I get hardly any bars where I live anyway, but the only way I was ever able to get the samsung to drop bars is with a literal death grip, I had to want to kill it. It was totally unnatural (sp?) and not much of a problem for me. As the saying goes if you go looking for trouble you will eventually find it. Anywho, since I'm posting, can anyone offer advice on why video and music that is on my phone's memory is skipping?
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Samsung Captivate Death Grip Issue (similar to iPhone 4)
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Baldilocks
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Most phones are nowadays because there are too many models and they just push them out on a conveyor. (Although Apple has no excuse because they only have ONE phone model.)
Baldilocks
Android Expert
The phones memory isn't the best - that's why they are working on a fix that puts the phones system files on an external microSD card.
If you put your movies on an external microSD card they should be just fine.
Is it just me or does this make no sense? Why would they work on putting the SYSTEM files on an external card? Could you post a source to support this?
Of course it makes no sense. I don't think he meant it the way we read it. I think he's saying if you put your movie file on your removable sd card it will play better. If that's true, and if that's the case, he's probably saying that the driver for the internal storage is less-than-optimal.
I'm just pointing out what he said.. which I don't find confusing:
He's not talking about movies or music in that post.
and I'm just agreeing with you and giving him the benefit of the doubt considering its late and he probably didn't express his thought as he meant to =P
Baldilocks
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UPDATED : Real fix for the "stalling/lagging" problem - Android @ MoDaCo
Don't try to use the fix as it hasn't been ported to the Captivate yet. But basically it means that Samsung is using crappy internal SD cards and that's why there is a lot of lag and sputter even with the 1Ghz chip.
Don't try to use the fix as it hasn't been ported to the Captivate yet. But basically it means that Samsung is using crappy internal SD cards and that's why there is a lot of lag and sputter even with the 1Ghz chip.
It does? This is some forum post by someone who is considered a newbie with 38 posts total. The person also claims to have rewritten the kernel but no one on that thread has confirmed it at all.
Baldilocks
Android Expert
I've seen it mentioned other places as well. There is a video of a Galaxy S floating around somewhere with this 'fix' and it's showing benchmark scores higher than a Nexus One running Froyo.
Care to post the places this was mentioned? Sounds interesting.
Baldilocks
Android Expert
I'll look. This is a screen cap of his benchmark scores:
Read thru the thread. I know it's been mentioned on XDA as well.
Read thru the thread. I know it's been mentioned on XDA as well.
Baldilocks
Android Expert
Well if this is the case - why aren't there threads and threads of people supporting this and calling it the best thing ever? Don't get me wrong - assuming that video is legit, that is quite good and I'd love to make this mod to my phone. Faster than a Nexus One running 2.2? Seems too good to be true 
For me it is not a problem, other than the fact of it showing less bars.
It shows less bars than my nokia e71x, but the strange thing is that the captivate has better signal and call quality than the nokia? In my building where I work it shows about the same bars on my nokia as the captivate and no dropped calls either. Now granted this is only a week so I will obviously need more time to draw any reasonable conclusions, but I would get at least 1 dropped call a day with the nokia and so far I have had none with the captivate which is great for me! really need my cell for my job. It is strange how It can show less bars but have better talk results. Maybe it's just really is a software issue?
It's somewhat difficult and dangerous for the average person. The reason the Galaxy S scores higher in the Quadrant benchmark is because it factors graphics into it and the graphics chipset of the Galaxy S is much better than the N1Well if this is the case - why aren't there threads and threads of people supporting this and calling it the best thing ever? Don't get me wrong - assuming that video is legit, that is quite good and I'd love to make this mod to my phone. Faster than a Nexus One running 2.2? Seems too good to be true
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ecb
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Has anyone seen this article?
Samsung Vibrant And Captivate Suffer 'Death Grip' Too -- InformationWeek
Anyone with the Captivate able to reproduce?
I can reproduce pretty easily by holding along the bottom of the phone. I have good coverage and the bars drop from 5 to 3 or 2. More specifically, the signal strength drops from -80 to -97. I'm in a strong AT&T coverage area so it doesn't seem to affect much, but data speeds do drop
My concern is the same as I had with the iPhone4, the signal degradation may cause calls to drop if I'm in a mediocre AT&T area
Overall, I've found that speeds on the captive are slightly better than on the iphone4, so I'm hopefull that the antenna is better than on the iPhone.
That being said, the Captive does have a signal issue. Its not made up and its not an issue made up by iPhone fans. Does it have an impact on calls....I can't say yet
dantheman2
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I have no problem with death grip or GPS on my Captivate.
wow lol. Okay, so this quick video post to this thread which was entirely meant for you folks, all like... ten of you, ended up being viewed over 10,000 times. That is ****ing insane. Thank god I put my shirt on before recording lol.
It's not fair to compare the iphone's antenna issue to any other phone's antenna issues. With most phones, you have to try to completely cup the phone and cover up the majority of the phone. This could be called a 'death grip'. With the iphone 4 on the other hand, u don't have to death grip the phone. Just one finger placed on the spot where the two antennas are separated and you lose signal. Cupping the whole phone with you hand and simply pressing on the side of a phone with what could be ur pinky are two completely different situations.