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ROM Of The Moment: Assonance
I’ve tried out a lot of ROMs in the last few weeks. Cognition was a great ROM, but is no longer actively developed, the developer having moved on to Perception. Perception showed a lot of potential up to and including build 4, but all builds after that have been unstable to the point of unusability.…
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Recovering A Captivate From Near-Dead
A reader recently contacted me looking for advice with his new Captivate. He was concerned he’d bricked it, but the phone was getting as far as recovery mode, which meant that I was confident it could be saved. I met him at a coffee shop, and we spent some time recovering his phone. I learned…
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Fixing GPS On Cognition
Samsung Captivate users who have reflashed their phones with Cognition, the GPS functionality tends to take a serious nosedive compared with the stock Rogers firmware. However, gdmuscle from the XDA Developers forum was able to figure out which files to pull from the original Rogers ROM that when used on the Cognition ROM seem to…
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Samsung Captivate Wish List
Since my previous post about flashing my new Samsung Captivate from the stock Rogers ROM to the AT&T build of Android 2.2 I’ve flashed the device to a couple different versions of the Cognition ROMs. They’re certainly an improvement over the stock Rogers ROM, but Cognition is still based on the AT&T ROM, and I…
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Updating The Rogers Samsung Galaxy S (Captivate) To Android 2.2 (Froyo)
I got the newly released Rogers Samsung Captivate, which is quite the upgrade from my rapidly aging iPhone 3G. My first impressions after just over 24 hours with the phone are good. However, the fact that it came running Android 2.1 (Eclair) rather than the newer 2.2 (Froyo) release bothered me. Though if you check…