Interesting - Vibrant ROM on Captivate

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Day 1 - Rooted my phone successfully .
Day 2 - Hosed it up royally with a bad metamorph attempt at changing the fremework-res items (endless stream of FC's at startup, no icons, no menus, no adb access)

Since I couldn't find an original ROM for the Captivate, I started messing with the Vibrant ROM files from MS_Guru's post on the Vibrant forums
http...forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728698

Using Odin and the combination of the Vibrant .pit file and the T959-PDA.tar file (Didn't flash the CSC or Phone tar's figuring they were tied to the hardware and not the ROM) I got it running again!

I haven't played with it to see just how much functionality is missing using a T-Mobile ROM on AT&T, but the phone (3G even), wifi, and standard stuff seems to work just fine.

I definately don't suggest doing this as a ROM replacement, but as my phone was useless prior to I figured what the heck!

Very interesting...thanks for sharing. That to me is just more proof that Vibrant ROMs won't be too big of a pain to port.

Congrats on getting your phone working again. This good news because it shows that the vibrant and all other galaxy s roms can be interchanged without much modification

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Thanks for sharing.
Let us know how it works after you played with it for a bit.

Originally Posted by clubtech

Thanks for sharing.
Let us know how it works after you played with it for a bit.

This is a little off topic, but damn you have had a lot of recent phones I thought I was crazy having iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, ATT Nexus One, and now the Samsung Captivate in a little over a year. Mine all came from one provider you must have accounts with Sprint too. How does the EVO compare to the Captivate and N1 in your opinion?

Originally Posted by angermeans

This is a little off topic, but damn you have had a lot of recent phones I thought I was crazy having iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, ATT Nexus One, and now the Samsung Captivate in a little over a year. Mine all came from one provider you must have accounts with Sprint too. How does the EVO compare to the Captivate and N1 in your opinion?

Yea...I'm a phone whore
The EVO was the slowest HTC android I had, and this is why I don't have it anymore. And sprint network is really slow .
For now, I am done with htc.

Originally Posted by Snaffles

Day 1 - Rooted my phone successfully .
Day 2 - Hosed it up royally with a bad metamorph attempt at changing the fremework-res items (endless stream of FC's at startup, no icons, no menus, no adb access)

Since I couldn't find an original ROM for the Captivate, I started messing with the Vibrant ROM files from MS_Guru's post on the Vibrant forums
http...forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728698

Using Odin and the combination of the Vibrant .pit file and the T959-PDA.tar file (Didn't flash the CSC or Phone tar's figuring they were tied to the hardware and not the ROM) I got it running again!

I haven't played with it to see just how much functionality is missing using a T-Mobile ROM on AT&T, but the phone (3G even), wifi, and standard stuff seems to work just fine.

I definately don't suggest doing this as a ROM replacement, but as my phone was useless prior to I figured what the heck!

hey this is almost my exact same story! messed up some stuff but flashed on the vibrant to my captivate and it's working well.

the only things are the volume keys are backwards, and the home button is swapped with the back button :/ does anyone know a fix for this? or if the stock captivate firmware is coming anytime soon?

Well word on the street is we got a developer working on a recovery method so probably soon. Hang in there.

Sent from my Samsung Captivate using XDA app

bricked!

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hey guys i flashed the kernel from mimocans lag fix but my captivate would not boot up correctly so i tried reflashing it. in the middle of the process my laptop died and now my phone is stuck on a screen with an exclamation point between a phone and a computer

Unplug the USB cable.

Remove the battery, put it back in.

Hold down the volume down button then press power. You should see the android with the shovel right away. Try the flash again.

If that doesn't work, remove and replace battery again, then try holding the up volume button and then power.

Volume Down + Power is the way it's supposed to work, but if you have pushed Vibrant firmware, those buttons get reversed.