The cleanest vanilla Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for the Galaxy S I9000, Vibrant and the Captivate is here. Based on Android 4.0.3, the ROM is an effort of team ICSSGS, who began work on this ROM nearly 2 months back. The ROM is so far one of the most stable builds you can find for your Galaxy S device, and according to the developers, “We did not add any modifications unless they were absolutely required to make it work correctly.” Truly, the SGS II stands in awe right now as the predecessor maintains the lead when it comes to ICS ports and their stability.
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Enable USB Host Function On Samsung Galaxy S I9000 & Samsung Captivate
The Galaxy S series, is surely a league of Android devices with seemingly unlimited development coming in from fans. USB host functionality has been a hot topic for a about a year now with more and more Android devices seeming to support the function, especially the newer Android devices. That said, Ice Cream Sandwich is all the rage right now, and would it not be awesome if the Galaxy S got USB Host functionality while running the ICS OS? Indeed it will be, or should we say it is, thanks to XDA-Developers forum member sztupy who took the kernel form Teamhacksung's ICS Build 14 and modified it to enable the USB Host function on the Galaxy S and the Captivate as well.
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One Click Unbrick For Samsung Phones Having Odin [Guide]
The falling sensation while you are half-asleep, the dead feeling in the pit of your stomach, the utter helplessness, these are all emotions you normally go through when you brick your expensive smartphone with your own hands. In addition to the substantial loss you suffer financially, problems like loss of important contacts and data also arise. Bricking of a device can occur for a number of reasons like flashing a new ROM or following some advanced procedure in the wrong way. If you own a Samsung device running odin, then you are lucky that there are methods to unbrick it (and that too pretty easy ones), like the one we discussed here. But sadly, if you are just a simple Android user and don’t know how to follow procedures that are too advanced, then a bricked device might be a huge problem for you. That's what this guide is here for. If you have a bricked Samsung phone running Odin, now you can fix it completely with a single click!
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How To Flash KF1 Gingerbread ROM On Samsung Captivate Easily
We covered a guide on how to install the leaked official KF1 Gingerbread firmware on the Samsung Captivate. While that was no pain to install, it did involve fiddling around with multiple files in ODIN. What this package does, is let you run ODIN and click on start. Credits to XDA-developers forum member CB650 Wolf. Optionally you can flash the Fugu Root as well if you wish to. Read on for how to install it on the Captivate.
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How To Root Samsung Captivate On Gingerbread With a Custom Kernel
If you have recently updated your Captivate to the KF1 firmware by Samsung based on Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread and want to root your device, there is a solution, a very easy one for that matter. The solution is kernel based, developed by XDA-Developers forum member designgears. So read on for more on the kernel and how to install it.
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Install Official KF1 Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread Firmware On Samsung Captivate
The official Gingerbread for the Samsung Captivate has been leaked and is ready for download. With a build date of June 8, 2011, the ROM has been upped by Samfirmware for downloading. Needless to say, it is based on Android 2.3.3. Read on to download and install this ROM!
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Get Serendipity Custom ROM For Samsung Captivate
Samsung Captivate, captivated the hearts of many Samsung fans. The 4” Super-AMOLED screen along with 1GHz process and half a Gigabyte of RAM made it one of the coolest Android releases out there. The stock version however came with Android 2.1 Éclair. If you’re into custom ROM’s and are looking for a ROM to unleash on your excellent piece of hardware. We bring to you ‘Serendipity 6.2’, currently one of the hottest custom ROM’s built for your device.
If you want to try out this ROM, read on for a list of salient features as well as a step-by-step guide to install the ROM and get it running your captivate!
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Repair And Fix 3 Button Combo On Samsung Captivate
Got a Samsung Captivate and found yourself unable to reboot it into recovery and download modes using the three button combinations that are standard for Samsung Galaxy S Series devices? Don't fret and give up hope on yours, as we now have a way to easily enable these combinations again once they have been disabled. For more information and the complete procedure, read on after the jump!
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How To Unbrick Or Restore Samsung Captivate
Nothing is wore than the sinking feeling when your phone refuses to do something that it was supposed to. The feeling gets a lot worst if what it was supposed to do was boot into the operating system or in some terminal cases, not boot at all. Most of these times, the hardware itself is fine, its just some firmware level issue not letting the phone boot normally.
If you have just experienced any of the above described feelings and the feelings were inculcated by a Samsung Captivate, we’re here to tell you there is still hope. You can still have your phone back to normal if you follow the below mentioned steps:
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Create & Install Custom Android 2.2 Froyo ROM On Galaxy S & Captivate
Tried all the custom Froyo ROMs on your Samsung Galaxy S I9000 or Captivate? If that geek in you still hungers for more, we might just have something you can cook up to feed that appetite. RomKitchen is a web app that allows you to conveniently create your very own Galaxy S or Captivate Froyo ROM through a GUI in a few simple steps. Please note that if you have any other Galaxy S variant, like the Epic 4G, Vibrant or Fascinate, ROMs created through this web app won’t work on these devices.
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