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[Captivate General] ninjuh:
I think you're in denial or you just aren't OCD enough to realize the phone does have flaws. Mostly due to laziness in design by Samsung, not enough testing. I have an inside source saying the entire Samsung Development team was frying on mushrooms when working on this...
[Captivate General] jboneiii:
After Paragon RC4 fixed my GPS issue I can't think of any problem my phone has and I hammer away on it all day. I have build 1008.

Sent using XDA App
[Captivate General] bigsmitty64:
1 shut down when I first bought the phone. Going on 3 months (of ownership) now, with no issues. Of course I suppose a lot of the credit goes to Cognition 3.04 for being a great stable rom :)
[Captivate General] TRusselo:
yeah my gps is great... if im walking.. not if im driving.

no shutdown issues though.

had denied access though when trying to use "usb storage mode" returned phone. no issues with new one except gps...
[Captivate General] Hurricane Andrew:
I've been very fortunate as well. GPS isn't perfect, but got me around downtown Philadelphia perfectly just yesterday.

Phone is rooted, with stock rom. Removed AT&T bloatware. Using K-9 for mail, Dolphin HD for browser and of course advanced task killer.

No shutdowns, battery gets me through the day. Worst thing is the new Android Market, which is much slower than the previous versions.

I am a Samsung fan, having progressed from a Sammy flip phone, to the Blackjack, to the Jack, to my Captivate, so I am a bit biased. Folks in the office have several Verizon models, including an older HTC model, an Incredible, and a Droid 2. Each one has a few quirks, so take it for what it's worth :)
[Captivate General] sugardeath:
Never had any issues here, either.
[Captivate General] JRd1st:
My GPS works perfectly too; I get 1.2 m accuracy in my house which is surrounded by trees . . . but only since I started using a TomTom Wireless MKII (bluetooth) receiver. :D

It's funny how the MKII which was designed and built 5 years ago can get a lock in my house in a few seconds when the Captivate's built-in GPS always takes 248 seconds to lock under better conditions (outside). :confused: I wonder if that metal case back is a problem . . . hmmmmm
[Captivate General] david717:
Listen to the audio of a video recording.
[Captivate General] drwx:
you are aware that using a task killer is a waste of time... right? it is totally unneeded on android.

http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
[Captivate General] ryboto:
So, honestly, I've had more issues with custom roms than with the phone at stock. I've had weird mass storage problems, GPS lock quality, force closes, strange wifi lock ups that require a reboot or a complete dump of programs in ram, data network loss until a reboot, just to name the major ones.

With the stock software, even though there was a crap ton of bloat, the phone worked. Sure, there was random lag, and the GPS took a little longer to lock(up to 1min), but when it did, it never had issues with maps or navigation like it does now, where the program thinks I'm driving in a river, or suddenly changed directions going 80 on the interstate. The mass storage worked better also, as did BT audio.

I gained speed and customization with the roms from this community, but it was essentially trading one issue for another.
[Captivate General] fatttire:
Your GPS works cause you're in the woods. Try skyscrapers... then you'll have a fun time with that GPS unit.

That's good that you like it though. Never let someone convince you its broken if it ain't...
[Captivate General] joeybear23:
You're not alone.

GPS has worked for me from day one (I bought it on launch day), literally. My first full day with the phone I flew to another state, had no clue about the area and it got me everywhere I needed to go.
[Captivate General] a2gtinut:
any gps receiver wll have issues with multipath. There is nothing that can fix, actual yes, remove tall building which are close to each other
[Captivate General] Ginther:
My original phone worked fine at first, then developed the random shutdown issue. It was bone stock. I tried rooting, ROMing, etc to fix it, but it still shutdown.

I exchanged it for a "refrubed replacement" 12-31-2010. I left the replacement stock for almost a month to make sure it was going to work right before I did any mods. The shutdown issue was gone, and the GPS worked great.

I was hesitant to flash it cuz it was working and stable. But I had already had a taste of custom roms so I couldn't bear leaving it stock forever.

Flashed different roms, different kernels, numerous different modems etc.... So far so good.

No issues yet. But now that I said something it'll probably die on me tomorrow! :rolleyes:
[Captivate General] groves226:
I do live in a small city(Fayetteville NC which is a small town compared to Philly) but driving in Raleigh and Dallas I don't have any issue. (bought my phone in dallas) Driving or walking or running it just works. Alsk I get lock in less then 20 seconds which is pretty average for a lot of gps devices I have used. (well not the military PLGR which seemed to take 30minutes to lock)

I thought about it and there is one thing I do with a custom rom I didn't do with stock: live background.

Cognition was ok but now I'm running Phoenix Rising.

Great dev community in XDA all around, and if I hadn't removed GTalk I would never have tried one of these roms.

And for playing video or media I get issues with 1080 files but everything else works good enough for a phone. Yeah a phone, compared to an Ipod touch or Zune Hd or a computer it isn't as good but I also can't make phone calls on some or fit the other in my pocket which makes this Captivate a great device.
[Captivate General] groves226:
Right on about the multipath! I wonder how many GPS complaints are from this.

Heh like listening to the radio or watching old school pre-HD tv in a city.
[Captivate General] majortool:
The only issue I had with stock cappy is it would not connect to pc. I tried every driver under the sun, on xp, vista, and even bought windows 7. Nada. My wifes would connect immediately. So I just made att swap it out for a new one and it works perfectly. I really didn't care until I got tired of waiting on froyo and decided to flash. I wanted a backup on my pc so I called att and did a swap. 3 days later I flashed my first rom. Now my OTA download rate is faster than my dsl, so I'm sticking it to att by dl'ing over their network.
[Captivate General] Ginther:
My wife and son also have Captivates, both stock. They got them in November 2010.

My wife's has been fine for the most part but has shutdown maybe 3 times over the months. She has opted not exchange it yet since the shutdowns have been very rare. Her GPS works fine but is a little slow to lock.

My son's just started shutting down over the last week or so. It's to the point we are probably going to have to take it in for an exchange. :mad:
[Captivate General] krazyphire:
Try flashing them with Cognition before you go and exchange. I think most of the people with shutdown issues are on the Stock firmware which definitely had its share of bugs. But most people on Cog report no shutdowns. Plus its the closes to the stock experience which I think is what you wanted
[Captivate General] crystalhand:
Most custom roms handle ram differently then stock does and since the shutdown issue is related to bad ram my guess is that critical system processes are being kept there. definitely worth a try though.the dev community has done a lot to improve this phone
[Captivate General] Hurricane Andrew:
Been using it since I first got my Captivate back in August. It's kinda like my comfy blanket at this point. Was new to Android back then, and now it's just part of my backup...
[Captivate General] opcow:
I put my phone in my pocket with my keys and it scratched my keys.
[Captivate General] TommyZee:
Zip - Nada - No Problemo :D

AT&T SUCKS :eek:
[Captivate General] Geoff423:
Never any issue that wasn't OE

So maybe I tried to brick my phone 2.. 3... ok about 5 times... but I always managed to get it back and get my flash to go. And I learned what I was doing along the way so it was just practice. Really.

Never had any issues with GPS, just last week I ran an informal test with GPS locks in my car. My captivate, my wife's new Inspire, and a friends T-Mob G2. While moving, I locked so quickly it was effectively instant. My wife took a split second longer. The G2 was still looking for a signal 10 min later when we got to where we were going.

I know my phone is in the series that should have shutdown issues, but I never have seen it.

I did have some issues with contacts syncing on the latest versions of Cog and Perception (and almost anything else that runs a Rogers Kernal/Modem, or at least that's what it seems like), so I went back to Cog 2.38 and it runs along with no worries. Sure, I'd like a new version, but my contact list is more important and I couldn't get it to sync at all in about a dozen different roms.

There are some occasional crashes and force closes, but I think it's a lot more likely that it's due to apps that don't run well together or with my ROM, rather then the phone itself.
[Captivate General] mwilhelm:
Not entirely perfect...

I bought one in early July, that same day it became a brick, took it back the next day and got a new one that I've not had any problems with since. In December, I bought two (for family members). One still works without problems. The first day the second one ate through the battery in like 2 to 3 hours of no use (idle). The next day, aside from the salesperson telling me that smart phones use a lot of power, they replaced it and haven't had any problems since.

So I'm happy with the phones (all stock).

Regardless, Samsung and AT&T have really blown the upgrades and their communications - it's just wrong!

BTW, I started to hear Andomeda call my name...
[Captivate General] aridoasis:
I'm still on stock Froyo from Rogers, and the only things I've flashed are the i9000 modem and SpeedMod Kernel.

I came from using the Bell Vibrant, so talk a out issues. When I got my cappy, all I had to worry about was the lag which SpeedMod fixed. I never had issues with GPS since the day I got my cappy too, so I guess I'm lucky with that. I did have some shutdown issues once or twice but that also disappeared after I flashed SpeedMod.

The only gripe I have is the lack of the front facing camera and led flash, but all in all I'm very happy with my cappy.
[Captivate General] Mr.Immaculate:
I've been happy with my phone. The devs here just make it better.

Everyone gripes about the gps, sure it's slow to lock, but my TomTom is slower when I fly and try to use it in a new time zone. It is also a source of constant amusement when it tells me to get back on the highway I'm driving on. My TomTom has almost as many issues, especially in cities surrounded by skyscrapers.

All told, I think the level of support is subpar from AT&T/Sumsung, yet I also think the level nerd rage is a bit over the top.

They could of course solve this by releasing working drivers and source for 2.2, 2.3 and 3.0. ;) :D
[Captivate General] groves226:
I just enabled Lagfix after giving a friend my spare Captivate to borrow while he waits for his upgrade window.

I do not notice any difference.

I am using Launcher Plus (I like the memory used being shown on screen) with Lookout Weatherbug and Watchdog running along with the grass live wallpaper.

EXT4 is cool.... but really I do not notice a difference.
[Captivate General] jetpuck73:
I never had any issuses either. Can't wait for Froyo!!
[Captivate General] TayzGpa:
I really like mine. My wife and I got ours about mid-February. Both are "stock". However, they are both rooted and sideloaded. Other than that pure Samsung.

I tried Cognition 3.04 for awhile. It is a good ROM, but I had problems with it eating battery, memory and the gallery would show 437 photos even though I only had 15 on the phone. For some reason it would repeat the photos over and over again. Sometimes it would stop at 312, sometimes 437 or some other random number (even though I only have 15 photos on the phone). Anyway, flashed back to stock rom (using this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=790080 ) and it has worked great ever since.

Love it. :D
[Captivate General] modest_mandroid:
Seems to be a crap shoot with these phones.. The only issues I've had with mine were fixable software issues that affect the entire galaxy s line - filesystem lag and whatnot. My GPS has always worked pretty well, even on JI6, and I don't experience random shutdowns or reboots.

Can't say the same thing for my friend who bought 3 vibrants for his family, unfortunately. Two of the three broke within the first three weeks of ownership; one would just randomly freeze, sometimes for 30 minutes on end, before it finally refused to turn on one day, the other decided to go into random boot loops. He returned the two defective phones for new non-refurbs. One works fine, the other has a totally non-functioning GPS. I didn't believe the GPS issue myself until I witnessed it first hand on his phone. It simply doesn't lock. The GPS hardware might as well not even be there. All of his phones were completely stock, no root, no custom roms.
[Captivate General] bp787:
yes to this. the audio clipping is AWFUL if the environment is too loud! and no way to fix it from what I can tell.
[Captivate General] wasilvers:
Mine works great too. Audio is awesome after some tweaks. Only flaw i's on a reboot, google doesn't turn on autosync so I do it manually.

The dev's ROCK!

Sent from my "Ultimate" Captivate
[Captivate General] ou812bkewl:
My GPS didn't work when I had my first one, but after exchanging it for the shutdown issue, it had no issues at all.
[Captivate General] Nick James:
I love how I switched from a BlackBerry Torch to a Captivate and I come on here and all I end up reading is all this bashing about the phone lol.

I don't think either of the forums (here and blackberryforums.com) ever has anything positive to say about phones in general.

On a positive note- I love my phone, no random shut offs, no problems with anything. ::knock on wood:: I hope my phone continues to make idle time in my life fun because if it doesnt, I should have stayed with the BB because their emailing system and syncing system is far superior! :(

Oh the irony.
[Captivate General] Mr.Immaculate:
According to the Internet everything sucks.

Seriously, the vast majority of people that take the time to comment on something are those people who are having issues, whether the fault of the product or their own incompetence... which they typically blame on the product.
[Captivate General] joeybear23:
I disagree.

I had nothing but trouble with getting email with BB.

My company has an exchange server, but no Blackberry Enterprise Server. Exchange emails would take 10-15 minutes before coming to my BB.

Since day I switched to my Captivate, I get exchange and Gmail messages faster than my laptop can. No 10-15 minute delay like with BES-less BB.

Plus now I am not dependent on a phone manufacturers proxy servers in order to have access to email and the web. It seemed the BB network always dropped at the worst possible moments, and when they went down it was never less than 3-4 hours.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxxxairwavexxxx1:
Ok so i did the whole downgrade and then did the recovery and wat not. so i loaded a zip rom into the memory card and then i flashed it so it worked and it went into the t mobile g1 screen but after awhile and i mean awhile nothing happened... so dummy me booted into recovery and accidently flashed the spl.zip from the sd card..... now it wont even load the bootloader nor the recovery :( it just stays on the t-mobile g1 screen. DID I JUST DO THE WORST AND BRICKED MY G1?? is there anything i can do or is this th end of my g1??? any help or advice?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadowch31:
Your phone is bricked.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=591048
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevenc19:
this happened to me but my phone started workin again i think its fixable
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxxxairwavexxxx1:
hahaha woo i just fixed it lol i was like fck this i bought a broken g1and switched the motherboard and tada all good:)
[Intercept General] ian577416:
I have a samsung M920 with the 2.6.29 kernal running vampirefo-transform custom rom/recovery. I recently installed the gingerbread keyboard and while its not a big deal its frustrating to not have vibration with keypress. Any ideas or advice would be helpfull. Thankyou

577416-Root
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] RyanRan:
Currently my SD card is a 16gb class 2. If I went out and purchased a class 10, would android boot and preform 5x faster? Is there another way to speed it up as well. Let me know, thanks!

Right now it takes about 2 minutes to boot android from windows 6.5 file explorer
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ZetaiZetsubou:
ramdroid

Run a Ram version of android such as Darkstone SuperRam...?

would that work for you?

edit for link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=870518
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zarathustrax:
No, a class 10 will not make it perform any faster. Read speeds are about the same on class 2 as class 10. Class 10 just has faster sequential write speed... but the HD2 wouldn't take advantage of it anyways. No point in getting more than class 4 for hd2. Actually, class 2 and 4 cards generally will run android better than class 6 or 10, because higher class cards tend to have worse random access speeds than lower class cards.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Multisporty:
And the speed depends on the android build u use as well.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] greg17477:
guys are right here, stick to your current sd card, dont waste money on that 10 class card.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jvillejoe:
Rating. Read speed. Wright speed. Class type.

------------ (mbit/s)--------(mbit/s)

13× -------16.0---------------16---------------2

26× -------32.0 --------------32---------------4

40× -------48.0 --------------48---------------6

66× -------80.0 --------------80--------------10
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jvillejoe:
I for one notice the difference in the speeds. Comparing the stock memory card and my class 10 the specs I posted state the difference. For some you may not notice. Video play back,data transfer,lag latency,music play back are just some things to look at to tell a difference. The card maker is also a depending factor. As far as build boot times a RAM version is the best. So in the end it boils down to the most for your dollar. Looking up prices compared to class type and size are all things to look at. Hope I helped shed some light.:D

Imho. There are many other things that you can do to speed up the build. It's all depending on your personal preference. Tbh.;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zarathustrax:
The class is decided on write speed.... read speed has nothing to do with it. My class 4 Sandisk has a higher read speed than any class 10 card I've tested. Also, tweaks that card manufacturers do to increase the sequential write speed usually ends up lowering the random access speed, which will cause lag when running an OS off of it. High class cards are set up so they initialize and prepare the part of the chip that will be written or read from so that the sequential read/write speed is greatly increased, but this initialization takes a little extra time to do, so when you're are trying access a small bit from one part of card and other small bits from other parts quickly, it ends up taking longer on a high class card because it initializes each part before access it... a lower class card without this initialization ends up being quicker when accessing many small parts quickly, but it doesn't get the speed boost in sequential read/writes.

Running an OS off a SD card requires being able to access many small parts quickly, so lower class cards generally work better for this task. Besides, the HD2 can't even use the higher write speeds that class 6 and 10 cards give. It may write at 10MB/sec with a card reader, but in the HD2 it will only go at 4 or 5MB/sec.

This doesn't necessarily mean all cards are like this... some class 10 cards may have a good random access speed, and some class 2 cards may not... it depends on brand and what specific chips are used in the card, also. But when running an OS, random access speed is generally most important, and that speed is not rated in the class rating at all. It isn't even usually kept consistent from batch to batch of the same card... you may get a class 4 sandisk that has a great random access speed, but then the same brand and class card made at the factory a month later may not have as good random access speed.

Best thing to do to make sure you get a good card, is to buy a good quality brand like sandisk (kingston cards are usually rebranded junk even though they are knowns as a good name brand for some reason... DO NOT BUY KINGSTON), but anyways, get a good class 2 or 4 Sandisk from a reputable dealer so you know it's not fake. Sandisk seem to be most consistent with having good random access speeds.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jvillejoe:
Before you knock Kingston take a look at this posted by engadget.com

While some camps are pumping out larger microSDHC cards, Kingston's done the world a favor by working on speed instead. The result is this Class 10 16GB microSDHC card --possibly the world's fastest of its kind (at a minimum data transfer rate of 10MB/s). Who would need this, you ask? Well, there's the speed freak in your own self that you're trying to suppress, for starters, and don't forget all those snazzy phones that can do 1080p video recording. As with most nice things in life, this blistering card will cost you a fair bit --$138 for the card sans adapters. Oh, go on, it's totally worth your liver. Show full PR text Kingston Digital Ships Speedy Class 10 MicroSDHC Card Large Capacity, Fast Performance a Perfect Match for Memory-Hungry Devices FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 15 / PRNewswire/ --Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the release of a 16GB microSDHC Class 10 card. The high-capacity card complies with the SD™ Association Specification 3.00 to meet Class 10 requirements. The 16GB microSDHC card has a minimum data transfer rate of 10MB/sec. and ships either as a stand-alone microSDHC card or with adapters. "With the new speed class, host devices such as high-definition cameras or the latest smartphones are being designed to optimize their write performance to take advantage of the more responsive memory card speeds," said Wendy Lecot, Flash card business manager, Kingston®. "Now that the Class 10 card specification is five times faster than a Class 2 card, users will see swifter copying and transferring of photos, music, videos and e-books when using a multi-format card reader such as the Kingston Media Reader or MobileLiteG2 with a PC. Kingston takes mobility and versatility a step further with the addition of the SD adapter pack (Kingston part #: SDC10/16GB), and the SD and miniSD adapter pack (Kingston part #: SDC10/16GB-2ADP). Inserting the card into the SD adapter turns it into a large-storage, speedy SDHC card that can be used to capture continuous images or videos in digital cameras. Kingston also includes an adapter for other devices that utilize the miniSD form factor. Either adapter pack allows users to store all data on one card across multiple Class 10 device platforms. The 16GB microSDHC Class 10 card is backed by a lifetime warranty, 24/7 tech support and legendary Kingston reliability. For more information visit www.kingston.com.

Always buy directly from the company. Or a known and trusted retailer.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DJisawesome:
I recommend flashing NAND