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firstking

CyanogenMod 7 and Samsung Galaxy (897)

I picked up a Samsung galaxy captivate cheap and ended up selling my nexus one. Overall i've been happy, especially with the extra space. I've tried some nice custom roms but I find myself missing Cyanogen. I/ve tried multiple to load it <a href="http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/17020-all-models-cyanogenmod-7-for-samsung-galaxy-s-phones-build-20110303/> but i always end up in a boot cycle or with a partition error. Has anyone had similar problems or been able load to successfully.

I was kinda shocked to find cyan doesn't officially support the galaxy line. I'm just thinking in shear numbers here.

Posted Apr 28, 2011, 7:28 AM UTC

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Epiphanyness•

I followed this guide, works great for me!

And I'd suggest Kang kernel. Runs like butter.

Let us know how it turns out.

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[deleted]•

There have been a lot of hurdles towards getting CM support for Galaxy S phones. Samsung made a lot of hardware design choices that make porting AOSP to it somewhat tricky.

You can read about why there's not official support yet here:

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/a-note-on-unofficial-ports-and-how-to-get-it-right

There is work underway to get support eventually. I've heard guess estimates that predict a mid-to-late-summer release of CM for the Galaxy phones.

I have an Epic 4G Galaxy S and I've been patiently waiting, keeping track of commits on Github to see how progress is going. They're about 80% of the way there, but the last 20% is the hardest part.

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a1cshowoffNexus5•

*sheer

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joequin•

It did work well for me. Now that it's set up, I can honestly say that this is the first rom that actually makes this phone acceptable. No more long hangs while switching applications. Voodoo and Ultimate lag fix don't hold a candle to this. I can even run "update all" in the market. I had 20 apps that needed updating and it worked perfectly. With any of the other roms, it would screw up if I even have 5 apps that needed updating.

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specialk16Nexus 5 - Stock (Xposed)•

I don't know. I really thought this when I first loaded CM, but now I'm running a i9000 2.3.3 with a reoriented kernel, and this thing flies. Since it is a official (sort of) ROM, it feels way better when it comes to integration.

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CFGXNexus 5 + LG G Pad 8.3 GPE•

You switched from a Nexus One to a Samsung? That's a mighty downgrade there.

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imbrucySGSII, CM 7.1•

I followed the instructions you linked and didn't have any issues. I haven't updated since the earlier April nightly, but have been using CM7 on my Captivate with basically no issues since then. I had one crash that I had to the pull the battery on but other then that it has run flawlessly.

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firstkingOP•

yeah i figured out what i did wrong. i had an old version of the initial zip and it wasn't gelling with the rest. I finally got it work and am loving it.

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imbrucySGSII, CM 7.1•

You'll be glad you made the switch. I was very nervous about instability when I first switched, it is labeled a experimental after all, but I have had no real issues and it is much faster then the stock TouchWiz ROM.

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