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[Legend General] juux:
I only have a problem very occasionally with wifi, maybe once per month, and I think this has more to do with my crappy router than anything else.
[Legend General] pjhoughton1976:
I have the same problem with WiFi cutting out afters while even when the phone hasn't been moved and when its situated inches from the router
[Legend General] BlaY0:
Generally it is not good idea to have router and client too close together. That way radio noise increases and that's not good.
[Legend General] pjhoughton1976:
Thanks for the tip. but it does it downstairs too when Im watching TV the phone is well away from all electrical appliances, after toggling wifi bOFF/ON I get full signal strength.
[Legend General] gazman69:
Same here. After a few minutes normal browsing on Wifi, pages seem get so far then refuse to load. Only solution is to turn WiFi off then re-connect. The WiFi permission is set to never sleep. I'm not rooted and running stock wwe 2.3 ruu.
[Legend General] slovenec88:
Same here!
[Legend General] gazman69:
Anybody have any ideas how to resolve this issue? It's really frustrating having to re-connect wifi every 5 mins. Possibly to do with debranding to stock wwe 2.3 ruu from Vodafone?
[Legend General] KK43:
having the same issue, despite having wifi on never sleep

looking forward to getting rid of this phone once I get my htc desire z, HTC doesn't seem to care about it since the only recent OTA they released made it worse
[Legend General] mtrax:
just wondering if you have reported this issue to HTC?
[Legend General] KK43:
my experience with reporting issues to HTC is, at best, getting some generic email back with no helpful info at all, so I don't bother anymore
[Legend General] mtrax:
I would tend to agree but if more people reported perhaps they would investigate this bug

BTW I have reported and just trying to escalate issue
[Legend General] KK43:
know where you're coming from, but each time I contacted them it was a case of "let's all contact and then they'll do something".

Guess what, they never did anything.

I think the only solution is to have a handset they consider as 'important' which until recently has been the desire, and will now be the desire hd and desire z.

I think they have so much stuff going on all the time, at some level a decision is taken to focus mostly on certain phones, either because many more people have them, or because they want many more people to have them, or both.
[Legend General] duckdown:
I have the same issue :(

WiFi is complete crap on this phone.

I also am wondering if the Desire is just as bad.
[Legend General] mtrax:
I personally have not any issues with Wifi in general just the problem with sleeping.

the latest advice I have from HTC is to set the Wifi not to sleep when charging.

this is done in the advanced options .

I'm going to give it a try tonight.
[Legend General] evank418:
well, i wrote to HTC 3 times and got 2 response.

first, one told me how to use wifi(which was total crap answer!)

second, told me how to choose my router from wifi settings(again, crap)

Third, msg i sent, i got sick n tired of bs answers, i *****ed at them and got no response

it is irritating as iphone 4's answer of try holding it different
[Legend General] mtrax:
I found this solution which worked for me :

re-saving my Mobile APN setting.

ie go to Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Mobile networks -> Access Point Names -> [your APN] -> 'Menu': Save (without making any changes)

I found this solution on the Google code site: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2207
[XPERIA X10 General] aodmisery:
does anyone know of where i can get a clear case for my x10 that also holds cards in the back. im not looking for a pouch or leather case it has to be clear sorta like this one but for the x10

http://gizmodo.com/5361041/case+mates-iphone-case-holds-your-id-credit-cards-and-cash
[XPERIA X10 General] aodmisery:
wrong area sorry
[XPERIA X10 General] chris_knows:
That looks like a really loose way to keep your cards and money...and totally not worth the $30

You could always just try attaching a similar pouch to a normal X10 case with some strong glue, or perhaps plastic weld the two pieces together?
[XPERIA X10 General] aodmisery:
someone gave me a link to some for those who are interested

http://en.item.rakuten.com/sincere-watch/xpe/

you can get em on ebay for about 15 dollars cheaper just do a search for "x10 capdase"
[XPERIA X10 General] Tjotte:
I think it's gona feel really fat to carry that around in a pocket. And i don't meen in the hip-hop sense of the word fat.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] ludeboy:
Anybody wanna give this a crack? I would but I don't have nor know how to use any hex editors.

http://briefmobile.com/stock-android-lock-screen-on-galaxy-s-phones

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=779803
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] wasupwithuman:
your wish is my command

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8298112#post8298112
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] ludeboy:
awesome!!!! you da man!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] RayKinStL:
I will have to try this when I get home. I especially like the idea of being able to hit the menu button (rather than the recessed power button) to turn the phone on, if that is indeed true.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] dricacho:
My lockscreen courtesy of Widget Locker. You can add more sliders for specific things that you wan't to go straight to bypassing the lock. When you close out that app, it automatically locks the screen.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aodmisery:
does anyone know of where i can get a clear case for my x10 that also holds cards in the back. im not looking for a pouch or leather case it has to be clear sorta like this one but for the x10

http://gizmodo.com/5361041/case+mates-iphone-case-holds-your-id-credit-cards-and-cash
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bazzatron:
Hrmm, interesting idea, My wallet is essentially this:

Just a money clip with a flap to cove the money with slots at each end to hold my atm cards and such. I dont know if I'd want to combine all my valuables like that, but maybe it would mean I could use a smaller money clip and put the cards with the phone. Could just be handy to store your business cards instead of bank cards.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] junkk29:
http://en.item.rakuten.com/sincere-watch/xpe/

This what you're looking for buddy? check out other stuff from the website as well, they have pretty cool accessories. I've never ordered from them though, but there're instructions on ordering them internationally as well (it's a Japanese website).
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aodmisery:
yes thats perfect thanks junkk29. unfortunately there outta the color white at this time so im gonna have to wait till they restock. people always say why do you want that how bout if you lose your phone but in all my years of owning phones i have never lost any phone. but i have lost id's and such just in my back pocket.

edit: found the same ones on ebay for about 15 dollars cheaper and they have white :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] berbecverde:
a link or something? :p
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aodmisery:
to the ones on ebay? just do a search for "capdase and x10" on ebay
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wherestheanykey:
Hi, just a quick question because I have been a CDMA user for a long time now and don't have any experience with GSM phones. Is it possible to use a T-Mobile prepaid SIM card in an unlocked HD2 and not have to carry a contract. And if so, what all needs to be unlocked, the phone and SIM or is it an all in one deal?

Thanks,
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Smartphoner:
An unlocked phone could work with any sim carrier ever.

For unlocking, u could buy the unlock code from any unlocking service on the net
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wherestheanykey:
Thank you for the response.
[Captivate General] CLShortFuse:
Post all your nag/complaints/evidence of GPS problems here.

All investigation works goes here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=789383

I just finished doing a one hour GPS test drive with the new OTA JH7 and guess what!!

The GPS is still unreliable.

I did a 30 minute drive before the JH7 OTA fix and it was terrible. It would lose GPS signal easily. The GPS would rarely get a fix and when it did, it wouldn't refresh for another 20-30 seconds.

With the new JH7 OTA, positioning while stationary is quick. You can get indoor GPS (probably from AGPS). Now, I was using it and I'm starting to believe we will NEVER see a real fix.

My reasons:

The hardware GPS has an accuracy of ~10 meters (~30 feet).

The hardware GPS has slow processing speed.

I believe this "fix" is just software code trying compensate for the poor hardware. It seems to take the bearing and speed to estimate where you will be. This won't work all the time but it gives the illusion of a reliable signal. You can see the device doing this when you make a quick change in speed or direction.

For example:

If you break quickly, the GPS will tend to position you further than your actual position. You might see GPS position "travel backwards" after you do.

If you accelerate quickly, from rest/full stop, the GPS will lag completely. It might lose the signal or not update until it gets a new "position" later (probably an amalgamation of speed, bearing, and [inaccurate] position).

If you make a sharp turn, the GPS will keep traveling that path and then slowly work it's way back to where you are. For example, if you make a 90 degree right turn, you'll see the GPS plots a semi circle arc to your new position.

I currently recorded my data with a custom written application I wrote but I had the logs set to write every 30 seconds and I didn't have a reference GPS unit to compare.

The next time, I'm going to drop it 1 second frequency and run the application on my G1 and Rhodium (TouchPro/Tilt 2).

What are you experiences with this new GPS "fix"?
[Captivate General] phr00t:
I completely agree.

I just came into this forum to post the same thing.

I have some terrible My Tracks screenshots to take, but now my Captivate isn't detected when I try to plug it into my computer :mad::mad:

This is using Cognition v2.1. The GPS locked very quickly right after flashing, but just tonight, it wouldn't get a lock to save my life. After repeatedly entering the LbsTestMode and changing settings, it went to getting a lock again... but had me ~100 feet off.

I do not think the GPS will ever work as good as any other modern smartphone. The GPS in this device just sucks, and no software will save it.
[Captivate General] mister__x_:
I agree with pretty much all that you wrote. It is very "laggy" and I too can see it estimate your path. Re-routing also takes very long and sometimes may not be in time.

I tested it with my Garmin side-by-side and there is no doubt the Cappy is worse. I know it's a phone and not a fair comparison with a "real" GPS, but it is a letdown.

FYI, Cognition improves the GPS significantly from my stock version (JP6)
[Captivate General] zagorka:
Same here. I would not consider this as a fix for GPS.
[Captivate General] Circazero:
The captivate is my first android phone. Im stuck with att so i made the switch from iphone to the captivate because it was thr first phone that was not crippled. I love android. Period. Im never going back. With voodoo and oc this phone beats the crap out of an iphone.

But today is the last day i can return it to best buy. I was waiting for a gps fix/improvement. But it didnt help. So im returning it. Im going to buy my friends aria for $100. Once samsung fixes thr gps i will buy this phone again.

Ps. Android. My new best friend. :)
[Captivate General] vinunleaded182:
is this the first Samsung android phone? Im pretty disappointed. Their other products are top notch
[Captivate General] galaxyjeff:
I have the opportunity to swap out my cappy for an HTC Aria phone but it's my last opportunity to exchange it because they're extending my 30 day warranty. I had to talk Wirefly into letting me because of the bad GPS in the phone. They can either give me another Cappy which would be a brand new (but another defective GPS phone no doubt) or they'll just give me the Aria which has a decent working GPS but not anywhere near as nice as the Captivate in every other way.

What would some of you suggest? I'm leaning toward just getting the Aria and maybe upgrading to a better phone later on.
[Captivate General] zagorka:
My wife has an Aria, pretty good phone, verry poor battery life. Great GPS lock in 10 sec no matter where are you. Small screen but perfect size for holding.
[Captivate General] kaczu:
I would have to disagree. No it's definately not as good as my garmin. However compared to stock...lol.. Its no contest. The Ota update is definately an improvement. It makes it at least usable. Before it would take anywhere from 10 min or more to lock. On several occasions i got half way to home before it would lock. Tonight i tested it and got a lock within 10 secs.

Thats not to say this update is without its issues. You can definately tell there is some anticipation of where you are going by about 10 to 20 feet. However rerouting happens quicker for me than it did before.

There is also the issue of wifi and 3g being on at the same time. Of course ill have to reenable tethering too if possible. Other that that though it is more positive than negative for me. At at least i can bring up bars and restaurants without waiting 20 minutes. :)
[Captivate General] phr00t:
The problem with comparing the Captivate's GPS performance to stock is that stock was just garbage. Almost anything is an improvement from a stock Captivate's GPS.

We need to compare the Captivate's GPS performance to other phones -- the Aria, Droid, iPhone etc. The Captivate's GPS just simply sucks compared to these phones, even after Samsung's "fix".

I wish I could return it, but there are no other decent options with AT&T :mad:
[Captivate General] johnyhoffman:
I have to disagree also. I just drove from Illinois to Texas and my captivate got me to my destination with only a couple dropped GPS signals. Was a 12 hour drive and it did what it needed to. Just saying this was a "real world" test and it passes in my book.

Dropped w/ my Captivate XDA App
[Captivate General] Dani897:
My captivate is every bit as good as my aria was and better than my iphone 3g was. I'll agree its not the best. But this fix is working and if that's the best it can do I'm satisfied. I took a 6 hour trip the other weekend and it did loose signal in cloudy conditions, but when the sky was clear it never steered me wrong it even redirected me quickly, my friends vibrant also got him to where we were meeting. Now with the new firmware it gets a fix in overcast conditions. It may not be perfect but its what we have to live with. And I don't think I'd give up my samoled screen and good graphics processor for a better gps.
[Captivate General] phr00t:
It boils down to how much you expect the GPS to work.

If you expect it to work with a few dropped signals, a few random wanders, but still generally get you to your destination -- then it is OK.

If you expect it to work as good as other modern phones, it sucks.
[Captivate General] cellgeek:
try the Sony Xperia 10a. I have one and it's a nice phone. Lot's going on in that forum also. GPS works nicely and it's an 8Mb phone. Only A-droid 1.6 w/2.1 coming.
[Captivate General] CLShortFuse:
Unfortunate for me, I had a deal with AT&T to sell 50 of these devices ($15,000 down payment) with a custom app I wrote for this company. It's not going to happen now because the GPS is borked. Highway driving is one thing, but in the city, where you would be making turns left and right, it's counter productive. The GPS will be misleading you.

My project hasn't completely fallen through, but I would have to resort to the much smaller HTC Aria. I would say the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 but their OS is a joke. It runs 1.6 and has no Exchange support. SE said they'll make 2.1 (seriously!?) available end of october (meaning November). By then Gingerbread (2.5 or 3.0) will be out.

I just don't want to return this Captivate I got for free to develop the application...
[Captivate General] beazie0885:
Yea here's mine... Thx samsung, GREAT FIX!
[Captivate General] UserNamer:
I've gotten what I would call good performance from the GPS today, but I only use it for driving and I probably don't need better than 10m precision. Prior to updating today to JH7, my phone would take 3-5 minutes for an initial lock (which usually required prepping with the Ulysse Gizmos' GPS app), after which it would stay relatively on-point. Today, post-JH7, my phone gets a spot-on lock with 5+ satellites within 10-15 seconds.

Pre-JH7, Google Navigation would trail my actual position slightly, as determined by the very unscientific method of glancing over at the phone while driving and noting that I would be passing a street intersection and Google Nav would still have that street roughly 10-20 feet forward of my position.

Post-JH7, again very unscientifically, the map would have me passing intersections at the exact moment I was actually passing through those intersections. Your comment about it estimating your next position rings a bell, but I could just be "remembering" a non-existent hiccup during one of my rides. Of course, I could also have missed a few dozen hiccups, because I was keeping my eyes on the road. =)

I live in the 'burbs north of NYC and, although I have no immediate plans to head into Manhattan, I will install MyTracks tomorrow and do some more testing along curvy suburban roads with and without extensive tree cover (I'd also be happy to use your custom application, if those logs would be more helpful to you).

Can you give me some specific ideas of what scenarios would help you get more useful test data? Things like:

1) Proceed straight at 30mph. Take 90 degree right turn at 20mph. Expectation would be that MyTracks would continue straight for at least a few feet before correcting itself.

2) Proceed straight at 30mph. Come to abrupt and complete stop. Expectation would match above.
[Captivate General] gunnyman:
I have a GPS in my car and use it for road trips. The Captivate GPS works well NOW for what I want to use it for, location based services like gowalla and such. It also works well for me using Google Nav's Walking feature.

The update is definitely an improvement for me. Before the update, unless I had wireless network assist turned on, my GPS would NOT get a lock. Now it does in under 20 seconds.
[Captivate General] krushin:
I too just joined the android community after having an iphone for 3+ years now... captivate being the first powerful hardware based phone that i saw (and that ATT had).I'm probably never going back to the iphone even if i never get gps working cause it is still so much better imho.

But the only thing that makes this so dang frustrating is the fact that... was there ANY product testing!?. I mean i can understand if it was a bad "batch" of phones that made it out. Or even if gps was "subpar", and had an OCCASIONAL incident of what we are experiencing (Like once every 15-20 min, then would reset and work fine). But the fact that it has not worked since product launch on EVERY phone (captivate, fascinate, vibrant, epic 4g, i9000) Even the ones that claim to unaffected still have accuracy/lag issues. I mean how did this get past field testing? I just hate the negligence :mad: .

I mean atleast the iphone 4 reception issue was only conditional to how you were holding the device. But no one GPS has correctly worked -_- just frustrating
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
I agree with this thread so far. It's insanely frustrating. :mad:
[Captivate General] Smallsmx3:
I would agree its not perfect but its better. I took a 20 mile drive and navigation got me there. Where it fails,is when i veer off for a toll or anytime i take an exit and the off ramp goes over another road. Its like it gets confused and tries to tell me im on the road below me. Other than that the highway directions are decent. I have yet to use it in the burbs.... i think if i make too many turns. Im going to have problems
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
Take this for what you will, but this was a post made at Engadget today...

Just putting this out there for those who updated their phone by going through settings >software update and still don't have functional GPS. I spoke to a Samsung support person today since my GPS didn't improve and got this response: The update received via that option does NOT include a GPS fix. Instead the proper update is received from AT&T via a text message & link, and that should happen automagically. So, if you - like me - heard there was an update and excitedly went into your phone settings and requested the download and are now frustrated that the GPS solution is a lie, well, apparently someone at Samsung says we did it wrong and should just wait for AT&T to give the right thing to us. I don't really like this, maybe why they did it this way makes sense to someone out there, but I don't really get it. Do with that what you will, I'd like to call AT&T myself and ask them what's up.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/22/samsung-captivate-gets-gps-fix-other-galaxy-s-versions-wait-pat/

It doesn't really make sense to me. You would think we would have heard of this by now if this was the case, and that Samsung wouldn't have said explicitly that the GPS fix was included in the OTA update. I just wanted to post it here cause it was "new" information.
[Captivate General] galaxyjeff:
My GPS won't lock at all with or without the update. I don't know whats wrong with it. I'm so tempted to abandon the Captivate for now though it is an awesome phone but the Aria is a downgrade and so is the Xperia X10. I think the X10 may be the better choice though than the Aria but the Aria may have to be the phone for me for now because it's a little more up to date with the OS and probably is built a little better. I really wish at&t had a nicer Motorola phone though.
[Captivate General] CLShortFuse:
There's always the option of getting a used Nexus One. It's the fastest phone in the market (until GalaxyS gets 2.2's JIT)

But look at:

http://twitter.com/SamsungMobileUS/status/25222029020

http://twitter.com/SamsungMobileUS/status/25222973117

DG said there are differences between our JH7 and OTA JH7 (though now that I think about it, I think he said there are differences overall, not specifically mentioning GPS changes). The GPS update did make it more reliable, but in the end, it's still unreliable for 20-40mph city driving.
[Captivate General] kaczu:
Oh there's definitely no argument that the GPS could be better without a doubt. However, all of the phones have some sort of trade off, usually far larger than dealing with an inaccurate GPS. It's either a vastly smaller screen, slower processor, broken WIFI, dropped calls, old OS versions, non existent video player, or enough mandatory companion software that it aught to be a crime.

After tonight my issues with GPS came down to a dropped signal that lasted 1 sec and a misplacement of location of about 10 to 20 feet which happened when I came to an abrupt stop. If that's the worst this phone does at this point I'll take it. Now I will be traveling to the city tomorrow so I'll get to see just how bad it can be so I'm not jumping up for joy just yet. If it can get me there without unnecessary u-turns or the constant rerouting it was doing it would pacify me considering the issues I've seen on some phones that were just unacceptable from a day to day stand point.
[Captivate General] CLShortFuse:
Woah, I just looked at my 30 second logs. This is really bad. :(

I had no idea how bad it was since I didn't realize the navigation app was readjusting A LOT. I'm charging my G1.

I'm going to have them both record position at the same time then layer the G1's positioning vs the Captivate's. I live in NJ (NYC Suburbs) but I'm heading to Manhattan and the Bronx tomorrow.