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[Captivate Android Development] mod777:
It does work for CM7 according to the message that popped up after I ran the setup. It said something about the download of data reports a false negative, but is suppose to work.

Anyways, after I ran it and walked outside my cappy saw 10 satelites and locked to 7 within about 15 seconds. Normally with 2.3 roms (not 2.2) my cappy would lose lock every few seconds, this did not happen. The phone continued to stay locked for a few minutes while I walked around. GPS Test accuracy was between 15 and 30ft. I will test this later today when I drive home from work and report on it then. So far being stationary it seems to have helped alot.
[Captivate Android Development] superj3211:
i was trying the GPS Aids V2 (free)....and it wont download the LTO file or the XTRA file to finish the setup? anyone know what thats about.....
[Captivate Android Development] mod777:
Read the post right before yours and then go into the apps settings and download the file.
[Captivate Android Development] dhostetter:
My GPS has never been anything to talk about. Just sucked. I ran the GpsAid, it failed to load the two files but when I went outside and turned GPS on it took just seconds and was locked and pretty accurate. I'm happy.

Thanks ldmelo for suggesting GPS Aid, I had given up on mine.
[Captivate Android Development] pigrew:
Charging while using GPS

I'm wondering if anyone has had issues with charging while using the gmaps navigation app. The issue is that while I have the phone connected to one of the USB-cigarette-lighter-adapters in the car, the phones battery power slowly decreases even though the phone claims that it is charging. Any tips on how to fix this issue? If not, I'll plan to flash back to stock and see if the issue happens there also.

Thanks!
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I get charge in my truck with charger.. but for some strange reason it charges hot. And I mean HOT! ..I feel the need to unplug for a bit to let my phone cool down :-/
[Captivate Android Development] SweetwaterBurns:
I have the same issue with plants vs zombies. I haven't had any issues with navigation, though.

I did have a cheap charger once that didn't send the full 5v from usb like it was supposed to and charging took forever. If you can get ahold of a different one, you could check if that's the issue.

Otherwise, only thing I could think to work around it would be to lower the screen brightness or shut it off completely and rely upon the voice navigation.
[Captivate Android Development] gstern:
I'm also having this issue. And I'm using a genuine Samsung car charger. This happens with other apps other than gmaps (my tracks, waze etc.) Seems like it can't handle keeping the screen awake + GPS + CPU intensive processes and charge at the same time.

Btw- I've capped Max CPU speed at 800mhz using cyanogenmod settings and 100mv UV and it seems to help a bit.
[Captivate Android Development] SweetwaterBurns:
Another thing to try, if you're using Google maps, would be to use the download map area plugin before you go. It's under settings - labs. It downloads a 10 mile square of data and would keep the data connection from using precious power.
[Captivate Android Development] superj3211:
well i am not having any luck with GPS Aids...still barely getting locks and locks dropping in and out.....anyone else with any ideas?
[Captivate Android Development] sepherian:
how does a 1012 captivate get back to eclair bootloaders??? please someone answer!

NVM: fixed it.
[Captivate Android Development] mortuus.x:
I haven't been able to get a gps lock since moving to CM7. It's been over four months. I've been happy enough with it to overlook the issue, but if I didn't have a proper gps I'd have gone with a different rom long ago.
[Captivate Android Development] ballz0iron:
you probably have one of the ones with a bad build number. if you do flash stock and take it into att, my gps locks perfect in seconds on this rom, infact id say its probably the best its ever been.
[Captivate Android Development] superj3211:
i contacted att and they said they would replace the phone cause i had it longer than 90 days.......
[Captivate Android Development] SweetwaterBurns:
Don't know how much help it is, unless you don't mind duct tape or something, but my gps improved by a ridiculous amount after I purchased an extended battery pack that came with a plastic back. I compared it to the stock back and found that I was able to get an initial lock about 15 seconds faster and was able to lock to 3 to 4 more satellites making it a lot less likely to lose the lock and start jumping around. Your milage may vary, and maybe my phone is just a freak(1007 refurbished) but might be worth trying it with the back off.
[Captivate Android Development] syanz87:
Check this link man...... it will surely work...

darkyrom.com/community/index.php?threads/guide-gps-quickest-fix-solution.2022/

Dont forget to press thanx button
[Captivate Android Development] BelvedereWRX:
More a matter of curiosity than anything, I'm just wondering, how long are everyone's boot times? My Cappy sits at the CM7 spinning arrow for more than two minutes while booting. I didn't know if this was normal or not.
[Captivate Android Development] tiuk:
First boot after a flash is much slower as the dalvik cache is being recompiled.
[Captivate Android Development] tiuk:
Tip for those running the new market: replace Vending.apk in clockwork's gapps zip with the new one (rename it) to avoid having to fix things after flashing each nightly.

Another know if different captivate hardware builds have different back plates? My first was a 1007, had excellent gps (though this was before cm7 was public), then it was replaced with a 1008. I kept the 1007 back plate and am wondering if that may be why I either take forever to get a fix or constantly lose it while driving. It's also possible this build is just bad.

Wondering if it would be worth trying to get another replacement.
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
The battery cover on my wife's rev 1102 doesn't look any different than my revision 1007.
[Captivate Android Development] BelvedereWRX:
Every boot is that slow though. Is that normal?
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
That doesn't sound normal to me. You might want to try clearing cache and fixing permissions from ClockworkMod Recovery to see if it helps.
[Captivate Android Development] BelvedereWRX:
I was way off btw, after timing it, it's 4 1/2 minutes boot time. :(
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
Definitely not normal. If clearing cache and fixing permissions does not help, you may want to try using TiBU to backup your apps and then perform a clear data / factory reset to see if that fixes your problems. If that works, you can try re-installing your apps. If that does not work, I'd flash back to stock and then redo the CM7 flash/install.
[Captivate Android Development] 105437:
I would like to try CM7 with MIUI ROM. Can I use ROM Manager to backup my current CM7 setup & config to restore everything back if I don't want to keep CM7/MIUI?
[Captivate Android Development] rwells813:
Short answer, yes

I use both cm7 and miui, I just restore which ever one I want at the time
[Captivate Android Development] superj3211:
so rename the apk for the new market and put it in the gapps zip?
[Captivate Android Development] tiuk:
Yeah, got tired of fixing it constantly so I tried that this morning. Worked great with the newest nightly.

Astro file manager will allow you to paste the file into the zip, and rename it, without extracting the whole thing. New file name whole be Vending.apk, in /system/app
[Captivate Android Development] littlewierdo:
Bluetooth audio

Two strange things I have noticed regarding bluetooth audio and a third not so strange...

1. This first one I think is an Android thing that may not be fixable. If you have wifi enabled but NOT connected to a wifi network and are streaming bluetooth, everytime your phone detects a new network (or maybe its when the phone is scanning for new networks - I think it does this every 30 seconds), the audio cuts out for about half a second.

2. When using a bluetooth fm transmitter (phone sends audio to a bluetooth device, the same bluetooth device transmits via an fm transmitter so that you can tune to an fm frequency to hear the audio), if I pause the playing audio, the device stops transmitting the fm and you get static (or whatever audio would be coming in on that fm frequency). I have two different model fm transmitters and both behave the same way, yet, with the iphone, it somehow keeps the device transmitting even if nothing is playing (so instead of getting static, it is just quiet).

The problem with #2 is, when I am playing audio and I have to pause briefly. I then get blasted with a loud amount of static. Very frustrating. Again, the iphone does not have this problem with the exact same fm transmitters I have.

3. Im not sure why but bluetooth audio is VERY quiet. Would love a way to boost this a bit.
[Captivate Android Development] superj3211:
trying to flash back to stock using odin 1 click and it is hanging up on factoryffs, then it changes the screen to a random color...is that bad?
[Captivate Android Development] SweetwaterBurns:
Open dsp manager and choose bluetooth device. Enable the equalizer and chose custom. Touch the curve and put everything at 5 or wherever sounds best for you. It can cause some distortion if the gain is set too far up, but it works for the most part. You could also try using the compression in there as well, if it's only a few sources that are quiet compared to others that are fine.
[Captivate Android Development] SweetwaterBurns:
As long as it's not failing in the middle of one of the bootloaders you should be fine. Try switching cables or the usb port that you're plugged into, preferably one on the back of the computer. Pull the battery on your phone and restart your computer.

Odin should perform a hash check, if I remember correctly, but you could always try redownloading in case it was bad. Or get heimdall. It seems to be a little less finicky with some computers.

Don't necessarily have to try all of these at once, it's just a list of possible fixes.
[Captivate Android Development] melbourne408:
I did this and posted a link from db about 5 or 6 days ago :)
[Captivate Android Development] ilikecl:
Typical Battery Charge cycle

Anyone got any tips for improving battery life?

I read a whole bunch of threads regarding this, but battery on CM7 seems to be pretty poor.

Right now, I'm getting about ~10hrs per charge, draining about 10%/hr. I started from scratch and only installed a couple apps, have 3 gmail accounts on push, 1 exchange on push.

I'm using the KP1 modem now, but changing modems doesn't seem to help. I've tried recalibrating the battery as well, wiping batterystats.bin. I've also turned off WiFi for most of the day, but I'm still getting poor battery life. I also did the Glitch kernel after reading about it, and UV'ed, but no joy. Still hovering around ~10hrs/charge.

On the other GB ROMs, I was about ~20hrs/charge.

Any ideas?
[Captivate Android Development] goulet:
mms

Having issues with MMS on Rogers Captivate on nightly 69. Was working fine on RC1. No matter what APN settings I input nothing will work. Does anyone on Rogers build 69 have mms working?
[Captivate Android Development] gabby131:
my mms works fine. im on Rogers, build #69 using default MMS settings. It might be only a connection error, try a little later.
[Captivate Android Development] goulet:
Huge favor... can you post your APN settings please. I just want to confirm everything is entered properly. Thanks a bunch.
[Captivate Android Development] Auridran:
Name: Rogers

APN: rogers-core-appl1.apn

MMSC: http://mms.gprs.rogers.com

MMS proxy: 10.128.1.69

MMS port: 80

MCC: 302

MNC: 720

APN type: *

APN protocol: IPv4
[Captivate Android Development] littlewierdo:
Thx for the tip on volume boosting via eq... Works well.

However, this latest update (69) broke my ability to connect to anything via bluetooth (my phone doesnt see any devices). This would include a bluetooth fm transmitter ($60 model, dont remember the brand), a bluetooth earpiece ($130 Jawbone), $60 external GPS receiver (Motorola), or a USB bluetooth USB dongle (I use it for transferring files). Nightly #68, my phone saw all these devices...

*Added*

*Sigh*

Tried to revert back to nightly 68 via recovery menu, wiped davlik, cache, installed rom, then rebooted and phone went into an infinite reboot loop (ATT logo screen followed by Cyanogen / Galaxy S Screen followed by a list of text that scrolls too quickly to read anything and then repeats this whole process again). Phone will not go into download mode or recovery menu now. Obviously I need to flash to stock BUT I would like to know what is going on.

This leads me to a few puzzling thoughts and a suggestion.

First, what happened to the phone off state for charging the battery? I cant simply turn my phone off and charge the battery - so in this case, my phone is constantly rebooting just so I can charge my battery...

Second, why is there not a countdown screen for user input before a phone reboot when installing from Rom Manager? This has been something that has ALWAYS bothered me, after Cyanogen is done installing, user input should be required before the phone reboots so that I can review everything and make sure everything installed correctly. Additionally, since there is text appearing (in the same style that appears when I am installing a rom) but disappearing before I can read it, I cant see what is going on / what is wrong. In other words, the phone should never just 'reboot' automatically. Whatever the phone is now trying to do in its infinite reboot loop is not staying on the screen long enough for me to read it.

I dont have time to fart around with this now, Im going to try to get some sleep and throw a towel over my phone screen so the bright ATT screen followed by the darker Cyanogen screen (repeating over and over again) doesnt bother me.
[Captivate Android Development] Johnnie5000:
Thats about what I get.... Everyone always says "epic rom, terrible battery life".

My biggest battery killer used to be the display. I try to keep it at it's dimmest setting and that does stretch the battery a little further. Have you tried any of the battery saver apps like juice defender?
[Captivate Android Development] littlewierdo:
Regarding battery life...

Grab an app called Autostarts and use it to disable all apps from starting under all of the various conditions (this is different than a task killer - autostarts allows you to modify the conditions that apps automatically start vs a task killer that kills apps every 'x' number of minutes/hours).

There is a problem specifically with the latest (and I think previous) version of Google Maps that causes massive battery drain. And Google Maps automatically starts and runs in the background based on several conditions (that I cant look at for the moment, my phone is in a bootloop currently).

By preventing all my apps from running except when I launch the app, I have nearly doubled my battery life (I only allow a couple of apps to run in the background which include TB, BeyondPod, and Sanity).
[Captivate Android Development] kmakiki:
Yeah, I have noticed a significant drain in battery life since updating Maps, hopefully it updates again soon and doesn't perform battery rape like it is now.

I'm running the nightly from the 24th (didn't even mean to update, just kind of did, previously I was running RC1), and my battery life seems to be alright. Since I put glitch kernel 11 on, battery life seems to be a little better as well.

Juice Defender is also a very nice program, it says it uses a lot of battery if you check your battery usage, but trust me, it helps a lot.

I manage to run my phone fine all day, listening to music, browsing the web, tons of texting. I have to charge it every night though.

Like people have said, great ROM, but the battery life leaves something to thirst for. Maybe it will be addressed some day.
[Captivate Android Development] zmore:
That is not working here - tried it a while ago - because you end up with all the gapps missing or failing. Not sure why it's not installing, even though clockworkmod is set to ignore invalid signatures (as it would be invalid once the Vending apk no longer matches the expected hash). Perhaps it really *does* need to be signed - with the 'bogus' android@android.com key - despite what CWM says?

(Guess at some point I need to go find the android@android.com keys, and jarsign it with that to test my theory.)

So, instead, I'm still flashing the nightly, then gapps, then doing an 'adb remount && adb shell cp /sdcard/com.android.vending_3.0.26.apk /system/app/Vending.apk' for the new market post-install, and that works fine.
[Captivate Android Development] nkrick:
There was a bluetooth MAC address change in nightly 69. My bluetooth hands free still works, but I did have to re-pair after installing 69. I assume you tried re-pairing? You may need to clear past pairing information from your devices. When I re-paired, I just automatically cleared my hands free because there is no other devices paired and I saw no reason to leave any old info on my hands free.

CM for Galaxy S has never allowed you to charge with the device off. In fact, it is impossible to charge any Galaxy S with any ROM with the device off. Instead, Galaxy S phones charge in a low power mode (which is why you get the battery animation on the screen during charging). CM does not support low power mode for Galaxy S because the low power mode code is not open source. This means that the device has to power on when it is plugged in to charge. The Nexus S behaves the exact same way.

If you don't like how ROM manager automatically reboots, I suggest that you manually flash through ClockworkMod Recovery. I always flash manually because I like to clear cache and clear davlik cache every time I flash. This is not an option (without also clearing data) when using ROM Manager.
[Captivate Android Development] tiuk:
Not sure what to tell you, it worked fine for me. How did you manipulate the zip? If you extracted and re-zipped make sure you didn't compress.

Edit: just had another thought. The first time you flash the modified gapps zip, if you're still running the old market, try stoping it, clearing its cache and data, then flashing. Also clear dalvik when you flash.
[Captivate Android Development] shaolin95:
Has anyone tried this V6 SuperCharger It seems to be quite good. I will give it a try when I get home.
[Captivate Android Development] RockRatt:
Not sure why I haven't had the problem on my wife's CM7 cappy or mine. I just downloaded the NEW market apk, clicked on it and it asked to install and said it would replace a system app. I HAVE done almost each nightly since without any issues. I do NOT actually reinstall gapps each time. I just let Rom Manager download and install the NEW nightly and click on INSTALL gapps. It seems that in this case all it does is CHECK to see if I already have gapps installed then it bypasses it and I lose nothing.

Now IF I use cwm to install the nightly and then ACTUALLY reflash gapps then it IS like starting over and I have to sign in to my gmail account again.

Once you have the NEW market installed by clicking on it (NOT trying to copy and paste it in with root explorer) what happens? System apps do not like being moved into /system/app and don't work right in my experience. That is why some.of them you JUST CLICK on the downloaded. apk file to install.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.5Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Android Development] zmore:
I used fuse-zip (linux FUSE util) to mount and modify in-place, but it doesn't matter, since the result is the same as if a standalone zip util was used instead. Also, compression doesn't matter, since the original gapps is compressed 26.5% (from zipinfo).

Had already cleared both caches, for no effect. And it's not just the updated market affected by the modified gapps zip, since google talk, etc, fail, and there's no option to add a google account, either, only exchange. So, the fail is bigger than just market.

I think I'll just stick with my post-install workaround method, until the official gapps is updated with the new market.

EDIT: Ok, so I should've looked at the failed /cache/recovery/last_log earlier, as I see where it failed (but pretended to succeed anyway):

-- Installing: /sdcard/gapps-gb-20110613_with_vending_3.0.26.zip
Finding update package...
I:Update location: /sdcard/gapps-gb-20110613_with_vending_3.0.26.zip
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Installing Google Apps..about to run program [/sbin/busybox] with 3 args

minzip: Can't create target file "/system/app": Is a directory
about to run program [/sbin/busybox] with 3 args
script result was [Installation complete!]
Installation complete!

Install from sdcard complete.

And when comparing the zipinfo between the two, I can see why it failed: the system/* dirs were packed into the new zip as standalone entries, but are not present in the old. Should've guessed. Anyway, problem solved.

So for future reference: don't use fuse-zip in this case; instead use "zip -Dr9", so it skips storing dirs.
[Captivate Android Development] XsceneXhippieX:
I installed it this morning and i am OVERWHELMINGLY pleased with my results, i would also reccommend the "taste of v8 supercharger" at the top of the thread you mentioned :)

but i have an incredibly random question regarding the screenstate scaling script in the system/etc/init.d folder and WTF it is useful for? lol i cannot wrap my head around the script unless it is essential to the rom booting or running which it seems to have no effect on. so my question is why is it there when we can set the cpu gov. using voltage control/control freak/ [setcpu (why cant setcpu work anymore btw?) ] ?????? i feel it a travesty to take away my capability of successfully changing the cpu governor on the fly! lol but seriously can anybody give me some insight on the existence of this particular script and its necessity, and whether or not I can delete it
[Captivate Android Development] XsceneXhippieX:
in my personal past experience with many apps moved into the system/apps folder (i.e. miui music, adw ex, etc. etc.) after pasting the app into the folder with root explorer you must then single tap the app from root explorer and install it like you would install anything off of an sd card, after it says "application installed" or "not installed" reboot your device, if it said not installed before it should work now or it will after repeating this process, and if it installed previously the changes should have already taken effect at this point, hope this helps sopmebody :)
[Captivate Android Development] swimomatic:
Issue with Gmail and flashing new modems

I have been using CM7 since before the nightly days and am noticing for a while that if I check my Gmail messages (aka read them, star them, or archive them) they update on my phone (and the accounts settings for auto update is ticked), but when I check Gmail on my computer all my "work" isn't there. Has anyone else noticed this or know a fix?

Also, I have noticed that when trying to flash new roms from multiple sites posted in MIUI/CM7 posts, that they complete successfully, but when I go to Settings-About Phone it shows up as the original stock modem JL2. Is it flashing correctly and my phone isn't displaying it or is something stopping it from flashing properly?

I'm running Nightly #66 and stock kernel.