Recent content by txGeek

Any micro-USB should work, but, man, have I been surprised at the variation in ability to charge from one cable to the next! I got the app, Ampere, and it can monitor charging current, and will show quickly which cable is doing a better job. In general, the smallest diameter cables seem to do...

This one's fine (AT&T), but probably would get the Note 4 or "plain" s5. Bill

Re: Post-JB-update issues, Package file invalid & Insufficient storage Clearing the Dalvik Cache with Titanium Backup did the trick! Thanks! Bill

My update to Jelly Bean 4.1.4 seemed to go well, no loss of data or settings, except maybe that the home page screen seems a bit "washed-out," low-contrast, no biggie. But, since then (two days ago), several apps have been updating, and I have gotten errors as noted in the title. These seem to...

My wife & I use the eBay pretty extensively, and both just got new phones, ICS-running Samsungs, and shortly after got an update to ver. 2.1.0.21 of the app. It seems that in this version, when you use the app to take pictures of your items to sell, they are not saved anywhere on the phone. In...

Yes, please! Yay!

This is sometimes a permissions problem. Check the xda forum, they have the specifics. HTH Bill

My Captivate is a refurb, and when it was on 2.1, worked fine. Installed CM7 and all sorts of trouble started. Tried multiple re-install, wiping, resetting, always flaky issues. Used ODIN to go back to 2.1, then Kies mini to go to 2.2, and all seemed fine. Tried CM7 again, still flaky. Went...

There's also a battery app that allows you to manually disable 3G, you might install that and see if it can toggle it back on. HTH! Bill

Well, I'm finally there! Ended up using the ODIN packages from xda-dev, from here. Very nice! Bill

I've done the factory reset and the FXR, still no joy. Has anyone else with a rooted phone done the upgrade? B

Well, this is frustrating! Somewhere in the attempts to upgrade, wifi got broken! It sticks at "Obtaining IP address from..." and never connects. Tried several networks, even the open one at a local AT&T store, no joy. What really capped it (heh!) was when, on a whim, I plugged my wife's...

Been through all that a couple times, and the media scanner is not running... I'm stumped! I think my Captivate is haunted! Bill

Hmm... still no joy. I'm on XP Pro, 32-bit and Kies Mini never sees the phone, USB debug or Kies USB. The phone is reset to factory, but rooted. Could that be it? TIA! Bill

How serious are they about the phone being fully-charged? I've been trying since last night and Kies never sees my phone, but it's never been at 100% charge. Also, it says use the USB debugging setting, not the KIES USB mode. Is that right? (I've tried both ways) I've also done a factory...