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I just finally dumped Big Red and came over to AT&T (combined contracts with my wife). I'm going from the HTC Incredible and purchased the Sammy Captivate. I was very active back in the Dinc forum, and would consider myself "Advanced" - I did some development, but wasn't yet at the level of ROM Cooking.
I got over here to the Captivate - I'm confused as hell. I've followed my own advice and read forum after forum after forum before posting anything - the Cappy just seems like Greek to me.
Here's what I'm picking up:
1. GPS is spotty, but not for everyone. Mine has always been dead on, but then again I'm not a first-adopter of the Galaxy S. Perhaps it was a batch issue?
2. ROMs seem significantly harder to cook for the Cappy. I see a bunch of leaks from the Froyo build, but it looks half-done at best. Don't get me wrong, I'm running Cognition and I love it for day to day use. I had read a bit online about the lag issues, but I didn't imagine they would be *this* prominent even after rooting and removing bloatware.
That's about it, really. I'm checking back in the forums every day. I'm loving the hardware on this phone - the screen is fantastic, and when the Cappy is fast it's FAST. But I've gotta admit I'm fairly dissapointed thus far with some of the User Experience pieces. The Samsung overlay has some nice attributes (the swiping in Contacts is great, for one), but there are other bits that are wholly frustrating about this phone (WHY would they make the buttons at the bottom time out before the screen, forcing you to touch the screen to get the buttons lit up again??).
OH! And why did they switch "Home" and "Menu"??? I realize Samsung is a global company and that not all of their products are released Stateside, but it's still annoying.
I must apologize, this has turned from a general "how do you do" to a vent-fest. I'd love to hear from any experienced and new users alike. Thanks!
hi I just came from HTC too, I had the Aira, but I broke it. When I went to the ATT store, I saw the Captivate and decided to try it. I'm with you -- the hardware specs are great, screen is beautiful, camera is better than aria, etc. But the programming is lame, especially compared to aria. I haven't had an issue with the GPS, but there are a tons of software issues on this phone, such as wifi just not working at times, the exchange email client almost unusable, lack of languages, lag, and those lights at the bottom like you mentioned. HTC sense is wonderful.
I'm also having a hard time figuring out all of the ROMS and etc out there. I did install one of the lag fixes and it's made quite a difference. I also installed the HPUSA thing but I don't know how to tell if it's actually working. Anyway, install the lag fix, it will definitely help. And if anyone knows of a fix for the wifi, I'd love to know what it is (One would expect that it would just work out of the box).
What WiFi issues are you having? I can't even "see" any WPA networks. I have a Verizon FiOS router and can't see it because I'm assuming the WPA security. I tried switching to WEP though and still couldn't see it. I've search all over the web and XDA and can't seem to find anyone complaining of the same issue.
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What WiFi issues are you having? I can't even "see" any WPA networks. I have a Verizon FiOS router and can't see it because I'm assuming the WPA security. I tried switching to WEP though and still couldn't see it. I've search all over the web and XDA and can't seem to find anyone complaining of the same issue.
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I haven't had any problems with Wifi and use WPA. I can see all of my networks (which are G, not N).
The button thing is kind of annoying, so I agree with you there. My GPS has been hit or miss, but I bought this phone used, so I'm not sure if it was a first batch model or not.
There's not much in the way of ROMs. There's stock and leaks, then there's Cognition and Eugene's, and that's about it. All of those are based on a leak or stock build, so they'll usually contain the same problems as the stock/leak build.
We're supposed to be getting a CyanogenMOD ROM sometime, or at least be able to port it...but I'm sure they can't do anything until Samsung releases the source for Froyo.
Anoter HTC convert here, but I came from the Pure.
GPS is definitely an issue. Mine improved with the OTA update to JH7. Its still not as accurate at highway speeds as the HTC.
HTC sense Rules compared to the UI in the Cappy. Im hoping that improvements will come as 2.2 is more widely adopted.
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OH! And why did they switch "Home" and "Menu"??? I realize Samsung is a global company and that not all of their products are released Stateside, but it's still annoying.
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That has NOTHING to do with Samsung. At all.
Do a little research and you'll see almost every phone has a different arrangement of the four buttons.
Just going to answer the part of your question about the lag and lag fixes.
The lag on the galaxy s phones is the result of samsung using rfs file system - rfs has a much slower input/output read/write than ext* file systems generally found on linux distros. This is the lag that is being refereed to in the lag fixes.
so as long as samsung continues to put out official roms with rfs file system there will always be an opportunity for a "lag fix" with ext2 (i.e. ryanza's OCLF) or ext4 (i.e. voodoo).
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GPS is hit or miss, but on the FroYo leak it has gotten much better, unfortunately Samsung released the phones with brand new hardware and apparently didn't test...
The lag is as mentioned another Samsung fubar along the lines of using an inferior file system.
I think the reason for lack of ROMs is most people are waiting for FroYo to launch. We just got our first beta build leaked this week. Once source for the new kernel gets released, we should see a lot more activity as far as that goes.
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MikeyMike01 said:
That has NOTHING to do with Samsung. At all.
Do a little research and you'll see almost every phone has a different arrangement of the four buttons.
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I've done a lot of research, and I alluded to that point in my post. Survey the *American* market and empirically you will see that of the slate Android phones, most have the buttons in the order Home, Menu, Back, Search. And I would argue that it has everything to do with Samsung - unless you're implying that someone else designed the layout of the buttons on their device. After all, they are the reason the European variant of the i9000 has three buttons like the X10, correct?
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Funny.
dayv said:
Just going to answer the part of your question about the lag and lag fixes.
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Thanks, dayv. That's a good explanation and gives me some idea of where to go from here.
As for an update, turns out the WiFi issues were strictly hardware. After putting in a bridge with my FiOS router and still not getting any improvement, I took it back to Best Buy and swapped it out. Connected the second I got home. Unfortunately, the touch buttons were totally borked and I had to do a battery pull three times in 20 minutes because apparently the buttons would "touch themselves when they thought of me." In other words, you could see the buttons flash on and off, feel the haptic go crazy, and all kinds of strange stuff on the screen. Yet another swapout and I'm good to go.
I also installed Eugene's Frankin-Twiz last night - it really helped improve just about everything. Hardly any lag at all and I'm liking the associated themes available. GPS on my new device works great too.
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I think the reason for lack of ROMs is most people are waiting for FroYo to launch. We just got our first beta build leaked this week. Once source for the new kernel gets released, we should see a lot more activity as far as that goes.
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I imagine we can also add to this that the Captivate has only been out for not quite 3 months if I recall correctly. So between the newness and people holding their breath for Froyo I could understand people's hesitancy to invest a lot of time and energy in making a soon to be outdated ROM.
came from a tilt2 which is/was? still trying to develop android..it was pretty good but wow i can never go back to windows phone after that mess. freggin love this captivate thou...when it doesnt break lol. ive never had a phone that i seem to get ALL the known issues with and still decide to stick with getting a new one instead. I miss sense somedays but overall i still am willing to stick with a less "bogged down" OS that i can practically do the same with. if i can make the phone do what i need faster then screw the pretty screen gadgets lol
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HTC sense Rules compared to the UI in the Cappy. Im hoping that improvements will come as 2.2 is more widely adopted.
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I'm sorry but I to came from the htc aria, awesome little phone. I bought the aria because I thought the sense ui was pretty awesome. After using Cyanogen mods on the aria and playing with other launchers and now playing with tw launcher, sorry but sense ui is crap and for noobs . I got over the whole sense ui about a week of owning the aria and wasn't able to use it after adw and launcher pro.
Sorry had to post it. I just don't feel you can use an androids phone ui to bash another phone. I have only seen a few who use any androids phone stock ui any way and I'm one of them and as basic as it is it still makes sense ui look a babies toy.
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bytemare said:
hi I just came from HTC too, I had the Aira, but I broke it. When I went to the ATT store, I saw the Captivate and decided to try it. I'm with you -- the hardware specs are great, screen is beautiful, camera is better than aria, etc. But the programming is lame, especially compared to aria. I haven't had an issue with the GPS, but there are a tons of software issues on this phone, such as wifi just not working at times, the exchange email client almost unusable, lack of languages, lag, and those lights at the bottom like you mentioned. HTC sense is wonderful.
I'm also having a hard time figuring out all of the ROMS and etc out there. I did install one of the lag fixes and it's made quite a difference. I also installed the HPUSA thing but I don't know how to tell if it's actually working. Anyway, install the lag fix, it will definitely help. And if anyone knows of a fix for the wifi, I'd love to know what it is (One would expect that it would just work out of the box).
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Curious because I'm considering returning the captivate for the aria (other than the Screen the Captivate Really Kinda Sucks). If you had it to do again would you pick the Aria over the Captivate?
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Curious because I'm considering returning the captivate for the aria (other than the Screen the Captivate Really Kinda Sucks). If you had it to do again would you pick the Aria over the Captivate?
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Not a chance lol the aria is awesome for its size but doesn't come close to the captivate , that's just my imo though. Only problem I have had with captivate is gps and I really don't use gps, so not that big of deal. The aria, like I said awesome for its size, just has to small of processor to do what the captivate can do. Most things lag on the aria games and movies almost un playable. I love my captivate.
I had bought an iphone4 for my wife to replace her old iphone. Well long story short , I turned a "i will not use anything else but iphone ! " the iphone 4 went back two weeks of having it cause of to many problems to we booth own captivates now and shes sold.
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besides the gps.... i am very satisfied. here is why.....
I woke up this morning and opened allshare to stream music from my synology diskstation. Got in the car and loaded up bluetooth to my moto speakerphone/radio transmitter. Put my captivate in my proclipusa mount and Loaded up pandora to stream to my car stereo... Loaded up the navigation for testing purposes and was on my way...
Both worked without issue on the commute in.. rocking to guerrillla radio and limp bizkit. Got some tweets and emails... and the phone took it like... IS THAT ALL YOU GOT!!!!
My blackberry 9700 would have exploded and for sure the "r" key would have flew straight into my forehead... where then people would ask me why i have an R indented in my head... is it for Retard?
I rate the phone 95% out of 100%. If you really have that much to complain about then you will never be happy with any phone.....
p.s. - for people who have captivates that reboot or shutoff, that has to be a defect and you need to get it replaced. My phone has never rebooted or shutoff by itself.
p.s.s. Gps isn't great... but the phone does everything else i need really well.
rant over.
vbhines said:
I also installed Eugene's Frankin-Twiz last night - it really helped improve just about everything. Hardly any lag at all and I'm liking the associated themes available. GPS on my new device works great too.
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If you like F-T you might like this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=791366
This has been a really stable rom with HSUPA enabled(no bluetooth issues) good GPS (for me) and a nice theme.
It is an international rom so all of the att crap is gone. No need for the sideloading crap.
I tried Cog beta 1,2, and 3 and F-T and I'm back to this rom. It's good for me until we get a good stable 2.2 rom.
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Curious because I'm considering returning the captivate for the aria (other than the Screen the Captivate Really Kinda Sucks). If you had it to do again would you pick the Aria over the Captivate?
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That's an interesting question. The aria costs a lot less than the captivate. As far as hardware goes, the captivate is superior: 16 GB RAM, the screen is awesome, the speaker is better (ringtones sound nicer) and the quality of phone calls, at least for me, is a lot better than the aria. Oh and the camera is LOT better on the captivate. I haven't had issues with the GPS (the aria locked on a little faster, but captivate performs well). The issues with wireless for me are really frustrating, but others don't seem to have an issue (wireless sometimes works, sometimes doesn't even though it's connected, I have no idea why).
Based on my experience, I'd rather have the captivate. It definitely takes more tweaking than the aria but in the 1 week I've had it, I think I got everything worked out. I definitely liked the sense UI and email client on the aria, but I can live with the UI and stuff on the captivate considering how much better the hardware is.
If anyone has any idea about how to fix wireless, I'd really appreciate it.
Yeah I'm not gonna lie, we really don't have much of choice on at&t . To me we only have two choices right now Aria or captivate. If at&t got a htc equivalent to the captivate then I would have a hard choice .
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If you like F-T you might like this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=791366
This has been a really stable rom with HSUPA enabled(no bluetooth issues) good GPS (for me) and a nice theme.
It is an international rom so all of the att crap is gone. No need for the sideloading crap.
I tried Cog beta 1,2, and 3 and F-T and I'm back to this rom. It's good for me until we get a good stable 2.2 rom.
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Thanks for the tip! I've never met a ROM that I wouldn't reflash if something else came along. I will try it out later tonight. Do you happen to know if the Twiz mods for custom fonts will flash ok?
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So I upgrade my Captivate to the leaked 2.2 and came to the conclusion that everyone else did after using it for a couple of days. I've been missing a few apps from the market (i.e. New York Times) since I've upgraded and stuff has been crashing so I decided to go with a custom ROM for it, especially because everyone says the phone becomes amazing once you do it. I decided to go with Cognition since its the one I've heard of that everyone seems to think is the best.
One question I have about Cognition is how does it run with LauncherPro? I really don't like TouchWiz 3.0 which is one of the bad things about Cognition. I'd prefer Vanilla Android with some HTC Sense capabilities, so LauncherPro is really important to me. Can anyone tell me how well it runs on Cognition?
Also, do you need to apply a lag fix to the Captivate once you install Cognition, or does it just run better overall?
Thanks to anyone that can help.
Cognition comes with the stock launcher, not the touch wiz launcher.
I've never been a fan of launcherpro, so I don't know how it runs. There us no reason to believe it wont run awesome, as cognition is silky smooth, fast and stable.
Cognition loads a voodoo lagfix upon flashing, so you don't need to. Keep that in mind, as you need to disable the lagfix before you flash anything else.
For what it's worth I like DesignGears other ROM better, perception. They are very similar, but perception lets you pick your lock screen.
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I use LauncherPro on Cognition. It runs fine.
You won't regret switching to Cognition. It's a great ROM and is much faster than stock. And everything works.
I haven't tried any other ROMs yet but was thinking about flashing Perception thus weekend.
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Can anyone tell me the risk factor of bricking my phone? I believe I mostly understand the process, I first need to go back to original 2.1 and go from there, but I'd rather not do it if there is a large chance of me bricking my phone.
Also, any forum tutorial would be nice, I like to have something to read up on it alongside a video. Thanks
I've always trusted dg for my roms. If you want to know how to install. Just go to the page and every step is laid out for you there. I have never had a problem with installing it. Even though it says to go back to stock I never do. But please do what it says untill you are ok with what you are doing. With that said. Flash and enjoy.
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I've always trusted dg for my roms. If you want to know how to install. Just go to the page and every step is laid out for you there. I have never had a problem with installing it. Even though it says to go back to stock I never do. But please do what it says untill you are ok with what you are doing. With that said. Flash and enjoy.
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Searched for the page on this forum, the latest is 2.3 b8 correct? I remember reading somewhere that 2.41 was released, or something newer than 2.3
Nvm, ignore my last question, I figured out what that was. But I've been reading that Cognition and Perception are made by the same dev, so which one is the better, more updated one? I mainly want it to be fast and have app support for a couple 2.1 Galaxy S apps.
The chances of (fully) bricking it are pretty slim. I've actually never had a bad flash, and I've quite a bit of roms, including a few I cooked up on my own. In the absolute worst case scenario (you pulled the plug during a flash - though this is also not guaranteed to fully brick it - in an attempt to deliberately break it, and now your phone just shows a black screen), you may still get it into download mode by building yourself a jig (it's just a 301k resistor across pins 4 and 5 of your microusb slot).
Also, if you want my two cents on DG roms, Perception is a bit better than Cognition. I had some weird stability issues in Cog 2.3b6, and it was definitely slower than my current rom - Perception 10.1. There are a few annoying things in Percep, but they're mostly minor. The haptic feedback on the home button doesn't work, the lock screen unlock audio cue doesn't work even though the locking audio cue mysteriously does, and the browser still has the annoying issue of not being able to save large images in a higher resolution than 305x203. The phone call audio quality seems to be a bit crappier too, but it's not dreadful.
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Also, the NY Times app not appearing in the market on 2.2 devices is the fault of the developer. The developer can set a max sdk version in android apps, so if your version of Android is higher than the max version specified in the program's manifest, it will not appear in the market for you.
- It seems like they're now supporting 2.2. Check for "NYTimes for Android" or get it with the QR code here:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/nytimes-for-android-phone/com.nytimes.android#
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The chances of (fully) bricking it are pretty slim. I've actually never had a bad flash, and I've quite a bit of roms, including a few I cooked up on my own. In the absolute worst case scenario (you pulled the plug during a flash - though this is also not guaranteed to fully brick it - in an attempt to deliberately break it, and now your phone just shows a black screen), you may still get it into download mode by building yourself a jig (it's just a 301k resistor across pins 4 and 5 of your microusb slot).
Also, if you want my two cents on DG roms, Perception is a bit better than Cognition. I had some weird stability issues in Cog 2.3b6, and it was definitely slower than my current rom - Perception 10.1. There are a few annoying things in Percep, but they're mostly minor. The haptic feedback on the home button doesn't work, the lock screen unlock audio cue doesn't work even though the locking audio cue mysteriously does, and the browser still has the annoying issue of not being able to save large images in a higher resolution than 305x203. The phone call audio quality seems to be a bit crappier too, but it's not dreadful.
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If anything, the main thing that I would probably get annoyed with about Perception is the haptic feedback for the home button and the call quality if there is a noticeable difference.
A few more questions, is Cognition still updated or was 2.3b8 the last one to be released? Also, with any of these ROMs, do I have to do anything special to gain the ability to side-load apps?
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If anything, the main thing that I would probably get annoyed with about Perception is the haptic feedback for the home button and the call quality if there is a noticeable difference.
A few more questions, is Cognition still updated or was 2.3b8 the last one to be released? Also, with any of these ROMs, do I have to do anything special to gain the ability to side-load apps?
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I probably wouldn't have noticed the difference in call quality if I didn't see other people complaining about it first. I think it's because it's based off of an i9000 rom, and to my understanding, the i9000 doesn't have a hardware support for noise cancellation (so it's done in software), whereas the Captivate does.
The haptic feedback on the home button "kind of" works. You get a haptic buzz when you do a long press, but you don't get a buzz if you just tap it.
The update question is a question for the dev, but I haven't seen Cog updated in a long time. I think DG is mostly focusing on Perception now.
Edit: err woops, forgot to answer part of your question. Both Cog and Percep permit sideloading by default, with Percep being slightly nicer because it restores the "Unknown sources" toggle under settings>applications.
I am running cognition now for three days, and couldn't be happier! Launcherpro is fine also. I flashed 2.3b6 (my roomate had it already and we didn't see that 2.3b8 was out)
I Followed an AWESOME video guide on youtube from a user on here named connexion2005
HERE is the link if you'd like it. Follow it to a tee and you will be a happy camper!
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I probably wouldn't have noticed the difference in call quality if I didn't see other people complaining about it first. I think it's because it's based off of an i9000 rom, and to my understanding, the i9000 doesn't have a hardware support for noise cancellation (so it's done in software), whereas the Captivate does.
The haptic feedback on the home button "kind of" works. You get a haptic buzz when you do a long press, but you don't get a buzz if you just tap it.
The update question is a question for the dev, but I haven't seen Cog updated in a long time. I think DG is mostly focusing on Perception now.
Edit: err woops, forgot to answer part of your question. Both Cog and Percep permit sideloading by default, with Percep being slightly nicer because it restores the "Unknown sources" toggle under settings>applications.
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Alright, I guess I'm probably gonna end up going with Perception then, and since DG should be still working on it, hopefully some of those problems get fixed. If I do find anything particularly annoying about it, I guess I can just flash to Cognition. Everyone has been saying how once you start flashing that you can't stop, so I'll see . Thanks a lot for your help!
Also, I found this for the haptic feedback for anyone who wants on a fix for Perception that's reading this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=903227
Has anyone done the switch from the captivate? Is it worth it? I currently have mine with Continuum 2.6 and its running smooth but some games give me performance problems or it lags up at times. How much smoother is the Infuse? Really torn, I love my Captivate but I feel like its time to switch. I had the Atrix but didn't like it much.
Someone convince me to switch!
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Has anyone done the switch from the captivate? Is it worth it? I currently have mine with Continuum 2.6 and its running smooth but some games give me performance problems or it lags up at times. How much smoother is the Infuse? Really torn, I love my Captivate but I feel like its time to switch. I had the Atrix but didn't like it much.
Someone convince me to switch!
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continuum 2.6? you didnt want to get gingerbread? well the captivate is like the perfect sized phone, the infuse can be a little awkward to hold with one hand. what i mean is that for my thumb to reach to the other side of the screen the phone just rests on my fingers, i cant grip it in my hand and operate it with my thumb. i havent dropped it that way yet but it is something to think about. it makes swype harder to use with one hand at a minimum. but after you use the big screen the captivate will look and feel tiny and you wont want to go back. as far as differences, well do you have any interest in hooking it to a tv? are you a heavy internet user? the bigger screen and hspa+ really help when browsing, i always ound text hard to read on the captivate, the older samoled screen has a funky subpixel layout and for me it affects readability alot. the infuse, i feel is much more readable. also the extra ram on the infuse will allow it to run a few things better. i switched and dont regret it, it really depends on what you like/want out of a phone.
I came from the Captivate with the Gingerbread version of Continuum installed. It was butter smooth... I haven't looked back since the upgrade and love the value the devs are already bringing to an amazing phone. Love my Infuse!! My wife now has my Cappy and loves it too. The Infuse is definitely a strong step up by Samsung IMO.
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I have big hands too. I'm one hand thumbing this message right now.. hehe
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It's hardware is significantly better.
If this had a 4.3" screen it would be better. Things are a tad pixelated.
The software is equal.
If this had TW4 (the whole thing, not just a launcher or an apparently or two) it'd be a home run.
Right now it's more like a ground rule double.
The good thing is that software is always fixable. Spend five minutes in the Captivate forum and you'll see what some stubbornness can acheieve.
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forgot to mention you can take pics and use gps and talk using speakerphone at the same time. try either one with the captivate, the camera and gps are disabled when a call is active! i know to many the camera while talking seems like an odd thing to try but ive been on the phone and wanted to text the person a pic of where i was and was disapointed that i counldnt use the camera. and the gps, well on a long road trip you are bound to get a phone call, just hope you are not anywhere near a turn because it takes the captivate a long time to find a lock again and the nav app to find your position and recheck the route in that situation.
I was going to ask the same question but search feature worked well it seems so I will bump this up. I am looking to upgrade to an infuse. And I was wondering more specifically about how the custom rom experience has been, obviously the captivate has been around longer and with the i9000 it has been able to get a lot of work done through that outlet. So has the infuse been getting a good group of rom chefs? I see mikeymike is here and I loved serendipity on the captivate so for me this is a good sign.
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I was going to ask the same question but search feature worked well it seems so I will bump this up. I am looking to upgrade to an infuse. And I was wondering more specifically about how the custom rom experience has been, obviously the captivate has been around longer and with the i9000 it has been able to get a lot of work done through that outlet. So has the infuse been getting a good group of rom chefs? I see mikeymike is here and I loved serendipity on the captivate so for me this is a good sign.
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There are quite a few good rom chefs here, and there's also some kernel hacking activity going on.
Most of the rom chefs are on break right now - enjoying the summer while we wait for Gingerbread to drop in Canada. Once that happens they'll be busy again, so I fully support them saving their energy for then.
Some people are working on their kernel-fu now, as many of the kernel tweaks and discoveries (Such as, "oh THAT's the ADC I was looking for!") are more easily forward-portable to whatever kernel comes with GB than userland tweaks. If I can ever find an ADC that monitors the USB +5v rail expect a lot of battery charging tweaks. I know how to set the current, but there's severe limits on what I can do with the charge current unless I can monitor the input rail to make sure it isn't getting yanked down by overdraw. (Not all chargers are created equal. Without monitoring +5v input, a kernel that rocks when running off of a 2A iPad charger is going to do all sorts of weird crap on the stock charger, for example.)
That's great to hear, i assume this is a previously answered question but has there been talk of CM7 or MIUI coming over?
Let me give you a pro tip.
Nexus 3, quad or dualcore, by Christmas.
Also, which games lag?
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How is the GPS on the Infuse?
My wife and I have Captivates now and she is directionally challenged to say the least. We both got out Captivates in July of last year, but can upgrade now. I'm not interested in spending $200 for a new phone, I had my last phone for 4 years (HTC Wizard), but my wife is LITERALLY lost most places with out GPS, so a better GPS is a must.
I've just started looking at treads and seeing a "GPS Improvement" thread make me think that Samsung somehow is still screwing up a 20+ year old technology.
She is going to run stock ROM if that'll make a difference.
Thanks for any direction provided.
REKnight said:
My wife and I have Captivates now and she is directionally challenged to say the least. We both got out Captivates in July of last year, but can upgrade now. I'm not interested in spending $200 for a new phone, I had my last phone for 4 years (HTC Wizard), but my wife is LITERALLY lost most places with out GPS, so a better GPS is a must.
I've just started looking at treads and seeing a "GPS Improvement" thread make me think that Samsung somehow is still screwing up a 20+ year old technology.
She is going to run stock ROM if that'll make a difference.
Thanks for any direction provided.
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The CG2900 in the Infuse seems to be an improvement compared to previous hardware. We've got the same GPS chip as the SGS2.
I think Froyo came with early first-gen firmware for the 2900. It seems significantly improved with the Rogers Gingerbread kernel and userland libraries - the only fix people seem to need is occasionally clearing out the ephemeride preloads.
I question whether the "GPS Fix" was even doing anything other than placebo effect. For many people including myself it caused regressions.
Complete stock gps is flawless
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b3asty said:
I have big hands too. I'm one hand thumbing this message right now.. hehe
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Sounds fun let be try )))
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I owned a Cappy (great phone), however I am officially in love with my Infuse
In addition to MikeyMike01 comment, I have to add:
- Battery is supposed to be better (lasts longer)
- Front face camera (1.3MP)
- Rear camera with LED flash (8MP)
- 1.2 Ghz processor (mine is OC to 1.6Ghz )
- Comes with Froyo, GB is supposed to be out within the next two weeks (rumors) but there are couple custom GB roms already
- HDMI TV Out support (through USB to HDMI dongle, comes with phone)
I do agree that the GPS is way better and screen is brighter and all looks sharper than on Captivate.
Although size is big and it still a slim phone, so you can fit it in your pocket without problems.
Besides the previously mentioned features they are the same in all other aspects. I once heard that the Infuse is a Captivate on steroids
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Device: Currently Samsung Infuse 4G (AT&T)
Samsung Captivate (sold)
ROM: Infused v2.0.1
Kernel: Infusion GB
Modem: XKG3
I used the CM7 port posted by LinuxBozo (compiled myself, not the precompiled) and I noticed the haptic feedback (when pressing home screen or back buttons) was very strong. I loved it. I didn't like some of the bugs, so I switched back to Infused, and now I feel like I'm missing the buttons because the feedback is so weak and almost nonexistent.
I have the setting all the way up, but what file was changed in CM7 so that it was a lot stronger?
There are a few other posts on different device forums, but no answers as of yet (some as old as 2010).
Thanks.
I think thats ROM dependant and i lack of knowledge of how to modify it... and yeah i know what you mean some ROMS haptic feedback its practically non existant lol, i would say that if you like that on go back to cm7 or just flash ROMS until you get one with the strenght you want.
Hi guys. I'm sort of new to tinkering with android. I first dipped my toes into the rooting business after being nervous about it for quite some time. I eventually got comfortable with rooting and finally decided to try custom ROMs recently. In fact, I just flashed cm 12.1 a few hours ago. One of the first things I did to compare it to the stock ROM (4.4.2 touchwiz) was start up asphalt 8. I wasn't so impressed with the performance on stock, especially considering the tablet I'm using is pretty high spec (galaxy tab pro 8.4 WiFi) so I wanted to see it'll do any better with the new ROM. I was quite underwhelmed with the poor visuals I saw and about the same or worse framerate, but then I considered that it might just be a matter of settings in developer options so I looked around online for tips and some of the recommendations were to turn on 4x msaa, and to enable the performance setting. I still can't find one recommendation though, and that is turning off the "disable per-app profiles" option. I can't see it in the performance section it's supposed to be in.
I'm not sure what it does, nor if it's important, so I would really appreciate some enlightening. I tried posting screenshots, but apparently I'm not allowed to do so for ten hours from registering as a new member of the forum. I've been searching for answers for a while now. I haven't tested the changes I made yet but I'd like to know more about this particular setting first. Got any ideas anyone?
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