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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wowzur:
Uh oh...

Hey guys,

I just got this phone today and decided to act like a jackass, and now I feel like I'm up **** creek without a paddle. My original intention was to run vanilla android on this phone, so I rooted the phone only to find that vanilla android was missing from the website (where it was supposed to be). I decided to try out the cognition rom, bearing in mind this was my first time rooting/flashing all that good junk. There was an error with the phone after the flash (a some persistent hanging issues) so I decided to try to revert to the stock rogers rom (because while it wasn't perfect it was certainly better than the AT&T version).

I then proceeded to do the one click unroot (odin or w.e) only to realize it restored me to the AT&T version! Now I have no idea how to revert back to stock rogers captivate ROM or reroot because every time I connect the USB the USB logo appears and takes over the screen, which prohibits me from mounting the SD card --> so I can't add the necissary files for rooting! I would LOVE to flash vanilla android on this bad boy but at the moment I would GLADLY settle for stock Rogers.

I know I ****ed up, I didn't read everything which ****ed me over big time, but any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m37h:
You're not the 1st one, find the "how to" several pages back, someone created one.

Just to be clear: basically your phone currently is not working at all, correct?

If yes, you'll have:

1. Find the "how to"

2. get Odin v3 with the appropriate PIT file

3. get the Rogers ROM (I think sean just uploaded one)

4. know how to go to the download mode (the yellow page with the shovel)

It's all in this thread (maybe in other threads as well), you just have to search for a bit.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
thanks, but well... I knew that already

since we are at it and that I can quote your source ;) let's clear things out !

afaik no f/w were release nor leaked by/for

I896

aka

Rogers

( or am I wrong? )

clearly we can take out the 'ripped from 'other phone' possibility' since you called it 'stock' , leaked or released is neither the issue here but ...

how could this be a 'stock rogers'

firmware

then ?

if I am wrong and it was leaked / released how come flashing it doesnt solve the att boot screen , afaik flashing a f/w on a phone

usually

means user data is gone

again they are no such things as 'stock ' rom unless your gonna tell me you have rebuilt rogers f/w from source and did not modify it one bit ??

Funny you mentioned they are no silly questions here , as I always say (its actually in my sig in other forum where Im mod ) that. Only 'dumb' question is the one you do not ask ...

anyways I suppose opne of these is a nandroid back up so what is the other ?

I guess what I should have asked is if they are both stock what is the difference between both of them (other then the way you flash it of course )
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wowzur:
The phone is currently in working condition, the problem is the Rom (it's the AT&T version rather than the Rogers one, thus things aren't working the way they should). I thought I had attempted the how to and it got me back to the stock AT&T version, but I must have been mixing up my tutorials aha. Thank's for the help, I'll scour the thread.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
1_ make sure you have proper samsung drivers installed on your computer...

2_ Download and start ( in admin mode if on vista win7) this file : http://www.thevod.org/misc/captivate/I897UCJF6-final-OCD-REV0.rar (from this thread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731989&highlight=click)

3_You have to go in download mode . ( yellow triangle android guy with shovel )

to do this remove battery ( and sim card since we gonna use ODIN)

put back battery, hold both volume keys and insert usb cable at the same time

from there you can root flash stock f/w play with your sdcard etc etc ..

Well lol sorry this wasnt there by the tiem I posted , so basically your stuck with the ATT boot logo , even if you flash rogers f/w back , so might aswell ploay with the roms ( like me )
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lertets:
tried the firmware and rom provided by sean.

Unfortunately I still couldn't get my GPS to work as well as it used to.

Thanks anyways for helping me out. I'm out of ideas for now so I figured I might as well play with the froyo roms.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
its been said you need to do factory reset the whole phone first then it shoudl be fixed ..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
just installed cog 2.3b3 from stock rogers, phone is working but andorid.phone keeps crashing every 30 seconds or so, the phone just vibrates and freezes up then crashes the process then works another 30 seconds... Help?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swapnil:
go to stock at&t, then cog 9.1.3 and upgrade to 2.3b then 2.3b2 and then 2.3b3...you have to work your way up...thats what I did...and remember to select "Wipe Data" each time. U can use Titanium Backup for application and data backups.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
annoying, ok ill try this...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
UPDATE: I am dumb, stupid android tick boxes look ticked when they arent ( i have done this before) accidently didnt clear data because the greyed out tix look unticked... They really should not show any tick imo..

redled clockwork and reflashed with a cache wipe and its butter smooth now, no need to work up (as of yet)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
maybe i am retarded but how can i do a ti restore without having to click ok every damn time?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s44:
Buy it. Worth the money.

Sent from my Voodoo-powered Fascinate with XDA
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
ok so after full restore with TI phone freezes again, it is obv overwriting something important... I will just manually reinstall apps.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s44:
Be careful about trying to restore system (not app) data. It's generally a bad idea when you're going between Eclair and Froyo or vice versa.

Sent from my Voodoo-powered Fascinate with XDA
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
yep im money now baby...

If only we could get rid of GAY-T AND T boot screen
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spores:
You can install Vlingo, it works pretty good. You can tell it to text, navigate, call someone, and can read your text msgs.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] longtou10297:
question about rom

what should i do to install Chinese input on my captivate?

Or even add the Chinese language on my phone?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wowzur:
Is designgears' one click what is meant by Odin v3, and I'm rather confused about this PIT file... I have the Rogers rom and I know how to get to the download mode but I can't seem to connect the dots here...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
The one-click flasher will install AT&T firmware. The odin3 app and pit file are attached to post #1 in this thread. You can use those to flash the Rogers I896UXJI2 firmware.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
ok I have asked , but nobody answered , why do you call this SGH-I896_I896UXJI2 file a firmware ? where does it come from ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m37h:
designgears' one click is all of the above compiled into one, so all you need to do is open it up, connect your phone is download mode and click the start button ... hence the name "one click".

We don't have anyone yet that can/want/have time to create one click solution for i896, so we're stuck with the manual steps, which is pretty straight forward really if you know what you're doing. Again the steps are mentioned several times in this forum (there are at least two in this thread).

And just to be clear, in my knowledge, you'll be stuck with AT&T splash screen once you flash your i896 phone with one flavor of AT&T ROM out there including the cognition ones (I believe they're based on AT&T ones, but I could be wrong). This includes flashing back to Rogers ROM. I'm not sure why no one figured out yet how to get rid or modify the splash screen for the Galaxy S yet (Vibrant and Captivate) ... seems like a simple mod, but obviously it's not that simple.

Some people claims to have problems even after flashing back to Rogers ROM, especially the GPS, but seanwalton mentioned that his problem disappeared after he did a factory reset. I didn't notice this problem, but that's probably because I did the reset right after flashing back to Rogers ROM in an attempt to get rid that damn AT&T splash screen :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_joe:
It is a firmware from a Rogers stock android 2.1 that somebody graciously backed up ( feel free to jump in if I chose the wrong word ) then went to the trouble of asking somebody to package it together so it will be easier for you and me who likes to dive into unknown territories to get back to stock Rogers rom.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m37h:
That's the baseband/build version of the phone, go to settings -> About to see what's in yours.

I896UXJI2 is Rogers stock version number, don't ask me what it means.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
thanks for the effort ... althought thats not what I meant :confused:

2nd time i try to get an answer so here is my previous post about it :

thanks, but well... I knew that already

since we are at it and that I can quote your source ;) let's clear things out !

afaik no f/w were release nor leaked by/for

I896

aka

Rogers

( or am I wrong? )

clearly we can take out the 'ripped from 'other phone' possibility' since you called it 'stock' , leaked or released is neither the issue here but ...

how could this be a 'stock rogers'

firmware

then ?

if I am wrong and it was leaked / released how come flashing it doesnt solve the att boot screen , afaik flashing a f/w on a phone

usually

means user data is gone

There is no such things as 'stock ' rom unless your gonna tell me one has rebuilt rogers f/w from source and did not modify it one bit ??

anyways I suppose one of these is a nandroid back up so what is the other ?

I guess what I should have asked is if they are both stock what is the difference between both of them (other then the way you flash it of course )
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
I don't know. The factoryfs, kernel and modem firmware in that package appear to be the same as what comes out of the box on a Rogers phone, though I'm not sure if anyone has dumped a fresh phone and verified that. There are obviously bits missing. The sbl, dbdata.rfs and param.lfs don't exist in that package.

The other archive which has been linked in this thread is just a nandroid backup.

I'm not sure what it is you want to know. I don't know where that firmware came from. I do know that it doesn't completely restore one's phone to the way it was when you first turned it on.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m37h:
DAGr8, I think instead of asking questions most that you know the answers already, you should do a little writeup of what you think you know and clear up confusions that people might have.

Yes we don't have official "stock" from Rogers, it's just incomplete dump from someone. If it's complete we won't have the AT&T splash screen hanging around.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
Anyone know if its possible too overclock or underclock the rogers stock rom, as well as set profiles?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
I agree please do a write up we would like to see that.:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
sorry wasnt trying to play smart just trying to understd how things were called around here , basically opcow pretty much answered my question , one is a nandroid and the firmware one we dont know where it comes from and it is NOT a dump of a fresh phone , I come from the milestone community where we have a locked bootloader and where there is a lot of misconception about running roms / nandroid back up / , since we cant even run custom kerenl , we onlu have 1 built made form source rest is just nandroid modified versions ..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamnMersault:
My friend has just acquired his brand new Captivate. It is still charging, hasn't even been booted yet. Any requests for files or anything from it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agroberman:
I have no idea what exactly is needed, but as one of the 'stuck with AT&T splash screen' guys, I appreciate this and hope opcow or one of the other guys find it useful!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamnMersault:
Personally, this is my wishlist for Cognition on the Rogers Captivate:

Get rid of that damn AT&T boot logo

Let me select the original Samsung Galaxy boot/shutdown animations, they’re actually really nice

Use the Rogers modem files, since they have superior GPS functionality (though the Rogers modem config does not support HSUPA)

Swap the voodoo lagfix for the RyanZa lagfix, as the RyanZa one appears to be better

I'm hoping that with access to a completely virgin phone, I can get some of the above knocked off. Now, out of curiosity, do I need to root the phone in order to get adb working? I know I will need to root the device to get root level access of course, but do I need to root it for user level access through adb?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BumRush:
Those are the exact points I'm looking for as well. Could not have said it better myself.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamnMersault:
BTW, to anyone still struggling with getting rooting or USB debugging working correctly on a virgin phone, make sure you go into the USB settings and tell it to go to Mass Storage rather than asking you each time, and then back out and go to Development and turn on USB debugging. It seems that the prompt about which mode to mount the USB in takes precedence over the USB development setting.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s44:
Yeah, this is wrong. Not even RyanZA argues this.

ULF, on the other hand, is a real advance. Check out the i9000 kernels.

Sent from my Voodoo-powered Fascinate with XDA
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamnMersault:
Care to elaborate here, for our benefit?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m37h:
+1, "appears" better but in reality it's not better, voodoo is better.

A little summary: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8551903
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dd':
Hi guys. Is there any way I would be able to load a new ROM or something to be able to enable HSUPA?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s44:
Yes, you should be able to run any of the Captivate-adapted i9000 ROMs just like AT&T Captivate folks. Look around in this forum.

Two bits of advice:

(1) Remember you need the flash the JG8 i9000 modem before flashing the JPP modem. Otherwise the 850 band won't work. (Don't forget to enable 850 manually afterwards even with the double flash.)

(2) If you pick one of the ROMs that uses SetiroN's kernel (the most common i9000 Froyo kernel for Captivate), stick to his version 1.2. The 1.3 variants seem to have stability issues.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kay.one:
I just ordered a captivate from rogers, so I'll have a virgin phone in a day or so, I would be more than happy to help to extract a complete rom from a rogers phone,
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] o_ssie:
Lastest Issues with 2.4 Cognition on ROGERS CAPTIVATE

1. Name Display not working - only Call Display

2. Voicemail Indicator Invalid - Getting a text from _@ instead of a notification

3. Text Msg Time Stamps not valid - something to do with the timezone.

4. Text Msg start with name: and then the msg in each bubble

5. Battery Life is better, but not amazing

Other than that, its pretty awesome.... Really appreciate the 2g to 3g toggle in the settings app
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
My phone freezes at times when i open the image gallery, also, when i send an image to my friend (BB user) it takes like 10 hours before he receives it, this isnt an exaggeration. The image size was less than 200kb.

Is anyone experiencing these issues?

Just to give more info on the freeze: The phone remains inactive (but if i have music playing, it will continue), after some time, the phone seems to restart, but not in the traditional sense. Like the lock screen to comeback, it will say no service...until it finds service, it will scan the SD cards...but the touch screen will remain completely unresponsive. The only way i can get it working again is removing the battery.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kintaro:
I have a hunch what the problem is.. and it is that somehow when I also flashed my OS like you did and also bricked it... that somehow it overwrote the original bootloader image file. That is why we have the stupid AT&T globe thing on our rogers phone now..

I was flipping on sites... and there was a mention about fixing that image.. using bmlwrite... it'll rewrite the flash bootloader... something i am not very fond of doing:

forum.sdx-developers.com/tips-and-guides/(how-to)-use-flash_imagebmlwrite/

If anyone tries this, let me know how it goes..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rnewton01:
I've had my phone freeze a couple times when going into "gallery". Hasn't happened since I rooted and applied lag fix (ryanza)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
quick question cant you go to 'advanced' and put manual settings that woudl be better depending on your usage or is that a diffrent thing ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marko190:
Hey Guys

I got my Captivate from Rogers last week and tried to root it w/ SuperOneClick. On two occasions, it said that it had successfully rooted my phone, but I never got the Super User icon and when I run a scan using "Antivirus free AVG", available in the marketplace, it says that the unit has been rooted, but when I ran, "Ad free Android", which only runs on rooted devices, it says that the phone has not been rooted. Can anybody help?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabby131:
in my honest opinion with some tests, i dont know if HSUPA really exists on the i896 or i897. i performed a speedtest (using speedtest.net app) in the appartment i am living. 3g dload is 2.8mbps and uload is 0.84mbps.

BUT at my work place (which is 30-45 mins away by car) performed the same test and i got dload 2.84mbps and uload 1.24mbps!!!

does this vary on location???

someone correct me please!

EDIT: the test are performed using an ATT Captivate (SGH - 1897)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
does anyone know how to get this menu on an i896?

his is extremely rude. Is this the official statement from DG camp? I hope not because that is not what beta testing is all about.

90% of thread is filled with idiotic questions from folks who can't follow simple instructions and I can't post a genuine observation

Fact of the matter is that my GPS was fine (with Captivate limitations) before I flashed 2.4. After that it stopped altogether. I could get hardly 2-3 satellites in view even when outside.

I made LBSTestMode changes below and boom I get GPS lock in 45 seconds and 8-9 in visible in same time.

DG: You have a problem in 2.4 build with GPS and here is the fix

Fix your T-Mobile Vibrant GPS issues:

1. Disable “Use Wireless Networks”

1. Navigate to Settings > Location & Security > uncheck the box next to “Use Wireless Networks”

2. Go to the phone and dial *#3214789650#

1. This step throws you into LBSTestMode menu

3. In the LBSTestMode menu change “Operation Mode” to MS Based

4. In the LBSTestMode menu, find “SUPL/CP Settings” and change the SERVER & PORT to supl.google.com and port 7276 (DO NOT use www. in front of supl)

5. REBOOT

6. Enable “Use Wireless Networks”

* Navigate to Settings > Location & Security > check the box next to “Use Wireless Networks”

Should you want to revert back to your original GPS settings, you’ll need to re-enter you factory specs:

Original settings:

Operation Mode: Standalone

SERVER: www.spirent-lcs.com

PORT: 7275

I have tried aand it says rejected? im running cog 2.3b3
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
not sure if that is of any help to you , but I flash roger's original modem on top of each rom I tested and I never had gps issues ( knocking on wood)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
I want to flash the jp8 hsupa modem, i cant have both running, someones needs to take the rogers goodness and throw it on a hsupa modem
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ime2010:
Just updated my Rogers Captivate I896 to Froyo 2.2 now.

Wanted to flash Cog 2.4 or other custom rom ~ But just wondering which custom rom so far is the best on for Roger i896 with least known issues. ??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamnMersault:
Which ROM did you use for 2.2 then? As far as I know Rogers hasn't released a 2.2 update yet. If you used the leaked AT&T 2.2 ROM, then you might as well go for the Cognition 2.4.1 ROM, since really it's just the AT&T ROM with less crap and more goodness.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamnMersault:
Inserting Rogers modem.bin Into Cognition

Has anyone done any extensive testing of replacing the modem.bin from Cognition with the Rogers one? I haven't been having too terrible a time with the GPS (but I always do a facory reset after flashing my phone), but I have noticed some odd stuff like my direction always being reported as 90 degrees incorrect when I first fire up maps, etc. I'm just wondering if it's worth it to bother replacing the modem.bin before I upgrade to Cog 2.4.1.

Also, has anyone tested out these steps thoroughly?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sozzo:
I was wondering if any one rooted have the "playlogo" file from a Rogers I896, located in /system/bin that is PRE OneClickLagFix? I deleted mine by mistake and noticed that the Samsung startup screen + Rogers startup have gone awol and i'm running through some startup issues...

THanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAGr8:
just wanna clear things out , upt ill this day I wasnt using my sgs as a phone so now that I do , I noticed flashing th erogers modem on top of those roms gives really poor call quality for the person on the other side , wcdma 850 becomes VERY awefull .. so yea disregard that
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ime2010:
Yea....Just did that

In love with Congnition 2.4.1

So far so good ~ GPS no problem according to the fix tutorial.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deadly0ne:
I've flashed one of the i897 firmware's on to my Rogers Captivate phone so I could try 2.2. However, I wanted to flash back to the stock Rogers firmware.

I've used one of the Rogers firmwares that was posted several posts ago, and now whenever I turn on my phone, the AT&T logo still shows up before the i896 logo... it gets extremely annoying~ :confused:

Can anyone please help me out with instructions on how I can get this fixed? or just have the AT&T logo removed from the start? Thanks in advance. :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kintaro:
hey i am on the same boat as you are.. i am wondering on how to do it.. and i think it is because of something to do with the stupid bootloader or something.. cause i've researched everything and the last thing i am not too hot about doing is using bmlwrite.. seems very dangerous...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deadly0ne:
Yeah, I have no knowledge of using bmlwrite so I wouldn't be able to use that. I saw some other posts where people tried flashing a backup of a Rogers rom and no luck either...

I don't understand why flashing the Rogers firmware doesn't remove the at&t logo at the boot!?!? It's too bad Rogers can't provide us with the original firmware/files and how to reflash it.

~ But hopefully there is someone on these forums who is working on a fix for this.