yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt310:
If anyone using Firefox who just so happens to not love reading signatures containing large/repetitive images, you can download an add-on called Adblock Plus, available here: http://adblockplus.org/en/ This allows you to, once enabled, selectively block images from certain websites. It's a great feature, and my crankiness has temporarily subsided.

I have a question regarding battery usage and management. If I have three batteries, does each have a unique identifier that is stored within the batterystats.bin (or some other) file that remembers the storage/usage capacity of each? I'm experiencing inconsistent drain on one battery but great battery life on the other. Both are stock Samsung 1500 mAh units and both are the same age.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uncle Irish:
Bump

Sorry to keep asking this, but it has me stumped. It doesn't make sense why it would work on 2.2.x but not on 2.3.x. I did try restoring with TiBu to original location (force to same location) and it didn't resolve, still gives me a different player ID than the one I have normally in the app.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] detectivegrump:
I cannot get it into download mode. All I can do is watch the att screen.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uncle Irish:
Try pulling the battery, then inserting the battery

Plug USB cable into your computer

Hold volume up and volume down and plug in the USB cable to the phone.

That should get you to DL mode
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Overgloc:
Installed Gapps but still no Market. Anything else i can try?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
try rebooting ..that's odd.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lazymegaman:
I've got quite the stupid problem. Any time I try to install an APK, com.android.packageinstaller opens with the usual info about the permissions of the app and the two buttons at the bottom, "Install" and "Cancel". Which, of course, means that I have the settings set to allow off-the-market installation, otherwise the package installer would notify me that it can't install a package because of the settings, and then show a button to let me change the settings. So everything is fine and good there.

But I can't press the "Install" button. At all. I can press "Cancel" and it'll highlight in blue and subsequently close the package installer. But if I try to press "Install", it does nothing. The button doesn't even highlight for a second as if to register that it was pressed, it just stays the exact same. I've tried toggling "Unknown sources" in the application settings menu of the OS, I've rebooted countless times, but nothing. It worked a couple days ago, but then randomly decided to stop working.

Any help, or ideas? It was manageable for a little while, I've just been installing all my APKs through adb's "adb install <filename.apk>", but I need to install Swype through the Swype Installer program on my phone, and I can't seem to find where that program downloads the APK for Swype to on the SD card, so...yeah, in a bit of a bind here.

EDIT: And, of course, after rebooting my phone right after typing this, it works fine now. But this is an intermittent problem. Anyone know if it's related to an already-reported bug?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jangeles323:
I had this issue before.. a usual reboot would fix it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PearsonDKA:
Anyone know if the whole camera issue is gonna be fixed soon? Lets just say the video recording ain't all to enjoyblable.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viny2cool:
hold your breath and wait for new nightly which will be more stable as gingerbread source has been released...but it might take some time...but next nightly is expected to fix many issue....till then enjoy it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] streetsmart999:
Different modem...

This was in the Q and A...

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Q: How do I flash a different modem? The one included doesn't work well with my phone.

A: Other modems are available here

Please do not attempt to flash ones from other threads as they use a different method of installing not compatible with our ROM.

*****************

but by mistake (I forgot) I flashed I9000XXJVK (GB modem) as I was coming back from MIUI (1 day of fun thats all). So far it works fine. Is there anything I should be worried about? Data works fine, Calls Worked fine... Only once I had a issue the my Screen went blank when the other person hang up the phone. I had to use power button on/off to get back.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dingokevin:
Can't get in to do mode mine just resets and the phone just restarts. So I tried bay_wolf AIO and that did not work. I tried terminal emulator and all that did was reset the phone. Hope the jig is in the mail today the one i made all it did was reset the phone. If anyone has had this happen how did you fix it did the jig work?

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
What would happen if I used a cm7 kernel with a gb rom package?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Nothing good
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
it wouldn't boot since other ROM's don't know about MTD, yaffs2, and ext4.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] retardude48:
When updating to the nightly builds, will it remove all apps and system info like when first updating to CM7?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhernand1102:
No...............
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeybear23:
Battery life was getting really bad today while I was in a bad cell coverage area. I went from 95% down to 27% in a matter of 5 hours. So I put it in flight mode, and over the course of 6 hours it only lost 3% more...

I have now switched to the JK4 modem and I will see tomorrow if I see the same drain issue, but I think it is pretty neat that in standby it was so efficient.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fetar:
Error updating cyanogenmod

While updating thru recovery i get an error saying

"assert failed: [few lines with some commands]

E: error in /sdcard/(updatefile).zip (Status 7)

installation aborted."

Can you please help me??? Sorry, am still a newbie!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Might just be a bad DL. Try DL'ing it again and give er another try. Also sometimes I have issues with flashing and oddly enough if I DL to my computer and put file on my SD it usually flashes flawlessly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
Hello,

Just wanted to say i was able to get odin to recognize my phone again today. I received my replacement from Rogers today. So what i did was install the driveres for the AIO Program. After that i took the new phone and tried to get odin to recognize it. After that works i tried with my old phone again and it worked. Its rebooting now as we speak.

Thanks for anyone who tried to help. Now i muct decided if i should return the refurbished phone or keep my current one. My current one as a screen protector which I dont feel like giving to Rogers lol. Anyways, I digress.

Thanks again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zasanil:
I'm having a major problem with the status bar eating my battery down really fast. It's gone as high as 40% at times and is always above 25% while everything else is usually in the 1%-2% range. Is there something I can do to fix this? Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta beta
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jemack:
So.....we are no longer pre-beta?

Only joking!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monoxide.tryst:
on my previous stock msging app if i got a mms msg, it auto downloaded..... Is there a way to make the one for cm7 do this???
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jemack:
Open messaging app then menu, settings and click auto retrieve.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monoxide.tryst:
thanks for the quick reply, but its already checked.....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jemack:
Sorry it didn't help but mine works perfectly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stlx18:
Emmc issue

First off - big thanks to the devs and everyone else who has assisted in identifying and working through issues & bugs while I spent the last two months on a samsung rom - I'm certainly benefitting from your work & skill.

That said, I think I've searched as much as I can to try to find an earlier listing of the issue I'm facing.

I read the instructions, prepped and flashed CM7 for the first time last night. Everything went really smoothly until I reached the point of going to restore missing apps from TiBu. Got gapps installed, installed TiBu from the market, opened TiBu & changed updated the backup folder to /emmc/TitaniumBackup. Nothing.

In fact, I can't see any of the files that used to be on my external sd, not in Astro or a SU file explorer. However, when I look in Storage, I can see my ext mounted as emmc, with only ~4GB of my 8GB card being free - so it looks like the data's there, I just can't see it for some reason.

Did I possibly miss something in the prep? Could previous 'standard' lagfixes (Ext4) now be causing me to not see my data?

*Note: EVERYTHING else works beautifully. I seriously love being on CM.

Any help is greatly appreciated - thank you for your patience as I'm not as experienced as some of the people around here.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MisterAnthonyxD:
Are you looking at /emmc or /mnt/emmc? The latter is where the external SD is located.

Sent from my liberated Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stlx18:
Thanks for the reply - via either method I'm unable to see previous data (primarily music, TiBu files and a ROM image or two).

Actually, interesting thing, going in via /mnt/emmc I do see a folder and a few files with timestamps prior to my flash - but for some reason am definitely unable to see a vast majority of what should be there...any ideas?

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MisterAnthonyxD:
Being that I don't use an external SD, I guess you'll have to wait for kaik or atinm to help you. Sorry :/

Sent from my liberated Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monoxide.tryst:
i think i figured it out...im using an unlocked at&t captivate in canada on fido net work, so i have to have roaming turned on for data, i checked auto retreive while roaming, and hopefully that will do it.......now i just need to wait till someone sends me some noodz ^^
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] or.saeros:
Boot issues

Hey all,

Love the ROM, best experience I've had on the phone yet!

BUT I'm experiencing an issue that drives me nuts. Randomly it seems when I reboot the phone or turn it on after changing a battery... When it's time for the kernel logo to appear, I just get a blank screen with the buttons lit up. Phone will hang here. Anyone else experiencing the same issue, or know of a fix?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEscapist:
Its not actually hanging, its a framebuffer or something issue. Let it boot up, "turn off" the screen, turn it back on, and it works.

I've been planning to look into it, but haven't had time.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
it's potentially possible the data was corrupted on the external sd card (I always remove mine before flashing to be on the safe side). I suggest taking it out of the phone and mounting it on a computer normally and seeing if it's damaged (and if so, if any info is recoverable). if not, well, I fall back on my common response of "pre-beta software" :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stlx18:
Thanks Kaik - I'll give it a try. Appreciate the input - I'll let you know what I find...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Don't really have a solution for you as I am able to mount external card (8 GB) and the media scanner happily finds all the music on it. It seems like the card got corrupt somehow, though the fact that the phone sees that you have 8GB with 4GB free makes it seem like it isn't totally corrupt. A dmesg and logcat output would be interesting to look at right after you try to open /mnt/emmc. Also the output of "mount" from adb shell.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stlx18:
Thanks atinm, not sure how it happened, but somehow through the process of flashing, mounting, unmounting and remounting my SD card, it got wiped. A bummer indeed, but I've definitely learned my lesson of pulling my external SD before flashing in the future. I'll also be using the dropbox option on TiBu in the future, just in case.

Not sure if this is possible, but could we add a reminder to pull the external SD before flashing? I'd hate to see anyone else lose their data...

Either way, I'm psyched to be on CM7!!! Thanks for the help!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] razorguy:
My PC is no longer recognizing my phone. I've had a March build of CM7 on my phone for a few weeks now and haven't had any USB issues. Debugging is on, the drivers from the SDK are installed (I reinstalled them without any luck despite them working fine not long ago), and nothing on my PC has changed. It will still charge through USB, but not even a "USB not recognized" error message or little Android guy popping up on my phone.

The one thing that has changed is the cable. I got a new one a week or so ago because my other one got smashed in a freak accident but if it's charging the phone, then I don't how that should be an issue but I could be wrong.

Anyone have any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I hate to say it but it might be the cord. I've heard of issues using a different USB cable other than the one that came with the phone. That may be your problem..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monoxide.tryst:
I have two cable for my phone, one is blackberry cable, which works/mounts the phone fine, while the other cord i have is just a random micro usb cord i got from future shop only charges it. Get a new cord
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I don't need a new cord.. mine works fine :) ..he might though
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Snapped a picture this morning and when I went to open gallery a little later to look at it, i get a message that says "could not launch the requested activity"...every time i try to open gallery. All my other apps open just fine. Anyone got a remedy? ..tried rebooting as well as cache clearing, still no dice.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhernand1102:
Working fine here...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phaze13:
Some cords are only wired for power only, no data. Sounds like it may be your problem.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phaze13:
Forgive my ignorance, I've look and can not find my solution.

Having issue installing drives through Android SDK.

I'm selecting "Google USB Driver Package, revision 4" to be downloaded.

Choose packages to install.

Selected

"Android SDK Platform-tools revision 3"

"Google USB Driver Package, revision 4"

Install

Downloading Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 3

File not found: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\temp\platform-tools_r03-windows.zip (Access is denied)

Downloading Google USB Driver package, revision 4

File not found: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\temp\usb_driver_r04-windows.zip (Access is denied)

Done, nothing was installed.

I'm sure I'm overlooking something simple here or maybe I'm just retarded. Probably retarded.

Thanks in advance!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt310:
This isn't a direct answer to your issue, but if you install QuickPic, and then Desktop Visualizer (to replace the 'desktop' icon with the one from the Gallery app), I bet you won't ever miss it! :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Ill give it a shot as Im still getting the same message with gallery. Out of ideas, thanks :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Not sure which one it was. Anyway, I appreciate the help. I'm currently messing around and trying continuum so after my FTS gallery app is back to working.:rolleyes:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ic3D3mon:
PC does not see external SC Card

I just installed (twice) and everything works very well except my pc now does not see my external card. I reinstalled the drives and still it does not pick it up.

Any suggestions would be very appreciated

Thanks ,

Joe
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhostetter:
Help Needed

My phone is stuck on the GalaxyS / Cyanogen screen. And I can not get my PC to recognize my phone. I can get into Recovery and Download but my PC says it can not recognize it. I've tried several USB ports and still nothing.

My phone was acting goofy today so I decided to reflash the Initial Cyanogen Zip and it quickly went down hill from there. I did not change the kernel back to the original before flashing. I was running the Le kernel du jour kernel.

I've reinstalled the drivers but still comes up that the device is unknown.

Any suggestions?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
You can try to mount in recovery. Maybe do a fresh install from there..??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhostetter:
I was able to reflash CM7 on another PC. :)

The PC is still coming up stating device unknown.

Any suggestions on fixing the drivers?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tony998:
after install cm7

Everytime power off

phone reboots

have to reinstall market apps again

anyway to fix the problem
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spencertp81:
Have you tried a different Micro USB Cable? I know I was having problems until I went out and got a new Micro USB.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSainted1:
CM7 and Custom Boot Animation

Hi All,

I've had CM7 running no problems w/ latest nightly. I've downloaded and tried using some of the great custom boot animations. I first tried flashing through CWM and it gave an error about Edify scripting and aborted. REbooted the phone and used Super File Manager w/ -rw to copy a renamed animation (bootanimation.zip) to /mnt/system/media. Rebooted phone and got the i896 screen, then the Galaxy S w/ Cyanogen Mod, then a black screen. The phone still reboots fine with no CM7 boot animation now. I copied back (the original I backed up from that directory) back to /mnt/system/media and I still get the black screen after a reboot.

Is there a different way I should be copying/applying custom boot anim's or is it not possible in GB roms?

Also, I tried moving the same bootanimation.zip to /data/local with the same result.

Any help would be appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnorthington:
Escapist OC/UV settings

I am wondering if anyone could share their OC/UV settings for the escapist kernel and also what kind of performance/battery life that's translating to. I would like to would like to use it for the voodoo compatibility and also get a little boost on processor, while keeping it stable, but not raping my battery. Is the best governor setting conservative? Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
This is probably a better question for in the Escapist thread but I will try to brief here in case any others decide to try out the kernal.

Each phone is gonna be different so your OC/UV settings may/will vary. But to answer your other questions first. I have mine set to Conservative or Smartass governor. I get at least 10-12 hours with heavy use and up to 16-18 with mild to medium use. I am running at the 1.4Ghz setting VERY STABLE for weeks now without any force closes or instability. As far as comparing battery life from the stock kernel to the Escapist kernel I seem to have better battery life with the Escapist kernel oc'd and uv'd.

1400 down to 600 I have undervolted -100

400 to 200 undervolted -50

If you want more info ask in the Escapist thread. And again your mileage may vary, some phones can barely/can't run the 1.2Ghz. That said I think his kernel is so smooth and reliable on most all phones at least to 1.3

Sent from My Captivated JVB Gingerbread Toy
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] papercutMS:
Currently OCed to 1200MHz using -125mV for 1200 and 1000, -150mV the rest of the way down. Was OCed to 1400MHz using -75mV at 1400 and 1300 with the above settings. These settings ran perfectly stable for me.

Conservative govenor, at least to me in everyday use and running Quardant, seemed to give the best performance. Battery life will vary depending on individual use so I will not quote hours up as what I get will not be very meaningful to you. But going from 1400MHz to 1200MHz I did not notice a significant increase in battery.

Hope this helps
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnorthington:
Thanks for the info, I'm flashing to my Captivate now. I'm not up to 10 posts yet (which locks you out of Dev threads), so I figured I'd ask here vs. posting for no reason to get to 10. I'm new to android and CM7 and coming from an iphone, the customization options blow away what was possible via jailbreak.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnorthington:
Thanks. I'll give these a try as well.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnorthington:
One more Escapist Question

Are you guys running the 100hz or 500hz kernel?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
I'm using the 500hz but have tried the 1000hz and 100hz and really do not see/feel any difference. The 100hz is supposed to be better on battery but it all feels the same to me.

Sent from My Captivated JVB Gingerbread Toy
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] papercutMS:
I have ran both the 500Hz and 100Hz and could not tell the difference in 'smoothness' between the two, so I am now using 100Hz for the theoretically better battery life.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEscapist:
As I've said multiple times, its mostly just placebo. There is an effect, but its so negligible that it isn't really noticble. Also, this is best talked about in the actual thread. ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Averros the Ancient:
Well, it appears that I have effectively bricked my phone. I am stuck (like others) at the Galaxy S cyanogen screen. ADB detects the device and can reboot it... and previous to this point the three button download mode worked... for some reason I cannot get the phone into download mode at all? Is my phone toast? Will a JiG work to get it into download mode?

Any help would be greatly appreciated... man I cannot believe I bloody well did this.

Averros
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
the ability to get into download mode is not affected by installing cyanogenmod, we do not touch bootloaders (because what a risky move that is for no benefit). if you were able to get into download mode before, you should still be able to. adb reboot commands don't work (which is stated in the install instructions). worst case scenario a JIG should still work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
A jig should work no problems. I have tried it just to be sure while on CM7. I even purposely unplugged the USB cable while it was applying a kernel and got the phone/computer screen and was able to use a jig to get to download mode as none of the other ways were working (it is my test Cappy I used, which is now running gingerbread and works good but not as good as CM7).

I had made one that worked a while back but I think I broke something in it being in my backpack. So I purchased one from mobiletech that has the video on the CM7 page. I highly recommend it from them as it works great and better looking than my plastic wrapped (heat shrink actually) one I made.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.4Ghz/Undervolted