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[Captivate Android Development] dblade1:
not going into recovery

Hi Guys,

I have two quick question:

1. when I was on stock version on my cappy I could hold down both volume buttons to go into recovery. After installing 7.8 the button combination does not seem to work. In fact no combination gets me into recovery except choosing recovery by pressing power when my cappy is booted in 7.8. What am I missing guys?

2. My batt goes out in under 24 hours since 7.8, I already reset the batts stats by fulling charging and then deleting the stats followed by a 100% discharge and a recharge. I dont have anything extra except 7.8 on stock firmware.

Thanks for your help in advance!

~Blade
[Captivate Android Development] rickysa2000:
3-button recovery, Battery drain

For the first question, heres the solution..

http://www.ponack.net/designgears/3buttonFix.zip

This was released by DG a while back to enable the 3-button recovery mode.

For the next question, go through

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=765656&highlight=battery

for recalibration and

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=806211

to isolate and fix battery drain
[Captivate Android Development] attsw:
I had this when I went from stock to 7.02 on my wife's phone and fixed it by reflashing after doing a Master Clear with odin.

I also had it happen on my own phone going from darky's 5.5 to 7.8 without wiping and was able to fix it by using Titanium Backup to Wipe data from "Phone" and "PhoneUtil". To be clear though I did not use Tibu to backup or restore data from those apps, I just used it to clear data that was left over from not wiping before flashing.
[Captivate Android Development] chvybeatsford:
Thanks but Wifi works great for me. Just the Network(edge/3g ) wont . Gonna try a diff kernal.

Again thanks.
[Captivate Android Development] donharden2002:
Just curious as to if my firmware version is supposed to read 2.3.1 when I download this?
[Captivate Android Development] matt310:
^Yes. Darky changed the firmware to reflect a Gingerbread version, even though it's based of Froyo JPY 2.2.1, presumably because of the enhancements done. You can change it back in SGS tools by editing the build.prop file.
[Captivate Android Development] matt310:
How are web pages rendering for you guys? Specifically, load times for pages with lots of text and images (like androidcentral.com). The page load times on the default browser seem to be quite a bit slower on JPY 2.2.1 than they were even with stock JH7 Eclair. Anyone else having this issue?

I'm using the JL3 modem and speeds otherwise are excellent. This seems to be in the browser only.
[Captivate Android Development] nimixes:
great GREAT!!! except when i was trying to recieve calls it would say that my sim car was taken out, so..... i did the data and cache wipe lets see how it goes! great rom, the first ive tried and so far so good! give it a shot if your considering trying it
[Captivate Android Development] DrDubzz:
just installed this moments ago, about phone says Firmware version is 2.3.1

is that right???
[Captivate Android Development] ooo.stephen:
auto enable gps...

i'm on v8.0.1 now, and seem to remember that before flashing, launching google maps or 'gps test' would auto enable the gps, and disable when the app closed. now that's not the case. i've tooled around the system and app settings, and found nothing on point. anyone know if this is the expected behavior with froyo, or it it a rom and kernel issue?
[Captivate Android Development] JamieD81:
yes its something darky did, read her thread, no clue why she actually did that to the build prop but she did.
[Captivate Android Development] DrDubzz:
which thread is that?
[Captivate Android Development] Exostenza:
Darky is a dude. His avatar is a pic of his girlfriend.

Anyone have a problem with their sounds being extremely quiet sometimes and restarting the phone is the only thing to help it? Only happened to me once, but I missed a whole day of texts and calls :(
[Captivate Android Development] daCLOUD:
common bro at least read the change log and release notes before you go and flash a custom ROM...read post #2 on this thread. Save yourself some headache.

Other changes

Changed Android Version to 2.3.1 [just accept it as it is]
[Captivate Android Development] xreflection:
Thank you. Restoring the stock email app fixed the problem. Don't know why I changed to the galaxy tab email because I don't even use the stock email app, I use gmail, lol. Also thanks for the explanation of "H." So basically H > 3G?
[Captivate Android Development] rayliew:
USB Device not recognized

Hi,

I have flashed with the new Darky V8 rom. Very impressive of all.

But I still found lag after I have total of 285apps inside my phone.

Recent HOT GAMES - ROPE CUT - is lagging so so much...

THe biggest issue now is that my phone now is total not recognized by any of computers. kindly help me out on this.

I tried few computers also giving me the same result.

"USB Device not recognized"

Pls help...
[Captivate Android Development] ooo.stephen:
just following up on this, i ended up uninstalling 'spare parts', and immediately noticed improved battery life. previously, i lost 7% over night (~8hrs). last night (~9hrs), i lost 3%. with 'spare parts' removed, 'juice defender' is the sole manager of wifi, and so fare its doing its job nicely.
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
If I don't want use Voodoo can I do this before Flash. Open the ROM with WinRar and add the "disable-lagfix" file in the Voodoo folder found in the "sdcard" folder of the ROM via the "Add" command within WinRar?

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
I am going to uninstall Spare Parts and test this also. On Juice Defender,are you using "Default" setting or did you Customize some things?

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] Exostenza:
No one on this forum cares to read through even a bit of the thread or use the search function..... even the OP has the freakin' fix on it for nerd sakes. This question must have been answered at least 20 times in this thread. READ THE OP AND USE SEARCH! HOLY SMOKES PEOPLE!

(just woke up - guess I am grumpy)

Anyone else experiencing very low sound after the night time until a reboot is done? Yes, I used the search and can't find anything :)
[Captivate Android Development] iNFRiNGE:
Delete the core file also when you uninstall swype and reboot.

In the system/lib file use root explorer click the rw at the top then go to system>>lib>>delete lib.SwypeCore.so close root explorer install your new swype and reboot. You may want to clear the dalvic cache also.

EDIT: While were on keyboards if you want to get rid of that chinese input listed it's the htc_cime.apk in the system/apps folder.

DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK!
[Captivate Android Development] rickysa2000:
Yup.. H>3G in speeds and battery consumption ;)
[Captivate Android Development] rickysa2000:
Original Darkyys ROM:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=814091
[Captivate Android Development] rickysa2000:
Darkyys an 18 yr old guy with his gf's pic as his..
[Captivate Android Development] iNFRiNGE:
Just a suggestion use the multi qoute buttons.

Hit multi qoute on all but the last qoute you hit qoute and all will be in one post. ;)
[Captivate Android Development] rickysa2000:
too much work..lol
[Captivate Android Development] evoic:
I fixed it for you. :p
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
Interesting Audio interview with Joel Staub the Creator of the Darky's ROM for i9000.

http://www.ipadchatshow.co.uk/
[Captivate Android Development] iNFRiNGE:
Lol cheers I thought I was helping at least keeping the thread tidy. But then again I get complaints for putting key points in BOLD you can't please them all I guess.
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
Repost it was at the end of a page.
[Captivate Android Development] iNFRiNGE:
That's what I do.

EDIT: Not the reposting thingy the Voodoo thingy. :p
[Captivate Android Development] iNFRiNGE:
YW basically what I do now is, since I know already what I'm adding I have a pre made pack containing the folder structure of the rom and in each of the final destinations I have my mods. Basically something like this system[folder]>>apps[folder]>>all my mods for apps [.apk's ] and then I just add the whole folder and it prompts if i want to overwrite those folders which of course it simply merges all my apps in.
[Captivate Android Development] squidmaster:
I'm not able to use any camera app other than stock and can't receive calls (phone force shuts then tells me I have no sim). Suggestions?
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
Did you do data wipe before flash? I had never wiped when I installed the various versions of this ROM. But was one upgrade I did(I can't remember which) where I had to re flash and wipe data to get my phone to receive calls.
[Captivate Android Development] ooo.stephen:
i made at least one change. i disabled all apps from the triggers tab; triggers=>apps = disable. i think that's all i did, but couldn't swear on it.
[Captivate Android Development] micro2112:
Just flashed darky from cognition, holy crap this rom is fast. Love it so far. Thanks for making this phone rock
[Captivate Android Development] anusorn:
Just flashed this rom to my Cappy, it's a very good bot. Even, there's still problem with GPS, which i seldomly use it.
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
Go to SGS Tools--->Secret Codes--->GPS Test. There Delete GPS Data and then Get Position test.
[Captivate Android Development] nybmx:
Do what was said above but also go into SGS tools then GPS fix and change it to north.American.pool. then delete GPS data and try again.
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
I know I am just overlooking it but where is the north.American.pool setting? Though my GPS seems to be doing OK I have never checked this.

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] squidmaster:
Yupp
[Captivate Android Development] nybmx:
Go into the SGS Tools app that is included. Inside there go to the 'GPS fix' option (its at the bottom of the list). Then there will be a pull down menu with choices of north American or Europe. Change it if it is wrong(which by default it usually is), click apply, then go into LBStestmode and delete GPS data. From there run a 'get position' test to check.

If you're not sure how to get to LBStestmode, you can use the secret codes option in SGS Tools to access it.
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
I am presently using the "K" version of SpeedMod with Darky 8.0 and I disabled the Voodoo LagFix on Darky's before I installed this Kernel.Though I read you don't need to do this with this Kernel I still see some people recommend it, what are some thoughts on this? Though this Kernel is Fast without Lagfix if I do want to try it do I enable the Lagfix included with this Kernel though Recovery or should I just re enable Lagfix in Darky? Or is it the same thing either way?

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] ytt3r:
I believe SpeedMod uses a different system to convert the data partition to EXT4. It sounds like you did the right thing to disable it. I personally don't use a lagfix for anything other than testing. With JPY, Samsung has improved their filesystem enough that I don't want to worry about a lagfix. Just my 2 cents, do what you want. If I'm correct and speedmod does use a different system, lagfix options will be in recovery. If I'm not, you can just remove the disable-lagfix file in /sdcard/Voodoo.
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
Thanks for reply. I went ahead and enabled lagfix though the speedmod kernel just to test. All went well but like stated not sure if any speed difference.
[Captivate Android Development] evoic:
Three guesses who made the complaint about the bold?

I'll wait here while you check. :D

You are correct, you cannot please them all.

I'm trying to help you please more than half.

Keep up the good fight, there are newbs being helped on a daily basis.
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
I saw this in a post about Battery drain and a "WiFi Bug"

Fix #3: Use an updated Kernel, either hardcore's or trasig's and apply the wifi-fix (wifi-driver from JPA): update-wifi-dxjpa.zip

I was trying to read though some of the Darky Change logs and didn't see anything about WiFi bug does anyone know if this is something that should be done or does this even apply to Darky's ROM?

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] Dlev7:
Stability and Battery

Hey guys I really want to flash the latest Darkys however I want to stop the process of flashing back to stock and trying out new ROMs every day. And I just want someone please to give me some feedback on this ROM.

1. How is the stability, being if I were to use this ROM for more than a month or so will it still be able to hold the way it did from the day I first flashed?

2. When updates come out lets say I flashed this today and v8.5 (or v9 for that matter) came out two days from now would all I have to do is wide date/cache and flash that through CWM?

3. Finally how is the battery life on this ROM?

Thanks and PLEASE give me your feedback it will be greatly appreciate
[Captivate Android Development] ytt3r:
Can't tell you about a months worth of stability.

You wouldn't even technically have to wipe.

can't tell you too much about battery. I'm not a heavy user.
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
1. This is the only Custom ROM I have tried. I first put it on the End of Nov. 1 week after I got my phone. I seen no reason to try other ROMs I love this one.

2. I have done every update from 6.01 and never had to wipe except one time my phone wouldn't receive calls so I wiped and re flashed but never have seen that problem again.

3. I am still tinkering with Battery. I now use SpeedMod Kernel on Darky's and battery life getting better. The main thing with most ROMs and Battery is WiFi being on all the time it seems. There some tweaks for this and I now say I am pleased with Battery Life.
[Captivate Android Development] Dlev7:
Well I mean a month wouldnt be that long but by stability I mean more like could I Just keep getting Darky updates for as long as id like cause I really want to settle down with a ROM that is cool (CHECK for sure here for Darkys) but also has stability.

2. What do you mean about not having to wipe?

3. Alright hopefully another use can help...

Thanks mate
[Captivate Android Development] Dlev7:
Very cool about not having to wipe however if I were to arise with the problems you were having I dont have to flash back to stock correct? Id just have to boot back to recovery master clear than reflash that version of the ROM?

And very very nice to hear about your stability

and finally did you do the Spare Parts fix he recommends on the I9000 forums?
[Captivate Android Development] micro2112:
Just found out I am having this problem too, any ideas or fixes? I did a clean flash. I am new to darky (been on Cognition for months) and love the speed of this rom, just need it to receive calls too. lol
[Captivate Android Development] daCLOUD:
Remove your external sd card and sim card. Flash back to stock first and then use wipe data/cache. Install v8.01 again. Don't restore any apps or change any settings. Test her out again...
[Captivate Android Development] aramsumair:
I am having the same issue with the phone dialer force closing when it attempts to receive a call and then forwards the call to my voice mail. I am attempting to wipe data/cache then reflash again.
[Captivate Android Development] Postal76:
Anyone notice that battery life has tanked as of v8? My Wifi sleep policy has always been set to "never," but with v8 and v8.0.1 Wifi tops the list on the battery use screen. This wasn't the case before, or with other ROMs.
[Captivate Android Development] mwmalm:
Wifi and Bluetooth Issues

I am new to playing with ROMs, but have now flashed several and find it fairly easy. I really like this current ROM, but I am still having problems. Two days ago I had flashed another ROM and began having problems, so I thought I would try this one to see if it was a ROM specific issue.

Problem:

My wifi and/or bluetooth randomly refuse to connect. The wifis both at work and home have always easily connected and stayed steady. Recently I have been having times of good connection (and reconnection after the sleep policy shut down); but then randomly the wifi will stop connecting.

Sometimes the phone just cycle through scans and doesnt find the wifi. Sometimes it finds it and then determines a weak signal--I have full strength with my laptop and have always connected in these locations at my office and home.

Sometimes it finds the wifi with a strong signal, but seems to stall out "obtaining IP address" or sometimes stall out "connecting."

Sometimes it forgets the wep password.

The only remedy is to reboot. Which sometimes fixes, sometimes does not. But often the reboot will throw my bluetooth off. Typically I an simply push the control button on my voyager pro to reconnect, but the phone does not chang when the bluetooth is acting up. I go into bluetooth setting and see the Voyager, and try to force a connection. It goes into "connecting" but seems to stall out.

Please help. Im sure I screwed something up.
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
Did you Flash back to Stock and Master Clear before Flashing you last ROM? If not try that.
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
I saw this in a post about Battery drain and a "WiFi Bug" on JPY based ROMs and I think Darky's is JPY.

Fix #3: Use an updated Kernel, either hardcore's or trasig's and apply the wifi-fix (wifi-driver from JPA): update-wifi-dxjpa.zip

I was trying to read though some of the Darky Change logs and didn't see anything about WiFi bug does anyone know if this is something that should be done or does this even apply to Darky's ROM?

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] ooo.stephen:
i thought i noticed something too, which i didn't with the earlier roms. it seemed the wifi (and possibly gps), used to get disabled on screen off. through 'spare parts' i had it set to the android policy, but with v8.0.1 it stayed stuck on 'never', which kept my wifi on 24/7. i ended up uninstalling 'spare parts', and using 'juice defender'.
[Captivate Android Development] ooo.stephen:
i've noticed wifi failing to connect the first few times, which it never did before.
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
I so uninstalled Spare Parts and just went to the setting in WiFi itself and set to Sleep "WHEN screen turns off" and it seems to be holding fine.

Settings--->Wi-Fi settings. First turn off Network on notification then go to Menu--->Advanced----->Wi-Fi sleep policy and set there.
[Captivate Android Development] schahr01:
Not wifi related but I saw a post about disabling HSPA on the i9000 darkyy rom thread - I can say that it does help and I can see a difference today. I am fine w/ 3G during the day. Can turn on HSPA/HSDPA/etc when needed...

http://touristinparadise.blogspot.com/2010/11/samsung-galaxy-s-turn-off-hsdpa-for.html

PS - Running latest speedmod + JL2 modem
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
I saw that also but I am in small town with no 3g with AT&T at the moment so I am OK there.
[Captivate Android Development] schahr01:
Have you disabled 3g and forced 2g? Probably yes - Just checking :)
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
Hmmm.. I don't think so,is that setting in Setting also?

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] schahr01:
Yeah, under mobile network settings and "network mode" - you should set it to GSM only if there's no 3g (WCDMA). Avoids having the modem seek out WCMDA unnecessarily.
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
Thanks so much for that info. So if I am traveling and hit a Bigger City where there is 3G I can just make the setting change.

Thank again
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
Stupid question 4 today. I have 8.0 Darky with Speedmod Kernel L running and fine tuned. If I use ROM Manager and Backup ROM does that backup my setup completely with Kernel change?

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] Dlev7:
The discussion kind of dropped off but can someone please continue to comment on the battery life and stability of this ROM cause as I said I want to stick with one ROM and continue to just upgrade the versions and I want too with Darky but these recent comments have started pushing me away...

So PLEASE respond with your feedback about the stability of the ROM and how you go about upgrading from Versions to versions as Im tired of flashing back to stock and trying a new ROM every day.

I also dont have that big of a need for battery cause if its really terrible I may just use my 3,200 MaH battery instead.

But PLEASE RESPOND, I would really appreciate it greatly
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
I think it SUPER Stable in that I have used it for 6-8 weeks with NO Problems. That being said I haven't even tried any other ROM but I don't feel I need to because this ROM does EVERYTHING I want. Now I don't play games on my phone so I don't need or want over clocking. Since I never tried any other ROMs I have never had to Flash back to Stock so I can't comment there. Is this what you want to know?
[Captivate Android Development] Dlev7:
ya perfect so how do you do the upgrade from version to version exactly do you have to master clear in CWM or just continually flash over and over.

Also what about all the problems people are having with the calls can you comment on that please?

Thanks man
[Captivate Android Development] ooo.stephen:
i don't see this [Menu--->Advanced----->Wi-Fi sleep policy] anywhere in the system settings. i actually don't have 'menu' listed anywhere.
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
I have Never Master Cleared. Each time I have downloaded my latest version of the ROM to my SD Card. Then I have used ROM Manger went to Install ROM from SD Card found the new version and installed WITHOUT Wiping anything. That has worked every time but once when I couldn't received calls(not sure what version) where I did indeed have to re Flash and I did Wipe Data that time.
[Captivate Android Development] Dlev7:
Alright that sounds awesome and I all the feedback on this ROM have been amazing and the fact that I just can flash over and over on this ROM is awesome.

But the recent comments on the Version saying that they cant receive calls whats that about thats making me not want to flash this at all because although this ROM is really really cool, really fast, and running 2.2 I NEED to receive calls. LOL

Do you have any idea whats happening? And is that happening to you right now?
[Captivate Android Development] RonH54:
I got no clue why I couldn't receive calls the one time it happened to me but it NEVER HAS HAPPENED again and I GET CALLS with the ROM now.
[Captivate Android Development] Dlev7:
"Ever since I flashed this ROM Ive been having problems receiving calls. The first time I did it, anytime some one called it would hang up and I'd get some kind of SIM card error.

I wiped data/cache and reflashed once more. It worked for a bit now anytime someone calls I lose service for that single moment and the call goes to voicemail.

I've reflashed a couple of times. This last time worked for about a week until just now I noticed the call was dropped.

I never had this problem on stock and Cognition, but I really liked this ROM."

Cant find that post but someone posted that today about this v8 ROM are you having those problems as well?
[Captivate Android Development] Killemalll:
I have been using Darky's roms for over a month, starting from v7.0. Before I tried pretty much everything available on the forums (DG's roms, Doc's roms, Axura, Phoenix, AOSP, C6 etc) I flashed 8.0 last week (no wipe), tried a few kernels/modems combos, and settled for Hardcore's speedmod kernel/JL2 modem (honestly not much difference between Hardcore and Xcaliburinhand kernels, both great. Hardcore updates his version more often thou).

The rom has been absolutely stable. I never had a soft reboot or random FCs. All apps work properly. Great GPS/data/voice/bluetooth performance. As far as the battery life, I've tried most of the tricks out there to extend it, but for my typical daily use of the phone I can't squeeze more than 8-9hrs out of it. It has always been like that, regardless of the rom, kernel or modem I may have tried since last June.