[Captivate General] Neoprimal:
Hey all,

I did some searching and didn't find pertinent results so I just hope I'm not asking the same question for the 10th time or anything - if I am, sorry!

I own a Vibrant, I have till Friday to return it so I'm trying to get some info about 2.2 on the Captivate hoping that the Vibrant will get the same changes.

1a. I'm extremely hung up on the contact manager. You know, having to import contacts from your gmail synced list to your internal phone memory in order to get ringtones and pictures added to them from the phone. Adding pictures isn't a big deal, that can be done right from gmail contacts, but the ringtones are a big deal, at least for me. I've tried lots of workarounds. I tried importing and then hiding the phone contacts, but the information on the contact's info profile still doubles up (2 birthdays, 2 addresses, etc.) which is annoying to me.

I've tried using 3rd party apps to assign ringtones that they successfully assign (according to the app), but don't actually work/activate the tone when the contact calls. I refuse to sit there and add manual 'dummy' contacts to the phone in order to get it to work. It's an android device and one of the top reasons I'm interested is the 'typical' ability to sync your contacts to and from gmail with ease. Currently, the way Touchwiz handles contacts is 100% contradictory to the android experience.

1b. Contacts situation again. Touchwiz ignores groups and nicknames/file as details set in gmail. So, for example, you'd have John Doe set in your Gmail as Dad or Uncle John and under Family, but it's synced into your Vibrant/Captivate as John Doe with no group assignment. The groups thing is obvious - it doesn't sync in groups, it doesn't see your groups in gmail contacts and you can't even assign contacts to groups unless, like the ringtone/pictures situation, you import the contacts into the device. The problem with this is of course, that should you have to switch or reset the phone for any reason, unless it's another Samsung phone you're pretty much screwed because you lose groups AGAIN.

1c. More contacts stuff....you can't sync or copy over ONE contact. So, lets say you've worked around the issue by doing your little import to SD, import to Phone....then you add a few contacts to gmail - you can't copy them to the phone independently. Now, say you're slick and you add your contact to the phone instead of gmail, then that means the contact(s) aren't synced with google. No which way you look at it...you're adding something manually or you're losing out. It's a conundrum, and as I mentioned...completely contradictory to how contacts are typically handled in the android OS.

For all intents and purposes, I really wish Samsung would just get rid of Touchwiz. I adore the 7 home screens and the super easy settings at the top of the notification area - but I can sacrifice those for a working contact manager.

Love the Vibrant except for the contact management on it. There are a few more quirks but this is what warrants my exchanging the Vibrant for something else.

2. I think I hear that the 2.2 leak doesn't contain the optimizations like JIT and the new Kernel, if I am incorrect in that, could someone provide some benchmarks based on a somewhat 'stock' experience of 2.2 including these things? The reason I say stock is that I really prefer not to root or mod my Vibrant, so I'd be depending on 2.2 STOCK and I'd like to know if the benchmark results are significantly higher than they are currently. By some simple calculations the Vibrant with 2.2 and JIT/new kernel should be around ~1900 which is the same as the Desire HD.

See, I'm deliberating getting the new Mytouch. I'd really hoped the rumors of a dual core cpu were true, but as they're not I'm trying to figure out if it's worth it to exchange for the mytouch or keep the Vibrant and pray for a 'hack free' boost in performance with 2.2.

This is all moot of course if the contact problems still exist because I just can't get comfortable with it as it is right now.

Thanks in advance.