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[Captivate General] jev3gs:
My 2 cents

If I were you, I would keep the X10. I just left my ATT Touch Pro and upgraded to a Captivate. At first i was really excited about it. The screen size, brightness, slim form-factor of the phone were awesome. A week later I am looking at the phone going is this really that much better than my Touch Pro?

All I ever used my phone for were to make calls, emails, texts and spreadsheets. Doing the same on the Captivate was better in some area's and worse in the other. Exchange support is no where near where windows phones, but that is to be expected.

I don't have any GPS issues, random shutdowns or reboots or anything, the phone just works great. Yet I still have a little remorse.

Also when the 2.2 update does come out for this, expect this to be the last update they ever make. I have had a few Samsung phones and they NEVER release a lot of updates, very few actually.
[Captivate General] cappysw10:
Imagine that.

To the op,

I bought the Captivate, it's not a Cappy, as my first smartphone. I have no regrets what so ever. I must also be outside the norm because I understand that it's a phone first, GPS is a luxury. It works fine for my tastes as well.

If you like to tinker, then you can't go wrong. There is a lot of support and great support at that here.
[Captivate General] Cobra302:
i would wait. i'm on my 3rd captivate due to either build quality issues, or gps that never fixes. i must just have the worst luck ever to have 3 phones with non working gps i guess. and for those that say its a luxury, yes to a degree it is. but you cant use poynt, places, weather apps, all sorts of things if the gps isnt working right. forget foursquare, twitter locations, geo tagging photos, etc. i depend on my phone for work, and gps is critical to me as my phone replaced my stand alone tomtom unit. and yes i know that its a phone not a dedicated gps, but i never had issues with gps with my iphone 3gs, i left that phone for other reasons however. i like the android os, like the form factor of the captivate, and really like some aspects of the touchwiz interface. but in comparison to some of the other android phones, we really dont have it all that good on ATT. no flash, no led notifications, the capcacitve buttons dont stay on very long at all, and a real lack of accessories for the device in general.

i know that you can root and use custom roms and such, but i just want my phone to work as is. 200 dollars up front plus the cost of the phone over the contract time is a lot of money to spend on a device that i have to void the warranty on in order to get it to do half of what its supposed to. i would wait and try a different phone. problem is i dont think att is too worried about getting any other android phones right now. I would almost get the aria over the captivate at this point. i wish we had a good top line android phone from motorola, or htc to compete with the captivate at this point.
[Captivate General] jev3gs:
Anytime you buy a product and it has a feature, you expect it to work. To say it is a phone and has GPS but it doesn't work is alright is BS. That is like buying a car and when you take it home the radio doesn't work, the wipers don't work and the dealer tells you to live with it. I don't buy that one bit.

If MFG's can't make something work in a phone when they make it, they better just leave it out then.

I will say though that i have not had any issues with my Captivate.... especially since now I am not running the ESPN widget anymore. Man that always slowed down my phone like crazy!
[Captivate General] tbong777:
No you are one of the VERY VERY few....5 million sold. The "issues" people are having are directly related to their expectations. I bought two..One to experiment with and one to use while giving my wife the N97. Once I realized they were both ok and I could not brick it I loaded froyo on both , gave her one and retired the N97......

I don't expect a $500 device to lock on to GPS within a minute with 10 feet of accuracy....a few minutes and 100 feet is ok and it EXCEEDS those expectations for me....at the end of the day it WILL get you home. I made some settings adjustments and dialed it in as best I could get it. I am confident Samsung will "fix" things that are broke.

I did not expect this phone to deliver the quality of natural lighting pics and videos it does.....bat my expectations.

There is no area where this phone did not at least meet my expectations.

But then again I took what the open device gave me.......did some leading and learning and MADE it what I WANT....not what ATT or Samsung wants. At least they gave me the choice to so, JB an Apple is a joke compared to what can be done with this OS. Been there done that..

My Nokia N97 cost the same and was 1/2 the device this is.....The iPhone is a toy compared to this OS and what can be done with it.

The people who are having issues usually are not following the directions SPECIFICALLY to do things. I know because I too have been guilty of missing a step here and there and panicking LOL

The carrier is fine...T Mobile's 3G is faster...Sprint 4G is faster...Verizon is Apple's sister in control freaky......The iPhone on Verizon will be a lock down on lock down But for those who want to press and play iPhone is perfect....fast and easy.

ATT is not the best nor the worst..they are what they are. You either stay wth them or leave...Simple choice. They give some and take some...
[Captivate General] tbong777:
Just saying it has "GPS" does not entitle it to be a good a GPS as a standalone! LOL It requires a phone to eventually lock on a satellite and get you to a destination. Which this phone does. I have Garmins in my cars. They SHOULD and do get immediate locks and tracking is perfect. They cost almost what this phone does. They don;t take video,pics, make calls...on and on.....

Some phones may have a real issue. But most of them have working hardware and SW is fixing many as well, It is just that people are fixing them themselves.....while waiting for an official fix. I fine very few posts where GPS does not work at all. More of people having to wait too long for a lock. That issue depends on so many factors it's silly to compare. Another brand may have a better GPS implimentation but be poor in other areas....

You choose a device based on it's STREGNTHS based on YOUR NEEDS...If you want a great camera you buy a Nokia N8, If you want geat GPS you buy a G2 or another camera with such.

It's not like this issues has been "hidden" I knew about it reading threads before I bought the phone but I also knew I could live without the GPS...and in all likelihood (as always) it would not be as bad as people claim......

It wasn't perfect..but it is not as bad as people claim either. It is exactly the same on both my Cappys.....when both are set the same and on the same ROM.
[Captivate General] Guardian_Bob:
My two cents, get it now while you can still unlock it.

The 2.2 update will remove the file that gives you the codes for sim unlocking.
[Captivate General] david717:
Agreed. It may not be "broken" but the quality is definitely "sub-par" IMO.

To the OP. If you can live without having quality GPS performance and willing to spend a few hours with ATT warranty department if Samsung releases a phone with a fix (if it is hardware) then I say get it now. That's my current plan. But I've never had much trouble with AT&T's warranty department.

Despite the GPS issues, the Captivate is still my favorite Android phone. One the few I've even liked.
[Droid 2 General] one.:
So I've been installing roms like it's going out of style the last couple weeks, and in particular the last few days with the frf91 builds.

Aaaaanyway everything is smooth as can be except re-setting up my homescreens, which is absurdly tedious.

While I realize there may not be a gui or ideal way to do this, I'm just wondering if there's some files or directories I can manually backup to be able to restore this without the headache.

I plan to be on some form of the frf91 build for the forseeable future, but data wiping occurs between installs.

Any suggestions appreciated.
[Droid 2 General] Jeebz88:
In launcherpro... Menu > preferences > backup homescreens and settings... works great for me

Sent from my DROID2
[Droid 2 General] one.:
How HORRIFICALLY embarassing.

I've probably pissed away 2 hours of my life re-configging homescreens in the last week.

Thanks a lot for pointing out menu options adjacent to one I've used many times. I am left with no choice but to claim afroman.

Thanks again man....I will now slink back into the corner.
[Droid 2 General] Jeebz88:
Haha, it's all good, I've wasted many hours on things that were much more worthless

Sent from my DROID2
[Droid 2 General] theimpaler747:
Just remember that when you do this, you'll still have to reset widgets back up... for some reason it doesn't cover widgets :D
[Nexus One General] TheShoura:
Nexus one unlocked bootloader, running RA1.8 recovery, already have the 1.9a downloaded to flash but I'm kinda stuck on what to do

I love and currently use K-o-R CM based ROM...

but I wanna get something sense UI based for the htc widgets.. bought beautiful widgets and don't like it as much. its buggy, and just kinda sucky in general - wish I could refund....

Thing is, I dont like sense ui cus i can't add rows/columns to home screen launcher..

Ideas?
[Nexus One General] Jack_R1:
Download Launcher Pro, and donate to unlock Pro features - which are Sense-like widgets.

Nothing to do with ROM.
[Nexus One General] TheShoura:
I have launcher Pro Plus....the donate thing

other than friend stream, nothing from sense
[Nexus One General] Jack_R1:
Calendar, Messaging, Twitter, Facebook? Or they're not enough "Sense-like"?

In that case, just install a Sense ROM. You can't get both worlds. Sense is closed source, changes in Rosie launcher are way too hard.

Of course, if you don't like it, you could try to reverse engineer the Rosie code and have your way with it.
[Nexus One General] TheShoura:
lol reverse engineering is something I might do because I want it so bad. Unfortunately I just realized the downfall of my request... reverse engineering is usually not allowed.

Well, I guess I'll try to work the launcher pro widgets since i paid for them... i didn tcheck the calander widget from lpp
[Nexus One General] leyvatron:
Sense for widgets? Seems like you want a weather widget. try beautiful widgets...no longer in the market but im sure an apk is around.

On another note, try evil's sense Roms.
[Nexus One General] TheShoura:
The flip clock isn't even the biggest one, I purchased Weather Widgets donate and it has an H7C skin that looks just the way I want - given it still looks like garbage - its close enough for the look. Functionality wise it isn't even close though.

I would keep on using eViL's Sense ROM but quite frankly its just inferior to the KOR pack I've been using. It so much slower, things crash a lot more for no apparent reason - not really stable, hotspots and camera have been broken for a long time now and he hasn't fixed it

Enomther supposedly had a SENSE ROM but I only found "TheOfficial" Nexus One and flashed it... yeah, NOT a sense ROM. Skinned similar to one, but its not a sense rom - has none of the stuff I've mentioned
[Nexus One General] adambenjamin:
Try this fancy widget. Its exactly like the HTC sense weather and clock. HTC made them take it off the market.
[Nexus One General] ctbear:
I don't see how bad evil's sense rom is. If you are talking about his Desire HD port then maybe (I haven't tried it yet). But his normal Desire port is not even remotely close to slow and unstable.

In fact out of all the roms I have flashed for N1, I have yet to find a rom that is really slow and unstable.
[Nexus One General] TheShoura:
Yeah I think it was his Desire HD port, it was labeled as (WIP)?? Assuming that might have something to do with it. If you read the thread tons of ppl whining bout the same problems

Did you try a specific ROM w/ sense that WAS good? Mind direct linking me to the thread so I can try it out?

I went back to KOR.. kinda sad that I don't have the awesome HTC widgets tho, the email one I really liked - Launcher Pro has no replacement for it. I use work email a lot with my job so something as simple as a very nice activesync app goes a long way for me. I get about 100 emails a day... :o

I will give it a try, thank you
[Nexus One General] ctbear:
Well...for Sense ROMs I would still suggest evil's...some people seem to have mounting issues during flashing so maybe a previous version

I agree LPP needs a email widget :rolleyes: Too bad there's currently no plans on new widgets
[Nexus One General] TheShoura:
I'll see if I can bug the dev a bit for an email app.. I might nandroid backup my current install and try out one of evil's sense roms again and see if it actually works this time around.. That will have to be later tho, I need to have full access to my phone in the coming week for work
[Nexus One General] rumitg2:
I would recomend going over to the Nexus One Rom Bible thread. just look there for what kind of rom you need

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=788058
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emmarbee:
Hi,

I had earlier opened a thread regarding this issue. But that was having more than one query and was misleading.

I need to install Froyo JP6 (the official one - no custom ROMs). Currently I'm having JF3.

Kies is not working for me (The MTP application in the mobile opens up, but gets restarted while getting connected to kies, so kies is not recognizing my mobile).

How shall I install JP6 without Kies?

Is it possible to install from mobile itself? (like installing apk file?)

nandihno had told me to install using odin. But i couldn't find it in dev section. Can anybody provide me the link for odin foryo JP6?

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] satyawali:
Install latest version of Kies - 1.5.3.10093_82.

You can go in setting and Upgrage..

Once the latest version is installed, go into Program Files - Samsung

Delete USD Drivers directory here.

Now go in Program Files - Samsung - Kies - USB Driver

Install the drivers from here.

Once the installation is complete, go to settings in SGS (Galaxy) and unmount Internal SD card.

Connect SGS using USB Key and wait till system detects your SGS.

Once it is done you can use Kies to upgrade to Froyo... However as of today Froyo is not out for India... though there are work around to fool Kies and still download, though I will suggest to wait...:)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shurdus:
thanks I will try this as well. Well this also work with my issue? I tried to upgrade my firmware using kies, but it failed because of some file missing. I installed kites again, and now it detects my phone when I connect it, but it never seems to make the connection

It just says that it is trying to connect and this goes on forever.

So now I cannot repair my firmware using kies. Can this solution help with that as well?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emmarbee:
Same problem here. It detects my phone. But freezes in "connecting your device".

@shurdus - when this is happening (connecting ur device), did you notice your phone restarting the MTP application.

I mean, the MTP application will be displaying "installing kies" but after some time, it disappears and appears again in a fraction of a second..

I have to try the solution said by satyawali.

Another doubt - unmounting internal SD card will affect the data?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlowRain:
I have a similar problem. I just downloaded the newest version of Kies, but can't get Windows/Kies to recognize my phone. I unchecked "Automatically start monitoring for device..." and "Start Kies automatically..." in the Settings box, and I did the Driver Recovery and rebooted, all recommended in another thread. Still nothing. All I get is some very quick flashing of MTP Application and my home screen opening and closing. Then Windows (Win 7, 32 bit) tells me it couldn't do something and to contact the device manufacturer.

Have you found a solution?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emmarbee:
I haven't found the solution yet.

I guess the only solution is to format the SD card and then try. But I'm not willing to do that :( So no froyo for me... If only there was an OTA or froyo installer it'd be great
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] [Ramad]:
1. Uninstall KIES

2. Uninstall "SAMSUNG USB Driver For Mobile Phones".

3. Reboot your PC

4. Brows to "Program Files" (windows 32bit) or "Program Files (x86)"(windows 64bit) and remove the folder "Samsung".

5. Run "regedit" from Command Prompt and look in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software and delete the "Samsung" folder.

6. Right click your C-drive and choose "Properties", click "Disk Cleanup" and check "Temporary Files" and hit "OK".

7. Install KIES and reboot your PC.

8. When booted, don't start KIES yet, just connect the phone and let windows install the drivers for it, unplug the device when done, start KIES and connect the phone.

That should work out for you..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emmarbee:
^ thanks. gonna try it now. Will let u know
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emmarbee:
@[Ramad] - even this didn't work.

The problem is in the phone - i can clearly see it. I guess, a factory reset will do it. Is there any backup software that can backup including the application data/caches ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _SAM:
isn't there a download link for the new and original Froyo? there are too many pages and it's quite hard to find what you want (I've found Froyo but not the original one, I think, and I've found plenty of advices for kies but I don't want to do all that unistall-delete traces-install again, when there's a simpler way with odin)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagash1979:
Kies problem is related to the ammound of MP3's on your SGS!

Because MTP is a MP3 player connection protocol it's using some MTP Windows media player driver to connect. If you have all MP3 on an external SD card, just remove it and Kies will work fine. Otherwise remove or rename your MP3s to make it work.

Seriously this worked for me, credits to a user of some forum (can't find the post).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srajoria:
Force close all d launchers before connecting d phone to kies its very necessary step hope it will work
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c3p9:
It's unbelievable... the best Android phone has the crappiest PC companion. Seems everyone has exactly the same problem with kies.

As far as I've read it's related to files with longer names stored inside the internal memory. Come on! The old Palm Hotsync didn't suffer from such stupid things!

I think we should start a global petition for Samsung to fix that. My wife has a 10 bucks nokia that has a far leaner/better/functional PC companion.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emmarbee:
@nagash1979 - by saying remove it - u mean "all mp3/flac and media" in the external card?

@ srajoria - did that. In fact. uninstalled laucnher pro and then tried. no use.

@c3p9 - i don't think its a deal breaker for this phone. As there are alternatives for kies (like es file explorer for wireless transmission of files). But if only there was an OTA update, then no need of kies at all
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emmarbee:
@nagash1979 - i couldn't find any windows media player application running in the background. thanks anyway....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emmarbee:
Finally I got the solution for the KIES problem.

I had recently downloaded winamp beta from android market. And when connected the phone in usb storage mode when winamp was open in PC and phone, my phone was detected as mass storage. And when I opened Kies, it also detected my phone (finally!), but asked me to connect to kies mode. I removed the cable and connected again in kies mode. And it worked like a charm! WOW!

But it's not working everytime!

Edit: The Mass Storage worked 4/10 times. Kies worked only once out of 10 tries. Everytime a alert message to turn off the SD card is popping up which is very irritating. Dunno how to fix that....

Atleast I was able to connect my phone with the PC using USB Mass Storage mode after a very long time - took the backup of all camera files :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] satyawali:
If you have latest version of Kies installed and drivers working and experiancing MTP crashing issue on phone then it is long file name issue.

To solve this, connect your phone in media mode and mount the card on system. Use attached utility and search long file names on phone and delete them.

Now connect Kies you should not get MTP issues.....

However this does mean this crappy software (Kies) will still detect your phone...:mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kamal_halder:
Try to use Antroid Manager will be satiafied. I have uaed it works fine over Wifi.
[Droid 2 General] burkechrs1:
I know fission 1.0 was just released but when someone gets the time can they port the Minimalist theme over to it.

Thanks.
[Droid 2 General] theecho:
We already have some developers working on this and there should be an update soon! Just posting this as a teaser:-)
[Fascinate General] Slacker101:
Whats the probability of bricking my phone if I root it and install some apps vs rooting it and installing roms? I tried to look around for info on this and found an article on another site that says it's kind hard to brick a phone since there are 3 safety measures in place? Sorry, a tad paranoid here, first smart phone.
[Fascinate General] bomber889:
close to 0 unless you really start to do some really wrong things
[Fascinate General] keith.mcintyre26:
Its tough to be beyond recovery. The only surefire way I've seen is clicking "phone" instead of "pda" in odin. This forum is great and everyone is very helpful. Before flashing a new rom, read a much as possible. You should be fine.
[Fascinate General] Slacker101:
ok thanks, is it easy to flash to stock? I saw the way to do it in odin wasn't sure if there is something even easier.
[Fascinate General] martian21:
The probability of bricking your phone if inversely proportionate to the amount of reading you do before you flash something!

If you stick to the proven, tested, well documented stuff and read, then re-read, the directions you will be fine.
[Fascinate General] tats_06:
If this is your first android device, I would strongly encourage reading a lot and a few times before attempting...Fascinate is a bit different from other android devices as well the way the system works...I have had eris, droid, incredible and the x...and with the fascinate still read and re-read everything before attempting. One tiny missed step could cause hours of hassle and recovery time...

Just to give you some directions...here are good threads to read:

-ROOT, Recovery, Update and More...

-How to flash Voodoo Kernels and more...

Also, don't be afraid to ask questions... it's always better to ask, then mess something up.

What are you trying to do?
[Fascinate General] Slacker101:
I want to root the phone to get rid of annoying bing and install the wireless tethering app. Then I wanted to install voodoo to hopefully fix the lag which I sometimes get. I'm just concerned about the ease of reverting to stock. I am kinda interested in custom roms or themes but not entirely sure of the benefits of the roms or the safety of installing either.

On a side note dang how did you afford all the phones or did you just trade them up as you went?