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[Captivate General] caelestis2:
Strange. There will always be an online manual.

BTW, the ATT stores wouldn't let me play with anything other than a dummy, so I went to T-Mobile and touched their Vibrant. It was very light and my dad loved it alot more than the captivate (because he has an iPhone). Colors do look nicer but wasnt THAT much more nicer. Maybe when I get to play with it more it will sink in. If it weren't for a $30 data plan and no lesser pricing options then I would switch...

It was very light, it almost creeped me out. Felt like I was holding nothing but a hollow shell.
[Captivate General] hyoungluv:
i just got mine today too!! one store wouldn't sell it cuz it dosn't come out for another 3 days :) but i got it so far love it ...been at work so havn't played with it much but im not getting pic messages and mine won't sync to a computer too for the same reason :) but so far so good
[Captivate General] hyoungluv:
to the person coming from the N1....i had the n1 and this phone is MUCH nicer....seems faster screen is AMAZING ...much better phone...only thing i like about the n1 is the directions app on the n1 was awesome
[Captivate General] farrout000:
There's no radio? Shoot, I was kind of hoping for that feature :(
[Captivate General] PhonePhun:
I went to a store today to try and get one early but he wouldn't sell it to me, but he did get one out from the back and opened it and turned it on so I got hands on for a short time but there is really not much you can do with no data or phone connection. He wouldn't or couldn't put one aside for me and I can't get it till Monday now. He said not to worry that I was the ONLY person that has showed interest in this phone and they had plenty. They have about 10! That is not plenty in my book. The phone was nice and felt like it belonged in my hands! Right now I am still using a "Cingular" HTC 8525 for 3 years now.
[Captivate General] matthewpapa:
Ive just discovered that wired tethering works without the service plan addon! AT&T threw us a bone with that one
[Captivate General] caelestis2:
^^^^ Yeah but they will charge you if they notice. Its like using data when you don't have the service, ridiculous prices.
[Captivate General] ewingr:
So, how do you do that?
[Captivate General] matthewpapa:
I did it for years with WinMo phones and they never noticed. I never used it a ton though, only in emergencies .... ATT at least used to attempt to disable tethering on winmo, but you were always a patch away from freedom. here i see no effort...weird

I also find it weird that this device did not come with any drivers...at all. No CD ROM. no nothing. I guess ATT will put them up for "official" download later

Someone found the drivers here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=727164
[Captivate General] dinohaven:
Hello all. I went down to my local at&t store two days ago and picked up the captivate...i returned the Aria for it. General impression is that it is a nice phone. But i really don't see a drMatic difference in daylight screen from this and the aria. It is VERY light...my wife likes it lighter, but i miss the weight and "sturdy" feel of the Aria...not sure what to think yet...i do think rurning off the background animation helped elliminate some of the freezing i was getting at first.

One other thing- i installed the same amount of apps as i had on the aria, when i checked my ram, i noticed that i had about 90mb free...which is the same as the Aria!!!! Doesnt this thing have 512mb vs Aria's 256mb? Or am i off on the specs??

Man it sounds like i miss the aria...bit jury is srill out.
[Captivate General] systoxity:
applied the fixes found here. I hear it makes a world of a difference
[Captivate General] dinohaven:
More Battery Info...

I second this...I uninstall my new Captivate at 7am and can make it to 6pm-ish on moderate use (er, still playing with it)....the Aria's battery improved over time...so I am hoping this will be the case as well.
[Captivate General] dinohaven:
Fixes?

Hmmm, which fixes are you referring to? Is there a thread?
[Captivate General] TexUs:
Do they work for the Captivate though? I know the SGS International hacks work but I haven't heard of anyone trying them on the Captivate.

I've got the drivers installed and the phone is rooted but how did you manage to get the tethering working?
[Captivate General] dinohaven:
TexUs -

Where is a good thread on how to root the captivate? How did u do it?
[Captivate General] TexUs:
There's a How to Root thread in the Captivate Android Development forum
[Captivate General] zeloe326:
Hello can anyone confirm that the Captivate is $350 no commitment.

edit - found my answer in the price thread. Sorry I jumped the gun a little too early.
[Captivate General] BoostedSR20:
Did you have froyo or a custom Rom on your N1?
[Captivate General] dsjr2006:
How is directions on the N1 any different from the Captivate? You mean the fact that it had a shortcut?
[Captivate General] BoostedSR20:
I don't care about the navigation app. In his statement, he said the Captivate seemed WAY nicer, and faster than his N1. I want to know if his N1 had stock 2.1, stock 2.2 or custom ROM.
[Captivate General] TexUs:
Doesn't matter. The Captivate running 2.1 outperformed the N1 running 2.2 in the tests you see around... (And almost twice the framerate). When the Captivate gets 2.2 it'll be blazin'.
[Captivate General] systoxity:
got this phone today :). Sickest **** i've seen in a long time. I'll post more once i learn how to get around it better. I need a screen shield :( i'm afraid ima scratch this.
[Captivate General] matthewpapa:
After my 5th day of using the captivate i can say that the battery does last all day with my daily usage....but just barely.

Hopefully there will be some power saving tweaks in coming builds
[Captivate General] mesasone:
Anybody else finding that the auto-brightness setting is a bit too dim for their liking? Anyway of setting it to a higher brightness (say 70-75%) with out it being at max all the time?
[Captivate General] madjsp:
I love this phone and swype is real easy to use. I ordered a screen protector from att for 10 after tax. I haven't had time to mess around with the gps yet but I am sure it is better than my old nokia n97.
[Captivate General] mesasone:
Anybody know how I can get this thing to into "idle" mode? When I connect my USB cable, it says PC connection only available in idle screen, please close all applications - or something to that effect. I have a task killer installed and when I kill all tasks (including the task manager), I'm still getting that message.

EDIT: I got it, I think it had something to do with "QuickDesk".
[Captivate General] tsquare2112:
Picked two up last night at local AT&T store, one for me and one for my fiance. We both sold our iPhone 4's to get these. So far I am liking it.

CONS:

No visual LED Alert like all previous Android phones. That is one thing I always liked about my previous Android Phones (G1, MT3G, Cliq, Droid, N1). So that is VERY dissapointing.

No Camera Flash (knew this going in so not too bad for me)

Lag!!!!! Not too bad, since I am sure I will be rooting as soon as possible.

Now, we used a check book register app on our iPhones that was really nice, it allowed us to sync all of our bank acounts between phones. I have yet to find an Android app that will allow us to do that. I have always used Loot, but it will not sync.

PROS:

Excellent screen

Build Quality seems good

Android, its good to be back after my iPhone experience the last few months.
[Captivate General] kennethpenn:
Really amazing. Loving it. Beautiful build... love the curve bottom and top.
[Captivate General] BoostedSR20:
I just picked one up. Got it for $150 + $50 mail in rebate.

I'm going to hang onto my N1, if anyone wants to see any side by side comparisons, I can make good quality videos.
[Captivate General] Consolenomad:
first impressions

Picked one up with no-contract extension at Best Buy this morning. A bit of a rip-off compared to the AT&T price, but I'm just happy to have gotten one. There were actually a number of people queued up outside waiting for the store to open. (Some looking for Captivate, some for iPhone 4).

Followed the root instructions on the forums with no issues, as well as the settings.db hack to enable non-Market app downloads - no problems with either. I switched to Launcher Pro right away, and haven't had any issues with lag sense. I haven't yet removed the AT&T apps, but it's on my todo-list.

I'm coming from an iPhone 3G that has been plagued by dropped calls and now lag (iOS4). This could be a coincidence, but I haven't had one dropped call today on the Captivate. The iPhone->Android transition is a bit of an adjustment, but DoubleTwist seems to be doing a good job of synching my music over.

Right now I'm using a secondary 16G card - would be curious to know if anyone has tried a 32G.
[Captivate General] DarkVasyaK:
could you please check if it is possible to unlock this device for any GSM network
[Captivate General] unclejimbo88:
The reason for that is Android runs as many apps as it can with the ram it has, but leaves some left over. So even though they both had 90mb free, the Captivate actually has twice the apps still in memory, so when you switch back to it, you don't have to wait for it to load again.
[Captivate General] monadzback:
this is probably my first post since my cingular 8525... I am debating getting this phone. I am currently on the iphone 4. But I dont want to return it and then be stuck with the captivate If I dont like it...
[Captivate General] systoxity:
I've been playing with this for the past 5 hours. The only thing i can fault is the no led or tractable parry. Everything else Is the ridiculously awesome
[Captivate General] Kagoshema:
just went into the att store to look at this phone

the first thing i thought was that it gives a totally different impression in person compared to pictures. the phone is moderately large but extremely light. it has a very executive look which i don't think shows in pictures online. i didn't notice too much UI lag, but i still prefer sense.

ive been debating between this and the aria, anyone have an opinion on which i should get?
[Captivate General] systoxity:
I tried the aria in store and this one and the aria seemed better. I bought this one anyway because the community says its only the software holding it back. Low and behold i just swapped out touchwiz for launcher pro beta and this phone flies. Its basically an aria with a bigger screen and better hardware now.
[Captivate General] kennethpenn:
Proximity sensor on my calls = BOSS. Works extremely well.
[Captivate General] uberamd:
I like the Captivate better than the Nexus, however the Nexus does have the benefits of: pulsing trackball for message indication, flash for camera, and Froyo.
[Captivate General] uberamd:
So its not like the Aria at all, its like an Android phone :)

The Galaxy with Sense UI would be a total dream for me.
[Captivate General] TristanG007:
Look for an app called mint to track all expenses and accounts.
[Captivate General] Kagoshema:
the aria flies even before you get rid of the att junk

how long do you think it will be before the aria starts to get slow from firmware, new apps etc.. its only 400mhz and 128mb slower than the captivate or other top androids
[Captivate General] systoxity:
Your stance on the subject is skillfully unclear lol. But yes, the touchwiz is not optimized and the captivate will indeed outcast the aria in the tech world hardware wise.
[Captivate General] fatespeaks:
Picked mine up this morning. First experience with Android. Have been using Fuze & Tilt for the last few years.

Pros:

beautiful screen

responsive touch-screen

the default phone dialer works well. (I hated the default dialer on the Fuze)

readable outdoors (it was cloudy today)

wifi (11g-wpa) was quick and easy to setup. (almost too quick, the card must have already been scanning)

not-Pros:

As mentioned earlier, the charger / USB-cable combo feel cheap. I will be disappointed but not surprised when it breaks.

Screen-guard not included. I picked up the 3 pack at AT&T for $9.99. Good thing it was a multi-pack. I messed up the first one while trying to apply it. Not sure where that lint came from. :)

no cover for the headset jack

4-default off-screen buttons at bottom of the phone are not back-lit. It probably won't take long to learn menu-home-back-search. (updated - they are back-lit, but it turns off quickly)

camera would not take photos. said there is not enough memory. This is supposed to have 16GB internal. Certainly, AT&T couldn't have bloated the image that much. (updated: After mounting the internal 13.43GB internal storage, I can take photos. Not sure why this would have been unmounted.)
[Captivate General] Kagoshema:
lol i dont exactly have "stance". just wondering if the aria will start to feel dated by the end of a 2 year contract.

what made me ask is the rumor that the froyo's successor will have a 1ghz/512mb hardware suggestion/requirement
[Captivate General] ponack:
I got my Captivate today - I like it - but I noticed something odd, can anyone confirm it? When running apps I've noticed the phone will occaisionally flake out and quit back to the home screen after going nuts with some haptic feedback.
[Captivate General] phrebh:
I've had mine for about 11 hours and all's well. I upgraded from Tilt, but had little trouble adjusting to Android. The screen is bright and made in such a way that my polarized sunglasses don't kill it in either landscape or portrait (it dies at about 45 degrees). It's super light-weight and thin. Its footprint isn't too big considering the size of the screen crammed in there.

Most of the problems I've been having are only to related to the fact that Android doesn't allow the hands-on approach that WM6.1 does. Then again, it doesn't require so much fiddling, either.
[Captivate General] ghost77:
Media Hardware acceleration is awesome for kicks i transferred one of my 60fps music videos :eek: Thats 720p running at 60 FPS and encoded with High profile, holy s*** . My nexus one can only dream of playing this. No droped frames no out of sync audio , awesome playback.

One con i noticed is MKV files doesn't render subtitles , so for some shows with soft subs still need to transcode. But darn it sure has hardware to decode so serious stuff :D

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Height : 720 pixels

Frame rate : 59.940 fps

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Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
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Bit rate mode : Variable
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Maximum bit rate : 13.7 Mbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 59.940 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.163
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Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=tesa / subme=9 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc=2pass / bitrate=9000 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=50000 / vbv_bufsize=50000 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:1.00
Encoded date : UTC 2009-05-27 02:25:26
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Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
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Encoding settings : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 20.5
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[Captivate General] doug_s:
I sent back my N1 (stock 2.2) on Friday, picked up Captivate on Sunday, so I didn't run them side-by-side. However, the Captivate seems faster in some places, and slightly slower in others. My expectation is that when it gets 2.2, it's going to positively scream.
[Captivate General] labbu63:
gonna try to get this by thursday hoping its exactly what i expect of it ill write what i think later on
[Captivate General] hbkmog:
I'd probably consider this phone once there's hack available to get rid of the AT&T crapware with a clean vanilla android.

In fact I'd even like to get rid of the AT&T logo on the phone, which is really ugly imo.
[Captivate General] iphonekillers:
i got wait to the middle of the week too ,so ready for this phone .......
[Captivate General] focalguy:
Just got mine yesterday. I was the first one at the store and they only had 4 in back. One other person was buying at the same time as me. I got the body-glove case they had in stock because I wanted something to protect it "now" even though I plan on purchasing another one later. I got a few discounts since I'm still on a previous employer's plan so the phone+case+tax was $191 with 2-yr renewal.

I'm coming from an HTC Fuze which had just been driving me crazy over the last few months. I'm liking Android much better than WinMo so far.

Good:

Screen is beautiful. Viewing angle still looks good when tilted away from me. Can't compare it to others but maybe after a few days I will.

Video looks great on the device. Haven't tried watching from the PC yet.

Not-so-good:

I do see lag or something when trying to click the "Return" or "Home" key in applications sometimes. Not sure what the cause is. Sometimes I'll hit the return key, it gives me the vibrate feedback and then nothing happens. Even if I wait 10 seconds. Then I'll hit the key again and it will go back immediately.

Had the same charging plug issue of it falling out but then opened the USB cover all the way which doesn't feel natural at first.

That's all for now. Think I'll throw some videos on it to watch on the bus this morning. Oh, and mine did come with some Samsung earbuds but they don't seem to fit my ears. I planned on buying some others anyways but it was nice that they came with something to use.
[Captivate General] oldfossil:
I bought the Captivate yesterday coming from an iPhone 3G and may exchange the Captivate for an iPhone 4. Contacts is the first thing I noticed when I got the phone. No simple import from Outlook and not very customizable. I'll give it another few days to get used to the phone before I decide. My current thought is that if you want a phone where everything works well out of the box then this isn’t the phone for you. If you like messing around with the OS, and finding out why things don’t work and fixing them you will like this phone.

On the plus side the Captivate has a great screen. Watching video is a good experience and the sound is good with good volume. My 16 year old son thinks it’s a cool phone and doesn’t have any problem rummaging through Android to find what he wants. But even he has to take quite a bit of time to get some things to work that should work without needing to be messed around with

I wanted to back up the Captivate before I started playing with it too much but can't get Kies to work, so no backup. It's a common problem that shouldn’t happen.

The iPhone UI is WAY more mature and elegant than the Samsung. You may be able to take some time and customize the Samsung the way you want it but the iPhone is pretty much the way I want it already. The iPhone apps are more consistent with the UI and don't generally look as amateur as the Android apps.

BTW, my 3G was jailbroken so I could pretty much do what I wanted with the iPhone (wireless tethering, non Apple approved apps)
[Captivate General] labbu63:
you know you can do that on android without a jailbreak right... all you gotta do is root which is almost like a jailbreak with less pro's cause android is open to anything i think its just att thats holding it back oh plus you can change the ui just to let you know
[Captivate General] TexUs:
Did you just call Android out for lack of customization????

It works just fine out of the box.

The simple fact you're wanting to sync with Outlook means you're already doing something most people wouldn't want to do...

As far as all the basic functions it works just fine.
[Captivate General] labbu63:
looks like we agree TexUs
[Captivate General] phrebh:
Transferring my contacts out of Outlook was a bit of a headache, and while I really don't want them synced with gmail, I can live with it.

I also think it's weird that someone would consider going from this to an iPhone 4. My cousin returned his iPhone 4 for a Captivate after having to get it replaced for the screen cracking issue and being brutalized by the dropped calls, even with a bumper.
[Captivate General] myrddin201:
got mine yesterday and blew though my first two charges playing with it :D

moving from an old Tilt to the Captive is awesome.

i was wondering though when they were releasing the Android 2.2 for it? the rep at the ATT store said "soon"...whatever that means :rolleyes:
[Captivate General] caelestis2:
Just got it, but can't edit my original post. Anyway here's my thoughts.

The last few days have been hectic, going to multiple stores and calling 20 stores in the Atlanta area to find the magical $350 off contract price. I couldn't find a store that would sell it to me that low and yesterday I ordered it off of Wal-mart's site. Needless to say I did not get it for a cool $229 and got fed up and headed to the local ATT store and bought it on contract for $200. Oh well.

Heres what I thought the first two minutes: The phone is FAST. As a previous windows mobile user it blows everything out of the water. The screen is beautiful! It is the best screen I ever laid eyes on and looking at it on an LCD screen when watching reviews did not do it justice. Yes, when I get close to about 2 inches I can see pixels, but when I use it normally I do not notice them at all and I am very near sighted.

I installed snesnoid and ran super mario RPG and kirby and this can handle it perfectly! I also installed a Asphalt 5 and the gaming is experience is wonderful. I wasn't let down by the GPU and this is the perfect gaming phone.

The other thing I like is how it handles integration of google services. Google voice works flawlessly and now I have unlimited texts over data, visual voicemail, and the push gmail is wonderful. I never have to check my email again and as a phone this is really great. A phone should handle all my communications flawlessly and it does it in a really integrated fashion.

Touchwiz isn't laggy at all! Everything is smooth. The animations never lag, the applications open fast enough for me (0-3) seconds. I don't know why everyone is complaining, I've used the iPhone before and this matches its UI speed (which is near perfect). I don't like the side scrolling apps page but I'll keep touchwiz for now. I really like the lockscreen.

Swype is faster than any mobile software keyboard and once I get used to it I'm sure it will beat mobile hardware ones too. I will compete against my friend's hw keyboard and see. It's not as fast as a normal computer keyboard but its very good for a phone.

The widgets all suck and I wish I had a better default clock. What happened to the traditional android clock? I don't see it. Can anyone recommend better widgets?

Voice quality is okay, but I suspect that ATT's crappiness in my area has something to do with it. The ringtone selection sucks and I will add some HTC ringtones.

Overall I'm really impressed by what android can do and the hardware than samsung has put into this phone. The device has a sleek front, I don't really like the plastic edges, but hey, I don't like the look of a lot of phones and this one does catch the eye.

Nagging things: If I hold and cover the back too tightly I lose bars, but calls are still fine. The screen brightness doesnt fade smoothly. The screen isn't that smooth to the touch but it's okay.