[Captivate General] ByTheLight:
I just got my Captivate last Friday. Hadn't done anything complicated with it, basically I just used "Unleash the Beast" to root and sideload the thing. Ended up with some sort of weird permissions issue going on with the SuperUser app that had been installed with it, I was getting permission request loops. So I used Odin to reset it. At this point there wasn't anything really wrong, USB worked and the device appeared to the computer. So I just rebooted the Captivate into download mode using adb reboot download and went on.

So later on I grabbed SuperUser 2.3.4(?) or whatever the latest one I found online was, loaded that to do adb pull /system/apps since I realized that Unleash the Beast just deleted everything and I honestly hadn't even seen what it removed yet on the phone itself besides the list on the web site. So after the backup I odin'd again and then grabbed the files from SuperUser 2.3.4 replaced the existing files in Unleash the Beast with it. Actually ended up working perfectly for a while.

I'd used the phone for a few days, no issues, finally got my 16GB SD card from my Raphael and inserted it, had been downloading apps left and right. Well all of a sudden the phone seemed to have it's USB stop working for anything but charging. I recall plugging it into a charger or computer when I first got it and it would ask if I wanted to mount the SD cards for use, then I would just see the battery indicator charging. and I'd toggled developer usb a half billion times trying to get access and fix it.

The computer didn't see it, device manager didn't even flinch(Win7 x64) like it normally does when you plug in and unplug a USB device. Tried it with another computer and same issue. So I rebooted into recovery mode and tried that, the first several times around nothing was detected. Well my finger slipped and ended up hitting the Clear user data and cache option in the recovery mode.

At this point when it boots up, i still dont have usb access, I'm stuck in a force close loop, I can't install apps, can't seem to get it to reboot into download mode via the key commands, and installing apps is impossible since browser and market crash on start.

I've spent the night rebooting and trying to get into download mode for odin, I used to be able to get into recovery mode everytime I tried, eventually I started to see an "uknown device" show up in device manager, which I googled some info from it and all I could tell was it was Microsoft's dummy driver for devices that couldn't be found. Another weird response, it seems to be beginning to hang on the charging battery thing from time to time now.

At this point, its been under a week and I'd trade it in. Except the thing is with enough struggling you can see the apps installed. Most of them were removed but Market Access and Superuser are still in the apps list, and I'm worried about AT&T spotting that, figuring out what I've done and rejecting the claim.

just under half the time now, it boots, the other over-half of the time I get the spinning "battery loading" icon that shows up before the battery thing gets loaded, but not spinning. It pops up, and disappears, from time to time goes to show me my battery status instead of booting, even when not plugged in.

I'd like to think I haven't tried everything? quite obviously i can't run update.zip files from my 16gb sd card since it gets mounted at /sdcard/sd, and I've lost the file browser to move anything around. I've tried rewiping but that doesn't do a thing.

I hadn't gotten to the rom manager stuff yet since I wasn't planning on playing with roms if at all. and at this point that doesn't appear to be an option anymore.

Any suggestions? I was getting to continuing to reboot it till the battery thing comes up 100% of the time then goto ATT and see what they say.