Hello gang, very happy about this forum. My wife and I just got our new Captivates and we are having lots of fun with them. I have a few questions because we are not "techie", I can find my way around fairly decent but I am having a hard time figuring out a few things.
1. What is all this talk about "root"? What does it mean, what are the benefits, should we do it?
2. I have noticed that most of my contact info is missing. I think all contacts are there but some of them have just a name with no numbers or info. Some have just one number instead of multiple so I have lost lots of cell numbers or home numbers. This has me frustrated. What is the problem?
3. My media on SD card is present and I finally discovered how to assign a picture with a caller but when I get to the contact page it only shows numbers for AT&T, it will let me scroll on the side for letters but when I get to the letter I want it never goes there, just stays on letter A with the AT&T numbers. What is wrong here? In order to get my wife's picture on her call I had to create a new contact of her with the exact same number so now I have her in contacts twice. One with a pic and one without.
4. I installed the RingDroid so I could use my music as ringtones but apparently all my music is WMA files. Any ideas on changing these over to MP3 or is there something good to use for WMA as ringtones?
5. I cannot find any options for assigning certain ringtones to specific callers. Is this possible? All I have been able to do is assign one ringer for all calls, one ringer for all texts, and one ringer for all alarms.
6. I am in awe of the droid market. We have never had apps for our previous phones and we are just now catching up. I can spend all day in the market with the free stuff and have already installed lots of things. This brings up two questions:
a. I noticed my applications pages looks like its full on all three pages. Is there a limit to how many I can have? Some of the pre installed apps look like crap I will never use so I should probably delete these, correct?
b. Since I am installing stuff from the market, should I be worried about viruses like I would on my home computer? If so, then what should I do to protect my phone?
7. On the daily briefing page it has spots for AccuWeather, Yahoo Finance, AP Mobile (news), and schedules. I cannot seem to customize this. I would like to change the news source and maybe try a different weather app. Can I swap these out for what I want and if so How?
8. I noticed the FaceBook app really sucks. I went to the sight and bookmarked it for quick find but half the time I go there the sight is limited with old posts. I click on full sight and I get a lot more posts but sometimes they are very old posts as well. Nothing I do seems to update with recent posts. Any suggestions on this?
9. Does the AT&T navigator cost money to use?
10. I tried installing google maps but it doesn't look right. I had it on my old phone (tilt) and I had a satellite view instead of the map view I get now. What am I doing wrong with this.
11. Is there a limit on the number of questions I ask in one post?
I'm not sure what version my Captivate is, only that its a Galaxy S.
Thank you to all in advance for any help or answers you can give. I tried searching before I asked these questions and I couldn't find the answers so sorry if these have been asked hundreds of times.
1. What is all this talk about "root"? What does it mean, what are the benefits, should we do it?
2. I have noticed that most of my contact info is missing. I think all contacts are there but some of them have just a name with no numbers or info. Some have just one number instead of multiple so I have lost lots of cell numbers or home numbers. This has me frustrated. What is the problem?
3. My media on SD card is present and I finally discovered how to assign a picture with a caller but when I get to the contact page it only shows numbers for AT&T, it will let me scroll on the side for letters but when I get to the letter I want it never goes there, just stays on letter A with the AT&T numbers. What is wrong here? In order to get my wife's picture on her call I had to create a new contact of her with the exact same number so now I have her in contacts twice. One with a pic and one without.
4. I installed the RingDroid so I could use my music as ringtones but apparently all my music is WMA files. Any ideas on changing these over to MP3 or is there something good to use for WMA as ringtones?
5. I cannot find any options for assigning certain ringtones to specific callers. Is this possible? All I have been able to do is assign one ringer for all calls, one ringer for all texts, and one ringer for all alarms.
6. I am in awe of the droid market. We have never had apps for our previous phones and we are just now catching up. I can spend all day in the market with the free stuff and have already installed lots of things. This brings up two questions:
a. I noticed my applications pages looks like its full on all three pages. Is there a limit to how many I can have? Some of the pre installed apps look like crap I will never use so I should probably delete these, correct?
b. Since I am installing stuff from the market, should I be worried about viruses like I would on my home computer? If so, then what should I do to protect my phone?
7. On the daily briefing page it has spots for AccuWeather, Yahoo Finance, AP Mobile (news), and schedules. I cannot seem to customize this. I would like to change the news source and maybe try a different weather app. Can I swap these out for what I want and if so How?
8. I noticed the FaceBook app really sucks. I went to the sight and bookmarked it for quick find but half the time I go there the sight is limited with old posts. I click on full sight and I get a lot more posts but sometimes they are very old posts as well. Nothing I do seems to update with recent posts. Any suggestions on this?
9. Does the AT&T navigator cost money to use?
10. I tried installing google maps but it doesn't look right. I had it on my old phone (tilt) and I had a satellite view instead of the map view I get now. What am I doing wrong with this.
11. Is there a limit on the number of questions I ask in one post?
I'm not sure what version my Captivate is, only that its a Galaxy S.
Thank you to all in advance for any help or answers you can give. I tried searching before I asked these questions and I couldn't find the answers so sorry if these have been asked hundreds of times.