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[Captivate General] 10ee:
Yup.

I did the exact procedure in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=880223

and supplanted the SGH-i897ZKAATT with SGH-i896ZKARWC and it worked.

Under Windows 7 32-bit the MSC.THUNDER application blew up, but under Windows Vista 32-bit it is in the downloading stage now.

Keeping my fingers crossed that this was worth all the trouble.

If it's not up by tonight or tomorrow morning I will make a CWM backup and post it somewhere.

Update:

It worked and is now at 2.2. I am going to root and install ROM Manager/CWM and see if I can get this uploaded somewhere early tomorrow morning at the latest. Also rooted with SuperOneClick/RageAgainsttheCage successfully.

I just did a factory reset because it was a bit laggy coming back up after a half hour and everything seems great now. For me the updated e-mail client was the reason I needed this as the original 2.1 Eclair version kept losing sync with my Exchange servers at work.
[Captivate General] shawn122:
just an update to anyone who had the same problems as me using swype...

I got it to work by force stopping it and then clearing all data. (setting...manage applications..swype)

The random vibrations stopped and everything else seems okay. I will try out the gps later today!
[Captivate General] purespin:
Sorry for stupid question: what are these codes?
[Captivate General] kdwolf85:
Glad I could help.
[Captivate General] rnewton01:
I have rooted with super-one click and oclf successfully.

Everything seems great so far.
[Captivate General] 10ee:
You type these into the phone dialler to enable certain phone functions.
[Captivate General] Tree__77:
its not a 'code'. Its a phone number you enter to get into LBSTESTMODE
[Captivate General] Hondo209:
Duplicate post...
[Captivate General] Hondo209:
U can get it at the app store.
[Captivate General] TheEscapist:
Mines stuck at the List of Devices Requiring Firmware Upgrade. Nothing seems to show up.

EDIT: My product code is wrong, I'll just fix that.
[Captivate General] desmopilot:
Is this an official update or a bad leak of some sort? From what I can gather there's been no official announcement from Rogers at all (No press release, notice on their site etc).
[Captivate General] kdwolf85:
This is an official update via KIES not OTA from Rogers
[Captivate General] MorganFreeman911:
Connected stock i896 firmware'd cappy to Kies, it can't find an update. I'm running 2.1-update1. Any ideas?
[Captivate General] mjd355:
tbrummell -

Do you have an HSUPA modem working with 2.2? If so, could you point me in the right direction to do the same?

Thx.
[Captivate General] PhnXFire:
Nevermind! These steps seemed to have worked for me :). Anyone have a fix for Swype and the random vibration?
[Captivate General] momoboy:
I followed your instructions and I was unable to to get this device detected. I did a recent Odin3-one click flash to the at&t 2.2 Unofficil Froyo release that had leaked. I believe because of that the Samsung Kies for the rogers version of the phone is unable to upgrade firmware for this phone as it says it is not supported. I need help with this because my outgoing text messaging is not working with the AT&T version as well as my gps is also not locking. I tried calling tech support and they said they had a fire and hung up on me. So now I am really hoping there is someone brilliant here that may have a solution for me to revert my phone to the new 2.2 Rogers release. Any help and advice will be deeply appreciated.
[Captivate General] TheEscapist:
What.

Also, use odin3(not one click) to flash the JI2homebinary.tar back to stock.
[Captivate General] momoboy:
Where might i acquire the Odin3 you are referring to cause i do not want to download the wrong version and also the JIT2homebinary.tar. Thank you
[Captivate General] inningsdefeat500:
8) Click the Update button

9) Wait for the download to finish then you will see another Windows POP up, DONT PRESS OK

10) Disconnect USB | Power OFF Phone

11) Power Phone ON with VOL Buttons ON, it will come to Downloading... Download mode (Black/yellow screen with a shovelling droid)

12) Connect USB after 5 seconds

13) Press OK on Kies so it pushed the update to the phone

14) Kies will say Update Completed and your phone should be sitting on Galaxy S, diconnect cable and you enter Froyo
[Captivate General] Riker2k:
You should be able to get the Odin version you need and the tar file in this post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=867617

When you flash with Odin DO NOT check the repartition box and select the .pit file because that TAR file does not contain the dbdata partition. As long as you don't repartition you should be fine. If you have a custom rom with a lagfix installed I'd suggest disabling it first, just as a precaution. Not 100% sure that you need to but wouldn't hurt to disable it, just in case.
[Captivate General] TheEscapist:
How soon after the update downloads should the window pop up?

Edit: Nevermind, I seem to have got it working.
[Captivate General] Eschatologist:
+ This plz!
[Captivate General] gizmo2337:
This is the worst piece of software I've ever had to deal with. Why couldn't they just let you download the update to internal/external SD and run the update manually without all the windows/computer speed/timing/USB issues? Samsung...are you listening?

I've had possibly one of the worst cases: rebooted, installed, un-installed,re-installed plugged, unplugged 300 times 15 hours over two days? If this is you, please don't give up, it will work eventually. I got my phone to detect in Kies once, and then it crashed with the thunder error. I learned alot over the course though so here goes.

1) make sure your phone is in good order

-TW launcher as default and press the home screen before you plug USB in

-USB debugging off, USB setting to Kies firmware update mode

-no long filename extensions..there are programs out there to help with this

-a complete wipe might help .. *2767*3855# from the phone dialer

-internal SD card mounted, no external SD card. If there is nothing mounted, you get the endless loop between screens and never MTP connected on the phone screen

2) Windows drivers in control panel, system, device manager there should be *3* devices: Portable Devices| SGH-I896, USB Controllers |Samsung Android USB Composite Device, Modems | Samsung Android USB Modem. If I go into Add remove programs, my samsung driver for mobile phones under support information reads version 1.3.1600.0. If there is an error with exclamation mark, or MTP portable device is missing, do the Kies driver recovery and reboot. Disable the Kies autorun feature from the system tray before you re-boot

3) System requirements? I read somewhere the software requirements on samsung website? ms framework.Net 3.5 sp1, windows media player 10+?, active sync, directX 9.0c+ if you have vista? I don't think this had much to do with anything....except im skeptical that this works well with WinXP SP3. WinXP SP2 users please chime in here. It seems like a drive/timing/software issue... that is if you dealt with setting your phone up right first.

4) Re-booting seemed to make some major difference, but the real solution for me was the device manager enable/disable/re-enable composite device. It goes as follows: Re-boot. Plug in phone and watch device manager. There should be 3 devices. Kies is not running. Disable composite USB android device. Run Kies. Enable composite USB driver. If it asks you to re-boot windows, say no. do this several times. If it doesnt work and there is no detecting in Kies, close kies and re-open again. If that still doesn't work, then re-boot again. It will work eventualy.

When i finally got to the point of downloading the binary...everything still went south, but removing the battery and entering recovery mode worked. If you get to the point of downloading, you can jump up and down :) Cheers
[Captivate General] gizmo2337:
Forgot to mention, this is an un-rooted phone, rogers i896 captivate, no unlock, completely stock with a fido sim inserted.

Sucess may vary if you've installed something else. I believe the phone prep is half the battle, windows drivers part of it... and then its just USB connection timing and a fluke to get Kies to work. Re-boot, enable/disable composite driver with Kies running finally got me going. Patience with the phone plug/unplug helps too... computer speed here might vary... ten seconds plug/unlug for proper driver detection might help. Again, if Kies wont play nice...enable/disable composite driver. If kies sees nothing, close and open again. If still nothing... then re-boot.
[Captivate General] tbrummell:
I don't mess with modem binaries and all of that. Mine was a stock 2.1 rooted and lagfix (removed for upgrade) upgraded to 2.2 and re-rooted & lag fixed. I have whatever modem was included in the 2.2 update. It's still limited to 5Mb down/400Kb up, so I'd have to say no?
[Captivate General] y_argon:
Soo.. I finally got my phone to show up in Kies... Uninstalled 2.0 and found/installed 1.5.3.10083_66

Trying to do the Firmware Upgrade..

Model Name: SGH-I896

Current Version: PDA: JI2 / PHONE: JI2

This device's version cannot be updated

Is it my phone or is the update offline?
[Captivate General] TheEscapist:
I noticed a huge difference between stock modems and some of the others. I haven't used this one much, but switching back to JI2 from JL3 was a huge difference in speed.
[Captivate General] y_argon:
Its letting me do the upgrade now had to fix the product code by hex editing the nv_data.bin file. All is well :)
[Captivate General] Roger M:
When i click the link to the 1.53.... version of Kies i get a page not found on the samsung site. All i can find is a 2.0 copy. Anyone else have this problem?
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
Has Rogers announced this officially or is it a leaked version that may not be official?
[Captivate General] goraps:
I found this yesterday too. When you get the page not found error use the menu to select support and navigate to the captivate again. Then go to downloads and you should find it there. Forgive me if these instructions are a bit off but I am writing them on my phone from memory.
[Captivate General] TheEscapist:
No word at all from them yet. I asked them on @RogersHelp, but someone should really email them.
[Captivate General] mjk37:
if it is coming through Kies how could it be a leaked version? I'm Running it now and it seems to have solved my random shut downs (so far) and battery seems much improved as well
[Captivate General] raydroid:
Hello everyone,

So after many hours of unplugging and plugging in the USB, i get the stupid Thunder error that everyone gets. This is when I downloaded the latest version of kies 1.5.3. So I did what someone suggested, and downloaded an older version of 1.5.3. This will get me to the downloading binary part, and then it fails when it tries to update the phone.

It then asks me to go into "Recovery Mode".. But in the instructions it tells me to "pull the battery", then plug in the USB while pressing volume up and volume down. But when i plug it in while in recovery mode, Kies of course doesn't recognize it :(

Anything i'm doing wrong?

Thanks!
[Captivate General] Phateless:
Link no good...
[Captivate General] Enhanced:
While I haven't tested GPS on the road yet, I can confirm that my phone locks on a lot faster than before (almost instantly) after the initial lock on. This is telling considering my GPS worked pretty adequately before on my phone.

How I noticed is was when I used my GPS before the 2.2 update, I would have to keep my screen from turning off in order to maintain a lock because when the screen went off, I would lose the lock on my position and would have to wait at least 5-10 seconds before it would lock on again. That was pretty annoying so I just left my screen on altogether to prevent it from having to re-lock constantly.

After the update, I am now able to get a GPS lock, turn off my screen and when I turn it back on, I would re-lock instantly and at most 5 seconds.

I'll take it out for a spin and post some results on the accuracy later.
[Captivate General] gizmo2337:
Sounds like you forgot to re-boot. Give that a whirl, then pull the battery and re-plug, re-start etc
[Captivate General] gunzblaze007:
Finally got 2.2 installed as well.

Can I ask what method you used to root? Does the 2.1 root work for 2.2?

**Disregard** I found my answer in previous posts.
[Captivate General] anilhanda:
I'm fresh of having the THUNDER error that shuts down the program (1.5.3) and the error in Kies 2.0 that refuses to acknowledge I need an upgrade (This device cannot be updated or whatever).

So now I'm trying an older version of Kies, to hopefully at least download the update and go from there...Since I'm new I can't post the link to the older version of 1.5.3, but if you want it, PM me. Thx

What a headache :(

EDIT: Using a Captivate on Rogers/Windows 7 64-bit.

EDIT2: (Using 1.5.3 older build) Upgrade is in progress...

EDIT3: Failed to convert to upgrade mode. Please try later.

EDIT4: (Put phone in Download mode using this method found in another forum: "Download mode (Noticeable by an Android robot digging with a shovel) is reached by taking everything out (Battery, SIM, MicroSD). Then putting in battery. Holding the volume buttons, you plug in the USB cable to your computer. (Don't press the power button at all in this method).")

EDIT5: SUCCESS!! I think... the new firmware is definitely loaded on my phone (after reinserting SIM/battery and doing a power on) but its really laggy (Media scanning) and my old phone desktop has not yet loaded. Hopefully it all works, I'll update you soon.
[Captivate General] hey_joe:
I think it's referring to download mode cause you only have to press the vol up+down only then plug usb ( phone will show a yellow triangle with a dude with a shovel ). Once usb is connected, you don't have to wait for kies to recognize it as depending on which stage of the update kies is, it will most likely not recognize it. So what you do at this point is click on the firmware upgrade icon on the bottom right corner of the screen near the option icon ( gear ) and will take you to recovery so follow instructions then from there it will install Froyo.

Hope it helps.
[Captivate General] redjersey:
I can't even get my captivated detected.

I have installed Kies_1.5.3.10092_2_1, and when I plugged in my captivate and picked "Kies (firmware update)" as the usb option, I had the "MTP Application" flashing on my captivate screen.

Not sure what went wrong...
[Captivate General] desmopilot:
Any reports from people who have had a chance to play with the ROM for a few days?
[Captivate General] rye&ginger:
I'll start by asking here, anyone have issues with the internal SD card since the update? I also did one click root.

Windows only sees 2.19GB at times, and I cant use iSyncr any more as I get lots of errors. The dev thinks the SD card is corrupt, the cable is bad, or the phone's USB kernel driver is getting corrupted.

I can use it fine on to the small external SD card I have so that just leaves the internal SD card being the issue, right?

Android also now thinks the card is nearly full, even though there is only about 2gb on it. So about 10gb is MIA. If I try to format in Windows, it only shows 2.19gb as the capacity.

I will try a format and drop n drag transfers to see if they work ok but just checking to see if anyone else is having issues.
[Captivate General] Betray:
so nobody has a answer to solve the "this device will be supported soon." error?
[Captivate General] hey_joe:
In my case everything is stable and working as it should. Much faster, more functions work now like AP connections and usb tethering and couple of new apps like the car and desk home ( love the desk home a lot ). GPS locks a bit faster although I never had a problem with the one on 2.1 and battery life has improved for me so now I don't have to keep switching from Edge to 3G when using the browser, just set it to auto.
[Captivate General] tranqwil:
Just use Kies 1.5.3
[Captivate General] Jesterium:
After trolling these threads for two days trying to get this damn thing to update, this is the ONLY way I was able to get passed the MSC.Thunder.Firmwareupdate errors.

1. Download an old version of Kies 1.5.3 (1.5.3.10093_31_1 worked for me).

2. Let it update to the current version of 1.5.3

3. Follow silvertag's instructions from post 24.

4. ...

5. Profit!
[Captivate General] redjersey:
after numerous tries finally have froyo installed. :D

1. the "mtp application" screen kept flashing because of the file extensions. downloaded filesearchforkies (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9126349&postcount=4) removed all those files on the list and problem fixed.

2. I have rebooted my captivate, then run Kies again, this time I got a prompt saying that I have to recover the firmware. After the recovery froyo is installed :)
[Captivate General] rnewton01:
I've been running it for two days now....

seems to have a few issues. I notice my wifi doesn't keep its connection for some reason. says its connected to network, but can't access internet / market unless i turn wifi off and back on after sleeping for a while.

used oclf, because stock rom was a bit laggy. helped somewhat, but not as much as it did with 2.1. flash works great. new youtube app is good. my battery life seems better, but i have a few batteries and don't really care as much about that and haven't been paying attention to it.

gallery works perfectly now. i was afraid everytime i had to use it before because it would require a battery pull 50% of the time.

installed new camera firmware... i don't know if that was available or not with 2.1, but it seems to have some nice improvements.... don't know if its froyo or the firmware... shutter timer being the most prominent... or an easy to access one anyways, not sure if the old version had this hidden somewhere.
[Captivate General] raydroid:
Thanks this worked :)

I was confused because I thought it meant recovery mode, which is done by the Up volume, down volume, power trick.

2.2 works great! The speed feels more consistent than 2.1 and everything seems more fine tuned!
[Captivate General] TheEscapist:
In case anyone is wondering, this is NOT official, and Roger's will not support it. They will have more information "next week".
[Captivate General] tartantroosers:
Thanks for the heads up on this OP. I never hook my phone to Kies so I would have missed this otherwise.

Installation went smoothly on my stock unrooted phone.

My only gripe was Aldiko somehow got deleted from my app drawer, I was half way through a book as well. Re-downloaded the app but have had a couple of force closes with it.
[Captivate General] psyfactor:
Personal experience with the update since 2 days

My update via Kies when smoothly (win7 64bits + kies 1.5.3.?.?) However, I had found the phone's operations to be slower than the stock 2.1, it seemed to lag from time to time: when open the market, open app, return to home screen, etc. But then I decided to follow the others suggestion to wipe out the user data and cache via Power off, Power+Vol up + Vol down. This put the phone to the initial factory state, I had to reinstall all apps + reconfig everything from scratch which is fine by me (I backup the contacts before doing this). Now the phone runs smoothly, way faster than before (even faster than stock 2.1).
[Captivate General] Enhanced:
Is anyone having the haptic feedback issue? Seems like I was the only person that mentioned it. Haptic feedback seems to be weak across the board despite adjusting it in the settings menu.
[Captivate General] TheEscapist:
No issues here.
[Captivate General] yobbei:
Yes I have the same issue haptic is weak on keyboards no matter how I adjust it
[Captivate General] inningsdefeat500:
GPS works fine, it was working great even b4..never had issues
[Captivate General] inningsdefeat500:
seems softer, but I though it was a good thing. Haptic was pretty strong b4
[Captivate General] Enhanced:
My haptic feedback fringes on being barely there, not just softer. While I can feel something, it's clear that it shouldn't be at that low level. Just seems too low to be a setting for the OS.

To see if your haptic feedback is busted, just measure if it's at the same strength as your four soft keys at the bottom of the phone. The "Vibration Intensity" setting in the settings controls haptic across the board so you should feel the same feedback everywhere. My bottom soft buttons are normal (they change when the bar is moved higher and lower in "Vibration Intensity") but any on screen feedback such as on the keyboards and long presses don't change at all when the setting is changed. It remains very low at all times.

On a side note, is clearing user data and cache in the recovery menu the same as just restoring the phone to factory setting in the settings menu? Or is it much more?
[Captivate General] djUniversal:
Still stuck

I have read this thread all through. I had my phone on cognition and I network unlocked via the method that required nv_data.bin edit. I never had the wrong product code after reflashing back to stock but it still didn't show update in kies.

I put my backed up version of nv_data.bin back on my phone and that didn't make a difference. I reflashed rogers stock via Heimdall.

Am I missing something? I cannot get this update to show even though my friend just updated on the same computer with stock captivate (never rooted)

Should I try flashing stock with Odin? Where is a good guide for that? and will that make a difference?

Thanks in advance
[Captivate General] MarlowXim:
Never noticed the haptic feedback difference. I'm getting a replacement captivate from Rogers, not sure if they preloaded it with 2.2 but I'll make a comparison.

Also everyone try and make a request to samsung for source code here http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/reception_main.do?method=inquiryView

They only have eclair sources available.
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
Probably because there has been no announcement of official Froyo release. When they announce it, they will release source.
[Captivate General] TheEscapist:
This isn't an official release, so there will be no announcement.
[Captivate General] jakesongs:
Captivate Froyo via Kies

I would be interested to know if anybody who has used the Samsung Kies method of updating to Froyo (2.2), if they have managed to internet tether from a laptop successfully, either via wi-fi (AP) or via usb.

If so what version of kies did you use.

I am monitoring all of these postings in relation to going from 2.1 to 2.2 via kies and I am still a little nervous about using kies. Who knows when Rogers will bless 2.2 for Captivate and "officially" release it.

Thanks in advance for any replies.
[Captivate General] rnewton01:
i just connected my ipod touch using mobile AP with no problem. haven't tried usb tether...
[Captivate General] rnewton01:
So i did notice there was a difference with the intensity levels... I'm using "keyboard from Android 2.3" - great keyboard by the way.

go into settings>locale and text>ginerbread keyboard settings>advanced settings

from there you can set to "normal" or "system default".. use normal, and it's all good.
[Captivate General] hey_joe:
The primary reason I jumped on the update although some say it's not official release is because of the tethering function. At last AP and usb tethering works perfectly. Used 1.5.3 on a Win7 64.
[Captivate General] rnewton01:
and i just connected via usb..

tethering working here on win 7 64 and kies version 1.5.3
[Captivate General] jakesongs:
Thanks for the quick respons. appreciate it
[Captivate General] Atomic_R53:
How do I clear up some internal storgae to run the OCLF?
[Captivate General] VGPod36:
If it's not "official" why is it available "officially" through Kies. Not that I can upgrade of course, I have tried everything and I just cannot get Kies to see my phone...
[Captivate General] MarlowXim:
I'm sure it's an official release. If you've followed jpu/jpx releases they follow a similar pattern.

Not sure where they got the info that isn't supported by Rogers I think the PR department hadn't been briefed on the release.

Also requesting the sources helps speed up the process for source code release.