Samsung Captivate Forum

I currently have a Samsung Captivate (SGH-i897). I love this phone and have not had any serious issues till now. I am running 2.2 and all was well until one day I noticed that my phone was three hours off. It is as if the time lags out. However I can put the phone in airplane mode, wait a minute and once I turn it off the problem is fixed for roughly 20-30 minutes. I’ve also noticed that if I leave it plugged into the charger it does not have this issue. So I took out the battery, did a factory restore but today I snapped when it happened again. I thought to connect to the PC and check for updates but my PC won’t even recognize the phone. So I did a hard reset and it seemed to work for about an hour and now it is doing it again I am about to cast Firaga on my phone! It is a minor issue considering everything works as normal but it causes my text messages to get out of sync and makes it impossible to use as an alarm clock!

Please help me! I am sorry if I somehow missed a forum topic about this but I google’d and searched forums with no luck

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I do not understand this. My phone will turn itself off and I have to go through the start up screen to get things moving again. Unfortunately I can’t receive calls when it does this and callers go straight to voice mail even thought the phone is sitting right in front of me. Any ideas on how to fix this? My grandson has the same phone and his doesn’t do this.

I am curious about what the best way is, to back up everything (all apps, data, etc.) from my phone, and if it’s possible to selectively restore certain apps and data back to the phone. I have a second-hand Captivate which is still running 2.1 (eclair) firmware, and the previous owner put a picture on the phone as a wallpaper, and I’d like to perform a factory data reset, and still be able to get the apps and data and everything back afterwards.

I rooted the phone already, so I should be able to do anything necessary with the phone to back it up. I looked around through the forums, but the more I search, the more confused I get about how to perform a backup of everything on the phone.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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i found out myself about the unlock code being stored in the phone with it being rooted i used SGS unlock tool to get the code and then try it on the secret codes that will let me access the network unlock box i inputted the code that SGS unlock tool outputed and it said success so i shutdown my phone and put in a Boost Mobile Iden sim to test it out and it worked no input network unlock code

My phone original spec- Samsung Captivate:
- stock Android 2.1 – factory pre-installed
- Current status: Froyo 2.2 I897UCJI6 with rooted and carrier unlocked.

Now I am thinking to upgrade my existing rooted and unlocked Froyo 2.2 to Gingerbeard 2.3.5 I897UCKJ3 ATT firmware.
My question is what is the correct procedure to perform the firmware upgrade? Should I downgrade to stock 2.1 first before upgrade to 2.3.5 OR I can simply run odin to upgrade to 2.3.5 directly, followed by rooting and unlocking.

Can anyone who has the experience with the 2.3.5 firmware upgrade clarify for me step-by-step how to do this. Thanks in millions.

Thanks.

Hello all,

First off, my apologies if I am posting this in the wrong place. I posted this issue to another forum and it was suggested to me that I might be better off posting to an official AT&T or Samsung forum. Before going directly to att.com or samsung.com, I figured I’d post here, and see what I could find out.

I would like to rollback my phone to its stock firmware and update to Froyo again, because I have a sneaking suspicion that, although the update "took" and the phone tells me it is running 2.2 firmware, it does not seem to be working as it should now. For example, the splash screen with the pixelated S on startup does not always sync with the startup "music", and when shutting down, the screen stays on, albeit completely black, for approximately 10 seconds before the phone vibrates and shuts down completely. Are these two things normal?

I suspect the phone is not working correctly because I received an error partway through the update to 2.2 saying that the installation could not be completed (possibly due to a text from a friend coming through while I was updating), but when I rebooted the phone, everything seemed to be working, and the phone did list 2.2 as the current software.

Here is what I have done so far:

I backed up all the folders I saw when I plugged the phone into my computer in Mass Storage mode (unfortunately, I forgot to set the computer to "show hidden files and folders", so if there were any of them, I probably missed them.)
I used Samsung Kies Mini to perform the update.
I backed up all the folders after installing some new apps (again, without "show hidden files and folders" turned on).
I performed a factory data reset, from Settings -> Privacy -> Factory data reset (all that seems to have done, is erased all my apps off the phone).

I would like to return the phone to its stock firmware, update to 2.2 again, and root the phone, once I’m certain that I’ve got the Froyo update installed correctly on my phone.

If anyone could let me know how to accomplish these things, as simply and as step-by-step as possible, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for any and all advice.

Hello all,

First off, my apologies if I am posting this in the wrong place. I posted this issue to another forum and it was suggested to me that I might be better off posting to an official AT&T or Samsung forum. Before going directly to att.com or samsung.com, I figured I’d post here, and see what I could find out.

I would like to rollback my phone to its stock firmware and update to Froyo again, because I have a sneaking suspicion that, although the update "took" and the phone tells me it is running 2.2 firmware, it does not seem to be working as it should now. For example, the splash screen with the pixelated S on startup does not always sync with the startup "music", and when shutting down, the screen stays on, albeit completely black, for approximately 10 seconds before the phone vibrates and shuts down completely. Are these two things normal?

I suspect the phone is not working correctly because I received an error partway through the update to 2.2 saying that the installation could not be completed (possibly due to a text from a friend coming through while I was updating), but when I rebooted the phone, everything seemed to be working, and the phone did list 2.2 as the current software.

Here is what I have done so far:

I backed up all the folders I saw when I plugged the phone into my computer in Mass Storage mode (unfortunately, I forgot to set the computer to "show hidden files and folders", so if there were any of them, I probably missed them.)
I used Samsung Kies Mini to perform the update.
I backed up all the folders after installing some new apps (again, without "show hidden files and folders" turned on).
I performed a factory data reset, from Settings -> Privacy -> Factory data reset (all that seems to have done, is erased all my apps off the phone).

I would like to return the phone to its stock firmware, update to 2.2 again, and root the phone, once I’m certain that I’ve got the Froyo update installed correctly on my phone.

If anyone could let me know how to accomplish these things, as simply and as step-by-step as possible, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for any and all advice.