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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mik101:
Please take the time to read the thread. The short answer is yes, but the long answer is no. You'll need to read a lot to learn how to fix your phone should something bad happen. There is nothing out there that is a fool-proof 2.2 for the I896 yet.

I'm working on one that I'll test on my friends phone before I post -- I had posted a first test version but it was still buggy and reported as an ATT captivate etc. I would definitely just wait.

PS> The captivate i test with does that with my router once in a while (on 2.1 and 2.2). The router is a linksys wrt160n.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackense:
Boot Loop

Hi guys ive read through just about everything i could and couldn't really find a solution to my problem. I tried installing a mod for the notification icons via clockwork recovery, and now my phone freezes after the I896 screen. I can get back into ClockworkMod Recovery and have a backup on my computer, but I don't know how to get it from my comp back onto my phone for recovery.

Any help is appreciated
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhrProfess:
oops.

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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agroberman:
Thanks for looking into this. I'm a first-time Android user, and jumped right into things by trying to apply the voodoo lagfix to my Rogers I896, first thing it did was try to boot (with the AT&T logo), but never got past the splash screen.

Next thing I did was odin flash stock at&t (with 3 button fix), then found about from this thread about odin flash of stock rogers. I flashed the Rogers stock, and it worked, but I'm still stuck with the AT&T splash screen. Any help would be appreciated.

-Alex
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BumRush:
Sigh. We are able to change so much with our phones and yet something as minor as changing the boot screen is a problem. Funny how things are sometimes.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
The boot problem after using the repartition option seems to be that /dev/block/stl10 is borked. /dev/block/stl10 is mounted on /dbdata. I dumped my AT&T /dev/block/stl10 and added it to the Rogers pda file and got rid of the error when it tries to mount /dev/block/stl10, but I still get dumped to recovery when the phone boots, just with no error message. I'd like to see what would happen if I had a dump of a Rogers firmware's /dev/block/stl10, but I guess it holds user data, so someone would have to be willing to clear all user data before dumping it. On second thought, clearing data seems to format /stl10, so the contents of dbdata are probably not the problem.

I also flashed the Rogers param.lfs and sbl.bin, but it made no difference.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agroberman:
Thanks hey_joe, BumRush, opcow, and everyone else trying to get to the bottom of this splash screen issue.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
Update: I added the the Rogers sbl.bin and param.lfs to the pda.tar along with a dump of my dbdata.rfs (dumped on my AT&T phone while running the Rogers firmware). I flashed that using the repartition option and got a working phone, but I also got the AT&T logo back.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swapnil:
I have a backup from CWR when my Captivate had stock Rogers. Would that help?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lertets:
gps still not working

i got the phone a week ago and had a working GPS. I flashed to the cognition rom and recently flashed back to the Rogers ROM however my GPS is not working as well as it used to.

I also did the factory reset that was suggested a few posts up but it still didn't work. I replaced

/system/etc/jupiter.xml

/system/etc/gps.conf

/data/gps/secgps.conf

with the ones from the jupiter thread while I was using the cognition rom. Do these files get replaced with the stock ones when I switched back to the rogers rom?

If not can someone please post up these files from stock?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
Can both files be found on the phone itself or have to get them from an image? Tried searching using root explorer but turns up nothing on my restored Rogers backup.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
I have the one that was posted in this thread.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
param.lfs is a j4fs filesystem image. It gets written to /dev/block/stl6 and gets mounted on /mnt/.lfs. sbl.bin is written to /dev/block/bml4.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
Sorry for the bother, would you mind posting the command to extract them off? Still feeling adventurous :)

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
dd if=/dev/block/stl6 of=/sdcard/param.lfs bs=4096

dd if=/dev/block/bml4 of=/sdcard/sbl.bin bs=4096​
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
Thanks, time to do some experiment again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
It's saying there is no such file or directory. Checked path using root explorer and yep there's no file there only a folder called " Vold " and it's empty as well. Maybe I'm doing it wrong or looking in the wrong place?

Is it possible to just let me have copies of the one you got? That is if you still have them around.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Subrock:
wow, I'm at the end of my rope with my captivate right about now. after spending the better part of the day trying to connect to my PC I am still stuck!

I've done everything under the sun, tried all drivers, tried their built in installers, tried getting windows to find them, tried all USB modes, tried kies, everything...

where I am now: I had it rooted and lagfixed, for some reason windows recognized the phone yesterday long enough for me to get that far. I thought the ext2 file system might be what was throwing off windows, so I formatted the internal SD card. nada. at that point I just restored everything to stock because I lost my lagfix and I was going to have to start fresh anyway. now when I try to do the superoneclickroot It just hands at the waiting for device because windows cant see it. the drivers wont let me reinstall on my pc anymore because they say the modem drivers are already installed and I need to remove them.

the only way I have to get anything onto my phone is through bluetooth. I saw some root methods that involved putting a file called "update.zip" on your internal storage, can I do that with a rogers rom and not **** it up? any sage advice on how I can go about getting rid of all of the conflicting drivers on my pc?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] integrasaurus:
Have you tried mounting your phone? If not, try to connect your phone again, pull down the pull down menu, and mount your phone. Your computer should see it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Subrock:
the mount option definitely doesnt come up. I have literally been reading and trying stuff for about 10 hours now.

one thought I did have was about USB power and perhaps my laptop isnt supplying enough. every time I try to install the driver it comes up as a composite hub and when I try to unistall/change it I get either a device could not start error, or an error 43 which if I remember correctly is device is not compatible. I never see the other type of driver that some people say they see (MVE or MPE or something) always just composite hub.

edit: code 43, windows has stopped this device because it has problems.

(is it maybe faulty hardware? although I did get it to connect at least in debugging mode last night.)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheShamsMan:
Question

Does anyone know why there is no integrated voice control on this phone? Is it possible to enable?

Does anyone know how to remove the Roger's bloatware?

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koreancanuck:
Assuming you are rooted, install Titanium Backup and uninstall the system apps you desire.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
There's no file where? What you are doing is dumping those two block devices to files. Where you put them doesn't matter, but on the stock Rogers firmware the internal SD card is mounted to /sdcard on froyo try /mnt/sdcard. And don't have the SD card mounted in windows when trying to access it from a shell on the phone, of course.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] froli13:
For voice control, you need Android 2.2 (FroYo)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dd':
Hi guys. I have really ****ty download/upload speeds on my phone - like worse than I had on my old Xperia. Is there anything I can do to get better speeds - mod etc?

I'm rooted/lagfix'd but I doubt that makes any difference.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
Ooops, made a mistake there as it was mounted when I tried to find them. Fixed it now and got the files. Just last one please, how to dump the dbdata.rfs.

Thanks again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
It's /dev/block/stl10.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
Dumped the file but it's way too big at 131 Mb. Is that right?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
Are you sure it isn't 1.31 MB?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] integrasaurus:
Have you already selected the mass storage option when you plug in your usb?

Your situation sounds frustrating as hell. Try another computer? I wish I could help you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clemix:
cellunlock.net

anyone tried this to unlock your rogers captivate?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
I'm sure. It's more than half the factory.rfs size. Just to make sure I'm invoking the command right, typed it as below.

dd if=/dev/block/stl10 of=/sdcard/dbdata.rfs bs=4096
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
I don't know, but the one I have from a freshly flashed phone is 1.31 MB.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
ok so from what I read using froyo rom , I will get the usual problems + that damn aT&T logo ( I dotn want that)

running custom kernel is completely undoable right ?

should be but , I might return the device so wanna be 100% sure ..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
Has anyone been able to get a custom boot-up animation on rogers stock?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
yes somewhere in this thread is the how to link :P

actually just found it so lucky you no need to search .

su
cp /sdcard/[filelocation]/[bootanimation-name].zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
reboot
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m37h:
Just another user stuck with AT&T splash screen after flashing back to Rogers stock ROM. Cognition 2.2 is fun and all, but the GPS isn't as good as Rogers' stock. Rogers' stock ROM rocks ... GPS lock in under 10 seconds most of the time.

I guess I'll live with AT&T splash screen until someone figure out how to get rid of it ... or better yet replace it :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
That seems to be one of the good things of the rogers modem, pity it doesn't support hsupa, then it would be perfect.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Subrock:
Yup, tried that too. One thing I did notice is that the first time I paused it in when I git the phone it asked me how I wanted to connect (because I had that option checked obviously) and it would also tell me to disconnect before changing modes

like it knew that it was plugged in. now it knows when its got power, but gives no indication that it knows that its connected.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
well I tried and no luck . first of all flashing i9000 kernel never booted for me (and it did put the att splash screen there , then I could never restore my backup ( stuck on att splash screen) using odin worked .. so I m now having fun testing the roms ..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Subrock:
Do I need a specific update.zip made for the i896 to be able to restore my phone's rom? is there any way to get it back to stock without using a USB connection? (I do have the ability to get files onto the device via bluetooth though, I'm just not able talk to it via USB.)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eliteowner:
I am using my unlocked rogers captivate but cant seem to connect to the internet browser. I have already set up my APN settings and the GPS works, market works, any application that uses the internet works.... I am finding it very odd that my browser does not work... it says the web page is not available, and i have tried many different webpages and it all results in the same. If I use wi-fi to surf the net it works fine. Any suggestions??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhrProfess:
Ahh, USB connection can be very finicky. (Perhaps your port is faulty? The most reliable USB ports are located on the back of your tower.) I have some steps for you to try. Head into:

-Main settings menu » Applications » Development » uncheck USB debugging

-Go back one » into USB settings » check Ask on connection

-Reboot phone

-After startup, and while at the home screen, connect USB cable

-Should see a popup menu on phone with three items; hit Mass storage

-Pull down notification menu, tap USB, and select option "Mount". Voilà

If that doesn't work, then I highly recommend you:

-Disconnect your phone

-Uninstall all samsung/PDANet/Kies drivers on your box

-Reboot your machine

-Install PDANet drivers [will ask to connect phone to complete install; do so]

-Disconnect device and reboot your machine, and it [to be sure]

-Connect your phone

-Select from pop-up menu "Mass storage" option

-Pull down Notification menu; tap USB and select option "Mount"

If at any point you get a USB-connected notification sound from Windows, and menus pop up asking what to do because it recognizes "New Hardware", select "Install drivers automatically"—and if you get a "This software has not passed Windows verification" warning, select "Continue anyway". I got three such popups, and then more once connected in USB debugging mode. Try accessing the device without reboots after all auto-installs have run their course, and if still no dice, then after and with reboots.

Sometimes after reboots, second and third "New hardware" menus pop up, and they will be different ones. Some will complete, others may return "Windows cannot find appropriate drivers for device" responses. For those latter ones, you'll need other driver packages (Kies, android SDK), but you may be able to access and mount your device anyway (don't forget to have "ask on connection" enabled in the Settings menu, and to select Mount, and to pull down the Noti' menu and press Mount there, too. If you get that far, you should be golden). Plugging in with USB debugging enabled may yield yet another prompt to install drivers.

After all is said and done, and if you've still no luck, do a full install of Android SDK, and setup the paths à la cette. Once installed and configured, pull up a regular command-prompt (Start » Run » cmd » <enter>), and input the command "adb devices", with your phone connected and with USB debugging enabled. See if a serial number is returned. Report back if this is as far as you get.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m37h:
How did you unlock your rogers captivate and how did you test it? (I'd like to unlock mine too)

What APN did you use? Are you using internet.com or the rogers-core-appl1.apn?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Subrock:
wow, thanks for writing all this out, I really appreciate it :). none of this worked, but it did help me narrow down my issue to either the handset or the cable. PDAnet wont recognize that there is even a device attached, and my phone will not allow me to choose how to connect even with that option selected. it also doesnt ask me to disconnect when switching modes which it was doing right when I got it. maybe I should attempt to get a warranty replacement, or even see if I can test it against one in a store and make sure it isnt the hardware.

I'd like to try recovering before I try to take it back anywhere so I remove any traces of root but I'm not sure how to re-rom it without USB connection. any ideas? can I just select the appropriate option from the recovery menu or do I need an appropriate update.zip to use?

edit: I should also add, I've tried 2 pcs and a mac and none of them can find the correct drivers and/or find the device and the device does nothing when connected.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m37h:
I'd say the cable. Did you try with another cable?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Subrock:
not yet, I havent found anything with such a small connector around the house yet.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Subrock:
did another couple hours of stuff and still nothing. uninstalled launcher pro because some people were reporting conflicts. tried to find the device with usbdeview and the androidsdk, nothing. I'm convinced the problem is on the device end, not the windows side.

i'd really really like to know if anyone can tell me what to do to get back to real true bona fide stock. can I just do it through recovery?(I've tried that once and I dont think it fixed anything but maybe I need to change my approach). or does someone have an i896 update.zip that I can use to get this going. odin wont work because it cant contact the phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m37h:
I think you really need to get the connection problem resolved, from all your descriptions, it's either your cable or your phone (as you mentioned earlier), go to a Rogers store or ask a friend to test with another cable.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonsered:
Unlocked!

Hi. I would first like to say that I am completely new to smartphones, sim cards, unlocking, rooting etc. but I have managed to successfully unlock my Rogers Captivate phone.

You will need to root your phone for this to work. I used impulser91's method and files in the Step by Step for Rooting Rogers Captivate (I896) thread (post 14).

I then followed the directions at communityhosting.net/sgsunlock/.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dandroid123:
i896 ram

has anybody else noticed that this i896 from rogers only has 325m of ram...or is this only my phone? i thought these were suppose to have 512m?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rnewton01:
I believe eclair doesn't support ram higher than this so that is all that shows.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tony2345:
Perhaps the method used to unlock some of the other Galaxy S phones don't work, but this phone CAN be unlocked.

You get the unlock code from some website (after giving them your IMEI) and they give you the unlock code and some instructions for entering it. Done. Should cost about $10 and take 5 minutes.

This is the normal method for GSM. Works for every GSM phone I've ever come across (other then the iPhone, of course, but Steve owns those even after you pay him so what do you expect).

Can anyone tell me any GSM phone for which this doesn't work?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enhanced:
The rest is allocated to the CPU/GPU.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lertets:
megaupload

is anybody else having trouble downloading the stock rogers PDA from megaupload?

I managed to do it at my friends house in Vancouver but couldn't do it from my place in surrey, or at my work.

I'm having issues with my current setup. I restored the rogers rom by first one click restoring back to the 2.1 AT&T rom and then odin flashing to the rogers rom.

My GPS is still not working as it used to and my battery meter isn't operating correctly. Have you got any ideas on anything I can do to get this fixed?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkurzum:
Same here, I spent all night trying to download it, it stops at 6.4 megs....

any mirrors out there?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
If GPS is not working or is the ****s and you flashed AT&T ROM then the Rogers one you now need to do a factory reset. Please note this will delete all conatacs and calendars etc...... (backup first or write all the info down first). Do this, my GPS was terrible after doing what you did but now it's back to amazing. Lock in 2 seconds.

1. Settings

2. Privacy

3. Factory data reset

After it's all done reboot your Captivate and check your GPS now. Let us know how it goes, it fixed mine and others.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
MegaUpload

Heard some people are having issues downloading from my MegaUpload. I have a free account with them and they stopped people from downloading it after 200 times. Geez lot's of people wanted it lol. I am uploading the Stock RON and Firmware again. Will post once uploading is complete.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lertets:
Thanks for the advice Sean,

I tried this and it did not work. However I want to give it one more shot. I did the following yesterday while I was at my friends house, please look it over and make sure the procedure was correct:

1. Use Odin and flash back to stock AT&T Android 2.1. Checked the re-partition box.

2. Use Odin and flash using the Rogers PDA file (Unchecked the re-partition box) from the Megaupload link I'm having trouble downloading from right now.

3. Once booted into the Rogers rom do a factory reset. When I did this it looked exactly like it did when I got the phone from rogers. However the GPS was not working as well as it did before.

What I was going to try when I got home was using the Odin one click so I could do the master reset. Before re-doing all of the above. Do you think this will accomplish anything?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
Sounds almost the same as what I did except that I never checked the re-partition box. Try the master reset you have nothing to lose, then trying loading the ROM and flash the firmware after. Let me know i'm interested to hear what happens. Beyond that I can't help much more as my father has my Captivate and i've only got my Nexus. MegaUpload files will be ready very soon, next 20 mins max.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
Mega Upload new links Stock ROM/Firmware I896

Rogers Captivate Stock Firmware - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BD2EF4WF

Rogers Captivate Stock ROM - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=03X7E4UW

Update:

Mega Upload will only allow for 200 downloads then they take it down since I have a free account so get it while you can.:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lertets:
thanks sean, downloading now. will report back when I get home.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vorde1:
Hello,

I managed to get my phone back from the dead after I flashed my i896 with the ATT i897 Cognition 2.3b3 firmware.

Had to use Odin, and download mode to do it though, and I still have a few glitches going on.

AT&T World Mobile Screen comes up for 1/2 second before it says i896 and boots to the Samsung Galaxy S intro video, and Rogers screen before going in. When I turn it off, the touch screen stays awake for another 20 seconds or so (touching it causes the home button and such to light up).

Any idea what's going on?

I'm glad I have it working again so it's not a big deal, just wanna know if someone has any insite on what this is :confused:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
silly me maybe but can you explain me the diffrence between rom and firmware ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
no such things as silly questions here lol. Check this out. http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/topic/72039-galaxy-s-whats-the-difference-between-rom-and-firmware/