Hey guys, there's a chance i could trade my vibrant for a captivate at no cost, would it be a wise move? what are the differences???
If you're on T-mobile 3g won't work anymore and the captivate has issues with the speaker going out. I'd keep the vibrant.
Its only a small issue, but I've noticed that the Captivate's USB port is difficult to use with any USB cable but the one it comes with because of the angle of the bevel. The Vibrant is also a better looking phone, imho. Not to mention, but since Oxirane already did, if you don't move over to AT&T you will be stuck without 3g data with the Captivate.
Cappy has GB update. Vibrant - not.
So I guess the Captivate is a better option? the 3G band doesn't matter as I can switch to another carrier.
I've heard that you can't install third party apps on the captivate, is this true? what about technical glitches?
Dont get the captivate, I can second the USB problem. It will only work with the samsung cable and no the others. I wasted money purchasing after market USB cable and realized it didn't work with captivate.
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Hello all, i have a Vibrant. but unfortunately in my area at&t only operates their 3g on the 850band, which the vibrant doesn't support. so ive been stuck on Edge for months now, and getting sick of it.
I was wondering if the internal cellular antenna could be swapped with lets say a samsung captivate. so that it could operate on my local 3g band? (without any horrible software issues).
thanks for replies.
I don't know if this is actually possible, but I wish it was. That way, I would my antenna with the one in the Galaxy S 4G. I guess you'd have to find someone with that type of experience.
As of now im guessing it isn't, been searching everywhere on the net and i dont think its even been attempted on any android phones, I have learned that the cellular antenna housing is in the hump on the bottom of the phone. may disassemble it and take a look.
EDIT::: this is completely possible, however, i cannot find a supplier or place to buy a compatible chip that works on all bands....
ANYONE lemme know where i can. please and thankyou
I am considering moving from Verizon to Sprint (for reasons unrelated any handset I have now or could get). If I move, this means getting rid of my Samsung Droid Charge, which I like a lot, and getting a phone on the Sprint network. As near as I can tell the Galaxy S-II (Epic) is the top of the line phone at Sprint, so that's what I would probably get.
Q. -- Are there any reasons *not* to buy a Galaxy S-II (Epic)?
Q. -- It looks like there's a cagillion ROMs for Galaxy S-II. Will all of them work on Sprint's version of it (the Epic, which is a CDMA phone)? Or are some ROMs only available for the GSM versions of the handsets?
Q. -- I've never used ICS, but I suppose that I'd install an ICS ROM. Which one or two is considered the best (favoring stability over speed)?
Q. -- I've been running a wireless tethering app on my Droid Charge, instead of paying Big V thirty bucks a month for tethering privileges. Assuming that I root a Galaxy S-II (Epic), will I be able to tether from it, without getting nabbed by Sprint? Will I need an outside app to do that or will any rooted Galaxy S-II do this?
Thanks in advance.
A. Sprint may be getting the Galaxy Nexus soon. If you like the phone, that may be one reason not to buy the SGS2. New phones are coming very soon within the months.
A. All roms here in the i9100 section will NOT work the Sprint SGS2. Check out the Epic 4G section of XDa:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=713
A. Ask the question there regarding a good rom. It may be suggested to use a gingerbread rom for better stability.
A. You can try using certain apps in google play for tether. Again, just confirm with the epic 4g section if sprint watches this or not.
Thank you, Kaze105.
The Droid Charge has one forum for its GSM and CDMA versions, so I didn't think to look for a different forum for the Epic variant of the Galaxy S-II. Sorry to post in the wrong place, but thanks for the info.
Would the Nexus, once available, be considered superior to the Galaxy S-II (any variant)?
FYI, Sprint SGS2 is actually the Epic 4g Touch. It's forum is at http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1281.
As far as comparison to the Nexus, depends on your point of view. Nexus has no external sd card slot, but does come with AOSP Android, so no TouchWiz. Screen is different as well, as well as camera. It's a subjective thing.
Yes, I should do my own research and I have done the bare minimum. Atrix is a GSM phone and I believe page plus works on Verizon which isn't a GSM network? But somewhere I swear Ive read about the Atrix being able to work with other networks. Can it be flashed to page plus and if not which networks can I get it to without hardware changes. I am trying to sell mine as I got the S2 (don't flame me lol), I got the Atrix 2 first but everything I saw about the specs said the original was a better phone so I went with the next one in line for ics. It is what it is. Now I want to sell it so I can get the S3 and be next in line for JellyBean. So who is my target customers I can flash it to for prepay? Thanks in advance!
Broadcasted from the Redneck-Riviera in L.A. using my Sammy s2, Task650's smooth as a baby's bottom AOKP and a little duct tape.
No. If it doesn't have a sim, it wont work with the atrix since they (moto) didn't release it to cdma. Sorry
I have a vibrant that's hard bricked, I had it JTAG'd before and I'm not really interested in going through that process again.
What I have in mind now is that I want to completely change the board in the Vibrant to one from a Captivate, reason being here in The Bahamas the the data network runs on 850mhz and has no support for 1700mhz ( I tried changing the 3G band by entering the service menu but that didn't work.)
So what I really wanted to know is, if this can be done seeing that (IMO) the only major difference with the captivate and vibrant are the cosmetics.
Secondly IF the board can be changed is there anyway that I can flash the Vibrant bootscreen instead of having to see the captivate bootscreen in a vibrant body.Thanx.
UPDATE: after stripping my vibrant down I remembered (realised) that the T959 AND i9000 are exactly the same phone, so I'll get a board from one of those for the 850mhz radio
Hi there I am having really bad reception wit my galaxy s4. Recently it has gotten to the point where I lose reception for more than 5 min I won't get it back into I reboot my phone. I tried a factory recept redownload the whole update again and flashed it. Like I can't fix it. Also I was reading that samsung makes phones wit poor reception. I was wondering if this was true. I need a reliable phone that gets good signal. I love samsung phones but their weak antennas is making me want to leave them for Motorola or an iphone :/ those r the only 2 phones that get superior reception. What I mean when I lose service those 2 phones still have service at my work and we all habeas verizon. So my question is. Will the samsung galaxy note 5 be pledge wit poor reception issued or will I have to get another phone besides samsung. I really don't like motorola UI nor the iphone. But I need a good phone wit good radio antenna. What do you guys think. Open to opinions.
Try a new Sim card... They will swap it out for free at Verizon store.
BtoGS488 said:
Try a new Sim card... They will swap it out for free at Verizon store.
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Yea they already did that. And I am still having this issues. I do not know if I got a defective phone or is just plain old samsung phones that have poor reception.
Fine over here. Might be defective, or the stock Verizon stuff is screwing with the phone. Hey, try Stang's ROM, you can use that from Lollipop. It's the same thing, but deodexed and debloated with some more tweaks.