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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] axis01:
I read a thread from Oct., I think, that mentions JIT being installed AND running on 2.2. Supposedly, that makes our devices run faster and more efficient. There are a few apps that are 2.2+ though. A "highend" device like the Cappy shouldn't be left out of ANY apps. I didn't buy this phone for what it might get, but what it already had. Once I learn more about flashing, i'll take the plunge. I don't want to be another "bricked my device, HELP" thread. :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ForbiddenX:
I am truly happy with my captivate! I love it and don't think I'll be going back to a berry for a while.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjsooley:
Hardware: yes, samsung did a good job there.

Software: no the captivate software sucks. Without the devs on this forum i would of returned this phone and purchased a n1 or some unlocked droid from bell canada.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyMike01:
The fact that we're now two versions behind, and left with lagging, broken GPS, iPhone knockoff ROMs is okay?

Sent from my Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pc103:
I got the Cap as my personal iphone 4 killer. Like the Motos and HTC Winmos I had earlier it is again my best phone ever. As someone who spends lots of time in fornt of PCs and laptops, it's the first phone I am not shy to use the Internet on.

My switch to Andriod was seamless with no looking back. My killer apps are contacts and GPS. GPS on my batch 1008's been good since day one. With the ease and availability of hacks for fixing and optimizing I haven't had to look beyond xda and the market.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shanghei:
Ill never buy Samsung ever again
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodigalOne:
6 month Captivate owner/Business user/IT Nerd here:

I'm borderline with this device, but leaning more toward unhappy. I bought the captivate thinking it would be my iphone without being the iphone. I bought it because I didn't want a blackberry for work. I don't find myself having time anymore to tinker with a phone to get it to do what should be done out of the box. Here is a list of CONS:

Email is crap, just a completly horrible email program. YES there are better out there, but again, OUT OF THE BOX EXPERIENCE IS HORRID

Music player is weak.

Battery life is embarassing.

2.2 is leaked but no announcement of it coming out, the whole REASON for android phones is upgrades and patches and tweaks.

Android phone's in general need to have some unified interface. SAMSUNG at the very least could have one upped themselves and created some itunes like app for ALL of their devices. Same with Droids, HTC, etc

At this stage in the 'catch up to the iphone' game, I should have went with an iphone. Let's not lie to ourselves, there is no iphone killer out there. It took months for a samsung farking DOCK to come out, a simple USB charging dock with no sleek features whatsoever. You can walk into HOME DEPOT and buy an IN WALL IPHONE JACK. No one will catch up to the iphone, just like no one caught up to the ipod.

I had high hopes for samsung, they released the phone to every possible market, but after buying the Cappy, that was it. You were on your own, no BOSE docks, no DOCKING station, cruddy GPS (how does that even PASS qa?)

The captivate is a beautiful phone, with great functions and sleek interface. But, it doesn't quite do everything it should.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avgjoegeek:
+1 to what the above poster said.

Although I love the phone - the fact that the QA is shoddy I will be trying to get another phone eventually.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hexum311:
I agree with prodigalOne 100%.

I had an Iphone and there are a lot of things that it does better and it just worked. To me the Iphone was better at phone calls, music player, email, bluetooth, battery life, camera flash, better video. Seems like almost everything you would buy a smartphone for except two key things..... Screen and Android OS.

After using my Captivate for a while and then using an Iphone again I can honestly say that I couldn't go back to the Iphone at this point. The main reasons are the BIGGER SCREEN and the 4 button navigation of Android, along with the Android OS. I also like all of the available widgets and the Openness of Android. The Android navigation and notification system feels so much better and faster to me.

This is a very emotional issue for everyone, only made worse by the promises not kept by Samsung. I will not buy another Samsung product if I can help it.

"Smartphones" are almost becoming like a religion for some reason. For me I just dont want to waste anymore of my life dwelling on my smart phone. I would suggest if you aren't happy just get rid of it and buy something else, or better get an Iphone too and swap them out! lol

On a side note I would recommend the Body Glove case for the Captivate, its like a whole new phone!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyMike01:
I'm just as mad as the next over the squalor condition of the Captivate out of the box.

However, the iPhone has peaked and is on it's decent. Do not confuse the disgraceful showing that Samsung has presented for the EVOs of the world. Apple has been playing catch-up for a while now to Android (multitasking, copy/paste, etc.). The iPhone is the next RAZR... the iPhone market share will shrink until it's almost as pathetic as the market share for OS X.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sodomanaz:
I'm one of the unluckiest people when choosing a new phone. First the At&t Tilt with zero firmware support from HTC and now the Samsung Captivate with it's stupid lack of OS updates and the GPS. However, these forums have made both phones more than usable, so kudos to XDA.

But ya, thanks to XDA I like my Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mobileseq:
Not 100% happy with it because of gps issues and no offical froyo upgrade. Its the best phone Ive ever had, tho. I like to customize and play around with many different apps. :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KaLiBLeeK:
I actually ordered an HTC Aria for my gf...and I used it for a day, and came away kind of peeved that a phone that inexpensive works as well, or better in some circumstances, than the Captivate. GPS? Ability to do other stuff while on a phone call? Stuff like that.

I've gotten my phone to where I'm quite happy with it, but having to do so much work just to get it to that point is somewhat frustrating.

I'm hoping Motorola announces the Olympus for AT&T at CES this week. I'll probably wind up jumping ship at that point, due to the multiple delays of an official 2.2 update, plus the GPS issues. And my sister's new Droid X has made me somewhat envious. Haha.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enhanced:
Am I truly happy with my Captivate? Yes.

Would I buy another Samsung phone in the future? Nope.

My view is that the Captivate fulfills my needs very well and I am fully satisfied. With that said, the phone could be so much more if handled correctly by Samsung. This is a case of what could have been. Such high potential squandered which rubs me off a bit in the wrong way.

I like to analogize the Captivate with most first overall draft picks in sports. While most are very serviceable players and have strong careers, many of them do not achieve the superstar status and the high potential that 1st overall picks carry along with them. There's always a bit of disappointment there despite their capableness.

Furthermore, since I'm on Rogers in Canada, there wasn't really much of a choice of top tiered Android devices without going the unlocked route which I like to avoid. If there was a device that eclipsed the Captivate in every facet, then I would be more inclined to unlock but there just simply isn't. The only phones I would consider an upgrade (and it's fairly debatable in my mind) is the EVO and Droid X and they aren't a choice in Canada even if I wanted to unlock. If the Nexus S came out sooner and with a non AWS version then I'd be all over that too but again, it wasn't meant to be.

So on the basis of this situation, I can't be anything but well satisfied at the only choice that I really had.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avgjoegeek:
This is my first Android phone - and Samsung/AT&T's handling of this is less than stellar.

I know AT&T is waiting for a "stable" build from Samsung. Which at this point will probably never happen.

Now I've read that Gingerbread has the "MMS Bug" and it's a medium priority with Google to get it fixed?!?! (This is the random issue where your txt messages get sent to the incorrect contact :eek: - imagine your mom-in-law getting that hot and heavy txt reply that was supposed to go to your wife... true story!)

On top of that Exchange support isn't 100% working from what I have read here on the forums.

Battery life is terrible compared with other smart phones (non-android). Android & App Developers really need to work on better optimization on how it handles how it uses the juice on droid phones :)

All of this is atypical of why I had go back to Windows from Linux. I just wanted my computer to do what I wanted to without all the time spent trying to compile drivers/kernels and attempting to find that app that was "almost" like the winblows version of that app. It was close.. but not quite. And I really loved using linux - but in the end game support blew so I ended up having to go back to a Windows OS. :(

Android just isn't as polished as the "outdated" IOS operating system. Sure Apple had to play catch up - and their idea of multi-tasking isn't what "we" would want. But the people who have them enjoy their phone and it just does what they want it to do - makes calls, txts go where they are supposed to, exchange works, and not to mention GPS - it actually shows them where they are at.. and they don't have to have a charger plugged into their device all day just so they can use it to play Angry Birds. Also iOS has copy/paste working alot better than Android.

So it's a trade off - If I want widgets, customization, and true multi tasking? I have my crippled Captivate that I have cobbled together with half-ass GPS and battery life that is dependent upon which ROM I run on my phone.

If I want a 100% working phone then I'm restricted to Apple's "iWorld" but I will have working GPS, Exchange, iPod for music, and better battery life.

I'm def NOT an iPhone fanboy - but facts are facts. The Captivate has been plagued with issues - hardware and software. Android is still in it's infancy and still working out the bugs. The only reason I still have my Captivate is I'm stuck on AT&T and my only other option is an ARIA. Otherwise I would've switched to Sprint for an Evo or T-Mobile and find an old Nexus 1 and call it a day.

My next phone will still be an Android - I don't mind the gamble lol. But it will def NOT be a Samsung device.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monoespacial:
I completely disagree. Mind that I don't have the Captivate, I have the Spica (i5700) but the points raised are against any android device. It sounds to me like you're the kind of user who likes things to "just work". I agree, things should work fine out of the box, but I also like being able to customize everything and enhance my phone so it works the way I want it to work and not the "one size fits all" approach of Apple.

I have 2 iPods, and I never used iTunes to synchronize anything, cause I like dragging and dropping, I use 3-4 computers almost daily and I don't want the iTunes from one of them crapping over my music.

On my phone I use NDrive which works great, widgets to toggle wifi and 3g to save battery. I use the Winamp app which is miles ahead of both my iPod players (wifi player and transfers, and radio streams). One of the best features is being able to queue songs, which I can only do on the iPods if I start a "On the go" playlist. I don't get dropped calls, unlike every iphone user I know. Also, I can easily install themes with a zip file and share all the files on my phone to and from any pc, which includes music as well.

And I'm doing all this on a device which is much, much cheaper.

If you like not having to do a bit more work to be able to do more things in many more different ways, then you should've never bought an Android deThis is also applicable to prodigalOne's comment. Music app is horrible, sure, so pick one you like from the market. Windows Player sucks too, but Windows doesn't suck. Ms Paint is no Photoshop and Notepad isn't Word. Windows doens't "just work" out of the box either, but it's still better than a MAc for MANY things.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hexum311:
Let me just clarify what I mean by "Just worked" in my post above.

I meant that all of the features of the phone that are advertised as part of the phone worked. Obviously if you follow these forums you know that is not the case with the Captivate. Being as you don't have a Captivate you haven't experienced all of the issues that we have.

And maybe its just me but when I upgrade from a phone thats a few years old to a new one I expect it that it will work at least as good if not better.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hydro360:
i love it

but the samsung/att team up is almost as bad as the apple/att team up. i owe lots of thanks to these guys here at xda. if it wasnt for them i would have crushed this thing already. i just wish i knew how to do all this mod stuff and contribute something of my own.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blazin619:
Update. Serendipity is where its at.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aus_Azn:
No. Wait for a HTC.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AReynante:
I'm extremely happy with my captivate, I switch from an iPhone 3gs, and before that I had the 3g. I liked the iPhones a lot, but now that I have a modded captivate, I am in love with the phone. And all this stuff about the GPS taking 20 seconds to load, it really isn't that bad. Just turn it on while walking to your car, or simply buy a unit that was made for gps, ex. garmin/tomtom or something.

Only thing that would make the phone a little better for me would be LED flash, for those times when the screen isn't a good flashlight. But overall I love it :)

EDIT:

Forgot to add, I am rooted, ROMd to Serendipity 4.3, with glitterballs v.4 #10 kernel, and UV'd/OC'd to 1280 ;) And I couldn't be happier.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fortelv999:
i am.

now i'm one of the people that crave the latest... so the atrix really got my attention... for my next phone i really want at least hdmi out, and if i can install cyanogen in it... even better :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cappysw10:
Happy with the Captivate, pissed at AT&T. See Avatar!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pontiac005:
Same here!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phoenix2217:
+1 ATT support in terms of getting out new updates is terrible. But once I've flashed to fine the right ROM, updated GPS files, etc. I can say its pretty stable. Not perfect, but stable. Everything will have its problems.

Serendipity 4.3, Speedmod kernel k12Q
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cumanzor:
I think that, without exception, communities like this always provide a better experience than anything OEMs usually gives us.

I love this device. I've made some modifications (Cognition 3 with Voodoo5, GB 1.28GHz kernel plus ADW, etc etc) and it flies. My only complaint is the unreliability of the GPS.

If you want to mess around with it, get it, you won't regret it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DucatiGuy:
The Captivate is a great device once you get the right ROM loaded. Also, if you're getting a new one, double check the build number on it. It seems like you'll have the best luck if it's 1012 or later (although 1012 is the highest I've seen mention of). I have a 1011 and find the GPS with a number of ROMs to be very very good.

Coming from iPhone, you probably won't be too impressed with it unless you load a custom ROM, and get to be a fairly savvy user to where you can customize what you want. That's when you'll start seeing how much nicer Captivate + Android is than iPhone 4 + IOS.

It's valid what some have said that "out of the box" and with "officially provided updates (none really)" it's not extremely impressive. If you are a user who waits to be fed features and updates, or don't want to take a chance at voiding your warranty, you'll be waiting a long long time and likely be frustrated.

If you are somewhat adventurous and get to the point where you load custom ROMs like I did, then you'll probably love the Cappy.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickm50:
I love mine.

It works perfectly including the GPS, and I have the official 2.2 update

I can understand how guys on here don't like them, but the hardware is solid.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saelee:
I got the phone the first week after it came out. The gps didn't work, yahoo mail didn't work over wifi, battery life sucked and the promissed froyo is still not here. I was pissed for a while and serioully thought about selling the phone and going back to my iphone.

A month or so later I got around all of those problem except the GPS issue. It wasn't until a few days ago that I got the paragon RC3. Now I am happy.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 88EVGAFTW:
I am in pure bliss with my captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayoubi:
I just did it yesterday, i dont know why I didnt do it sooner. ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbizzle:
I went from iphone 3gs to my captivate and I don't miss the iphone at all.. wish i would have gotten the captivate sooner
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Natascha303:
And where to get a 1012 without contract ? any sources, thx
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klepto:
The captivate is the best phone I've had through my experience with these phones. I went from Windows Mobile to Symbian to Windows Mobile again to Droid. I really liked my Cappy before I upgraded to the Serendipity rom but now I love it and make my iPhone friends very jealous.

I've had some of the best phones available for many years but nothing came close to the Captivate, it is almost overkill.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] big samm:
I bought the captivate on jan 14... Im on the official 2.2 froyo and don't have any problem... Gps works flawlessly accurate up to 5 meters...Since that day my iphone 4 is in its box... Im not saying that i won't go back to ios... But i can stick with android... They did alot of progress compare to when i had the motorola milestone ( that i brought back last year)... Love the samsung hardware too... Thin with a big screen... Bateery could be alot better too...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Loggik:
Sorry, but there is no official Froyo ROM for the Captivate. There is a leaked ROM, but no official one.

Anyway, I got my Captivate about two months ago (around the holidays), because Radio Shack was having a sale (50% off) and my dad traded in two of our old iPhone 3G's for $75 each, so he actually didn't have to pay a thing. But anyway.

Before my Captivate I had an iPhone 3GS, and I thought that was fast. But boy, when I got my Captivate, it seemed amazing. And I was running the stock ROM for the first two days. Then I started looking around, and I flashed a ROM (I believe the first I flashed was Cognition 2.*). And then I got addicted to flashing... but one of the times I went to flash Clockwork, the phone wouldn't boot anymore, and a jig wouldn't work. So I got it replaced, and haven't had any problems since.

After that, I've customized my phone more than I ever even imagined I would do so with my iPhone. As long as you're interested in customizing and figuring things out (it's sometimes a challenge to fix certain things :p), then you'll love your phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickm50:
Actually I'm in Canada.......There is up here :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Loggik:
Oh my bad, and D:

Lucky. Then again, we still have the leaked ROM which works just fine for the custom ROMs that the devs make.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdwhit:
OK ROM is an annoying issue, but IF you are willing to risk your phone and warantee and be without a phone while you figure out how to unbrick yours or wait for the exchange, and IF you are lucky enough to get one of the phones that work, it might be a nice phone.

Personally, it's enough to make me swear off A** and Samsung. It's a POS and a rip off. I wish I had severed my long 20+ year association with A** and purchased an HTC.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oda11:
Hell yeahhh :) I've owned iphone(s) since it first came out, but I gotta say, android is so much more fun than ios.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bennijai:
Love the Captivate, love it even more after learning how to flash roms.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Player433:
I really enjoy my Captivate after updating to the latest JB but I did recently buy a new Nexus 4. The captivate has come a long ways since it's only a single core with 512 mb of ram.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gramme66:
can you tell me how you upgraded your captivate?

What files did you use to upgrade your captivate??? I tried today and used these two files: cm-10-20121118-NIGHTLY-captivatemtd.zip

kernel_V10_4_2_15.zip didn't work took me all day to get my phone back. Fortunately, I did a backup in recovery....that didn't work either until the fourth time and then it went on???

I LOVE my cappy and will not be getting any of the new phones...I did recently get the Nexus 7 and LOVE that as well. That will do what my cappy is not able to but I really only need the cappy as a PHONE LOL

Any help you can offer me on the upgrade would be great...I must have the wrong files.

This is what I have right now:

AT&T Samsung Captivate SGH-1897 Rooted

Android V/ 4.0.4

Baseband V/ I9000UGKG3

Kernel V 3.0.8-g2311908/pinky-ghost@cyangemond #1

Cyanogenmod V/9-20120819-nightly-captivatemid

Thanks have a great week

Donna aka gramme
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RootTheMachine:
I have no clue what that kernel is... just try flashing the ROM only.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dparrothead1:
Donna, I think I have seen you in the N7 Forum.

The AOKP site is down at the present but if you d/l Goo.im from the playstore and go to "browse compatible ROMs". Click on AOKP and d/l Milestone1. This is Jelly Bean and extremely stable!!! Just use the kernel that comes with the ROM.

I promise you won't be sorry.....and BTW, the Cappy is an official supported device by AOKP.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dparrothead1:
Shot from my Cappy that I am using as an iPod.
[Vibrant General] richiehd:
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/5274/screenshotht.png

Take a look at the photo on the right, my internal memory decided it didn't want a name! I didn't do anything for it to be a user error. If you look to the right, my CPU knows what phone it is. Anyone have this happen to them? How would I fix it?
[Vibrant General] Steeltippin:
I don't have an answer and my question is off subject, but what OS is that your running on your computer?
[Vibrant General] richiehd:
Ubuntu 10.04 :D
[Vibrant General] richiehd:
Apparently it was a linux error with device names. I plugged it into a windows pc and was able to rename it back. So, not an android issue after all. Mods may close this thread.
[Captivate Accessories] kkeo:
My kids love watching movies on my wife's phone and have dropped it a few times, but luckily no scratches or dents yet. Since there weren't many choices locally, I decided to get the "Black Silicone Case" from Amazon since it was around $4 shipped.

It shipped from Van Nuys, CA and took three days... which is a little odd because I'm in Hollywood, CA which is about 10 miles away... Thanks USPS!

The case is pretty thick and seems like it'll take a few drops. It's on par with other silicone cases in terms of feel. The fit is good, nice and tight, and ports all line up.

Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Silicone-Samsung-Captivate-SGH-I897/dp/B003Z741PK/
[Captivate Accessories] hazard96:
hows the quality?