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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gwishin:
Hello

I Have a samsung captivate and got the Serenpidity 6.4 version... I was always checking a new version on the official serenpidity website... but noticed that there was a new website for the SERENPIDITY VII ...

So i would like to know how to upgrade to gingberbread VII

Is that correct to put the install file of VII in the root of the SD card and then from the captivate Serenpidity 6.4 version to flash it with the download mode?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
No, that won't work. Here's the link with instructions.

FOLLOW THEM EXACTLY. DON'T SKIP ANYTHING OR LEAVE ANYTHING OUT OR ADD ANYTHING OF YOUR OWN.

http://serendipity7.weebly.com/download.html
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oracle46:
1st Time Flashing Questions....

Hello,

Hope I'm asking this in the right place. I have had a Captivate for a while, it's rooted with OCLF, Titanium Backup and Bloat Freezer installed and I'm thinking of trying Serendipity. I have tested getting into both download mode as well as recovery mode and am able to.

Before I flash I'm going to disable OCLF but other then that is there anything else I should do besides following the instructions on the download page?

Thanx in advance...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
No, nothing else you need to do.

Sent from my I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fireboss:
Okay, probably a silly question but I haven't seen it directly addressed and when I've assumed things in the past I screwed up so...

I'm running Cognition 5V2 installed using Odin 1.8, Fugu (whatever that is I just followed instruction) CWM from SD card. It's swallowing battery pretty quickly and your ROM was recommended.

The question: Since I have CWM on this can I just put the zip file on the sd card and flash SERENDIPITY VII or do I need to step back to some other starting point?

SGH-I897

2.3.3

I897UCKF1

Kernel 2.6.35.7-UCKF1-CL273832

Thanks in advance for your work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
I suggest following all the instructions on the download page, but just flashing in recovery would work, except you would have AT&T bootloaders so the stock music player wouldn't work.

Sent from my I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fireboss:
Installed S7 last night and have a couple of issues/questions. My notification bar crashes as soon as I unlock after boot. It tries again crashes again them is gone. I thought it might be a theme problem so I flashed the blue medley theme from you site but that didn't fix it. Ideas?

I've used Andromeda 3 and Cognition before and always had somewhere to control phone light going off during my call. Can't seem to find that on this Rom.

Bluetooth has to be manually connected even if already paired, I am used to it connecting to the headset - actually my hearing aids - as soon as I turn on my bluetooth device as long as BT was turned on. Is that adjustable somewhere?

Can't really judge batter because I putzed with it all morning to get the BT working and looking for the notification bar but after 7 1/2 hours and about a dozen games of solitaire at the doctor's office I was @ 14%. It says that 63% of that was display and 8% the game , is there a setting I'm missing somewhere that might help extend that?

Thanks for your help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calpiyuki:
Please help

I just installed Serendipity 6.4 and it's my first time flashing a rom. Everything is working correctly except the four touch buttons of my Samsung captivate. Whenever I lock the screen, the four touch buttons would continue lighting up. How can I fix this issue?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
That's a feature, it's called backlight notification. There's an app in the market called something like BLN Control that you can set it with. It isn't a battery hog, if that's what you're worried about, it tells you that you have active notifications.

Sent from a state of Serendipity
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtsnhatl:
Just installed Serendipity 7, phone will not download any apps from market. Also won't let me download from Serendipity add on page.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boazjuggalo:
I flashed a virgin captivate to Serenity VII last night. Every since I can't connect to the ATT Network.

I have tried Settings > Wireless and network > Mobile Networks, and Network Mode is in auto mode and Network operators pops up a "Unable to search networks during data service activated. Do you want to disconnect the data service and search available network?" When I click OK, it searches and adds ATT to the list but when i click it it tries to register and pops back a "Unable to select network. Select Automatically" and just goes back to the last screen.

Any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boazjuggalo:
Resolved. I was using a i9000 modem on an i897 phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joecascio2000:
Uhh...if you have Svii installed you should be using an i9000 modem. Svii is an i9000 ROM, therefor you need an i9000 modem.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
It may just be that modem wasn't right for your area. I can't use the modem in SVII, I have to switch back to the one that came in S6.4, I9000UGJK4 (as you can see, boazjuggalo, that's an I9000 modem).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calpiyuki:
Thank you for the reply reinbeau.

Now I want to flash Serendipity 7. Can I just jump from 6.4 to 7.0? And where can I download the rom itself? Is it this one? Serendipity_VII_Kernel_4.1.zip - [Click for QR Code] (7.47 MB, 2829 views)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
No and no.

Follow these directions to a t and you'll be fine.

http://serendipity7.weebly.com/download.html

Sent from my extremely awesome Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
What he said ;) The directions are simple, follow them and you'll be running Serendipity VII in no time.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J0386:
I just Reflashed my phone from cog. to serendipity everything is running great sofar except for when ever i get phone calls it will do a half of ring then the android.com.phone would crash will i have to reflash maybe somthing got damaged in the flash? using 6.4 btw and if i do have to flash could i use AIO Captivate Toolbox with out any problems?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halfsoul:
First thing I would try is to clear Cache, Dalvik Cache, and Fix Permissions in CWM.

If that doesn't work, flash back to stock 2.1 w/o bootloaders, then re-install Serendipity.

Never used AIO Toolbox, can't help with that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seyaru:
hi this is a very nice rom but sry for this question how i can edit screens in the launcher i dont use all thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NinjaGangster:
captivate force close

tw crushlauncher force closing on startup over and over and over cant do a F*$%^*g thing please help....I am Rooted and I do Love my Phone.......HELP PLEASE!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J0386:
Tried to clear cache and change permissions did no good so im going to flash it with what u said hope it works
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZionExpress:
First of all, i LOVE this ROM. I've only had my captivate for a few months but i've flashed 8-10 different ROMs in my search for one that is just right for me and i always end up coming back to serendipity. I'm currently running S 6.4 and i only have a couple complaints.

First, after a fresh flash the phone runs GREAT but over the course of a week or so i begin to notice significant slowdown. I've noticed the same thing with other ROMS so maybe this is more of a general android/captivate issue. Serendipity HAS been more resilient to the creeping slowness but i'm beginning to notice a good deal of lag when switching applications or navigating menus.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any hints or tips? I've cleared the dalvik cache and that seemed to help a little, are there other things i could try?

Second, i have a problem with Google+ notifications. Sometimes i dont get huddle notifications until 30-40 minutes after the post. I can even be posting to the huddle myself and see it send and then i get a ton of notifications a few minutes later and it looks as if i missed half the conversation. I didnt have this issue with other ROMs and i've tried reinstalling google+ but that didnt help. Also, the notification sound does weird things. If the app is closed and i get a notification it will work OK, the second notification in say, 5 minutes, will make a small chirp instead of the full sound, the next notification after that is another chirp or completely silent. I tend to be in good service areas with BG data enabled and other notifications seem to work just fine.

Anyone else notice the same thing?

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seyaru:
hi i use this rom some days and all work fine but the mobile data dont change of 2g ever are in this y move all but dont change if i test other rom 3g work again without problem.

sry for my english
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] white00gt:
Did it thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex209Cali:
Hey does anyone know what Serendipity 5.12's kernel running on ?The one that comes pre installed with it?

Edit : Having bad battery drain with K13C
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethjamto:
I was having the same thing! I was upgraded to k13c a couple days ago and realized the my battery was draining REAL fast! I just reinstalled k13a a little bit ago. I'll see come tomorrow how the drain is.

I believe 5.12 comes with whatever was the most current kernel at the time 5.0 was built. I don't think they upgrade the kernel each time until we see a 6.0.

I have read several people having battery drains on k13c too, so its not just us!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ewingr:
Calendar Search-> Not work, or them hide answers?

I didn't get any input onthis in the other thread.I guess it needs to be here.

When I do a search in calendar, it clears and brings up just a black screen. I don't know if calendar is broken, or if it is working but showing black on black.

Anyone else tried the calendar search, have different results?

I was thinking about trying to install unthemed calendar, but I'm not sure of the correct process to do that. I don't see any APKs for it around.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethjamto:
I just checked mine (5.12) and can see everything just fine....you may have a minor problem then. Have you tried reflashing the ROM to see if that fixes it? Are you on 5.12?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
He must be using a theme and the colors not going well with calender.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ewingr:
Thanks for checking.

I have not reflashed yet. Wanted to see if anyone else is having same issue. One thing when I flashed this one, I've seen so many people say "You don't need to flash to stock", etc., that I did not do that this time. i have typically gone through that whole clear everything scenario just to be sure. Maybe I should revert back to that.

To next poster...no, I have no themes applied. Stock 5.11. Have not put 5.12 update on yet.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grump642:
I believe he updates the kernel in the full 5.12 Rom, but leaves it out of the smaller upgrade, 5.11-5.12 file.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .Candy:
Correct. 10char
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pubbles:
Flashed serendipity the other day and am loving it, except I only noticed today that I no longer have access to my data -- 3g / hspa.

Any ideas why? (I do have data enabled, checked all of that)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChanceM:
check your apn settings?

ChanceM
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Where is the setting to keep the screen on when docked? Never sleep when charging is what it's called, I think. I woke up this morning and the top third of my screen was going nuts, and the power menu wouldn't work (haven't touched that yet) and I had to pull the battery to reboot, the only thing I changed was check that box, and now I can't find it :o
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .Candy:
Same place as enabling USB Development. Settings > Applications > Development > Stay awake.

Either that or Settings > Display > Screen timeout.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Thank you, it is under USB/etc, but it is not under display.

Great, now I've got more problems. I have no power menu. I didn't flash or do anything other than to have that strange corruption happen last night as it was sitting on the dock charging. How do I get my power menu back?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .Candy:
Have you been able to restart it since you lost the power menu? Try pulling the battery and turning the phone back on, then see if the power menu comes back.

Do you have any framework-res.apk or twframework-res.apk edits? Like, do you have any themes installed? If not, then you can try to replace your framework-res.apk and twframework-res.apk with the ones that I just extracted from my Serendipity 5.12. Just be sure that you're on 5.12 too, otherwise you may run into issues.

If you have any themes, you'd have to re-apply them after you try this fix.

An alternative; you could simply go to the add-ons section of the Serendipity website and download some sort of framework-res.apk edit (a battery mod, for example) and apply that with CWM.

BTW, I'm assuming you already know how to replace your framework-res.apk without having a flashable ZIP.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KonaZXIII:
Thanks for the great ROM gents!

The only thing missing is the extended power menu with colored icons (to match colored settings). ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Thank you very much for the help. I would use Root Explorer to replace them, right? And then reboot? I already did the battery pull to stop the corruption I was seeing (the top third of my screen was gone, black, with all kinds of swirling pixelations, I've never seen anything like it before).

I have done some modifications, but that was yesterday, all was fine then. Overnight I left the phone on the dock charging, when I got up this morning it was frozen with that screen-saving clock showing, but not moving, so I knew something was wrong. That's when I had pulled the battery, the power menu wouldn't work.

I can't use the kitchen, because I can't get into recovery, or can I?

This may be my ADB learning moment finally. How would I do this via ADB? I've pulled the battery to shut the phone off.....so give me the commands and I will make it so :) (pretty please, of course!)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .Candy:
Yes, indeed you can (:

Although... this is seeming more of a services.jar issue now. Pixelation is a little weird...

But nonetheless, we can try this first!

Okay, so your computer won't see the phone while it's off, so you're going to have to turn it back on. It's okay if it's unusable, you don't need to touch it to use adb :p

Once the phone is powered back on and your computer sees it, open up the command prompt (or terminal if you're using Mac OS X or Linux), change to the directory that contains adb (cd /directory/containing/android-sdk/platform-tools). Now type "adb reboot recovery". That's it!

ADB is very simple to use. The command I use most is just "adb reboot download", which gets you into Download mode. You can just type "adb" without any parameters either to see a list of most of the commands that you'd ever want to know.

Oh and yeah, you can use Root Explorer to replace framework-res.apk and twframework-res.apk.

Also, if this doesn't work, you could try replacing services.jar. Tell me whether the above works or not and if not, I'll upload my services.jar (I haven't done any edits to mine). If that doesn't work, well then... I'd have to recommend a re-flash :( I hope you have a TiBu backup?

Edit: Seeing as you've never used ADB before, I can't be certain if you've updated your SDK. Once you installed the SDK and opened it for the first time, you should have been asked to update certain things like downloading the 2.2 SDK, 2.1 SDK, etc. If you haven't opened the Android SDK before to update it, you need to do that, otherwise the platform-tools directory containing adb won't exist!

And a trick to anyone reading: if you want to access adb without having to cd to the directory every time, you can edit your PATH variable (this is for Windows Vista/7; you can do it in Ubuntu and Mac OS X too, but it's done differently). To do this, right click on Computer in the start menu and click Properties. In the left, click Advanced... it should be the bottom option in the top list of options (hopefully that makes sense ;)). In that window, click on System Variables (I believe that's what it's labeled... it's the bottom button). Then scroll through the second list and find PATH. Select that and click Edit... and put a semicolon ( ; ) at the end of text that's in the window. After the semicolon, type the path to your platform-tools directory, which is contained in the Android SDK directory. For example: C:\Android_SDK\platform-tools\

Close and re-open the command prompt, and you can now use "adb ..." anywhere in Windows! Ask if you have any questions ;)

Edit #2: Out until around 5PM [EST]. Sorry if I take a while to reply... but like I said, if none of the things I mentioned above work, I'd just go with a re-flash. Or you could try going on the Serendipity IRC and talking to Mike. He's usually quite knowledgable about his ROM ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethjamto:
I have been having battery problems after my upgrade to the k13c modem, so I just reverted back to 13a. I have noticed those that under About Phone>Battery Use>Cell Standby that my time without signal is averaging around 50%. I feel as though I ALWAYS have a signal at home....but who knows. It was recommended that I try a different modem. I did turn Flight Mode off for several minutes, as it was suggested that this could reset things....it didn't work at all. Still 50%...

First - any recommended modems that are compatible with Serendipity? I know modems can vary by area, but I will try several as long as they are known to be good with this ROM.

Second - to flash a new modem...do I just download the modem and flash the .zip through CWM? Any other steps?

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .Candy:
Okay, last post before I leave :p

First - I use KP1, but JL2, JL3, JK3, and JK4 (I believe those are the ones) are the ones that are known to work well. Some of them have issues though (either JL2 or JL3 can't go into Airplane Mode... can't remember which one).

Second - Yes. No other steps :)

Download your modems from this post.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
It might be the modem isn't right for your area. Try posting in the modem thread and see if someone can suggest a better one for your area - and your English is fine! :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seyaru:
thanks for the answer, i change the modem for I9000UGJL2 and work very nice :) now this is my 3G connection
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seyaru:
hi here again have some help with this i have low volume in calls in my headset but music work very fine and i cant answer and end calls with my original headset button i use the original samsung headset
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rydis:
Ok, so I am looking to flash my first ROM. I originally was looking at Adromeda, but seems the thread got locked a while back and I dont see a new one for it?

Anyway, I decided I would like to try this one. However, after doing some searching, I can't seem to find an official website or anything? Also does this contain CWM in it? Sorry if thats noobish, been reading a lot and really giving a headache with all the info. I got the process down I believe for flashing, Ive read most tutorials/videos and such, but features like this I can't seem to be very easy to find.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
Go to the first post in this thread, click on the link to the website, then click on download. It explains it pretty thoroughly.

Sent from my extremely awesome Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
This is the Q&A thread, no link in the OP here. Here's the link to the website he speaks of.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rydis:
I did, only link there is to forumn rules

---------- Post added at 02:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:27 AM ----------

thanks! great
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
Ooops, sorry. Hard to keep track what thread your in on your phone

Sent from my extremely awesome Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rydis:
np. Quick question though. Before on stock 2.2 I was able to get into recovery just fine using vol buttons. After flashing the the kernel then the reorient kernel..it no longer works. :/.

Trying to use adb, but its not working either, just unrecognized...

I got it..just vol+ button to do it ;)

Just not showing the serendipity zip..do I need to rename? Doesn't say in instructions. I go to install from sd card, then choose zip file..but not there. It shows an update.zip..which I dont actually have..weird..

got it, sd card of phone not external sd card. So many things named the same hard to keep track whats what
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
does it help you to work through things in a post? lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
Sometimes it does - and the process, written down sequentially, may help someone else! I know, I've been there, done that and learned much :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
yep, i've answered my own posts many a times as well. ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rydis:
lol, I had a problem..fixed it..ran into another. So just kept updating case anyone was on to help while I worked on it. Overall though..once I got the kernal to flash, went pretty well. Only failed first flash, everything else went flawless.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpgdev:
I already put Andromeda3 on my phone (after a long messing around to get CWM etc.) I guess I can just use clockwork recovery to install this with no problem right?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
Serendipity 6.4 - yes. Serendipity VII - no.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adicool:
Serendipity 7 installed and here is my problem :

Built in swype doesnt work and it wont let me install slide IT as well.....:(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryman27:
Built in swype is a known issue. You can install the beta from the swype website, put this themed swype 3 in /system/app or flash the zip here w/ Swype 2.something.

I don't know what the problem is with SlideIT, but more details may help me help you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philnrai@14:
Hi. First off I love serendipity. But I got a problem with the new serendipity 7. I think messed up somewhere. Ive done 2 roms already without any problems. But this one is a little different.

I was flash serendipity on the browser on a cellphone and I flashed it without ODIN just regular recovery. I already had setenidpity 6.4 when I did it. Now everything went the way it should until the restart. It got all static like one of those error screens. A voice say 2 minutes to finish the change. I thought I bricked it then it showed the title screen. I like this new rom but then I tried to go to the recovery mode and it was still that error screen thing. I can't see the words or anything. I just clicked the power button and it restarted. Every restart it will show the error screens. Even when the whole thing is done I press the home key it shows press the back key it shows. Did I make a mistake? This never happen before. Help please.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halfsoul:
You have to follow the directions to install Serendipity 7, including the Odin parts.