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[Q] noob needing help to root a 2.2 flashed captivate

Hi guys.
I have my captivate running froyo. that's about all I know, though. I was hoping someone could tell me what rom I am running or distro I am running, because I am clueless. I have heard cognition is good, and if I can update to it without losing all my settings I will (assuming I dont have it now. I could, like i said, clueless.). Here is what my phone says in the about phone section:
Firmware version: 2.2
Model number SAMGSUNG-SGH-I897
Baseband version: I897UCJI6
Kernel version: 2.6.32.9 jetaek.lee(at)sep-11 #1 (sorry for wording it this way, i could not post the topic with the at symbol because it thought it was an outside link)
Build Number: FROYO.UCJI6
ok, that's everything I think. Now, if someone can help me root this version, that's just dandy. If not, I would be willing to update to one that has a viable root availible for it already. I had eclair rooted before updating to froyo, and I miss my wifi tethering and backups.
Thank you in advance to anyone who offers help, I greatly appreciate it.

Hey I'm sorry I can't really help you, but I'm running the eclair rooted and I've been trying to get wifi tethering working but it just force closes everytime. If you could let me know how you were able to do it or point me in the right direction I'd be forever grateful.
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You are on the original leak of froyo. I am not sure how to root it. If I were you I would back up all my apps using titanium backup, flash stock with odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
Then look at flashing a 2.2 rom that us pre rooted
You can not flash a rom from the leaked version you are on
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4got2g0 said:
Hey I'm sorry I can't really help you, but I'm running the eclair rooted and I've been trying to get wifi tethering working but it just force closes everytime. If you could let me know how you were able to do it or point me in the right direction I'd be forever grateful.
Sent from my rooted Cappy.
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Flash any froyo rom and you should have tethering enabled
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4got2g0 said:
Hey I'm sorry I can't really help you, but I'm running the eclair rooted and I've been trying to get wifi tethering working but it just force closes everytime. If you could let me know how you were able to do it or point me in the right direction I'd be forever grateful.
Sent from my rooted Cappy.
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Unfortunately i do not remember exactly where I got the app, but I do remember that I had to sideload it using an application for windows

mcord11758 said:
If I were you I would back up all my apps using titanium backup,
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correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought titanium required root?

iamtheculprit said:
correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought titanium required root?
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hmmmm... So it does.
Here is a thread about rooting ji6
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=797444&highlight=root+ji6
I have not done This
Here is another
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=797397&highlight=root+ji6
Hope this helps
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mcord11758 said:
hmmmm... So it does.
Here is a thread about rooting ji6
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Fantastic! You sir/madam are my digital savior!

iamtheculprit said:
Fantastic! You sir/madam are my digital savior!
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Sir, your welcome
The search option is useful, not being a jerk, it is worth learning how to use it
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mcord11758 said:
Sir, your welcome
The search option is useful, not being a jerk, it is worth learning how to use it
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no offense taken, my reason for making a new thread was because I did not what version I was using, and therefore could not sort out what information was applicable. But, either way, thanks!

With a triumphant thrusting of both fists in to the air, losing my balance in my chair and falling to the ground upon seeing the little "superuser permissions" app after reboot, you have my eternal gratitude. Thank you so much!
Edit: oh crap... now my menu, home, back and search buttons do not work! any idea what I can do to fix this?

Not a problem. I am happy it worked out
edit. Try reboot. If that don't work an odin flash will do it but you will lose apps and settings
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mcord11758 said:
Not a problem. I am happy it worked out
edit. Try reboot. If that don't work an odin flash will do it but you will lose apps and settings
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dernit. It did not work. well, at least i got it rooted, it's a good start. maybe i can figure it out

What did you do. it will suck but if you take your time you can get through. I would work toward getting titanium downloaded. You nasty have to reboot a couple of times.
I would get off of ever leaked froyo either way, if you are ever going to move to something else you will have to flash stock
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mcord11758 said:
What did you do. it will suck but if you take your time you can get through. I would work toward getting titanium downloaded. You nasty have to reboot a couple of times.
I would get off of ever leaked froyo either way, if you are ever going to move to something else you will have to flash stock
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im thinking I'm just going to go back to eclair, and root. I could do everything i wanted to on that, except for having flashplayer. so yeah. I guess, since all my contacts are synced with my gmail account, it's no big deal. i can re-do my home page and reinstall my apps thanks to appbrain. I mean, after all, it's just a phone.

That is correct. It is just a phone. If you are at all unfamiliar with odin our ned help getting back to 2.1 on me
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before I start counting my chickens, let me wait for them to hatch. I've been following the directions for flashing back to 2.1, so i'll let you know how it goes.
Edit: It worked, now I just have to set up everything and re-install my apps. Thank you for your help, I'm just taking the "patience is a virtue" approach from now on haha. only thing I will really miss is the little arrow thing that makes it easier to pick a spot in a body of text. oh well

There is a basic no frills froyo rom in the developement section. I believe its ji6 optimized or something like that. It comes with 2e recovery and root access built in. Sorry I just log off my computer otherwise I would post you links. But backup with tibu. And take a look at that rom in the developement section. You will need rom manager from the market. But after downloading ji6 optimized,copy to your internal sd card. Then open rom manager and select install rom from zip. Select the froyo rom and follow instructions. You will then have a rooted froyo minus att bloat with flash.
I would give more detail but I have thumb cramps now lol. But tomorrow I can help if u need it.

New Froyo 2.2 from ATT?!

Has anyone found out how to root the official release from ATT without having to flash? Before I upgraded I had my phone rooted by simply dropping a ZIP file in the sd file root and reinstalling all packages thus installing it. Is there a way similar to this for the new release?
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how many f##king threads need to be started for this?
this was fixed months ago with the REAL froyo. not this att crap.
modded 3e recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909213

Trusselo said:
how many f##king threads need to be started for this?
this was fixed months ago with the REAL froyo. not this att crap.
modded 3e recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909213
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Sorry didn't see it :/ but thanks for the help next time I need to lurk more
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No worries. I just did the linked modified 3e recovery last night & it worked like a charm. Try SuperOneClick for rooting, as that worked perfectly the 1st time for me as well (running stock, rooted KB1): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
Good luck!

I tried that but couldn't get it to work but I think its because I have no internet for my computer..
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Well I got it working the superoneclick did a great job at first it stopped at the connection with phone I fixed it by checking my drivers and reinstalling all drivers and checked abd it worked after that so woot but thanks for the help everyone!
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JI6 to KB1?

Is the upgrade from JI6 possible? Anyone tried yet?
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I know this is off subject but what method did u use to root...ive tried several ways but nothing took. I have the superuser ninja app but when i open it the app force closes...any sugestions?
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Superoneclick does it all
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JohnJr2233 said:
Superoneclick does it all
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I agree. Superoneclick is the best option IMO

I used Z4root but i got to 2.2 and used superoneclick its amazing

ryanmahan said:
Is the upgrade from JI6 possible? Anyone tried yet?
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Can't happen. Just flash to JF6 then run kies mini to get KB1
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RaGInGBuFfAlO said:
I know this is off subject but what method did u use to root...ive tried several ways but nothing took. I have the superuser ninja app but when i open it the app force closes...any sugestions?
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Superoneclick works alright. I've heard it doesn't root official KB1 yet. I could be wrong Cuz I think the official KB1 is garbage. If you want KB1 then flash cognition.
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No, I've heard that SuperOneClick is pretty much the "only" way it'll root the official 2.2 KB1.

Ok, I upgraded with kies, and got kb1( uckb1), and I rooted with superoneclick (1.7). No problem at all, but I did use a computer running windows 7.
About ji6. There is now an Odin for UCJI6 (i think it is one click, but not sure). I found the link somewhere in the forum,i don't have it handy.
If I find link, will post.

venomio said:
Yeap, you should be fine to use any of these ODIN files.
2.1 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SBSMALFJ
2.2 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QL6NX702
If you need instructions, just yell again
I would probably recommend the 2.2 one (if you're not going to flash any custom ROMs).
If you are thinking of custom ROMs, then I recommend going to 2.1.
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Many thanks to Venomio for these links. He supplied them to me in the course of another problem I had.

Hah funny story
so here is a funny story,
so I flashed using odin back to jf6 and then used kies mini to get to kb1, but halfway through the upgrading process the kies mini force closed and my phone was semi-bricked. I sent it into samsung. it came back, same cosmetic wear, ENTIRE inside of the phone was replaced

Wow. What build number is your Cappy now then?

They sent me one with kb1
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[MOD]KB1-Stock-Cognition 4.1.1 No Clock In Notification Bar 3/15/11

Thanks to SwiftJudgement and his thread I was able to get this to work for the KB1 release. I will be updating this as I add more of his mods to the files.
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any damage flashing this mod will cause to your phone. You do this at your own risk.
These are CWM flashable files.
No Clock In Notification Bar
Remove Mods - This will put everything back the way it was. Just in case something goes wrong.

Tritan88 said:
Thanks to SwiftJudgement and his thread I was able to get this to work for the KB1 release. I will be updating this as I add more of his mods to the files.
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any damage flashing this mod will cause to your phone. You do this at your own risk.
These are CWM flashable files.
No Clock In Notification Bar
Remove Mods - This will put everything back the way it was. Just in case something goes wrong.
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This broke the modem on my Captivate with Cognition 4.1.1. It boots up with no clock as advertised but I have no service and won't detect the sim card.

CB650 Wolf said:
This broke the modem on my Captivate with Cognition 4.1.1. It boots up with no clock as advertised but I have no service and won't detect the sim card.
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Again, thanks a lot! It saved me from breaking mine. How do you restore your modem? Just wanted to know so if I ever encounter this problem I can get back on track
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antonyvijai said:
Again, thanks a lot! It saved me from breaking mine. How do you restore your modem? Just wanted to know so if I ever encounter this problem I can get back on track
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Oops. My bad. I see the revert mod in the post
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That is strange. I used this on my phone and did not have problems with the modem or service afterwards.
I will try to dig into a little more to see what is going on.
What Modem/Kernal are you using?

Wondering if this will work for me.
I am using AT&T 2.2 Froyo ROM with SuperCurio's KB1+Voodoo Kernel.
Would/Could this work on my phone?

This mod is based off the cognition 4.1.1 release from Design Gears. I have not done anything else with this.
I am running the supercurios KB1 kernal with voodoo and cwm and the stock modem right now. I honestly do not see any way in the code that the modem can be broken with the change I put in.
bobapunk said:
Wondering if this will work for me.
I am using AT&T 2.2 Froyo ROM with SuperCurio's KB1+Voodoo Kernel.
Would/Could this work on my phone?
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Not sure if this work on the stock rom or not. I have not looked at the stock services.jar yet.

bobapunk said:
Wondering if this will work for me.
I am using AT&T 2.2 Froyo ROM with SuperCurio's KB1+Voodoo Kernel.
Would/Could this work on my phone?
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If you try it, please post if it works or not!

Tritan88 said:
This mod is based off the cognition 4.1.1 release from Design Gears. I have not done anything else with this.
I am running the supercurios KB1 kernal with voodoo and cwm and the stock modem right now. I honestly do not see any way in the code that the modem can be broken with the change I put in.
Not sure if this work on the stock rom or not. I have not looked at the stock services.jar yet.
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Maybe it was a bad download. I'll redownload it and see what happens.
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Ok. I flashed this again.
Really long initial boot and tons of force closes but no message popped up to tell me what exactly it was. After the media scanner stopped and I went into the task manager and cleared the ram it stopped vibrating over and over again. I'll try a reboot and see what happens.
*EDIT still no good. I'm still getting force closes when using data network but not over wifi.
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That does not make any sense. upload your original services.jar file and I will compare it to the one i posted for download. Something has to be different.
CB650 Wolf said:
Ok. I flashed this again.
Really long initial boot and tons of force closes but no message popped up to tell me what exactly it was. After the media scanner stopped and I went into the task manager and cleared the ram it stopped vibrating over and over again. I'll try a reboot and see what happens.
*EDIT still no good. I'm still getting force closes when using data network but not over wifi.
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Tritan88 said:
That does not make any sense. upload your original services.jar file and I will compare it to the one i posted for download. Something has to be different.
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Here it is

I found the issue with your file. Here is the new file.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/a9n2r8xqwrjb8wd/KB1_Remove_Clock_Fixed.zip
It appears that something is different between my install of the rom and the stock install. Not sure how that happened but it did.
I will update the op with this link also.

bobapunk said:
Wondering if this will work for me.
I am using AT&T 2.2 Froyo ROM with SuperCurio's KB1+Voodoo Kernel.
Would/Could this work on my phone?
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Unless you have deodexed your rom it will not work. I also just found out that the services.jar file can change. The first file I posted was from my install and it did not work for CB650 Wolf but it worked fine for me. I just took the stock file from the cognition 4.1.1 download and applied the change to that one for the upload.
Thanks CB650 Wolf for help with this. Sorry it caused so many problems.

Sweet
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Tritan88 said:
Thanks CB650 Wolf for help with this. Sorry it caused so many problems.
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No problem. Thats why this is such a great community; we are all willing to test eachother's releases and not complain too much about bugs.

New file works great.

Tritan88 said:
This mod is based off the cognition 4.1.1 release from Design Gears. I have not done anything else with this.
I am running the supercurios KB1 kernal with voodoo and cwm and the stock modem right now. I honestly do not see any way in the code that the modem can be broken with the change I put in.
Not sure if this work on the stock rom or not. I have not looked at the stock services.jar yet.
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I've never heard of these changes breaking the modem. The problems he is describing are new to me as well.
The ROM has to be deodexed. So not it will not work on pure stock KB1.
EDIT: Should have read the second page.

Nice job
Edit: GREAT mod... BUT....i never realizes how much I used that little clock untill it was gone lol. But VERY nice mod
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SwiftJudgement said:
I've never heard of these changes breaking the modem. The problems he is describing are new to me as well.
The ROM has to be deodexed. So not it will not work on pure stock KB1.
EDIT: Should have read the second page.
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I actually found out that it was a kernel problem, not a problem with this file. If with the Cog kernel if you reboot while charging you run the chance of your phone not registering the sim card once it al boots up.

Root and Flashing.... need help please!

My girlfriend has the Captivate but is annoyed with how it runs. Buggy, laggy, battery etc. I told her she has 2 options, either get the official 2.2 update or have me put in Serendipity 6.3 for her. Problem she wants Serendipity but for whatever reason, she doesn't want me to root her... smh! Does an android phone need to be rooted in order to be flashed?
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It doesn't HAVE to be rooted, you can just put the clockwork recovery update.zip on sd card, reinstall packages twice and flash the rom
That being said...you would need to root before flashing to use titanium backup to backup all her stuffs. Also any custom rom will be rooted after the flash.
If she doesn't want root at all seems like shes going with the official update...

Thanks a million! Appreciate it!
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TheAggression said:
Thanks a million! Appreciate it!
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Remember to laugh at her when she decides she hates stock and doesn't mind rooting to get serendipity.

If she thinks 2.1 is laggy and buggy, her updating to 2.2 will be just the ticket you need for a green light on root and new rom.
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Please do a search next time as these issues are well covered in here.