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[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
For one, I'm not lazy or whining. I shouldn't have to flash my phone to get basic functionality out of it. The GPS should work without my having to invest in searching through a myriad of unauthorized solutions and risk not only voiding my warranty, but bricking my phone. If I wanted to put this much effort into making a phone work I would have stuck with WinMo 6.5 and my Tilt 2, which I know inside and out already. I moved to Android hoping I'd no longer have to spend so much time dicking around with my phone just to get things to work. You know, the whole "Droid Does" marketing ploy? The main reason I agreed to buy this phone was because I read on several different sites where Samsung said they were definitely going to update it to Froyo. I understand that their timetable may be off, but they should at least keep their promise. Is that too much to ask or expect?
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
Samsung promised Froyo by the end of the year for the US Market. They still have a 20 days. Their stance has not changed, so I don't see what anyone has to complain about.

As for GPS mine works as good as the one on my Bravo - my Tracks, Turn by Turn are the same. If your GPS has problems, take it back. If you try multiple phones and still have a problem, then make them switch you to another phone.
[Captivate General] comdei:
everyone knows they won't make the end of december date
[Captivate General] emuneee:
It's not that I don't want to try custom ROMs. However, all the custom ROMs are built on leaked (and often buggy) Froyo ROMs. The sooner AT&T releases an official release Froyo ROM, the sooner we can get a stable (or more stable) custom Froyo ROM....hopefully they release the source code too. There's code in the custom ROMs that comes from all sorts of other ROMs lol :p
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Ditto^^^ Well, according to Mr. Smalls, we're just lazy, whiny jerks with no valid excuse for not wanting to use a custom ROM on our phones.:p
[Captivate General] Pvster:
try axura.. VERY stable, fast, practical rom with good themes. its a work of art. been rocking it with very minimal issue (less issues compared to stock).
[Captivate General] fldude99:
Am I correct that you don't even have your device as you're typing that?! Try it first..a lot of the stuff you read isn't what you will experience. I.E.: my gps has worked a charm since I picked mine up in mid October..it's an excellent device. I've had a Samsung DLP for more than 2 years and it works flawlessly. People like to rant..find out for yourself for chrissake. It's nice to be happy with a cell device for the first time in awhile for me..only complaint is att dragging heels on 2.2. I'm too busy and old (55) to have the energy to do all that stuff that many do..but it's also nice to know that if I get tired of waiting and get a wild hair, I'll root and flash when I'm good and ready. Meantime I think the Captivate is a great companion
[Captivate General] skimberk1:
From what I've heard, I think that it might be the carriers that are delaying the update. Don't know if this is true or not but I kinda doubt this is Samsung's fault.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
@fldude, Thanks for the encouragement. I used to love fiddling with my WinMo phones and I enjoyed modding my Tilt 2 to where it runs great and does (almost) all I ask of it. I'd still be using it if WinMo wasn't a dead platform and the thing wasn't so laggy. That saidI was hoping the switch to Android would mean I finallly would have a phone that I could tinker with if I wanted to, but didn't HAVE to, like WinMo. I guess reading through these forums exposes one mostly to the negative since most people only post when having problems. I brushed most of it aside, but the GPS issue really stood out because I use GPS-enabled apps a lot and it works so well on my Tilt 2. I can't wait for the Cap to get here tomorrow so I can start playing with it. Thanks to running XDAndroid on my Tilt 2 I already have some idea of what to expect and how to use it.;)

I will say this, reading about rooting and flashing of Android, kernel this and apk that is a lot more intimidating than working with WinMo. I never hesitated to edit my registry, but modding Android sounds pretty scary.:eek:

By the way, does fl mean you're a fellow H-D rider?
[Captivate General] david717:
They were previously quoted saying by the end of November. There was that whole JH7 fiasco. And your argument doesn't change what he was saying. His whole point was that he shouldn't have to **** around to make it work. It just should.
[Captivate General] skippyg:
Before I bought mine I knee of the GPS issues and swwvthat a fix was coming. It still is. Besides the GPS my phone just works. Texting browsing g music video all just worked email too. Running the froyo leak my phone now completely 100% percent works. I'm excited to see how much more stable the official release will be. :)
[Captivate General] Viper714:
Also Frustrated

I have been following the forums regarding the so called Froyo release and I have to say that I am rather frustrated as well. I actually called AT&T last week to complain about the delay with Froyo with Gingerbread's release within a few weeks. Not to mention Honeycomb on the horizon.

In speaking with one of the techs he also shared his frustrations and was hoping that it would be released in early January. I told him that it was understood that it would be release at the end of the year and he confirmed that same understanding. However his sources revealed that it is now for early January. Let's hope this is true, but as you all know we have been given so many empty promises.

Furthermore,I read an article that Samsung is undecided whether to release Gingerbread for the Galaxy devices. For a product that has been so popular and successful, what are they thinking? Or maybe they are not!!

Either way my fingers and toes are crossed for Froyo for now...
[Captivate General] bruch:
I have to agree on what you said in a previous post.

The problem is not that we don't want to Flash our phone, the problem is samsug (or at&t) taking to long to release a stable version of the FW.

In my case I'm using a Perception ROM and it works great (thanks to the Devs) but samsung (or at&T) should do something about it.

They don't want us to flash a leaked rom and use the latest softwares on the market, but they do not release any FW new?

I looks like they realy don't care about the "after sale".

I sent few messages to Samsung and the only thing that I received back was "We received your email... and ...thank you for contacting Samsumg".
[Captivate General] alex4lex:
The haters need some faith in the dev community. Once 2.3 source drops, in addition to the nexus release (and all its galaxy s specced glory), we should have some pretty awesome gingerbread. I say...forget samsung. I mean...you're on xda. You should be flashing some crazy roms as you read my comment!
[Captivate General] alex4lex:
Oh and as a side note I'm rocking 2.2.1 XXJPU and it flies...as a stock rom. Apparently they fixed some rfs issues, and it has 339MB ram! So maybe samsung isn't completely oblivious to our woes... :)
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
No hating here, I just don't see why I have to jump right into using a cooked ROM just to get things that should work out of the box to function properly. I realize that not having yet received the phone I am probably stressing out prematurely, but when you see soooooooo many reports of the same thing (GPS issues) here and in other forums, it tends to set off alarm bells. Tomorrow can't come soon enough. :p
[Captivate General] Caliesv:
The phone itself is bad ass, you can do anything on it, but yes the gps is crap. Funny part is, I don't miss the gps.
[Captivate General] thisguymo:
I received a text today on my Captivate with leaked 2.2 rom: AT&T is providing a free update for your phone. When asked to install the update, please select OK. Could this finally be what we've been waiting for?
[Captivate General] kamesen:
Ive had my Captivate for about 3 weeks now... Ive been using it without a SIM card, only wifi, for 3rd party contract reasons on my old phone but I have to tell you that coming from a mid-range no-name fully proprietary OS "smart" phone the Captivate experience is superb.

I had a taste of Blackberry for work and that was cool but Android 2.anything is such a richer experience. The functionality from Android is amazing considering I literally have no need for a laptop anymore. Expecting 2.2 is really spare change when you really consider everything 2.1 can do and the differences between the two.

I ran stock Eclair for 2 weeks and concentrated on getting apps, tweaking my phone with the built in settings, and getting VOIP to work. This week I rooted and removed some bloatware. Yesterday I installed OCLF 2.0 (one-click lag fix) because I saw the hesitation in opening apps even if it was only a half a second delay. It seemed to cause a problem when playing and streaming video from different sources so I undid OCLF.

Im seriously so happy with my modified Eclair, the beautiful touchscreen, the thousands of (free) apps, the full speedy browser, Launcher Pro, my widgets, etc. that I have no need to flash any kind of ROM. You should have seen my Samsung Mythic trying to run Gmail...

My GPS has run awesome since day 1 by the way.

I do look forward to beating the quadrant score on the Nexus One running 2.2+ but to the average user who is just looking to get great functionality from their phone as opposed to obsessing over getting the latest and greatest, the current Captivate does more than suffice. Dont get me wrong, I love living on the cutting edge of technology, but you're not really loosing that much considering what you gain from just having a true smartphone.

thoughts?
[Captivate General] davwman:
Then why are you on xda?

Droid does what we allow it to do....

Never even ran captivate on jf6. Flashed right to a true working rom because the potential the captivate has is released with custom built roms.
[Captivate General] Mac11700:
Whiners....now that's funny..:o

If you have a phone that doesn't "work"...take it back...it's as simple as that. Pissing and moaning because you "shouldn't" have to do anything when you don't even have it yet..is assine. Since your on here..then you know damn well what the story is..and if you went ahead and purchased it knowing full well what the story is..then you really ain't got much of an arguement...You certainly have a right to be pissed off..but complaining about it is fruitless. AT&T is the reason you don't have the 2.2 upgrade..not Samsung and to be honest..my September build worked great from day 1. Sure the gps didn't work as well as it should have..but.. it does now since I have learned how to root & flash custom roms.

When you get your Captivate..take the time to atleast learn how to root & flash..even if you never do. Then you will understand that it isn't as hard as it looks and it will show you just how far your Captivate will go as a smart phone..Waiting around twiddling your fingers,*****ing and complaining,all the while hoping that a bloat filled release will make it out..is pointless.

Would'ave...Could'ave...Should have...

Mac
[Captivate General] Rogue9:
My Cappy GPS works just fine as well as the rest of the functionality - I think this is more a case of only the users w/ a poor experience raising their collective voices. When was the last time you saw a post here stating that everything with their phone was fine and they just wanted to say that ;) :rolleyes:
[Captivate General] Phoenix-Lead:
YOu should try Axura if you want more functionality without having things being busted as you say. Axura works great and has the best support system of any ROM out right now!
[Captivate General] Phoenix-Lead:
No GPS issues on Axura. I worked really hard with the dev team to make sure of it!
[Captivate General] leetpriest:
Why do the words "Quit Crying" come to mind when this issue comes up? I don't understand the logic of you coming onto a forum dedicated to the purpose of hacking a phone, whining about having to hack your phone to fix a bug that the manufacturer will not fix. Is there a purpose behind it? Are you lost, and perhaps mistakenly posting on a forum that you think is owned by the phone manufacturer?

If you wanted a phone that you didn't want to tinker with, you should have purchased an iphone or similar device that is limited in its user modification capacity.

To give you a little history lesson, I've owned the following phones:

- Iphone (original)

- G1

- HTC Magic

- Motorola Cliq

- Nexus one

- Samsung captivate

How many of those do you think worked perfect straight out of the box with all of the functionality that I expected from the phone.

Here's a hint: not a single one.
[Captivate General] Smallsmx3:
For one the whole Droid does is a Verizon ploy.....it doesn't apply to att...nothing does at att. Unfortunately this is what were stuck with. I was lucky that everything worked for me out of the box. Including GPS. If you want things to work out of the box go back to an iPhone ...which still isn't 100% accurate. And as far as things being stable and buggy with 2.2. Leaks most of them have been worked out by the development teams on here..... if your not on here to find the solutions to the problems your having then quit posting your complaints on this site. There are too many people that work too hard on this site for free to fix things....
[Captivate General] comdei:
I am probably going to have to flash. Today google released 2.2+ only updates on youtube, google voice, google voice search!

This is becoming unacceptable!
[Captivate General] cappysw10:
No, your imei probably never shows as getting the JH7 update so the servers just sent you a message.

Sent from a phone somewhere in the universe
[Captivate General] mindbullet:
I've been rockin Assonance for a bit now. It has more features than 2.1 (like working exchange support for most people). I haven't had any bugs with it.

If your dead set against trying a 2.2 rom (why else come to xda by the way...), you could try a 2.1 custom rom like Cognition v2.1.7 or v2.1.6. I stayed on 2.1.6 for a long time, even after 2.2 Roms were out for awhile. Very stable, and not based off leaked builds. The stock at&t rom also prevents you from getting all the features that android comes with normally for free. Using something like Cognition gets rid of the bloat and lag that At&t introduces into android. After you see the performance difference, you'll probably never want to stay on stock again!

Cognition - http://www.ponack.net/designgears/index.html

I agree though... this is ridiculous. We should be updated by now. I probably will not buy another Samsung/AT&T phone after seeing how slow they are to update. They also seem to want to advertise features that don't work (like GPS) or leave features out. For example, how come Google and Samsung did not have the foresight to put 4G on the Nexus S? I'd be selling my Cappy right now to pick one up and jump on the Sprint bandwagon!
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Wow!:eek: I didn't realize that being an XDA member required such a level of commitment. I thought this place was for people to be able to learn as much about their phones as they wanted. Didn't know that ROM flashing was a requirement for entry. I really appreciate all that the developers do in here to make our phones better/faster/prettier, much of it for free. The help I've gotten for my Incite and Tilt 2 has made both phones far beyond what they were out of the box. That said, my point was not that I am averse to flashing a ROM, but that I shouldn't have to for something as basic and essential to the smartphone experience as proper GPS function. As I said, my "whining" may be premature, but when you see as much negativity as I have in just a few days, it can be unnerving. The main focus of my "whine" relates to the fact that the update to 2.2 was promised months ago by Samsung/AT$T and it appears that backpedaling is now the order of the day. Regardless, I don't think anyone's involvement here is predicated on a commitment to a certain level of modification of their phone. I will definitely consider a ROM flash at some point, especially if AT$T/Samsung renege on their promise. I just don't feel like I should HAVE to. Thanks to all who responded positively and to all the developers that help us squeeze every bit of performance and customization out of and into our phones.;)
[Captivate General] crystalhand:
People don't care about the complaing. Most of the people posting here really like their phones and enjoy moding them. It is however annoying when people pick out the two or three bad parts(and yes every phone has them) and make constant posts saying the phone sucks because of (insert horrible problem here) and (insert supposed amazing phone here) is so much better.

Everyone knows the captivate has its issues. We don't need 8 thousand posts saying basically the same thing.
[Captivate General] matt310:
Seriously, at this point, Samsung should just skip over the Froyo release and go right to Gingerbread. There's already reasonable suspicion this will occur. Now it just actually needs to happen....

http://an.droid-life.com/2010/12/06/samsung-phones-to-get-gingerbread-first/
[Captivate General] mindbullet:
I have it find it hard to believe you are truly understanding as much as you could be or think you do without trying to do some modding, espcially since you can use the odin one-click program to return to stock at any point provided you make sure:

1. you can get to into recovery without software

2. you make sure your usb drivers are installed and working correctly.

You didn't learn to ride a bike from just reading about it did you? Jump in and give it a try! Good Luck!
[Captivate General] dave3520:
Seems unlikely that they'll be skipping over 2.2 entirely considering that its already been released for the Vibrant by a few Canadian carriers (Bell, Virgin, Sasktel). I think (hope) that means that the Rogers Captivate update can't be far behind... don't see why Canadians would get 2.2 and not Americans, especially since we canucks seem always to get the short end of the stick when it comes to phones.
[Captivate General] jpinks:
Because its ATT thats probably the ROOT of the problem.
[Captivate General] kamesen:
i see what you did there!
[Captivate General] shengshuyang:
Have you tried cognition? I don't see any bug on cognition...
[Captivate General] Dxtra:
I could understand the frustration, but man people flash one of those custom roms floating around. Honestly even if att drops froyo right now I wouldnt update at all better yet never againg. Froyo its running too smoothly on my captivate right now. BTw I'm running Doc i9000 port the name its Ddjp6 Doc custom rom.
[Captivate General] bigsmitty64:
Hey everyone, this is my first post so....howdy all.Thanks for this amazing forum!

I have to say, I owned an original iPhone 3G for a year and thought it was the cats a$$. I recently (2 weeks ago) swapped it out for a Captivate and gave my daughter the iPhone. Ya, it sucks that we have no update and I know what your saying, but WOW, I can't believe this thing. I havent had this much fun since the first time I booted up Ubuntu! (1 year without Windows!) I have no problem waiting. I have rooted it, but thats it, still a little scared too flash a rom just yet.

My daughter came over the other night and I played with the iPhone for about one minute, it feels like a toy now.
[Captivate General] mobileseq:
Well, Im scared to flash with custom roms due that I killed the gps on my Samsung Epix with winmo 6.1 custom rom on it. I would rather wait for a offical rom update so I dont void my warranty of my capvitate. But, yea we only got few weeks left for them to release froyo based on the rumors.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moschino02:
alrights peeps .. why am i getting google mobile formatted pages when i use the opera google search box.

i have turned off mobile view in settings and using opera mobile 10

Is there a quick fix to turn this feature off? So Annoying..hope u can help
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Imperator Nick:
I get pages randomly kicking me into the mobile version of the site etc sometimes too - today engadget suddenly decided I should be viewing the mobile site with no obvious way to get back to the full site - despite viewing the full site almost daily since I got the phone. It usually goes back to how it should on it's own - although a reg edit to make some sites think you are on a windows pc helped stop facebook's full site changing to the mobile one for me
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bboyneko:
I am having the same problem. Did all the ini edits and user agent spoof crap, still not working for google search..i have to scroll to bottom and click "classic view" every time. Any fixes??
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shuaibakhtar:
I have my HTC DESIRE locked to 3 UK, i rooted it the other day, and when i was installing a rom, i was told to update the radio, and i no longer get reception, and when i do it just seems to come and go, stupid me i forgot to check what radio i had installed at first, and now i just want everything to go back to normal and i really dont know what steps to take, i tried using a 3 UK ruu, but it was for hboot 0.80, but i have 0.93.0001 and when i tried it it would just give me an error saying please try again with the correct RUU, well something along them lines.

Could anyone please help me? :(

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
You've already answered your own question - you need the 3 FroYo RUU or a stock RUU with a gold card to get back to stock. You can, however, just flash another radio and see what happens
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shuaibakhtar:
Thanks for the advice, but that didnt seem to work as i had to unroot and downgrade my HBOOT first. But i figured it out now, and now have my Desire unrooted properly with the 3 FROYO rom by using this method: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=768256 and then installing the official 3 rom.

Thanks
[Nook Color General] Roofus44:
I recently picked up a nook from barnes and noble and for a few day i have had no problem. But ever since i tried putting music and pdfs on to the internal storage its been freezing up right after i boot it up from it being powered off. Ive been able to get it running after multiple restarts but every time it freezes from regular use it takes like 10 trys to get it running again. I was able to go into settings and factory reset it but to no effect. any advise would be helpful thanks.

i forgot to say i havent rooted it yet its still stock.
[Epic 4G General] dwallersv:
Sprint won't tell me.

Anyone got any credible info on when we might expect 4G turned on in these areas?

All the Sprintbots will say is "soon".

I really, really, really need another way to run my battery down faster. :D
[Epic 4G General] raylusk:
Sprint has said in repeated news releases that San Francisco will have 4g by the end of this year. In fact there are reports that much of San Francisco is already up on 4g.
[Epic 4G General] voyooho:
San Francisco is supposed to be the end of the month, I haven't heard anything about Santa Cruz.
[Epic 4G General] dwallersv:
Thanks guys!

My family's up in the east bay, so the BA is interesting to me... I live in the Santa Cruz area, however, so any news on that would be most welcome!
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
Emeryville has it and I believe Oakland does as well.
[Epic 4G General] rhca50:
I was in the city last week and had it.
[Epic 4G General] mxcoldhit:
4g is suppose to go live on the 28th of this month. It will have a roll out effect so some people will have it before then, but the entire service will be live by the date. The source I'm providing talks about Denver, but in the article there is a date for the bay area

Source: http://www.intomobile.com/2010/12/09/sprint-wimax-denver-december-19/

Sent from my shoe, I mean....Epic shoe... I mean Samsung Epic!
[Epic 4G General] daazncandyman:
I know downtown San Jose, parts of San Leandro and Oakland has 4g up and running