Hi,
I've had my SGH-I897 Captivate (AT&T) for about a year now, and began reading about rooting and ROMs and personalizing it about five or six months later. I got tired of the AT&T bloatware, the Tethering Manager FC after upgrading from Froyo to Gingerbread via Kies Mini, and the general overall disappointing performance of the phone. I flashed my first ROM back in late April, IIRC, which was CyanogenMod 7.1. This opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me, although my first attempt at flashing was not very good and I ultimately had to go back to stock. But I learned a lot, and since then went from there to CM 7.2, 9.1, Andromeda, and finally CM 10. When I began running Jelly Bean on my Cappy, I was awestruck at the cleanliness of the OS - the Roboto font made everything pop, and everything just seemed smoother (although I wasn't running the Project Butter version - this was CM).
Last week I decided to go bleeding edge and flashed the pre-nightly version of CM 10.1 (JB 4.2). As with my first attempt at flashing, this one didn't go well, either because of the pre-nightly state of the ROM or whatever. So I restored my CWM backup and went back to CM 10. Later that week, I checked in CM Updater and lo and behold, there was a 10.1 nightly staring me in the face. So I updated (even though the official instructions said "don't update through CM Updater", but oh well), and my Cappy runs like a new phone. I honestly cannot find any issues with the OS at all. Everything works. (I updated the gapps version to the 1212 version which runs with 4.2.) I feel like CM 10.1 has breathed new life into my old hardware (and no, I'm not on CM's payroll :laugh.
Mind you, this is with the baked-in kernel. I have tried the Semaphore 2.8c kernel, but for some reason it just didn't seem as snappy. I haven't tried any of the other JB kernels for fear I'll brick the thing.
Thanks to pawitp and the entire CM and AOSP teams for putting out such a high-quality ROM. You guys rock!
I'd post this in the developers forum but I'm not up to 10 posts yet.
Did you have to factory reset? You make me want to try it. I'm on CM10 right now.
Btw. I find kernels have typical been the biggest player in performance for my phone. I always upgrade to semaphone not sure why you had problems with it.
falcon7204 said:
Hi,
I've had my SGH-I897 Captivate (AT&T) for about a year now, and began reading about rooting and ROMs and personalizing it about five or six months later. I got tired of the AT&T bloatware, the Tethering Manager FC after upgrading from Froyo to Gingerbread via Kies Mini, and the general overall disappointing performance of the phone. I flashed my first ROM back in late April, IIRC, which was CyanogenMod 7.1. This opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me, although my first attempt at flashing was not very good and I ultimately had to go back to stock. But I learned a lot, and since then went from there to CM 7.2, 9.1, Andromeda, and finally CM 10. When I began running Jelly Bean on my Cappy, I was awestruck at the cleanliness of the OS - the Roboto font made everything pop, and everything just seemed smoother (although I wasn't running the Project Butter version - this was CM).
Last week I decided to go bleeding edge and flashed the pre-nightly version of CM 10.1 (JB 4.2). As with my first attempt at flashing, this one didn't go well, either because of the pre-nightly state of the ROM or whatever. So I restored my CWM backup and went back to CM 10. Later that week, I checked in CM Updater and lo and behold, there was a 10.1 nightly staring me in the face. So I updated (even though the official instructions said "don't update through CM Updater", but oh well), and my Cappy runs like a new phone. I honestly cannot find any issues with the OS at all. Everything works. (I updated the gapps version to the 1212 version which runs with 4.2.) I feel like CM 10.1 has breathed new life into my old hardware (and no, I'm not on CM's payroll :laugh.
Mind you, this is with the baked-in kernel. I have tried the Semaphore 2.8c kernel, but for some reason it just didn't seem as snappy. I haven't tried any of the other JB kernels for fear I'll brick the thing.
Thanks to pawitp and the entire CM and AOSP teams for putting out such a high-quality ROM. You guys rock!
I'd post this in the developers forum but I'm not up to 10 posts yet.
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daaac said:
Did you have to factory reset? You make me want to try it. I'm on CM10 right now.
Btw. I find kernels have typical been the biggest player in performance for my phone. I always upgrade to semaphone not sure why you had problems with it.
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Yeah Factory reset is recommended. And its Working great. I must ask you to consider updating to 4.2, 10.1 nightly build. Its literally flawless...
Sent from my SGH-I897
cm10.1 really cool. Waiting for slim android 4.2
Several days ago I did the upgrade to 10.1 from 10 without the factory reset - no problems, but wipe the caches). You need to clear the clock data first and do the upgrade from the boot screen (not the update screen in about phone). Do a backup just in case you have problems.
for further info go to :donandroid.com/how-to-update-cm10-to-cm10-1-with-cwm-recovery-581
ppenguinn said:
cm10.1 really cool. Waiting for slim android 4.2
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Sent From the Land of Defrag
if you do Erase SD Card, does it erase internal storage instead?
I tried the stable version of CM10, and it seemed to work great except for one thing. I could connect to my employer's Exchange server at all. I tried all kinds of things and it just couldn't connect. I took it to the IT guys and they fiddled with it for a while and couldn't get it to work either. A little quality time with Google told me that JB has a bug that sometimes makes it impossible to connect to corporate exchange accounts. I ended up switching to CM9. Do you know whether CM10.1 fixes that? If so I think I'll give it a try.
ppenguinn said:
cm10.1 really cool. Waiting for slim android 4.2
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Slim 4.2.1 has been available in beta for a week or two now... I've not encountered any problems with beta 2 so far.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2060386
falcon7204 said:
Hi,
I've had my SGH-I897 Captivate (AT&T) for about a year now, and began reading about rooting and ROMs and personalizing it about five or six months later. I got tired of the AT&T bloatware, the Tethering Manager FC after upgrading from Froyo to Gingerbread via Kies Mini, and the general overall disappointing performance of the phone. I flashed my first ROM back in late April, IIRC, which was CyanogenMod 7.1. This opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me, although my first attempt at flashing was not very good and I ultimately had to go back to stock. But I learned a lot, and since then went from there to CM 7.2, 9.1, Andromeda, and finally CM 10. When I began running Jelly Bean on my Cappy, I was awestruck at the cleanliness of the OS - the Roboto font made everything pop, and everything just seemed smoother (although I wasn't running the Project Butter version - this was CM).
Last week I decided to go bleeding edge and flashed the pre-nightly version of CM 10.1 (JB 4.2). As with my first attempt at flashing, this one didn't go well, either because of the pre-nightly state of the ROM or whatever. So I restored my CWM backup and went back to CM 10. Later that week, I checked in CM Updater and lo and behold, there was a 10.1 nightly staring me in the face. So I updated (even though the official instructions said "don't update through CM Updater", but oh well), and my Cappy runs like a new phone. I honestly cannot find any issues with the OS at all. Everything works. (I updated the gapps version to the 1212 version which runs with 4.2.) I feel like CM 10.1 has breathed new life into my old hardware (and no, I'm not on CM's payroll :laugh.
Mind you, this is with the baked-in kernel. I have tried the Semaphore 2.8c kernel, but for some reason it just didn't seem as snappy. I haven't tried any of the other JB kernels for fear I'll brick the thing.
Thanks to pawitp and the entire CM and AOSP teams for putting out such a high-quality ROM. You guys rock!
I'd post this in the developers forum but I'm not up to 10 posts yet.
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with my last (first) android phone, i came to the conclusion that carriers muck up android with their lockdowns, bloatware, and refusal to update non-flagship devices. i've been through a couple of ROMs (AOKP, PA, and now on CM 10.1 until PA releases their 4.2 build). i may get a new phone eventually, but, for now, my Cappy is kickin' it. it's always funny seeing someone with a newer phone running gingerbread and thinking "ah, i remember that boggy, unhelpful, but full of potential mess of a phone." good luck!
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theoctagon said:
with my last (first) android phone, i came to the conclusion that carriers muck up android with their lockdowns, bloatware, and refusal to update non-flagship devices. i've been through a couple of ROMs (AOKP, PA, and now on CM 10.1 until PA releases their 4.2 build). i may get a new phone eventually, but, for now, my Cappy is kickin' it. it's always funny seeing someone with a newer phone running gingerbread and thinking "ah, i remember that boggy, unhelpful, but full of potential mess of a phone." good luck!
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I gave my Captivate to my daughter a while back when I changed to the Note 2. I initially set it up with AOKP milestone 6 (ICS 4.0.4). My son has my wife's old Captivate and I updated it recently to the final Cyanogenmod 10.0 release. My daughter's phone has been having battery problems due to wakelock issues. I have considered updating it to the latest CM 10.0 like my son has but it seems SLOW - maybe all the games he has loaded.
Anyway, neither of them care about running the "latest and greatest". They just want a stable fast phone. I know the typical answer is "personal preference" but they don't try other ROMs. I have wondered if JB 4.2.x would work well on old hardware like the Captivate with limited RAM, etc. Neither of them need a lot of fancy options and don't use bluetooth, etc.
Opinions on solid fast ROMs to try?
CM10.1 is still on nightlies and from what I am reading, there are still some probs with power management and wifi.
CM10.0 stable is smooth with no noticable lag on my cappy. I don't overclock.
overall passmark benchmark performance is slightly better than it was on GB KK4.
the slowness on your son's phone is probably due to something running, perhaps games.
Sent from my SGH-I897
laughingT said:
CM10.1 is still on nightlies and from what I am reading, there are still some probs with power management and wifi.
CM10.0 stable is smooth with no noticable lag on my cappy. I don't overclock.
overall passmark benchmark performance is slightly better than it was on GB KK4.
the slowness on your son's phone is probably due to something running, perhaps games.
Sent from my SGH-I897
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So for a stable fast ROM, you would suggest CM 10.0 over AOCP or some of the other 4.1.2 "final" version ROMs like SlimBean?
depends on your personal preference I suppose. you need to get to CM9 at least, preferably 10.0, to flash slim bean, right? So, if it runs well on 10.0, then you could go slim bean
you wrote that you just want the basics, nothing fancy. so, yes, CM10.
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daaac said:
Did you have to factory reset? You make me want to try it. I'm on CM10 right now.
Btw. I find kernels have typical been the biggest player in performance for my phone. I always upgrade to semaphone not sure why you had problems with it.
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Yes, I did. And I didn't really have any problems with Semaphore, it just seemed a little laggy.
RichMD said:
I gave my Captivate to my daughter a while back when I changed to the Note 2. I initially set it up with AOKP milestone 6 (ICS 4.0.4). My son has my wife's old Captivate and I updated it recently to the final Cyanogenmod 10.0 release. My daughter's phone has been having battery problems due to wakelock issues. I have considered updating it to the latest CM 10.0 like my son has but it seems SLOW - maybe all the games he has loaded.
Anyway, neither of them care about running the "latest and greatest". They just want a stable fast phone. I know the typical answer is "personal preference" but they don't try other ROMs. I have wondered if JB 4.2.x would work well on old hardware like the Captivate with limited RAM, etc. Neither of them need a lot of fancy options and don't use bluetooth, etc.
Opinions on solid fast ROMs to try?
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I would highly recommend Sephhi's [ROM][4.2.1]Captivating (Xperia Themed)
It is CM10 based and is stripped down to run smooth.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2057574
Set today [ROM] [4.2.1] Captivating (Xperia Themed) [9.2] (Lagless bugfixes), Beautiful, smart, but that does not remove the video camera in any resolution, the error does not take off, but simply does not respond to the record button, the camera photographs. What to do?during the call audio output to the speaker, the button to switch to the internal - external speaker does not work. What to do?
BELbX said:
Set today [ROM] [4.2.1] Captivating (Xperia Themed) [9.2] (Lagless bugfixes), Beautiful, smart, but that does not remove the video camera in any resolution, the error does not take off, but simply does not respond to the record button, the camera photographs. What to do?during the call audio output to the speaker, the button to switch to the internal - external speaker does not work. What to do?
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Try hellybean 4.2. Hellybean came a long way from when i used it a while back! It's a much smaller and light weight package as compared to the xperia one. Barely any issues. Boot times and first boot are quick. Over clocking is fun again too. I thought it was oc'd at first for being smooth. It's so smooth and stable. One or two things, but nothing compared to others. I like the xperia one but it's heavier with more to be worked. It's running better then aokp 4.1 with semaphore.
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3g Problem
I just flashed 4.2.1 AoCP 5 and lost my 3G. Anyone know what's up?
So two years ago (summer '11) some guys in a bar stole a gym bag from me that included a pre-rooted Xoom I had picked up off eBay for cheap: seizing the opportunity when I walked a girl from that bar up the street at her request. I tried installing Plan B at the time; watching eBay/Craiglist for a few months; asking for the security tape at the bar; asking people there if anyone knew the guys, but no dice. I figured it was just gone...I didn't even report it stolen. Fortunately for me, this past weekend, I got a call from a policemen who is a family friend. My Xoom had been sitting in evidence for a year, and he'd bought a cable thinking it'd be a nice tablet for the squad, but he recognized my brother's name (somewhere on the device) when he booted it up. I guess they took it off a transient, yet it's in pristine condition; as good as the day I lost it. LOL, I must have gotten the Jack Kerouac of modern day hobos.
Anyways, to the point. This thing is running:
Android Version: 3.2
Kernel Version: 2.6.36.4Tiamat_Xoom-v2.0.0-Katana-GPUOC-gfed7aa6 [email protected] #1
Build Number: HTJ85B
Since it was stolen the Xoom here has gotten a firmware update to Jellybean 4.1.2. I'd like to update to that Android version, then run this stock AOSP root of that version, What would be the simplest way to do that on this device? Should I unroot, then take the firmware update to 4.1.2, then re-root directly to a compatible kernel like that one, or is there a method with Tiamat of simply updating to Jellybean without unrooting the device? Note: I do not want to run a Jellybean ROM from Honeycomb. I want a rooted kernel of Jellybean.
I've already created a Nandroid in CWM and also backed up all apps + system data with Titanium Backup Pro. I also have ROM Manager Premium if that simplifies my steps. Thanks.
Meh, nevermind, I got impatient waiting for confirmation that this was kosher, so I factory wiped in CWM and flashed the zip (with fingers crossed that some major issues shared by a few old GB phones had going from 2nd Init back to AOSP ROMs wouldn't brick my device beyond nandroid recovery). For a minute it looked like I was stuck in a simpe boot loop, then the lovely JB boot animation greeted me.
Easy peezy. Overthinking it.
So how are you find the stock JB? I should give the CM10 a try, 10.1 is a bit buggy (black screen of death) but very smooth across the board.
Ultraman1966 said:
So how are you find the stock JB? I should give the CM10 a try, 10.1 is a bit buggy (black screen of death) but very smooth across the board.
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I didn't give stock Jellybean much time. I didn't want to waste my time organizing my tablet and restoring apps from TiBu yada yada because I knew I wanted to get onto 4.2 due to Google Now.
Sweet Mother Mary, is 4.2 worth it. Google Now just destroys Siri on the latest Android. It's ridiculous how good the voice recognition and the relevancy of the results are. I love being able to press the home menu to pop up the semicircle, then drag to the Google button to automatically bring it up from any possible page/app that I'm currently viewing.
Right now I'm trying our the difference between the official CM10.1 Wingray Nightly and the Team EOS Wingray ROM for 4.2
As I said in my older thread about custom roms, I've successfully installed the liquidsmooth rom on my S3, it is awesome, well it looks awesome but I have a few issues, one is minor but the other is major..
First the minor issues, I discovered that the Google play store app is missing, which made getting stuff a major challenge! Until I figured out a way to install aptoide as a replacement for it, which also wasn't easy, as liquidsmooth comes with a crappy browser that doesn't even launch.. So I had to install Firefox in some way in order to load aptoide, can't remember how I did it, it was one long hectic day yesterday.. Anyway the point is, I tried downloading and installing the play store app and it just keeps crashing when I try to load it. I tried restarting and different versions of it but to no avail, is there no hope for this?
Here's the major issue, one that might force me to abandon liquidsmooth and maybe go with the cyanogen mod, which I tried but didn't really like because of the android version it uses, 4.0.4! I mean on the stock Samsung os I was already in version 4.1.2 so I wasn't happy with having to go backwards.. I digress, the major issue I'm having is with the phone, people tried calling me and it rings once on their end then goes into a busy signal, and my phone doesn't even seem to know it happened! This is a phone first and therefore it doesn't matter how cool liquidsmooth looks and feels, without a proper phone its almost pointless! Is there a fix to this problem guys? I sure hope so.. In addition, sometimes I'm downloading something and it just freezes, none of the buttons work, forcing me to reboot the entire phone, what's up with that? Is liquidsmooth just flawed that way?
Thank you for reading, I hope you can help, I would sure appreciate it.
Peace
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Background: I bought the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus P-6210 more than 3 years ago. Originally, it had 3.2 and was always re-booting and losing connections. About 2 years ago, I was able to upgrade to 4.1.2 by flashing a UK stock version. It has been very stable and reliable. Lately, i have had difficulties connecting to certain websites and have been told that my OS is too old. Also, some apps can only work with the newer OS. So I am thinking about updating to Cyanomodgen 13.0, but I am very concerned about all the possible problems. I still use this Tab a lot for Yahoo emails and web-browsing.
Can any P-6210 owners advise me about all the pros and cons with updating this particular Tab from 4.1.2 to CM 13.0?
Never mind. I decided to just bite the bullet and flashed the CM 13.0 with the help of my son.
We had to do it a few times to get it to work. The stock gapps was too big and i kept getting an error 70. I switched to the pico gapps which flashed but after rebooting, i kept getting a pop up saying i had lost play services. I found that i had to wipe and to flash the rom and gapps at the same step instead of two separate steps to get it to work.
I used the CM 13.0 rom for a couple of days. It is usable, but glitchy. It was fun to play around with the new features. But once the novelty wore off, i found the lagginess and occassional force closes and reboots to be annoying. I could have lived with it if i had to. I decided to restore the 4.1.2 backup, mostly just to see if i could do it. It was like a breath of fresh air.
EDIT: I decided not to both with the unofficial kitkat or lollipop roms and just focus on any custom marshmallow roms. They are all located at the XDA Galaxy Tab 7.7 forum.
i flash on p6200 latest daniel's cm13 of 29/7/2016, it is a bit laggy, but major bug are screen mirroring not working and swipe on aosp keyboard not working...
Can i resolve those?
re p6200
I tried loads of the different ROMs here, mainly from daniel_hk, massive kudos to him, from kitkat, lollipop and higher, Carbon ROM, Slimkat, OMNI (which I love) etc, but all of them are rather unstable and the CPU seems to overheat all the time.
I also keep reverting to the 4.1.2 firmware, which to this day works fantastically and stably with dozens of the apps I use daily working fine.
I love my galaxy tab plus
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PS recently a friend gave his old fitness watch with a heart rate monitor, but neither my tablet or phone could communicate with it. I tried the newer android, the app installed but it still didn't work. Turned out the bluetooth was also too outdated.
In the end I bought the cheapest smartphone I could find for 30 US dollars, which had bluetooth 4.0 and Lollipop, and it works fine with the bracelet.
So, I suppose there's no point in upgrading to higher android anyway as the hardware can't keep up the higher demands.
Back in the old days I bought the Eee Transformer TF101 and after years of loyal service it got a second life at a the house of my sister. Last week it has returned home however because the games my niece wants to play can't be installed on ICS anymore. I am planning on using it as a dedicated unit for my Chromecast, so that I don't have to search the whole house for my regular tablet when I want to watch Netflix.
Now the question: what would be the most usefull thing to do for this in terms of ROM. At the moment it is completely stock ICS (4.0.3), no root or anything. I can cast from youtube and Netflix, but for instance Chrome cannot be installed because it is too old. I have seen a 6.0.1-ROM, but I also see a lot of problems with force-closes and sometimes other issues as well, so i don't know if it is worth the hassle to install this.
Any suggestions? What would you do in this situation? Just leave it stock and disable as much as possible (like Gmail-sync, and updates of various system-apps), or would you root the device and possible flash a completely new ROM?
Only posting to follow this thread as I am in a very similar boat, I loved this device and recently rediscovered it at my parents house in pristine condition - so I want to re-purpose it. I have rooted it and installed a few custom roms but they are all sluggish and riddled with problems. I am looking for whatever rom is fastest, stable and new enough to install most basic apps (Chrome, Gmail, Netflix, etc...).
Hi Cabrone,
I'm still on stock, hoping for someone to share his/her personal view on this. Not being able to install a (slowly, but always increasing) number of apps is my biggest concern with this. At the moment this boils down to Chrome, but I can imagine that at a certain point in time Youtube or Netflix will no longer be updatable, and that would be a shame as long it is possible with alternative roms.
Best rom i ve found is Katkiss Marshmallow for now. They are also in builds for a Nougat version, but is too risky, from my point of view. Runs very well, its like it has a new life. The rom is quite optimized, i could get more into details, if you want.
Just FYI, Showbox will play great on the stock rom Tf101. I tested before updating my rom to Tim's 5.1. Chrome won't install, but Firefox will on stock. I'm wondering if anyone has tried stripping apps to improve performance?