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[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
pawitp,

I understand the importance of following the standard method used on other Cyanogenmod devices, but I am curious how this compares to devices with no external sdcard option (such as the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus)? Do these devices also have the internal sdcard mounted to /mnt/emmc and nothing mounted to /mnt/sdcard? While I realize that you made the change to follow a standard used by other devices, how does it make any sense to tell people that the internal card is mounted as "external multimedia card" (emmc)?

I think it makes much more sense for the entire CM team to revisit how sdcards (internal and external) are named and mounted to come up with something that makes more sense for every device rather than being arbitrarily based on a standard that was in place since the G1 and other devices that did not have an internal SD card. The Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus should be the references, especially in CM9, not old devices that will never even run CM9.
[Captivate Android Development] dohboy15:
My camera still works on the newest nightly!
[Captivate Android Development] Thunder22:
@air tower. I had this too. Use root explorer go to the system/etc folder. Open vold.fstab with text editor and switch sdcard with emmc and visa versa.
[Captivate Android Development] BitteredBro:
I'm with nkrick. These change in mount order made some of my games to crash, so I uninstalled and reintalled them. Now the data went to my 2 GB SDCard. That means I can only have two 1 GB games in the SD and a lot of wasted space on the internal?

Thanks @Thunder22. I'll try to fix it.

I don't know...as nkrick said, maybe the current CM standard needs to be updated or something. If your are changing your phone ROM maybe is expected that you have a level of understanding allowing you to solve a situation like this, but if the goal of CM is to provide a working, performance oriented out-of-the-box option, then some people will jump ship. Maybe the team is looking into these issue right now. Maybe is not an issue and i just don't get it. What I can tell you is I would like use the whole internal space of my phone to store my app data whitout messing with the inards of an otherwise great ROM.
[Captivate Android Development] nyciz:
+1
[Captivate Android Development] The_Wolf91:
Don't know why this change honestly...

How to convert "emmc" to "sdcard": http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1593615

But I had to reinstall all apps...
[Captivate Android Development] airtower:
No dice. I guess I'll just wait until the devs sort it out, or I get a SGSIII
[Captivate Android Development] Madflapjack:
sory for the noob question but i cant figure out in any post my concern, if im using this rom, and use froyo bootloader, what diference make?
[Captivate Android Development] voldomart13:
New nightly kinda threw me off. It changes the sd locations so now the internal sd crad is emmc and external sd card is now sd card.
[Captivate Android Development] RootTheMachine:
Yeah. Read the last page

Sent from my CM9 ICS i897 Captivate
[Captivate Android Development] kristikaty:
I had to flash twice, so I say expect that you will have to. Freaked me out at first because I never had a phone stuck in a bootloop before. Decided to flash again and now it works great!
[Captivate Android Development] zmore:
They weren't swapped here, so I'm guessing it only affects flashes after clean wipes vs upgrades.

I'll have to make a note to re-swap 'em back around the next time I do that.
[Captivate Android Development] CptTwinkie:
Mostly what a bootloader does is provide access to partitions so that the os can be loaded from them. Once the partitions are accessible (not exactly "mounted" in the os sense but similar) and the os starts loading the bootloader is done. This usually happens in a couple seconds so performance isn't usually an issue.

I feel fairly confident saying that any bootloader that gets the job done is the same as any other. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the main reason people mess with bootloaders an effort to get around locking or encrypting?

Sent from my CM9 Captivate
[Captivate Android Development] billyjed:
New nightly allows unswapping. Settongs> storage> press menu button, storage configuration.
[Captivate Android Development] pawitp:
Oops, I forgot this is the Captivate thread. Read http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25200728#post25200728.

And eMMC stands for embedded MMC not external MMC.
[Captivate Android Development] Mastamind89:
I was on a MIUI ICS ROM and I'm not sure what happened, I'm guessing a short circuit may have occurred. My power button wasn't working properly, I couldn't manually put my phone to sleep and it would wake up after 2/3 presses.

Since the ROM was beta, at the time I figured I would go back to stock since the problem was going on for a few hours....think it was me slightly freaking out, it didn't work. I couldn't even flash any ROMs due to the massive button lag.

After a day or two, the issue let up. I tried another ICS MIUI ROM and it would abort. I tried CM9 and CWM would just crash or would stuck at the boot animation screen for about 15mins or more. Tried a couple of Nightlies and a problem would always occur.

I guess I'm stuck on CM7
[Captivate Android Development] little8020:
Is it possible to flash this with either odin or Heimdall, or to create a Heimdall one-click.

My power button is broken so I can't 3 button into recovery so it is near impossible to flash any roms.

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
no, heimdall/odin expects and requires the BML partition layout for SGS1 devices (the only reason kernel flashing works is because the kernel still sits exactly where bml7 used to sit and doesn't touch anything in front of it)

the reason SGS2 and later devices have odin/heimdall "resurrection" editions is because they never used the BML partition layout to begin with and kept the same layouts that shipped with the stock ROM.
[Captivate Android Development] xxsxx:
Personally, I'm glad to see the emmc and sdcard straightened out. I always had to remember it was backward on my Captivate as opposed to my Nook Color and my HTC phones. It caused some confusion for me a few times.

Thank you for your work.
[Captivate Android Development] RootTheMachine:
You don't need a power button to get or use recovery, as long as the search key does the same thing as power

Sent from my CM9 i897 Captivate
[Captivate Android Development] voldomart13:
New nightly already? I looked at the changelog but I got confused.
[Captivate Android Development] CheesyNutz:
updated to the newest build smooth very smooth

btw what happened to the site that use to list all the changes to CM sorted by phone
[Captivate Android Development] J0ESK0:
You mean this:

http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=captivatemtd

All phones are on the top. ;)
[Captivate Android Development] bentonhall:
I have noticed some sleep deaths on the 4/19 and 4/23 builds that I haven't had before. I'll try 4/25 and see how it goes.
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
Thanks for the link and the clarification. Mounting the internal (embedded) SDcard to emmc makes a whole lot more sense now! (though it will still take a bit of getting used to since the external card has been mounted to emmc since I first started using CM7 in March 2011...)

Edit: I am still curious, do the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus mount the embedded card to /mnt/emmc or /mnt/sdcard? Since there is no option for a removable sdcard, but the sdcard mount point seems to be what is generally looked for when looking for sdcard storage (move apps to SD, etc), I am just curious how it works.
[Captivate Android Development] GuitsBoy:
I finally took the ICS plunge with CM9 on monday. So far this is running much much better than I had expected. Awesome work. Thank you.
[Captivate Android Development] pawitp:
Read the post again. See Settings -> Storage -> Menu -> Storage Configuration. The intent is to automatically mount the embedded card to /mnt/sdcard and the external card to /mnt/emmc as that what Samsung users are used to, and it will be like that provided that you did not mess up your build.prop or change your kernel (because 3rd party kernels currently have outdated ramdisk).

Devices with no external sdcard of course mount to /mnt/sdcard.
[Captivate Android Development] airtower:
Flashed 4/25 and it fixed my sdcard/emmc woes. I had checked the checkbox under settings -> storage -> storage config on the prior nightly but it didn't effect anything. You may need to do the same on 4/25 if you're having issues with apps (ie - camera) looking in the wrong place. No need to edit vold.fstab.
[Captivate Android Development] BitteredBro:
I checked the settings -> storage -> storage config checkbox and rebooted to make sure the change sticked, then rebooted to CWM and flashed semaphore kernel 1.0.0. Doing this I got the 20120423 nightly work with semaphore (399 MB version) and my apps working as they should.
[Captivate Android Development] lavero.burgos:
Ah hello there, would like to read some feedback about that kernel im about to flash this rom right now

~ Veronica
[Captivate Android Development] airtower:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1567464
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
Sorry, posted the reply before I finished reading the Q&A. The Q&A did make it clear that there is no immediate impact from the change. I didn't even think about updating my post after I finished reading.
[Captivate Android Development] ehartqu1:
Do i have to flash each update or can i just go from 20120419 to 20120425 ?
[Captivate Android Development] nimper:
The nightlies are cumulative, so you could flash once per week and be fine.
[Captivate Android Development] ThreeofNine:
No, each one is complete. Pick the one you want and flash away!
[Captivate Android Development] Primus76:
Anyone have a direct download of the latest gapps? I'm on vacation and none of my browsers are bringing it down and just clocking then timing out on both wifi and mobile.

Getting the long call death on 0417 and wanted to go to 0425 with latest gapps. Got latest nightly but no love on gapps.

Clockwork only lists 0317 gapps too. :(

Sent from East Coast Canada using smoke signals.
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
Sorry, ignore this post, I am having a bad reading day...
[Captivate Android Development] voldomart13:
Anyone else's video playback broken in the last two nightlys? I cannot play any videos.
[Captivate Android Development] Jesterdtm:
Nope, mine works fine. time for a factory reset? i run into things like that if i don't factory reset every 5 or so updates.
[Captivate Android Development] voldomart13:
Dang alright thanks. If I were to do a nandroid backup and just restore my apps through it would that work?
[Captivate Android Development] zmore:
0422 is the latest gapps. Go to http://goo.im/gapps/ and sort by time.

Also, if you install their GooManager App you'll get notified when there's new CM9 nightlies out or new Gapps. I haven't had much luck using their app to *download*, though, as it almost always ends up corrupt, so I still just download locally, adb push it, and manually verify the md5sums.
[Captivate Android Development] Spunkdfied311:
I just flashed the most recent nightly on mine and my wife's captivate doing the exact same standard flashing. On hers the boot screen that everybody talks about shows up. On mine nothing. Just a black screen until it gets to my home screen. Any ideas?
[Captivate Android Development] voldomart13:
Maybe you should manually place the boot animation on your own. That would probably fix it idk why it would be missing though.
[Captivate Android Development] JoshJ22:
Is it just me or has there been wifi issues since the nightlies came out? I'm usign the 4-25 nightly, but since around the first or second nightly my wifi connection on my phone has been randomly disconnecting and won't reconnect by connecting through the wifi settings menu. The only way to reconnect for me has been to reset my router, which kind of sucks. I'm pretty sure it's not the router because out of all 7 of the connected devices, only my phone has this issue. Also, I didn't have these issues on the alpha version of the rom.

Im using an xfinity modem router combo with a WPA2 network key if it helps
[Captivate Android Development] Joecascio2000:
Okay for sure I'm having the calls not ringing issue again. And the reason I know is because on my iPod touch Google voice notified me of a missed call but not one sign of it on my phone. As soon as I saw the missed call on my iPod I check my phone and had full service. This has happened for six calls now (although I don't know what my service was like for the previous ones).
[Captivate Android Development] voldomart13:
OK I factory reset my phone and restored my apps with mybackup pro and all videos are still not working. With Act 1 video player it gives me an error that the Android Media Server died. Any idea on how to fix? Also on the newest nightly I can confirm on 4 different phones that calls do not come in. I'm reverting back to 4/19 for now.

EDIT: Went back to 4/19 and video still isn't working? Whats going on man. Would providing a logcat help in anyway to fix this?
[Captivate Android Development] pawitp:
On EDGE or 3G? Data connected?
[Captivate Android Development] voldomart13:
Yup all data networks are enabled. Maybe Ill just odin back to stock and flash from there. Do one click pakages reformat partitions aswell?
[Captivate Android Development] Joecascio2000:
Data was enabled but I was on wifi so I'm not sure if it was edge or 3G. Ill experiment by using 2G only and see if calls come through.
[Captivate Android Development] Katze Pavilion:
Sometimes when I download or update app with large file size, after the download/update finish successfully, but the download status on the notification bar still remain and non stop but no way to stop/remove it if only I restart the phone.
[Captivate Android Development] voldomart13:
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!! I odined back to stock and still videos don't work. and on top of that I'm an idiot for re flashing the newest build with the call bug...
[Captivate Android Development] Joecascio2000:
Can you confirm you have the call bug? So far its just me. In other news I just played all my videos with the gallery video player and they worked great. They were mp4 and 3gp formats.
[Captivate Android Development] voldomart13:
Yes I can confirm with newest nightly no calls and I just odined back AGAIN and fresh installed the 4/19 nightly and still no videos will play!!! What the heck!

Still no videos. Is it possible that all my nightlys ive downloaded somehow got corrupted?
[Captivate Android Development] CptTwinkie:
Two questions come to mind...

1. Can you play video in stock? Your phone isn't brokey is it?

2. Have you tried double flashing the nightly? It stands to reason that if there are issues with the package that sometimes require a second flash then those issues could affect something like video playback.

Sent from my CM9 Captivate
[Captivate Android Development] voldomart13:
OK I'm trying the double flash right now if that doesn't work I'll report back from stock.

Video works after secondary flash. One thing I didn't do was flash a glitch kernel from AOKP and a system optimizer. So maybe thats the problem that glitch kernel (which is a bigmem version) Crashes videos I guess. and here comes the flaming...
[Captivate Android Development] Joecascio2000:
After testing the call issue it seems as thought the dialer is lagging and not responding when a call is coming through. When the screen is off the calls don't ring, however, one time it was ringing on the phone I was calling from for a while and then for a split second on my cappy the incoming call showed up but then it went to voicemail right after. Hope this info helps.
[Captivate Android Development] CptTwinkie:
It clearly states in the glitch thread that big mem axes the video as it is a mem hog. You have failed and spread your failure around to others. You have wasted my time. Feel bad. Kbye

Sent from my CM9 Captivate
[Captivate Android Development] voldomart13:
Thank you for your help anyway. I'm still partcially new to this stuff...=\

I asked on here because for about 4 days video was working with the bigmem kernel...but yeah your right and I apologize for wasting your time...
[Captivate Android Development] nimper:
I'll just leave this here...
[Captivate Android Development] nyciz:
I understand on Cappy's (w. stock kernel)the default storage is as follows:

32 GB microsd = /mnt/emmc = /emmc

Internal 16 GB = /mnt/sdcard = /sdcard

When I check totals of Storage in Settings I see:

Internal Storage = 1.85 GB

USB Storage = 13.43 GB

SD Card = 29.71 GB

pressing menu brings up "storage Configuration", which has just a checked checkbox called "use internal storage".

So if I uncheck the "use internal storage", that would switch "USB Storage"(16gb) & "SD Card"(external 32gb card)?

The other issue is the "USB Storage = 13.43 GB" shows 1.77 GB Available, but the items listed as used do not add up to the total 13.43 GB. I see the following:

-apps = 4.64 GB

-Pics,Video = 128MB

-Downloads = 832KB

-Available=1.77 GB

Any thoughts do I need to copy off the files & format the 16gb card(USB Storage)? How do I reclaim that lost space on the 16GB internal card? TIA
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
I had a "problem" with my phone showing the AT&T splash screen twice instead of the CM splash screen a while back. The phone started fine and CM worked fine, but the boot sequence was not quite right. It turned out that flashing to GB boot loaders fixed the "problem." Do you know what boot loaders you are running? If you are not using i897 GB boot loaders, it might be worth testing to see if that fixed the boot animation problem.

GB boot loaders are not required to run CM9, but if you do a one time flash of the i897 GB boot loaders, you should never have to touch your boot loaders again for any reason, so it is worth the one time flash.

---------- Post added at 10:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:36 AM ----------

Joined in Dec 2010 and have 285 posts. You can't claim to be new forever. Even if you were new, it is still expected that you should read the OP and follow any instructions from the developer before posting a bug.
[Captivate Android Development] Spunkdfied311:
I'm not very familiar with bootloaders. It's just odd cause mine and my wife's cappy were set up exactly the same. We had no problem with boot animation before I flashed the most recent nightly and her boot animation works as it should and mine doesn't. I think I might just wait until another nightly and see if that fixes the problem. I suppose I could re-flash the most recent nightly again, but it's not that big of a deal and I can wait until the new one. Thanks for you help and response.
[Captivate Android Development] truckmann:
Crap this is my first new ROM in several months and it almost seems to work great, but I haven't been able to get it to connect to wifi. It gets to "obtaining IP address" and then never connects. I tried a few different available connections during lunch with no luck. I guess I'll try again when I get home. If it doesn't work I guess I'll have to bail for something else.

Odd now I'm apparently connected to a weak signal that I've not been able to connect to before at work. Hmmm

Still reserving judgement until I get home.

EDIT: Wifi works fine at home, so no major issues here. I did have one random reboot, no big deal. I look forward to seeing the continued development.
[Captivate Android Development] RootTheMachine:
Your bootloaders shouldn't affect that. Either reflash current nightly or manually install the file

Sent from my CM9 i897 Captivate
[Captivate Android Development] voldomart13:
Anything on the new nightly without calls? on STOCK ICS no calls
[Captivate Android Development] ptesmoke:
check and uncheck the "disable boot animation" option...reboot and report back
[Captivate Android Development] Katze Pavilion:
Where is this option? Can't find it in setting.

New Nightly:

update-cm-9-20120425-NIGHTLY-captivatemtd-signed.zip
[Captivate Android Development] The_Wolf91:
New? It came out two days ago... It's the latest, not the "new".

EDIT

Here it is the new one ;)

Download: http://download.cyanogenmod.com/get...cm-9-20120427-NIGHTLY-captivatemtd-signed.zip

Changelog: http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?de...cm-9-20120427-NIGHTLY-captivatemtd-signed.zip
[Captivate Android Development] Spunkdfied311:
Just updated to new nightly 4-27-12 and still no boot animation. Updated my wife's cappy to new nightly and boot animation is there. I've scoured the settings for "disable boot animation" with no luck. Where is that option? Thanks.
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
Woohoo! 2 great features finally ported to CM9!

Advanced Phone settings: http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#/c/14584/

Network Mode Toggle: http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#/c/14584/
[Captivate Android Development] theyurtingyeti:
Has anyone noticed if the phone is slower then it should be? Often mine takes more than a few seconds to start dialing a number and then like ten seconds to go back when the call ends.

I'm on nightly 0417. With a fresh install it seems quicker, but I don't know what could affect that over time.

I've read the OP and didn't see anything so I thought I'd make sure it wasn't a bug.

Thanks!
[Captivate Android Development] zmore:
Thanks for highlighting the user-notable changes -- which is something I try to do on occasion too. (the network toggle isn't until the next nightly, btw).

I only flash a nightly after scanning the Changelog to weigh the significance of changes against how long it's been since my last flash and how much spare time I have at the moment. If I had OCD, or infinite time, like some, I might flash 'em all :)
[Captivate Android Development] BL4zD:
The problem is that there is a lot of confusing and contradictory information out there. For me personally, I can't find an up-to-date thread on updating BL's or how to do it via heimdall so I've left whatever happened when I migrated from CM7 to CM9.
[Captivate Android Development] Katze Pavilion:
But it was the newest at that time and no one has noticed about it, so I just noticed for everyone who has not known about its release.
[Captivate Android Development] nyciz:
Flashing a nightly....

will flashing the latest nightly honor how I have my SD & emmc configured? Basically I swapped my 32gb micro sd for the embedded 16gb and want to keep it that way.

Thanks for your input
[Captivate Android Development] AgileAssailant:
Look at the change log again. There's no 4/27 nightly listed because the 4/27 changes are listed under "to be included in next nightly". For some reason it takes a little while for it to change.
[Captivate Android Development] phlunkie:
I had this problem on that rom. Plus slow graphics. Flashed the 25th rom, and it all went away.
[Captivate Android Development] zmore:
Erm. NO U look again. :)
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
I'm in the same situation as AgileAssailant, I do not see the 4/27 nightly listed on the CyanogenMod nightles changelong site yet (http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=captivatemtd). It may well be that the network toggle didn't make the 4/27 nightly, I was just looking at all changes since the 4/25 nightly since the changelog doesn't show any newer nightlies since (even after using Ctrl+F5).
[Captivate Android Development] pawitp:
How many contacts do you have? Try disabling T9 if you have thousands of contacts.
[Captivate Android Development] theyurtingyeti:
Sounds like a new flash for me! Thanks :)

---------- Post added at 10:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:37 PM ----------

Oh, good idea there too... I have no idea how many contacts I have. Good info, thanks!

UPDATE: I have 933 contacts in gmail and many are duplicates in my Corporate account too... if the phone sees 1866 contacts, then yeah... I have too many :)