yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
I have the drivers installed. Atleast i think i do, when i plug it in Gadget Serial shows up. I have three different odins open at the moment. Then i pluged the phone in while holding the volume buttons. I goes into download mode but odin does nothing. I've been trying for the last two days. ive tried on xp and 7. I really dont know what else i can do. The phone won't go into recovery, only an image of a Phone...!...Computer shows up when im not trying to get into download mode.

This is what i did that caused the problem. I had CM7 and i wanted to go back, so i took Odin3 and put the phone in D-Mode with Re-partition but not PIT file (didnt know i needed it). When i clicked start it failed. I tried again and it failed again. Then i took another version of odin, the one with less options that brings the phone to 2.1 and i tried to flash that. That didnt work and after that Odin wouldn't recognize the phone in download mode anymore.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
Have you tried using heimdall?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=755265
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
No, never used it before, i will try right now. thanks for the link sir.

Edit: Heimdall isnt recognizing it either.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jangeles323:
Has anyone experience there phone suddenly shut off and the only to turn it back on is to remove the battery?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
Are you using one of the OC kernels? I know some have an issue where if they UV to much or possibly limit the clock speed to low ( less than the 1Ghz) and have had sleep death. I am NOT sure if I have heard about it with the Escapist kernel on CM7 but I know it happens with froyo OC kernels on occasions.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.4Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jangeles323:
yea, I'm using kang's updated oc/uv kernal because its what works for my phone properly. And its oced at 1300 with uv of -100 on all. I did this same set up on froyo and i never had a issue with it. Does oc/uv work differently for 2.3.3?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
if you are having issues with the ROM while running a custom kernel, please don't report it here. we cannot help you if you aren't running stock.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jangeles323:
okay, I have another issue. I flashed all almost the modems that cm7 offers for captivate and I still have the issue with the signal. When my phone stays on for a certain time, no matter where i am I either have no bars with hspda data on or i have 2 bars untill i reboot my phone for the signal to be accurate. Is this a issue or Should I reflash the whole thing?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miahsoul:
Been on this ROM for more than a month, but the one thing that gets me is the lack of a built in task manager. Is there a way so that there is a task manager option that pops up along with the recently opened apps when holding down the home button, or do I have to live with my 3rd party task manager for now?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaolin95:
Different Kernels usually have different voltages for their frequencies so you cant just use the same settings you did with a Froyo Rom using for example, Paragon or SuckerPunch Kernel with a kernel for CM7.

Each kernel dev has its own approach so it is best to start the overclocking process over slowly to get the right settings for this new config.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jangeles323:
Thanks for the input. I'll start tweaking it slowly and see what runs good for my phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
task managers are *$#!ing pointless. they literally do nothing for you (in fact, they kill your battery faster than if you didn't use them at all). android is perfectly capable of managing it's own memory and behaviors. the *ONLY* thing a task manager *can* be useful for is misbehaving apps, in which case you just want to close one single app.

on CM7 there is a setting to make "long press back" close the currently running application. just set that to true and use it with your misbehaving apps. there will never be an integrated task manager with CM because, again, they are pretty much full-on-retarded.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monoxide.tryst:
this may be kinda a silly question, but .....

I want to to upgrade to the newest nightly, and im wondering what happens when you flash it.

I know do a nandoid back up obviously, but does it keep all your settings or do i need to back up with titanium backup first, meaning does it wipe when you flash???
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jangeles323:
You can flash the latest update and not worry about backing up your apps. All it does is update to the most current build and doesn't touch your apps but if you have a custom kernal I'll put it back to stock.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kngthdn:
I'm not sure if anyone knows the answer to this, but I figured I'd ask-

I have a lot of apps... well over 300. No matter how hard I try, I keep filling up /datadata. (which is only 172MB) I'd like to remove the symbolic link from /data/data to /datadata, so that everything stays on the /data partition... preferably moving my existing /datadata/* to /data/data/* in the process.

I do know there's a performance hit, but I'd still like to try. :) I've tried everything I can think of to get this to work. but nothing seems to do it.

I commented the line out of /init.aries.rc that makes the symbolic link... but sometimes it goes back to the way it was before. I can't seem to figure out at what point the file is being copied back.

I created my own /data/data, set they owner & group to system, chmod'd it to 0771, and copied all the existing files from /datadata into the new folder... but little things are broken now. My Home and Search buttons are both broken after I do this, and only a factory reset fixes it. (but the reset also puts back the symbolic link undoing the progress I've made.)

At each step, I've also tried deleting my Dalvik cache, but that doesn't seem to have helped either.

Any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] golfslicer:
Unplug PHone and take the battery out. Open up oden. Hook usb cable to phone.

put battery in. Hold both volume buttons down and the power button. Wait for the computer and blink out. After the second blink out let go of the power button. The phone will go into download mode and then let go of the volume buttons. and you can flash with odin. Hope this helps.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waghoba:
can anyone tell me how to enter contact details like anniversary and birthdays from edit contact option??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jangeles323:
Is it normal to have "cell standby" 2nd most usage that kills your battery? in froyo the most used up thing that kills the battery is the display and cell standby etc are usually like 2% and everything else. But now cell standby is creeping up with like 13% battery usage and starting to increase.. Is this normal for CM7 or its just an issue with gingerbread as when i was googling i saw people were having the same issue with nexus s and nexus one with the cell standby problem..

edit: also when i check my partial wake up usage on spare parts, Dialer is number one on the list and everything on the bottom makes sense. Does any1 know why my dialer is waking up my phone?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I'm not sure if the stock SMS app has that option. I'm using handcent SMS. Along with the multitude of options.. you can enable pop-up. So the screen wakes up when you get a message and you are able to reply all from a locked screen standpoint. After you send message, screen goes back to sleep.

..hope that helps!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jemack:
Sms popup. Free app in market. Works perfectly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uncle Irish:
This issue plagues me on this ROM for some reason. I play Homerun Battle 3D, and when I load the new CM7, any way I install the game, it changes my player ID to a new person with different items and such. I have tried Android ID changer which did nothing. I made certain I have not deviated from the instructions each time. I tried TiBu backup, Market restore. Install from APK directly and each time I launch the game, I have a player ID that is not my own. On any Froyo ROM, I don't have this problem. EFS backup is done as the instructions say and completes successfully. This happens for a couple different games, while other games, say Angry Birds, which doesn't have a player profile, work normally and my history is restored.

Any idea as to why?

I have asked before but haven't seen any sort of fix or explanation that works. It's strange that it does this for games that require player IDs only.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] one buddy:
I'm new at this posting stuff. so if I did it in the wrong place my apologies

But today I had to pull my battery and when I but out back in and booted up I kept getting fc com.android.phone I believe. So I reinstalled cm7 and now I can't receive text. So I'm back at stock.

Any clue what caused this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] detectivegrump:
Cyanogenmod

Ok, so I tried flashing cyanogenmod and i followed the steps posted on three of their pages, but in short it didnt work. Symptoms:

"E:no misc partition" in clockworkmod

acting as though not rooted

stuck in airplane/safe mode

cannot flash new roms or update.zip

stock clockworkmod

really buggy, laggy screens, flashing transitions etc.

Cannot boot into download mode and cannot be recognized by odin in dev mode.

Resets dont work. So in effect my cappy is now just a worthless piece of plastic. Any suggestions?? I have flashed roms before, but somehow cm7 just doesn't like me. I have no idea what to do, tried keypresses and all. I can only get into clockworkmod recovery 3.0.0.5 and it doesn't help me at all.

Help please?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] detectivegrump:
and somehow i just made it worse because now i only get the att screen and no boot. woo. Suggestions.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PearsonDKA:
Do I dare switch over from Serendipity? =X Kinda interested now that you can OC/UV CM7.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Can you get into DL mode?

You missed something somewhere. I've flashed this ROM multiple times and had success every time. The steps are critcal though, so they need to be followed exact. Its not just like flashing a ROM on top of one another..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Been able to do that with CM7 for awhile now. But I'd say if you haven't yet tried it, you be doing yourself a favor by at least checking it out. I original just tries it for testing. Went back to 2.2.1 ROMs for 4 days... then came back to CM7. The only real thing I miss is my sweet f'n camera Samsung had..that and TV out. The rest works great for me and those two things are not enough to get me to drop CM7.. it rocks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PearsonDKA:
2 Things. 1st,Your sig...has caused me to drool on my mouse, i shall be sending you the bill.

2nd, the camera still doesnt work? Are there any apps that take 720p Video recording and/or HD pics?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksimilie:
I tried ur method but odin still doesnt recognize the device.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Lol.. the camera works and works fine. Just doesn't have all those nice features the stock Samsung camera app had. All the different modes and stuff. But yep it works. And there is an app that supposedly records at 720p. I remember someone mentioning a big increase in file size and thought that was because it was in 720p. I forget the app name though :/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PearsonDKA:
Just finished flashing over. Just updating the latest nightly. Which kernel do I gotta play around with to achieve a proper stable 1.3 or even a 1.4ghz OV/UV?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Really varies from CPU to CPU and which kernel uses what voltages. I'm using the escapists kernel. I really like it a lot. Incredibly stable. Should be able to hit 1.2, 1.3 fairly easy. The other kernel I've used has been the Trident kernel. Both are good, but I prefer the escapists kernel. For my phone it is more stable, and development on his kernel seems more up to date.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PearsonDKA:
Noted. Thanks again:)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
please don't spread misinformation in the thread. I've given you plenty of support (answered your question 3 times directly)... just because I didn't copy/paste a link doesn't mean I didn't answer your question. if the question asked is already addressed in the original posts, that's where I'll direct people... you asked how to revert and the zip you would use to revert was in the original post on the cyanogenmod forums... which is what I told you. just flashing the .tar won't be enough (there goes wifi, among other things), if you don't want to take the advice, that's on you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HaiKaiDo:
Lol im not here to argue. You vaguely answered my question by directing me to the cyanogen mod forums. I stated that i was confused and then you were a smartass about it. Im not brain dead and havnt "borked" my phone from cm7, i was just in need of a little advice. sorry, didnt mean to start anything.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bfgarzilla9k:
Did anyone else's shutoff animation stop working? It worked for the first two days. (I know there's an option in the settings to turn it on/off. They're both on.) It just hasn't worked since Saturday.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Evilspawn:
Hey kaik...I posted a question here if it was possible to raise the system volume...like when audioble select sound...I've looked in settings-sound and in cm7-sound. And there's nothing related to that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Spare parts
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dante04SRT:
How has everyone's GPS been since installing CM7? I haven't installed yet but GPS is a big one for me.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FireRaider:
My GPS is working fine.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cschepers:
Mine's been pretty good. Position generally locks pretty quickly, and tracking is decent overall. The flaky compass is flaky, however, so navigation will get out of sorts at times. I wouldn't rely on this exclusively for navigation in unknown areas, and the battery life (at least in my case) means I wouldn't use it on an all-day geocaching trip, but the GPS is working as well as it ever has, at least on my phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Yes.

No. Even though we do not support any other kernel, we do know that the kang.project-voodoo.org one updates required kernel modules in the /system/modules directory and therefore you need to reinstall those files and just the kernel tar file does not do that. You need cm7-captivate-update-xxxxxxxx.zip instead which reinstalls everything kernel and android related for CM7.

No. It is either the cm7-captivate-initial-xxxxxxxx.zip if you're running something eclair or froyo based or cm7-captivate-update-xxxxxxxx.zip if you're running a previous install of CM7.

Yes.

Good enough? Now please don't install CM7 . . . we do expect people to know what they're doing right now and from your questions it looks like you don't quite understand that CM7 install is installing a whole new linux kernel as well as a whole new android framework and therefore you would be best served if you just followed the steps we provided because knowing as little as you seem to, you will most likely screw up your phone and blame CM7.

Wait for there to be a Samsung Gingerbread release and use that instead or stick with the current Froyo ROMs available that do not require you understand the difference between kernel and android framework.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bfgarzilla9k:
That was it! "Transition Animations" doesn't affect it, but "Window Animations" has to be set to normal to keep the screen-off animation. :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dante04SRT:
No disrespect, but this IS the Q/A section for this ROM; I can understand that you as well as other devs get a lot of N00b questions, but everyone starts as a n00b; It's questions and research that help us all learn new things.

Remember, there was a time when you didn't know what a kernel was vs. Android framework, too.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Yes, but we do ask that people know what they are doing in the instructions. This is not for what you called "n00b" users. There are other ROMs that are more appropriate at the moment and our hope is that we will get CM7 to be n00b friendly and bug-free soon - but it isn't at the moment. We are happy to answer stuff from users who are mostly self supporting and can figure things out most of the time but some of the questions started to go in the "has a lot of rope because he knows how to use Odin, knows how to backup, knows how to install a zip, but will hang self because doesn't understand that froyo and gingerbread pieces like the kernel and android framework are not inter-changable and one cannot take one piece from one and another from the other and expect it all to work".
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FireRaider:
AdFree?

Adfree doesn't seem to be working for me?

I restored just the App from TiBu and then downloaded the update. Adfree seems to think its working but I have ads in places I never knew could carry an ad.

In the other (main) thread Kaik541 actually told someone to install Adfree to block ads. I didnt see where anyone stated Adfree didnt work for them in reply. Any ideas?

On another note, for you guys reading through here for hints, in Keyboard settings I could not figure out how to switch to Smart Keyboard after restoring it. There is no option to switch it under Language & Keyboard settings/Keyboard settings. This puzzled me until I noticed the stock keyboard has a button with the option to switch the keyboard. I hope this helps someone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
I'm not sure what you mean by "system volume"? I know there was an option for this in Samsung ROM's, but I'm not quite sure what it controlled. If it's responsible for the "audible selection"/"audible touch tones"/"screen lock sounds", I'm not sure it can, but that's not something that the cmsgsteam has control over. changing/fixing/adding that would have to come directly from cyanogenmod.

adfree works fine for me. open up any app that uses text input, long press and select "input method" and choose your other keyboard. that's how I've always changed keyboard, I didn't even notice there was a way to change it from the settings menu.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FireRaider:
Cool. I will uninstall and redo AdFree from Market I guess. Thanks.

Loving the ROM by the way, And the support from you guys has been fantastic.Thanks again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Have a friend running cm7 and they are unable to turn off wifi. When they hit toggle it goes off then comes back. Any ideas
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roof King:
Hosts file question

Would dropping the hosts file in from another rom work to block ads or is it rom specific?

Adfree works but not as well.

No other issues so far besides battery life but it's amazing how fast and smooth 2.3 is.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
have never seen this, this is what logcats are for :)

you should be able to just drop it in, a hosts file is merely a text file with a list of addresses to ignore. just put it into /etc/hosts with proper permissions
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waghoba:
This sounds good...if someone is doing this please can you post what proper permissions we need to set?

Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhernand1102:
If you use Vignette from the market you can set it to take 5mp pictures but there is still no 720p recording for videos yet.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
No problem ..welcome to CM7...that's all it takes is a taste of this ROM and your forever hooked! ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt310:
^I'm definitely hooked but I really don't want to look at your signature taking up half of my screen every other post. Is there a setting somewhere that I'm overlooking that allows me to disable all signatures?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Not that I know of. Just something your gonna have to deal with as some of us like to dress our sig up. Sorry 'mate :/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viny2cool:
i m on latest nightly...and i am having this problem of internal sd mounting...whenever i turn on USb storage...my phone reboots...anybody else having same problem?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] socalledsin:
Been waiting on CM on SGS since I got it, but the battery on Serendipity is amazing. Anyone have any comparisons on the two?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monoxide.tryst:
Flashed the newest nightly a couple days ago, and now im not getting notification sounds from anything except incoming calls...... Volumes are up, stock and platapus kernels both do the same. Worked fine before i flashed the newest nightly. I have tryed to reflash nightly and different kernel a couple times. Anything else that i can try??? Or just flash cm7 from scratch???
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt310:
Trying to stay constructive here, but when you post from your phone and continue to clutter the main board up with a signature that shows more of a theme than the actual CM7 bits, it ends up sounding rather silly when you try to defend it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
dude really. First off, where are the rules as to what you can and can't use as a signature. I'm not trying to show actual CM7 bits, im trying to show off what my phone looks like. And cluttering up the main board?? Man i post on here when i try to help people out.. not because I'm trying to clutter the board. Not sure where your going with me posting from my phone and I don't really care. You obviously were disturbed enough to post about me "defending" my sig which is even MORE CLUTTER and has nothing helpful to offer so please. All i said was it something your gonna have to deal with (because the question was asked), along with EVERYONE else.. sorry but its just a signature.. I can make it bigger if you want:eek:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ouija147:
recommendation for app

in the samsung rom they have text to speach setting that will read the name of the person that sent you a message...

Please tell me, is there an app that can get me that feature on cyanogenMod.

:confused: :( :mad: :o :)

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' five stages of post death
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
shut up both of you. enough of this discussion. some people have huge signatures, deal with it. some people have no signatures. leave this thread to Q&A and stop complaining about how xda handles itself.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
My thoughts exactly.. I'm sorry, i should have just ignored that comment about me. I didn't even want to post because of the bs clutter.. and here is some more, but my apologies!:) I don't think you need to tell me to shut up, but I get the point and you basically repeated exactly what I said in my first response.