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Hi Guys
Samsung Captivate is my very first Smartphone and i always knew i was gonna get an android phone.
I bought this phone yesterday and i absolutely love it.
But i am facing some problems
1. the phone is a bit laggy.
2. the battery life doesnt seem very great.
3. The third one is very weird. I went to the android market to download apps. Once i select an app to download and install, there is no notification on the top area where it should show it. I mean it takes almost 10-15 minutes for that notification to show up and the phone is very unresponsive during these times. Also the music player crashed a couple of times.
Has anyone come across this problem. Please let me know!
Well , that was the first part..
I want to know the experiences of people who have already rooted the phone and installed Froyo on it. What are the noticeaable changes? Is there any improvement in battery life?
I am pretty sure i wanna root this phone and get rid of the ATT apps etc etc.
BTW i have attached a wallpaper which i hope u guys will like
Cheers
carporsche said:
Hi Guys
Samsung Captivate is my very first Smartphone and i always knew i was gonna get an android phone.
I bought this phone yesterday and i absolutely love it.
But i am facing some problems
1. the phone is a bit laggy.
2. the battery life doesnt seem very great.
3. The third one is very weird. I went to the android market to download apps. Once i select an app to download and install, there is no notification on the top area where it should show it. I mean it takes almost 10-15 minutes for that notification to show up and the phone is very unresponsive during these times. Also the music player crashed a couple of times.
Has anyone come across this problem. Please let me know!
Well , that was the first part..
I want to know the experiences of people who have already rooted the phone and installed Froyo on it. What are the noticeaable changes? Is there any improvement in battery life?
I am pretty sure i wanna root this phone and get rid of the ATT apps etc etc.
BTW i have attached a wallpaper which i hope u guys will like
Cheers
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There is no Froyo for captivate , not yet anyway.
Root by itself doesn't fix anything , just lets you change system files and tinker around, more freedom so to speak.
Personally i am not having those problems, maybe you installed something that is eating up all resources, i have had similar problems on my Nexus one when i was downloading bunch of random programs and experimenting...
Try one of those app killers or restart phone maybe.
ghost77 said:
There is no Froyo for captivate , not yet anyway.
Root by itself doesn't fix anything , just lets you change system files and tinker around, more freedom so to speak.
Personally i am not having those problems, maybe you installed something that is eating up all resources, i have had similar problems on my Nexus one when i was downloading bunch of random programs and experimenting...
Try one of those app killers or restart phone maybe.
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I factory reset my phone too , and i still have to install apps after resetting. Will keep you guys updated. BTW i thought rooting was to install froyo on the captivate.
I did not know tht it was just for the workarounds.
Hello guys
Please help me
I still am facing the same problem.
I have installed the AppBrain and fest web browser apps too, but somehow it still takes me a minimum of 10-15 mins before the download begins. And during that time the phone is very slow and unresponsive.
Is anyone else facing the same problem.
Please let me know!
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I've noticed something similar to what you are talking about, but defiantly not to such extend. Marketplace seems to be slow on my phone, at least comparing to my brother's Evo. Sometimes just after I start download of a new app, the phone becomes unresponsive for a bit, but it doesn't freeze or anything, just I start noticing some lag, that's all. To your other concerns:
1. Remove Live Wallpaper and as many widgets from your screen as you can. After I did that, I don't have any lag at all. You can also use manual task killer application to shut down all of the AT&T crap that runs on background (and prevent them to start up again).
2. Coming from feature phone, battery live will always look bad on the Smartphone. For me, battery lasts the whole day, from 9AM till 12PM even with a heavy use. For a Smartphone, that's good results.
Only times I have had lag is when something is installing. Also when my network connection is bad and something is trying to pull data.
But then again i just switched from a Kaiser running WinMo to this phone, so I may just be use to lag by now
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Since I updated my Nexus S (i9020a to be exact) to ICS 4.0.4, my phone has been randomly rebooting like everyday! I did manually update it but I got stock Android and also I am unrooted not have my bootloader unlocked. Why is this happening so frequently? Should I factory reset my phone?
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Since I updated my Nexus S (i9020a to be exact) to ICS 4.0.4, my phone has been randomly rebooting like everyday! I did manually update it but I got stock Android and also I am unrooted not have my bootloader unlocked. Why is this happening so frequently? Should I factory reset my phone?
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Try that yes
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I just did. No reboot yet... hoping that this worth my data...
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I also had a spontaneous reboot a couple of days after I updated to 4.0.4.
It's only been four days total, so I'll be keeping an eye on it.
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nope... didn't get it there...
maybe you should wipe your cache and dalvik-cache... and don't forget to fix permissions...
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nope... didn't get it there...
maybe you should wipe your cache and dalvik-cache... and don't forget to fix permissions...
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The thing is I'm not rooted and it seems that factory resetting actually did a job cuz no reboot so far... I'll update forum if this method works...
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Personally I've had several occurences of random reboots and actually at the phone lock into a reboot loop till I pulled the battery.
I think the issue is RAM management. The Nexus S doesn't have as much RAM as most tablets and it's younger sister the Galaxy Nexus. Something in how the OS decides which of the background services should be terminated and cached under heavy RAM load seems to be part of the problem.
For example, I seem to have improved my phone stability by removing apps that update in the background and don't need to (UAL, I'm looking at you ) and disabling background updates in other applications (TripIt, PodKicker Pro, etc) to prevent them from leaving background services running. That seems to have helped in my case.
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Personally I've had several occurences of random reboots and actually at the phone lock into a reboot loop till I pulled the battery.
I think the issue is RAM management. The Nexus S doesn't have as much RAM as most tablets and it's younger sister the Galaxy Nexus. Something in how the OS decides which of the background services should be terminated and cached under heavy RAM load seems to be part of the problem.
For example, I seem to have improved my phone stability by removing apps that update in the background and don't need to (UAL, I'm looking at you ) and disabling background updates in other applications (TripIt, PodKicker Pro, etc) to prevent them from leaving background services running. That seems to have helped in my case.
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You actually might be right! Ics probably is optimized for phone with duel core and at least 1gb of ram...
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kyokeun1234 said:
Since I updated my Nexus S (i9020a to be exact) to ICS 4.0.4, my phone has been randomly rebooting like everyday! I did manually update it but I got stock Android and also I am unrooted not have my bootloader unlocked. Why is this happening so frequently? Should I factory reset my phone?
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wipe data may solve this issue.
I have been running Pete's Bugless Beast which has both the ROM and Kernel updated to 4.0.4. Never had a random reboot.
I doubt it is a memory issue. When my phone doesn't have a foreground app open it usually has 130 MB ~ 150 MB free. I never see it go below 100 MB.
AeroEchelon said:
I have been running Pete's Bugless Beast which has both the ROM and Kernel updated to 4.0.4. Never had a random reboot.
I doubt it is a memory issue. When my phone doesn't have a foreground app open it usually has 130 MB ~ 150 MB free. I never see it go below 100 MB.
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My phone is not rooted, so is there any way to fix it without flashing anything?
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Exactly when is it powercycling?
Is it when running a certain app? When plugged in? When on standby? When you set it down or bump it?
There a number of different reasons the phone could be powercycling.
If it's while running a certain app or completely at random while you're not using it, unprevoked, first try hard resetting it. That will resolve the majority of issues.
If it's when you set it down or it's bumped, it's an issue with the battery making contact. Remove your battery, clean the contacts gently with a pencil eraser, make sure the contacts are clean and free from pocket lint on the phone itself and reinsert the battery.
If it's still doing it after a reset, it could be your processor. The best way I've found to test your processor is to max it out. You can do this by running a benchmark app over and over while everything on your phone is running. I personally use "Neocore" (available in the Play Store). Turn on your bluetooth, wifi, max your screen brightness, gps, every battery sucking processor running setting available. Run Neocore as 'Interactive Mode'. If you run that for an hour without powercycling, your processor is good. If it powercycles, you have a bad processor and should have your phone replaced through Samsung warranty.
Best of luck to you!
Random reboot
My phone is rebooting at least 15 times a day !
It is very random : during a phone call/installing an app/unlock the phone/writing with keyboard/phone is idle...
Applications are also often not responding...
I did a factory reset/wipe data several times but it didnt change anything.
Phone :Nexus S i9023
Carrier : unlocked ( HK )
OS/build number : Android 4.04/IMM76D
A really big amount of people posted the same issue on google mobile forum. ( i can't post link yet as it is my first post ) title "Random reboot of nexus with Android 4" ( please google it ) , but nobody mentionned anything with CPU. Could it be really that many people having a default CPU ?
After my last post, no reboots for while but now reboots are back with increasing frequency.
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I don't usually like resurrect a really old thread, but after a road trip where my Nexus S randomly rebooted 4-5 times while running Podkicker Pro and Maps Navigation I went and reset my device to factory defaults. The next day I had the phone reboot in the middle of a podcast. Today it rebooted halfway through the first ring when I received a call.
Seems to be, at least in my case, that the reboots are related to mp3 audio.
This lead me to find this bug logged against the galaxy nexus: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22669
It doesn't provide an answer, but it does provide some insight. I think personally I might look at different ringtone formats and see if converting my custom ringtone to something other than MP3 will help, but I'm not optimistic.
Hello everyone,
I am not actually Android genius and has a very less knowledge about it. I purchased a sony Xperia Sola Last year from Bangladesh, Next month i came to USA and rooted the phone so the warranty was void.
I dont know it is obvious or not, that, My phone keeps freezing very often. And it has really hard times even operating light apps like opera mini and pandora or even play store, i cant use camera or GPS it just freezes after a while. Which is not very normal I guess with 350mb available ram! playing games is even more troublesome.
I installed the Cyanogenmod 9 few days ago in a hope that it would be ok, But still it is the same thing happening. I dont know where is the problem.
SO please help me out with this problem guys. What could make my phone at least usable?
Thanks in advance.
That could be some some apps are still running in the background. Try installing a task killer. Hope that would solve the problem
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Anyone else having problem where background apps are closing too quick?
My podcast app gets killed all too quickly and my launcher as well.
Any non-root way of getting around it?
Sam
Same here. Haven't found a solution yet but my Spotify keeps getting killed
Same here. I hope memory management will be improved with 5.1.1
i have no memory issues at all.
what's the problem?
it's been a while,
i decided to restart my phone and wipe cache
now the phone's a speed demon again
i think this is the manifestation of the infamous memory leak...
so yeah if you're seeing the same thing
just restart
that should be a lot better after that
shubu000 said:
it's been a while,
i decided to restart my phone and wipe cache
now the phone's a speed demon again
i think this is the manifestation of the infamous memory leak...
so yeah if you're seeing the same thing
just restart
that should be a lot better after that
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What memory leak?
shubu000 said:
it's been a while,
i decided to restart my phone and wipe cache
now the phone's a speed demon again
i think this is the manifestation of the infamous memory leak...
so yeah if you're seeing the same thing
just restart
that should be a lot better after that
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you're right... it is not Lollipop memory leak (the famous one) but another kind of leak which saturate RAM after 100 hours circa of uptime...
A reboot every 100 Hours is ok... but I hope they will solve it asap
carburano said:
you're right... it is not Lollipop memory leak (the famous one) but another kind of leak which saturate RAM after 100 hours circa of uptime...
A reboot every 100 Hours is ok... but I hope they will solve it asap
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There is no "lollipop memory leak" on the Z3. I think you must be talking about an application with a memory leak as I've had my phone for 8+ months now and have never had to reboot it. You should perhaps perform the usual steps to determine which app has the problem and then take the problem up with the developer, or use another app.
Webern said:
There is no "lollipop memory leak" on the Z3. I think you must be talking about an application with a memory leak as I've had my phone for 8+ months now and have never had to reboot it. You should perhaps perform the usual steps to determine which app has the problem and then take the problem up with the developer, or use another app.
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Dear friend... We already know that Lollipop Memory Leak is not present in Z3... but this doesn't mean that memory management is ok...
please check this... https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/kernel/commit/f971262f63f380d9386dbe4c55eed0809eba0b18
Is a recent commit to solve a memory leak in the kernel...
As you can see memory management can be improved.
Ah... another thing: if I check app I will notice that only system apps cause this kind of memory saturation.
PS: Maybe you need to reboot your phone.. at least to install OTA
carburano said:
Dear friend... We already know that Lollipop Memory Leak is not present in Z3... but this doesn't mean that memory management is ok...
please check this... https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/kernel/commit/f971262f63f380d9386dbe4c55eed0809eba0b18
Is a recent commit to solve a memory leak in the kernel...
As you can see memory management can be improved.
Ah... another thing: if I check app I will notice that only system apps cause this kind of memory saturation.
PS: Maybe you need to reboot your phone.. at least to install OTA
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I'm sure a few bytes goes astray every now and then. Unless it's something which happens repeatedly, and takes up a sizeable amount of memory you'll never notice it. And memory taken within a process will be freed when that process is killed (ie even if not freed explicitly from within that process).
Yes, I may have rebooted my phone to diagnose an issue or install an upgrade, but every 4 days? No - the phone is faulty or you've been installing rubbish if that's the case.
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I'm sure a few bytes goes astray every now and then. Unless it's something which happens repeatedly, and takes up a sizeable amount of memory you'll never notice it. And memory taken within a process will be freed when that process is killed (ie even if not freed explicitly from within that process).
Yes, I may have rebooted my phone to diagnose an issue or install an upgrade, but every 4 days? No - the phone is faulty or you've been installing rubbish if that's the case.
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No friend... this is theory but bugs are there and I think they're solved... because Z3+ is ok. Check this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=161&v=x7bT_ALUB8E
That's it
shubu000 said:
Anyone else having problem where background apps are closing too quick?
My podcast app gets killed all too quickly and my launcher as well.
Any non-root way of getting around it?
Sam
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Absolutely.
I downgraded to KK because it was very frustrating.
Also I swear LP on my D6633 only uses 2 out of the 3gb of RAM. I never see less than 1GB free ram when I was on it.
Have noticed over the last couple of days that my phone has become very slow.
It's a sim free phone in the UK and completely stock. I have not installed anything new app wise or made any kind of changes I can put it down to. When first purchased I found the phone to be very snappy in and out of apps despite the mid range hardware and 2gb ram.
I have no more than a dozen as installed . Just don't understand what's going on as it seems like there is a delay when you select anything or switch in and out of the app tray etc.
Rebooting it doesn't help?
Funny enough it does seem to have improved things. It was almost like the old Samsung slow down the get on the galaxy phones. Very strange, will just have to monitor it and see how things go.
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Have noticed over the last couple of days that my phone has become very slow.
It's a sim free phone in the UK and completely stock. I have not installed anything new app wise or made any kind of changes I can put it down to. When first purchased I found the phone to be very snappy in and out of apps despite the mid range hardware and 2gb ram.
I have no more than a dozen as installed . Just don't understand what's going on as it seems like there is a delay when you select anything or switch in and out of the app tray etc.
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What ext sd card you are using? And did you merge it with internal sd card?
If not and your phone is just as simple and clean as you mentioned just earse it to factory default by going to reset
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Am using a SanDisk ultra 64gb card but have not used apps etc on it as don't really have many downloaded apps and didn't see the needed to free up space.
Don't really want to completely reset my phone.
Will see how it goes
Ive had the same issues, not sure why... cant even get google maps to load properly and Spotify locks up everytime I try to change song.. not good HTC!!
Simon_WM said:
Ive had the same issues, not sure why... cant even get google maps to load properly and Spotify locks up everytime I try to change song.. not good HTC!!
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I had a time that A9 got hot and slow, reboot didn't help. But I don't know what I did, it just went back to normal somehow. Fast and rarely get hot.
Alpert3 said:
I had a time that A9 got hot and slow, reboot didn't help. But I don't know what I did, it just went back to normal somehow. Fast and rarely get hot.
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My doesn't get hot, it just stupidly slow, and really annoying, but O2 haven't related the 6.0.1 Firmware so maybe that might fix the performance? otherwise I might root it and overclock it a little...
Really annoying as its only 4 months into a 2 year phone contract!
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My doesn't get hot, it just stupidly slow, and really annoying, but O2 haven't related the 6.0.1 Firmware so maybe that might fix the performance? otherwise I might root it and overclock it a little...
Really annoying as its only 4 months into a 2 year phone contract!
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In that case i suggest you to contact htc support or your carrier to demande a new device.
try root thing at last when you have no solutions or into a dead end.
Because root will remove the warrant.
Alpert3 said:
In that case i suggest you to contact htc support or your carrier to demande a new device.
try root thing at last when you have no solutions or into a dead end.
Because root will remove the warrant.
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Yeh, All theher HTC Devices have been fine... this one am not impressed with might take it to the place I orderd it from and see what they say.
Simon_WM said:
Yeh, All theher HTC Devices have been fine... this one am not impressed with might take it to the place I orderd it from and see what they say.
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I have 4 HTC devices, all of them are no issues.
Try to use a Task killer app, perhaps the 2GB ram have reached max capacity, kill some apps that you are not using and for the love of God disable Google bloatwares like hangout.google books...
My A9 has become extremely slow in the last couple of days.. I have tried dumping cache, cleansing apps, but nothing is working .. it seems that alot of people are experiencing the same thing at the same time .. what is going on ? This phone is becoming an embarrassment for the price I paid for it.
Yeah mine too. It's starting to drive me mad.
Texting is getting worse. Starts fine and just doesn't seem to keep up.
mine too... i'm starting to think about changing rom to cyanogenmod...
It's somehow weird to see that most people who are complaining here are new created account just to say bad things about the A9....SAMSUNG PAID DUDES AGAIN
I kinda have same issue,the phone has been turning off on it's own the last couple of days and then one time when i turned it on a lot of it's features aren't working,notifications doesn't show up on the notificationbar and i can't use shortcuts for gps,etc from it anymore and the onscreen home button doesn't get me home and the touch button doesn't too,it so slow and takes time to load the apps so i can tap on one of em,idk what happened,please help!
I bought one for my girlfriend, HTC one A9 16gb but with more than 5 completely lost... At the beginning everything was just fine, great speed and performance.
Because of it's lack of memory I decided to use the SD card as internal storage, micro SD 64Gb Sandisk class 10. After the format the HTC showed alert about the speed of the SD, it could not be enough fast.
After reinstalling apps and moving the heaviest to the SD it started to be very slow, WhatsApp took too much to open and even Google maps couldn't load properly, taking ages to work.
I ended up taking the SD out, using it as normal external storage. It went back to normal and now works good, the only thing now is that she only had 1.5Gb left for the apps and it runs out super fast just because of the thumbnails images and cache.
Has anyone tried with a high speed SD? Or has noticed this same problem?