yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
If you search through the main ROM thread you'll find 5.12 hosted a few times recently (within the past week).

You've gone into wifi advanced settings and set the wifi sleep policy to 'when screen is off'.

How many widgets are you running, and are they weather/news related that update all the time? I know that's where my main battery drain is.

I use a screen dimmer widget to turn down the brightness to a certain level - automatic keeps it too bright, my main culprit is my display, that big, beautiful screen eats batteries for supper.

I can get all day, from 7 am through til about 8 pm, on one charge, I use the phone a lot, I'm either fiddling with it on my down time, or I'm checking Facebook or XDA - updating apps, etc. I've got time widgets, weather widgets, etc. running on five screens (don't ask!!), and I know all of that takes power. What are you using the phone for?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodimus_prime:
I have no widgets running beyond wigetsoid
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yori07:
This worked, thank you!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gephross100:
do widgets use a lot of power? wasn't aware of that
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Widgets that connect to data do use more power than static type widgets.

Sent from a State of Serendipity via XDA Premium
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captican:
Looking Forward to Flashing

Between Basketball and the wife being out of town, I am looking forward to flashing this later today.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] victorbpe:
Hi Mikey and Chance, I've upgraded from 6.2 to 6.3 with the update package, but my blue circle battery mod, transparent notification bar and colored settings are all overwritten, and I cannot get them back with the add-on.

Is the add-on not being updated to 6.3? When will this be available? :confused:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamesbchrist:
The kitchen isn't updated yet, so any add-on from there may give you issues.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ua549:
I get an error 7 message when attempting to flash addons from the kitchen. I've even tried the Samsung apps which shouldn't have changed between 5.12 and 6.3. Did they? I have no messaging until this is fixed. When will the kitchen be updated?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChanceM:
I'm in the middle of this process right now.

ChanceM
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simple man:
I flashed 6.3 after flash to stock+ master clear, about 6 a.m. and voice recorder+ google talk + fly in transitions from kitchen, (I thought also that since it was a small update it would be compatible) no problems that I'm aware of, hopefully these addons are compatible?

Thanks in advance!

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sope15:
thank you so much. I have been smashing my head against the wall all day
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syl0n:
Can someone please provide a step by step guide about how to flash kernels? what tools to use and how to backup/recover from a failed kernel flash?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfitts1:
updated from 6.2 to 6.3 and love it.

Once the kitchen add ons were ready for use on 6.3 i reinstalled transitions, transparency, color settings, and battery mod d. after this i no longer have the time in my status bar. all the add ons work.

checked date and time settings there is not option for display/hide clock in status bar. reinstalling stock battery mod doesn't change it.

any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwnerman:
once you update to 6.3 is it ok to reinstall the addons from the kitchen?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfitts1:
see below. sorry to post twice

first time posting

i wanted to include quote and link...forgot one.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfitts1:
Yes

on this forum chancem updated the add ons to work with 6.3 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=900568&page=1085
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captican:
Thanks

Due to a limited number of posts, my thank you will have to appear here. I flashed from a different ROM and it went very well. Learned a few things as well (but had confidence it would work out okay).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syl0n:
Never mind. I flashed the latest hardcore speedmod k13d-500hz using the SGS kernel flasher and it worked fine.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] damon20r:
I'm a noob here. I am running 6.2 and got the shutdown sound working but I am unable to get a start up sound. I the enable boot sounds option enabled and have a PowerOn.wav file in the etc folder. I saw someone else had the same issue but I didn't see a fix for it. Any ideas? Am I forgetting something? I'd also like to change the first att boot image but I'm going to wait till I understand how that works a little better or someone finds a simpler way to change it. BTW HUGE THANKS to everyone who has taken the time to figure all this stuff out and then take even more time to try to explain it to people like me!!! :D Ya'll are Awsome!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] victorbpe:
Colored Notification, shut down menu and desktop setting menu

Love this rom very much. Just curious if ChanceM can make some of the menus(Notification, shut down menu and the desktop setting menu, etc) more colorful. Something just like the current colored settings. :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethjamto:
I've always been fortunate to have a flawless GPS that would lock and track perfectly.....until now. Now I can't get it to lock at all. Is there a recommended fix to use with 6.3? I'm on my phone, so searching is a little difficult right now. if you could post a link I would appreciate it!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syl0n:
Get GPS Status and clear your AGPS state and re-download it. I get a lock within a few seconds with this GPS Status app.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon.groves:
How do I do this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattap:
OK I know this is a dumb question. I tried to download the serendipity zip on to my computer but I get something needs to access my firewall do I trust it? What do I need do help. Thanks for your input.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syl0n:
This is the app i was referring to: http://www.appbrain.com/app/gps-status-toolbox/com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2

Then start it and press Menu:

Menu > Tools > manage A-GPS State

1. press the reset button, this deletes any existing cached GPS data

2. press the download button this will download A-GPS info (need Data or WIFI), then go back to the main screen and you should start finding satellites and get a lock.

Every time I want to get a GPS lock, I open up this program and wait and soon get a GPS Fix then goto other app like Maps that I want to use (in Settings > Display & Tools, choose Keep Screen on otherwise if your screen goes off the GPS lock process stops)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Yes, you can trust it. Sometimes false positives are sent to security software, I've seen others ask the same question. Go for it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kvv515kvv515kvv:
is it the same?

1. task manager - apps - app"xxx" uninstall

2. Root explorer - system - app - app"xxx" delete
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethjamto:
Thanks. I'll give that a try in a few. I do use that App, but didn't think to clear it out. Yesterday while driving down the road it took almost 10 minutes to get a lock...grrrrr.....never had to deal with that crap before! I'll try this out and see how it does! Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hpolack:
Car Dock Serendipity 6.3 No Redirect Audio Captivate

I just flashed Serendipity 6.3 and love it. I may have to go back to Stock Froyo which would be like going from a Lamborghini to a Yugo because my redirect for my Car Dock and my Home Docks do not play audio. Anybody have a fix for this for Serendipity 6.3. It works in the Stock Froyo AT&T Captivate ROM.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamesbchrist:
The onix v2.02 kernal has car dock capabilities.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethjamto:
Worked perfectly! I cleared out the cache and got nearly instant lock again! Whew! I was worried there, because my GPS has always been flawless!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodolsen:
Does anyone know how to change the color of the time/date text on the lock screen? I would like to make it red to match the rest of the Redrom theme, but have no idea where to start looking to make the change.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChanceM:
The accent color on the Samsung lockscreens should be red... or are you talking about the clocks and everything? The layouts are in the framework-res.

ChanceM

Sent from a Serendipity Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodolsen:
When I lock the phone the time and date that show on the lock screen are white, I would like to be able to make them red. I'm using the Rotary lock screen btw.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superdog404:
Originally Posted by superdog404

I am running 6.2 and would like to have a startup sound when the phone is booted. I've put PowerOn.wav in the etc folder but it doesn't make a sound. My volumes are all up so that doesn't seem to be it. I've also tried sgstools but it doesn't help either. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you

superdog404

Have you checked the tweaks under the recovery?

Ok I have been able to get a shutdown sound to play by using a cwm file with the shutdown animation and a shutdown sound file. I still haven't found a way to get the startup sound to play. "PowerOn.wav" Has anyone figured this out?

Thank you

superd0g404
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syl0n:
Yeah :). If I find that it is taking long to get a lock, I clear cache and re-download A-GPS data and I immediately get lock.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lzpnsx:
Flash of 6.3 is hung

I am in the process of flashing 6.3 and it appears to be stuck. I used Odin to flash back to stock and did a master clear as instructed. Now, I am in recovery and selected the Serendipity_6.3.zip file to flash. I see the following:

-- Installing: SDCARD:Serendipity_6.3.zip

Finding update package...

It has been here for about 10 minutes and I don't think that it is going anywhere. Do you think I got a bad download? How can I get out of this safely to retry?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
Battery pull. Redownload the rom. Try again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hpolack:
Car Dock Serendipity 6.3 No Redirect Audio Captivate

"The onix v2.02 kernal has car dock capabilities."

Thank you for for the response. I loaded Onyx 2.0.3 Kernel which is mostly a speed mod I believe. I now have audio when I dock, but it is no bass. Any other ideas of kernels or other things I can try without reverting back to stock Froyo or Cognition 4.3? I have seen another Kernel mentioned called Xcalibur Kernel, but I am not sure if it is any better and if it will basically overlay Oynx as I think it is a Under Clock kernel. I tried using the original Samsung Home App and the Galaxy Home Redirector with the same results.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] damon20r:
If I remember right I just used a .ogg sound file for the shutdown sound and left the stock serendipity visuals. But I am also still trying to figure out the startup sound problem as well.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BadAsh71:
Perfect AppLock and ZDbox issues with Serendipity

Hey everyone, I moved to Serendipity after using Perception for quite a while and the first issue I found that I couldn't resolve was App Lock software such as "Perfect AppLock" or "ZDbox".

I like to use "Perfect AppLock" to restrict access to certain apps on my phone as a way to keep my kids out of Games they aren't quite ready for (age) and of course Market or anywhere else they can easily buy something (they are 3 and 5).

I noticed that while Serendipity and Perception are both Froyo 2.2.1 based, that Serendipity seems to be killing "Perfect AppLock" every time it's service is started. When it kills PA, the service auto-starts again and it goes into a loop. I tried ZDbox to test and it had the same results.

I am not using an auto-mated Task Killer so I don't know of anything I installed that would be stopping these apps from running.

I am using "Lookout" which scans and tells me these apps are safe.

Does anyone have ideas on what is going on? Anyone experienced this yet?

If someone else could test I'd appreciate it. ZDbox is FREE if you are looking for something to test with.

In the case of Perfect AppLock you will see a Toast Message that the Service has Started, as well as a message in the Notification area. This will continue over and over as it starts, gets killed and the restarts.

For ZDbox, a "Force Close" will popup as soon as it attempts to start it's service.

I'm on Serendipity 6.3 running on my Captivate. This issue happened on 6.2 as well. I did not install any other Kernel or Modem... all stock for Serendipity's ROM.

Any ideas?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] white00gt:
Search back a little bit in the thread- there is a fix for it this is caused by ad blocking software built into the ROM
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lzpnsx:
Random shutdowns lately

First of all, let me say that this is a great ROM. This is the first one that I ever tried and I am happy that I did.

For the past few days I have been experiencing random shutdowns, about 2-3 per day. Sometimes, I check the phone at it is just shutdown and sometimes it is still warm. Either way, I cannot power the phone up using the power button. I have to remove the battery and then power on in order to get it to boot. After I get it booted, the battery will be drained about 15-30% from where is was before.

I ran for about a week on 6.2 before this started happening so, I don't think that it is the ROM necessarily. I did a fresh flash of 6.3 last night including a flash to stock and master clear using Odin. That did not correct the issue either.

Any ideas will be most appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saditch:
Battery drain

Hope someone can help me here:

I'm loving Serendipity 6.2, but have a battery drain issue. Even when leaving the phone idle overnight the battery is draining between 3-4% per hour. When I checked the battery usage log this morning it identified "Cell standby" as a major culprit, clocking nearly 40% of the battery usage. And the battery drains way too fast throughout the day, with just moderate use (compared to me experience with Cognition rom).

Are there any tried and true fixes for this? Do I need to adjust any settings? Do I need to flash a new modem?

Any help is greatly appreciated!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syl0n:
What is the Task manger app that comes with Serendipity? Can I get it on another ROM or device?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
Go into recovery and then choose advanced speedmod settings or something similar and then tweaks and choose enable android logger or something similar

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigdaddydo:
Hey guys,

How do i flash the onix kernel and after flashing to serendipity 6.3 I seem to have lost google talk.. How do I get that back?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodolsen:
Download the kernel you want and flash it through recovery.

For google talk either install from the kitchen or the market.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigdaddydo:
I cant flash the onix kernal on my serendipity 6.3, it gets stuck at installing update... at the recovery
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
bad download maybe.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kvv515kvv515kvv:
Hi!

Question 1

There are two ways to uninstall aplication "xxx.apk"

1. task manager - apps - "xxx" uninstall

2. Root explorer - data - app - "xxx.apk" delete

Is there any difference how to uninstall?

Or they are the same?

Question 2

There are two ways to install aplication "xxx.apk"

1. Download "xxx.apk" - click on it and install

2. Using Root explorer copy "xxx.apk" to folder data - app

Is there any difference how to install?

Or they are the same?

Question 3

If i use way 2 (use root explorer) is there difference where to copy "xxx.apk" to?

1. to folder data - app

2. to folder system - app

Tnx.

Vladimir
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halfsoul:
I use TiBu to uninstall and adb to install, so I don't know the other answers.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetpuck73:
I installed the samsung music player from the kitchen, is there a way to remove it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodolsen:
Use TiBu to remove it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spunkdfied311:
Gmail Syncing Frequency

This somewhat of a retarded question considering I've been flashing for a few months now, but I'm trying to get my gmail syncing to stop being push and change the frequency? I'm on Serendipity 6.3 and cannot for the life of me find where to change that settings. All I can find is either to have Auto Sync checked or unchecked, that's it. I can't find it in the Gmail app either. I'm trying to save on the battery cause I'm draining at about 5% per hour even with Paragon 1200 and JQ1 modem. Anyone know how to change the frequency?Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodolsen:
There isn't a frequency for Gmail that I know of. It is either Auto or Manual. It isn't like Touchdown where you can set a timer on how often to check.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetpuck73:
Can I get the one for Serendipity back after I un-install it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodolsen:
Is this the one you want back?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BadAsh71:
That worked, Thanks!

Thank you very much. As suggested previously, I installed AdFree and that may have worked by just reverting my Hosts file but then I would have Ads (?).

So, I followed your steps and enabled the Android Logger and it worked great.

Thanks again!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetpuck73:
That is it, Thanks!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rykielz:
I've been using Serendipity since 5.0, and everything is great except I notice my battery drain faster with 6.2

But my question is this: How can I take screenshots? One feature I miss about my iPhone is being able to take screenshots when ever I want. Is there any thing like this for Serendipity?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetpuck73:
I use Screen Shot It.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
Shoot me...the app.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halfsoul:
Another app is "screenshot" (market)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rykielz:
I'll check them out. Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigdaddydo:
So I installed Samsung MMS from kitchen and I dont really like it as much as the stock serendipity, how do I revert back to the original?

Also on the original how can I make the screen light up when I get a text?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodolsen:
Pull the apk from the zip or you could try handcent sms.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigdaddydo:
So reflash the zip with the Samsung mms apk out of it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChanceM:
No you need to grab the mms.apk from the original from package.

ChanceM
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] osendott:
Has to be bad download. Running onix 2.0.3 now with 6.3 no prob (or with any other previous sp/onix kernels)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigdaddydo:
Thanks Chance!

DO if you know if there is any way I can get the screen to light up when I get a text though without using the Samsung MMS? Why was the feature removed from serendipity?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigdaddydo:
After I get the old MMS.apk from the original package how would I go about installing it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soccer_Dad:
Let me try this one. You probably have a .zip file with the new mms app from the kitchen somewhere on your phone or computer. Open the zip file in your favorite zip manager software. Open the system directory. Open the app directory. Delete everything in there. Open the original Serendipity package in another zip manager window. Go to system...app there. Drag the mms.apk file from there to the open (and empty) directory of the kitchen zip. Save the archive. Transfer to your phone (if it isn't already there). Boot into recovery. Apply that new archive in recovery.

Anyone else have a directory called AAZips for their flashable archives? That way I don't have to hunt for them - they are always on the top of the list in recovery.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigdaddydo:
I tried it, but it wouldn't install for some odd reason! It was stuck at installing update. Anyways, I finally installed using terminal emulator and a bunch of commands i found online. whew! it was alotta work!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetpuck73:
How can I get the Desk Home & Car Home apps that came with the Froyo update?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moymike:
Amazon MP3 - Battery Drain

I'm sure everyone heard about Amazon giving 5GB of free media storage in the cloud. They make it even sweeter, if you buy a MP3 album for a while.

So, I am running Serendipity 6.3, which is giving me the best battery usage of any ROM I have tried. I charge at night, and have made it through an entire day and still had well over 50 percent left. (sometimes more then 70 percent, on low use days)

Last night I installed Amazon MP3, and today my battery died right after lunch. I started watching it when I noticed it around 30 percent. I am guessing it was dropping at 10-15 percent per hour.

I experimented a bit, and found that the drain appeared to stop after I uninstalled Amazon MP3, and then return when I reinstalled it.

The current version of Amazon MP3 has no options to stop the drain. I did flip the flags I could within the app, but it made no difference. The one, other then uninstalling it, that stopped the drain was to go into "manage applications", "Running", and then "Force stop" it.

Has anybody else had a drain issue with Amazon MP3? I did some searching, and it sounds like they fixed a drain issue and claim it is handled.

BAH!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bossman1225:
serendipity 6.3

Correct me if am wrong but this is a all in one ROM which means it will give me the correct kernel and i don't have to flash a new one? just flash it and I am good to go for now.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Yes, it's an 'all in one ROM', you can run it with the SpeedMod kernel it comes with or switch it out if you so desire.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bossman1225:
Thank you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bossman1225:
The kerenel that comes with it is pretty good or is there a better one that is faster?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syl0n:
Default kernel is good.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethjamto:
It's good, that's why they put it in there! But.....many people have better performance and/or results with others. You just need to try then out one at a time to see which one you and your phone like the best! Just make sure you give each one a couple of days before swapping around to let the battery settle in before you say you don't like it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bossman1225:
Thanks it working great good battery too.