lol i hear ya.

i just installed this evening so I'll let you know. currently it looks to be draining at a slightly faster rate than firefly/serendipity. I'll keep you posted in the next few days.

Was planning to upgrade to 2.3 tonight.
But drop my phone from sitting down from a chair and it crack and shattered the screen!!

Surpise it even was crack, consider the gorilla screen was market as unscratchable/high durability.
It was at most 2 feet off the ground!

Although the corner is all shattered in an area of 1 cm, theres also a thin hairline crack about 1~1.5 inch down the screen.
Everything esle work perfectly fine, I'm getting the glass is just broken.

- I can buy an replacment glass/lcd screen (come as both) for around $120ish.
Have to DIY replace it myself.
-Planning to switch to wind/mobilicty(Fido contract with 4 months left).
Wait it out, and buy a new phone then.

Any suggestion?
I'm only using voice, is there a phone that would run on fido/wind/mobilicity frequency?? Android of course.

The only phone that I've seen that has both bands was a Blackberry (I think a factory unlocked 9780). I may be (and probably am) wrong on that one.

Is the screen not usable? I'd just wait it out if that's the case. Otherwise with 4 months left, maybe you can just cancel straight up? Fido might even give you a deal you can't refuse to try and keep you :fullofwin:

^I guess I will wait out.

Seems like the replacement are LCD, not OLED?
Could be my mistake.

Everything is working as normal.
Only the glass is broken.

Actually have my eye on some of the Tegra2 device (lg optimus, motorola atrix)
Dont plan on getting another Samsung. (Had i800 sucked, i9000 broken internal sd drive, now i896 brokenscreen t_t.. yes i know my fault ..)

Anyone know would there be a fee if I cancel my fido contract early?

(oh yeah, it is super nice to use the phone w/o any screen protector on now :D !! )

Yep it's something like 20 a month for the remainder of your contract. I dont know the exact numbers. You can always call to check :)
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So a bit of an update:

I ran into my first complete drain running Continuum 5.4.1.

Thoughts:

- battery life is just as good as Froyo. I used it as I usually do, and I got pretty much the same life out of it.
- there are some hitches with lag (some say it's the kernel, some say it's the ROM itself). It's definitely not as smooth overall compared to Serendipity or Firefly.
- I still get FC's running certain programs (notably SGS Tools)

HOWEVER:

- that being said, it's plenty fast. it's definitely stable for a daily driver. And given that it can only go up from here, there's no way I'm heading back to Froyo.


Hope this helps my fellow Captivate users who are on the fence.

I seem to have lost my ability to enter recovery mode... :p

lol there are ways to get it back. just do a search on xda it's a fairly common problem. :)

Im almost tempted to just pay someone to fix it, I'm feeling that lazy. :p
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so i'm thinking of buying a used galaxy. i'm currently with bell. i see someone here on revscene selling a rooted captivate and one on cl selling rooted t-mobile version, amongst many others.
My question is
1- with the t-mobile version, besides the frequencies that can be used world wide (useless to me) what other advantages are there to this version? I noticed the button layout is different compared to bell's vibrant. is it better that way?
2- Does most people here on revscene that has a galaxy s rooted thier phone? Is it easy to do?
3- Captivate vs vibrant. Besides the style, do they both work the same?
4-has the gps issues been fixed through updates?
Sorry for all the noob questions, i've searched this forum but there's 45 pages, i go cross eyed after a dozen pages or so.

1- There are no advantages, but if you plan on staying with Bell you'd be unable to use data. It'll only work on providers that use AWS bands, such as Mobilicity and Wind. So stick with the Captivate in that respect.

2- Can't speak for everyone, but I do. It's very easy to do. And worth while for backup apps imo.

3- Yes. They have the same innards, but different casings.

4- The GPS issues are hardware related iirc. Some phones are hit and miss. There are some custom roms that do a better job at tweaking it for optimal performance, but I believe the core problems are hardware related.

Considering your questions, it seems as though you may be associated rooting with unlocking. Keep in mind that "rooting" is like jailbreaking- you still require a method to unlock it. So unless the phones you listed are unlocked, you won't be able to use it with your Bell SIM.

Speaking from experience, unlocking a rooted captivate is as easy downloading an app and following the directions. I believe it works for all SGS phones (vibrant included), but ymmv.

Thanks m3thods, that really helps.
Any thoughts to the bells vibrant button layout compare to the rogers captivates layout?

It's all personal preference. Makes no different either way.. But if you're already with Bell why don't you just get the phone from Bell?

I've seen captivates go for ~350, which is substantially cheaper than the 500 Bell would sell for. And like I said unlocking it is as easy as running the unlock app by Helroz.

But if you don't want any headaches with respect to unlocking/rooting/etc, a phone from Bell/Virgin would be best for you.

Does anyone know if the LG Optimus 2X from T-Mobile works only with Wind/Mobilicity?

And only voice with the rest?

I'm still leaning towards a used phone, just because of the price difference. Prefereably a Bell phone at this point. Thanks guys

If you're gonna ne buying a bell vibrant used be careful. The internal memory is known to be defective on a lot of the ones manufactured last year.

geez, this is kinda scaring me, all these problems with the galaxy's

Its only on the canadian Vibrant afaik.

the memory issue had been resolve for a while now. they had a mass recall at around Dec to Jan. I knew cause I'm one of the victim with that issue.
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Yup. Which is why I suggested to make sure the one he buys is manufactured this year to be save.

It'll work with any provider for just voice. If you want data however, it will only work with providers using AWS bands- so Wind and Mobilicity, assuming you can unlock it.

Couple things, can't be sure on them but I'd like to put them out to see if my memory's fading in old age and/or if I'm right on these.

-T-mobile Vibrant has all frequencies (including HSDPA and AWS 3G frequencies); they just locked the HSDPA out. You can re-enable them with a hack.

-Any phone that is for wind/mobilicity is AWS 3G, but also has GSM 2G. I currently use a Blackberry on Rogers (which also applies to Fido) and have no problem with voice or data on 2G. If you are on Bellus, however, you will not be able to use the phone at all because they do not have legacy 2G; they have only CDMA and HSDPA 3G.

thanks ^^^

imo, if your going to get used/private sale, go through the xda forums of that device and check whats a common defect with the phone.

Learned the hard way, $450 Galaxy Vibrant private sale, SD issue after the 1st month. Dead phone.
Didnt have receipt, so no one would take it back, not even for repair.

Simliar issue with my Captivate. Private sale with receipt, BNIB.
Issue with random shut down. Took it back to FS to exchange for a different one. And they just told me in order to exchange the person who BROUGHT the phone have to be there to change it.
So I just gave up and flash to a custom Rom and problem fixed!

I'm holding off the LG 2X atm.
Seems to have a problem with the phone randomly shutting down.
Not risking anything.

^ not the safest , but you could get it from e-bay... there's the buyer protection program if you get a faulty phone.

Yeah saw few decent used one, dont really trust the BNIB one TBH.

So AT&T will work with big3 data?

Seem like only *upgrade* from my crappy will be SGS2, LG 2X, motorola atrix.

Leaning toward the Atrix due to its "cheaper" price tag than the rest.

Dont really want to wait for SGS2.