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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MentalDragon:
GPS

Has anybody had any decent GPS use. I have not. Now granted Cappy has never had great GPS service but it was somewhat useful. I cant get any lock ons inside. It takes forever to get one in car and half as long just outside. I have tried the *#3214789650# and *#*#3214789650#*#* but neither apparently works in ICS. I was hoping someone here has had issue and could advise me in the path to take.

Im on build 15 stock kernal and KK4 modem.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
No Swype issues for me. Using the latest version, The latest is 3.26. Yours looks to be old
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
The GPS, for me is fantastic. I get lock within 30ft in about 5-7 seconds. I never use it inside so I can't comment on that

Take a look at a different modem, it could help
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
Yes, as long as you get the CM/MIUI/ICS modem, JL3 will work perfectly. I used it for a long time without issue, but I recently switched to KP1 since it seems to be even better.

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"Flashing swype?" Not sure what you are flashing, I use the Swype beta from www.swype.com and it works perfectly. I don't think you will have much luck with any "flashable" version that has been extracted from another ROM.

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It won't affect your GPS, but get rid of the KK4 modem unless you never talk to anyone on the phone.

Kangi26, can you edit the OP and put big bold red letters telling people not to use i897 modems with CM9?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asl9622:
I have not had good use at all. I am on build 13 and it has been abysmal. I am not sure if I want to switch modems because the phone service has been fantastic. Any ideas on what to do? I posted earlier about it.

Also on a side note. Do your pictures show up clear on google music or the favorite contacts? My pictures look distorted and not clear but any picture I open in the gallery are perfect.

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Why do we need to get ride of this modem out of curiousity? Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Newlin:
Overclock

Is there a way to overclock on this yet?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b-eock:
I smelll a trolll
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
Only with the Glitch kernel

Sent from a autonomous device
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vcallas:
Captivate modems require the audience chip which i9000 ROMs are not optimized to use. Without this optimization it can distort how you sound to others when making phone calls. i9000 ROMs are optimized for faster data uploads than i897 ROMs.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dutchhome:
Thanks for the suggestion.. I just double checked and can confirm that on build 15, I can not get the phone to make any sound when docked in the windshield mount. Even disabling car mode did nothing. It seems there is no way to prevent it from redirecting to the dock's audio jack. This means I must unplug the phone in order to hear the GPS :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asl9622:
Thanks! Any recommendation on a modem? Also do you flash the modem using Odin still?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
There is a link in the OP for modems, ONLY USE CM7/Miui/ICS. Oxy has also created a user feedback map which shows what modems work well in specific areas

Copy it to your SD, install thru CWM
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
What you said about i897 modems and audience chip is correct. However, CM9 is not an i9000 ROM. Rather, it is a AOSP based CyanogenMod ROM compiled from source that does not have an audience driver because the developers decided that HSUPA is more important than audience (you can't get HSUPA with a i897 modem). The teamhacksung kernel for i897 is not an i9000 re-oriented kernel, it is a kernel specifically for the i897 that happens to share developers and a lot of source with the i9000 teamhacksung kernel.

Much of the driver source actually comes from the Nexus S (that is why the SGS phones are currently the only non Nexus phones that can run ICS with full camera support - the Nexus S uses the same camera). It would be more accurate, though still not correct, to say that we are using a "Nexus S based ROM."
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] readitodie:
I'm having problem w/openfeint.

I never use openfeint and every time when i play a game, I always choose 'No I don't want the fun" option.

Since yesterday openfeint started to show up not only when i start a game but even when i'm browsing or doing something else.

I searched and found out there is an app called 'closefeint' but it disables adblocking which i really like.

Is there a way to stop both openfeint and ads?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KMA_is_here:
I don't have enough posts to respond to the thread over in the development forum, but I wanted to share some info on the low battery/reboot issue. The quote above is from that thread...

I haven't had any dropped calls since installing build 15 over the stock rom last week, but I have seen a similar jump from ~40-50% battery down to single digits (~6%) on two different occasions. I don't recall what I was doing the first time it happened, but the second time I was playing around with a new boot animation and when it finished booting up I got the low battery warning. I don't remember clearly, but I think I powered it off, plugged it in and noticed the stock charging image showed something that appeared much higher than 6% so I didn't believe the number reported by CM9.

Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J M L:
I would see the problem with a reboot causing a huge drop in indicated battery all the time when using Gingerbread ROMs. I don't think I've seen it yet with the ICS ROM. It sometimes happened on reboots caused by crashes, but also when I rebooted the phone on purpose. I would often see drops from 50-60% to 5-10%. After the phone was rebooted, the battery would often increase in percentage slowly, despite not being plugged into a charger.

After a time I stopped worrying about it, because despite the indicated 10% battery, I'd still get the same amount of remaining life as if I had the "real" 50% left. The only thing that seemed to fix it was charging to full. After that the useage would be normal.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] electech13:
What kernel comes pre loaded with this ths ics or do I have to flash a seperate one myself after install? Sorry bit confused on this. And I assume a different kernel(s) needs to be used to utilize oc'ing? Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J M L:
CM9/ICS Teamhacksung build 15 comes with a kernel based on linux 3.something.mumble with appropriate patches to support the Captivate. It does not have overclocking enabled. If you only install the build15 ROM (and the gapps (google apps) if you want them) you will have a functional ICS based phone.

I recommend starting with the default kernel, because if you have any trouble you're more likely to get help if your phone is stock build 15. Once you have the default configuration working well, then you can install the Glitch 14 beta X (right now 2) kernel and nstools. Then you can play with overclocking.

The default kernel performs very well, and you might not miss overclocking. That being said, once the glitch kernel for build 15 was available, I installed it and overclocked...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hazedabeast:
cm9 Biuld 15(Glitch kernel OC 1.5)

My speaker just started to become high then low and now it stays at low like i can barlley hear it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RootTheMachine:
Have you tried using the stock kernel? It's not very useful to report bugs like this when you are running a different kernel
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kwinsett:
Sorry for the noob queston, but I am now on Froyo so do I need to switch to GB bootloaders before switching to this rom?

Reading the install instructions on loading ICS for the 1st time does not say which bootloaders.

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianray14:
ugh.. the directions are not very clear in the OP. I initially tried to install from miui ICS. I downloaded build 15, put it on my internal sd card, got into recover, flashed and bootlooped. I flashed back to 2.3.4 via odin (stock GB.) I rooted, went into recovery, flashed build 15 again thinking fresh slate, there should be no conflicts now. Not the case. I'm bootlooping again after following the instructions. :annoyed:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b-eock:
Yahh you didn't follow the directions now did you!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianray14:
LOL.. dude, is there a thread that you aren't on? :)

1. Root your device and install ClockworkMod Recovery.

2. Reboot into Recovery using 3-button-combo

3. Do a Nandroid backup!

4. WIPE (wipe data/factory reset + wipe cache partition)

5. Install the ROM from internal sdcard using ClockworkMod Recovery

6. Optionally install the Google Addon

Did i miss something?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b-eock:
You have to flash twice. Once to start the process(it will repartition the phone and set the new boot.img(recovery)) Then reboot into recovery and flash again...

EDIT- I AM IN EVERY THREAD DUDE!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MentalDragon:
Has anyone found a set of inverted apps that work with this from. I have tried two so far and I get errors. I miss my inverted apps since I am legally blind it helps with seeing better.

Thanks in advance
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mifbuster:
Bug

Vibration on calls and notifications isn't working. I dunno if this is just me or not.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianray14:
I'm having an issue. Swype encounters an error stating that the DPI is incorrect. Anyone know how to fix?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kwinsett:
Messages won't open

I just flashed this and am having a couple of issues. I see my text messages when I open the folder but when I try to open one I get a error that messaging has stopped. I can't open any of them.

Also, after flashing a ran Titanium Backup and restored missing apps and data, however all my contacts are now gone. They were there earlier when I flashed to stock GB.

Sorry if these seem silly questions, but I am pretty new to this.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RootTheMachine:
That happens when you flash the virtual buttons... Did you do that?

Sent from my CM9 ICS i897 Captivate
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edwinmorales:
Hi guys anybody knows why sometimes appear one popup with the word sending on the bottom of the home screen? Thks..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianray14:
You are absolutely correct, sir! Any way around this? I actually managed to get swype installed, but sometimes it'll randomly give me errors during regular use and always when i rotate the screen. I like the circle folder style, but i can do without the virtual buttons. I already have the real things right underneath :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianray14:
Great ROM!! It's amazingly fast and reliable. I have a few questions that hopefully someone or multiple persons wouldn't mind answering. First is.. I know that in order to get great batt results, a few charge cycles and batt calibration is necessary. Beyond this, are there any Android OS apps that can be either safely "frozen" or removed?

Is there a way to default the browser to open bookmarks as homepage?

This ROM has now become my daily driver and dare i say it? I'd say it's pretty safe to upgrade this ROM from alpha to beta. Can't wait to watch this evolve. Thanks Devs!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joey1.0:
I'm running Build 15 with Glitch, and can't get GPS to lock at all. It can find the satellites, (using GPS test) but doesn't lock. 6 are in view 0 are in use. it very randomly will lock for a few seconds then lose the lock. this is when I'm stationary outside.

Any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianray14:
My GPS locks while I'm in my house in seconds. I suggest dling 5 or 6 cm7/miui modems and flashing one by one until you find one that works for you. Soggycashew (i think that's his name) has created a map of modems as there is a link in the modem thread to it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Just gotta say...haven't tried any other ICS roms, but this is far and away the best rom I've ever used. I have not experienced any glitches whatsoever and performance and battery are about as good as I've seen.

Just my 2 cents for anyone researching this rom.

I know this isn't a question..sorry.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smsg:
I'm running build 15 and got a text message from ATT today informing me that android 2.3 was available for my phone. I have not gotten this message while running earlier builds. Is anyone else getting these?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b-eock:
Its AT&T telling you about the 2.3.5 update finally, nothing new
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WindRunnerXC:
That gets sent to anyone running something other than 2.3...since if you're not on 2.3, you're clearly out of date :cool:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slackhouse:
I also received this message, and I'm on build 13. I delayed going to build 14 because I saw several posters mention sleep of deaths, especially during charging. I am hesitant to jump to build 15 as I've gotten great battery life from build 13. With CM7 I was barely getting 8 hours on a charge, which was extremely annoying. Now, I can easily make it through the day until I go to bed.

BTW, this is the fastest and best ROM I've ever up on my captivate. In fact, it has delayed my desire to get a new phone for the time being.

Anyone that's made the jump to build 15, is it worth it if I am extremely happy with build 13 with no issues?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spacetug:
I just jumped from build 13 to 15 yesterday. Speedwise, it seems about the same (blazing fast), but there are more options in the settings, like customization of notification toggles, new options for the launcher, percentage battery display, some cyanogenmod performance options, etc.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asl9622:
Thanks for the reference to the website. I am in a predicament because only 2 people in Georgia posted anything and they are not near me. Secondly, the current stock modem has great service minus the terrible GPS. I think I will just stick with stock for now but might try some later because think its pretty easy to flash modems.

And you were correct about website. Just search Google for "soggycashews captivate modems". The website will be called evolution
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asl9622:
Also does anyone else pictures from Google music or favorite contacts show up distorted?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vcallas:
Have you tried Fasterfix from the market. It makes sure you are pulling the AGPS data for North America rather than Asia.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imageek72:
What car home app is everyone using? I was using just the plain jane Car Home from google, but that does not seem to work now. I get the error:

This app is incompatible with your Samsung SGH-I897

I use this quite a bit actually with bluetooth while driving and would love to have the ability to use it again. Thanks in advance for any help.

---

Nevermind found an APK of the Google Car Home and was able to load it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billyjed:
Search for lippol94's thread. He has mms and contacts done for b15.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billyjed:
This is for whoever was searching for inverted apps.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbtiger:
Same here... I believe ATT sent to everyone that owns a Captivate. I wouldn't go back to 2.3!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
Yeah, I got it too. I won't be going back either
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imageek72:
Same here. I am running the alpha build 15 of CM9 and both of my kids have CM7 on their cappys and we all got the message from ATT
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rwcollings:
Wireless Download Speed

Was wondering if anyone was having any wireless download speed problems? I am currently getting 200kbps down and 4.5mb upload (huge difference, obviously).

Running stock everything on build 15 with no kind of wireless fixing applications installed.

Thanks in advance for any help provided.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
Take a look at a new modem. You can find one here

Also, take a look here There is a map that can give you some ideas as to which modem works (according to other users) in your area
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
Only if I use a low resolution picture. ICS supports high resolution photos.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joonair:
i was on illuminance 3.1 before flashing ICS, and now i want to go back to it. Do I simply just wipe & flash? or do I need to do something since i'm moving from ICS to gingerbread
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billyjed:
Had anybody else had issues restoring nandroid backups using glitch v14? Mine bootlooped and I had to Odin back to stock.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
edited cause I'm a dork

I have never done a nandroid back up. I store all of my stuff on micro sd. If something goes wonky, I just reflash to stock and start over

Sent from a autonomous device
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wildnux:
if you set your contact pictures (high resolution) from ics they will look better.

They will be distorted again if you wipe your data and restore (sync) from google. Its a known issue in android phones. They tried to address the issue by supporting bigger (higb res) images in ICS but when synced they are stored as 256x256 px size images in google servers. When they are synced back they look terrible in ICS.

NOTE: this was the reponse to asl9622's post

Sent from my magical wand!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucas_saka:
I had the Status 7 error, so I flashed the kernel that is on the main post, but when i rebooted, the phone is stuck on the initial screen that says galaxy S, cyanogen mod, and then it looks like the clockwork recovery tries to do something, and the galaxy s logo appears again, and this occurs over and over again. What's wrong ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galakanokis:
Not sure what I have done but I seem unable to mount my phone via USB in any way, it will charge but not mount. Worked fine last week I am sure on a few different PCs. Now nothing happens, either while in normal running mode or trying to mount in recovery. I am running build 15 and tried stock kernel and glitch. I also tried Vibranturk's ROM to no avail. Computers haven't changed. What am I missing?

Tried to reload drivers to no avail and currently trying to load the SDK and give ADB a whirl as well. Any ideas what I could have missed as I don't think I have changed anything?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianray14:
Did you try the obvious thing and plug into other usb ports or reboot your computer? Sorry to state the obvious
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galakanokis:
Yep, done all that. Three different computers with two running XP and one running windows 7.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
If you havent figured it out you need to flash the kernel reverter, then reboot into recovery and flash the newest nightly frl. Sam3000.

Sent From My KickAss ATT SGS2 SPORTING CM7
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asl9622:
Thanks that describes my situation perfectly. Now if Facebook would start working on this and that's how I sync the pics would it look alright? I guess for now I have to select pics from my gallery.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] parkerdjohnson:
Haven't really looked too in depth into the compatibility, but I was hoping to try out chrome beta. I haven't gotten it to work on build 15 // glitch v14 b3...:(

I merely installed the app from the market upon first try, didn't work.

Downloaded from a mirror on my pc, pushed it to /system/app and changed permissions with es file explorer. Didn't work!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
I've got it installed b15 stock kernel, works great. Try going to system/apps, force close Chrome, and clear cache
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] parkerdjohnson:
No go....Kernel related? If so, how would would I go about flashing the stock kernel?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
Is it not responding? What's it doing? Not doing

Try to uninstall it, try to redownload it over wifi if you can and reinstall
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] parkerdjohnson:
Also, for what it's worth, I tried installing the new cm music app, and I get the same message, "Unfortunately, music has stopped."

in this case, it's "Unfortunately, chrome beta has stopped."
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
I would be looking at the kernel then
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motiv8d365:
Getting alot of "unfortunately an app has stopped" and my battery seems to be getting unpredictably warm theres plenty of space on my phone and im not messing with the voltages at all or live oc just clocking at 1300 performance govenor should I reflash or what... oh and I"m loosing my home screen every time I restart my phone APEX LAUNCHER
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArttG12:
Data Limit

Is there a way to set the data limit below ~2GB? I'm on the 200mb data plan, but when I enter that amount it bumps back up to 2GB.

Edit: Nevermind, had to change the warning setting first.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whipps:
Teamhacksung ICS port for Samsung Galaxy S 2?

I did a search for Teamhacksung ICS for the Galaxy S 2, but I didn't see anything. Anyone know if they have a port for that phone?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
ATT Galaxy S2 No, International Galaxy S2 YES. The International version is probably a locked thread so you just have to go through all the threads until you find Alpha ICS or something like that. I will try to find the link. If it is for the ATT version we dont have one yet. If it is the international sgs2 then here is a link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1410400

Sent From My KickAss ATT SGS2 SPORTING CM7
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whipps:
The phone is through T-mobile.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
Then I dont think THS is working on tbat one at all since it uses a TOTALLY different phone even though it is called the Galaxy S2. It has a different processor and other differences. The ATT model is about 99% the same as the international version yet we cant make calls using the ICS i9100 rom due to that 1% difference at this time. Once the source code drops then at least the ATT version should come up quickly but i am not sure about the tmobile version. The ATG and Sprint versions are almost the same except screen size and radio being cdma and both are close to the International. Have to wait and see once the source drops if a dev from your section can port it over.

Sent From My KickAss ATT SGS2 SPORTING CM7
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
I'd probably suggest taking a look in the T-Mobile forum threads for the SGSII.....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whipps:
thanks guys. I didn't do enough research on switching at&t phone to t-mobile network.

I went from 3G to Edge, and data speed now sucks. Thinking about getting new phone and I love the Samsung Galaxy S phones.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebonvahn:
Will someone help the sad kid with a bad headache answer a (more than likely) stupid question. Build 16 says to install google apps through rom manager but i am too tired/obtuse/blind to figure out how. Please help me
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galakanokis:
You just need to download the new gapps from ROM manager. The install is still the same through recovery.