hey guys, just thought id drop by over here and check out what was going on
I reminded him everyone in my family and most of my friends are on VZW. I also made him DL speedtest and FCCtest and we ran the 3G speed tests. In our town VZW dominates just as it does in most places. Let's just say his Cap was averaging around 500kbps down and 300up. I was pulling closer to 2K down and 800up. He was like wow this thing is a piece of junk [his Cap.]. I reminded him it was the cousin/brother phone to my SF so the hardware was largely the same. That much of his problem was AT&T related. It was an interesting reminder of how many people aren't as esoteric about their phones as we are in here. He'd never heard of AF. I told him join us in here. I did my workout and on the way out he wanted to pow-wow a bit more on the differences between our phones. I reminded him that hardware wise we had the same guts, [cpu, gpu, screen]. He had more internal storage I had a 16gb card, blah blah blah. In the end he felt he was ok and that we basically had the same phone. He complained about his battery life. Till I told him I was running an OC/UV kernel and I showed him setcpu running 1.2 told him he was at 1 even. I really had to go so I ripped out a page from my training log and wrote down some benchmarking apps to DL from market. So I gave him all the usual suspects, Quadrant, Linpack, SpeedPi, NeoCore, etc. 
WTF!! I said hey I gotta workout but I'll talk to you after. So after my workout I explained to him how Quadrant is only so accurately per se because of I/O and we had a nice little chat. I confessed to messing with him. Of course now he wants to root and OC and get voodoo and ROM's the whole nine yards. I dont think he's joined AF yet but he was working late last night and had to come right back around and open at 5am this morning so thats understandable.
Agreed....now what I didnt tell my gym friend was the whole soft brick escapades but he has my number so Im waiting for that call
I must admit I like the faux carbon fiber look. The Captivate also feels more solid and metal than our SF. Mind you I do love the SF of course but the back is superior on the Cap.
Here's a fun little story:
The manager of my gym has a Cap. so we were comparing and contrasting the other day. He also preferred the feel of his own Cap. So we're comparing our Galaxy S's and he was like why dont you go to AT&T....after I stopped laughing
I went in yesterday and I was like did you get those apps. He was like yeah. So to mess with him and knowing he's at stock. I said why dont we compare Quadrant scores. So we fire them up. He got 872 or something and I pulled like 2K+, He was like
Yeah, generally Im pretty helpful but I do have that devilish side too
No, no, I've been in the corruption game a long, long time.
JK I bounce in there every once in awhile too.
Good question. The hummingbird cpu is design to throttle down [kinda like almost all desktop/laptop cpu's these days]. The idea is to conserve power and battery. Basically why run at full speed if your phone is sleeping. For the stock cpu the increment steps available are 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1000Mhz respectively. So its very common for the cpu not to be at fullbore.
Actually unless you lock in the max speed using Performance option in SetCPU. You will usually see 800Mhz displayed in that tab:
Im the same way with most of these posts coming from a desktop [work or home]. But on occassion I have and will get on AF from the SF and yeah its pretty good but certainly more tedious
Now as aforementioned you can set to Performance and that will lock the cpu at max speed [whatever your kernel's is]. This does improve response since you dont wait that fraction of a second to ramp up. Benchmarks are higher blah blah blah. But yeah outside benchmarking there is no need to not have it on Conservative. Save the battery, the performance will be there when called upon.
sickeningly great battery life
