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[Captivate Android Development] jjttnn:
Question on the Stable Version

I guess I need a definition. What makes it stable?

Also, I have 142 on my cap. Should I put on the update then 144? Or does 144 include the update?

Regards
[Captivate Android Development] airtower:
anyone else seeing the CM site offline?

I was able to snatch nightly 144. The changelog doesn't show any changes since the stable so is nightly #144 the same?

edit: finally got the request through, downloading 7.1 now
[Captivate Android Development] sammyg122:
No sound on latest nightly?

Hey,

Just flashed latest nightly 10-10 / 7.1 version and now I'm not getting any sound (ringtones/email/etc). Anyone else experiencing the same?
[Captivate Android Development] cfili:
Works fine here.
[Captivate Android Development] sammyg122:
Hm, strange...after a battery pull it started working again. Thanks anyway all!
[Captivate Android Development] AmandeepG:
Will installing the just-released stable version give better battery life? I'm asking this because I've always heard people say that CM7 has bad battery life because of debug code left in, so I'd assume that's taken out for stable builds as opposed to nightly builds?
[Captivate Android Development] Mmcavoy:
Thanks! I figured it had to be something simple that I was missing completely. I appreciate the help.
[Captivate Android Development] sixstringsg:
That's not why CM7 on our device has bad battery life. The stable build will be very similar to the latest nightly in that respect. Our device gets poor battery life due to the proprietary stuff that sanding used, we can't get all of the hardware components to sleep properly.
[Captivate Android Development] AmandeepG:
As a general CM7 question then, what's the difference between the nightly and the stable?
[Captivate Android Development] br123:
I can't get into the CMSettings - it force closes on me whenever I try. Reboot didn't help either. Should I reflash?
[Captivate Android Development] RichMD:
Works fine for me on 144. I did a data wipe before flashing though.
[Captivate Android Development] t-readyroc:
I asked about this in IRC, but no one gave me an answer. Just wanted to be sure that it is actually the "official" position: rebooting into recovery & flashing 7.1 is ok from an i897 GB ROM (e.g. KH3) now, correct (in addition to factory reset, clearing caches, etc)?

**Edit - I guess since I found the same answer in the Q&A thread, that my answer is a "yes."
[Captivate Android Development] sixstringsg:
From my understanding of how Cyanogenmod works, very little. When the CM7 devs decide a release is stable, all of the phones that are officially supported get a "stable" version. It doesn't have many changes in it, not many more than a typical nightly. The reason they are labeled as "stable" is because you can submit bug reports on those, and if you aren't into flashing nightlies, then that is a good version to stay on. They work well, whereas sometimes in normal nightlies features are half implemented or slightly buggy.
[Captivate Android Development] agpsalazar:
i wanna know that too????:confused:
[Captivate Android Development] KCutrer1:
Don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but a stable release of CM 7.1 just got released for all their devices, including the Captivate!
[Captivate Android Development] techjeep:
I updated to the "stable" and tried the KANG but could not get the proxy app to work on either of those. Went back to 142 and it works fine. I thought it might be issues with SuperUser, but TiBu and Root Explorer both work fine.

Is anyone else using a proxy app (e.g. AutoProxy, the one I use) and having any success?

BTW, both of these are completely stock installs, no change in modem or kernel.
[Captivate Android Development] agpsalazar:
then I install the stable or nightly 144? :confused:
[Captivate Android Development] Aus_Azn:
Personally, I'd just install the nightly.
[Captivate Android Development] agpsalazar:
and how did it go? better performance? or longer battery life?
[Captivate Android Development] hauj0bb:
If you're currently on Nightlies, stay on Nightlies - if you're on 7.0.3, update to 7.1.
[Captivate Android Development] bubbad58:
I have installed 7.1RC on top of #144 and I keep gettting a WIFI error. I have rebooted, and pull battery and no help. Bluetooth works fine. I did not flash 7.1 first, so should I reflash 7.1RC or 7.1 first?
[Captivate Android Development] agpsalazar:
I'm 139 but I can not use the bluetooth? upgrade to 144 or not?
[Captivate Android Development] nimper:
Why? It's the same code. Only thing different is the filename near as I can tell.
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Might as well.. hopefully fixes your bt issue too :o
[Captivate Android Development] ThisWasATriumph:
My BT hasnt worked in forever and now it works after wiping data/system and flashing 142. :D
[Captivate Android Development] loserskater:
This is the way I think of it:

Nightlies are like "test" builds where when something gets added/fixed it goes into the next nightly, and the devs see how it plays in real life scenarios. Somethings that are added/fixed in nightlies actually don't work, so they need to revert it (like the AT&T APN fix that was added and then reverted when the build bot was down).

Stable builds are kind of like a "summary" of everything that has been put in nightlies that the devs think is working good enough for public release that they don't mind supporting (bug reports).

If you want something that is a good solid build that has been tested, go with the stable. If you want the latest and greatest (bleeding edge) additions/fixes then go with the nightlies. The only thing is that you may have problems with the nightlies because they haven't been tested thoroughly.
[Captivate Android Development] agpsalazar:
Ok I'll flash144 right now thanks
[Captivate Android Development] Time_Zone:
Probably needs its own thread Kaik541 but I want you to know this is the bee's knees.
[Captivate Android Development] RichMD:
Odd bluetooth issue

I've never had a problem getting bluetooth to work in my car. I use a flexmart2 BT device and it has always paired with any of the ROMS I have used. I just flashed stock KF1 (after trying another ROM) and then wiped data, cache, and dalvik and then the latest nightly (144). I had no problem pairing my phone with the BT device and music and phone will play through my speakers. The "odd" issue is that I used to be able to hold a button on the flexmart for a few seconds and it would automatically launch the voice dialer on my phone. After this flash, at first it wouldn't even respond. After recycling both and selecting/testing the voice dialer app on the phone, it did play via BT to my speakers. However, now every time I hold the button down on the flexmart, it will simply launch and dial the last contact I called - rather than the voice dialer which is what I want. Any ideas? It's like the BT config on the phone is not properly reading the "code" being sent. I did check options on the pairing and there are only 2 selections - phone and music - both checked.
[Captivate Android Development] anishz:
i am on nightly 142, the phone ringtone rings for just about 5 secs and then goes silent. Its difficult to hear anything. this never happened before, did i mess something up in settings?, i have already checked the sound settings and it seems normal.
[Captivate Android Development] mark72501:
MMS?

I am having trouble receiving pics via mms. I can send but when it shows I have received one, it is just a black screen with whatever text they included. I am on AT&T with my Captivate. Something I should know that I need to tweak? Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I discovered later last night that though it will show in my sms conversation that I have received a pic, I cannot click on it and view it there. The ONLY way I can currently see it is long-press on it, save attachment, then go out with a file manager to where it saved it and open it there. Is this usual behavior for CM7 or do I have a bad flash of that? Any help, insight, etc., is appreciated.
[Captivate Android Development] agpsalazar:
I want to know whether to have the stable version(143) or the 145? ;)
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
#145 ...live life on the edge :p
[Captivate Android Development] Klyentel:
I'm on the stable build right now, but I'm having problems with the UI sounds (the noise made whenever you press something) It just stopped working. I looked in the settings/sound menu and I still have Audible Selection checked, I did a fresh wipe/install and still...same problem.
[Captivate Android Development] agpsalazar:
hahaha thanks partner :D
[Captivate Android Development] Raul77:
Question guys, if you been flashing latest nightly, do you still need to flash to this : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1297571 to get 7.1 ?
[Captivate Android Development] veener79:
Can this this be linked on the first page main post?
[Captivate Android Development] sixstringsg:
What do you mean slide to dismiss? I must be missing something...
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
must not have looked at the issue tracker like the first post suggests: http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmo...=ID Type Status Priority Device Owner Summary

it will be, atinm is aware of it, we have reviewed the video and it is useful as a SUPPLEMENT to the written instructions.

slide the notifications to the right in the notification tray and they disappear
[Captivate Android Development] SweetwaterBurns:
I think this might have something to do with the RIL polling bug. I've used speedtest with the phone reporting 3g and got 3mbs up, 2mbs down. Exactly the same as when it says H.If it were actually 3g, I'd be seeing 1 down(maybe) and around .6 up. Run speedtest and make sure its not just the phone misreporting things.
[Captivate Android Development] opcow:
The only problem I have with that is cosmetic. I was using a red them and it stayed pea green, whereas the included launcher changes to match your theme.
[Captivate Android Development] mossination:
Did anyone try that Skype thing where he said to change the thing in the build or whatever?
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
replace the shortcuts with the new icons. adw caches the icons so they aren't pulled live from the launcher/theme. just long press and readd the shortcut and it'll be themed to match
[Captivate Android Development] opcow:
For those of us who can't read?
[Captivate Android Development] MikeyMike01:
No, he means if you switch to another launcher instead if the crap it comes with, themes won't affect it.

Captivate, XDA Premium, Cyanogenmod
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
most theme engine themes have support for multiple launcher (hell the honeycomb theme is absurdly expansive at this point)
[Captivate Android Development] AdamSHayward:
Yes, I've run several i9000 roms and only had connection problems with one (do not recall which).
[Captivate Android Development] opcow:
Yes, non-themable crap vs. themable non-crap. Of course I'm not adverse to pea green so I the non-crap launcher is fine.
[Captivate Android Development] bay_wolf:
I'd say if people can't get this on their phone from the written instructions then they shouldn't be trying to at all. I'm not trying to sound rude to people or discredit the video but this is not for beginners and as such should not be dumbed down in this stage. Whenever they get out a stable release then have a video tutorial or something else to help people out but not in its current state. They need to just read through the forums and thread (yes the entire thread). Just my $0.02.
[Captivate Android Development] coderunner:
I had a radio_dump file show up on root of my sdcard. What is it? can i delete it?
[Captivate Android Development] cumanzor:
I think that at this point the release is quite stable even for newbs. Most common questions ITT are related to the installation procedure, and a lot of then can be answered with the video.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Android Development] ankitb4u:
If someone can write a script or a batch file to three button combo that be perfect and make this 10x easier.

sent from my CM7 gingerbread cappy.
[Captivate Android Development] SSMI:
In the pull down notification list you can slide the notifications off the left or right side to remove them. That way you can get rid of one or two without clearing the whole list.
[Captivate Android Development] whitesox311:
Ok so categorize this one under weird....but the graphics have been getting steadily choppier. It started when I took my similar card out and has gotten worse since then. Everywhere from scrolling through adw to the screen animations it looks ridiculous at this point.

Flashed hundreds of times and never seen anything like this.
[Captivate Android Development] whitesox311:
And by "similar" card, gingerbread meant " SIM"
[Captivate Android Development] whitesox311:
Oh and no video from YouTube all of a sudden....only audio

Its as if I lost the video driver
[Captivate Android Development] Aus_Azn:
No.
[Captivate Android Development] Thunder22:
My GPS is bad after switching from apex 10.1 with nexus s GPS tweaks. I still have the jvo base release nexus s 2.3.4 cwm flashable GPS fix file. Can this be flashed to solve my GPS problems or is there an indefinitely better solution to the GPS problem. Was getting 5-10m GPS locks.
[Captivate Android Development] bubbad58:
Disregard, I reflashed 7.1RCc and bluetooth is working. Also, I install ICS launcher and everything is faster.
[Captivate Android Development] The Boxinator:
My battery has been terri-bad ever since I flashed 104 I'm talking like I can't 1 hour of screen on on max brightness bad...
[Captivate Android Development] nimper:
That would kill anyone's battery on any phone.
[Captivate Android Development] The Boxinator:
Then how come on nightly 120ish I could go with 3 or 4 hours of screen on max brightness and still have like 30% left, also "media server" takes like 80% in my battery stats. While on Standby at least. What is that?
[Captivate Android Development] Raul77:
Hey guys,

i assume most of you also use your phone as MP3 player, i am having an issue (not sure if its CM7 or Android in general) i have a MP3 Album , its Best of 80's, with different Artist as mp3 Tag but all EXACT same Album name (best of 80's) but in music player when i select Album, i see 12 albums (best of 80's) it seem to have created 1 album per song,

in my MUSIC folder on my SD , i got a folder called Best of 80 and all 12 tracks inside it.

is this a normal android behavior ?

Thanks,
[Captivate Android Development] ballz0iron:
when was the last time you flashed stock/factory restored?
[Captivate Android Development] The Boxinator:
Right before coming to the latest nightly at the time.
[Captivate Android Development] CptTwinkie:
Is there anywhere I can find out what features are in development for cm? I'd rather look things up if possible than ask a bunch of annoying questions...like this one I guess

Sent from my Captivate w/ CyanogenMOD 7
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
http://review.cyanogenmod.com
[Captivate Android Development] tbrummell:
I see this exact same behavior with a couple of albums I have. And no, it's not normal.
[Captivate Android Development] Raul77:
I tried everything and no go, u know whats interesting is I added another Mix album , EXACT same scenario, that one shows up OK, i just cant figure out whats wrong with this one ! i tried deleting and re-adding, rebooting etc. no luck whatsoever ...
[Captivate Android Development] ballz0iron:
You need to do it every 2-3 nightlies you flash if you want maximum battery life and atleast once every 5-6 nightlies to clean things up you can just back up your apps and go into CWM do a factory reset, then restore as you would a fresh cm7 install I'm still getting consistently 24-36 hours of battery life (medium usage) this way.
[Captivate Android Development] SweetwaterBurns:
It has to do with the way your mp3 files are tagged and the way the software you use for syncing handles them. I use banshee and have the same problem with some albums. I've resorted to manually copying any albums with multiple artists.
[Captivate Android Development] airtower:
ID3 has a tag for compilation albums, however it's not supported the same way by all media management software. iTunes uses it, but I use amarok and gtkpod to manage my iPod and it's hit or miss. I don't have any compilations on my phone so I can't say for sure how it works, but android appears as a mass media device so it should be taking the data directly from the ID3 tags (unlike iPods, which maintain ID3 data in a seperate database).

Depending on the implementation, you will see all artists on the complilation as "Various Artists" when browsing. The correct artist will display when each track plays.

TL;DR: check your compilation albums for the appropriate tag on your computer, then retransfer to your phone
[Captivate Android Development] derek4484:
24-36 hours? REALLY? I'm running nightly #140 and am not using auto-brightness because the auto-brightness setting is waay too dim. But I have the screen brightness set only about 1/8th of the way up. I'm lucky if I can make it to 5:00pm with any charge after charging all night and taking it off charge at 7:30am. So, I'm struggling to get 9.5 hours on a full charge and I'm what I would consider a moderate to light user, I'm at my desktop all day long so I have little time to use my phone during the day.
[Captivate Android Development] skatcat31:
I get anywhere from fifty to seventy with a stock battery...

Sent from something from somewhere
[Captivate Android Development] shaolin95:
I think the question was the time actually using the phone not with the phone off though....
[Captivate Android Development] tiuk:
FYI, you can tweak the autobrightness levels/behavior in CM settings.
[Captivate Android Development] airtower:
not that this should be news to anyone in here, but remember that usage levels are entirely qualitative...medium use by my standards might be heavy use to others and so on. Also consider whether or not services that run regardless of the screenstate (sync, modem, etc) are enabled and with what frequency.

To that end, if i could make it from 7am to 12am on a single charge, I'd be a happy camper. But alsa, i invested in a collection of various chargers.
[Captivate Android Development] littlewierdo:
Two apps - Juice Defender/Tasker & Autostarts.

Resetting battery stats might also help...

Use TB to backup your apps, do a factory reset, use TB to restore your apps.

Battery life is also slightly affected on CM (in a negative way) because as I understand it, there is a known driver issue that the CM team cannot fix because they do not have the source code for said driver.
[Captivate Android Development] nimper:
To be more specific, the source code is not available for making the various components sleep properly when the device is not in use.
[Captivate Android Development] steph2:
Slightly is an understatement been back and forth with CM7 and Samsung GB captivate roms and battery life is at least 4x better on Samsung gb roms don't say try flashing form 100% give it a week or wipe battery stats bump charge or any of that nonsense, been there done that. When I can go 2 days without chargeing sometimes 3 to barely get out of a work day with same use its just plain horrible. Now I can only do 2 days or more on Samsung captivate gb roms. Not I9000 or cm7.

I9000 roms and cm7 are close in battery life.
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
CM7 for the i897 is built off of Nexus S and i9000 GB sources. Once i897 GB sources come out, hopefully we will see some battery life improvements.
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I thought they already did no?
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
No. There have been many i897 GB firmware leaks, but no source. Samsung generally does not release the source code until several days after the firmware is officially released.
[Captivate Android Development] RichMD:
To clarify, the amount of differnce you see between CM7 and SamSung ROMs depends on your usage. If the main problem is CM7 uses more power when the phone is "supposed to be" sleeping then a "light" user will notice a BIG difference since their phone "sleeps" most of the time. If you are a "heavy" user then CM7 might even have better battery life since the "sleeping" is insignificant. That's probably why people have such varied opinions about the difference in battery life - at least in my opinion... ;)
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Good to know .. thanks!
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
The Rogers i896 recently got an official Gingerbread firmware if I am not mistaken. Does anyone have any leads on the modem/radio from this firmware? Since the i896 is a i897 without an audience chip and CM doesn't currently have audience support for the i897, I'd like to give an "official" i896 Captivate modem a try to see how it does...
[Captivate Android Development] RichMD:
Does that mean SamSung will likely release source for the I896 GB very soon and that would allow changes to I897 CM7 to properly "put to sleep" components and battery life would be improved significantly (if your phone sleeps most of the time)?
[Captivate Android Development] oriveradel:
for those interested on the new market from the Nexus Prime... you can get it here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=18288455#post18288455

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ONE QUESTION how can I get my battery % to work CM7.1??
[Captivate Android Development] SirBrettrick:
Settings > CyanogenMod settings > Interface > Status bar tweaks > Battery percentage

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate Android Development] airtower:
This.

I was able to get two days easy on the weekends (light usage) when I was on apex, but battery life during the week when I was using the phone much more was about the same, if not worse.
[Captivate Android Development] bubbad58:
Contacts Not Working

After installing 7.1.0 RC when I access contacts, it shows all contacts but will not allow me to open any individual contact. I receive the following error: "Sorry

The Process android.processs acore has stopped nexpectedly.. Please try again."

I have rebooted numerous times with no change. I when to recovery and restore with no change. I factory reset and I installed nightly 10112011, and no change. Any suggestions I should try?
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Manage applications > contacts> clear data

beats me but try that. No issues here :o
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
You didn't restore your contacts using TiBU, did you? Samsung's address book was "tweaked" as part of TW, so it probably will not work to restore your contacts using TiBU. Most people just allow their google account and/or Business e-mail accounts backup/restore their contacts.
[Captivate Android Development] johnhazelwood:
Since update 7.1, I find my phone rebooting while on phone calls. Anyone else experiencing this?
[Captivate Android Development] bubbad58:
Yes, I did use TIBU to restore all of my apps. Is there any way to fix this?
[Captivate Android Development] XsceneXhippieX:
go through titanium backup and delete ANY AND ALL SYSTEM DATA, look into TiBu's color coding whatever to just cherry pick all the red names (or whatever color system apps are in TiBu, i think its red but im going off of memory) and DELETE the backups of ALL, not some, but ALL system data, then wipe data/factory reset from cwm, reflash the rom, reflash gapps, and when you restore data from TiBu there should be no issues whatsoever, all of your contact information should be backed up by your gmail anyways (if you checked the sync box before) so there should be no issues, also make an attempt to keep any bigger apps (im gonna guestimate and say 6+ mb apps) that arent widgets or necessary to be loaded at boot on the sd card and not the phone itself, that way the /datadata partition wont get full and make your phone act crappy

hope i helped! any questions will be answered asap