yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
it doesn't ask you because it doesn't have to. it detects your phone as a captivate with BML partition layout (which is how the phone comes stock) and goes "ok, here is a file that someone uploaded for a BML captivate" and that's all you have access to. there is no need to differentiate between each model because you cannot see the other models.
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
That is how I installed it.
[Captivate Android Development] scott2ride:
Thanks. I appreciate the help.

Im new to all this and looking forward to CM7.

Hey, Im on Continuum v3.5 (Froyo 2.2.1) and havent used CM7 before. So if I understand correctly, all I need to do is simply flash back to stock Froyo and make sure it is rooted.

Install ROM Manager & CWM. Download CM7 via ROM manager, and flash.!!! (With full battery and wipe Dalvik cache)

All seems too easy :)

Is that correct?

And should I also wipe data & Cache, and back up existing rom?

Thanks in advance for your help. I have read many contradictory things in the last 30 pages of this thread so thought Id better ask :p
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Yep they made it super easy. ROM does a wipe for you and it never hurts to make a backup.
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
if you are already on 2.2 with a kernel that has CWM (which I think continuum does have), then all you have to do is download the zip from ROM manager and install. no flashing back to 2.1 or 2.2 necessary. just stay where you are and install the zip

it will wipe EVERYTHING so back up what you need (apps and contacts and documents). let it do it's thing through ROM manager and you'll have CM7 in 5 minutes.
[Captivate Android Development] scott2ride:
Seriously!!!! I'm grinning like a bastard! :D

But will it be a clean install or am I best to reinstall stock?
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
there's no real benefit since everything (from the ground up) is wiped out... the only things that aren't touched are samsung's bootloaders, /efs, and your sd cards...
[Captivate Android Development] QuarkGluonSoup:
What kind of things does samsung change when they modify stock android into "samsung firmware", besides adding the touchwiz skin?
[Captivate Android Development] inneyeseakay:
Thanks for the response guys... Depending on the wife's plans this evening... I will be flashing this when I get home or tomorrow morning at the latest!

I have been looking forward to an AOSP experiance since switching over from the Nexus One...
[Captivate Android Development] whitesox311:
doesnt matter if you've converted to ext4 before hand or not.
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
at some point or another, samsung pulled in ALL the android source code and modified it heavily (sorta like how sense does it) until it had almost nothing in common with the original except the dalvik VM it runs on top of. a lot of these changes caused issues that made standard android actually non-functional by default.

yeah, it was a massively confusing point when it first happened to me (spun the phone for like 5 minutes trying to figure out what was going on)... GuiPer said he should have an easy fix for it on his "list of stuff to get done"
[Captivate Android Development] bveditz:
Actually, I didn't ask (i only responded).

And I agree that newbies shouldn't be in this forum. However, I think there is a clear distinction between those of us who can install and troubleshoot roms versus rom developers. We have both in this forum. As a similar example, you may consider yourself a technical user of windows, but it doesn't mean you know that Firefox 3.0 utilizes mozcrt19.dll. Thus, I would make this same argument if someone told me that it was common knowledge to know that as well.

Anyway, I'm bored of this discussion as it's no longer germane to the topic. :)
[Captivate Android Development] jhernand1102:
When you flash the kernel in Odin it will complete and say reset in blue but your phone will still say downloading do not turn off. Make sure the blue progress bar is all the way to the right on your phone, if it is just pull the battery and use the 3 button combo to get back to recovery and continue on. That what I did and it working perfect. I think since we check not to auto reboot it is waiting of ruse to take the next action. Good luck and you won't be disappointed.
[Captivate Android Development] sold1erjjt:
I know I might get shot for asking this again, but the answer I got didn't quite help, with some of the Voodoo CM7 kernels what do I have to do to have WiFi working? Haven't flashed yet but just precautionary. I'm missing Voodoo sound badly on this haha, thanks in advanced
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
a properly built kernel/zip will have included tun.ko, bcm4329.ko, and cifs.ko files that are necessary to get properly functional wifi.
[Captivate Android Development] bveditz:
Ahh, thanks. I had the orientation problem when I got into work and didn't know what caused it.

I've noticed with this rom that I got more satellites but the accuracy jumped around a bit more between 30-60 ft. More testing is really needed by everyone, although I personally have decided over the course of many many roms, that the gps issue is our own little antennagate where YMMV.
[Captivate Android Development] sold1erjjt:
Yeah so far the one I saw didn't have that, as well I heard you ha e to have an "older" version of the Control app. Do you have any links to some of the kernels? Just wondering?
[Captivate Android Development] demonte21:
I've been running this since yesterday... no reboot so far. no FC at all.

Unplug This morning at 9h AM. it is now 3hPM and battery is at 71%. Made 5 phone calls... some SMS... a bit of facebook/Web surfing.

I'm working on a 7th floor hotel (I Got the rogers cell tower about 25 feet above my head!) but getting really low signal... maybe because of Wall, or because i'm too close. Anyway, signal is very low, so it's switching from 3G and EDGE all the time.
[Captivate Android Development] Ranatsu:
i have had no issues with battery life either. I think those people may have the wifi turned on and since it doesn't sleep without the kernel panic.. that could be the problem.
[Captivate Android Development] buddy17:
well after installing firefly and rebooting twice....i booted into recovery and checked the lagfix and everything was still rfs. Thats why i was so confused.

But, everything does seem to be working fine....the only lag i have noticed is opening/scrolling the app drawer and a little in the notification bar. Nothing horrible though, just not completely smooth
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
https://github.com/kangsterizer/kernel-binaries use the appropriate zip

replace ADW with an alternative launcher... ADW is only included because it's open source and more configurable than launcher2
[Captivate Android Development] IamSonoma:
Not a problem, just used the KB1 as a template. If you open the CMW zips you will not they are different.

I am hoping my battery life will get better. In KP5 with KP1 modem I could go 2 days without a charge.

I am in no way complaining. CM7 blows that away in features and usage. :)
[Captivate Android Development] oninjagaiden:
Last night GPS was all over the place for me but for some reason I got excellent gps tracking this morning... all I did was flash a new theme(mattedblues), and also my orientation was freezing on whatever orientation google maps was on but after going in and out of google maps a few times, it fixed itself. Thank you so much to the dev team.

Using JK4 modem
[Captivate Android Development] sold1erjjt:
OK cool thank you
[Captivate Android Development] halfsoul:
It is not included. What I would like to know is if it is possible to add in-call recording. For example, this allows in-call recording to be added to Serendipity.
[Captivate Android Development] TheEscapist:
Are you even flashing the initial zip?
[Captivate Android Development] QuarkGluonSoup:
So why do the other rom developers, like darky and doc, use "samsung firmware android" and cyanogen use stock android?
[Captivate Android Development] scott2ride:
Awesome!:D
[Captivate Android Development] iamrahul:
Now that the GB source is out and plenty of roms available, do we have any update/success on this...Loving CM7 on my cappy, but m still trying to figure out how to play avi and flv videos natively with hardware acceleration on my device.
[Captivate Android Development] atinm:
Samsung does not open source the framework changes they hacked in and does not open source the user space libraries that use the GPU.
[Captivate Android Development] atompson:
Titanium Backup

Anyone know how to get Titanium Backup to see the external SD card in CM7? I had to copy both the backup directory and license file over to the internal SD card to get TiBu to see them.
[Captivate Android Development] scott2ride:
Can you help?

Ive used ROM manager with an updated clockwork Mod, to download the CM7 file.

All good. I select the check box for google apps and to wipe cache and it resets into recovery mode and begins the install. 5 seconds later it stops and says in red...

E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E:signature verification failed

I have reset the phone and wiped data and downloaded the CM7 file via rom manager twice now. Same result.

Oh, and Im currently on Continuum 3.5 (a froyo 2.2.1)

Any ideas?

EDIT: Yeah! Pulled battery and it restarted and loaded CM7 quite quickly. Now to test :)
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Are you looking in the right spot? The external SD is located in /mnt /emmc.
[Captivate Android Development] TheShamsMan:
Last night I flashed the latest CM7 twice. Both times I flashed stock and cleared all cache and both times I got really laggy and choppy performance from the overall useage. There were a few bugs as well.

I have reconfirmed my flash steps with users on this thread and in case it was a bad flash, I flashed twice and both times got the same overall performance.

Just to make sure it wasn't my device specifically, I flashed Mikey's latest ROM and barring a few bugs, it runs pretty smooth.

Can anyone recommend anything I can do differently?
[Captivate Android Development] flucks:
I cannot for the life of me get my Home, Back or Search key to work and I have to turn auto rotate off. :/
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Try a reboot.. did you use ROM manager to install?
[Captivate Android Development] flucks:
Nah, I couldn't get that way to work for me. I Odin'd that file that they gave us with the 512 PIT and then flashed the initial in recovery. Probably screwed it up in there.
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Are you sure you grabbed the captivate initial and not the galaxy s file. Usually buttons not working right is a sign of the wrong file flashed. Also you don't need Odin anymore to install. Its way easier to use cwm or the new RM method.
[Captivate Android Development] flucks:
Yeah I got the correct one. :/ I was coming from 2.3 bootloaders and couldn't get the root for 2.2 to work. I am going to try to root 2.1 and try it from there. Thanks for the suggestions, though. :)
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Ahh.. that's your problem. Coming from gingerbread bootloaders. Go back to 2.1 and get root> ROM manager. That's the easiest and best bet to get CM7 working correctly.
[Captivate Android Development] scott2ride:
With ROM manager I downloaded CM7. All installed and running.

Have downloaded and installed GAPPS, but cant find it to load it?

Also, how the hell do I sync my contacts with Gmail? because it only allows me to set up an exchange server for contact sync!
[Captivate Android Development] flucks:
And that worked. Thanks.
[Captivate Android Development] :
Once you've got GAPPS installed you'll have the option to add a Google account. I just skipped doing GAPPS through ROM Manager and downloaded/flashed the file from the instructions linked to in the OP.
[Captivate Android Development] SweetwaterBurns:
Make sure you set up rom manager to use the built in recovery image, otherwise you'll reboot into CWM 2.5 and the gapps package will error out due to scripting changes.

Hit menu in rom manager and select manual flash override and it will walk you through using the built in CWM 3. Try flashing gapps again and it should work.
[Captivate Android Development] scott2ride:
I downloaded GAPPS via ROM manager, but cant find it in the phone.

Where are the instructions you followed?
[Captivate Android Development] :
Right here: http://goo.gl/OpcVP

Just scroll down to the part that says Downloads, download the GAPPS addon, and flash in recovery. ROM Manager was wonky acting for me when it came to GAPPS, too. CM7 flashed like a charm through it. But had to do the GAPPS this way.

Different route to the same end... so it works.
[Captivate Android Development] SweetwaterBurns:
Edit: Probably should note you'll have to do this to get ota updates to work properly as the scripts for CWM 2.5 format data... Someone with more knowledge correct me if I'm wrong, I just scanned the scripts briefly.
[Captivate Android Development] InfDaMarvel:
Is Rom Manager the beginning of official CM7 support?
[Captivate Android Development] whyareyou:
I tried installing the latest nightly from download.cyanogenmod.com and it seems to be giving an error saying ro.product.device == captivatemtd not found or something like that. Are we supposed to be getting the nightlies from that site?
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
captivate already has official nightlies from CM7 build farm

not yet. it's a test run process. we had to rename the device to allow it not to conflict with the normal captivate and the one we use (mtd-based). we will be explaining the process for transitioning from the old builds to the new one soon enough. we just don't want people flashing those nightlies *quite* yet, as they're very possibly going to be broken
[Captivate Android Development] airtower:
[obligatory excuse for ignorance]

Are we ok if we are coming from an i9000 based ROM (Preception 10.3...yea I've been out of the game for awhile)? About phone still shows at i897, but I just want to make sure before I try flashing through ROM manager.
[Captivate Android Development] joeybear23:
I am having the same problem. Even with 4 bars i can't get the XDA app to load consistently, browsing times out, weather apps can't update, downloads time out... I have tried JL3, JPG, JK3, and JK4 modems with the same results.
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
if the phone identifies as a captivate (which any ROM, even based on i9000 ROM's should), then you should be fine. but you might want to do the "harder" process of downloading the initial zip straight from sourceforge just to confirm you have the right zip.
[Captivate Android Development] airtower:
Thanks...I'll guinea pig it with ROM manager because I'm a risk taker like that. If I'm lucky enough I'll get to bust out my old blackberry bold to get me through the rest of the workday.
[Captivate Android Development] TheShamsMan:
Ewwwww, Blackberry. ;)
[Captivate Android Development] amerikian:
So i flashed back to 2.1, installed Cog 4.4.2, installed ROM manager, flashed CM7 Nightly 5.16.

All of my music, pictures, and videos now show up in the media managers. BUT, when i browse to my external SD card it shows it as empty. There are no files in there. But all my external SD files show up in my media mangers...

:confused::confused:
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
Congrats on mainline!

It is nice to see our Cappies make mainline before any other SGS device. I remember when the Vibrant guys started the device poll on the CM SGS forum and thought the Captivate people were "cheating" to boost their results. Here we are months later, the Captivate is CM mainline before even the i9000!
[Captivate Android Development] airtower:
CM7 installed flawlessly through ROM manager from Perception 10.3

having trouble getting gapps, but I'll keep trying

edit: GAPPS solved by flashing through CWM, now unleash the kraken!
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
new mount point is /mnt/emmc *NOT* /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
[Captivate Android Development] amerikian:
Copy that - confirmed working. Thanks!

Great ROM by the way. Super fast, smooth, and stable.
[Captivate Android Development] proav8tor:
I know the captivate doesn't have the front facing camera but does the gchat video work with it to atleast receive video? Is so I think I'm missing something because I can't start a video chat from my phone nor can I start video chat from my PC to my phone...

Using CM7 5.16.11 with gapps 20110307 all from RM install...
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
20110307 gapps does not have the proper gtalk app. you must find a gapps zip from 0503 or later (which isn't being officially distributed for CM right now, for a number of reasons that are explained here: http://goo-inside.me/gapps at the bottom)
[Captivate Android Development] proav8tor:
Ok thanks I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something or that maybe I botched the install...
[Captivate Android Development] asshopo:
MMS from iPhone users...

For anyone having issues with MMS from iPhone users (which is everyone, but some people don't really care, I didn't for a bit), download and install Go SMS Pro. They've made it work based on their software and not the Android (or in this case CM7) base code.

I was using Handcent, and I will go back to it when the issue is fixed in CM7, but until then, Go SMS Pro does what I need it to do.

Just figured I'd post it in case other people are wanting a fix 'right now'.
[Captivate Android Development] rcllcr:
"Changelog:

20110516

- ROMManager support"

Does this mean we can just download and flash directly from Rom Manager?
[Captivate Android Development] atinm:
Currently you can download and flash the version from TeamHacksung (that's us). Soon you will just get it as part of normal CyanogenMod nightlies and releases (soon as in maybe a day, or five).
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
exciting stuff happening:D
[Captivate Android Development] comdei:
Thats exciting but I'm sad that we won't get nightlies for free anymore with rommanager support :D

(always something to complain about, just kidding!)
[Captivate Android Development] WickedNite:
So if I have CM7 installed and want to flash another rom, I'll just be able to flash my desired rom using CWM?
[Captivate Android Development] :
You just have to check manually. The nightlies are still available in the free version or ROM Manager. The paid version just notifies you when one is there.
[Captivate Android Development] Boobie Watcher:
so if im coming from miui i can just use rom manager and d/l and install???
[Captivate Android Development] SynGamer:
How is the battery life compared to Andromeda 3?
[Captivate Android Development] Aus_Azn:
Would it be a wipe flash or nowipe?
[Captivate Android Development] Johnston212:
Ok, I can understand how ROM Manager is easier, but I do want to get something cleared up. Is the CM7 file I'm seeing a nightly or a complete ROM? In other words, if I already have CM7 installed, will this act as a completely new install or just an update? I've been trying to keep up, but all I keep seeing is talk of a new install.

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] Belaflek:
Im not sure if this deserves to go here but where are the dialer key press sounds located in cm7?
[Captivate Android Development] ls377:
You'll be able to get them from the Teamdouche site.

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate Android Development] Johnston212:
I actually can't find the 5/16/11 nightly update on the teamhacksung sourceforge site. I'd rather instal that way before I move onto using ROM Manager.
[Captivate Android Development] :
Pretty sure they're not wipe updates. Someome else can correct me if I'm mistaken. But you'll have to reinstall GAAPS for the time being.
[Captivate Android Development] joeybear23:
If you do not want ROM Manager to install it, you can always just have ROM Manager download it, then manually install it yourself through CWM.
[Captivate Android Development] joeybear23:
Settings > Sound > Audible Touch Tones
[Captivate Android Development] pvr:
(emphasis mine)

heh, for me they can call me their ***** if they want as long as they still provide this quality work for free.

seriously, I've seen worse work from paid stuff :\
[Captivate Android Development] atinm:
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=captivatemtd

These won't work yet. But that's the place. Should have new ones up soon that will work.
[Captivate Android Development] amucinom:
have been running CM7 for a couple of days now... so far so good. however, i've gotten two FC loops, one with the launcher and one with the phone. has this happened to anybody else?
[Captivate Android Development] SynGamer:
OK, check the FAQ, it says to have Froyo and CWM...do I use Odin to flash to "Full Froyo with Bootloaders and CMR for Odin"? I just downloaded the file on the cyanogenmod.com site. First-timer so I want to make sure I'm doing this correctly.
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
you are not doing this remotely correctly at all. please read the instructions linked in the original post of this thread.
[Captivate Android Development] stuff:
I'm having difficulty installing this rom as well.

When I install it, do I need to now flash over one of the kernels for CM7?
[Captivate Android Development] atompson:
I know where the External SD card is, I just can't get TiBu to see it. You do the search and it doesn't find it.
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
maybe tell us what your issue is so we can help you?

menu, preferences, backup folder location, back, back, emmc, titaniumbackup

done
[Captivate Android Development] stuff:
Well, rommanager wasn't working for me. It kept flashing over the i9000 cm7?

I just flashed manually via CWM and it worked. But I cannot figure the RomManager situation.
[Captivate Android Development] joeybear23:
When you tell Rom Manager to flash Clockwork Recovery, it asks what device you have. That will dictate which ROM you see in the download section. If you told it I9000, it will give you the I9000 download. Make sure you tell it CaptivateMTD... it will warn you that there is no official Captivate MTD version, but just tell it you have manually installed it. Then go to the download section and get the TeamHacksung 5/16 ROM...
[Captivate Android Development] EthanMG:
ok so i see in multiple places that, to install this correctly, you must install rom manager and flash the 3.x clockwork mod, but when i select flash clockwork mod, it asks what type of phone i have from a list, i select captivate, and it automatically installs cwm 2.x for me. no where does it allow me to choose the 3.x version. any help? probably a stupid question...
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
you can only select 3.x once you are already on CM7. please follow the written instructions linked in the first post exactly.
[Captivate Android Development] stuff:
Thanks. I didn't realize that I had selected i9000. I actually didn't think I did, but it appears I did.
[Captivate Android Development] joeybear23:
Did the same thing myself, that's how I recognized your issue... :)
[Captivate Android Development] Keland44:
i would be interesting in knowing this also

used the rommanager method to get this on my captivate and it was giving me some issues but i got it on there thanks again for the great work
[Captivate Android Development] stuff:
I thanked you for being awesome. :)
[Captivate Android Development] Kaik541:
if you want to get off CM7 you *have* to use ODIN... it will *ALWAYS* be that way
[Captivate Android Development] cease:
wipe or not

Once you download a new ROM nightly, you only need to do a Cache Wipe and a Dalvic Wipe (under Advanced section of Clockwork menu). Then simply install the nightly zip using the other Clockwork menu items (install Zip from SD card). All your data and programs will still be there, and you'll have the latest updates to CM7.