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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eelall:
Fonts

Anyone have any issues with certain fonts. I grabbed a bunch from one of the other threads and installed a few. They all work well except for when I go to the apps page. All of the font captions for the app icons are messed up. They are stretched vertically to the point that you cannot tell what the font is supposed to look like or what they say.

Anyone else have this issue or is it my usual id10t error :confused:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jnorion:
Bluetooth problems

I've been using Serendipity for several weeks (originally installed 5.7, now fully updated to 5.12) and am having a continuous problem with bluetooth.

When I activate bluetooth, it give me the error message:

but then it appears to work normally. If I try to go to "Share > Bluetooth" in any program -- Gallery, File Manager, etc -- it shows me a list of available devices, but fails upon choosing a destination, giving me the same error. If I try to send files the other way, from the computer to the phone, the phone shows as discoverable and asks if I want to accept the item, but the transfer never begins.

I've searched and found several references to similar problems but no solution. Is there any way to fix this currently? Any help is greatly appreciated... this is the last remaining feature that's not working perfectly.

My phone:

AT&T Captivate

Serendipity 5.12

Speedmod k13a kernel (installed w/Serendipity)

JK4 modem (installed w/Serendipity)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
I've stuck to those that have 'FlipFont' in their name, they all seem to work well. That's about the only fooling around I've done with fonts. be certain they will work in the Captivate and I think you'll be ok - I guess not all fonts work well. I think it's more of how they're installed that's the issue.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
BT is working fine for me. I use BT file transfer app.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmfrtblynmb:
Battery drainage

Hello

I have flashed serendipity a couple of days ago. I really liked the rom. Also it is the only rom that solved my gps problems for some reason. But I am having battery problems since I have switched to Froyo, and it has become worse with serendipidity

Last night,in 8 hours, with wifi sleeping, phone spent 50 percent battery. During the day, when I read sth on phone, it spends 10% battery in 15-20 minutes.

As I said I had this problem with other froyo roms (cognition, at&t stock 2.2 and now serendipidity). I have deleted the battery stat thing with recovery mod.

Some people talk about using some "kernel version". I am a little confused, can we get different kernels? If there is a way to increase battery life, I would be glad if someone helped. If it means getting a new kernel, can anyone direct me to some source describing installing new kernel (though I'd prefer not to deal with these complicated processes anymore). I don't care about OC, I just want decent battery life.

Edit: OK, after wiping battery stats again and turning off sync during night time, also turning off hardware button lights, I got really good results. So far, I guess this is the most successful rom I've tried. I'll stick with it, keep up the good job gentlemen (and ladies if there are any:) ). Kudos to developers
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jnorion:
Hmm, interesting. I hadn't tried a 3rd-party BT app, so I grabbed that one from the market and tested it. Had the same problem as with stock. HOWEVER... running that one allowed OPP to show in the applications menu where it hadn't been before, so I was able to clear the data cache and now everything is working.

Thanks for a roundabout fix!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whyareyou:
Exchange working fine here with Samsung email app. Did you get a notification to enable security when signing up? I had missed it the first time.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eelall:
And I think that may be my issue. As I said some work - some don't. I installed a 'free' flip font from the market and it did not do any better. So I guess I'll keep messin' with them.

Thanks for the info.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dennka:
Hi, I have several questions if someone can answers those.

I had version 5.3 and saw updates to up to 5.11. I downloaded those and tried to do update as per website flash with recovery. So I just booted in Recovery moved and chose install from sd card. After first update to 5.4, I got booting screen with Android logo on it and it was stuck on that screen for like 5 min. Does it take that long to boots up after each update?

Unfortunately, I had to go from the scratch as to go through Odin and so on.

Did anybody else encountered this problem? I just want to update to 5.12, but I am not sure I want to spend time doing update that will stop on booting screen and then I have to go through whole reinstall?

P.S. I had Gun bros game on 5.3 running just fine and after I did update to 5.11, I got this game back and tried to start and it trying to start but exits without loading, any thought on that as well?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Don't worry about long boot times when you do the step updates. It means a change was made to the framework, and I think it also has to rebuild the dahvlik (sp?) cache. Sometimes it takes 5-7 minutes for some people.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dennka:
so I just wait then and did you heard about not booting at all?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
I've been doing the step updates since 5.0, and have had no problems. I haven't heard of anyone else having a boot problem after the updates either. You're good to go :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwnstar44:
So has it been confirmed that the kernel is the cause of my crappy battery life? I have tried to calebrate it 3 times with 0 success. this is by far the most annoying thing to have my phone die every 5 hours with very minimal use.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChanceM:
This is not something that we can confirm for you. You have to try things out and then you will know.

ChanceM
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwnstar44:
I'll try it and get back with my findings :D

I just think it is odd that it is not happening to everyone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chriscerv:
First off thanks a lot Mike, Chance, and all other contributors - this rom is awesome and really brought this phone back to life for me! :D

I am running Serendipitiy 5.12 I have been going back between SuckerPunch and the old GB Steam. SuckerPunch seems to be smooth but I am getting snappier results with the old GB (janurary) kernel.... I know every cpu is different but I was just curious if the kernel has problems with getting FPS w/ 3D? or if I don't have the right tweaks or set up esp. with choppiness in games, wake up, etc.

I know benchmarks do not say much but GB still seems to give me huge gains as opposed to suckerpunch. Currently have suckerpunch 1000hz #53 @ 1.2ghz.

Thanks for any advice. I just want my captivate at its best!! :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethjamto:
I don't think it is happening to everyone, but it is happening to several. A few of us have found that changing settings such as WiFi sleep, etc helps, and others have reverted back from Speedmod k13c to previous Speedmod kernels that they had better success on battery life with. I tried going back to k13a and didn't get much of a difference until Paragon's kernel was recommended to me. It may be something for you to try.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10640444&postcount=3

I used the default 1200mhz and my battery life is MUCH MUCH better! Just download it to your phone and flash the .zip via CWM. It should only take a few minutes to do. After that, give it a day or so to see how you improved.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ewingr:
1.) Quiet Notification 2.) Battery Life good

Notification Volume

I am on 3.12, and my notifications are so quite I cannot hear them most of the time. In settings/sound/volume, all are set to maximum. In Quick Settings/Volume Control, All are set to Maximum, and Use Ringer Volume for Notification sis not checked.

Could this be a kernel issue? Any ideas?

(by the way, I did the complete erase/flash to stock, etc, procedure to load this ROM. All else is working great for me).

Battery

The only way I can consistently check battery from one kernel to the next is based on no use. Otherwise, the use would vary for each test, and not be a realistic comparison.

I currently have Paragon's kernel, and for grins, have set it to 1400. My battery usage during the night last night with Wifi ON all night; Blue Tooth ON all night, and GPS On all night...it use 11% over 6 hours. That is 1.22% per hour.

The best I have gotten is .8252% per hour, but that was with GPS and Blue Tooth off, running GB's kernel wiht 1.2 GHz on the speed setting.

Both of those tests were ith KP1 modem.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayoubi:
I have 2 questions.

1. Will you remake the rom with the real source code of froyo?

2. My auto brightness does not work.

btw, I love your rom! keep up the great work, you're AMAZING.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
I'm guessing no. and try changing your brightness settings in cwr.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] white00gt:
hate to ask an off topic question but, this one is mainly for mikey or chance, do you guys know any developer that has a rom equal to serendipity for my wife's xperia x10a?

I updated hers to 2.1 using an official generic world rom just when everything seemed fine/stable now she has serious battery drain and no wifi it says cant start wifi

obviously I trust your judgment as far as a good rom developer for her phone any help is appreciated, thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChanceM:
Sorry I don't have any options for you. :(

ChanceM

Sent from a Serendipity Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyMike01:
No clue about any other phones beyond the SGS trio.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KonaZXIII:
I have a couple of questions for you guys-

1. Any idea why it would go into download mode while the screen is on even though I wasn't pushing any buttons at the time? I was innocently cruising around the phone prior to it entering DL mode on its own (I was looking right at the screen when it happened). I was not near the power menu (or recovery of any kind), or anything otherwise vital to the phone's operation when this event took place.

2. Do you have any idea how the clock font on the AOSP Android lock screen would change w/o purposely manipulating/modding it? The font is usually Android AOSP and it's never changed when I switched system fonts- ever. Just a note- the font is eerily similar to the Tohoma font that can be set on some Beautiful Widgets clocks. Also, none of the clocks on the other lock screens are affected, just the AOSP.

See pic:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steelcity:
I'm thinking about flashing the paragon kernel on Serendipity 5.12 to try to get better batter life

is any method preffered over the other, sgs kernel flasher vs clockworkmod recovery mode flash?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sebas.mf:
I flashed it using CWM also disable lagfix. Once finished you have to enbale lagfix again. Even though some earlier posts say that battery lasts more, for me it lasted like 2 hours more that speedmod kernel, its not that much.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steelcity:
so you're sayin to disable the lagfix before i do this, or the lagfix will be disabled after flashing?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sebas.mf:
In serendipity thread one post said that it is better to disable lagfix before changing kernel. Even though some people said that they did no disable it and everything worked great.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
I used the kernel flasher, but you can do it in recovery, too. Didn't disable lag fix, seems to work fine. As for 'only two more hours' I'll take those two hours.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethjamto:
I use the kernel flasher to go from Speedmod k13c to k13a, but then used CWM to go to Paragon's. Why? No reason...... I did, though, disable the lagfix prior to flashing just in case and then re-enabled it after flashing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] white00gt:
No problem figured it would be worth the try
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steelcity:
i disabled the lagfix just to be safe and then used CWM for paragon kernel it worked without issue

too early to tell but the battery seems like its going down pretty fast and nothing is even running

any recommendations for voltage settings, phone is going very fast but i want better battery
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevj:
Rejecting calls with text message

I read some posts earlier in this thread about not being able to reject calls with a text message...It works for me using messaging...kinda....the problem is that there are no pre-written messages...I have to compose the message on the fly...I went into Settings, Call Settings, All Calls, and tapped the 'Reject call with message' option, and I get a FC for process.com.sec.android.app.callsetting

I'm assuming that it is within that setting option that I should compose 'canned' rejection messages, as I haven't found the option elswhere.

Any thoughts???

Love this ROM, btw. Thanks for all the work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
No fc for me. I got 5 options:

I am driving

I am at the cinema

I am in class now

I am in meeting

Sorry, I am busy. Call back later
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevj:
Rebooted, still get FC....ugh

Hope I don't have to re-flash... :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meohman1:
I'm testing the Paragon 6 kernel with Serendipity 5.12 to see if I can get better battery life. I flashed the kernel with CWM. I was using Speedmod K13C.

I'll report back on my results.

Mike
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meohman1:
I did not disable lagfix and everything worked fine - I used CWM to flash to Paragon.

Mike
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
Prbly reflash the services.jar/phone.apk/settings/apk/callsettings.apk will fix it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevj:
Is there a guide somewhere that tells me how to do that? At my stage of development, flashing ROMs, and other mods that have been provided as zip files is one thing. Pulling specific apk's from within ROMS is another (especially if they are embedded within a JAR file). I did dig into the ROM zip a bit to see what I could find, but I'm no ROM chef.... :)

I did however find a CallSetting.apk in /system/app...is that the one I need? If so, can I just replace the file using a file manager?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joey_xda:
Are you guys able to charge to 100% ? With stock 2.1 i was able to reach 100% while plugging unplugging and plugging back in a few times but with Serendipity it goes no higher than 98% once unplugged. I have tried calibrating the battery and wiped batt stats. I have a separate battery charger thats says its fully charged but when i put it in the phone it still says 98%. My 2nd battery does the same thing. My son has a Samsung Intercept that does the same thing, no higher than 98% :confused:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
go back to 2.1 you want it so bad. samsung changed the way battery percentages display in 2.2
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joey_xda:
...just asking if anyone else is having the same problem. Someones cranky :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OBatRFan:
What kernels would everyone recommended using in Serendipity 5.12?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] white00gt:
I did the same I think the battery life is better than with k13c but don't think it makes much of a difference, btw I didn't disable anything (to much of a noob to know better) I have no issues only thing I notice but not sure if it is the kernal but while on k13c I had a better signal

EDIT: Did the turn phone into airplane mode thing and then re-boot as I saw suggested somewhere and signal strength appears to be back to normal
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethjamto:
There are several of us that have already made the shift to Paragon's kernel with much better battery life!

This has been discussed before, but the bottom line is that the ROM was built so that once that battery level reaches 100%, it stops charging. It will drain back to 98% and then re-charge again to 100% and repeat the cycle. This is done to prevent the phone from overcharging the battery and shortening it's lifespan. (at least this was my understanding of why it does this). My phone usually shows between 98-99% when I unplug. Just don't let it bother you. Those 2% of battery life does not really equate to THAT much time anyways.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KonaZXIII:
Any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethjamto:
A few updates back, before the add-on kitchen was available, we could see screenshots of the particular add ons such as the battery mods, etc. Now, with the kitchen, it only lists them out without pics. How do I know, other than constant flashing to check each one out, what they look like?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Hover over each one and you'll see a preview.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethjamto:
Duh! Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phrenicthenub:
Quick question, if I use the rom kitchen to add the RedRom theme, can I revert back to the stock Serendipity theme/look or would I have to reflash? (I've used it just once to add a battery mod).

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SSCaptivateNB:
Navigation Keys stay lit

Kind of a nb, so hope you can be patient. I flashed this ROM without issue, but I noticed that the navigation keys on the phone stay lit when the screen shuts off. Is there a way to fix this? I'm sure it's eating up battery life.

I searched and found the same thing happening on other phones, but could find a thread on this one.

Samsung SGH I-897

Firmware 2.2.1

Based Version I9000UGJK4

Kernal 2.6.32.9

Buld Serendipity 5.12
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SSCaptivateNB:
NM, found the answer in post 67 and 69
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
Nope and nope. :confused:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eelall:
No need to reflash. Chance has the stock theme zip on the same page a the RedRom theme.

Edit: it says REVERT on the Serendipity theme page
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SSCaptivateNB:
Bootanimation

Does Serendipity support boot animations?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trell959:
Yes it does
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simple man:
I'm running Setendipity 5.12 (excellent Rom) didn't have adds after flashing, decided to run an app called (Andguard w/ip tables for root users) I purchased while on rooted stock rom (host/ad blocker/ firewall) app but then thought I read somewhere that Serendipity was hardened against threats, so not too have an extra app running I disabled Andgaurd, when I did the adds showed up that were never there after flashing Serendipty. Another thing is I can't download files from the internet such as podcasts or stuff on the Serendipity website that I could while running Cognition. I flashed to stock w/Odin master cleared before coming to Serendipty, have had no other problems , So I think I probably created this one myself by enabling Andgaurd w/ip tables then changing my mind, thinking it may have disabled security settings that came on the rom. So should I disable lagfix, flash back to stock, master clear, or just reflash Serendipty through CWM? Once again No problems with Serendipity, just trying to fix the mess I made. Thanks in advance!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .Candy:
Yes, Andguard probably destroyed the hosts file when you disabled it and other things.

You should one-click back with Odin, but honestly, all you need to do is put the Serendipity_5.12.zip on your internal SD, reboot into Clockwork, go to Mounts & Storage, and format system, data, and cache.

Then just flash the Serendipity_5.12.zip from CWM. That would avoid the trouble of Odin.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simple man:
I was afraid of that, as new as I am to this it might be easiest for me to just go back to stock/master clear then reflash, it would probably be good practice anyways LOL, not sure if I would know how to do the remount thing, thanks so much for your help!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .Candy:
It's easy, all of the options are in the same place as the "flash zip from sdcard" and stuff in CWM. But yes, it's good practice to Odin before every flash. Even I did it!

I just don't really care anymore though, because I just got the HTC Inspire 4G, and we have nothing like Odin, so we're forced to format using CWM before every flash...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simple man:
Cool, that's a good phone, can you believe my 70 year old Dad got one, I've been setting it up for him, it's a nice phone.Once again thanks for your help I won't be able to reflash

Til Monday, but glad to know that's what caused problem, hopefully I'll be able to download files again after reflash. Thanks soo much!:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SSCaptivateNB:
I watched the tut on doing this, but it warned to make suure the boot Works with ur rom.

1. Is there somewhere I can find what works & doesnt with Serendipity?

2. I like the SS captivate stock splash screen animation and wanted to install it, but wanted to mod it to fit the serendipity theme. How can I go about doing this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon.groves:
FYI- the reject callers list does not seem to reject callers

Sent from Captivate with Serendipity 5.12 and Paragon 1300
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edtonn:
Messaging Bugs

Just flashed Serendipity 5.12 last night (first ROM flash...finally!), and I used the add-on kitchen to install the Samsung messaging app. Backed up texts using SMS Backup & Restore app while I was still on the Serendipity messaging client. Now (n Samsung messaging) text threads disappear after I click on them. Any ideas why?

Also, does anyone have the Serendipity messaging client .apk so I can re-replace the Samsung one? Oh, and thanks, MikeyMike! ROM is soo fast!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nate360:
Vibrate

Could you help with the vibrate on Serendipity 5.12 it doesnt work when i recieve text messages :mad: because i really love this rom and dont wanna switch to another one Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demonblod:
I'm pretty sure I bricked my phone. All my phone does is go into Clockworkmod recovery (which is kind of odd, and helpful at the same time), but nothing else. I was trying to restore the stock OS for a reason i cant even remember, and it bricked.

Not really a big deal, I thought. Just go into download mode, or restore Serendipity. Can't get into download mode (trying to use a jig atm, but that takes hours)

I tried to restore something...ANYTHING, but it seems that all my system.img files were deleted from the backups. I really have no idea how this happened.

Can someone backup their rom and send me just the system.img file please? When I try to restore it, the action says cannot find system.img skipping system restore
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KonaZXIII:
I have it zipped up. The forum won't let me upload it though.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demonblod:
send it to ratchetmaster2@gmail.com please
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KonaZXIII:
Gmail won't take the file size. I shot you an email. I'm uploading it now...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KonaZXIII:
This is an untouched (zipped) copy of system.img from my CWM backup done yesterday.

It's

not

flashable using CWM Recovery.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=50MOGGZ8
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChanceM:
Did you enable it in call settings?

ChanceM

Sent from a Serendipity Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OBatRFan:
Is it just me or is there no stopwatch in the clock app?