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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
Let us know if you do this it would be very appreciated. Thanks:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mersault420:
Let me know when you do. Turns out my backup is corrupt and I'm not particularly happy with this AT&T ROM I reflashed with. My god... The amount of bloatware is just staggering.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yeidan:
I bought mine last Friday, it's still all stock and I gotta say that the GPS is god awful compared to any other phones I've tried.

I can barely get a fix anywhere where my gf's i3g takes about 1 second to lock on us. Even when outside on clear sky, it may not be able to lock on me. I walked around town yesterday(mtl) and it was useless, I would get a fix very randomly once in a while.

I played with the settings a little(the ones provided in the GPS thread) and it's just plain bad regardless of what I change. I went to FutureShop today since they had some more in stock, tried another one they had and it's nowhere better. The rep had a HTC desire, got locked within 3 seconds. Both my captivate and the other one from the box never locked (i stopped trying after 3 minutes).

If only the GPS would work decently, I'd be so happy about this phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] integrasaurus:
I don't see any app where I can tether.. Am I missing something?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTFO!:
Maybe you got a bad phone? mines lock on in a second, inside the house too.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jung-na:
hey guys,

i just got my rogers captivate about 4 days ago. today i was browsing the web on it and noticed a small scratch right inside the screen, as if the manufacturer, while installing the screen, scratched it or left a lint in or something.... you cant see it against any dark backgrounds, only white... its small and annoying... do you think this will be a reason to exchange it for another captivate? a new one? by looking at it, feeling it, there is no way to tell that I did it, its actually INSIDE the screen...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] froli13:
For those having problem with Titanium Backup not gaining root access, click on "problems?" and download Busybox ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawn122:
You don't need an app to tether

Go into Settings -->Wireless and Network --> Mobile AP settings

that should launch everything you need to use.

(I havent tried it myself yet...but I did explore it :))
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] integrasaurus:
Who would of thought? All this time I thought it was an app :rolleyes:

Thank you for not pointing out my extreme n00bness shawn :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawn122:
LOL...i only got the phone yesterday. I am still a noob.

Don't even want to consider rooting and all that stuff until I am familiar with how to use the basic functions :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] integrasaurus:
I literally just got it a few hours ago lol. Glad to see I'm not the only noob.

You and me both bud, although I want to make a backup of the stock Rogers ROM, as it seems to lack all the negatives from other versions. I guess the wait was worth it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] o_ssie:
OK I have the Rogers Stock ROM, any preference on where/how I should upload?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
Great!!! Best bet might be to put ROM into a .zip and upload it to this post for us. Thanks again very much appreciated by all:):)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yeidan:
Is this with WiFi enabled ? Because it also is fairly fast with wifi but anywhere outside wifi hotspots it takes forever.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawn122:
The wait was worth it :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawn122:
I did a test outside few hours agi. I switched off all wireless assists and used only the satellites...locked in 5 secs--with a 5m accuracy.

I havent tried the navigation tool yet...but it works for what I need. My blackberry bold used to take a minute or more before it locked.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mersault420:
I got the phone yesterday (this is my first Android), but I'm the kind of person to jump in with both feet, so I've gone ahead and reflashed it to 2.2 using the leaked AT&T ROM, rooted it, and removed (most of) the AT&T crap. I still haven't figured out how to remove the AT&T splash screen yet, but other than that I've got everything else working.

If you want to see how I did it, I posted the instructions about it on my blog here: URL NOT ALLOWED BECAUSE NEW USERS CAN'T LINK TO EXTERNAL SITES (MODS, PLEASE VERIFY MY ACCOUNT). As usual, this worked for me, but may not work for you.

I'd still love to get my hands on a working version of the default Rogers ROM though. Also, if anyone figures out how to remove the AT&T splash screen, please let me know.

Edit: Please PM me if you're interested in the blog link. Or if you have more than 8 posts yourself and can post external links and are willing to post it yourself.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTFO!:
uh isnt this thread only for the Rogers Captivate I896 and not I897?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mersault420:
I did this with the Rogers Captivate I896. I picked it up from a Rogers+ store yesterday afternoon. Rogers hasn't released or leaked their 2.2 firmware through, and considering they only just released the phone, and with 2.1, I don't expect to see 2.2 from them before Christmas. I wanted to try out 2.2, so I had to go with the AT&T ROM that got leaked recently (there are no legitimate carrier released 2.2 ROMs for the Captivate at this time that I can find).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] integrasaurus:
So how's your GPS functioning? Another user before you flashed to Cog 2.2 and rendered his GPS useless.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTFO!:
Hey, I heard there were overheating issues with the I897 version, how should I test it to see if its also on the Rogers model? I was using it for a few hours non stop and it was pretty hot, but I am not sure if its at the point of overheating.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
Waiting with bated breath.

Zip it up and use whatever. Megaupload, sendspace, crapidshare.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jermzhi:
I eagerly await any developments. I'm getting this phone within a week or so. Would love to help you guys out when I do.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b0uncyfr0:
Would love to help out as well but im still trying to figure out a way to get it to Australia. Anyone got any crazy ideas?

Good job to everyone whos been playing around with it so far. Once the rom gets out, its gonna be captivate heaven.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mersault420:
I fired up Google maps, and despite being inside my apartment it still nailed my location down exactly, including the direction I was facing. Quite impressive, frankly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mersault420:
Mine (running Froyo 2.2 from the leaked AT&T ROM) is fine. It got pretty warm when I first got down to installing a lot of applications (using the transmitter, cpu, ram, and sd card all at one) in a very short period of time, then cooled back down. More typical usage seems fine. I haven't touched it for about 30 mins and it's downright cold to the touch.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] integrasaurus:
Thats some reassuring information. You're not using Cognition 2.2 correct? Just the stock Froyo leak?

The other poster I mentioned before flashed to Cognition 2.2 and his GPS was heavily affected. Maybe it was due to the ROM?

Anybody else brave enough to flash to Froyo?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bigal77:
Yup, same here. No GPS issues, been 3 days. I used navigation and it was accurate entirely for 18 minutes. Just awesome !!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swapnil:
Using cognition Beta? Let us know which one is working so that I can update the Wiki.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] integrasaurus:
Sick! Stock Froyo ROM, or Cognition 2.2?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zerojay:
I flashed to Cognition 2.2... the latest beta released today, 9.1.2. Everything's fine as far as I can tell. I looooove it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarlowXim:
modem.bin

I have attached the bml12 dump from my phone

mediafire. com/ ?exm8e9man2b5545

[remove space]

Managed to root. I'm new to the android platform, so apologies. What applications are not stock, ie the rogers applications.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bigal77:
I cant get my rogers captivate to get recognized by my PC.....what drivers should I use? any link?? Thanks in advance
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RealityCh3k:
I got my baby today too.

Was reading up on this for a while now, and I'm followed the one click root method and did not work, and I also tried the usb plug/unplug debug method... alas to no avail.

I'm currently flashing it on stock with Odin but I really would like some direction on where to go.

I've installed the Galaxy S drivers if it makes a difference.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkurzum:
Here you go

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c...3/SGH-i897_Captivate_USB_Drivers_5_02_0_2.zip
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mersault420:
I'm using the AT&T ROM that was leaked, not a Cognition ROM. I downloaded the latest Cognition ROM, but I'm very new to the platform, and haven't had time figure out how to load the ROM bits into the standalone Odin yet.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bigal77:
I downloaded Kies and the drivers from samsung USA website, and it still wont reconize my captivate :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flipbwoi:
hey guys new android user here too, i myself got the at&t and am on fido. Has any posted links to the rogers rom yet? Been dying to try it so I can get my GPS back?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] betadan:
Perhaps we should get cappychimp, carz12, or giant_rider a i896 and then they can do for this phone what they did for the Sapphire. :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bigal77:
Thanks...but thats what I installed (i ran setup.exe) and still phone not getting recognized by computer. Says usb not recognized on my PC
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HH007:
GPS and Win 7 update

Hey all,

Glad to see everyone is slowly starting to get their Captivates. I was lucky enough to get it early, and here's a quick update:

1. About the GPS, I have used it extensively for driving, and I have had NO issues at all. The last time I used it was today for a 1h drive from my home to Toronto, and it worked beautifully. I even ran outta gas O_O for a bit, so I was able to use the Google Maps apps to find the nearest gas station. Again, no issues

2. I have Win 7 64 bit and the only way I can connect my phone to my computer is to turn OFF USB Debugging mode, and then connect the phone as a Mass Storage and then mount it. Although this works for now, I am wondering is this good enough to be able to run the oneclickroot app? Also, has anyone rooted the phone and applied any of the lag fixes only yet? I ask because I am starting to see the lag. Anyone getting over 850 on quadrant with this phone?

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bigal77:
Well i got it to recognize my sdcard, but what if I want to place files on my 16gb captivate hard drive??

Theres no desktop application like blackberry had??

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkurzum:
A few of us have already rooted,

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

installed the cognition rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=786532

Deleted all the useless stock apps using titanium backup

Changed the boot screen http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819686

Change the notification bar theme and restored the stock android lockscreen (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=799511)

Everything is perfect, 850 band works fine, only thing the sucks is the GPS, also, I'm not too found of the AT&T logo that shows up before the custom bootscreen.

Quadrant scores jumped from 850 to 1550
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleither:
Manged to get Kies working on my i896 tonight. I had to disable my Launcher Pro (sounds like this is a common thing to do), but this is easy to do with Home Switcher. Then I was prompted with the connection screen for Kies but it would crash and reload on me. Resolved this by formatting both my internal and external SD cards, works like a charm now.

Hope this is of some use to the rest of you new Rogers Captivate users out there. :-)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bigal77:
you lost everything by formatting?? i have tons of apps already
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HH007:
Hey,

Thanks for the quick reply. I have been reading the threads, and I realize that some of you have rooted. However, I am wondering if anyone has rooted and installed JUST a lag fix.

I actually am happy with my stock ROM from ROGERS since GPS works great and rooting to Cognition would kill that. I just want to install a lag fix so that I can shift through the apps faster and have better memory management.

Hmm.. it seems like my battery lasts me approx 6 to 7 h . I've discharged and charged 3x now...I hope it gets better. And yes, I turn off GPS/Wifi, and I use Advanced App Killer... Anyone else having battery issues?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkurzum:
You should keep wifi on, 3g drains the battery much more than wifi.

I charged/discharged the battery fully 3 times, I'm getting about 12-14 hours a day. And I use the phone pretty heavily.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] o_ssie:
Sorry for the delay.. Dosed off.. It'll be up within the hour
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleither:
Nah, since we're still on 2.1 most of the stuff isn't on the SD card (internal or not). Regardless I simply backed up my files before I did the format and restored them afterwards.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleither:
So far my battery life has been terrible; I got it ~10 hours ago and have been using it constantly (on wifi with auto brightness) and I just tossed it on the charger for it's second charge (Arrived at ~80%, I ran it dry, charged to full, resumed and now it was down to 5% again before I put it on the charger). Then again this is much higher than typical day to day usage.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
Thanks.

Anyone know if the modem driver could also drive the GPS receiver? I compared this dump to stock 2.1 and JH7's modem and it's different. Anyway, just for fun I tested stock 2.1 vs. this flashed to stock 2.1 using MyTracks. There was an improvement, but as random as these things are I can't say it means much.

Original modem:

Couple of minutes to lock. Locked at 50 meters and then eventually setteled down fluctuating between 10-5 meters. Drove a 3 mile circuit with the phone on the dashboar under the windshield and it went pretty far off the real track a few times.​

Rogers modem:

Locked in less than a minute at 400 meters. Quickly settled in to 5-10 meters. Drove the same circuit with the phone in the same place and it tracked the road almost perfectly.​
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kittcoldfire:
Hey everyone can someone please help me out here, I got my Captivate yesterday and had it rooted with the SuperOneClick method, then I installed clockwork rom manager and the clockwork recovery for the captivate, and I was toying around with the idea of over clocking so I flashed a new Kernel on my phone, well it killed it and the only way I've been able to get it working AT ALL is doing the Odin 1 step recovery... but that puts me back to AT&T software... on my Rogers phone...

Can someone please put up a proper recovery image for the Rogers software? I took 2 backups before I did anything but I keep getting the error saying android_security.img not found and it f's up when I recover so I'm now stuck with nothing basically, I could use the AT&T software but then I've got all their screwed up stuff.

Please someone help me get the original Rogers software back!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkurzum:
In the meantime, use the cognition rom, its cleaned out from all the AT&T garbage. I'm sure someone will post up a stock rom sooner or later.

Good luck
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kittcoldfire:
and now it doesn't even want to go into download mode... fml
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] o_ssie:
Rogers Stock ROM

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R4XRLA5X
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
I get past the AT&T logo to boot animation of the word android but then it gets stuck there acting weird.

Edit: 3-button combo to recovery didn't work after flashing this (it's possible I wasn't holding all the buttons firmly enough though I tried several times), but vol-up-down and plugging usb did get me into download mode. adb didn't work either. I was worried that I was going to be stuck for a minute there.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] o_ssie:
Are you using ROM Manager to restore?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opcow:
Booted into clockwork recovery and restored from there.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] o_ssie:
Hmm maybe someone with expertise can help when more of them are awake lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dd':
Sweet list there bro. Is there any chance you can link me to the list of useless apps we can remove? I've searched but I'm having a hard time finding them and don't want to **** something up.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTFO!:
Hey, I am getting really crappy battery life, is it known that if you full discharge the device, the life will increase? I have never fully discharged it yet.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] catire:
Have you tried this:

It's from the [Tips & Tricks] Last Update: 10/27/10 ** READ BEFORE ASKING ** thread

If not just drain your battery completely and charge it back up, also bear in mind that battery life usually improves after the first couple of charge cycles
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanwalton:
I have rooted and onlyt installed LagFix so far. Huge, and I mean huge improvements!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mersault420:
Oh man, this is excellent. Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mersault420:
I think you can generally expect the battery to get a better after a few (maybe fourish) cycles. If not, there are tricks for reconditioning the battery. Usually it amounts to discharging it completely and then recharging it completely. Don't do it too often though, as too much of that can ruin a Li-ion battery.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dani897:
For those that flashed cognition

Try a factory reset. I find gps performance to be all over the map when flashing. It may be a fluke. After a factory reset you should stand out side running google maps and preventing the phone from sleeping the first lock can take 30 minutes (normal is 1 to 5 min) but after that it should be as good as stock. If that doesn't work hopefully samfirmwares.com will have the rogers rom up soon in an odin flashable version.

I have more trouble with lbs test mode settings than improvement. If there was an obvious advantage to lbs settings I would think samsung would use them differently.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tony2345:
SIM unlock

Any word yet on how to SIM unlock this phone?

I'm not looking to root, but will if it is necessary for the SIM unlock.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarlowXim:
does anyone know what files are related to mobile ap? Installed cognition eclair latest build but removed modem update and cus files so rogers remains. However on selection in settings mobile ap just sticks to an empty screen and it is installed.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrprefect:
Well I wish I knew how you got yours to root, I've been trying for a day now, tried the one click you suggested as well as the one in the market none of them work every single one I try to run gives and Error in the update.zip with Status 7

If you have some other suggestions I would like to hear them, I'd really like to fix this lag issue.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drancid:
i dunno why people need unlock the SIM..

wanna use cappy with other carrier?

Cam someone tell me why?

Sent from my Catpivate operated by Cognition 2.2 Froyo beta 9
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n4d3r:
So if you go to States, you can buy a pay as you go sim and use your cappy.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Subrock:
Which root and which lagfix did you use?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dd':
I too am interested in this...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawn122:
I am also interested. Do tell!

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I896
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Iceyflare:
My Captivate just dropped to 90% after I removed that from charger about one and a half hour ago.

It was fully charged when I removed that from the charger..

:mad::mad:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koreancanuck:
I use AT&T captivate in Canada :) I had to unlock it. On a carrier like Fido for example, the company is great with customer service but lacks in smartphones(only iPhone, Acer Liquid e, Blackberry 8530). So it makes sense to renew my agreement, sell the iPhone at a high price and actually buy a phone that is worth its money.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HH007:
Hey,

Thanks for the reply. I see a few people are interested in this. Would you mind providing a detailed step by step process on how you did this? I'm a HUGE noob, and I would hate to fck up my first every smartphone. Specifically, these are what I don't know/need to know:

1. When rooting, did you use the SuperOneclickroot? Do you have to be able to get into USB debugging mode for this? I ask because I run Win 7 64 bit (and I think its a known issue) and it can ONLY recognize the content of my phone in NON USB debugging - mass storage mode once I mount it. Weird I know. But its worked so far for me to be able to drag and drop files into my phone.

2. Which lagfix was it? I read up about the Voodoo lag fix, and it CAN be done w/o root, but it converts it to EXT4, and it seems there a FEW issues w/ it (screen color changes, battery drains even faster, irreversible to a point). The RyanZA lagfix is better IMO because it gets faster quadrant scores, AND its EXT2.

To any devs out there, I know there was a drive to raise funds when the ATT cappy first came out. Let me be the first to say that I am VERY willing to give $5 in donations if someone, or even RyanZA can make a special 'OneClickLagFix' for the 1896. I am sure a lot of people would support that. For noobs like me who want to keep the stock rom, and enjoy the GPS it would be ideal. This way all I'd have to do is one click and gain the speed benefits. Thanks and sorry for the long post.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tony2345:
The main Canadian carriers have roaming charges that are pretty much unbelievable. People take their smartphones with them on vacation and come home to find bills for thousands of dollars.

On the other hand, it is easy to get a SIM local to the country that you are travelling to. I have a pay-as-you-go AT&T SIM for when I travel to the states, and this SIM/account has much better rates and flexibility then we are used to here in Canada.

So, anyone know how to SIM unlock the Rogers Captivate?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsb2011:
Best Lagfix recommendation for Rogers Captivate

I'm hoping someone can recommend a Lagfix-only tool that is known to work on the Rogers Captivate. For those of us too wimpy to flash the ROM yet, but willing to root for the speed.

thanks in advance!

:D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mersault420:
Bah, edited post to remove content. It was irrelevant.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
SGS phones use Gorilla Glass. Like normal glass, it smudges and streaks easily. Unlike normal glass, it is nearly indestructible and won't scratch, so don't feel bad about wiping it clean on whatever cloth is handy.

For more on Gorilla Glass: http://gizmodo.com/5443146/gorilla-glass-hands-on-unbreakable