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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mobilesuit818:
Hello all.

Just upgraded Seredipity 6.4 to 7 via recovery mode. Just copied the zip file to the sd card and flashed from recovery.

using captivate on tmobile network if it matters.

I am trying to get the email app for my work exchange email. I know 6.4 had the apk file and allowed me to add my work email to be sync but v7 doesnt have it.

I downloaded the package zip from the serendipity site which includes the apk for email but when I try to get in to recovery mode after flashing, the screen is all distorted like a bad video card on a pc.

Please help
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
You didn't follow the instructions. Link to instructions. Start with step 1, then follow the steps in order until you have completed step 16.

Good luck! and welcome to gingerbread
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
No, per your post, you couldn't get into recovery. That's a symptom of running eclair/froyo bootloaders on a gingerbread rom.

Hold both volume buttons down while your phone is off and plug in USB. That should take you to download mode.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] james.arroyo:
Immediately i knew, like bryman27 knew. You have got to read thoroughly before flashing a ROM, esp when going to 2.3.X from 2.1.X/2.2.X

also, like i tell anyone and everyone that will listen. Get a JIG or make your own before moving onto GB ROMs.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mobilesuit818:
Noted. Followed the instructions and viola!

Wifi shows error. Searched and reflashing back to stock via odin and then reflashing.

Is this correct?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
No, you don't have to go back to stock via Odin. Just reflash the ROM.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mobilesuit818:
Sweet! it worked.

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
You're welcome - there's a button for that :) Also, don't restore any settings, it'll screw it up, just reset all of your wifi passwords, etc. by hand.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n.d.:
Looking for some feedback and advice...

I installed GR-12 a little while back then VII and now v2 VII and I have a couple issues that I am not sure what is going on.

1. When I make calls the person on the other end of the phone claims it has a real bad connection, almost like a tin can or muffeled sound. This goes away when I use the speaker phone though. (This may have started when I upgraded kernel but not real sure)

2. At random times phone calls are dropped in places I know my service is avbailable.

3. I have noticed when I press the power button and unlock the screen the home icon is flashing like it is being pushed and I cannot go away from the home screen. This will stop if I select the home screen button usually mutliple times and quickly. (may be causing problem 2)

There are a couple other things that I can't think of right now. I have reloaded VII but I have not done this since V2 came out.

Phone Info=

2.3.3

I9000TUBJV6

2.6.35.7-I9000XXJVP-CL264642 Serendipity_VII#4.0 Wed Jun 15 20:34:54 PDT 2011

Serendipity VII Build 2

Thanks in advance for the feedback!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
A different modem should help 1 and 2. I'm not completely sure about what you're saying on #3, but if it's the same issue I had, which was almost everytime I closed an app my homescreen would reload, then deleting /system/etc/init.d/S98RamBooster should help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n.d.:
Thanks Bryman...

I thought about the modem especially since I have read others having issues in the forum (not specifically VII users). I will have to do some research on it since that is beyond my pay grade at the moment.

As an add-on to the other issue, imagine I press the power button to "wake up" the phone then slide the unlock icon across. After that at least once a day the home button below "SAMSUNG" at the bottom of the phone starts flashing and the phone vibrates repetitively just as someone was tapping that button. It will not stop unless i physically tap the button several times to interrupt I am guessing whatever the phone has going on in the background.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
Hmm, I've never had that issue, however I've read of similar issues in the Mosaic thread, what I think fixed it for some was flashing an unmodified services.jar, but then their buttons didn't light up when they touched the screen (the reason the services.jar is modified)

here's a zip you can flash from recovery that will give you an unmodified services.jar if you want to try that: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4516127/Serendipity/jvo_services.zip

and here's one with the Serendipity services.jar in case you want to revert: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4516127/Serendipity/Serendipity_services.zip
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n.d.:
I will try that.. Can you suggest and send me a modem to install the same way? I am in East TN.

Also, I noticed some times the screen goes blank after making a call and it takes a little bit before it comes back on to select speaker or end call.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
The screen going out happens to me too, and I think everybody on Serendipity; I don't know of a fix, but the workaround I use is right after starting the call I move my hand over the top part of my phone, over the proximity sensor, and then when I move it off of that area the screen comes on.

Modems in East TN, well, a quick search in the modem thread doesn't bring anything up, but the ones that seem to work for most people are JK4, KC1, JL2 (I think), and JJJV5. All of them can be found in the OP of the modem thread that is stickied in the Captivate Development section except for JJJV5 which I have linked to above (you'll want to flash the second link).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n.d.:
Thanks again.. I will try that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] folchibas:
I have the Captivate with AT&T. I've installed the latest drivers and have tried connecting to 2 different computers; one running XP and the other running Windows 7.

I have only had this problem since flashing Serendipity 6.4. I'm trying to upgrade to Serendipity 7, but cannot get the update file to my root drive. I've tried multiple file managers (none will move the file from the sd card folder to the root folder). I've also tried multiple browsers, but the only one that has an option to change the download folder is Opera, and that won't go to the root. Because of this, I can't run Odin as well.

Any ideas on how to get this to my root folder, or a fix to connect to the computer??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
Which folder is the update file in now?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] folchibas:
I have it in the sdcard folder. It's the closest I could get the file.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
That's where it should be. The root of your sdcard. It's a bit confusing, but that is good.

Now you say your trying to go from Serendipity 6.4 to 7?

Be sure you follow the directions here. Start with step 1 and perform the actions in each step in numerical order until you have completed step 16.

As for your issues connecting to a computer. I suggest uninstalling all the drivers for your captivate that you have now and download the one's from here, I've used them for months, and install them, and be sure to use a usb port at the back of your computer if possible.

Good luck!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] folchibas:
Thanks for the help. Just to clarify, I can't just flash the update to upgrade from 6.4 to 7? I have to go through a similar process as when I first went from Froyo to Serendipity?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
Yeah, gingerbread requires new bootloaders, which, to the best of my knowledge, can only be flashed by Odin/Heimdall. Once you are on gingerbread though, as long as you don't flash back to stock eclair, you can just flash the rom zip to go between different samsung-based gingerbread roms.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cursedwave:
Hello everybody, looking for a little bit of help here. I apologize if this has been asked/answered before.

I just went from a Stock 2.2 to the current Serendipity build. However, I noticed that my "Home" button wasn't responding. I was looking to fix this with CWM and latest Kernel but I realized that in the process of going from FROYO to Serendipity, I seem to have... unrooted my Captivate. Not only that, but I can't seem to enter USB Debugging mode even though it's been activated.

Was there a step that I missed or did I mess up somewhere? (I admit that I didn't do any sort of backing up before starting all of this) This was my first time going to a custom ROM so it's entirely possible.

Either way, any help would be appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
Are you sure you aren't on stock gingerbread? What does it say under build number in settings->about phone?

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cursedwave:
It says GINGERBREAD.XWJVB
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
You're on stock gingerbread. You need to flash a custom gingerbread kernel (if you haven't already) and then flash the Serendipity zip from the big link on this page in recovery.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnavia:
I am wondering if anyone has a solution, or an idea, of what my problem may be?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
A different modem might help with calls not going through. I don't know about the other issues. Modems I suggest to try are JK4, JL2 and KC1.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joey_xda:
I noticed that the UOT Kitchen does not have Serendipity VII listed in their Kitchens list. So do we upload the 2 system files that it asks for ? Also do any of the other options on that page need to be changed or just leave the default settings ?

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
Yes, upload the two files. The unchanged options should work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnavia:
thank you for the suggestion. i'll give those a shot and see how it goes.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joey_xda:
..Thanks..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smokarz:
hey guys, i just got a new Captivate with 2.2 fw and 1106 build.

i read the instructions for rom flash, but that seemed to assume you already are well verse in the flashing/modding methods.

is there an easier/simpler steps by steps for flashing to the serendipity rom?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
The instructions posted on the download page are pretty straightforward, and really are the best way to flash it. If you're uncomfortable with the thought you really shouldn't do it until you've done more reading and feel more comfortable.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
What steps don't you understand? They're laid out pretty simple already.

Sent from my extremely awesome Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spunkdfied311:
Serendipity 6.4 - Samsung MMS layout

I am still running Serendipity 6.4 on my Captivate, however, I am kind of tired of the way my MMS layout is. I don't like how every message has a gray background, but the ones from me have a green trim and the ones from somebody else has an orange trim. I wanted to get back to the Samsung MMS layout, but I've tried downloading the zip file from the add-on kitchen and flashed it. It doesn't work. I've even tried taking the Samsung MMS zip and extract the apk out of it and replace the one in my system/app folder. No luck. There's got to be a way to change back to the original Samsung MMS color scheme and layout. Any ideas? Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
So you want a stock touchwiz themed samsung mms app, one that looks like the one that originally came with your phone?

Here you go.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spunkdfied311:
Thanks so much. I had to drop it into the system/app folder for it to work in case anyone else reads this.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamtheculprit2:
Hi guys. been using serendipity 7 for a few days now. first time I flashed straight from cog 4.somethingorother to serendipity 7 and then realized I needed to flash boot loaders and kernel, so I followed the Odin instructions on the serendipity website. So, now it works pretty well but I can't receive calls... it vibrates or rings for like a half second and then i don't even get a missed call or notification. Ideas? re-install phone.apk? wipe and re-flash? i don't care what I do, as long as I can keep my app data and my text messages. That's about all I care about. But it is my business phone, so I need to be able to take calls. Everything else seems to work fine.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
DL and extract the images.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] typehydro:
This might be a hella dumb question but when your sending a new text message, how do i look at the contact list to select someone? Or is the only way to goto my contact list and swipe it left?

btw im on 5.7
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
swipe left in contacts works. tocuh the contact picture for a menu also works.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] looksbetterinred:
Has anyone tried pairing with a Motorola H10? I flashed 5.11 day before yesterday and everything works great. It's fast, clean, music is outstanding! However, I can't get it to see my H10 headphones. Just wondered if anyone else has tried.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
Send me your headset and I will try for you!:D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thehyecircus:
Can anyone tell me what the Stock Battery Icon looks like? I am using Perception and like the battery icon it uses, and would like to keep it when transferring over. (I would like to keep all the icons the same, honestly. How do I do that?)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
You will need to edit framework-res.apk. replace stock green battery images with perception's battery images before flashing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gcamp0730:
When I press the "Compose new message" button at the top, I get a box that has To: in it, and below that three choices for Recent, Contacts, and Group. Pressing Contacts brings up the contact list. Or, you can start typing someone's name and a drop-down will appear allowing you to select the correct contact.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] typehydro:
^that's the thing i dont have those 3 choices. Maybe ill flash to the newest version and it'll fix it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
I think he's using handcent, like me. :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadrachCA:
1. Open up Titanium Backup and find Market Updater in the list

2. Tap "Freeze !"

3. Exit TiBU and go into Settings-->Applications-->Manage applications-->"All" tab and go into Market

4. Select "Clear data" and then "Undo updates"

5. You should have your themed market back
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] white00gt:
just noticed that same happens to me , no options just area to type in name
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thehyecircus:
This is both a Serendipity question and an Android question - any way to increase the volume of the speaker on this thing? Like, the speakerphone could be louder. Will it be distorted though?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
I'm saying use a third party app. (Handcent SMS).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JRank:
Ok, as you can see by my postcount I am new, so please don't flame me for my n00bishness. I received a Captivate for Christmas and upgraded it to the official 2.2 Froyo last night. However, I am concerned it has reduced my battery life and would like to flash to Serendipity. I do not want to brick my phone, though. Could someone please provide me with a step-by-step guide to flash from my current 2.2 to Serendipity? Preferably it should contain as few steps as possible with the tiniest, and I mean tiniest, chance of bricking my phone possible. (I know there is always going to be that risk) Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadrachCA:
The thread below should have everything you need to get you started. Since you are already on a stock ROM, you can skip Step 1.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=884364
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
Or watch these videos!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=877652
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Fixed it for you! ;)

I think everyone should do a lot of research before flashing a custom ROM. Both the thread mentioned in the post above and the video link here are great resources to study and learn from.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] white00gt:
Hey anyone know how to put Google search/voice bar back on the home screen for some reason mine disappeared and I can only put the app back not the entire bar

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChanceM:
Add a widget and add the google search bar.

ChanceM
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Reflash. I had the same problem. Just the rom, though.

(had to edit, swype words were wrong!)

Sent from a state of Serendipity
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yunk3r:
i have been looking around the forum for a while now and have found nothing on this. My question is how do i flash cwm3 onto my captivate running serendipity 7? right now i have cwm 2.5.1.2
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
Flash one of the newer kernels.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zpanderson:
Hey, I just downloaded this rom as an upgrade from cognition 2.2. The only question I have is if there is a way to remove homepages? I only use 3 of them and don't like having them all there...

Other than that, great ROM!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
No. The launcher that Serendipity comes with isn't very customizable.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zpanderson:
thats no biggy, but I do have an actual issue now.

I can make/receive phone calls, but text messaging doesn't seem to be working. I'm sitting here sending messages from my wife's phone to mine and vice versa and nothing is going through either way. Has anyone seen this before?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
I've had a similar problem, but my problem was that I could only receive messages, not send. I solved the issue by downloading the Samsung Mms from the Serendipity Add-ons and then followed these instructions.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zpanderson:
Ok, I'm really starting to feel stupid here...

I tried to install the samsung mms app but I'm getting "application not installed" when using astro.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Did you download it and flash it from the kitchen?

Sent from a state of Serendipity
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zpanderson:
Okay, can't believe I forgot to do that... but now that I have the samsung mms app and I checked the message center, I still cannot send or receive text messages. Any other ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
You should try sending text messages from your phone with another sim card to see if the problem is your phone or your sim card.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zpanderson:
Well isn't that strange... With my wife's SIM I'm able to send and receive text messages. So I guess it's something to do with my account? I'll have to give ATT a call and see what's going on...

Turns out I basically just went to att.com and turned off my message plan and then added it again and viola text messages work again... Makes no sense to me, but whatever!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnavia:
flashed jk4 and all my issues went away! thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redjersey:
anyone using the kernel come with Serendipity? is it stable?

I would like to switch from talon to serendipity kernel. what do I have to do before switching back? like convert back to rfs?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
pretty sure most people are. I have used nothing else since the launch of s7.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
Nothing. Just flash the kernel from the third post in the dev thread.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killerxtreme:
I haven't really found an answer for this, but every time I try to activate the loud speaker when checking my voice mail it acts as if I pressed a number so it goes into some other menu.. If I don't use the loud speaker then it is fine and starts normally. Its just when I press the loud speaker that it goes to an off menu that starts to ask things like press 1 to listen or something like that.. Any remedy?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xaltotun:
HELP! Question about Mobile AP set-up!

I try to set-up a Mobile AP in Wireless and Networks -> Tethering -> Mobile AP.

I tick the square, get the "Mobile AP consumes much battery" message, click OK, but get an "error" status in the menu, just under Mobile AP.

So I cannot set-up a Mobile AP (obviously) :(

I tried Wireless Tether, and it has errors; the log says wifi drivers are missing??? What should I do??

I am on Serendipity VII 3.0, and my modem is I9000GJL2 (could it be that? I changed because I got bad reception with the stock Serendipity modem).

Please help me, I use Mobile AP a lot! I've searched the threads (as it's proper to do), but do not get any meaningful info.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Espaa Valorum:
I searched but couldn't find an answer to this. I'm having the same problem. Anybody know how to resolve this "no bass" issue?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zukaa12:
Battery percentage icon

Do any of you guys know how I can have battery icon at top right corner display percentage left?

I found this but I don't know which one I need for this particular ROM.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7148042
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
UOT Kitchen
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RTBee:
Mine's a little different than what you have I think. But a couple of apps you might try to fix problems are, 'FXR WiFi fix and rescue' in the Android market, which I've had some limited success with, and for tethering itself instead of going thru settings you might try 'Barnacle WiFi Tether', not in the market but can be found thru google and I believe Mediafire.com.

The link to Barnacle is here: http://www.appbrain.com/app/barnacle-wifi-tether/net.szym.barnacle , or thru the 'appbrain Market'
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dutch55:
Skype Causing Delays?

I am using Serendipity V11 Build 2 Kernel 4.1 and the latest Skype from the market. I removed Skype and it got smoother. Has anybody else seen this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phreack:
I bought a phone off of ebay with Serendipity 6.2. I put my sim card in it, and it worked fine, send/receive calls & texts. I took my sim back out and put it into my old phone so that I wouldn't miss calls while working on the new one.

I flashed back to stock with odin 3 1-click.

I then followed the directions on Serendipity 7's download page. I messed up a few times, learned how to fix a brick, finally read instructions CAREFULLY (hehe), got Serendipity 7 installed. It runs smooth, and everything looks good.

I pulled the sim card back out of my old phone, turned my captivate off, installed the sim, and turned it back on. When it came on, it doesn't pick up any signal. Several reboots later, still no signal.

I tried updating to Kernel 4.1. Nothing changed.

If I go settings > wireless and network > mobile networks > network operators, it searches for a while, and sometimes finds nothing, other times finds T-Mobile. Being on ATT, of course T-Mobile doesn't work.

I'm in an area that ATT only serves with Edge/2g whatever. There is no 3g service around here at all. Is there any reason why this ROM would fail out on non-3g networks?

Should I change modems? If so, could someone point me to an appropriate modem to flash to?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gcamp0730:
JK4 was the modem in the 6.x series. See the link to the modem thread in my sig.