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[Captivate Android Development] littlewierdo:
Dump auto task killer and get Autostarts.

*sigh*...Ive posted so many times about this app...

Essentially, this app allows you to disable/enable the conditions when apps start (such as location changes, wifi on/off, cellular on/off, bluetooth on/off, whenever a dog farts, etc.). This is different from a task killer in that autostarts simply changes the toggle so that an app will never autostart in the first place. Task killers are different in that, they scan the phone memory every 'x' seconds and if the task killer sees an app you have specified running, it will kill it. Then the app will relaunch itself, the task killer will kill it, repeat repeat repeat. This kills your battery because the processor is being utilized to start and stop apps over and over again.

Task killers are not recommended by Google because they prevent Android from 'learning' how to manage your phone memory.

The ONLY reason to use a task killer is for an app that has slowed down or locked your phone (or for diagnostic purposes - I use a task killer called Task Panel to review what my apps are doing but I NEVER kill an app with it unless I suspect an app is causing problems. To give you an idea, I havent killed an app manually in probably 3+ months).

As to your apps auto starting, the reason this is happening is, a condition is changing during the night. This could be your phone losing wifi and reconnecting, cellular connection dropping/reconnecting, etc.

Autostarts will allow you to disable apps from ever starting when a condition changes on your phone and thus should help keep your phone memory nice and squeaky clean.

I have one captivate loaded with 2000 apps (yes, two thousand) that have various functions ranging from games, utilities, calculators, system monitors, navigation, whatever, you name it. Without Autostarts, this phone would run like dog poo because all of these apps would be competing for memory and processor usage. With autostarts, none of these apps run unless I tell them to.

BTW, as a side note, the Captivate I mentioned above is loaded for testing purposes, my normal cappy has 47 user apps current on it (and some of those dont really count because they are license keys or very simple apps like memo).

Trust me, Autostarts is worth the $2 and is the app all rooted Android phones should have.
[Captivate Android Development] goob1284:
Can I flash this straight from biffmod? Or do I have to flash to stock?
[Captivate Android Development] nimper:
Read the instructions :) It's flashable from ROM Manager.
[Captivate Android Development] goob1284:
Sorry. I'm at work. But thank you. Do I need to do any extra stuff?
[Captivate Android Development] nmoline:
I could use some help:

On every nightly build from 90-94 when I charge my phone at night it shuts off in the middle of the night and does not reboot. When I wake up the display shows a battery with a charge of 100%. I have to turn the phone back on each morning.

Is there an easy fix for this? Or do I need to restore to stock using Odin and then flas CM7 Nightly again?

Update: This only happens over night. It never shuts down during the day.
[Captivate Android Development] nimper:
The instructions are in the first post of this thread. You'll want to reflash Clockwork Recovery with the Captivate (MTD) option selected first to see the CM7 nightlies come up.
[Captivate Android Development] goob1284:
Thank you. I'm sorry for the dumb questions, but I usually just use recovery and not rom manager.
[Captivate Android Development] nimper:
Well since biffmod is partially based on CM7 you may be able to flash directly over in recovery, but I don't know that for sure.
[Captivate Android Development] SeriousBizznass:
Thanks.

I found out it was an application that I had downloaded that was causing the issues. Once I deleted it, all the issues stopped immediately.
[Captivate Android Development] :
Noob question: If I flash CM7 via RomManager on MIUI, do I have to recalibrate the battery?

EDIT: I don't have premium, yet I can download the nightlies lolwut
[Captivate Android Development] Spritely:
You can flash in recovery straight from Biffmod. That's what I did. No need to mess with Rom Manager.
[Captivate Android Development] :
Noob question 2: any benefit in using the i897 GB bootloaders?
[Captivate Android Development] krisvek:
More or less my exact experience. I think I'm on CM for good now; my phone has never been so smooth and responsive, and the battery life has been very good (better than I was experiencing with Samsung GB ROMs). I was finally able to let go of my attachment to the few perks that Samsung ROMs have, most of them pretty much able to be substituted for with apps from the market.

Now I'm just hankering for some Ice Cream Sammich.

(currently on Nightly #91 with Talon kernel)
[Captivate Android Development] :
I shyed away from every rom besides stock Samsung roms with audience support. I then installed a few i9000 roms and tested modems. Any rom + KC1 modem is almost as good to me as stock (in terms of quality, better with data) and I love the stability and smoothness of CM7 over any rom I have tried.
[Captivate Android Development] airtower:
Has anyone tried using the Sony Ericcson (Xperia Arc) Launcher? I used it on Apex and grew quite fond of it. I was able to install alright, but it seems the launcher is "reading" the bottom of the screen incorrectly and items that are anchored to the bottom are partway off the screen. The launcher doesn't have any configurable settings. Any ideas?
[Captivate Android Development] Haloruler64:
Yep. You can run any ROM on this bootloaders. Froyo/Eclair works, i897 and i9000 Gingerbread works, and CM7/MIUI works. i897 GB bootloaders are compatible with any ROM.
[Captivate Android Development] :
Besides running any rom. I meant more like performance and battery life.
[Captivate Android Development] tkjeeper:
Sorry, posted this on the wrong cm7 thread I guess, I'm cm7 virgin, almost all running good but in trying to set up me email accounts I keep getting fcs before I can finish the setup. I cleared data in manage apps, anyone help?

Edit, got it.

Sent from the frozen tundra known as Canada.
[Captivate Android Development] Haloruler64:
Not that we know of. I mean, just logically, bootloaders are just startup software and don't run 24/7 or if they do, don't run differently. Like using MBR or GRUB, no difference to Windows which is present.
[Captivate Android Development] goob1284:
why is the 96 nightlys link broken? I can't download it via rom manager or on the site. dumb.
[Captivate Android Development] goob1284:
Also what's better stock bootloaders? Or gingerbread? I just don't like the stupid white att logo
[Captivate Android Development] sixstringsg:
Well, neither change the white att logo in and of themselves. But if you like switching from samsung 2.3.3, then Gingerbread is better. If not, some say it's a wash.
[Captivate Android Development] Smasher816:
There is a modded param.lfs for froyo and gingerbread ATNT i897 bootloaders, that lets you change the image. I currently have an ascii android thing. (Standard Disclamer: I nor anyone else are responsible if you brick your phone)
[Captivate Android Development] :
Edited for clarity: I have been running CM7 on a clean install for a few days now. I have tried every different kernel trying to combine them with the several modems I have been using for months. I can't get decent battery life no matter what I do. I have tried calibrating/charge cycles/scrpits/never overclocked/undervolting/choosing USA band on the modems/never have data on anyway. I can't get battery life.
[Captivate Android Development] Jusrertiner:
Everytime I flash a nighty, about 2 weeks later, everything starts force closing till I reboot or flash another nightly. I have fixed permissions many times.

Samsung captivate

glitch kernel

cyanogenmod 7 #89

OC and UV
[Captivate Android Development] :
I always run the latest nightly and I am getting really decent battery life. Phone was off the charger for 14 hours with moderate usage with %63 remaining. I can't complain.
[Captivate Android Development] :
What kernel/modem/tweaks?
[Captivate Android Development] ninjuh:
I know somebody posted the instructions a couple pages back but could somebody do me a solid & put together a cm7 compatible cwm flashable jk4 modem zip? I'm at work & I need to use my phone but the stock modem isn't cutting it for me.
[Captivate Android Development] Jemack:
http://goo-inside.me/captivate/radios
[Captivate Android Development] :
I'm running 96 stock with JK4 which is default if I remember correctly. My Twitter, Facebook, G+, Gmail, etc. All sync at normal intervals. Black backgroud. I'm running Zeam launcher. Nothing special.

I think its all the great Cyanogenmod improvements. Not me.
[Captivate Android Development] :
:eek: I am running no data/sync at all and my battery life is horrible. Maybe I'll try the all stock setup.
[Captivate Android Development] :
Sorry, my twitter isn't synced, lol.

Stock has done well for me for Cyanogenmod. MIUI on the otherhand kills my battery. Makes no sense.

Another tip would be to uninstall the apps you don't use. They can run in the background and also access data if they have the permission.
[Captivate Android Development] johnhazelwood:
I'm having problems with the email.apk force closing. Is there an email.apk that works?
[Captivate Android Development] tkjeeper:
Just ran into this, I used the email apk from biffmod, works like a charm for me.
[Captivate Android Development] jacorso:
Is it a better email app than they one CM uses?
[Captivate Android Development] Jusrertiner:
Everytime I flash a nighty, about 2 weeks later, everything starts force closing till I reboot or flash another nightly. I have fixed permissions many times. I have wiped data n cache. Any fix?

Samsung captivate

glitch kernel

cyanogenmod 7 #89

OC and UV
[Captivate Android Development] :
Do you reboot your phone daily?

Do you cleat cache and dalvik when installing new nightly?
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Just check to make sure your apps are not taking up all your space. CM7 is funky like that. You can open terminal emulator and type "df" and look for your "datadata" .. make sure you keep it under 90% .. or you could start seeing some FC's. The fix is to move some of your apps to your SD card, freeing up some of that space.
[Captivate Android Development] bubbad58:
Activesync

I am having problems trying to get my Captivate to sync with my Company's server. I have tried Touchdown with no success. I also tried adding email account and no success either. I was able to use Activesync with Cognition for 2.2 Does anyone else have probles with Activesync and CyanogenMod 7?

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] cbasse:
Is camera stuck on timer this nightly? I suppose that might be the fix in #97?
[Captivate Android Development] :
Just set to timer, and the change it back. (at least this worked for me)
[Captivate Android Development] :
What is the best way to flash a nightly?
[Captivate Android Development] kennonk:
I actually stopped using Touchdown when I switched from Cognition 5 to CM7 a few weeks ago because the native activesync client in cm7 worked so much better from a sync and battery drain perspective than the Cognition/Samsung one. But if you are using touchdown from the main menu there is a diagnostics option if you check the box that says log next transaction or something like that then force a sync you can copy and paste that log output then go onto the touchdown google group and post the output and people will help you troubleshoot the issue.

http://groups.google.com/group/nitrodesk/topics

Good Luck
[Captivate Android Development] kennonk:
The "best" or easiest? From nightly ~80 - present I have just been using Rom Manager premium to do it automatically. I just wipe Dalavik but not data and it installs fine zero issues so far. Some people will insist you must wipe data, your mileage may vary. I would recommend just following the steps in the OP for the various scenarios and see which one works best for you.
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Whichever way you are most familiar with. Both ROM manager and clockworkmod recovery should be painless :)
[Captivate Android Development] KohjiNagata:
I updated to the Latest nightly from 85 and now whenever I try to reboot the phone (in recovery or a normal reboot) the screen just goes black. I have to pull out the battery or hold down the 3 buttons to get the phone to restart. Any ideas what this might be? I've already tried to fix permission and cleared caches...
[Captivate Android Development] cbasse:
Worked... Thanks!
[Captivate Android Development] bubbad58:
I have disable Touchdown. When you speak of the Native Activesync, are you using "Accounts & Sync settings" function in Add Account?
[Captivate Android Development] RockRatt:
I would BET that you are undervolting? If so DO NOT Undervolt the 100Mhz and 200Mhz below -100.

That should fix it for you.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.5Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Android Development] goob1284:
i flashed the glitch kernal and its killing me on battery life how can i swtich back to the regular kernal that is installed when you flash cm7?
[Captivate Android Development] Smasher816:
Really. most people find an improvement.

But just flash the nightly again and you will have the stock kernel.

(or extract the boot.bin and flash that with heimdall)
[Captivate Android Development] techmik67:
boot.img, not boot.bin
[Captivate Android Development] XsceneXhippieX:
H

If you ever made a backup of your rom before flashing glitch then go to advanced restore > boot that's what I did at least, it went smoothly

Sent from cyanogen mod 7
[Captivate Android Development] Jusrertiner:
Mines was at 100% lol. I got it down to 64% by uninstalling N moving apps to the sd.

Samsung captivate

glitch kernel

cyanogenmod 7 #89

OC and UV
[Captivate Android Development] Haloruler64:
Haha 100%? So epic of a number. Glad your issue was fixed.
[Captivate Android Development] littlewierdo:
Seems strange to me that people are running out of room for apps...

Im not sure when this happened (several months ago at least), I think CM changed how the partitioning is done because when I initially installed CM (this was back when you had to flash a kernel with the CW recovery menu, manually run the efs backup script and then install the rom), I ran out of space for apps. This would have been back around nightly 15-20ish. Around #40, I got annoyed / tired of running out of space so I Odin'd back to stock, master cleared after the phone booted into stock (used the master clear option in Odin), then used AIO to 'inject' the CM rom and the recovery menu into the phone (so I didnt have to worry about rooting the stock rom, setting up my google account, installing rom manager and installing recovery - AIO literally copies two files to the phone, boots the phone into stock recovery and you install clockwork from there, reboot back into recovery and install the rom).

Currently, I have 100 apps installed (I need to do some app removing *sigh*) and in Settings>Storage it says I have an available 1.32 GB (out of 1.87 GB) of space.

All of my apps are installed in the internal 2 GB partition with exception to Audible and BeyondPod - these are installed on the internal 13 GB partition because these apps require their associated audio files to be in the same folder as the app is installed to (BeyondPod is configurable to change this BUT should I ever want to remove it, I want to remove all the mp3 podcasts with it).

So, all of this to ask the simple question, what apps are you guys installing that you are using 2 GB of space?

Its either 1) you have some MASSIVE apps installed size wise, 2) you have an insane number of apps (by my estimation it would have to be around 300 apps), or 3) CM changed / allowed a larger partition for apps to be installed to.

1) Maybe move big apps to your internal (or external sdcard) memory?

2) Maybe uninstall apps you arent using... I would think if you have 300 apps installed, without some tweaking, the phone wouldnt run all that well performance wise.

3) Consider going back to stock, master clearing and using AIO to put CM back on the phone. Make sure to use TB to backup apps you want to restore (this would be an excellent opportunity to do some spring cleaning)...

*Edit*

I just double checked, Co-Pilot (both the old and new version) is also installed on the internal 13 GB partition because the maps are around 400 MB for each version. Dont ask me why I have both versions installed, I guess you could say I havent had a chance to compare and decide which version I want to keep - I did buy both...
[Captivate Android Development] Haloruler64:
Dude, /data is 2GB. That doesn't fill up. /datadata does.
[Captivate Android Development] littlewierdo:
Well, Im a bit confused as to what exactly is going on then because I have not changed any settings, I in fact have it set to let Android decide where to install apps and I have not gotten any errors related to space.

Maybe CM was updated to install apps (if the setting is enabled to allow Android to decide where to install apps) automatically to another partition??

I dunno.

What I do know is, /datadata only has system level apps that came with CM and has 'plenty' of space (something like 30-40 MB free...cant remember).

For the benefit of everyone, here is where you change where apps are installed to.

Settings>Cyanogenmod settings>Application

By default, these settings are different but here is what you might want to change these to (this is what I changed mine to):

Application Moving - Enabled

Install Location - Mine is set to Automatic but you could change this to internal/external. Be aware that some apps wont run from an sdcard so if you run into a problem, use TB to move the app back to the phone.

Use Internal Storage - Enabled

Permission management - Enabled

Mind you, these settings were all disabled (Install Location was set to automatic) until I poked around a few minutes ago and changed them.
[Captivate Android Development] cbasse:
I have around 300 Apps installed and have not moved them from where they are, and have had zero problems...
[Captivate Android Development] halfsoul:
It all depends on which apps you have installed. For me the big space hog of /datadata was Super KO Boxing 2. It's one of those games that downloads extra content, and it put that extra content in /datadata. I moved the app to external but it didn't help. I deleted it and all was well again.

Is the /datadata size an upstream mandate or can it be increased? This is a recurring theme...
[Captivate Android Development] tkjeeper:
Sorry, new to cm7, are the nightlies full wipes, and where can we find the changelog? Really running well for me.

Sent from the frozen tundra known as Canada.
[Captivate Android Development] kennonk:
Yes, that is what I mean. The native Android mail client. Sorry for the confusion. :-)
[Captivate Android Development] dhostetter:
Since we’re talking about the datadata partition, I’ve been having any issue were after using my phone for a couple of weeks (and now days) it just goes haywire and everything starts FC’ing. I’ll reboot my phone clear Dalvik cache and the cache partition and everything seems to start to work again. But the amount of time between these FC cycles seems to get closer and closer. What I’ve noticed is that my datadata goes from 83% to 100% after a couple of days of use. Using terminal emulator I can watch it increase after using the market app and browser. It steadily goes up to 100% even when I’m not installing any new apps. When I go into ES Task Manager and clear all cache, it drops to 83% again.

Does anyone know how to keep this from happening?

Is there a setting somewhere that controls the caching?
[Captivate Android Development] andi br:
Was using nightly #72 then flashed to #88 , since then my battery seems to been draining a lot. Tried #96 but same thing.

I'm on stock kernel btw.

Was there any change on rom for causing that ?
[Captivate Android Development] nimper:
Nightlies are not full wipes, the most you need to do is clear caches (dalvik mostly, you can clear the main cache if you are having problems). I recommend always running a backup between nightlies as well.

Changelog is at http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=captivatemtd
[Captivate Android Development] astrocrep:
I've been running BiffMod CynagenMod for a while and Love it!! It was the perfect transition into CM7... if I wanted to jump to a nightly, to I need to do a factory reset?

Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I would say no.. just wipe your cache and dalvik. Really the only time I factory reset is when I'm having problems.. (which is never ;))
[Captivate Android Development] astrocrep:
I just installed 98 on top of it... works perfect... the only thing I needed to do was re-install google apps and voodoo control.

I was under the impression that the stock CM7 kernel didn't have OC/UV and VC... But VC is reporting Driver v9 and I am able to undervolt and overclock...

Awesome... love being able to charge with the phone off now... finally can calibrate my battery.

Thanks dude!
[Captivate Android Development] phlunkie:
oc came to the stock kernel a few nighties ago.
[Captivate Android Development] astrocrep:
Bad ass... thanks dude!
[Captivate Android Development] XsceneXhippieX:
terminology on this page of this thread has confused me:

VC=voodoo color or voodoo control depending on the context, which would lead me to believe someone above me is finding voodoo color included in the stock cm7 nightly kernel now all of a sudden? if so im VERY excited, but the v9 mentioned i believe is the voodoo sound version included in cm... so i dont understand what is going on with the stock cm7 kernel anymore!?! can anyone confirm/disprove voodoo color's presence in the latest nightlys kernel?
[Captivate Android Development] astrocrep:
Nope, sorry from the looks of it... it's Voodoo driver v9. Voodoo Control has no settings for Voodoo Color, so I am guessing it's not baked in. I would hope that someone might update the voodoo driver in the near future!
[Captivate Android Development] XsceneXhippieX:
bah, that means they will need the nexus s framebuffer port too which afaik means it will take even longer if they ever decide to include it, i would like to see voodoo color working with capability to adjust gamma levels and RGB values in the stock kernel, a (fully functioning/working) BLN toggle in the cyanogenmod settings menu, along with a KTLO toggle, i wonder if the cm team will add such features? hmm, i may have to find some official feature request thread or something
[Captivate Android Development] Guy Noir:
I have the same problem on 96. My battery which used to get 1.5 days or more, now gets to 15% after 7 hours of use :(. The last nightly that had good battery life for me was 90. I may have to go back to 90 to regain a useful battery life.

--

Guy
[Captivate Android Development] abuthemagician:
So I was playing with settings and now my internal SD is set to emmc and my external SD is set to SDCARD. How do I switch them back? I am running nightly 08222011... I think I did it from clockworkmod before installing after a fresh wipe, but not sure...
[Captivate Android Development] bubbad58:
Thanks for your help. I am now using the Native App. I found out I had outdated Server information.
[Captivate Android Development] RockRatt:
My GUESS is since he is talking about the NEW CM7 STOCK Kernel having Overclocking to 1.3 Ghz. you can use VC= Voltage Control to adjust the Overclocking and UnderVolting. That is what I do and what I use. Also it DOES have Voodoo Sound in the Stock Kernel but NO Voodoo Color.
[Captivate Android Development] sixstringsg:
Well all the custom kernels have voodoo color. Use one of those.