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[Captivate Android Development] Smasher816:
read here fellow developers (or people hit by kernel.org being down).

There is now a SOLUTION!

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17585821&postcount=49
[Captivate Android Development] techguy615:
Love CM7

Well regardless of what few issues I have encountered with CM7, I love it. I can say for a fact I have tried TONS of roms for my Cappy. i897 builds, i9000 builds (pick a set of letters basically and I have probably tried a variant of it), MIUI, underclocked, overclocked, lag fixes, no lag fixes, whatever... I have come back from the brink of bricked more times than I can count! by nature I was a flashaholic!

Initially I was a bit resistant to CM7. I am not sure why. Probably because it was in such heavy development. I finally made the decision to go with it and just see what happened. I can say that I honestly love it leaps and bounds more than any other rom I have tried. No lag fixes needed. The file system smokes anything samsung-ish that I have tried. Coming from a background of working with software every day, I love the layout as well.

When it comes time for my upgrade, I must say I have made the decision that I won't go to ANY device that doesn't have an active CM project associated with it.

Thanks for the hard work and dedication, as I know it is a labor love and in some cases a true obsession to learn and better the community.
[Captivate Android Development] nimper:
I think it'd be a pretty cool addition. Just because you can use terminal emulator to achieve the same function doesn't mean it's the best solution.

edit: After using it, it's an interesting concept but I don't know if it's really appropriate to bundle with the ROM. A cool download though.
[Captivate Android Development] Smasher816:
No problem.

Tell me if it works for you.

pretty much you just:

replace .repo/default.xml with https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android/commit/ce3ef4fa6fb88b2babe11b34a645a15b9b0025f3

fix android_external_bluetooth_??? (if it errors for you)

run "http://git-repo.googlecode.com/files/repo-1.12" > ~/bin/repo"

then you should be able to:

repo sync

and build fine
[Captivate Android Development] sixstringsg:
It worked for me without doing anything. When I synced, it did the changes itself.
[Captivate Android Development] Smasher816:
Well whatever.

Repo sync works, that's all that matters...
[Captivate Android Development] littlewierdo:
I went to add something to the wiki and realized, Im not sure if there is an answer to this question yet and I want to make sure before I add anything.

Right now, there is no way to install apks via the market that are over 30 mb due to the way the phone is formatted.

Based on my understanding, there is no fix or temporary way to increase the allotted cache size, right?

This lowly little peon doesnt want to make any mistakes.

*added* well, I went ahead and added it to the general Galaxy S group of questions at the bottom, hopefully this is not specific to the Captivate and hopefully it is worded correctly.
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
My understanding is that the market issue is due to the size of the /cache parition. What is the size of your /cache partition? I have seen references to 30M, so I checked mine. I have a 80M /cache partition with 43.8M free. I have not done anything different to change the partitioning. With 43.8M free, I should be able to download a ~43M app from the Market.

Perhaps I am wrong and the market download issues are related to something else...
[Captivate Android Development] sixstringsg:
Yeah, that's how big mine is as well.
[Captivate Android Development] XsceneXhippieX:
since google has been only letting tegra devices see tegra only games/apps on the market (and multiple similar scenarios) the market checks your device and only allots certain apps per your phones provided id, not sure if it would cause the issues people are experiencing (i have experienced the same no space issue on 5 devices all on different roms including cyanogen mod now) but that may be a possibility, and maybe we shouldnt be looking at the cache partition, what partition is /datadata on? when my /datadata gets full i cant download **** from the market on the cappy (no other device has ever even had a somewhat similar issue to this /datadata nonsense) sorry to beat the dead horse but i keep getting more and more info that leads me back to that stupid directory i cant stand hearing about anymore, i think that is what we should be trying to resize because the cache is obviously large enough, it is on my cappy and 2 others on the thread at least at this point thus leaving the random market issue that almost everyone has experienced at least on one flash at this point, its easily fixable yes, but at this point cyanogenmod has NO other issues... thus the biggest/only issue left with cyanogenmod that i can see throughout the past month(s) ive had my captivate is /datadata + market downloads, yes someone will probably complain about battery life every so often but thats up to the user, mine and many others have excellent battery life now, and the 2g/3g toggle i guess might make the list too to be fair, but thats it, everything is not only smooth but also super fast, 99.9% functional, and just a joy to use

just trying to give back my 2 cents to the community, please tell me what you think :)
[Captivate Android Development] littlewierdo:
Well, Ive found another little annoying bug regarding the dsp manager, it doesnt 'save' my eq enabled setting between reboots. What I mean is, when I reboot, I have to disable and then re-enable the eq for it to work correctly. This may be fixed since Nightly 104, but this little peon doesnt have a Linux PC at the moment to compile and build with all the latest changes (and Im not sure Id be able to, not sure if the source code is even downloadable atm).

So, the above, the limit to the market app install size and the limited app install partition are probably the only three issues I personally have. Other than that, CM has been fantastic since around nightly 80ish for me.

I dont really know what the fix is regarding the market providing support over 30 MB, one of the devs mentioned recently that there was a 30 MB cap, now Im beginning to wonder if there isnt something else going on here. And if this is related to the datadata thing, all the more reason this might want to be fixed or at least looked at.

I happen to be one of those weirdos who is of the opinion that the user should not have to worry about moving apps and clearing caches constantly. I dont really like having apps spread across my device and having apps on the sdcard creates its own set of problems (not having access to widgets, save games not transferring correctly when moving apps, in the case of Audible, it swaps every few minutes from seeing my audio books and not seeing my audio books that I have downloaded on the device yet after I moved the app back to the datadata folder it worked(s) fine).

Android is a powerful OS, there must be a better solution for doing this, I just dont know enough myself to suggest anything, and even if I did, Im not sure if Id be taken seriously given the current situation.

These guys are more knowledgeable about Android than the 99% of us who can merely speculate what is going on. They probably know exactly what is going on, they had a reason for what they chose to do (whether it be a hardware limitation or the possibility of a performance hit or maybe both) and the choice is up to the ones who are knowledgeable enough to either decide to leave it, or make adjustments.

Its much like a doctor approaching you and saying, we can either do chemo therapy, surgically remove the cancer, or try some other method without giving you the details of how any of them work and what the pros and cons are for each. A doctor obviously knows more than I do and often times is trained to explain this stuff in simple terms for their patients as many dont have medical background education wise.

We know enough to be 'dangerous', 'they' know enough to make an intelligent decision.

Im not saying there is a solution that is cut and dry, there might be concessions that have to be made, possibly much to severe for the CM team (who probably know the details) to want to modify this. But since the majority of us dont really understand, we just scratch our head wondering, 'is my Android phone flat, or round?'
[Captivate Android Development] XsceneXhippieX:
The dsp manager bug is an editable setting in dsp manager itself that has been set to default to reset back to the original settings after removing the headset, i assume to prevent you from plugging in inadequette speakers and blowing them due to dsp managers settings, soooooo, the only "bugs" left are all seemingly linked to the /datadata directory as far as i can see, i mean my phone tells me error every time i try to turn on the wifi hotspot, but i tap once more and it turns on, and i cant turn it on from the notification bar toggle due to it not being able to clear said error while the actual settings menu can (so i long press it and toggle it on/off from the settings menu instead of the notification bar, therefore its technically working for all intents and purposes, just not as fast/convenient as it could be) but we could go through a list of dozens of nitpicky buggy functions and spend tons of time worrying about them, or we could fix the things like not being able to install an app you desire on your phone that any stock android phone has no problem with, or having to forcably manage your apps differently because of some mysterious /datadata directory that "fills up" EXTREMELY prematurely, i dont care as much for features like what my sd card directory is called or located at, as long as i can find and access it i have no issues, only the functions that i find essential to the rom as a whole, like not worrying about "how do i successfully install an app?" because the answer to that should always be tap the install button and wait a few seconds in my opinion

please dont take anything written in this post as disrespect or singling out any individuals, i meant nothing of the sort, i only mean to further understand these subjects and to voice my opinion, thank you
[Captivate Android Development] littlewierdo:
Agreed.

And thanks for the tip regarding the dsp manager, but if dsp 'is' resetting, the 'enable eq' checkbox should clear on reboot. I have to clear it (disable, but not really disable since it already is disabled even tho it shows enabled...confused??) and then re-enable it (tick the checkbox).

It isnt a big deal, it was just something I noticed. Is it worthy of attention, maybe at some point.

But when you get down to it, this rom is simply amazing. No other developer(s) can claim the progress that CM has taken since it began in its early days of yuckiness to what it is now.
[Captivate Android Development] comdei:
Wow it seems like development has really stopped for captivate :(
[Captivate Android Development] Raul77:
anyone know where i can download a CM7 compatible modem? i tried all the links that i could find all broken :(

Thanks,
[Captivate Android Development] sixstringsg:
berryfx.com/stewart/Modems/
[Captivate Android Development] speedy_11:
Development hasn't been stopped. As smasher explains:
[Captivate Android Development] sixstringsg:
That issue was fixed.
[Captivate Android Development] Smasher816:
So let the development resume...

So is there any reason for the build bot not to work from now on?
[Captivate Android Development] sixstringsg:
There shouldn't be. If I can build, it should be able to as well.
[Captivate Android Development] hamwbone:
I finally decided to go from paragon rc6 to cyanogen and have been loving it so far. I am running nightly 08312011 and talon kernel. My only issue is the volume for notifications and my phone ringing are very low, even before I installed the talon kernel. I have check all the sound volume settings as well as the attenuation setting and DSP/voodoo control settings and am stuck. The captivate wasn't the loudest before but I can't even hear it ringing in my pants and my alarm won't wake me up. I searched for volume issues but so many results came back volume rocker launchers and 3 button fixes.

Any help would be great and as always thanks for every ones hard work.
[Captivate Android Development] kschumake83:
Go to settings/CyanogenMOD settings/ sound and set the attenuation to 0 DB and it should improve
[Captivate Android Development] hamwbone:
thanks for the quick reply but I have already tried that - didn't do much - if anything.
[Captivate Android Development] mgfjd:
Battery life was awesome the first week. On my second week, there's something killing my battery.. I have to leave this ROM until the issue is figured out
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Bettery life isn't the best ever on this ROM but its not really that bad.. chances are its an app acting up or something else that can be fixed user end.. if that's the case, you may be waiting awhile for it to get "figured out" ;)

**been on CM7 for what feels like forever now. I get a bare minimum of 10-12hrs off a single charge. But that is bare minimum .. I have seen 24+ with a custom kernel and a little tweaking :)
[Captivate Android Development] Chahk:
Is there a setting for keeping the capacitive buttons lit for as long as the screen is on?
[Captivate Android Development] cfili:
Try the "keep the lights on" app in the market. Have not tried it on CM7 but worked on other ROMs for me.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Android Development] XsceneXhippieX:
the app doesnt work o cm7 (at least when i tried it some weeks ago) but if you really want the capacitive buttons lit up hit up the custom kernel threads on this forum, like TaolnMTD: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1215876&highlight=le+kernel+du+jour

or Le Kernel Du Jour: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=982337 both include Keep the lights on in them install though cwm do the wipes and your done

hope this helps
[Captivate Android Development] mgfjd:
I know I didn't have the problem with Samsung..I just use the applications I need..hopefully in the future I'll try this ROM again
[Captivate Android Development] ballz0iron:
I get 30-36 hours, with stock kernel and 1.2ghz OC w/ UV. That is with an average of 4 hours of screen time. The biggest secret is to flash stock every couple of nightlies, i know its a pain in the ass but if you flash stock to clean things up the battery life is amazing
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Yeah totally. I average about 12-15 hrs OC'd to 1.6GHz with all clock speeds enabled.
[Captivate Android Development] halfsoul:
Hmmmm. I'm happy if I get 1.5-2hrs screen on time. Maybe someday I'll try turning off background data to see if it helps.
[Captivate Android Development] superj3211:
Anyone know a call recorder that works well with cm7.......one that doesn't need speaker phone to work....and does both sides of the call....
[Captivate Android Development] Jusrertiner:
I can't use 3g on my phone for some reason. nightly 104
[Captivate Android Development] ninjuh:
I don't understand why people who's phone spends 90% of time on standby brag about 24hrs of battery life. If I actually USE my phone & play games here n there, text, etc, 13 hours lucky. Tops.
[Captivate Android Development] melbourne408:
Pm me with yo statistics hahaha
[Captivate Android Development] CalvinL:
Installation aborted.

/tmp/recovery.log was copied to /sdcard/clockworkmod/recovery.log. Please open ROM Manager to report the issue.

What did I do wrong?
[Captivate Android Development] sixstringsg:
Well what were you trying to do?
[Captivate Android Development] XsceneXhippieX:
Battery life is different from user to user, treat you phone like your favorite toy and you will get 5 hours max, only use x amount of on screen time and you will likely get days if using smart uv/powersaving settings, most people will likely be getting somewhere between 5 hours and days of battery life though because nobody leaves the screen on (purposefully) for 5+ hours straight, and most people won't hack their phone with the intent of laying it down in standby mode all day long because they now actually enjoy using their more capable than stock device, but everybody will vary in actual usage and user apps make pretty much the only other variable to the equation, so balance more standby (setup correctly with mobile data and such turned off) with apps that don't sync every 15 minutes, and you will probably see your battery life extend
[Captivate Android Development] CalvinL:
Get Cyanogen mod on my phone.

I used Odin to get to 2.1, and I rooted my phone previously with SuperOneClick.
[Captivate Android Development] sixstringsg:
You could download it without using rom manager.
[Captivate Android Development] CalvinL:
I tried again today, and I went through Clockwork mod and it worked.

But it's missing a lot of stuff. Is there a recommended Nightly I should download? Are there nightlies with some of the basic mods, like Market? The one I have atm doesn't include a Market Place.
[Captivate Android Development] RockRatt:
Now use rom manager and download gapps. That will give you your missing market and other Google apps. Also now you should be able to just use rom manager to flash nightlies once they start back up, or you could continue to use cwm to flash each nightly.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.5Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Android Development] Jusrertiner:
I can't use 3g nightly 104 help
[Captivate Android Development] comdei:
any update on nightlies? I am kinda out of the ring
[Captivate Android Development] SweetwaterBurns:
Thought I should share my experience with this, considering it was a hot topic this past week.

I was bored this weekend and decided to move datadata on to the data partition. Overall, I don't feel it is worth it. Performance in certain apps is horrendous and overall I feel that the work around I posted earlier is the best combination of efficiently using space and performance.

As an example, when I received a phone call, it would take a couple seconds to load the contact information and my ring tone(which is stored on the internal sd, probably slowing it down even more since the system is trying to access multiple locations off of the same relatively slow device.) leading to a few missed calls. Certain apps also seemed to take longer to load, in particular browsers, facebook, and twitter. I imagine because they were trying to load their caches off of a much slower device. Anytime a program tried to load something from /data/data there was a very noticable pause and the smoothness and usability of the rom is severely diminished because of that.

If anyone wants to try it themselves, it's a fairly simple hack if you're comfortable with adb and who knows you might not suffer the performance issues I did. I'm doing this from memory, so you might want to double check that this is being done right. Luckily, your datadata will remain unchanged so you have a backup if you screw something up.

Reboot into recovery

Type 'adb shell'

Type 'su' to make sure you are root

Type 'rm /data/data' this removes the symlink to /datadata

Type 'mkdir /data/data'

Type 'cp -R -p /datadata/. /data/data/' this copies all of your data and keeps permissions as they were.

To undo the changes, make sure you have enough space on datadata first. You might have to move some apps to the SD to free up room.

Reboot into recovery

Type 'su'

Type 'cp -R -p /data/data/. /datadata/'

Type 'rm -rf /data/data'

Type 'ln -s /data/data /datadata'

Obviously do this at your own risk, I'm not perfect and could have mistyped something somewhere. If you haven't made a recent backup, don't do it. Nandroid is your friend.
[Captivate Android Development] skatcat31:
This is a bible concept but presents some problems. Instead use cyanogen mod options in the setting menu to change the eerily install location. This keeps system apps on datadata, and moves non system apps to sd a the default location. I have a ton of apps installed (well over 400 app elements) and one hundred megabytes free in datadata. Just be careful of things that modify data for contacts like facebook or skype and move those to internal.

Things that should be on internal (datadata)

Skype

Netflix

Facebook

Gapps

Office suites

Default Launcher

Email

Text messaging (like hand cent or go sms)

Sent from something from somewhere
[Captivate Android Development] littlewierdo:
Sanity, the premium version will do unlimited time, the free version is limited in length to something like a couple of minutes.

The problem with Sanity is, it will want to keep the screen on (or not allow the screen to come on if you tick the option to reverse screen polarity) during a phone call so my recommendation is to enable Sanity for calls you specifically want to record and then disable it for normal usage.

There are others that you can use as well, but I know for sure Sanity works.

Of course, doing a Market search for record phone calls or a google search for record phone calls on Android will give you alternatives.

While not technically 'legal', if you find something that looks promising, grab the apk from the web thru various means, side load it, if it works, uninstall it and purchase the app to support the developer.

Be prepared however, side loading apps thru 'various means' has its own risks.

And of course, you could always purchase an app that looks promising and then refund it if it doesnt work.
[Captivate Android Development] simple man:
I finally got around to trying CM7 (nightly 104) and I must say it is awesome. I've been on miui for at least a couple of months. I really cannot imagine using a Samsung based rom now after using Miui and CM7, they sure do spoil a person. On Miui it's cool because you get updated every Friday. I'm really looking forward to a nightly update on CM7. I figured from now on I'll just jump between Miui and CM7 as the mood strikes...LOL. ;-)

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Android Development] pvr:
after trying one of the leaked gb roms for battery I came back to nighlty 104. I had no apns set so that might be the case for you.

edit: lol, scratch that - it seems that I do not have it either. oh well, time for a reflash. **** happens
[Captivate Android Development] CalvinL:
When I went to ROM manager/download roms, it said I need the latest Rom manager. And then it force closes.

When I try to put the nightly on my sdcard, the phone doesn't recognize my sdcard at all. I've tried it with two different ones already. I think I have to place the nightly on my phone.

There's also no Nandroid backup option when I select recovery mode for my rom manager.

When it asks me to load from my sd card, it shows me my internal memory. Is it just that both my memory cards have failed? They are pretty old, but weren't used much. 2 and 8 gb class 2 sandisks.
[Captivate Android Development] Smasher816:
Thats strange. This is a like to the 06/13/2011 gapps: http://cmw.22aaf3.com/gapps/gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip. You should be able to flash that from cwm and then have the market and all that.

Fyi: the market doesn't come standard because google forced them to remove it due to copyright issues or something.
[Captivate Android Development] CalvinL:
I tried to install "from sd," but when it rebooted, nothing happened.

I think I will try Odin again, and just flash the latest nightly.

That gapps worked, thanks.

I don't have the latest nightly, but it seems to be working smoothly and more importantly, I have all my google applications.
[Captivate Android Development] Smasher816:
Slightly offtopic. But what do you guys think about these cm7 settings iv made?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=17659055#post17659055
[Captivate Android Development] ninjuh:
Cannot wait for nightly #105!
[Captivate Android Development] Jusrertiner:
does anyone know how to fix the 3go problem
[Captivate Android Development] pwnerman:
i apologize if this has been answered but does anyone know when the source code site that is needed to make the nightlys will be back up?