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[Captivate General] Fortune090:
Hmmm... ill try that. Thanks! I'll update with what happens.

UPDATE: Nothing... froze again and GPS Test crashes at startup...

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate General] nammyczc:
Thanks for your work, looking forward to what comes from this :)

sidenote I would upload the sound for you but not sure where its located through astrofile...

EDIT2: http://www.mediafire.com/?tcyzaykkkfphxtg that rar is shutdown picture file and sound
[Captivate General] nammyczc:
Hm, could be possible we need to get the gps stuff from the captivate kernal and not the vibrants?

EDIT: so I emailed the OP from the vibrant one, for the original mod, seeing if he can help us out with ext4 problem and the GPS problem as well. Hope we can get this fully up and running
[Captivate General] Fortune090:
Alright sweet. Hopefully we see this completely take off. Not using the GPS at all, I'm seriously enjoying it, but I know it's a problem for everyone else.

Sent from my Captivate.
[Captivate General] nammyczc:
question for reverting back to stock is the same method in the forums? or will it be different
[Captivate General] asrrin29:
Can you use ROM manager's backups to undo the ROM flash? I want to make sure that I can go back to my stock AT&T ROM after I test out this vibrant ROM.
[Captivate General] Berserk87:
thats pretty sweet.

just gotta get the gps up and going now.
[Captivate General] Fortune090:
I'm not sure... When I flash I use Odin.

Another minor bug I've noticed is that with texts, the notification doesn't go away until you clear all notifications. Not TOO big a deal, but it didn't happen with my stock firmware. Might be a Vibrant thing... idk...
[Captivate General] Fortune090:
Ok. So I think I found what's causing the GPS problems...

I was browsing the VibrantUpdate.zip, and comparing it to the Captivate's system file. With the Vibrant, there's a file in the /system/bin/ file called agpsd. With the Captivate, there is a folder instead titled gpsd, with glgps_SamsungJupiter, supl_att_root.cer, and supl_spirent_root.cer.

Gonna keep hunting some things down and see if I can't modify the VibrantUpdate a bit...

EDIT: Alright... testing new update.zip...

UPDATE: No go... :/ Guess I got more to figure out...
[Captivate General] Berserk87:
keep it up (y)
[Captivate General] nammyczc:
ok great lets hope one if the devs can help us with this
[Captivate General] systoxity:
nice, great job guys :). ty.
[Captivate General] Fortune090:
I just want to know what files both the Captivate and the Vibrant access when GPS is enabled or used... Any way to do that in adb shell? Anyone know?

And by the way, I was moving things with Root Explorer, and moving just the gpsd folder (NO other changes) to /system/bin/ folder, the *#*#1472365#*#* crashes starting up, soooo that's not the answer, haha.

Also, another thing I noticed, the Vibrant rom doesn't have the Jupiter.xml file (which mentions a few things about the gps) in /system/etc/... Still looking...
[Captivate General] ice3186:
stuck at glalaxy s screen

So i did what was said and my phone is just hanging out at the galaxy s screen? any help??????
[Captivate General] Fortune090:
It sits there for a few minutes. The initial boot takes awhile to load some things...
[Captivate General] ice3186:
yea

okay it help up at that screen but i pressed the power button and the lock screen came up and then took forever and damn day to run the media scanner and get all my crap together i guess. It still looks exactly the same as it did before i did the update and now its running qudrant and wont get past the database writes section? anything
[Captivate General] Fortune090:
Hey OP, can you update the first post with this tutorial instead? A bit more clear and I didn't realize I forgot to mention you had to root after a stock flash.

-1. Download VibrantDeodexed.zip from thread posted.

1a. Flash stock Odin3 rom. (For the Captivate).

1b. Root

2. Download ROM Manager from Market.

3. FlashClockworkRecovery for Captivate in ROM Manager.

4. Transfer the VibrantDeodexed.zip to /sdcard/ root.

MAKE SURE YOUR ext3 PARTITIONED SDCARD IS INSERTED

5. Reboot to Recovery (in ROM Manager)

6. Install zip from sdcard>choose zip>VibrantDeodexed.zip

7. After it finishes, reboot and be patient. The initial startup takes some time...

After flashing back to stock to try another speed fix, I redid these steps and it all worked perfectly, so I'm just saying I'm pretty sure this works. ;)
[Captivate General] rajendra82:
No need to do this fix anymore. You can flash to stock and do a simpler version described here. There are no GPS or other issues being reported.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=747397

I am personally going to hold off on it a bit until someone can do it properly off an working phone without first flashing to stock. But those of you that already flashed in the Vibrant ROM have nothing to lose.
[Captivate General] benclayton:
When it says "MAKE SURE YOUR ext3 PARTITIONED SDCARD IS INSERTED," that's referring to what exactly? Is it something Odin will perform, or another thread I should read?
[Captivate General] nammyczc:
that means putting our ext3/4 EXTERNAL SD card into your phone

another note:So I got a response from the original vibrant rom creator? and I told him our problem. Heres hoping he can help us out
[Captivate General] nammyczc:
UPDATE: So I got in touch with anomalous3 the origional creator of the deodex rom for the vibrant and I sent him over stock rom info for our phone he said he'll try and create a deodex version for our phone!

All we need to do now is wait and see :)

sorry for the late updates in process of moving so I get internet where I can find it
[Captivate General] nammyczc:
UPDATE: anomalous3 got the stock rom from samsung-firmwares and is now working on a deodex rom for the captivate, he said it'll take him a while but something is being made :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] spenceee:
Just flashed my phone via kies to JG4 :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hernit:
Does the Optus My Account widget work?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] spenceee:
There is a problem showing your usage....

Firmware 2.1-update1

Baseband I9000DTJG3

Kernel 2.6.29 Root@SE-S604 #2

Build: Eclair.DTJG4
[Galaxy S I9000 General] oswade:
loool, i was wondering the same thing!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ancient_One:
JG4

Don't you mean I9000DTJG4. ie. JG4

Might like to update the thread Title.

I'm thinking of reflashing my OPTUS SGS back onto JG4 OPTUS firmware.

Wondering about my warrantee even though I bought it unlocked through an OPTUS reseller not through OPTUS.

You got it through Kies is a pretty good acheivement in itself with all the negative responses out their about Kies.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
I've gotten 4 updates through Kies on the Korean phone, a guy I send PMs to on here just got an OTA update yesterday which surprised the hell out of me.

*EDIT* He is also in Korea on the Korean version. And 2 of my firmware updates might count as one since they came bundled, but I think they were separate releases and I just happened to get both at once.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nicoloco:
I guess I am not able to update to this versoin because I flashed with JM2 ??

What if I flash with soemthing like JG1 ? Will I be able to upgrade ?

One more question, how does kies knows that it's an optus device ? Is it the IMEI or the Sim card or the current ROM ??

Thnaks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Et3rnal:
SAME :D

and plz pack it 4 us if it work

thx
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jamessimon:
Yay first update completed. now have a task manager that wasn't there before, lost all contacts and apps, is it supposed to keep these? could be annoying if have to restore from back up every time there's an update.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] borchgrevink:
Did it fix the lag and GPS-issue?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] vaxvax69:
Kies Sync Problem after upgrading

Hi,

I upgraded my Samsung Galaxy S to the new JG4 firmware.

I have the following builds:

Firmware 2.1-update1

Baseband I9000DTJG3

Kernel 2.6.29 Root@SE-S604 #2

Build: Eclair.DTJG4

The problem is that after upgrading Kies i can no longer connect back to my phone.

The MTP USB Device driver comes up with an error as soon as Kies fires up. The old version of Kies had no problems but the latest release has some real issues.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Peter
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Superroach:
Thought I'd use mybackup pro before I try out this jg4 update. I havn't rooted yet - will I still be able to backup all the app and data needed? I guess the important bit to know is - what can't I backup because I'm not on root. Probably should figure that out before backing it up and going to the update! :P
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ancient_One:
Flashing your phone removes applications, contact, email and everything you hold dear hence why in most of the trheads it say's to back this up using the available backup programs.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] peterfz30:
Lost settings, contacts and apps after upgrade

I am new to Android and the SGS. Is it normal to lose everything when upgrading the firmware?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gilliad:
I lost everything also! This is my first time updating android firmware and coming from an iPhone I wasn't expecting it. I don't recall seeing a warning message, but I may have missed it as it took several attempts to get kies working. Searching the HDD for dll files/renaming/moving around just to get the update to work is bit much to ask!

Unfortunately it hasn't done anything to fix the GPS problems, I can't get a location after trying for an hour. Have had trouble with wifi in the past, but this seems to be resolved now.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] b_astro:
It seems that Market is broken in this official firmware

I can't find Skies of Glory or MSN Talk Pro :(

It turns out that all protected applications are not shown in Market - pretty lame from Samsung.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] peterfz30:
Poor effort

Sorry Samsung, but to lose all your contacts, settings and downloaded applications while updating (and without any warning) is a very poor effort regardless of any improvements that may have been made. This is very disappointing and unprofessional and the update should be withdrawn until these problems are resolved. F grade.

Regarding Kies not connecting to the SGS. I had that problem prior to updating and tried many things to resolve it. Eventually, formating the SD card fixed this issue for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ancient_One:
I can confirm this is the case. It would appear other applications are creating the issue on the phone with 16digit extentions or files. After an internal SD format kies worked correctly.

I have to agree with you all in theory.

Even flashing the firmware on say a Nokia phone, a message comes up asking you to backup your data prior to upgrade as you will loose it on the phone. Samsung have poorly implimented this in Kies. It will flash the firmware but give you no warning of the implications.

I guess you could also argue that this is an Android phone and not a iPhone. Things are done differently in Android then in iPhone and maybe a bit of reading might have identified that you should always back up you data prior to flashing the firmware.

That being said Kies should have an inbuilt ability to backup and restore your data and applications if they are also offering to flash the firmware.

Wish you all luck with it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Yep, I find this a serious serious problem without a working KIES. I don't want to be forced to surrender personal info to google. MyBackUp steals the info to the cloud even if you wanted to backup just to the storage card.

How does this compare to JM2 to those who had tried both, in terms of lag and GPS accuracy?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nandihno:
Rooting is not what a typical consumer will do..so how can you officially back up in android?

So samsung must had a serious bug in kies it shouldn't remove your apps.

I Odin to m2 n yes I lost all my apps but I was expecting that fair enough but from kies cmon

Though my contacts being sync to google that was ok...
[Android Apps and Games] Dustintendo:
Like launcher pro can do?
[Captivate General] armrob:
I have a brand new Samsung Captivate from AT&T. It is still locked to AT&T but I ordered a turbo sim from Unlockitnow.com and will include it also.

I'm in Montreal. Price is 500$ CAD if paid with Paypal. or 475$ CAD if paid with Interac email money transfer (available to any one with a canadian bank account and online banking).

PS : I hope this doesn't violate any forum rules.
[Captivate General] accinfo:
You are absolutely not violating any forum rules,

thank you for helping us members out. :}

Since you have conformed to 10/12 rules, it is fine to break 2/12 rules, or is it?

Reference:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heliotropeUCSD:
Philosophical issues aside, how does one get this working? A crucial barcode program i use has amazingly annoying religious ads.

Here is what I have tried:

Rooted with Unrevoked / Nandroid Backup / Titanium Backup / wifiTether /Led flashlight. Stock otherwise.

Install adfree, ran it, phone rebooted.

Boot into clockwork recovery and launch adb shell.

Execute the following:

2. Install and run
3. allow it to download and install new hosts file, it will copy it to your sdcard and try to replace /system/etc/hosts but fail (it should reboot the phone shortly)
4. Power off the phone and hold Volume Down and power.
5. Use volume down to select recovery
6. In clockwork recovery volume down to "partitions menu" and hit the track pad to select
7. Select "mount /system" and "mount /sdcard" "mount /data"
8. Plug in your usb cord and open a command line on your pc
9. enter adb shell and type the following commands

cp /sdcard/hosts /data/data/hosts
rm /system/etc/hosts
ln -s /data/data/hosts /system/etc/hosts

On reboot, no change, and adfree fails trying to update. Help?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gadget!:
I found a post earlier that changes the paths. It has worked for me on every Rom I have tried.

cp /sdcard/hosts /data/hosts
rm /system/etc/hosts
ln -s /data/hosts /system/etc/hosts

Sent from my ADR6300
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heliotropeUCSD:
Hmmm, still didn't work. Can you go into a little bit more detail? I'm stock everything, just rooted.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whiplash000:
The philosophical struggle goes deeper than what you think! Another method (frowned upon by most uninformed members of this forum but endorsed by some of the experts) is to do a tempoary nand unlock using the unrevoked tool.

Run the tool like normal, then unplug after the "running pre-boot sequence" and during "waiting for reboot". I've done it plenty of times perfectly, it allows you to run adfree normally without any special tricks (just default settings). I have no idea what happens if you unplugged at the wrong time (you have a like 20-second window ffs) but I hear it's bad.

Do it at your own risk :D
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heliotropeUCSD:
I'd just like to point out that I think the above suggestion is actually INTENDED to brick phones. I wouldn't recommend anyone try it. Does anyone have any real suggestions? I have a serious problem with religious ads on my f***ing telephone.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TNS201:
Listen bro, this method works just fine.

Run unrevoked 3.1 when you are in the OS, then it will reboot your phone to hboot and then it unlocks your nand, it will reboot and you will see the white incredible screen, at this time you can unplug your USB cable, I just suggest doing it before it gets back to the OS so you don't pull it when it is flashing your recovery, but if you do it at the white incredible screen or during the bootanimation. Then when you get back to the OS, run adfree and update your hosts, success, profit?

I can confirm that it will work 100% without bricking your phone. Anyone who said it has is full of ****. Don't listen to those **** smoking noobs out there that are hanging on to unrevoked teams ballsacks. This will not brick your phone if you do as I said above. If this bricked your phone then it would not be safe to use the unrevoked program period. So don't listen to the noobs out there, this method works 100% without issue. I posted this method awhile back and everyone got upset like I did something wrong, but people did verify it did work if you want to find the post I made look for it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heliotropeUCSD:
Hmm, well. I have no idea, it sounds like you may be right, but it isn't the type of solution that i am looking for.

I'd like to find a way to use the symbolic link method to store the hosts file somewhere where adfree can write to it. Does anyone else have an idea?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TNS201:
sym link doesnt work for me, um, I would just do what I stated above if all else you tried has failed.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rcicu:
I used the above method in the #1st Post on an 2.2 ROM with no issue! I can update Adfree at any point after completing those directions...

here is where I found those directions... http://www.jonamerica.com/technology/howto-root-the-htc-droid-incredible/
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heliotropeUCSD:
Hmm. I am really, genuinely scared of the method posted by TNS201. I believe him that it may work, but I simply don't understand the mechanism. Is he suggesting that this successfully unlocks the NAND memory? Or does it allow it to be unlocked for one boot cycle, in which case I can't update adfree?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TNS201:
Why do say that it "may" work. I can confirm it works 100%, I wouldn't tell you something that doesn't. It unlocks the NAND for one boot. So you can write to system and such during this time. The duration of this lasts until you power off or reboot your phone. This stays active until next reboot. You can update adfree and reboot if you want.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whiplash000:
...eloquently said, sir...

Anyway OP, if you don't wanna do it, that's fine. And I think it's wonderful that you don't care whether anyone questions your sexual orientation :)

(FUTURAMA REFERENCE, DON'T FLAME ME.)

Seriously, why are the uninformed so cocksure?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heliotropeUCSD:
Yeah, but somebody must have gotten the symlink method to work. I'm not willing to risk bricking my phone in any way to do this- like I said, there are philosophical issues here. I'd rather just see the ads.

So, again- has anyone with an Incredible, rooted, stock rom, used the symlink method to install adfree?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gadget!:
As stated in my earlier post, I have it working on my Incredible and it has worked for me on 4 different ROMS.

This may not work for you, but it does work for me. I found these tips awhile ago and don't remember where I found them.

NOTE: Notice the paths in the commands below - They differ from the original post.

Boot into clockwork recovery and launch adb shell.

Execute the following:

2. Install and run
3. allow it to download and install new hosts file, it will copy it to your sdcard and try to replace /system/etc/hosts but fail (it should reboot the phone shortly)
4. Power off the phone and hold Volume Down and power.
5. Use volume down to select recovery
6. In clockwork recovery volume down to "partitions menu" and hit the track pad to select
7. Select "mount /system" and "mount /sdcard" "mount /data"
8. Plug in your usb cord and open a command line on your pc
9. enter adb shell and type the following commands

cp /sdcard/hosts /data/hosts
rm /system/etc/hosts
ln -s /data/hosts /system/etc/hosts

Note the last command, that it a lowercase L not an I

a couple of others have made that mistake (for best results copy each command to your clipboard and paste it into your command prompt).

Reboot the phone and it should work now.

Use BTC IP and do not check symlink from /data/data/hosts

gadget!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] execute_method:
Are you getting any errors in the shell when you type the commands?

should look like this when you enter a command

# ln -s /data/data/hosts /system/etc/hosts <--hit enter
ln -s /data/data/hosts /system/etc/hosts
#

First, can you go into recovery, and let me know if this command returns hosts

ls /data/data | grep hosts

This lists the directory and "filters" out everything but the text after grep.

output should look like:

# ls /data/data | grep hosts
ls /data/data | grep hosts
hosts
#

I need to know, because I think that adfree might not have made a hosts file on your sdcard when you ran before starting, thus there was no hosts file to "cp" form /sdcard to /data/data/.

If that is the case, and since you have rm'ed your hosts file from /system/etc/, you will have to recreate the file with the touch command.

My $.02

***********************************

It is NOT necessary to run or even install adfree before getting your hosts files setup in the system.

Here is the method I use:

1. copy the existing hosts file to /data/data

cp /system/etc/hosts /data/data/hosts

2. rename hosts to hosts.bak

mv /system/etc/hosts /system/etc/hosts.bak

3. symlink the hosts files

ln -s /data/data/hosts /system/etc/hosts

At that point, your system is setup to run adfree. On the first run of adfree, it will see the hosts file in /data/data and uses it.

I have use this method at least 10 times while trying out different roms:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heliotropeUCSD:
Hell to the yes. gadget!'s method worked for me- I did not know NOT to use local IP and to NOT check the symlink button. Maybe someone can educate me on what those options mean?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeeBG:
Glad it worked out for you =). j/w, is the app that kept giving you religious ads "Android System Info"? For some reason the people behind that app have decided to lock the ad into messages about "Jesus" or "prayers"... I always thought that was kind of odd.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhazard451:
Adfree works without issue after running unrevoked forever. No symlink needed.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nuke3ae:
Thanks for the info, came here to ask this question. Do I need to check symlink in the adfree setup?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raptor567:
This worked perfectly for me. Thanks.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhammyDroid:
Did you only install adfree via the market? Did you have to go into ADB to do anything? I am running 2.2 rooted with unrevoked forever. Just want to make sure I am doing it correctly.

Please let me know. Thanks!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wkd1:
I just installed adfree and ran it without any problems. I clicked the update option only, didn't change any settings. After it completed the update, it mentioned rebooting to clear the cache... which I did. No problems. Now ad-free. Easy.

Unrevoked Forever

2.2

Skyraider 2.5.2
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhammyDroid:
Thanks Wkd1!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Casbah:
Just installed it now and all I ever get with it is "Please wait while I determine if the local hosts file is up to date." Just hangs here.

Any suggestions? :(
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samoid:
Same here. I had it working fine for a long time and just recently stopped working. If you look at the comments in the market, A lot of people are having similar issues.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luvit:
I followed your directions and tried it without rebooting.. Score.

I find it awesome that it works for ads in apps and web pages...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crackers8199:
does anyone else always have the spinning icon where ads used to be? i have adfree working, but in place of the ads i always get a perpetually spinning icon like it's trying to load something. i have the BTC ip (119.161.80.12) hard coded in as a custom ip but it still doesn't work...
[Android Apps and Games] splmonster:
I'm using an Evo and really wanted to try Swype out. Can anyone direct me to where I can find the APK?