I see the update is failing for a lot of people on the Samsung Captivate. Mine was reflashed using Odin3, and the update failed like so many others. I reflashed using Odin3 again, tried the update, and the same exact thing happened. The update fails at 50%.
The first time around, I was rooted and lagfixed, I tried it that way, then unrooted and tried again.
The second time around, I made absolutely no changes to the phone whatsoever, except signing in to my google account, and upping the screen timeout to 30 mins.
Doubt that this information is helpful to anybody, but was hoping maybe these symptoms would point to a trend as to why so many people's Captivates can't update.
Also, how many of you that failed used an Odin3 reflash any time before it failed?
I just flashed back to stock using the Odin One Click program and my updated failed at 50%. I tried 4 different time with the same result. I even reflashed a second time, did a Master Clear, and a Factory Reset. Stil no joy.
This morning as soon as I saw the news of the release I immediately hit the software update in the settings menu. Downloaded and just before I went to install I decided maybe it would be smart to do a rom backup with rom manager. Did that, and went ahead and then attempted to install it. It got to 100% and then said update failed, rebooted, said the same thing, update wasn't successful. However, if you checked about phone, it said it was jh7, but none of the jh7 stuff was there. The phone was rooted, sideload enabled, clockwork installed, and bloat removed, that's it. Never flashed a rom or lag fix or anything like that.
At this point I decided to try using the odin one click to stock jf6. Installed it, and tried to update again. Now, I'm getting what most people are getting, update fails very quickly at 50%, the phone reboots with no changes.
So I decided to use my clockwork backup, and restore my phone back to what it was before all this started this morning. Of course, since I remembered to do the backup AFTER downloading and postponing the update, it's sitting there waiting to go. Decided to try it and see if it acted the same as this morning, and now it's doing what it did right after the jf6 one click, gets to 50% and then fails with no effect.
How complete a wipe/restore of the phone is using rom manager? Because the update behavior on mine is different now after messing with odin than it was before, even after restoring it with rom manager.
Rooted with Sideloading on JH2. Not much else done to my phone. It has always worked well.
I didn't even get a percentage when trying to install. Just reboots and says "Update Failed".
Same issue here. Flashed back to JF6 using Odin one click. Update fails at 50%.
Only thing i can think of its that, that particular fw in odin is not the original fw flashed on the phone when bought and it does some sort of checksum or some kind of check.
50%, puke, and now when I click on update it tells me no firmware which I think is funny.
has anyone tried the firmware from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=777291
?
I don't have a PC at work (or even a x86 Mac) to play with.
Mine did the samething. I've used the the one click reinstaller a few times after trying out different roms. Maybe the one click installer changes something and it's blocking the update from totally completing. I hate to reinstall everything again but maybe theres a better way to do a total factory restore so we can get the update.
I'd guess that if it's doing a difference update (just applying the new stuff, not a full ROM) it needs a checksum match to be sure it doesn't bork the phone. Failing that (i.e. anything different from a pure stock phone) it will abort at some point.
There is a pure JF6 stock rom linked somewhere here on the forum--I'll see if I can find it, but it was never stickied or anything. Some guy just uploaded it because the one-click wasn't "pure" so to speak.
I guess this is their way of saying "you don't like our firmwares in the first place, you don't get this one either!"
Mine did all the same as you guys , failed at 50%. So I just got a new phone from att , told them it keep failing update. Did update right in store on new phone and boom installed no problem. On top of that gps is dead on, on new phone with update. Didn't get to try with out update. Already made sure I can get into download mode, no problems there. Note just scared to flash any roms since gps is perfect lol.
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Omg and no xda force close lol . Also rf cal date is 7/10/2010 , old phone rf cal date was 8/07/10
Gps couldn't lock to nothing.
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I tried using the Samsung Kies program and it says "this device's version cannot be updated". I'm wondering if that one click installer is not what it should be. Maybe if we flash to a different Captivate firmware the Kies program will update it.
I agree, I just like the way the one click installer worked. I know there's other roms/kernels posted, and I guess I'll have to do some legwork here. Here's hoping.
Just reflashed back to stock for the third time using Odin3 One Click and now when I check for updates it It says No Updates Available. Prior to this, it would dwnload the updated and reboot the phone and fail at 50% while installing. Frustrating!
I never use the 1click odin, I always put the .pit and the JF6 file into the 'normal' odin and use that -- haven't seen if anyone has tried that yet anywhere? Maybe that'll work.
BTW I still have no update available even after calendar trick :/
Hey guys, I did root my captivate. My question is do I need to un-root the device to apply the gps update or it does not matter.
Just downloaded JF6
how would I flash this back to my phone?
sorry if thats a stupid question but I cant find an answere seraching
I downloaded JF6 from Samfirmware.com. I'm going to back up my current ROM, then do an Odin w/Repartition and use the JF6 from Samfirware.com.
We'll see if that works. . . .
cellgeek said:
I downloaded JF6 from Samfirmware.com. I'm going to back up my current ROM, then do an Odin w/Repartition and use the JF6 from Samfirware.com.
We'll see if that works. . . .
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Let me know how that goes. (Have family up in FloMo, very great place btw).
cellgeek said:
I downloaded JF6 from Samfirmware.com. I'm going to back up my current ROM, then do an Odin w/Repartition and use the JF6 from Samfirware.com.
We'll see if that works. . . .
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Tried this a little while ago. I went to run the update and now it's saying that no updates are available.
I spent about an hour on the chat window with ATT support and they can't seem to find a way to reset it to push again. The guy on the other end was knowledgeable as far as I could tell.
hell - he even mentioned froyo. He said they have ALOT of information on it for the captivate but no release date yet.
I have flashed many diferent firmwares on my phone. Lately I have been primarily using TelusLiteV4. Yesterday I tried a new rom and decided I did not care for it. So for about the 30th time I reflashed TelusLite back on through G.O.T. open recovery. Well, now I get constant bootloop. I have tried to do a couple other firmwares, bootloop. I tried a new sdcard, bootloop. I have my sdcard partitioned for Ext3/Fat32/linux swap. Everything is a constant bootloop. The only case where I do not get that issue is if I use RSDlite to flash GOT 2.2.1. However I dont care for 2.2.1. Just want TelusLiteV4. Any suggestions from anyone would be awesome. Thank you
I would try a SBF image with stock 2.1, you can find the procedure in the development section and if it works then install telus lite
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Hi. Thank you for the reply. I figured it out shortly after posting my situation. I reflashed with G.O.T. Telus SBF, then did the normal stuff to install TelusLiteV4. Everythings a-ok. Thank you.
tried to restore stock with one click and it wont flash the boot.img . Said something like INFOPreinstallaton error. Cant root either. What to do?
Well, first off, your question is in the wrong thread...it will most likely be moved soon...
second....did you update to .893?
Edit: if so and your bootlooped.... this is the one you want http://rootzwiki.com/topic/7801-roo...v10-linuxwindows-get-root-after-893-ota-oops/
ill move my questions. Sorry! Yes and no. Did forever root, flashed update, flashed liberty rom. Then i noticed the version was back to 886 so i tried the oneclick instead of backup and thats when the error for boot.img showed but everything else flashed. My phone is running but i cant root it shows an error as well. thanks for the reply.
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ill move my questions. Sorry! Yes and no. Did forever root, flashed update, flashed liberty rom. Then i noticed the version was back to 886 so i tried the oneclick instead of backup and thats when the error for boot.img showed but everything else flashed. My phone is running but i cant root it shows an error as well. thanks for the reply.
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when you flashed liberty, you flashed .886 system, but the .893 kernel and radio remained. not sure which one click you used to lose root, are you sure you lost root? if, so.... this is just my opinion and what i would do....I would run th3orys and dhackers fix above and flash 2.1 when it comes out.
i will try that. Thanks for the info.
About a week ago I flashed the newest ARHD ROM and newest firmware. Everything worked great until this morning when my Data doesn't work. I can still receive calls and WiFi works, just no LTE signal. Any ideas?
I had the same problem with that Rom, restoring stock backups didn't fix it either, the only way I could fix it in the end was to download the guru reset Rom and flash that, then install a more up to date custom Rom after that.
Unfortunately his site seems to be down at the moment, but when it's back up and running you will need to find the ruu zip Rom for your device in the list, mine was 161 which is Vodafone UK, so I had to download 2.24.161.1 for instance and flash that, radio and recovery too which is included in the Rom.
Www.htc1guru.com
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About a week ago I flashed the newest ARHD ROM and newest firmware. Everything worked great until this morning when my Data doesn't work. I can still receive calls and WiFi works, just no LTE signal. Any ideas?
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what about your APN settings?
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what about your APN settings?
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I didn't check that. That's the only thing I didn't check. I ended up re-flashing(Dirty) and that did it. The only thing I had changed since the first flas was I added Apex Launcher. Doubt that was it and all is fine after the re-flash.
Over the last few days I've been installing ROM after ROM attempting to fix the problem with my text messages to no avail. I basically bricked the device and spent all day attempting to fix the problem. I can't logically think of a reason everything would be fine except the texts and I was hoping to get some help. Thanks.
Do you have the latest firmware installed?
If so I would suggest running the latest RUU and start fresh.
Sounds like you flashed a rom that is not compatible with Sprint and it messed up your partitions.
I flashed the latest firmware but nothing changed. Would you suggest locking the bootloader and unrooting the phone and starting over?