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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zerojay:
Nandroid backups appear to work for me.

Swype beta works, download the installer and install Swype through it and you should be fine.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Minced:
For swype I think you also need the .so file that's in the system/lib folder. But I have been too lazy to put swype in so I am not exactly sure.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
1) yes

2) apps from samsung ROM's may not work. if you want swype, sign up for the swype beta available from http://beta.swype.com
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pewpewbangbang:
Is anyone else getting insufficient memory available or having problems installing apps and restoring apps with titanium backup??

I can't install Google voice Gmail or anything
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
check to see how much space you're using in /datadata with "adb shell df" or root explorer
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pewpewbangbang:
I'll just try a complete Master Clear and everything with Odin......bye bye app backups :p

Also, when i reboot, its almost as if the phone resets or something cuz i get the Android robot startup screen that takes me through the process of signing into an account, backing up data, etc....

Maybe my google apps file was bad, i'll go re-download that
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bay_wolf:
For the choppy bars, it's just the AOMLED display. It doesn't handle gradients well and the screenshots aren't of the actualy screen but what it is suppose to display.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
the android robot startup is a part of gapps, walks you through the setup process.

the scratchy graphics only happen to me while it's searching for initial signal, but fine afterward.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thnikk:
I can install it and it works, but when I try to move it from data/app to system/app it fc's.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ankitb4u:
Awaiting your update.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
you're more than welcome to, but I don't think that will fix it (the fix for me was using KB1) =/

Root explorer should work fine, try clearing data/cache for that app... and (if that doesn't work) wipe cache from recovery. also, don't thank me for the work, this is all atinm/codeworkx/coolya et. al. I'm just answering questions
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cumanzor:
How is the camera working for you guys?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeybear23:
working great here, but I'm just a point-and-shoot guy... are you having any problem s in particular? Maybe I can tell you if I have the same issue.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
not the best quality, but it's a camera phone (that isn't fully optimized yet anyway)... no 720p video and not the full 5 MP I think... if you don't mind your photos being a bit grainy at times, then it gets the job done. but it's nothing to write home about (but it wasn't either on stock)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smithisize:
So, I installed swype beta.

However, the "edit" box that appears when you double tap a word is conflicting with it. Any way to disable this?

Regards

Smith
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
I submitted a bug report, but I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same issue.

If I am on a call using a bluetooth headset, once the phone is locked, I cannot change the call volume using the volume buttons on the phone. Once I hit the power button to turn the screen back on, I can then change the volume fine. Also, if the screen is off (due to proximity sensor, etc) but has not yet locked, I can change the volume. The problem only appears to happen when the phone is locked and the screen is off.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
We still have issues with headsets in general, we're not identical to the Nexus S and no real changes have been made to the code yet so things may work, but there are many things that don't. Working on it . . .
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
Thanks for the update. Not a huge issue, and can be easily worked around (turn screen on), but since I noticed it while driving this morning and had not seen it mentioned, I thought I'd make sure you guys knew about it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buresh.kevin:
Thanks dude. Is it ok when they are similar roms, like Serendipity and twingerbread?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cumanzor:
Agree about the quality. It wasn't something great to begin with. Problem is that it takes a very long time to initialize.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waghoba:
two Q's

1. how to master clear the phone? as one click ODIN does not recognizes phone anymore

2. how to get back to CM default kernel, if I flash something else?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxsxx:
Clear through recovery menu

Flash the update.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeybear23:
Do you get HSUPA with the KB1 modem on CM7?

I thought KB1 is the stock cappy modem, thus wouldn't work with HSUPA....

Edit:

***Confirmed: no HSUPA with KB1 modem ****
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
yeah, but it's not supposed to. this modem IS NOT for everyone's usage, it is PURELY for people who CANNOT use i9000 modems. I constantly lose signal with i9000 modems on any and all ROM's I have ever used, it is nothing CM related. The only fix is to use a captivate modem (which has it's own bugs such as no voice processing, as has been stated now dozens of times throughout this thread)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h0ckey10:
2 questions:

for updating to 20110309 one of the steps is do a nandroid backup? i this just a precaution and the same as titanium backup or is it necessary?

what is the update.20110309.md5 file for and is it necessary for an update?

thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waghoba:
okay....just notices a weired thing..I Odined to stock 2.1 just to have a clean install done all the steps and installed CM7 successfully and was running well. Then I signed into my google accnt and after installing gapps market started pushing all my apps from market accnt to phone...fortunately I was on wifi...but wtf? why google is pushing all the apps unnecessarily without informing (or if there a setting to turn this off then pardon me and please instruct how to do it) But now I remember someone posting that after installing CM7 he went to sleep and he lost like 180 mb of his 200 mb data plan...So what should be done in order to prevent this happening in future. It also somehow screwed the SU and I had to restore it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkfalz:
Two questions/issues.

Installed new theme from the market and applied it. After a reboot, I was back to default theme. The colored ones that shipped with CM will persist through a reboot, however.

Also some widgets (I attempted with a few calendar ones) do not show up in the widget picker list after install, rendering them useless.

Ideas/fixes?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silentheero:
Nandroid backup is different from TiBu and is accessed through CWM (recovery).

Unless the captivate.update.20110309 has been posted, you should wait, since the update is still being tested for our phones.

The md5 is a hash file that is used to check the integrity of the update to assure it is not corrupt.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
when you sign into your google account there's a page about automatically restoring backed up data (which is selected by default)... just deselect it and it won't happen. or just skip the "welcome to captivate" screen and sign into wifi first.

nandroid is always recommended and encouraged. skipping it could only be potentially bad.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEscapist:
The binaries wont, but the source will. I know atinm was really hoping for the headset jack drivers so he could work put the bugs with that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aksnafu:
Problems installing cwm 3.x on captivate

Hi,

I have been trying to find cwm 3.x image to install on my captivate phone. I have the full version of Rom Manager and have found several img files on the internet. I have followed several instructions that tell me to go to a directory and replace a file with the image and to go into Rom Manager. it said change the rom manager to captivate (DMT) , yes to cwm manual installed and confirm version cwm 3.x. when i boot into recovery I get the 2.x version of the screen.

I there a step I am missing or do I have the wrong img file.

Note: I have reinstalled back to stock 2.1 and I am trying to upgrade to the latest CyanogenMod 7 for captivate. I have been doing this process for the last year however this is the first time I have need to upgrade to cwm 3.x

thank in advance for your help

Lawrence

found the problem select 3.x version and I should have selected 2.x version. I miss read the instructions. Install went well and everything seem to be running correctly.

Lawrence
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zuN!:
I see that there's a new 06/13 gapps, can you point to me what changes are in there (specifically Kaik since he seems to answer most questions in this thread).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derv23:
At some point during my long stint using CM7, I lost my ability to get into download mode using the volume up + volume down + plug in USB combo. I've also tried all other combinations out there. I discovered this when I was affected by the sd mount issue on build # 24. Every time I plug the USB cable in while holding the volume buttons with the power off, the loading wheel shows up and then the phone reboots, as though I were trying to charge the phone while having it powered off. I didn't have this issue in the past, as I've been able to get into download mode rather easily in the past, but I don't know exactly when it went away as I haven't had a need to get into download mode until the sd card mount issue occurred. I've never used the gingerbread bootloaders, and I'm using the stock kernel. I had to go get the resistors to make a USB jig to fix it, and it worked great. I flashed back to stock and re-flashed CM7. Now I flashed # 30 and I'm stuck in the same bootloop everyone has been posting about. I'm also unable to boot into recovery using the 3 button combo, even though I flashed the 3-button combo fix linked in this thread. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this, what could be causing it, and if there is a fix for this. Now that I have the jig, it isn't as big of a deal as it was prior, but I'd love to be able to handle these hiccups with a simple re-flash instead of having to jig it into download mode and flash back to stock, then re-root, re-flash, etc. Any help would be appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
they are newer. that's about it. still no Talk2.apk (google talk with video chat) as there has yet to be a google apps release that supports more than the Neon boards (aka Nexus S and Galaxy S phones). until there is, there won't be an "official" gapps package that includes them.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
FWIW... I use the modified 5/07 tiny gapps (from Temasek) which includes talk2 and does not delete anything that is not replaced by the package. That's what I flashed on the captivate that I maintain, and what I use on my own phone. Works great in both cases. I think talk2 only enables voice chat on cappy, tho.

As always, YMMV...and nandroid is your friend :)

LINK: http://db.tt/KzpcM13
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
like I said, they work for our phones as they are "neon board" phones, but they will never be included as "official" gapps as they will not work on the vast majority of other phones.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
Ummmm..... It's essentially the universal 3/07 (goo.inside) updated for video chat on devices with ffc. Was never under the impression that there was any "board" specificity, but you would likely know better than I. Either way, it works...

Who needs "official" anyway?? :P
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhostetter:
What would be the bestway to reset the GPS settings so I can start from scratch?

I tried using my GPS yesterday for the first time in months and could not get a lock while standing outside.

I was thinking about using the Samsung GPS restore but wanted to check before.

Also has anyone used Bob's GPS fix on CM7?

I know the GPS sucks on the Cappy but I was expecting to get a lock.

Any advice would be helpful.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeronothing:
What is the best way to get the nightlies manually. I had ROM manager but couldn't get the premium functions to ever work. I used to go to the sourceforge page and download them but I don't think that page has been updated with the newest nightlies.

thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannb:
Alright so I have a Cappy that does not have 3 button combo out of the box, and I had to do a million things today to fix a soft brick when I could have just gotten into recovering and restoring from Nandroid, however I couldn't get into recovery. I have used that 3 button fix update that changes the secondary bootloader, IIRC.

However, all this talk lately about bootloaders and having different bootloaders between the primary and secondary has me scared, because I really cannot afford a hard brick. So, is the 3 button fix safe/recommended with CM7? It always worked on Froyo mods, but never tried it with Gingerbread.

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubu123:
Hi,

each time I plug the phone to the computer it says that the usb is not recognize.

I've reinstalled the captivate drivers and the nexus s drivers but it doesn't seems to help.

I want to go back to stock but Odin doesn't recognize the device. :(

any ideas??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lanisan:
Build 24

Think I accidentally posted this in Dev on accident, sorry..

I scavenged for a bit to find the answer and it's not working for me (I'm obviously doing something wrong).

I am stuck on build 24. I don't have a pc at home so when I get an opportunity to use a friends pc I try to fix stuff. I have gotten my phone into DL mode. I have odin3 1.52 loaded up. I have the latest nightly and want to flash it to my phone but when I use odin to point to it it wont see the zip. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but it'd be great to get past this build. I wont have access to a pc again for a few days and would like to see if someone can guide me towards the correct steps.

(technically I read I need to flash to a previous build but guess what? none of them are available ;p)

thanks in advance for any help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
If you are ON CM7 and never used the i9000 gingerbread bootloaders then you can use the three button fix. CM7 basically does not touch the bootloaders at all so it should work just as it did with froyo roms. I have applied it on my wife's 1010 build phone since I know that is one that has issues with the three buttons. So far I haven't had any problems with hers yet.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.5Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhernand1102:
You need to flash the old initial kernel using Odin then 3 button into recovery and flash a different nightly. If you don't have one on your phone then just mount the drives in CWM and drop one in and you should be good. The old initial kernel is posted some where in this or the development thread for CM7. You should be able to find it with a search.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeronothing:
After doing some searching around I found the answer to my question. If their is anyone else like me who needs to download and install the nightlies manually, here is the link where you can download the nightlies
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
Hi I have been using CM7 for awhile and I'm starting to get curious of MIUI, can i do a nandroid backup of my current CM7 setup and install MIUI and then do a restore to go back to CM7, thanks ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rivera151:
Quick question...

Are there any ROMs I can flash over this without having to do an odin one click, that is, not having to start from stock to get the new ROM? I know CM7 uses a novel partitioning scheme, but I don't know if that makes it tougher to switch ROMs.

rivera151
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rwells813:
Miui. Can be flashed over cm7. Im not sure if there are others.

Sent from SGS Captivate CM7 or MIUI using TKGlitch or Escapist
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rwells813:
Yup, just make sure you have your button combo working if problems occur. Also when you flash miui and all is good , you can back it up. When ready for cm7 restore the backup , when you want miui restore the backup

Sent from SGS Captivate CM7 or MIUI using TKGlitch or Escapist
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rwells813:
EDIT: I GOT IT, thats what i get for not thinking,
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] axl81:
"Hi, each time I plug the phone to the computer it says that the usb is not recognize.

I've reinstalled the captivate drivers and the nexus s drivers but it doesn't seems to help.

I want to go back to stock but Odin doesn't recognize the device. any ideas??"

Any ideas? Have the same issue, just flashed the latest nightly and did not fix issue...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
..did you try a different USB port? ..are you using the cord that came with the phone? .. I've heard of similar problem with 3rd party usb cords
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhostetter:
The samething happened to me and it turned out the cord was bad. I got a different cord and it started working again.

That was a first.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dfinlay:
32 is nice!

Just updated from 19 to 32, very nice so far.

Has anyone noticed that GPS locking hasn't been as good since 17ish? It could just be the recent increase in solar activity though.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] williec40:
MIUI system Apps into CyanogenMod7 Captivate

Hi! I would like to know if I can install system apps from MiUI Rom into CyanogenMod7. If I can do it what are the steps to make this happen?

Apps I would like to install: Music app, Phone dialer app, Contact app. Sorry for my english language.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhostetter:
Cant Backup

I can no longer perform a backup thru CWM / RM.

Every time I try it very quickly (less than a second) goes thru the paces screen flashes ClockworkMod Recovery v4.0.0.5.

Anyone have any suggestions?

I'm on nightly 6/16 (#29 I think)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] axl81:
"..did you try a different USB port? ..are you using the cord that came with the phone? .. I've heard of similar problem with 3rd party usb cords"

I have tried each usb port. I am also using the factory cord. I can get the phone to mount but nothing else. For example, when I do a diagnostics test for usb drivers using sideload wonder machine I continually get device not found errors.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tonyzz:
I had same issue my windows 7 32bit quit recognizing my phone in download mode still doesn't tried 5 different cables different ports no luck downloaded heimdall for my Linux machine and it worked great no issues I tried it on my desktop that dual boots win7 and Ubuntu same USB ports that windows didn't see worked again with heimdall they have a windows version too just may be Odin and Odin one click

Hopefully that will work for you
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] axl81:
If I plug the phone into my mac and run paralells, the phone shows up as "Captivate" but will only mount the memory cards. Should it not show up as a Nexus S?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdhommert:
does CM7 have the "audience chip" support i guess its called? where it cancels background noise

im on nightly 19 i think, and my bro says cm7 doesn't have it and has a hard time hearing me when im on the highway
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhernand1102:
No it doesn't have it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n0stalgia:
Are LED notifications back on CM7?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhernand1102:
No not as of nightly 33
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gleonard3:
Yup... noticed that as well. GPS is fairly usable but definitely not as good as it was.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mnjm9b:
Completely lost GPS function...

I am lucky to see more than one satellite.

Haven't had a lock at all.

Before "the merge" it was working good.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RTBee:
Which nightly?

Is there any way to tell which nightly you are currently on? I looked thru this thread and in phone's info, which just says cm7, not which build.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capsin6:
Menu->Settings->About phone->Mod version should have the date of the nightly build.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RTBee:
Plain as day! Thanks, I was looking and did not see...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RTBee:
USB to HDMI

Does anyone know if the USB output to HDMI works or is being worked on? I've tried it but no luck so far. Haven't read anything about this issue.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
this feature does not exist in the Galaxy S phones. the only "video out" option is 3.5 mm to RCA.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RTBee:
I had read that the Galaxy S phones have the hardware but just not the right software or OS version to utilize it. With custom ROMs being able to pull out or exploit the phones potential, I thot maybe someone had come up with something.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juiceboy125:
This has been probably answered already but I've been looking up for this answer for a couple of days and I couldn't find it.

Each time I connect my phone to the computer, the computer knows that its there and the USB debugging is working and all but when I turn on the USB storage it turns on for just a second and then it goes back telling me if i want to turn on USB storage.

Im wondering how i can fix that and if anyone else has this problem.

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
nope. It's a hardware issue. The captivate does NOT have HDMI compatibility. :rolleyes:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RTBee:
Too bad! Great video, would be better in HD than only from RCA. Thanks for feedback
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jusrertiner:
Stupid question but can u flash a kernel with cwm
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannb:
It worked! Except it didn't stick. From reading the dev thread it isn't sticking for others too and is a CM7 thing with partitioning or something that I don't understand. No matter. I've read that it will still if you do the fix in stock and then flash CM7 and it will stick through the installation. Once my jig comes in the mail (I've made 3 resistor jigs but I keep losing them or family members accidently throw them out >_>) I'll do this. Thanks for reassuring me though!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capsin6:
Yes; you can. Just make sure that the kernel is compatible with CM7.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurrptsenate:
Can someone give me a decent comparison between Continuum 5.6 (or similar) with CM7.

I have tried one of the nightly builds for CM7 on my captivate but it included very little packages, no market app, and took forever to get the computer to recognize it.

The big appeal of CM7 for me is the ability to pair a wii remote with the captivate, something I just can't seem to do on Continuum 5.6.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
you need to install GApps after you install CM7. You would have seen that was one of the first things in the Q&A. And wiimote works with cm7. Computer should recognize the phone without problem also..:rolleyes:

..and you can't compare the two. They are two TOTALLY different ROMs, there's nothing to compare ;)