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[Captivate General] JOe K.:
I am tethered to AT&T and I want to get a replacement for my iPhone 3g. I also will never buy another Apple product until they become more "open" (which will never likely happen).

Looking at the specs the Captivate is far and away the best phone on AT&T and one of the best on the market. However, after doing some research it seems as though the release of this phone has been bug ridden.

From what I can tell there is:

GPS issues

Random shutdowns

Not fully test OTA updates.

Poor support/ambiguous from AT&T Samsung

No Froyo (or info about froyo release)

Possible weak/cheap casing design

On top of all of this there seems to be a bunch of AT&T bloatware

that I would immediately get rid

of BUT it seems that then the updates won't take.

After writing all this I could be answering my own question. However, generally people only post when something is not working properly.

Should I get a captivate?

If not, are there other AT&T phones coming out soon? The HTC Aria looks weak and I don't like the design of the phone (too small).

Thanks,

JOe K.

P.S. the android community here is amazing. Hence, I really really want an android.
[Captivate General] phr00t:
The GPS issues - Yes, you will have problems with the GPS.

Random shutdowns - This never happened to me and is rare.

Not fully test OTA updates - Updates were not tested with rooted / lagfixed phones etc.

Poor support/ambiguous from AT&T Samsung - Yup.

No Froyo (or info about froyo release) - Froyo will eventually come, but not soon.

Possible weak/cheap casing design - Case feels pretty strong to me.

AT&T doesn't have a good lineup of Android phones -- every Android phone has a glaring weakness. The Aria is low-end in all categories (but works), X10 is Android v1.6 and the Captivate has poor GPS. I do think the Captivate is the best Android phone AT&T has... but you'll be screwed either way.
[Captivate General] JOe K.:
Thanks for your reply.

Is it possible that the HTC Desire could be unlocked and work with AT&T?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsnt:
Hello!

I just bought a vibrant (bell) loaded with android 2.2 from a friend of mine, using it with rogers, I used to have a SE x10a. I made a mistake and didnt backup my contacts to my SIM, but I have a recent backup on the SDcard when it was in my x10. I was wondering if there's a way to import those contacts from the SDcard, onto my vibrant.

Is there a way?

Thanks.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kubernetes:
You have a Vibrant with 2.2?

There are a number of ways to do it.

If you've got all your contacts on the SD card, yeah, just import on your new phone.

I recently migrated from a Blackberry and the way I did it was to export my Blackberry contacts to Gmail and then sync Gmail contacts on my new Vibrant. You should have it even easier because you can just sync on your Xperia, switch out sim to Vibrant and sync contacts there. If you've got all your contacts on the SD card, yeah, just import on your new phone.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kubernetes:
D'oh, double post!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsnt:
Yes sir, 2.2 love.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NoDataFound:
Yes. There is a way.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsnt:
I've found a way, thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElAguila:
I seem to remember something about the previous htc phones that they could only access a microsd card at class 2 speeds. Is this true of the Evo? I am getting ready to order my 32GB microSD card and I don't know whether to get the class 2 Sandisk one or the class 4 Kingston one.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edufur:
I presently have a class 6 16GB in my EVO. But I actually thought that 16 was as high as you could go.

BTW... I dont see a huge speed gain going from my class 2 8gb to class 6 16gb... so it may be worth it to stay with the slowed speed since the price is cheaper.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElAguila:
Thanks for the info. According to the htc site it can take a 32GB microSD card. There are a few merchants that sell them but they aren't cheap.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrmike1982:
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

I can't seem to apply any themes at al to my N1. I'm currently running Enoms 2.12.2. Using metamorph it occasionally thinks the theme has been applied, but once rebooted the best I get is a wallpaper change back to stock (not a black or glass status bar). I have tried using ninjamorph to change one icon, and this simply causes a bootloop once applied.

Any ideas?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Since it might help some people in the future in case they encounter the same behavior and come here looking for answer, I'll post the answer from another thread:

The OP checked his settings and found that oveclocking was the cause of the theme not being applied. He dropped the clock speeds and a simple theme worked.

A couple of more complicated themes failed, though - so the question is still relevant.
[XPERIA X10 General] lucero79:
Hi guys,

On my Desire, I sign in to the facebook account sync and also the facebook app and it syncs all my contacts with pictures from facebook.

This doesn't seem to happen, at least not automatically on my GFs X10. I can link the contacts to facebook accounts but it doesn't pick up their profile pictures like the Desire does.

How can I achieve this?

Ta
[XPERIA X10 General] qwer23:
Well, that option was supposed to be included in the now delayed update ;) So if there are no more delays you'll get this feature sometime in october.

Right now, you can use an app like syncmypix which is free on the market. it will check your phonebook and try to automatically link your facebook friends' pictures to your phonebook contacts. You can manually cange the linking if it's making a mistake.
[XPERIA X10 General] curious_yellow_eyes:
Sometimes, the Facebook app lets me choose someone's picture and add it as a contact picture (not exactly a sync I know) and most times it doesn't...
[XPERIA X10 General] qwer23:
edit: never mind, misread your post...
[XPERIA X10 General] fuusuke:
you can sync your facebook pics to contacts through "Full Screen Caller ID" aswell
[XPERIA X10 General] im_iceman:
or Syncmypix
[XPERIA X10 General] _raz_:
or 'fb sync'
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmhecker:
Back in my G1 days, I was a huge fan of the Photoburst album. Its quick and easy to use.

Now that I have Android on my HD2, I redownloaded Photoburst and it found my pictures from my SD just fine, but it is a bit quirky...for starters, it is slow (lags quite badly) when opening and zooming on pictures. The quality is also quite sub-par. The pictures themselves are crystal clear when viewed on my G1 or on my PC.

Has anyone noticed similar issues?

Also, can anyone recommend a decent 3rd party photo album for Android? I am not a fan of the stock Gallery app (albeit, it does work quite well).
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cauzion:
Hi,

did you find any decent Photo Album application for Android ? Photo Galery shows in a low quality when in slide presentation. My Photo just can't update the thumbnails... It has a database update but doesn't works. It keeps showing already deleted folders and photo thumbnais and because of that, when in Slide show, keeps trying to show pictures that already were deleted.

Well...I want a simple, but functional Photo slide application where I can choose one or more folders from my SD card to show.

Any idea ??

Thanks,

Carlos
[Click General] wilfmoralee:
Does anybody know of a version of friendstream or a similar app that works on the Tattoo. have downloaded several APKs now and all say cannot be installed on the phone. Help anybody please?
[G1 General] rpmccormick:
Hey all. The new TMobile G2 (not the mytouch) is shipping Oct 6th. I was looking for info on it in this forum, but could not find anything other than tons of junk on the MyTouch which everybody here calls the G2 Touch/Hero.

ADMINS: Lets get a real G2 forum up, stat! :)

If anyone has any links for me, post away. I really did search, but 'G2' in not that good a search term to start with and useless with all the myTouch junk mixed in.
[G1 General] AdrianK:
Who the hell is 'Jost' and why should I care that they just ordered a G2?
[G1 General] rpmccormick:
Haha. That's what I get for using my phone to post.

FYI: I found the real G2 forum.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deacon51:
Hi all, I’m having a major issue.

ROM is CyanogenMod 6.0.1

S-Off

Radio 2.15.00.07.28

I left Dinc in a hot car, direct Sunlight, 100 degrees, 8 hours, on the charger.

When I returned to my car, I had an orange LED and non-responsive phone.

I pulled Battery and held the phone to the A/C for a few minutes and powered it on, the phone entered a reboot cycle. Pulled battery and drove home.

Once home, I booted into recovery and reverted to my last backup. When I booted the phone, it locked wile mounting SD Card. Pulled Battery and booted into recovery, cleared cache. Boot into “Getting Started”, locked up. Next I did a factory reset.

The phone seems operational and stable at this time, but I have yet to sync or try to restore my Titanium backup. As a matter of fact, I’m thinking I may go back to stock Sense. I haven’t seen the 2.2 update, and the blogs are full of reports of things to come. I don’t want to give up Root…

… as I was just researching going back to the stock ROM / Radio I noticed my phone was locked up. So now I turn to you guys...

Help?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomertwo:
Well if your able to get it to boot then Its not completely bricked thankfully.

Also since your S-off You can flash the 2.2 RUU. Once that is done you can then run Unrevoked 3.21 and get root again.

I do worry about your phone locking up though. What hboot version do you have?

You should have

Hboot Version: 0.92.0000

I ask as if you don't already have this then you will end up being flashed with the RUU. I would hate to see your phone lock up while flashing the Hboot as that would be instant brick.

Also your phone may be damaged from being in the heat like that. I know my phone gets stupid hot when plugged into a car charger and have had that blinking orange light. If running the RUU does not resolve the issue of the phone locking up then you're going to have to call your carrier and possible get them to replace it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deacon51:
Baseband is 2.15.00.07.28

But HBOOT is 0.79.0000

I begining to think the issue is the SDCard but I have loaded it on my PC and it appears fine.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomertwo:
Try running the phone with a different SD card for a while and see if it still locks up.

If you run the RUU your going to be updated to Hboot 0.92.0000 but as stated in my reply above I would hate to see it lock up while flashing this.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deacon51:
Okay, let me see if I can find the 2.2 RUU and a install guide. I have the 2 gig SD card that came with the phone someplace...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeeBG:
I would recommend reformatting the 2GB SanDisk card to the FAT32 format before using it too (no idea why it's just FAT by default). Probably wouldn't make a difference in what you are doing, but it was a hang up for me when trying to upgrade manually from 2.1-update1 to 2.2.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deacon51:
Okay, downloaded the RUU and HTC Sync.

Installed HTC Sync

Connected the phone over USB and ran the RUU.

Wile the RUU was running, an additional driver installed, and required a reboot. RUU error out with "Unable to communicate with the device"

Pulled battery from the phone, restarted the computer.

RUU can not connect.

Uninstall HTC Sync, reinstalled HTC Sync. Reconnected phone, ran the RUU... same thing... driver starts installing mid way through, request a reboot of my windows box, RUU reports unable to communicate.

Any ideas?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deacon51:
Got it... I know you guys where freaking out as much as I was.

I had to change the driver for the boot loader... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=776056
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atenrok:
So I was at a meeting today and had my Captivate in a silent mode (I am always very thorough about that) with vibration turned ON. And then that F-ing thing rings on an incoming call right in the middle of the F-ing meeting. I reject the call, but the damage is already done.

The worst thing is that I clearly observe a "silent mode" icon in the statusbar. I've been playing with the phone for hours now, not being able to reproduce the situation. I have etiquette app installed (http://android.popmonkey.com/etiquette/) which restores the device from the silent/flight mode after certain time-out, but it was not the time yet. Reading here and there made me think that TasKiller (which I also have installed) could have killed the process and the volume would be restored. I tried that -- no, killing Etiquette does not affect the silent mode. So why the F did that thing ring???

Did anybody else observed such behaviour? This is very important because now I cannot trust my phone with this unless it is totally powered off, and I hardly will be able to handle an embarrassment like this once again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atenrok:
ok. It has happened again. And because I desperately rush to turn off the phone when it happens, everything is reset and I cannot reproduce the situation. Did anybody else run into problem like that?
[Droid X General] EZ2Hate:
So this is bizarre. I just rooted my uncle's Droid X. He was running the 2.2 stock ROM. The root seemed to go fine, but now he is having an issue with having to "double-click" items in settings in order to see them. I don't have the phone with me at the moment so I'm going with what he told me. He can still make calls and everything else is running fine I guess. Is anyone else aware of issues like these?
[Touch HD General] schuldiner:
Hi I have bought a Blackstone on ebay,I have noticied that the touch screen have a little gap between the top of screen and the screen below.When you press the screen going down for about 1 mm it's normal?, I don't know if you understand me, my english it's very bad...
[Touch HD General] Tigermoto:
The Blackstone has a plastic guard over the 'actual' screen. This will push in slightly. Sounds fine mate.

Regards
[Touch HD General] retsam88:
It shouldn't be like that. True, there is a tiny distance between digitizer and lcd, but NOT 1mm
[Touch HD General] Tigermoto:
I daresay there was a bit of an exageration in the original post to be honest, i agree with what you say though. How would you explain it to someone if you had the issue? The screen goes down 0.15mm? A bit hard to assume in these cases i believe. It seems exagerated, If it really was 1mm, the cover would be away from the phone yes? :)
[Touch HD General] schuldiner:
1mm it was a approximate distance, may be it's less than 1mm I think, but you confirm that it's present a little distance between the first layer of the screen and lcd.

Thanks
[Touch HD General] Tigermoto:
Yes mate, there is a slight gap between the screen and digitizer.
[Vibrant General] Digital_Warrior:
Does any one know when it is comming out. My sisters boyfriend mothers cusions friend heard it was comming out in 10/31/10. WhaT do you all think. Should I upgrade or not if not or so why.

Thanks I looked in the forums but could not find the answer.
[Vibrant General] NoDataFound:
Its out. My phone has been running it for weeks.

My advice would be to upgrade asap.
[Vibrant General] ericm115:
my freinds, sisters, hairstylist overheard a janitor that work at the soho apple store say that he heard his brothers, girl freinds mom who works at a california tmobile store say that it will come out in 20 minutes/
[Vibrant General] rjwisniewski:
I work at a T-Mobile store, Android is dead. Trust me. /sarcasm

The views expressed in this post are not that of T-Mobile.
[Vibrant General] kboater:
the CEO of the world told me it will be out in 7 minutes and 33 seconds...

make that 7 minutes 30 seconds now...

oh, now 7 minutes 26 seconds now.....yah....

i cant wait for 7 minutes 21 seconds from now....

EDIT: I want to be more clear,

it was my babys mamma sisters cousin tracys great unlce herbert 2 nephew 4 times removed who heard it from is 12th great grandsons girl friend who is bff with the mom of the worlds CEO cousins grandmas sisters 12 bother... just wanted to clear that up
[Vibrant General] qreffie:
I head that if you fly Air Korea, when you land a Samsung rep will swap your phone out for a Vibrant with Froyo on it. My flight leaves Sunday.
[Vibrant General] NoDataFound:
His boss told me that Gingercake. Diarrhea 2.6niner will be out on the Samsung Vibrant before the G2 preorders start.

Also I like pictures of armpits in distress.
[Vibrant General] henreeg:
Damn nature you scary!
[Vibrant General] kboater:
my bad, the 12th removed great grandsons girlfriend was mixed up.

and my source was so reliable on this one, i cant believe that was the kink in the chain
[Vibrant General] fnakfhe:
While flying to koria. I droped a samsung phone outta the window and the person that it landed on knows someone who owns a church in africa.

And he told him he is going to collect it fryo i mean for you.

He is she is they did upgrade to the latest version.

But in all seriousness of the OP. samsung has decided to run windows mobile 7.5 on the vibrant.
[Vibrant General] presence06:
This.
[Vibrant General] chucky80:
You need to really grow up.
[Vibrant General] ntellegence:
One question...Is froyo kosher?
[Vibrant General] newspeak:
You say you have the froyo....tell me more....i need the froyo

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant General] marsupial99:
You want the Froyo!? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE FROYO...! :mad:

But don't forget: The Froyo is out there..... :eek:
[Vibrant General] TheExpertNoob:
like
[Vibrant General] presence06:
Samsungs got its thumb up its ass And not working on it. Their failtab is priority.
[Vibrant General] kboater:
this thread makes me smile
[Vibrant General] watcher64:
I heard, Steve Jobbs bought Android from Google, and then canceled it ...

Heard that from my brothers , roommates, sister's Aunts, Cousins, Bookie . So it must be true ...
[Vibrant General] presence06:
I heard it from a friend of a friend, who's friend heard it from Bob the builder and Chris the construction worker and Jim Bob the plumber who heard from Steve Jobs.
[Vibrant General] jsjdjn:
I was told by Obama that they have skipped Froyo and are updating the Vibrant to iOS 4.2!
[Vibrant General] SamVib:
I heard that we are gonna get 1.6 donut instead of froyo.

This is true. My plumber's grandmother heard it from her grandsons godfather while he was preaching for the church.

Sent from my Samsung Vibrant using the xda-developers app.
[Vibrant General] huasamaya:
i was told by betty white, that bill gates is talking to samsung, so they can release the new iFroyo for the vibrant, in Nov.
[Vibrant General] vamp6x6x6x:
aww man, but wait if we get iFroyo instead of Froyo wouldn't we be downgrading?
[Vibrant General] huasamaya:
at this point getting any kind of froyo will not be downgrading... lol
[Vibrant General] vamp6x6x6x:
lol...true true
[Vibrant General] nguyenmd:
Dalai Lama said No phone...No Android....No Worry!
[Vibrant General] mobilebone:
I have gingerbread on my phone. My wife and kids made it.
[Vibrant General] bvc:
for me it all looks like a deja vu ... same happened with sAMSUNG behold 2 (and t-mobile) ... came with 1.5 never got the 1.6 update (they started to roll it out and then for some reason it stopped before everybody got it) ... so once again I'm reminded that I'm in a country where big corporations' income is above anything and anybody else ... so... I wouldn't be surprised not to get any update at all ...
[Vibrant General] solarpanel:
Charlie Chan say he who put frozen yogurt in phone not have brain in skull
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] dnahughes:
Is there an app to save screen shots without rooting my vibrant?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] turbosix:
no, there is not.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] fit333:
Dxtop does home screenies but cant get the taskbar.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] turbosix:
man does that launcher look terrrrrrrrrrible.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] fit333:
jees, its not that bad.. plus it has many great features and long press options.

(master baron (og dev) RIP(sellout))

pics taken with shootme btw.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] dbm0361:
Shoot me looks good
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] infinitybiff:
Due to time constraints I'm not able to update this build in what some would consider a timely fashion. DOMINEUS has been working hard to update MIUI on the HD2 and keep it going. His thread can be found HERE
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] serikm:
Could you please provide more info and screenshots as well.

What is specific in this build ?

And just in case if you didn't mark it http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7330252&postcount=1

Is it the same looking build as here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=788389 ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] phiredrop:
Yummy :) Excellent work, sir.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thesweeney:
Thanks infinitybiff, Sarcastillo , Kingklick92, MIUI Team.

cant wait to try this.

some info:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=789119
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] S3BAZ10:
Its the same thing as darkstones. All we need is the camera to work and its good to go.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rasumia:
I will give it a go and let you know downloading...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bigfatfrog:
it will look like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBuiWZ8TDBw

pretty cool
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] panosg1977:
This is not your average Android ROM. This is something completely new as a concept and it looks fantastic!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=789566

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=787877

:-)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Diamond777:
This is a very iPhonish looking ROM . I might test it once its not a Super Beta release
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Buster3616:
Cyanogen liked it. He had some back and fourth with the developers of the original MIUI rom. He mentioned possibly collaborating with them in the future.

I'd love to see this UI with some cyanogen love. I wonder what apks we can use/port in the meantime...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] domineus:
anyone else getting a rootfs error?

edit failed to find rootfs

edit again

removed all files from folder and placed on root now loading and testing

3g is not working in this release either, and there is a hard freeze at first...

so far so good

3g is working after a few resets my android settings work too..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] b3ltazar:
the startup txt is wrong! it says hyperdroidmiui but the folder is hyperdroidmui just a small edit fixes it!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] domineus:
Yea I finally saw it I will edit it later. Its quite fast and stable. Volume is low though...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Carliz89:
you know what I think about this android rom......AWESOMENESS!!!!! I cant wait till its in fully engrish :D

Also, has anybody else change the DPI or lcd density thing, it makes somethings display weird when you have the usb plugged in and on the lock screen when you slide up you can see the green light like half way displayed
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] juanzho11:
I like it its pretty fast and stable just finish installing it and gonna keep testing overall its really nice, great job guys
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Cass67:
Not to be pedantic, adb does work, you can shell in just fine, just logcat has issues, not sure what the issue is there atm ...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pongster:
don't forget to thank Cass67... he figured out how to get the signal working. :)