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[Samsung Captivate Glide] Aquethys:
Hi guys, just a user here >_< Don't know like anything about ROMing etc.

I have rooted, and tried to install TW4.5 and see pretty much no difference between that and 4...
[Samsung Captivate Glide] SupremeOverlord777:
Aquethys-

You can customize 4.5 by going to your home screen, hitting menu, and then TW4.5 Preferences. It gives you all sorts of nifty options.

The one thing that people may have a problem with, is that it might rearrange the order of your apps in the app drawer, but I have never noticed that problem, and it's not super important anyway, for me at least.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] Aquethys:
Do we have cynanogen yet?

I can't get the att update either should I unroot and try again?

I'm currently running go launcher ex and ics theme, is there anything much better than that as of now?
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dbrannon79:
I'm wanting to know if I can still root after the update is done.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] synthetikid:
same here

my phone updated before I got to root.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] noel_leon:
Pledging a donation of at least 25$ if we ever get the drive going.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dbrannon79:
You were able to root after the update! Did the rooted rom downgrade the phone to 2.3.5?
[Samsung Captivate Glide] LagunaCid:
Any new reply from Hacksung?

I might also be of some help. I know okish Java and C/++ though most of my programming experience is PHP/web stuff.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] fatxdad:
BLN activated kernel

Hello,

a kernel with BLN activation would be nice. Couldn't believe, that there are still phones without notification led out there! A simple led can't be so expensive?!
[Samsung Captivate Glide] paganinia:
As we're coming up on 90 days from release, can this soon be just an ATT phone for which we get an unlock code? My upgrade eligibility kicked yesterday, and if so I'd be willing to order one and front it to the Hacksung Team, using my old phone in the meantime. Would I get it back, or else accept donations to backfill me after proving I sent it?
[Samsung Captivate Glide] vil33:
That's a great idea, I suggest you get in touch with TeamHacksung to sort out the details of sending them one and then you could set up a donation drive so they can keep the phone permanently.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] atinm:
I would love to work on the Glide and send the phone back to you when done, but lately I have had no time to work on anything android due to working long hours at job stuff where they expect me to bring my full engineering capabilities to bear to solving problems too! No one else on teamhacksung is working on AT&T phones at the moment, so keep in touch with us and when I get back to it, I can contact you or one of the other developers can. This is actually the way I would prefer things to work, that I return the phone when done - that way I don't feel like I took a phone from you guys and then abandoned you if I get busy with other things.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
Anyone having "Sleep death" issues?

I am on pre-rooted ROGERS stock rom, and overclocked (no any other mods).

Factory reset, reflash (ROM and kernel) gives the same results.

the sleep death I am experiencing does not need a battery pull, just holding the power/lock button down (just like turning it on). Replicates once or twice in every 24 hrs, charging or unplugged.

Thanks
[Samsung Captivate Glide] rflnc1:
you may want to try a non-oc'd version.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
This happened also on stock...kernel. I just reported this just now because it is concerning me.

And my deepest thanks.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] radrcanada:
I too am having the sleep death issue. Have been unable to determine what is causing it. At first it was daily, now I ensure I kill all tasks when not in use and it only happens every few days. I'm thinking (and hoping) it's app related. Thought I was the only one affected, but now I know I'm not.

On the rooted ROGERS rom. Not overclocked. New to android, coming from Windows mobile 6.5 so my troubleshooting skills are very limited. If anyone has suggestions, please let me know.

Regards, Am
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
@radrcanada:

you can look at your apps running as "Service" and examine them...but I am afraid this is not app related. I have used 2 Captivates (I896 and I897), stock rogers and at&t roms has sleep death issues, even my infuse 4G and a friend's Galaxy Nexus have sleep death issues on stock ROMs.

So i believe this is known about samsung's firmware. Some of my Samsung devices becomes sleep death free after installing a custom rom (e.g. CyanogenMod)
[Samsung Captivate Glide] Aquethys:
For the qmg,

I have removed the samsungloop.qmg one and replaced it with the zip file. But now all I get is the Samsung and then nothing?

Is there any way to remove the yellow triangle? A stable rooted ROM?
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dbrannon79:
I too am having some issues. I googled it, and it seems there is an issue with the calendar sync getting stuck in a loop while the phone is asleep. I opened the stock app manager and killed some running services and unchecked the calendar sync for my Google account. And so far so good, it has not yet froze. I did notice that each time it does this, if have to tenace the battery to get it to power back on.

On one occurrence it acted up when I was looking up a contact, the screen went crazy and went un responsive.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
bam! i also believe it's a SNS integration issue as well! I once have this on my Social network accounts on my Stock I896 ROM, once i removed it, issue was eliminated, or at least, lessened.

EDIT: or maybe not, I just turned off Sync on my glide and still got sleep death overnight. But I can say that this sleep death seems to happen if wi-fi or any internet connection is on (my wi-fi sleep is set to "never"). So it might be apps that uses internet that causes it.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] ptesmoke:
this may be completly different but i had an acer a100 tab completly stock that was getting sleep death. exchanged for a new device and no more sleep death. acer did however get back to me as i registered the first device through theyre service plan, answer was they had to replace a faulty wifi module that wouldnt suspend properly when screen was off ( regardless of wifi sleep policy setting) dunno if it helps but its definetly wifi related guys....well from what ive seen personally. try leaving it overnight with wifi turned off and see if you still suffer the sleep of death.

cheers hope i helped a bit!
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
well it's kinda hard to tell (or to believe) that it's a wifi concern. I get the sleep deaths at random times and i cannot reproduce it on my own will. since my first post about sleep death, I did not get any. so I am like hit and miss.

But I do feel that it's a sync issue with google (either G+, calendar, contacts, etc). I just checked my google contacts and i found duplicates, and the sync icon under my google account on settings > accounts and sync does not stop spinning until i "Cancel Sync".

Still investigating.....and thanks for sharing :)
[Samsung Captivate Glide] vil33:
If you have an exchange account that syncs try deleting it and doing a 'Wipe Cache Partition' from recovery and then re-adding it. Not sure if this will help.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
yeah I did that before, I just use a third-party email app for my exchange and it lessened the sleep death. I suspect that Samsung apps (social hub, SNS contacts, email, etc), if you have them, are responsible.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] sakindia123:
someone pm'ed me today to develop kernel's for this phone.I agree,but i need some testers,i guess.

Regards
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
count me in :)

utkanos already have a root/init.d and the ramdisk kernel here
[Samsung Captivate Glide] sakindia123:
okay.Expect an intial basic kernel today(just to test)

u don't have LTE in canada,or do u?
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
we have LTE in Canada, but not in the province I am located.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] sakindia123:
so first i will make a test kernel from source of non AT&T dvices.

stay tuned ;)
[Samsung Captivate Glide] VinayS:
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[Samsung Captivate Glide] mdeathike:
Im willing to learn and help out any way i can. My best friend has this phone and i wanna help out in any way.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] CarpeNoctem:
Seems better to use the one from Rogers as there are no traces of carrierIQ, just an opinion ;)
[Samsung Captivate Glide] romanr:
Samsung boot sequence (detailed)

Did anybody do any research about the boot sequence on samsung devices from the very system init/power on ?

I can see, there is almost the same base architecture.

Here is some research from me.

SGS2 has such partitions:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 428472 76 428396 0% /dev
tmpfs 428472 0 428472 0% /mnt/asec
tmpfs 428472 0 428472 0% /mnt/obb
tmpfs 428472 0 428472 0% /mnt/usb
tmpfs 7168 7168 0 100% /app-cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 516040 515852 188 100% /system
/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 100784 4148 96636 4% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 20144 8412 11732 42% /efs
/dev/block/mmcblk0p10 2064208 306212 1757996 15% /data
df: /mnt/.lfs: Function not implemented
/dev/block/vold/179:11 12062752 9587904 2474848 79% /mnt/sdcard

We can see the /system is on the internal SD-card.

AFAIK Captivate Glide has similar architecture.

But T-Mobile G1 has such partitions:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 49284 0 49284 0% /dev
tmpfs 49284 0 49284 0% /mnt/asec
/dev/block/mtdblock3 92160 89896 2264 98% /system
/dev/block/mtdblock5 91904 69508 22396 76% /data
/dev/block/loop0 4096 4096 0 100% /system/xbin
/dev/block/mtdblock4 30720 30048 672 98% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 516040 203832 285996 42% /sd-ext
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 516040 203832 285996 42% /data/app
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 516040 203832 285996 42% /data/app-private
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 516040 203832 285996 42% /data/data
/dev/block/vold/179:1 15031584 12028384 3003200 80% /mnt/sdcard

We can see /system is on mtdblock3, it is NAND flash with jaffs filesystem. NAND flash has different API, some OOB-data stuff etc., so it requires jaffs2. Also NAND flash is programmed at boot time to split it to several block devices/partitions (but they are not actually partitions, they are separate logical devices on the single physical device, like RAID logical volumes in some way). I mean if there is NAND - it requires some opaque boot-loader.

But we can see there is no any NAND on the samsung devices. There is a single internal SD-card (/dev/block/mmcblk0). And we can see some partitions there. They are not separate physical/logical devices, they are partitions, so there seems to be a partition table.

I checked it: fdisk/parted on /dev/block/mmcblk0 says there is GPT !!!

So, if there is partition table, there should be some boot-loader. The standard one. Because we have standard partition table.

My guess is, that we actually have a very common IBM-PC-like system with boot-sector or so. So we may change it, or even repartition. And probably we may attach to the internal SD-card directly and reflash it, so it may be possible to recover even unrecoverable-brick-like device.

My question is: does anybody know precisely, how the device is booted ? Does it has a boot-sector ? Or may be there is EFI-like loader ?

PS: I have G1 and ordered Captivate Glide. I'm going actively participate in development until CyanogenMod makes the ROM for it.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] vil33:
You've got some good ideas, welcome to the community. I'm not sure if this is the answer to the question but thanks to utkanos, we figured out what each partition contains/does.

/tmp ramdisk

efs ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

system ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

cache ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

misc emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p5

data ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p6

preload ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p11

9 is boot and 8 is recovery.

Don't know if this helps you.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] romanr:
There should be another recovery that is triggered by "volume up" button, and may be another boot image for the recovery.

Anyway, would be nice to have the full access to the internal SDcard.

I think, there should be some mode, which exports internal SD-card as mass storage through USB. That would be really cool! Will social-ingenere Samsung ;)

Did anybody notice some unusal "recovery" mode ? Ought to try booting with different button combinations pressed.

Can't wait my device passing through the post to put my hands on it :)
[Samsung Captivate Glide] CarpeNoctem:
Volume UP + Power -> Download mode for Odin, I don't know if it is a partition or if it is hard coded but I would not advise any one to mess up with this as it is the way to recover your phone if something goes wrong

Volume Down + Power -> Recovery, here you can play as much as you want
[Samsung Captivate Glide] romanr:
I think, "download mode for Odin" is implemented as another type of recovery, i.e. it is loaded off the other partition just like standard/google recovery is loaded.

I'm interested in gaining full access to the entire SD-card through a convenient way. This is needed in case somebody messes with partition table and booting is failed. Ideally, should be a way to access internal mmc through the usb mass storage interface. But whether this mode exists and how to lauch it - is a $1M question.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
okay....i am slow....but I am looking System app and it displays the file format (/system, /cache, /data etc) of captivate glide is ext4....so the default file format is ext4? (not RFS which it used to be used by sammy)
[Samsung Captivate Glide] MnemonicSyntax:
Could someone help a noobish person to all this put a custom boot animation and shut down on here? I'm using Osimood ROM by CarpeNocturn if that helps any.

Thanks!
[Samsung Captivate Glide] romanr:
SGH-i927 has NVIDIA Tegra 2 250 AP20H.

There are no full driver sources for NVIDIA: http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/37307-petition-for-the-release-of-the-tegra-drivers-by-nvidia/

CyanogenMod guys prefer full sources: https://plus.google.com/115049428938715274412/posts/KycR8ZjeUiS

NVIDIA won't release any.

So, probably CM won't show on this device. At least until the drivers are reversed.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dbrannon79:
I have a request to make for making the glide better, the ability to play wav files!. My old moto defy had no problem playing them!
[Samsung Captivate Glide] Phoenix84118:
Tegra2, of course that's why it has the sleep of death.

Nearly ALL Tegra2 devices have some issue with the Sleep of Death.

nVidia screwed up with the drivers (or hardware?), and won't release source so the community can fix it for them (not saying we should be obligated to, but we all know it would happen).

Speaking of SoD (perhaps a new thread should be started for SoD?), my wife's Glide has a problem where it'll freeze while charging. It didn't start for a couple weeks after getting the phone. We ended up exchanging it after 18 days for a new one (wasn't sure if it was hardware, as it was still stock). This was earlier this month. It started again this last weekend. It's only happened once so far, but I expect it to happen again.

It happens overnight while it's charging, and only when charging, and by the morning it's frozen. Unfortunately, like others I can't reproduce it. It seems to be random. Wifi is always on I believe.

If you slide the keyboard out, it lights up, but the screen never turns on.

I can hold the power button to reset it (don't need battery pull).

Is this the same sleep of death discussed earlier?

If not, has anyone seen these same symptoms?

I'm going to check the SNS apps (I think I froze them, but I'll check again), and disable google sync to see if it helps. She doesn't use the gmail app, so I also have her google account set up as exchange in the regular email app. Could that be an issue? It doesn't sync exchange contacts or calendar/tasks. I disabled syncing of the gmail app.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
I believe SoD is a SAMSUNG issue....I have three samsung devices (including Glide) and all of them have SoD until i flashed a custom ROM and/or kernel...

for now, I have turned off all contacts sync (except google account), flashed Cranium Kernel and OsiMood ROM and no SoDs, charging, wi-fi on, etc...
[Samsung Captivate Glide] Phoenix84118:
I have a non-Samsung device (gTablet) that suffers a similar sleep of death. It has a Tegra2.

It also has custom ROM's that both do and don't trigger it.

What other Samsung devices do you have? I have an SGSII that doesn't have this problem.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
I have the Captivate (I896), and Infuse 4G...most of them just have SNS issues so I choose to disable sync and SoDs are lessened if not terminated.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dbrannon79:
Any news on a rom for the glide? I think mine is dying! Battery no longer charges when the phone is off. Only get a battery symbol with a circle, and never charges. Only charges when it's powered on. I am also seeing some glitches and freezes. something happened the last time I let the battery run dead! Luckily I was able to use my wife's phone to charge my battery.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
is your battery always full-drain mode? if yes, the battery needs quite some time to charge when it's off before you can see it charging, or even to turn it on....

I experience battery being dead but it's due to my wi-fi connection acting up, then my glide is connecting to it repeatedly until battery ran dry.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] romanr:
dbrannon79, gabby131

Are you on stock firmware?
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
yup! stock and pure stock (rom and kernel) plus root! i seem to find it normal for stock samsung roms (even my captivate and infuse has this on stock).

I just disable autosync to get rid of the SoD or battery drain....Autosync is, so far, the reason i have found that triggers this issue.

I flashed OsiMood and did not experience any of these.....Just came up with something so that is why I came back to stock (testing and waiting progress for 3e recovery flashable CMWR, utkanos is working on it.)
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dbrannon79:
Full drain mode? not sure, I did turn the sync off. even with a charged battery, when the phone is off I only get the same grey battery icon with a white circle. the day it started this, I found it with a solid "burnt orange" color screen and it would not respond to anything. the night before we had a rain storm an I thought it may have gotten hit by a power surge! so far its been working ok as long as I don't let it run dead. it will charge while the phone is power on.

I fear that the problem might be hardware related but have a hunch that maybe a software glitch has developed in my phone. I'm still in my warranty period but don't really want to exchange it, thinking that a custom rom and recovery might fix the problems.

---------- Post added at 07:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:53 AM ----------

yes on stock firmware and rooted. AT&T firmware. flashed the rooted firmware file posted in the guide to root the phone.

I had seen where CWM recovery was ported to the Rodgers glide but not yet for AT&T. havent seen an update yet that confirms it to be stable for AT&T or any custom roms! would love to see a CWM rom for this phone. I had CWM 7 on my Moto Defy and loved it.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] Aquethys:
In this forum alone osimood and cranium, look around..
[Samsung Captivate Glide] joshua_tam:
I am been using CWM recovery on my at&t glide for nearly 3 weeks and I think it is already very stable though it is still in alpha release.

And for the custom ROMs, the most difficult part is to figure out which proprietary files are needed. But still osimood and cranium are very stable mod
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
interesting, well I strongly believe that it's a stock ROM issue. Samsung is known for SoDs, batteries mysteriously ran dead etc...(my two captivates and an infuse have that until a flash of custom ROM), and I am pretty sure that a custom ROM will eliminate this (specially OsiMood for it has no bloat apps that I blame of SoDs).

EDIT: Rogers and ATT Captivate are the same device, so weather the ROM is Rogers based, you will be able to flash it....
[Samsung Captivate Glide] romanr:
carrierIQ drains battery

Stock fw has cIQ integrated.

People say that carrierIQ drains battery more.

http://www.dailytech.com/Research+C...Hole+in+Android+OSs+Security/article23429.htm

http://www.google.ru/search?q=android+carrieriq+battery+drain

So I blame cIQ.

So I use OsiMood by Carpe.

2 days gaming/surfing/chatting without recharge I have for sure.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dbrannon79:
well unfortunately I believe my phone is headed to it's grave! I did some reading on the CWMR and two roms suggested, went to try flashing the CWMR to my phone and found that the phone is not recognized by the pc while in download mode. I tried my wife's phone and it worked fine. I did notice when her phone is on when the usb is connected the status bar shows connected to mpt. my phone only begins to charge. further checking shows it can no longer connect as a usb storage ether! I guess I need to delete all my rooted apps and super user and give AT&T a call. :( I guess phones are no longer safe from bad weather and power spikes during the night!

correct me if I am wrong, un-rooting my phone for warrenty return, only delete rooted apps and possibly in stock recovery reset to factory setting?

Thanks

EDIT: I found an application on the market called Recovery Manager the phone compatibility list shows the GalaxyS, Captivate and CaptivateMTD not sure what CaptivateMTD is but I was wondering it you all have heard of it and if its compatible with the Glide. if the data part of my usb port is gone, I can live with it as ling as I can somehow get the CWM recovery flashed and use the recovery to install new roms! I'll just have to remember to never let it go completely dead unless I have an extra battery!
[Samsung Captivate Glide] gabby131:
are you on PC (Windows)? you need samsung mobile drivers for you fglide to be recognized. The easiest way is to download and install Samsung Kies.....

if you unroot your phone, you need to delete busybox (if installed), and the SU app together with all apps that needs root.

the flash type of our Glide is not yet supported by those recovery apps....
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dbrannon79:
Just got off the phone with AT&T, my replacement device is on the way :( happy that I am getting it replaced, but sad since I have to start over! already have my phone customized mostly the way I want it, now I have to re-do everything! Starting to unroot now!

Edit: correct me if I am wrong, but to delete superuser I have to use Titanium Backup? or with a factory reset from the stock recovery do everything for me?

Edit: Got it. deleting apps in the application manager wont work, titanium backup does not see superuser! used rootexplorer, removed superuser.apk from /system/apps rebooted phone and poof its gone. deleted all root requiring apps in the app manager and all is good! wheewww! I was getting concerned that AT&T was gonna see it rooted! all good now to wait for the replacement.

P.S. I also restored the original framework-res.apk with the factory battery icons too!
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dbrannon79:
Update: I received my replacement Glide, restored all my settings and apps. checked and it's been already updated to 2.3.6. to my knowledge, the 2.3.6 update removes the carrier IQ. followed the guide to root, only flashing the rooted rom. it reverted the os to 2.3.5 but successfully rooted. I think I will remain with the stock rom at least until I start having issues or until the warranty expires in 7 months! at least i now know that I can root my wife's phone and maybe install a custom rom since warranty is void, the screen is cracked but still works!
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dbrannon79:
Hey guys, don't know what it means but I just noticed that my glide's front LED was faintly glowing red! I was using my phone in the dark when I noticed it. It went off after a few moments.not sure what triggered it.