Recent content by sremick

I didn't see this posted here anywhere yet. Sorry if it's a dupe. Anyhow, check out this page over at the official AT&T tutorials site for the Captivate: Tutorials - Samsung Captivate (I897) See anything interesting about those screenshots?

Work in-progress: ROM Table - CapFAQ This will be made easiest if users who are fans/users of the specific ROMs help by informing us of corrections/updates, which saves having to comb through sometimes 100-200 page threads for each ROM.

I'm in uncharted personal territory here and could really use some assistance from people who have done several successful full restores with Titanium backup on the Captivate. I had my phone replaced and I'm trying to restore onto the replacement phone. Here is what I did, and the order...

Nothing of real value here. :) But as a Captivate owner forced to live with a Backflip for a while, I thought it'd make an interesting discussion. Here are things that have jumped out at me: Even the AT&T store manager referred to it as the "Backflop". I don't mind a flip-out keyboard as...

Yeah, so my Captivate is messed up now. Not entirely sure why, but that's not really the point. Right now if I try to turn it on, I get the spinny pinwheel for a second, then it disappears. I can also get into download mode by inserting the battery while holding the up and down volume keys...

Ok, so let's say you want to get 2.2 on your phone by using one of the various hacked 2.2 ROMs. Common knowledge is that when you do your Titanium Backup restore, you do not select "system data" else you will have problems. Very well... but what are the alternatives for getting this system data...

I'm beating my head against the wall on this one. Every time I swype "how's", it suggests "hows" and "how's" doesn't appear as an option no matter how many times I manually type it in. Also, to add to the annoyance, I cannot successfully delete the non-word "hows" which suggests it's in the...

Ok I'm sure I'm doing something wrong with how I use it, but here's my annoyance: I use Google Voice exclusively for free SMS. So every time I launch it, it takes me back to the previous conversation I was in (multitasking). The problem is trying to get back to that first screen in GV which...

So I'm having a peculiar problem which doesn't appear to be specific to my model phone. I use Google Voice for my text messaging so I'm not sure when this started. But I'd like to be able to at least receive text messages that people try to send to my main number. But what happens now is that I...

So I'm having a peculiar problem... I use Google Voice for my text messaging so I'm not sure when this started. But I'd like to be able to at least receive text messages that people try to send to my main number. But what happens now is that I see the message text appear in the notification...

A lot of times, when a person calls AT&T or Samsung and reports a problem with the GPS on the Captivate, they'll be fed the standard scripted "No one else has reported this problem" or "You're the first to report this". It'd be nice to have something concrete to counter that with. Hence, this...

I'd like to start collecting MicroSD card benchmarks. If you have bought a MicroSD card for use in your Captivate, please help out. To test: Install the following: SD Card Speed Tester - Android app on AppBrain Run it several times to make sure you don't get a fluke low number (like from...

A couple questions about sideloading (assume use of the SWM): 1) If I sideload a newer version of an app already on my phone, will it be "upgraded" and user data/settings retained? 2) If I sideload an app and then later a newer version of it appears in the market, will it upgrade properly to...

So I've decided to unveil a project several of us have been working on for some time now: FAQ - CapFAQ This site, in wiki format, is designed to be an online resource for frequently-asked questions (FAQ) for the Samsung Captivate. Now, to be fair, at the moment you could consider it to be...