yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeybear23:
It is certainly possible that I am just not patient enough, but I did wait several minutes the first time this happened.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whyareyou:
Flash back to stock

So, if I want to flash back to stock using odin, do I need to uninstall nexus drivers and install samsung drivers before connecting the phone to PC?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
No you don't
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phateless:
Are you talking about the cute little Android widget guy on your homescreen? He's just a widget. if you don't like him, delete him like any other widget.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeybear23:
Okay, since the JL2 modem has been downloaded 317+ times, is anyone seeing a difference in battery life or connection?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
I have been using since list thursday with jl2. Good connection, battery ehh
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeybear23:
Thanks.

I have used JL2 with other ROMs in the past, and never noticed much of a difference between JL3 and JL2, so I am undecided on whether to switch or not.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rivera151:
Will do. Thanks.

Ricardo
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capsin6:
gtalk video

Yeah; yell at me all you want fr not reading faq or searching the thread; but I have done both. When I use the gtalk video feature with the latest gapps, the person on the other end does not see my video, but I can see their video. Is this how it is supposed to work, because we don't have FFC on Captivate? On my screen I can see both their video and output of the camera from captivate on right hand corner. I just want to find out this is how it is supposed to work.

Thanks for all replies in advance. :cool:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
Thanks, I am curious about what your source will report.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
I was trying to put cm7 on a new cappy i put it on odin, the cappy had 2.2 stock i did the odin back.to stock and the phone dont boot up, the phone stays at the att logo and restart itself, what can i do?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Altair4:
Dumb question - how do I change the system font from the default to a custom one from a .apk/.ttf file? On stock and other Galaxy S roms there's an option under display that does it, but I can't seem to find such an option in CyanogenMod.

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
use font changer from the market and supply the TTF files. many free for use fonts are available at www.dafont.com
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
I am using font changer from the market. If you already have fonts that are .apk files just use root explorer to extract them. Go to the extracted folder and you will see the .ttf file (or whatever it is) and then copy and paste it into the Fontchanger folder. Then open font changer and it will show you your fonts with little sentences so you can preview the font.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.55Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AppiePils:
iPhone MMS issues

Posting in the Q&A as I can't post in the dev zone due to lack of post history.

I followed the development thread and noticed that multiple people, including myself, are having MMS issues when a MMS is send from an iPhone: the message shows up as a download button, but download always fails.

As requested, included logcat and last_kmsg, for investigation purposes. Also noted the following output below when I performed a dump on the phone, the time reflect the time I was attempting to download the MMS.

05-13 21:22:51.699 I/db_sample( 414): [/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db,SELECT _id, read FROM (SELECT DISTINCT date * 1 AS normalized_da,89,,18]
05-13 21:22:51.699 I/content_query_sample(13902): [content://mms-sms/conversations/26,_id/read,(read=0 OR seen=0),,94,,19]
05-13 21:22:51.710 I/notification_cancel( 194): [com.android.mms,789,0]
05-13 21:22:51.773 I/notification_cancel( 194): [com.android.mms,123,0]

IMEI is correct and running 0511 build.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dfinlay:
AT&T Microcell Battery Drain

I've been using CM7 on my captivate since early April. It's awesome and I really appreciate the work going into it. Every time I've found a bug it seems to get addressed in the next build. Very impressive. I'm an organ donor and allow anonymous stats. :) . You should really allow for some cash money donations.

I found something interesting today. I'm dog sitting for my folks, and they have an AT&T Microcell. My number is associated with it, but I haven't spent enough time here since getting my Captivate to notice it's negative effect on battery life before.

When connected to the Microcell my battery drained extremely quickly. It appears that it's maintaining an active connection with the Microcell and not going into what I assume is a standby mode it does on standard cell towers(Not sure on the specific protocol/service name). I don't know if this is a Microcell, Captivate, Android, or CM7 issue. I found some threads talking about this behavior on Blackberries, but nothing for Android devices. Has anyone seen or heard of this before?

I'm running 20110509 and tomorrow I will try 20110511 and see if the samsung_modemctl reversion changes the results. I don't expect it to, but I obviously need to test that.

Attached is a screenshot of my battery monitor. I've marked the section when I was connected to the Microcell. Notice the abnormal Phone Signal portion on the screen shot. I was connected to it via HSDPA the majority of the time.

Thanks for reading this! If anyone wants more detail, I can pull logs or do additional testing. Or I can post this somewhere else if needed.

Thanks,

Dave
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prayii:
I've heard of this a lot and think it is a known problem with the microcell and all phones. Not Captivate specific.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dfinlay:
Prayii-

Thanks for the info. That is a significant drawback of the AT&T's Microcells then. I'm glad AT&T has spent the past year addressing the issue :rolleyes:. It still bothers me they call it a microcell as well. Oh well, at least I don't spend a lot of time here.

Dave
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
with the new "single" intitial zip, can that be renamed update.zip and be used to reinstall packages in 2eRecovery coming from 2.1JF6?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Better to use a kernel that has CWM in it. We had hit or miss with 2e.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
yokie dokie.. thanks:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
hi, i want to flash this on a cappy with 2.2 stock version, is there a way to install clockwork recovery without odin?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EthanMG:
hey im about to flash, and i was getting all the files downloaded that i will need, and i noticed that the google apps download from the page the link in this forum takes you to is from back in march, and i could have sworn that there were updated apps since then. are the march google apps the correct ones i need to use?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Look up^^^ and yeah there is a newer gapps
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EthanMG:
look up at what? and where do i find the updated apps to install?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
please answer my question i dont want to brick the phone, i know how to do it on a cappy with 2.1 but with 2.2 i cant flash clockwork recovery, please.

hi, i want to flash this on a cappy with 2.2 stock version, is there a way to install clockwork recovery without odin?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
please spend some more time reading around the forum on how to do this. if you don't know how to use ODIN or heimdall and it's corresponding components, we'd prefer if you held off on flashing this until the ROM is more stable.

this isn't for the "average" user (even though the instructions have been simplified incredibly), so we'd like the current crop of users to be a little more knowledgeable. if you don't know how to flash back to 2.1 or install a custom kernel on 2.2, then you'll just have to wait a big longer (until you either read up on how to do it or until we provide instructions for the "average" user).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsethi3:
cm7 Latest update: update-cm-7-05152011

After installing this update on my captivate, the google apps: market, gmail, camera (view finder) have stopped working.

And the funny thing is that ROM manager was used to backup the initial file and now that is also not working: MD5 file is missing.

I think I will have to redo everything.

Any idea?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
I preface by reminding everyone that I'm out of my element in the captivate threads, as I'm just following so I don't screw my friend's phone up.... so hopefully I haven't overlooked some captivate specific issue with gapps.

As far as I can tell though, folks over here seem to be using the original 5-03 gapps that is probably compromised and worth avoiding. Here is a link to a better version from 5-07 with a thorough explanation of what changes were made and why. YMMV

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13551623&postcount=17600
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrDubzz:
I'm stuck in an infinite boot loop where the Galaxy S/CM boot screen loads, some scripts runs (very quickly) and ends with "installation aborted"

repeat

I can't figure out how to get it to stop

figured it out
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Altair4:
This is not connected about the latest update, but does anyone else have trouble regarding video playback? It was working fine a couple days ago but now during video playback (web browser, YouTube, etc) only a black screen shows. The audio still plays fine however but the video's just a black screen.

Anyone else experience this before? Is there a way to fix it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EsotericSYN:
Sorry I can't help, but I did have the exact same problem with Netflix streaming. Audio works fine, but black screen for the image.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zuN!:
I posted this in the development thread in response to someone's post about an updated gapps version but I feel that my post was probably better suited here.

"One thing I noticed about the 0503 gapps (not the one quoted in the post above this) is that I constantly lose connection with Google Talk. It will stay on for about a few minutes then when I reopen the screen it's disconnected. I'm not using Wifi (if curious) and changing modems doesn't affect this."

Any reason as to why Talk keeps losing connection?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Altair4:
So the problem just went away on itself? Or do you still have it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
If you are talking about it working but you only get sound and a black screen then just hit the back button. Reboot the phone. From then on you will have video and sound perfectly.

If you cannot get it tto work check for my build prop I posted on the "Netflix app" post. You can copy it or use the other persons who posted a downloadable link for a build prop. Just copy it, use root explorer and paste it in system overwriting the existing one (just make sure you have copied your original and rename it .bak in case you have issues. Then again turn on the app, then exit out, then reboot and it will work. (Once you copy the build prop you MAY need to go to the market and download the app again.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.55Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chujoshua:
plz help!!

I have install the CM7 and feel not bad, however my phone can't detect the external SD.

I have try to flash back to stock rom then it is work, but when I flesh in to the CM7 then can't. plz help~~
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zas0006:
Are you looking in /mnt/emmc

That is where it should be.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewdroid:
Why are the Cyogen Mod's so much different than the other gingerbread roms that they cannot be installed on top? Can anyone tell me? Just curious.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
In short, CM7 is built entirely from AOSP.. its not based on a i9000 gingerbread kernel, which is what all the other 2.3.3 ROMs are... (i think)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subcromo:
I am having the same prob, mine has carried over from 0511 nightly. is there any fix known as of yet?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mnjm9b:
I think the idea behind the new single initial install zip is to allow you

to flash from froyo with cwm.

I just wonder (as I haven't yet tried it)

will we now be able to flash back and forth as any other rom.

or does the cm7 still use the non-compatible clockwork recovery.

causing a flash back to froyo to need to use oden or heimdall.

I would try it myself to answer my own question but I thought I read

that its not yet working for cwm.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
you would still need ODIN/heimdall to get back. it doesn't really have anything to do with CWM, it's that CM7's kernel uses MTD and there's no in place method for reverting from MTD to BML for samsung's ROM's.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mnjm9b:
i was picking apart the new files and i thought i saw it using bml...

i could be wrong i was half asleep at the time.

i will look into it later.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
we definitely did not switch back to using a closed source module for the partition layout. the only thing even remotely having to do BML is the backing up of efs and replacing the kernel.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
The "other gingerbread" ROMs you are referring to are based on the i9000 Gingerbread ROM from Samsung. The Samsung i9000 Gingerbread ROM uses a new bootloader and the old i897 bootloader is not compatible. To run the "other gingerbread" ROMs you have to flash the i9000 bootloader to your i897. Most people consider it to be a very bad idea to run a bootloader for another device on your captivate. Some people would rather run the latest Gingerbread ROM from Samsung than be safe and not flash a bootloader designed for another device.

Since the new bootloader is not compatible with "old" Froyo ROMs, and CM7 SGS was built from the ground up on the Samsung Froyo bootloaders, CM7 cannot be run on top of the new bootloader without some major issues (such as no external SD card access). Teamhacksung has already started doing some work with the new i9000 bootloader, but they will only be supporting it for i9000 devices. Assuming Samsung releases a new bootloader for the i897, Teamhacksung will probably start working on it after it is released.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cotr:
I have the exact same issue (receiving from Iphone4) but i also noticed that when i click the download button, i loose connectivity with google (reception bars turn white) but not overall connectivity.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
No fix. iPhones are sending something that doesn't follow the WAP WSP specification from what we can tell, so we are just dropping the MMS as un-parseable. We are not sure yet whether this is device specific due to our modem issues but are ignoring it for now until we have modem working well.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beckhams777:
I've been having the same issues, tested it many times and still sometimes it does not ring at all.

I changed the cm settings, and sound setting, but nothing.

The major problem is that if I reboot, the first call rings fine, then i try for a couple more times and it will miss them (no sound)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subcromo:
ok sounds good to me. i will just have them send it to mail instead, its something i can also ignore. love the rom thanks for all the work you all have put in.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
My mistake... sorry
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
ROMManager updates and initials should be available and working now. The changes are just to support ROMManager correctly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thatg:
Can someone in the nyc area tell me what radio is working well for them. Ive got horrible service always dropping calls on tljl3
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Cool, yes - thank you! I will test this.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
< fingers crossed>
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chujoshua:
I have try it,but when I go in there is empty. However if I put the sd card through card reader to computer, I can see inside have files
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
Gotta.love this awesome battery, thanks CM7 team!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhostetter:
Where could one find the change log for the nightlies now?

Also do we need to register under cyanogen settings?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
For now we'll keep posting the changelogs here and other places.

If by register you mean Anonymous Statistics - we really hope you will because that is the only way we count how many are using CM7 on SGS phones and that is the only leverage we have with Samsung when we ask for driver source code.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syl0n:
Are nightly update .ZIP still available on sourceforge? I see ROM manager is showing 0516 nightly which isn't in the usual sourceforge location for Captivate?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coolman4now:
Okay, I got this weird issue where all my screen seem to have a little warm tone in all the colors but specially the whites, is that normal ??

Nothing is wrong with the screen as I get the normal colors with any other ROM.

Also, Im so rude to ask before thanking you for this incredible ROM, thanks guys.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gemini2281:
I just installed CM7 and everything went smooth until I tried to install gapps. I tried it through Rom Manager and when that didn't work I tried to manually flash it. It goes through the motions and says the install is complete but my Market and other Google apps are nowhere to be found.

Any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darnell3515:
I just flashed to CM7 and my home button isn't I just flashed to CM7 and my home button isn't work any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Are you sure you flashed the captivate zip and not the galaxy s zip?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darnell3515:
I flash the captivate zip
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Are you positve? the only reason I ask is because if you had accidentally flashed the galaxy s zip, i believe you'd be having that problem. Try and re-boot, or re-flash.. clear your caches.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannb:
Alright so I've searched the thread and I've figured out what to do, but I want to run by my situation and make sure everything should work, because all this talk about bootloaders has got me all worried (and probably rightfully so!)

I tried Cyanogenmod 7 on my Cappy (manual flash) and had some issues with it and promptly switched back. Now that there's ROM Manager support I wanted to try the easy method to see how it all works. I am currently running Perception 2 (2.3.3) with the I9000 Gingerbread bootloaders and EXT4. Here's how I foresee the installation process:

1. OdinOneClick (this will reset my bootloaders to 2.1, and not just change the secondary bootloader, thus hard bricking my phone, correct?)

(1a. Master clear. Is this necessary? I know it's usually recommended, but would this also convert back to YAFFS or should I do that in the app before step 1?)

2. Root

3. Install ROM Manager

4. Install Cyanogenmod.

I'm fairly certain this will work, but I reeeeeally don't want to hard brick the thing. I have a homemade jig that will get me into DL mode without fail, but that's only during one of the various times I've soft bricked the thing.

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joelmassee:
Trying to load GApps after 5/16 install.

Same here.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdbgamer:
I fixed that by choosing update cwm, choose captivate, and tell it your using 3.x.x
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darnell3515:
Thanks that worked. I love it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
basically, yes, but a master clear is not required. and between steps 3 and 4 you obviously have to flash a CWM recovery (either a kernel that has it integrated or the official 2.5.1.2 build from ROM manager) to install with.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EsotericSYN:
Is ROM manager premium required for the simple new flash step? Sorry if I'm asking an old question.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EsotericSYN:
I had no luck with the build.prop edit and decided to go with the disabled device check apk instead. Works like a charm.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A.VOID:
I installed the last gapps 0503, but my calendar won't sync. It shows supported, and it's checked to sync. Nothing displays.

Also, any reference for the haptic feedback settings? I can't seem to get the tweaks to stick.

EDIT >>> So I got the Calendar to finally sync, but i needed to uncheck it and recheck it under sync settings a few times.

The haptic settings seem to reset or lose the tweak settings from time to time. Reboots usually help, but then something might interfere and change them back. Any app that has it's own haptic setting resets them (Swiftkey).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJLinty:
After flashing latest nightly, suddenly softkeys reverted to 3 second dim, with no bln.

Reinstalled apps, no luck.

Thoughts?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I heard the premium version is the only one that will do updates.. could be wrong though.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aquastubacca:
So I was using the bilboa/kang cm7 kernel (project is over i guess). If I am updating nightly's now through rom manager does the regular cm7 kernel get installed?

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A.VOID:
My Beautiful Widgets Home widget is acting strange:

When I come out of sleep, the widget is smaller and squeezing the fonts.

I can correct it by rotating to landscape and then back to portrait. I never saw this on other roms. I'm using Go Launcher EX as a Launcher.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
yes

try removing then re-adding the widget to make sure it's not the widget messing up. or try another launcher besides Go Launcher to make sure it's not the launcher rendering poorly. these are two non-CM apps, we can't troubleshoot an issue that may very well be related to their own independent functions.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A.VOID:
I've tried multiple modems. I'm getting very poor DL speeds on all of them.

My location here consistently tests near 2mb dls, but I'm seeing about 100k dl on any modem i've tried including the reliable jk4
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mzimmer88:
Hi guys,

I was on the 5/15 nightly and I saw that there was RM support now, so I tried to install the new RM version and it wiped all my user data and apps. I am working on putting it back together, but for the future, how can I update using RM (I have a premium license) without wiping all my data/apps?

Thanks for the help!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
This is already known. For now and future updates, ROM manager will wipe data. It's something they think they can get ahold of and fix, but havent looked at it yet and I'm sure will look at it in the near future. For now, user RockRatt was talking about finding where ROMmanager downloaded the ROM or update and copying it to the root of your SD, then flashing from recovery as we have been, and that way you wont lose your gapps and stuff.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
You shouldn't need to wipe user data and apps now, we got it working earlier today so that ROMManager now asks if you also want to install GApps as well and will do it if you check it on. If you don't, you lose GApps.