yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkVasyaK:
Agree, it works fine with stock rom and launcher pro. So happy after using those crappy wm devices :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micro2112:
Is there a date or estimate for froyo??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnnydeathmatch:
Another thing that you might want to do is install SuperRooterExtreme. It roots the phone & installs lag fix & enables side loading & a bunch more all at once. I put it on my wifes & my phone with great results. Vastly improved performance. My quadrant score went from 900 something to over 2000. I also have a G1 and the captivate rules over it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tytdfn:
Samsung expects the gps fix at the end of spetember and i think they said froyo by that time also...or was it an update at that time? I'm positive about the gps thing but not the froyo.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micro2112:
Awesome, I just got home with my captivate, but wish it had froyo..

about that gps thing, is that on every phone or just some?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ewingr:
You'll get different answers. There are people who say theirs works find. But I'm in the camp that believes all are bad, and that you just need to be in the right circumstances to experience the problem.

But I can't imagine that it won't be fixed.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smurfgod:
Got a link for that?? Is it in the market??

I appreciate the help, and seeing as the Captivate does have it's issues, I'm hoping it's gonna be a good phone..lol

I'm coming from a G1/TP2 and was excited to only pay $10 for mine..Yes I had to sign a new 2 year contract but hey..I got the money..lol

In reference to the Captivates UI and replacing it with LauncherPro, would GDE work just as good?? I do like LauncherPro but I find GDE to be more visually pleasing.

Thanks for teh info.

~SMurf
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] big99gt:
SRE is available in the Captivate Android Development section of these forums. Just make sure you read read read everything first so you don't freak out if you run into problems lol. These phones are hard to brick so flash away. ADW Launcher is another homescreen replacement that has FREE themes you can download and use and its easily found when you search the market. Grab Rom Manager and Titanium Backup as well and you should be ready to go nuts after you root. Some of the downloads in the development section root the phone for you while they also install lag fixes etc. but I'd wait to see how you like the phone before you bother with a lag fix or GPS fix. My GPS is fine but I did use a lag fix because the phone drove me nuts after being used to a tweaked Nexus One for a few months.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smurfgod:


Got my Captivate today and love it so far. I did root it with an update.zip from a friends captivate and have superuser installed. Should i go ahead and flash Clockwork? Also, i have live walpapers on my sd card but i cant get to them. Any help?

What about sideloading? I did the adb commands all the way thru correctly but it want let me install apps. Do I have to go thru adb with the install command?

I appreciate the help guys. Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Little Dragon:
i'm in the same boat as the OP and i'm wondering when you upgrade the firmware to 2.2, will you lose all the stuff you've done to the phone (like the mods and stuff)?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smurfgod:
OK folks...Having an issue.

I rooted my phone, and I'm trying to get side loading to work...or some sort of app installing thing to work. I tried to flash clockwork but apparently it didn't work(hit with an error after reoping the app) and for some reason Superuser app keeps crashing and none of my apps and get root...Did I unroot it??

I tried to use the "Unleash The Beast" update.zip and thats when everything starting going bonkers..Can I go to stock and start over??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] big99gt:
Yes you can flash back to stock with the Odin One Click Downloader...then I'd run one of the update.zips that roots and installs other tools like Busybox etc., just take your time and read the instructions before you try anything new. There are 2 versions of Odin so make sure you have the one from the One Click Downloader post (the other is for flashing roms and kernals, not restoring to stock), and install the android sdk and learn some basic adb commands ( adb reboot recovery, adb reboot download,makes life so much easier). With a little time you'll get the hang of it...just watch out for driver issues and make sure you follow the instructions and you really can't brick the phone. Odin is your friend and you need it anyways to flash back to stock before you try some of the new fixes, mods etc. GL, I won't be around much now as I am forced to sell my phone due to being unemployed but I'm already scheming to get a new one from Amazon for a penny lol.

EDIT: I read the post for Unleash the beast and it says its ok if your already rooted so I don't think that was the problem. Your best bet is to get to a PC or laptop and use Odin to flash back to stock (once your in download mode and the phone is recognized, it really is one click lol) then run Unleash the beast again. If you can't get su to work in the terminal app then you don"t have root, but you do have superuser permissons installed so I'm kinda at a loss. Might as well get used to flashing back to stock anyways if you like to hack and try new things lol I used Odin at least 20 times over the course of a few days!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smurfgod:
after reading your edit post, I'm much happier..LOL

I'm fine with reflashing to stock as long as Titanium does my back ups. I was gonna reflash tonight and do as suggested. I'm also fine with Adb. I'm coming from a G1 and Adb is very familiar to me..LOL

Thanks for the info and help and you'll prolly get a Pm from me if I'm stuck..LOL

Sent from my Captivate to the best site in the world.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadow65781:
I spent hours per day for weeks reading through this and other forums I advise you to read read read and read some more before you do anything to it that way you will understand everything a bit better and remember.

for every action there is a reaction
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smurfgod:
After I found out I was getting one,I searched and read and read some more. I'm comfortable with Adb and the terminal, and after reading about the not so easy to brickness,I'm sorta happier..LOL

I do have an issue tho with Clockwork. After I installed rom manager, I flashed the recovery and rebooted. It booted into clockwork but I didn't know what else to do. I flashed my G1 on almost a daily basis and understand the update.zip files...but where do I get it? I did my backup and its still on my SD card but I'm still using the stock recovery. Do I flash my backup?

I've got my phone just about how I want it and all I'm waiting for are the Rome and 2.2 along with everyone else..lol

Thanks for the help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toawkanavngthded:
alright... i was planning on getting my captivate today cuz ive been dying to get a new phone! coming from a tilt 2, flashed with a ROM from NRG, and running froyo (although it still feels very sluggish lol). i was gonna use my wife's upgrade but isn't eligible till sept 9!! if it were me i would pay the extra $75 on top of the 2 yr renewal but it is her upgrade =p. my question is similar to the OP. but i have a mac and im sure rooting and such is different. ive read in different forums and read read read and still feel uncertain.... ive also watched youtube vids on rooting but still not sure what is the most reliable program... any suggestions or possibly provide the one YOU used to root ur captivate? after rooting are there any other apps you need to dl? not talking about gps fix and all cuz i can wait on that. after rooting, when froyo comes along, will you need to re-root? will u lose everything if you update? before my tilt 2 i had iphone 2g and was very familiar with jailbreaking and all. so i have experience on flashing and jailbreaking and hoping rooting will be as easy =). thank you all for helping one another! keep up the great work!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smurfgod:
Since your gonna be on a stock Captivate, you can just use the Unleash the Beast method. Its in the android dev section. Download of and rename it to update.zip and boot into recovery, and install the update. Then you'll be rooted and have the ability to sideload. After you do it, go to terminal and type such..then sideloading..or sideloader..its in the post, and you'll be good to go. Works for me...lol

I'm still trying to get clockwork to work..lol. If you flash Clockwork and can boot into it via the volume+power buttons, please pm me..lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toawkanavngthded:
wow thank you for posting that!! i went to check it out and it looks awesome! i mean ive always been on xda and browsed androidforums but never dl anything androidforums. always trusted xda but im sure they are the same and have different resources ;). so whats this clockwork you speak of lol. i am a noob on android. is that to boost speed or something?

EDIT: i was reading that thread and seems ppl are having issues with wifi tethering. is urs working fine?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smurfgod:
Clockwork Recovery is the thing that allows you to flash custom roms. Theres a post about it in the Android Dev page of the Captivate section. It also allows you to do NAND backups(very important), partition your SD card(s) and so on and so forth.

The Captivate is still in it's early phases, and everyone's mainly waiting on the update to 2.2 and hopefully we want have to wait for another root process.

I'm new to Android as well, but I had a G1 for about a month and learned alot about ADB(LEARN IT!!!) and flashing. Before I had my G1 I had my TP2(T-Mobile version) and really liked it, but I love my Captivate..lol

And all of a sudden my GPS icon is going haywire... Might have to check that out..lol

If you have any more questions, you can either PM me or just post here.. I've been up for 36 hours and I'm thinking I'm fixin to crash..Byt prolly not..lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toawkanavngthded:
thank you for being so helpful! seems ur new to android but u im sure u know more than me. i will look into this ADB u speak of lol. its hard for me to really learn everything at the moment when i dont have my captivate yet! today was the first time i went to an at&t store and played with one. i've been to other and they only had the dummy one or it just wouldnt turn on lol. but really i do appreciate your help and looking forward for everything else! another thing, i read about this barcode scanner on the captivate that can be used to dl certain apps? one of the first things i will get after rooting is beautiful widgets. and ive read on androidforums that it is no longer available on the market and so ppl use this barcode scanner to scan from the website and it gives u the app????
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smurfgod:
It's not exactly a bar code..It's called a QR code. And all you have to do is take a picture of it, and do something else(Id on't know what) and it installes it...I guess. I've never dealt with them before.

http://phandroid.com/2009/07/29/qr-code-faq-and-fun/

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=734163 clockwork recovery

When it comes to ADB it's included in the Android SDK.. Google it and download the sdk as well as Eclipse. Read the thread about Enabling NonMarket Apps..It shows ADB and such. It's easy to use once you get the hang of it. It's all comand line as well so you might wanna swallow your fear if your nervous. I will say tho, these phones are pretty resilient and are damn near un brickable...Might hang a few times, but just do a stock reflash and your good to go.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toawkanavngthded:
hmmm very interesting.... im still not use to terminal and command line and all so i have to read up on that to be familiar. i am barely on the beginning of learning to root and all. seems like with each new phone i get i have to learn new programs and all :D.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cppc:
Sorry if this post bother anyone. Just want to say hello to the Android world in general and Galaxy S world in particular after a long time being with WM. I'm about having the Captivate this afternoon and just now so excited about that (that is why I do this post :D). I will have a lot of time to read this forum, explore the phone and the Android since I'm pretty new with it (at the moment I don't even understand what "root" mean :D), so I won't do anything until the Froyo come out :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djide:
Am thinking of ditching my Desire (Nexus one with senses) for the captivate), would you recomend?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smurfgod:
I can just say from experience that i love my captivate. Yes its got the gps bug but its gonna get fixed, and in the meantime,just set it to use wireless networks and its fine. I would totally suggest it to any other user..lol

Best phone ive used to date..love it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsmith675:
Welcome

dont worry about learning the terminology just take a look at the guides in the devlopment section and youll be fine
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smurfgod:
Thats about what I was saying.lol..read read and read some more. Knowledge is power man.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toawkanavngthded:
ive been reading a lot on here and other websites but mainly focusing on here.... will be getting captivate on thursday and would like to root, sideload, overclock, all that fun stuff!! is there a difference between unleash the beast and super rooter extreme? can i do both? should i do one then the other? seems like these are the 2 tools out there to use when u first get the captivate. so after using one of these tools or both, do then install titanium backup? just wanna see whats the right order to do things. any help is greatly appreciated!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaseone:
I'm not sure of all the advantages/disadvantages between SRE and UTB, I think I chose SRE as it was just the most convenient at the time. I'm fairly certain you should only apply one or the other. Then after SRE I also applied the one click lag fix that you can install from the market as per the thread titled [APP] One Click Lag Fix APK in the developer forums that I am apparently not able to post a link to yet.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toawkanavngthded:
is it true that SRE is only windows based? i have a mac.... if i use parallel's and run win 7 will that work? yea im leaning toward SRE cuz of all its features
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dani897:
No not the latest version, if your rom is stock it's just a matter of renaming as update.zip and booting into recovery, now it overclocks too. Utb is nearly the same but does not include the overclock kernel but does include tethering via wireless. different devs similar results. The lag fix gives thee greatest improvement to the quadrant score, quadrant apparently is finding a deficiency in thee file system or how the hardware handles it. But thee real world difference is less than quadrant makes it seem, basically we get an unnaturally low score without the fix.

Utb is good but sre is easier. The overclock kernel needs a either script or a tool to set the higher speed. The tools like set cpu aren't completely captivate friendly, sre includes the script right off the bat so no tool is needed unless you want to make it slower
[TG01 ROM Development] Mic43:
Hi there!

I am new to TG01 but i have a few obseravtions. After flashing some cooked roms i see that WM6.5.5 is slower in certain situations that original 6.5.

Especially I mean start composing new sms message from shorcut "Compose" in WM Titanium. In 6.5 it is very quick, but 6.5.5 it takes some time to open "new sms" window. Also I think that scrolling start menu is a little more laggy in 6.5.5. Has somoene noticed these facts?

Besides I have small question. Is 6.5.5 capable of rearranging icons in start menu using drag&drop? Unfortunately I have not succeded to do it.
[TG01 ROM Development] leeston2379:
To move items in the start menu, touch an item and hold it till it "lifts" then drag and drop.

Never noticed much speed difference between 6.5 and 6.5.5, but then i wasn't looking that hard.
[TG01 ROM Development] drupad2drupad:
I second that.

However, after your post, I have tested the speeds on both systems. I think it majorly depends on what rom you are using. Stonrom, AragOn's rom and ffBoy's rom - are fine. They don't give any lags. So is Novembre and Nokser's roms. I am not sure if 6.5.5 (non-cooked rom) is better. But I am so far impressed with cooked 6.5.5s for TG01. Especially the once that have Sense cooked in as well.

Cheers!

D:cool:
[TG01 ROM Development] Mic43:
Yesterday i noticed that after 2 days, my memory went down to 33 MB, with no application running:/ I am using clearRam app, but it does no thelp with memory leak. I think I will install 6.5 instead...
[TG01 ROM Development] adzman808:
i think a lot of it is perception... when the phone was box fresh new i didn't really check on RAM figures & my perception of its performance...

.....but once i started downloading ROMs it suddenly becomes important to me..

i have a 6.5.5 ROM (doesn't matter who's) & i've seen some terrible RAM values within system settings

that said the system has always soildered on merrily away as if nothing was amiss

i also have a hd2 that (as u prob know) has 448 of installed RAM (vs 214 on the Tosh?)

i've never used all that HD2 RAM up in normal use... but i've seen it run loads slower than the TG01 whist doing comparitive tasks...

This is a good idea for a thread :)
[TG01 ROM Development] drupad2drupad:
I second that! TG01 gave me way faster speeds on custom/cooked roms than HD2.
[TG01 ROM Development] Mic43:
But I am sure that 6.5 was faster!!! It was like a lighting! I must check cooked 6.5. Maybe it is 6.5.5 core that is slower? Maybe this is due to diffirent pagepool size?
[TG01 ROM Development] Pere:
Why don't you try a benchmark to prove your feeling? SK tools for instance. That would be very useful for all us
[TG01 ROM Development] Mic43:
You are right, i will do it. But does it have test suitiable for this?
[TG01 ROM Development] Mic43:
Hi there

I have done some benchmarks using SPB Benchmark and SK Tools. I will post it later but my conclusion is that 6.5 is faster in benchmarks. Also I googled a lot for results in this benchmarks for TG01 and HD2) and it seems like HD2 was much faster in benchmarks - especially in graphics using GDI.

May someone do some benchmarks too? Then we could compare our results.

I have recently installed spb + mobile sense and I see that it is quite laggy - especially in sliding homescreen (only from left/right to right/left !) and in calendar. Without mobile sense spb is working fast enough. Can somone confirm it? What i see is spb is using OpenGL only in carousel view - and in other cases using GDI which can be laggy for TG01. But how TG01 which is based on same proc as Hd2 can have different results? Not-opengl graphics processing is done by processor i think.
[TG01 ROM Development] Mic43:
None have sktools or spb benchmark results?:)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wally80:
Hi all,

I would love to have something similar to the supercircle battery mod, but for the signal strength indicator (instead of the usual four bars).

Do you know if there is already some mod for doing this?

Do you think it is hard to develop something in that direction?

Maybe, the dev of the supercircle battery mod can give us some hint?

Best,

Wally

P.S. I am aware that the cyanogen Rom already has dBm on the tray, but what about all the others?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackDragonBE:
OpenDesire and DeFrost have it too.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wally80:
Because they are based on cyanogenmod, right?

Unfortunately I love HTC sense. :-(

Anyway, in cyanogenmod there is just a number that shows up in addition to the legacy bars.

This would even be OK for me, I would be very happy to have it in my leedroid.

But the idea I was posting is about something that REPLACES the bars and put a circle (with some more levels? don't know, maybe 8?) and the dBm value in the center. Exactly as the super circle battery.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K900:
No cake for you.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wardy277:
I would also like this mod
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K900:
No cake for you too.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wally80:
What do you mean?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradputt:
me too would like to have this feature on sense roms

and I don't like cake
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The_limit:
+1 for this, but maybe a triangle or a square? to differ it from the battery, otherwise the create confuse.. so NO circle, but go for other shape
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K900:
I meant it is not possible. Circle battery is based on the thing that Sense allows for a custom icon for every battery level (from 0% to 100%) and every icon of that set is replaced. It doesn't read anything from the system, it's just a pack of icons. And the signal level icon has 5 or so states, so it will require modding Sense to have more icons for signal strength, and I don't even know if it knows the dBm and doesn't get precalculated signal levels from the kernel/radio.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fightspit:
I was thinking about that but it needs changing only 1 file in the sources codes:

The file is: services/java/com/android/server/status/StatusBarPolicy.java

......
122 //***** Signal strength icons
123 private IconData mPhoneData;
124 //GSM/UMTS
125 private static final int[] sSignalImages = new int[] {
126 com.android.internal.R.drawable.stat_sys_signal_0,
127 com.android.internal.R.drawable.stat_sys_signal_1,
128 com.android.internal.R.drawable.stat_sys_signal_2,
129 com.android.internal.R.drawable.stat_sys_signal_3,
130 com.android.internal.R.drawable.stat_sys_signal_4
131 };
......

This is for the icons in the code above and below the number of bars depends on the signal strength. There is no rule about setting signal strenght VS nb. of bars and so Apple and Google *could* cheat for overestimating the number of bars ^^

996 // ASU ranges from 0 to 31 - TS 27.007 Sec 8.5
997 // asu = 0 (-113dB or less) is very weak
998 // signal, its better to show 0 bars to the user in such cases.
999 // asu = 99 is a special case, where the signal strength is unknown.
1000 if (asu <= 2 || asu == 99) iconLevel = 0;
1001 else if (asu >= 12) iconLevel = 4;
1002 else if (asu >= 8) iconLevel = 3;
1003 else if (asu >= 5) iconLevel = 2;
1004 else iconLevel = 1;

The source file is located here:

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=pl...f9b9cb71b1f057b4904c660318e20eff;hb=HEAD#l131

Otherwise, the services.jar can be edited but you need modifying the StatusBarPolicy.smali (if decompiled with smali tool)

I already tried the last method but it seems if I modify it a lot, my phone would end in a bootloop :(

So we need an expert for doing that.

PS: For your culture, look at the page 87 of the pdf to see how the dBm is converted to ASU:

http://www.quintillion.co.jp/3GPP/Specs/27007-940.pdf

... and the 3GPP specification ;)

http://3gpp.org/ftp/Specs./html-info/27007.htm
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K900:
Nice find :) Though I don't really know if that will work with Sense