【MODEMS】【100+ Captivate I897 ♦ I9000 ♦ CM7/MIUI ♦ ICS】+【Google Location Map】

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Oxicottin

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【MODEMS】【100+ Captivate I897 ♦ I9000 ♦ CM7/MIUI ♦ ICS】+【Google Location Map】

Hello, I have created this website to bring or try to bring all the Samsung Captivate modems to one place in hope to helps others.... If im missing some please let me know so I can post them!

If this thread helped please hit the "Thanks" button!

MEMBERS: I appreciate what you're doing, but please link to this thread instead of directly linking to website pages so members can comment or read comments in this thread before flashing modems and as always, install at your own risk, I am not responsible for any damages.. :p Thanks!

Website - 【100+ Captivate I897 ♦ I9000 ♦ CM7/MIUI ♦ ICS】+【Google Location Map】

Check out the *BEST WORKING MODEM LOCATIONS GOOGLE MAP* that anyone can pin
their best modem(s) that works for their area to a public Google map and when moused over it displays the modems. TRY IT!



Here is a great website to determine what band/coverage your provider uses. Just type out your country and select your network ect. from the drop down menu.

Which is better, 850 or 1900?

In general, you are going to get more performance out of 850 than you are going to get out of 1900 for several reasons. 1. As mentioned earlier, back when the 850 licenses were issued, they had to cover a certain amount of land cover. This required deploying their system throughout many rural areas (not ALL though). 1900 licenses only need to cover up to 67% of the population, and in many cases they don't even have to meet that. 2. The higher the frequency, the shorter the usable range. You need approximately twice as many 1900 MHz towers to cover a given area than 850 MHz towers. Most 1900 MHz towers are in urban and suburban areas. A properly built 1900 system will work as well as a properly built 850 system, but it will likely cost more to deploy and operate. Sometimes 1900 will work better in a city because 1900 MHz signals tend to work better in the middle of the city with large buildings as the shorter wavelength allows the signal to go around corners easier. Also, due to network loading, 850 towers have to be "turned down" in urban areas so as to not overload, so the playing field is leveled. 3. Leaving the technical details aside, it seems that 850 MHz signals penetrate most modern buildings better than 1900 MHz signals. There are many factors involved such as the material of the walls, the proximity of the local cell towers and various other factors. The fact that 850 MHz carriers have been in operation longer and have optimized their coverage is an important factor to consider. If there is a window nearby, chances are that either system will work, assuming that there is some sort of signal available at the window! The bottom line is this: when you try out a service, make sure you bring your phone to all the areas you'll be using to make sure it works where you need it.


I897-ICS/CM7-9/MIUI Modems that was removed from website due to no audience chip support for these ROMS. Note: Makes the other person on the line complain because your all static....
 
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This is very useful, Oxi, thank you. Would you mind putting a matrix of which modems work with which versions of Android? I see you have the JL1 modem in your sig, and I was thinking the only ones I could safely use with Cog5v2 were K-series. Some clarity on this would help me a lot. Thanks again, nice work!
 

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As far as I know as long as its a 1897 modem then you can use it in the I897 Cognition ROM. I'm running the Cog 5 v2 with the JL1 modem and it works the best for me in my area. I have awesome battery life and most of the time full bars and the download speeds isn't to bad. :D

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Is the link broken? Can't access it through my phone using tapatalk.

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Is the link broken? Can't access it through my phone using tapatalk.

Sent from my SGH-I897 using Tapatalk

I was on the site moving a few things. I tried to create a drop down menu for the modems but it seems the browser didn't like it so I changed it back. Try again it should work correctly now. I tried it on my XDA app and it worked fine.
 
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Thanks for the great work! Any chance of having some type of dates assioated with the modems so there would be a way of knowing the newer from the older ones? :)
 

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Im not sure about the dates I looked at the modem with a hex editor and there is a few dates in there but its very tedious work.... As for the other modems I have never used CM7/MIUI so if you want to give me a list of modems you want to see I can find them and add them to the site. Thanks!

I have done a search and found quite a bit CM7/MIUI modems on siky_dude's thread and on Prototype159 ROM (Here and Here).... Hope this helps!


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Im not sure about the dates I looked at the modem with a hex editor and there is a few dates in there but its very tedious work.... As for the other modems I have never used CM7/MIUI so if you want to give me a list of modems you want to see I can find them and add them to the site. Thanks!

I have done a search and found quite a bit CM7/MIUI modems on siky_dude's thread and on Prototype159 ROM (Here and Here).... Hope this helps!


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Here is the official if you would call it link to CM7/miui type modems. I have also made many of the newer modems into CM7 compatible formats. I can link them in here from my dropbox too. So give me a few and I will put them in here also and others on CM7/miui can try them out.
ALSO you might just mention some easy instructions ANYONE with root explorer can do to MAKE any modem into a CM7/miui compatible modem.

DIRECTIONS:
1. Download ANY modem from your list to their phone
2. Download at least one CM7 compatible modem to their phone
3. Open root explorer and long press on the newer modem they want and choose EXTRACT ALL
4. Now long press the CM7 type modem and again choose EXTRACT ALL
5. Go to /sdcard/extracted
6. Open the newer modem package and long press on the modem.bin file and choose copy
7. Back out again to the CM7 modem package and open it.
8. Long press the modem.bin file and choose delete
9. Then press PASTE at the bottom of the screen.
10. Back out and go to the CM7 modem package and long press and RENAME it to the NEW modem name, (ie: radio-cm-7-GalaxyS-JK4-signed.zip or radio-cm-7-Captivate-JK4)
11. Now back out again and again long press and then choose ZIP THIS FOLDER
12. Go to /sdcard/SpeedSoftware/Zip
13. Long press on the NEW MODEM zip file and COPY
14. Back out until you at /sdcard and then paste
15. Reboot phone to Recovery Screen and choose install zip from sdcard, choose zip to install, pick the NEW MODEM file name you created and then install.

THIS CAN BE DONE FOR AS MANY MODEMS AS YOU WANT TO TRY/USE. I keep 4-5 different modems on the sdcard in case I have a bad reception in any certain areas I can flash a different modem until I find one that works well for the area I am in. It is a very easy flash and you do not necesalsarily need to wipe cache or dalvich cache to flash them (you can if you like, just I haven't found it necessary).

EDIT: Here are some that I have tested but they may not work for everyone. If they don't just follow the instructions I posted above to make them work on your device.

JVP http://db.tt/X1XQ91f
TUBJV6 http://db.tt/gsQAZXI
JVO http://db.tt/i9xWANo
JVK http://db.tt/Nc7QzEq
JV3 http://db.tt/SgXwv6V
JPX http://db.tt/H7e98rV
JPM http://db.tt/FpuQ7A6
JP9 http://db.tt/iLQX5Jn
JK4 http://db.tt/yi74lK1
JVR http://db.tt/vZLHr1A
JVQ http://db.tt/0bgbRKz
JJW2 http://db.tt/4VVVtXt
JJJV5 http://db.tt/OGKpbVB


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BillShepp

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I'm running Cog 4.5.3 (kb1) and when at home, where I have poor signal strength, within a few hours my Cappy loses all signal until i reboot. I'd like to try a new modem to fix this - is KF1 compatible with 4.5.3, and if so can I just drop the modem.bin from the CWM3 file into a different CWM2 modem file in order to flash it?
 

BillShepp

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To answer my own question, KF1 appears to work fine on Cognition 4.5.3 (Froyo), and replacing modem.bin in a CWM2 package with modem.bin extracted from a CWM3 package also appears to work fine. I've attached a CWM2 package of UCKF1 for others who may want to follow this approach.

Bill
 

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    【MODEMS】【100+ Captivate I897 ♦ I9000 ♦ CM7/MIUI ♦ ICS】+【Google Location Map】

    Hello, I have created this website to bring or try to bring all the Samsung Captivate modems to one place in hope to helps others.... If im missing some please let me know so I can post them!

    If this thread helped please hit the "Thanks" button!

    MEMBERS: I appreciate what you're doing, but please link to this thread instead of directly linking to website pages so members can comment or read comments in this thread before flashing modems and as always, install at your own risk, I am not responsible for any damages.. :p Thanks!

    Website - 【100+ Captivate I897 ♦ I9000 ♦ CM7/MIUI ♦ ICS】+【Google Location Map】

    Check out the *BEST WORKING MODEM LOCATIONS GOOGLE MAP* that anyone can pin
    their best modem(s) that works for their area to a public Google map and when moused over it displays the modems. TRY IT!



    Here is a great website to determine what band/coverage your provider uses. Just type out your country and select your network ect. from the drop down menu.

    Which is better, 850 or 1900?

    In general, you are going to get more performance out of 850 than you are going to get out of 1900 for several reasons. 1. As mentioned earlier, back when the 850 licenses were issued, they had to cover a certain amount of land cover. This required deploying their system throughout many rural areas (not ALL though). 1900 licenses only need to cover up to 67% of the population, and in many cases they don't even have to meet that. 2. The higher the frequency, the shorter the usable range. You need approximately twice as many 1900 MHz towers to cover a given area than 850 MHz towers. Most 1900 MHz towers are in urban and suburban areas. A properly built 1900 system will work as well as a properly built 850 system, but it will likely cost more to deploy and operate. Sometimes 1900 will work better in a city because 1900 MHz signals tend to work better in the middle of the city with large buildings as the shorter wavelength allows the signal to go around corners easier. Also, due to network loading, 850 towers have to be "turned down" in urban areas so as to not overload, so the playing field is leveled. 3. Leaving the technical details aside, it seems that 850 MHz signals penetrate most modern buildings better than 1900 MHz signals. There are many factors involved such as the material of the walls, the proximity of the local cell towers and various other factors. The fact that 850 MHz carriers have been in operation longer and have optimized their coverage is an important factor to consider. If there is a window nearby, chances are that either system will work, assuming that there is some sort of signal available at the window! The bottom line is this: when you try out a service, make sure you bring your phone to all the areas you'll be using to make sure it works where you need it.


    I897-ICS/CM7-9/MIUI Modems that was removed from website due to no audience chip support for these ROMS. Note: Makes the other person on the line complain because your all static....
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    how come in the i9000 section, all the modem names start with "captivate", but not in the i897 section? isnt the i897 the captivate, and the i9000 is the international galaxy s?

    The reason the I9000 modems start with captivate is to tell you they are for the I897 captivate and the reason the I897 captivate modems don't is its already a captivate modem so it doesn't need introduction.

    I have also found this with roms. specifically, i am currently running the KK4 saurom, but the splash screenw hen i turn my phone on says i9000. in about phone, my kernal says its the i897UCKK4... so why the i9000 splash screen?

    The reason for your I9000 splash screen is I do believe is either your running a captivate I9000 kernel for a captivate I897 ROM which is a no no OR your running captivate I9000 bootloaders for a captivate I987 ROM which is a double no no. Someone correct me if im wrong but If your running a I897 ROM you have to run I897 bootloaders but if your running a I9000 you can run either or and if your running a I897 ROM you have to run a I897 kernel and if your running a captivate I9000 ROM you have to run a I9000 kernel.

    anyway my main concern is about the modems, especially since i live in the toronto area, and my i896 stock modem is kh2, which has never been able to get a lock for me, and yet the i9000 KG3 modem works much better... but then id be running an i9000 modem on an i897 rom, and i want to stay with an i897 rom to have better call quality.

    If your running a I897 ROM you have to use a I897 Modem but if your running a captivate I9000 ROM then you have to run I9000 modems BUT if your running CM7/MIUI OR any ICS then you can run "Radio" modems either I9000 or I897 but only if they are "Radio" modems. I removed the "Radio" I897 modems from my site because the lack of audience chip makes the sound quality for the other person crappy.

    NOTE: All my modem .zip files are for the Captivate.... If that helps!

    If this helps please hit the THANKS button.
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    Modem Update

    I added the KK4 modem to the I897 section of my website.

    I added the KK4 modem to the CM7/MIUI/I897 based section as well.

    If this post helped please hit the THANKS button!
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    All modems release dates updated

    As requested by quite a few members for the release dates so I went threw every modem I897 and I9000 with a hex editor and found the release dates for each modem. These files are posted at the top of the download page of each modem list. Enjoy!

    If this post helped you please hit the THANKS button....
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    Friends its been a great run with the captivate but unfortunately I have moved on to the Note i717 and will not be updating any more modems unless given and packaged to me to upload. I will keep the website available as long as people use it and download from it.

    Thanks,
    Soggy

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