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[Captivate General] Scottbg1:
Walked into a Verizon store so my girlfriend could get a new phone. As the salesman was helping her out, he started up a conversation with me about who I had service with and what phone I was using.

Like a gun slinger pulling out his shiny nickle plated revolver I smuggly produced my fully hacked and modded Samsung Captivate. He was seriously impressed with it. Especially that I had a 2.2.1 ROM loaded on it with all the bells and whistles.

Then the fun was over and he hit me where it hurt....."How much are you paying each month for your service?"

To shorten up this story I will just skip to the part where he offered me a service plan on my 3 lines (2 of which are Captivates) that was almost too good to be true, and before I new it, my poor cappy was now nothing more than a hopped up mp3 player, and I was the new owner of a Droid X.

Its been 2 days, and I have yet to have a conversation where the phone doesn't shut down in the middle of it. I have flashed the latest and greatest ROM over on the Droid X side but it still reboots at will. I have found numerous people with the same problem after searching Google, but no fixes for it.

Coincidentally, the second droid is doing the same thing.

To be honest, even without the reboot issue, the DX just doesn't compare to my Captivate in any way.....well except for one. The GPS is stinking flawless on the droid. :mad:

I want to drive by the Verizon store and throw all three phones through the window and go back to AT&T begging them to take me back without either of them charging me out the yahoo in penalties.

Does anyone know if I can switch back without any issues or is Verizon and AT&T both gonna stick it to me? I made the purchase 7pm Sunday the 16th.

Its worth mentioning that two numbers have been ported over to Verizon and one will not be for another week or two. So technically I still have an account with AT&T.

Thanks in advance for any replies.
[Captivate General] F_L_Abs:
At&t should be able to restore your numbers on your account. Basically everything goes back to the way it was before you ported. Then you should get credited back for the ETA fees if they already billed you for it. There may be reactivation fees though...

Doing so would also automatically cancel your Verizon account so you would need to return all the equipment back to them otherwise they'll charback your credit cards for the retail prices of the phones.
[Captivate General] Aus_Azn:
I am actually very tempted to switch to Verizon solely due to all the scrap and issues that ATT has given me in the past. And that their 4G network promises to bring only mediocre speeds is not appealing either.

I mean, I love my Captivate, but I don't think that ATT's service is worth the money or hassle. If my workplace wasn't paying and forcing me to stay, I would have jumped ship 4 years ago.

(Why didn't you get a HTC Droid Incredible? What were you thinking? :P)
[Captivate General] Dungeon47:
All of my friends with Droid X's talk them up bigtime, then they see my screen and the realize that for them, black is just dark grey.
[Captivate General] Mr.Immaculate:
You should have 30 days to go back to Verizon and tell them thanks, but no thanks.
[Captivate General] derek4484:
Verizon gives you 30 days to try out new phones. all you have to do is return it and they will charge you a pro-rated amount for the service that you used, nothing else. No etf's or any penalties. And I'm sure AT&T would be more than willing to take you back, especially if you are coming back from verizon.
[Captivate General] xThe Enforcer:
No lie, I have heard horrible things about DROID. My buddy has replaced his 3 times.
[Captivate General] skatcat31:
I have no problems with att, and verizon's 4g speed is still less than the six mb/s att's 3g pulls down. I seed no reason to switch to verizon. slower, less coverage, customer service is crap, phone are ****e... Att has been nothing but gold to me.
[Captivate General] Aus_Azn:
Verizon's theoretical speed is upwards of 15Mbps last I checked. AT&T's 3G coverage seems to be pretty shoddy for me; often when I'm travelling, I am forced to EDGE; it doesn't really bother me that much, but means my internet is heavily crippled. For customer service, ATT's bricked 4 of my phones and asked me to pay. I don't think it gets much worse than that; at least I managed to force them to upgrade my RAZR V3 to a V3XX after it just died within 2 months, then to send me a new one when they bricked that while unlocking it, then sending me a new LG Shine after bricking that while unlocking it when I owned it. Worst was when they bricked my Bold 9700 when they told me to update it after my data got spontaneously wiped.

AT&T has no good phones save for the Captivate and the iPhone (both of which are debatable at this point), so I have no clue what your point there is. Any of Verizon's Droids destroy both.
[Captivate General] FIREONHIGH:
i also hate at$t, but in my area it is great!! and yeah i want the infuse! i need a bigger screen,atrix will be aswome im sure, just root, flash and love life:D
[Captivate General] Krad:
I got a free dell streak from my dell Rep and it is easily day shiznit. It came with froyo preloaded and it is unlocked. Works great on att but there is no compatiable software for front facing webcam.

Can't beat it really. And the GPS works instantly

For realz
[Captivate General] Scottbg1:
I talked to the verizon rep that sold me my phones. He replaced the dx's (which have worked flawlessly btw), and told me to give it a couple of weeks before I made my move.

I have to admit, I'm liking the new coverage. I'm not getting the 2 and 3mgs download speeds I was getting on my cappy, (which I could only get in very few areas) but I am getting about 1.5mgs on the dx almost everywhere with verizon coverage.

The dx isn't a elegant a my cappy and I have had to jump through a couple of hoops to get a custom rom installed, but it is just as functional, and the gps has been spot on.

I miss my captivate pretty bad, but as the initial shock is wearing off, verizon doesn't seem do bad.

I still have a couple of weeks to decide and my cappy is still sitting on my dresser just incase. ;)
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
It's pretty retarded to leave AT&T when we're a matter of weeks away from the holy grail of Android.
[Captivate General] jayrod88:
Just to correct everyone about the "30 days" to return/cancel your service with Verizon. On Sunday the 16th (the day the OP purchased his phone) Verizon implemented a 14 day (not 30) day period to avoid the ETF.

I know this because I work at a national retailer who sells Verizon phones.

That explains why the rep said "just give it a couple more weeks." Wow do I hate people who try to screw others over (the rep in this case).

"You may return or exchange wireless devices and accessories purchased from Verizon Wireless within 14 days of purchase. A restocking fee of $35 ($70 for netbooks and tablets) applies to any return or exchange of a wireless device (excluding Hawaii)."

http://www.verizonwireless.com/ReturnPolicy.shtml
[Captivate General] Clienterror:
I know 2 people with Droid X's and TBH they are horrible. I'm not saying SGS phones don't have their own unique issues but the "official" 2.2 for the Droid X is seriously just bad. They both have random shutdowns/reboots and they are sluggish compared to SGS phones. The one lady I know used my cappy and didn't understand why her droid was was so much slower...at everything. I told her that's what she gets for buying a phone because it's "Cool" because they have a commercial for it ever other commercial break. Also did you look into if you get a discount through ATT for your job? I get 20% off my bill (5 phones, 3 cappys, iphone3g, crap flip phone) for a company I haven't worked for for like 4 years now.

As for the Streak, I burned all my Jinco's 15 years ago and bought jeans that fit. I don't care how great it supposedly is or isn't, a 5" phone is to big to fit in a normal pair of jeans comfortably and not look retarded.
[Captivate General] Scottbg1:
That might be true Mike but my money says you'll be pulling your hair out trying to port 2.3 over to the Atrix with its locked up boot loader when the Bionic is to be released with it already.

And its almost a sure bet you can tack on about 6 to 8 months on AT&T's promised release date on any phone they advertise.

This is correct. He told me this Tuesday. I bought the phones Sunday. So I have until the next saturday to make up my mind.
[Captivate General] ryude:
Just so you know, Verizon's is CDMA which means it will have weaker call signal and stronger data signal. The signal bars only report your data signal, not your voice call signal. It can be very deceiving.

Also, you cannot use data while using the phone to talk to someone. So you can't say, "Let me look it up right now." Because it will just say "No Data Connection."
[Captivate General] sublimaze:
if you decide to stay with verizon, make sure you check your bill each month. vzw likes to add bogus fees that most of their customers don't even notice. this happened to both me & my gf (on separate accounts)
[Captivate General] maxjivi05:
First Verizon's return policy is 14 days after that etf is 375$ no matter where u r n contract, 2nd they don't have a 4G phone that has 4G speeds nor do any carrier. ATT speeds are greater at 3G than all competitors except tmo areas that are using their upgraded 3g network they claim is 4g and they r barely faster but they have a small area their coverage covers without losing Singal since they "changed their 3g".

And who would do the droid x over the cappy? That sales man must be good at what be does because stock the cappy kills droid x in all benchmarks and speed tests for network since Verizon 3g network is the slowest of all major carriers. Do a speed test bet it don't do more then 1.2Mbps down when I can get 5Mbps on my cappy with ATT.

ATT 4G when it is rolled out will do 4-5x faster then what it does now which is suppose to be 7Mbps x 4 so around 28Mbps down is insane... my phone is already faster then a lot of dsl providers...

Anyway not flaming just wanted to put my 2cents in with facts. My brother owns a droid x its not bad but cappy is one nice piece of hardware
[Captivate General] JoeMap:
Just wondering why the op was in the Verizon store. Take her to an AT&T store man! But, to each their own.

Personally, I am looking forward to the Atrix.
[Captivate General] ryude:
Just want to add that this also happened to me, it was the breaking point and the reason why I returned to AT&T.
[Captivate General] Barbarian:
I pity the fool

Sent from my Captivate running FireFly 1.5
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/21/motorola-ready-to-make-sweet-love-to-rom-devs-and-rooters/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neotekz:
was in the process of calibrating my battery and running it down and at around 15% i noticed that all the stats have reset on its own, also confirmed with root manager.

could this be why my battery is not lasting? or is this normal?

im rooted running the stock froyo 2.2 from rogers with glitterball kernel.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neotekz:
anyone know whats going on? i've been keeping any eye on it and the time stamp on the batterystats.bin is reseting to the current time every few hour and when this happens all the stats in battery usage gets reset too.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dsu:
I would like to know this too. any help will be appreciated. thanks
[Epic 4G General] Zzim:
I am looking for a way to use the sprint hot spot on the leaked froyo build but it does not seem to be out yet.

Is there an app that works the same way as sprint hot spot. I don't want ad hoc because it does not support some devices. If anyone has anything that does not require "flashing" a custom rom to get this I need to know.

I found Moble AP but you need to flash it with clock work recovery and I would lose the froyo build.

Thanks in advance
[Epic 4G General] LordLugard:
No dice on AP and 2.2 on Epic. If AP is that important to you, go back to 2.1, else live with wireless tether and Ad-hoc.
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
If you search you will find what your looking for.

We have nothing got froyo yet but people are working on mobileap. We are still on a froyo leak so stuff like this is delayed cause official froyo may be different then are leaks

Sent From Da Hood.
[Epic 4G General] Zzim:
I am guessing that means we have nothing for foryo yet and mobile ap is in the works but won't be out untill the offical release. I just hope I ca get it on the stock rom and I won't need to flash a custom rom to get it to work.
[Epic 4G General] Zzim:
You also make it sound like I didnt search and there is something the does not require flashing that supports a stock rom......
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
i take it you didn't read my full post? I explained to what was going on with it. if you did search you would have found something cause theres about 10 threads on this subject. Just don't use the search button when searching. Manually search the threads your self

Sent From Da Hood.
[Epic 4G General] Zzim:
I can see you still misunderstand I was simply saying that your wording was contridicting the point you were trying to make.
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
Why is that cause i told you to search and have you the awnser?

Sent From Da Hood.
[Epic 4G General] Zzim:
No

What I was looking for = Hot spot feature working of froyo via akp install.

What I would find = That there is nothing out right now but will be soon

Aka I would not have found what I was looking for if I searched.

Anyway we r getting of the main topic now. I am just going to flash back and get a custom rom that has it built in. Anyone have any recomendations on one?
[Epic 4G General] Top Nurse:
You don't need a custom rom to use Wireless Tether. You just need to root your phone. Takes about 5 minutes or less. Why would you want to use the sprint app? The WT app has much more capability.

lleh morf tnes
[Epic 4G General] Zzim:
Wireless tether is ad hoc.

Right?
[Epic 4G General] LordLugard:
...Not if your device does not support adhoc wifi networks. A lot of gadgets it seems don't like adhoc wifi, so Mobile AP would be an alternative.
[Epic 4G General] LordLugard:
Yes it is.
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
I can get my apple iPad and iPod touch to work off if wireless tether but not my ps3. Oh well I'm happy with that cause my ps3uses my home wifi.
[Droid Eris General] vash8806:
Time to move on to the Fascinate til the Droid Bionic comes out... :) Decided to go with an upgrade to a refurbished Fascinate..... Just couldn't handle the enormous lag and touch screen problems on my Eris anymore..
[Droid Eris General] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Good luck and take care!
[Droid Eris General] Zalatorisaurus:
Yes. Good luck out there. I'm thinking about getting a DInc myself.
[Droid Eris General] CPCookieMan:
Nah, wait for thunderbolt.
[Droid Eris General] B3L13V3:
YES!

I'm actually impressed by the specs on the bionic but I've heard too many negative things about Motorola so I'm sticking with HTC I'm definitely getting the thunderbolt :D
[Droid Eris General] Zalatorisaurus:
I got a great price for mine (sub $200), and I'm using it to ride out my contract til August. Then I'm leaving for Sprint or T-Mo.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dan138zig:
hello guys,

I've tried 2 nand rom, that is nexushd2 2.0 and jdms 1.7. Both times I noticed that standby drain is good (4-9 mA), but the drain when using the phone is higher than sd builds. Flipping home screens drains more than 200 mA. Browsing drains up to 400+ mA. What's up with this?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TheATHEiST:
Youve tried 2 builds and you think that is a fair test?

There are many different variables like what programs/services you have running in background, what radio version you have etc etc. Uninstall teh apps you dont use and use SystemApp Remover to remove the system ones you dont use (be careful).

Try other builds like MDJ's CM7 I had excellent battery with that. Also install a task killer like Advanced Task Killer, set it to kill apps on screen off and make sure you set ignore on the ones you dont want killing.

You can make turn off autosync aswell as GPS when you dont need them.

Many things to try.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] manemzjum:
i read and agree that advanced task killers dont really do any justice as it uses more battery to continuously restart apps after you have killed than rather than just leave them running
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dan138zig:
no, it's not a fair test. that's why i put question mark in the title :D anyway, after using and rebooting twice, it seems the battery has settled down now.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zarathustrax:
From what I can tell, standby battery drain on nand is better than SD builds, but battery drain from actual use of the phone is about the same generally as SD builds. I've tested 4 different nand builds, and now I'm back to test SD builds again. Overall, I get about the same battery life on SD as I do on NAND. If I leave the phone in standby for long, nand would last a little longer,
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Wil-j:
I have been using multicon to fit all the icons I want in to the awailable space and I have liked the app a lot. Now that I tried using Desktop Visualizer, I'd like to know if it's somehow possible to get the same results as with Multicon, but with custom icons. The problem with Desktop Visualizer is that you can't fit enough icons and they are too much apart from each other and look bad.

I'm pretty sure that there's no way to do what I'd like without rooting the phone, but that's something I don't want to do.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] irteza_h:
try using simi folder... You cant put up apps, but you can put up folders with custom icons and really cool animations with a 100 other settings, kinda like the iphone folder thing.. just a million times cooler
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] maddler:
It looks quite good but... any clue why I keep getting "square" characters at the end of some program's name? Strange...
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] wmfreak:
Lovin' it!

G
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
I have no idea. You can check font under Windows. It is completely.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] maddler:
Well, it looks like the font itself is ok. There has to be somthing wrong with encoding or something else. BTW, I'm experiencing same issue with other fonts too. Who knows...
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
Thanks! :)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
So it sounds like your problems are not font related.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
Small update in first post.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Abies78:
A silly question (well...I'm new in this ambit): how do I flash these fonts? Cheers
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] maddler:
Yep, not directly related to the font itself. But I cannot understand what's wrong with (just some) apps' names... :(
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] maddler:
Not sure if that was last font update or having installed cyanogenmod7, but no more "squares"!

sent using both my thumbs on my DHD
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
You don't need to flash. You need to have root and 'font changer lite' from Market. Copy those fonts to /sdcard/.fontchanger and run 'font changer lite', tap on this font and reset.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Fiktik:
Thanks! Excellent and easy!
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
you are welcome!
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] hama2:
Font search

look sample pic

Any Idea whats named the Fontstyle ?

Edit..

Okay i found the font 7th but to big for dhd
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] kalagas:
Very good work...

I use it my DHD for 2 days now and i like much more that the default fonts...
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] preacher65:
This is a really nice looking font, thanks for making it. It looks like a lot of time and effort went into it. :)

Unfortunately apps in the pull down menu use bold text, and this font seems to be wider than stock when bold. So the descriptive text for some apps (JuiceDefender for example) is too wide, and disappears off the right side of the screen.

Edit: Sorry, ignore the above, it was just one mode in Juice Defender, and the same thing happened with stock font. :o
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
I've just checked and in fact my font in bold is much narrower then original Droid Sans bold.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] preacher65:
Yes - sorry, I edited the post to say it was just me being stupid! :o

Loving the font. :)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] hama2:
The app fontchanger is verry good to change fonts No need to flash.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] kalagas:
@than33

The best font I have ever used in 2 years I have android devices...

Good work... very good...

It's exactly what it's needed...

Thanks a lot...

Sent from my DesireHD with Mixed_Theme
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] andywright1982:
*edit*sorted it now*edit*
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
Thank You! I wrote that this ideal font. ;)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
I've made new update to fonts. Now they are completely perfect!
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] preacher65:
Thanks! Downloading now. I don't know how they can improve ;) but I'm looking forward to finding out. :)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Tones1971:
Looks good, but i cant install due to font change not working with the newer version of busybox. Tries to install 1.17 but fails as the newer version is on. I have this saved to my sd card though so hopefully will give it a try sometime.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
I will try to make flashable package.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] kshting:
Hi,

Could this work on CM nightly as well? or it don't matter which rom I'm using.

Cheers.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
It doesn't matter. This is just a font and it will work on every ROM.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
I've added instructions for manual installation.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] consulweyer:
thanks a lot i really like it

good work
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Try4Ce:
Great font! Really love it!

But I found an issue using it running a german Device and Whatsapp.

The "Send" button is a little "longer" in german (Senden). Its a little cut off and the "n" of "senden" seems to get a <br> ... talkin in HTML tags, so to speak. Like a break.

Sende

n

thats how it looks like... Its a small issue, but not very pleasant to look at ...
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
this is whatsapp bug. But I will try to check this.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
New version added. Now perfect is even more perfect! :)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Morak75:
Too bold for me. Good work though ;)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
Maybe (someday) I will prepare version which is not so bold.

The main idea was to give this font more contrast when drawn black on white. Original DroidSans is too thin.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
I've added screenshots of new font version.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] preacher65:
Hi, I've been using - and loving - this font for a long time now. However on the new GB-based releases there seem to be some (unicode?) characters needed that are missing, and as a result some letters show up as squares.

Not sure if there's anything you can do about it, but I'd be grateful if you could take a look at the attached screenshot, and let us know what you think. :)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] than33:
I can help if you can make screenshot with droidsans (original font) so I can see what is missing.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] preacher65:
Thanks, any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

A little more investigation shows that it's only happening when there's an ellipsis (three dots). The attached screenshot shows with Segoe Than Narrow at the top and with DroidSans at the bottom.

It confuses me, as the ellipsis seems to be displayed correctly, it just seems to add some extra characters after the ellipsis. I'm hoping it makes more sense to someone who understands fonts better than I do. :)

This happens on other fonts as well (e.g. the WP7 version of Segoe), so it could well be a problem with the new Sense handling unicode differently...?