A very short story. I regret - Captivate General

So my friend got a new Captivate. I was excited since I had a Vibrant! Mine was rooted and he didn't even what that was. So I didn't bother telling him his RFS filesystem was gonna slow the.phone down.
He got it on Christmas and until last week....he didn't have it. He had an Xperia x10??????
I was like "hey where's your captivate?"
He said "stupid piece of scrap got really slow In like a week it was slow and nasty. This one is way better"
I was thinking "is he stupid?" "Its running android 1.6"
So he saw my vibrant and said "wow this is super smooth and fast" "this is the vibrant?"
He was stunned.
So I should've told him to root and lagfix it.
I regret telling him so.
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oh man that sucks
my captivate was leaps and bounds different when lagfixed..but i still think it wasn't that unbelievably bad w/o lagfix...

Yes it was. that is why we are all here. Because of that
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Well it isn't your fault he didn't care about his top of the line phone enough to do some research.

When my brother, sister-in-law, and sister got this phone they wouldn't let me leave without flashing andromeda after seeing it on my phone. I had to show a friend how to also, so now is infected with the flash flu.
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I feel bad for the guy. His only other options were the X10 or the Aria, and if you're not very tech savvy, you're probably just going to go with the x10 by appearance alone.

The x10 has potential but the aria is much more developed. Songy is dropping a powerhouse soon that has GB stock
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Yea.
It does look cool.
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Use an early upgrade?

Okay, stupid topic, but I have to ask. Looking at selling my Fascinate and taking an early upgrade to a Thunderbolt. Seems to be a completely solid device, and I would love to get an HTC back in my hands after a year of Sammy pains.
Looking to find out from the folks who've had it for a minute what their opinions are?
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Daswolven said:
Okay, stupid topic, but I have to ask. Looking at selling my Fascinate and taking an early upgrade to a Thunderbolt. Seems to be a completely solid device, and I would love to get an HTC back in my hands after a year of Sammy pains.
Looking to find out from the folks who've had it for a minute what their opinions are?
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So far, so good. I haven't rooted mine, because I really haven't felt the need yet.
I'm coming from the Sammy Vibrant, and I loved the phone.
I like this one better. Much more responsive, and it doesn't fall prey to the lag issues, the primary reason I rooted my Vibrant in the first place.
I'd say go do it. Awesome phone.
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I upgraded from a D1. I kinda miss some of the control I had over that phone, but the devs had a lot time to master that device. The TB will get there as well especially since a lot of devs & themers have the phone.
I rooted mine so I could remove all the bloat (~250mb of junk). I am running the latest RUU and with a custom kernel.
I have been very happy with the Tbolt. The battery life has been better than I expected.
It's a great phone. I'd recommend it!
I love it but why not wait. You made it this far. In a month or so there will be better phones.
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The only things I miss about the Fascinate is the size/weight and the gps. I get better reception with the bolt and I love being able to use data while I'm on the phone. If the boro has coverage like Hinesville, you'll welcome the better reception.
I had a fascinate too. Yea Def make the switch. Battery isn't as good, but it charges quick it about 40 times less laggy and runs circles around it. I had many issues with the fascinate with this not so much.
I would get one on eBay and save the upgrade in case you dont like it on either an iPhone 5 or Bionic when (if) they come out in a few months.
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Okay, stupid topic, but I have to ask. Looking at selling my Fascinate and taking an early upgrade to a Thunderbolt. Seems to be a completely solid device, and I would love to get an HTC back in my hands after a year of Sammy pains.
Looking to find out from the folks who've had it for a minute what their opinions are?
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Hey man, been a while. I too wanted another HTC device and I have to say development has been stellar! Reminds me of when I had my Dinc before I had the Facinate.
Good luck. PM me if you have specific questions.
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I love it but why not wait. You made it this far. In a month or so there will be better phones.
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Which specifically? I've looked, and don't really see any offerings I'd be interested on the way. I won't touch moto, and the inc2 is inferior. Do you have intel I missed?
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The only things I miss about the Fascinate is the size/weight and the gps. I get better reception with the bolt and I love being able to use data while I'm on the phone. If the boro has coverage like Hinesville, you'll welcome the better reception.
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Ha. I'm just ready to move on, and the feedback is helpful. There's really nothing wrong with the Fascinate, outside of it just feels chicky overall, no matter what.
My Nexus felt solid.
Seems like most of our devs jumped, and that says alot. Feedback is appreciated guys, thanks.
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The phone is great, especially if you get LTE. Even if you don't though... it's the best phone they've got.
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Ha. I'm just ready to move on, and the feedback is helpful. There's really nothing wrong with the Fascinate, outside of it just feels chicky overall, no matter what.
My Nexus felt solid.
Seems like most of our devs jumped, and that says alot. Feedback is appreciated guys, thanks.
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+1 fascinate forums are quiet now!
I jumped ship too last weekend and so far I'm loving it. rooting it is quite a pain tho, the fascinate was definitely easier to root. My battery life is the same or better than the fascinate while rooted on comm rom. radio and gps is much better on the tbolt too, at least in my experience.
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+1 fascinate forums are quiet now!
I jumped ship too last weekend and so far I'm loving it. rooting it is quite a pain tho, the fascinate was definitely easier to root. My battery life is the same or better than the fascinate while rooted on comm rom. radio and gps is much better on the tbolt too, at least in my experience.
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GPS on my Fascinate was instant and accurate - within 3-5 feet usually. On my Thunderbolt it takes at least a minute to get a lock and it's never even close to 30 feet. I guess I was one of the few people with a Fascinate that had great gps from the minute I got it...
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GPS on my Fascinate was instant and accurate - within 3-5 feet usually. On my Thunderbolt it takes at least a minute to get a lock and it's never even close to 30 feet. I guess I was one of the few people with a Fascinate that had great gps from the minute I got it...
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yea, you were definitely lucky! as of community rom, and the ED01 radio, it took at least a minute to lock on (which was better than before when it would take 5 min to lock on). my tbolt locks instantly, even inside.
I used an early upgrade to get my t-bolt, and I love it! DEFINITELY go for it.
Well first off verizon is suppose to get an lg monster like tmo. Also id wait just too see what htc is pushing out. Then you do have moto actually talking about doing what sony is to there phones. Aka go online type your esn in and they give you a specific unlock code for your phone but voids warranty for anything not having to do with bad hardware.
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Well first off verizon is suppose to get an lg monster like tmo. Also id wait just too see what htc is pushing out. Then you do have moto actually talking about doing what sony is to there phones. Aka go online type your esn in and they give you a specific unlock code for your phone but voids warranty for anything not having to do with bad hardware.
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Appreciated, but no way I'm going near an LG. I never keep a phone for more than a year, so it's not a big deal. If my fassy does well on Ebay, might make the move next week. All the feedback has been appreciated.
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Love my thunderbolt! I did come from an Eris tho so I am quite awestruck.
Another one of these threads, eh?
There are several others, FYI.
All in all, I would think, despite the shortcomings (battery, gps, kinks), that most people here are in fact happy with their Thunderbolt. There have been, in my opinion -- and in such a short period of time -- great strides in development on this device.
My personal favorites (in no particular order):
- Voice + Data simultaneously;
- Ample RAM;
- Strong developer support;
- A fairly vibrant (albeit not necessarily the best) screen;
- Plenty of speed viz. no lag;
- Made by HTC;
- Easy to root (thanks to those who tirelessly made it easy to do with adb);
- 4G LTE!
My personal grudges (YMMV):
- GPS location acquisition;
- Battery efficacy (but remember, this phone isn't just a beast, but it's a first-in-class);
- Random reboots (more kinks that will be worked out, I'm sure).
If I had it to do over again, I would still have bought the Thunderbolt!
Good luck in whatever decision you make.

Dude!?

Now Krylon is thinking of jumping ship and getting a sensation?!
Are we fighting a losing battle? Or is the g2x going to come back stronger than ever?
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BobbyDukes707 said:
Now Krylon is thinking of jumping ship and getting a sensation?!
Are we fighting a losing battle? Or is the g2x going to come back stronger than ever?
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Well, that does it, g2x is going on craigslist and getting a sensation..
The cm7 was supposed to be ironed out in this build but it want..
Now my favorite vibrant dev is leaving...
So my friends who will not get a update for another month..... Peace out.. Cl now
Whitehawkx and I are coming over.
Mine is supposed to be shipped tomorrow, and White is selling his Vibrants to buy one I believe.
And I don't think Krylon is leaving just yet
Seriously?! Awesome! Welcome!
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birgertime said:
Whitehawkx and I are coming over.
Mine is supposed to be shipped tomorrow, and White is selling his Vibrants to buy one I believe.
And I don't think Krylon is leaving just yet
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And I'm back lmfaooooo thank god guys... Please help us..
Hell yeah! Just another reason why the development for this phone will get better.
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Lol, Krylon leaving? I do not think so bud.
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Sorry, I may have jumped to conclusions after reading his twitter. It just feels like everyone is bailing on the g2x...
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I hope that devs come over to G2x land. LG can't work out its problems, T-Mobile can't work out its problems. Maybe the smart developers can work it out.
Praying for a rainstorm of developers!
I think it would be a mistake for anyone to jump ship unless they just really wanted something else. The G2x has an awesome screen (despite screen bleed), great hardware, and great form factor. The only thing wrong with it is software related, which is fixable. You can't fix poor hardware, which some newer phones do have.
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Thinking and doing are 2 different things. I could easily sell one of my 7 devices and get the sense and still keep the g2x. Some people read to far into things.
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Thinking and doing are 2 different things. I could easily sell one of my 7 devices and get the sense and still keep the g2x. Some people read to far into things.
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Thanks for making me sound like a ****...Thinking and doing are two DIFFERENT things? Mind=blown...
I believe I did say "thinking" in the OP. I was only trying to point out that it seems as though a lot of people are switching to the sensation... And your update didn't say "thinking of selling one of my seven devices" it said "thinking of selling my g2x".
I wasn't trying to read too much into things. Just don't want a mass exodus...
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I hope this gingerbread update irons out everything so development speeds up.
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I hope this gingerbread update irons out everything so development speeds up.
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Me too.
CM7 already has the battery driver ironed out and a pretty stable release of 2.3.4. The phone itself is awesome and I'm loving the Tegra games.
I think I would be seriously disappointed if I were to switch to another phone right now.
I think my next phone won't be until Tegra 3's are out.
BobbyDukes707 said:
Thanks for making me sound like a ****...Thinking and doing are two DIFFERENT things? Mind=blown...
I believe I did say "thinking" in the OP. I was only trying to point out that it seems as though a lot of people are switching to the sensation... And your update didn't say "thinking of selling one of my seven devices" it said "thinking of selling my g2x".
I wasn't trying to read too much into things. Just don't want a mass exodus...
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Don't worry man, it was just an assumption you had. We love you
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player911 said:
Me too.
CM7 already has the battery driver ironed out and a pretty stable release of 2.3.4. The phone itself is awesome and I'm loving the Tegra games.
I think I would be seriously disappointed if I were to switch to another phone right now.
I think my next phone won't be until Tegra 3's are out.
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u hit it on the head player911, im effin loving my phone it is a beautiful piece i actually took my screen protector off and wow this screen is amazingly beautiful, ill tell u what those tmobile anti smear protectors suck! anyways the screen doesnt have one scratch id figure i would just keep one off because of the gorilla glass it has been about a week and not one scratch, and i think im just gonna stay with this phone for a while, i love the way this phone plays games, u have to check out galaxy on fire 2. great game....and now that cm7 is on its way to stable im not even worried about that official gingerbread release because it really wont do nothing special to our phones, we need the drivers from nvidia! as far as battery and etc., but like i said cm handled that......sorry a little off subject

Girlfriend vs phone

So does anyone else's girlfriend want to break their device or want to send a video to MTV for real life-I'm obsessed with my phone.
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Lmao... Same here my friend...
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bryanb86 said:
So does anyone else's girlfriend want to break their device or want to send a video to MTV for real life-I'm obsessed with my phone.
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Are you kidding me?
Girlfriend wins, but seriously that's a pretty small thing to complain about unless you are spending hours looking at your shiny little phone instead of staring into her eyes................turn off your phone and live!!!
Title was misleading I'm not choosing between them. She just hates my phone. Didn't know if I was the only one who seems to be diagnosed "obsessed" by the girlfriend lol.
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She's just jealous. I'm going through the same thing right now with my girlfriend. Lol even when I just look at it to see the time, she gives me that stare down. It's funny.
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Wife hate too!
Don't worry, this doesn't only effect girlfriends, my wife HATES, HATES, HATES my beautiful baby!
Can't we all just get along? Maybe I'll text her and ask!
Both my wife and daughter wanna kill me for mine.
Help her get a phone on par with yours then she'll praise you.
For my wife, she's not a geek but writes nearly everything down to stay organized. She had a Pantech Feature phone. So when my upgrade came, I got a Captivate. She wasn't too impressed until I got Netflix on it then told her that she can search all things Google with it and check her email.
So she says that when her upgrade came up, she'll upgrade to an Infuse, give it to me and switch SIMs with the Captivate and she'll take that. Cappy is running Continuum.
Since then I never hear the end of her praises for the phone and me. She loves Evernote and we share stuff all the time. She barely turns on her PC now(which used to be mine but that's another talk show).
Plus I'm running the Infuse....WIN!!!!!
Help your woman love the Super AMOLED goodness and ... you'll get a 'reward'!!!
You know...the 'reward' we dudes always want? THAT reward...yeah...
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Both my wife and daughter wanna kill me for mine.
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Infused =less sex and mad wife lol but that's ok hhahhahahah
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I just get my Rick James quote
what did the five fingers say to the face? LOL
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I just get my Rick James quote
what did the five fingers say to the face? LOL
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Terrible... Just terrible
She really got mad when I slapped the android character logo on my green kawai bike lol.
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tyshemi said:
Infused =less sex and mad wife lol but that's ok hhahhahahah
Throw the infuse on vibrate and maybe have an open relationship between the 3 of you.
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Hells ya
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My wife does not say anything at all,poor girl.Anytime and every time I sit on the sofa or recliner I start using this beast.Always hanging out with my Streak.She says you always find something to do with it,regardless of what you do,I try not to show it to her much so she doesn't get hooked.
And of course the Netflix app just make it super duper much better.
My wife hated it and always complained about my free time I spent with my smartphone habit. She is an iphone user, so her opinion doesn't matter anyway!
My new GF is almost as bad as me and thinks it's hot that I can do all this cool stuff. She is getting a Nexus S this weekend and is so excited. She uses a Nexus One now. I'm getting a SGS2 next month.
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Ha Ha My gf ask me to hack her phones for her lol. She loves that I do it. If it weren't for my big wang it would be for my big brain lol. I need to get her on here so I don't have to do all the work. Then she may not have much of a use for me lol. She couldn't even tell you what rooting is or why you would do it lol.
jayson94538 said:
She's just jealous. I'm going through the same thing right now with my girlfriend. Lol even when I just look at it to see the time, she gives me that stare down. It's funny.
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Lol....ditto
Sent from the most interesting device in the world.
Ha a girl a went out with a couple years ago broke up with me for "loving my iPhone 3GS more then her" she was crazy but I couldn't even imagine what she would of thought if I had this phone even I'm afarid of how much time I spend with it
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Wow! Seriously?

To begin im not rooted or unlocked and ive read through the stickies and pages at "solutions" but i gotta say this is the worst phone ive ever owned. I figured it would be at least on par with my old g2 or mt4g but they would smoke this paperweight on edge network. Ive factory reset, used task killer, rebooted, called tech support, and im about ready to committ cellular homicide and mail it back piece by piece. I know im not the only one here....who else wants to vent some steam by sharing a nightmare?
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To begin im not rooted or unlocked and ive read through the stickies and pages at "solutions" but i gotta say this is the worst phone ive ever owned. I figured it would be at least on par with my old g2 or mt4g but they would smoke this paperweight on edge network. Ive factory reset, used task killer, rebooted, called tech support, and im about ready to committ cellular homicide and mail it back piece by piece. I know im not the only one here....who else wants to vent some steam by sharing a nightmare?
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Um it would quite help if you were to explain the reasons why you don't like this phone? And it would also really help if you didn't judge this phone stock because when its on the stock rom, its a piece of sh*t. I almost ran over this thing.
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It shouldnt have to be rooted to compete with the g2 or mt4g...this beat the iphone 4 in a speed test. This thing lags on every scroll and takes a good 10-15 sec to open anything you touch. This isnt the first one ive experience this with either. Tmobile hyped this up like its hot sh** but its just cold diahrea
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It shouldnt have to be rooted to compete with the g2 or mt4g...this beat the iphone 4 in a speed test. This thing lags on every scroll and takes a good 10-15 sec to open anything you touch. This isnt the first one ive experience this with either. Tmobile hyped this up like its hot sh** but its just cold diahrea
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If you are clearly having issues why not custom rom it? I really don't understand why are you refusing to do something that has SOO MANY benefits and zero disadvantages. Sounds like lazyness to me. Shouldn't even bother with xda if you won't even root the phone
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My wife and I both got the SGS4G at the same time she had all of the same complaints and eventually caved in and got a different phone. I on the other hand came to XDA and got help and now I am perfectly happy with the phone. the Vibrant had all of the same issues and its a software problem form Samsung. I loaded a custom ROM and all of the issues I had are gone. the great thing about software is that it can be fixed. Hardware issues are another story of which this phone has none that I have found. It is possible to revert back to stock firmware and software so that its like you never did anything if you want to sell the phone later. So this is not the place to vent about how crappy your stock phone is it is the place to come and load the software needed to fix it.
I'm.with you... I miss my mytouch 4g. Such an awesome phone. So many roms. So fast.
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Honestly this is like if you bought a Ferrari and it had a rev limiter set at 2k with the top speed limited to 10mph but refused to turn off the limiters. The limiters are clearly there and you can clearly turn them off but you refuse to and instead of fixing the issue, you complain saying that you shouldnt have to turn them off and your ford fiesta is faster.
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Honestly this is like if you bought a Ferrari and it had a rev limiter set at 2k with the top speed limited to 10mph but refused to turn off the limiters. The limiters are clearly there and you can clearly turn them off but you refuse to and instead of fixing the issue, you complain saying that you shouldnt have to turn them off and your ford fiesta is faster.
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Lol...damn dude you got me pegged huh? It couldnt be that i dont have a pc right now, and thats one of the requirements to take off your so called "limiters". Think a little before you flame boi. I feel real sorry for the people that dont know anything about root and deal with this steaming pile daily.
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Lol...damn dude you got me pegged huh? It couldnt be that i dont have a pc right now, and thats one of the requirements to take off your so called "limiters". Think a little before you flame boi. I feel real sorry for the people that dont know anything about root and deal with this steaming pile daily.
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I know that rooting the phone isn't simply going to make all the problems go away. I absolutely hated this phone. Then when the new gb roms came out and all the tweaks started pumping out, I actually started to like this "p.o.s". Well why don't you wait till you have a PC and flash a custom rom first before you go flaming away at the device.
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So this is not the place to vent about how crappy your stock phone is it is the place to come and load the software needed to fix it.
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That B.S. dude this is a forum...i dont have to come here and download software. Thats only part of what this sites about. I also like coming here and shoting the breeze about phones..maybe ill talk about dev stuff maybe ill talk about how slow my phone is.
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I know that rooting the phone isn't simply going to make all the problems go away. I absolutely hated this phone. Then when the new gb roms came out and all the tweaks started pumping out, I actually started to like this "p.o.s". Well why don't you wait till you have a PC and flash a custom rom first before you go flaming away at the device.
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i think ur saying stock=crap rooted=good....so you basically agree with me so far...we both hate it stock and when my pc is back up n running ill root and update my review when i got custom rom. But as it stands im at 1ghz slow as hell. And its like i said before i dont want to buy a phone depending on root in order to make it function like its supposed to. If the cpu acted like it was at 1ghz i wouldnt be slammin this p o s.
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just a note you dont ever need a pc anyomre to cough root a phone and flash a diffrent rom at all all yuo need is root explorer and to start off the recovery from krylons cwm final and then the update.zip and then the custom rom or a few of them push the recovery record reboot install zip via update gets u to cwm and then install new rom never once haveing to touch a pc
and if your on froyo u can use the market and get root theres apps that work for that
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That B.S. dude this is a forum...i dont have to come here and download software. Thats only part of what this sites about. I also like coming here and shoting the breeze about phones..maybe ill talk about dev stuff maybe ill talk about how slow my phone is.
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You came here with the sole purpose of complaining about the phone and not showing any interest about doing anything about it. If you want to complain about how bad this phone is try doing it on the T-Mobile forums so at least people who are thinking about buying the phone might be persuaded against it. I fell into it by commenting in the first place and I overlooked the first rule of the internet...Don't feed the trolls.
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You came here with the sole purpose of complaining about the phone and not showing any interest about doing anything about it. If you want to complain about how bad this phone is try doing it on the T-Mobile forums so at least people who are thinking about buying the phone might be persuaded against it. I fell into it by commenting in the first place and I overlooked the first rule of the internet...Don't feed the trolls.
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Ok...when did i say i didnt wanna do anything about it? Your the ones that came and flamed me for speaking blasphemy. I just made a topic for everyone whos pissed at this phones sluggishness to come and vent, maybe tell some funny experience and we all feel better at the end of the day. Thats what venting is to me......guuuussssffrraba.....get it?
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seems the market app may have been removed sent u a link with one that will root any 1.6-2.2 android rom without needing a pc just make sure to pick 2.2 version of froyo should work
Part Four, is that you?
Anyways, I've actually played with my cousin's MT4G (3 cousins have that phone). I honestly wouldn't say that the SGS4G falls too far behind it.
My cousins always complain about the battery life, since they can't even get half a day's worth with the screen at the lowest setting. On the other hand, the SGS4G put up excellent battery life since I got it. I ran it with its first brightness setting and easily got a full day's use out of it.
Speaking of the screen, you can't deny that this screen is quite beautiful.
As for the stock speed of the phone, I kinda have to agree that the MT4G is slightly better. It's not ridiculously faster, but it is faster by a hair. On a more interesting note, my friends had a rooted G2 which lagged more than my stock SGS4G.
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Part Four, is that you?
Anyways, I've actually played with my cousin's MT4G (3 cousins have that phone). I honestly wouldn't say that the SGS4G falls too far behind it.
My cousins always complain about the battery life, since they can't even get half a day's worth with the screen at the lowest setting. On the other hand, the SGS4G put up excellent battery life since I got it. I ran it with its first brightness setting and easily got a full day's use out of it.
Speaking of the screen, you can't deny that this screen is quite beautiful.
As for the stock speed of the phone, I kinda have to agree that the MT4G is slightly better. It's not ridiculously faster, but it is faster by a hair. On a more interesting note, my friends had a rooted G2 which lagged more than my stock SGS4G.
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Ill give you the screen, it is beautifull and that was a big selling point .my battery drains fast and charges slow ive downloaded maybe a couple apps, my display takes 99% of my battery and its at half power if you can believe that. But a g2 that lagged worse? He should get mexdroid or pyromod and start blazing up and down the superhighway. Those were my fav anyway
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RaverX3X said:
seems the market app may have been removed sent u a link with one that will root any 1.6-2.2 android rom without needing a pc just make sure to pick 2.2 version of froyo should work
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Yeah i tried all the one clicks but to no avail...i tried like hell to find superoneclick that didnt require a pc but it doesnt exist yet apparently. Ill probly mess around with your cwm method....thanx for the tip
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smokeuout said:
Yeah i tried all the one clicks but to no avail...i tried like hell to find superoneclick that didnt require a pc but it doesnt exist yet apparently. Ill probly mess around with your cwm method....thanx for the tip
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But don't stay on a froyo rom. I didn't really like those either. The big difference is when you start using a gingerbread rom which you will need a PC for to flash the bootloaders.
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I have two mytouch 4gs. The screen on that phone blows away the sgs4g. The only reason I don't use it is because the wife and daughter have taken them over and stuck me with this thing.
Mytouch4g running Faux123's AOSP rom gets well over a day with heavy usage. About the same as CM.
I like the sgs4g.... its what I'm stuck with for now... but its no where near what the mt4g has to offer.
Better camera. Flash. Better screen. Better wifi.
And AOSP.
This phone with every tweak and rom doesn't come close to the mt4g.
Sorry. But its true.
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Not that anyone cares....

But just thought I'd say I'm back to using my sgs4g as my daily driver.
I have been using the g2x for the past couple months, but my galaxy is honestly just a better phone. And with octane 3.0 its damn near as fast. With twice the battery. More sensitive (and brighter) touch screen. Stronger signal. Louder speaker. Thinner and lighter. And modern combat 2 plays just as smooth and beautiful, though I'll still use my g2x for some games. Deadspace occasionally stutters just a tad on sgs4g vs perfect on g2x. And I'll miss the flash on my g2x since I often use it as a flashlight.
So anyways just thought I'd remind you all this old phone really isn't so far behind performance wise as the newest phones would have us believe.
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Totally agree.
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use chainfire and have it reduce texture size and unroll 32 bit textures that will fix the games sight stutter
I'll keep that in mind for future gaming, though the "stuttering" is literally so minimal I honestly don't think I would've even noticed it if I hadn't already been playing deadspace on the g2x.
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Adding my two cents here:
Bought my daughter a g2x for Christmas, even made a topic about how I wanted to switch phones with her.
Now that I had some time to play with it, I can honestly say that all in all, I would prefer to keep my phone.
When I got my sgs4g i was originally going for a g2x but it was out of stock. I went ahead and got this because my hd2 died and I was phoneless...
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HM, when my screen broke, I thought my parents wouldn't ever buy me another phone that's android, but then I saw the Tmobile Comet!! A piece of garbage worse than the G1, smaller screen, bad touchscreen, made out of cheap toy plastic, but android 2.2.1. So I thought that if anything, I would get that. It was also offered as a free phone with new contract, but, then I have no idea what happened to my dad and I got an SGS4G!?!/!/!?
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HM, when my screen broke, I thought my parents wouldn't ever buy me another phone that's android, but then I saw the Tmobile Comet!! A piece of garbage worse than the G1, smaller screen, bad touchscreen, made out of cheap toy plastic, but android 2.2.1. So I thought that if anything, I would get that. It was also offered as a free phone with new contract, but, then I have no idea what happened to my dad and I got an SGS4G!?!/!/!?
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I actuslly regretted getting this phone for awhile... Now im glad i still have it . I was even thinking about trading/selling it on craigslist!
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leo321 said:
When I got my sgs4g i was originally going for a g2x but it was out of stock. I went ahead and got this because my hd2 died and I was phoneless...
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Same here lol. I also regretted it for a while, but I'm glad I got this one. Lol
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I tried selling mine on craigslist after getting the g2x, guess refusing to go under $200 was to much!
Now I'm glad it didn't sell, as much as I do like the g2x its just not worth the headache as a daily driver. And mine wasn't even a bad one! Guess I'll probably stick with Samsung from now on.
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