yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sixstringsg:
It depends on What you want. For a really bare bones rom, use precision. For a close to stock rom, use cognition. For a well themed and polished rom, use serendipity or ultimate. Cognition is the only captivate based one though.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avgjoegeek:
yeesh - sorry but most of these get locked in 10 posts or less as these become "My ROM is better than Your ROM" epeen arguments.

With that being said.. if a ROM is posted in the Dev forum and as long as it doesn't say Cyanogen Beta or Gingerbread alpha AOSP in it? It is pretty much safe to flash.

Most of these ROM's use either a Rogers, Captivate, or i9000 Source and don't deviate other than tweaks to apps/kernels/modems/lagfixes/themes.

If you want to be safe - I would go with Cognition as a first ROM flash then go from there. It is basically "stock".
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeygutz:
Thanks guys for the quick posts....Just a little worried about doing it for the first time i have read, watched videos, this is why im asking before taking the plunge...

i really like Bay_wolfs tool seems great for newbies has anyone used it...i think i may go with cognition is there a better version than the 3.4 what i mean is the newest version seem best or and older one...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwanhala:
I also flashed my first ROM the other week after lots of reading and studying. I went with Andromeda 1.0 at and have since gone to 1.1. I didn't use the tool that you're wondering about, but have downloaded it for future use. So if you do use it, let me know how it goes for you. I went with the installation instrustions on Andromeda's website, and that worked flawlessly. Once you do decide on a ROM, I'm sure that you'll be extremely happy as the performance is way better than stock. Happy flashing and good luck!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeordy:
Like the other posters said, it's all about what you want and then personal preference. Once you have flashed a few you will start realizing what you do and don't like about the ROMs and what you really want in them. (My first ROM I had no idea, I was like, lets just flash because it's cool and custom and I feel like it. Then I started noticing the differences between my first ROM and stock, realizing what they can actually do with it and what they cannot. From there I figured out what I was really looking for by going custom, and starting browsing the released ROMs to find it)

In short, your first ROM is just that, the first. It wont stay there long so it doesn't really matter which one you choose. Cognition, like stated above, is a good start because it's pretty close to stock. If you want to just straight into a very custom one and screw the baby steps, try something a little more feature rich. Eventually you will get into trying different ROMs with different kernels and test out over-clocking, etc...

I would recommend for your first that you don't go with an OC ROM though, save that for when you feel more comfortable with your ability to flash and tweak things.

I have never used the tool you are talking about because I feel more comfortable doing all the .zip stuff and seeing what is actually being done to my phone, not trusting something else to do it. The tools I do use are Odin3 and One Click Root/Unroot. If you want to try flashing without that tool but aren't sure of the exact steps or why they are necessary you can PM me and I'll help you out.

Welcome to the addiction of ROM flashing! (It's harder to shake then cigarettes once you start)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeygutz:
You guys are great here thanks for all the tips...tonight i will be flashing my first Rom hope all goes well if i have any questions i will ask...once again thanks...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeordy:
Was bored, sent you a PM
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeygutz:
Jeordy thanks for all info on the Pm ... that was fantastic i sent you a pm let me know what you think.....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdamOutler:
I've tried several. So far, out of all of them, I like Andromeda 1.2 with the Speedmod kernel. It seems to be the most functional.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ask_j:
best rom in March

Hi everyone,

I flashed the Cognition ROM on captivate in Jan. I do not know at this moment which one is the best since gingerbread is also here now. Can someone please help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psai:
Do not flash any of the Gingerbread ROMs unless you really know what you are doing. They are still unstable and you risk bricking your phone. As for stable ROMs, there's a wide variety of them, and they're all based on Android 2.2, which is really fast. There is no best ROM, and it all depends on your personal preferences. Try visiting a few of the ROM threads to check them out, and hopefully that will help you decide which one to flash.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
A bit of an overstatement, but I concur on there is no best, find what works best for you

CM7
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Ok well not 10 or less this time but close.

There is no best rom just best for you. I could say Rom X is the best and does everything I need it to and when you run it, you dont like it or doesnt work well with your set up.

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[A7 General] tgilliam:
Seems that the Flash player is not working in my A7. Some sites, like ESPN, just show the Flash Player logo where the video should be playing.. saying "Get Adobe Flash Player". I see that it is installed on the unit, but is not the latest version(10.1 vs 10.2.152.26). Should I try to upgrade the player or try something else?? I am a newbie to this..so looking for any help out there...Thanx!!!
[A7 General] 5[Strogino]:
Google Android Market

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.adobe.flashplayer

CURRENT VERSION: 10.1.106.16

Are you sure that Adobe released new version for Android ?
[A7 General] tgilliam:
No.. you are correct. Didn't think to check if the Flash Player I was looking at was for Android. When I look at the application info it says the version on my A7 is 10.1.120.4. Still I am at a loss for what I can do about getting video to play on these sites, such as ESPN. No problem watching movie trailers on IMDB though... HELP!!
[A7 General] netstat_EVO:
Just curious, are you using the stock WebKit browser, or something you downloaded like Opera Mini?

ESPN seems to work correctly with mine. (stock WebKit)
[A7 General] tgilliam:
Just the stock browser. Only thing I have upgraded on the unit is the official upgrade from eLocity. It was working then just seemed to stop..Maybe I should do a factory reset...
[A7 General] netstat_EVO:
I get a couple weird glitches once in a while, most seem to be solved by simply power cycling the tab.

Actually the first question I ask when people bring computer problems to me at work... "Did you reboot it yet?" lol :)
[A7 General] tgilliam:
No...dont think its that, as I turn it off everyday. Just went to cnn.com...no video. Says "this CNN feature is optimized for Adobe Flash Player version 9 or higher." The uninstall button is the only button highlighted when I select it under "Manage Applications > Downloaded > Adobe Flash Player 10.1" And when I click on "Running" tab (applications running), its not there. I think my Flash Player is disabled or just not working. Maybe I should uninstall and try to reinstall.
[A7 General] Zahg:
In your browser, go to settings and make sure 'Enable Plugins' is set to always on.

Adobe Flash Won't show under Running even if your browser is currently on a flash page. IDK why. :p
[A7 General] tgilliam:
THAT DID THE TRICK!!!! Thanx Zahg!!!
[EVO Shift 4G General] imwillzillla:
When asked by customer service to enter the ## insert number here # code to bring up the menu when trying to swap phones on an account the Shift only brings up contacts. This wasn't a problem until the phone was rooted. If anyone can shed light onto as why this would be happening this would be appreciated.
[EVO Shift 4G General] riggsandroid:
what ROM are you using?
[EVO Shift 4G General] ahager88:
I bet an AOSP one. Those dialer codes only work in roms with Sense framework. And if I'm not mistaken, not Sense ports either. At least not all of them.

Sent from my Speedy Shift.
[EVO Shift 4G General] JKILO:
What if you install the epst.apk? Someone did this and said it works
[HTC Inspire 4G] dvigue:
anyone else have this issue? ill see the "check mark" under my EDGE icon or my H+ icon, no data, as as soon as i go into settings, mobile data, it says "turning on mobile data" then im fine

why does this keep shutting off???
[HTC Inspire 4G] netnerd:
maybe you should try a custom rom. no problems over here.
[HTC Inspire 4G] nismopunch:
he shouldn't have to try a custom rom to fix something that shouldn't be a known issue. i haven't heard of that problem at all so far. maybe you have a bad device?
[HTC Inspire 4G] dvigue:
yeah its not all the time, but i jsut notice it..strange. almost like a "power saving" thing
[HTC Inspire 4G] drummer07:
It's not your device, mine does the same thing in low building with low reception. Coming from the captivate this phone definitely has worse reception, I would always get 3g on the captivate, but now It bounces from edge to H+. Hopefully they can fix it. Atleast the GPS works.
[HTC Inspire 4G] nismopunch:
hmm actually look at settings > wireless & network > mobile networks > enable always-on mobile data

maybe its not checked on? mine was on by default
[HTC Inspire 4G] Blanco720:
Its not on because it intelligently toggles data when connected to wifi. I imagine if you toggle it always on, it will...always be on...
[HTC Inspire 4G] nismopunch:
sorry, i meant mine was enabled by default.
[HTC Inspire 4G] DOAlaboratories:
Switch to a desire HD Rom, I get constant data unlike before on stock
[HTC Inspire 4G] hammondnav:
Is your account provisioned for "4G" (aka HSPA+) data access? If you don't know for sure, I'd check with AT&T.
[G Tablet General] gksmith:
Just a bit of a praise for our custom rom and kernel developers. We've found here at work that due to our corporate security, the only Android tablet that is able to function and complete all the tasks we've tried is my G-Tablet.

So far we've attempted to use my G-Tablet, several Samsung Tabs, a Cisco Cius, and a rooted Color Nook. We were looking at what users do with tabs you can get from corporate vendors in their stock, non-rooted configuration. The G-Tablet and Nook were tossed in because they were personal devices and we have more experience with them.

Some of our tasks included:

Browse outside the corporate firewall - G-Tablet (using AsProxy, Clemsyn Kernel) and Samsung Tab (Advanced WiFi settings). The Cisco and Nook didn't have the correct kernel support for proxy to work correctly.

DropBox - G-Tablet only, not sure why though

Email from Exchange Server - G Tablet using CM7 email client only, no app from Market seems to work due to additional exchange security we have in place - not sure of all the details

Market - G-Tablet only, not sure why though

Google Maps (and locating where I am) - G-Tablet with CM7, Samsung Tab.

Citrix Receiver App - All except Nook (wasn't tested)
[G Tablet General] bdjohns1:
I've used Citrix with a rooted Nook Color and it worked just fine, for whatever that's worth.
[G Tablet General] copc:
Cool, GTab FTW
[G Tablet General] machine73:
I know I saw a thread in here somewhere regarding supported video files, but I can't find it again.

Does anyone know off-hand which 720p and 1080p video formats are supported by the GTab?

I've tried mpeg2, mpeg4, avi, mkv, divx, and they all seem to produce the same results. Either not picture but sound, sound is out of synch, or nothing at all.

Could it be an issue with the player i'm using? I am currently running rockplayer lite with hardware decoding and the sound goes out of sych within 5 mins. VLC remote w/ streaming shows no video but sound.

Over all I am fully enjoying the tab, but would like to fully enjoy what it is capable of.

Any input?
[G Tablet General] Judo Jeff:
I'm using just the plain old gallery video player that comes with TnT Lite. I've had good success with H.264 main profile in 720p and 1080p. I'm running Windows Media Center at home, so I do a lot of video encoding to shrink shows down to something I can park on a drive until I watch (or take with me).

Handbrake .mp4 container, L3.1 or L4.1 main profile...for me, I keep CABAC on, turn off weighted P-frames and 8x8 transform, and they play smooth as butter.

Never had a lot of good experience with Rockplayer...even the most current one on their site.
[G Tablet General] machine73:
Thanks, gonna give those settings a try. Funny thing is sd2 never showed up in gallery till today. Not sure why that was but I've been having issues w/ pictures showing up after they get added to the sd2 card. now today all the missing files finally showed up. Including the test video file I loaded.

Encoding a video right now and will see how it plays.

Thanks again
[G Tablet General] Judo Jeff:
No problem. If you need me to, I can export the Handbrake batch file and post it up so you can see what I'm using.
[G Tablet General] mmsood99:
Will you please post the exported batch file. I don't use Handbrake, but can use the parameters in other encoders - thanks!
[G Tablet General] machine73:
Yeah the batch file sounds good. Still get a decent video playback no matter the file or settings. I did get decent playback using gallery, but then I started noticing skipped frames and jerky playback.

At least the gallery app plays them, but they can get smoother.
[G Tablet General] Judo Jeff:
Here is what I use...can't say they're the best, but to my untrained eye on a 60" plasma, they both compress a 1080p OTA TV show and look good... The only thing I took out from what I use is a line for chapter markers that Handbrake puts in.

Just have to say - I may be a Rockplayer Arm 7 version convert. Took the gamble and bought the full version and it works great so far...Hardware encoding mode plays these fantastically...and you get the ability to stretch to full screen for 4:3 content. Of course, it's $10 bucks...

This one is Constant Quality...works pretty quickly:

This one is average bitrate of 4,500 KB/s with a cap at 6,000 KB/s. I had read somewhere that that was the limit of what Tegra 2 can handle for 720p main with Cabac. This one in its current form doesn't have any deinterlacing on. One of these nights I'll compare the two in terms of size. This one uses better motion estimation:
[Fascinate General] Kingali1997:
Well I was thinking if someone made the kernal could u use a auxillery to tv cord
[Fascinate General] hbc.ciccone:
No
[Fascinate General] mefloump:
Had anyone tried allshare to stream to dlna devices?
[Fascinate General] AlgorithmX:
Yeah, it works ok.
[Vibrant General] wooshring:
I have rooted froyo & have noticed that after the update some, not all, items that i have put into folders will randomly disappear, then i have to put them back in, only to have them disappear again. I have also noticed that the items (games) that disappear seem to be ones that I have restored from Titanium Backup...Things that I have downloaded fresh from the market seem to stay in the folders when i put them there....any ideas?
[Vibrant General] FlyingPoo:
what folders specifacally? in /data? /system? do you have R/W access? do you have the latest busybox?
[Vibrant General] wooshring:
bear with me...kinda new to all this...i'mtalking about the folders that i place on the homescreen...i have 3 different ones...Games, Radios, News...it happens in all three...i go to place a shortcut (from a restored Titanium item), it puts it in folder...then randomly (from an hour to half a day later) they disappear & I have to re-place them again into folder. Like I said it only seems to happen with restored apps, not newly downloaded. As far as R?W access, I do. Not so sure about latest busybox.
[HTC Inspire 4G] kravguy:
Sorry for having to ask this, but Im a real novice when it comes to android (after being a windows mobile junkie for so long)...

What is the best way to backup all my settings/apps before rooting/unlocking, (things such as installed apps, email/facebook/twitter/etc account info, home screen customizations/widgets) and then restore them after the upgrade?

I am use to using UC on the windows side of things and it was quite involved. I am about to do the whole rooting thing (for the first time with an android device) and I am just trying to have all my bases covered.

Thanks in advance
[HTC Inspire 4G] Misterowl:
[App] Es File manager

If you want to back up your apps before you root or upgrade I suggest you save the folders on your SD card. You can also backup your stuff on a cloud data base. Also ES file manager allows you to back up your apps. If you want to back up everything then use titanium backup but it requires root. Im unsure of your situation so I stated all the methods.
[HTC Inspire 4G] MMM-BACONSTRIPS:
Please stop digging up old posts to get your post count up. The reason for the post count minimum is so that it forces you to contribute information that is relevant. Do you really believe the OP still needs this information over a year later? Please stop.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donmetz123:
is anyone having a problem with having you 4g on and then turning on the hotspot for sprint and then it kicks you off of the 4g or tell me why this is happing
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mystery_tx_man:
I think the hotspot hack only works with 3g. You would have to get "wireless tether for root users" if you want to have a hotspot and get 4g speeds.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frontay:
I had some trouble with Sprint HotSpot turning off when when using I was on MikFroyo 4.5 using 3g. I also tried Wireless Tether, which wouldn't work at all. Have you tried using MikFroyo 4.4? I just switched back to a different ROM because at the time I wasn't around a WiFi connection.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donmetz123:
no i haven't tried 4.4 yet but i thinking about it soon ill let you know if it works or not!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frontay:
I like Ava and King's for when I have to use Wireless Tether. Right now I'm on Fresh because I'm helping with some testing.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ke5ehi:
I just installed aTrackDog and found that on the NC, when I click an app, all of the options in the menu box that pops up are white, which is the same color as the background. Even when I click them, they do not show, even temporarily, so I cannot see which options are what. Anyone else have this problem or know a fix? Thanks.

NC v1.1 w/ auto-nooter v3.0

ADW.Launcher v1.3.6

aTrackDog v3.17
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] tubbymac:
This is a known problem with the stock ROM for many apps. The only workaround that I know of is to use modded ROMS. Froyo, Honeycomb, and CM7 roms all have black backgrounds so the menu options work unlike the white background of the stock roms.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ke5ehi:
Thanks for the tip! So far I had not seen that in all of the reading I have done. I had the same problem with Folder Organizer but was able to fix it.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] tubbymac:
No prob. There are sdcard runnable roms in the dev forum that will allow you to try out modded roms without messing with your stock rom. Those will let you try out either Froyo or Honeycomb to see if your apps work without committing to an overwrite of your stock stuff.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] don_ernesto:
Could someone post what are the 4 options given?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ke5ehi:
I like this idea too. I downloaded the app to my phone to see. Here they are (or should be, no promises):

1. 'Install from Market'

2. 'Open this application'

3. 'Uninstall this application'

4. 'Don't track version anymore'
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Lock-N-Load:
I understand what this directory contains - It's a directory Mac OS X creates when it does a file system check and places any orphaned or corrupted files it finds in it - and I know why it is created - poor SD card unmounting on the mac - BUT the question I cannot find an answer to... how do you expand the unix file within it and get the lost data (images, photos, music, etc) back?

What's the point of creating this directory & files if nothing can actually access it or expand the orphaned files in the unix files and grab the content from within them and salvage it?

somehow while in Thailand, I lost a bunch of images and this LOST.DIR grew in content/size & has date stamps around that time and now has about 7-8 of these numbered Unix files. I transferred them to my phone but I want to access the contents.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] signal15:
I keep getting logged out of sites that keep track of my session based on source IP address. I used whatismyip.com and verified that each request I make to it comes from different IP's within the same subnet.

Is TMO intercepting HTTP/HTTPS traffic and load balancing it across multiple transparent proxies?

Or, could it be that my phone is roaming between different towers and they NAT data traffic out based on the tower that I'm on?

It makes the wifi hotspot useless for anything but basic web browsing. Since XDA keeps track of my session based solely on cookies, it's not a problem with this site. But many other sites use a combo of source IP and cookies.

Any ideas to somehow influence the traffic to come from a single IP?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] signal15:
Well, it's only for HTTP/HTTPS traffic. So I set up an IPSec VPN to my house and installed a proxy, and that fixed the problem. But it's not exactly convenient.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] signal15:
Ticket opened and escalated within TMO. It's a problem with the way they are load balancing their outbound traffic. They need to support some form of source IP persistence to make your phone "sticky" for a period of time to one proxy/NAT device (whatever it is they are using).

If they are using a commercial load balancing product such as F5, Cisco CSS, Kemp, A10, RadWare, or whatever else, it's simply a checkbox, a dropdown, or a single command to enable it.

If they are using multiple equal metric routes, then it's a bit more complex.

Bottom line is, many people don't see the issue if they are not logging into websites, or if the websites only keep track of sessions based on a cookie. If it's a cookie/source IP combo, then they will see the issue. This issue also breaks the Juniper Pulse client which is available on the Market.

If anyone wants to see if this issue affects them, open a browser on your phone and go to "http://www.whatismyip.com". Note the IP address, wait about 15 seconds or more, and then reload the page. I see the IP changing between 208.54.40.70 and 208.54.40.54. This should not be happening. Also, it appears that it might not just be for HTTP traffic, it might be all traffic, which means that it could break VPN's and other things also.

With more and more companies going to Android for their business phones, it's going to need to get fixed at some point.

If any network engineers from TMO see this, PM me and I can describe more in detail. If you're not a TMO engineer, but know one, send him this link so he can read the message. I don't have high hopes that my ticket is actually going to get escalated to someone that can understand/fix it.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] signal15:
Ok, I managed to talk to a network engineer at TMO about something else, and I mentioned this issue to him.

He said that it's a known issue, and it's a priority to fix it. Currently, they have to load balance their NAT across multiple devices. The new implementation of it is a single device/cluster that will handle all of the NAT and be able to have session persistence based on src/dst pairs. It has already been fixed in the Dallas area, and they have an aggressive rollout schedule for the rest of the country. It should be fixed most everywhere in 6-8 weeks.

Bottom line is, that anyone having a problem related to this now should see it start working properly within the next couple of months.