yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Averros the Ancient:
Thanks guys... yeah I read the stuff in CM7 posts... I just wanted to confirm the jig would work. I just for some reason cannot get the phone into recovery mode at all... which is kinda crappy because I bricked my phone earlier when I had power outtage during a ROM install. The recovery worked there... Ok, I am going to invest in a JiG right away.. I see one on Ebay with sameday shipping.

Thanks guys.

Averros
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Haas360:
Unlock SIM on CM7

Alright so is there a way to unlock the captivate, running CM7 so i can use it on T-mobile? I know about Settings> Wireless & network settings> Mobile Networks> Network operators> search

When i do that AT&T and T-Mobile show up. I cant register on T-mobile cause of the sim. (AT&T sim) But when i insert a T-mobile SIM on bootup it askes for the standerd Enter UNLOCK code.... Any help? I know how to on JI6 and JH7 but CM7 is not samsung at ALL. :) Thanks guys.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syl0n:
the Haptic feedback buttons stay on when screen is on? Even when watching movies. Is it possible to make this the default behaviour where they turn on when screen is touched otherwise timeout?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
if the phone isn't unlocked, go back to stock and do it from there. there is no method for doing it from within CM7. if you already unlocked the phone, install CM7 will not affect it's unlock status.

go ahead and write for the code for it and we'll include it. this is so trivial and so low on priorities, it is of almost no concern.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theMaDHakkeR:
I posted this in the main CM7 thread for those that wanted a work around for the button lights staying on.

I just flashed TheEscapist kernel and noticed something odd. I used Blinky instead of Neldars BLN app and now my capacitive buttons only light up when i need them to. So when i unlock the phone the backlights are off, and they stay off until you use them, at which point they behave as usual and stay on again. Locking the screen will turn them off again until you actually click one of the capacitive buttons.

For this to work i enabled BLN with Blinky and sent myself 1 txt with the screen locked. After the lights flash and you unlock the screen, just lock it again and your backlights will stay off until you need them.

I dont know if this is something people knew but i didnt see this mentioned and thought maybe someone would find it useful.

Thanks.

EDIT: Also found this in the CM7 Forums, http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod...s/detail?id=87
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Haas360:
Alright kaik541 thanks so much man. Your guys development, help is just phenomenal.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camaroz28:
SMS won't send

So this is really weird, all of a sudden I can't send SMS anymore, it was working fine for the first day I had CM7 installed, and all of the sudden in the middle of an SMS conversation it just started immediately failing to send the SMS. Now I can't send SMS but can still recieve them. I would like to get the functionality ASAP if anyone can help.

Edit: I've already rebooted a million times and tried other programs in the market for sending SMS. No luck there.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
try rebooting.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camaroz28:
Oops I guess I should have mentioned what I've done already, updated my original post.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Erm. Logcat or it didn't happen.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camaroz28:
Here you are, thanks for your help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
you lost your message center #, i bet. when it happened to me i had to flash back to stock, make sure it was there or put it back, then came back to cm7.......
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camaroz28:
That sounds logical except for the fact that it suddenly happened in the middle of using it without changing a single setting. And I can still receive messages, does that operate through a seperate message center number than sending messages?

Edit: Going to try flashing to stock and reflashing CM again, will update this post with results.

Update: It seems I did indeed lose my message center number, when I flashed back to stock it was still missing after complete reset and format. Luckily a google search told me the number. To bad that CM7 doesn't have a place in the settings to just re-add that number like stock does, would have saved a lot of trouble of flashing back to stock and re-flashing CM7.

Sent from my Nokia 3310
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chaz1337:
I have a quick question regarding my lack of 3 Button Combo and flashing CM7

I'm currently running Serendipity 6.4

Somehow I lost my 3 button recovery when I flashed Serendipity and was wondering if it was safe for me to flash back to stock with C3POLOL's ODIN with the 3 button fix THEN go through the rest of the CM7 Installation.

Will there be a problem with conflicting bootloaders? Or should I be good to go after I flash back to stock and get the 3 button recovery back?:confused:

Thanks for the help!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Yep.. flash back to stock, get the 3 button fix then follow all the instructions for installation!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dethtek:
Almost embarrassed to ask but, how do I save a new contact to my sim card? I can't seem to find an option to do that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Should pop up when you add a number. Open dialer..dial number see if you can add it and the option should pop up to either save in Google or phone only.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thecellx:
moving from MIUI to CM7

I did this question on Developers section, sorry for that. Now i think im on the right section. Again... dont know how many people asked this before, but why to i need to do in order to install CM7 if im on MIUI. format system/cache and install?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Figured this was worth a shot. Currently running miui but would like to incorporate the newest changes from cm7 nightly. I see that some of the system directories such as system/modules is now system/lib/modules. Best I can tell, and I may be way off the manifest appears to declare where the system directories and thus files should be located. Is incorporating the change as easy as modifying the miui manifest script and then placing the updated files in the correct directory, or am I way off?

Figured it was worth a shot. Thank you for your work in any case
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syl0n:
Is it possible to downgrade to an older nightly build without doing a wipe?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
we really have no interest in supporting closed source ROM's. just like we have no interest in helping fix sense, we have no interest in "fixing" MIUI.

this is why nandroids are useful. you should be able to flash an old update just fine, as it wipes all the things it would replace. /data isn't touched so your apps should remain.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
don't get me wrong, though, I'm not hating on MIUI or Sense... people want options and I can understand the appeal of those two for certain people, but all team hacksung's work is open source and readily viewable on their github, so any changes you'd like to incorporate are pretty solidly documented and available... I just won't baby you through the process is all xD
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
I take no offense and yes I guess I was looking for some coddling. Just trying to pick more up on my end if for nothing else to gain understanding. Once again thank you for the response.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt310:
I think this is a 'function' of Gingerbread. And how annoying to have to flash back to Eclair. For next time, which hopefully won't ever come:

You could take your sim out, put it into another phone, let it register onto the network, which should push the SMSC number to the SIM, in theory.

If you don't have another phone available, you could try figuring out this rather convoluted post here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=891652

-M
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
I asked a friend with a stock Captivate what his SMSC number was. I then used the "convoluted method" and reversed the value I got from my friend and verified that the number he was giving me is a valid AT&T/Cingular MMS message center number. I then entered the number and tested and received the test MMS messages.

For anyone who is interested, if you are on AT&T and your SMSC number is missing, try this one: 07913121139418f0
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drkangel09:
Getting amazingly poor battery life when playing music...

Idle it's draining about 3% battery per hour. Not awesome, but adequate, but as soon as I start listening to tunes that spikes way up.

According to battery info "Music" is using most of the battery, mediaserver is down quite a ways about where I remember it being on my last 2.2 ROM.

I just briefly plugged it into my computer and checked CPU usage while playing music (via top on adb shell).... the process system_server jumped to being constantly at 30-45% CPU usage (with mediaserver hovering around 20-25%)

I know music should make it drain faster, but this is much worse than any other ROM I've ran into.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
ok. let's not forget the fact that "any other ROM" you've ever run has been a repackaged Samsung ROM and this is built from source code and is still in pre-beta status. this kind of stuff changes daily.

also, there's really no need to come in and just say "wah, my battery isn't great"... we're already aware of this (just do a search in this thread for 'battery' or 'battery life' and you'll see hundreds of comments on it)...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drkangel09:
I didn't say "wah, my battery isn't great". I checked to see what appeared to be using it to (potentially) aid the developers in tracking down and fixing things that are responsible.

Be less defensive. This is an awesome ROM. I just want to help make it better.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drkangel09:
Took the music widget off my homescreen and turned off the lock screen music info and CPU usage dropped way down. Will test today and see if battery usage scales back in the way I expect it will now.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jangeles323:
I have an issue with my signal. Where ever I go It stays at 2 bars until I restart my phone. So basically when i know the places i get 4 bars and it still stuck at 2 i have to restart my phone to get back to 4 bars again. Is this a problem or i have to reflash cm7 again?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Barsky:
On the latest nightly (update-cm-7-04282011-NIGHTLY-Captivate-signed.zip ) and I notice that I cannot get a dhcp address. I know my dhcp server is fine as my other wireless devices are obtaining address and my phone always did before (although I do not recall if I checked it on the previous nightly (update-cm-7-04212011-NIGHTLY-Captivate-signed.zip).

I'm going to try reflashing the most recent and if that doesn't help, try the one before it. But, I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing this or suggests a fix...perhaps a different modem file?

Thanks

From log: 2.4GHz Band ********: Wireless system with MAC address B4******** disconnected for reason: Received Deauthentication <--never saw that before :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zheka1:
I recieved a new phone from AT&T, with Froyo 2.2 on it already installed, and right away installed CM7 on it, with 04282011 update. Yes I followed all directions clearly, and all was sucessfull. (installed speed mod the first thing) then did efsbackup. then installed CM7 initial, booted to OS, and installed the latest update from recovery, and I am unable to recieve text messages. I am able to send, and the other party recieves it. Also able to recieve and make calls, but unable to recieve text messages. I tried a different sim card, same problem, and when I put this sim card into another phone, I recieved all my messages on that phone. Put it back on this phone, still unable to recieve. Any idea whats going on?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roof King:
My situation not quite the same but here's what I did to get it working. I could not get texts on other phone either after switching the sim card until I input the service center number and then was able to text working on other phone. Put sim back in cappy and sms/mms working like it should.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zheka1:
Where can i input the center number, or at least to check it, cause i can't find a place where it is on CM7.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roof King:
Dial *#*#4636#*#*

Go to phone information. Could never figure out how to change it from here though and found the quickest method I could figure out since I needed to go to work which was what I did above.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dahrat:
man i gotta say a day of using this ROM is amazingly awesome. battery life is crazy bad for me but i dont care for now i know the work done to get where it is. but i wanted to ask a question being a new captivate user and all, i put apk files on my SD card but the phone doesnt see them when i use file manager. any reasons why?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snow_fox:
Sorry if this has been answered already but, when 2.3.4 rolls out is CM7 going to switch form 2.3.4 to 2.3.4?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roof King:
Bring up file manager hit

mnt

emmc
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Yes. I am testing 2.3.4 as we speak but running into some boot time issues where the screen starts off black but hitting power button wakes it to running so am debugging it. But here's what my "About Phone" says now :) :
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
this has been answered two pages back or so, but since there's been an update anyway, yes it's already been integrated into CM7 (CM7.1 actually) but it's all in flux right now. once everything is merged and confirmed working, a new build will be released. though, honestly, there isn't much new for us as we don't have a FFC for video chat nor wimax.... just minor bugfixes and changes... the usual
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snow_fox:
:D

While there may not be a front facing camera or wimax.

I am something of an upgrade junkie.

"Minor bug fixes" can still have a big impact.

And being totally honest even if I had a nexus s itself I would probably be more excited about "minor bug fixes" as "video chatting" isn't something I really care about.

Right now the performance I get out of my capt with an up to day CM7 is above my expectations for any phone ever with manageable battery life and a large amount of flexibility and power.

"Minor bug fixes" are always interesting to me and keep me coming back. I don't run into hardly any problems at all but, I like being stable/up to date.

Anything that further increases stability is a major + in my book. Anything that increases battery life or makes general improvements area ll major +'s to me.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madamimadam:
Hi my name is Kyle, and im a Flash Addict. I have found my drug of choice in CM7.

Thank you guys for all of your hard work, keep it up!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zuN!:
Are the only reasons of using specific modem .zips for CM7 are because of cwm3 and that most 2.2 roms are using an older version of cwm? If that's the case, could I use a cwm3 compatible modem .zip on CM7?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
no. cm7 uses MTD and not BML so other zip's won't be compatible. if you want to make a new zip, take one of the already provided ones and replace the modem.bin inside with any other modem.bin.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_cosworth:
Couple questions for you guys up in canada, I have a rogers captivate running on Fido. Are there any modems that are a bit nicer on the battery and also allows me to tur off roaming to have it work. I work some sites right near the us border and I don't want to accidentally roam.

Also I flashed cognition 3.0.4 prior to cm7 coming out. It replaced my bootscreen with the at&t world phone splash. I know it does nothing but is there anyway to get the rogers one back?

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Haas360:
Hi guys I put this in Q&A because I dont think it belongs in dev.

Anyway, my captivate running cm7 has been hanging, and freezing really really bad. Its even overclocked to 1200ghz and its sence the gpu update and a lil before that. I have very little procceses running. (android central,engadget, music v3.0, facebook, gmail. Thats the maximum amount of processes. I cant upload a logcat from the xda app. (or dont know how) so I will asap. But do you have any idea why? if you giys could help that would be amazing!!! I love cm7 and its development team!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zheka1:
Is there supposed to be a unique number in the SMSC field?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zuN!:
I recommend the KC1 modem since it's been giving me good battery (with 1.4Ghz OC and UV a bit longer than a day). I'm not too sure about the roaming feature though
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Haas360:
K this is my logcat. Thanks Guys!! :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] artisticcheese:
Does this mod allows to show battery with percentage in title bar? Screenshots are showing just battery meter without percentage. I don't want to install entire ROM just to find out that it's not possible and this is a deal breaker for me for choosing custom ROM.

Thanks,
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Yes, you can turn that on/off.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roof King:
Not sure about that. I tried putting the number in the field but I would get "update error". Ran out of time to mess with it (or research the issue) and grabbed my old Blackberry to make the change.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
we'll look at it, but we don't troubleshoot other people's kernels. being overclocked means you are *not* running the stock kernel. if anything you should point this problem out to the person who created the kernel you are using.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zheka1:
I dis put sim in my other phone, and then back in this phone, and there is an smack number, but still can't receive sms
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
Can i use the escapist kernel.with tge new update of may 1st?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_cosworth:
Thanks for the post, do you have the at&t boot screen as well?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] papercutMS:
This should be discussed in Escapist's kernel thread in the developers section and this question has been answered there. Flashing escapist's kernel over the last two nightlys will break things. Do not flash until Escapist has had a chance to sync with the latest nightlys.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
ok thanks and sorry, another thing, have anyone have working google talk with video chat, mine keeps forceclosing
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Haas360:
Ah I see alright! Sorry for the inconvenience. Let me know if anything is related to the rom not kernel!!! Ty
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gleonard3:
FC's for me too. Guess we need a FFC for this to work?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
thats what a friend of mine told me, he has a MT4G but he hasnt try the new Talk, i will report to you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syl0n:
With 05/01/2011 update, Google Maps 5.3.1 seems to fall back to tiles mode? With no rotation and all that new stuff?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cesierra:
+1

by the way, how do you turn off BLN?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syl0n:
It is in the CyanogenMod settings > Interface > LED notifications but I am not sure if that works or not.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zheka1:
I still can't receive SMS, can somebody tell me how to fix it?? I had this similar in a different phone, and able to receive SMS. When I go to *#*#4636*#*# I have an smsc number there. I'm able to send SMS, but don't receive any. Please help!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madamimadam:
Is there a way to get a landscape dialer installed?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
there is an option under (I think) call settings to enable this. or try to see if there are settings in the phone app itself.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Haas360:
Sorry, but where can I find the latest g apps... Do we need it for the latest nightly?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jangeles323:
go back to stock 2.1 and re-input the smsc number and then re-flash cm7.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
here yar:)

http://bit.ly/m1m5Rc
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madamimadam:
Found it! However, it needs a landscape layout. Number buttons don't show up. Could I pull a dailer from another Rom that I know works?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zheka1:
But my phone came with 2.2 stock, will it reflash to 2.1 without any problems?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
just tap the bar where the number shows up (gray strip), virtual keyboard will pop up. there is no layout for horizontal dialer, it uses whatever soft keyboard you are using at the moment.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madamimadam:
Dang. That was not the answer I was hoping for. I use the phone on a dock in my car for GPS and it is weird typing on a sideways dialpad. I wont even try to use the mini keyboard in landscape to dial. I'm already a bad distracted driver without the small keys.

However, this is still bestest evar rom!!!!! Keep up the good work
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zuN!:
With the newest gapps, does Talk have the video chat capability?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cbalt:
I screwed up and accidently flashed the initnal kernel instead of the rom after doing a fresh restore to stock. Now on boot all I get to is the samsung logo that has the cm logo underneath it. Tried everything I could to get into download mode except a jig since I don't have one. Is it time for me to get a jig and go back to an old phone till it arrives or do I have any other options since I couldn't get recovery either.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jangeles323:
There should only be one to download. Download the most recent gapps and flash it. Make sure its for captivate
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zheka1:
I cant seem to find to have one for captivate. Place where I downloaded kernel and mod from http://sourceforge.net/projects/teamhacksung/files/captivate/ gapps is not there, so from their website, I found two places where gapps is. one is here http://android.d3xt3r01.tk/cyanogen/gapps/ and the other is here http://goo-inside.me/gapps/ but none say for captivate, and so many diff ones, so I need help on picking the right one
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
just pick the latest... they're universal... that's why it says "universal" in the title
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I just posted this.. look a few posts back.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakthru_sep:
CM7 and Sim Toolkit?

Does CM7 for Captivate have Sim Toolkit support yet? If not will it ever support STK?

I saw in other forums that people with dual sim card adapters were having problems (as they too need STK to be able to use both sim cards) but in my case I use a 128-bit sim card and need STK for various security features.

All other ROMs from Eclair to GB did have this feature so I was surprised when I found out CM7 didn't...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
You could try Google Voice Commands and tell your phone what number to dial instead of dialing it with your fingers.