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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hey guys im going to need someone with a roger's captivate to test our latest Htc sense build, i want to make sure it works/has the same issues as the other gsm variants lol, this person has to know how to use adb/cwm/odin and knows the risk of flashing firmwares/kernels, i will choose one person only, from my pms, who ever i choose i will reply back another pm with the details etc.

Rafyvitto

Team Galaxy Sense
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zsolander:
hey man im extremely new at this, i read all the post and still having trouble flashing back to rogers rom. can you please let me know how to apply the rom and the firmware, i downloaded them both but dont know how to use them. All i wanna do is to just get back to how my phone looked when i got it from rogers in vancouver just 2 weeks ago not this stupid at&t crap:(. Plz help me out id really appreciate it:) thanx a lot guys!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lertets:
Unfortunately I was never ever able to get it back to the way I got mine from Rogers. My GPS hasn't really ever worked since I moved away from the stock rogers rom. Even returning to it didn't fix it.

Just follow the instructions as you've stated them above. Read up on using odin here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731989

But use the PIT and PDA file from:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=818439

I noticed a few posts above you that there is work being done on getting the old SGH-I896 bootlogo back up. I suggest looking back here once in a while cause it looks like their pretty close to getting it back.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sniperIT:
So is there someone looking to make a One-Click downloader for a Rogers stock?

My guess is that would fix both the GPS and bootlogo issues.

I would volunteer myself but unfortunately i've already flashed the ATT froyo (and now back to Rogers with the ATT bootlogo).

Just curious as to whether there is any update on this.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
we have no 'official ' nor leaked firmware , all you see inhere are dumps and roms no real firmwares , once 2.2 is released/ leaked for Rogers ( pretty soon last I heard ) we ll have an official one then we will be able to revert back ..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sniperIT:
Ok cool, patience is the key here I guess.

Thank you for the info.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mik101:
You guys hit the nail on the head. For the most part other than tinkering with current cognition releases I've pretty much resorted to convincing my friends (testers) to just stick with cognition for now (some have applied the gps fix and are completely happy). Once there is an actual firmware release to compare everything to we should really be able to get cooking. A lot of it has been guesswork up until now based on what people have learned from ATT and other global versions.

As sniperIT said -- patience is key. The phone isn't slipping from high end (IMO -- most users aren't going to need multicore phones and battery is going to blow anyways haha). There will be lots of development for Rogers users I'm sure and it will be quite a while before the phone becomes obsolete.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
agree , from my short 1 year experience with Android phone I notice Development picks up around 6 month after release and another 6 month and its pretty much at its peak ( take the nexus for example ( official Froyo on it gave it a big boost), the i897 has about 6 month and we can see development for it is getting there, and with all them portable versions i9000 vibrant etc , I see a good future in store for us , Official Froyo release will give a boost to all development and I predict the next 6 month t be realfun , not to mention all them GINGERBREAD mods that will be ported once its released !!!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vancouverguy:
Can the AT&T ROM get data from Rogers or Fido?

Quick question:

I have an unlocked Captivate from AT&T (U.S. phone ) but I am in Vancouver, Canada and using Fido as my celluar provider.

Phone works great.

HOWEVER, I just added a data-plan to my Fido services and my phone does not receive data. Is this because this is a U.S. phone? Do I need to flash the phone with a Rogers ROM (thus, making it an unlocked Roger's phone I suppose?).

What is the difference between the Rogers ROM and the AT&T ROM anyway? I noticed that the AT&T has a lot of bloatware (which I removed) and the startup screen and it doesn't allow sideloading of apps.

Does the Rogers ROM allow for side loading?

At anyrate, any help with the data-plan issue is appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
Did you try checking if the APN setting matches that from fido? Don't know what the setting for Fido is but internet.com for Rogers works.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
+1

internet.fido.ca

fido/fido

is all you need
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geokilla:
Hey guys, how's your signal? I'm getting pretty poor signal at certain locations compared to my Sony Ericsson W715, such as my basement (known for poor signal) and at school where even when I have 2 or 3 bars in certain areas, I can't use any network functions.

Is there a way to improve the signal?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
At work in etobicoke and 2 blocks from our house in Thornhill, 3G signal is crappy on mine but Edge is at full bar on both sites. At home 3G and Edge are at full bars even when down the basement. Guess it depends on how far you are from the cell towers.

Don't know if you can improve the signal through software.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
I recommend you get a widget that will tell you exact streght of your signal they are free in the market , you will have a much more accurate idea of your TRUE signal ..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gsr168:
Hi Guys,

I'm new to the forums

I need to revert my phone back to stock Rogers Rom from Cog after the screen got messed up and needs to be returned for warranty. I've read the forums and can't find a post shows the steps to unroot and stock rom restore

Regards

Phil
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
There isn't one, closest you'll get to one is in this thread but it'll still show the att logo upon bootup http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=846501
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geokilla:
How do you guys check like that? I just look at the bars and the phone status info page. I'm guessing you guys are using the widget that DAGr8 is talking about? And what's the optimal dBm?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raymar23:
Stock Rogers Files

Ok, I have a stock Captivate, all I have done is install root via "z4root" (lagfix not even installed yet), so do i just copy the files using "Root Explorer" to SD? im not new to android but just wanted to be sure as to what you guys would like

Anyway for me to backup the entire phone (firmware/rom)...im willing to to do a full wipe for you guys to get a clean rom/firmware, just not sure how to do it, and yes i can get into recovery...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
So i was having problems with my phone (gallery) and the volume rocker was stuck so rogers sent me a new phone.

Im very busy right now and i need to send back my old captivate within a few days. How would i back everything up from that phone and install it on the new captivate instead of re downloading all my apps.

Also my battery (old phone) has be complete garbage lately (losing 10% an hour), im not sure if its because of my settings, anyone experience battery loss this bad?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
Titanium backup for apps, mybackup for contacts/sms/bookmarks and such.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gdmuscle:
Boot Logo

Wow seems everyone is busy trying to get this stupid AT&T logo to go away. This is AT&T's way to have their branding stay no matter what we do, it is actually a bin file that is loaded when the AT&T oneclick file is used. I've flashed the Eugene Tmobile Vibrant ROm and it actually killed the AT&T logo, but I was on the Vibrant which didn't work very well with my phone for some reason. It was branded with the Tmobile Startup Animation but that was easily taken out. THe only problem was it branded it as a Vibrant which I believe that was hard coded into the Rom file.

I hope someone gives it a try to see if it works better on their phone mine seemed to have slowed completely and at times it lagged so much touching any icon didn't do anything but freeze the phone for seconds at a time.

Someone has to figure out which file gets loaded into the At&t ROm and redo the oneclick ROm file so that it actually doesn't load up that bit of code when we flash our phones.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bcmonke:
Data Question

Hey guys, got my Captivate launch week and just got around to flashing to the newest Cog recently. Rooting etc. went just fine. Thanks to the forum here I got the GPS up and running again smoothly... though not as good as stock. Anyways, here's my question and I'm sorry if its been covered. Ive been flipping through this post and I can't remember anything specific.

My Data is much slower now. Stuck with just base 3g instead of having the H show up. Is that what the moden.bin is all about? Sorry again if this has been covered guys, its a bit of an information overload to flip through 80pages of posts.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Betray:
Well now that its gone, can you flash back to stock rogers ROM and see how it acts now?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tayeule:
Hey

Tried flashing the zip from SD with rom manager / clockwork recovery.

Phone rebooted and started to install but stopped with error message:

verifying update package...

E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E:signature verification failed

-- Applying Multi-CSC...

installing multi-CSC

installation aborted

at that point I tried reinstall package same results

rebooted back to my busted GPS

I'm not on Cog tho. This is a rogers cap with the AT&T froyo release. lag-fixed and rooted

ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
Hey i've been trying to root this thing and i know the first time i did it on my first phone it took a while, but its been two hours and it just says waiting for device. The phone is in debugging mode and the sd is unmounted. Should i just keep waiting or or something wrong?:confused:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
I think you should mount the sd card if using the one-click method.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geokilla:
You can root using RyanZa's Z4root.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
All the instructions say Unmount but for all i know you might be right; Ill give that a try. This phone is brand new so i'm not worried about losing any info on it since there is none.

Also when rooting are we suppose to use Universal? Because there samsung captivate tab only shows "get unlock codes" but it doesnt work with the 896.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
When I was rooting mine, the program kept running for quite awhile because it can't detect the phone so what I did is mount it as storage and in just couple of seconds it's rooted.

The first time the thread was created, the unlocking works but as you said mostly with i897 so I guess Samsung did something so that it will not be repeated for us Canucks. Anyway, I read another thread where the unlock seems to work and it refers to this site. I never tried it though because I'm not going anywhere else with almost 3 years of contract with Rogers. Also be aware that there is a warning that it might brick your phone so read a lot concerning the method before diving in.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
This is what i did and it worked but it froze when trying to install the superuser.apk, but i dont really need that so i dont mind.

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

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
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Canada_Will:
I seem to be having this issue as well. It was going to sleep (wifi sleep policy was sleeping when screen off) when I first got the phone though.

I'm wondering if some app has messed things up and a factory reset is needed.

Anyone else have this issue and find a workaround? Other than a reboot.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geokilla:
Make sure you have the sleep policy set correctly. I was able to fix the WiFi bug by rooting and installing RyanZa's OCLF. The OCLF included a neat little side program where I could change the WiFi sleep policy from 15 minutes after the screen turned off to the desired setting I want, which in my case was 15 seconds. Usually, it fixed the bug as the WiFi would turn off. The few times I noticed abnormal battery drain and thinking the WiFi didn't turn off, I just rebooted the phone. Give that a try. Hope it works for you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
So rogers sent me another captivate because my old one has some issues. I have to send it back soon. I was wondering if anyone knew what would happen if i kept the headphones and the usb cable.... or even the battery, god knows i could use two batteries with this phone haha :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Canada_Will:
What did you use to root your Rogers Captivate?

So the WiFi sleep policy when set to "when screen off" actually waits 15 minutes by default?

How long after the screen goes off does it enter sleep mode? I don't know where to set this or if its possible.

Maybe it is working....I keep checking after a minute or two and not waiting 15 to see if the WiFi shuts off when the screen goes dark.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
I would assume that Rogers will charge you the full price for each items.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edgevision:
Not sure how, but my Rogers Captivate seems to be semi-bricked.

What I did:

- Rooted

- Followed Wolf unlock guide (with nv_data.bin) so I could use Telus SIM

- Had working system but terrible reception

- Flashed CWM

- Flashed AXURA ROM (which includes JK3 modem)

- Booted up, no radio. Baseband said Unknown and IMEI said null/null.

- Flashed back to Rogers Stock 2.1 + JI2 radio (stock.)

- Baseband coming up, IMEI coming up (albeit the spoofed one mentioned earlier in this thread)

- In Status menu it says "Radio off". No matter what I do I can't get it to turn on.

If this isn't a defective phone, then my faith has been 100% shaken towards Android hacking in general. I had no problems with my G1, Hero or Bell Vibrant that I couldn't solve.

Don't know what to do..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
Flash to stock using this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731989
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ef9jeff:
that one click fix for rogers phones doesnt work well at all. Every time i use it, it puts my phone in boot loop... and to top that off i lose 3 button download mode so now i have a home made jig! i havent even had this phone a week and ive been through like 8 roms and already had to make a jig. Canadian support sucks but maybe thats why were getting froyo first lol!

edgevision::

where are you located, if your in the lower mainland of bc, i can put you on the rom I am on which is half cognition and half stock captivate. It seems to be working pretty good, gps isnt entirely accurate but it does work, and the battery life seems to be pretty damn good... im a moderate user and I am getting about 2 days on a full charge. If your not in the lower mainland of bc, then i can try to tell you where to get all the files and you can attempt to flash your phone yourself to the rom I am on.

I am contemplating going back to a nexus one, just cause in my own honest opinion, that was the best android phone ever made, it may not have the best graphics processor, but the hardware and functionality of the phone was almost near perfect.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
wow you seem to be very unllucky I have oneclick using this app about 100 times and it works just perfect on my i896
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] betadan:
At first i had a problem flashing the i896 odin , what i did was flash the default i897 odin, then flash the i896 over top. sure i have the ATT boot screen for a brief moment, but really how often do you reboot our phone?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
Is this normal?

Im using quick settings to kill wifi and data

Brightness low (well off when im sleeping) I was sleeping from 4 - 10 and i lost like 30%!

Auto sync is off

Having same issue with my old captivate. So its obviously me causing the battery drain but i dont know why. :(

Oh and around 11pm i was playing pokemon so that explains the big drop at that time but around 1pm i was simply using Android Wifi Manager, i didnt think it would murder my battery like that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
Maybe you have the wifi bug where even when you set it to sleep, yet doesn't do so?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
Data is off though. Plus in advanced settings i set it to kill wifi when screen is off. In Ryans OCLF i set wifi to turn off within 15 seconds of screen off. So i dont see how after all that it could still be on.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zsolander:
ok thanx guys i guess ill just wait for the rogers update and have a nice clean phone when i update. ill just have to live with it for now even though my phone works perfectly fine...but dam i hate this logo :P
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Canada_Will:
Does anyone have a fix for the wifi bug? This is the 4th Rogers Captivate user I've seen with this now.

Going to be starting a separate thread on here soon maybe someone can figure out which process is causing a partial wakelock when you enable WiFi.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
But i really dont think this is a wifi bug tho. When i checked partial usage the phone was running for about 70% +, i thought with the wifi bug it ran 100% of the time. This might be something else. I might just back up and do a reset.

Also, today i just figured out how to use titanium to backup my apps, but restoring them takes forever. I need to install and click done for every app. Is there a faster way to install the apps without having me click on install for each one?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Canada_Will:
But did you turn on WiFi immediately after it started up?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
I dont recall to be honest. I most likely did, i usually like to turn off 3g and primarly use wifi.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petrichor8:
I wanted the same thing, as I got tired of clicking 'ok' for an hour to get my apps back.

answer: buy tiBu pro key, totally worth it, one-click restore!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xyanide14:
I'm confused guys. How can I load roms on the rogers captivate?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
the same way you load them on any captivate, read all the forums
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xyanide14:
I am kind of aware of that. As far as i know there are no roms available for the i896 hence why i asked.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
My reply was mean to be interpreted in such a way that the roms made work on the rogers capi just fine.

I recommend di11 ROM IT IS FAST AS **** STABLE AND amazing battery life... Cognition is the beige of roms.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonieryan:
I loaded Perception build 5 last night on my wife's new i896.

Here's the procedure I followed:

- Rooted (using update.zip method)

- Backed up stock ROM using ROM Manager and Clockwork Mod Recovery

- Flashed Perception build 5 using ROM Manager

Everything has worked out ok, except I still haven't inserted a SIM card (wife is waiting for this thing to be all set up before she migrates from her current dumb-phone).

1) I never backed up the APN settings for Rogers. Is it still possible to insert them into Perception?

2) How do I reflash the stock ROM that I backed up? And when I do will I still see the AT&T logo?

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
1.) APN settings can be entered manually. That should be the first thing you need to set up as you won't be able to access the internet ( if you have data plan ) if you don't.

2.) Boot into recovery mode ( with phone turned off, press up/down vol keys then insert usb cable ) then use clockwork to restore the stock but unfortunately, the AT&T logo will still be there even if the restore to stock Rogers is successful. I haven't read of a way to remove that logo from a stock Rogers restore.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonieryan:
Thanks!

For #2: Is that procedure identical to going into ROM Manager and restoring to Rogers ROM that way?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonieryan:
Where is the Roger's modem file and what is the procedure to flash it on top of a ROM?

I flashed my wife's i896 with Perception build 5 last night. Maybe a little hastily, because all I did was a ROM backup using ROM Manager. Maybe I needed to back up other settings (APN, modem) etc.??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
Exactly the same thing!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theMaDHakkeR:
Hey guys,

I just got the Rogers Captivate, switched from Sony Xperia X10.....

The difference is night and day lol. I just wanted to point out that all im running is the stock Rogers Rom with z4Root and Lag Fix and im loving it. I had Froyo on my X10 and aside from the flash player support i dont see any need to put the ATT rom on my Captivate, or any ATT based Rom for that matter.

Reading through some posts i see that currently there is no way to get the ATT splash screen off so i think ill hold off until some creative devs start working on some rogers Roms. It also looks like Rogers included 2.2 features in their rom because tether and some other features are not in the stock 2.1 ATT Roms.

The only issue i have with this phone is the shutting down every 5 min if the battery is over 75% so i use keepalive which sucks, but coming from an X10, im a happy camper.

All in all, ill keep checking back to see new progress and loving the phone so far.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JStar1033:
Anyone with custom rom on rogers captivate able to lock on their general location without using gps or wifi? Aka network location.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonieryan:
I've flashed Perception build 5, and now when I go to Settings->Wireless and network->Mobile networks->Access Point Names I get a dialog box saying "APN Empty: Add an APN?". When I select OK in this dialog box something crashes and I get an error dialog box stating that "The application Settings (process com.android.settings) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."

Any ideas? I'm not getting 3G with Rogers and need to add APN settings to make it work.

How does one debug such an issue?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] or.saeros:
Nevermind.....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonieryan:
Does any one here have a stock Captivate on Rogers? Any chance you could please install "APN Backup" and do a backup and then upload the XML to the forum?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kainth01:
Here you go.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonieryan:
Thanks! Also found it in another thread and I'm up & running.

I also had to install app SmsFixTimes and set it to +5 because incoming texts were all 5 hours behind.

GPS works great on mine. I flashed Perception build 5 right over the stock firmware and LBSTestMode shows a lock of 8-9 satellites with an accuracy of 5 meters. That's as good as my in-car Kenwood DNX9960 Garmin nav.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
its here in this particular thead do a search for modem, and you need ODIN to flahs iton top , btw I am no using JK3 modem it roks , and yes you do need your apn settings