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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohan2k6:
Firefly lag issue

I have a captivate with firefly 3.0 custom rom and Kernel version k13e-500hz #32. The ROM is good except that I have speed issues. Whenever I use the browser or type in Message, there seems to be lag or delay. It happens for any browser. Also in apps I have issues like the app just hangs, freezes for seconds before the actions I perform are reflected.

For example, when I text delay seem to occur between typing letters and them actually appearing in the text field. Also when I press the back button it lags and is reflected only after several presses and eventually exits the app.

Free RAM memory before using app is 100 MB. My benchmark score in Quadrant standard is 1069 which I think is considerably less for a firefly ROM.

Anybody had similar experience. Any suggestions to improve the speed? Also I have a 8 GB micro sd card with 300 mb free. Can that be causing issue?

Kindly reply...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fractaline:
Try clearing caches in recovery first, if you've been running it a while that can help.

I found the onix kernel from existz to be perfect with FF 3.0 very fast and stable. I still miss that set up sometimes.

Sent from hither to thither
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohan2k6:
Thanks for the reply. It doesn't improve after clearing cache. Do you recommend to onix kernel? What is the set up that u refer to as missing? Please elaborate.

Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fractaline:
the set up I mean is ROM, firefly 3.0, kernel, onix 2.0.5, modem jvk (jv5 is even better). For me it was fast and stable. Make sure to enable lagfix in recovery. You can overclock this bad boy if you like. Here is the thread for onix.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=930679

If it is still laggy you may want to do a factory reset and fresh install (backup 1st of course).

I say I miss it because I've been on GB roms since then and it's only now reaching the stability that was FF and onix... IMO :)

Sent from hither to thither
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dodgedurango:
cool. thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nsyik:
Can i flash firefly over at&t gb bootloader? Will it cause any problem? Im currently on illuminence 3.0. So it's ok if i just flash it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
No problems, go ahead and flash it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohan2k6:
Bluetooth Volume Boost

I have a Samsung Captivate that runs on Firefly 3.0 froyo rom. The problem is that the audio of music and most importantly videos are not loud enough. Voodoo control plus does a great job of increasing the volume for wired headset. But I use bluetooth headset to listen to music and watch movies. I can hardly hear the audio in noisy environments.

Can someone suggest some app or fix or mod to increase volume in bluetooth headset?

I came to know that volume+ app for gingerbread does this job. Any similar app for froyo? or Voodoo control plus can actually help with BT headset volume boost?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellenicboy:
reception problem

I have installed firefly for couple of months now and I am very happy with the rom. I do have issues with battery life and have tried everything mentioned but still my battery drains fast.

But my main question and problem is this. My reception in my area is not good at all. Sometimes if I have the hands free and not touch the phone I may get some signal in the house. Do i need to change modems and see if another might work better? Is it the modem I need to change or something else? Also the app that came with firefly and has modems to select, although I can see the modems it does not let me download them.

Thank you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
Yes it's the modem you wanna replace. Better signal will help with Battery life as well.

That server is down i think.

Go to the top of the development section and there will be a sticky for modems. You rent the I9000 modems with firefly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellenicboy:
thanks for your help.... i will get a hold of the modems.. thanks for the tip to look for the I9000 instead the I897.... i was under the impression looking at the phone info that it was I897... I guess i can swap different modems and see which one will work better....do i use CWM or the odin procedure to replace modems?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
The phone is an I897. The ROM has a reoriented I9000 kernel which requires an I9000 modem.

Flash in cwm is the easiest. That way if you notice you get better service in different areas With different modems you could keep them on you're sdcard and flash them on the fly without needing your pc
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellenicboy:
I appreciate your help. Thank you
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohan2k6:
kswapd0 problem?

I have a captivate that runs on firefly 3.0 froyo ROM. The watchdog shows that the android app 'kswapd0' uses up 70% of CPU occasionally and hence slows down the phone and also cause battery drainage . Although I understand what the kswapd0 process does, would like to know if anyone know a work around or fix for this high CPU resource usage by kswapd0 process?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
I found this http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-806211.html Perhaps it can help!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsaxena:
I have used this ROM for more than a 7 months and i never ever had any problem..this rom is one of my fav rom and I would love their developers to develop ICS rom too.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
they did.

team phoenix is now part of the collective. Fusion - CM - ICS
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redger725:
I updated my kernel this morning to speedmod k13c and so far I have not seen the home key flashing anomaly. I had k13b before.

Sent from my Captivate running Firefly 2.3
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortionist:
I MUST reply to sms message now but it's failing! Just flashed yesterday!

Help! It's not working, I tried searching, I can't figure it out, I MUST reply to this text message!

I tried sending to a different number, they all fail! what am I doing wrong ?

I fixed it! HAHAHAHAHA

It needed an sms message center number

who would have thunk?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortionist:
Email crashing ?

I get email from 4 addresses on push, I got an email and I heard 1/2 my notification tone, and then the email icon disappeared from notification bar.

How do I fix ? The app itself works when I open it and use it so far, its just when I get emails, it pukes before the notification sound even finishes! :eek:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TomMelee:
Dumb question about launch bar

I just switched to FF from a different rom, and really really liking it so far. I've got two questions:

1. My battery life seems a little miserable. Running everything as installed with a full 2.3 install, speedmod 2.6.32.9 kernel. I dropped ~35% battery life in ~4 hours with very little use save for a few texts. I have pretty much all widgets turned off, save for the ones I've always had---gvoice and weather.

2. I really love the layout and flow of everything, but I can't stand the 3 button launch bar, I need my 5. Is there a setting for this that I can't locate? I'd also like to change what's there...if possible, without switching back to a launcher if possible.

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
I have been running i9000 ROM's for a LONG time now, and I can't speak for all ROM's, but I'm running Supernova 2.3, and have no BT issues
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
NVM

10Char
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] factorycell:
Playing around with themes from the ff mods and fixes app. How do I get the FireFly theme back up and running fully? I cannot get the Firefly theme back totally, half of the Firefly Darkfire is still on here.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] betadan:
I too have noticed that the battery life is poor compared to Rogers stock.

At night i shut off Data ans Wifi and used to get less than 3% battery drain, last night after flashing and shutting off data and wifi i lost over 10%.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AtinShadow:
No, I'm still using the Gmail apk that came with the ROM. I'm not sure if there was an update available for it.

Sent from my SGH-i897 running Firefly 2.3
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Not the gmail one but the normal email app. did you uninstall it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbto:
i have same camera problem, and i do removed the emaul app, how can i solve it. Reinstall emaill app.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Yes you need to put the email app back. It is connected to the apps. There is a fix in the forums so you can use them without it. Let me look
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
ok here is what used to work. Not sure if it still does, thanks to Newter for this

Download the libcamera.so from here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11343737/libcamera.so

Use root explorer or whatever method you prefer and make a backup copy of /system/lib/libcamera.so just in case you need to get it back.

Copy the libcamera.so you downloaded from above link over the existing one in /system/lib.

Delete or rename the existing email.apk in /system/app to test that this fix works.

Reboot phone.

Open Barcode Scanner and enjoy the fact that it no longer force closes.

This will allow people to use whatever email.apk they prefer...or if they are like me they can get rid of the apk altogether.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbto:
Not working for my i896. i still i have put the email app back into /system/app to mske all cameta app work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tritan88:
I was having issues with the camera app also reporting that the firmware needed updating. I finally installed the hacked camera from SGS Tools and that message went away.

You may want to try that to see if it solves your camera issues.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbto:
Im using hacked camera, and update camera firmware too. It just problem with email app. I put back to system/app now problem sovled.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kornklown69:
So X have anything planned this week with FF
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scooterjes:
I have re downloaded and flashed my phone 3-4 times with the latest version of this rom but no matter what I do the rom version number wont change from 2.0.4 am I doing something wrong I was running 2.0.4 BTW.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtremekilla09:
Honestly, I can't think of anything other than updating the included apps and changing the framework a little bit.

Seems like your build prop is stuck. Never heard about this issue. Maybe a flash to stock and then FF 2.3 would help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kornklown69:
Sounds good to me cant always expect major updates lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scooterjes:
I'll try to flash to stock ATM odin is being a PITA but I'll fight it and get it to work
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pqee:
Ok so in case anyone else runs into this, I managed to fix it by finding an older version of GO SMS that still has the time offset option. I cleared cache, uninstalled GO (v1.98). Installed version 1.89, changed offset option from +5h to 0. Then upgraded back to v1.98.

Texts are now coming in with the proper time again. I e-mailed the GO team about that option but haven't heard back yet.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akumar16:
How to put a theme on a ROM?

How do I put the theme Absolution over the ROM Firefly 2.3???
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schuwe:
Sorry if this is stupid

Delete please.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtremekilla09:
Download the theme and flash thru recovery. I will put it in the FF app shortly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scooterjes:
I flashed back to stock and that fixed it but man was it worth doing the difference between 2.0.4 and 2.3 is night and day damn good rom.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RandomZero:
I think there's something wrong with my camera after updating from FF 2.0.5 to 2.2.

I used to be able to use Barcode Scanner just fine, but now it crashes every time I try and open it. I've tried other QR scanners but they don't load the camera at all (just shows a black screen instead of the image through the camera).

Anyone know what could be wrong/how to fix it?

I just updated to 2.3 and I'm still having the same problem.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redger725:
I just downloaded bar code scanner and it is working fine for me.

Sent from my Captivate running Firefly 2.3
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RandomZero:
So I've found that my video camera doesn't work either. I can take stills just fine, but switching to video camera mode causes the whole app to crash..

Scratch that, found another thread about the same issue and fixed the camera problem but Barcode scanner still doesn't work :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepherian:
Odin?

is there a way to flash to the android froyo samsung just released, using odin? can someone post a guide saying how?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KayvinM:
I'm fairly fresh to the android scene but with a lot of research and youtube learning :) I decided to flash firefly 2.3, with that said I wanted to say thank you. I appreciate all the work the team has put into making this an awesome ROM.

Quick question.... I found a website which included all the stock apps form the Galaxy series. Is it possible for me to take one of the apk's and drop it in the system/app folder without causing any problems? Thanks again
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pqee:
When checking battery usage, does anyone get anything other than just the standard Display, Cell standby, Phone idle, Wifi etc...

I'm almost certain on Rogers stock 2.2 I would get Android System as well as some apps/games listed if I used them enough.

I've played 3d games that dropped my battery by 20% sometimes, yet never had anything more than the standard items listed. Am I just a fool and looking in the wrong location or is something different with FF?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KayvinM:
I had the stock rogers 2.2 on the phone not too long ago and I don't remember ever seeing anything more than what you mentioned. I would play games and what not and all I would see is the display % increase. Maybe I too am missing something :confused:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pqee:
Maybe it was on 2.1 then but I know I've seen more than the regular stuff. Besides it wouldn't be a very good indicator if it didn't show all apps using your battery.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AtinShadow:
No, I didn't uninstall it. I haven't messed around with uninstalling anything. New problem though, if you're interested. I walked into get my haircut, battery said 47 percent. Walked out MAYBE 25 minutes later and it had dropped to 13 percent and the phone was really warm. I took out the battery when I got home and let it cool down and then I did a reboot and I had so many different things force close on me including Titanium Backup, ROM Manager, Facebook, Twitter...the homescreen wouldn't display the stuff I had saved on there for a while. I'm going to flash back to stock and just leave it there for a bit until I get figure out what the hell happened.

Any ideas? Thanks for all the help, I really do appreciate it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluidd:
@xtremekilla09, mikey or ChanceM

Any chance this theme http://serendipityrom.weebly.com/theme.html , can be made to work with Fire Fly 2.3? I am really feeling the look of this.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deku42:
Check the stickies, or use the search. It has been answered plenty of times
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wpp105:
Wow. I was using 2.3 with xcal's reoriented kernel. The 2.4 resulted in a huge speed and battery life improvment. Web pages render much much faster and im at 12 hours after a charge and still at 44%. (Note, I stayed on xcals kernel after the upgrade.)

I like this enough that I'll be buying you a cup of coffee, and I'm motivated to take up theming (I just don't like Android green.) Can anyone recommend a good tutorial?

Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KayvinM:
Does anyone know if the honeycomb battery mod displays the battery percentage? I seem to be obsessed with knowing it even though it makes me battery paranoid :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChaoSXDemon:
It seems my Captivate refuse to sent Chinese text! Every time I type in Chinese (typing and view is perfectly fine) and tab "sent", it says "Message may be corrupted...switching to automatic mode". And none of my friends ever get the Chinese text. I tried switching different Chinese input, but no help.

I am currently using FireFly 2.4

Any help is appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tritan88:
when unplugged it does show the battery percentage
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChaoSXDemon:
Is your battery the one that came with the phone? Because I purchased two other battery from eBay and they are basically cheap crappy version of the original battery. Even though they all have 1500 mAh, the ones from eBay clearly has at least 30% less battery life. As for crashing apps, I am not so sure.

Usually a hot battery indicates usage; meaning some app is doing some intensive work (ie the cpu) on some thing. Try to download a task killer app and see what is running and kill one by one and test and see which app is causing you problems.

Hope that helps
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtremekilla09:
Yes it does.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtremekilla09:
Umm, I can check it out to see if it will work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KayvinM:
Awesome, Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fibbidiboo:
Used Epic unlock; cannot unlock!

Just flashed FireFly 2.4 and tried to use Epic to for my unlock. Now the home screen comes up but no method to unlock. No manner of pushing or swiping does a thing. Help!

Edit:

I just noticed the barely visible lock in the middle of the home screen. Just wiped it down and voila! Unlocked! Whew.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KayvinM:
Screen lock sounds

I have the screen lock sounds enabled in the options menu but for some reason only the android and rotary unlock screens don't make a sound when unlocking, but It does when locking. I'm just wondering if this is normal or if It's just my phone. It's really not a big deal, just curious. Thanks in advance
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AffleckPhoto:
Today I installed FF 2.4 on my Rogers i896 Captivate (running 2.2 out of the box).

Before the flash I backed up all my apps with Titanium Backup, and restored them after the flash to FF2.4.

Now, most of these apps (and a bunch more!) are running by themselves at boot, which they never did before on stock Rogers 2.2

For example, here's a selection of the stuff running at boot, as shown in Application Manager:

- Maps

- Talk

- One Click Lag Fix (Don't use this app, I could uninstall)

- Titanium Backup

- Google Voice

- Music (the music player in FF2.4)

- ROM Manager

- SGS Tools 4.5

- Voodoo Control

Is this normal, or did I screw something up?

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quarlow:
Love the rom, running 2.4. I love how easy it is to change battery and dialer, etc.

Would changing other things in the notification bar be as easy? I really like the gauge battery and it would be cool to see similar signal strength themes. Also with bluetooth, if it could light up green to match the others when connected instead of the two arrows. Just food for thought. It might not be possible, I haven't seen anyone post updates to those like all the battery meters that have floated around.

Also, is there a firefly twitter account?

Keep up the great work!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KayvinM:
I flashed Firefly from froyo 2.2 as well but never had all those apps running at boot. When you restored your files from Titanium did you restore apps + system data or just apps? I'm in no way an expert here but hopefully someone more qualified can shed some light on your situation.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AffleckPhoto:
I restored Apps + Data, not Apps + System Data.

Thank you for your help!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gentooguy:
Firefly/Tasker/GPS

I have installed Firefly 2.4 and have installed Tasker, but it will not turn GPS On/Off.

Action GPS is not available on this device.

Is the error I get when I try to setup a task with the GPS Action. Anyone else run across this?

I've flashed from stock, enabled lagfix, installed the Darkfire Theme. Outside of that, I haven't changed anything. I even installed Tasker from APK thinking it might have been a TiBu restore issue. I'm out of ideas.

GG
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WirelessMike:
Battery Full?

I have a strange issue and I'm wondering if it's "normal" or at least not dangerous.

When I charge my battery, it goes to 100%, and states on lock screen that it is "charged" (not "charging"). I unplug, and sometimes it stays at 100%, sometimes it drops to 98% or somewhere inbetween. I've read the posts regarding this and it doesn't bother me because regardless, the battery lasts all day, sometimes 2 depending on my usage.

What bothers me is that there used to be another tiny graphic in the top left corner that said "FULL" in what appeared to be a battery icon.

I haven't seen it the last 2 or 3 times I've charge the battery. Pretty much since upgrading 2.3 to 2.4.

So my question is, is this little graphic gone? Is it even necessary? And most importantly, is it part of an internal application or process that cuts off charging the battery (wondering if I'm in danger of ruining my battery by badly overcharging overnight)?

Has anyone else had a similar experience?

I hesitate to re-flash because other than this minor annoyance/fear, everything is running 200% better on firefly than it was on stock or the other roms I've experimented with...

**edit**

Oh, and I should add that I have tried recalibrating and clearing batt stats to no avail so far.

Again, batt standby time is amazing, but is the phone allowing me to overcharge the battery?

It's not getting hot, and the standard batt icon does show a percentage when at 100% rather than the little charging icon...

***/edit***
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigsmitty64:
This is my first time with firefly, (amazing!) and the same thing happened to me. It wouldn't stay at 100 % after unplugging. However after I bump charged, deleted battery stats, drained and complete recharged (WHILE TURNED OFF), it stays at 100% for a while like normal. As for the graphic in the left top, I didn't even notice.

EDIT: Just as a side note, I let it charge for about twenty minutes passed when it said full.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AffleckPhoto:
Update: while surfing this site with Dolphin browser HD, the phone crashed and wouldn't reboot. I had to do a battery pull to get a boot. I think I must have a flaky flash. I'm going too try reflashing later.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WirelessMike:
Something else I should probably mention about my "battery full" issue-- Could it have anything to do with the battery mods? I do use the glossy battery mod and installed it almost immediately after upgrading 2.3 to 2.4...

And I upgraded as soon as xtreme put it out there.