yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Yea, I sugest you try a few different modems.

Now before you ask, I can't suggest you one as they react different on every single phone.

There's a modem thread (Stickied I think) - Read what people have to say about different modem but usually it comes back to the same one (just like JK4 is a great base but only for 85% of people and there's better).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MobileNick:
Will do - thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tybomb2002:
Does firefly 3.0 flash bootloaders? Iwant to go back to firefly because it almost stopped random shutdowns on my phone. I'm on Mosiac but the shutdowns are happening a lot more frequently.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
No bootloaders in firefly.

If you don't trust me, or want to check future roms for bootloaders, open the rom zip and look in the updates folder. If you see Sbl.bin that is a secondary bootloader so don't flash it with the ones you have or it will brick.

The only roms I know that have it are cognition and I think the last froyo perception build.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tybomb2002:
Thanks for letting me know. By the way Mosiac is awesome my phone just sucks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrgrossm:
HELP with superuser and Titanium backup

HELP!!!!

I've been using FF3.0 and today I went to make a backup using titanium backup. It failed and told me I didn't have root access. I've made backups before with no problems. I updated superuser and busybox to no avail. Rebooted the phone, and nothing changed.

What can I do????
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Go in recovery -> speedmod recovery and re-apply root.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrgrossm:
That worked!!! Thanks so much! I wonder how it lost the root....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
It happens. I personnaly don't know why but speedmod's author though it through and made it re-appliable :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Texted:
Super new user

Hello friends! Im a new android user and bought a phone to a friend with Firefly 2.8 installed. I was researching and I think your work is awesome! Congrats!... but I now want to upgrade to 3.0 version. what tools do I need and where to get them?.

Thanks for your help!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Congrats on getting a cappy :)

First of all, you have ALOT of reading to do before getting in flashing. Go read the stickies in General and Q&A sections.

As for updating, it's quite simple. You just need to download the update version and flash it but to know how to that all that, you'll need to go read :)

Hope to see you back in here after a few hours of reading :) Also, don't go too fast doing anything.. You really need to understand what you're doing if you don't want your phone to turn into a brick.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tybomb2002:
I just came back to firefly from mosaic and I'm having an issue I haven't had before. The home button on my phone will start flickering as if I were pressing it really fast repeatedly. It doesn't stop until I turn off the screen.I should also mention I used firefly for several months before mosaic with no issues. Any help or ideas would be much appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
That's actually a hardware issue. Sometimes moisture can mess with the capacitive buttons. Try putting the phone in a bag of rice for a couple hours.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tybomb2002:
Thanks for the quick response.Could it be my rubber case thats the problem? I guess it was just a coincidence that I just changed roms. Thanks for your help anyway.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JoeDV:
I had that issue on my previous captivate (got a replacement for a unrelated issue ). It would act like that for days, then resolve itself. I tried drying it, put it in a case, no case, didn't matter as far as I could tell...just figured it was possessed and I'd live with it. :) My replacement hasn't had that issue....yet.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tybomb2002:
Weird. I guess I'll just have to hope it doesn't get worse before rogers gets sgs2 :)

Thanks for the info.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Devo7v:
Google Music

I'm having an issue with Google Music on Firefly. I downloaded the app from the market, but I do not have a settings option in the app. I cannot link the app to my account. I have and invite have been listening to music through my browser for a couple days, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how the get the app to play see my online account, it seems like it's just not an option. Any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] visitador02:
I just flashed FireFly and I am enjoying it. While toying with various apps, I found that the video player that came with the rom could not find the video files. It displayed an icon of the sd card and stated "SD card not found (I think). I reformatted the internal sd card and it still did the same.

I decided to get a different video player from market (MoboPlayer) and that player worked perfectly.

So, I assume that there is an issue with the native video player.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] visitador02:
Never mind, I forgot that I had the Rescan Media Root app to stop media scanning. Silly me.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4n6science:
So in some other people's profiles I see that they have a different kernel than the one that comes with firefly 3.0. Are there better kernels than the hardcore speedmod?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deathgod1989:
.vcf files fails

hi i cant seem to read .vcf files, iam using firefly 3.0 i cant seem to see import from sd card from the contacts either. thanks! :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkl555:
Question about JK4 modem

I sort of read somewhere that FireFly is based on Rogers I896UXJL1 stock firmware. I am a Rogers customer and have been using this stock firmware for a while. So far this modem has served me well (I live in the GTA area). I have been wondering, since FireFly is running JK4 modem, is it because JK4 is better than JL1 ? What is the rational behind FireFly to choose this modem instead of the original modem ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capocaccia:
Just to note, I ran into the issue again where after the battery dies, the phone boot loops upon a charged restart. I dont know whats causing it but it forces you to reflash the entire rom ( more of a pain than anything). I tried clearing the cache last time but that didnt do anything. So for now, Im back on stock Froyo 2.2 and waiting for the gingerbread update.

This phone is just my daily driver and above all I have to have stability.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Wall:
How do i get the lights on the bottom on the phone to light up when i get a text when i have FireFly installed?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
Boot into recovery in speedmod ulf, there is an option labled "bln options" make sure that's turned on. That's all you should need to do ... I believe it only works with the native messaging app, not 3rd party apps.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JoeDV:
You might as well ask "What's your favorite color?" because that's how many different answers you're likely to get. Like most things, everything is a matter of opinion and experience. Two people can have the exact setup and yet have completely different experiences with their phones. So the best answer is, maybe... maybe not. I would ask, are you unhappy with the way your phone is performing? If not, why mess with it, unless you're doing it just to experiment.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clocke:
Has anyone tried Netflix with Firefly 3.0 yet?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Wall:
How would I get a movie on itunes to play on my phone with FireFly 3.0?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
You would need a player that supports the mp4 files. Look it up, I'm sure you'll find one.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] visitador02:
Geo tagging

I believe FireFly allows geo tagging, right? If so, the only solution is to put the phone on flight mode before taking a picture? Just my educated guess.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
go to settings> location and security> uncheck "use wireless networks" I believe that turns off geotagging not 100% but it makes sense, how can your phone geotag your location in pictures if it doesn't know where it is ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liquidzyklon:
I did a search in this thread and the Developer's thread but see no mention of this. I installed the FireFly call recording package and noticed that it changed the icons around during a call now to accommodate it, no issue there. However, the Call Recording icon is greyed out when I am on my bluetooth device and only non-greyed when bluetooth is disabled. Why?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
Umm I don't know this is purely a guess, but maybe calls are recorded with the native hardware? (the phones microphone and speaker) so a BT device wouldn't give you the option.

I have no idea though never even tried call recording, I don't make phone calls too often.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snoboarder071:
problems undoing theme

I'm afraid all my searching hasn't yielded any results. Time for my first post! I applied the dark fire theme, didn't like it, and have been trying like hell to get rid of it ever since. I unzipped the stock firefly theme just fine but (so far) I've noticed three things that indicate I'm not back to the original firefly and still have traces of the old theme lingering.

First, the gmail app icon is still the red color from the dark fire theme. The new email notification for it also pops up red. Second, I still have two dark fire wallpapers. And third, I can't find the original firefly 3.0 wallpaper! All the other pics seem to be there, but the amazing looking one it started with that has the glowing orbs is gone.

Any suggestions? Should I reflash the whole rom? Should I revert to stock first? Can I download the wallpaper and fix gmail without flashing? Thanks in advance for your help!

Edit: should have, uh, nandroided.... fail
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KayvinM:
You can try unzipping the theme file on your computer and see which apps where changed and then grab them from the original FF rom and drop them into the corresponding locations. This will work for the gmail app. The wallpaper is found in the framework apk. You could also drop the original framework.apk and systemui apk in but you need to reboot the phone so do it last...although,

the easiest thing to do at this point is to just re flash the complete rom(not just an update) Do it under full battery. You don't have to flash back to stock. Just clear cache and dalvik cache to be on the safe side.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wondroushippo:
So, does anyone else get like twice as much battery drain over 3G/H compared to wifi? It may be a modem issue, as I've noticed it on this and Andromeda.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Wifi usually uses less battery, it's normal as long as the connection is stable.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guanakito100:
Careful

I had this same problem with this rom and I regret not changing it when I had the chance. I a heavy user and it seams that you are to so my advice is uninstall while you can cause if your pho:Dne heats up to much when your using the rom can't handle the load and reboots or freezes. Are you having problems loosing apps?. But my point is that your phone will break. I didn't think it would come to that but something told me to change the rom, again if your a heavy user. My phone did break and now I dont have use of my internal or external memory my phone memory comes and gos. I have tried hard reset data delvik and even changing three rom I can't get any if that back. It a trip how I got out of the break to (WITH NO PC) and im new at this but turns out that I have learned fast and the hard way. My advice if your a heavy user change the rom like NOW!!! Dude you'll thank me for it..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Being a heavy user doesn't change anything. If you phone is over-heating, there's something wrong with it (most likely hardware) and it's not rom related.

I'm a really heavy user and was on FF for about 2 months w/o any problem and same with other people + Devs.

Please, do not take a rom down cause of a (most likely) hardware problem that your phone has.

Now, if you're still under waranty, use Odin one click downloader to go to stock and get a replacement.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] visitador02:
I installed the following wifi tether app from the google website: wireless_tether_2_0_8-pre1.apk. Google's website states that it is for Samsung Galaxy S. However, it does not seem to provide for WPA2 encryption. Does anyone know if there is another wifi tether app that allows for WPA2 encryption?

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] criticalmass24:
I have installed Firefly 3.0 on my captivate every now and then when the battery gets low to like 30% it turns off and then i gotta pop the battery out and pop it back in because it randomly shuts down. It has happened in games, phone calls from friends that are in iraq, and various other things. I just reloaded fire fly onto my phone but I am not sure whats going on with it.

now its not even starting
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Get it in recovery from the button combos, clear cache/dalvik/factory reset and then flash FF 3.0

If you can't get in recovery, get in download mode, use Odin one click downloader to get back to stock (do not unplug your phone if you see sbl.bin or boot.bin.. it will not comeback on). Get in recovery, flash FF 3.0

Hope this help :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HDVWing:
How would I get the no wipe update pakage 2.3 to 2.4 ?

I have been running 2.3 since it was released and very

happy with it, just think its time to update.

Any info would be appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
You should be able to get it from the FF Mods and Fixes app.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
What the app in 2.3? I can't remember.

If not, it's on the OP of FF's thread. You'll need a QR reader to get it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
Version 2.3 was the first one with it. http://www.phoenix-hq.com/firefly/changelog.html
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Wall:
When I was flashing the FireFly 3.0 I saw that it said I had to flash my own kernel. I was wondering which one I should use and why?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
The kernel is actually already included in the ROM (Speedmod). You can flash the one you want after that but Speedmod is amazing!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Wall:
Thank you, can you show me where you got your ROM?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
You mean Mosaic? That's a GB based rom, it's a bit harder to get on that than it is to get on a 2.2 (froyo) based rom like FireFly.

Altough, feel free to try but don't act and then read.. You got ALOT to learn before jumping on GB based rom. You can't miss a step otherwise you'll have a nice little brick in your hands :rolleyes:

Here's a startup: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13503747&postcount=2

You got alot more to read than that but it will get you started.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HDVWing:
Thank you for the reponses. I've tried the FF app.

The updates starts from 2.4. I have not found any updates

starting from 2.3. I guess the only other option would be to

start with 2.4 and than I could update starting from that point?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
No point to do that...if there is a full rom flash in there at all then the point of the no wipe updates is moot. Just back up and flash directly to 3.0 with the full rom zip.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Atomic_R53:
Does anyone have any issues with the wifi shortcut. It send that sometimes I get a wifi error and have to go into wifi setup and manually connect.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HDVWing:
Thanks I will do that
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanshapiro44:
when i unlock the screen it takes a while for the screen to be responsive and also when i back out of aplications it take a while to get back to the homescreen any sugestions to fix this? thanks in advance
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
You might have too much junk. Go in recovery, clear cache/dalvik and reboot (it will take a while).

Your phone should be back to normal after that :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanshapiro44:
i have allready done this twice and stiill having problems
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Then a clean flash might be your solution.

Clear chache/dalvik and factory reset then flash full FF3.0

Of course, that will take 10-15min having to restore your apps and stuff (don't forget to backup) but I don't see why else it would be so slow.

Also, I suggest you get OS Monitor to check if you have a rogue app that is draining your juice (ram).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanshapiro44:
Do i nneed to go back to stock or can I just reflash it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
No need for odin. The rom will wipe all it needs to. Just flash.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neutronsoup:
Can't connect in Mass Storage mode

OSX 10.6.7

Firefly 3.0

speedmod 2.6.32.9

I might be doing something obviously wrong, so sorry.

But.

When I connect my cappy via USB and select "mass storage mode", my phone shows up on my computer fine, like an external drive, nothing new here. When I try to copy files to/from the device, it ejects. As in, I get a popup on the compu saying "you didn't remove your device properly, you smarmy dbag" and it disappears. The phone says it's still connected (I still get the page saying "USB Storage In Use") but it's not. It's been like this ever since I upgraded to 3.0. Also, ever since 2.9 (or 2.8?) it's stopped working with iPhoto. ???

Thanks in advance.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Wall:
Is there a better kernel to run on Firefly 3.0?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Better? No. After alot of testing, X felt like Speedmod is the best to suit FireFly.

That being said, I do think it's still the best kernel out there even tho it hasn't been ported to GB :(

Also, if you're looking for more performance, enable Ext4 (lagfix). It's simple and does one hell of a job :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psyc0sys:
Accelerometer stopped working

So I noticed today when trying to test out the Amazon Free App of the Day, My Paper Plane 2, that my accelerometer was not working. I confirmed this in the browser, tried turning Auto Rotation off and then on again, tried restarting, tried taking the battery out when restarting. Flashed back to stock and it worked and then restored back to Firefly 3.0 and it is not working again. Anyone have any thoughts?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Wall:
What does the Ext4 do for the phone? And how do I change it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 10iron:
Can't boot to recovery

I've been running several roms, firefly, Serendipity, but with after loading ver 2 of Serendipity 7, I can't boot into the recovery mode using UP/Down Pwr buttons. Any thoughts? Am I missing something simple? Rom seems to work fine otherwise.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
boot into recovery in speedmod ulf there is options to enable lagfix. which is converting to EXT4 which is a much more efficient file sysem and should speed the phone up some.

2 things:

1. what does this question have to do with firefly?

2. if you read the op of any gingerbread rom you will see that the button combos have changed.

vol up+power=recovery

vol down=power=download
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c-eling:
huh,always thought the lagfix was automatically enabled on first flash cuz firefly made my captivate scream,been running it for about two months now,love it,no probs at all,thanks for the heads up on this,converting files now :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scott S.:
I've been using Firefly for a little over a month and I love it! The only problem I've had since flashing Firefly is my cellular data speed. Sometimes I can load the market and webpages, but it's at a snail's pace (watching YouTube videos is out of the question). Most times, however, I just time out. I used SGS Tools to access the secret codes to play around with different bands, but that didn't really get me anywhere. A few days ago I ran the speedtest.net app and once I was able to finally establish a connection I got this:

Yeah, you read that right.

Today I ran it with slightly better results (first time in a while I've had faster download than upload!)

On wifi my speeds are fine. I've never missed a call or a text. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c-eling:
here's my test using firefly 3.0 lagfix enabled using speedtest.net

ping 387ms

download:257.7kb/s

upload:203.9kb/s

central mi
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
Go to the modem thread stickied st the top of the dev section and try a few different modems.

Lagfix has nothing to do with internet speed. It's a file system making it open apps and navigate through the OS more efficiently. What you just tested was the modem.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] georgiajad:
anyone got experience using ff 3.0 in china?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rickover:
Problems getting Exchange Email

I recently installed FF3.0 after refreshing with Odin stock and Masterclear. Install of ROM went fine and enables EXT4. All but email seems fine. I set up connecting email to our corp exchange server (this has worked on stock and Andromeda roms with no problems) and it doesn't show any mail. When attempting to connect it does show the security message that must be accepted, so I know it did see the server. All I get when bringing up the email for this account is a blank screen with not tabs and a blue bar across the top. I installed Touchdown it it works as expected. I installed a different email.apk that worked before on a different ROM and I get the same results (no FCs either). To further test I used the client to connect to a google gmail account and it works as expected. It seems to be a specific problem with this ROM using the email client to connect to exchange.

Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gstern:
I'm trying to make some modifications to the contacts app. I pulled contacts.apk to my pc, made some changes in it, packed it back and zipaligned it. The problem is no matter how I try to sign it I can't push it back on top of the old one. If I try to overwrite the old apk It disappears from my app drawer.

What am I doing wrong?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scott S.:
I noticed Firefly comes with a i897 kernel and is running a i9000 modem. Am I able to flash an i897 modem? Thanks for your help!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
No, it's an I9000 kernel. It's just between modified to say I897. But it is based from the I9000.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
You shouldn't be signing it at all. You don't sign system apps, only data apps.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gstern:
OK. i managed to pack it back with the original signature so that now i can push the apk back and run it without problems.

My current problem is i can't see the changes I've made. i was trying to change the character list on the scroll bar on the right. i assumed that it's controlled by:

res\values\strings.xml

i tried to edit this lines:

<string name="twstr_indexlist">\#ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ</string>
<string name="indexlist">ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ</string>

but no matter how i change those lines it doesn't seem to affect anything.