I've got a SGT7 here from a friend, and it's the TMobile version. I have CM9 on here right now and I'm currently messing with the CM9 source for it. What's the easiest way to compile it wifi-only and remove ALL aspects of the cell from it? I want to do this so that the cell doesn't take up battery life and because I'm trying to slim it down for a specific purpose. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I changed the cm.mk include from full_phone to full_tablet_wifionly but that does absolutely nothing. Since I'm not that familiar with it, I'm having a hard time tracing the make files back and forth because I'm not sure what gets called and when. Any help is appreciated.
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I ran into this article yesterday, How to Flash CyanogenMod 7 ROM Samsung Captivate AT&T, and felt it was about time to learn about this. Plenty of you have already ROOTED your phones, and know from experience, what to do. But, I don't. Right now, I'm stuck with the options of accepting things don't work right, because of AT'T's unwillingness, or inabilility, to correct the issues I have, or reinsiall new, and lose all I've put on, or send back to Samsung for repair, and have them lose all I have on it, or try Rooting and adding a ROM, that may solve my issues. But to do that, I need a little help in understanding it.
First, if I try and run a program, like CyanogenMod 7, and it doesn't work correctly, snd screws up my phone, is there a way I can reinstall Android, and start over, or is that the proverbial kiss of death for my Captivate, and I'm stuck with it like that?
Second, is this the right ROM to try? AT&T can't fix my BLOCKS, of UNKNOWN APPS. The Settings change is easy, you click on activating Unknown, in Application settings..., unless you have no UNKNOWN, to choose. Also, in MMS settings, AT&T shows in a tutorial, that you have the option, of activating Delivery Report and Read Report. It shows this as plain as day, on that tutorial for the Captivate, yet mine, has NEITHER OF THOSE OPTIONS. Also, to TURN ON EDGE, the setting is missing, so I can't activate EDGE, which I guess is no big thing, since the towers AT&T has for us to connect with, THAT ARE 2G, are in such poor condition, no one can connect to them. Thank you, WIFI, for helping me get, ONLINE. Will this, or other ROM's, solve this for me?
If there are any suggestions of how to do this, and what to use, I'd appreciate hearing it from you. Again, I thank any effort, to help me.
1.cm 7 would not be the best rom to flash for your first time.
2. All roms are android, you are running at&t/samsung version of an android rom...
3. Yes you can get back to your stock rom if you don't like/something goes wrong (other than a bad bootloader flash)
4.all custom roms have all the blocking done by at&t removed so switching to 2g(edge) is possible and also faster 3g speeds known as hspa. And unknown sources is in the settings so you can install apps from outside the market.
5.the threads at the top of every section with a little thumb tacks are called stickies, give those a read through.
Like he said above. If you want the pretty much stock experience that your used to but want it fixed then I would suggest starting off with Cognition 4.4 or whatever it is now.
Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.55Ghz/Undervolted
From newbie to a newbie, I took the advice of others and read threads for atleast a month before I flashed my first rom. My choice was Andromeda3, It has a written tutorial and a video on how to from start to finish. From what tools or apps you will need and how to use them , I watched that atleast 6 times and also while I was flashing the kernel and the rom. It may have been overkill but my flash was perfect and I'm real happy with my phone now. You may not go with the same rom I did but do your self a favor and do what I did to prepare for your first flash.
Ive tried with stock 2.3.6, CM7 and CM6 and although the CM roms improved wifi reception by leaps and bounds, my N1 will still not recognize some very necessary wifi SSIDs, namely the one at work. On my laptop, my old phone (Optimus T), and everyone elses smartphones there is no problem connecting at work. The access point is provided by a Fortiwifi 60c server. fortinet.com/products/fortiwifi/60C.html
Has anyone else had this problem or know the right direction for a solution? Wifi at work is a must!
it's not an adhoc network is it?
try moving closer to the source and see if other android phones can see it too
No, the network in question is not an ad-hoc. Yes, as I said in my original post, other smartphones and wireless devices have no problem making this connection.
I flashed and upgraded my phone's baseband radio to the most up-to-date version and my phone still doesn't see the network in question. I'm just about out of ideas.
Radio has nothing to do with WiFi.
Try different kernels.
Make sure that the visible access point isn't Wifi N.
Thanks for the experienced suggestion, thats just what I needed. Is there much risk involved in flashing kernels like there is with radios? Is the process the same, boot into recovery then install zip? Ill do the research myself here in a few hours when Ill have the free time but I'd like your input as well, Jack_R1, since it sounds to me like you know what you're talking about here. I'm hoping that you'll reply before I give this a try.
There is no risk when flashing kernels - in the worst case, if the flash went wrong, you can always boot to recovery and flash again.
The process is the same.
Kernel should be compatible with your type of ROM (AOSP GB/AOSP ICS/CM7/CM9/MIUI/etc).
Hi,
Can anybody suggest a ROM that will work well in the UK, and provides a stock-like experience with a reasonably up to date version of Android. It doesn't have to be bleeding edge - I'd rather have everything working rather than access to the very latest features.
I've currently got a stock ICS, and so wonder if somebody could point me to easy step by step instructions on how to flash the suggested ROM. There's a lot of jargon about safe straps, and so on, and some of the instructions seem to expect a level of knowledge that I don't have (I'm happy to learn if somebody would be good enough to point me in the direction of some documentation).
It's not that I'm overly unhappy with the stock ICS, but there are a few things that aren't working that well for me (MMS, Hotspot, etc) and an annoyance or two (unknown sim source message, and unnecessary Verizon apps) that are making me think I should re-flash to something cleaner.
Cheers,
Steve.
StevePritchard said:
Hi,
Can anybody suggest a ROM that will work well in the UK, and provides a stock-like experience with a reasonably up to date version of Android. It doesn't have to be bleeding edge - I'd rather have everything working rather than access to the very latest features.
I've currently got a stock ICS, and so wonder if somebody could point me to easy step by step instructions on how to flash the suggested ROM. There's a lot of jargon about safe straps, and so on, and some of the instructions seem to expect a level of knowledge that I don't have (I'm happy to learn if somebody would be good enough to point me in the direction of some documentation).
It's not that I'm overly unhappy with the stock ICS, but there are a few things that aren't working that well for me (MMS, Hotspot, etc) and an annoyance or two (unknown sim source message, and unnecessary Verizon apps) that are making me think I should re-flash to something cleaner.
Cheers,
Steve.
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MMS and hotspot are easy to fix.
I'm not sure who your carrier is, but make sure your APN has MMS in it. When it comes to Hotspot, find my thread on enabling hotspot to work on Rogers wireless, it should give you some ideas. It involves you disabling the entitlement check and then adding (through the same program) a DUN apn type which allows for wireless hotspot to function properly.
I just find ICS slow, and I've loaded up Hashcode's CM10 port. Working pretty well so far, but I do miss a few things about blur.
danifunker said:
MMS and hotspot are easy to fix.
I'm not sure who your carrier is, but make sure your APN has MMS in it. When it comes to Hotspot, find my thread on enabling hotspot to work on Rogers wireless, it should give you some ideas. It involves you disabling the entitlement check and then adding (through the same program) a DUN apn type which allows for wireless hotspot to function properly.
I just find ICS slow, and I've loaded up Hashcode's CM10 port. Working pretty well so far, but I do miss a few things about blur.
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Thanks - I've rooted now, and managed to get the hotspot working (I think, it's untested, but it at least runs now). I've also got MMS working, which turned out to be a Handcent problem, although the only reason I have Handcent is that stock simply won't work, which is really confusing, because you would expect them to use the same settings.
I also have got rid of the semi-annoying "sim card from an unknown source" message too, and because the phone is rooted, I can get it to reboot daily automatically, which I think will probably help with some of the other weird behaviours I occasionally see.
I guess this has taken the pressure off flashing something new, but if there is a stock-like Jelly Bean ROM then I could be tempted. Presumably because I've rooted, when the official JB comes I'll have to do something special to get it to install, but I guess that will be half the fun.
Cheers,
Steve.
I haven't updated my SCH-I800 in a while and I notice that there is now a stable "cm-9.1.0-p1c.zip" on the cyanogenmod site but also CM10 builds (cm-10-20130714-NIGHTLY-p1c.zip) as recently as last week. The forums for the I800 aren't up right now so I thought I'd ask here if these CM10s are actually functioning well or if they have lots of missing features. And as much as I dig, I seem to only find half working ROMs or extremely experimental ones that have basic things like WiFi missing. Is there a solid stock Samsung ROM and a solid AOSP ROM that everyone uses at this mater point in this tablet's lifespan?
And is there a new method for flashing at all? Or is ODIN still the way?
Thanks!!!
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I haven't updated my SCH-I800 in a while and I notice that there is now a stable "cm-9.1.0-p1c.zip" on the cyanogenmod site but also CM10 builds (cm-10-20130714-NIGHTLY-p1c.zip) as recently as last week. The forums for the I800 aren't up right now so I thought I'd ask here if these CM10s are actually functioning well or if they have lots of missing features. And as much as I dig, I seem to only find half working ROMs or extremely experimental ones that have basic things like WiFi missing. Is there a solid stock Samsung ROM and a solid AOSP ROM that everyone uses at this mater point in this tablet's lifespan?
And is there a new method for flashing at all? Or is ODIN still the way?
Thanks!!!
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I have spent the last week or so trying to get an SCH-i800 to run something OTHER than the stock gingerbread well and just haven't found it yet. The closest I got was a build of CM9 but still have sporadic reboots.
It's frustrating since the only thing I want this to do is run some OBD apps for my car. The problem is that apps detect Gingerbread and run in phone mode vs. tablet mode, wasting a bunch of screen space.
Cubed has been pretty much the only non-stock rom that didn't have FC's and random reboots. I don't even use the cellular feature of this tablet - I'd be happy just disabling the modem entirely and running on wifi if it meant it being more stable.
I'm considering just getting a Nexus 7, but the problem is that this thing would need to live in my car and I don't feel like doing that with a new tablet which is why I was trying to get the i800 to work
Hi, there. Basically just spent all of last night slaving away trying to fix my phone only to make everything progressively worse, and all of this morning having someone (thank you, BD619!) help me fix it, all because of me trying out some new roms.
Anyway i'm looking for something with a built-in tether that works off of USB (my laptop's wifi is broken). And having something with working GPS is pretty important for me too. I was on CM10.2 previously and the USB tether worked fine, but i couldn't get the GPS to work right for the life of me. And Viper's rom is the one that essentially sent me into non-stop boot loop mode, so that's out of there as far as what i'm willing to try.
I have tried other variations of CM like PA and slim, but i'd always end up having some kind of issues with the broadband or GPS. Others didn't even plain install. FWIW before today i did not have s-off, but now i do.
Would greatly appreciate any advice here. Please let me know if this is in the wrong section. Thanks