[Captivate Android Development] everest.deth:
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I see that a few questions keep being reposted at least every 2 pages or so. So here are a few answers:

1. Will face unlock work on our captivates?

A = No, it will not work. We do not have a FFC, and hacking it to work with the rear facing camera is less than practical.

1.1 But The OP has a separate .zip we can flash to make it work.

A= Yes, the .zip is there, but remember that this is a project from Team Hacksung, and they are working on different Galaxy S models. Most likely the OP is being copied and pasted to make things a bit easier. Nevertheless, the .zip will not work unless you have a front facing camera.

2. Can I use this as my daily driver?

A = It depends on the type of use you give to the phone. The one thing I can definitely encourage you to do is to take it for a spin, most things work, and what works, works very well.

3. What do I need to do if coming from Froyo, or GB, or Eclair, or Donut? I'm already rooted and all else!

A = My only recommendation - to avoid any issues: Do a clean install of CM7, and then upgrade to this - ICS.

4. Can I use this on a Rogers Captivate?

A = Yes, yes you can.

5. While flashing through CWM, I get an error: "assert failed:.... Installation aborted". What do I do?

A = You are most likely coming from a ROM not based on the Captivate (read: an I9000 ROM for example). As per the OP, one click your behind to Stock, then install CM7, and then flash this. Believe me, it worked for many! (Including myself)

6. After flashing through CWM, I get a message "offset x*xx". What is this?

A = This is a security feature in Ice Cream Sandwich. Read about it here :

7. I'm thinking about flashing different modems, anyone knows of working modems out there for this?

A = Yes, most CM7 modems will work for you, and I've read some pretty awesome-sauce stories about JK4.

8. I see heavy usage from the Android OS on my battery stats, is this is a bug?

A = "It seems to be holding a wakelock when the phone is on anyway. So only the battery stat for it is higher, not the battery consumption." Patwip

9. My External SD card media is not being read, what do i do?

A = Give it a while, if it is your first boot with it then it will take it's time. You can reboot to speed the process up.

10. My phone says it's running low on space, what do I do? (Fixed)

A = There are a couple of reasons this may be reason. Most common one is that your /datadata is getting packed, use a diskutility to find out what is taking so much space in there. Some others have reported that wiping cache from recovery clears the message - this users are receiving the error particularly after batch restoring with Titanium.

Note: Somehow a lot of applications were being installed in the /datadata partition by default, this was fixed on build 8 *i think*. And also, Gmail was saving the attachments to that partition, making it fill up even faster, this was fixed in build 9.

11. Is anybody else having issues with audio recording? (using stock sound recording app, shazam, or any other app like that)

A = This is supposed to be working normally as of build 9; However, if you are still having issues, or are on a previous build use This audio Fix

12. Why is Facebook sync not working?

A =

Note: There are other alternatives to syncing facebook contacts: a) This "Facebook Sync stuff" b) Try Friendcaster , I recommend the paid version, I use it :)

12. My RAM gets low too often, What I am doing wrong? Is this a bug? My phone is lagging because of it :mad:

A = Yes, it goes low more often than on CM7 per say. No, you are not doing anything wrong, nor is this a bug. Think about it like this, "In Android, processes and Applications are two different things. An app can stay "running" in the background without any processes eating up your phone's resources." " On Android, having your RAM nearly full is a good thing. It means that when you relaunch an app you've previously opened, the app launches quickly and returns to its previous state."

Note: Sometimes, killing apps will help, but if that happens...most of times it means that the app you killed was poorly coded, and therefore it was contiously using your CPU (note how i say CPU, and not RAM?). Read more about this discussion on Lifehacker

13. Why do I have to manually enable data after every reboot? (Build 10)

A = You don't have to, flash this instead.

14. I think I just lost root access after flashing build 10, what can I do?

A = Try updating to the latest binaries.

There will be other small bugs like wi-fi not connecting, or your things not syncing. For this minor things, reboot. Reboots are a magical cure, besides, Wi-Fi is working for all of us, so if it isn't working for you..that makes you an isolated sad panda.

Good read guys!.