yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
My bad, I didn't mean to misinform him. You guys are quick!:D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mzimmer88:
Thanks for the quick response!

My issue was that I lost all of my other apps/data/settings as well, not just gapps. To avoid this, do I just tell RM to check for updates and install the updates as they come out?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spores:
Yeah, I'm having the same issue too... it seems that gingerbread is not allowing this since MIUI doesn't have the same option either.

Correct me if I'm wrong though. I wonder if this can be implemented.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
this *should* work, yes

facebook applicationhas been restricted from merging contacts for all future phones (since google requires that they store the information on their servers and not facebook's). therefore, any devices running 2.3.3 or later will likely not have it until facebook changes it's method
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannb:
Alright, so my install from ROM Manager from stock worked, but now I'm having some serious problems. The first being gapps absolutely refusing to install. I've flashed multiple times, both with wiping all caches and not. Also, my computer is no longer recognizing the thing when in debugging mode. It works just fine as a mass storage device, but I can't sideload apps and ODIN won't even see it. Third is that I cannot get the thing into download mode. I've tried just about every method that's on the forums (3 button, volume up/down and put in battery/cord, 301k resistor jig) and nothing is working to get it into download. I want to try a fresh flash from stock with a factory reset to try to make this thing work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gotcaptivate:
Not able to install google-apps

I installed the ROM and also selected 'Google Apps' (I was using ROM Manager)

But the google apps just dont show up.. I tried installing them separately as well but nothing seems to happen.. it does not complain during install either..

(My phone is Samsung Captivate and I was using Serendipity ROM before this)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Try reflashing recovery in ROM Manager. Be sure to choose 3.X , then try to flash GApps again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gotcaptivate:
What do you mean by 3.x?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gotcaptivate:
In ROM Manager:

Click on Flash ClockworkMode Recovery

Then click on Captivate..

Then on 3.x..

Then to the flashing..

Thanks

After manually reflashing.. I tried adding gapps..

Here is the message that I got on screen:

Installing SDCARD:clockworkmod/download/goo-inside.me/gapps/gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Installing update...

Installing Google Apps..

Installation Complete!

But, after booting.. No Marketplace or other Google apps.. :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Man.. I dont know why so many people are having issues. I didn't have any. Another user reported success by updating cwm in ROM manager. He choose 3.X and captivate. Installed GApps after that and said it worked. All I can say is keep trying...sorry :/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derv23:
Do either of the nightlies on the CyanogenMod website contain any new updates from the 5-15 nightly?

Sent from my CM7 powered Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A.VOID:
It ran pretty stable for me for the first 12 hours or so, but now I get FC's all over the place. Random app FC's and even FCing on the Launcher when I try to delete something like the clock.

Reboots didn't help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Hmm. If your talking about the 0515 nightly on the sourceforge page, then yes- that nightly contains the new update from 5-15. ;) lol. Not really sure what you were asking.. but if you flash the latest update they are cumulative so it will have everything up to date.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
already searched and found no answer.

I flashed cm7 last night and here are some of the issues i'm having.

1. lock screens wont work, just turns screen off and back on with no lock screen. I have been all through the settings and found no solution to this.

2. Calendar doesn't work, i go to add something to calendar and it says, "you have no calendars"

3. i lost all my contacts, are they gone forever?

I think those are my main issues, that i still can't seem to get worked out right now. theres a few more minor things.

Thanks in advance!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
You need to flash GApps to get your Google account synced. Not sure what's up with the lockscreen and calanders. Go to ROM manager and download rom- teamhacksung CM7- grab the latest nightly and it should also ask you about installing GApps, check the box and try that. See if a fresh install of the latest nightly fixes you up.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derv23:
Not the Sourceforge page, the team douche official CyanogenMOD page.

Sent from my CM7 powered Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
thanks, but i do have the gapps flashed and synced. Had to do the cwm 3. change to get it to work and it was finicky, but it did get it flashed. Also I just put this on last night, and i did check the gapps box when i flashed last night.

any thoughts?

thanks again!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
this is the error i get when i try to flash the latest nightly

installing update.....

assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device")

captivatemtd" || getprop("ro.build.product")

"captivatemtd" || getprop("ro.product.board")

E:Error in /sdcard/cm_captivatemtd_full-1.zip

(status 7)

Installation aborted.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Sorry, I just don't know :/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rivera151:
I had this issue and although I couldn't confirm the definite culprit, I think it may have been related to the May gapps. I know there's an issue with the libraries on the may gapps, that's why the march versions are still the recommended install. Are you on the May gapps? Let me know if that fixes your FCs.

Ricardo
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluestevo:
5-16-2011 Nightly

Just a quick question, If im understanding this right, i have to update to the new nightly thru Rom Mgr. Once i update it will remove all user data and such, and i will have to reinstall Gapps? or is it if i update it still saves all my data.... can someone please clear this up for me? i dont want to update if i havent saved all my info before hand.

thanks in advance
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hkk:
GMail sync Issues

Hi,

I have been on CM7 for a long time without any issues. Just a few days ago, I had to reflash from scratch, with the latest nightly (5/15) and the 5/03 Gapps.

I have 2 Gmail accounts that I set to sync. The primary acct syncs only 1 way - new email comes thru fine. If I read/delete the new emails on my pc, they get updated on the phone. However, if I read/delete them on the phone, they still show unread on the pc. Made sure the acct is set to sync.

The 2nd email acct doesn't have this problem.

I tried to remove the primary email acct (in hopes of readding it), but it won't let me do that, and tells me I'll have to do a factory reset and start all over again. Don't want to do that unless I really have to.

Any clues on what's going on?

Thanks in advance.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dabels1961:
updating using rommanager

I have looked around some to see if this was posted anywhere and I have not seen this asked before (if it has please just point me to the post) I go into ROMmanager now and it says I need CWM to be able to use it. I click on the get CWM button and it asks which device (captiate MTD) and it then says there is no CWM for this (MTD) yet. Which CWM should I use or should I just wait?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Get cwm 3.x for captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
do you recommend i should just flash it again and try it, or should i flash to stock first and try it that way?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
With the install being so easy now, I might just go back to stock and start from scratch. It was easy for me, but it seems other users are having a hard time. Starting over might be your best bet ..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
what about my contacts? are they lost forever?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Your contacts should be in sync with your Google account. So once you sign in, you should have all your contacts back.. unless your saving them strictly on your phones storage and not making a backup.. but Google should automatically get all your contacts back.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaysix79:
is there way to flash the new nightly via ROM MANAGER without wiping the phone out.. i tried its a few times it keep wiping my phone... am i doing something wrong or this is how ROM MANAGER works?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
if you didn't back up your contacts with google, you should have saved them or written them down somewhere. if you DID back up your contacts with google, all you have to do is add your google account.

as for the official cyanogenmod.com nightlies, let me address that right now.

you are physically incapable of installing it right now

please do not attempt to install it (it will fail before anything bad happens), but in the process of our merger, we are working out some kinks with help from koush and (I think) chrissoyars. we will explain soon enough how to install it, but for now, it won't work as-is.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
thanks! and i didn't sync my contacts through google, never have. But i've switched roms a few times before and never had a problem so i assumed they'd be fine. They're on my sdcard, But i don't see them now.

EDIT: I found them. They were there on the sd card, just kinda confusing the way cm7 makes you get them back. Thanks all!

Now if i can just figure out why my lockscreens won't work, i'll be on my way to happyness.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hkk:
Realizing I can't send out any emails from this account either. The other acct works just fine. Anyone?

Thanks

HK
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derv23:
Thanks kaik, I didn't want to flash it unless I knew what it was. I tried to post this on the dev thread, but it says I'm restricted from posting there. Might be a good idea to mention there also so people don't start flashing it. I know most people don't look at the q&a thread.Keep up the great work!

Edit: Looks like you've already done so. Disregard.

Sent from my CM7 powered Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
If people are reading the OP and following directions- they clearly state how to install the easy way (ROM Manager) and the hard way (sourceforge)

Forgive me, but WHY would you go to a different site and purposely not follow the instructions??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derv23:
The only reason I asked about the nightlies on the CyanogenMOD website is because kaik posted a link to it in the dev thread. I didn't disregard the instructions at all, I never tried to flash the nightlies posted there, I was just curious about them and wanted to verify whether or not I COULD flash those nightlies. I've been running CM7 for about 2 months now and I know better than to do anything other than what I'm told. I appreciate the concern though...

Sent from my CM7 powered Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
That explains why people are going to that site. I think he was just showing that we went mainline.. That makes more sense.. :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derv23:
Yeah I figured that once he said not to flash the nighlies there. I just wanted to see if the new nightlies would go there instead of Sourceforge, for those of us that prefer to do things manually. With all the issues people have been having with ROM Manager, I'm not sure I'm ready to use it quite yet.

Sent from my CM7 powered Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrgrossm:
flash from firefly?

I've read through a large portion of this thread and I think I know the answer, but I'm going to ask anyhow. I'm running Firefly 3.0 because I've been hesitant to load a bootloader from another phone so I haven't had any urge to run a gingerbread rom. Anyhow, it looks like I can go directly from Firefly to cm7 using rom manager. Is this accurate and reasonably safe?

Is it worth the work to go from firefly to cm7? Stability is the most important thing to me, is cm7 going to be as stable as a froyo rom?

And if I do go with cm7, what's the best version to use.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
wow, small world.

i just went from firefly to cm7 last night. my first 2.3 rom.

and yes, you can flash it just like you would any other 2.2 rom, just follow the directions on cm7's website. No need for new bootloaders.

it was harder to get everything "up and running" then going to just another 2.2 rom. I ran into a few snags. But as of now I have them all cleared up and so far am liking cm7.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uncle Irish:
I haven't seen it mentioned yet but is there a fix for the iPhone MMS yet? I get pics from my buds while fishing and 3 of them are iphone users.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrgrossm:
Do you like cm7 better than firefly? Oh, and does the GPS work?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittsm:
ok, new problem.

My phone won't ring on incoming calls. throws them automatically into voicemail.

checked all the usual call settings and nothing seems a miss.

any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Yes. But we haven't uploaded yet because we're busy with the merge.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uncle Irish:
Great!

Thanks for the reply.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rivera151:
Hey guys. I have a question. I'm kinda bummed anytime I want to use Titanium Backup to restore applications, mainly because of the button pressing. I figure a shell script may make the process easier. Thus I was thinking of writing a shell script along the likes of:

#! /system/xbin
cd /sdcard/TitaniumBackup
tar xvvf *.apk.gz
pm *.apk
rm *.apk

Will this work?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
Why not use the pay version? I know it is a few dollars but it is probably the BEST money you would spend for your phone. It has batch restore that will do it ALL for you and really quick. No need for reinstalling each app one at a time.

Sent from My Captivated JVB Gingerbread Toy
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rivera151:
Because I just graduated and the cash and credit doesn't get here till mid July. In the meantime, this should be just as fast, and free!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
My led notifications are not working can.somone tell me their settings?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrgrossm:
EXT4

One more question, if I'm running ext4 file system, do I have to convert before flashing to CM7? Does CM7 have a similar file system, or even need one?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjballar41:
ok major problem help help help. i was loading to cm7. i went to install it and its stuck in a bootloop it shows att screen then galaxy s with the cm7 guy and then clock work mod install i tried going to recovery wont do it and tried to go to download mode wont do it any suggestions
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
don't bother, everything will be wiped out in the process anyway. the ROM runs a combination of ext4 and yaffs2

did you bother to check if you had 3 button recovery/download mode *before* you install the ROM?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjballar41:
yes i did have it before installing rom i had used it probably 3 or 4 times tonight
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanohue:
Does anyone know how to restore the default Samsung clock app (aka Clock 1.0, the one that comes stock)? I need only that to make this ROM absolutely perfect. I made a backup in TiBu but when I try to restore, it just sits there and does not install.

Edit: Nevermind, I suck at searching. Unless someone found a solution....
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I'm assuming you found out you cannot run samsung apps with this ROM.. if not... you wont be able to run sammy apps with this ROM;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DoubleCross2:
Sorry to bother, but I have flashed the latest version of C7 and GAPPS on several attempts and I still cannot see the Marketplace or any other google app. Even after reinstalling C7, going through Rom Manager, or performing the installation through the SD; all yield the same result.

I love Cyanogen, and I want to keep using it. I just gotta get these gapps to work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
have you tried flashing GApps separately in recovery? Someone else had luck doing it that way.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zuN!:
I decided to check Titanium Backup today and it says that I have 45.9 MB free of 196MB for my system ROM space. Will this affect anything?

Usually on a fresh install of CM7 I'll have around 106 MB and after installing apps it usually doesn't go down. However, now it does so I'm not sure if it's a new app I'm installing or if this is just supposed to happen.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rabbivj:
prolly a stupid question but with slacker and cm7, when i cache my station it defaults to my external sd card, how do i get it so it defaults to my internal sd card?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEscapist:
Samsung service codes will not work on cm. At the moment, there is no comparable codes for cm.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emy81059:
thanks so much
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stuclach:
Camera force closes

I installed the most recent release of Cyanogen Mod 7 for the captivate yesterday for the first time. I used ROM manager coming from an old version of Cognition (2.something). Everything is working perfectly EXCEPT the camera. It force closes every time I try to use it. I get the "The application Camera (process com.android.camera) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." Error.

Is there a way to fix this? I did a search and it appears this was believed to be fixed in an earlier release.

I would greatly appreciate any advice you could give me.

Thank you very much for your time.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boneykingofnowhere:
Just flashed the latest build. When I try to flash gapps through clockworkmod the bootloader shows up and the progress bar fills about a third of the way, then the phone reboots and the apps aren't on the phone. Help, please?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ihalatci:
same here.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
no logcat? didn't happen.

the "bootloader" wouldn't show up at all, so I have no idea what you two are referencing. are you perhaps running TheEscapist's kernel?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ihalatci:
Ok, may be not the bootloader part is the same. Here is what I did.

Started from stock jf6. Rooted. Installed ROMManager. Downloaded and installed latest cm7 for captivate. Checked Gapps along the way. ROM is up and running but gapps did not get installed.

Got back into ROMManager. Download and install GApps only. Rebooted, showed a progress bar, filled 1/3 then rebooted again. No Gapps. Manually downloaded "gapps-gb-20110307-signed", reboot into recovery, installed zip. Says installed successfully and reboots. No Gapps.

Search in xda returns something with CWM 2x cannot mount a ext4 fs, hence the failed installation. But, my /system shows up as yaffs2. /data is ext4 though.

Phone info says my kernel is 2.6.35.7-g99a0d8a atin@waltest9-ma #1
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ihalatci:
Issue with installing gapps after the initial cm7 installation is answered here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13950876&postcount=6558
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stuclach:
RE: Camera Problem Logcats

Is there a way to view logcats that doesn't involve the use of adb? I have no experience using adb and would rather not have to learn it.

Thank you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
You can use terminal emulator to get a logcat and that will put it on your SD card..then just go into your files and pull it up.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stuclach:
Thank you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stuclach:
I am being told that terminal emulator cannot open logcat because permission is denied for "dev/log/main". I'm not sure how to provide that permission.

I apologize for posting this in the cyanogen thread and I apologize for my ignorance.

Thank you again for your help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DoubleCross2:
Yes, I have. Sorry, I guess that's what I meant by saying "through the SD." The installation performs flawlessly, no errors at all, but after reboot it's as if nothing happened.

This may have something to do with it, but when I try to go to Settings > Accounts & sync > Add account to log in with my google account (I read somewhere that fixed their problem), it always throws an error, "Setup could not finish: Unable to open connection to server."

I know my WiFi connection is fine because I can download roms in Rom Manager.

Scratch that. Flashing to Rom Manager 3.x did the trick. Thanks guys.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Make sure you have cwm 3.x installed. Flash it from ROM manager
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Its been awhile, but I've done it before without a computer and adb, and was able to view it afterwards.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boneykingofnowhere:
Okay, I got the market to install and it runs fine, but when I try to download most apps i get an "installation was unsuccessful" notification and when I select it says "insufficient storage available." I wiped all of my data and have 13 gigs free on my internal sd., but under internal storage it says 0 total space and 0 available space.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capsin6:
Have you tried the aLogcat app available in market? You can directly share the Log with anyone you want from app itself. Pretty handy tool...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Try again, or try rebooting and trying again. This has happened to me before, but it didn't last long.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rabbivj:
I had the same issue last night when flashing GAPPS...going to CM3 did it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boneykingofnowhere:
Ive rebooted, reflashed gapps, and even reverted back to stock and reflashed cm7 a few times and the problem persists.

I'm somewhat confused on what I'm supposed to do with clockworkmod recovery. Do i need to do something first or do i just follow the instructions and do the manual flash override?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cap.android:
Hi there,

I'm looking for pffMod library with cyanogen for captivate, is that possible to compile?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rivera151:
Bumping this.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lesapt59:
Monstrous Problems

DAMN this ROM is fast

but...GApps didn't load from Clockwork

and once I booted the system, I found I had no phone number and thus no signal, WHERE'D MY NUMBER GO!?? AHHH:confused::eek:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
this process will (I suppose) reinstall the apps, but none of their corresponding data. (aka saves, settings, and market links)

put the screen to sleep and wake it up. unless you messed up your /efs partition before installing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lhernandez0105:
Open ROM Manager Very top says Flash ClockworkMod Recovery Current recovery:xxxx

click on that should ask to confirm phone model click captivate answer yes on following screen select 3.x

All done

I'm no expert and I could be way wrong but this is what worked for me.