** Froyo Available on Captivate **

[shawn122]

See the thread for yourself
I897UCJI6 - FROYO - for real - xda-developers

 

[Phil Nickinson]

Nice! Just plopped it on mine. Time to test this puppy out.

 

[cobra302]

so whats the word phil?? is this for real for real? did it fix or break anything?

 

[sigmamason]

copy/paste in emails? was the main reason why I returned...please give me this reason on 2.2 to come back...

 

[Phil Nickinson]

Oooooo. Keyboard's been rearranged. Jerry and I are doing benchmarks. Have been hearing weird things about the JIT and Samsung.

 

[TheBronze]

What does that mean, "weird things?"

 

[gtg465x]

The JIT is heavily optimized for Snapdragon processors in particular and doesn't provide nearly as much of a performance boost (in linpack anyways) for Motorola phones (TI OMAP processors), Galaxy S phones (Samsung Hummingbird processors), and older phones with older Qualcomm processors.

 

[Phil Nickinson]

What does that mean, "weird things?"

Crashes and such.

We've done some benchmarks. On par, about double the numbers of the 2.1 Captivate.

 

[Cavani]

So is this the update that contains the GPS fix?

 

[gtg465x]

So is this the update that contains the GPS fix?

Seems it does. Everyone over at XDA has said the GPS works awesome with this so far.

 

[cobra302]

i wanna do this, but i dont wanna lock my phone out of an official froyo. didnt something like that happen with motorola recently? but man oh man do i want that gps fix!

 

[cobra302]

Crashes and such.

We've done some benchmarks. On par, about double the numbers of the 2.1 Captivate.

so are the crashes in the normal os, or in certain things in particular? i'm not sure i know what JIT is. you think this is safe to go ahead and use?

 

[gtg465x]

so are the crashes in the normal os, or in certain things in particular? i'm not sure i know what JIT is. you think this is safe to go ahead and use?

I think he heard things about froyo on other Galaxy S phones. No crashing or problems with this leak.

 

[braj]

I won't dare update now, but I am really wanting to hear about how much it improves things. This must mean the official release is coming sometime soon no?

 

[jordanetodd]

any interesting new features specific to froyo in touchwiz or other galaxy S crap?

 

[dmnall]

Running it now on my captivate runs pretty good so far!

Cheers,
Charlie

 

[Stride]

is there any downside from flashing this froyo build vs the official froyo build that will be released?

 

[Verdes8891]

Is this the official update for the phone, or is this the leaked version?

 

[boricua365]

I'm looking for someone to reply and post a comprehensive update on what is working and what is fixed. Specifically I'd like to know about the Exchange account and if there are any bugs w/ this ROM (I use Exchange a lot), as well as any other major bugs that will drive me nuts.

Phil? You seem to be the authority, any chance you can elaborate a bit?

 

[Nophix]

Well, I figured I'd give it a shot. I was an all-stock, non-rooted user prior to the 2.2 flash.

It was gravy. Seriously, the process was about 10 minutes. The GPS seems to actually WORK now, and the phone runs far better overall. Tested most basic functionality, and everything works just fine. Quadrant score of 992 now, while it was 740 before.