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Rogers Captivate i896 - Stuck on AT&T World Phone?

I have the Rogers Captivate - SGH-i896. I was following a tutorial on enabling tethering on my phone (on maggadget) but something went really wrong. I got Odin3 working, but when my captivate restarted, it got the a screen with "AT&T World Phone" and froze. I unplugged my phone and restarted it, but everytime I restart my phone, it shows the "I896 Samsung" screen then stays on the "AT&T World Phone" screen and doesn't do anything else.
I can still restart to go into download mode.
Have I just killed my phone? Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can get my phone back up?

flash another rom with Odin

would you point me to a good tutorial for that? thanks a bunch

Since you have download mode you are ok. You can get it back going using odin, but I am not aware of a Rogers-specific Odin flashable ROM.
I don't know what the 3-button combo situation is with the Rogers Captivate, but many AT&T Captivates lose it when flashed to stock, so I would not use the Odin one-click flasher on that phone, because if it disables download mode and doesn't work you'll be screwed. People are running the Cognition ROM on Rogers phones so you might try that. Beta 9.1.3 has an Odin flashable version. There is also an Odin version of the stock AT&T ROM with 3-button fix, which may work for you, at least temporarily.
If you get it to a point where you can install clockwork recovery on the phone, someone posted a nandroid backup of his Rogers phone here. (If you can get into recovery mode then you may be able to push a clockwork recovery to the phone via adb, e.g. "adb push update.zip /sdcard".) That backup hung my phone after the AT&T logo, but mine is an AT&T version and I ran the restore from a froyo build and I really don't know if one or both of those facts had anything to do with the failure.

What is "clockwork recovery"?
I will install the Cognition, thanks!

strawberrybanana said:
What is "clockwork recovery"?
I will install the Cognition, thanks!
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Sounds like a good plan. Clockwork recovery is an enhanced recovery mode that has added functions.

I tried installing Cognition, but Odin3 won't detect my phone, now. Any suggestions?

strawberrybanana said:
I tried installing Cognition, but Odin3 won't detect my phone, now. Any suggestions?
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Odin must be running before the phone is plugged in. Disconnect the phone from the computer. Start Odin (for some people right-clicking and running it as administrator is necessary to get it to work). Now put you phone in download mode by holding vol up+down and pluggin in the USB cable. It should detect in Odin.

f*ck yeah! cognition looks so good.
I read elsewhere that your browser sometimes interferes with Odin's detection of your phone. That was my case, thanks for your help <3

you can fix with odin but im not sure what you will need to do about unlocking, i read somewhere that people were haveing trouble with losing the unlock code after the froyo upgrade. it's not official so you may have trouble getting support from rogers or att. ive never unlocked a phone so i dont know what the details of doing so will be but i understand it is more common up in canada because of roaming charges.
there is are a few odin flashable att roms that can be rooted, clockwork mod recovery installed and a cognition eclair version can be used. id do a search of unlock threads on the forum first and see what people have to say about froyo if unlocking is something you are interested in.

I had the same thing. I disconnected the cable, held the power, v+ and V- buttons, the screen went blank and then released the volume buttons. Its all good now!

Now my phone is not detecting the 3g network. I think it has something to do with using at & t rom while on a rogers net work.any ideas?

strawberrybanana said:
Now my phone is not detecting the 3g network. I think it has something to do with using at & t rom while on a rogers net work.any ideas?
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You have to manually enter your Rogers APN from settings -> wireless networks -> mobile networks -> access point names. Search up "Rogers APN android" and I think it's the first one that pops up.

Yes, got it working. No need for my apartment internet connection now that I can use Mobile AP and USB Tethering!

Download mode not working...
I have the Rogers Captivate I896 and I'm still stuck on the situation where download mode does not work. This happened after I tried flashing one of the froyo firmwares for the I897 version of the phone.
Whenever I press the volume up and down buttons together and plug in the usb cable, only the battery icon shows greyed out with the loading circle. I've tried going into recovery mode pressing both buttons and the power button, the only thing that happens is the at&t welcome screen shows but keeps looping.
Is it possible that I bricked my phone? If so, would I be able to bring it back to Rogers even though it shows the at&t boot screen? I have bought the phone two weeks ago, so I'm still under the one moth warranty.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance

deadly0ne said:
I have the Rogers Captivate I896 and I'm still stuck on the situation where download mode does not work. This happened after I tried flashing one of the froyo firmwares for the I897 version of the phone.
Whenever I press the volume up and down buttons together and plug in the usb cable, only the battery icon shows greyed out with the loading circle. I've tried going into recovery mode pressing both buttons and the power button, the only thing that happens is the at&t welcome screen shows but keeps looping.
Is it possible that I bricked my phone? If so, would I be able to bring it back to Rogers even though it shows the at&t boot screen? I have bought the phone two weeks ago, so I'm still under the one moth warranty.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance
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IM at your EXACT situation.
CAN SOMEONE please help

DrunkenWonton said:
IM at your EXACT situation.
CAN SOMEONE please help
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This might help you get out of the situation.

hey_joe said:
This might help you get out of the situation.
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Hey, thanks for the link. I've read the instructions and it seems that the phone would still need to be able to get to the "PC ! Phone" logo. And I am not able to get to that on my phone.
I'll still try it, however, I don't have a spare micro usb with me at the moment. Does anyone have any alternative methods before I go through this?

deadly0ne said:
Hey, thanks for the link. I've read the instructions and it seems that the phone would still need to be able to get to the "PC ! Phone" logo. And I am not able to get to that on my phone.
I'll still try it, however, I don't have a spare micro usb with me at the moment. Does anyone have any alternative methods before I go through this?
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Based on my observation reading through that thread, as long as your phone powers up, there's a very good chance you can get it into download mode using the jig. The only time the jig doesn't work is when your phone's screen is completely blank no matter which which button you press.

If you have the phone connected to a usb cable and its rebooting wait till you hear the usb connected sound on your pc after the att logo screen, then send a "adb reboot recovery" or "adb reboot download" command and it will reboot and go into recovery or download mode. Usb debugging has to be enabled though.

[Q] Botched Gingerbread install

So, I went to install gingerbread on my captivate, ripped from the nexus s, but I accidentally flashed the wrong thing. now my phone turns on to the att logo, then it goes away, then about 20 seconds later it comes back. I have been looking for hours on how to get to download mode, and I think that somehow I crippled my chances of using the 3 button combo. I know how to use abd to get to download mode, and my computer shows that my phone is connected when I plug it in at the att logo, but, my PC thinks its a nexus s and it can't find drivers for it. I updated my SDK but it still wont find drivers. is there anyway to install nexus s drivers or to get my phone into download mode without a jig?

Just take the battery out and plug in usb cable while holding volume up and down. (I had the same problem until someone suggested this)

that didn't do anything. if it matters, my phone wont even get to the battery charging screen with the usb cable plugged in, the spinning circle thing comes up for about 2 seconds, goes away, then comes back but its frozen the whole time, nothing else happens. My PC still sees that its plugged in, but, like I said, it thinks its a nexus s, and wont install drivers :/
PS: as to exactly what happened, I forgot to do the voodoo lagfix before trying to install the gingerbread dump from the nexus s, so I got into download mode and went back to 2.1. it was right after that when I realized that my three button combo wasnt working, so I was going to fix that by updating the bootloader, but accidentally loaded nsongs.tar instead of the tar that would fix my download mode combo, so in Odin, I had phone bootloader update checked when I flashed that

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Just take the battery out and plug in usb cable while holding volume up and down. (I had the same problem until someone suggested this)
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i had a successful install.....but my problem came when trying to revert to stock.
PC wouldn't recognize device and for the first time ever i couldn't get into download mode using method above or a 3 button method that worked for me (a slight variation to method stated above).
Finally the following worked:
1. open odin 1-click JF6
2. remove battery (and any external sd) from phone
3. plug phone into pc via USB (without battery in phone)
4. Hold Vol + / - toggle down simultaneously.
5. While holding the buttons down insert the battery. When i did this my phone entered DL mode almost immediately and i was able to use odin to get back to stock.
build 1007

I'd try the above method to get into DL mode.. if that doesn't work you can try the JIG and see if that works.
But a requirement before flashing was to verify that your buttons worked on your phone.

the buttons were working, but I didn't have a lagfix installed. I flashed back to stock and noticed that my buttons weren't working after that. I went to fix them but flashed nsongs.tar by accident, and I had the "phone bootloader update" box checked, so I'm thinking thats why my buttons aren't working now. I've tried that method above a couple times and nothings happened...

Hmm.. you can try and update using the Nexus S USB drivers.. if they are different from ours that is .. go to that forum and poke around to look for them.
At this point.. can't hurt trying anything.

Where would I find the nexus s drivers? I installed the samsung mobile phone drivers, but my computer still says "found new hardware - nexus s" anytime I plug in, and it shows up in device manager with a big yellow question mark.

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I'd try the above method to get into DL mode.. if that doesn't work you can try the JIG and see if that works.
But a requirement before flashing was to verify that your buttons worked on your phone.
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same as the poster
when i did my install my buttons were working as well....i have the 1007 build and never had any problem getting to recovery or dl using 2-button and 3-button combo's.
After the gingerbread flash was a different story though. Luckily for me the method i posted almost like jumpstarted me into DL mode....when i did that it went into DL faster than it ever had with the normal methods....the DL screen popped up almost the instant the battery connectors hit.

yea, none of the methods I've found have gotten me into download mode. Is there anyway to get the nexus s drivers so I can do this through adb? I don't have a car so getting to radioshack to buy resistors is kinda hard :/

ok, so I updated my sdk again and it now I have the drivers installed, I can use adb now, but whenever I do, adb reboot download, it reboots, but not to download mode, i goes right back to the boot loop. I was wondering if there was anyway to push a new bootloader onto my cappy using adb. that would be awesome

[Q] Updating to Official Froyo Problem

I've been having many problems with updating my Captivate to Froyo using Samsungs' Kies Mini. I'm up to the point in where it downloads the new firmware, then when it's done it says that it cant be upgraded. My phone isn't rooted and I used Odin to return back to stock. Any ideas?

Check to make sure that usb debugging is enabled I just had the same problem and that fixed it
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Tried it, but still didn't work.
Edit:
Just thought I throw this out there, mounting it while in debugging mode doesn't work either.

You need to be in download mode at that point.
connect USB to Computer
remove battery from phone
replace battery
hold down both volume buttons
insert micro USB into phone
*Download Mode!*
Hope that helps.

I dont think you have to go into download mode. Kies doesn't recognize it.

clemmie knows what he's talking about. worked for me first time.

When would I go into download mode? And sorry for doubting you

when it tells you to.

The thing is when it's done downloading the update, it says that my phone cant be updated and to take out the battery, put it back in, and try again.

Hi:
I was wondering if there is anywhere that the update can be downloaded and then installed through Clockwork.
Thanks!

Master Clear on Odin not working
I have looked and have tried everything to get the Master Clear on Odin to revert to 2.1 and it doesnt work, anyone have any suggestions? I have been trolling the forums and still no such luck.

NickandBob said:
I have looked and have tried everything to get the Master Clear on Odin to revert to 2.1 and it doesnt work, anyone have any suggestions? I have been trolling the forums and still no such luck.
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master clear cannot revert your phone to 2.1 if you are on 2.2. you need to use odin to flash back.

I upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2 through Mini Kies, I must have missed some step or it is not updated completely.
On restart on the phone, it hangs at the Galaxy S startup screen. If have to press the Power button to bring up the HOME screen
Cannot connect to Market any longer
It is very slow as well
Steps used to update 2.2
Installed Mini Kies on my system
Upgrade option was used, SGH went into download mode, installed and restarted, but did nothing after that
I removed the battery inserted it back, also used the VOL buttons to go into DOWNLOAD mode
It did nothing in the download mode, had to remove the batter again and restart after waiting for a while
It shows FIRMWARE version as 2.2.
Have I missed any step, any suggestions?

[Q] After using an official update threw kies my phone wont start up HELP

when i plugged my phone into kies it offered me an update from 2.2 to 2.2.1 (PDA:JS5 / PHONE:JPY / CSC: JS4). i have rooted my phone before the update using Z4root and also installed voodoo lagfix using a one click installer which was on the market. after the update the phone went into recovery mode and on kies it said something like "disconnect and reconnect usb". i didnt do this and just clicked the reboot now option on recovery mode. and now my phone boots up but the OS does not start. the tmobile boot animation is no longer played, instead it is the (i am guessing) original galaxy s boot animation. after this animation the phone vibrates once, pauses and the vibrates 3 times. if i leave it on then it will do this continously. it used to do this while the phone worked on 2.2 and it ended up force closing whatever app i was using at that time. is it force closing the OS? i can no longer get into 3 button recovery mode even though i could before. i am going to try the ADK which i am new too and if it works and i get into recovery mode what should i do? factory reset? and if doesnt how can i get it to recovery mode?
i really want to get it working again thank you in advance to everyone.
UPDATE: i have tried the adk reboot recovery but it says device not found :S

kremo123 said:
when i plugged my phone into kies it offered me an update from 2.2 to 2.2.1 (PDA:JS5 / PHONE:JPY / CSC: JS4). i have rooted my phone before the update using Z4root and also installed voodoo lagfix using a one click installer which was on the market. after the update the phone went into recovery mode and on kies it said something like "disconnect and reconnect usb". i didnt do this and just clicked the reboot now option on recovery mode. and now my phone boots up but the OS does not start. the tmobile boot animation is no longer played, instead it is the (i am guessing) original galaxy s boot animation. after this animation the phone vibrates once, pauses and the vibrates 3 times. if i leave it on then it will do this continously. it used to do this while the phone worked on 2.2 and it ended up force closing whatever app i was using at that time. is it force closing the OS? i can no longer get into 3 button recovery mode even though i could before. i am going to try the ADK which i am new too and if it works and i get into recovery mode what should i do? factory reset? and if doesnt how can i get it to recovery mode?
i really want to get it working again thank you in advance to everyone.
UPDATE: i have tried the adk reboot recovery but it says device not found :S
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Your woes are probably because you didn't disable lagfix.
But don't worry - JS5 does not disable the 3-button modes or anything. Maybe you are just releasing the buttons at a wrong time (too early / too late)? See if you can get to download mode (Vol Dn - Power - Home). If yes, you can flash JS5 (or any other stock firmware) via Odin.

Try download mode never make customication without haveing them working!
If 3btn doesn't work built a jig then flash a FULL rom(3files +pit) using odin +repartition
Or if you want it super easy just flash darky resurrection (one file+ good rom)

Could try useind adb to grlet download mode theres guid on hear how to get three button combo useing adb
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA Premium App

colindodds said:
Could try useind adb to grlet download mode theres guid on hear how to get three button combo useing adb
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA Premium App
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Adb reboot download but i think it will not work if he can't connect adb....

Try hold volup+home+power and do a factory reset.

thanks everyone for helping me out however the 3tbn recovery/download mode is not working and to top it all of my internet provider cut my internet so i cant even research into this matter. this morning i turned the phone on and left for work i'll see what happened when i get home. all i really need to do is get my p.c to recognize the device so i could use adb/odin and that doesnt seem to work. i might end up having to buy/make a jig

you wouldnt beleive the luck i had. i sent my phone of for repairs to samsung while i waited for the parts to build a jig in hope that they wldnt b able to do anything and give me a new one and instead they fixed it. for free. im so happy

[Q] Frozen ATT boot screen, cant get into DL or Recovery mode! :confused:

Help, i may have bricked this thing. Tried to go from a 2.3.5 to ICS but couldn't get into recovery from the get go for some reason. Decided to DL Rom Manager to change the recovery but the option for Captivate wasn't listed in the flash options just nexus/ nexus 4g, epic 4g and i9000. I choose one of them. Which one i cant remember. Now phone wont go past att boot screen or the frozen battery screen when i plug in the usb. (no battery behind it just the star) after i use the jig without it booting, i plug in the usb to my pc and the screen will display the ATT boot screen instead of the battery screen for some reason, yet still no recognition in odin. I tried the 3 button, odin bat pull trick, adb, and jig with no success. Nothing will recognize it.
Any suggestions?
i897 - phone
win 7 x64 with VMware for linux

Go here... Captivate Connection Issues and Download Mode Help
And don't use the Rom Manager for the Captivate.

didnt work...........

Any other sugestions? I've tried everything on the list.