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[Captivate General] marshall7712:
Hello All,

New to Android. Feel good to be part of the revolution!

I have read many posts concerning the GPS issues in the Captivate. Is there a third party app that works for GPS on the Captivate?

GPS will be one of the main reasons I purchase the Captivate next week. It is a must app for us as thats all we do now is travel. Our BB is great with Google Maps.

Thanks
[Captivate General] daleaf:
From what I have picked up, it's a problem in the drivers and firmware, so the GPS won't work for any other applications. I have been told by other people that Samsung is aware of this issue and is working on a fix.

Now if that fix will be released anytime soon is a different story...
[Captivate General] startngate:
Google Maps Navigation is working perfectly for me. I must be lucky, I've seen none of the GPS issues reported thus far.
[Captivate General] asrrin29:
It sounds like a problem with some and not all devices. For instance, my GPS works extremely well, pinpointing me within 20 meters even while inside my apartment on the ground floor. For other they could be in the middle of an empty parking lot with full reception, and not be able to lock a single GPS satellite.
[General Questions and Answers] carhigh:
I have NavStation Tides on my HD2, but its very ugly and has to much stuff i dont need or use. A skin would make it a ton better, but there has to be some other apps out there just for tides.

I live on the shoreline and signal sux most of the time when on or near the water, so an app is ideal rather than browsing to a web page and putting in locations and all that.

Yeah ok, so i can just look and see how far along the tide is. NOT really. Tha doesnt tell you when low is, or high is, or which way its going.

I think i covered a few reasons why an app would be useful.

Navstation works good but its cluttered up and the skin is horable on the HD2
[General Questions and Answers] jeanne8fr:
airtaxi.net/ctide/
[General Questions and Answers] carhigh:
You can't be serious? last update in 2003 and i've tried it a long time ago. its a POS app and doesn't work for crap.
[Vibrant General] Jeffro64:
Where does the Vibrant save pictures from say MMS messages? I looked in the Gallery and under files and couldn't find what I saved, and there doesn't seem to be a way to view the internal SD which is the only other place I can think of that it would save to. I can access the internal SD with my USB cable, but i'm at work right now.:cool:
[Vibrant General] manticore1977:
Use the Files app and look for the Download folder.
[Vibrant General] Jeffro64:
That's what I thought too, but like I said in the OP I looked in there after the Gallery and there wasn't a download folder or any folder that had the pic I had saved inside.

This was on a friends Vibrant at work... I knew there was supposed to be a download folder under files because I have one on my Vibrant. Something strange going on with his I guess LOL. Thanks for the reply.:cool:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Kpkpkpkp:
I'm looking for a task switcher that shows all running apps (and not like the default android one which only shows the 6 most recent). The ones I've come across seem to require a long press of the search button to activate, but the SGS lacks a dedicated search button.

Does anyone know of one that uses another shortcut, long press home / double tap home for example?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
This is exactly what I'm looking for, but I've been searching through in market place for something that let's me assign program to hardware key action. No luck so far. Any experienced folks know if it's possible to customize the phone this way?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] audit8321:
I have used taskswitcher and prehome..both function pretty much the same way...tap home button once shows all running apps and hitting it once more from the app switch screen takes you to the home screen. I kinda prefer prehome as it seems to use less memory but then again theres really not much of a difference imo..hope this helped..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Great recommendation. Will try it out. Thank you very much for sharing is.

Lovely. Pressing home will show the truly still running task instead of recently used ones. It's lets you kill or switch to any active program.

So, long press home to show last 6 most recently used programs

single press home will invoke the task manager, allowing killing and switching.

Double press home to really go to home.

Sounds like what I want. Seems a little buggy, but I'm happy with it at least for now.
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
I just got the Captivate on Sunday so maybe it needs some time to settle in or whatnot, but I thought I'd make a post about its battery life. How's everyones experience with the battery so far? I love this phone to death, but it seems like the battery life sucks so far. It also seems to take a really really long time to charge up.

I have the display at 11% and haven't done anything with the phone at all today and I'm already at 80%.

3h 12m since unplugged. Says what's using my battery is:

Display: 35%

Cell Standby: 22%

Phone Idle: 15%

Bezier - Live Wallpaper: 7%

Android System: 6%

Advanced Taskkiller Free: 5%

Alarm Clock Plus: 4%

Android OS: 3%

I have GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth all off. Autobrightness is off, I just have it set to 11%.

80% after 3 hours of doing absolutely nothing to the phone doesn't seem right. I'm killing apps I'm not using and the only thing more I could really do is kill the live wall paper but it doesn't seem to be taking that much battery life and I really like it.

Any thoughts?

Also it seems to take like an hour and a half to get like 15% charge when plugged into an outlet. It just takes absolutely forever to charge it.
[Captivate General] bb12489:
Yea my battery life is also draining really fast. It tells me that the screen is using 73% of the battery though....

Any thoughts?
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
When I first got it I used it till it died pretty much and then charged it all the way back to full. Wasn't sure if this was necessary or not, but I'm just pointing out that I did it. I have obviously been using it a bunch when I first got it, but now I'm not, trying to see what kind of battery life I have. I haven't done anything except look at the phone a couple times this morning. Haven't even run an app. :(
[Captivate General] bb12489:
Yea same here. Im doing the exact Same thing. I unplugged at like 8am and right now im at 80%
[Captivate General] madjsp:
I unplugged my phone about 3 hours ago and I am at 93% battery life.

I am using Juice Defender, and I kill all apps that I don't want open.
[Captivate General] iceman4357:
I actually think this phone has great battery life. It typically takes a few charge cycles for the battery to settle in. I abuse the phone a lot and it lasts all day for me. Compared to my tilt2 this thing has much better battery. I would suggest that you guys run the battery all the way down, and let it charge fully overnight a few days in a row, and you should see and increase in performance.

Current Battery: 74% Unplugged for 5hrs 14 minutes

Display: 41%

voice calls: 37%

standby:11%

Idle:7%

android system: 3%
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
I just installed juicedefender. Looks interesting. We'll see if it makes a difference.
[Captivate General] MendedEagle:
Running down the battery to about 5 or 10 percent and then charging all the way up several times definitely helps. Its been almost eleven hrs since I unplugged and I'm at 73%

Let it run down and then charge all the way up several times. Worked with my phone.
[Captivate General] dmnall:
My Battery Life on my bold was better but then it is a different phone and the battery was almost 2 years old but still worked great. Now my battery is at 22% and when I left a 8:50 am PDT, I pulled it off of charge, and I am playing music to intentionally get the battery down to 5% or less before I charge it. Not bad considering, I am constantly doing a ton of stuff, browsing, playing games, playing music the first time, and running google earth/maps as well as you tube videos.

Cheers,

Charlie
[Captivate General] cachookaman:
ive been unplugged for 2 hours and 27 minutes and im down to 67%
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
Haven't done much with the phone all day. Installed juicedefender. Left it on easy settings. Not sure how much it's helping so far, if anything. This is my current breakdown: 8h, 48m since unplugged... 35% battery remaining. Display: 45%, cell standby: 16%, phone idle: 10%, Live Wallpaper: 7%, android system: 5%, beautiful widgets, maps, speed test, android OS and advanced task killer 3%, 3%, 3%, 3%, 2% respectively. Still think it's not doing what it should. A good majority of the day I've left it in the off position, not messing with it. 30% by the time I leave work really kind of sucks.

I got the phone Sunday. Used the crap out of it Sunday and Monday and let it run almost down to 0% (it was warning me to plug it in) then let it charge to 100% which took hours and hours and hours. I remember when I had my Iphone down to like 60% when I left work I'd enable pandora streaming and plug it into the car charger and be back up to 85% by the time I got home at least, and it's a half hour drive.

When I plug it into the car charger or a regular outlet I'm lucky if it goes up 2% after a half hour. I'm starting to wonder if this thing has a bad battery.
[Captivate General] mymansionisabox:
What is your phone's uptime?

I've been unplugged since 6:45am this morning.. its about 2:40 now and I am at 73%.

I've been downloading apps, playing with androidVNC and just continually tinkering with settings.

My uptime is 111:40:00 and its been 7h 50m since unplugged.

I'm using launcher pro.

I have a bit of speculation that Touchwiz has something to do with it including its special widgets.

Something isn't right with that.
[Captivate General] mymansionisabox:
What the iPhone was doing is called a rapid charge. That 85% is not equivalent to an 85% charge that you would get from discharging from 100%

You should read this article.

hxxp://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/

(replace xx's with tt)
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
Fair enough. I'm very interested in checking out this article, but I've gotta run now. I was going to give the GPS one more shot on the way home. If I can't get a lock and the battery doesn't get much of a charge being plugged in the whole way I think I may take it back to the AT&T store and see if they'll swap it out or even give me a battery replacement.

Should I reverse the root before I do that, if I do? I know that's entirely off topic. Should I just remove the superuser permission app (if I even can)?

Additionally, just throwing this out there anyway, according to this review: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/07/23/att-samsung-captivate-review/ their camera is awesome without any settings changes.. I find the regular camera kind of blows. I'll upload some pictures if anyone wants to see em, but I used my phone, on the basic settings, to take pictures of my Iphone which I was selling on ebay and the pictures came out kind of crappy, especially for being 5mega pixel. The video camera looks great, but the picture part of it I am really surprised at. My overarching point is I think there might just be some lemon phones out there possibly, and I think I might have gotten one. I'm running into all the major problems that some people are complaining about. Camera, GPS locking, battery, lagginess of the UI, etc. I think I'm gonna try to get AT&T to swap my phone out.
[Captivate General] slider2828:
LIke said in other threads, mine just draining like crazy before but now it seems to be pretty bearable. Here are the things that REALLY helped me:

1.Completely drain the phone till its dead.

2.Fully Charge the phone with it off! Yes you can live without it for a little while

3.Disable the live wallpaper,

4.Use Launchpro and heaurisitc which is the vibration when the 4 buttons at the bottom are used.

5.Reduce vibration overall

6.Dim Screen

7.Turn off everything except I run wireless and fring 24/7 basically

AND this phone is fast,

I dunno if its available through the free launchpro, but I paid for the plus and its sooo fast.

1.I just disable all the animation crap and everything and make everything level 8 on speed of opening up

2.Disable the elastic animation when moving from screen to screen....

3. I would really suggest people pay for launchpro plus, cause its cheap and the work is almost gods gift to cell phones ahahhaa....

Hope this helps....

7am and now its 1PM with Wifi and Fring on since 10am and last checked its at 80% with a 15 minute phone call. and messaging probably 30 messages.

I am going to drain it till its dead tonight again and fully charge with phone off again. I think this helps a lot.
[Captivate General] emuneee:
I unplugged my phone at 8:30...listened to an hour of Pandora, checked email, and was on Twitter...down to 85% at 10:30 which is pretty good to me. I also don't have a task killer installed for what its worth.
[Captivate General] dmnall:
Well Update around 30 minuets my phone completely died for the first time so I am charging it now, and I am hopeful that it will get better soon.

HTH,

Charlie
[Captivate General] kkeo:
Get rid of the live wallpaper, that uses quite a bit of battery
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
I just want to mention that I swapped out my captivate at the AT&T store yesterday. I let it almost die, then charged it to full, unplugged it for 5 minutes, charged it to full again, unplugged it for 5 minutes and charged it to full again and left it connected over night.

I've been using the phone all day today, changed settings, texted, generally used it, since about 6:45AM and I'm at 71% battery at 11:35. Insanely better. By a lot. With the old phone I'd be at 30 or 40% by now, honestly.

Additionally, the screen seems much brighter, even at the lowest setting. The camera seems to take better pictures and everything seems much snappier and quicker on the phone, by a lot.

I got the GPS to lock on once, and while it wasn't perfect, it followed me, and then I couldn't get it to lock again unfortunately, but I'll keep messing with it. I think it's a samsung update issue anyway, with regards to the GPS.

I really and truly believe that I got a lemon phone. I know that the AT&T store by me sold out on the first day so I definitely got this one from a different batch. This is like a totally different phone. If anyone else is having these kinds of problems with lag and battery life and things, try getting the AT&T store to swap out your phone. You have 30 days.
[Captivate General] dsjr2006:
The iPhone and many other phones like the Droid charge faster for some reason.

From my Samsung Captivate
[Captivate General] Intervenient:
I have no idea why my battery is such fail. I got 18 hours yesterday, but not I'm at 45 minutes today with 90%. Ugh.
[Captivate General] jwkicklighter:
Fantastic article that cleared up some questions I had about Android (hopefully purchasing a Captivate soon.) Thank you very much :)
[Captivate General] cachookaman:
i didnt do much except text and use google talk over this period
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
Wow! That's quite a cliff. What application is that?

I just downloaded Spare Parts. I seemed to be getting good battery life yesterday, and then I installed Meebo, and after browsing the web a bit today for like 1 hour and 8 minutes I am at 88%. According to Spare Parts, my phone was awake for 53m, and my screen was on for 29 minutes.

The screen being on for 30 minutes and dropping me to 88% battery is ridiculous. I closed down Meebo. I think that's the culprit. I'm going to uninstall it. I'd really like an AIM client that closes itself when you close it or turn the phone screen off and just keeps me "online" according to the server, like how Beejive worked for the Iphone.
[Captivate General] magicdanw:
I found three things to help IMMENSELY:

Turn the brighntess down as far as it can go, and disable all the settings that might change it, including the "power save" setting. Also, get the Brightness Level widget, which lets you turn the brightness down a tiny bit more! You'll still be able to see the screen just fine, trust me!

Remove apps you don't need essentially, especially updating widgets or things that might use data in the background. And don't have a live wallpaper :P You can add things back one by one later, so you'll notice which ones kill the battery life.

Power cycle to recalibrate the battery meter. Let the battery drain until the phone shuts off, then turn it on again until it shuts off, then charge the phone while turned off until it's at 100%. Some people say to keep it charging for a couple hours past when it says it's full, and some people say if you've rooted it to delete /data/system/batterystats.bin at the very end, but I did neither and the battery still improved quite a bit!

I hope these tips help some of you too!
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
Yeah, it seems like it might be a bit better without meebo. Spare parts showed that it was using quite a but of data when the screen was off. I have the brightness turned down all the way.

Additionally, I get piss poor service from at&t in my apartment, so if the wifi is going to sleep and it's trying to get the data connection established for any reason it could definitely be a problem. I set wifi sleep to never and disabled my live wall paper. We'll see how it goes.

Also I'm going to let it die and then try charging it while off to 100%.
[Captivate General] centex99:
To start out (last week) my phone has seemed horrible on battery life... First few days were 100% @ 6am, 50% by noon, and one day even dead by 5pm.... with what I thought was somewhat lite usage.

This weekend my phone has seemed to be much better... I had already done the brightness settings (didn't help as much it seemed)... also finally got it to goto 0% vs the 8 or 11% minimum in the main settings panel... though, visually I can't tell a difference but am getting a bettery battery life...

Friday was great... unplugged at 10am by midnight I was still at ~50%!!! With texting, light browsing, maybe 1 or 2 downloads and a phone call or two.

I didn't charge it overnight and it had only dropped ~5% overnight... Saturday morning charged it up to ~75% and unplugged at about 9am. Another day of usage and at midnight was at >50%.

This seemed to have changed after doing a complete charge off of the usb on my laptop (likely less ma/slower charge)... not sure if that makes a difference or not though... just what I've experienced...
[Captivate General] Asori:
Letting the battery die once and charging it up to full (with the OS not running) really seems to help battery life. I credit this to the algorithm the OS uses to calculate battery life being off until it actually knows when the phone hits 0% charge.

Here's a good example:

Before I did the full cycle charge, my phone sat at 5% battery life for about twenty five minutes of watching a movie before it died. See if yours does the same thing, that was a good indication to me that the OS was calculating the battery wrong :)

Yesterday I unplugged my phone at 10AM, downloaded apps, checked my push mail as normal, opened my standard programs that I check, and when I got home I watched about 45 minutes of a movie. With all of that, my phone had about 30% battery when I unplugged it. I also rooted and uninstalled the AT&T bloatware and installed a task killer and open it to kill applications every couple of hours. I removed obvious system applications from the menu, and disabled it's auto-kill feature.

Hope that helps!!
[Captivate General] behrouz:
From my experience with mart phones, it takes about a month for a phones battery to reach its optimal capacity. I can get about a day and a half from a single charge with moderate to heavy usage by simply removing the att apps and turning on the external light sensor.
[Captivate General] cachookaman:
after completely draining the battery last night, my phone has done much better with battery life today. its been unplugged since 2 PM and now its 4 AM and im at 4% battery life. ive used it pretty extensively today so im impressed with how much it improved in the span of just a day.
[Captivate General] TPA_Droid:
I'm a very heavy user of the phone/voice calls, so I just simply purchased an extra battery. Problem solved. I have had to do this for just about every phone that I have owned
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
I let it run down from a full charge yesterday, with moderate usage. Texting, e-mailing, browsing, trying to use the GPS at a few points, taking pictures and video and it lasted me over 13 hours. It seemed like it was running down relatively quick, as far as the numbers go, but when all was said and done it didn't actually die until after 13 hours. Then I let it charge to 100% with the OS off, so we'll see what happens.
[Captivate General] violinbf:
Can you do a rundown with video playing? I am very curious to see what kind of battery life I can expect when watching movies. If you graph one hour of video playback I can extrapolate the runtime. I have the EVO and it dies after about 4.5-5 hours. Hopefully this is better
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vario3:
Hi

For security reasons i am not allowed to have a camera phone in work. Is there any way possible that i can remove any software or icons which are camera related by maybe tweaking the registry or running a software program that will deactivate

it for me ?.

Obviously i will have to visibly make the camera look as if it is not able to take pictures but i would also like the additional feature of disabling the software.

Thanks in advance
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teshiburu2010:
using a file manager like resco file explorer, navigate to Start Menu\Programs\Multimedia and delete Camcorder and Camera,

this will remove the camera and camcorder shortcuts from your start menu

if you cant see them there, try showing hidden files... worked for me!

when i get home i can copy the links onto this post for you when you need them again..

or you could move the shortcuts onto a folder that wouldnt be looked at?

Tesh
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vario3:
Any further info is most welcome.

Thanks
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wil Badger:
I'm going to have to say that if it has the hardware they will not allow it. Just because you remove the software who's to say you can't reinstall it to have a functioning camera again.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dotnetguyaz:
As a government employee, that's correct. The rule is enforced based upon hardware, not software. Obviously, it will very from company to company, but usually it is based upon hardware.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vario3:
I've successfully removed the camera icons as described in a previous post but from within "pictures and Video" and "Albums" it is still possible to take a picture.

Is there possibly a way to disable the camera by editing the registry ?.

I fully understand the technicalities of leaving the camera physically intact but i need your help disabling it software wise.

All suggestions appreciated.

regards
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wil Badger:
Before you go through all the trouble you might want to ask a higher up whether they will even let it fly . I have serious reservations about them allowing it.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marct77:
I think I'd be tempted to leave the HD2 at home and just get yourself a cheapo

phone sans camera for work....

There will be times when you need your camera on the HD2,holidays,nights out,

updating your Tweets etc etc
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p107r0:
in the registry, go to key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Pictures\Camera\OEM\DisablingConditions]

and set value of "CSPValue" entry to 1
[HD Mini Themes and Apps] gabbana-music:
Hi! Here, hold 3 versions of phones! All perfectly works.

Excuse for my disgusting English! I sit with the electronic translator!