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[Captivate General] appye:
I got sick of this phone. Even though the hardware is not quite what I had in my cRaptivate, I am far happier with my used Nexus One. I sold the stinking pile of fecal matter for $280 to someone and bought the Nexus One on the same day for $325. I didn't even care to hold out for someone was willing to pay more. I just wanted the thing out of my life.

After trying gpsfix #27Br2, with the whiz-bang tweaks and uber-optimized control-plane supl standalone/ms-based cold/hot start lbstestmode bla bla bla, and seeing that it once again made little to no difference in my gps performance I finally gave up on this phone.

It is my opinion that everyone that claims that their gps works fine doesn't really use it. They run google maps once after tweaking whatever setting or flashing whatever fix or rom that claims to have found the magic sweet spot, they get a lock (or even see a wireless network triangulated "lock") and then exclaim that their gps now works "better than ever" ... they never attempt to actually see how it tracks. They WANT their gps to work really well, so they pray to the magic placebo gods who convince them that things are really okay.0

So the nexus one has limited app space and a slightly slower cpu/gpu combo. Big deal. I can install apps to an ext partition on my sdcard with minimal space/performance hit, and I have yet to come accross any 3d stuff that did not at least seem to work at anything less than a butter-smooth framerate. I am sure the captivate jumps all over my phone with benchmark scores, but in the end, that means little to nothing.

Samsung (and the major carriers) should never have let this turd out the door with such a glaring, obvious flaw. This phone sucks donkey balls. They could at least release the source code for their drivers or whatever so the open source community can take a stab at it... More than likely it is some crappy hardware flaw that some exec decided to push through production because the bottom-line was all that really mattered. Anyway, I am done here. :mad:
[Captivate General] defnow:
good day sir!
[Captivate General] xThe Enforcer:
Should of tried a different Captivate.

Don't let the door hit ya.
[Captivate General] jwood55812:
Rough to see ya go ;) Thanks for not sticking around to post more useless garbage.
[Captivate General] ryude:
People who expect a phone to be a (reliable) GPS always makes me scratch my head. IT'S A FREAKING PHONE!
[Captivate General] Clienterror:
The grass is always greener on the other side. Good luck.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897
[Captivate General] dingokevin:
My gps works well. Just did a 150 mile drive never dropped me. I only have gps on no wifi or cell towers. Good bye.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Just go...quietly. With only 38 posts since 2006 I'm guessing you got more than you gave in here.
[Captivate General] Dani897:
^ ive done 400+miles on 2.1. works like a charm if you know what you are doing and you have a clear sky, which really means dont listen to anyone else, and if all you have is trial and error, dont use the settings that give bad results. oh and if you have trouble with google nav, download something else!

lbs test settings often have to match jupiter.xml and gps.conf. poking around in there can give bad results.

but yes the gps thing is blown out of proportion. many phones can nav fine but many can not. my friends have blackberries of various models and almost never get a lock. my friend has an lg something or other with android and it never locks inside a car, my iphone 3g couldnt lock inside a car. tom tom went as far as making a iphone specific dock with it's own gps chip because at the time the iphone only supported bluetooth audio and couldnt be linked to one of those bluetooth gps units.

the captivate actually has a pretty good ability to get a signal even if the positioning can be eratic under certain situations. but it's not the best for sure.

well if the op is happy with his nexus then good for him, it's a pretty cool device, but android devices seem to be moving in the way of powerful graphics chips and we'll see how long the snapdragons can keep up. with all this hardware coming out i wonder what will make its way into the app market in 2011.
[Captivate General] Captainkrtek:
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