yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonieryan:
I guess you missed my last post but I got the APN XML data from another thread. I just used app "APN Backup & Restore" to update the APN and all is well.

JK3? I have to check which modem is on my wife's phone tonight...

Anyone here tried Perception build 6 yet? Build 5 is running pretty well that I'm reluctant to upgrade to a different/new kernel.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
yea perception 5 using jk3 modem
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gdmuscle:
modem files

What modem file is everyone using, how is your battery life and signal strength. I've flashed the JI6 modem file and it seems to have a good signal strength but I find that the battery doesn't last as long as the stock Rogers modem file. I haven't tried the others but shouldn't we use the Rogers if we are on Rogers to begin with, also try looking at the file size of the Rogers it's much larger than the others strange.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geokilla:
I think you should exchange it for another Captivate. Sounds faulty to me.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JStar1033:
When i was using perception b4 and I had my data on 3g/h my battery would drop about 10% an hour on idle. If I was at home and had wifi on never sleep. My battery would drop 1-2% a hour.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
Anyone with battery issues, i strongly recommend Juiceplotter and Juicedenfender with Ultimatejuice (paid juidefender upgrade).

I posted two days ago showing how my battery lost 30% over 5-6 hours while i was sleeping! Today i got ultimate defender and after setting it up, my battery has lost 0% when not in use. The difference is quite remarkable.

EDIT: I uploaded Ultimatejuice.apk if anyone needs it. Without it i find juicedefender completely useless.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BumRush:
Can someone please explain the difference of the Cognition, Perception and AXURA roms. I read the descriptions but I don't know what some of that stuff means.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geokilla:
I was trying to use the GPS today because I didn't know exactly where my destination was. Well 10 minutes later, I found my destination and the Captivate was still trying to get a signal. Wth I thought our GPS was supposed to be excellent...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
Mine works awesomely. Sometimes it might just be your area or lag
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
if you run di11 darky rom your battery life will be amazing with senti 1.28 and the bell modem.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
Wrong thread posting sorry :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oriveradel:
only older version of Kies recognizes north American Captivates

I tried all kind of versions and mini kies, however; I found out that the latest versions are disabling on purpose access to captivates from ATT and Rogers.

So use an older version. I solve all my problews with Kies version 1.5.3.10092.2 and don't UPDATE. Currently running cognition 2.36b, and the new samsung GPSREstore app just released from Samsung.

Enjoy.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BumRush:
Hey guys. I just flashed to Perception build 7 and everything seemed fine. I then flashed over the rogers modem and now I seem to be in a boot loop. Is there a rogers modem that I can flash that works with perception?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
Shouldn't of downgraded to the rogers modem, it doesn't support hsupa, reflash perception7.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raymar23:
Preception ROM

I just want to be sure. I rooted and installed Rom Manager and CWR.

So just to be clear, from what i can understand, to flash Preception7 from my stock Rogers firmware/rom. all I need to do is flash the zip from CWR. Or do i need to flash a modem file too?

Im just used to having an htc magic and only using recovery :confused:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
Yes just flash the zip, but before you do make a backup of all the files in the /efs dir http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=859914&highlight=/efs
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haroonazeem638:
I hope you havent installed launcher pro or any other software like that. I was using launcher pro and was unable to get my phone recognized on kies. When I switched to touch wiz, it got detected right away. weird but thats how I got it to work.:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raymar23:
Thanks for the suggestion. Got it all backed up and now running perception7 :) :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamnMersault:
Rogers APN With Perception 7

Whenever I try and flash perception 7 I find that there are no APNs for Rogers included. And When I try and add an APN it FC's Settings on me. How are you folks getting perception 7 working with data?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raymar23:
APN Settings

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9557507&postcount=899

1. click the link above to download the APN backup

2. install Apn Backup & Restore from market using WIFI

3. extract file above to /sd/apnbackuprestore

4. run apn backup and select Rogers.xml

Worked for me ....

Good Luck!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geokilla:
So now that Android 2.3 is around the corner, anyone heard of any updates on when Rogers will get 2.2?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] froli13:
Calm down, it's simply the SDK that is available by now. It will takes ages before Rogers release an Android 2.3 update (if they do). We're still waiting for froyo...

But I don't think we'll wait too long for a custom ROM for our Captivate after the release of the Nexus S.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamnMersault:
Wow, that's a fail. A whole extra backup app just so I can get data.

Is it worth it to bother upgrading to build 7 from build 4?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gsr168:
I've just notice after using prec 7, when i'm on speedtest the speeds for download and upload have dropped big time.

Did any of you guys notice this too?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabby131:
someone reported about the black screen on the Rogers Captivate.

well......I experienced this one too. with normal usage (rooted with LagFix) my i896 just got stuck on the Rogers Logo with progress dots and after 5 mins, the screen just went blank. the touch keys at the bottom lits up when pressed. i cant call the device. tried removing battery and rebooting but no luck. my only chance is a factory reset, which I took very risky cause the device really cant boot and no way for me to remove the lagfix.

i boot into recovery and just wipe data and cache. the phone successfully reboots afterwards. i did see root is still in. installed oclf and apply lagfix and the "repair/clean lagfix"

it happened to me again last night. just wondering what caused this? i never ever got this or any problems with my att captivate.

thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
Swype on this isn't multi touch right?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SiRDOHC:
The GPS on this device is a joke. Quite often, it fails when I try to locate myself if I am moving in a car or bus. When I am stationary, it locates with some difficulty, and it puts me about 20meters away from where I actually am. Close but no cigar.

Doesn't take a genius to realize to understand why this is useless for turn by turn navigation. Turn by turn navigation is no where near the experience on an actual gps unit. It gets confused rather often because it thinks you are somewhere that you are not. This is my second captivate, both do the same thing.

Otherwise I love this Captivate, and because I hate the alternative to me at the moment (iPhone4). I will have to put up with not having a reliable GPS function on my phone.

Perhaps the long awaited Rogers Froyo release supposedly coming in the next few weeks will solve this issue.

If it doesn't I wonder if we have any rights to a partial refund from Rogers as an advertised function, Simply Doesn't work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oriveradel:
you need these settings for gps to work properly.

The code in froyo is *#*#3214789650#*#*

this code doesn't seem to be disseminated too widely on the forums, spread the word

To apply the work-around, follow these steps:

APP SETTINGS:

Session type: Tracking

Test mode: S/W Test

OP MODE: MS based

Start Mode: Cold Start

GPS +: OFF

Dynamic Accuracy: ON

Accuracy:250

USe Skyhook: OFF

Use PC Tool: OFF

SUPL SETTINGS:

Custom config

supl.google.com

7276

Secure Socket:OFF

SUPL mode: SUPL

Cleared GPS Data, Rebooted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sshvetsov:
I'm gonna try these settings today. I'm not happy with GPS on Rogers Captivate. I am never able to get a good lock while driving in a car, only when stationary and under the clear sky.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silvertag:
We can now drop the ATNT screen !:eek::D big thanks to BTTNext for the fix and reddragon for the standard i896 image.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=849789&page=8
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silvertag:
Samsung said Mid-December, Rogers is saying Q1 2011.

Bell Vibrant got 2.2 (JK4) already
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donrob:
Finally able to flash ROM

I was not able to root the phone using any method until I tried z4root, I just read this today and loaded Cognition.v2..3b6

So far, so good...

Thanks a lot for this!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sshvetsov:
And if you also take into account how long it took Rogers to get the phone out after they announced it, it is safe to assume not until Q3.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mmcavoy:
Okay I'm stuck...I screwed up and installed the wrong kernel.

I am trying to install the stock rogers rom/kernel for my I896 located at the bottom of the page here:

http://xdaforums.com/wiki...axy_S/SGH-I896

It's a zip file which includes the following:

cache.img

data.img

datadata.img

nandroid.MD5

system.img

I put my phone into download mode(wee android guy with a shovel) and run odin3_v1.0. I unzip the rogers file and click on PHONE in odin and select the nandroid.md5 file.

I hit start and then POOF get this message.

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> Enter CS for MD5..

<ID:0/004> MD5 hash value is invalid.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

Am I doing something wrong? Is the original ROM corrupt?

Please help!

This was the best thread I found to put this in....if there is a better one please direct me.

Thanks in advance!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gin032:
Here's what I did...I was all over the place with sooooo much info (and some of it contradictory)...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=867617
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ootz0rz:
Has anyone tried this and can confirm it works?

There's been two things holding me back from pushing a custom rom onto my phone - the at&t start screen issue and the GPS issue.

Also a question - if I make a nandroid backup of my phone and then install a custom rom, if I restore my nandroid backup, does that mean I will get back to the exact state of my phone when I made the nandroid image? I haven't actually had a reason to use it yet, but I'd just like to make sure. Thanks :)

If that link above does indeed fix the at&t screen issue, and I've seen there are some fixes for GPS floating around, then I can finally convince myself to start modding more :o I just want to make sure that, if anything does go very wrong, I can always restore to something I know works.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gdmuscle:
SilverTag, I can't seem to get this thing to work right. I've ODIN the file using the PDA and PIT files and pushed the logo (I896) renamed as logo_ATNT.jpg into /mnt/.lfs but when it boots it gives me the I896 logo and then followed by the AT&T crap? How do we get rid of that at&t, I'm on JI6 from AT&T. When I look into the /mnt/.lfs folder using Root Explorer I still see this file in there with the AT&T logo showing?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _baron:
Heimdall bundle that should restore SGH-i896 back to stock, includes filesystems and param.lfs from a stock phone. Download, unzip, read the readme for heimdall instructions. flash.cmd should do the rest.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L19DLKPY
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
If you're using a custom rom or any rom based on a AT&T phone, then you will get that phone's logo after the i896 splash screen. Nobody has posted yet on how to replace the second splash screen. Replacing the first logo comes in handy when going to stock Rogers for warranty purposes or don't want the AT&T one. If you're going to flash your phone to Rogers then you would get Rogers' instead of the AT&T.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamnMersault:
The second splash screen is replaced in a number of ROMs. Check out the more recent builds of Perception.

What we're replacing with the above steps is the equivalent of the BIOS boot screen. The second AT&T logo is the equivalent of the boot loader boot screen (grub or lilo boot screens, for you linux users out there). After that comes the boot animation, which is the same as OS boot screens/animations. At least, that is my understanding of the situation.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
I only seen 2 on mine so thought there's only 2 we have to deal with. Also if you have the stock Rogers installed I would assume that it will show Rogers logo only and not at&t.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gdmuscle:
Oh ok, I guess that explains the I896 splash on boot then the AT&T white world phone screen. I'm not sure if I want to go flash a rogers on the phone once again. Gee this phone has been flashed back and forth and upside down. I'm not sure if the phone likes to be flashed that many times in a span of less than 2 months I had the phone. I've tried Axura I hated the fact that everytime I had 3g and or Edge signal switch it kept giving a notification, it was driving me nuts.

I'm on At&t leaked Froyo, is there anything that Rogers 2.1 would allow me to do better than Froyo or is there any other Rom based on Froyo that I can flash that would speed up the phone and give more features?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charleszan:
Awesome! This needs to be added to the wiki or something. Thanks

[EDIT]

Not so good after all sorry. :(

Had a lock on in seconds on my first try after these changes but right now I'm still waiting for one after 2 min. :\
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sshvetsov:
These settings seem to make things worse, not better for me. Alas, I don't have an objective way to test them.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gdmuscle:
About the Boot Screen, thanks for the help guys but I figured it out. The boot screen can be flashed with anything you like I booted up with my name on the logo. The At&t splash screen is part also of the ROM that I'm running as was said earlier. Had to flash back to 2.1 Rogers to find out that was the case....

Now to flash other ROMs to see which is best, I've tried Cog, Percept, Axura, just couldn't get comfortable with them. I found the Stock Froyo easier to use for some reason.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oriveradel:
Try the new Samsung app

Samsung has release an app which is working very well for some, should find the link on the forums for download, give a try good luck!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/30/samsung-releases-gps-restore-app-for-captivate-and-other-galax/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sshvetsov:
Thanks, but this app simply restores default factory settings, and they are not so good to begin with.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kkancho:
when you guys flash to other roms like cognition, do you flash to stock rogers or another rom?

and I'm trying to flash to stock rogers but for some reason, odin3 detects my phone when it's on in usb debugging mode but not when i'm in download mode (yellow dude with shovel). any ideas why?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gdmuscle:
kkancho have you checked to see if you have the proper drivers installed? I used to have this happen until I installed the 64bit drivers for Windows 7 64bit. I also right clicked and run as administrator when I launch Odin. Try also pushing the VOLUME UP AND DOWN KEYS simultanously and then insert the USB, is this what you are doing?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kkancho:
oh I figured it out, thanks. Had to do the third method to get download mode to work. Cleaned everything and got Axura installed. Haven't tried GPS but I'm sure it's not going to work ><.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drumega:
need some help folks.

trying to install the GPSFix.zip file using Rom Manager.

I can access the zip file using the "install ROM from SD" option in Rom Manager. I selected 'back up rom' and deselected 'delete cache..." option.

When i click install, it reboots and goes to the system recovery screen. It appears to try and install and then I get the following error message:

E: can't open /cache/update.zip

(bad)

Installation Aborted

Any suggestions?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silvertag:
Do you still have your ROM recovery update.zip in the sd root ?

Did you rename your GPSFix.zip to update.zip by any chance ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drumega:
My update.zip is in the root of my phone's internal sd.

I've left the GPSfix.zip file in my external sd card.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silvertag:
Try it with the GpsFix on your internal sd also.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drumega:
did that and still no luck....any other suggestions anyone?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gdmuscle:
Gpsfix.zip

Try unzipping the file, it should have a readme on there so you can actually install the fix via root manager into the correct folders on the phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drumega:
I unzipped the GPSFix.zip file, but there's no readme.

Do I simply copy all of the files that are in each of the different folders from the zip file into the same folders in my phone? I have Astro File Manager, so I'm guess it should be as simple as that.

Anything specific I need to be aware of before doing this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamnMersault:
That should be all that's necessary. However, I am curious as to how it's failing on you. The general instructions for any CWM'ized zip file are to put it on your internal SD card (you can put it in a folder if you want, to keep stuff organized). Also make sure that the actual update.zip on your SD card contains CWM.

Next, reboot into recovery (either reboot by holding all three buttons, or select it from the power menu if it's supported on your ROM). If you end up in the 2e recovery, select 'reinstall packages' and it should find the CWM update.zip, which will cause your phone to reboot back into 2e recovery, select 'reinstall packages' again and you'll be in the CWM recovery (yes, it takes two 'reinstall packages').

Finally, select 'install zip from sdcard', and it'll take you to a listing of your SD card. scroll to the GPSFix.zip or to the folder it's in, select it, and it'll prompt you asking if you're sure. After that, it should install all the files. Then you just select 'go back' and select reboot the phone from the main CWM menu.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drumega:
how do I know if my Update.zip file contains CMW?

Also, I don't have a "install zip from SD" option in ROM Manager...only "install ROM from SD"
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabby131:
If i896 gets froyo, are there any alternatives in updating other than Kies that gives me headache when connecting?

Rogers is also blank for this subject
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamnMersault:
Aha, I think I see the problem here. ROM Manager != CWM. They are by the same guy, but technically not the same thing. ROM Manager is a userland application that can interact, sort of, with CWM. But CWM is a recovery mode application. It's the Android equivalent of single user mode on a linux machine. ROM Manager can be used to install CWM, but they are not the same thing. Install the GPSFix.zip from CWM, not ROM Manager.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamnMersault:
Also, has anyone tried GPSFix.zip with one of the JK (Bell Vibrant) based ROMs/Modems? I haven't done any testing with GPSFix.zip since Cog2.3b6 or something like that, so I don't honestly know if it still does anything useful with the newer JK based ROMs. Any reports would be great.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silvertag:
No unless they offer a exe package like they did with the HTC Dream/Magic Donut version. This update also included OTA properties and 2.1 was pushed that way but there is still no 2.1 package on their web sites.

Kies is the only way to go, unless someone makes a One-Click updater for 2.2 based on that Kies version. I highly doubt Rogers will push 2.2 as a OTA.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ootz0rz:
This gps fix zip... Does it return the phone to the same gps settings or whatever as stock? I.e. if I flash another rom and use that zip, will my gps work as it does now?

The only thing holding me back from flashing right now is that I use my phone as my main gps unit and can't really deal with having it not working, or not working as well as it does now.

Another related question: if I flash some other custom rom, then at some later date flash to a nan droid backup I have, will it restore all my phone functionality back (including the gps stuff)? I know that the at&t screen will stay on the phone but I don't care as much about that.

I guess what I'm asking is if a nandroid backup is a guaranteed method of returning my phone to how it was when I made the backup?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I896
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silvertag:
Only rollback your nan backup on the same firmware. If you made a stock backup on 2.1 and flashed another 2.2 rom then you need to flash stock again before rolling back. Don't forget to uninstall any lagfix for your backup.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ootz0rz:
Ahh I see... So the stuff nandroid restores/backs up is separate from but dependant on the firmware? So then, if I flash stock it will revert all changes I've made from other roms; not including the start up screen and partition formats?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I896
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hostilebynature:
guys, please help me, ive tried a whole bunch of diferent options to root my phone, including one that has me put update.zip in my /sdcard but i dont even see my phone's sd card mounted...

z4root is no longer available, ive spent all kinds of time reading threads and im stuck, can someone please point me in the right direction?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xgodx1234:
I was able to root through the one click root program on my rogers captivate

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=803682

I followed these instructions and it worked perfectly

Turn USB Debugging OFF

Plug in phone

Click Root

When it says: Waiting for Device,

Unplug phone, Turn USB Debugging ON

Plug usb in

It'll now run RATC

When it says: Starting ADB Server...

Turn USB Debugging OFF

Turn USB Debugging ON

Turn USB Debugging OFF

All BEFORE it says "Waiting for device..." again - essential part, you have to have fast fingers

then done
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hostilebynature:
man i tried that so many times, i cant turn debugging on or off without unplugging the cable, so should i unplug that cable right away then turn it off, plug the cable back in, then take the cable out and turn it back on?