samsung captivate

Hi All, I need some help rooting my Captivate. My phone ,SGH-I897, came with gingerbread.ucke3 2.3.3 preloaded on it and I can't find anything specificly for rooting it. Was going to try methods for 2.3.5 but keep running into walls... After a long trial tring to get Kies to reconize my phone I...

Is there any risk to the phone from using it as a GPS device for an extended period of time, like 8 to 10 hours? What if it's on the charger pretty much the whole time?

Hello I'm new to posting on these forums but I have been reading them for a while. Anyway I installed cyanogenmod 10.1.3 on my captivate and every thing was working fine, until one day every time I would boot up the phone it would go straight to CWM recovery. I put the phone into download mode...

Hello. I have a one big problem that i've been trying to fix by my self but i finally realized that i cant and i need your help guys. Ok so my phone was on 4.2.2 cm and it started to act funny so i wanted to go back to stock and then flesh cm or some other jelly bean rom. Now i have one problem...

I have had my Captivate on loan-out to my sister for 3 months after I bought myself a Nexus 4. Now that she got a Nexus, I got my Captivate back and decided to experiment with it, since it is no longer my primary phone. I rooted it and installed CM 10.1. Holy *******. It works so much...

So i installed CMD 10 in my captivate sgh 1897 some months ago,everything working perfect, and since a week or so my cat bit the charger i managed to power up with my fiancee charger and it wasn't reading my t-mobile sim card anymore, after this cm update notified me that i had 2 new updates...

Is there a way to operate this phone as a Wifi/ net phone with no phone service? I only need it to access apps and such over wifi connections. Any help is great, thanks. Recap. operating Samsung-captivate with no sim cad.

My phone shuts off randomly when I am playing power hungry apps like games for instance or watching a YouTube video but it does it an in instant on games. When I am on the internet it takes a bit but eventually will over time, if I am texting or just on the phone itself without running apps it...

Hey guys, does anybody know where i can change my imei ? My phone is running cm 10 with jb 4.2.2 and i seem to have lost my imei. Also can i know where i can buy a good cheap box in india for fixing my imei. Can it be done without a box also ?

Hello, I have an old Samsung Captivate with gingerbread, its been since deactivated and replaced with a new phone. I was wondering if there were any way I can turn this into some kind of simple wireless device for internet/pandora usage? I no longer need it as a phone but its still in pretty...

My samsung galaxy captivate is a second hand and its speaker seemed to work fine for a few days and now suddenly it doesnt work without a pat on the back which is only a temporary solution. I tried the one that says that i have to loosen a screw and it works fine, but it doesnt. I am searching...

Hey guys. I recently updated my samsung galaxy captivate to jellybean 4.2.2 using cyanogenmod 10 and my phone says that it has an invalid IMEI. It says that the IMEI is 004999010640000. Are there any ways to repair this ?

Someone has the solution to work navitel on cyanogen ?

Hello I've been having some problems with the power button lately. For 2 days now I can't use the power button to turn the device on or off or to lock the screen or unlock it. The only time I get the chance to use the phone is if I plug it into the charger or computer, then I get the chance...

My girlfriend just bought an i897 captivate. I have successfully rooted, but can't get the sideloading "update.zip" fix anywhere... Please help

Download the Superoneclick from the following link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682 Open the application and plug your phone into the computer: Click Root. Follow on-screen instructions if necessary. Done. No odin, no flashing custom kernels.

My dad and I rooted my phone to jellybean everything works but can't get calls or make them please help!

Hello all, My friend has a Galaxy S Captivate that had a cracked screen. It was replaced without a concern and she then got it unlocked from cellunlocker.net. Since then, no matter which sim card I put in the phone it says "no service" . Does anyone have any suggestions that may help me...

First, I have to thank Geeve420 for writing this excellent guide to rooting then installing a custom ROM on the Captivate. Everything worked great... Up to the part where I was instructing the CwM Recovery (v5.1.0.7) to "install ZIP from SD card". I enter into that, but instead of going to the...

I have tried to set a custom boot animation, but am having issues. When I go to move the animation to the system file, it will not copy, the phone sticks on "moving". Is it different on the Captivate, or does Root Browser just suck? Using Root Browser updated to 2.3

So i was trying to root my phone with gingerbread 2.3.5 on odin i followed the whole instruction thing(put the phone on download mode etc) when i was in the pda part of the instructions and clicked start it failed, now the phone says: Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery...

I had previously done an update to 2.3.5 via kiess, then rooted using Odin to flash I897UCKF1-AutoRoot-DesignGears.tar then KK4_stock_kernel.tar. It's been working for a while, but I apparently changed something that caused the boot to hang. On power up, I was getting the AT&T screen, the 3G...

This is my first post on a forum...ever. But, Im desperate. I read through about 6 pages and didnt find anything even remotely close to this subject. I recently acquired a Samsung Galaxy Captivate from my buddy and the screen was scratched. No problem, right? I got a replacement digitizer (the...

So, like the title said, I booted my phone into recovery (using rom manager) while my power button is busted. Not my best idea ever. So, without the power button, I seem to be trapped in recovery. I've tried jamming on the volume buttons together, but this just reboots the phone again - but...

alright so I just rooted my Captivate yesterday and the wifi wont work it says "Obtaining IP Address" but never actually does. I used the CornKernel_UCKK4_v706.tar Corn kernel with Odin 3 v1.85 to flash it. Please Help!!!!