yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Android Development] bradasmith:
Lag fix is Needed

I concur. The Lag fix is still needed. Yes Cogs 5.5 froyo is faster then stock 2.1, but I have a Milestone that does not have this lag issue.....it essentially feels faster. The main areas I see the lag is in the 'Back Button', it takes forever sometime.

With the lag fix installed, much better, still not perfect but better. The Captivate has the hummbird which is supposed to be faster than the Snapdragon, I do believe it, but whatever Samsung is doing, it isn't right.

I see everyone relying on the benchmark scores, once I have my phone loaded with my 200 contacts, corporate account and all the apps, I can tell right away whether it is laggy or not.

Main reason I went with the Captivate was the screen and the cpu, but also for the ability to flash roms which I could not do with the Motorola.

Samsung has got to get this update right, this hardware does NOT deserve this software behaviour.
[Captivate Android Development] bts0uth:
im on beta 4 but I just tested this with the headphones that came with the captivate and it works here

Posted from my Captivate
[Captivate Android Development] NeoXerO:
Yeah, I came from cog beta 2 and just updated to 5.5, and it was definitley faster with the lagfix.

Now, whenever i try to install the lagfix, it gives me an error and says failed mount or something. I tried to uninstall then reinstall ext2 tools but it still wont work. I think i forgot to remove the lagfix before updating... Is there a way to fix this?
[Captivate Android Development] gocats7:
I would flash back to stock and start over. It really doesnt take that long and less risk of issues.
[Captivate Android Development] TheYar:
I can confirm that Beta 5.5, my phone running Beta 5.5 anyway, is very laggy (and as I said above, draining battery). Sliding homescreens, opening the app drawer, opening gmail, etc. all stutter and pause significantly. There is definitely no psychological factor here, the symptoms are far to obvious. I poked around and confirmed that the weather widget was not a likely cause of processor, network, or battery utilization. kwapd0 was running a heavy CPU load continuously, which is not terribly unusual, but the load was higher and more consistent than I'm used to.

After reading TexUs I decided to put OCLF V2+ back on (hadn't thought of it because I had assumed it wouldn't do anything on 5.5). I can confirm, again obviously just on my phone anyway, that the change was dramatic. It's back to the speedy Cappy I have come to love. And, although it may be too soon to say for sure, in the several minutes of screen use and standby since the OCLF reboot, the battery meter hasn't budged a single point. kswapd0 is chillin' like a villian, only occassionally popping up to take less than half of the CPU for a sec.

I'm not trying to dogpile on DG or Cognition, because I appreciate his work and enjoy flashing the roms and trying out the different functionality and performance available on each. I know that the Cappy I've gotten used to is only great because of the many vounteer devs like Ryan and DG and others, and I know that I'm free to ODIN back to stock whenever I want (again thanks no less to DG), so there's no complaining here. I hope no one feels the need to jump in to his defense. I also get annoyed when people post short rude criticisms, as if DG was their employee or vendor or something. I'm just confirming information and trying to communicate what I see.

Considering all this and the bluetooth remote SIM thing, is it possible that many of us have somehow pulled down a 5.5 that isn't really the 5.5 others are using? Is maybe kernel-swapping vs. ODIN flashing a factor here? Is it possible that memory management is just somehow getting hung or leaking somehow on certain 5.5s without OCLF? I did disable OCLF before using ODIN to go to 5.5.
[Captivate Android Development] Chief Beefalo:
hmmm.. Installed the App. then installed EX2 tools. Then clicked on OCLF v2.1+... it ran for awhile and then said:

"OneClickLagFix v2.1+ failed with error: Could not mount loopback device /dev/loop0! mount:Device or resource busy"

Phone isnt plugged in or anything... Running 5.5, after a master clear.
[Captivate Android Development] pamaguin:
I am getting the same error:(
[Captivate Android Development] imb951:
ANYONE WITH THAT LAGFIX ERROR:

Move the apps that are installed to your SD card back to the phone, run the lagfix again.

You didn't know that you had some apps automatically install themselves on your SD card after flashing Froyo.
[Captivate Android Development] chasesavestheday:
though killing app's is a habit of mine, and i feel as if i need to do it everytime i turn the screen off. i've noticed a much more lag-free environment on my CAPPYYYY. (i had to)
[Captivate Android Development] bts0uth:
Make sure USB debugging is off and try rebooting then applying it. I had the same error over and over but unchecked usb debugging, rebooted, and it worked

Posted from my Captivate
[Captivate Android Development] boomerod:
Another, quicker fix (tried both and they are both temporary in that the issue will come back at some point) is to cancel the download and then toggle off (or on, if not on) WiFi for a few seconds; then toggle it back on (or off) and try the download again. It works for me almost always.
[Captivate Android Development] Chief Beefalo:
He speaks truth.

This fixed it. Just went to settings/applications/manage/ and then you can click on "Installed on SD card". Click on each app and select move to phone, or uninstall.
[Captivate Android Development] david717:
Just thought I would report that going from 2.2 Beta 5 to Beta 5.5 made MMS very moody for me. I didn't have any trouble beforehand but sending and receiving any picture is kind of hit or miss now. To anyone else having trouble, keep resending, it will get there eventually.
[Captivate Android Development] NeoXerO:
Thanks, the lagfix installed flawlessly.

Anyways, cog 5.5 is definitkey a huge improvemenf, thanks dg
[Captivate Android Development] veener79:
That did it. :-) Thanks for all your help.
[Captivate Android Development] s2h2golf:
Update on my battery life. I think I finally found something that worked. Here is my usage for those 2 days: I used some Wi-Fi to peruse my home network and print off 4 photos, used Grocery IQ for about 30 minutes, talked for 41 minutes, checked email 7 times, surfed the web for about 30 minutes. I did eventually uninstall ShootMe (and re-installed to take the screen shot), changed Beautiful Widgets to update every 4 hours (with screen refresh) and took the battery out before I re-calibrated it. I will admit, once it was at 50% with 27 hours on the battery, I took it easy to see if I could hit 2 days.

When I first flashed 2.3b3, I was easily going a full day on a charge with moderate use, then when I killed the battery, everything went downhill - I was getting maybe 8 hours with heavy use when normally I was getting 17 hours. I tried re-calibrating 5 times before without any positive results. Taking the battery out first seemed to work well.
[Captivate Android Development] RKight:
Okay...I had a perfectly functioning ROM, so I decided to disable voodoo so I could make a nandroid backup. I created the "disable-lagfix" folder and rebooted my phone. I waited patiently for the phone to disable the lagfix and reboot. I think it took somewhere between 10 and 15 minutes, but the phone finally booted back up.

Upon boot, I noticed something was very wrong. My wallpaper had been changed and Launcher 2 was running. All of my system settings were intact, as were my text messages...but my google account info had been removed, all of my contacts were gone, all of my apps were missing, and the market app was nowhere to be found. I reinstalled Cog via clockwork recovery and disabled the lagfix before I restored any of my data. I then made a nandroid backup.

One very annoying thing I've found is that 3e recovery keeps deleting a folder off of my internal SD. Beautiful Widgets makes a folder on the internal SD for storing skins. The folder is /mnt/sdcard/data/beautifulwidgets. Every time I go into 3e recovery, even if I don't go to "reinstall packages" to run clockwork, the entire /mnt/sdcard/data folder gets deleted. I have to keep a backup on my external SD so that I can copy it back over.

Anyway, after making my backup, I decided to try re-enabling the lagfix, then disabling it again to see if I could replicate the problem. I created my disable-lagfix folder and rebooted. Twenty minutes later, and no voice, I did a battery pull. This time, I heard the voice and waited. I waited 30 minutes and the phone never left the ATT screen. I did another battery pull. Again, I heard voices. I waited 20 minutes. Still nothing. I ended up having to one-click back to JF6, reinstall Cog via clockwork, wait for it to boot, go through the process of disabling the lagfix, then restore my nandroid backup. Everything is working just like it was after I made my initial backup, so I guess I'll re-enable voodoo and just hope I never have a need to restore when I'm away from my PC.
[Captivate Android Development] Dr. Bogger:
When i first went to put them on my phone, i was about to put them in /sdcard/media/audio/notifications, but I then realized they needed to go in /system

So make sure you put them in /system/media, because I can see how that would be a little confusing...

And yes, you also need to do a reboot after adding them.
[Captivate Android Development] Dr. Bogger:
Wow, I just woke up and read that, and damn, if I was a moderator / administrator, that would have been means of a ban/block...

That was COMPLETELY Disrespectful in EVERY WAY Possible...
[Captivate Android Development] sstrawsb:
Is there anyway to get the android keyboard on here and possible the back light notifier?
[Captivate Android Development] ewingr:
I don't know what is going on with this Rom Manager/Nandroid stuff on this ROM. This is the only reason I am moving off this rom. I had similar issues, and ended up in a situation that seemed like I might not recover. It would only reboot to reccovery. Couldn't get it to download mode. Fortunately, I had not deleted/reformatted/master clear, and I had a ROM zip on the phone that I restored.

I installed 2.3b2 back. The only issue I have with it is the wifi continually has short disconnects. Probably no-one else would notice this, but I have a Tasker script that says "Lost Wifi" whenever it happens, because I want to know as that I have another script that runs when I lose wifi. (Part of the debugging phase of the scripts. The intent is to do away with that notification...but while it is so problematic, I want to know).
[Captivate Android Development] veener79:
I spoke to soon about being good to go. :(

Now I have a new issue but I think it is with the ROM or e-mail software and not the tones. Text notificion works great. I can choose the one I want. For e-mail it will not keep the tone I select. It just keeps on going back to the default one. I will select the tone I want. It will be highlighted green and it will play the tone. I select OK. But it goes right back to the default one at the top. I am using the Email software that was part of the rom. I am not using the Gmail one.

I still have to figure out how to update my voice mail one. I will have to search for that one later.
[Captivate Android Development] daverup:
When you first installed 2.3b6, did you flash stock first? On my first attempt with 2.3b6 I did not flash stock first, and had the disable issues. My phone seemed normal right up to the point where disable failed to work.

I am wondering if the stock flash is really a requirement to setup the new voodoo.
[Captivate Android Development] Dr. Bogger:
Hmm... Try setting the notifications in another program such as text messaging, just to test it and see if it will stay...

Also, did you put them in the /system/media folder? (not the /sdcard/media folder)...???

As for voicemail, i use google voice, and i dont think you can set the voicemail notifications with stock voicemail unless u change the system wide notifications tone...
[Captivate Android Development] lrs421:
Don't mean to harp but I flashed back to 9.1.3 last night and the ebay bug is still there. I don't recall the ebay site routing to a hpmobile webpage before. Weird.
[Captivate Android Development] bobbylx:
Here ya go. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9314520&postcount=10110

Just used it last night and works fine on 2.3b6
[Captivate Android Development] aleadam:
Got the z gauge version. It did modify a couple other things so I applied the no bat version as you suggested. Worked like a charm. Thanks!
[Captivate Android Development] RKight:
I've always kept my notification tones in /sdcard/media/audio/notifications. My ringtones are in /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones. Everything works great. Unless I'm missing the point of your post.
[Captivate Android Development] RKight:
Yep, I sure did.
[Captivate Android Development] jlopez0978:
spontaneous shutdown

ok I need only a few of suggestion. with the original "rom" the phone working good. But I have spontaneous shutdown when the phone is not used maybe between 6 or 8 hour. I change the battery, cable and flash with the original rom, master clear and flash again the cog 2.3b6. I beginning to think the problem is the COG-rom. Anybody have this issues?
[Captivate Android Development] techmik67:
edited... see later in thread
[Captivate Android Development] techmik67:
Known hardware issue...... if they are warranty replacing phones no question because of it, I think it's a real problem...... whether you can replicate it or not.
[Captivate Android Development] phishie:
Also looking forward to having BLN, hopefully this is true for 2.3b7. How do you know this curti.nogg?
[Captivate Android Development] techmik67:
If it's such a POS, why are so many people using it and why are you stealing from it?
[Captivate Android Development] Dr. Bogger:
Well, i've never tried it in the /sdcard location, all i know is i was about to put it there, but then i re-read the post about it, so i never tested it in that location...

Sorry, my bad, i should of tested it before i posted... I'm only human ya know ;)
[Captivate Android Development] cappysw10:
Well deserved too!
[Captivate Android Development] newter55:
Not saying that it is not an issue on some phones but to tell someone to replace theirs when they see it only after flashing a different rom is....well not the best recommendation which is what I was referring to

Sent telepathically using vulcan mind meld app.
[Captivate Android Development] mod777:
I have the same issue with email notifications.. I tried to silence them and it reverts to default every time. I am going to reflash the phone and see what happens.
[Captivate Android Development] techmik67:
Gotcha. It sounded like you were saying the issue wasn't real. =)
[Captivate Android Development] veener79:
Text notification saves. Email is not for some reason. Email the pre-installed ones will not save the setting either. :-(
[Captivate Android Development] Schmarvin:
Is there a chance that Firefox Mobile could be a pre-installed app with Cognition?
[Captivate Android Development] tbong777:
Thinking about going back 2.4.1. Not having issues with this ROM but the whole clockwork rewrite of files bothers me as I don't understand what is going on and backups seem to be an issue and wonky at best.

I am guessing we will be able to flash future versions of Voodoo on that older ROM as well.

The other thread regarding Perception on another Vibrant ROM is not ready for prime time as far as I can read. DG also mentioned there he may not support any more builds on this ROM as well. OR at least the updates will not be as close as they have been with his time divided between two completly different ROMS and his favoring the Vibrant variation at the moment.

"If this turns out good for everyone I might switch gears and focus on this 100%."

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9359437&postcount=23

Which will be great if the revisted Vibrant ROM is rock solid and although the Vibrant ROM is promising, I think it will need some work to get to these levels of stablity. Im following that thread closely.

If I am correct 2.4b1 was the last really stable ROM that could go into CW recovery without issues or rewriting the data folder.
[Captivate Android Development] lrs421:
This was my feeling as well. I always liked these roms because they were true captivate roms. Was the ebay issue in 2.4.1 as well?
[Captivate Android Development] RKight:
I installed Firefox Mobile...and uninstalled it five minutes later. It's a horrible excuse for a browser.
[Captivate Android Development] kytrauma:
I think the new percepion rom is based off the candian i9000m rom not a vibrant one.
[Captivate Android Development] veener79:
Good to know I am not the only one. Can you post if the reflash fixes it or not?
[Captivate Android Development] pinballLooking:
Opera mini works good with ebay. using 2.4.6
[Captivate Android Development] 06chaynes:
Facebook contacts won't sync

Hey I'm loving cognition on my samsung captivate but I can't get my facebook contacts to sync. It's not really a big deal I just like having the contact pictures.the facebook calendar does however sync.does anyone know of a fix or a workaround?
[Captivate Android Development] Gurgs:
This issue has come up earlier in the thread...if you set the email notification in the app it will not stick for some reason. You have to set your default notification ringtone to whatever you want your email notification to be then set all your other notification ringtones individually. It has been a problem in the last few Cognitions so I dont think there has been a workaround found yet.
[Captivate Android Development] systemgeek:
Waiting for answer...

I posted this yesterday while people where ranting. Now that that is over anyone have any thoughts about this?

Thanks,

Louis
[Captivate Android Development] thecellx:
Cognition VS Cognadian Bacon

Hello DG. I was wondering if with the realease of Cognadian versions, development of Cognition over Captivate roms will be stopped.
[Captivate Android Development] Leviuqse:
i was having AMAZING stand by battery life with 2.2BETA9.1 , most of the time my phone on stand by because my captivate is my company's cellphone. I didnt need to recharge it for like 4 days but keep in mind I only used it a little, but I do have wifi and sync on as well as facebook widget.

Now with 2.3beta3 battery is awful but I will update to beta6 and will post results

anyways, great ROM, I been having this rom since sre
[Captivate Android Development] mod777:
try to calibrate the battery either during flashing or after... search this thread for calibrate
[Captivate Android Development] dirtyballoonot:
I believe he was responding to a user asking if we could have firefox mobile pre-installed...

Soapbox...Down
[Captivate Android Development] grifster3150:
Notification Sound Problem

Forgive me if this sounds stupid but since I installed the new rom I cant change the notification sound in email. It has to be what ever I make the default sound through settings-sound-notifications. I would like to have a different notification sound for each of my pop3 accounts that is different from my text notification.

Any ideas?
[Captivate Android Development] dirtyballoonot:
DG,

I have a confession. I got my WP7 Samsung Focus, and I've been cheating on my Captivate. Love the new WP7, but, it has a ways to go. Any plans to develop on it?
[Captivate Android Development] bames:
ah my bad just thought it was a random brainfart.
[Captivate Android Development] tsachi:
I get that occasionally when restoring facebook with tibu. If I go to accounts, remove the facebook one and then reinstall it, I get sync back
[Captivate Android Development] tsachi:
It has been reported several times, no real solution. Only thing I saw is change system notification to what you want email to be, then modify everything else
[Captivate Android Development] dirtyballoonot:
This was a problem in the past, but, as far as I know it's not anymore. You can either change the notifications globally and then individually, or individually per app. I have no problems with mine. This has been covered several times though...Just sayin'
[Captivate Android Development] grifster3150:
Yeah that is how I use to do it but now if I try to change it locally in the app it reverts back to the globally default sound. Not a big deal but you know how it is youo get used to one thing and wish for it again.
[Captivate Android Development] prim8:
I

My phone changed it. Congrats.

I'm going to continue to until you get the point.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=842232

Supports my working theory about the last two cognition versions improving GPS performance.

It's not the ROM, it's something else.
[Captivate Android Development] cnewsgrp:
FYI - My GPS always works very well with Cog Captivate ROMS - Right out of box no setting changes needed. Only time it did not work were with version 2.4.x when DG used Vibrant ROMS.

Have not tested DG's new ROM yet.
[Captivate Android Development] bobbylx:
Just want to give a thank you to DG. Been using Cog Roms since he started releasing them and haven't been disappointed yet.

This by far is your best work. Everything works flawlessly for me. Honestly, no clue about GPS, thats why I have a TomTom.
[Captivate Android Development] Dr. Bogger:
Somebody just put me out of my misery... I can't deal with all the bull****... Every time i get on this forum, i have to read 10 pages of idiots bickering and swearing at each other...

I know 2 year olds thats behave better than that...
[Captivate Android Development] mod777:
It is still a problem... as far as I know currently theres not a way to change the notification sound for each email account and make it stick. I don't like it either since I have several emails including personal and work. Would be nice if this worked. Last rom it worked in was the vibrant build, but that rom didn't have vm notifications... lol.

And no a reflash didn't help.
[Captivate Android Development] zelendel:
I agree That there is far to much fighting going on in this thread. Here is the deal. If you have a bug report or are willing to help out by answering questions Great join the party. If you intend on posting to flame a user or state how badly you dont like the rom and not offer any help then dont bother posting. This is a final warning to all. No more warning will be givin and bans will be handed out without warning!!!!!!!
[Captivate Android Development] Gorilla801:
In-call dialpad missing letters

First off, just wanna show love to DG for an awesome ROM. :D I'm an android n00b....the Captivate's my first (got it the second day it was on the market), and except for the gps, I've never looked back. Finally screwed up the courage to flash a custom ROM when it looked like the only way I could get skype 3G working on AT&T.....and now I wonder why I waited so long.

Anyway, small glitch (saw it in 2.4.1 as well as 2.3b6).....the in-call dialpad doesn't display letters any more, so when I'm calling somewhere with "dial first three letters of person's last name", I'm at a loss (unless there's a landline phone nearby to use as a cheatsheet). Anybody else stumble onto this?
[Captivate Android Development] sinichi21:
Noooo Still no update =(. oh well DG any news or update to make us giggle :D. Your Rom Really rocks that its like an ecstasy LOL. Thanks for all the hard work hope to hear some update anytime :p
[Captivate Android Development] r_3:
Any way to get the stock android keyboard on the current build?