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Hello everyone, just wana introduce myself. My name is Sofia and I love cellphones and new technology. I purchased captivate a month ago my first android phone. It's very fast and amazing. One of my friend told me about this site so I decided to join it. Lately my phone is been laggy and very slow. Can someone please help me and let me know what can I do to make it faster. Thank everyone

Start by reading through some of the stickies here and in the other Cappy subforums. Lots of good info. Searching before posting is also appreciated. Welcome.

sofia-captivate said:
Hello everyone, just wana introduce myself. My name is Sofia and I love cellphones and new technology. I purchased captivate a month ago my first android phone. It's very fast and amazing. One of my friend told me about this site so I decided to join it. Lately my phone is been laggy and very slow. Can someone please help me and let me know what can I do to make it faster. Thank everyone
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Hi Sofia welcome,
I'll assume you got it brand new and is running a stock ROM. I would say that there is something running in the background that is slowing you down some. I'd take a look at which/how many apps you have, and maybe delete the ones you don't use anymore. Do you know if you're running 2.1 or 2.2?
What you'll mostly find here at XDA are folks that love to mod, well love might not be a strong enough word, we're OBSESSED. So what you will most assuredly get from people is "Try sun-in-such's ROM, it's the best!"
If you're into that, this is the place to play. Have fun!

Lol
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Hi everyone im running 2.1 it came like that out of the box. Since im a girl I like phones that is simple and easy to use. I've used iPhones and blackberrys but im happy with android cause I can customize my screen to pink color. I would love to do mods but it seems very complicated since im not used to android and not very technical minded
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sofia-captivate said:
Hi everyone im running 2.1 it came like that out of the box. Since im a girl I like phones that is simple and easy to use. I've used iPhones and blackberrys but im happy with android cause I can customize my screen to pink color. I would love to do mods but it seems very complicated since im not used to android and not very technical minded
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You're probably better off not doing any mods then. Sorry if that sounds mean, but unless you're tech savvy to some minimal degree and comfortable with the idea of voiding your warranty and possibly bricking your phone, you're probably better off just leaving it stock.

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You're probably better off not doing any mods then. Sorry if that sounds mean, but unless you're tech savvy to some minimal degree and comfortable with the idea of voiding your warranty and possibly bricking your phone, you're probably better off just leaving it stock.
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Is it that hard? I was reading through forum and looking at roms how is serendipity or cm7? Im learning slowly as I read. Do I just put rom on my SD card? How does it work?
modest_mandroid said:
You're probably better off not doing any mods then. Sorry if that sounds mean, but unless you're tech savvy to some minimal degree and comfortable with the idea of voiding your warranty and possibly bricking your phone, you're probably better off just leaving it stock.
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Not exactly, an hour or two spent reading threads over here is what you need.
Swyped from my Froyo-ed Captivate.

Welcome Sofia ! I also have a Rogers Captivate (have a Focus too) and running it on FIDO with few issues. Try upgrading to 2.2 using Keis. That in itself was no fun, but at least it will give you some idea of updating/modding the phone.

Ya I wana learn also
PaullikesWINMO said:
Welcome Sofia ! I also have a Rogers Captivate (have a Focus too) and running it on FIDO with few issues. Try upgrading to 2.2 using Keis. That in itself was no fun, but at least it will give you some idea of updating/modding the phone.
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PaullikesWINMO said:
Welcome Sofia ! I also have a Rogers Captivate (have a Focus too) and running it on FIDO with few issues. Try upgrading to 2.2 using Keis. That in itself was no fun, but at least it will give you some idea of updating/modding the phone.
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sofia-captivate said:
Is it that hard? I was reading through forum and looking at roms how is serendipity or cm7? Im learning slowly as I read. Do I just put rom on my SD card? How does it work?
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Please don't be fooled into thinking this stuff is really easy. There are already a bunch of threads from people who tried to use CM7 and messed up their phones. Flashing isn't that hard, but it is also pretty easy to screw up. Settle for upgrading to stock Froyo and then read, read, read.

sofia-captivate said:
Is it that hard? I was reading through forum and looking at roms how is serendipity or cm7? Im learning slowly as I read. Do I just put rom on my SD card? How does it work?
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It's not hard, but it's easy to botch it if you don't know what you're doing. If you're going to try your hand at flashing a custom rom, make sure you read about and understand the process enough to where you don't have to make guesses and assumptions. Also, jumping straight to cm7 is a terrible idea - flashing cm7 is a lot more involved than flashing any of the other roms found in the dev section, and if you don't know what you're doing you'll almost certainly end up with some sort of brick.
Read through the stickied threads. They contain a lot of useful information, which is why they're at the top of each subforum. Fill in the knowledge gaps by searching. There's more than enough information in the Captivate forum alone, let alone all of XDA, to teach you how to do everything from some simple modifications to building your own custom firmware.

Miami_Son said:
Please don't be fooled into thinking this stuff is really easy. There are already a bunch of threads from people who tried to use CM7 and messed up their phones. Flashing isn't that hard, but it is also pretty easy to screw up. Settle for upgrading to stock Froyo and then read, read, read.
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Swyped from my Froyo-ed Captivate.

It is really easy. It's just also really easy to screw up. But since you're a girly girl who likes things simple and easy (because you're a girl) and you have a girly name, guys will be stepping all over each other to help you and they'll be really polite.

Lol ur funny. No one has helped me yet. Been reading over 4 hours kind of learning its all new to me. But once I see it how it's then I learn quickly.
opcow said:
It is really easy. It's just also really easy to screw up. But since you're a girly girl who likes things simple and easy (because you're a girl) and you have a girly name, guys will be stepping all over each other to help you and they'll be really polite.
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sofia-captivate said:
Lol ur funny. No one has helped me yet. Been reading over 4 hours kind of learning its all new to me. But once I see it how it's then I learn quickly.
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Cool. It occurs to me that what I wrote may have come of as a little hostile. It's really just that I'm a sarcastic bastard.

opcow said:
Cool. It occurs to me that what I wrote may have come of as a little hostile. It's really just that I'm a sarcastic bastard.
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sent u a pm

sofia-captivate said:
Lol ur funny. No one has helped me yet. Been reading over 4 hours kind of learning its all new to me. But once I see it how it's then I learn
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I'd wager 5-10 hours reading on XDA should get the average newbie up to speed to do basic flashing & hacking.
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CWM coming soon for 4G BE PATIENT!

Alrighty, Krylon and I have worked out the minor details and im headed to the post office to ship him my 4G first thing tomorrow(wed) morning. Please be patient and let nature take its course. Stop trying to flash the Vibrant CWM on the 4G, it will not work. You run the risk of doin' some srs bsnz to your shiny new handset flashing a cwm or sd fix that is not made for your phone. You will all have your Custom firmware fix soon.
If you feel a compulsion to donate to Krylon or myself, go nuts, i wont stop you!

spockmeat said:
Alrighty, Krylon and I have worked out the minor details and im headed to the post office to ship him my 4G first thing tomorrow(wed) morning. Please be patient and let nature take its course. Stop trying to flash the Vibrant CWM on the 4G, it will not work. You run the risk of doin' some srs bsnz to your shiny new handset flashing a cwm or sd fix that is not made for your phone. You will all have your Custom firmware fix soon.
If you feel a compulsion to donate to Krylon or myself, go nuts, i wont stop you!
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Thanks for lending krylon your device. Way to take one for the team.
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Ya you the man. Coming from the vibrant I almost feel like I've lost something.

lovemysgs said:
Thanks for lending krylon your device. Way to take one for the team.
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right, for sure. Thanks for being a team player, we need some custom roms on this biooottttchhhh!!!!

Thanks Dude, Glad to see someone willing to send out their device so we can get CWM up and running.

Can't wait for it great job
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awesome news!

Great news
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this is good news but it kinda sucks I have been in salt lake for the past week and offered to drop my 4g off in person.... oh well better late than never.

mavictb said:
this is good news but it kinda sucks I have been in salt lake for the past week and offered to drop my 4g off in person.... oh well better late than never.
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The planets weren't lined up. ;-) in do time.
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mavictb said:
this is good news but it kinda sucks I have been in salt lake for the past week and offered to drop my 4g off in person.... oh well better late than never.
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I had to take some time off bud. Personal issues came up and couldn't have done anything with the 4G in hand during that time.

krylon360 said:
I had to take some time off bud. Personal issues came up and couldn't have done anything with the 4G in hand during that time.
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No worries. Just appreciate all your hard work and dedication. I feel like I'm waiting for a great ROM to be released from Team Whiskey when I used to have my Vibrant. lol. At least I don't have to read through hundreds of pages like before.

Hey guys, crappy news. With whats happening in Japan im on a 45 day underway and i don't have time to send my phone off at the moment. We have to go hang by the coast and make sure nobody tries to take advantage of Japans situation. Wish my carrier group luck and if no-one has taken my place by the time i get back into Norfolk ill send my phone then.
Sorry guys, but the situation in Japan takes a bit of priority at the moment.

spockmeat said:
Hey guys, crappy news. With whats happening in Japan im on a 45 day underway and i don't have time to send my phone off at the moment. We have to go hang by the coast and make sure nobody tries to take advantage of Japans situation. Wish my carrier group luck and if no-one has taken my place by the time i get back into Norfolk ill send my phone then.
Sorry guys, but the situation in Japan takes a bit of priority at the moment.
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Wow, that blows. Guess we can hang til then unless someone else wants to slide a phone over to Krylon.

spockmeat said:
Hey guys, crappy news. With whats happening in Japan im on a 45 day underway and i don't have time to send my phone off at the moment. We have to go hang by the coast and make sure nobody tries to take advantage of Japans situation. Wish my carrier group luck and if no-one has taken my place by the time i get back into Norfolk ill send my phone then.
Sorry guys, but the situation in Japan takes a bit of priority at the moment.
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Bummer, thought it was already on its way.
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krylon360 said:
I had to take some time off bud. Personal issues came up and couldn't have done anything with the 4G in hand during that time.
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I understand no worries... just wanted to help in some way and buy you beer lol.
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I hope luckyduck69 would be willing to still send a phone over to krylon.
Krylon can you please respond to luckyduck's PM?

I've already been in touch with him. He's picking up a 2nd one today and sending me one....well that was the plan anyway. Waiting on a response.

Krylon, I know you haven't taken a look at the phone yet but Im new to the samsung world and curious about the differences from my G1. From another post I gather that the final product for installing/using CWM will involve a zip that is flashed from the standard recovery that replaces the standard recovery with CWM and then reboots? Is that what you think will end up doing to get CWM working? If so what about these phones require such a work around? I've tried doing some googleing but i get a lot of false positives in my results.
Thanks in advance for any answers and all the other work you do.

xaocon said:
Krylon, I know you haven't taken a look at the phone yet but Im new to the samsung world and curious about the differences from my G1. From another post I gather that the final product for installing/using CWM will involve a zip that is flashed from the standard recovery that replaces the standard recovery with CWM and then reboots? Is that what you think will end up doing to get CWM working? If so what about these phones require such a work around? I've tried doing some googleing but i get a lot of false positives in my results.
Thanks in advance for any answers and all the other work you do.
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the kernel isn't a standard kernel. It uses a initramfs. which has recovery built into it. This is what makes it different.

Infuse 4G source available now

You can find the source over at Samsung OSRC. Open-source.Samsung.com I believe.
I posted the link at the bottom of my article here, http://kan.gd/k24

yay. now if someone can share with me on how to build a kernel things can get interesting.

Funny, I wandered over there and started downloading when I found this...
I've built it before on Captivate, I just never had time to look into the next steps... ie how to push it out as a rom.

lost1 said:
Funny, I wandered over there and started downloading when I found this...
I've built it before on Captivate, I just never had time to look into the next steps... ie how to push it out as a rom.
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well as you learn throw me some insight, i would like to learn but it imposible in the cappy section to learn beyond a certain level without some knowledge and background to begin with.

Bumping to make sure everyone gets the news!!!
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aturbs said:
Bumping to make sure everyone gets the news!!!
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I thought maybe there was some new source release when I saw this thread, then realized the OP was from almost two years ago
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Thanks for the info....Thread Closed & Thanks.

How to get more device support?

Any ideas on how to get more dev support? And why everything has slowed down for the mytouch 4G slide recently? But shout out to those devs who have made roms for this device. thanks
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You'll see more dev support when the source code gets released. Until then, they can't do any kernel development.

Ive been busy with life. I plan on making updates tomorrow.
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Undeadk9 said:
Ive been busy with life. I plan on making updates tomorrow.
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That's kind of it right there. That pesky thing called life keeps getting in the dang way of getting stuff done.
I know work for me has been ... overwhelming... lately, and I don't get much keyboard time right now.
My lady has a birthday coming this weekend, and I picked her up a brand new Nook Color. I'm spending the keyboard time I have this week configuring her surprise. I should be working on that instead of typing this, but I got a half-day today (thankfully) and have a few minutes to spare browsing through the MT4GS forums.
I hate doing graphics work, which is what i'm down to on the Nook Color for her. Installing cm7 and then configuring it the way I want her to have it doesn't take long, and the boot animation is already knocked out, so now it's down to icons and wallpapers.
The reason I hate graphics work is it just takes so long to get so little. Even having pictures of her and I, and tons of pictures of things based on the theme i'm putting together for the device, it still takes so long to stitch them together and/or edit as necessary. Photoshop is probably the most worthwhile software purchase i've ever made, without it ... it would be a long and frustrating road to do something I already don't like doing.
Col.Kernel is right though - as soon as we get kernel source from HTC you'll see this place light up like the sun.
I don't know how long you've been floating around here in the MT4GS forums, but back before we had S-OFF there was very little going on in here. Definite information exhange, but no ROMs or even software patches.
But spending time here we were getting our information together, and when we got S-OFF we hit the ground running. People were asking and asking about ROMs, and some just dove in and started doing ... others were testing for them, and we've all come a long way with this phone.
We've fixed some of the nagging problems, got a handful of awesome ROMs to choose from, each one lovingly constructed by it's developers and all are a pleasure to play with.
There are other interested parties working on interests for this device, and i'll release the ROM i've been working on when it's ready and I have the time to support it. There are definitely things coming down the pipeline.
The best way to get something done really is to do it yourself, and watching the MT4GS section of XDA grow has really reflected that concept more then anything else. Our sharing what we know has enabled people to do just that...
...nestled in the larger home of XDA you can learn how to do anything you could possibly want to do with the device right here.
Really...just think of something you want to do to your phone and then search XDA. If you don't find the information you're looking for (and usually a well-written tutorial) then you'll find someone else interested in doing something like that and have someone to work with. If it can be done, the answer is here somewhere if you can find it.
So let me counter your question with a question, OP, and I mean this in the friendliest manner possible -
What are you doing to support the device?

Good question actually nothing that's why I have the up most respect to those who develop for this phone. You guys are great and I'm in no way tryin to push u guys or anythin. Just asking a question I totally understand that u guys have a life outside of all this now that the kernel source is out things should get moving. Just got to have patience
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warrior24 said:
Good question actually nothing that's why I have the up most respect to those who develop for this phone. You guys are great and I'm in no way tryin to push u guys or anythin. Just asking a question I totally understand that u guys have a life outside of all this now that the kernel source is out things should get moving. Just got to have patience
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I'm going to start work on a kernel when I get time. Wife, baby, and me are getting ready to go to Calif for 2 wks (Disneyland) so I won't be in here much starting next Thursday
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Hi there

Hey guys, figured I'd introduce myself as I recently picked up a Skyrocket. I love the phone so far and I'm going to try to make it a point to make some constructive posts, but in the meantime I guess I'll just give you a list of my smartphone history:
HTC Touch Pro (messed around with booting Android off of the SD slot, never got it fully functional)
T-Mobile G1 (didn't have it for very long as T-Mo service sucked in my area at the time)
Motorola Droid (holy quality control issues, Batman!)
LG Optimus V (had for about a year, installed a ton of roms on it)
Google Nexus S 4G (GREAT phone, never had a single issue, used SlimICS as my favorite ROM)
Samsung Galaxy SII Skyrocket (current phone and why I'm posting this here)

Welcome and have fun we got a decent lot of usual posters a lot of new guys coming in now so post in the right place do your searches and you will be ok
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welcome to the site and enjoy your stay
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Good choice for a device. Plenty of development. Lots of roms to choose from. And ics

nrm5110 said:
Welcome and have fun we got a decent lot of usual posters a lot of new guys coming in now so post in the right place do your searches and you will be ok
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Part of why I have so few posts is because I know how to use the search button.
By the way, my current ROM is Sky ICS. Flashed it last night, it seems to be decently stable/fast. I'd like to find something that's completely TouchWiz-free, but I haven't had time to read up on it. If it doesn't exist I might just try to build it myself. Is this something that's possible (within reason)?

Welcome, I am fairly new myself.
I have found the people here in the Skyrocket forums are pretty incredible. They have much more patience than I!
I have found that as long as you can read and follow directions, you are pretty much good to go. (At least for me anyways)
Now you get to deal with a much bigger problem....which one of the many great ROMs to take for a spin! There are some really good ones here.
Thanks to all the devs!

I picked up my skyrocket a few months ago. I just flashed superlite 5.1 on Friday and have had no issues yet. XDA is a wealth of information. I love this place!

Sometimes it's more like information overload.
Many different ways to do something similar...it's hard for me to keep straight sometimes!

welcome, and enjoy ur stay

Donald2B said:
Sometimes it's more like information overload.
Many different ways to do something similar...it's hard for me to keep straight sometimes!
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We ask that you try but if you still don't get it we are then happy to help elaborate man if you need help ask in q&a and someone will help you
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We ask that you try but if you still don't get it we are then happy to help elaborate man if you need help ask in q&a and someone will help you
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Yeah, I totally get it.
I was referring to the many different methods the devs use to flash the various roms. Some things work well with one, but not another. That's all!
Like I mentioned earlier...not many posts due to the fact that most of the information I need is already available in many different threads, asked multiple times.
A little patience goes a LONG ways. Thought the constant flashing roms is getting a little addicting!

A little patience goes a LONG ways. Thought the constant flashing roms is getting a little addicting!
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QFT. Nandroid and TiBu are your friends, though.