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[Captivate Android Development] androidftwin:
Hey quick question guys,

I am at my buddies place and he has a ATT Microcell. I was able to connect to his Microcell when I was on stock rom with UTB. Why cant I connect? Is it because I am running JH7 or does it have to do with SRE?
[Captivate Android Development] WheresWaldo:
You misread, not JH7 for a week, just every other ROM so far. I do expect to see the same issues after a week or so of JH7. It is still Eclair, after all.
[Captivate Android Development] jdsemler:
Pretty much right away. It started out knowing where I was when I started the car, but this was probably more from WiFi detection. There were no tall buildings. I pretty much left my neighborhood and drove to and on US 183 which is nice and wide open (sky-wise).
[Captivate Android Development] neptronix:
Okay i thought that might have been what you meant i was just clarifying.
[Captivate Android Development] nammyczc:
So just took a test drive with GPS and my word it works, I get a signal pickup not super fast I'd say 30s-1m Please note this is NOT with google nav I couldnt get anything with that I used Copilot live. Took a 15minute drive back and forth and it stayed constant but sometimes jumped around and corrected itself in like 5 seconds. So GPS works better than before. not perfect but ALOT better
[Captivate Android Development] glio1337:
Nevermind.
[Captivate Android Development] daraj:
I didnt get much improvements using JH7 over other ROMS sa far gps goes. I have tried almost all versions out there and I found that the best ROM for GPS is the Euro JM8. I mean it just works and the lock speed is amazing even indoors I can get 9 sat locks. Ok now for driving around, I drive everyday around 50 miles back and forth to work and the JM8 was spot on following my movements. Maybe someone can compare the gps files on this rom with the JM8 just for kicks.
[Captivate Android Development] Superguy:
Anyone else having issues with email crashing randomly with JH7? I flashed last night successfully and it seems to be ok other than that. Sometimes email restarts, but other times, it's hard locked my phone so that I had to remove my battery.

Anyone else experience this?
[Captivate Android Development] GuitsBoy:
I havent had any email issues, but I have noticed the random lockups. However Im running SRE, so I figured it was an issue with the overclock / undervolt instead of the ROM itself. Are you running SRE or no?
[Captivate Android Development] id10terrordfw:
Not as of yet. I'm running Exchange, Gmail, Yahoo, and MobileMe.
[Captivate Android Development] xfernand:
No issues so far. Exchange and Gmail....
[Captivate Android Development] foxbat121:
I can confirm that exchange email FC couple times for me already. The the PIN lock screen (exchange PIN policy) is unresponsive a few times as well while listening to pandora. I have to power off the phone in order to be able to type in the PIN.
[Captivate Android Development] Superguy:
Yes I'm running the latest SRE. Could be from that ... may have to adjust the CPU setting back down to 1000.

I'm not doing anything special with email - just pulling from my ISP account.
[Captivate Android Development] bulletproof1013:
wireless tether app.not working

anyone else have a prob with the wireless tether app not working or force closing?

it was working fine with j6 but 7 is not working help would be cool thanks

When starting. it says sorry, app wireless tether (process android.tether) has stoped unecpect

oh and i did search , but didnt come up with any info

update: sre with lag fix ...it has mobile ap so im good with that.
[Captivate Android Development] foxbat121:
The wireless tether app is a piece garbage. I had it crash hard on stock JF6 that requires battery pull. Mobile AP is light years better.
[Captivate Android Development] ThisWasATriumph:
My gps was working although lost signal a lot on JH3 with all the tweaks. However now on this I could only get 2 satellites and then 6-7 after tweaking. But It wont lock no matter what.
[Captivate Android Development] nathon.fuller:
After taking my daily walk on my lunch break at work, I have found that the GPS on this rom does not work as good JH3. I took a 3 mile walk around my work complex and the track was not smooth at all. This is the worst track i have had since i started using google tracks.
[Captivate Android Development] novaIS350:
Pretty smooth so far. I've never had issues with GPS with my captivate, so I can;t comment on how good or bad it is. Anyone notice increased battery life?
[Captivate Android Development] Superguy:
Another issue I ran into:

I synchronized with Outlook and the contacts got all out of whack. They were right in Outlook, but on the phone, I got duplicate contacts that were somewhat similar (i.e. if I had First Last, I would get First-Last). I cleaned that up, in theory, and I ended up with the names being reversed on the phone (Last First). Of course, when I synced, it hosed the contacts in Outlook. So I cleaned them up, synced, and some worked right, and others weren't. So I had half of my contacts displaying properly, and the others with names inverted.

Of course, the names looked fine in each record in Contacts and on Kies. I ended up having to edit the names slightly on the phone and resave them to get them displaying right. Now I'm afraid to resync them as I re-entered the names in Outlook using each name field instead of the name field.

I may just go back to the last version. This has been a lot of hassle and I haven't really seen any benefit.

Super
[Captivate Android Development] anilkuj:
i tried installing JH7 several times , and everytime there is no signal and APN is empty

even if i restore from my APN backup its still empty and manually adding doesnt stick either .

i went back to JF6 and all that crap , only thing i dint try is i dint format my internal SDCard , not sure if i really want to do that is this FW any worth to do all those ?
[Captivate Android Development] astrocrep:
Wierd issue... With JH2 and JH3 I could download Zip files with the Browser...

Now in JH7 it says download not supported...

Anyone have any clue whats going on here?

Thanks,

Rich
[Captivate Android Development] tux racer:
Does anyone know how to lift the restrictions from the market? I read how somewhere, but I can't remember where.
[Captivate Android Development] novaIS350:
-it appears uploading large .3gp files to youtube isn't possible with this firmware. I keep getting the "waiting to retry 1 minute" message. Yes I did have WiFi enabled

-With launcher pro enabled, if you have the youtube widget on your homescreen then tilt into landscape mode, then back into portrait causes the search button to be unresponsive.

-Outlook defaults to a blank black screen, I have to manually select the only my work email account every single time I access my @email
[Captivate Android Development] daveyian:
I don't know why and it's worth exploring.

I think there's a way around it though with Astro file manager, under the menu button/preferences there's a toggle for "Enable Browser Downloader" (Allow the browser to download any file)

It does caution you that it will disable the ability to download attachments in the gmail app.

I think attachments and links within an email in the gmail app may both be affected or related in some way. I was not able to click on links within the gmail app but after opening gmail.com in the browser instead of with the app, when I returned to the gmail app I was able to click on links. I toggled the download all function in Astro and the links are not really links in gmail app again. Not absolutely sure they are related but maybe I need to reboot with the toggle on and off to confirm.

Anyways, hope that helps in some way.
[Captivate Android Development] commander2k:
Ive never had an issue connecting to wifi, on jh6, jh2 or jh3. This rom will sit at "obtaining address" then eventually fail. Instant deal killer, fresh flash after odin one click, and nothing else modded, no sre, nothing. Also tried flashing/not flashing stock kernel just to make sure it wasnt an issue with that... Doesnt seem to be a common problem but I cant live with it.
[Captivate Android Development] Pirateghost:
i have had zero problems with wifi on any of the roms i have tried. this one included
[Captivate Android Development] FrstdOne:
I have a noob question but I'm a noob so I guess that makes sense.

I'm on JH3 and would like to go to this ROM. I know I need to go back to JF6 using 1 click and then flash JH7 without repartition.

My understanding is 1 click will repartition my internal SD card. Does that mean that my card will be formatted and my Nandroid and Titanium backups will be gone? If so, how can I move to this firmware without losing my backups?
[Captivate Android Development] expertcellular:
I had alot of problems getting this to work. Here is the process I used.

Using odin load the PIT file, PDA (use the JF6 firmware) make sure you have re-partion checked. Then click start.

Once this is done let the phone reboot all of the way

Now using odin load only the JH7 PDA file. Do not check re-partion and do not use the PIT file. So just to be clear only load the JH7 PDA file. Click start.

When this completes the phone should reboot normally.

Hope this helps.
[Captivate Android Development] joeybear23:
Hey, DG.

I think it may help some of the noobs on here if you update the OP to tell them that after you have already gone to JF6 that they need to NOT check REPARTITION when going to JH7 as that will break it.

I know all that info is in this thread, but it is not the easiest to find.
[Captivate Android Development] joeybear23:
You shouldn't lose them.

I have flashed back to JF6 many times and the data on my internal and external SD cards has remained intact.
[Captivate Android Development] rajendra82:
Checking repartition in Odin 3.1 or using the one click JF6 exe file, which automatically does it, does not touch /sdcard, where the CMR and TB backups reside. Master clear on the one click exe file will however wipe out /sdcard.
[Captivate Android Development] j1mb34m:
Okay, so I've read like 40 pages of this thread, and have finally found out how to use Odin 3. Here's what I did (echoing what two other posters did--maybe it should be stickied or something (as another poster said) to help people who are unfamiliar with Odin (like me, who came over from a G1)):

1. Used Odin One-Click (with phone booted) to do a Master Clear of my JF6 + SRE

2. After reboot (automatic), re-formatted internal SD

3. Closed Odin One-Click, opened Odin3, loaded I897UCJF7_homebinary.tar into PDA section

4. Booted to DL mode (Vol Up + Vol Down, then plug in USB)

5. Clicked 'Start'

Now I'm all good, but USB storage doesnt seem to work just yet....

Edit: A PC reboot fixed the problem. I think it had to do with the auto-configuring of MTP as the default action when connecting the USB. I think you could avert this problem by either (1) changing the USB setting to mass storage mode before connecting to your pc with a usb cable the first time, or (2), if MTP automatically loads after flashing using Odin, just pull the usb, change the USB setting and reboot your pc--that should fix it.
[Captivate Android Development] ademejia:
This rom has better battery life.
[Captivate Android Development] DJNgoma:
+1, I had done the what the OP did about four times before figuring out the solution for myself.
[Captivate Android Development] DemonWav:
Can someone tell me exactly how to do this? I don't even know where to get Odin3 (not the one click, that's all I get when I search the forums for it).
[Captivate Android Development] techmik67:
This is an update firmware, which is why it is recommended that you odin 1 click 1st. Then:

here's regular odin - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HGOVVQDS

unzip and click the exe

click PDA and point to the file that you d/l from the OP.

connect phone in d/l mode

click start when you see "added"

when it reboots, you are done.

Good luck and BACKUP 1ST!!!!
[Captivate Android Development] DemonWav:
Thanks! Worked perfectly!
[Captivate Android Development] techmik67:
No problem... =)
[Captivate Android Development] DemonWav:
Then I go to get SREv2b7 w/ Voodoo, and when I FINALLY find the link to download it, the link is broken. -.-'
[Captivate Android Development] gtg465x:
Been using JH7 for a few days now and I'm not really digging it. Scrolling doesn't feel as smooth in this rom. JH2 with SRE 1.2.1 and Tayutama lagfix 2.3.3 is the best combo I've tried so far. We need a new leak.
[Captivate Android Development] Tenchuchoy:
How come when i click the I897UCJH7.rar its asking for a password. Whats the password so I can flash the new firmware.
[Captivate Android Development] techmik67:
samfirmare.com if i remenber right...
[Captivate Android Development] darkamikaze:
welcome to the forum! as an initiation since this has been answered numerous times in this thread :D I challenge you to look for this good ol' awesome button called 'Search' at the top right of this thread! it's freaking cool just type

password and you're bound to find AMAZING results :D
[Captivate Android Development] emuneee:
Looks like I897UCJH7 is the next official AT&T Captivate firmware.

http://www.wireless.att.com/answer-center/solutionDisplay.jsp?solutionId=KB110797
[Captivate Android Development] WheresWaldo:
I am wondering if there are any diffs between this and the leaked JH7.
[Captivate Android Development] rajendra82:
I am also wondering how they plan to update the kernel without an official US version of kies around? A new method of kernel update (other than the redbend_ua and koush's bmlunlock) may soon be upon us.

Edit: May be they won't update the kernel, because the OTA version is "not an operating system update". Why is this only 12MB, and what did they do with the rest of JH7?

As a side effect of this OTA update, the default build.prop of JH7 now works in the market. Fandango is now visible without posing as JF6.
[Captivate Android Development] emuneee:
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but when you flash the leaked JH7 ROM, you are flashing the ENTIRE ROM, including the components that have not changed since JF6.

OTA only sends you the changes AFAIK. :)
[Captivate Android Development] emuneee:
I just LOL'd at this. :p
[Captivate Android Development] Zilch25:
Lol I'm surprised too... maybe I should upgrade that to any GOOD OTAs =P
[Captivate Android Development] gtg465x:
God I hope the OTA doesn't bring the stuttery scrolling that the leaked jh7 has. Don't see how it would considering it's not a system update.
[Captivate Android Development] rajendra82:
Can you give me an example of an instance which displays this stuttering scrolling behavior, because I have not experienced it with or without the voodoo lagfix.
[Captivate Android Development] Zilch25:
I had scroll stutter on settings, home screens, and very noticeable FPS drops in Quadrant as completely stock JH7 =P
[Captivate Android Development] no driver:
I had the stuttering problem when I first flashed JH7 (Odin 1-click->JH7) but it seems to have gone away after a little bit of use. I just scrolled through settings, home screens, Launcher pro app drawer, and contacts and didn't have any issues. It was very apparent when it was happening though, and I nearly flashed back to JH2 as a result.
[Captivate Android Development] gtg465x:
If you haven't noticed it then you're probably not going to. It happens pretty regularly during pretty much any type of scrolling. It looks like a dropped frame or a small skip. It's very subtle. It's like the difference between having v-sync enabled or disabled in a computer game. Having v-sync disabled really bothers some people and others don't even notice it.
[Captivate Android Development] gtg465x:
Or maybe you're just getting used to it. I think I started to get used to it after a few days, but after going back to JH2 the difference became clear.
[Captivate Android Development] rajendra82:
But the kernel changed between JF6 and JH7, the build date and size of the zImage inside the Odin tar file are different. That's about 6 MB right there. The 12 MB modem.bin files are the same size between the two firmwares, but are dated differently. The Factoryrfs.rfs files have also grown between JF6 and JH7 by 9MB. It does not look like AT&T is releasing all of the updated files, if the OTA JH7 update is only 12 MB, and only mentions some apps in the description.
[Captivate Android Development] no driver:
No, when it was happening to me it was BAD. Maybe the scrolling overall in JH7 isn't as smooth as JH2, but it's not like it was at first.
[Captivate Android Development] jorge_moran_jams:
Update ONLY available via OTA

This is so saaaaaaaaad!!! I have a Captivate but I don't live in the US... I just tried to search for the update manually but it said that it just can't connecto to ATT servers so I'm guessing that I won't be able to get this update... What do you guys think?
[Captivate Android Development] xetrev:
update failed for me still shows JH2 as the baseband
[Captivate Android Development] mjgunn:
Is this the same update being pushed out by at&t at the moment? I had a failed update from jf6 to the auto update (showed that it was on jh7 in the about box but the update said that if failed) so I odin 1 clicked back to stock jf6 and attempted it again. Now it gets to 50% and reboots the phone.

I'm wondering at this point if it would be easier to just flash this jh7 since I've already wiped the phone and all settings, just want to make sure they're the same.
[Captivate Android Development] gtg465x:
No, it's not the same update. No one knows what the differences are between this and the OTA.
[Captivate Android Development] mjgunn:
Well ny phone is acting all kind of crazy after failing the update so I'm just going to install this one. Haven't installed any roms yet so please bear with me, just want to make sure I'm doing this right.

I just need to download the file and use odin3 to flash it correct? And I place the file in the pda section of odin? I saw some talk earlier in the thread about a pit file, some saying you needed one, some saying you don't, what's the definitive answer on that, and if I need one could someone please point me towards it? Thanks in advance
[Captivate Android Development] foxbat121:
You need pit file (and re-partition checked) flashing back to JF6. Afterwards, you don't need pit file. If you're using OneClick JF6 stock flashing, you don't need anything.

You must back to JF6 before flash JH7.
[Captivate Android Development] mjgunn:
Well I never flashed off the jf6 that came with the phone so all I need to do is install this file with odin?
[Captivate Android Development] gtg465x:
If you've never flashed off the jf6 that came with the phone then try getting the ota jh7 update. Go to settings > software update > check for update.
[Captivate Android Development] mjgunn:
The update failed for me, and is completely broken now, whenever I reset the phone I'm getting an error about the update being unsucessful (I know, thanks for reminding me, again!), and I can't even get into the software update settings menu, whenever I try to get into it it gives a popup that says "no firmware" and that's it.
[Captivate Android Development] mjgunn:
Soooooo...I installed this firmware after my update failed at 100% this morning, and it almost seems to have finished the update the OTA tried to start. My phone was not wiped, all my wallpapers, settings, apps, etc are still around (correct me if I'm wrong, I was under the impression that using odin and flashing this firmware would do that), however I'm definitely on JH7. I have the new youtube widget (which I didn't have previously), I can no longer access the GPS settings, which I had been able to do, and the phone has been unrooted.

Is this normal (all my stuff still being installed) since I didn't need to one-click back to jf6, or is this weird behavior since I seemed to have the update partially installed?
[Captivate Android Development] EWP000:
JH7 without ATT

I unlocked my Captivate JF6 and use it with another carrier outside US.

It's not rooted.

How to update to JH7 without ATT ?

Is it possible by Samsung site or another?

Tks
[Captivate Android Development] wstahlhut:
Kies mini from the Samsung site should work.
[Captivate Android Development] fatalynx:
hi guys.. may i know the password for the zip file? i entered the red wording still cannot :( ... thx
[Captivate Android Development] tantan1892:
samfirmwares.com

do not copy-paste.. just write it!
[Captivate Android Development] ewingr:
That was wrong.

Correct password is "samfirmware.com"
[Captivate Android Development] Zilch25:
Jeez I leave the house and a new firmware drops! Oh well at least I missed the non -froyo disappointment
[Captivate Android Development] darkamikaze:
been awhile.. in odin.. this file goes in the PDA one part right haha?
[Captivate Android Development] ThisWasATriumph:
Its JH7 and not JF7 right? Cuz I don't really want to got though the trouble of flashing if its actually older than the others. Or maybe they just named it that because its official and not beta?
[Captivate Android Development] daraj:
flash finished and it got to the recovery menu with some error messages canot mount /dev/block/st110

e:copy_dbdata_media:Cant mount DBData

Sighh
[Captivate Android Development] chrisharmful:
How will this affect SRE?
[Captivate Android Development] Clienterror:
Ditto 10 Char
[Captivate Android Development] designgears:
Flash jf6 first!!

then it will work

it is JH7
[Captivate Android Development] Clienterror:
Ahhhh ok thanks :-)
[Captivate Android Development] daraj:
I flashed Jf6 first but still no go. do we need to flash captivate kernel after that ?
[Captivate Android Development] Zilch25:
Yay a firmware with a learning curve! :cool:
[Captivate Android Development] designgears:
sooo snappy on first boot... wow!

SRE working with no mods ;)

I LIED, dont use SRE!!
[Captivate Android Development] Circazero:
Do we have to use a .pit file in Odin like we did to flash JH2/H3?
[Captivate Android Development] Zilch25:
I hate to feel like a stereotype, but Samfirmware says it's supposed to include a gps fix... any confirmation on that? :o
[Captivate Android Development] moosefist:
nevermind, DG answered.
[Captivate Android Development] frenchtoasted:
Yes, you'll need to repartition to JF6 and the .pit file is necessary to do so. However, do not repartition when flashing to this ROM after JF6.
[Captivate Android Development] designgears:
dont use it
[Captivate Android Development] Circazero:
Awesome. So same process like flashing JH3 Except

We flash JF6 first then flash Jh7 and make sure repartition is check.
[Captivate Android Development] born_fisherman:
Since you have successfully flashed, can you please post the steps that you took to [hopefully] eliminate all of the questions? thank you!
[Captivate Android Development] daraj:
still flash is no go stuck same place.
[Captivate Android Development] tytdfn:
nvm read the next post

Sent from my phone so excuse the spelling errors
[Captivate Android Development] zagorka:
What about the GPS. Is it fixed?
[Captivate Android Development] Zilch25:
Okay, how I got it to work:

Flash to JF6 (Used the 1 click downloader, so repartition most likely happened them)

Flashed JH7 without repart.

The package is missing dbdata and param files, so I suppose the installer assumes those are already present and a repartition would delete them, leading to hangs =P

Edit: Uh I just got a GPS lock IN THE HOUSE. That's never happened for me before...
[Captivate Android Development] Aus_Azn:
Wowwwww, right after I just decided to establish my baseline as JH3, I get to endure the fun of redoing my UI on JH7.

But I will!...must...resist...urge..to test new fw.....
[Captivate Android Development] frenchtoasted:
This worked for me as well.
[Captivate Android Development] Clienterror:
You mean you flashed JF7 ;)
[Captivate Android Development] alphadog00:
i guess we lose tethering and whatever else AT&T wants to pull out.
[Captivate Android Development] Circazero:
WHAT IS THE PASSWORD FOR THE ZIP FILE? I TRIED samsung-firmwares.com and no luck
[Captivate Android Development] Zilch25:
Haha whatever people want to call it! My phone is convinced it's JH7 though :D