yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleither:
A question to my fellow Rogers users on CM7....which modem are you finding works best for you?

My results in the Speedtest application are much slower than they were on stock froyo....down to 300k/60k from 800k/300k . Assuming having a modem better tailored to Rogers will help with this. Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mnjm9b:
Is anyone able to use cifs on any of the newer builds.

The last I had it working was on 5-4.

I am thinking that I may need to do a full wipe instead of updating.

If someone can confirm It's working for them I will try that.(or maybe I will just try anyway...lol)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubu123:
Hi,

i want to try CM7 roms, but i'm on continuum 5.5.

i understand that i need to go back to stock but i'm not sure what i need to do.

BTW i've flashed 2.3 bootloaders in order to flash continuum, so i can't go back to stock with one click Odin.

thanks for your help!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
It's my understanding that you can use odin to go back to stock. What you don't want to do is flash back to stock w/ the 3 button fix. I used continuum when it was in RC1/3 state and i also used Odin to get back to stock. But make sure you use the right one. The one without the 3 button fix. Then if you need to, you can apply the 3 button fix. Then just follow the instructions and it's easy as pie:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubu123:
Do you know which one is that without the the 3 button fix? or where can i find it?

thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
this is it. For future references, it's called stock JF6 for short;)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SBSMALFJ

*EDIT* I did want to mention that it's IMPORTANT you realize why you are going back to stock and have an understanding of bootloaders. The odin one click program i gave you the link to will replace your i9000 gingerbread bootloaders back to your eclair/froyo bootloaders.. the ones that were made for your device. ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubu123:
I appreciate your help!

and just to make sure - i can go back to 2.1 and then flash CM7 as in the guide?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
yessir 10 CHAR:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solarpowered:
1. Any word on how to get the capacitive buttons to stay lit up during regular use? I don't mean notification lighting, but like how they stayed lit on the stock rom.

2. Still having no luck with sending MMS. Any fixes I can do or will a fix be implemented in a nightly sometime soon?

I've been searching this and the development thread but I can't seem to find my answers. Apologies if these have been resolved.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
I'm guessing that if u change the button value to 255, in backlight custom settings, for all of the values, then they should stay on more frequently and for longer duration. It just tethers that function to the ambient light levels and applies ur chosen settings.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solarpowered:
Hrmm. Tried that just now but no cigar. Buttons still seem to just turn off if I'm not pushing them. Thanks for the quick reply though :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
Did u enable all of the related options, too??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
So the changelog for #13 states fixing to allow proprietory files into the build system. What does that actually mean? Does that mean some samsung app may be able to be added into CM7? Or something else? Just curious and do not care for anything samsung on CM7.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.55Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
if you don't build the ROM yourself, it doesn't affect you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrahamSX:
One quick question before I flash this ROM:

When I wipe data & factory reset, will it completely wipe my internal SD card of data? I would assume so, though I figured I should double check before doing anything. Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
Cool. Thanks. I was just curious what it meant. So this would allow a dev to make a CM7/samsung type rom then? AGAIN just curious and would not care for it anyways. I am asking because I have seen a lot of others who just can't live without the samsung crapware.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.55Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rivera151:
Questions: feel free to flame on previously-mentioned issues

Hey guys. So far I haven't been able to answer some of these Q's, maybe y'all can help.

Are these files important? Can I scrap them?

/sdcard/*mtd.log

radio_dump*.bin

I can't figure out how to turn off BLN. Help appreciated :confused:

Sometimes while wearing headphones I'll get a notification and instead of playing the default sound, I'll get a random song from my collection to start playing. I can't replicate the behavior, though. Any ideas?

Custom screen-brightness settings, what do I change? where do I change it? what are some settings to improve my battery life, since I see some here with +24 hours of battery life?

What other suggestions to improve battery life?

Kudos on keeping up the good work just for the hell of it. Admirable work and dedication
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
all it is is the proprietary blobs we use to build (like libcamera.so and the GPU stuff... stuff we can't build ourselves... no samsung apps or framework)

install logs, they'll be regenerated on every install, but can be deleted

radio crash files, can be safely deleted

cm settings, interface, LED notifications, miscellaneous, choose each app and set color to "none"

sometimes it messes up if the notification sound is on the sdcard, simple solution: use a built-in sound effect

not sure what you mean by this?

disable GPS/bluetooth/3G/wifi when not using.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mnjm9b:
With no response about cifs I went ahead and re-flashed w/wipe...

Still no cifs. So I will assume that is officially broke for now.

Unless someone wants to build the module for it... (i tried but can't build for gb right now)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
OK.. for god's sake, what am I doing wrong- I have the premium RM and i have closely followed directions and kept up with the changes.

But I still cannot update without getting a wipe! I have always wiped my cache and dalvik, and NEVER had to re-set up my phone.

So far with these new updates, I cannot get by this. I update through RM and select the GApps prompt. I do all my backups.. phone reboots, I have to touch the android to begin setting my phone up all over again.

The next update comes out, I figure since GApps did a fresh install last time "i won't check it off this time. I already have it installed, I can skip this."

BAM- phone reboots.. no gapps, no google account synced.. OK- so at this point I'm beginning to think I'm an idiot. Other users are going through the install without loosing anything so I'm thinking I must be doing something wrong.

This morning I wake up.. see there is an update. Kinda chuckle to myself because i just know I'm gonna have to go through the whole process of setting my phone up again. I open up ROMManager, go through the process MAKING sure that I check google apps this time. Phone reboots- same as always.. I'm back to setting my phone up. WTF???

I thought this wasn't supposed to wipe everything and act like an upgrade if already coming from CM.

Any fareeking advice would be very helpful:rolleyes:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheNaturat:
Could anyone upload latest build from Sourceforge (update-cm-7-05112011-NIGHTLY-Captivate-signed.zip) somewhere please? I'm having problems with latest generation, phone is unstable and eats battery much faster than version I previously used (from 18.03), so I would like to give this one a shot, but can't find it anywhere :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rivera151:
Thanks for the quick reply.

3. I have never used a sound that is not builtin, so I doubt this has anything to do with it. Still I will reset my notification sounds and ringtones, just in case.

4. I think some may have put custom settings under Settings-->CyanogenMod settings-->Display-->Automatic backlight-->Light levels to conserve battery, but I am unsure what they did exactly. I think atinm may have mentioned something on this, maybe he can throw me a bone.

5. I pretty much did all those except disabling 3G, as I understood there was a problem with that toggle. I figured since you suggested it, I gave it a try. Well, at least on my phone that was still borked, and now on boot I get constant FC of the phone app, rendering the phone unusable. I've looked around the /datadata/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db, but I don't know which key to set to turn 3g back on. Any suggestions?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Build #13. See if this will work.

http://mirror.teamdouche.net/get/cm_captivatemtd_full-13.zip
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solarpowered:
Apologies for my noobishness but here's what I've done so far:

I went into Settings > CyanogenMod Settings > Display > Automatic Backlight > Custom (selected) > Edit Other Levels > proceded to set all the Buttons settings to 255.

I also have the color on LED Notifications set to None for all apps that are listed.

This is all I've changed so far.

(btw, thanks for taking the time to help me :D )
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solarpowered:
I can't help but I will chime in that I'm having the same issue. Every time I run a Nightly off of RM I have to completely set up the whole phone again. A bit of a pain to be sure.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
Have you guys tried downloading via RM but not install it from there. Then find the file via root explorer, copy it to the sdcard then flash from the recovery menu? Then you can JUST use the wipe cache. I did this in the past and it worked without losing anything. Lately I have been using RM to see if it worked for me and have had no problems or re-setup at all. Now when using Tom manager I ONLY have checked the backup current Tom and wipe dalvick cache and have not had any setup after. But try it the first way and see how it works for you. I had also used backup in cwm prior to installing it via the recovery from SD card in case, because I too do not like setting up everything again.

Sent from My Captivated JVB Gingerbread Toy
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I'll try it this way next time I get an update. I'm just boggled how it's supposed to be an easy, painless flash from RM and it's not. (for me:rolleyes:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
the disabling of 3G requires you to have *no* active data connections (aka put in airplane mode or disable data). when the phone boots, enable airplane mode, toggle again, reboot, disable airplane mode. (quicker but less enjoyable: factory reset in recovery)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rivera151:
He he. Had to do a nandroid restore, got back. Then I played around and found out what you just posted here by messing around. It seems the 2G/3G toggle button on the Notification Power Bar (NPB) is the only thing broken; I tried putting both the mobile data toggle and the 2G/3G toggle to see if disabling data connections from the NBP and then disabling 2G/3G from NPB would work, but although it is able to disable 2G, it is unable to come back to 3G from the NPB toggle, or even from Settings (and it may in fact break the whole thing; I do suspect the toggle attempts to bring the connection back as CDMA, from what little I can see in the Mobile network settings when it's tweaking out).

As far as Automatic Backlight settings, I went into Settings > CyanogenMod Settings > Display > Automatic Backlight > Edit Other Levels, and I set all but the last levels to 1 (last level at 255), and then I hit "Save and Apply". I may tweak these settings more as I go, but for now this should keep the screen brightness to the bare minimum always except in the sunniest days, when it should jack up the brightness to the maximum.

Thanks for the info though. Keep on moddin'
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
You will need to check the ENABLE light filter box at the top, first. Check use custom. Go ahead and check the light decrease, too.

^^^^RIVERA just reminded me of an earlier omission, though.... after you edit the custom values, don't forget to hit the SAVE/APPLY BUTTON.

I suppose it's possible that the feature is broken. I don't actually use a captivate. I merely maintain a friend's. Sorry I don't have it here to personally verify function.

Backlight custom settings have always been a bit confounding for folks, though. ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rivera151:
OK. So here I keep tweaking my phone to milk the battery life, and while testing the phone on 2G only, I'm getting the most awesome phone signal while talking inside my house. I mean, the difference is unbelievable. So now I wonder, could this be related to the modem band?

Well, I wanted to explore the band status, but the codes don't all work, specifically *#0011# and *#2263#. So the question is, how can I get a hold of the 3G band status on this ROM so I can investigate the different bands, signal strengths, and modem performance?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
you don't. 10char
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mzimmer88:
Hi all,

A while ago, someone posted a file that would replace the default music player with Google Music 3.0 but I haven't been able to find it with the search function. Can anyone point me to it?

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
install google music through the market
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mzimmer88:
How can I remove the default music player it comes with?

That's what I liked about that zip, it did it for me. :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
titanium backup? but what's the point? it'll be replaced every new update.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solarpowered:
Thanks much for the help, good sir. My capacitive buttons are still doing their own thing but I appreciate you taking the time to address my issue. Here's hoping they return to normal in a future update!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makelegs:
Sounds like those more in the know than I all seem to agree that the feature is simply borked for now. Stay tuned though... always a work in progress! ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Linwood.Ferguson:
Alternative e-mails?

Spending a bit of time with CM7 Nightly #13, and one feature issue for me is the e-mail client- with exchange, it has the truncated mail body issue that so many clients do. On Cognition 4.4.x and I think quite a few others, a workaround is "forward" to "existing", as opposed to reply, which preserves the original message. The "existing addressees" is not present in this version.

Are there other compatible, but Android-like clients available that are compatible? The commercial ones I have tried (e.g. Touchdown) do not handle multiple exchange accounts well, which is a nice feature of this one.

And/or if someone happens to be working on mail... :o
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] effwun:
Any thoughts on what this is related to? I was just casually browsing, had a full on system crash (full kernel reboot) and there was a new empty radio dump file corresponding to either the crash or the reboot (edit - based on the timestamp of the radio dump)...not complaining or pointing fingers, but I just wonder if anyone is looking at this or if I'm the only one. 'stock' kernel as well...nothing unsupported.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabby131:
anyone experiencing wi-fi issues? i play online games like NOVA and Sandstorm (HD) and i always come up with connection lost during a game, and then i just saw the wifi on my notification bar turned white.

i tried apps that changes wi-fi behavior (wi-fi keep alive)

i tried stock and other kernels.

i checked the game server and my internet connection.

above did not change anything.....:)

i have not tried flashing a radio image or modem (not enough noodle to do that)

thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dabels1961:
proxy settings

I can not find a place to add a proxy setting (browser or anywhere else) is there an option to set a proxy server on CM7 somewhere?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Linwood.Ferguson:
Yes, am on #13 (only one I tried) and Wifi drops a lot. Cellular does not drop at all. Very reproducible. I reported it in the development forum (no replies yet). Glad to hear I am not alone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lhernandez0105:
What build are you on? I've seen some people having wifi issues on 13.

As for flashing a radio its just as easy as flashing a rom. But from my understanding radio has no effect in wifi.

If you are on 13 I would go back to 11 I play modern combat at least once a day with no problems.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
basically, we have a crappy modem and bootloader (watch dmesg, the modem itself sits there waiting and says "we have a crappy bootloader"). they're both very capable of crashing whenever they damn well feel like it. codeworkx has looked over a large quantity of dump files and has gleamed all he can from it, I believe.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluestevo:
Calls

i updated thru CWM to nightly 14. Anytime i call/called the other end can not hear me.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
this is what nandroids are for.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluestevo:
This i know.... not my 1st time updating...already flashed back to nightly 13............. was wondering if anyone else had this problem?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lconquistador:
Ok so I posted a thread elsewhere but maybe I should put my question here. I'm having problems with the lockscreen not coming on and my home+search buttons not working. It works fine at first but then after a couple hours or even a day all of a sudden my home and search buttons don't work and my lockscreen doesn't come on.

Any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabby131:
i did a reflash to stock (I896) wipe everything except sd card and the reflash build#13. seems to work....still playing till now and no drops of connection so far.

running #13, thanks for the radio info :), yeah.....i am also thinking on going back #11 which was a stable release i tried after #3
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxiberta:
Same issue here. First time I flash CM. What was your previous version of CM? Did the mic work?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skjaidev:
Flashing back to #13 should fix this. #14 also defaults to GMT, so you'll have to set the time zone manually.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abenn26:
Sorry if this was asked already but I have been unable to find it. The camera application for stock 2.2 had a panoramic shot ability, is this still possible to do with 2.3.4?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
If you open the camera and click on the little settings icon on the right side there ate many different settings there, portrait, landscape, etc. Also check out the other little icons for more settings.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.55Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluestevo:
i was on nightly #13 before flashing 14. i also did not try the mic. i just had 2 people call me and they couldnt hear me. bummer
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rheanjd:
Hey Guys i know this is a very noobish question but i am just a bit stressed of bricking my phone... Ok so i was installing the new rom into my phone and i have installed cyanogen mod 7 kernal and when i tried to insall the actual zip file. It gave me an error message stating status 7.

I am thinking the actual rom file that was saved on the SD card was not thecyanogenmod rom... so i am not sure what i should do... PLEASE HELP...!!!

Could i just restart the phone and connect to my computer and redrop the file in there??

Is there another way to put the rom on my sd card??

Your help will be greatly appreciated.... I am right now in the choose zip from sd card option and am not sure what to do.... :O
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
please follow the instructions from the OP. there is no need to flash the CM7 kernel first.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rheanjd:
Thanks for the quick response... I understand the instructions say not to do it but since i have already flashed the kernal.... so what should i do right now...?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
go back to stock and follow the instructions correctly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jemack:
What I would do......

1. Flash back to stock

2. Reflash CM7 following instructions.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rheanjd:
ok thankyou guys i will most likely do this.. but right now i am just trying to avoid the phone from soft bricking.. so should i jchoose the option in clockwork mod recovery "reboot system now" and then reflash to stock.

Again thankyou guys for all your responses..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEscapist:
Just pull the battery, and use the Odin one click to go back to stock.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jemack:
Dude, just put your phone into download mode and flash back to stock. Follow the instuctions....ok?

PS. You do know how to flash back to stock, right?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rheanjd:
thankyou guys i was a bit freaked as i wasn't sure what to do... ok... i have been looking and i am not sure where to find the latest version of cm7..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rheanjd:
yeah i just did flash it back to stock... its now running froyo 2.2 on JI6

i am goin try this again.. i want to have cm7 by tonight... i have been reading for the last month and i am trying everything possible to not brick the phone.. i guess i wasn't sure on the links for CM7 and the kernal i should be using...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lhernandez0105:
Nightly builds.

http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=captivatemtd

From my understanding 14 is having issues so I would flash 13.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abenn26:
The Settings as far as I see give options to modify the following settings:

-Focus Mode

-Exposure

-Scene Mode

-Picture size (which was promising but just changes the pixel count)

-Picture quality

-Color effect

-Flicker Reduction

And the advanced settings have options to change button functions and focus options. If I am missing a setting somewhere let me know but so far the option does not seem to be included.

Thanks again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
Doesn't screen mode have portrait and landscape for you? Maybe I am wrong but I though that was one of the things you were asking about.

Maybe I was thinking landscape mode. I guess that is different than panoramic.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.55Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soblack:
Great FAQ. Flashed the rom successfully and my captivate has never been faster. I've only encountered one issue of which I'm not sure of the cause:

When I go into sound recorder or make a voice call, no sound is transmitted. My speakers still work properly.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abenn26:
Yea all of those modes just modify the, I would assume, "shutter and aperture" to preset values that were deemed suitable for such situations. This video shows the sgs taking a panoramic picture but the captivate was the exact same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeBrIcVWDrs
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
Nightly #14 has a bug that the microphone does not work. Go back to #13 for now.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
All I do is click on the Nightlies in RM, check GApps addon, uncheck backup (that's because I don't care if I lose stuff), uncheck wipe data, check wipe cache+dalvik cache and install. I don't lose anything.