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[Captivate General] Koopaversal1:
I just wanted to know what made you guys buy the captivate? At first I was going to but the Aria but changed my mind at the last minute. I wasn't interested in the captivate because if the size of the phone, but I said "what the heck" and got it to try it. I had intentions on returning it, but as you can tell, it never made it back to the AT&T store....
[Captivate General] YoungGun821:
Besides being an Android phone, screen size was the biggest reason I got it. Phones done good for me.
[Captivate General] Deleted member 2758866:
I dropped my aria two months after I purchased and busted the screen. $250 and a week later, I received my captivate from ebay. Im very glad I got the phone but I miss my stable cyanogenmod the aria had.
[Captivate General] mobileseq:
I bought it due to fairly good reviews on it and could do lot more than my old winmo phone. It had a great screen size and has high resolution.

I found the hard way that it had lot of delayed updates for it and gps issues as well. I still kept it because its far better than winmo. It was a deal that was hard to beat, for me.
[Captivate General] Archpope:
Why? Simple. I waited for nearly two years for AT&T to release an Android phone that wasn't a total piece of crap. This was it. AT&T passed on the G1 and the N1 because they were too busy catering to the iPhone. Like I was really going to buy an HTC Lancaster?
[Captivate General] Dungeon47:
I bought it for its potential. Stock this phone is meh, but with custom ROMs it is a Nexus S that gives up the front camera for an extra micro sd slot.

Sent from my Android using the power of my dreams.
[Captivate General] Dani897:
i got it for the screen. at first i got an aria, great little phone, but once att dropped the $100 rebate i made the switch because with 2.1 the aria had too little storage for apps. yeah i went app crazy at first. and without 2.2 i could not do app to sd

also the cost of a large sd card vs the captivate having 14 usable internal + all the other features of the captivate it seemed like a no brainer. after i got the captivate i did have alittle buyers remorse though. the rom was meh. thee update made it better but it wasnt the update we were anticipating and by then i was already using a beta leak and utb.

i miss fm radio, the lazer mouse, the browser(text was always readable) and other things but removing the batery and sd card is a pain in the arse on the aria, and if you do it too many times the cover loosens up and the antennas can get poor reception.

on the captivate i enjoy flashing roms with little fear of bricking with the availability of odin3. the screen of coarse, the headphones, 46 gigs of storage, unbeaten graphics chip so far(hard to believe it holds that title this long) the camera, and the fact that nobody seems to know what the hell it is. but we all know about the gps issues samsungs delayed updates and various incompatabilities with proprietary samsung code like the wii mote app.
[Captivate General] skippyg:
Screen size and because I found this phone to be the prettiest of any phone I've seen and android. :)
[Captivate General] a.vandelay:
the hardware was (is) incredible. turns out the software, not so much ;).
[Captivate General] thabeast:
I have been all over the place with phones had never tried android before never was there a phone worth it on att to get and I didn't feel like getting an unlocked g2. This phone even with its issues is still a good and solid phone. Could use a few things like flash in the camera like its brother has. But the Nice size internal memory almost 16gigs for w.e u want plus a micro SD so your good for as lil a 2 gigs or as much as 32 more which is great. No fear or running out of room. Screen is really good just over all design it grabs a lot of attention
[Captivate General] xiaoali:
I got it because AT&T only had this or the aria as far as Android devices went at the time. Plus, gorgeous screen, super fast yada yada.. also promise of a update soon.

Starting to regret returning my iPhone 4 sadly.
[Captivate General] bames:
1. Screen (super-amoled + size + vibrant color)

2. CPU

3. Best GPU performance in smartphone to date. The olympus and some of the coming Tegra 2's might change that.
[Captivate General] s1l3nt:
i had an iphone 3g and was wanting to try something new so i wanted an android was going to get the aria but when captivate came out i bought this instead.
[Captivate General] ua549:
The release of my first choice, a Nokia N8 5 band UMTS world phone, was delayed so I bought the Captivate, my second choice. I almost didn't buy it because of the GPS issue. I like the Android OS and the super AMOLED display. I lucked into making the right choice. :)
[Captivate General] ninjuh:
I had the iPhone 3G and then the 3Gs, got burned out on ios, android was the obvious choice and the Captivate had top of the line hardware. GPS works fine, if you really need a reliable GPS then u really should get a standalone GPS device, and for music junkies get a stand alone mp3 player.
[Captivate General] randy_khoo:
I'm not from the USA, but i like the device.

Runs great!
[Captivate General] skinien:
I wouldn't say that the GPS works fine. Maybe for you it does, but I don't think it's acceptable for my phone to thing that I'm in Philadelphia or Oakland or even Germany when I'm really in Southern California. There is a major issue with LBS on this phone and I can't wait to get rid of it. IF you don't care about location based services, this is an amazing phone. I love everything else about it.
[Captivate General] uhmump95:
I bought it for the screen and for Android. I was going to hold out for a bigger screen HTC phone to make its way to AT&T but my old phone died before that happened. I am not currently having the GPS issues. Just waiting for the upgrade to 2.2.
[Captivate General] ghost77:
1. The only galaxy s phone on at&t .

2. The only phone with mkv and h264 high profile playback .

Extra reason 16gb internal plus can add 32gb micro sdcard which I did 48gb media awesomeness *drool*
[Captivate General] wvumaniac79:
I had an aria but i just had this feeling that i was going to regret it in two years, so i traded for the next up
[Captivate General] avgjoegeek:
I was stuck with AT&T and this is the only decent Droid phone offered.

If not I would've been on Sprint and had an Evo 4G by now...
[Captivate General] sabesh:
- Ability to be easily rooted.

- # of available custom ROMs.

- Fast CPU and Super AMOLED screen.

- Good looks.
[Captivate General] MicroBeta:
I chose the Captivate after using my daughters. I liked it and decided to get one for myself.

Mike
[Captivate General] mwilhelm:
I bought mine when they first came out and loved it. I am one of the "lucky" ones in that my gps has always worked. I just bought two more, for my wife and child for 29.99 each at Best Buy (price match), and don't regret it. I am really looking foward to the upgrade though. But this screen and the rest of the hardware is just awesome. I think that with the specs that it has, it should be good for quite awhile.
[Captivate General] toawkanavngthded:
Was tired of seeing everyone and their moms wit the iPhone. Had iPhone 2g which was jailbroken and everything else u can think of. Thn tilt 2 which was hard SPL and loaded with a custom rom as well as dual booting with 2.2 froyo ;-) . Heard bout the captivate and was very interested. Was gonna get iPhone 4 but thank god that they were on backordered or else I would of been stuck with one. Now running cog 2.3b6, can't ask for anything else B-)
[Captivate General] psai:
I went to RadioShack on Black Friday to get a new phone because it was time for my upgrade. They were selling the Aria for $50 with contract renewal, but the Captivate was free, so I obviously went with the Captivate :D
[Captivate General] Jon2fine:
I got it because the galaxy s phones have the fastest GPU out of any phone and the best display of any android phone
[Captivate General] drepschultz:
Yes, the gpu has by far the most potential. As soon has full hardware acceleration is implemented, the galaxy s will be the standard for the android platform. At least until mobile dual cores are released...
[Captivate General] fezlopez:
I had to decide between the X10 and Captivate but chose the galaxy s bc it had an updated android.

It was selling for 200 but I negotiated with the guy on the phone and I got it for 135 after taxes! I didn't look back ever since. But dammit when is froyo getting !
[Captivate General] norcal einstein:
At the time, it was the "best" Android offering on AT&T. I did some homework before buying the phone and knew the issues with GPS, but that wasn't a deal breaker for me. I actually gave myself a good dose of scare before buying the phone since I did so much reading on forums to read other's comments on the phone. I was really worried about the random shutdown issue, but that has never plagued my phone.

I paid through the nose for my Captivate since I got it off-contract, but I've been pretty happy so far. As soon as I took the plunge to run designgear's Cognition ROM, things have been great. I can't imagine a life with a Captivate running a stock ROM!

I also really like how the Captivate looks. Super sleek!
[Captivate General] delutedsoul23:
I had an aria for two months. Then I realized the aria was a good reliable car...I wanted a supercharged sports car so I got.the cappy....mission accomplished

:-) I LIVE TO FLASH:-)
[Captivate General] Thanontos:
I couldn't agree more! I left Verizon to go to AT&T to get the BlackBerry Torch (I was coming of a Storm 1 so the Torch is a huge jump.) I didn't even look at the Captivate in store when I went in because I knew I wanted the Torch. After a bit of soul searching, I concluded that I wasn't getting the experience I wanted from the Torch and decided to, well lets say have an affair! I went to AT&T with a friend while he decided to get the iphone4 and there I met her all sleek and sexy teasing me with such a big beautiful screen bursting with color.

I was already out of my 30 days and felt I had tied the not with my BlackBerry, what was I thinking. Now I am stuck with this phone at my hip while I must only look at the Captivate from afar, never being able to bring it home with me :( I did a bit of research and read really great reviews online for the Captivate, and took note as it was featured in numerous top 10 device lists for 2010. So, I decided, CHRISTMAS COME EARLY BABY! I bought one off of eBay that was only a few weeks old that included everything for $315. As I waited for my new phone to arrive and I prepared to say goodbye to my BlackBerry, I found XDA. I read everything I could on the Captivate and perhaps too much, as I too worried that I may have ordered the equivalent of a hot looking mail order bride with multiple std's. I guess I lucked out, but my phone runs great and even better since putting Cognition on it. GPS is not the greatest, but for the most part it gets the job done.

This is my first Android device and have to say, I don't know why I didn't try them out sooner.
[Galaxy Tab General] Monrad:
READ BEFORE YOU FLASH: THIS FIRMWARE HAS A PROTECTED BOOTLOADER THAT WILL PREVENT YOU FROM FLASHING SAMSUNG OFFICIAL FIRMWARE.

MORE INFO HERE

I don't know if this process actually flash boot and spl because JM6 doesn't seem to have them, but you're on your own and I don't recommend you to do it.

Ok I'm going to make a detailed guide of how this worked for me because succeed depends a lot on which firmware you have in your tab. It's a good idea to start with JM6 since you can flash it completely if you have an older firmware or JMA (I guess you won't be able to flash it in the future if a new firmware is released). You won't lose your internal SD Card data but your phone will be factory reset.

1) Download JM6 from HERE

You'll get Odin 1.7 + PIT + PHONE + PDA + CSC.

2) Download JMA from here: HERE

3) Download JMC from here: HERE

4) Start Odin 1.7 and select:

*PIT P1_SMD_MAP.pit

*REPARTITION YES

*AUTO REBOOT YES

*F. RESET TIME YES

*PDA: CODE_P1000XXJM6.tar.md5

*PHONE: MODEM_P1000XXJM6.tar.md5

*CSC: CSC_P1000OXAJM6.tar.md5

5) Put your TAB in download mode: Turn it off, press POWER + VOL DOWN

6) Press start in ODIN and wait until process is completed. Your tab will REBOOT in download mode.

7) Now press POWER + VOL UP and when you see SAMSUNG logo RELEASE POWER BUT KEEP PRESSING VOL UP in order to enter recovery and let the TAB flash dbdata, it'll reboot and boot into android. (unplug your USB cable because Odin won't recognize it on some systems)

8) Open Odin 1.7 again or press RESET and select:

*PIT: NONE

*REPARTITION NO

*AUTO REBOOT YES

*F. RESET TIME YES

*PDA: JMA.tar (from JMA file obviously)

*PHONE: NONE

*CSC: NONE

9) Repeat 5), 6) and 7)

10) Open Odin 1.7 again or press RESET and select:

*PIT: NONE

*REPARTITION NO

*AUTO REBOOT YES

*F. RESET TIME YES

*PDA: P1000XXJMC_P1000OXAJMC_P1000XXJMA_HOME.tar (from JMC file obviously)

*PHONE: NONE

*CSC: NONE

11) Repeat 5), 6) and 7)

I have an AT&T TAB and this process worked for me.

If you need 850 + 1900 you only have to flash MODEM (PHONE button in ODIN) from HERE (modem_bell_i9000.zip) with No PIT, no repartition, no PDA and no CSC.

I hope this helps anybody and sorry about my english :p

EDIT: If for some strage reason you get the !!! --- !!! screen in your tab, don't panic. You can start the whole process again, Odin will detect your phone, it's a download mode anyway.

EDIT2: I always choose to wipe all my data. I use Titanium backup and I can get most of my data back from there. It's better to have a functional tab than a brick full of useless data. Wiping will always be safer.

EDIT3: Made some modifications to step 7. What you need to do is to enter recovery and that's it. It wasn't clear. Now I think you'll get it right. I didn't test it without step 7 but some people seems to be doing well without doing step 7. Maybe device is entering recovery automatically and flashing dbdata on its own (this is to be expected but sometimes it just doesn't happen).
[Galaxy Tab General] pt4audi:
What about rooting the device before you flash...?
[Galaxy Tab General] lucboucim:
Working great!!! However, I just didn't do step 7 in any of the 3 updates. What exactly do you mean in step 7? Which of the 4 options should I choose in Step 7?

Thanks
[Galaxy Tab General] Monrad:
I could root my device with z4root or superoneclick.

When flashing ends your device should install dbdata in recovery mode. Maybe with this procedure dbdata is flashed automatically when flashing JM6 at the beginning it's not necessary to do it manually.

If dbdata is not flashed you will not be able to boot android. Your device should display something like this when that happens (in recovery mode):

But I guess you're ok :)

Just ignore step 7 if your device entered recovery mode automatically after flashing ended.
[Galaxy Tab General] pakalrtb:
OP , did U enable the voice capabilities ? And what was your initial firmware ?

Do U feel confident to say that you can str8 go from whatever FW you have to JM6 as a full flash , and not anymore move your way up from JJ4 (russian FW ) ?

P
[Galaxy Tab General] Monrad:
If by voice capabilities you mean putting a sim card, yes, I tried and it works fine. I didn't test it that much, just a few calls and a lot of gprs. My initial firmware was jk5.

If I had a firmware older than JJ4 I'd just try to flash JM6 directly. I'm guessing here but I think that flashing JM6 the way I flashed it (following another guide in another forum) is like a full flash, it shouldn't matter what you had before.

Maybe someone with more knowledge could throw a light in here. What I can tell you is that I'd do it. I'm one of those guys that learn the hard way, and I've never bricked a device for good.
[Galaxy Tab General] pakalrtb:
You're like me then. I do not even have my Tab yet but my fingers are already so much itching. In the meanwhile I am reading and learning. I am totally new to Samsung but I've had my hands busy for the past year with my Nexus One, so quite confortable playing with rom/kernel/radio world .

P_
[Galaxy Tab General] tedsandy:
Flashing for morons

Monrad, thanks, this is a super post.

Just for me and all the other morons in the world. Can you also please give a basic run through of what you've done. I have the following questions.

1) You have 3 waves of activities in your post: JM6, JMA, JMC. Generally, what is each wave doing?

2) Please would you also explain what the fields in Odin1.7 are for?

*PIT -does this set the partitions on Samsung tab?

*REPARTITION -if PIT file this is automatically selected

*AUTO REBOOT YES -why do I select yes

*F. RESET TIME YES -what's this one for?

*PDA: CODE_P1000XXJM6.tar.md5 -PDA is core PDA firmware?

*PHONE: MODEM_P1000XXJM6.tar.md5 -what does this do? load modem drivers?

*CSC: CSC_P1000OXAJM6.tar.md5 -I'm not sure what CSC stands for and does?

3) With regards to getting my dirty hands on the right firmware, when I go to http://www.samfirmware.com/WEBPROTECT-p1000.htm, I look at the latest firmware for Europe. At the bottom of the list are 3 downloads:

a) JM6, b) JMA, c) JMC. What are the differences between these firmwares. I understand that J = 2010, but don't know how to decrypt last two digits.

4) Which PIT should be used in Step 1 of your sequence? What are the PIT files at the bottom of the page (in Flash Tools Section) of http://www.samfirmware.com/WEBPROTECT-p1000.htm

5) I bricked my tab. I got it alive again, only by loading the JMA via Odin 1.7. Basically I put my Tab in Download Mode. Started Odin1.7. Used the Eur Pit file (referred to in my Step 4), and then loaded JMA.tar (extracted from JMA file mentioned in my Step 3). With all the check marks checked in Odin. That was it, and my Galaxy Tab rebooted and seems to work totally fine. Why would I do the other steps mentioned in your sequence? What benefit is there?

5a) Note when I do *#1234# I get:

PDA: blank

PHONE: P1000XXJMA

CSC: blank

the PDA and CSC show blank....is that why I should first load JM6 and follow your sequence? What functionality do I currently not have because of these blanks?

6) A question on rooting my Tab... what are the benefits to doing this?

Thanks for dealing with my long winded post! I really appreciate what you've done so far.
[Galaxy Tab General] alexnoalex:
You are a good man, Monrad!

I followed steps and got my AT&T tab updated.

A word about wiping data: I had my Tab fully set up with original AT&T firmware and then I started installation I got into lots of trouble. Instead of recovery mode it went into blank screen with vertical white line (I suspect it did dbdata update behind it though), then it rebooted and my apps started crashing.

The only way to fix it was to get to setting and do factory reset. After that everything went by the book.

So you may want to clarify that data must be wiped from Android, unless you have some other way.

Thanks again
[Galaxy Tab General] Filgaliel:
How and where do I find the Dbdata file ?

When I go for step 7 i get the "can´t mount" and "media content failed" messages.

Edit:

I believe this can also be done from recovery.
[Galaxy Tab General] kromosto:
i used roto-jmc and dont boot into recovery of flash dbdata.rfs seperately and everything is working fine.
[Galaxy Tab General] Filgaliel:
Where did you get the Roto-jmc?
[Galaxy Tab General] kromosto:
from the link

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9989856&postcount=50
[Galaxy Tab General] Filgaliel:
Great man. Thanks.

Edit: didn´t help. I still get the same errors.

I now seems to work. But my *#1234# says jm6 even on the jmc firmware?
[Galaxy Tab General] lux209:
Anybody knows what is the differences between JMA and JMC ?
[Galaxy Tab General] Alcibiade:
You don't need to flash JMA. You can go straight from JM6 to JMC

You can skip oen unnecessary step :)
[Galaxy Tab General] tw1nz:
Can i do this on my euro Tab from Denmark?

Im on JM6
[Galaxy Tab General] lux209:
Just did the update from JMA on a euro tab, I took the firmware from samfirmware not the one on the first post. I don't know the difference but the size is not the same..

Everything works fine, even without doing a factory reset, all my applications are working fine.But I don't see any differences between JMA and JMC
[Galaxy Tab General] zeeshee:
Guys

Currently i have

PDA: P1000JPJJ1

PHONE: P1000JXJJ1

CSC: P1000OJPJJ3

Its currently arabic firmware. Can i use this guide & update to this Euro fimrware? I dont need arabic. I am not rooted as well. Will this guide work for me?
[Galaxy Tab General] psxsnake:
i have a problem, all ok till JM6

and tab after start fine

but for JMA or JMC no dbdata in recovery

help me (for now i'm back to JM6)
[Galaxy Tab General] lux209:
Try to manualy flash dbdata after the JMA/C update.

here is the file http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QMY83UUE
[Galaxy Tab General] gpf_drizit:
how long does this usualy take? mine's been sitting at "installing muti-CSC" for about 5 min now.

EDIT:

it gets better: I gave up and rebooted, and it didn't work, so I tried again with auto reboot disabled, this let me catch it on the first boot and get the CSC updated properly... for some reason none of my apps were wiped so i'm now factory resetting as it was FC city... now on to JMA then JMC, once more into the breach my friends.
[Galaxy Tab General] bert269:
this process worked for me.

I'm on the TMobile Tab, original ROM was: JJB.

I first installed JM6, with Odin. I just flashed the Rom (pda) part with repartition selected. In fact, I forgot to select the CSC & modem parts. After the first reboot (with lots of FC's), i flashed the dbdata.

At this stage my CSC and modem did show blank and only PDA showed JM6.

I then flashed JMA, without repartition and after the reboot and boot into recovery, all three entries showed JMA.

Then I followed the instructions just as given, and flashed JMC. Reboot into recovery and it rebuild the dbdata and factory reset once more.

Everything is working fine.

I have JMA, JMC, JMA when I do *#1234#

I'm using an AT&T simcard on this TMO tab and can make calls just fine.

Although I only get Edge, I mostly use the wifi, anyway.

Thanks for the great, detailed process description of how to install JMC - it really helped me a lit and the confidence to flash my tab for the first time.

Bert
[Galaxy Tab General] psxsnake:
how can i flash manually?

edit: i found it :)
[Galaxy Tab General] psxsnake:
all ok now

thanks
[Galaxy Tab General] alexnoalex:
Actually, once I messed up I could not get to any recovery. I was lucky that I managed to boot Android into some kind of state. So to be on the safe side I'd recommend to do factory reset before any flashing.
[Galaxy Tab General] pt4audi:
Can I go directly from JM6 to JMC, therefore skipping JMA, or is it better to just do it sequentially?
[Galaxy Tab General] mauwri37:
JMC flash ok its fluid !

I had to reflash the CSC OF jm6 after flash JMC, why do not you impopstava in ITV well, maybe it will be useful to others, very fluid room!

PDA:P1000XXJMC

PHONE:P1000XXJMA

CSC:P1000OXJM6
[Galaxy Tab General] jstuart83:
do you still get the white line after the reboot
[Galaxy Tab General] Skimi:
JMC Test!

May someone please test if JMC still have the Bug of very slow email app when working with Exchange???

Many Thanks
[Galaxy Tab General] Alcibiade:
Yes you, it worked perfectly for me

Not sure why he is applying JMA in the middle, it is useless
[Galaxy Tab General] Joao Oliveira:
If you use lcd density changer or similar method to change your galaxy tab lcd density settings, do not install jmc, it will kill your system. Tried flash 3 times everything ok but after trying to reboot using the changed lcd density system freezes withthe vibrating error.

Used roto's version, don't know if its an error from his version, but still be carefull. back to jm6 again. It's too late to try sotck jmc. If someone else is having the same error please report.
[Galaxy Tab General] alexnoalex:
After I did factory reset from messed up install of JM6 I flashed JMA and it failed on dbdata flash. But it was normal recovery screen already.

I reflashed JM6 again and the rest went by the book.