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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zesty01:
Problem with Home Key

This rom is great, but i am only having one issue with it that i couldnt resolve by searching for the forums. and that is after installing this ROM the home button will not work. it will blink when pressed but nothing else. no vibration,no actions.

is there anything i can do to fix this?

Rom is Serendipity VII Build 2 with the 3.0 Kernel provided from the website

please forgive me in advance if im just being a complete noob.

i currently also own an HTC Inspire 4G and have been flashing left and right on that, but this thing seems like its a whole 'nother beast :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halfsoul:
I believe this is a symptom of a mismatched kernel -- like maybe you're trying to use the 3.0 kernel but your phone is an I9000. Or maybe you think you're on the 3.0 kernel but you're actually on the initial I9000 kernel from the first Odin flash. I suggest double-checking the "about phone" to make sure you're matched with your hardware.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Allockse:
Zesty, have you tried re-installing the Rom? I ran into the issue early on when I first installed Serendipity VII, a quick reflash fixed it no problem.

I am banging my head against the wall trying to get shutdown animations to work. I was able to do it no problem on Froyo, but GB is a different monster as is evident with bootanimation changing to sanim. I've tried several CWM zips, including manually adding .png and .cfg files respectively, all to no avail. I freshly installed SVII this morning and have the same results. It seems as if the system shutdown command is calling the flyout window during shutdown, and simply ignoring anything I put into /system/media/video/shutdown

Anyone here have success with shutdown animations on SVII? Any advice our suggestions are most appreciated.

On a side note, this is by far my favorite ROM. Keep up the AMAZING work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RTBee:
Hey Man, thanks for the tip! I used the adb method to reboot, but used 'adb reboot recovery' instead of 'adb reboot download'. The download mode put me into the yellow triangle download screen and just froze there. When I tried the recovery mode instead it put me into the reboot screens allowing me to restore a backup which I had made before all this happened. Everything's good now, thanks for you help!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zesty01:
thankyou for the quick response. i will definitely try that and post my results in a few days
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marego1:
I haven't tried that, but will give it a shot.

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rozyman17:
does anyone know if SetCpu would be any benefit to extend the already great battery life on S7 Build 2?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigblue95z:
Zesty, what guide are you using for flashing the Inspire4g? I used attn1's guide. Is there a better one? My girlfriend was jealous of my Serendipity 7 so I got her CoreDroid and she really likes it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Allockse:
Rozy,

I've had success using SetCPU to extend battery life, through setting up situational profiles, as well as modifying the stock Advanced settings options.

I've uploaded my setup in a few pictures here, but take anything you see with a grain of salt, as my settings and usage won't necessarily reflect yours. You can monitor CPU frequency over time to see what state your phone is typically in, and modify accordingly. I suggest playing around with it until you find something that works for you.

Good luck.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rozyman17:
I appreciate it. I was having trouble waking from sleep if I set it to anything below 400. I will give it a try though. Thanks again!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Allockse:
Using the On Demand profile for all of your conditions, you shouldn't run into problems coming out of sleep. However if it takes a little longer than you like, try lowering the sampling rate slightly until you find it more responsive. The drawback is that SetCPU checks for frequency changes more often and draws slightly more power.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cappysw10:
So how does that extend battery life? :confused:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Allockse:
Slightly adjusting the sampling rate in comparison to enabling the profiles in SetCPU won't make a drastic difference to the net gain in battery life. Although if you'd rather sacrifice more performance for power, raise the Powersave Bias up slightly until you're happy with the results. Testing, testing, and more testing are really the only guaranteed ways to find something that will consistently work well for you.

Good Luck with it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] usSiR:
I was having trouble with the modem on the 3.0 kernal.

It only gave me "G" or CDMA, no Edge or anything higher, what a horrible day at work, lol

So I went back to the older modem that was on 6.4 the JK4 version, now I have HSDPA "H" back, and the one that originaly came with v7 wasn't quite the best as far as reception, so people on the other end of a call would say.

Found modem file here and used recovery mode to flash, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=876391

My phone, service and location, if it matters

I897, AT&T, Northern UT

Also, in the later versions of 6.x with the rotary unlock, if you rotated it to the left it turned off all sounds and vibrations. That would be a good thing to bring back some how if possible imo

Thanks for the great ROM! :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] usSiR:
Oh, and I did a speed test with the JK4 and this it what it gave me

down; 2.3Mbps Up;1.35Mbps

Compared to the original modem on v7

2.36Mbps down, and 1.33Mbps Up

Both seem to be about the same

and CDMA was .04 both ways, lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clivesay:
I am running S7 with 3.0 kernel and so far jk4 has worked best for me. I am in Indiana.

I still have terrible reception in my home but just learned that AT&T only has towers on the east end of my town and of course I live on the west! :mad: When I am out and about, my reception has been as good as it's ever been.

Hope this helps some in my area.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
thanks, jk4 is good here in southern ohio as well.

is there a map, or a website dedicated to these modems and where they've been documented to work well at? if not there should be.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Hear, hear!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
Impossible. You could have 2 phones with the exact same set up side by side, and get different results, it's not ONLY based on area it's based in the phone itself also.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
yes but if enough people contributed their results it would still be usefull.

if 100 people said they tried the jk4 modem in ohio and 75 of those were good results, chances are that the jk4 would be a good bet in ohio.:D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arctic_cat_man1:
Serendipity 7 voice issue

I just installed Serendipity 7 Build 2 this morning, with serendipity #3.0 kernel and the I9000TUBJV6 modem. I believe that's right?!?!?!? I was previously running Serendipity 6.4 flawlessly. Now everything works awesome except when I talk to people they say that I sound all muffled like i'm talking thru a paper bag or have my hand over the phone, doesn't matter how far i hold the phone away or right next to my head. they can barely make out what i'm saying. :confused: Any ideas on how to fix it???? :confused:

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
wow....you should read before you post. we were just talking about this.

try flashing a new modem. specifically the jk4 modem. Its a good place to start.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arctic_cat_man1:
I was reading the previous posts, didn't know if they referred to my problem, i put the jk4 in and it seems to be better. Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
Swype 3 Beta

Anyone get Swype 3 Beta on Serendipity 6.4 or 7?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marego1:
No doesn't work with google voice search.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmohrsaz:
Has anyone else experienced an issue where in the middle of writing a text or using the dialer it "minimizes" back to the home screen? I get this about 10 times a day or so and it feels like its starting to happen more frequently.

If it helps any... When I flashed the ROM I did a complete wipe of the phone and did not attempt to restore anything.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wahbob:
Wallpaper

First off great ROM. Good work.

Question--> Is there a way to put pics or wallpaper in the stock (well the one that comes with S7)wallpaper picker?

Thanks in advance
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danielpowell0203:
Unable to enter recovery

I am no stranger to flashing roms, however SVII is giving me some problems. I am unable to actually enter recovery mode after following up to step 13 on serendipity7 .weebly . com/ download where the files are downloaded.

To my understanding im now running 2.3.3 with no root therefore CWM cannot enter recovery mode.

if i followed exactly what the website said, where did i go wrong?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChanceM:
yes, de-compile and add resources and images.

ChanceM
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unicyclingEMT:
Messaging question

I love this rom and have been using it regularly with no problem. I do have a quick question about a setting that seems to have disappeared friom the Messaging app. On other roms, there is a setting under the Messaging -> Settings that lets you enter the number to use for retreiving messages. Don't have it in front of me right now so I don't know what it is called but I do know that it exists in the stock rom and in Continuum as well. My phone is working fine without having to enter that value but I do know that without it, sending SMS failed in Continuum. Just wondering where it disappeared or moved to.

Thanks,

SG
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unicyclingEMT:
Uninstall Swype

Is there a way to uninstall swype so that i can download and install the latest swype beta? Alternatively, are there plans to incorporate the latest swype into the rom?

Thanks,

SG
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
this was discussed heavily in the developers forum. and yes there is. I used titanium backup to get rid of mine. Make sure you reboot after you uninstall it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
yes, it works fine on s7. uninstall the one that s on there and put the beta on.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Power button and UP to enter recovery as it says in Step 14 (or use ADB) - worked for me.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZionExpress:
Good to hear that worked for you! Download mode would have let you use odin to restore your phone to stock 2.1. The triangle screen would stay there until you restored the phone, otherwise you would have to pop the battery out to get it out of download mode (AFAIK). I must have misunderstood your original post, good to know that recovery mode did the trick for you.

There are a ton of other ADB commands that you can use to manage your phone and i'm still pretty new at this but i'm gonna try to learn as much as i can about it all. Here are some good links for getting started with ADB if you want to keep going..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=517874

http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/187820-how-adb-commands.html

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html

Of course, always be careful around a command prompt, the right letter in the wrong place can cause major headaches!;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] startngate:
I have used both JK4 and JL2 in Columbus, OH. Both worked much better than the stock modem. Am sticking with JL2 at the moment.

98 more to go ... ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RTBee:
Thanks for the info, I'm getting more and more confident fiddling around now with my Captivate. There always seems to be a way to get it back from an apparent brick. These forums are a great source of info.

Any thoughts on the best kernel to flash? I was thinking the lastest Speedmod...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
how about the serendipity kernal number 4, which was just posted a few hours ago on the developer thread.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xx-Ness-xX:
Screen won't wake up

I've been using Serendipity VII Build 2 for about a week now, and today when I tried to wake up my phone by pressing the power button, but the screen would just remain black. I knew the phone did not randomly shut off because I could still hear the text notification alerts and etc. I tried connecting the phone to the charger see if the screen would wake up, but no dice. I had to either battery pull or do adb reboot to make the phone wake up

Has anyone experienced this bug? If so do you have a way to fix it? I don't know how to re-produce this bug yet, it sort of just happened randomly today. I'll keep you guys updated once I found more info
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OldmanInterwebs:
I tried this rom out a few days back. Really liked it but had some strange problems with it. After the install my boot screen prior to saying Serendipity was mostly static pixels. Same thing with the camera at first. My captivate is new. Of course in going back to stock I managed to soft brick it but with some careful searching in the forums found everything I needed to recover it.

So my question. Is this staticy screen a common issue or likely something I did wrong when I flashed it? I know I know I should have a logcat file but I didn't have that installed then like I do now. Perhaps I will try again soon and if this issue comes back I will post a logcat file. Anyway great Rom when it was stable for me and I'm sure I will be trying it again once I gain a little more confidence.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
Have you flashed the gingerbread bootloaders?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranick01:
My phone freaked out on me this morning.

Flashed kernel 4 yesterday and it ran great all day. Awesome battery life. This morning after my alarm went off the phone rebooted. After the S VII screen it remained black for about 15 seconds and then went to the lock screen. Also all of my google account info was wiped.

The next time I checked my phone the status bar indicated my phone was charging and the USB cord was plugged in. I also lost about 8% of my battery in a few minutes. I pulled the battery and restarted. Havent had any issues since then. It was odd.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wahbob:
Go sms Pro

Anyone using this with SVII? Im having problems with contact pics not showing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 10iron:
Loosing recovery

When I upgraded from Serendipity 6.4 to version 7 I was no longer to get to the recovery mode. I tried adb method and the normal 3 and 1 button methods quit working. Yes I've tried up/pwr, dwn/pwr and both/pwr. I went back to Eclair today and everything worked fine including 3 buttom method for entering recovery mode. After rooting, installing clockwork recovery, I installed Serendipity 7 , No 1. The rom works fine but I can't get into the recovery mode again. I've tried all suggested methods. What it normally would be going into recovery, the screen is dark and nothing happens. I can pwr up to use the phone afterwards. Without recovery I can't get version 2 which might have corrected the problem. Any suggestion? Thanks in advance.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
Flash stock I9000 gb then serendipity 7
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Born2BeMild:
If I wanted to go back to Serendipity 6.4 do I just follow the instructions on the 6.4 site?

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
Yes, the first step is using odin one click. Resets it back to out of the box like.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
I'm pretty certain you can run Serendipity on the Gingerbread bootloaders. No need to return to stock unless you want to.

Sent from a state of Serendipity
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 440hsp:
Hey guys. Im a nood to the forums. First,i wanted to list the issues ive had. My 3 button does not work I cant get into dowload mode or recovery. I also tried installing sdk to get to dm and nothing worked. I even tried watching a video on it but I got nowhere. I have flashed cog4.5.3,and I am on serendipity 6.4 right now. I downloaded serendipity VII and went install the gb bootloaders from odin and during the middle of the process it my phone quit showing download mode and it went black. I unplugged the phone after a while and finally got my phone back to stock eclair with odin. Now I wanna try serendipity VII. Question is should I use odin with 3button fix first so ill have download mode again and recovery before I try and flash the gb bootloaders?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
As long as it's BEFORE the gb bootloaders it won't hurt anything. once successfully flashed the button combos for the new boot loaders are vol down + power = download vol up + power = recovery.

DO NOT FLASH THE 3 BUTTON FIX ONCE YOU HAVE GINGERBREAD BOOTLOADERS OR YOU WILL HARD BRICK YOUR DEVICE.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 440hsp:
will definitely try this then. thank you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] damaged prawdukt:
Hey guys,

I am running serendipity 7...

I stupidly installed a battery mod from firefly...clicked the wrong zip, now i am stuck in an endless boot loop. I can get into recovery. Is this fixable? by like installing the original battery via clockwork? anyone have the zip file or know where i can find it?

I stupidly have not backed up my phone in a while and dont want to reinstall S7 and have to whipe it :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
you still have S7 zip? if so go into /system/framework with 7zip and grab the framework-res.apk put that in the battery zip you flashed(overwriting what was in there) and flash that. bingo bango your good to go
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] damaged prawdukt:
wicked thanks..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Liferules:
Samsung Clock?

I'm a fan of the Samsung clock with the smart alarm, etc... I'm on S7 and like the clock but doesn't have stopwatch, timer, etc... I've tried installing the "ClockPackage" which I believe is the Samsung clock, but keep getting the message "Application not installed". Any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
You have to use a root file explorer and drop the apk in system/app then reboot. It's a system app not a user app.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phush:
If you go to the Serendipity site you can download the clock package zip and flash it in CWM. That's what I did, easy as pie.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RTBee:
USB to HDMI

Anyone know anything about usb output to hdmi on the Captivate? Wanting to switch to S7 and wondered if that were possible with a 2.3 based ROM. Haven't read anything about it lately, and didn't know if someone had come up with anything.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhho1:
MMS does not attach picture

Hi,

I updated to Serendipity VII (thanks Mike) and I was trying to send a picture to myself and upload to Craigslist about my old TVs left on the curb. The upload picture to craigslist from my captivate did not work so I tried to send the picture to my yahoo email and the message did not have the picture attached. What did I do wrong?

Thx.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fxstsb:
Uh oh

Well I've done it now. Was using Serandipity 6.4 and decided to go to 7. Well after I did it I found a couple of anomolies. One was my root was gone. Well anyway I tried to add what I believe was a rooted Kernal. Put the Kernal in the PDA line of Odin. That's it now all I see is the download triangle. Also it will only loop on and off. Looking at it now, Triangle. Ans long as the triangle is visible, the USB does not connect. When the triangle is gone and it loops, periodically I see a Comm 9 on Odin. Any suggestions on hoe to get back to something I can deal with? Thanks. (Captivate)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halfsoul:
Get into download mode (Usb jig if needed), then follow the serendipity 7 instructions from start to finish.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] milhouse03:
I'm a noob and need some help. My swype stopped working. I've read the thread on the S7 ROM page and found these instructions:

this, my friend , is the drill

1. uninstall current swype with TiBu

2. delete libswypecore.so from system/lib with rootexplorer

3. extract content from swype.apk with rootexplorer and get the libswypecore.so from lib/armeabi and paste it in system/lib

4. copy the swype.apk to system/app

5. reboot device

I have TiBu, but not rootexplorer. I do have ES File Explorer and tried to use the root options in settings. However, I can't find the system/lib folder or system/app.

Can someone help? Thanks!

Edit: I was able to find the beta version of 3, uninstalled swype and then installed the beta. All working now.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lzpnsx:
Voice issue on Serendipity VII. Please help

I upgraded from 6.4 to 7.2 this morning. I followed the instructions to the letter and did not encounter any errors along the way. My device was working fine. I made and received calls, sent and received texts, and used several apps. I did not restore any apps or data from the 6.4 version. Now, the phone is not working. When someone calls, it goes to vm. When I try to make a call, it says dialing and eventually closes the dialing screen. I rebooted and that did not fix the issue. We have other AT&T devices that are working here so, it is not a provider problem. All other functions (texts, data) of the device are working. Any thoughts?

Paul
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
Try flashing a new modem. I switched to the jk4 modem shortly after going to s7 and it fixed alot of issues I was having.

Sent from my extremely awesome Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lzpnsx:
Can you share how to flash a new modem here or point me to the thread where instructions have already been posted? I am fairly new to this sort of thing and appreciate the help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fxstsb:
Ordered the jig. Good price little effort. It will be interesting to see how that will stop the looping. When I got the download triangle it just set there. I also will go back and do the step by step as you reccomended.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
The modems can be found here with lots of information - read carefully the first post, then through the thread, to really learn.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waldo98:
I would suggest playing around with a few modems. The modem that came with S7 (jv6) didn't do well in Southern California. I've used jk4, jq1 and jvk and so far I like jq1 the best. Maybe I'll play around with more modems in the future but jq1 fits my needs (good signal in majority of places where I'm at, gps locks within a few seconds and is good with battery life.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SR4:
I installed Serendipity VII about two weeks ago and have been having some problems with it. I started out with Build #1 and have updated to build #2 and kernel #4 as of a few days ago. Also, I've installed four or five different modems.

The problem is that when I'm on the phone for an extended amount of time, the person on the other end of the phone can no longer hear me even though I can hear them. I always have plenty of signal as well. I fix this problem of not hearing them by turning on the speaker phone. If I switch to speaker, I can hear them and they can hear me. I can also then switch back to the ear piece and we can both hear each other again. Has anyone else had this problem? Any solutions to this? It's quite frustrating to frantically try to switch the speaker phone on before the person on the other end of the line hangs up thinking the call dropped.

Thanks in advance.