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[Captivate General] coldbeverage:
Last time I checked, I was buying a cool phone that is thin, sounds great, is fast, looks nice, plays great video, is super-customizable and has tons of quality app options. I didn't buy a GPS. The GPS is a nice extra. I can use my in-car GPS or my protable GPS.

The GPS still locks on the phone, but it takes a while and is a massive battery drain.

If people want an iPhone 4 for a GPS, then let them get it.
[Captivate General] skinien:
Don't forget to pick up a case for that iPhone. Don't want you dropping calls while using your GPS.
[Captivate General] derek4484:
The GPS on my phone works great, especially after the JH7 OTA update, then I went in and tweaked the LBS settings. GPS is not an issue. Everything else is. Crappy battery life, 304MB of RAM vs the advertised 512MB, laggy OS, terrible quality on the android apps. I just really hate everything about android. The S-AMOLED display looks pretty good (still not better than iphone4 though), but its an absolute battery hog.

I just really dont like the phone. The iphone4 smokes this samjunk and crappy java OS.
[Captivate General] coldbeverage:
So leave then. Stop spamming on here.
[Captivate General] cclem700:
I enjoyed my iphone for the most part. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall having a free navigation app available... Oh, the main reason I switched was...dropping almost every call that lasted more than 5 minutes. Turns out it wasn't an issue with coverage like I suspected. My captivate hasn't dropped a call yet (crossed fingers). So I would recommend getting that iphone if you want an app device that sometimes makes phone calls... Then join an apple forum so you can go complain about it.
[Captivate General] coldbeverage:
Nice. Hahahaha
[Captivate General] Dungeon47:
Froyo fixed my gps.

Sent from my Android.
[Captivate General] ProudSoonersFan:
By "fixed my GPS" do you mean obtaining a lock, keeping it, and tracking works reasonably?
[Captivate General] cclem700:
Jh7 fixed mine but cog2.2 froyo destroyed it. Flashed back to jh7 and all works well again. Meaning nav when driving stays locked on and tracks perfectly.
[Captivate General] derek4484:
Unfortunately, I'm stuck for 22 more months of this phone until I can find someone with an iphone4 loony enough to trade for my Captivate.

I've advertised on craigslist several times a week and in any city within 150 miles of me asking for a Captivate for iphone4 trade. Haven't had one single reply yet. Seems as though nobody with an Iphone4 wants to get rid of it.

If anybody on this board knows of somebody who would trade iphone 4 for captivate, or if they just want to buy the phone straight out (They're going for around 399 on ebay, I'd sell for 325-350), please message me immediately, I'd love to get rid of this phone.
[Captivate General] laxwillsch:
Seriously dude what are you doing on an xda forum if you hate everything about android I know its tough having a fully customizable phone that plays almost every kind of video file, a super amoled screen that is super battery friendly, all kind of hacks, lag fixes and customizable roms, and a ton more! You are probably right for wanting a very plain un interesting user friendly (boring) iphone and I mean everyone is doing it/has it and so should you!
[Captivate General] cclem700:
You are never stuck, just buy an iphone and sell your captivate. Problem solved!
[Captivate General] cappysw10:
Please do not feed the trolls!
[Captivate General] derek4484:
Yes, JH7 seems to have fixed mine. Before, I could get a lock but it wouldnt track at all, even at walking speed it would lose lock. I got JH7 OTA update, then went in to the LBS Settings and set it to MS-Based, and then set SUPL to Auto Config. Thats all I had to change. It works good now. It locks pretty quickly and it tracks me while I'm driving. I've used it for navigation several times, and sometimes on the way home from work, I'll open Maps and just watch it track me on the way home. On Maps, I can zoom all the way in and it usually shows me on the right side of the road on 4 lane roads. Its much, much better than when I first got it. I also open up "GPS Test" app and go into the Speed screen and it shows my MPH and its usually within 1-1.5 MPH of my speedometer and my indash navigation unit, so its pretty accurate.

After receiving the JH7 update, it worked about the same as when it was new. But I forgot I had to go into the LBS settings and change those again. Once, I did that it works great now. I couldnt get the OTA update to work properly so I got the JH7_OTA.zip file from designgears. His file worked great, just loaded it right through clockwork recovery.
[Captivate General] coldbeverage:
Hey man, what are you doing to max your battery life? i am always looking for tips!
[Captivate General] Dungeon47:
Yep. As far as I've been able to test. I only tend to drive a few miles at a time, but it now works as well as my old iPhone 3GS did.
[Captivate General] thehavock18:
I have to say My Iphone could never do what my captivate does.

My alarm in the morning starts by playing nice ambient background sounds... Then Tells me good morning its time to get up!! . I grab my phone and my Agenda for the day is already on the screen. Then a pop up asked me if I will be leaving the house today? With the answer yes 20 Minutes later it starts my Truck and has it all warmed up and ready to go when I walk out the door.

My Job is big about my phone ringing during meetings ect. SO when I get withing 500m of work my Ringer automatically goes to vibrate only. My WiFi is turned off. When I am at my desk and I put the phone face down it autoforwards all my calls to my desk phone.

When I get back to the house my WiFi turns back on automatically connects to app brain and checks for updates.

Let me know when the IPHONE can do that then I might think about going back to one.

BTW that is using the Tasker APP along with Viper smart start module.
[Captivate General] syrisara:
Bye bye iphone, lol.
[Captivate General] derek4484:
Ok, how is it fully customizable? Because I cant customize anything. You have to root to customize first, warranty is void then. Also, if its so customizable, where are all the different ROMS? The only roms available are the ones made by samsung(jf6, jh7, ji6). What if I wanted stock Android....not available. Sure there's some janky version where half the stuff doesnt work. Android being completely open and customizable is a total MYTH! Once an iphone is jailbroken, its just as customizable as this galaxy S is. Matter of fact its more customizable, there are full blown versions of linux running on it, even some android on it. So dont even start to blow smoke about how "customizable" android is.

Also, dont even try to tell me the s-amoled screen is "super battery friendly" HA!! thats the funniest thing I've heard all year. The screen is a complete and total battery hog! Everytime I go in the menu my display is using 85-90% of my battery. Now, even other manufacturers are criticizing all oled's as being battery inefficient. S-LCD is much more efficient than AMOLED or S-AMOLED. Plus LCD's are not pentile matrix screens as OLED's are. So you get the true resolution.

Last time I looked, iphone doesnt need hacks and lagfixes to make it run well, it does it right out of the box!

Android is nothing but a java runtime environment, its not a true OS. Thats why 90% of the apps in the market look like they were written and designed on a windows 3.1 computer over a decade ago.

I guess if you're the type of person that likes to constantly fiddle with settings, constantly have to tweak this or tweak that just to get something to work properly then Android is the OS for you. Me, personally, I like to set my phone up the way I want it, and then just use it day in and day out without having to worry if it'll work. I know it'll just work. That's why I cant stand android.
[Captivate General] YoungGun821:
Here here!

I agree. It's an amazing Andorid 2.1 phone, soon to be 2.2. :cool:

I get a feeling the guy at the AT&T store was just expressing his own opinion and pushing to sell the iphone...
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
How do we get the mods to delete this crap.... Another AT&T store jockey is an engineer and knows it is a hardware issue?

I won't say any update fixed anything, and it may very well be a hardware issue (i doubt it since the chip is in other phones); but when will these noobs realize that they will not reach anyone at AT&T or Samsung that really knows. No email, phone call, or store visit will expose a single person that knows what is going on.

Unless an Samsung developer (one of the system devs that knows how to talk to hardware) stands up and says "This is the problem" - everything else is hearsay and speculation.

Mods at least lock this stuff.... this is the same old stuff rehashed.
[Captivate General] thebigstick:
Why are you here?
[Captivate General] z28james:
hmmm...

TL;DR
[Captivate General] thehavock18:
The S-OLED is really not more battery effecient. It comes out to be about the same. What is better is the graphics / movies look much more vivid. The contrast ratio is fantastic because it has true black where it turns off lights for true black where other screens have to mask and get a bleed effect. The Iphone is much better for reading due to the retina display. They each have there Pro's and Con's. Between the 2 phones its a matter of preference.

If you hated the phone so much you should have returned it within the 30 days and got your Iphone. Iphone is a great phone so I hate people that bash each other..

Iphone is a Ferrari on the autobohn it just has a governor to keep it at 55MPH

Galaxy S is that same Ferrari going wide open.

There are things you can do with both phones but android is actually more customizable without being jailbroken / Rooted. However I agree we should never have to install the lagfix to begin with and that is a bad call on samsungs part.
[Captivate General] laxwillsch:
So let me get this strait you are willing to void the warranty on an iphone by jailbreaking but unable to root? And I could tell you all the numerous ways to combat all those points you seem to think you know but I think I will just remind you that this is an android forum and if you want to be an apple fan boy I suggest you do it somewhere else where you will have more supporters no one here wants to hear it good day
[Captivate General] thehavock18:
I read somewhere sorry if I can't link it at this moment but that the new GPS driver was sent to Samsung a couple of months ago. The way most companies work and timeline I doubt they have added that in 2.2 since it was already under development. Who knows it may very well be a hardware issue. I know stock I can pick up 9 sats fairly quickly just never use any of them. Change the supl and MS assisted and I can pick up 9 and use 6-7 right off the bat and eventually get to using all 9. I tested navigating to several locations and missing turns and having it reroute me.

Changing a few settings and getting instant lock does not seem to me be a hardware issue but more software.
[Captivate General] thehavock18:
What he said ^^^^^
[Captivate General] coldbeverage:
Well, I am convinced.....

Please stop wasting our time (and your time).
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
That's bull.
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
All this proves is you went to school sober one day! :D

JK - thanks for some confidence - that second track looks very nice.
[Captivate General] laxwillsch:
Sorry if this has been talked about before I did not mean any disrespect and i definitely did not mean to imply that this "store jockey"'s opinion was fact. Just thought some people would be interested in my experience. I know the only way we will actually know whether its software or hardware is when Samsung decides to shoot us strait and give us a real answer with some evidence. Guess I am still a noob! Anyone know how long it takes to not be a noob anymore? lol
[Captivate General] Brynn85:
Well I'm gonna hold out hope that when I eventually upgrade to Froyo, that it will do the same for me. *crosses fingers... and maybe toes, too*
[Captivate General] ryusen:
JH7 seemed to improve my GPS dramatically. it would take a minute+ to lock before now it's 10-20 seconds.

As for our Troll, are you just copy/pasting from the Apple FUD manual? Either way, if you hated the phone so much, it's your fault for not returning it within 30 days. You sound like those people who were *****ing that the phone OEMs were taking too long to get Froyo out... before it was eve and official release on anything but the N1
[Captivate General] Lee1733:
6:18pm - *Reads post*

6:19pm - *Goes to download Tasker*

I heard about Tasker but had no idea it could do all that. Amazing. Does all that gps work not kill your battery pretty quickly though?
[Captivate General] galaxyjeff:
I complained a lot over the GPS in my Captivate on here because it would not get a lock on anything but I called Wirefly about it after the 30 day trial period was up and thankfully they extended my 30 day exchange time period and wanted me to overnight ship my phone to them at my expense but because I couldn't afford that I just used the return label in the box and they sent me a brand new unopened Captivate (I had to wait 8 days before it finally arrived) and this one has a working GPS but it's still not working very well. It locks onto maybe 5 satellites but fluctuates a little to much. It's to inaccurate. I'm using the Froyo rom and I'm hoping that when the official Froyo finally gets ported to us it will have new GPS drivers that fix everyones faulty GPS. I do believe it may be only software related and not hardware otherwise Samsung could make the GPS chip maker Broadcom pay everyone a rebate.
[Captivate General] retnuh:
Think about it. The GPS works fine on a brand new Captivate. After a couple of weeks, the GPS become unstable. Put a new ROM on the phone and once again it works as it should until a couple of weeks go buy; then, the GPS once again becomes unstable. If it was a hardware issue, it would never work correctly. After all, the hardware doesn't change after it has been used a couple of weeks. The hardware is a constant. Software, however, is not a constant. Whether it be firmware or applications, poorly written programing can degrade any hardware.
[Captivate General] JAREDM25:
Agreed, its certainly not a hardware issue if its capable of working great sometimes. And the people working the ATT stores generally know even less than 1st level tech support. Whether Samsung will choose to put in the proper effort to fix the software is the only question. You would think so since the Galaxy S is a big line for them and they would like to add Galaxy S tablets to it. Time will tell.

In the meantime if anyone really wants to trade it in for an Iphone then obviously a high-end device was never for them to begin with. Perhaps they may want to also take a look a Cricket phone, my grandmother loves the simplicity of hers.
[Captivate General] pobinghun:
Agree, for apps and cute look, go for iphone; for free gps, try android, saves you 60 dollars at least. And I got my phone from wire fly dot com for ten bucks.
[Captivate General] Dxtra:
IPhone this iPhone that. When are we ever going to get past this stupid discussion. I just don't understand why would come to an android forum to talk about an iPhone. what's funny to me its that the iPhone cheerleaders make it seem like the iPhone never had any problem since day one and it was perfect, an I mean since fw 1.0 who are you fooling? I had iPhone since day one, the time where there were no appstore, no iTunes, no copy an paste, no MMS, no springboard wallpaper just a plain black screen with a few default icon, no multi task, no push and the list go on. IOS 4.0 still dont come close to android 2.1. Who are you trying to convince?
[Captivate General] othermark:
The sales droids at AT&T stores work on commission. Most likely there was money to be made allowing you to 'trade it in' on a iphone. Be it new plan, add-ons, accessories, what have you.
[Captivate General] JAREDM25:
Its a good solid mid-range device, thats why a ton of people have it. And good for them, glad its available for that market. Works great for my girlfriend with the few things she wants to be able to easily do. I certainly don't waste my time telling them their phone sucks any more than I do 70 year olds carrying around a chunky Go-Phone with huge buttons and 3-line text display. It gets the job done for them. If any are curious about stepping up I'll be happy to show them what my phone can do. Its like comparing a Canon point and shoot to an EOS 1D digital SLR. The vast majority are going to go for the point and shoot and be quite happy with it. Just don't expect a favorable response when you bring it to the photo shoot acting like you are gonna 1-up the big boys.
[Captivate General] buddy17:
the sales people make the EXACT same on every single phone, accessory, etc. They don't make more commission by selling an iphone or iphone accessory. Get your facts straight and quit having to add in "most likely" since you have no clue what you are talking about.
[Captivate General] othermark:
My stipulation was based on the following:

http://consumerist.com/2010/09/att-...e-employees-are-commission-chasing-liars.html

Sorry if the story is not true, but I do have a fairly good memory for these kinds of things.

All the best.
[Captivate General] thehavock18:
Gps turns on and does a check every 5 minutes until it picks me up at work. Then it states off until my normal time I leave. It is also set to turn on for certain apps. so it does not use much battery. 12 hour days at work I have between 30 to 40% left.
[Captivate General] crabjoe:
I'm thinking all Galaxy S phones have a hardware problem... or should I say design, since the GPS chip in the Galaxy S phones are used in other phones without any issue. I say this because of 3 things..

1st, the SNR is low.

2nd, The Galaxy S phones started appearing in June and still, there's no software fix that actually works. Yes, some phones work, but most don't. I'm guessing here, but I'm thinking the ones that work are due to slight variations in the way they are put together. the GPS antenna might have gotten mounted slight off that causes better reception, but who knows since I'm speculating here.

3rd, Rogers in Canada has stated that there version of the Captivate will not have GPS issues like the Galaxy S line sold in the states. They say “Our version of the Captivate has been optimized for overall GPS/navigation performance and has been extensively tested."

- news.softpedia.com/news/Galaxy-S-Captivate-at-Rogers-for-549-99-Upright-Gets-Froyo-in-2011-159511.shtml

Software can do a lot of stuff, like hide hardware deficiencies, but there's only so much you can do with bad hardware or design....
[Captivate General] tbong777:
Me neither..Would NEVER tade this for an iPhone.Even if the GPS was non existant at all. My GPS works as good as my Nokia N97 with Garmin XT which wasn't as good as my Stand alone Garmin unit. But for $500 one cannot expect the best of everything in every category.

But IpHone and Apples death grip on the SW and file transfer???....not a chance. I'd rather have an old flip phone.
[Captivate General] Dungeon47:
I happily ditched an iPhone for my Captivate. Cappy makes me Happy! *song and dance*
[Captivate General] jfiveeight:
With the 2.2 leak i have GPS picking me up while i'm in the house faster than my 3gs ever did.

Now the battery I have yet to see impress me... (attempting the drain and charge now)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snlu178:
Anyone know of a widget that will turn Trackball Alert on and off? Meaning while I am at work I can turn off the trackball notification?

I have used Tasker and Settings Profile in the past but that is a lot of software to just not have it blink at work. I do have Trackball Alert set to have it off at night, but without a second setting I still have it blink at work, leaving me with a blinking light in my pocket.

The alternative would be a widget to turn email push off and on...but I cant find that either.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abstrucity:
The power widget has the option of putting Sync 'On' and 'Off' at your convenience..
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snlu178:
But that does not turn off my exchange push. Trust me I use it every day and my push emails still arrive.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rusty!:
Disable data while at work? Can't push with no connection.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snlu178:
I have thought of this, but I guess my issue is I need my phone calls and texts but while I am in front of my PC I dont need the email alerts.

I guess its back to Setting Profiles or Tasker for me.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rusty!:
You'll still get calls and texts with data turned off.
[Hero CDMA General] killacammiami:
Im trying to get into the epst mode on damage v1 but its not working could it b a bad flash ?.... when i enter the pw nothing pops up ... also is there any other rom i can use with metro pcs .... i kno i was on the latest and it didnt work !! thanks
[Hero CDMA General] danaff37:
That is an eris based rom. Won't work. You'll need a later damage or fresh or nfinitefx
[Hero CDMA General] killacammiami:
ok thanks do u kno of them working with metro?
[Vibrant General] adibaiz:
Hi! Was wondering if somebody can help me fix/unbrick my phone....i don't mind if i pay for it....

Please email me advendo at bellsouth dot net.

Thanks! Adrian

P.S. Phone rooted / last rom working fine....bionix 1.3 with voodoo lagfix / forgot to disable lagfix / flashed different rom on top/ messed up everything (kept reseting every so often)/ don't know ADB/ cannot make ODIN work on my computer and to top it all off....last night i formated system and data...so there's nothing on the internal card anymore/ able to get to recovery mode but it will not boot up anymore....very frustrated...please please somebody help me. Thanks again....worst thing is when you know a little about rooting but not enough not to mess up the phone...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] k2trill:
Was getting several data freezes every day (5 to 7 every day). I installed a free app from the Android Market called DATA ON DEMAND which is supposed to switch your data from 3G to 2G in order to conserve battery when phone is idle in sleep mode (screen off). This app did not work on my device. It would kill the data completely after phone was put to sleep and data nor voice would restore unless the phone was restarted. Needless to say, I uninstalled the app and rebooted my phone and strangely, my phone has not dropped data even ONCE in 5 DAYS. I have tested this on 3 other HD2's and all followed the same pattern. I have only tested them for the last 3 days though. My exact setup as far as OS's is:

Windows Mobile Rom: Omega v14 WWE XT CHT

Radio: 2.14.50.04

Android Rom: mattcevoleo1.0.1

Kernel: michyprima@mainframe (r1)

Please post if this works for you if you decide to try it. I am curious. That was probably the only real downside to my daily HD2/Android usage.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tkato:
When you say data freeze, do you mean the issue with the up data arrow getting stuck?.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cardoflex:
my build too i am using mattc 1.8 with sense and when data is on the arrow stops and i lose data happen to me 5 time a day
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pkchips:
Same here, I've also noticed the phone uses a lot more battery power when the data connection is on. Maybe its linked?

Thanks to the OP for the possible solution.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] k2trill:
yes, that is what I am refering to. sometimes both arrows would get stuck.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] sly5789:
Since updating to hastrian 7.1 I don't see any improvements to my battery life and data like everyone is taking about is still a problem, if some one could correct this it would be three best setup ever