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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
If I am not mistaken, this is what Titanium Backup is good for.

Rom Manager will help you restore like system restore in windows to EXACTLY as you are, apps, data and all, when you create the backup (which you should ALWAYS do before trying to flash a new firmware or update). Do that now.

Then, get Titanium. Under backup and restore, backup all your apps and app data (will show up white text). Also backup SOME of the stuff in green and red. You can see what to back up. when in doubt, back it up and think twice before restoring it.

If at any time you brick or have problems, boot into recovery, choose reinstall packages which will run update.zip created by rom manager so you can access the clockwork restore menu. Then restore to your backup you made and start over.

Lastly, check out QUICKBOOT in the market. EZ reboot into recovery mode.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirateghost:
oh. i already use those and know how to do backups and recovery. i recovered all my stuff from my i9000 jump to jf6+sre .. guess i will go through the process again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joedon3:
The $4 for Titanium donate version is well worth it. I did a restore on free, and it took 45 mins of installing apps and pushing buttons. took less than 10 with the donate version with no interaction.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theMaginator:
Well I will re-iterate what others have already said. Read.

But here is what I did:

Flash JH3 via Odin

Root via Bugless Pete's Unleash the Beast v0.2

download Terminal Emulator from the market

Type: su

Type: sideloading

By now you are rooted and sideloading is activated and a bunch of bloat ware is gone.

Now install a lag fix (search for Zilch's condensed version of lag fixes)

You can choose between RyanZA's APK in the market or his script or tayatumas update.zip. I also reccomend Chainfires lag fix in the i9000 forums.

Now everything is done: JH3 - Root- Sideloading- lagfix.

Now patiently wait for Supercurios lagfix port for the captivate.

And find a mentor you can secretely stalk and try what they try. There are some people out there who really know what they are doing. Here is aquick list.

Chainfire

Zilch

RyanZA

Tayatuma

Unhelpful

Supercurio

And many more.

Then Read Read Read.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Unhelpful:
Ack, I'm being stalked now?! ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theMaginator:
You have no idea. LOL:)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] ruizit0:
hello all...

ive been away from kaiser community a long time because i got an desire...

but i have my kaiser here ehehe

so i decided to see how android for kaiser is...

and i see theres a lot of progress in this!!

but my question is... after this time i dont understand how do i run it...

i see now there is and androidinstall.tgz and an andboot folder...

i want to run it with haret.. dont want to flash it....

can anyone point me to a tutorial for this new metod ?

i have this so far..

sdcard/andboot/androidinstall.tar

sdcard/andboot/default.txt

sdcard/andboot/haret.exe

sdcard/andboot/initrd.gz

sdcard/andboot/zImage

and when i run haret... it says that doenst find the system image...

can anyone help me to update my knowledge ?

thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] ghghgh14702:
hold the center button when it tells you then hit install system.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] someguy124:
Same problem here. I tried the above suggestion but it doesn't load any menu for me when I do that.

Any other suggestions? Thanks.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
If holding the dpad button does not work, try pressing the centre of the screen, ( think of it like a giant dpad, it does work, in fact it is my usual method after too many times of pressing the dpad wrong).

The reason so many people have trouble with this is that if you hit another key when pressing the dpad button it will not enter the install menu, and it is easy to do that if you are a bit nervous or in a hurry to press before the pause ends.

I have large fingers, and often miss the keys, and believe me I have a lot of experience in this, so now I use the screen method instead.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] ghghgh14702:
also make sure you are only hitting the button when it asks, if you hold before it asks then it won't go to the menu.
[Nexus One General] martin0285:
4.99 on the market... If your a fantasy addict, as me, go grab it!!!
[Nexus One General] El Daddy:
5 bucks?! Wow. It better guarantee one wins their league!

*cough* I'll buy it anyway :)
[Nexus One General] stickerbob:
I'll stick with Yahoo's free app. I like yahoo fantasy better anyway.
[Nexus One General] martin0285:
See I love ESPN fantasy better but 5 bucks is crazy!! HAHA I bought it but dam, I really hope get more then one year out of it or maybe even add NBA Fantasy to it during the season...It'll suck if they make a whole new app for next fantasy FB season.....
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] inthenickoftime4:
Quick question. Is there an Alternative to Wireless tether? I think I used another app a while back, but I can't think of the name.

Thank you.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] Jp50:
Search the market for tether aand many choices will come up.

There are sevral choices avai.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] inthenickoftime4:
I did. I searched Google as well... I can't find the app I was looking for. Thank you for your help though.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] anubis2k3:
Alternative for what? What are you using now?
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] marquardt1219:
a net share.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] joshw0000:
Barnacle wifi tether
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] anubis2k3:
I am using Wireless Tether which is downloadable from the market. It works very well and is easy to use. The only downfall of it is, it seems to heat up my battery pretty bad and drains the battery tremendously fast. Anyone that has tried barnacle or anet experience the same issue?
[Vibrant General] Singhman:
I am going to return it because of problems of phone shutting itself off automatically. This is my 3rd one, and they all did this. If I wait till october (after 2.2), will I be buying a different phone (hardware wise), or the exact same thing? Maybe a newer batch will be less glitchy? (gps, lag, shutdowns)

i was wondering if perhaps the phones that are rolling out in october/november, will work flawlessly out of the box? Maybe some hardware changes?

Thing is i got a good deal on a 3 year plan (the worker at bestbuy messed up and gave it to me $50 less than what he's supposed to), and if i return it now (since the 14 day return expires tomorrow), i will pay $50 more for it if i decide to buy it again in october.

My carrier will put my hardware upgrade back onto my account, and i can buy whatever phone i want at a later date (WILL NOT BUY AN IPHONE...EVER). But i dont think any good new phones better than SGS are coming out soon...are there any? thanks
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
I got no lag, never ever had a restart and gps should be fixed to some extent. October you will see the g2, will it be flawless ? No nothing usually is..

The lag I hear about but don't have myself so I can understand that, but the restarts have to be something you installed or a lemon. I'f you had that happen on all 3? Definitely something you installed
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Dude, what are you doing to your phone(S)???? I have never had my phone reboot/shutdown unless I was messing around with installing system apps from another rom... and that was a super easy fix.
[Vibrant General] Chalup:
$10 says OP had crap like setCPU on his or her phone. Samsung has already tried to make it harder to get into recovery and download mode.....hmmm I wonder why?
[Vibrant General] Singhman:
dont have any apps installed except for adobe reader. Someone mentioned it could be my sim card, so i changed it and it has not happened since...but...its only been 4 days, and this shutoff thing happens every 3 to 5 days anyways..so if i wait to see if it was perhaps my sim card all along, then it will be too late. «9refund policy).

If you go over to the captivate forum, you will see that many people (almost one third of people) have this issue. It could just be bad sim cards, but i dont know for sure.
[Vibrant General] Chalup:
There you go, adobe reader. Be sure to give it a 1 star review, and I apologize for my previous rude remark.
[Vibrant General] DKYang:
Not a god idea because more phones will be out at that time and you won't be able to decide. Like the person above me. If adobe reader is the only app installed then that's most likely the culprit.

Why not just use thinkfree pdf reader? Works just as god as adobe's.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
Your sd card may be corrupt too.
[Vibrant General] XfooYen:
To answer the OP question, I think it's worth returning the phone even if you have to eat the 50 bucks. The G2 is coming out this month and the MyTouch HD in November. Both phones could be strong contenders. If you can hold out til then you might even be able to get the vibrant for a reduced price.
[Vibrant General] scrizz:
WOw dude

never had my phone reset

that's sounds serious

:eek:
[Vibrant General] jamboy5590:
yea i find it hard to believe all 3 have the same problem did u buy them all from the same place? i know the phone has it's problem but Ive never herd anyone have one were it randomly restarts on them.
[Vibrant General] Chalup:
It is because of adobe, others have had the same exact problem.
[Vibrant General] icon57:
why do you think setCPU is a crap app?
[Vibrant General] jblizzard888:
Had the same problem with mine uninstall adobe and I'm good. Use thinkfree or vudroid
[Vibrant General] gunks:
*charles barkley voice*

Man, thats turrrrible..
[Vibrant General] Valeo:
I'd be less eager to point fingers at Abobe, personally. Userspace (i.e. non-kernel) code shouldn't be able to lock up phones in this manner. I can understand slating SetCPU - over-clocking is never guaranteed to be safe. But simple apps like a PDF reader? Even utilising SetCPU to just scale down CPU clock speed should be absolutely safe...

I've had my phone now for just under a month and in the last week it's developed this issue where it'll crash/shutdown when left idle. And no, I'm not running any stability-compromising apps, zero mods, nada. Not even rooted it. Just stock firmware and a handful of apps - apps I've not even run since installing them weeks ago. And for what it's worth, I wiped my handset this evening and after roughly 15 minutes of being left idle while I was eating dinner, it died again.

Now I've not got a Vibrant myself; I'm an SGS owner. But if you search the Samsung sub-forums here at xda-developers, or do a Google search, you'll find hundreds of Vibrant, Epic and Galaxy S users who are reporting exactly the same issues. Which leads me to think that this really has nothing to do with userspace code at all. Instead it points back to Samsung's sloppy business practices of releasing Android-based phones before they're fully cooked... :(
[Epic 4G General] Coucher:
Have a weird problem. Got the Epic on release day, set up my two emails that I want to be able to check from the phone, a POP3 account and a Gmail (that is not associated to the phone to sync).

Both are set to auto check for new mail every 5 mins. Everything worked great for about a day, but then stopped.

Neither email account is auto checking for mail regardless of the frequency I set it to. 5 mins, 10 mins, hourly, etc.

If I go into the inbox however for one of the email accounts it seems to instantly check for new mail and then all the messages show up.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.
[Epic 4G General] Coucher:
Ok, after doing some Googling and coming across a comment on some random site I did a little test.

I have two email accounts configured, and both were set to check every 5 minutes. It seems that the stock email app has some kind of issue initiating more than one email check at a time, so if you have multiple accounts and have them set to the same check frequency, it breaks. I left one account at 5 minutes, set the other to 10 minutes, and they both were able to receive test messages I sent.

How retarded.

Hopefully there will be a fix for this at some point.
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
Mine is doing this too! however i do have them on different times. i haven't got a notification i got email i have to click email then it loads the messages?

Any way to fix this?
[Epic 4G General] Coucher:
Exactly what mine was doing but putting the frequency check times at different times 5 min & 10 min seemed to have fixed it.

I just sent two more test emails to make sure it wasn't a fluke and will report back if it did indeed fix mine or just happened to work once after I had rebooted the phone.
[Epic 4G General] Coucher:
Hmm,..previous test was a fluke maybe affected by having gotten an SMS around the same time...

Mine is still broken.

:mad::mad:

:confused:
[Epic 4G General] ddialogue:
I have found that the email app must stay running in the background in order to sync additional mailboxes other than the default gmail account. Make sure any task killers are configured to ignore the email app. Using the Home key to exit mail works for me. YMMV!
[Epic 4G General] Coucher:
I don't have any task killers installed, but I do exit the mail program with the back button.

I'll try starting it up, and then just exiting using the home button to see if that changes the behavior.

I'll report back the results.
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
i let it run and didn't end it and it still didn't work i just have my email. i just forwarded my aol to gmail and now i dont have have to worry about it. :)
[Epic 4G General] takethat365:
im having the same issue... This could be a deal breaker for me :(

Also the damn battery takes 4 hours to fully charge
[Epic 4G General] Coucher:
Ok, leaving the email app running in the background by using the home key to exit it vs the back key made no difference. Still doesn't refresh the inbox until you open the email app up and go into it.

This sucks.
[Epic 4G General] Coucher:
Anyone?
[Epic 4G General] badblowntie:
Sorry, posted in wrong thread! had 2 open and picked the wrong one.
[Epic 4G General] Coucher:
How is this relevant to the topic? :confused::rolleyes:
[Epic 4G General] austin420:
i have 2 yahoos and a gmail and they are all updating fine. who is the provider of this email service?
[Epic 4G General] Coucher:
One is a Gmail account the other a POP3 that had no issues over the last 5-6 years on WinMo using Sprint, nor on Android on my old Touch Pro, so that isn't the issue.

After roaming around the net a bit, it seems this a fairly widespread issue with no known fixes yet. :(
[Epic 4G General] drkgouki:
I also have this issue, and its quite frustrating. I have email accts for hotmail, gmail, yahoo, and aol. The only one that gets mail properly is the hotmail account, since it's set up using ActiveSync. The others often don't show as getting new email for about a day or so unless I manually go into each account. Only then will it realize there are new messages.
[Epic 4G General] bikewiz:
I too am having the same problem. My default e-mail is a comcast account set up to check every 5 mins. My 2nd acct is a gmail acct set to check every 30 mins. Coming to this phone from a blackberry and my curve would get the e-mails faster than my PC's outlook would.

I rooted my wife's EVO the day she got it bc she hated all the pre-loaded sprint bs. I'm in the same boat with my epic, but i'm hesistant to root it and load an Android 2.2 rom because i want to wait for bugs like this to be fixed.

I'm also getting a pop-up error msg on my epic about 4-5 times per day that says something along the lines of "unable to connect to network", even though i have service on the top "taskbar". The pop-up gives me the option to retry or cancel. Either selection doesn't seem to do anything. I have wi-fi, 4g, gps, and bluetooth turned off for battery life. I don't know if this could correlate to the e-mail syncing problem so I figured i'd toss it out there.

You know, the frustrating thing is I sit here and wait for months for this phone to come out and then they have all these problems with it. My wife's HTC EVO hasn't had a single problem since day 1 and she got it on release day too. The only thing good i can say about this epic compared to the evo (with exception of the slide out keyboard) is the battery life is marginally better on standby.

Subscribing to see what the fix is...
[Epic 4G General] Coucher:
A lot of sites are rumoring there being some type of OTA update near the end of September. Some say it will just e fixes and patches for 2.1 for things exactly like this, others are crossing their fingers that it may be Froyo.

Either way, as long as it fixes this issue I'll be happy...so we'll just have to cross our fingers, wait and see.
[Epic 4G General] bikewiz:
lately my e-mail checking has been getting worse, sometimes not even syncing certain items. i went into settings and compared the send receive port #'s to the ones set up in my outlook, and the settings were all wrong as well as the port #'s. I changed them all to match my outlook and now everything is working fine for the moment. time will tell if this was the problem.
[Epic 4G General] Coucher:
I'd be surprised if that fixes it for you.

I know that isn't the issue with mine. All of my manually configured server settings are correct and it still does it.

Crossing my fingers this will be patched/updated at some point, but until then I have MailDroid installed which is getting new mail notifications perfectly. I don't really like MailDroid as much as the integrated client, so whenever MailDroid lets me know I have an email, I just go into the stock email client and manually refresh to read/reply/etc.
[Epic 4G General] bikewiz:
So far its working flawlessly. I sent myself test messages and the phone alerted me within 2 mins that I had a new message
[Epic 4G General] helchez:
I also have the email updating problem. I know this is an old thread, hopefully some has found a solution. I have a yahoo account and a gmail account. The gmail account updates through the gmail app not the email app on my home page. The yahoo account only updates when I open the email app. I did have both my yahoo and gmail account set up in the stock email app to check at the same time. I changed the yahoo to 5 min and the gmail to 10 min. I then sent a test email. Recieved almost instant notification from the seperate gmail app. it has now been almost 15 min since I sent the test email and no notification from email app. I will try keeping the email app running this time and see what happens.
[Epic 4G General] Coucher:
Mine still doesn't work correctly even after the most recent Samsung update. Doesn't look like anyone has found a work around or the cause, so I'm just hoping it will be fixed when/if the Epic gets Froyo.
[Epic 4G General] helchez:
Just tried it with the email app running no change still have to pull up app for it to sync.
[Epic 4G General] cruiser771:
so hows this working out for you, have you done anymore testing? i dont get my email on time either. I have 2 yahoo and 2 gmail accounts, i sent an email on my pc from a gmail acct to a yahoo acct and it hit my phone about 30 minutes later, maybe more (i have the sync set to 5 minutes). when it came in, there was also an email from about 5 hours earlier.
[Epic 4G General] bikewiz:
my e-mail was working flawlessly until about 3 days ago. at some point in the evenings it would stop checking for new messages and if i tried to refresh it, nothing would happen. restarting the phone would fix this and sync up all my waiting messages.

yesterday my phone did its first software update OTA and since then I have not had any e-mail problems yet. still not sure if its fixed tho
[Epic 4G General] TRusselo:
I know this is resurrecting the dead but i may have found a fix. and you were so close.

everyone here has 2 accounts... so..

yes there is an issue with 2 accounts syncing at the same time. BUT even if you change one to a different interval, eventually it WILL sync at the same time in the next hour.

Disable all but your important one. check the others manually.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xlinkedx:
Got the OTA Froyo last night and I have noticed the audio quality on several different occasions is very poor. Specifically, when running a game with Gameboid or other emus, the sound is terrible.

The audio is also ridiculously distorted when streaming flash videos, like on Crunchyroll.

That being said, the built in internet explorer does not seem to have taken to the flash 10.1, when I try to run something with flash, it says I'm outdated and to upgrade, however, when I try to 'update' flash, it can not find the page in the market, nor can I search for it.

Dolphin will run flash 10.1 but there is still no market page for it.

Is anyone else experiencing these problems with flash it the audio? Or does anyone have a fix for this?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tmellen:
There's definitely a sound problem. There's a fix from Adrynalyne out there in the wild. I'd link it but I don't know where it is off the top of my head, but at least I am telling you it's out there, right!?!

Search for stagefright.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] douger1957:
I'm not sure that Adrynalyne's fix will work in a non rooted phone.

I'm using Skyraider's 3.0 RC3 Sense...both Pandora and XM/Sirius is working fine.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MMBosstones86:
I thought there was a fix on ROM Manager, can't remember the folder. I think the one with Skyraider
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbrowning37:
Search for stagefright 2 with Google. It's a patch.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stonesolouk:
Now we have very stable Sense builds (thanks to all the Devs but especially to Darkstone and Matt) I would like a bit more tweaks without necessarily changing the Sense theme.

The ones I would most love are tweaks to:

1. disable icon labels on home screens and application drawer

2. enable various animation styles on opening app drawer

3. reduce or increase number of home screens

What tweaks would you most like to make to Sense?;)

NB: If these issues have already been raised elsewhere on the forum then please delete this thread. Otherwise any help much appreciated please.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] shadowhacker27:
given that you know to whom you should thanks more, it is common to think that you have been reading a lot in the forum, am I right? Good! Then, why are you not posting your question in the Android General section? This is for development ONLY.

Oh and just so someone else doesnt come like "ermmmm...why are you not answering his questions?" here is your Answer: Sense is NOT open source, therefore, as far as I know, it will not be distribute under the SENSE name if they modify it. Moreover, HD2 builds are not as advanced as to be putting to much load on them. the simpler the homescreen, the more memory available for other programs. furthermore, there are various framework.apk files that will just work with the HD2 in the Nexus THemes and Apps section. Go around, do research. it will help you live a better life.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] FriedSushi87:
I really like HTC Sense, but hate the launcher. The 3 button thing at the bottom? It's too big, and I like my drawer in the middle.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stonesolouk:
Thanks for your reply! Hmmm, brash are we?:rolleyes: Just wondering though, sense was so much tweaked or modified on winmo if I remember right (CHT etc?). Just wondered if that was possible in android was all. If it is not the appropriate forum for the thread, like I said feel free to move it elsewhere. Ta ta!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] twinky112:
u tell em ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] joshkoss:
Moved to general! :)

Play nice guys! :cool: