so i rooted my captivate i was gonna throw it away being i don't use it anymore but i figured what the hell im bored so i wanted to put the ICS build on here so i flashed back to stock 2.1 and rooted it. so now im trying to upgrade from that to 2.2 and then 2.3 and so on so i can eventually have the proper bootloaders to flash the ICS build. well long story short i have kies mini and full version but i cant get the MTP device driver to istall and no matter what setting i put it in to try and connect to the kies loader it still errors out on the MTP device driver therefore i cannot connect it btw both kies loaders are the current ones. any help will be awesome or if someone knows a better way to get to ICS from 2.1 stock that would be great.
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So i was running that leaked 2.2 on my captivate. I have a mac, so i couldn't update to the stock 2.2. It has been getting really really slow lately. And freezing all the time. So i was going to find a pc to update it with. But then today, it just starting vibrating all the time. I turned it off, and back on. And the homescreen comes up and i cant click anything. Then the screen turns black and the capacitive buttons on the bottom are lit up but i cant do anything. I tried turning it off and on like a million times and i dont know what to do. Is my phone bricked or what?
got a problem with your laucher app.
take out SD card, boot into recovery with the 3 button method, factory wipe.
if that doesnt work,
boot into download mode with the 2 button and usb method and flash the official 2.2 stock with odin rom or if you are going to custom roms flash 2.1 with odin, then the custom rom with clockworkMod recovery (cwm)
Yay that fixed it, now does anyone know how i can update to the stock 2.2 on a mac? Also is there a working 2.3 rom yet that will work on the captivate.
626alex15 said:
Yay that fixed it, now does anyone know how i can update to the stock 2.2 on a mac? Also is there a working 2.3 rom yet that will work on the captivate.
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2.3 isn't out yet for cappy.
And wouldn't it work the same using Odin weither it's on Mac or Win?
EDIT: Sorry, Odin doesn't work on Mac.
BWolf56 said:
2.3 isn't out yet for cappy.
And wouldn't it work the same using Odin weither it's on Mac or Win?
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Idk if odin will work an a crapple, heimdall will, but I'm not too familiar with that program to know if there is a froyo rom to use with it.
you'd better build a jig or buy one just in case you get trouble next time.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...78211&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_723wt_1139
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you'd better build a jig or buy one just in case you get trouble next time.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...78211&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_723wt_1139
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Dont know what that is, im not very firmiliar with android stuff. And i think the program to update is Kies not odin.
keis is the crap samsung gives customers to update automatically!
odin is the samsung program we use to program the phones with whatever-the-hell we want!
a jig puts you into download mode (this jig for samsung only) download mode is what you need to be in for keis or odin to flash your phone
Look up instructions for Heimdall.
Heimdall doesnt work on a mac until you update the boot loaders to the offical 2.2. Personally I think its crap and you still need a windows machine. Your better off just searching thru the development forum and flashing something cooked in there. There is a lot of really stable stuff in there as long as your not chasing the absolute latest and greatest. I have a mac and have been down all the roads. If your dead set on flashing official firmware parellels and virtual box do not work, you need a windows machine or you can use windows in boot camp on a mac.
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yeah ive been using things from the developers forums for a while, and they always seem to be buggy, i would just like to use the official one for a while. I guess i will just have to do it on a friends pc.
If you use virtual box and have it running windows then you can do an offical update on what ever computer you want... virtual box is free and all you have to have the the iso of the OS that you want. Virtual Box runs on windows mac and linux. So with that knowledge everyone should be able to work and flash any rom on any computer
Good Luck
PM me & let me know how it goes
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Hi, i'm new to all of this flashing stuff. I'm running CM7 on my captivate and i was just wondering if GB for it came out for it, would i have to flash back to stock before i can update or can i just update out of CM7? While i was trying to flash this CM7 i had problems and had to keep on flashing back to the stock rom(2.1) and when i ever i tried to do a upgrade on kies the phone wouldn't sync because it would just keep crashing.
CM7 is GB. The only ROM you could flash would be MIUI without going back to stock.
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Like said you can only flash MIUI. Everything else needs to flash back to a stock because you need to repartition your phone. Gingerbread has not been released officially for I897 but it has for I896. Though none official there are a ton of Gingerbread leaks on the dev section.
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Like said you can only flash MIUI. Everything else needs to flash back to a stock because you need to repartition your phone. Gingerbread has not been released officially for I897 but it has for I896. Though none official there are a ton of Gingerbread leaks on the dev section.
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But when i flash back to stock(2.1) it won't let me sync with samsung kies. on the phone it just keeps opening and closing USB MTP or something
Why do you want to sync on 2.1? If you are going to flash a GB rom.
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Why do you want to sync on 2.1? If you are going to flash a GB rom.
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I'm already flashed on CM7. But I'm just wondering when the official At&t GB update comes out for the Captivate, i wanna know how i would update to it. Wanna just try it out. And whenever i did the one click restore and go back to 2.1 it would never let me sync with kies.
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I'm already flashed on CM7. But I'm just wondering when the official At&t GB update comes out for the Captivate, i wanna know how i would update to it. Wanna just try it out. And whenever i did the one click restore and go back to 2.1 it would never let me sync with kies.
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You might be able to update straight from CM7 and do just fine. However, I would advise and I think others would too, to flash back to stock using odin one click. Have all of your stuff backed up externally, run a master clear, and then attempt the update. This is a surefire way to have nothing go wrong as you are coming from factory software.
Reboot your PC and try Kies again. And I think its Kies Mini that does the update not the full Kies program. But its not a special process. They walk you through it and if you can flash a custom rom you will have no problem with the kies mini process.
att gingerbread isnt officially out and YEAH right they would ever give a date....
also dont use keis for anything keis sucks!. use xda site. read xda site. read new user guide (below). read STICKES (explained in guide).
flash back to 2.1 ( or any stock with .pit file or "one-click odin" stock flash)
odin flash (NOT one click) gingerbread bootloaders (find in dev section of captivate)
odin flash (NOT one click) a kernel with cwm built in
cwm flash ANY captivate rom from dev section
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capocaccia said:
You might be able to update straight from CM7 and do just fine. However, I would advise and I think others would too, to flash back to stock using odin one click. Have all of your stuff backed up externally, run a master clear, and then attempt the update. This is a surefire way to have nothing go wrong as you are coming from factory software.
Reboot your PC and try Kies again. And I think its Kies Mini that does the update not the full Kies program. But its not a special process. They walk you through it and if you can flash a custom rom you will have no problem with the kies mini process.
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cm7 uses a different partitioning table. STOCK IS A MUST to go backagain KIES IS ****
there are odin one- clicks for 2.1 2.2 and kf1 2.3.3 leak
DONT USE KEIS NO REASON TO IT SUCKS BALLS
This guy seems a little new to the scene so I wasnt going to throw him into the Odin stuff just yet. Its good to know about and while kies isnt the best it is the factory software and is easy for new people to use.
Doesn't matter if he is new. He decided to use CM7 and/or MIUI you NEED to repartition your phone. Kies is just a different UI ODIN with alot of extra checks that are useless. If he wants to move back to I897 roms or to I9000 ports he has no choice on the matter. But like everything else always a good idea t have a Jig just in case and try to use packages that DO NOT include bootloaders when ever possible (not sure if you need to flash bootloaders if you partition)
TRusselo said:
att gingerbread isnt officially out and YEAH right they would ever give a date....
also dont use keis for anything keis sucks!. use xda site. read xda site. read new user guide (below). read STICKES (explained in guide).
flash back to 2.1 ( or any stock with .pit file or "one-click odin" stock flash)
odin flash (NOT one click) gingerbread bootloaders (find in dev section of captivate)
odin flash (NOT one click) a kernel with cwm built in
cwm flash ANY captivate rom from dev section
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cm7 uses a different partitioning table. STOCK IS A MUST to go backagain KIES IS ****
there are odin one- clicks for 2.1 2.2 and kf1 2.3.3 leak
DONT USE KEIS NO REASON TO IT SUCKS BALLS
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+1 Kies is beyond **** !!
I can imagine how many people get stuck with that complete "no use" piece of sftware. It is so useless, it just unnecessarily occupies internet space !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Doesn't matter if he is new. He decided to use CM7 and/or MIUI you NEED to repartition your phone. Kies is just a different UI ODIN with alot of extra checks that are useless. If he wants to move back to I897 roms or to I9000 ports he has no choice on the matter. But like everything else always a good idea t have a Jig just in case and try to use packages that DO NOT include bootloaders when ever possible (not sure if you need to flash bootloaders if you partition)
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You should not need to flash bootloaders if the only thing you are doing is going from CM7 to stock based GB ROM. And I believe GB bootloaders are backwards compatible to 2.2.
OP, since you are on CM7, you WILL need to flash back to stock in order to get back to Samsung ROMs, as the phone must be repartitioned.
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You should not need to flash bootloaders if the only thing you are doing is going from CM7 to stock based GB ROM. And I believe GB bootloaders are backwards compatible to 2.2.
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OP didn't indicate whether he has installed i9k GB at any point; to be 100% correct:
If OP flashed CM7 straight from Eclair/Froyo, he will need to flash GB bootloaders for a Galaxy S device.
IF OP has previously flashed i9k or i897 leaked GB, then he does not need to flash new bootloaders ever again.
Alright so a while back I rooted and flashed a rom to bring me to 2.3 which was unofficial. Now I'm getting sick of it and want to go back to the official route by using kies to upgrade and that. When I plug mine into kies it says unsupported device. So I'm guessing it doesn't like that I have a flashed rom? So what do I do to be able to go to the official 2.2.1 captivate from the unofficial 2.3.1
Its easier if you don't. You need a official rom like JF6 or KB1. Problem is not all devs are from the US or use ATT, so their device ID's are different. So you need to break hexcode editor to try to fix it. To be honest it isn't worth it, Kies is just ODIN with a different UI and a TON of unnecessary checks that 99.9% of the are useless and make it autofail.
Okay, so I did a factory reset, no custom roms, only had official Froyo and Speedmod kernel. I also unrooted. Why do I keep getting "Unregistered device" from Kies Mini? Maybe it's because my Baseband version on "About Phone" shows "I9000UGJK4"? Or is it maybe that their servers are being bombarded by Cappy users updating their phones? Any help is greatly appreciated.
If you have flashed a custom ROM before, it won't work. Just wait on a Odin/Heimdall one click!
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Okay, so I did a factory reset, no custom roms, only had official Froyo and Speedmod kernel. I also unrooted. Why do I keep getting "Unregistered device" from Kies Mini? Maybe it's because my Baseband version on "About Phone" shows "I9000UGJK4"? Or is it maybe that their servers are being bombarded by Cappy users updating their phones? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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This worked for me, I tried this morning, I had the same issue while on CM9 ICS.
As mentioned flashing any rom your device's I'd might change. I've never had my imei change but read enough ppl to know it happens.
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I don't know if this matters, but I've never installed a custom ROM, only a custom modem and kernel. Would that change the IMEI?
Have you messed with unlocking it?
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I'm pretty sure kies mini will detect kernel changes. I had stock froyo with a flashed kernel and it wouldn't let me update. I flashed everything back to stock, but was still rooted, and it still wouldn't let me update. I ended up doing a full flash back to stock kb2 and it finally let me upgrade.
I wonder if I flashed the stock kernel and unrooted if it would have worked. At the time I was too lazy to browse for everything and already had the heimdall package downloaded.
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If your "About Phone" shows anything other than SGH_I897 kies mini will not recognize your device. I was running andromeda , wouldn't see it so I went back to stock, oneclicked jf6. After that kies immediatley recognized it. I probably didn't have to go back to jf6 but, I had nothing better to do for that next hour. If you do go back to jf6 you will have to kies mini twice to get GB, first time it will install froyo, when it's done close kies, unplug re-open kies, re-plug your phone kies will show update again, click and sit back and wait for it to finish. ...you now have GB.
Thank you all for your help. I finally got it. I ended up RE-flashing back to stock using this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1300843
Turns out that I did in fact have a custom modem and custom kernel, and when I flashed back to stock the first time (I used Clockwork Recovery), it didn't put back the original modem and kernel, thus making Kies Mini not recognizing my phone. So, after RE-flashing the ORIGINAL OFFICIAL Froy update using the above link, everything went smooth fronm there. Hope this helps somebody.
My wife asked me to put her phone back to stock Samsung firmware as she didn't want CM10.1 anymore (yes, I said she was silly)
Anyway the problem is.....My computer will not recognise her phone, It's running Windows 8 are the i9000 incompatible?
I have Kies installed and it recognises my phones fine, both Samsungs.
So....I was wandering if either there is anyone that knows how to sort this out as I have tried everything I can think of. Or are there flashable ZIP packages anywhere of stock firmware I can flash through recovery?
Thank for any help
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My wife asked me to put her phone back to stock Samsung firmware as she didn't want CM10.1 anymore (yes, I said she was silly)
Anyway the problem is.....My computer will not recognise her phone, It's running Windows 8 are the i9000 incompatible?
I have Kies installed and it recognises my phones fine, both Samsungs.
So....I was wandering if either there is anyone that knows how to sort this out as I have tried everything I can think of. Or are there flashable ZIP packages anywhere of stock firmware I can flash through recovery?
Thank for any help
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Use task manager to kill any Kies tasks that you find running, install i9000 windows driver (google search) than flash desired rom (preribly stock) via odin.
Yes, I did that just yesterday running Win8.
You can find stock roms over HERE
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phone: i9000
rom: CyanAOSP v0.5.2
kerel: Semaphore 2.9.7s
Thanks for your quick response! I always kill kies when using Odin so that wasn't an issue. However I was under the impression that installing kies gave me the drivers so thank you for your advice I'll install i9000 drivers separately and hopefully sus it out.
Thanks mate
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If I can I always flash using Heimdall on Linux - I don't have to worry about drivers.