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So after living with official Froyo for a month...

How has your experience been with it?
Mine has been fine, my wife's not so much...
My wife's Captivate: WAS very very laggy but 2.2 fixed it. She had zero problems with her GPS but the 2.2 update threw it off about a block : /
My Captivate: Just as smooth as before, and GPS is perfect as was before.
How are you guys enjoying Froyo?

Not quite sure what you mean. I didn't know there was an official one for the captivate sent out? Searched for it and couldn't find it on google. You sure ATT pushed out official 2.2 a month ago?

There is no official froyo yet for the captivate
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There is through Rogers.

gunstar3035 said:
There is through Rogers.
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Correct... Rogers has released their update.
Us down here in the U.S. are still speculating when/if ATT will ever update our devices
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I have lots of shutdown issues right now, gonna flash to a custom rom to see if it makes a diff.

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I have lots of shutdown issues right now, gonna flash to a custom rom to see if it makes a diff.
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Flashing a new rom will not fix the problem...your only option is to contact att and get a replacement phone
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Flashing a new rom will not fix the problem...your only option is to contact att and get a replacement phone
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+1 I had to do this and I'm glad I did, 30 days with zero random shutdowns.
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DeMarzo said:
Correct... Rogers has released their update.
Us down here in the U.S. are still speculating when/if ATT will ever update our devices
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Sorry I should have specified Canada : /
It is complete bull$hit that ATT has not given you guys 2.2 I think I would go custom ROM and be done with it.

Just get a new (not refurbished) Captivate instead!
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I have lots of shutdown issues right now, gonna flash to a custom rom to see if it makes a diff.
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Get another phone. Do not settle on a defective phone. I spoke with someone in the "Office of the President" (a higher level of AT&T customer service) and after checking into the issue, they overnighted me a NEW Captivate (my phone was purchased in August, so I am well out of the 30-days). Their statement was that the defective phones are not supposed to be in the new lots or refurb lots, as it is against their procedures to knowingly sell defective phones. I would suggest taking your complaints there. The number is 1-800-331-0500. Be firm and upset, but be respectful. They will work with you.

Overall its not bad, but I do have a few issues I am still contending with.
When I first did the update I lost navigation all together. I restarted the phone (using a access number Samsung provided me) and solved that issue.
I lost a lot of files that were on my SD card. I haven't been able to figure out why that should be. It's like the update made a point of deleting everything except my media... Oh well
However I am still fighting issues with the both the home and car docks. (Which by the way Samsung Canada doesn't recognize up here and said I am on my own)
The usb audio out worked once and then disappeared on me altogether... Restarting apps and phone isn't helping...
And using the home dock, the phones main screens get stuck in landscape mode (only after doing it all night, if it's only running for a couple hours it's fine) and I have to shut off the phone to get it back to normal. Using Samsung home dock app it was every night. Alarms Plus as well. I am currently using an app called no dock and its down to 25% of the time I don't get stuck in landscape mode. Livable... The car dock I have not gotten stuck in landscape yet, but then I don't think it will ever be in the dock long enough to get stuck...
Which brings me to a point of frustration. Why isn't landscape mode functional outside the dock mode? I love the ability, just not getting stuck there until I reboot... The phone CAN and WILL do it on certain conditions, so why not all the time?
I haven't tried the mass storage mode or tethering yet so I don't know if they are working or I have more issues to deal with.

complete stock froyo rom gps

I just wanna share guys my experience. dont be mad for those who r using custom roms but, I'm in completely stock rom of the official froyo by at&t,
b4 I update my cappy from eclair to official froyo, the gps was really sucks! cant get a lock, then after I update to d official froyo, I did a hard reset of my phone, not the factory reset data but the HARD RESET method using the dialer method, and now my gps was working flawlesly and satisfied than before, I have this phone last sept10 build 1008.. completely stock.. the gps is working now almost a month after the feb24 of the official froyo release..
so now I think I dont really believe that its the hardware thing for the gps issue but it is also the software..
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Come back in a week or so and tell us. Lots of people have good GPS on a new phone or new ROM flash. Many also watch it degrade over time.

Mine had bad gps locks and sometimes has mind of its own. It is the worst gps thing to date. Even worse than my old gps device.
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Coolstorybro

Miami_Son said:
Come back in a week or so and tell us. Lots of people have good GPS on a new phone or new ROM flash. Many also watch it degrade over time.
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^^This^^ makes your story old. We knew this all ready but thanks for reminding me.

I just flashed back to stock (I'm warranty returning for pos gps) and updated to official froyo from ultimate phoenix and have yet to get a lock. With phoenix and serendipity I would get ok locks but unreliable tracking.
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oops I'm back! almost 2months since the update from froyo and still my gps doing awesome! my plan of buying bluetooth gps was recoil, hopefully till next month though, I'll be back after another month
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still good on stock 2.2..navigation is 97% accurate! SD to LA for 2hrs smoothly navigating!i just make sure that the phone is placed near the front windshield glass for better gps cgnal.I'm satisfied now
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Hard reset thru dialer? Mind sharing method? Gps on my non rooted froyo cappy is hit and miss.
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Roostercruiser said:
Hard reset thru dialer? Mind sharing method? Gps on my non rooted froyo cappy is hit and miss.
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Complete luck to get a phone with a working gps out of the box.

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Complete luck to get a phone with a working gps out of the box.
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I agree, cappysw10. See my here about my GPS problems. I got a second Cappy, and it's been dead on since November. Since AT&T (mostly) won't accept a return for GPS performance reasons, if you come up with a different one, then you can possibly get a phone with flawless GPS. You have a year from your original purchase date, and we are all still within that year.

Software Update Function's Working - A Good Sign

When the phone first came out, the Software Update Check (Settings>Software update>Software update check) returned an error. Now it says "Current version is the latest version." Hopefully that's in preparation for an OTA push of the Gingerbread update. It can't get here soon enough.

Few hours ago i checked it now it was giving me authorization errors and time outs.
now i see it says latest update which means they are closing up on the gingerbread update i hope "Ice Cream" is available soon after that. - Side note: it was noted that Honey Comb was like Windows Vista (bug wise etc, which means "Ice Cream" is the Windows 7 of Android!

I don't know if it's possible, but it would behoove T-Mo/LG to get a bug fixing update out in the wild before most early adopters 14 remorse windows are up. I know some of you bought on launch day, but some of us waited. I myself have until a week from today.
Incidentally, I'm pretty sure what we really want on our G2xs is Android 2.3.4, still called Gingerbread. Honeycomb is for tablets.

I'm willing to bet its a problem for the minority of owners of this phone. The bugs that is
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laker666 said:
I'm willing to bet its a problem for the minority of owners of this phone. The bugs that is
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Are you out of your mind? Look at the percentage of threads on the first page. 3/4 are devoted to problems. Here's a quick recap:
1) Screen bleeding
2) Wi-Fi either not connecting, dropping connections, or disabling profiles
3) Bluetooth not retaining profiles, not reconnecting, or not holding a connection
4) Reboots which LG acknowledged as a s/w problem after months of O2X complaints
5) "System checking..." forcing a hard reset at boot up
6) T-Mobile apps opening a 4G connection when Wi-Fi's enabled
We're all on the same ROM and radio and the majority of this stuff isn't hardware. So the "minority" to me are people who haven't really tried to use the functions above heavily and don't know they have problems.

I'm not having any issues with my phone. Battery life could be better but I use it a lot.
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FYI LG is in charge of the software update not Tmobile. I recieved an email from an LG service rep and it said "As far as I know, our technicians are under review for the 2.3 Android version." This was said on a support email I had sent to LG. My G2x seems struggle to keep a good connection, especially in my home. I keep losing the signal and it disconnects. Tmobile said they were going to check my area to see if there are issues. If nothing gets better by the 9th of this month I'm returning mine before my 14 days are gone.

im getting force closes when trying to open the software update menu now. guess ill be flashing it whenever it comes instead of getting it ota -_-

You sir are right. I just checked and it now says current version is latest. Progress.
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[Q] Time to speak up

Getting tried of watching my phone reboot. If going back to stock would resolve the issue I would do it. I called big red today and the pinhead I spoke to acted like it was the first time anyone had called about the TB rebooting on it's own. I'm looking at going to a different phone. I really think at this point it is a software issue that they need to correct. Just like with most businesses things are not addressed until they become a problem. So my thought is we should set a date when every one calls in to report their rebooting phones. We do this every week until we get a resolution. Anyone with me?

Wait... You are rooted and getting reboots? Are you on gb? Did you root or install your rom properly? What kernel?
Stock I had no issues. Non-Gb I've had mostly no issues... Some kernels less reliable than others, of course. But to be honest it sounds more like a user issue than a tb issue
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Are you near a Verizon store? Verizon is usually very easy to convince that you need your phone replaced. (Although I think they will only replace it with the same model. But I'm not sure.) My Thunderbolt never reboots on its own but I know it is a problem that many Thunderbolts are experiencing, so maybe yours (and many others) is/are defective. I'm 99% sure if you go into a Verizon store and tell them that it randomly reboots all the time, they'll replace it for you.

I reverted back to stock and haven't had a single reboot or loss of data on three days. Just sayin'.
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I have read posts where people who are not rooted are getting reboots after they took the update. Have never had an issue with my phone until I took the update. Am going back to stock for a week or so to see if that clears things up.

Funny how VZW is changing their stance on it, almost as if it never has happened. About a month ago I went into a store and they told me that Im not the only one experiencing problems and that there will be a fix within 2 months.
I called VZW tech support and they told me that no one else is having reboots.. . . . I dont get it.

Try flashing your radios, I put both of mine to .6 and the reboots stopped.
(there is a thread in teh development forum, with the packages)

Can you specify what you mean when you say "both"? I have been getting reboots too - approximately 1 per day - but is there a process to flash each radio independently?
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Can you specify what you mean when you say "both"? I have been getting reboots too - approximately 1 per day - but is there a process to flash each radio independently?
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No, but each flash has two radios
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Silvus said:
Try flashing your radios, I put both of mine to .6 and the reboots stopped.
(there is a thread in teh development forum, with the packages)
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Any issues with tethering or gps using the old radios?
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Silvus said:
Try flashing your radios, I put both of mine to .6 and the reboots stopped.
(there is a thread in teh development forum, with the packages)
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I still had reboots with both at .6, currently trying cdma.7/LTE.6.
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It is a hardware issue,that's where the few pricked phone came from,my original bolt had the reboot loop on stock but no one seems to want to hear that,it is a series of phones having the trouble and they are or have replaced most of them,as far as most of the other reboot go that is self made misery by not following directions or not reading to find the fix, this bolt I have now has no reboot issues and it has a mat finish to it,the other one and a few I have seen that had issues had a smooth glossy finish.
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It is a hardware issue,that's where the few pricked phone came from,my original bolt had the reboot loop on stock but no one seems to want to hear that,it is a series of phones having the trouble and they are or have replaced most of them,as far as most of the other reboot go that is self made misery by not following directions or not reading to find the fix, this bolt I have now has no reboot issues and it has a mat finish to it,the other one and a few I have seen that had issues had a smooth glossy finish.
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I would love to think its a hardware issue, but my phone was solid from day one. Then I took the update and get these random reboot.
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It is not a hardware issue. It is a problem with the update and how certain phones installed it. Verizon is in the process of making a new update and has been working on it with HTC for a little while now & expect to have it going out this month. For some reason the software does not talk to the towers properly with some models & the hardware does not get the proper info which causes the reboots. Exactly how to tell which phones are affected, I don't know. My friend is trying to find out for me.
I can say that I ran my phone with rooted stock & moved up to the rooted update when it was available which I am still on and I have not had any issues at all besides the low recorded video audio which the update seems to have fixed for me.
My phone is:
Rooted stock & radios w/update
Adrynelynes 4.47 Kernal

I am telling you what HTC said they admit that a certain series is defective hence the snappy replacement. Just cause one Rom works and another doesn't isn't always the Roms fault,ever had a CPU that would run one OS and not another or RAM that worked fine on xp but not win 7 once the defective hard hits its limit it will fail. I have seen hardware work fine overclocked and the exact same hardware crash with half the settings,or a motherboard run suse fine but put Windows on it and it dies a week later. I didn't say they all were defective just one series of them and when they did the update a lot of the phones started to fail and some didn't,so does that tell you hardware or software,if one can run fine and the other fails its either a bad flash or bad hardware. Take your pick
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I didn't do the update over the air on my other bolt, I downloaded it from HTC and it killed the phone,but the same download is on this phone and it works just fine,not one reboot, and its still stock and not rooted. The other one was dated Dec
10 and this one is dated Feb 11, I would just about guess they tweaked the update to weed out the bad phones faster,makes sense to me.
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I am telling you what HTC said they admit that a certain series is defective hence the snappy replacement. Just cause one Rom works and another doesn't isn't always the Roms fault,ever had a CPU that would run one OS and not another or RAM that worked fine on xp but not win 7 once the defective hard hits its limit it will fail. I have seen hardware work fine overclocked and the exact same hardware crash with half the settings,or a motherboard run suse fine but put Windows on it and it dies a week later. I didn't say they all were defective just one series of them and when they did the update a lot of the phones started to fail and some didn't,so does that tell you hardware or software,if one can run fine and the other fails its either a bad flash or bad hardware. Take your pick
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I wasn't aware of HTC stating there was some defective hardware. Never saw any references to it. If thats the case then glad they acknowledged it.

It's definitely not a hardware issue. Its a radio/ signal issue. Verizon does know about it, and is working on getting a new update out there. I know this, for a fact.
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jett2314 said:
I have read posts where people who are not rooted are getting reboots after they took the update. Have never had an issue with my phone until I took the update. Am going back to stock for a week or so to see if that clears things up.
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My TBolt is not rooted and before the update I had no problems at all but after the update the random reboots started. Battery life is acceptable but could be allot better.
Called Verizon yesterday and they acknowledge the problem and actually said HTC is aware of the problem and are working on it but have no expected date as to when it will be fixed. I believe it is definitely is a software issue and will be fixed when the official Gingerbread is released. Just my 2 cents.

New Radio Coming Soon!

Per VZW:
http://support.verizonwireless.com/pdf/system_update/thunderbolt.pdf
Good to know our trusty old TB's still getting some love from VZW.
Looking forward to the new radio's and the bug fixes.
Let's hope its out in the very near future, and that our superb (remaining) ROM masters update their works.

Nice! Gives me hope for an ICS update....
jv

funny thing is, the tbolt was the flagship 4g device not to long ago. With the latest rom releases from liquid such as nonsense this thing will last me until next november when my upgrade is due and hopefully there will be some insane phones at that time. most recent radio for me at least has been stellar, now I can only hope that the new radios provide even better results.

Just got the update on stock tv. Seems a little smoother moving from screen to screen. I like so far.
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My moms phone is s-off rooted but I odn't think i ever changed anything else, and I used revolutionary.
I'm being offered the new thunderbolt update but I also want to put her phone on cm7
I just wasn't sure if i allow it to upgrade without restoring to s-off I'll have a problem.
I don't think I changed anything but the main recovery screen screen says
Revolutionary
mecha XD Ship S-off
Hboot-6.04.1002
MICROP-/
Radio 1.48.00.0906w_1
eMMC-Boot
Should I allow update since it will update radio, and then turn over to CM7 or do you think I'll have some issues with it if I don't restore to original s-on and then go through revolutionary again and root.
Maybe I'll just wait for an RUU to pop up or the radio file to come online and then switch to cm-7.
What do you guys think?

just wait man, one of the benefits of rooting is never having to take otas, it'll be here soon for the flashing

New update received this afternoon (605.9)
Just received the latest update today on stock TB. Seems to run ok (so far), but the persistent voice mail icon and notification problem is back. This was a problem prior to last update. The icon and notification displays that you have a voice mail even though you don't and no way to get rid of them that I know of. Kind of a downer. Anyone else seeing this?

new radio posted at www.infectedrom.com
infectedrom.com its everywhere you want to be...

Here it is, credit to playboy00786
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396408

I got it from infectedrom(.)com...
running great so far has not dropped 4g at all. but never did for me at home, i will report back on monday about work, 3g\4g switches all day there.. even a little 1x.

new radio
I flashed it yesterday, I can't say the speeds are any better but the transition between 3G and 4G is much better, I was in and out of 4G coverage last evening 4 or 5 times and it transitioned much better and before I would be sitting at my desk and look at my phone and it would be 4G then 3G and I would have to go to settings and refresh my network to get it back to 4G but since the new radio I have not had that issue. I can say that the battery seems to be lasting longer not having to look for signal near as much. I am very pleased.
HTC thunderbolt
Liquid Vigorsense 1.1
Imoseyon 5.1 lean kernel

Link to Newest Radio
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396408
Thanks to playboy00786.

Can Install from the phone or do I need to do it via pc
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Can Install from the phone or do I need to do it via pc
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You can do it from the phone. Just download the files and erase when done.
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