How did your upgrade go?

[gcobb]

I didn't have any major issues before the update with saving battery power. It should be understood that you control the larger part of what your battery is used for. It could be display brightness, searching for 3G, Wireless, GPS or some shoddy applications that drain your battery.

I've been up 4 hours. I've used 2% while idle. I have wifi on and haven't used my phone otherwise. My battery status icon appears to be a lot more accurate since the upgrade.

A few ways to save power:

• My display is down, way down and it stays down unless I open messaging then it gets brighter (A Tasker task)
• 3G is off while at home where I use Wifi.
• GPS is almost always off, no need for it just yet.
• My timeout is 30 seconds unless I'm connected to my car stereo (tasker profile)
• I turn on autosync once an hour for 5 minutes then it turns back off (Tasker profile)
• I turned off vibration unless I'm typing.
• I don't have widgets such as weather things running constantly.
• I use Android Assistant to keep things from running on startup.
• I use Go Launcher as a GUI and use its built in task manager to kill apps that start up.

Android is an OS almost like Linux and Windoze. You can control memory usage and how much CPU time is being used. Everything isn't going to be the fault of the phone. Hating on AT&T and/or Samsung isn't going to make your phone work.

So...this is a thread on battery power and drain, not a hate thread. Post your positive input here for everyone to learn by.

 

[msueagles2010]

I'm a bit surprised at the results of the poll. Not that it has gone so well for most folks, but that the bulk of the people here had stock phones. I had thought I was one of a handfull that hadn't at least rooted, let alone installed a custom rom (although I did root just prior to the upgrade in order to do a full backup).

I also noted this, having had a totally stock 2.1.1 Captivate prior to the update. Interesting.

 

[rhinton512]

2-27-2011

I was able to root the phone and enabled sideloading just with the one click device. SO I donated to his site. Going to stick with stock ROM for now, even though I have Cog4 on my internal SD now. The Froyo upgrade sent seamlessly, but I am staying away from a custom rom for now. Did the upgrade on a 32 bit Vista machine which tri-boots Win7 and Suse.. I hate the Dell 3110n printer drivers on Linux

My problem s a working tunnel or VPN Tried Witopia and this dropped easily, and thrn tried BestFrrn VPN slowed me down to a crawl.

So I am looking for a seemless VPN like Hotspot Shield on my Win7 Laptop

Ciao,

Richard N Hinton

 

[Rlad78]

Anyone else having issues ever since their update?


First off, I'm having a lot of problems with the music player. I've had to force close it several times now, which I've never had to do at all before the update. It'll often freeze when I'm choosing a song, and other times the song will stop playing for 5 seconds, during which the phone is completely unoperational until the song resumes. This is probably the reason I am regretting the update, because I got rid of my iTouch for this phone, so it's my main source of music.

Secondly, the phone may seem faster, but I've had a lot more freezes then I used to. The phone also seems like it takes longer to turn on as well, and it's very glitchy if you don't leave it alone during the first 3min of it turning itself on.

Third, I'm actually tempted to get rid of Flash, because it seems to run animations quite slowly for me and generally just slows down the browser for me.

Anyone else have any glitches or solutions to the ones above? For the music player one, I've tried going to PowerAMP, but according to the Froyo Task Manager, it's a BATTERY DESTROYER. Does anyone know if this is true?

 

[gcobb]

I don't have any of those problems. The AT&T Hotspot thing is hard to kill. Other than that I have no problems to mention that I've found yet.

 

[4N6science]

I didn't have any major issues before the update with saving battery power. It should be understood that you control the larger part of what your battery is used for. It could be display brightness, searching for 3G, Wireless, GPS or some shoddy applications that drain your battery.

I've been up 4 hours. I've used 2% while idle. I have wifi on and haven't used my phone otherwise. My battery status icon appears to be a lot more accurate since the upgrade.

A few ways to save power:

• My display is down, way down and it stays down unless I open messaging then it gets brighter (A Tasker task)
• 3G is off while at home where I use Wifi.
• GPS is almost always off, no need for it just yet.
• My timeout is 30 seconds unless I'm connected to my car stereo (tasker profile)
• I turn on autosync once an hour for 5 minutes then it turns back off (Tasker profile)
• I turned off vibration unless I'm typing.
• I don't have widgets such as weather things running constantly.
• I use Android Assistant to keep things from running on startup.
• I use Go Launcher as a GUI and use its built in task manager to kill apps that start up.

Android is an OS almost like Linux and Windoze. You can control memory usage and how much CPU time is being used. Everything isn't going to be the fault of the phone. Hating on AT&T and/or Samsung isn't going to make your phone work.

So...this is a thread on battery power and drain, not a hate thread. Post your positive input here for everyone to learn by.

I perceive my battery to be conserved much better after the update. I've had it on since about 8:30 this morning and I'm still at 72%, with light use throughout the day.

 

[asengupt]

Stock phone, not rooted. Upgrade went smoothly once I got Kies mini to recognize the phone.

I have somewhat of a strange setup so I thought I would post for any of you who are in the same boat. I have a Macbook Pro 17" from 2010, running Windows 7 64 bit on Bootcamp. The computer does not see the captivate from my Mac (adb does not work, and mounting the drives works for only a few seconds then the Mac complains that the drive was removed without properly ejecting).

Anyways on the Windows side there is no problem, connected with the same cable from the same port. Kies mini recognizes the phone intermittently - typically if I have the phone already plugged in (and getting Windows to recognize it as a phone with two drives) and then firing up the device.

Upgrade went smoothly until the phone rebooted for the first time in Froyo. The galaxy S screen came up and it just stayed there for over 5 minutes before I gave up. I was panicking a bit - had to remove the batteries and power back on. Same problem. Removed the SIM and memory card, rebooted again and this time it started up. Froyo. Smooth. put the SIM and memory card back in and all went well from there.

Maybe I should have started without the SIM and memory card to start with - but nothing seemed to go out of the ordinary while the upgrade was going on. The whole thing took about 20 minutes because I have a pretty slow net connection at home.

Whew.

Jit

 

[mnemonicj]

I upgraded my wife's Captivate from 2.1 rooted and the upgrade went fine. After the upgrade I had to root again, but thanks to people on the forum, it was easy. One thing that has gone wrong is that the phone now takes 3 minutes or more to boot up. The load sequence is really weird too because halfway through the load, the screen goes completely blank and stays that way for about 15 to 20 seconds before the notification bar appears again.

Should I flash back to stock 2.1 with Odin and try again?

 

[gcobb]

I upgraded my wife's Captivate from 2.1 rooted and the upgrade went fine. After the upgrade I had to root again, but thanks to people on the forum, it was easy. One thing that has gone wrong is that the phone now takes 3 minutes or more to boot up. The load sequence is really weird too because halfway through the load, the screen goes completely blank and stays that way for about 15 to 20 seconds before the notification bar appears again.

Should I flash back to stock 2.1 with Odin and try again?

Someone in another thread said Odin isn't what you can use to go back. If you're using Launcher Pro or another app like that, disable it or use the stock launcher to see if that's the problem. Pull an external SD card too to make sure it isn't scanning on boot.

 

[crashdawg]

stock phone here. kies mini upgrade.
ok the install went smooth, the first day was ok. And then the fun starts.i get around 2.5-3 hours of battery life.phone has crashed a few times.(never before upgrade)camera freezes up. i have never seen that before, and i use my camera alot.
half of my ringtones wont play.no biggie il redownload.pixlepipe no longer loads.. lock screen said swipe to unlock right after upgrade. doesnt now.(thats no problem just strange . why it was there and now isnt). on the plus flash works on the web, and the you tube app. is better. but other then that i wish i could go back.why would the screen not say swipe to unlock..lol sorry thats just strange.. as for gps i realy had no issues before upgrade, i think it may load faster now. i hope i hear from anyone who has same complaints~~ANDY

 

[ardyer]

A few ways to save power:

• I use Go Launcher as a GUI and use its built in task manager to kill apps that start up.

Interesting. I found Go Launcher to kill my battery and had to quit using it, even though I loved almost everything about it.

 

[drapacioli]

I'm a bit surprised at the results of the poll. Not that it has gone so well for most folks, but that the bulk of the people here had stock phones. I had thought I was one of a handfull that hadn't at least rooted, let alone installed a custom rom (although I did root just prior to the upgrade in order to do a full backup).

I think people misunderstood the poll. You were supposed to choose stock If you had never rooted or installed a custom rom on your phone. If it was ever rooted, then your phone is not under the stock category. Stock was for people who didn't mess with their phones at all, and I'm sure that most of the people here have installed a custom rom before

 

[mnemonicj]

Someone in another thread said Odin isn't what you can use to go back. If you're using Launcher Pro or another app like that, disable it or use the stock launcher to see if that's the problem. Pull an external SD card too to make sure it isn't scanning on boot.

She is using the stock launcher.

 

[dantheman2]

You may be *better* off with the custom ROM from what I have read with some of the posts here. I have not downloaded it yet. I am debating this issue....d/l offical update or to say "To hell with that, bring on the ROMS" Trying to weight the pro's and con's....I am still trying to rub out the bad taste left in my pallet by the slow pace this update took.

I had a ROM on my phone for months (First Cognition, then Perception 10.x) . I wanted to know how the official update compared so I flashed back to stock 2.1 and then flashed using KIES mini to 2.2 Official. I found that the system seemed a lot more sluggish. I ran it for less than 30 minutes and then flashed it back to Cognition 4.0 which is very much like the official update, but much less lag and all the bloatware is gone. Much better.

D

 

[ardyer]

Just a question for those who upgraded to the offical KB1. Can you find ESPN Radio in the market? I want to see if its a problem with my phone or a problem with the update before I start calling Samsung/AT&T.

 

[MickeyCee]

Just a question for those who upgraded to the offical KB1. Can you find ESPN Radio in the market? I want to see if its a problem with my phone or a problem with the update before I start calling Samsung/AT&T.

I can find it.

 

[MickeyCee]

I think people misunderstood the poll. You were supposed to choose stock If you had never rooted or installed a custom rom on your phone. If it was ever rooted, then your phone is not under the stock category. Stock was for people who didn't mess with their phones at all, and I'm sure that most of the people here have installed a custom rom before

Never rooted here or installed a custom rom, no problems with the update at all.