yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cesierra:
How-to: Turning LED notifications off

Go to: Settings > CM Settings > Interface > LED Notifications > Miscellaneous

Select the app you want to change (for example GMail)

Select flash color > None

That's it. Gmail won't bother you by turning the lights on anymore.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android158:
nevermind i figured it out
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhostetter:
Can someone direct me to information regarding how the LED notifications work?

I'm trying to determine if the notifications can blink. I use BLN and having the notification blink helps catch my eye. I've tried several times to search the forum but doesn’t seem to be available today.

Any info would be appreciated.

edit: BTW, I set the pulse rate to 2 (Fast) but nothing seems to happen.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightwanderer:
Quick questions about the 5.1 sound, I noticed since flashing that it's not there for either the music app and the video player. The search function is not available so if this was addresses somewhere else I apologize. Is this a function that is not available and coming in future updates?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
LED notifications do not work with neldar's BLN app, they are two entirely different methods. LED notifications work with the built in CMParts.apk

AOSP/CM7 does not support 5.1 surround sound.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cumanzor:
Sup guys,

Now that CMW3 is available on Samsung ROMs, is there an easier way to flash CM7?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
the biggest obstacle has always been access to recovery mode without 3 button. CWM3 is only a part of the equation. fortunately, through some tricky methods, recovery may be accessible without 3 button thanks to Unhelpful (but not download mode, that'll still require 3 button, so you still shouldn't try to install without it). the important thing is using a kernel that supports MTD and since none of the other recoveries do, they still can't be used. Flashing the initial kernel will most likely still remain as it's the only kernel that supports MTD for SGS (it's the exact same how every other phone must flash a custom recovery, ours just happens to be integrated into our kernel, unlike most phones). also CM7 kernel doesn't know BML so it can't get the /efs partition to do a backup without flashing another kernel (like speedmod)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zheka1:
why can't the camera zoom in? i tried downloading camera 360, and it says that the phone does not support zoom feature.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
because we hate zooming. things should only be seen from really far away.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zheka1:
lol, that's true, but if I want to zoom only a lil bit. was that disabled in CM7? Anyway to re-enable it?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
camera is still very much work in progress. until stated otherwise, consider it almost useless.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zuN!:
I have this exact same problem with sending and receiving MMS, nothing goes through nor can I download any received ones. I've searched both CM7 threads and a solution to this has not been addressed (apparently logcats have already been uploaded as well :p). After figuring out how to actually receive/download MMS, is there anyway to have it appear in the messaging app (as it was in the Samsung ROM)?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhernand1102:
Mine appear in the messaging app and I can long press and save them too.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zuN!:
Did you change any settings for your MMS or was it perfectly fine after flashing CM7?

I tried changing the SMSC information through *#*#4636#*#* but that stopped any kind of messaging from working.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt310:
I'm having this issue too. Any idea why the 3D/rotation has gone missing?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zheka1:
is there a setting I can change, to turn the screen on when i get notification (SMS). i cant find it anywhere
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
If you look back a few pages (or look at my past posts, or do a search) you can find an area on this thread that discusses the SMSC. I found the SMSC for AT&T and used a web site to get the hashed value. I also verified the hashed value with a friend with an un-modded captivate. You will need to find out what the SMSC for Rogers is, then get the hashed value to enter into your SMSC.

You could also drive to a retailer that sells i896's and type *#*#4636#*#* into the dialer to see what that phone is set for and then copy that value.

Alternatively, you can use a different phone and set the un-hashed SMSC through that phones messaging interface.

For anyone on AT&T, refer to this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13435326&postcount=5312
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prayii:
I seem to have lost the ability to tether since the 5/1 update.

USB tethering and wireless tethering both don't work.

I can enable them and connect to the phone, but no internet.

Internet works fine on the phone even with the tethering turned on.

Anyone else?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
no

logcats/dmesg or it didn't happen/nobody cares.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnorthington:
It still baffles me that you guys can put out (an even better) version of stock gingerbread despite the limitations of having to work around the Samsung crap - and for free. It's sad how many people knowingly (or naively) live with a stock ROM. Thanks for all your hard work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alrit:
THX for the awesome release.

Q:

Is an Advanced Task Killer(ATK) recommended for helping with battery life?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
You can try - usually linux is good enough to handle process management itself so you don't actually need it. Battery eating right now has to do with our sleep modes - this update has some of the fixes we think are required for battery. Let's see what other people's experience is.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Does anyone use LCDDensity? I don't know if its just an issue I'm experiencing or if anyone else is.. I set the density to 185 and apply restart... just bootloops. I've had to do battery pulls and again after phone booted I tried again.. same thing. I'm just curious if its just happening to me. I've used this app for all the updates, so that's why it's got me wondering:rolleyes:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jangeles323:
I drained my battery so i can recalibrate it. At first it would turn on with the charger plugged in. But then it would turn off cause it thinks i'm not charging it. So now i have a phone that won't turn on anymore yet alone charge. But the good side is i can get it into download mode. But as of right now it won't get into download mode since I think my battery is completely dead. Should i buy a new battery and see if i can fix it or try to replace it but i bought my phone from amazon and i don't want to go through samsung and wait a week for it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bulletproof1013:
any risk if any, of flashing CM7 while on i9000/perception/gb bootloaders Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
You'll get some weird behavior at boot and your sdcards may not work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernan078:
im experincing bootloop when flashing the newest update (05/04)...:(

edit: nevermind, i think it was a bad flash, the phone booted up!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cesierra:
How do I add reboot recovery to the power button menu?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
You are making a false assumption that CM and AOSP are supposed to work the way that Samsung's Android builds work. Most Android phones do not have an extra 16 GB of built in memory in which to store applications. Instead, applications are stored in the primary NAND memory of the phone and any "extra" memory is in the form of a user installed SD card. This is the reason that Google added the move to SD card option to Froyo, to allow people to move applications out of the NAND and onto a larger (and slower) storage device.

In short, CM is designed to work on many Android devices, including phones such as the Nexus 1 and even the original G1 that do not have any built in memory besides the primary NAND. Samsung is the only vendor I am aware of that redirects where applications are installed by default to a location other than NAND (I have not used every brand of android phone, so there may be other vendors doing the same thing).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
package manager installs to /data, that's just what it does. our /data partition is assigned to that 2GB partition you're talking about. I have never once had it run out of space like that nor have I seen it ignore the /data partition. to be quite honest, it seems something is wrong with your phone as I have never heard this issue happening to anyone and all apps have been installed to /data since this ROM existed.

edit: should add, if you'd like, you should attack a logcat and dmesg of attempting to install an app so we can *try* and see if there's some bug, but I really don't see why it would be trying to install to system instead of data
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
It's already there. Hit the "Reboot" option and it will pop up another menu.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drkangel09:
I've lost the ability to recieve MMS messages. I can send and recieve SMSs just fine. This first started with the 0501 release, and remains with the 0504 release. I am on AT&T, and verified my SMSC number as in http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13435326&postcount=5312 ... it shows up correctly.

Any logs or other info I can provide for tracking this down? (Or, perhaps, something else I can do to fix it?)

EDIT: Note that I always remove my SIM before flashing an update, so the SIM wasn't in the phone for either the 0501 or 0504 flashes.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
I am wondering IF those with SMS mms issues all pulled out the similar card? Not sure if that would cause it to lose it though. I have been LAZY and haven't pulled out my sim or external SD card since almost the beginning of using CM7 and I have not had any issues with basically ANYTHING. I would say it has been 100% bug free for me (not counting the camera since I know it is not a bug but I do miss the 720p and 5MP).

Maybe you can try something for testing this. Put your similar in another phone and get the SMS mms issues refreshed on it. Then plug it back in your Cappy and leave it in. Reflash the newest nightly and see if it helps. MAYBE while flashing it looks for that to copy over since these are NO WIPE versions or something. Just my thoughts and what I would try.

Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.4Ghz/Undervolted
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmwenger:
Sound Settings

Please pardon the sheer stupidity of this question, I set the equalizer and some other sound setting and then seem to have promptly forgotten where they are. If someone could point me in the right direction, my ears will be forever in your debt! I managed to set the sound to a level where any volume showing on the bar is almost too loud to listen to through headphones in my office.

To the developers...Thank you. I have been looking forward to CyanogenMod coming to this phone ever since I got it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techmik67:
I think you are looking for the DSPmanager app..... its there..... :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmwenger:
Thank you. I was thinking it changed in the settings but spent 30 minutes looking for it!:rolleyes:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InfDaMarvel:
Is this still a beta?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] betadan:
Very much so
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HaiKaiDo:
I asked these questions after I had installed CM7 with no problem, on my own. They were simply precautionary questions, just things that i was trying to understand better as to how things worked. I have a very fast and stable install. I suppose thanks for answering all my questions even if it was just to tell me AGAIN than im stupid. Im glad most people in development scenes dont act like this because then no one would learn anything. Creative exploration and asking questions just for the sake absorbing more knowledge is a wonderful thing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
we are more than fine with answering questions, it's that the question you asked had been answered and you continued to ask it. the only thing we asked of you was to "read the thread to find the appropriate link" which, it seems now, was asking too much of you. we have been amicable and friendly to everyone who has a legitimate question, and welcome user input. it's that, when pointed toward the right answer, you just ignored it and continued on until someone was going to spoon-feed you the answer. and then now you continue to be rude to both me and atinm (the one who is responsible for taht "super speedy ROM" you have).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zuNcHAN:
To break the tension,

Considering that the JVE modem out there is from the leaked i9000 gingerbread source (i may be wrong about that), has this been considered as a modem for CM7 use?

Does Busy Box installer work for anyone? Also, Root Explorer doesn't work for me, it FCs after it said it's been granted su permissions
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
When an update is released is it sequential, meaning you need to flash prior to get to next?

Although I am fine with the battery life, outside of disabling, wifi are there any options in cm7 settings that can be used to improve on it?

Thanks in advance. Love this rom, can't see going back
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 7h3kk1d:
Anyone having the device restart without pressing anything
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Are you on wifi, did you set sleep policy to never
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
They are not sequential - once you're already on CM7, you can just jump to the latest update to CM7.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
root explorer works fine for me, and JVE modem behaves exactly the same as a froyo modem. supposedly it has the 850 MHz band enabled as well, but it shouldn't provide any noticeable difference.

once on CM7, you can always go to any update (you could potentially wait a month and still be fine)

if wifi is set to sleep off, phone may reboot
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ovniufo:
I don't find the option to join a contact to a facebook profile.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emcnelly:
Probably a dumb question but what is the RIL polling issue I'm just curious what it has to do with I can't seem to find anything about it? Sorry if this has been answered...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 7h3kk1d:
It happens whether wifi is on or not. How do you change it to sleep off.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Settings, wireless, wifi, menu, advanced, wifi sleep policy
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lethoncbon:
Clock with Smart alarm

Hi all,

I'm not sure I'm posting in the right thread but there is something I'm missing from Cognition Rom : in the clock app, there was a smart alarm function that provides another alarm scheduling 5, 10,15 minutes before the actual alarm (with nice and progressive volume sounds). Any idea if it's something that can be added to Cyanogen rom or if I can get it somewhere?

Thanks a lot, this ROM really rocks ! :)

Cheers.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
when phone first powers on, no connection to network (put it to sleep and wake it up and it's fine)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
there are plenty of alarm clock apps in the marketplace. the app you are describing is a samsung app and will not be included in CM ROM's (though I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it worked in this because most of the resources for that file are actually inside it and don't call to tw-framework), but you're on your on for finding it and testing it (and don't complain if it doesn't)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roof King:
Actually it's not there for me. When I hit reboot, it simply reboots with no popup options offered.

That said, I have tried rebooting into recovery from Rom Manager and it works perfectly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkrick:
I have been lazy and left my SIM card and SD card in my phone every time I flash (with the exception of the initial). I did have to re-enter my SMSC, though I would not swear that I didn't cause the issue myself. I may have hit "update" the the first time I opened the info menu and the SMSC was blank instead of first hitting refresh. I honestly don't remember. I do know that when I did first hit refresh, the value I saw was "00."
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drkangel09:
I went ahead and blanked it out and re-entered it, still can't retrieve my waiting MMSs. Guess I'll try to track down another phone and see if I can do anything useful with that, although it seems fairly unlikely that anything is wrong on the SIM.

Loving the ROM overall ... yay debugging. :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atinm:
Are you sure you are running 5/4? You hold the power button, menu pops up, with one choice being Reboot with a circle arrow, click that and no popup?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cesierra:
I found how to enable it. Go to cm setting > interface > power prompt
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roof King:
That does the trick. I always kept the "power prompt" off in the past but working as it should now with it enabled.

Thanks for the response guys!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matty1whit:
so am i able to flash javalen kernal to this rom?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
if you want an outdated kernel that is missing a ton of improvements, sure. just don't expect the majority of things to work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEscapist:
Or boot up. There is at least 3 up to date kernels for the captivate, including mine.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smeltn:
So having the problem with the flucuating battery % running 5.4 for some reason.

I also started having a problem with double contacts showing up. Anyone know how I can get rid of double contacts? I can't seem to find the option to show sim contacts or all contacts or anything .
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEscapist:
Are you using anything other than the stock kernel?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smeltn:
Kernel version:

2.6.35.7-02808-g13ab6f4

atin@waltest9-ma #1

That the default kernel?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEscapist:
Yup. I had a theory, but it doesn't work if you're running the default kernel.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swimomatic:
I wish it'd be more known that the bricked symbol is a joke, seriously made me restore my backup... twice now.. until I realized that I wasn't messing up and that it was just a little bit of humor being implemented into a kernel... well done.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rivera151:
I used to turn the phone off so that it would charge quicker. With this rom, however, I can't turn it off and charge it since as soon as I plug in the usb cable, the phone powers on. Is this a known issue? Other than that, I'm enjoying this very much. Thanks for a great rom.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Yup..been known since day 1.. its in the Q's and A's
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gsr168:
I have a problem, when I insert my external SD card after the cm7 install. the phone tells me blank SD. if I format it formats, my internal sdcard and not my external. but without my external SD card its fine. doesn't show up as blank SD.

thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
hey guys.. I'm trying to install the nexus s drivers so i can use adb. I've followed the directions for installing them: : Download and install the Android SDK here then download "Google USB Driver package, revision 4"

Once downloaded, right click on "Computer", "Manage", "Device Manager", "Nexus S", "Update Driver Software", and point it to wherever you isntalled the SDK.

I get to "update driver software" and when i search for drivers i get "windows could not find drivers for your device"

when i try to update again and choose "browse my computer for driver software", the best place I know to look is in where I have SDK tools.. so i choose android sdk windows folder and then i have platform tools and all those.. but now im way past the point that the directions end at. I've tried just selecting the c drive and i still get "cannot find drivers".

**the one thing I can get is if I choose "browse from my comp", then choose "let me pick from a list of drivers on my computer" ... if I go in there and choose "ADB interface" it actually scans and I get 2 devices both the same; SAMSUNG Android Composite ADB interface. If i choose one i get warnings saying if my driver is not compatable my hardware will not work correctly and my computer might become unstable or stop working completely:eek: .. so im guessing that's not the one to click on. Its the only one that actually renders options for drivers:rolleyes:

Any help?:)

*EDIT* .... GOT IT>> :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] littlewierdo:
"You are making a false assumption that CM and AOSP are supposed to work the way that Samsung's Android builds work. Most Android phones do not have an extra 16 GB of built in memory in which to store applications. Instead, applications are stored in the primary NAND memory of the phone and any "extra" memory is in the form of a user installed SD card. This is the reason that Google added the move to SD card option to Froyo, to allow people to move applications out of the NAND and onto a larger (and slower) storage device.

In short, CM is designed to work on many Android devices, including phones such as the Nexus 1 and even the original G1 that do not have any built in memory besides the primary NAND. Samsung is the only vendor I am aware of that redirects where applications are installed by default to a location other than NAND (I have not used every brand of android phone, so there may be other vendors doing the same thing)."

Actually, Im well aware of this. Regardless of what CM is 'designed' to do (working with the majority of all phones), it doesn't make any sense.

Based on your statement, CM is doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing, installing apps into the primary 'nand' partition of the phone. Except, if CM is 'designed' to do this, why is the 2 GB partition specifically designed for apps staying behind when CM is installed? There are two possible answers for this. The first is, the CM folks couldn't be bothered to mention in the instructions to merge the 2 GB partition into the 'extra' 13 GB partition (and thus decided that the 2 GB of extra space should not be used at all by the phone which is a absurd). The second is, this is an oversight.

I freely admit that I am having trouble figuring out how to get this to function correctly. I have two Samsung Cappies in my possession. One is stock CM with the latest nightly (5/3 if I recall) that has been master cleared and only contains the apps contained in the Gapps list and I am unable to update Google maps because I receive the following error:

"Sorry, there's not enough space to install this item." The box is titled Google Maps and has one 'OK' button.

My second cappy has the same problem but it has additional apps installed that I was using for testing.

There is a problem with this and it isnt just me. In fact, doing a google search lead me to this thread where on page 4 I believe (sorry, dont have a post number but I can get it shortly), it was mentioned that this is an old bug CM has had crop up once in a while.

This is what I was hoping to avoid. Please dont ask me to make sure my phone is plugged in...