[Captivate General] evilgenx:
Hey! I'm going to try and help yah with this. I should start by saying I'm pretty noob to all this. I've only owned my phone for a couple of weeks and am only just now starting to be comfortable with flashing (and unbricking my phone). Hellybean for all intents and purposes is Jellybean, it's just built for our phone skipping over the wait involved with manufactures and our provider's to update us. They'd prefer we by new phones. :)

Hellybean uses a kernel called DevilKernel which is just another kernel (I'm a old school linux user so most of my fears revolve more around my phone hardware as opposed to the software/os which I have a great deal of knowledge off coming from a linux background). It's fast and stream lined for the hardware in the phone. I runs so fast and smooth, but most importantly it gives us guys with a older phone a chance to use the latest Android OS since it's doubtful that samsung and our providers (in my case it's Rogers Canada) will keep updating us with android.

I've flashed CM10 twice and twice I've gone back to Helly. Nothing wrong with CM10, it's just not "there" yet as far as how smooth it runs and support for hardware. The Hellybean creator has been working on his Jellybean builds for our phones for months so most of the kinks have been ironed out. There's really nice stuff that comes with Hellybean over CM10, and thats kernel settings control. Having a choice of so many governers, deep sleep, cpu speed, etc is just so amazing. I honestly believe that my phone runs better and smoother with Hellybean over the stock rom (I believe the last one available for my phone from Samsung/Rogers is Android 2.3.5 - Hellybean is Android 4.1.1). CM10 I believe is merged constantly with Helly bean (the things we need anyhow for our phone, it's hardware and settings). So basic, the only real big difference between any of the Jellybean ROM's I think is the kernel. As far as our apps, google support, etc - it's all the same. Some are organized a little differently but that's about it.

One important thing to note about this phone in particular (at least from what I've read and my own personal experiences) is that hard bricking this phone seems to be impossible. I've done all sorts of things and had all sorts of problems (relating to my actions, not because of Hellybean or CM7/9/10) that have scared me into thinking I had totally screwed my phone but was always able to recover using Odin. Doesn't happen often that I can't get back into recovery and simply reflash.

I wouldn't hesitate to recommend any of the mainline ROM's to anyone, I started with the official CM9-RC2 rom's, CM9 Final, Skanky and Helly. Stuck with Helly because I have zero problems with any of my hardware, etc, I flash(ed) and time a new daily came for whatever ROM I was using at the time and again had no problems (occasional brick but like I say, these phones just seem impossible to hardbrick).

My vote goes for Helly if you are interested in seeing just how capable your phone can be and how current it can be! Don't forget to backup! Titanium Pro was well worth the money and is a amazingly awesome and stable way to backup and restore.

Hope this helps.. One noob to another. :)

---------- Post added at 09:00 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:51 AM ----------

Weird, I didn't run into any of these problems myself and I've flashed to all the builds as they came out. Usually, when I run into something "odd" tho I'll just format my sdcard and reinstall - things are usually as they should be at that point.

Best thing on the planet for backing up though is Titanium. Thats the best/easiest/fastest and safest way to do it IMHO. Reading around the android world, I'm not alone in that. :)