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[Captivate Android Development] xtremekilla09:
FireFly Thursday

3.0 is out!!

All of the battery mods are compatible with 3.0

CHANGELOG:

Version 3.0 - Apr 21, 2011

50% Time without signal bug fix

Added themed Video Player

Re-added XDA app

FireFly Signature:

If you want to represent FireFly in your signature and don't want to worry about continuously updating it as the versions go on, then use this sigpic. It will be updated automatically with each update.

Special thanks to modmyphone, these are his creative masterpieces.

Place the following code in your signature.

Replace "(" & ")" with "[" & "]"

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[Captivate Android Development] ippon:
you can download that from the FF app.
[Captivate Android Development] BWolf56:
OMG My sig just changed !? Where's the update :eek: :D

EDIT: Flashing atm!!!!
[Captivate Android Development] Barbarian:
After switching back to Onix and doing a few battery calibrations I am getting excellent battery life. I do have the same problems with #4. Not often but it does happen.

Edit: FF 3.0! :D

Edit 2: The whole wifi thing seems to happen far less with Onix. With SpeedMod it was often. For me at least.
[Captivate Android Development] ippon:
what keyboard are you using?

swype can cause the mysterious buzzing.

and i think the wifi thing might be related to speedmod e.

i never had this issue with speedmod d.

it's annoying, but turning off phone data, and starting it up again seems to make wifi work.
[Captivate Android Development] capocaccia:
I just flashed it using the speedmod kernel from the 2.8 build. Im going to see how things work this way and may do the full kernel install later on.
[Captivate Android Development] Barbarian:
The sig pic for 3.0 is pretty slick.
[Captivate Android Development] diablo009:
I don't use swype. I use GB keyboard.

I just noticed 3.0 is out!!! Way to go fiery fire fly!!! I'll be flashing 3.0 when I get home!!!
[Captivate Android Development] BWolf56:
+1

I can't stop looking at it :eek: It's shiiiiinyy!

While I'm at it - Can I make a request for a theme that goes along that sign pic!? That would be so nice and would make the SAMOLED screen soooo amazing!! :D
[Captivate Android Development] james.arroyo:
I love new stuff! will flash when i get home.
[Captivate Android Development] Jdelgado:
Hi X,

I notice the update is only 1.4Meg, I just want to make sure that is the file size.

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] diablo009:
+1 +1 +1

Its really amazing!!! Like the 'gold' shade for the first time ever!!! Its got the perfect shade!!!
[Captivate Android Development] xtremekilla09:
Yes it is. I just put up the MD5 checksum on the downloads page, if you want to double check.
[Captivate Android Development] silvertag:
Question... Maybe i don't play enough with video players but where's the themed one from the update? Or maybe i should ask what changed ??! It's still the same basic video player that comes stock. :confused::o
[Captivate Android Development] xtremekilla09:
the slider is now green, before it was blue.
[Captivate Android Development] BWolf56:
Slick Bump on that Gold Theme :rolleyes:
[Captivate Android Development] silvertag:
LOL ok no wonder this passed at Mach3 under my radar :D
[Captivate Android Development] thomcrowe:
Can I flash this over Phoenix or do I need to use Odin to go back to stock?
[Captivate Android Development] BWolf56:
You can flash it (full flash) w/o any problem, just disable lagfix if you have it enabled
[Captivate Android Development] jamezz23:
So the 50% time without signal fix, what does that mean? There was a signal glitch before? I never noticed
[Captivate Android Development] BWolf56:
Not really, it was in the phone idle, was sometime showing 50% w/o signal.
[Captivate Android Development] JGGW:
50% time without signal bug

It was an idle glitch where the phone would say 50% time without signal, which drained battery faster. Switching to airplane mode and back after a few seconds was the workaround for this. Usually you could see it right after startup and knew it was a problem and as long as you went to airplane mode, it fixed the issue for the duration that the phone was on until the next restart
[Captivate Android Development] rapsucks10:
Hey guys, it's recommended to wipe dalvik cache and battery stats before doing the update????
[Captivate Android Development] JGGW:
not necessary, but I do it anytime I flash anything.... more of a habit than anything. It doesn't hurt to do it, just remember the first boot after wiping dalvik will take a while.
[Captivate Android Development] rapsucks10:
Thank you very much, updating 3.0 right now!!!!
[Captivate Android Development] BWolf56:
Just to add to your post, it's only really needed when you full flash or flash a different ROM. :)
[Captivate Android Development] chinesedevil:
hmm didn't know this issue existed, hopefully this fixes the crappy battery I had on 2.9 (k13e) vs 2.8 (k13d)
[Captivate Android Development] WickedNite:
Is there a way to remove the transition animation or revert it back to the original fade in and out? I want to try this rom but the animations are making me not to.
[Captivate Android Development] TheSopranos16:
Just Flashed 3.0. For some reason it won't connect to a data network. It shows bars of signal but it won't put up the "H" and connect to any data. I tried toggling data network mode and flight mode. Also tried rebooting. Anyone else having this?

EDIT: I just wanted to add that it worked for a very short period of time right after I flashed it. Then it just stopped and hasn't come back since.
[Captivate Android Development] anishz:
Namaste to Xkilla and everyone here:)

Just flashed FF3.0, it's not the 1st time, been doing it since 1.0.

Earlier in the morning i had flashed GB by using Xcal's reorient (Used Criskelo's rom)

I didn't flash back to FF bcoz of any problems in GB rom, infact everything was blazing fast and working except auto-rotation.

I flashed FF3.0 just out of respect for the hard work the dev has put in this rom, specially after almost losing his laptop and phone.

Not flashing it felt to me like disrespecting his hard work.

I am really sorry:( Xkilla for not able to donate to you when you needed it the most, (i am going through a bad patch myself) but will do so as soon as i am back on track.

As all the talk about GB is going on it occurs that FF3.0 will be the last update, i know that team Phoenix is working together on "ONE" GB rom, i will surely miss FF.

Bow of respect to the whole Team Phoenix
[Captivate Android Development] silvertag:
Did you do a update or full install of 3.0? Have you checked the md5 sum of your download? Sounds like a bad flash to me.. try inputting your apn settings manually or wipe/reflash.
[Captivate Android Development] Randomlord:
Got a strange one here

FF 2.9 tells me no busybox installed. So I d/l from the market and then it tells me I don't have root access, even tho I have superuser installed and it shows in the log file that FF mods has root access.

Any ideas? I really didn't want to do a full wipe but will if needed.

Thanks in advance!

Randomlord
[Captivate Android Development] silvertag:
By any chance are you running the 1.0 FFMod rather then 1.5 ?

Had the same issue this morning but i was able to d/l BB from the Market and install it.
[Captivate Android Development] tkjeeper:
Love the work X. Only problem I've found. May not be anything to do with you. Found this on launcher pro as well as zeam. I'm FF 3.0, dark fire theme. Handcent sms. I go to a contact, hit top right for personalization, the personalization menu pops up, but I cant read the menu items. Only when I finger one of the items does it appear. I'm with the black theme for handcent. I've found this somewhere else other than handcent but cant remember right now. I have to guess at the menu items and its a pain. I can live with it, just a note to see if anyone else has this issue.
[Captivate Android Development] goodolsen:
It's an issue with the Dark Fire theme. There are still several places where black on black text exists. I believe 10tonhammr is working to correct them. I had the same issue with Handcent and Dark Fire (I'm on 2.9). I switched to GoSMS and it's fine. But I still have the issue with Touchdown email and a few other spots.
[Captivate Android Development] jamezz23:
Hey its my first time I can help someone!! If are still on firefly 2.9 you can just boot into recovery mode and under speed mod ulk click the setting that says root and next window will tell you that its gonna install busybox and super user, click yes and reboot and it will work. Sometimes you will loose your root when you enable the lagfix, samething happened to me.
[Captivate Android Development] Randomlord:
Dude!

You are the man! That worked perfectly.

Randomlord
[Captivate Android Development] Xanaki:
SWEET!!! I cant wait to flash this!! Downloading now :-)
[Captivate Android Development] xtremekilla09:
Glad you like the ROM man. No need to donate at all, I forgot to take off the donate button. Its off now. ;)
[Captivate Android Development] Randomlord:
Ok, that fixed the root. I installed Busybox. Now FF mods tells me that busybox is not installed even though it is and I updated it to 1.18.4.

Really strange. I'll try saving the file to the SD-Card and manually upload it.

Randomlord
[Captivate Android Development] anishz:
You are most humble SIR!:)

But there is nothing wrong in accepting donation, after all we are enjoying your hard work, you changed "craptivate" to "captivate".
[Captivate Android Development] jamezz23:
If you click on busybox does superuser give it root access?
[Captivate Android Development] studacris:
Awww! They grows up so fast! :')

btw that would work on any version its part of the speedmod. kernel
[Captivate Android Development] TheSopranos16:
Thanks for the response. It ended up being an issue with the network where I was. I flashed back to stock and had the same problem and then eventually it came back.
[Captivate Android Development] TRusselo:
yay! +10char
[Captivate Android Development] BWolf56:
I know right :')

These 2 weeks of answering the same questions over and over again finaly paid off :')
[Captivate Android Development] Randomlord:
I did a simple load from ROMmanager and it worked. Thanks for all the help.

PS: This explains why I couldn't get AdFree to work due to the root issue. :)

Randomlord
[Captivate Android Development] studacris:
So the the fix for the 50% without signal bug just makes the phone always startup in flight mode and once booted turns it off?

Well that seems to be causing issues with it reading my contacts from my sim card, I have to toggle flight mode again manually to get them to show up ... Which I was already doing to fix the signal bug?
[Captivate Android Development] pwnerman:
Question

As you guys might know Continuum 5 came out today and its the second real gingerbread rom to come out and i was wondering if firefly is gonna be going to gingerbread soon
[Captivate Android Development] Wdustin1:
Please forgive my noobness i came from cognition and was kinda hidden from alot of things haha. Why exactly is the md5 Checksum important, and what exactly do you have to check
[Captivate Android Development] geokilla:
Been stated many times that FireFly will remain on Rogers Froyo. Maybe it'll be upgraded to Rogers Gingerbread when it comes out.

Also stated many times that Team Phoenix is working together to release a Gingerbread ROM.

Checks for file corruption.
[Captivate Android Development] rye&ginger:
Agree with Onix helpling with the wifi turning on issue.

diablo009, you have LP? Make sure you do not have apps installed on SD card. That causes issues for LP FC's on boot.

THREE POINT OH!
[Captivate Android Development] diablo009:
I use ZEAM launcher. And I do not have any apps on SD either. I will try the onix kernel when I load 3.0 in a short while n see how that helps.
[Captivate Android Development] brd912:
It would just be nice to have all your extreme customizations. Lol
[Captivate Android Development] Barbarian:
I don't recall X stating FF will forever remain Rogers based. Froyo, sure, but I don't know about GB.
[Captivate Android Development] Wdustin1:
Same here i don't remember anywhere where it said FireFly was forever going to stay Rogers based
[Captivate Android Development] geokilla:
He has. It's his/Team Phoenix's way of showing some Canadian love.
[Captivate Android Development] rcllcr:
What is the "50% Time without signal bug fix" do?
[Captivate Android Development] JGGW:
Being Canadian and I don't care where the ROM comes from as long as it remains the gold standard.... I don't just mean that at this week's catch phrase, but FF has been a cut above all the other ROMS out there in terms of customization and adds that can help each and every user personalize...Look at X's following...his ROM makes people who were flashaholics retire from the days of wanting something more and they settle into this because it is simply the best experience available on the captivate.

I wouldn't care if the next release of FF came out of a beaten child's phone from Phuket... I would flash it.
[Captivate Android Development] b97cherokee:
so I am getting some really crappy battery life. I flashed at full battery, did battery tweak. What am I missing? Should I recalibrate?
[Captivate Android Development] rwj5279955:
Just flashed and got everything set up. Really sharp. Fast, looks great.

Put the new Firebird kernel on, battery mod. I love it.
[Captivate Android Development] driodfreakz:
I have tried to flash firefly 1.5 using clockworkmod and I get an error that says "E: unable to verify sifnature file?"

Any thoughts?
[Captivate Android Development] bethanensinger:
Much louder in my experience which was needed since i had had a few people tell me they could barely hear my and i could barely hear them.
[Captivate Android Development] zelendel:
You have to be on a 2.2 rom that doesnt allow unsigned files. Normally I would say go back to 2.1 but not sure if there is one for Rogers
[Captivate Android Development] spaz2k7:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=867617

flash this and install ff from there
[Captivate Android Development] goob1284:
Kinda wished I had two captivates... one for firefly and the other for phoenix!:'(((( I don't know which to choose. I have phoenix set up the way I want and its awsome, but I don't know what firefly has in store! Please someone.help me decide!
[Captivate Android Development] cy-rock:
I was in the same position.

Get FF + FB2 = Awesomeness
[Captivate Android Development] driodfreakz:
Thanks Spaz2k7!

I have done that and flashed ff using cwm how do i know if it flashed correctly? I dont see any changes
[Captivate Android Development] goob1284:
Thank you so much!:) and this would work on an art captive right? Sorry if its a dumb question
[Captivate Android Development] ajm786:
Hey adam, does Firefly have the same fixed e-mail that Phoenix has?
[Captivate Android Development] chrisz5z:
You can flash right over it no prob.

Firebird 2 is slightly quicker/smoother, but SpeedMod has better battery life. Either way both kernels are awesome ;)
[Captivate Android Development] fadetoblack2104:
Just flashed this tonight along with the settings_apk posted on page 5. Every time I try to adjust the haptic vibration intensity or the screen brightness I get force closes. Is this a known problem with this rom atm?
[Captivate Android Development] demonte21:
Does anyone have Skype Sound issue ?

Sometime when Making call over Skype, I'm getting very Weird Noise from the Phone Speaker... Have to hang up... and Dial again...

1 Call on 7 Sound OK... I don't know if this is a Skype Issue, or if this is related to the speedmod Kernel?
[Captivate Android Development] chrisz5z:
hey adam, whats your take on the KP1 modem? You plan on using it in future versions?
[Captivate Android Development] kjturner:
Yea dude how else are you going to know if there's a problem? Try every suggestion you know of first.
[Captivate Android Development] tsachi:
Go to recovery and enable the advanced battery fix. 15 hrs on, 2.5 hrs screen on, 1 hour music playing, 30 min navigation, 10 min on the phone, wifi BT and GPS on all the time. I am at 25%. I haven't had this kind of battery life since before perception.
[Captivate Android Development] driodfreakz:
Well I dont know whay to do, I have flashed my phone using cwm and didnt notice any changes. Now i am lucky if i get 8hrs of battery life from my phone. I may have to buy a new one and just leave it stock.
[Captivate Android Development] mi04se1:
I flashed FB2 tonight to go with FF1.5 and KP1. My quandrant scores with speedmod were in the 1200 range. With FB@, I just got a 1506 and 1593. When I first flashed, it stayed on 100 for almost 45 minutes. I think I found what I want until Adam comes out with FF2.0.
[Captivate Android Development] JGGW:
It allows the phone not to get the 50% time without signal bug...

I would have used multi quote but it's still screwed up.
[Captivate Android Development] Drew489:
Do I need to go back to stock theme to do the upgrade from 2.9 to 3.0?
[Captivate Android Development] goodolsen:
From looking at what is in the zip, no it only contains a few fixes, not a whole ROM.
[Captivate Android Development] studacris:
Sorry to self quote ... Anyone else have this issue? I know I saw 2 in the q&a thread.
[Captivate Android Development] pwnerman:
you might have battery drain issues if you dont return to stock and master clear
[Captivate Android Development] studacris:
Yes ... Unless you're really are a huge fan of the boot animation.

How do you figure?
[Captivate Android Development] goodolsen:
Didn't see a new boot ani in the upgrade.

And yeah, no need to flash stock to do full flash.

Sent from Mister Red
[Captivate Android Development] studacris:
Haha no I mean it's recommended to flash to stock theme before using the upgrade cause most of the time it will cause a bootloop.

So unless you really really like your boot animation, flash to the stock theme.
[Captivate Android Development] xpakage:
What is this boot loop animation and where do we download it... :D

I should not joke, I may be back crying sometime :eek:
[Captivate Android Development] diablo009:
Could you please provide the corresponding files

without

the fix.

This fix is messing up my EDGE. I am always on EDGE, and switch to 3G/H when needed. With this fix in place, the phone gets in and out of airplane mode and defaulting to 3G/H though in settings it shows "GSM only".
[Captivate Android Development] JGGW:
I havn't been home long enough with work to open up the 3.0 and have a look. I believe that it would be a change in the code... xml or framework.

Flashing the stock theme will be recommended to avoid issues if there is a framework-res.apk in the update...

@pwnerman: a stock/master clear is no longer required or seen as the standard for flashing... it is only necessary if you are having problems after a flash.

not clearing the caches and wiping the battery stats will cause batery problems... going stock/master clear doesn't really affect that.
[Captivate Android Development] iphaded:
Hey X, thanks for this awesome ROM! it's been the only ROM I've flashed since I've gotten my Captivate. I have only 1 small criticism of 3.0 and that is that the notification bar now has a gradient to black whereas the previous versions did not. I prefer the solid black notification bar because I use a solid black background. Studacris explained where the image file was located and I may just change it myself, otherwise everything else is perfect. Keep up the great work!
[Captivate Android Development] diablo009:
Thanks bro. If u cud pass on just the needed files, I will place them into my phone. No need of any CWM flashable zip or anything like that.
[Captivate Android Development] KayvinM:
I believe it's just an app that got installed into data/app and its called xtr50fix-v1.apk. It's just suppose to run in the background and toggle airplane mode on and off during start-up. If you have root explorer or something similar just delete it from the folder and reboot. That should get rid of it.
[Captivate Android Development] Atomic_R53:
Now I read that a clearing of the cache will cause battery problems. Looks like I have to do a battery recalibration. Oops. Man I need a personal rom flasher at my disposal.
[Captivate Android Development] diablo009:
It might be better to mention in the OP to do a clear and then do a full ROM install, esp for major release numbers.
[Captivate Android Development] studacris:
Or use tibu... If you don't have root explorer.
[Captivate Android Development] diablo009:
Incidentally I happen to have paid versions of both :)

I renamed it to .backup, and am restarting my phone. If it doesn't go into airplane mode, that would be the one :-) Will keep you updated.

Edit: That did it!!! Thanks a bunch guys.
[Captivate Android Development] studacris:
Haha .bak is shorter, less to type, and it's the standard linux extension for a backup I believe ...

I just froze that with tibu and no airplane mode. We seem to have a winner
[Captivate Android Development] strauss0829:
just flashed and this **** smooove as butta
[Captivate Android Development] diablo009:
Can anyone please post the 2.8 version boot animation - the cute small one of a F with color changing 'bottom edge'. Don't want to download the full 2.8 ROM.
[Captivate Android Development] bryman27:
look under FireFly Extras in FF mods and fixes
[Captivate Android Development] tkjeeper:
Just an fyi, I'm running dark fire, flashed the update without going to stock theme, and alls ok. Of course cleared caches, wiped batt stats, all is well.

Sent from my igloo, with my seal skin mitts removed, in the frozen tundra known as Canada.
[Captivate Android Development] :
No disrespect, but this should have been version 2.9.1 or something. 3.0 is a big jump and I was expecting a lot more!
[Captivate Android Development] NunHugger:
Lol...

sent using a phone.
[Captivate Android Development] Barbarian:
There is not much more that can be done. FF is damn near perfect.
[Captivate Android Development] xtremekilla09:
I understand, but I never followed the version number protocol or whatever it is.

When I went from 2.0.5 to 2.1, there were a ton of changes in the ROM that could have been FF 3.0 right there.
[Captivate Android Development] geokilla:
What I don't get is why some developers make it 2.X.X or whatever. Maybe it makes it easier for developers to test their release? If it's a significant update that would make or break your ROM then sure, make it a whole number jump. But if it's just an update, then do what you do do and go from say 2.8 to 2.9 to 3.0. Nothing wrong with that.

Anyways how's Gingerbread coming along? :D
[Captivate Android Development] TRusselo:
i had the same discussion with 10ton last night....

but you know those developer types...
[Captivate Android Development] sepherian:
New feature idea...

ability To add/delete home screens

Sent from my captivate running firefly!
[Captivate Android Development] JGGW:
There is one in my sig
[Captivate Android Development] jpcdeux:
If you can do that stock, please tell me you still can? How would not be able to?
[Captivate Android Development] diablo009:
Got hold of it in FF mods and fixes...
[Captivate Android Development] JGGW:
There is a magical function called "search". If you use it in this thread and pick up a post by me, you will get your answers about battery issues
[Captivate Android Development] strauss0829:
when i unlock the phone the capacitive home button starts goin crazy and acts like its being hit over and over but im not touching it ...what does this mean
[Captivate Android Development] spartan062984:
X!

You better put back that DONATE button!!!!

I haven't gotten my Bonus yet.....and i still owed you from a while back. Remember our discussions in IRC? "I put numbers in the hat....i PICK numbers within the hat...." :D

+1

I always prefer to do this. This method has never failed me. Ever since i started flashing Froyo based Roms (FF/ Serendipity/ etc)...I have NEVER has any glitches/ FC/ bootloop issues/ etc. (Knock on Wood) :cool:

:::CUrrently downloading 3.0:::::