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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
K im just going to come out and say this, and ino this topic has been beating to death but whatever. The battery sucks. Also, if you are one of those people who charge their phones every night, well once the phone reaches 100, it just stops charging. Meaning even plugged in once it reached 100% it starts losing charge, even when plugged in, which is sad imo. I hear it gets better but to be honest i dont see how thats possible. I think its just that people start using their phones less after a couple of weeks. Even with the battery this phone is very light, couldnt they have made it bigger or something :rolleyes:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kkancho:
Your method worked! thanks buddy
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTFO!:
Hey, how should I test to see how much battery life this phone would have? like does everyone get atleast 5hours for talking?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
i doubt you'll get 5 hours of talking. I played angry birds for 40minutes while listening to music and lost 30% from a full charge. :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kkancho:
Yeah I'm pretty disappointed with the battery life. I might have to get a second one and carry it around or something
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geokilla:
So i haven't visited in almost a week... Anyone having any problems with their phone, like dead internal SD, phone not booting up, etc. Basically the problems that Bell's Vibrant is having?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
Yesterday it randomly froze on me. I don't remember what I was doing but it was normal usage. I tried to reset it by holding power but that wouldn't work. The screen was just black. I decided to leave it and go to bed. Woke up and screen was back. The time was right and I had an email. Even volume was working.... But the screen was completely unresponsive. I basically **** my pants cause everything what working software wise but the screen want so I assumed I had killed the screen somehow..... Then I took out the battery and put it back in, booted and everything was fine. Thank god. I've only had it for six days. I'm on stock rogers rom, rooted and with lag fix. I've been using it all day and its been perfectly fine do I don't know what that was, but it was scary lol.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTodFather:
Its about freakin time they released this. Damn! Yeah we definately need the modem.bin **** the kernel for that matter.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
I am very new to all this so please explain how to and i'll be more than willing to do that. What will this accomplish? Just interested?

Also, I have the latest firmware for the SGH-I896 Rogers Captivate that I was able to get my hands on but do not know how to update this onto my phone. I am willing to send this file (ENC file type??) to anyone who could use it. Like I said before i'm still learning, but learning fast!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
Not a problem. Send me the instructions and I will send the ROM. I would love for someone to develop a custom ROM, i've been waiting for a while now.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
Sgh-i896 i896uxji2

Not sure if this is what everyone needs but in the RAR folder attached to this post is the modem.bin file from the latest Firmware version for the Samsung Captivate SGH-I896. This is a newer firmware version than mine and it's the one I wanted to load onto my Captiavte except I don't know how to lol. PM me with you email address if you would like me to send you the whole firmware package (ENC or RAR, specifiy which one you prefer) which is around 150MB.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTodFather:
hold on bud i got someone to help out with the dump
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swapnil:
How did you get the firmware??? Friends at Rogers?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
Actually just a guy who does this all the time for all carriers throughout the world.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
I am not seeing HSUPA speeds with this modem =/

voice works and it initializes/activates on the network... but haven't seen upload above 350 kbps... =(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koreancanuck:
How much data does the Rogers ROM use? I will have 500MB soon but don't know if that'll be enough then.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
would you like me to get the one from my device?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
a) H doesn't mean HSPA+ (which also isn't HSUPA), as apparent by the G2, there's no differentiation between HSPA and HSPA+

b) AT&T lumps the H and 3G icons into the same thing (which is why you never saw H, but if you checked under settings there was HSDPA active)

c) just because HSDPA is active does *not* mean HSUPA is... post a speedtest showing 800+ kbps upload and I might believe you
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
sure, but I'd rather see a speedtest showing decent upload speeds...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTodFather:
crap I was going to try to use this but i'm on i9000 reorient kernel and it wont work unless i flash do a different rom.. Anyone get hsupa speeds ...anything about 400kbs upload?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] designgears:
that modem in hex looks like a jh7 modem with a new name...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTodFather:
well that's a big let down... WTF? fu rodgers! HMMM
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swapnil:
Does that mean that it's easier to port cognition to this version or more difficult?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTodFather:
it's the same phone no

porting necessary just flash and go
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swapnil:
the model nos. are infact different. this one is SGH-i896 (ATT is SGH-i897)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
Like I said i am very new to all this. Rogers told me that if I have the H then its their HSPA or whatever it is network. Phone doesn't get speeds of 800+ upload so That answers the question for you and myself. So are I correct to assume this is just 3G? Thanks again for the info. Speed Test Pic below.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
H is HSPA, but just because you have HSDPA doesn't mean you have HSUPA... and obviously you do not... so this modem is *not* HSUPA capable
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enhanced:
Which lag fix are you using and how's it working for ya?

I'm really beginning to see the slow downs on my phones and I'm almost at the point where I NEED a lag fix. Wasn't a problem for the first 2-3 days, but it has gotten worse after that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inningsdefeat500:
Can someone please explain how to ROOT the Rogers phone step by step
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m37h:
There was a post earlier to a new wiki page for it, didn't work for me though :(

I can't post a link as a new user, please search for it in this thread (or google)

My problem(s):

- Root: the SuperOneClick stuck in the loop, it seems to me that the connection got disconnected in the middle of the process and automatically connected again, and this keep happening. I'm sure it's not the cable, I tried two different cables and those are working for other purposes (e.g. transferring data, etc). Yes I tried all the different suggestion I can find, but no luck. So I used the manual method from the link in that wiki, IMO you have to know Linux a little to do it, or you have to be really careful.

- LagFix: RyanZA lagfix app from the market doesn't work for me, the app recognized that I rooted the phone, but failed when trying to apply the lag fix. I tried the voodoo lag fix but that one also failed as it's trying to find I897 but found I896.

Conclusion: we need to wait a week or so until someone post something that really works with I896. The wiki simply doesn't work on my phone. I'm a first time Android user, but also a Linux user ... so I'm not a total noob.

I hope my experiments above help some people to be patience and WAIT :eek:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
I used ryan's lag fix. Once rooted its very simple and poetry quick to apply it. Its just an app from the market. And I think you'll notice a difference for sure, for I'm satisfIed with it.

And concerning the last post, I doubt there will be a root method for us since oneclick works with almost everyone. Just keep trying and be patient.if your following instructions it should work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
Root first then install the LagFix for way better performance. All info is here http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/SGH-I896
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
No need to wait a week or two. Root and RyanZA LagFix is working for everyone. Make sure to follow instructions and if you get looping or stuck while rooting then follow theses instructions:

If you're having issues with "wait for device" or if RATC is looping, try this

Do Not close the program when stuck, just do steps below.

Unplug your USB Cable

Go to Settings > Applications > Development

Uncheck USB Debugging

Plug in your USB Cable

Unplug your USB Cable

Check USB Debugging

Plug in your USB Cable

After doing this I was rooted. I never used or downloaded that PDANet thing nor needed it. Just download and install the Captivate USB Samsung Drivers for your machine before doing anything.

When installing the RyanZA LagFix from Market you have to install the EXT2 Tool first (part of the RyanZA app) then you can apply the LagFix V2.2+.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enhanced:
Thanks.

From what I know, Cognition already contains a lagfix in the ROM. My question is, if I root and then apply a lagfix (which ever one it may be) and later want to throw on Cognition, would that be a problem since it already has a lagfix?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
Nope shouldnt be a problem. From what I understand it will just write over top of the other LagFix
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
That's the only way to install it. Unzip and restore. My phone wouldn't boot it successfully either, although I didn't get stuck on the AT&T logo; it would go to the bootanimation and get stuck there.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flipbwoi:
Weird, but it is possible because I've seen screenshots of the at& t phone loaded with i 896 software that's why I was wondering how they managed to do so.

ugh, and anyone notice if their signal is worst than the iphone?

Sent from Tapatalk on my Samsung Captivate
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mik101:
Superoneclick will work if you keep screwing with it. It's just really finicky. I wish my Captivate would come back to town and I can work on packaging something together a little nicer.

I found it easier just to skip the rooting process completely and flash direct to cognition since its already rooted, but your milage may very.

This is still pretty hacky at this point for Rogers phones. I'm sorry guys. Just really hard to do testing when my friend has the phone.

Edit: More rooting info here from earlier in the thread regarding superoneclick:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8928144&postcount=341
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
can we do this? :eek::eek::eek:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=822955

Custom load animation? God i hope so
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ltalis:
Is it just me or the battery life on the captivate is atrocious?! with moderate usage, I have to recharge after about 8 hours...any tips or tricks to optimize battery life??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mik101:
Check if the file is there on your stock rooted system and pull it and someone here can take a look.

Definitely will work with recent Cognition betas.

:D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mik101:
Hey ltalis

Try turning anything you don't need constantly off -- wifi, gps, etc. Keep brightnesses down when not needed. Battery life will never be terrific... it is a 1ghz smartphone sending data most of the time.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
I highly recommend an app cald quick settings and quick battery. This app will allow you to control most of the things that kill the battery, but even better it will allow you to turn off the your data and your wifi at the same time. This should help out with the battery, since usually you can only turn one of the other off but not both. I got it like 3 hours ago so i can't really comment in improvement, but in theory it should work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geokilla:
Just went through the thread... Seems no one's having problems. Sad thing is, it's still locked. Meaning being a Fido user, I have to get the Vibrant if I want one ASAP :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flipbwoi:
Or just get the at& t version

Sent from Tapatalk on my Samsung Captivate
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mik101:
x2... I didn't have a chance to look at the possibility to unlock it as my buddy did have a rogers sim on hand. I forget what I did try, it's been a busy weekend, but it doesn't seem to be locked in the same way as previous galaxies (but you guys already knew that anyways). Hopefully I'll get a chance to look this week but I can't promise anything. Someone who actually has the phone in their hands will likely figure it out first.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geokilla:
I could, but I want warranty. The Bell Vibrant has me scared and I refuse to buy the Galaxy S without warranty. I found some on Kijiji saying that there's proof of purchase so let's see how that goes. I don't want to spend $500 and have a brick within a few months.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTFO!:
Hey, is there a mod or app that displays a battery percentage on the bar at the top of the screen, for the Rogers Captivate? and btw, how safe is it to root your phone? I was doing some research and people said the app developers can attain access to all of your personal info and passwords etc on your device...is this true? or are there ways to prevent this? and they also mentioned about how anything you do with your phone can potentially screw it up if you are rooted...this kinda worries me since I am a total noob and I have no clue how I would be able to deal with it... :/ I want to apply the lagfix so bad arghh!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkurzum:
I'm also with fido, the phone is unlocked to rogers/fido since they're the same company. I tested with bell and telus but it was locked for them. So if you're fido you're fine. Even if the reps tell you it won't work with fido, they're lying.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkurzum:
Yeah works just fine, root, then use root explorer to replace the file under/system/media/bootanimation.zip

Very simple, even if you screw it up, you'll just get a black bootscreen, it won't affect the boot process.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flipbwoi:
I understand what you mean, I'm probably going to get the rogers one as well anyways and sell this at&t phone on kijiji.

problem is I dunno if anyone had ben able to unlock it since I'm on fido as well but would like to have warranty as well

Sent from Tapatalk on my Samsung Captivate
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flipbwoi:
Oh really?? Hmm I guess I was wrong then. Funny you mention that because with my iphone it was from rogers and when I got visual voicemail they asked if it was fido phone I said I dunno but gave them imei pretending I didn't know it was rogers and he was like nope it is in our system and registered me. I guess that's cool then and you said everything iud working fine, data and all?

Sent from Tapatalk on my Samsung Captivate
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
The only root explorer i see in the market isnt free.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] froli13:
I'm a Fido user with a Rogers Captivate. No need to unlock. Just put your Fido SIM Card in it and it works. ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamskub:
Im trying to restore my Captivate I896 to the original Rogers ROM. I had some problems with Cognition so I'd just like to go back to the original ROM. I've been trying to get it back but I can't and haven't been able to. I've tried using Clockwork but no success. I'm lost and stuck because apparently I don't have a SIM inserted :confused: so it's impossible to use Cognition...

Any help would be awesome.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkurzum:
Yeah I bought it, useful app, saves the hassle of having to move the files through a terminal.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobTom:
Hey Guys,

So I successfully Rooted (after a long time waiting, OneClick actually worked!), used the lagfix, Quandrant to make sure it worked and Titanium to backup.

My question is, why won't the update.zip for 2.2 apply? It gets stuck after not recognizing I896 (there is none in the phone code it shows before the status 7 error).

Is there a Froyo update that also has I896 or am I missing something? I just got the phone friday and its my first smartphone (upgraded from LG Shine after over 2.5 yrs haha).

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geokilla:
Wow I didn't expect Fido sim to work on Rogers Captivate. Since when did Rogers be so "Free" lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigbrotherbear:
Anyone have a problem with their wifi?

My wifi is finicky, Sometimes I leave wifi on my phone and let it sit on my desk for a while and when I come back, Wifi doesn't work anymore... I can connect to my router, get an ip, but the data won't work. I've tried switching off wifi and leaving it for a 10-15min and turning it back on but it doesn't work...

The only thing that seems to bring wifi back to life is to switch off the phone and switch it back on. I've had this problem on 2 different access points so far.

Any clues as to what's causing this and what can be done to fix it?

I have a I-896 stock rom.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsphoto:
Rogers I896

New to Android and the forum.

Rogers I896

I managed to root with SuperOneClick following a series of USB connect and disconnect as posted earlier (took a few tries).

Installed RyanZA without issues.

Quadrant Benchmark score before = 748

Quadrant Benchmark score after = 2084
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
How were you trying to restore this backup from clockwork? Don't use the 'apply sdcard:update.zip' and don't use 'install zip from sdcard'. Go to 'backup and restore'. The backup needs to be unzipped and copied to \clockworkmod\backup\ on your sdcard, so you would have a folder like this, for example:

K:\clockworkmod\backup\Rogers_Stock​

That folder should contain the 4 img files and an md5 file.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] froli13:
I wanted to try Cognition ROM so before flashing it I backed up my Rogers stock ROM. But since then, I can't restore my backup... The recovery works fine (or at least, it looks like) but it just boots forever...

I can restore and boot on my Cognition backups but all my apps are gone and some of the settings are back to default.

Anyone has the same problem?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mik101:
Thanks opcow, I was just about to post the exact same thing. :)

Something new for you guys -- well not totally new, but if this works for root it'll sure beat the SuperOneClick (for those just looking for root/superuser.apk install).

*Not sure if this will work or not as I'm sill using a Nexus and my friend is out of town with his Rogers Captivate* but

Flash Clockwork Mod from the stock recovery as before (because im not sure if the next zip will flash from the stock recovery and it'd be a good idea to do a nandroid backup first anyways):

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10481943/clockwork_recovery.zip (rename to update.zip to flash through the oem recovery menu) then reinstall packages or whatever it says becomes the ClockWorkMod recovery menu.

Then do a NANDROID Backup.

Then from clockwork flash this zip:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10481943/update.zip

See if you have root.

As before, I don't have a Rogers Captivate here to test with so your milage may vary.

It MAY work from the stock recovery menu but someone will have to test that to be sure.

I forget where parts of this came from but I know chaoscentral deserves some credit, and others, I know I'm forgetting a lot of people and I'm sorry guys.

Hope this helps -- The superoneclick method really isn't fun.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] creepyncrawly:
Root explorer is a great app, and well worth the price. However, if you want a free application with root access file manager, try "Super Manager" from the market. (I think. I don't have Rogers, I'm AT&T.) It has an amazing number of features.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alybhaloo:
I have this same problem !!!

someone please help , i backed up using clockwork, now i cant restore my old files and apps , when i try it goes to a black screen just saying android and switching back and forth with the AT&T logo, i want my rogers back ... the only im able to use this is continue using the Cognition ... helppp please
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamskub:
O ok, thanks a lot. This is my first time having an android device and so far I love it!

Although one more question, sorry. I've tried to restore to the Rogers image but I keep getting the AT&T logo and a static android logo. Do I need to delete the old data and how would I?

Seriously thanks so much for helping me. I'm eager to learn how to use android :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
It did the same thing on my phone, but mine is the AT&T version, so I wasn't sure if that might be the problem. Since we both had Cognition on the phone when doing this, I decided to try flashing back to stock and then doing the Rogers restore. Got stuck on AT&T logo (someone else reported this).

Next I went back to stock then updated to JH7 (the AT&T OTA update) and tried to restore the Rogers from nandroid backup again. Stuck at the AT&T logo again, but this time I noticed some music that goes with the bootanimation played while the screen was on the AT&T logo (could have been there before and I just didn't notice it). So I waited a while but the phone never became functional.

Apparently that nandroid backup is no good (at least for restoring to a phone with AT&T firmware on it).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
anyone know if its possible to have the wallpaper show up where all the apps are?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] froli13:
When using Rogers rom I successfuly restored a backup. But since I flashed Cognition, restore doesn't work, so I think it's probably related to AT&T software like opcow said...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tuckerp88:
SGH-I896 Rogers firmware

Can someone send me the SGH-I896 Rogers official ROM? I would like to revert back to the stock rom.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
None has been released/leaked. I'm afraid you're stuck for now. There's a nandroid backup of a stock Rogers Captivate, but it doesn't appear to work unless you are still on the Rogers ROM.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alybhaloo:
im so stumbled here ....

i upgraded to the 2.2 now i want my 2.1 back . i wasnt able to put back my old apps ... can someone please help as soon as they know how to revert back to rogers instead of the cognition rom ... it seems my phone keeps getting more and more messed up as i proceed ... first it can't find update.zip/sd whatever ... then can't find int/m..../sd .... now it says signature verification failed .... some one please helpp !!