For those of you having a problem with the captivate in real world testing please read you won't be sorry.
Guys I'm running a stock version of the Captivate, I did the update hoping to fix the GPS myself and to my dismay it fixed nothing and actually made my phone run worse. I called Galaxy S support and after some painstaking hold times I finally got thru to a level 3 support guy. I told him that the update downloaded and installed over the air properly, the phone rebooted on its own and that I was having the problems I stated earlier. He had me back up my phone (which it turns out I didn't need to as far as music and pics went) and then had me open the dialer and enter *2767*3855#. This immediately took the phone into what he called a "GSM Reset", this was different than the factory reset, it took all of 3 minutes if that and the phone was back up and running. He got off the phone with me and told me to call him back if there were any problems persisting. I immediately went outside, the gps got a lock in 8 seconds. I couldn't believe how fast it locked. My contacts were synced with at&t address book, as soon as I opened the contacts app the phone asked if I wanted to sync my phone, within 5 minutes every one of my 178 contacts had downloaded back into my phone. While my address book was syncing I noticed the pictures I was assigning to my contacts were reappearing. I checked my gallery and every single pic that was on the phone was still there, I then checked the music and all my music was there too. I immediately noticed how much faster the phone was running. I went to the adroid market, hit the menu button, selected downloads and all the apps that I had purchased and downloaded were there waiting for me to reinstall. I downloaded over the 3G network 30 applications in about 8 minutes. I think the update actually "clocked up" the processor, I can't believe how responsive the phone is, nor can I believe how much faster the internet is running.
Being skeptical that it was a temporary fix, I shut the phone off and restarted it, the gps locked again in 3 seconds this time. I tried the navigator built into the google maps app and it was flawless. It held a lock for 45 minutes straight. I then shut the phone off still skeptical restarted it a few times, got back in my car and drove home an hour from work, I intentionally didn't drive the route suggested to see how fast the phone would realize i was off course, everytime I "missed" a turn I looked at the phone and within 5 seconds it was rerouting and choosing a new route. I just checked google maps in my driveway and yes I was standing in my driveway! It took all of 4 seconds for my phone to tell me that, oh and wifi was turned off.
Trust me, follow the simple instructions and do a GSM reset, you won't be sorry.
