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[Captivate General] rnewton01:
Have you flashed any att based rom? If not, what I had to do was factory reset my phone after undoing Oclf. Kies 1.5.3 recognized then.
[Captivate General] TheEscapist:
To everyone who doesn't believe that it's unofficial, I explicitly asked a rogers rep (@Rogers_Chris) if it was official, he said no. Go ask them if don't believe me.
[Captivate General] Betray:
who cares about some random rep.

it was still pushed to users.
[Captivate General] s44:
Instead of fumbling endlessly with Kies, you do realize you can Odin this version in (directions here)...?
[Captivate General] TheEscapist:
I realize, and it's complete bull**** that they are and don't seem to care, I'm just saying that this is NOT official and will NOT be supported for people who care about such things.
[Captivate General] R5R:
Dam Samsung they removed select text in the browser?! now i cant copy paste txt from web pages, what is wrong with them... Does anybody know a way to get this back?

Edit: also i cant download apk files in the stock browser anymore, it seems they crippled the new browser.
[Captivate General] goraps:
You can copy from a web page. Hold your finger on some text for a little you will see a magnifying area come up. When you release your finger you will be able to drag the area you are selecting. When you are done there is an option to copy, search or share.
[Captivate General] xaudiblex:
That is the coolest feature ever! That was the only thing that really bothered me!
[Captivate General] crecsky:
Windows 7 32 Bit works

Just for clarity:

Used my desktop with Windows 7 64 bit, and ran into error.

Used my netbook with Windows 7 32 bit, finished update no problem.
[Captivate General] nimbusgti:
I called rogers tech support to ask if I should do the update. The Rep told me that is is the official 2.2 update. He emailed me a file of instructions on how to perform the update via kies. I aske the rep if he could confirm with somebody else that it was official. He put me on hold for five minutes and came back with a confirmation that it is official. After that phone call, I did the upgrade and so far it is fantastic. No problems at all.
[Captivate General] nimbusgti:
I just used rogers online tech support. I asked if the update was official and he said no. I Asked why the other rep said it was. He did not have an answere but said there is no harm if you do the update. He also said the update was from samsung and the rogers update should be out soon. No eta.
[Captivate General] doug3673:
Thanks. This is what I've been waiting to hear... whether its even worth me dumping Eclair. Now to hear if anyone has overclocked their newly upgraded rogers froyo captivates and what the quadrant score looks like. Also has battery life improved? Because man it really sucks in 2.1.
[Captivate General] jackjack078:
hi all,

I have tried many different ways to work in this update. finally I got kies connect to my phone. But after click upgrade, while in 2/3 of the process, pop up a window and saying symmetric key error, and when i click ok, it whole process just stopped. anyone please help me to get this done. i was hoping to get it updated for long time and seems i am stuck with the stupid kies software issue.

thank you
[Captivate General] shawn122:
I see. So when the Rogers one comes out we should be able to upgrade even after applying this one?
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
All updates come from Samsung. Those Rogers CSR just haven't been informed of the 2.2 release.
[Captivate General] shawn122:
that's what I thought.
[Captivate General] Enhanced:
I really hope that this isn't the official 2.2 as there has been several bugs I've found so far. While none of them are dealbreaking, they are annoying considering this is an official manufacture firmware by Samsung. I'd expect these bugs on custom ROMs by developers of this community, not something churned out by Samsung.

I doubt that it is though. Samsung/Rogers has been too low key for this to be it. While the FW we see now most likely will have the major features we'll see in 2.2, I expect a version with some refinements and bug fixes to be released in a few weeks.
[Captivate General] 10ee:
3E Recovery?

Hey all,

Has anyone else had their update through Kies change their phone's recovery mode to 3E?

This mode requires signed updates, and I wanted to see if anyone has also seen this... This screws up CWM. I found this out on the weekend when I was trying to NanDroid with CWM to post up the package here.

I noticed someone else did it (thanks) but I was just wondering, is the 3E recovery what is included with this particular 2.2 kernel???????????

Thanks!
[Captivate General] kdwolf85:
The same issue cropped up with the at&t captivate 2.2 leak. You can use odin to flash supercurio's UCJJ4 stock voodoo kernel to get both cwm and voodoo.
[Captivate General] ~~mitch~~:
Spoke to a samsung rep a couple days ago at my store (I work for Rogers). DO NOT believe anything that Rogers CSR has been saying. They have been told absolutely nothing as to whether or not this is the official update. There has been no internal communication about this.

I've even spoken to our private call-center, they know nothing either. So take everything with a huge grain of salt until you hear something from Rogers. But there is newer build numbers being worked on, that I'm confident about.
[Captivate General] rnewton01:
sorry if its a dumb question, but i am just getting my feet wet with all this.. but will this kernel be compatible with the new rogers 2.2 build?

lol... i finally get the balls to flash my phone with cwm, and i can't access it.
[Captivate General] geokilla:
The update is official

http://mobilesyrup.com/2011/01/10/r...ate-upgrade-to-os-2-2-now-available-via-kies/

http://www.rogers.com/cms/images/en...Froyo_upgrade_instruction_RWC_I896_EN_(2).pdf
[Captivate General] syder:
................. :)
[Captivate General] manoly55:
Rooted with superoneclick 1.5.5 and OCLF successfully.

Text timestamps are now fixed in 2.2! no more having to use smsfixtimes.apk
[Captivate General] sirknattar:
This is very official...click on "Support" under the Samsung Captivate page on the Rogers website.

Upgraded successfully with Windows 7 (64-bit) using Kies 1.5.3

I'd post the links but I'm a newbie posting so I can't post URL's yet LOL
[Captivate General] kdwolf85:
yes it is compatible. I tested it out on my AT&T Captivate with the Rogers update on it. I had no issues with it. Plus it gave me the lagfix needed.
[Captivate General] psyfactor:
Battery life on the new Rogers Froyo 2.2

I managed to get the phone to run smoothly after the update by wiping out all user data in recover mode. However, since the update, I notice that the battery life is worst than it was on stock 2.1 update-1. I reinstalled the same softwares on 2.2, same widget, same settings, even same usage conditions. On 2.1 update-1, I had problem with WIFI draining the battery after turning it off so I disabled WIFI and only used 3G. Now on 2.2, even I don't turn on WIFI once, the battery drains as fast as 2.1 when it had the WIFI problem. The battery usage in Settings always shows that the display being used the most at > 80% even it's not turn on much during the day. For exemple I unplug the phone at 8:00am, put it on the table (with the screen turned off, WIFI off, bluetooth off). 2-3 hours later the battery is at 93% with the display takes > 80% battery usage. Does anyone notice anything like this? My display brightness is at the minimum with Power Saving option checked. That's weird.:confused: :confused:
[Captivate General] B407:
Has anyone been able to take screenshots by holding the back button and tapping the home button? This seems to be a feature built into other froyo builds. It appears to be missing on non functional on my unit. Can someone else give this a try?

In addition, my phone also reverted to the old android market, and I'm unable to download or update any of my apps. The market app just displays starting download but will never actually download anything. I've tried both over wifi and 3G to no avail.
[Captivate General] goraps:
Yes it comes with the old market, but it should update on its own after a short while.
[Captivate General] Enhanced:
For those of us that updated early, I wonder how we're going to install the firmware that will be officially supported by Rogers.

Think we'll have to revert somehow? The version that is currently out has small bugs that I would love to have disappear with the official version.
[Captivate General] rnewton01:
Im pretty sure its all the same version. As buggy as it may be, I'm pretty sure it's official
[Captivate General] Enhanced:
If it's all the same, then why would Rogers go through all the trouble to point out that the version we have currently is unofficial and unsupported? It's all over their Twitter.
[Captivate General] Culverin:
Since I've upgraded to Froyo, I've had about 20% of my texts being bounced. Sometimes, my signal was at full bars, sometimes, 3 of 5 bars. Sometimes, after 1 resend attempt, the message goes through, it has also taken up to 6 or 7 retries.

Yes, I'm aware that Rogers (Vancouver) had some service issues over the past few days, but I'd like to check that this isn't related.

Under Network Operators Default Setup > *

Shows a couple, Rogers, Telus, Bell and 10360. The UI is a little different than most of Android, as it doesn't show that Rogers is the active one, but that's my assumption since I do have service.

A phone guru's advice:

Your SMSC should be +17057969300 and the preferred connection should be GSM/UMTS, not Packet Data.

The froyo update came with 07917150979603f0,

If this isn't what I should be using, why are my texts still going through?

thanks! :)
[Captivate General] richuwo11:
Looks official to me... damn, it won't let me post an outside link... But go to samsung.ca and search for froyo update. It will come up. Samsung Canada also tweeted it was official about an 30min ago.

Ok, so now that it's confirmed to be official... how do I go about getting the official release? I am currently running the leaked 2.2 update, but I have an unlocked ATT captivate SGH-I897 and using the Rogers network.
[Captivate General] zecstone:
If I upgraded through kies on Jan 6 will kies detect a new upgrade today since Rogers put the official out?
[Captivate General] Enhanced:
Okay, the prevalent question is if there's a difference between the "unsupported" version available a week ago and the "official" version available today. Assuming the version numbers are all the same, the easiest way to figure this out is by looking at one glaring difference I assume would be corrected from the unsupported to the official version:

For the people that got the official update TODAY, go into your App Drawer and scroll down to the "Voice Dialer" app. Is it spelled "Voice Dialler" or corrected to "Voice Dialer"?

I assume Samsung wouldn't let a spelling mistake like this pass into the official version if this version is indeed different.

If we want to compare more differences, the update a week ago made haptic feedback across the system very weak (not including the haptic feedback for the 4 soft buttons). Actions such as using the default Samsung Keyboard or long pressing the homescreen to bring up the menu had it's haptic feedback changed to be very weak. Despite changing the "Vibration intensity" in the in the Settings menu, nothing changes.

For the people that updated today, can you use the default Samsung keyboard and tell us if the vibration is very weak? Or you can long press on the home screen as well and see if the vibration is weaker there.

If the version provided by Samsung/Rogers have the same bugs as the one provided unofficially by Samsung last week, then we can assume it's the same. If it is the same then it's disappointing that these bugs were allowed to be carried into the final version of Froyo. Very low quality control from Samsung/Rogers.
[Captivate General] vercro:
Voice Dialer is still spelled as Dialler on the official release today.
[Captivate General] Stephenv1971:
Makes sense for canada. Not a misspelling: Let's see what the wikipedia has to say

A dialer (US) or dialler (UK) is an electronic device that is connected to a telephone line to monitor the dialed numbers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialer
[Captivate General] Enhanced:
Oh wow, that never occurred to me. I don't think I've ever seen it spelled "Dialler" in my entire life! First time encountering this.

Learn something new every day!

Great, now we need another test to test between if the unofficial and official versions are different.

Anyone can test the haptic feedback?
[Captivate General] movielover76:
AT&T soon

Does this mean that AT&T's captivate might be coming soon? or at the very least that developers might be able to produce a rom for the AT&T captivate based on an official froyo captivate rom?
[Captivate General] Phateless:
Do a factory reset then open market and add your Google account that way instead of through gmail or MENU --> SETTINGS. Worked for me.
[Captivate General] sansaman:
Anyone get the screenshot thingy working?
[Captivate General] geokilla:
The firmware is and has always been JL1. It's official.
[Captivate General] sirknattar:
That's interesting...mine is spelt wrong...did the Rogers update via Kies last night.
[Captivate General] sansaman:
Dialler is correct. This is the UK version of the word.
[Captivate General] trexchomp:
Personally I wouldn't.. I mean I tried last night, and for whatever reason a bunch of AT&T stuff stays on your phone.. including the splash screen. I also got a lot of application fails. So I ROMd back to the AT&T.. I got rooted immediately and got rid of all the bloatware. Once that was done, everything I needed to work on the phone did properly.

I can't say what would happen if you updated from the stock Rogers 2.1 (I assume it would probably work fine).

If anyone knows how to completely clear the AT&T ROM - including the splash screen and everything else and start completley clean, I'd be very interested in knowing.
[Captivate General] cole26:
I just updated last night on a fresh from the box Captivate. Kies wouldn't work on an XP or Win7-64 desktop (instant crash on MSC.Thunder.... Wouldn't even download). Worked fine on a Win7-32 netbook. Go figure.

The rom is a little buggy. CM6 on my HTC Magic is more stable. Haptic feedback is fine, in fact, I turned mine down. I keep getting crashes when I try to add Facebook contacts, and I got a complete lockup on Maps (Satellite Terrain). Anyone else have anything similar?

I really miss the Google News and Weather widget though, but any version I find has FC'd all the time. If someone can point me too a recent version that works, it'd be appreciated.
[Captivate General] B407:
Is anyone using the captivate on fido after upgrading to froyo? My mobile AP feature seems to have been disabled after upgrading. It keeps telling me that I must call Rogers Customer care to setup tethering, when my plan includes tethering and it worked perfectly fine on 2.1.

Also anyone noticing that their contacts are no longer syncing with their facebook profile pics?
[Captivate General] TheEscapist:
Upgraded to the old one when it first came out, says I'm up to date. :rolleyes:
[Captivate General] rFlux:
I have the newest version of Kies, but I can't do the firmware upgrade. All it tells me is "This firmware cannot be upgraded", or something along those lines. I'm currently on the Rogers 2.1 eclair (JI2), on an originally AT&T Captivate.

I haven't seen anyone else have this problem. Any help much appreciated, thank you!
[Captivate General] hey_joe:
I would suggest that you flash it with Odin instead the reason being yours is an original AT&T and kies is looking for your product code to determine the upgrade-ability of the phone. Probably changing the code will make it upgradeable?
[Captivate General] Marty25:
msc.thunder.firmwareupdate.exe is crashing as soon as it tries to attempt to launch to even download the firmware, I'm on vista, only fix I've seen is to upgrade on a winxp pc but thats not an option for me, has anyone else found a fix?
[Captivate General] TheEscapist:
Most likely, your product code in nv_data.bin is incorrect. Open regedit, and go to (i think) HKLM_CURRENT_USER > Software > Samsung > Kies > DeviceDB, and look for a PRODUCT_CODE key. If it's not SGH-I896ZKARWC, it's wrong. There's a thread in the Development Section about repairing your product code, just put in the Rogers code instead of the AT&T. Once you do that, it should work. Mine didn't until i did a factory reset and reflashed JI2, though. You may have to do that.
[Captivate General] doug3673:
You must use the following version of Kies to avoid the msc.thunder crash:

Kies_1.5.3.10093_82

If you use any version newer than this... you increase your chances of getting the msc.thunder crash. Wierd I know but I have yet to hear of even one person who used a newer version of kies that got the update installed.
[Captivate General] doug3673:
Hahaha... I'm Canadian... and we spell it "Dialer". Samsung messed up. Just like during the Kies install when I select "Canada" as a country it tries to change the language to french. Hey Samsung... 80% of the country speaks english. Thanks.
[Captivate General] integrasaurus:
Finally sucessfully upgraded to 2.2!

For people having problems with the msc.thunder crash like I was, installing the .NET 4 Framework from Microsoft did the trick for me. You can get it here

Also, you MUST use kies 1.5.3! Follow the steps outlined on pages 24/25 exactly.
[Captivate General] Khalas:
Thanks

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone here for all the helpful suggestions.

It took over two hours of downloading and installing and uninstalling and reinstalling but it finally worked and my phone just finished updating.

What ended up working for me to get past the MSC.Thunder error was uninstalling 1.5.3. Installing .NET framework 4.0. Then installing an older version of Kies, and then telling it to update itself. When it did this I saw it download a pile of MSC drivers and when I plugged the phone back in and tried it update it worked perfectly.

Cheers!
[Captivate General] doug3673:
For the record I am loving 2.2 on my Captivate. I haven't had any of the small issues I heard some people having with soft haptic feedback (I use Smart Keyboard Pro as my default), or GPS not locking (feels like I get a noticeably faster lock now), or WiFi acting up (WIFI is the same as it was on 2.1 for me... perfect. Never drops on me).

Proper voice commands, newer google maps, youtube and gmail apps, PLUS the main reason I wanted 2.2.... improved battery life... make this a huge update for this handset.
[Captivate General] k-0s2:
Hey I'm having an issue with getting the upgrade. Kies will detect my phone and i can see the upgrade for it up but it won't let me start the upgrade. It says Devices versian cannot be updated. I checked my product code and it says SGH-I896ZKARWC which I think is correct. What should I do to get it to upgrade?
[Captivate General] TheEscapist:
You're on JI2?
[Captivate General] chinesedevil:
anyone have issue upgrading with kies with respect to battery low?

it keeps telilng me to charge my battery because of insufficient power but its at 100% :/

EDIT. win7 pro 64bit btw.

ZOMG, it failed uploading and restoring the firmware now i have this random green screen... too scared to pull battery.

failed to recover 3 times :/ goes to white, tried another recovery goes to green, anothero ne to red lol.

EDIT: thank god my laptop 32bit was able to recover it..
[Captivate General] leves:
MSC.Thunder.firmwareupdate

I had been getting this problem on 2 different machines, one Win XP 32bit and one Win 7 Pro. Tried everything listed here and had no success. Since it was on the download portion I decided to try a different network and used a computer at work and that solved the problem. So it may be possible that the error is somehow related to a network configuration issue.

Just my guess and hopefully it helps someone.
[Captivate General] k-0s2:
Yes using ji2
[Captivate General] slntdth93:
Can someone post their gps settings (stating whether rogers 2.1 or 2.2) please (both application settings and SUPL would be nice) (dialer is *#*#3214789650#*#* for froyo). My froyo-ed captivate takes 5minutes to get a gps lock (which is quite dissapointing when elair worked fine).
[Captivate General] bnevets27:
Probably a little late but here is a good guide and info on running the rogers update on kies:

http://mobilesyrup.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5486
[Captivate General] k-0s2:
Yea. Why should I not b on JI2? Do I have to flash to something else before I can get the upgrade?
[Captivate General] Ymodem-G:
Is anyone else having problems with the proximity sensor since the update? Every time I'm on a call and the phone is on its back the screen turns on. I can completely cover the sensor and it ignores it.

Any time I'm holding the phone in the crook of my neck (Without my hands) my face starts mashing buttons on the screen.

This wasn't happening before the update.
[Captivate General] silvertag:
What version of Kies are you using ?? 2.0 or 1.5.3.xxx

Version 2.0 has issue with the update and does not have the SGH-i896 in is database. You have to modify it to get him to see the phone version. (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=903347). You should look for the 1.5.3 on samsung.ca website (not samsung.com).

EDIT: Also are your running any ROM ? If yes check your build.prop to make sure your listed model is SGH-i896 and not SGH-i897.
[Captivate General] silvertag:
Some are reporting the same issue.. have not tested it to see if i have it.

EDIT: NVM what i said. Just saw you're the one that was posting this issue on the 2.2 bug thread :)
[Captivate General] Ymodem-G:
Ugh.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=842049

So in other words, this might be an old bug that's carried over to this image. If that's the case, we won't see a fix until Gingerbread.

That should take a year or two to arrive.
[Captivate General] k-0s2:
Yea i'm using 1.5.3. I have no problem getting my phone to be detected I just get to the firmwire update screen and it shows my upgrade but won't let me click it. Everything is grayed out. And it says along the bottom:

Model name: SGH-I896

Current version: PDA:JI2 / Phone: JI2

This devices version cannot be updated.

I was runnning Perception 10.1 but then I flashed back to stock 2.1 JI2 with heimdall. Seemed to work fine. Checked my product code and it shows the rogers one. So no problem there. Not sure how to check my build.prop.
[Captivate General] silvertag:
Check in /system/build.prop. Open it with root explorer or any other text editor you have. Check that your line ro.product.device=SGH-i896. If it's not then you have to remount /system as read-write and edit the build.prop
[Captivate General] chinesedevil:
did you clear all your cache and data and factory reset after upgrading to froyo?

my gps wouldn't lock before i cleared cache and cleared everything on the phone.

hmm that code doesnt do anything for me :/

*#*#3214789650#*#* worked

App Settings:

Session Type - Tracking

Test Mode - S/W Test

Operation Mode - Standalone

Start Mode - Hot Start

GPS Plus - ON

Dynamic Accuracy - ON

Accuracy - 50

Logging - Off

SUPL/CP Settings

Server Type - Custom

Server - www.spirent-lcs.com

Port: 7275

SUPL Secure Socket - ON

AGPS Mode - SUPL

Those are the settings for me, and are defaults lol.
[Captivate General] loonieryan:
No ODIN file to flash with yet?
[Captivate General] rnewton01:
read this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=905655
[Captivate General] SlimJ87D:
So is there a good ROM out there that uses the Rogers 2.2?
[Captivate General] Atomic_R53:
AWWW I messed up here. I accidentlly un-installed the voice dialler app on my Rogers Captivate with the official froyo update. Is there any way to get this back? Does any one have an APK of the new 2.2 dialler? Some one help me out there.
[Captivate General] loonieryan:
Search is down on the forum (again), so I'm sorry if this is a re-post.

Is there a way to get a numeric battery meter on the stock Rogers 2.2 firmware?