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[Captivate General] shadow65781:
Oh if it were only that easy. I've read this entire thread. Tried every thing suggested. I think it's a hardware problem with my phone. At least that's what I'm telling myself. Lol thanks for your suggestion though.
[Captivate General] opcow:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=803682
[Captivate General] DoctorQMM:
+1 on the SuperOneClick v1.7 I pulled the trigger on the AT&T/Samsung official 2.2 update yesterday, and downloaded via Kies. Absolutely no issues downloading/installing... took a total of 20 minutes to boot back up in 2.2. BTW, I was 2.1update1 JH7, rooted, with a bunch of root apps (Titanium Bu Pro, Root Explorer, CacheMate, adbWireless, SQLite Editor, etc). Prior to Kies update, all i did was to unroot using the program I rooted with months ago (Galaxy S One-Click), unfroze all my TiBU apps I had frozen, and rebooted. Then connected to Kies. Also, I left my launcher in LauncherPro and phone booted back up into LauncherPro (some say you need to be in TWLauncher). All my apps, settings, contacts, SMS, bookmarks, etc were all there. The ONLY thing I had to do was to redo all my home-screen widgets... which only took a few minutes. Then, re-rooted with SuperOneClick. After another reboot, all my root apps asked for root permissions and I was off to the races! Coming from Eclair 2.1, Froyo 2.2 gets a thumbs up. Had some lag issues last night, but today all is good. Also... just as an FYI, in Froyo, the path to your external SD is now /sdcard/external_sd (in Eclair it was: /sdcard/sd). Froyo left my /sdcard/sd folder with a few empty directories, so at first I thought I lost all my photos and music.. but were safely tucked away in /sdcard/external_sd. Also, super easy to move apps to external SD with Froyo. I moved a few large memory footprint apps to external (like Earth, Games, etc) to free up Internal SD space.
[Captivate General] Rammstein142:
Have a newb question

ok wondering if i can just skip the putting my phone into downloading stage, mainly cause i cant get into with any of the 3button, battery, flip this switch blow that whistle attempts! If i skip that step and just go straigh to update will it brick my phone?
[Captivate General] whitesox311:
mmmm...not really.
[Captivate General] GregRexAdams:
Help guys!

After downloading mini, installing the drivers, and starting the update process, my phone has apparently bricked. When turned on, it shows a pic of a phone and a pc with a warning sign in between them. When the volume buttons are held down, it will go to the pic of the android robot shoveling wiht "downloading...Do not turn off Target!!!" on the screen. However, the emergency recovery does not fix the issue, tried it several times.

Any advice at this point?
[Captivate General] :
Try Odin, that will take you to stock 2.1 then you can go from there, it may take a couple of tries to get the phone into download mode so be patient.
[Captivate General] mrcoolgli:
I had a similar issue. My desktop and my work laptop are Win7 x32 pro and x64 Pro. I can see the phone on the laptop x32 but odin and pretty much any other program won't complete the updates. I was left back at the download screen as you were. My desktop won't even detect the device. I suspect there may be some issue with the drivers on some machines. Out of frustration I resorted to a windows XP x32 bit and it all worked first try.

My desktop was a clean load as of a couple of days before I tried it. Even my old windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro 2 would not work on my desktop for some reason.

This flashing process is frustrating and seems clunky until it works. Once you have been through it once you will see it's really not bad. In fact flashing my phone without a PC at all now is even better.

Samsung has not supported this phone as they should, however the user community here has made this the best phone I have ever had.
[Captivate General] GregRexAdams:
Ok, get it to the download screen easy enough, but Odin gets stuck on "File analysis" every time. Am I missing something?
[Captivate General] opcow:
Power down the phone.

Start Odin as administrator.

Load your firmware into Odin. (Assuming you aren't running one-click. If you are then I hope you understand that it can remove your key combos and that using the wrong version for your hardware version can brick your phone.)

Plug the USB cable into the phone while holding the volume-up and volume-down buttons.

Wait for the download mode screen then release the buttons.

Click the start button in Odin.

If you did all that and it still failed then try a different USB port (preferably one connected directly to the computer's motherboard).
[Captivate General] KMan94:
Sideloading on 2.2 - how?

I upgraded to 2.2 with no problems. Rooted using SuperOneClick. No problems. I'm trying to load SGSTools and can't get it done. Tried AIO Toolbox and that didn't work. Copied it to my phone and then Supermanager to install it and that didn't work. It said my phone only installs from the marketplace.

So, how do I do this? Do I open /apps as r/w and just drop the file in there? A learning opportunity for me and others maybe. Not the biggest problem on the planet.
[Captivate General] grmcgee:
See updates at bottom.

I cannot get Kies mini to recognize my Captivate. I have read this forum and tried to follow all of the advice. I would appreciate some pointers. Here is what I have tried:

PC with Windows XP SP3

Downloaded/installed Kies mini, and it upgraded from 4 to 6

Enabled USB debugging on phone

Connected phone in download mode to start driver install, but it never completed

Uninstalled partially installed drivers

Downloaded Samsung Captivate drivers from samsung.com

Connected phone with USB debugging enabled, and all drivers installed correctly

Rebooted PC

Started Kies mini

Connected phone with USB debugging enabled, no external SD card

Kies mini says:

Model name: SGH-I897

Firmware version: Unsupported device

Firmware upgrade: (blank)

The above happened on two different PCs with Win XP. IE9 not installed.

Info from phone (never been rooted):

Firmware: 2.1-update1

Baseband: I897UCJF6 (never tried to install JH7)

Kernel: 2.6.29 jetaek.lee@sep-11 #2

Build: ECLAIR

Software: LauncherPro is installed, but stock TWLauncher is running

What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Update: I tried a different USB port, and that helped. Kies mini now recognizes my Captivate and identifies the correct firmware download. The download completes and then my phone is put into Download mode. Then Kies mini says "could not be upgraded" -- "reboot and try again". I did, and it failed again. What next?

Update 2: Looks like it was the "Gadget Serial" problem. I scanned the forum some more and installed the Samsung PC Studio program. (I can't guess how you figured that one out.) Update finally completed and looks ok, except that I have a continual "Device Management connecting to the server" message in the notification area. Previous apps are still there and working.

Just goes to prove that most of the time XDA has the answer -- you just have to look for it.

:flameon. What a bunch of crap this is. I have written and managed software development for over 25 years, and this Samsung mess is the worst example of "corporate" support and service I have ever seen. I waited for this update, because I thought I didn't have time to learn the flash process for a custom ROM. Wrong. No more waiting on Samsung or AT&T. The next time I get the itch for an upgrade, I will come straight to the XDA development forums. :flameoff.
[Captivate General] TayzGpa:
Agree. Updated from 2.1 to 2.2 with via Kies with no issues at all. I knew before hand that I was going to reinstall all my apps, so I took a CWM backup, Titanium and MyBackup Pro backups and copied results to my PC. Did a full factory wipe before 2.2. After update, reinstalled my apps and restored my data and everything is going great. No problems at all. :) Oh, forgot to mention, used SuperOneClick 1.7 to root and sideload.
[Captivate General] AnarchoXen:
Took a few tries getting the phone to recognise (64bit windows7) but after a few tries she updated with ZERO issues. Working well and is better on the better than Serendipity was. I was surprised how effortless the update was.
[Captivate General] chgoeditor:
I had something similar go wrong.

My phone was rooted, but was running the stock AT&T 2.1 ROM.

After the install was complete, I got the AT&T splash screen then the Samsung screen, then the screen went dark and buzz, buzz-buzz (and the buzzing repeated periodically). I took the battery out a couple times, rebooted, had the same problem except the buzzing doesn't repeat over and over again.

I'm great at following directions, but don't necessarily understand all of the lingo on here. Can you point me to instructions for a hard reset and/or flashing JF6 that will tell me what to do step by step? I would really appreciate it!

(BTW, I did do a Titanium Backup, but I assume that backup data will be lost, too?)

Thanks.

Edited to add:

Figured out how to do a hard reset. After doing so, the phone booted to 2.2, but of course all of my apps & data was lost. :( I'm slowly but surely reloading everything. What a pain in the neck!
[Captivate General] Trizzd:
Gets even better the day that I switch to T-mobile because of ATTs delayed bloat ware form of 2.2 they announce they are releasing it. Makes you wonder how their handling the mobile tether built into 2.2 though considering they charge a hefty deter for that.
[Captivate General] rjblack11:
ive gotten 16 hours of batt life and 50% still remains. 35 min display 11 min of calls.
[Captivate General] KMan94:
Did sideloading work for you? When SuperOnClick tried to verify sideload it said failed on my phone.
[Captivate General] rjblack11:
you reboot?
[Captivate General] KMan94:
Well sonofagun... it worked this time! I rebooted twice and was able to respond to the superuser request. Installed SGSTools with SuperManager and it works. Not sure what I'm going to with SGSTools, I just wanted to do it.

Thanks.
[Captivate General] androiddevv:
Froyo Experience

I upgraded today to the att froyo. It felt like programming a 1000 VCRs, but overall happy with the new features, especially the mobile hotspot. Here are my notes, which may not be correct, but worked nonetheless. I started with a stock rooted 2.1 captivate. Thanks to all who contributed.

Unrooted with oneclickroot/unroot

Installed with kies mini http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa...ID=2&PROD_SUB_ID=557&PROD_ID=558&AT_ID=368733

At first I tried using xp on vmware (mac) but the Android USb device would disappear once I selected it. I ended up doing the upgrade on an old xp box. I had to plug/unplug the cable a few times before Kies found my phone. On first boot it stalled on the Samsung “S” screen for a couple minutes. Went into a few vib spasms on the swipe screen, then the screen went off, and moments later came to life.

Rooted with superoneclick http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=803682

Disabled TetheringManager

adb shell

su

# mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system

# mv TetheringManager0114.apk TetheringManager0114.apk.disabled

# mount -o remount,ro /dev/block/stl9 /system

Removed At&t apps: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=728989
[Captivate General] Viearical:
Unregistered Device?

Hi all, I've been reading and trying to get my Captivate updated to 2.2 for a bit now but have had no luck, I'm hoping somebody here might have run into the same issue I've had and found a way around it.

I was rooted and running a custom rom before the official 2.2 update was out. So I used Odin one click to restore to stock, and downloaded the mini kies updater. Unfortunately, any time I plug the phone in I get the unregistered device and I'm not able to start the update. I've tried different USB ports, tried being in debug mode, tried different machines, always the same thing... Has anybody gotten through this?

I should maybe explain why I'd like to update to the official 2.2 Froyo release. It's my understanding that the official 2.2 Froyo release for the captivate has a updated second boot loader that will now allow Mac OS X to properly recognize the phone when in download mode, so I can use Heimdall for all my flashing needs instead of always having to borrow a friends pc. Has anybody confirmed or heard if this is true... I'd love to be able to confirm... I've just run into that blasted "unregistered device" problem on the pc and can't update.

Thanks all!
[Captivate General] cedmidy:
Okay so I have a few questions..

1. If I'm running the leaked froyo build from september do I need to downgrade to eclair again or can I just run Kies mini?

2. Can you root the official froyo properly with busybox and titanium backup working properly?

3. Does Rageagainstthecage work to enabl sideloading?

If these questions would be answered that would be really helpful since these are really the only things keeping me from updating
[Captivate General] pietro_spina:
I flashed stock 2.2 using Heimdall on linux. I got the stock 2.2 package from this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=963403

You will probably need to use Odin one last time to flash the updated SBL and then use Heimdall or Odin to flash the 2.2 update. (the package in the thread above only has zImage, modem.bin, factoryfs.rfs and cache.rfs) There is info about the SBL in this Heimdall thread.

I feel like I'm missing something here... Is the new sbl embedded in one of those files I listed above?
[Captivate General] bobapunk:
Could you just use TiBackup to remove the Tethering Manager?

This may not be the thread to ask in, but can you point me in the direction of where to find out how to use tethering?
[Captivate General] GregRexAdams:
Turned out to be the usb port. Odin fixed it asap on a different port, and 2.2 flashed flawlesslythereafter.
[Captivate General] Caliesv:
If you freeze it with TBU, you can use the AP.
[Captivate General] JRd1st:
Holy crap, here's a funny one! Yesterday I did a reset/wipe to fix some problems. After I got everything set up again, I suddenly had weak WiFi reception. I mean I usually get full bars and had only the dot on the bottom of the meter.

Anyhoo, it turns out I somehow inadvertently got connected to my neighbor's Wifi. lol They live about 300 feet away! :D

All is fine now. In fact, after that reset/wipe my Captivate with almost stock EB1 is REALLY snappy.
[Captivate General] bobapunk:
Ok, so I can go into TiBackup and freeze the Tethering Manager. Then what Ap are you using to accomplish the tethering?
[Captivate General] cruiserbax:
Anyone else notice on the support page for this update Samsung claims that one of the performance enhancements is JIT and that with that linpack scores are 5 times faster? Not even close, not even 2 times.
[Captivate General] weissbach:
thank you :)
[Captivate General] fldude99:
lol...you could have been talking in Chinese and I would have understood more..
[Captivate General] Caliesv:
When I said "ap" I meant "access point". Go into your "settings" then the "wireless" part then you should see "mobile ap". This is to use your phone as a "hot spot" to connect other devices.
[Captivate General] NISMOFO:
http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa...ID=2&PROD_SUB_ID=557&PROD_ID=558&AT_ID=368733

I followed these instructions, and it worked....although it took SEVERAL tries. I was on the verge of giving up and flashing another custom ROM. But then it finally worked.

Of course, I had USB issues like always..sometimes it wouldn't recognize the connection. I deal with these during nearly every ROM flash though.

My particular issue was right before it puts the phone into download mode. It would fail at that point every time. I only got to download mode once, and once I did....it worked.

I was a little confused why I didn't have to put the phone into download mode (myself) for the upgrade...just plug in with USB debugging. But once the upgrade did it on it's own....then I was at ease.

Question: So now can we use ROM manager to backup this ROM on our own if we ever want to flash back to the official 2.2 Froyo release?
[Captivate General] WillyWonka23:
I hope the devs crack open 2.3 for their roms soon enough :)
[Captivate General] WillyWonka23:
Also I will wait and see if the devs build a stronger rom with 2.2. The roms out now with the Rogers 2.2 is perfect enough.
[Captivate General] Dave the Knave:
This IS the official Froyo release:rolleyes:
[Captivate General] blubuster:
Ugh, I'm having the same problem. Followed all of the steps, drivers installed fine (on my W7Pro 64bit machine). I've uninstalled IE8 as has been suggested. I've even installed Samsung PC Studio as someone posted that as a solution, but didn't help.
[Captivate General] cincyrob:
well seeing that gingerbread(2.3) will be released in march, would it be worth it to upgrade again so soon?
[Captivate General] TonyV125:
So Far, Almost Perfect After LagFix... Except Calendar

At first, like others, I wasn't impressed with the lag, so after reading the post above from dozyautstin, I finally rooted my phone and installed the fix.

Performance is great, but when I create an appointment in the Calendar and click save, it says it's saved, but the appointment doesn't show up in the calendar. I unfortunately didn't try adding an appointment until AFTER the lagfix, so I don't know if it's due to the lagfix or froyo upgrade.

Anybody else experiencing Calendar issues???

Thanks
[Captivate General] ZephCr:
Yes, I noticed that too since the update. I tried several times to add something in my calender & each time it wasn't there. That was from a widgit I had, I then tried to open it from the actual apps & found it was there several times. Guess it's just a flaw in the update. If there's an actual fix I'd like to know.
[Captivate General] TonyV125:
Thanks for confirming. Have you rooted or lagfixed?
[Captivate General] ZephCr:
I am only rooted & set to allow non market apps, thats it.
[Captivate General] pietro_spina:
never mind...
[Captivate General] pietro_spina:
you could just revert to stock using the package found in this thread using either Odin or Heimdall... whichever you prefer
[Captivate General] NISMOFO:
Sweet thanks, two versions as well.

I have been on the official 2.2 for 1 day now unrooted. I didn't transfer any of my apps back over or root the phone. I've added back the apps I wanted manually. A truely fresh start. Heck, I didn't even put my ADW launcher on this yet.

Anyhow, I'm really happy with the simplicity I'm experiencing right now...which sounds crazy. But I'm only using the phone the way I should be rather than spending all day playing with settings.

I miss some features of the custom ROMs on here, don't get me wrong....but right now I feel like I'm on a bit of a vacation.

I realize now that my battery life was not so great before because I spent too much time changing settings on my phone...LOL.
[Captivate General] bobapunk:
Ok, got ya!

On a side note, the free version of TiBackup does not allow you to freeze processes...
[Captivate General] Caliesv:
Yeah I know :( buuuuttt...those are one of the must buy apps if you plan on staying with android. Its a good back up app and you can get rid of bloat.
[Captivate General] bobapunk:
Can some one please exlain to me what the LagFix people were discussing on the last page is?

I am in the US on AT&T, Captivate with AT&T 2.2, rooted.

Do I need to / Should I do this "LagFix"?
[Captivate General] TonyV125:
I'm very happy with it. I didn't notice much of a speed improvement in web browsing, but definitely saw a huge difference in a number of other apps, like email (I use K-9 Mail).
[Captivate General] Caliesv:
Pretty much, it makes your phone run faster when your doing stuff on it. I know some people don't notice a lag (when your phone takes hella long to execute something) but others do.
[Captivate General] DoctorQMM:
I used SuperOneClick 1.7

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=803682

Did you upgrade to official 2.2 from stock 2.1-update1 ?
[Captivate General] TonyV125:
One Other Thing . . .

One thing I have noticed since I upgraded to the official 2.2 and installed One Click Lag Fix (OCLF)... the battery consumption seemed higher. I thought 2.2 was supposed to be much more efficient than 2.1, so I'm wondering if it's OCLF. I've read a number of posts and some say the same, yet others argue their battery life hasn't changed. The app actually contains two versions, and some say ver 1 didn't have the battery drain they experience with ver 2.

I removed ver 2, but I'm still deciding if I want to install either one again. Need to monitor the battery for a while.

Proceed with caution.
[Captivate General] TonyV125:
I had to reboot my phone after installing SuperOneClick before I was able to use One Click Lag Fix.

But read my previous post. The jury seems to still be out on whether or not OCLF causes heavier battery drain. In theory it shouldn't, but some of us have seen a difference.
[Captivate General] smokestack76:
Does anyone have this in CWM flash form yet? Been looking for it :confused:
[Captivate General] Caliesv:
I've noticed a batt drain too. I used oclf v2 also. Keep us updated on what you find :)
[Captivate General] driven:
Calendar appointments missing

I had the same problem when I updated to stock Froyo. When you create an appointment in your Calendar there is a an option called "Calendar" which lets you choose which calendar to put your appointment in, either "My Calendar" or "Gmail" calendar. Make sure you are entering it in the correct Calendar. Also, If you go to Settings>Calendars and check "All Calendars" I bet you'll see all those appointments you saved previously.

I Hope that helps.
[Captivate General] thehobster:
i haven't rooted or added anything and my battery drain is terrible. It was fully charged at 4pm yesterday, left sitting idle on my desk, and my wife work up around 1am to the lovely low battery warning.

Granted, there are alot of things that could cause this, but this is just one example. I have to charge every day even when I barely use the phone. Before stock Froyo, it was 2-3 days at a time (yes, I don't use it much).
[Captivate General] smokestack76:
Get system panel and enable the moniter. Lets see whats going on.
[Captivate General] EVOIXGSR:
Deff faster battery drain on mine.
[Captivate General] vaiol123:
Battery drain has been a bit of an issue with me too, but I normally get enough juice to last the day (5:30 to 21:00, not too bad, but could be better). Anyone else have extremely out of sync boot animation and some FC's on boot? Maybe I had a bad Odin flash or something before flashing the 2.2 update.. I also forgot to empty dalvik flash and do a master clear :P
[Captivate General] reventon1500:
Well, i did root 2.2, but the thing is, while i am able to install root enabled applications the phone still has all the AT&T junk. Is that how its supposed to be?
[Captivate General] smokestack76:
Yes. You have to delete that stuff.
[Captivate General] fldude99:
I'd be careful about what to delete. I did freeze on att navigator with tibu and it caused my gps to completely stop functioning...totally. I unfroze it and the gps came back..so before deleting any of that junk I'd try freezing it first
[Captivate General] AnarchoXen:
Batter performance has been markedly better on 2.2. Even on two of the more popular ROM's my battery was getting crushed. No on the stock 2.2 and the battery is FANTASTICO.
[Captivate General] Caliesv:
You can delete the att/samsung apps. I was kinda iffy on deleting them too, but when I did, my phone seemed to run A LOT smoother. Rooting your phone only gives you access to parts of the phone you normally couldnt get to. Here is a list of apps safe to delete:
[Captivate General] k2snowboards88:
If I update to this rom, will I have trouble installing custom roms in the future? Will root be a problem?
[Captivate General] mobileseq:
I flashed my phone via kies mini on Boot Camp running Windows XP Professional SP3. It worked like a charm. 2.2 is MUCH better than 2.1!
[Captivate General] chriscerv:
Does anyone know if and when the code if released will anyone write a rom based of it - will that have advantage over Rogers?
[Captivate General] Caliesv:
From what I understand, cog 4.1 is based off official 2.2.