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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michaelov:
Bricked my SGS with Captivate ROM too.

Any joy with this problem, sackofnoise?

Following a failed official Kies update to Froyo, I too (stupidly) used the one click flash Odin not realising that it would brick my phone. Like you, I can't get into download or recovery mode - tried every key combination you can think of. Also plugging in a USB lead shuts the phone down in about 2 seconds and also even prevents charging.

Taking it back or sending it to a service centre is not an option. It boots to an AT&T screen and even boots up to android - although it's no use like this, because it will not allow me to recharge the battery because of the USB problem.

Any ideas please. Flashed stock and custom ROMS to phones for years but never been stuck like this before.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
Get into download mode, THEN plug in USB. I had the same problem when I installed a tmobile vibrant kernel by accident.

EDIT: Well you sent your phone in. Let's all hope for the best.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michaelov:
Problem here is that there is no way to get into download mode. No combination of keys work - tried them all.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
I haven't sent it to samsung yet, but i think it would be the only way... if they ask me question, i could say a friend of mine had a captivate, used mt computer with kies to update, seeing this, i would've did the same...) blaming kies... (if they ask, i hope they oversee the at&t logo and just flash it back to stock....)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjsooley:
You should be able to boot to download mode ask on the captivate forum (I have one but havent run a stock kernal for so long I dont remenber). I think its get oden 3 ready remove the battery hold the 2 volume buttons replace the battery then plug the usb in.

i think thats how you get into the download mode.

but your phone is not bricked you just need to figure out how to go into download mode
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
already tried removing the batteyr+combo key+usb, it really can't get into download mode... :S

Thanks for trying...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zetalai:
Good news for you

Dudes had found the USB cable modification to make the phone into download mode

Hope this will help
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
Thanks, will try! :D

But... any chance of a little howto? for the resistance, i guess i can find it somewhere on ebay or an electronic store around but when you/they (do you have a thread link?) to put a 301K resistance between pins 4 and 5, what exactly do they mean? (to open the cable and sold a resistance or to put a resistance in the other end of the usb plug?

Could you share the link or pm it to me?

THANK YOU VERY MUCH
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
Also, anyone have a "howto" to do it (for guys like me who aren't sure where to put the resistance, do you need to cut open the cable, etc?)

THANKS
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zetalai:
in fact, that was quoted form the Uart/Serial/Jtag thread in the same section
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
thanks, posted my questions there ;) great find
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] frostman89:
FOR DEODEX'ED SYSTEMS ONLY

Big thanks and full Credit to Xeudoxus for editing our services.jar to remove the am/pm.

Flash through clockwork, I have attached the modified and stock.

Just an FYI, you might be stuck at the boot screen for a bit, it's normal. Also this has a white clock, so don't use if you are running a theme with a white status bar.

EDIT: It should be pretty obvious, but don't flash this if you use the 24 hour clock.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] CouchSpud:
Further decreasing my risk for burn in. Good stuff.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] bblanski:
Somehow I missed this.. thx frost

VooDoo Fascinate
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] dboss713:
Always great work, thanks frost.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Daswolven:
Well then. I have been rooted, de-odexed, voodoo enabled and themed. Have had zero issues with my setup so far. I tried to flash this last night and brick.

Still trying to get back to good. Not sure what the problem was, but I think I'll keep my AM/PM for the time being. :P
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] frostman89:
How long did you wait on your boot animation? Or were you stuck at the Samsung logo. I have had a lot of people test this, even had reports that it flashed on a non deodex system without causing loops, just didn't change anything lol.

Only other solution is to download it again and make sure it was not corrupted.

If you were indeed stuck on the boot animation, you should have waited at least 5-10 min, I know I did when I was testing it.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] devlp1213:
I was at the verizon logo for close to 5 min, I always try to wait it out lol
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] bblanski:
This loaded and ran fine for me. Just turned my clock white and I am using the magic rom so it blended into the status bar..

VooDoo Fascinate
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] frostman89:
OOPS

I will add that into the OP, sorry about that lol.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Daswolven:
It loaded fine, ran boot animation, then a blank screen. I waited five, but probably not much longer. Pulled battery to reboot, and entered force close hell. Probably my bad, lol, but I'm not building this bastard up from stock again tomorrow. :)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] rel500:
does this work with other Galaxy variations, im using a vibrant and was curious...
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] steeeler:
Nice little change. Thanks Frost!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] frostman89:
Never tested but I am pretty sure it won't work, you can always back up and try though.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] amosher13:
to the OP, any chance you could hook me up with a how to? I'd like to port this MOD over to the Epic as it would fit in with my Gingerbread Theme, thanks in advance!

EDIT: i did compare your stock and modified files in winmerge and found the edits made to com/android/server/status/statusbaricon.smali. the line numbers were different but the content was the same, i made the same edits, recompiled and flashed services.jar and it doesnt look like it worked, PM still there. :( any thoughts?

i posted a zip of my stock and modded services.jar files if you want to take a look.
[Android Apps and Games] david1985:
Thanks maybe this has been posted before but I can't find the answer but im running cm6 nightly and I keep getting an error when downloading angry bird any help? Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] dreamersipaq:
Saw it before

Unmount your SD card before downloading it from the market. You can then re-mount your SD card once the game is installed. Not sure why it does this, but seems to work.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
So I've just compiled a stock kernel. (My first! :D) It loads and runs fine, but I'm having trouble unlocking the phone.

I press the unlock / power button, and it takes around 2 seconds to "wake up."

I've tried setting it to "performance," and still no difference.

Any ideas?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
Lol for a sec i thought the name of the kernel was laggy screen...

Antway, im more of a rom guy by trade, so i may not be as helpful as you will like, but i think its either your config files, other code you added in, or modofocations you made to the kernel
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
Hmm, so apparently I was building off an older source. I'm now downloading a supposedly "newer" source. Can anyone give me a link to the latest kernel?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
Latest kernel has an evem newer unreleased source
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
ah, I meant the newest source xD
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrqube:
Are there any custom roms out there that dont have a lockscreen, I'm am so tired of having these factory lockscreens. I have Lockbot Pro and thats the only lockscreen I want. But alot of time the Lockbot pro lockscreen does perfect then the factory Htc lockscreen kicks in so I have to unlock the htc and then the Lockbot pro...sick of it. I dont want any kind of lockscreen at all but lockbot. I already uninstalled the htc lockscreen then whats left is a froyo looking vanilla lockscreen see through. dont want that either.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sporkman:
why is this here and NOT in the Q&A ? also use the search button .
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrqube:
posted in Q&A, and theres so many different roms to find, Im not a pacient man:D to much work
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fashigidig:
Try nolock app from the market. It disables the lock screen on any rom.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrqube:
tryed that already, only works half the time
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluebeast213:
If you have a task killer running......it's killing lockbot.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrqube:
no task killer installed
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toddlmr:
First off, Thanks for all the knowledge on this forum. My Hero has become my friend! My question is am I able to get rid of files off my SD? The installation zips? I am trying to clear out some room so I can put some music back on.

Thanks in advance!

Todd (newby)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandelay007:
Things like your rom, kernel or theme zips? Yes, you can....once you flash them they have done their job....

Sent from my froyo using the xda app
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toddlmr:
Thanks, I appreciate the info.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unCoRrUpTeD:
Keep the nandroid folder and any folder created by apps unless you no longer use those apps. Any .zip you flashed can be removed but I always keep one on the card just on case something happens.
[Vibrant General] ags29:
So, I was just checking the downloads section on the market for new updates, and as u may know, previous purchases you made that aren't installed, stand out with their bright orange "Purchased" status at the bottom.

I bought Advanced Task Manager back when I had my Nexus One and found it very helpful. Against the suggestions of many who say to avoid task managers, I decided, "what the heck, let me try it again," because of all the great reviews the app was still getting. I opened it up, ended all of the apps running, and then started opening, closing and reopening apps again just to test for a difference.

I am shocked at how much of a performance improvement I was missing out on. The phone is running snappier than ever and I am very thankful for my 99 cent purchase. So, contrary to popular (belief?), this task manager/ task killer is doing a lot more good for me than any harm. I urge you guys (and girls?) to just give it a try.
[Vibrant General] trunkstar1:
Nice. The JI6 update includes the addition of a task manager. I'm going to do some testing and see if I notice any differences.
[Vibrant General] sroach23:
this is an ok one to use since it doesnt auto kill apps.
[Vibrant General] chichu_9:
I second this, I use my phone a lot. ATK really helped me with my phone overall performance.
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
Strange, I quit using ATK and didn't notice any difference, except that my battery life increased because I quit opening up ATK every hour to kill programs.

If it works for you, cool, although if you're noticing performance drop, it's probably from running services, not applications.
[Vibrant General] richan90:
I usually just press back on an app so that it closes, just out of habit. This should work just as efficiently as ATK?
[Vibrant General] All~G1:
Exactly!!!

Anyone with a JI6 base press the home button after redding this post and then enter the JI6 task manager. XDA & the market (among other apps) will constantly hit the cpu.

I think it's really up to the end user to be selective in the apps & services they choose to run. Make sure you are ending your apps correctly & uninstall apps with running services you don't use... Then all should be fine.
[Vibrant General] ags29:
Yea, I do that too to exit every app that allows it. However, there is still a lot of useless stuff running in the background that I never open (Media Hub, Visual Voicemail, TTS...), but that automatically starts up and uses memory, and ending those apps will significantly improve your phone's available memory. If you just try it you will see, you have nothing to lose by just trying it (there's a free version), but I'm not trying to convince anyone, I'm just saying..

Also, the convenience of just having that "end all running tasks" widget on the homescreen is worth it alone. With one click, your phone feels like like it just rebooted.

Btw, I am running Bionix's rom which is great.. This just keeps everything even smoother.
[Vibrant General] ags29:
The J16 task manager is the crappiest and least useful app they could put together. Every popular task manager on the market is miles ahead of it.

Here I took two screens at the same time to show how much the J16 manager leaves out..
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
I've never had an issue with memory. I don't think I've ever dropped below 60megs free, and it's usually around 100. I'm running Bionix 1.8 (Jac's Voodoo at 200/1200), have tons of widgets going, and I never see lag or low memory issues. I guess everyone's hardware is different though.
[Vibrant General] ags29:
Yea I never had a problem with the memory either, I just mentioned it because the app displays it. Either way, I do see an impact when ending all of the apps/processes that I don't use (even the ones that use barely any memory). Oh well. Whatever works for everyone.
[Vibrant General] ld006:
finally someone that agrees with me, my battery lasts way longer by using ATK, also my vibrant is super fast and responsive compared to my friends vibrant with lagfix and all that, i also never have app problems with force closes or hangs and the ignore list is awesome to make sure you never kill needed apps like email and stuff. ATK is a must have. I do however dont recommend using the auto-kill feature, that caused problems for me.

PS: sometimes hitting back all the way till the app exits doesn't always close it
[Vibrant General] Alex530:
The ji6 task killer is crap! It doest show al the running apps
[Vibrant General] ags29:
Yea I'm not even using the auto-kill feature. I'm just using the "end all" widget every once in a while and it works wonders. Btw, I'm not the only one who agrees with you, about 90% of thousands of people who reviewed it on the market are praising it too :)
[Vibrant General] dan0zone:
You guys just don't get it don't you... your built in process manager is showing you ONLY active processes and services running... and the ad_ware type task/app killer crap is telling you that everything is running so you believe what the 3rd party app is telling you verses what your system is telling you... Now I see why these sleazy programmers used the internet and the fear of viruses and spyware, to make tons of money ....

" Click here to install our free spyware scanner "

then

" You have 456 possible spyware files on your system, please purchase to clean your computer now "

You guys remember those days?. Well some people still fall for these scams.... and now it has come to android in the form of task/app killers...

Not all the apps that are being reported by these task killers as running is actually running.... most of them are in idle mode , not doing anything , thus why the system ignores them THEY HAVE NO EFFECT ON THE SYSTEM, until they are called into action again...

This is why Google has chosen to stop apps from killing other apps in 2.2 and up , in other words if you have an app that is killing your battery , don't use a task killer to kill it, report it to the developer so they can fix it, if its an oem system app , then, they need to know that the crap that they put on the phone is killing the battery and you want it fixed....

People in here love to start threads about crap like "where's my froyo" or "I sold my vibrant" , not one was ever started with a list of battery draining apps that needs to be fixed....

The developer of ATK has gone as far as to call Google ' evil ', because Google won't allow them to use their app to kill other apps on Google's OS...
[Vibrant General] ags29:
Dude, I used to be on your side of the argument too. I hadn't used a task killer on my Vibrant since buying it, because of all the anti-task-killer rhetoric out there.. But after seeing the benefits of it, I can't deny it. On my Nexus One, the task killer didn't make much difference after it was on 2.2 and that's why I uninstalled it.. Until we have 2.2 on here, it's a little early to call whether it'll be useless on here too after that upgrade. So, we'll have to wait to call that one, but for now.. On 2.1, it's pretty handy.
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
This.

Isn't.

Windows.

http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them

That's because your phone practically DID reboot.

And guess what a computer does when it reboots?

It restarts every background process that it's been told to autostart, and maxes out your CPU, draining your battery quicker. Typically when those background apps show up as "running", they aren't even using CPU cycles, and are just sitting in memory, waiting for you to use them again. When you kill the services though, they use CPU cycles they otherwise wouldn't have used.

I can see where some people's usage patterns might not benefit by the way Android handles app management. If you feel like it makes your phone run faster, then more power to you.

What would probably be more effective would be to use an autostart manager, rather than a task killer. That way apps like Mediahub don't even load in the first place.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Sigh.... I've tried way too many times to help on this topic. Do what you want people.... nevermind the facts/logic.
[Vibrant General] kangxi:
There are so many misguided Android users in this thread LOL.

Listen, if you really want to see your phone fly, download autokiller which is a memory manager/optimizer. When you are memory gets below a certain point that you can designate (I would just stick to the presets though), it will start freeing up RAM beginning with empty apps. Empty apps are apps that just sitting in memory not doing anything or serving a function to the user. Then, based on priority, it will go down the list and start freeing up RAM in other places IF and only IF you still need it.

Next, download Autostarts. This will allow you to have those apps that you do not want to to start to, well, not start! This is way more effective than constantly killing them over and over, because guess what? Most of them will just start again because they were not finished doing what they were doing!

Finally, just uninstall the apps you do not want! I've uninstalled most of the bloatware from my phone that started including Media Hub, Amazon MP3, etc etc etc.

Wouldn't you think that Google, the folks that created Android, just might know what is best for their operating system?

PS: If you just use the back button to get out of an app, 99% of the time it will close. I GUARANTEE! Open up an app, hit the home button and go into the built-in task manager. It will be there. Go into the same app and press back instead. Task Manager? Empty. Try it with any app. It will work. So thus, if you just close the apps like they are supposed to be, you won't even have any that need to be closed using a task manager.

Edit: And once you close them with the back button, guess what? They won't reopen! Try it, even with things like messaging.
[Vibrant General] CitrixLemon:
There are times when moving between home screens is slow, or opening the app menu or going back to the home is slow. This usually happens after opening lots of apps. Closing everything using ATK always speeds this up when it gets slow. Perhaps Android's tolerance for closing extra services is too low. To be honest there are a lot of apps that start their service when I don't want it. The media hub and Tel-Nav GPS would start themselves constantly even though I never used them.

I just ran a test, opening almost every app on my phone. Critics of Task Killers would probably say that Android will kill services and apps when I'm not using them, so I should probably expect very minor slowdown, but not very much at all. When I got around to opening Angry Birds and Air Control (2 games) they took 10-15 seconds to open, immediately after I killed all of the apps and services using ATK Angry Birds opened in less than a second. Coincidence? I think not!
[Vibrant General] demo23019:
The new JI6 task killer is junk not only can you not exclude apps from closing but take the other day for example. I installed a game called w.a.r.p and didn't work correctly on galaxy S So i had to force close and android operating system wasn't smart enough to actually free up the resources the game was taking up...and JI6 task killer widget told me I had one process running and using up battery but when i opened it it showed nothing for me to close...OK

So I opened my advanced task manager and there is was..the stupid game didn't actually close ...SO yea people can argue and say its not necessary to use task killers But i think other wise and I will continue to use advance task manager
[Vibrant General] kangxi:
Read my post right above yours. If you think you think you see performance increases from using ATK, try the things above. You will forget all about those silly task managers.

Edit: Listen, there are different levels of apps when they are in use. Just because ATK shows you an app running DOES NOT mean that it is hampering your system. There are empty apps, which just use a small amount of memory and do not use CPU. When your system needs memory, it will start by taking away from the empty apps. The task manager does not show you these because it does not need to, the built-in memory management handles it. The only apps that it shows are ones that are actually RUNNING, using CPU and actively using your memory.

You really need to read up on how the minfree system works on your Android.

http://andrs.w3pla.net/autokiller/details
[Vibrant General] demo23019:
I never said anything about performance issues
[Vibrant General] kangxi:
You posted while I was responding to the other guy. I should have quoted but his post was long.
[Vibrant General] demo23019:
Gotcha.....
[Vibrant General] Five0nIt:
Whats the "Task Killer Argument"? should i not use atk?
[Vibrant General] CitrixLemon:
So since by your own admission they are "empty apps" what exactly is the harm in killing them? Also I'm not only concerned with the so called "empty apps" but the ones that are running in the background. Also I tried your method with the back button but it didn't work, same results, also the back method doesn't work for every app, web/games/etc.