yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
I'm not 100% sure, but i think that under settings>privacy, if you uncheck "backup my data" and/or "automatic restore" you should have what you are looking for =)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaolin95:
Ah that makes sense...I was so used to clicking through that I did not pay attention to that part.

Thanks mate I will give it a shot
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viny2cool:
I checked the bug list and read few posts n the thread (cant read all 100s of post)

But I have two problems

1) I backed up different fonts, but i cant see any option to change it

2) the notification volume is so low, even I put it at highest in settings...

If I missed please help...

sorry if its a repeat

Sent from gingerbread powered SGH-I897 using XDA App
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snorkle:
Not sure if this has been asked yet or not, but is their any way to change the messaging colors? the white background and grey kinda hard seeing if you got a text or not sometimes, specially if the brightness is down and the sun if on it.

thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxsxx:
You can change it to a black background under the settings in the messaging app. It helps.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
open messaging... menu.... settings.......black background

=)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snorkle:
lol much better thank you guys! also this is kinda strange i was charging my phone it got to 98% and then it started going down while still plugged in (i wasnt touching it) it went downt o 96% and then back up yo 97% i dont know if this has happened to anyone its kinda odd.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zuN!:
I feel it is unfair to ask this question in one of either Escapist's/Trident kernel thread because this question is more directed towards both and the stock kernel.

I understand that OCing boosts performance with faster battery draining as a consequence. Out of all 3 kernels, would this mean that the OC/UV kernel would provide the best performance and battery life? This assumption is from using existz's SuckerPunch kernels for Froyo.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
flipfonts from the market (and other sources) will not work this ROM as it is not a Samsung ROM. if you want to change your font, use "Font Changer" from the marketplace and supply a ttf font file you want (may free ones available on www.dafont.com)

I'm having a hard time understanding what you're asking... OC will give you more speed, UV will give you the same speed with less voltage (with a slightly higher possibility to be unstable)... if you want to use OC/UV, refer to the kernels that provide it, not here.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
@Shaolin95

You can turn it all off, or all on. There is currently no way to select which apps to restore that I am aware of. I think if you use the market to remove apps you no longer want, then they will no longer reinstall automatically after a flash, but I have not tested since I have not needed to go back to the initial.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
Thanks! Now if only I could select and delete multiple sms threads at once (without deleting all) I'd be very happy).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xp3r7:
I have the same thing going on.

I would love to figure out the Speed dial thing as I use it all the time!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
I cant speak to speed dial, but if i hit the phone icon on my desktop, it takes me to my dialpad....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joelmassee:
CM7 bugs...is it just me? Home screens tap add/remove

This is still an issue for me. I am not able to tap on the screen in an open area and bring up the "add" functions.

Thanks...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
i can both add and remove to/from my home screen by press and hold.......
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joelmassee:
Long tap doesn't do anything. It did with the 3/16 build, but after the 3/18 I am not able...odd...

I can add new items to Home screens through the soft key menu, but no long/hold tap.

Is there another way to remove apps?

thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
@Kaik541

"flipfonts from the market (and other sources) will not work this ROM as it is not a Samsung ROM. if you want to change your font, use "Font Changer" from the marketplace and supply a ttf font file you want (may free ones available on www.dafont.com)"

i just installed font changer, it gave me many warnings, those possible problems, are they are present in CM7?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roof King:
Same here. Can't change anything.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
there's always the risk of breaking something when replacing fonts, just do a nandroid before and restore if it fails.

try clearing cache in recovery or launcher defaults... and if you're using ADW, make sure you haven't "locked" the screen
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joelmassee:
try clearing cache in recovery or launcher defaults... and if you're using ADW, make sure you haven't "locked" the screen[/QUOTE]

Clearing the cache worked like a charm...thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cumanzor:
Is there a way to permanently change the LCD density?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
LCD Density app should work with latest update.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoomzoomkg:
blue

I installed the 20110318.zip. This is my very first time installing a custom rom. A true virgin with a popped cherry! Somehow I managed to get it done. It is awesome how stable and smooth this thing is! I have two questions. 1) is it suppose to be almost completely blue on my screen at all times? 2) is there a one click lag fix of some sort that goes as a nice further enhancement to cm already great speed...or does one need to start using mix and match Rome like vooddoo to attempt.to further gain speed? I guess thay would be the way to describe? Thanks to everyone here for promoting a better way of electronic life !
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krips2003:
Go to CynogenMod settings->Interface->Render effect. In there make sure 'No render effect' is selected. If not select it and you'll see the effect immediately. You can also tryout some of the cool rendering to check out the amazing effect.

If that doesn't fix, most of the times reboot will make it work. If you want to get the voodoo sound, install the kernel mentioned in my signature.:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoomzoomkg:
Thanks krips. I actually emphatically looked in every setting possible before posting and had already tried "no render" with reboot before posting. Hmm, I have no idea what is wrong, it seems strange that I could have done the install correctly enough to get fully operational

but yet be plagued by overwhelming blueness that defeats the purpose of the awesome amoled ...any other tips/suggestions? (I did already different theme engines from market too and they didn't seem to work either!) Hoping I don't have to start from scratch as it took me four hours to figure everything out yesterday... :-/

Nobody else experienced this so far?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
I'd wish you'd upload a photo of the device to see what you mean (as this sounds quite unusual). Also, go back to the render settings, choose blue, and then choose any other color, and then choose "default" or normal and see if that helps. It may just be stuck/confused.

As to your earlier question on lagfixes, this ROM currently runs ext4/yaffs2 by default, and is therefore on par with voodoo lagfix and hacks like one-click lag fix are utterly pointless (the phone is about as fast as it's going to be until the ROM becomes more stable/optimized--it's still late alpha/early beta, remember).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viny2cool:
Hey experts,

I saw many CM7 compatible themes for HDPI devices in Android theme section...I was wondering if we can use those on our CM7 running cappys...

most of them can be used with theme choosers...please advice...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=967369

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=970459
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEscapist:
Theme Chooser themes are compatible.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikratio:
I'm facing the same problem. After installing cm7-captivate-initial-20110318.zip and rebooting, my Captivate just reboots into CWR recovery mode over and over again. I then updated to update-cm-7-03102011-NIGHTLY-Captivate-signed.zip, but the problem is the same.

Were you able to resolve this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaolin95:
OK so I have read a lot about video players for CM7 but so far Rock Player is able to play the videos I need at enough speed to make it a good watch so speed is not the issue for me...the issue is though bad IQ..more precisely the blacks seem to get all blocky like bad compression...is this a setting or something I am missing.

Are you guys using a different video player maybe?

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Try reflashing - you will most probably need to go back to Froyo that supports CWM 2.x or 3.x first.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cumanzor:
It does work, but it isn't keeping the density after rebooting.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikratio:
(CM7 always boots into CWR)

What would be a suitable ROM to flash back to? I used the stock rom before, because the CM7 installation notes said so, was that the wrong choice?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
CM7 instructions never say to go back to stock. use any firmware/512.pit with ODIN and check repartition.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaolin95:
So I flashed back to stock and it seems that the problem is the brightness level is too high or maybe the gamma which makes blacks to light in color bringing out compression artifacts etc.

Any way to tweak those settings with this ROM?

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikratio:
They do say so, e.g. most recently at

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...ussion/page__pid__159953__st__660#entry159953

Anyway, I'm quite willing to follow your suggestion as well, but what do you mean with "512.pit"?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
a) that's a COMMENT written by someone not on the team

b) only read what's written by people actually *on the team* like codeworkx, coolya, atinm, unhelpful, guiper, etc. or people who have been asked to answer for them (like myself or techmik)

c) the written instructions never ever once mention going back to stock

read up on how to flash a stock firmware with ODIN if you want to find out more about that, there are already instructions in the OP on how to go back to stock if you want to use it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
hi, is there any themes, or a why to theme the swype keyboard like the 2.2 roms?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
look for anything in the marketplace or xda using "tmobile theme engine"
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DRShockie:
ringtone

after flashing this rom my ring tone don't stay in memory after reboot? did a backup in ron manager and it seems to be ok why is this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
i was trying the metamorph theme that hoey2011 created, but it didnt work for me, i dont know if that has anything to do with the new swype, or with CM7??? :S
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dante04SRT:
Is there any provision for Back Light Notification with CM7? I didn't see it mentioned anywhere.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=982337&goto=newpost this kernel is experimenting with it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoomzoomkg:
Thanks. I tried your suggestion, but unfortunately I am still typing on a blue screen. The thing of it is that when I change all the render effects they do change text colors but there is always a dominant annoying blue overlay.

I will try to get a shot up or a youtube of this unfortunate phenomena when my wife gets home and a camera becomes available to me. A vid would be great so ppl can see my go thru the rendering choices and their subsequent changes.

Also, ok, gotcha on the lagfix.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
metamorph isn't supported, anything you do along those lines to modify your phone is on you and we have no way of debugging or finding out why it doesn't work (or any real interest, at least for me). if you want to, take it up with hoey2011 and ask them to find out.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikratio:
Alright. Sorry, it's hard for an outsider to keep track of whose in the team, who has been asked to answer, and who is just some random guy..

I know how to flash the stock ROM. My question was which other ROM I am supposed to flash, because apparently the stock ROM is the wrong choice.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoomzoomkg:
Got the vid up on youtube.

My channel is zoomzoomkg youtube dot com slash zoomzoomkg

(can't post links yet because noob account...)

all help is severely and sincerely appreciated.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
wow, that is quite unusual... I wasn't expecting it to be that strong (but I can clearly see the blue tint when choosing other colors... backup all your apps with titanium backup, try going into recovery, performing a backup, and then try wiping cache and then doing a "factory reset/data wipe"

you will lose all your apps and settings, but hopefully your phone will no longer be blue? and you can just reinstall your apps and settings with TiBu.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
you can flash any rom that has speedmod kernel or firebird kernel. Everyone has their own preference. hardcore made speedmod and designgears made firebird, so if you find a rom/thread that either of them started, its a good place to look for the right kernel. i use perception, myself, as my starting point.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cotr:
Save Pics location

is there any way to change the save directory of pictures/vids to SD? I dont see that option in the Camera app.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
no. use a third party camera app from the marketplace
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabby131:
how can i fix the home and search soft keys?

i get haptic feedbacks but they're not usable.....thanks

EDIT: Geez!!! i restore "settings" on TB.....this might be causing it!!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
Just fyi you DONT need to flash a full rom. If you look at the directions and the link to a kernel that is supported you will see it is just a kernel and not a whole rom. So you can do it FROM stock or any rom you are already on. So WHATEVER rom you are on just open Odin 1.7 (at least for me this version worked) and pick the speedmod kernel the kernel sent you to, and in Odin click on PDA, direct it to where you saved the speedmod kernel, plug in your USB cable (without the phone connected at this time), make sure repartition and auto reboot are not clicked with the check mark,now put your phone into download mode, plug USB cable into phone and wait for it to show connected with com#, then click start. Once it is done it will go to RESET then PASS. Now unplug the phone and use 3 button combo or pull battery and then 3button combo to get into recovery mode, now follow the remaining instructions to a tee. Read the instructions over and over even while doing it so you don't miss or mis-interpret any steps.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.3Ghz
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RonH54:
Is there a way to disable the "beep" notification sound that occurs when you dial a number and the Cell Connection is found. I turned it Off on a Froyo ROM under "settings" somewhere but I can't remember where that setting was.

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoomzoomkg:
. As this is my first tike thru a custom rom.it will also be my first time using titanium backup that I've read so much about.

Let me make sure i understand the steps. 1)download tibu 2) use backup feature in tibu. 3) turn phone off. 4) turn phone back on while holding volume up volume down and power to enter into recovery mode 5) do a backup from recovery mode. 6) do a clear cache from recovery mode 7) do a factory reset data wipe from recovery mode 8) reboot phone. .. then if it is no longer blue I can try to use tibu to get all my apps settibgs back...otherwise I post here again most likely resulting in trying again with cm7 using odin\etc from scratch...sound about right?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
yes, perfect.

the only important thing when using TiBu to restore apps, make sure to *never* restore system data (that will be any application listed in red)... only the ones in white, which are user apps.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uncle Irish:
Anyone play Homerun Battle 3D? I can't access my own account any longer. I'm a new person called Xzxa. I've tried a fresh flash from stock after master clear thinking it was something odd. Did nothing but log into Market and download the Purchased app. Still shows me as Xzxa instead of my username. Gear and everything is different. Strange... Anyone else seen this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uncle Irish:
I know its a 3rd party app and no support can be given, but just wondering if we are all getting the same device ID now from flashing CM7. That's the underlying question I guess. I followed all steps to the letter from the written instructions provided. Is the device ID an issue at this point and is that possibly causing the problem with my and possibly any other 3rd party app that relies on device ID?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fatttire:
Gmail push is disabled for me. Emails only update if i manually force it. Any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoomzoomkg:
Well. That did not work. I am starting over with Odin I guess.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSainted1:
I tried to flash a different modem (more than once from cwm), but it never changes. It still shows i9000jk4. Anyone else have this issue? Wanting to try out JL2...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Siesta410:
I seem to be having a frustrating problem. I can't get odin to recognize my phone. It recognizes it in other USB ports, but afaik, there not connected to the motherboard and each time I try flashing the kernel with them it results in a soft brick as odin gets stuck in the <ID:0/00x> zImage part and my phone jsut turns off.

Last time I flashed cyanogenmod, I was able to get it to work, but now I can't. I've tried all my options such as pulling the battery out and rebooting into download mode, closing and reopening odin, trying different usb cables, restarting my computer, and reinstalling drivers. Odin just doesn't seem to recognize it with that specific port.

What's weird is that it recognizes it fine when it's not in download mode and heimdall works perfect with it when in download mode.

I'm at my wits ends :[

Edit: Odin seems to stop recognizing a port once I install the libusb drivers for it..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
are you sure the kernel you have is appropriately tar'd up? if you're using a plain "zImage", it won't flash. needs to be in the .tar format and appropriate archived.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Siesta410:
The md5 matches with the md5 provided for the kernel
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
if all else fails, i *think* you can use heimdall to flash the zImage, if you extract it from the .tar.... it wont reboot, tho it'll try....... i think i've let it try, wait a sec, then pull battery. reinsert battery and 3 button boot to recovery to install initial.zip..... continue......
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoomzoomkg:
Ok, so I am trying the entire thing from scratch again. I'm using these steps straight from Cyanogen.

http://forum.cyanogenmodDOTCOM/topi...7-for-samsung-galaxy-s-phones-build-20110303/

(again can't link because noob account...)

I can rip through steps 1-8 which are:

1 Make sure your phone is fully charged! Update process will take some time.

2 Make sure there's enough free space at your internal sdcard (200MB)

3 Make sure you've not disabled HSPA by using the dialer code *#301279#

4 Download following files from sourceforge: Captivate

- DEVICE-efsbackup.zip

- cm7-DEVICE-initial-kernel.tar

- cm7-DEVICE-initial-XXXXXXXX.zip

5 Copy following files to your internal sdcard

- DEVICE-efsbackup.zip

- cm7-DEVICE-initial-XXXXXXXX.zip

6 Flash a kernel which comes with clockworkmod-recovery using odin: Captivate

7 Reboot into recovery using 3-button-combo and apply DEVICE-efsbackup.zip.

- Don't use "reboot recovery" command or other shiny things to do this!

*This recovery mode from #7 has green colors to it and looks clean.

8 Flash cm7-DEVICE-initial-kernel.tar as pda using odin without auto-reboot and without re-partition

*Ok, still no problem, I do this by taking the battery out then by holding volume up down with usb connected and then carefully inserted battery while continuing to hold volume up down. I have to go through this because Cyanogen is still on my phone and thus when I plug the USB in when there is a battery inside, it automatically boots the phone up, which would stop me from entering into the yellow shovel download mode. Assuming it is ok to do this, I don't have any trouble with Odin whatsoever. Then when Odin is done I pull the battery so I can perform step #9.

9 Reboot into recovery using 3-button-combo

*Here is where I *think* the problem comes in. When I see this recovery mode it is no longer a green themed, it is exclusively BLUE and pink. And it is a little blurry on the choices that are not highlighted in pink. It's like the blue problem is already manifesting and I haven't even gotten out of recovery mode. So I proceed with steps 10-13 anyways, which are quite simple.

10 # Choose "mounts & storage" and format system, data, cache

11 Apply zip from sdcard: cm7-DEVICE-initial-XXXXXXXX.zip

12 Do a factory reset / data wipe!

13 Reboot

14 Install the latest update after a reboot!

*I don't even know what this means, does this mean the "update" .zip file from cyanogen mod: update-cm-7-03182011-NIGHTLY-Captivate-signed.zip ? Well I tried that this second time unlike the first and now it is stuck on the initial boot-up screen "Galaxy S cyanogen(mod)" and yes it still looks blue :(

Is it possible that my problem is that I need to "flash back to stock" before kicking this whole thing off?

I thought to take pictures of the Pink recovery mode but didn't realize it in time for the green one recovery mode.

Please...help... :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxsxx:
Have you tried redownloading the kernel? If that is the step that keeps messing up, I would think it may be the download. Compare the hashes with what you have....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Was a little curious what was gingerbread and what was cyanogenmod.. not everything of course, but for instance in call logs.. missed calls, placed calls all are a little different.. like if I go to redial a number from the call log, when I select the number I have the option to "call again" now. As far as I know I don't have any Samsung apps and not sure if my call logs before were a Samsung thing because it never showed that before. Is this a gingerbread feature or CM7? ..just wondering :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dsmforlife92:
Rom

When i try to flash efsbackup.zip i get a error partition efs what can i do to fix this. When im in clockwork and flashing efsbackup.zip it says error in e: drive partition not found and says installation aborted. I flashed to staock twice and still the same thing.n What does this mean
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
what exactly happens? your description makes no sense... ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phateless:
I had this problem earlier tonight but installing Kies Mini took care of it for me.