yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
I was in the same boat previously. I had made sure to that it was off but still had it vibrating no matter what I did. It does get annoying but I just dealt with it. Then all of a sudden it stopped when I did the 4/02/2011 nightly. I was never sure if it was a CM7 rom issue, or the OC/UV kernel from escapist. Are you running the Escapist kernel by chance? I am currently and still not having it. If you are using Escapist kernel switch to his newest one (if you are on it). Again I wasn't sure what was causing it but all I know was once I was up to date with the newest nightly and then the OC/UV kernel 4.3 it went away.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.4Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
this is how 2.3.3 AOSP IME is designed to work. there is nothing to be done by teamhacksung to "fix" this.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madhaxor8954:
How buggy is this ROM right now? I'd love to run gingerbread. I haven't even been able to try it yet, but I'm really loving how smooth my current ROM is, and I still haven't had any problems with it. So some of you who have been using this, I know there will be little bugs, but is it more trouble than it's worth still? Also what are some good kernels or modems to use? I'm not entirely sure what all is compatible. Sorry if any of these questions are too newbish, but I've been debating for a few days whether or not I should go through with it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
it's smoother than any 2.2 ROM (as you've seen, most of the self-admitted obsessive-rom-flashers have claimed CM7 has cured their flash addiction).

as for the rest of the questions, I'm guessing you didn't even read the FAQ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roof King:
+1 My daily driver for nearly a month.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enhanced:
My experience with CM7 has been pretty much bug-free. The known bugs are fairly minor and has not hampered me one bit nor has it prevented me from making this my daily driver.

I think the issue most concerned about is battery life at this point. The biggest reason to hold off is not because of the bugs, but because of the less-than-stellar but expected (as this is still a pre-beta build) battery life. If battery life is important to you then definitely hold off.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squarooticus:
This having been said, I've been using CM7 for about 3 weeks now on my Captivate and with the gingerbread-compliant beta of JuiceDefender and some performance tweaks in the Cyanogen settings (namely ondemand/200-1000) I'm getting between 18 and 24 hours of battery life, and I use my phone fairly heavily.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madhaxor8954:
I read the FAQ, and it said I could use other modems and I thought I read somewhere that after you flash with the initial kernel you can change to your own. Well I want to hear from some of the other people who have experimented with different ones and tell me which you think works best. And thank you for the replies, I'm loving my battery life right now, but I'm also used to stock when it would die all the time, so if that's the only big problem I don't mind at all and I'm sure there will be some battery fixes.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grandelama:
I've tested almost every modem, and I've been reading I9000 CM7 thread as well...

as far as battery saving the best modems for CM7 imho are JPG and the older JPB...But I personally think JPG is the best choice. JP5 is also good.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
If anyone decides to use an i9000 CM7 modem instead of a Captivate CM7 modem, be aware that not all i9000 modems have 850 band. JPB and JP5 do not have the 850 band so they are not good options for many AT&T and Rogers customers. It is safest to stick with the CM7 Captivate modems as these all have the 850 band enabled.

If you really want to try other modems, you should refer to this thread which lists only Froyo and Gingerbread modems that have 850 enabled: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=876391 (But do NOT flash the downloads from that forum. The modem must be packaged differently for CM7. You must download the CM7 version, or repackage the modem yourself.)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madhaxor8954:
Thanks for all the feedback, tonight's the night I finally flash CM7. I hate to ask questions that I think I've already seen answered before, but going back I can't find the answers I want. Does this have to be flashed from stock or can I flash from firefly? I thought I read before that you don't really have to return to stock, but the video does and I have enough trouble with odin as it is (always getting stuck at different steps, I end up using my brother's computer, but I've updated all my drivers multiple times and can't seem to figure out the problem).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhernand1102:
No need to flash stock, I flashed right over Phoenix.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madhaxor8954:
Word, thanks man. I'll see you guys on the other side.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
I think you still need Odin to flash the initial CM7 kernel though. Correct me if I am wrong. Follow the directions from the OP and use the video to help but it does skip steps/adds different steps. So just fyi.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.4Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] njd911:
What are the proper steps for updating from a previous version of cm7. I am aware of how to install the update in recovery, but I am not clear on what I should clear or wipe after the update, and when. For example should I only clear the cache and dalvik cache, or should I do more. And should I clear these items before rebooting or after.

Also, are there any good kernels for cm7 that do not include overclocking or underclocking. And if so, the same question applies to installing the kernel.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squarooticus:
In the last two upgrade cycles, I have had success clearing only the cache partition and the dalvik cache, and fixing permissions, immediately after update and before rebooting. Needless to say, YMMV.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt310:
Notification toggles disappeared from pulldown menu

What can I do to restore my pull-down menu notification toggles? I checked the first page Q+A and it mentioned this:

Q: Your notification toggles are different than mine, how can I change them?

A: Go into Settings, CyanogenMod Settings, Interface, Notification power widget, Widget buttons

Then I navigated here to ensure it was enabled:

Menu -> Settings -> CM Settings -> Interface -> Notification Power Widget and it's enabled, but I no longer see anything in the pull-down.

Is there another way to hide it that I may have done accidentally?

From the first page:

How mine looks:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEscapist:
Turn them off, reboot, toggle them back on.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt310:
Ahh yes, foiled yet again in life by the "try rebooting" adage. Most excellent.

That worked - thanks :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddonohue79:
To all of the CM7 Devel guys. Thank you very much this rom is great.

:cool:

-Donohue
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
hi im in the new update april 2, i have installed the newest kernel by the escapist and i continue to have vibration while i dial a call, and hang up, and yes is all turn off in the settings.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grasshands:
Where does TV/Video Out stand with CM7...any way to get this working?

Hi

I see the option for TV Out is not a part of CM7...was this a sumsung specific feature and is there any way of bringing this into CM7?

Thanks and cheers!

J
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] papercutMS:
Just stopped by to thank the developers on this excellent ROM. I have had my Captivate for 3 months and flashed numerous ROMs in that time. About a month ago I flashed this ROM and it has been my daily driver ever since. In combination with Escapists' kernel this is buttery smooth. Better battery life would be icing on the cake. Keep up the great work guys.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
a constant flow of FC's

This happened once before and the only solution i found was to flash to stock and start all over.. but, I am not sure what triggers this if it is LCD Density(which i doubt because i dont have it set on boot) I just know my LCD Density is much lower than normal when this happens:

I get a constant flow of FC's. I'll notice, or unlock my phone and I'll be at the very beginning of setting the phone up.The android guy saying "touch here to begin".. then the whole process of signing into my Google account. Sometimes I'll go through the steps and finish to get mutiple android services FC's and really am unable to do anything but pull battery so it will power off.. I've tried rebooting. If i do get through setting the phone up, the Market wont DL anything successfully. Every single thing says download unsuccessful. Thats where I'm at now. I realize there is no support for using a custom kernel- but wanted to mention my issue here incase it's not the kernel. So yeah.. trying to get this straightened out without the whole flash to stock biz..if i can help it:rolleyes:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zuN!:
I've encountered this before and I re-did the whole flashing process. Before you do that though, try going into recovery and wiping data/factory reset - this worked for the latest time I encountered this issue.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Cool. As much as it sucks to factory reset I did that. But for some reason downloads from the market aren't successful. If I try again layer I can get some apps back, but at first they were all unsuccessful
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
This seems to happen on the first time you install gapps and open market. I also had to use android Id changer from the market to get my correct phone ID set. The other issue on the first time is that the market is trying to download MANY apps at the same time. For me it was like 20-30 apps that were automatically being installed or downloaded. I was able to stop some of them by clicking on the app being downloaded and hit cancel. Once enough of them are done downloading/installing it will go back to normal. Then the ones that didn't download or you hit cancel you can go to My Apps and see which one can be updated and then install them one at a time if you want.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.4Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
New update going up with both sdcards available usb =)

edit: being tested.... if all good, it'll go up tomorrow........ =)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raz123:
Are you guys able to record your audio calls with CM7 (using third party apps)?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
was about to DL and install the latest nightly except I noticed on the sourceforge.net page where it says "looking for the latest version" that update is 87.6MB and the one on the list below (same update if I'm not mistaken) shows 88.9MB. I guess I've never paid too much attention, but that is something I look at, and i could be (probably:rolleyes:) wrong, but i thought in the past both files were the same size. And what i mean by that is the file at the top next to "looking for the latest version" is usually the same file size as the one on the list below.

Why are they two different file sizes?

..sorry if that was just confusing
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Please read the filenames you are looking to download - you want the one for the model of phone you are running . . . ignore the one that shows up as "latest" because that is not something we have control over and sourceforge just picks some random file from the most recent uploads and shows it there. As we share the same area with Galaxy S, Vibrant, Captivate and Galaxys SB, any one of those files could show up as "latest", randomly as far as we can tell.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
damn.. i don't know how I overlooked that. I ALWAYS make sure that sucker says captivate somewhere in the zip. :eek:WOW.. thanks for pointing that out! :cool:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LucasBrazil1984:
Android SDK Java error

So, I'm trying to install the Nexus S drivers on my laptop (windows 7).

I've downloaded and installed the SDK, as well as Java JDK and JRE, however when I launch the SDKManager.exe it gives me an error message saying "JAVA Not found in your path" and asks me to add the java address to the windows Path variable, which I've already done!

Frustrating!

I've googled it and came up with no real answer.

Help!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Venoseth:
Thanks.

Been lurking for quite a while and just wanted to post my thanks for all the hard work. This ROM has really been a godsend. I forget when I flashed exactly, near the end of January, but going from 2.1 to 2.3.3 has been a really vast improvement.

One question as well, and please forgive my ignorance, the "audience" drivers everyone's talking about are the ones that came with stock, from Samsung, and they controlled what, the background noise reduction during phone calls? Thanks in advance.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] canyoudigit489:
the google apps link appears to be broken in the Q and A section. any other way i can download this? on a separate note, thanks to the team for all your hard work, I really appreciate it!

nvm- I played around with the link and found it... if anyone needs the link this should work:

http://goo-inside.me/gapps/latest/7/universal/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cropythy:
I would say take the simple route to avoid errors and not move it...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thnikk:
Apps I've modded through ninjamorph only work when in system/app, otherwise I have to take out the files from the modded apk and make a metamorph theme with them.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thatguysteve:
Ever since I installed CM7, I can't get adb to recognize the device. I have edited my /udev file multiple times and sill get a no permissions message. I'm on Ubuntu10.10.

Edit: Just got it to work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Minced:
Is the bootani supposed to be blurry and low-ish fps? Or would that just be my case?

Also, the stock dialer doesn't support typing a name to search? (Horrible at explanations I apologize) As in you type 24747 and someone in your contacts named Chris will show up as a suggestion.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WickedNite:
Okay, so I want to try out this rom. What are the known bugs so far?

Sent from my Muscles using Brain Cells
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
suffice to say, "your problem, not ours"... the ROM is built from the source up, if something completely unrelated to the ROM doesn't work, we can't help you.

it's not blurry for me at all, but I do see a dip in FPS when it first starts (and is smooth afterward). AOSP dialer does not support search by contact name, install dialer one if you want this feature.

if you can't be bothered to read the FAQ and issue tracker, we can't be bothered to answer :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WickedNite:
So that's it? No other bugs aside from the faq at op?

Sent from my Muscles using Brain Cells
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
read the FAQ, read the OP, we never said there weren't more bugs, those are just the known bugs. if you find something else report it IN THE ISSUE TRACKER and it'll be taken care of eventually
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HaiKaiDo:
Hey Guys! Freakin LOVE this rom!!! I only have a couple of questions. if i want to flash this kernel

http://kang.project-voodoo.org/ for my captivate. its fine to just flash via clock work recovery correct? and then if i want to get back to the kernel I have now i can just reflash "cm7-captivate-initial-kernel.tar" via odin correct? and also, can i make a clockwork mod backup of CM7 so that i can reinstall it later? Oh and the last thing what modem comes installed by default and its okay to flash one from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/teamhacksung/files/captivate/ via CWM right?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
read the FAQ, we do not support that kernel, so if you want to get back, we suggest flashing the full "update/ota" zip (which won't wipe your apps). the FAQ also tells you what to do about the modem.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HaiKaiDo:
Yep i know you dont support that kernel....which is why i didnt ask for support :D All i asked was if my process in flashing any kernel was correct :]. Also what OTA update thing are you talking about?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
Just to confirm, I tried the swype files from the Samsung ROM and Swype would start, but then give an error saying it was not licensed for my device (then it would only work as a tap keyboard). Swype beta is the way to go.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
your process is incorrect. use the update zip's from the CM thread.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HaiKaiDo:
Ok so I totally have the modem thing down. But im kinda confused confused still as to how to get back to the stock kernel if i choose to change it.

EDIT: I also noticed that video performance is a little slower on this rom. Im guessing these are custom graphics drivers?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
go to the CM thread, do you see how there are zip files for "initial" and another with the word "update" in the title? guess which one of these I'm referring to.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HaiKaiDo:
lol cool i wont be asking for anymore help here.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
I have pointed you what to do twice already and you ask the same question again, I get a little frustrated answering the same question 3 times (on a ROM that it's advised not to flash if you don't know what you're doing no less). if you can't read through a thread, I have far less confidence in your ability to not bork your phone
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] z0bug33:
simple question.....

is it ready or stable enough for everyday use or is it for the pioneers who don't care if their phone explodes?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HaiKaiDo:
It really is running quite well at the moment. The only problems im having is getting my mini bluetooth keyboard to sync up (worked on my phone on other roms so i could use it for games). For the most part thats about it. Just at the moment dont expect much support for it other than "Read the FAQ cause youre doing it wrong" lol. But yeah id give it a shot. If you end up having problems installing, id recommend the video in the OP. Works wonderfully
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raz123:
^^

.........up!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Yes, the Audience chip is the one that does a lot of the echo cancellation and noise cancelling that makes the Captivate so good for sound. But the driver is a pain in the behind because the code is really grungy in froyo and is interspersed in the WM8994 driver and given that we have documentation on neither the WM8994, nor the Audience 1026, it makes it really hard to port. Especially knowing that Samsung will drop the Gingerbread kernel someday and give us this code themselves. The code is purely kernel code, and we will be able to use it in CM7 as well.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raz123:
Seems like the Nexus One uses the Audience 1026 as well.

Surely docs were provided for that one?

Moreover, did you say WM8994?

As in "wm8994.c -- WM8994 ALSA SoC Audio driver"?

Seems to be avail. online...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monoxide.tryst:
Ive been waiting to have time to flash and play around with cm7 since i got my captivate[ I was running cm7 on my liquid E before] I read the section on known bugs, and im wondering exactly what bugs there is with the camera??? Based on previous expirience i can imagine that video recording doesnt work, just wondering about taking pictures
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Yes. Except that a chip is connected to a processor via gpios which are different on different processors and hardware. So where the Audience chip sits and where the WM8994 chips sit on the processor, as well as in relation to each other is different too. Just reading the code without knowing what the bits actually mean might be easy for you though, so please go ahead and port these. Our code is available on github. You are also welcome to take the Nexus One driver and put it on your phone if you prefer. But, if you get your hands on the documentation for the chips, please pass those along.

Or did you just think we're stupid and overlooked something like that?

I keep forgetting why I avoid this place . . .
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raz123:
Jeez, get off your high horse.

Your first few sentences were useful and informative. The rest? Not so much.

Keep your condescending ways to yourself.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
Anyone using launcherpro and have the swipe up gesture linked to open the notification bar, does it still work with the latest 09 or 10 updates? Seems odd that it just stopped working after these updates.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
if you're going to be so rude to the dev who *makes this* for your phone, then would you kindly (for lack of a better phrase) GTFO?

people are constantly suggesting extraordinarily obvious pieces of information that are already known by the team (pointing to a single c file doesn't help them as they more than 99.9% likely already know of it). you'd be safe to assume that they know about a source file related to their device's hardware, it's a lot more than that.

please remove yourself from this conversation until you can contribute a useful comment.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LucasBrazil1984:
Can anyone help me on the android sdk "Java not found in your path" problem? Is there another way to install the nexus s drivers?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raz123:
Not being rude. Rude being ill-mannered: socially incorrect in behavior. To the contrary, this should be pointed to his condescending tone, regardless of his status.

Dev or not, condescending tones aren't socially acceptable. Also, you shouldn't assume that it is for *my phone* as you state, since I don't use CM7.

Pot calling the kettle black.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. -David Brin

On this premise, you should definitely be the one to reexamine your post. Clearly you have forgotten that this is a FAQ thread in which questions, however useful to you, are asked and (sometimes) answered. My post raised points that I deemed pertinent and atinm adequately responded to these. His final touch was out of line and I let him know. His status doesn't change the fact that it was (imho) wrong.

Moreover, if some questions tend to be asked more often than pleases your eyes, then I encourage you to start a page with an agglomeration of the Qs/As.

Peace.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LucasBrazil1984:
Those meta-arguments are really unfortunate.

I can't help but feel they dilute the purpose and usefulness of this threads...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roof King:
May be a valid question for you but that same question has been asked and answered so many times that its getting irritating to the devs. Factor in atinm being up all night working on getting tethering to work along with USB sharing of ext SD and you have someone not willing to put up with the same question again for the hundredths time.