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[Captivate General] ssongpol:
Any thought??? I have flashed my phone back to stock rom I897UCJF6 with no root, no mod, NOTHING AT ALL!!! but still cound not get the update. On the first try, it said update failed like everybody else and so I played around with the calendar to get a second shot and now the ****ty update program tells me there is no update.

Of course, now I'm stuck with I897UCJF6.

WTH is this??? Seriously, I'm starting to about return it back and get you know what that phone is. Although drop call issue is ridiculous but all the troubles with GPS, update process, and the responses from both Samsung and AT&T are truly unexceptable.

This mess really ruined my day too. I can't make any progress in my job since the morning.
[Captivate General] TheSopranos16:
I was just thinking the same thing. I think they realized this updated was hosed and hopefully they will fix it. 2 months with broken GPS and now even the fix is broken (not that I believe this will help GPS at all...)
[Captivate General] shaxs:
Might be the issue here?
[Captivate General] iamcgn:
I was getting the same "no update" message earlier and then I tried again later and it downloaded.. still "is failed" but at least it tries!
[Captivate General] netnerd:
i downloaded the update, can i save it?

so i dont need to download update again when i going to do it the 2nd time.

factory reset, still failed at 50%
[Captivate General] Mike S.:
So, could someone smarter than me try to download the update, *but postpone* it, then go find it in the filesystem and look at the script that is running to see what the validity checks are? Or is that something that just wouldn't work?
[Captivate General] zeddock:
They pushed... I pulled...

Seemed like the update installed correctly.

Went to use GPS and it seemed to be worse so I tried to go into LBSTestMode... no longer works! Nuts!

I read some more posts and thought maybe I just need to reboot and be patient....

When I reboot I get a requester saying congrats! your phone was updated!

This happens on every reboot.

There are a lot of posts about updates not working if you are rooted... I think I am rooted. But I am not 100% sure. I think that because I can give SuperUser status to some programs. I am, right?!

(I only did it for the tether!)

But I don't think I flashed! But I am again not sure!

If I connected my usb and moved the update.zip file and hard-rebooted, isn't that a flash? But wasn't that necessary to get rooted? oh my!

Then... It seemed like a backup would be a good idea, so I got Platinum backup and installed....

Then I installed ROM Manager... that process said it wanted to fix things.... with or for busybox!

I said, SURE!

It is only at this point that I think to myself... Self! You don't know what in the world you have done to your phone so you can't possibly UNDO it!!!!!

Are you laughing? I am kinda....

But seriously. When you get your breath, please give me some pointers to taking this thing back to stock so I can see if this update worked for my needs??

(I feel like I just put a nice paintjob on a terrible patch of BONDO !!!)

Thanx all here.

zeddock

PS... yes. I tried to change the GPS settings to get the GOS working right, and now can't get in to put them back either.
[Captivate General] DigitalEagle:
Mine failed like everyone elses. Mine's rooted. A friend of mine is afraid of rooting and their update failed as well.

Aparently Samsung admits this update is to blame for the failures and not phone configurations.. It's bricking stock phones/rooted/unrooted, ect. I think the more we keep trying to play with this botched update, the more likely more of us are going to end up with a bricked phone.
[Captivate General] cappysw10:
Worked!

Ok, I'm:

Rooted, side loading enabled, clockwork recovery, still have AT&T bloatware(never removed), No lag fixes or anything else installed

Before I tried to get the update, I removed the super user and clockwork recovery zips from the phone. Had to move my date ahead two days to get the update. It took awhile to download, stupid edge service, but everything went fine. Once it finished I got the message to apply the update. I didn't remove my sim card and tried it, with fingers crossed. Phone restarted to white screen installing new software. It did pause at 50% for about a minute but then proceeded through fine. When that finished I got update is ok message on the white screen and the phone rebooted again. Upon rebooting, the Galaxy S screen did take about a minute or two to go through but once the phone restarted I got a message stating:

Congratulations!

New software update for phone installed.

Phone is ready for use

Checked I'm still rooted and everything works fine. GPS does connect much faster, about 15 seconds, and locked 10/10 sats with a 10m error. Way better than it was before the update. Stock browser seems to be snappier as someone else posted as well.

Attached screen shots of information before and after. Good luck to you all. I hope this helps some in the same position.
[Captivate General] swedishcancerboi:
This was my intention; however, once I finally got setup so I could browse it, I could no longer download the update (bastards!!!).

I hope they realize how resourceful everyone here is. I'm not worried about losing information, I can recreate it. But I'd love to find a way around this just because I can. Someone mentioned that they restored a backup ROM they had and didn't lose the update. So here's what I might end up doing:

Make a backup of my current ROM and a Titanium backup to be safe. Copy them to my cmoputer. Hose the phone (I know I can make it NOT boot, hee hee). Take it back up to AT&T for a new one on the spot. Do the update. Then root and stuff so I can run ROM Manager and Titanium. Copy my backups and rebuild my system from there, either with Titanium backup or even try the ROM I backed up.

I'll get what I want either way. :D
[Captivate General] Gr8Danes:
Update

I have been reading and reading treads all day. I am now also going to assume that this is on Samsung/At&t's end and not ours. With all the different configurations that this update works with and fails with, there seems to be no common link. I have tried twice now with it getting to 50% and then failing. I am running Unleash the Beast, Voodoo Lagfix, and Root (of course). I am going to continue to monitor the treads, but ultimately expect the update to get an update. :rolleyes:

If people with unaltered phones are getting fails, then there has to be something wrong.
[Captivate General] jaimingandhi:
I too messed around with settings to optimize GPS with JH6. Today, I installed JH7 and see no improvement with GPS performance.

I think the update still keeps old settings and now there is no way to change them! :mad: :mad: :mad:
[Captivate General] Krad:
there are a few replies already for getting into lbstestmode.

simply download launcherpro from the market.. install it. hold the home screen until presented with menu.

click activities... drill down to lbstestmode and select the first option.

it will then add an icon on your home screen to the gps settings. easy peasy.... there are dozens of threads saying this already.
[Captivate General] iamcgn:
The only files I can find are fota.status, fota_delta_dp1 and fota_delta_dp2. The fota.status file is a txt file that just says FAIL in it... I'm not sure what to do with the other 2 files. I pulled them off.

Edit: according to the file it is a redbendefdpackage All I can figure out about it is that it's from a Red Bend and it's for OTA delivery...
[Captivate General] swedishcancerboi:
HAHA!!!! You can't beat me Samsung!! I got the file downloaded. Now if I can only find it.......Any ideas where to look?
[Captivate General] jaimingandhi:
Thanks for the information. I searched forum but couldn't find the right settings that shipped with JH7.

Can someone post them?
[Captivate General] matthewpapa:
So have they pulled the update? Or can people still connect?
[Captivate General] swedishcancerboi:
I just downloaded it a few minutes ago.
[Captivate General] joedoe:
Do I need to install them one by one or system reboot will install them automatically?
[Captivate General] revjwb32:
ok mine said failed but faster gps lock and mms working on edge which it wasn't

internet on edge tons faster

looks like it worked on mine
[Captivate General] ndtrek07:
I didn't have to install any of them manually. Although all I did was rename them to remove them. I'd try just throwing them in that directory and rebooting. Let me know if it works...I'm curious to see if it makes a difference for anyone else.

Edit: and by /system/apps, I clearly mean /system/app

:o
[Captivate General] keitht:
Doubt it because I can set my date forward and it will download the update again.
[Captivate General] iceman4357:
gps lock is much faster for me, and much more accurate. It had a GPS lock in about 10 seconds. I used it all the way home and it was 100% accurate with which road I was on. Before the update it would think I was on side roads.
[Captivate General] hankito:
truth be told this is a lot of fuss for an update thats not froyo although I liked this one for the MMS fix, the gps well, I already fixed that tweaking various settings after reading many forums and I get great lock, 16 feet (or bounce from 16/38 ft indoors) accuracy no problem so I'll probably give up and wait it out for froyo for a bit longer...
[Captivate General] joeybear23:
I just thought of something.

I wonder if we need to make sure there is no "update.zip" in the root first...
[Captivate General] keitht:
Not everyone was as lucky with the GPS workarounds so this update is HUGE at least for me. Although it failed at 100% for me, the GPS now works so yes, the update is worth the fuss although I would feel better seeing a success message.
[Captivate General] swedishcancerboi:
That was my first attempt a few hundred posts ago......good luck though...
[Captivate General] Mike S.:
Yep, I tried that, too. Didn't seem to make a difference.
[Captivate General] Krad:
WTF.... I still "can't connect to att servers"... I actually drove around and hit like 5 different cell towers and I can't ****ing connect!

anyone else have this issue?

I am on stock JF6 in North Jersey.
[Captivate General] hayesb2:
No matter how much I try the update my phone always says "Communication Failed" I've tried it via wifi, I've tried it OTA, about every combination of settings imaginable...anybody have any idea?
[Captivate General] Gr8Danes:
I did not have an "update.zip" in mine when trying. :(
[Captivate General] Krad:
i go to manually perform the update and the red and white arrows show on the top notification area.. and then they quickly disappear and i get "Communication failed unable to communicate with the AT&T server"

there must be a way around this.
[Captivate General] hayesb2:
The same thing is happening to me, its very annoying...so far I cant locate a way to force it to work.
[Captivate General] mmm_tacos:
I updated earlier without issue. I was rooted and I was using Rom Manager.

I decided to clear my phone and try to update a bone stock JF6 and distribute it, but when I go to update I am greeted with no updates available.

:(
[Captivate General] Krad:
Have you loaded any tweaks, hacks or other roms?

I have pretty much have tried everything, and reverted back to JF6 for this update. I used the odin3 one click, and I also used the standard JF6 rom from samfirmwares. I get the same thing.

It is as if my phone is being rejected, it goes to pull and just pops right off saying the communication error.
[Captivate General] cpk86:
Wow. This thread exploded.

I got the update today and my GPS seems to be working much better. Accurate to 5 meters in 15 seconds or so.
[Captivate General] Krad:
super jealous. I need my gps to work.
[Captivate General] phr00t:
Please see this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=789829
[Captivate General] sridhar618:
+1

and I dont think this is because of 3G/Edge and what not as I get 5 full bars (i sit on the 20th floor and smack in front on my window is the ATT tower on the ATT building. Something else is brewing down in the server rooms there.
[Captivate General] gtg465x:
Odin isn't the only thing that can make it fail. However, most people that have never used Odin are able to revert to a state where it works. NO ONE who has used Odin has gotten it to work.
[Captivate General] mikejames07:
Soooo, can you only set your phone's date and time a week in the future? If I try and put it to Sept 30 it automatically goes back to today's date.
[Captivate General] mjgunn:
So since my failed update whenever I reset my phone I get the message saying the update failed, and I'm unable to get into the software update menu, I just get an error popup that says "no firmware", I can't access the screen to check for firmware/resume update. Anyone else have this problem?
[Captivate General] gordec:
My update failed but when I checked my baseband, it's now JH7. Don't know what that means though. Firmware version says 2.1-update.
[Captivate General] Krad:
well after talking to samsung tech support.. posted in the other thread... I am going to try cognition... The gps wasn't bad in the Leaked JH7.

I might just wait for the 2nd or 3rd build of froyo next time. How they could release a patch that isn't official is crazy and how it can brick people's phones is even crazier.
[Captivate General] Krad:
can someone dial *#*#1234#*#*

and tell everyone what your CSC is?

nobody seems to want to post this information.
[Captivate General] ianwood:
Mine started acting weird when I manually put it into October but I just kept reseting it until it stuck. Got the download but now one of the many 50% failures. Damn thing kept on giving me "communications failures" for a good 30 minutes.

Frustrating!
[Captivate General] UserNamer:
It might be an app you have installed which is doing that.

I was having the same difficulty when I had K-9 email installed. I would set the date ahead and 2-3 seconds later it would revert as I watched. I thought K-9 might be the problem b/c each time I changed the date, K-9 would poll for mail (since it was a full day later as far as it knew). Sure enough, I removed K-9 and I could set the date for whenever I wanted without it reverting.

One caveat: it may not be specific to K-9, it's just that when I removed K-9 and left everything else as it was, the behavior stopped. It could be "email" in general, but I don't have the stock email app configured to test.
[Captivate General] gtg465x:
It's not that crazy. The only phones it's not working on are ones that have done a lot of mods, installed roms, etc. If you're completely stock or have only rooted and enabled sideloading you should be good to go.
[Captivate General] jhego:
it's I897ATTJF6
[Captivate General] jhego:
Is it possible that it is a 1 time upgrade only? I was able to update earlier but received the update failed, switch back to JF6 w/o root and now "no update available". It's either they only let you upgrade it once or ATT servers are jammed and will probably start working again in the next few days.
[Captivate General] joedoe:
Did anyone tried to do upgrade using Kies?
[Captivate General] ianwood:
Did it on mine which was just flashed to stock JF6 with Odin. No other apps installed so looks like something that occurs stock or at least Odin stock.
[Captivate General] aloant:
Tried it twice today -- 1st failed. 2nd success.
[Captivate General] wmwilker:
OK, I just set my Time/Date to Sept. 24 and downloaded the file without updating. Took Root Explorer and started searching files with that date. I found a file that is called downloadfile.apk. It's size is 1538410 and has the android icon.

Is this the file we need? It was in the cache folder.
[Captivate General] ukulele_ninja:
currently trying it for the 3rd time, hoping for success this time.
[Captivate General] phr00t:
What does it say when you try to side-load it? :D
[Captivate General] ricethief:
I don't remember seeing if mine failed or not, I was in a hurry. I think it said successful. It rebooted and sat at the samsung screen forever. It then loaded, but kept telling me no sim card inserted. It finally recognized it after a couple reboots and that's when it finally said successful (I think). When I select firmware update now it says same thing "no firmware". It does show I897UCJH7 now though.

Here is a earlier post with the systems screen shots before and after update.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8273012&postcount=419

It appears it is not a true update, but just a updated baseband?
[Captivate General] naxir:
am I the only one that, when checking for updates, is told no updates are available?

edit: running stock rom, voodoo lag fix, rooted, side loading, circle battery mod, etc. I live in kentucky.
[Captivate General] tanneji:
I had the same issue right after a failed update (failed at 50%). I rebooted a couple of times and it went back to normal.
[Captivate General] wmwilker:
Sorry for my ignorance but ????
[Captivate General] modest_mandroid:
Odd.. anyone else experience this? I updated today to JH7 from JF6 (rooted, debloatwared, sideloading enabled). The update went through fine, but the phone is still rooted and I can still sideload. Baseband reports that it's flashed to JH7. I heard the update removes root and sideloading, wtf?
[Captivate General] tysj:
I'd more excited if I were you :P

I finally got an update downloaded after failing 3 install attempts, going back to stock, and a couple of hours of communication failure after that; only to have it fail again :|.
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
Possible genius award?
[Captivate General] faroid:
I went to the grocery downstairs yesterday looking for some updates but they said I have to wait for 24hrs. I went back today and got me a couple of pounds of fresh updates. now my phone can walk, swim, and dance. it looks much happier but for some reason I feel something is still missing.
[Captivate General] Stephenv1971:
He'd do well to auction it on ebay.
[Captivate General] dell20:
I'm sorry for the double post, but I didn't know where the best place for it to go would be! It's also on the [Q] Captivate Update; did anyone elses fail? thread.

This morning I was able to download the update, but like many of you I failed at 50%, with an "Update is Failed" message. I looked, and am still on JF6.

So, I decided to blow everything away, and flash with Odin. After doing that, I downloaded the update... Failed at 50% "Update is failed"

I then decided to do an Odin flash and master clear. Now, I've done that and am trying to do the update.

I now receive "No Updates" from the software update thing.

Anyone have any thoughts?

I kind of want to stab something, this should not be this difficult.
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
Lol, sorry. Just dying to see this problem fixed. That seemed to be the most promising thing in this thread and it quickly got buried.
[Captivate General] phr00t:
No error message? Said it successfully updated? Then I have a thread for you! :D

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=789829
[Captivate General] swedishcancerboi:
Ugh....I finally got the download, finally got AndroidMate to cooperate, and I think I was FINALLY ready to start scourig the root of the device for the elusive "update," and now my damn computer doesn't want to see the phone so I can copy the flippin' folders so I can properly browse them!!!!

BLAH!@!@#$#@^
[Captivate General] mmm_tacos:
I have 3 of these files:

downloadfile.apk = 1538410

downloadfile-1.apk = 4761294

downloadfile-2.apk = 1390226
[Captivate General] swedishcancerboi:
What the hell, I'll bite......Have you tried to install them?
[Captivate General] hankito:
Didn't think about this until just now but a packet sniffer on the captivate running for when you download the update? thats gotta tell you something right?
[Captivate General] swedishcancerboi:
If you can sniff Cellular Data...yeah. I tried to connect to the update with Cellular Data turned off (3g or Edge or GPRS) via WiFi and it wouldn't. It appeared to be an internal download inside AT&T network.
[Captivate General] mmm_tacos:
I get a parsing error.
[Captivate General] swedishcancerboi:
Hmm, my first thought is anything that easy to find couldn't be it. My cache folder (/cache) is actually empty and I have downloaded the update, but postponed the install. I would also image that since it is a firmware update, they wouldn't use the .apk packaging, but I'd love to be wrong.

You could always start trying to poke the files open using something like WinRAR or an image mounter....maybe you'll come across something.
[Captivate General] wmwilker:
I get the parsing error too.

I thought about trying to get it on my computer and zipping it and trying to install it in recovery but cant figure out how to get it out
[Captivate General] mmm_tacos:
I don't think they are anything, but I made a nandroid with the update ready to be installed and this time I'll delete them and try to update and see if I get anywhere.
[Captivate General] aloant:
Market also deposits files in /cache/ like that. I was looking at these earlier when my Market was FC.
[Captivate General] mmm_tacos:
Awesome, thanks!
[Captivate General] NYCJOE:
Hello all, I'm a total noob. Doubt this will help much but felt I should post anyway since this is a great forum.

100% stock captivate, never rooted. Other than a worrisome 2 minutes spent at the Galaxy S boot screen, update went off without a hitch.

Update added Quickoffice. GPS seems to lock in just a few seconds.

Not noticing any performance differences over previous

FIRMWARE VERSION

2.1 -update1

BASEBAND VERSION

I897UCJH7

KERNEL VERSION

2.6.29

jetaek.lee@sep- 11#2

BUILD NUMBER

ECLAIR.UCJH7
[Captivate General] swedishcancerboi:
Always appreciate the info. At least I know it is SUPPOSE to work....
[Captivate General] phr00t:
*cough* http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=789829 *cough*
[Captivate General] ruovr21mr:
Mine update went well. My phone had been rooted with lag fix. I removed lag fix before the update, but keep the root.

Gps seems faster for me.
[Captivate General] sridhar618:
Okay here is something else thats happening after I got the communication failed msg...when I click on the youtube widget I get a "Connection Problem" msg..

org.pache.harmony.xml.

EpatParser$ParseException:

At line 3, column 13354: no element found

anybody getting this??

I have rebooted my phone, connected and disconnected to wifi, 3g but to no avail. I can cancel this msg search videos and view them!!!
[Captivate General] Stephenv1971:
I simply believe this is because of odin one click. Nothing else makes sense. Tons of lag fixed people are doing fine. There is only one anomylous person that has said the went back to stock using odin.
[Captivate General] ukulele_ninja:
I never used odin and the update wont work for me either.
[Captivate General] mac_novice:
Interesting

Been f#%#%ng with this all day. After latest "update failed" decided to just load JH7 from samfirmware (odin). Something I noticed just after flash and phone loading up..."update found" installing....or something like that....then phone loaded as normal and i'll be damned OTA update was in or so I think (difference in build line: ECLAIR vs ECLAIR.UCJH7).

Maybe that's the way ODIN's version was all the time, I am not sure.

Cheers
[Captivate General] grave101:
I flashed with odin and now I'm getting the no updates thing when I search for updates...
[Captivate General] Gr8Danes:
Which does yours say? ECLAIR? or ECLAIR.UCJH7? I downloaded that when it came out and it just says ECLAIR. If it now says the latter, they may have updated it on there?

Just a note, after being on quite a few treads on different sights, I see so many posts that say that the GPS really hasn't improved much. " How's your GPS after the update?" forum on AndroidCentral leads me to believe it is the same build as what is on samfirmware with no additional improvement to the GPS. It may be a slight improvement over stock, but seems to still be weak/flawed.
[Captivate General] eelton:
Yes, I also noticed this.

I never used odin, and my update failed.