yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
I'm really too tired to tear apart what's wrong with this conversation. suffice to say, until you can provide something more useful than a readily available/easy to find source file, please keep your attitude to yourself.

oh well, people like to argue.

this, this, a million times this
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LucasBrazil1984:
Every 100 posts or so... same type of questions, same type of answers, same type of reply, same discussion... all we're missing is Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell...

So, I read on the nexus s forum that you can bypass the "jdk not installed" problem by launching the android sdk manager via eclipse. Can anyone here confirm that?

I'm going to give it a try later.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raz123:
People will post tons of questions other people judge irrelevant.

You either ignore or reply. If you reply, it can be a link to a resource containing the previous answer, if you feel that the question is repetitive -- or produce an answer if you feel that it isn't.

In all cases, douchebaggery isn't appropriate.

Dev or not.

I rest my case.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
So, I keep seeing people talk about installing nexus drivers and such for their captivate. Why.. I've been mounting my phone to my computer just fine with CM7. Never installed any drivers just using my Sammy ones that I originally installed on my PC. Not a big deal, and its not at all affecting me- but definitely got me a little curious.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thatlonedude:
umm ok so i have a unlocked captivate on simple mobile and every time i flash to cm7 i dont have any signal which im used to cuz its cm7 and my phone takes a while to get simple mobiles signal but no matter how many times i turn on and off the screen it never gets signal, iv tried different modems and iv gone into the apn settings to try and add the right apns myself but when i save it nothing shows up on the list of apns. so yeah can anyone help me i really REALLY love cm7 and cant find a 2.2 rom to be my daily driver anymore :/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
New nightly has two files on sourceforge.net. one is 84MB, the other is 88.9MB. Both files have the same name. ( I made sure they were both the same before posting :)) why are the different sizes? (Last time I asked this, they were in fact different, but these two have same exact file name. )

Actually one of the files has ... after zip. But that is the only difference I see.

*EDIT* my bad. I got home and checked on my PC and the 84MB file has .md5 after the zip. My phones browser must have shortened the file name, because all i saw was ... ( yeah i know i should have put 2&2 together and figured it out, just never seen my browser shorten things like that.. anyway, sorry for the useless post :/ )

ANOTHER EDIT** flashed the 0410 nightly and can't get past kernel screen.. Tried reflashing, rebooting.. sits at cyanogenmod kernel screen. Flashed 0409 update, and she boots up just fine.. :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
ok, wth is going on. New nightly wouldn't boot. So tried to DL to my PC and try it that way. I select the correct file that is 88.9 MB.. but then I download it and it is 84.8MB. WTF is going on here?????

*EDIT* eye yie yie.. installed it through my PC, flashed it.. all is well. Still a little confused, but i got it sorted out. ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhernand1102:
You only need to install the Nexus S drives if you want to be able to use the android SDK to use ADB commands to send command to your phone. If you don't use ADB then there is no need to install them.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
ahh.. cool, i appreciate the info!:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
But the question was valid . . . did you seriously think the devs who have been working directly on these two drivers over many months from eclair onwards wouldn't know what code is available to us so we could finish it for GB? Given the splash that "Voodoo Sound" has made by having some modifications available for just one of these two drivers might have clued you in before you made a generally useless post that basically questioned our competence with comments like:

or

Maybe I was just sensitive after having spent almost 48 hours straight on making something work but I found the comments condescending and replied in kind. You want to help, write code. If you can't, at least comment in a manner that doesn't imply that we're either lazy or stupid.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syl0n:
I am thinking of installing CM7 for the first time. Can someone tell me how the Camera is like under this ROM as I use it a lot and need it to be working.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
The camera is working fine for me. I miss my stock samsung camera with all the options and tweaks it had.. but, the stock CM7 camera works fine as a regular camera on a phone.. maybe a little nicer than some, but nothing fancy. It works though:p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stumpzillers:
hi all, quick question here. i was in the middle of flashing and everything was goin well until i realized i forgot to put the "cm7-captivate-initial-20110318" on to my sd card (real dumb on my part). so now my phone wont go past the galaxy s/cyanogen screen boot screen. but i can get into recovery still..so is there any way i can load the cm7 intial zip on to phone so i can flash it or this any way to get into DL to use odin? any help would be greatly appreciated!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
If you can get into DL mode, i would say your best bet is to start all over and FTS. Have you tried the button combo to get into DL mode?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEscapist:
You should be able to mount the sdcard in recovery and copy it over.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stumpzillers:
it worked! thanx man, your help is greatly appreciated!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fmac:
Hi everyone,

I am thinking on buying a captivate and cyanogenmod is vital for me so I was wondering how stable was cyanogenmod nowadays for the captivate..

You may get this question a lot and maybe is becoming irritating but please, I would like a truthful answer from a user, I know its in beta mode and its not officially supported right now from CM team but taking all of this into consideration, is it stable enough for a daily usage?

I currently have an HTC Aria and CM is great, this is the only thing that prevents me from buying the captivate right now.

Thanks in advanced..!

Edit: I forgot to say I cant stand touchwiz!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I think you will find many CM7 users are extremely happy with this ROM. I use it as my daily driver and find it to be very stable.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roof King:
Been my daily driver for over a month with no issues and this is my work phone. Battery life is not as good and no 720p video recording but if you can live with that then you're good to go.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joe.nobody:
the xda portal page says CM7 is no longer in RC for most devices..

is that the captivate final release posted or is it still to come?

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/cm7-final-available-for-all-cm-supported-devices/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
hey man good thing you didnt ask in the dev forum!

i just got my head bitten off for asking what you did!

good luck.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joe.nobody:
yeah i just read that... glad it wasnt me.

that wasn't cool. I see your point though.

ask a simple question.... with reason too..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
As I explained here, not yet. This has been explained before many times and is now part of the FAQs in the OP. We aren't officially supported and until we are merged to mainline we cannot be officially supported. We aren't done with merging and implementing all features, therefore we aren't on the same schedule as the officially supported devices for CyanogenMod.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dluck2123:
I have a question that I haven't been able to find and has the cm7 final for the captivate fixed the camera issue yet? that was my biggest disappointment with previous versions.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joe.nobody:
see now thats a nicer answer.

but to be fair to the people not programming the damn thing,

it is hard to tell the difference by how the XDA portal post describes it.

it mentions all supported CM7 devices and having RC4 last week.

Captivate had CM7 RC 4 last week. and it no longer says RC in the thread title...

sounds like we were in that group!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
I don't think CM7 for Captivate ever said RC - I would know as I am the one editing that title! We aren't even officially recognized - and only the Galaxy S is listed on the main CyanogenMod site, and even that is marked unsupported.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
Seriously? You didnt even look at the previous few answers .......
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
No, but it will be by the time CM7 for SGS phones (including Captivate) is "Final" which most probably won't happen till CM 7.1 if we're lucky and Samsung drops some source code for the Aries line of Galaxy S phones (which includes Captivate, Vibrant etc - everything except Nexus S) for us to be able to fix some issues that we cannot yet without source.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
see i too thought it said RC last week in the title. but you would know.. (not being smart)

though i would still put 5$ on a bet that it did... maybe it said beta week and a half ago then... hmmm
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cotr:
Message Notification

Is there a way to get the screen to light up for a few seconds when i get a message like the stock 2.2 does?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Don't know what to tell you - I only change the date when I upload a new update and I wouldn't be putting in designations like RC and Beta etc for something I don't consider to be either yet - there is no reason to and would actually be incorrect. Maybe some other thread? Others are using the CM7 designation now in different forms, but are built on our source so if they are putting beta etc, they're wrong.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LucasBrazil1984:
Will the upcoming Gingerbread release for the SGS I9000 help you guys?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
source code being released is whats needed..... which *hopefully* comes shortly after firmware release.....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mipakr:
Alternative default Samsung Apps

Allshare

Samsung Music

Samsung Video (plays everything I've tossed at it)

Are there either alternatives, or ways to get these programs to work in CM7?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
for the millionth time, if it says "samsung" it wont work...... as for alternatives, search the market for similar apps.... i couldnt watch my copy of avatar until i installed rockplayer or ES video playe.....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
how can I get an H/3G indicator to come up?

Even though I have hspa I only see '3g'
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
If you are a Rogers customer, this is a known bug.

If you are not a Rogers customer, providing additional details about your phone, carrier, etc, would help other answer your questions correctly. You should consider updating your profile and signature to give information about your carrier, country, cell phone, ROM, etc. If you don't want to do this, you need to post these details every time you ask a question so that others can help you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
considering its a captivate I'm guessing the carrier is AT&T, and since he posted in the CM7 thread, I would have to assume that the ROM he is using is CM7...lol, sorry.. i had to.:p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
have you not heard of the rogers i896 captivate? same name, slightly different device.....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mipakr:
Thanks for answering even after a million times. :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
Also, don't forget the Armani i9010 which can probably use this ROM, or the fact that there are many non-AT&T customers who have purchased a Captivate at full price and use it on networks other than AT&T.

Just because this is a Captivate forum does not mean that all the people posting in here use AT&T. Just browse through some of the threads and look at the carrier logos and national flags that some of the posters have.

edit: As far as listing the ROM goes, that is a general piece of advice, but still valid since the poster did not indicate what update version of CM is installed on the phone. Is it the initial build? the 4/2 update? the 4/9 update? the 4/10 update? the 4/11 update? If you are going to ask a question about your phone on XDA, you should provide as much information about that phone as you can.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Yikes!!! I was over medicated and made a joke.. I guess a bad one. And I was more referring to that having to be your signature. Sorry for all the people I offended.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
hi i have been using this.rom over a month i dont know when but somewhere in this time an update started vibrating my phone while.i was talking with someone, i turn the settings off and today im getting the vibration again please help me, this is the only bad thing i have experienced with theme, thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
next time it happens, get a logcat as soon as you can and link it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tw1tch175:
Does anyone else have a problem with the homebutton not taking you to the main page from certain things like their setting? It is set to take me to the default page but it isn't a guarantee and seems to work differently than stock.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
My home button is working fine for me. ...If your using Launcher Pro in prefrences> behavior settings> make sure home key action is set to do nothing and also that the home screen set to default is checked.. (which it sounds like it is)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sarcoid:
Go back in the installer one page and then go forward again. It'll try to detect Java again and it works. This is after you've installed the JDK.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tkjeeper:
Ok, at the risk of getting flamed, I've been around a bit, and I've been guilty of not reading enough in the past, but I haven't found a good explanation yet. I know we are all on here for a reason, #1 being that the same ol' isn't acceptable. But is there a quick list of the benefits of a gingerbread rom over the 2.2's out there? I mean is it speed, ease of use, better service, faster data management? I'm just so happy with my FF run cappy and practically, I need my phone. I'm so close to flashing it but need a push. Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Honestly? None. It is purely an aesthetics - I hated TW and prefered a clean Google interface. Also, I do the development for the fun of it and the challenge of it and it is precisely because I do development that I was so mad at Samsung for screwing up the software and took up working on it to fix it. I am glad that people are willing try it out and happy that some people like it. But if you are content with your current ROM, there is nothing here that would attract you and possibly a lot that you couldn't live without from the 2.2 ROMs. This might change after Samsung drops Gingerbread source, but even then there will be some things that will not work due to Samsung's having used proprietary closed source pieces for essential parts of the device.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tkjeeper:
Great to hear an honest opinion atinm, I do realize that most of what you guys do here on your free time is not "necessary" but out of a desire to explore and fix what you don't like about manufacturers setups. I think I'll stick to what I have for now until I see something that I really cant live without. I appreciate everyones work on xda. That being said, flashing is an addiction and I wish I could stick with one rom or kernel...but I don't see it happening. Thanks again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt310:
Using Handcent for SMS/MMS, if you set the notifications to display a popup when a message comes in, it will turn the screen on (and vibrate, etc) like the stock 2.2 ROM. I was unable to get this to work using the stock messaging app.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt310:
For me, the ROM feels so much snappier than 2.2 and the little things like the menu scrolling smoothness and screen on/off animations add to the user experience and definitely provide a more cohesive and polished look.

I also appreciate CM7's warmer color temperatures, which look the same on my Captivate and Nook Color, despite the screens being totally different types. The SGS devices have always had a bit of a blue hue to them, and the softer temp is much appreciated. I can definitely tell on the Nook, and somewhat less so on the Captivate, but the font sharpness seems overall better. The Cap's Pentile display needed a little help in that department.

The responsiveness of the developers in here is amazing, despite being poked and prodded with the same questions repeatedly - some of which have been my me. It shows considerable patience and wherewithal, even if there's a snipe here and there; it's a venting mechanism and we all do it. These guys are why I still have my Captivate - the stock user experience was a catastrophic failure on both Samsung and AT&T's part - and that's even after *trying* to look past the DOA GPS, which seems to work almost respectably on CM7.

I think the Captivate is arguably the best looking of the SGS devices and CM7 has kept it from being sacrificed to a 'will it blend' youtube ad more than a few times. :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enhanced:
I think he was being a bit too modest when he says that CyanogenMOD only brings along aesthetic features. There definitely features that I probably can't do without anymore that are present in CM7.

The first is the homescreen gestures. I absolutely love being able to launch whatever App I need right from the home screen by drawing a gesture. Eliminates the middle step of unlocking your phone and saves on time. Being able to launch apps right from the lockscreen is one of the main reasons why people use the WidgetLocker app and I would say that gesturing is twice as useful. I keep my lockscreen empty from any sliders and all I do now is gesture to get into my phone.

While I don't use it, you can edit what the search key does (long and short press) and home key does as well (long press). While you can find 3rd party apps that can change this, as well as going into the touchkey file with root explorer, the way it's implemented in CM7 is painless and simple. Can even launch apps.

Same with being able to edit the power widgets in the notification pull down bar. You can choose which buttons to use as well as it's order simply through the settings menu. Still with the notification pull down, you can now swipe to the right to dismiss individual notifications.

You can also set quiet hours for your phone that will turn off all sounds and notifications automatically. Built-in as well.

If you care about overclocking, this is available as well in the settings. No need for setCPU.

The official Gingerbread keyboard is also very nice. I know there are some user made ones for 2.2 ROMs but those always had different bugs and issues that prevented me from using it (most had keys that weren't even the same size as the official). I now use the stock Gingerbread keyboard and never looked back. The new copy, paste and text selection with Gingerbread is also much better than 2.2. I know these aren't CyanogenMOD features as much as they are Gingerbread features, but there are not any other Gingerbread ROMs out there or 2.2 ROMs that can incorporate the same features. Therefore, I'll give it to this ROM.

If you are talking about aesthetics, there are plenty and in my opinion, the pure Google looks are much better than anything Samsung has. But as you can see, there are also plenty other features as well with one killer feature for me (lockscreen gestures). While most of these are fairly minor, it improves the overall user experience. The best part of CM7 is that these features are built in. No extra apps needed or root files that need to be edited by the end user which are things that may cause extra issues or weigh down your OS. They are all in the CM7 settings menu so everything works together and everything feels natural and proprietary.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enhanced:
I agree with this. As much as the devs probably don't want it on their shoulder, CM7 is the reason why I still have my Captivate. With the Nexus S released in Canada (and only for $425 off contract), I found it very difficult to not ditch this device while it still has some value. CM7 has allowed me to experience what a Nexus S would feel like which then made the notion of switching to almost the same device feel kinda silly.

If CM7 was not available and I was forced to continue to run Samsung ROMs, I woulda dumped this phone and went to the Nexus S and CM7 there. It would have been a totally new and better user experience and would totally be worth the $425 for the phone. With CM7 here, it value of getting a new phone doesn't quite add up, even if CM7 is still pre-beta for the Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grasshands:
Anybody? Is any work being done on this? Cheers :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Very low priority. Sorry.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grasshands:
Oh no problem...just making sure I wasn't missing something/some update :) Thanks for the prompt reply! Does low priority mean no work being done/no hope/chance in hell of seeing it (like other samsung only features) or just that it may or may not be possible and nobody is really looking at it?

Thanks again for all your time and patience! Cheers!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tkjeeper:
Thank you sir, you've made some compelling arguments. Probably convinced me enough to skip what was to be my "pre" cm7 flash, andromeda, from FF, and direct to cm7. When I get the courage.

Sent from my igloo, with my seal skin mitts removed, in the frozen tundra known as Canada.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnorthington:
Can anyone explain the any differences or general suggestions around the available modems (outside of the fact that KB1 has HUSPA) and no voice processing? I am on JL3 and wondering if I should try another. I don't get particularly bad service or battery life (though I don't have anything to really benchmark against for the latter) and was wondering if I should try something different. Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlt220:
Kernals

Hey I have tried all three of yttrs(sp) kernals and I seem to have the same battery life for all of them including the stock kernal with cm7 of about 10-11 hours... I'm sure it user error somewhere but I was wondering if people were having similar times
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeybear23:
This is still pre-beta.

You'll have to live with poor battery life until all the code is ready for general release.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlt220:
I understand that but I was surprised the even different clock speeds would have little to no effect on the battery life. not that I was expecting excellent battery life.