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[Captivate General] TGA_Gunnman:
Team,

boodies posted this in the General section and thought it should be here as well, due to its nature.

Props goes out to boodies, Great Find!!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=728611

I tried this and all GPS and compass issues are now fixed. GPS locks on accurately in just a few seconds.

***This fix may not work if you live outside of USA.***

##You can play with the settings if you want to. If you FUBAR your GPS a simple factory reset will return your setting to default. You can do this without going into recovery buy going to Settings / Privacy / Factory data reset.##

Edit:

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Tested Procedure:

1 - Disable "Use Wireless Networks" - Settings / Location & Security

2 - Dial *#*#1472365#*#*

3 - Under "Application settings" Change "Operation Mode" to MS Based

4 - Under "SUPL/CP Settings" Change the SERVER & PORT to supl.google.com and port 7276 [ Do not use www. in front of supl]

5 - REBOOT

6 - Turn back on the "User Wireless Networks"

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Original settings:

Operation Mode: Standalone

Server: www.spirent-lcs.com

Port: 7275

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Optional New Fix:

1 - Dial *#*#1472365#*#*

2 - Go outside to get an unimpeded GPS fix.

3 - Choose Delete GPS Data button.

4 - Choose Get Position Test button. Let it run for 3 min or until you have 10 to 12 Sat locks and back out.

Thanks goes to Onlyloki for this method.

Haven't had time to test it thoroughly. You may want to do this in conjunction with the first procedure and then do the optional if the first procedure did not work for you. I did both and my GPS is locking even faster. Let me know what you think...

Just some more info I dug up:

Quote from http://www.vzwdevelopers.com/aims/public/menu/lbs/LBSFAQ.jsp

"In MS-Based mode, the network provides the satellite information to the device, based on a rough estimate of where the device is located, and the device acquires the GPS signals from the satellites and calculates its location. After the initial fix, the device operates like an autonomous GPS receiver, until the satellite information must be refreshed, at which time the device goes back to the network to update the satellite information. MS-Based mode is appropriate for applications that require the device location to be updated rapidly, such as a navigation application. Can the GPS work in autonomous mode? No, the GPS receiver requires the assistance of the network elements to acquire its initial location fix."

With the rapid updating we could see an increased drain on the battery. I have not confirmed that yet. If anyone can let us know.

Edit #2:

I was informed by a sales rep at T-Mobile that Samsung is aware of the issue and is going to fix the GPS and the compass issue in their first update.
[Captivate General] designgears:
Mine seems to be working fine after flashing back to stock firmware.
[Captivate General] rabydanimal:
I wasn't able to get a lock before or after the original fix above. After performing the second fix I was able to get a lock but the phone only picked up 8 satellites.

Any idea if I'll have do the second "fix" every time I want a GPS lock?
[Captivate General] polarbee:
I was finally able to get a lock using both procedures, but it couldn't track me if I moved.
[Captivate General] TGA_Gunnman:
Should be pernament 8 sats is ok, good enough. Reboot and test in Google maps, should be set.
[Captivate General] TGA_Gunnman:
reboot phone and go for a car ride. Use g-maps to get lock and the switch to nav app.
[Captivate General] naplesbill:
Same for me. I flashed the stock rom in the other thread, went outside and had a gps lock at 5m in less than 30 second. It locked at 30m in less than 10 seconds. Before this, the best I had was 30m after a long time and it wouldn't track me in my car hardly at all. I will test further tomorrow on my way to work.
[Captivate General] 60HertzJig:
Thanks! This worked great, I'm glad I have working GPS now.
[Captivate General] abuthemagician:
Can anyone post what the settings in Application Settings are supposed to be? I might have changed something in there that makes my GPS off by ~150 yards consistenly...
[Captivate General] TGA_Gunnman:
You can do a factory reset and reset all the settings to stock
[Captivate General] abuthemagician:
Blarg. I am really not in the position to do a factory reset after I just got my phone the way I like it... Anyone else?
[Captivate General] meatrocket:
I wrote them down before I started...

“Application Settings” change “Operation Mode” to Standalone & “Skyhook” to OFF

“SUPL/CP Settings” change “Server” to www.spirent-lcs.com “ServerPort” to 7275
[Captivate General] abuthemagician:
what about the others under application settings? I think it was one of those.
[Captivate General] mehdi_s82:
Samsung GPS fix is coming in September

This is cool :

"Samsung is testing software to optimize GPS on Galaxy S phones. Look for updates in September. Details & download instructions to follow."

Source: Samsungservice twitter
[Captivate General] abuthemagician:
Thanks for the info!
[Captivate General] shep211:
This is old info and does not fix tracking issue. It only helps lock times. This is already posted in general 3 or 5 times.
[Captivate General] irus:
not sure if anyone else has addressed this issue but the AGPS is disabled according to the settings.db file. maybe thats the problem?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] merlin66676:
Does anyone know if it would be possible to make an app that could use the Incredible camera as a light meter and maybe a color sensor. I am interested in using it with the hcfr colormeter software if possible?

Thanks
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dvdivx:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1255144

I think that's a good discussion of the iphone app. So yes in theory but I would seriously doubt it would be very accurate. At the very least because of lighting and white balance issues.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Sprockethead:
I've looked everywhere. I want to turn a wallpaper into a boot image. It seems like you need Linux? There must be a tool, though, seeing how long Android has been around. But I can't seem to find one.

Suggestions?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] neodorian:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=537515
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Sprockethead:
App does not work with evo, it seems.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Xavier00:
Not a Windows tool but there is a way to so it in Linux pretty easy. When i get home I will type up a quick how to
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Casshern:
There is a great boot screen utility out there, and it works just fine. I don't remember where it's at atm, but using the search, it can't be that hard to find. There is a ton of information out there on the subject, as well.

If you have the SDK, it works great. There are also ways you can do it in Cygwin.

Revision: Here's the thread w/ a good utility for windows. I use this one the most:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=707641
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Sprockethead:
Thanks for the replies. I don't know how I missed this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=703344
[General Questions and Answers] objecttothis:
Hey, I'm really frustrated with T-Mobile right now. I've been using wap.voicestream.com to sync my email, contacts, tasks and calendar then they tell me that they're offering a free 30-day trial of their data plan and I take them up on it. I never intended on signing up for the data plan but didn't mind the free no-risk trial.

30-days is up and I have them remove the data plan and now I can no longer sync with exchange via push over wap.voicestream.com. Now they are telling me that it was a fluke and should never of worked before. Is anyone else able to sync with exchange via push without a data plan? (i.e., just by putting a connection to wap.voicestream.com into their phone?)
[Vibrant General] MTC44:
So, I have sever MKV files on my laptop. I was playing around with All Share, trying to get them to stream from my laptop (set up as the server), to my phone.

Eventually I was able to get it to work...except it's video only. So I'm only able to watch my MKV files, but not listen to them. Should I have expected this? If not, what am I doing wrong here?

EDIT: and now I can't get the MKV files to play on the phone at all...even when I physically transfer them to the internal storage. What the hell am I doing wrong here?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trombone dixie:
I was trying to follow the steps below to install the optical trackpad wake-up. I did the first step "adb reboot recovery". Couldn't get past there. Now my phone is stuck in reboot recovery. How do I get it out and can I do this without reformatting the phone?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trombone dixie:
Sorry MODS for making this thread! I figured it out.
[Captivate General] TGA_Gunnman:
wesgarner and Scepterr are the developers assigned to the Samsung Galaxy S.

I just donated $25. Donate and lets get this phone off the ground.

Thanks for the donations Wes has his Vibrant coming and soon his laptop. Great Job!!

Donate HERE:

http://bit.ly/wesdonate

You can follow their tweets:

Wesgarner:

http://twitter.com/wesgarner

Scepterr:

http://twitter.com/Scepterr

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7/20

Koush just got a Galaxy S Captivate last night and is working on Clockwork Recovery for it.

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7/21

Koush finished Clockwork Recovery last night should be released tomorrow night for all Galaxy S phones.

Wes and Scepterr have made major headway on CM6 for Galaxy S.

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7/21 10AM

Added the development spreadsheet so you can track progress:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?...zJLczJjTnA5ekFWRzNxX2c&hl=en&authkey=CNf7ie8G

Also added is Wes's Source code for the Galaxy S:

http://github.com/wesgarner/android_device_samsung_galaxys

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7/22 10:20AM

As many of you have found out there are several issues with Clockwork Mod Recovery. Scepter has put out a warning last night on twitter.

" Scepterr

Hold off on flashing ClockworkMod Recovery for the Galaxy S/Vibrant/Captivate. It does NOT work atm. "

If you have flashed this already please wait for a fix and if not please hold off for now or risk a big headache. Koush probably has enough people now to test with.

Also

Good news:

Wes's Twitter:

Ok, getting my Vibrant today - tomorrow mainly going to work on the Slide and a bit of the Vibrant

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7/26 10:11AM

Wes and Chris Soyars are working on finishing off the CM6 Alpha on the MyTouch Slide. Once the Slide is completed then Wes will be working on the Galaxy S CM6 Alpha.

Scepterr is currently working on the initial setup for the Galaxy S and is work in progress.

Calendar Updates:

The date on the Team Douch calendar has not been updated for a while but I know the last change to their calendar was 7/21 where Scepterr replaced Wes for Galaxy S initial setup and Wes was moved from Slide CM6 Alpha replaced by Chris and then was moved to Galaxy S CM6 Alpha.

Development is progressing but this will more than likely take a month. So we will all have to be patient.

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7/28 9:25AM

Scepterr:

"Vibrant and Captivate users do not flash the i9000 JP1 & JP2 Froyo release it does not work correctly and you can not revert back." I would suggest to stay away from all that is I9000 for now.

Wesgarner has started work on the Galaxy S and it is going "fine".

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Shouldn't be long now!
[Captivate General] madjsp:
It's nice to see who will be helping us out to free our phones further!

Thanks for all the hard work.
[Captivate General] BoostedSR20:
Subscribing. Will be donating tomorrow. I have CM6 on my Nexus 1, it would be AWESOME to see it on the Captivate.
[Captivate General] TGA_Gunnman:
OP Updated
[Captivate General] warri:
Excellent, Now we will finally have some Sexy Roms , and Super Progress to make our Phones SUPER!!

Looking forward to Donating, and Installing some Froyo
[Captivate General] THATTON:
Thanks for the updates. CM6 rc2 has turned into something really nice for my Nexus so I can't wait for a familiar port. These guys(Teamdouche) have a crazy team of devs for their projects so it is only a matter of time, that is for sure.
[Captivate General] _Opiate_:
This is good news...I've been running CyanogenMod on my Nexus One since day one. Can't wait to run it on my captivate! CM6 is by far the king of ROMs in my opinion.
[Captivate General] derek4484:
I guess my question would be, which Galaxy S are they going to primarily work on? I read that they are getting Vibrants. My next question would be, how much different will software have to be to run on the Captivate? I know the Vibrant stock rom doesnt work that well on Captivate.
[Captivate General] dalingrin:
The kernels will need slight tweaks for each device but the rest of the OS will be the same. As far as I know the stock Euro i9000 kernel works on the Captivate except for the g sensor orientation and some buttons are flipped. I haven't look yet but I'm hoping those settings can be changed via constants in the kernel source.
[Captivate General] warri:
I Agree, Also the Captivate does have an audience Voice chip, (for noise cancelling) So I'm not sure if this will effect the Source as well. I hope they will be testing and tweaking for each device!
[Captivate General] dalingrin:
I wouldn't worry. Wes Garner is a good man, and thorough.
[Captivate General] raid0422:
Nice big lebowski reference there ;)

I am PSYCHED for CM6 on the Captivate!!
[Captivate General] THATTON:
The sooner the custom ROMs drop for this thing the sooner I can take my sim card out of my Nexus One. There is just no comparison in speed and multitasking ability when using CM ROMs! My Nexus is SO MUCH FASTER than my Captivate in EVERY way right now. But, the Captivate is FASTER stock then my N1 was when it was stock. So, the potential is definitely there!!!
[Captivate General] big99gt:
Don't forget all the other people that "borrow" (and give credit to) Cyanogen and the teams work. I ran RoDrIgUeZsTyLe Froyo 3.3 based on CM 6, and older versions based on Modaco's Froyo release and I found them to be very stable and fast with the right kernals on my Nexus. I can only dream that the Captivate can have a sweet little kitchen and all kinds of offerings to play with like the Nexus did. Thats one of the main reasons I will always love my buggy, goofy, signal dropping, problematic touchscreen havin Nexy.....it was a different phone every day thanks to developers. I get bored easy:)
[Captivate General] shaneaus:
Just don't get too impatient. Wes is still finishing up the port for the Slide.

And, for those worrying about support for the Captivate - Koush is on TeamDouche and he has a Captivate.

So, with Wes having a Vibrant and Koush having a Captivate - they should be able to provide for both devices.

Koush has already added the Captivate to his ClockworkMod Recovery app.
[Captivate General] angermeans:
Yes definetaly looking forward to

cm6 on the Captivate. I also have it on my Nexus One and it is great! I have been using CM builds on my Nexus for the past 6 months i had no idea they were this close to the Captivate/Vibrant.
[Captivate General] southsidedan:
I'm very excited about this!! If we can ditch the lame unlock screen and modify a few key features of the phone on the fly, I'd be willing to donate!
[Captivate General] smeltn:
man I am pretty stoked about this. I have heard such amazing things about CM6.

I just can't wait to see it on my Captivate.
[Captivate General] SlimJ87D:
Well if you want to be impressed, check out the Speed Fix forum.

The Captivate with 2.1 is much faster than Nexus One 2.2 if this modification can be figured out!
[Captivate General] Citznfish:
where is that?
[Captivate General] kennethpenn:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=733306

Speed Fix ^^^. Right now, more important than getting Froyo in my honest opinion. Double speed? Yes please!
[Captivate General] rkorzuch:
What do you mean you can't flash back from JP2? I have already done it.
[Captivate General] TexUs:
Sweet... Hopefully a couple weeks more?
[Captivate General] THATTON:
He means the Froyo release.
[Captivate General] TexUs:
Um, that's discussion ABOUT a speed fix, there's no actual fix.
[Captivate General] rkorzuch:
I just flashed back from the I9000 JP2 Froyo release. I actually liked the ROM. Just wished we had a 2.2 captivate kernel.
[Captivate General] :
So it does work, but not properly, thats was expcted =]
[Captivate General] TGA_Gunnman:
Yes but what version is your baseband/radio?

Currently there is not a stock baseband/radio to flash back to from the UK version.

Also if you flashed it back great, but others were not so lucky. Could be a knowledge thing I haven't confirmed that..
[Captivate General] systoxity:
i have mo money to donate, who's the person that directly develops no the captivate?
[Captivate General] SlimJ87D:
Exactly, that topic is more important than this one. We need developers to help modify the Galaxy S NAND modification to our phones.

Speed increases depending on your SD card have increased %50 to %100, making our phones much faster than Nexus One on 2.2 or the Droid X at quadrant!

We need this more than Froyo right now, then when combining it with Froyo will render our phones quadrant scores in the 3000s maybe.
[Captivate General] sl8125:
Maybe they flashed to JP2 using only pda and csc file. Not changing the phone/modem file on the phone. That could be possible. I know that the phone/modem files are not available for the captivate yet. this way when they do revert back to stock or 2.1 they just flash the pda file. IDK. I want to flash to froyo but not worth my time. My JM2 running real smooth. No change necessary unless mimocan come up with a fix on the sd card. I wonder if CM could implement this fix in the CM rom or at least build us a kernel to use on either captivate/vibrant.

Have you guys noticed Captivate started to have more feedback and supporter then Vibrant? In the beginning it looked like we were going to be put in the dark and start following the Vibrant crowd.
[Captivate General] hallfleming:
Bingo. I think this is where the confusion comes from. People saying that Froyo works when the Captivate devs are saying it won't work. The suggestion by the developers here not to do it are including the phone/modem files in the suggestion. We get away with running the i9000 and Froyo cause we leave the modem file off the flash...
[Captivate General] J4CC3B:
I'm not a dev and I don't know that much about it, but the speed fix issue is on just about every forum for the galaxy s series phones. One can only hope that the devs are watching the forums and incorporate the speed fix into their ROMS. :-D
[Captivate General] warri:
Any New News on our CM6 ROMs? Does Wes have a twitter account we can follow progress at?
[Captivate General] nammyczc:
agreed, any updates?
[Captivate General] hansmrtn:
Hmm, I got to get on that team. I used develop roms for the HTC Hero. But sweet!
[Captivate General] timothydonohue:
twitter.com/wesgarner is his account. haven't seen much mentioned about the galaxy lately
[Captivate General] nammyczc:
sadface, it seems the vibrant development is moving along faster than ours
[Captivate General] madjsp:
He bought a Vibrant from what I understand, which leaves us in the dark a bit.

EDIT: Wes bought one I mean.
[Captivate General] nammyczc:
oh well that sucks
[Captivate General] Byrus:
I thought the Vibrant and Captivate were close enough to port findings from 1 to the other?
[Captivate General] madjsp:
I thought so too, but someone posted about being a guinea pig, and someone else said that the Vibrant and Captivate are different enough.
[Captivate General] Anthonok:
I hope this port doesnt take to long. Im dying for CM6
[Captivate General] Byrus:
Is CM6 the fastest rom or just more features?
[Captivate General] Anthonok:
Honestly im new to android. Ive just always heard great things about it and cant wait to try it
[Captivate General] hansmrtn:
This will influence the rest of this small but growing community
[Captivate General] ctalbot:
CM6 is based on Froyo (2.2) with extensive support for the most popular phones today. Froyo includes the JIT (just in time) compiler which has noticeably improved the performance of various models (take the Nexus for example).

Here's a good link with the list of phones supported and a good explanation of CM.

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
[Captivate General] hansmrtn:
You know what? I am going to see if I can enable jit on phone. I will report back in a bit
[Captivate General] E_man5112:
I'm betting they will get it to work (last I heard, at least one person on the CM team had a Captivate). It might not be as fast, but I hope it will be before the end of September :(

On thier website, they even have the Galaxy S listed among (what it looks like) the list of supported or soon to be supported devices. Clicking on it brings a list that includes the captivate. So they are seemingly planning on bring it.
[Captivate General] hansmrtn:
Good news everyone! I have successfully enabled JIT on the captivate! I will post a how to in this forum soon. It is really really fast!

EDIT:

Hold on, let me mess around with it before I post anything
[Captivate General] Anthonok:
please do not joke around.... and if you're serious...then that is awesome...but i thought it was only with froyo
[Captivate General] LinuxNewb:
Newby question but what is the main feature or benefit of jIT?

I came over from the Apple world so I'm still learning a lot :D
[Captivate General] hansmrtn:
Well I am not joking, but it will take some testing and tweaking before I post a how-to, but I have successfully done it. Froyo just has it added. Its been around for a while now

A lot faster.
[Captivate General] Anthonok:
Awesome. And to make it clear I was def not trying to be a jerk (kinda came off that way)
[Captivate General] hansmrtn:
Its okay. I used to be a developer, I dealt with jerks everyday. Not saying your one lol. But right now I am trying to get the phone to boot. It seems to be boot looping. But that shouldn't be hard to fix.
[Captivate General] Anthonok:
Well if you need anyone to test anything let me know. Im not very experienced at all with android stuff (been using iphone since the 3g and even had an iphone 4 that i returned to get this phone) but Id love to help getting things going for all of us, even if i just try running early builds.
[Captivate General] hansmrtn:
Ill keep you in mind if I need someone to test.

Thanks
[Captivate General] gtg465x:
Cool, post up some linpack scores if you get a chance. I'll be happy if it scores at least 40 MFLOPS.
[Captivate General] hansmrtn:
I am going to try and try to get this working. I really would like to see that too. But honestly, I cant guarantee anything. I will do my best

I am getting close though. JIT will be on the Galaxy S series. If it costs my phone, I am willing to sacrifice it for other peoples pleasure. I will try to keep you guys updated with PROJECT JIT
[Captivate General] Croak:
It'll make things noticeably faster, but not as fast as Froyo. Some of Froyo's speed comes from the JIT compiler, but some of it also comes from changes in memory management, and in general just cleaner, tighter code.

I've been running a JIT hack on my 2.1 Milestone for some time now, it's faster but it's also a bit buggy.
[Captivate General] hansmrtn:
Thats true, but if you get it just right, it can even be more stable
[Captivate General] wakeupkeo:
Just donated $10 to Wes to hopefully remind him of us and how much we're waiting.
[Captivate General] warri:
I dont know if you should waste your time, according to his twitter (he responded to me)

wesgarner6 hours ago
@w4rri no port of captivate for me, sorry

he also went on to say, that it doesnt seem like anyone is working on the Captivate Port of CM.