (I am doing full wipes, including dalvik cache each time, and restoring apps only from TiBu).

I do not have problems when I do not have my SD card installed, but I don't know if that is because of the lack of a card, or because lacking the SD card limits the number of apps that get loaded and recognized by Android.

I have been running the stock leaks, using the fugu kernel swap to root, and then freezing the AT&T tethering manager, little else. Of course, since these are all leaks, there are no bug logs to reference to know whether this is an issue even on Samsung's radar.
[Captivate Android Development] crt60:
I've seen these problems on every build since froyo. My son in law has a complete stock captivate kb1 straight from at&t. Has problems with mms and time stamp issue, random reboots for no reason. Wont let me hack it for him because its still under warranty. Every phone ive ever had there was always something. Windoz, s60, what have you. Go figure...
[Captivate Android Development] El Niche:
Thanks for the info. I was about to go back to stock launcher but I had gotten so used to GO that I really didnt want to. I just moved my music from the external SD to the phone. Im gonna try a week without the microSD. I never had reboots in Froyo. Hopefully this can get fixed in future releases. I get soft reboots but sometimes it completely freezes and I have to pull battery and restart.
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
Try moving some of the apps to the phone and see if that helps
[Captivate Android Development] stoobie-doo:
Are you pretty certain that it is the number of apps on the SD card and not the number of apps overall? Or just trying to rule out a potential root cause?

Bug has hit hard today after buying more 10 cent apps; trying a mix of removals and moves right now, but not getting back to a stable place yet. Looks like a full wipe is coming soon... hopefully there is a KL1 getting ready to drop and better performance along with it. Would hate for the only answer to be to go back to Froyo, or wait for CM9 to be a bit more stable and feature complete.
[Captivate Android Development] El Niche:
Also gonna hope for a December leak soon. I wonder if this is just in a few phones given I havent read this to be happening too much. As of now I moved most of my apps to the phone. Will give that a few days, if not I will remove the MicroSD. If that doesnt work, hope for a new leak and run it completely stock. It would suck to go back to froyo as I do find GB a lot faster.
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
From personal experience on these (KJ3 and before, I've kept most my apps on my phone after KJ3) recent leaks for the I897 is that having the apps on the SD Card using up a lot of space caused my phone to reboot a LOT. So it's not so much having too many apps as it is having the apps use up too much space.
[Captivate Android Development] El Niche:
OK Thanks! I just moved all of them to the phone from the SD Card. Ill give it a shot befor I remove my MicroSD with all my music. I'll cross my fingers and report if there is another reboot.

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
im interested in finding these missing files, including the pit, so that this tar will do a full wipe, but i can't seem to find them in any of the previous releases, and the only thread about kh2 is a rogers thread, so where can i find these files?
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
I was mistaken, KF1 was the last full wipe release. The rest were only updates.
[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
ah, thank you
[Captivate Android Development] resilva:
Anyone come up with a fix for this??

Please don't post it's by removing the SD card or moving apps to the phone, that would only be a work around and not a true fix.

If anyone has solved this please help, I feel alot of us are suffering from this.

Many thanks
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
The only "true fix" is to wait for Samsung (or maybe Google) to fix it themselves.
[Captivate Android Development] mrhaley30705:
If you have root, download terminal emulator.

Then type

su

df datadata

If your above about 80-85%, moving some apps should stop the reboots.

And they are called work arounds because NJ one had fixed them yet.
[Captivate Android Development] stoobie-doo:
Hmmm... when I did that, I got "No such file or directory" and I am getting plenty of reboots

What am I doing wrong?
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
I'm pretty sure our phones don't have a datadata directory...
[Captivate Android Development] 4-2ndtwin:
^ MIUI and Cyanogenmod based Roms for the Captivate do.

But the "Regular" based Roms have the /dbdata ---- See this post...http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19902283&postcount=1
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
Well ok I didn't know MIUI and CM did, but I would assume since he's here he's not using either of those.
[Captivate Android Development] mrhaley30705:
Sorry, forgot about the MIUI/cm difference. I am running MIUI, but i cruise through alot of threads. Sometimes i forget the difference in the two.
[Captivate Android Development] stoobie-doo:
Back to the original premise; I am only using 13M out of 127M in dbdata; are you suggesting than, to move more from the SD to main memory, since I appear to have plenty of space there, or something else?
[Captivate Android Development] mrhaley30705:
What is the percentage listed in the read out?

If the number I'd too high, move done apps off the internal storage.
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
By default these 2.3.X leaks have been installing the apps to the SD Card (with exception of apps that can't or won't install to the SD Card), and I personally have experienced the same thing stoobie's experiencing except to a more severe degree (would immediately reboot upon boot so I couldn't do anything but reflash and start from scratch) when I had too many things installed to the SD Card. So chances are if he moves ~100Mb (just a number I pulled from the air) worth of apps from his SD Card to the internal storage that his issue should go away.
[Captivate Android Development] mrhaley30705:
That was going to be my next suggestion.
[Captivate Android Development] SunnyOK:
Good ROM. It becomes classical.

In this year, can we have another leak?
[Captivate Android Development] El Niche:
Well, unfortunately for me, moving the apps to the phone was not the solution. After I moved them I got a reboot. I really dont know what to try. I will try without the microSD once I move my music somewhere else. Hopefully we can get a new leak this year, although this has happened to me with all the GB leaks.

Let me know if there are any other ideas. Thanks!
[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
well i downloaded this rom, unpackaged it with 7zip, then made a new tar using 7zip that contained the files from this rom, the corn kernel instead of stock, and i added the param.lfs and dbdata.rfs from kf1 so as to do a full wipe, and when i tried to flash the new tar along with the pit from kf1, it failed to flash, any ideas why?
[Captivate Android Development] 4-2ndtwin:
When u put the Corn Kernel in, did u leave it named zImage ? Because it has to be named just "zImage".

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[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
yes.
[Captivate Android Development] 4-2ndtwin:
Maybe try a different archiver.

I use IZArc.

(and did u use the "larger" dbdata.rfs from the kf1 that was in the CSC .tar file ?)

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[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
ya, that's the one I used, should I not have?
[Captivate Android Development] 4-2ndtwin:
That is the correct one...maybe a different archiver will work for u.

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[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
i will give that a try, but before i do let me make sure im not doing anything wrong. I am taking the stock kk4 tar, extracting all of its contents (zimage, boot, sbl, factoryfs, cache, and modem), and combing those, minus the zimage, into a new tar along with the param and dbdata that i extracted from kf1 (param from main tar, dbdata from csc tar) and the corn kernel. when i tried to flash the new tar along with the pit from kf1, odin failed. is that an ok way of doing it?
[Captivate Android Development] 4-2ndtwin:
Yep.

And if u don't want the bootloaders u can just not include them of course.

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[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
il be coming from 2.1 bootloaders, thats why i have them in. il try again using this new archiver you suggested, though im not really changing my process =/
[Captivate Android Development] 4-2ndtwin:
Just be careful because u don't want Odin to fail when flashing the bootloaders.

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[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
ya, it actually failed right after the primary bootloaders last time, said something about a write error, i think when is doing something with NAND, so it scared me, but it flashed back to 2.1 just fine, so im just cycling the battery real quick before i try again. i wish i knew what went wrong though. ive never flashed a tar that had eight different files inside it (param, factoryfs, cache, dbdata, zimage, modem, boot, and sbl) along with a pit. i hope its ok to do that. wel see with this second one!
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
If you're coming from 2.1 you might need to repartition. You're using the S1JE4.pit file right?
[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
yes, and when you add it to odin it automatically checks the repartition option, and I know it was checked. if I remember correctly, it set the pit, then loaded the primary bootloader, then did something regarding NAND, and then failed with some wright error. this is the first time I tried to make my own tar to flash, so I'm new in that aspect. I can attach the tar I'm going to flash when I'm back on my pc if you want to take a look. but hopefully this one will work!
[Captivate Android Development] 4-2ndtwin:
Just built this same .tar you are trying (but minus the bootloaders) and it Passed with Success...But it will not do a Full wipe (even with my modded command file in the cache.rfs) with the dev kernel in the .tar package. Not sure of why, but I seem to remember it doing this in the past when I tried earlier firmware leaks with dev kernels inserted. So it would be best to do a wipe data/factory reset before u flash the .tar package. Or when it boots up after a successfull Odin flash u will have a lot of force closes poppping up, depending on what apps you had installed before the Odin flash.--This is what just happened to me. So, I used button combo to get into cwm recovery and wiped data/factory reset, rebooted and now it is just like out of the box with kk4 and dev kernel with cwm included. :)
[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
so what you are saying is that you can't flash the pit with the tar if the tar has the dev kernel in it? or are you saying that if i flash the tar with eight files in it including the dev kernel that the files that wipe certain partitions won't do their job? or am i misunderstanding? thanks for the replys by the way! =D