Newbies guide to customizing your Samsung Captivate

[Admin]

nbs11 on XDA put together a great .PDF of all the newbie questions on rooting/hacking/sideloading your Samsung Captivate and I wanted to host it here (I'm not a big fan of mediafire)

So, please see this link for the mirrored PDF.

(also thanks to systoxity for doing the first guide)

http://www.attdroids.com/img/docs/pimp-my-captivate.pdf

[ATTDroids]

[cuddles]

ok i tried using this guide. the kies download says it is missing parts. the link to xda didnt work. what do i do?

[dandroid]

Hey Cuddles, what are you trying to do?

[Emcee]

Hey Cuddles, what are you trying to do?

Haha, this would be a great line in a movie.

[cuddles]

well it says its a newbie guide to customizing the samsung captivate. well i clicked on and tried to do what it said and i got the errors i listed. so i gave up lol

[RockRatt]

Disregard, I had top change part of the address for it to work correctly. For some reason if you try to clikc on it from the .pdf file it is not working.

I am going through your Newb Guide and the link
xdadevelopers.com
does not seem to be working correctly. Do you have an updated link? Thanks

[El Polvazo]

Hey, I have a Mac I downloaded the file as said. Opened up the finder and dragged the renamed update.zip file into the hard drive image and when I turn off the phone then back on in command mode the phone wouldnt find the .zip file. Any advice ?

[micah]

This was the greatest help so far. I am still a little confused as to what ROMs do and why they are fun to play around with. Also, does the t-mobile market have wireless tether?

[Phaser77]

Im about to download the android explorer and a window popped up saying that i will have to pay for this and i have a 40 day trial until payment. Is this message to be disregarded or will it really charge me and if so how much?

[levpius]

can you help me with removing the root on samsung captivate? Appreciate all your efforts guys