Hey everyone, first off I understand that flashing a rom built for another device is asking for trouble or a soft-brick, in where odin would come into play however being that these I9000 roms which have been ported to the Captivate have already been modified, how difficult would it be to port a ported rom to the Vibrant. Is this even unheard of? Insight would be very much appreciated... Thanks!
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In theory it should not be hard. You would need a re-oriented kernel for the vibrant though. As well as a modem that works with the vibrant. Basically I can take just about any i9000 rom unpack the zip, replace the kernel and modem, repack, flash. The re-oriented kernel fixes issues with the buttons not matching. If rhett are none for the vibrant then I would say no. there are no i9000 ports on vibrant? If there are you can likely steal the kernel from that rom zip drop it into the rom of your choosing.
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Well the only recently ported rom out there soft reboots sporadically for an undetermined reason... I scour these Captivate fourms (the wife has a Captivate) and can't help but realize the development here has seen some huge strides in way of porting roms...
I am planning on trying something soon then to see if I can make progress... Just wanted to see if I could pick some brains...
Thanks again!
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If you flash an i9000 ROM/Kernel untouched on the Captivate it will boot/work just fine, but the screen is rotated 90 degrees, the home/back button are incorrect, and bluetooth/sound are messed up.
I imagine it would be similar on a Vibrant.
Yeah I am wondering now how I could obtain a reoriented kernel for the Vibrant.. Kernel development for the Vibrant seems to be slow at this point....
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battlekry said:
Hey everyone, first off I understand that flashing a rom built for another device is asking for trouble or a soft-brick, in where odin would come into play however being that these I9000 roms which have been ported to the Captivate have already been modified, how difficult would it be to port a ported rom to the Vibrant. Is this even unheard of? Insight would be very much appreciated... Thanks!
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You mean you wait until you get a soft brick before resorting to using Odin? Blasphemy!
Lol, you know what I mean!
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It looks like the buttons are the same. Maybe the Captivate kernel would work. I'd give it a shot, but you never know what would happen.
Odin is such a nice luxury.
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Yeah I am wondering now how I could obtain a reoriented kernel for the Vibrant.. Kernel development for the Vibrant seems to be slow at this point....
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eugene373 already did this with xcaliburinhand's help https://github.com/barakinflorida/Vibrant-open
i9000 and captivate have 90 degree rotation issue, keymapping differences, and bluetooth issues
i9000 and vibrant have same orientation, but GPS and keymapping differences.
9 times out of 10, "porting" an i9000 ROM to another SGS device would just require replacing the zImage with a "reoriented" one as long as they have the same functionality.
Yep, I am working up the courage to try something...
Thanks for the input!
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on the epic and I am wondering 2 things. It seems as if every i9000 rom works as they are both GSM and have identicle hardware. Is this true? Also, what are the current bugs with cm6?
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This its the captivate section. We are able to use i9000 roms because of reoriented kernels. I an not sure about your device
I am talking about the captivate...
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Flash any rom you want in i9000 forum. Just requires a kernel change and possibly a modem as well depending on what is packaged.
Quick and simple: Is there anything for I9000M that emulates Voodoo's sharpness fix for his 2.2 kernel on Gingerbread? This is the main thing stopping me from switching over.
Thanks!
Well if you have used speedmod for froyo and like the sharpness fix it uses then you can try out the testing version of speedmod for gingerbread here. Be aware that it's in early development so it still has a way to go.
Great, thanks for the info!
Hardcores kernel is for international i9000..so it might not work with i9000M..or maybe it does, but atleast you now know this
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Kurre said:
Hardcores kernel is for international i9000..so it might not work with i9000M..or maybe it does, but atleast you now know this
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They work. A lot of M users use it with no problems.
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They work. A lot of M users use it with no problems.
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Good to know I only had information which was written to hardcores kernel topic (...only international i9000 is supported, or something like that).
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I wanted to test out some 19000 roms. so i installed the 19000 reoriented kernel and loaded Juwe's Smart Edition V.5 Rom and Darky's Extreme Edition v10.1 Rom. I noticed that they are very lagy, is this normal because i have a captivate trying to run a 19000 rom? Has anyone else tried the 19000 roms on there captivate? Have you had the lagging?
Thanks!
Personally I stay away from the 19000 ROMs because they're obviously created for I9000 phones.
Go with anything Team Phoenix makes and you'll be happy!
Nearly every rom on the forum is based on a i9000 build including team phoenix
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Yeah, but don't they edit them for our Captivates?
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True , there will be references to options or phone does not possess
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Haven't had any major problems running I9000 roms. Little things like the SGS camera app being built for a front-facing camera phone but nothing major. Cappy's are essentially the same anyway just in a different package...
None the less he use I9000 roms that have been modified for Captivate not pure i9000 roms. The biggest difference between I9000 roms and I897 is I897 have the audio chip support (i9000 dont) but I9000 have Hsupa support. Well thats what Ive noticed.
But a 1900 rom would not load and would probably brick our phones without being modded for captivates. so thats as close as captivates can get to an 1900
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But a 1900 rom would not load and would probably brick our phones without being modded for captivates. so thats as close as captivates can get to an 1900
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that statement is not entirely true. You can have an unmodded I9000 ROM running on captivate, but screen orientation will go places, home will act as back button etc But pure I9000 roms cannot brick your phone
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that statement is not entirely true. You can have an unmodded I9000 ROM running on captivate, but screen orientation will go places, home will act as back button etc But pure I9000 roms cannot brick your phone
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Exactly, all you need to add on top of a i9000 rom is a reoriented kernel if you want the buttons and orientation to be proper.
And if you bring Gingerbread into the picture, your talking about new bootloaders.
Hi there,
What is the best rom I can use that will make my captivate phone look like a galaxy s2 ?
Is there some kind of port rom or custom rom?
Thanks.
SaHiLzZ said:
Hi there,
What is the best rom I can use that will make my captivate phone look like a galaxy s2 ?
Is there some kind of port rom or custom rom?
Thanks.
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There are all sorts of custom ROMs and many of them are themed at least a little. I would poke around the forums, both in the stickies above in this forum and in the developers's one, look at screen shots (usually in the first post of the thread), and find one that suits your fancy.
Any particular suggestions?
If you want to run an sgs2 rom itself, there's an sgs2 port for the i9000. It's called hawkish. To run it, all you need is to flash a reoriented kernel (talon, dark core, xcal, etc.) and edit the key layout. I made a thread a while back if you're interested.
Hawkish already has its own captivate thread, but it hasn't been updated in forever...
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b-eock said:
Hawkish already has its own captivate thread, but it hasn't been updated in forever...
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Yeah that's why I'm saying just do my method
Thanks! Any other suggestions for roms that are for captivate itself?
I wonder how hard it would be to port the AOKP to the captivate. I got a chance to play with it on the facinate and it was very nice with a ton of customization.
I see it is already on the i9000. Now correct me if I'm wrong but I thought I read somewhere that any i9000 rom could be used on the crappy you just had to replace the kernel. I could be wrong anybody?
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I wonder how hard it would be to port the AOKP to the captivate. I got a chance to play with it on the facinate and it was very nice with a ton of customization.
I see it is already on the i9000. Now correct me if I'm wrong but I thought I read somewhere that any i9000 rom could be used on the crappy you just had to replace the kernel. I could be wrong anybody?
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Isn't one already out there? I didn't replace the kernel until recently, I would suggest not to change the kernel. Had better battery life until i recently changed the kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1499730
AOKP Rom
I've been running that ROM for a few days and I love it. It still seems so great to be able to run Ice Cream Sandwich on my Capitivate!
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There is an official vibrant build here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1512518
To use on cappy you can follow vibranturk's guide here and it will work wonders:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1502711
Using this method, I'm running latest vibrantmtd with Icy Glitch on my cappy and it's great.