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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
#14 is broken in more than one way right now - I broke audio, and coolya broke RIL. Hopefully fixes will be in the next nightly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rubenoso:
Battery Life

I'm looking for an honest opinion. Would i be better served staying on FireFly 3.0 or switching to CM7 considering only battery life?

Has anyone noticed an improvement over a 2.2 rom? Is it the same? Better?

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEscapist:
If you're looking at only battery life, stay on firefly. Battery life is acceptable on cm (for now, the team is working on it so it will get better), but I usually have to plug in around 12-16hrs, so you wont be getting any of the two days on a charges like you do on 2.2
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soblack:
oh excellent, much thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
Easy way:

Start with a rooted Eclair/Froyo running Eclair/Froyo Bootloaders (do not ask us how to do this).

Install ROMManager Premium.

Flash ClockworkMod Recovery. Pick Captivate (MTD) (ignore the warning about not having an official, pick ClockworkMod 2.x).

Make sure you can reboot into ClockworkMod recovery from ROMManager. Reboot and get back into ROMManager Premium.

Choose download ROMs.

Pick the CyanogenMod Nightlies.

Check the Google Apps addon.

Check Backup current ROM!

Check wipe data, cache, dalvik cache.

Let ROMManager finish the installation.

so...I'm having a little trouble here. When I choose download roms I don't get the option for CyanogenMod Nightlies, it just goes to the list with Google Apps. So... i downloaded the latest nightlie at cyanogenmod.com, ahen i try to install it, i don't have the option to find any .zip while on recovery screen and when i reinstall packages it just goes into error everytime. me, my friends and the people at geek squad are very confused with what we are missing. also.... i have played around with odin and i am having trouble getting any rom on my phone. we have tried cognition, mosaic, cm, and one other that i can't think of but we can't get my phone to take a rom. i went to geek squad so that i wouldn't upset people here and there were 4 members up there with rooted phones running other roms and they couldn't help me with my situation......I apologize for bothering people..... i have watched vidoes and read so many forums and nothing has my specific issue..... i don't have the update from zip option in recovery mode and it always does a signature error while in recovery mode........i will continue to look elsewhere and not bother anyone on xda again......
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
im typing fast beacause this site tends to sign me out while i'm typing messages. i install the downloaded version of cyanogenmod nightlie 14 and put in on my internal sd, use rom manager to install from sd card, i am only checking clear dalvik cahce(i don't want to re-do my apps, i've already did a back up for contacts and apps) and then it goes into recovery with the normal options, when i reinstall packages it fails signature. what am i missing?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
do you have clockworkmod installed? Also, there has been a few problems with build 14, DL build 13 and use that one.

It sounds like you don't have clockworkmod installed..which you need to flash this.

*EDIT* you also need to be running CM to see CM in the downloads list.. you need premium ROMManager for the updates.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
please forgive me for being a noob. i have a few friends that aren't noobs to this and they are the ones convincing me to do all this. i have researched for my self and i am doing everything my self to learn and know exactly what I am doing to my phone. I have searched about 40 pages of this thread and just decided to ask. I have been dealing with this issue for a few days and have referred to my more advanced friends and even geek squad about this before bothering people on this forum with this issue. I am only being informative about this info because people on this forum tend to talk down on me and just tell me that it's something that I am doing wrong and that I should research more. If this issue has already been discussed on this thread I apologize, I just got tired of reading pages and this is my only day off this week and didn't want to waste the day reading again like last week. If you could point me to the thread discussing this issue that would great!! TY!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
im trying to get the clockworkmod installed, that's where i get stuck
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
i have flashed clockworkmod 2.5.1.2
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
i check it, confirm phone as captivate,sucessfully downloaded ClockworkMod recovery, i check "ok", and that's all that it does....is it supposed to install something? it tells me that my current recovery is 2.5.1.2
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
As stated in the OP. This is NOT a ROM for beginners. You should get some practice and learn how to use Odin. Start in the captivate general section. I believe there is a guide there for flashing ROMs. If not there, it wont be hard to find a guide. Type it in the search bar.

Also.. in the future- Just "edit" your post if you want to add something. That way people who are subscribed and keep up with this thread, don't have to scroll down through all your posts;) .. just a tip.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
Open Rom Manager (Or install it via the market). Then go to your app drawer and open rom manager. Click on the top where it says "Flash Clockwork Recovery" I am NOT positive if you should pick the 2.x or 3.x from initially starting to download/run CM7. I know that I choose the Captivate MTD. Then go to DOWNLOAD and look for Cyanogenmod (again mine will be different since I am on CM7 already and have the paid version of rom manager). Then download CM7. It should ask you with a popup and choose backup current rom and wipe dalvich cache. I Amy be missing something here but this should get you started. I am on my phone right now so some of it is coming from memory. And like others pointed out it is NOT really a rom for newbs as we ALL have started off with trying out almost all 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and CM7 ROMS through our path. So just beware and learn, read, learn. I have learned a lot since I have soft bricked my phone many of times in the past until I figured out what I was doing right and wrong.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.55Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
i am using rom manager premium v4.2.1.0, when i click "Flash Clockwork Recovery"(which my current recovery is clockworkmod 2.5.1.2, under ClockworkMod recoveries my options are 2.5.1.1, 2.5.1.2, 2.5.1.3, 2.5.1.4, 2.5.1.2 is the only option that works) it gives my the option to choose my samsung device, I choose Captivate and it says "successfully downloaded ClockworkMod recovery", I check the box that says "ok", I tap the option for download rom, it says "premium" and "free" is under that, under free is "extras-cool stuffs(30873 downloads), "google apps-add-on for AOSP ROMs, such as CM(86197 downloads), DesignGears Roms-Roms for the Samsung Captivate(224 downloads).... i'm not getting the option for CyanogenMod before this screen.... when i flas a rom from sd i check the box for dalvik cache only, it goes into recovery mode.... what do i do when its in recovery mode? Ive been told to go to the .zip folder, I don't have that option, when I go to "reinstall packages" it fails with a signature error, it does not give me the option to toggle signature verification

I have friends that are senior members on this forum telling me the same about roms, that is why i am doing it my self. i go to them for all my questions and they are great help at answering my questions while leaving me to do this myself. we all have been trying to get any rom to work on my phone and keep having this issue. they are stumped, i am stumped. coming here is a last resort for all of us. after they couldn't figure it out i came here, by their advice
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I think you need to already have CM installed to see it in the downloads folders. As far as downloading from SD card, if you don't see "install zip from SD card" in the menu, then you dont have the right recovery installed.

*EDIT* Have you tried getting the update.zip and installing packages twice to get clockworkmod and then just installing from there instead of ROMManager?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
Yes, I have tried the update.zip and installing packages twice!! Just keep getting the same signature error.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
hrm... are you at stock right now. 2.1JF6?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
yes at stock right now, got froyo 2.2, rooted phone with superoneclick, i have titanium backup pro, ram manager premium, backup master, astro file manager, market access, superuser, busybox(which I have not tried to install yet, i just dl'ed it this afternoon),and applanet. I have used Backup Master to back up my apps only. I have used titanium backup to remove bloatware. I have flashed ClockworkMod 2.5.1.2. I have also synced my contacts to my sd card.

I literally just now while typing above message, downloaded Cyanogen Nightlie 13( i read on this thread that 14 is having a mic issue) and i am attempting to use rom manager premium to intstall Cyanogen nightlie 13 right now.....I'll inform you of what its doing....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
i go to install rom from sd card, i find the cyanogen nightlie 13 zip folder and click it, it comes with 3 options, the only one i am checking is clear dalvick cahe, it reboots into recovery, i check "reinstall packages" it says --Install from sdcard...,Finding update package..., Opening update package..., Verifying update package...(all in yellow), then it goes to red writing saying, E:failed to verify whole-file signature, E:signature verification failed, Installation aborted, i tried checking "reinstall packages" and just does the same again... i tried it 3 times!!

this is where we get stuck and keep getting the same error over and over no mater what rom we try.

my only options while in recovery mode are "reboot system now", "reinstall packages", "delete all user data", "delete cache data", "format internal sd-card"
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Did you try to manually flash a kernel with clockworkmod like speedmod? That might work.

you shouldn't be choosing reinstall packages. RM should do it all for you. Again, it doesn't sound like you got the right recovery (if its a blue menu, it's not the right one). You can either try flashing a kernel with CWM with Odin, or flash back to stock 2.1 and try update.zip from there, which actually might fix whatever the problem is. Have you ever had ClockworkMod recovery working on your phone? did you get your phone with 2.2?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
Have you ever had ClockworkMod recovery working on your phone? did you get your phone with 2.2?[/QUOTE]

I bought the phone brand new with upgrade in novemeber, i got the froyo 2.2 update in february, i've wanted to root my phone since march but did some research first, just rooted it 2 weeks ago, starting trying to install roms about 7 days ago, i've had this same issue with every rom. how can i tell if clockwork is working properly besides rom manager saying that my current recovery is 2.5.1.2??

i am reading bad things about speedmod and samsung phones
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I don't know what your reading, the speedmod kernel is highly recommended. Most of the Froyo ROMs have a kernel based off of the speedmod kernel, unless I'm mistaken.

Well, this is what I would do. If you were able to upgrade to 2.2 without a problem, I would Odin back to stock and try that way- if you haven't tried that yet.

When at stock, flash the speedmod kernel (trust me, its all good:))

OR

get the update zip and try to reinstall packages with existing recovery.

SPEEDMOD KERNEL:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=893880&highlight=speedmod+kernel

UPDATE.ZIP:

should be attached- (might need to rename update.zip)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
i greatly appreciate your patience and help!! really do!!! i am using the android market to download and install speedmod now. thank you!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
I bought the phone brand new with upgrade in novemeber, i got the froyo 2.2 update in february, i've wanted to root my phone since march but did some research first, just rooted it 2 weeks ago, starting trying to install roms about 7 days ago, i've had this same issue with every rom. how can i tell if clockwork is working properly besides rom manager saying that my current recovery is 2.5.1.2??

i am reading bad things about speedmod and samsung phones[/QUOTE]

What color is your recovery menu screen? Blue will not work. I am guessing you have the 3E recovery if your phone already had froyo 2.2 on it. I believe there is a thread about 3E recovery somewhere in the captivate section.

If it is green you have clockworkmod recovery 2E (I think) and if it is orange then you have the one cm7 is using. As long as your on the green recovery menu it should work. If your on the blue recovery menu then I think you can flash back to a 2.1 or 2.2 rom, then root it if it is not already done. Then install a kernel that uses the correct cwm like speedmod, then you should be able to flash cyanogenmod.

From what I remember about the blue recovery screen was after I rooted it, you then go to a recovery menu (blue) and hit reinstall packages. It will not work the first time. Then go again to reinstall packages. Then it should go to the green recovery menu and you can flash from there.

If I was you this is what/how I would do it. Go back to a 2.1 rom and make sure you have an update.zip file on the sdcard. Then flash Cognition 4.4. Then from there you are on a ROOTED andreasy rom. Then go to rom manager, download cyanogenmod #13 or a older.one if need be. Then flash it via rom manager as per the instructions in the OP. I have only glanced through flashing from stock in the OP since I have been on cm7 for a few months now. So I only really pay attention to the upgrading from earlier cm7. Like I was trying to say earlier you need to learn the basics before trying out cm7. I am not trying to be a **** here but without doing it for you I am at wits end and only know what I would do and how I would fix it. Because I have been there in the past and read and learned the hard way.

Sent from My Captivated JVB Gingerbread Toy
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
hmm.. I don't think you install the speedmod kernel from the market. I never heard of that. I would flash using Odin.. super easy.. there is a link to instructions on how to install using Odin in the OP in the Speedmod kernel's thread. Just use the link I gave you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
You are the best person that I've had contact with on the xda forums. You have restored my faith in this forum. I usually pass it up and go to the droid forums because everyone wants to leave snide comments instead of helping. I appreciate all your help!!! So, as long as I get speedmod recovery and my recovery screen is green I should be go to go?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
yeah.. "should be" being the key words here:rolleyes:

But most the time a lot of the people that help out on these forums are trying to keep up with stuff and then find the thread full of how-to questions, which some inevitable yeah, but others that should be asked elsewhere and a lot of times someone will poke their head into a thread and say "hey, this isn't working anyone else?" .. and all they had to do was read the last page or 2 to find out YES, we know about that! In fact it happened earlier today, and sometimes you just gotta "pass the axe" ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatchetly_wikked:
me and a friend are looking into why my recovery is blue, i really want to use rom manager and clockwork, it seems so much easier to test roms with. From what I read this is supposed the best set up. In my rom manger it doesn't give me the option alternate recovery, and under ClockworkMod recoveries there are only 4 options and ony one of the works. I also just used the fix permissions area to see if that would fix anything but it didn't. I'm going to stray away from this forum from now and do some real studying to my issue!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
get out deer and do something wit your day off:p

just kidding but for real good luck, hope you get it figured out
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
Help me understand where your at....you are rooted with froyo and RM with cwm recovery 2.5.1.X??? ( Prolly want at least 2.5.1.4)

If so.... put nightly 13 on sdcard and don't rename it. Use 3 button combo to boot into recovery. Flash 13 manually from recovery.

After it reboots and loads up, go to RM ( now a different version for you, thanks to CM) and upgrade cwm recovery to 3.X. Then flash gapps (I prefer to do so manually), and then you should be golden.

That's how I upgraded my friend's from Cog 4.2. It was pretty seamless.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Seems he's having trouble getting the right recovery on his phone. Even ROM manager isn't giving him the correct recovery.He keeps booting into (i wanna say 2eRecovery, the blue menu) recovery.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
hmmm...I don't remember there being that many ways to get messed up like that. But I'm in no way an authority.

Hope he tried upgrading or reinstalling RM. Maybe even a TB wipe of RM.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
Edit: usually when I get that kind of error, it means I got a bad download. Try re-dl the ROM
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tvegeta:
Battery Stats

My first post. I've spent many hours learning and haven't had to ask a single question cuz just about everything is answered by wielding a Search. One question I have is:

Are battery stats wiped when applying new ROMs after flashing to stock? I assume it does but have not found anything that verifies my assumtion.

I see many ROM instructions saying you should have 100% battery before installing and I'm now thinking it may be a 2-fold issue. 1 - So you don't lose power when installing the ROM. 2 - Battery stats are wiped.

Any thoughts on this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEscapist:
Everything except bootloaders and sdcards is wiped, so yes, you are correct.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
I wouldn't worry about battery stats, generally speaking. Unless ur really into battery calibration, it probably won't be much of a topic for discussion.

As for fully charged... you just don't want ur phone to die mid-flash. Could be bad. That said... just make sure you have a reasonable amount of juice when you flash. Shouldn't be too much of a concern, I don't think.

YMMV :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeronothing:
Hi,

I'm a first time caller, long time listener and I just recently install cyanogenmod 7 on my captivate. I'm currently on build 13 and I install build 13 with clockworkmod recovery free version. I tried to do it with the premium but I had a bunch of stupid licensing errors I couldnt get the premium to work. Anyway I'm currently on build 13 and was wondering what is the correct way for me to upgrade to the most newest nightly build? can I just download the most newest nightly build from the "Cyanogenmod Mirror nework" and install it with clockworkmod recovery just like I did the first time? If I do it that way will it wipe everything? I'm hoping to find a solution that doesn't require a complete wipe but if it does thats ok too.

thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhernand1102:
Yes you can, no need to use ROM manager if you don't want to. That is how I do it and it work fine.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
Should be able to manually flash without it wiping everything. Wonder what the underlying problem is, for you, with RM, though.... hmmm
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tvegeta:
Sorry, I need clarification. Your help is appreciated.

So if I flash to stock and install CM7 with 50% battery that affects the battery stats/calibration, correct? If understand it correctly, the "battery stats" cache (if that's the right term) affects how your phone detects the battery's power level.

I guess the better question is... Do I really need a FULL 100% battery level when installing a new ROM because it affects my battery stats/calibration?

Or even better questions...Am I being stupid (probably)? How do battery stats work? Are they reset every time the phone reaches 100% charge? I beginning to think I’m over thinking this but CM7 (nightly build 9) started killing my battery and I installed it with about 60% battery. Coincidence or not?

I should have ran my own tests before asking. My bad.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
J

Over thinking.... justsayin
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tvegeta:
I thought so. Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
No worries. We've ALL done it at some point! ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeronothing:
Its really weird haven't seen anything like it. what happens is, I download ROM manager (free version) and then within the app I "buy premium" and it takes me to the market place to buy the premium version. Once I buy it I don't get any of the premium features. when I click on my Device ID to see my license I get a weird error message.

So I said the hell with it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I could be wrong, but i don' think they are wiped.. I've flashed countless times with less than 100% to have the phone boot up and be within a couple %. The reason they all say flash with 100% is so your device doesn't die halfway through the flash.. as it does take a few minutes to do all that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeronothing:
also, one more question, if I want to install a different modem, can I just download the modem from the sourceforge page and install it through clockworkmod recovery?

thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
yessir.

10 char
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeronothing:
thank you very much!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
im a big fan of JK4. But i hear JP9 is working well.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iakovl:
just installed nightly 15... great rom, works fast but somehow i ended with CWM recovery 3.1.0.1 should i go back to 2.X.X.X?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jemack:
No. CM7 requires 3.x recovery.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeronothing:
I noticed when I play some of my HD video files that I took with my captivate, tend to skip around. Does that have something to do with video acceleration? I'm guessing CM7 doesn't have access to the video acceleration like the official samsung rom.

thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhernand1102:
Yes it does, Try Mobo player from the market, it seems to handle them better then the stock video player.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lconquistador:
Ok so for some reason i cant get my modem to change. Ive flashed it a couple times and the baseband stays the same.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HaiKaiDo:
Kind of a silly question, but am i overlooking the way to save a contact to the sim card in CM7?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zuN!:
I don't believe you can. You may have to get accustomed to using Google to save your contacts as I had to do.

On a side note, does anyone else have this issue where the arrows for the data logo in the notification bar don't light up even though data is being downloaded/received? (On Nightly #16)