** Froyo Available on Captivate **

[sigmamason]

is copy/paste for the email clients working now in this leaked version? Interested in going back to the Captivate due to flexibility over blackberry and copy/paste is a must have for what I do.

 

[zukie8082]

Running Froyo

I've been waiting forever for this!
I'm not super-advanced, but the install was extremely easy. The only downside I had to deal with so far is that literally ALL the information saved on my phone was erased when I installed the update. Not sure why.
Froyo shows my benchmark scores just a shade under 1000, which is a pretty sizable upgrade from the mid-600's to low-700's I was getting.
An auto-rotate button has been added to the pulldown menu at the top of the screen, which is pretty slick. I still don't like TouchWiz (it's the colors in the app drawer that really kill me), so I'm continuing to use LauncherPro. Touchwiz did add one cool thing that I noticed before I re-installed LauncherPro, and that's the HTC style Preview that allows you to view all of your homescreens at once. It's also easier to add homescreens now than before.
I'm interested in seeing how the battery life holds up now. Friends of mine have been running Froyo on Droid 1, Droid X and Droid Incredible, for weeks now, and they seem to notice a slight dropoff in battery life. Also, I'm not sure how this will affect my device when the "official" update comes out, but I see no real reason to update again now.
Good luck with the updates people!

 

[prashanthuk365]

Help needed please!!!

I've installed the 2.2 on my captivate!! I want to get back to my stock 2.1!! pls help me!!!

 

[Nophix]

is copy/paste for the email clients working now in this leaked version? Interested in going back to the Captivate due to flexibility over blackberry and copy/paste is a must have for what I do.

I don't know exactly what you are looking for, but under the stock email app it seems to work fine. I think it always did.

To test, I selected and copied text from one email response, and pasted into a new message. Seemed to work fine.

Someone else mentioned battery life. I was getting a consistent full day out of mine, with the Podkast app basically streaming audio all day, and me taking calls constantly. It would get plugged in right before I crashed, since it's also my alarm clock.

I do have a car charger, but don't typically use it.

 

[planoman]

Did the update erase your pictures etc?

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.

I have the same configuration as you. So you just connect your phone to your computer after downloading the update and drag it to the internal SD can follow the steps?

Did it erase all your media i.e. pictures videos etc?

Thanks.

 

[emalik25]

Updated to Froyo, my impressions:
-Captivate is a lot faster, much less lag and app hanging but it still occurs sometimes.
-Battery life is improved (no idea how).
-The swipe screen to unlock is different, need to swipe to the edge of the phone's screen to unlock now.
-Horizontal viewing is less sensitive.
-Music player will not go to coverflow when flipped horizontally (press menu, album view).
-Still having GPS issues, although some say it works perfectly.
-Theme color is different, I actually like it better.

Overall pretty good, a lot better than 2.1 but still some issues that need to be fixed.

 

[Nophix]

I have the same configuration as you. So you just connect your phone to your computer after downloading the update and drag it to the internal SD can follow the steps?

Did it erase all your media i.e. pictures videos etc?

Thanks.

I backed all my stuff up on my laptop, but it seems to have left it all on the phone. You will have to download apps. If you have anything important, back it up to be safe. Expect to have a factory fresh phone to be safe.

The process wasn't even that hard. Turn off phone, remove SIM card. Click the file downloaded form the original post. This will bring up the ODIN One Click screen, ready to go. Do NOT power phone on.

Hold both volume buttons (not power button) down, while plugging in the usb cord for the phone. Once ODIN has recognized the phone, simply press "START". It'll go through the process itself. The phone will reboot. Once ODIN says the process is successful, and the phone has completed its reboot cycle, unplug it , power it down, and replace the SIM card. when it reboots, you will now have a fully functional Froyo. Follow the setup instructions, sync all your data back up and reload apps.

 

[falcon_bob]

Hey everybody. I am still a new Android user, so bare with me here. I installed the Froyo update successfully, but I lost my root.

Can someone help me get it back?

 

[Raven71]

Now onto the update. I just did the oclf so if I decide to do this I first need to remove the fix but stay rooted? Also since I used the oclf to root do I still need to use Odin?

 

[planoman]

Thank You!

I backed all my stuff up on my laptop, but it seems to have left it all on the phone. You will have to download apps. If you have anything important, back it up to be safe. Expect to have a factory fresh phone to be safe.

The process wasn't even that hard. Turn off phone, remove SIM card. Click the file downloaded form the original post. This will bring up the ODIN One Click screen, ready to go. Do NOT power phone on.

Hold both volume buttons (not power button) down, while plugging in the usb cord for the phone. Once ODIN has recognized the phone, simply press "START". It'll go through the process itself. The phone will reboot. Once ODIN says the process is successful, and the phone has completed its reboot cycle, unplug it , power it down, and replace the SIM card. when it reboots, you will now have a fully functional Froyo. Follow the setup instructions, sync all your data back up and reload apps.

Thanks for taking the time to post this!

 

[alias3800]

How does this leaked update work? Do I have to execute the program from a PC, or is it possible to do this on a mac?

 

[Raven71]

Someone said that the Android keyboard is missing. I came across this in the xda forums. Maybe it will help those looking to put it back on. I don't think the link is in the right format to use. Like the person says in the thread maybe someone can make it live.


The other issue is that I lost the Android Keyboard and it was killing me as I hate the Samsung and Swype KB's. Luckily with the search function I was able to find the Android Froyo KB .apk and I put it on the phone using the Sideload Wonder Machine. Here is a link to the .apk | Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire k9hiq8xg4fcl8ie (you know where the dots go) If anyone knows how to
Ok don't know if this is right http://www.mediafire.com/?k9hiq8xg4fcl8ie shows latin apk. Since I'm new to this stuff I hope this is right.

 

[dmnall]

raven71,
The android keyboard apk works fine in Froyo on the Captivate. I have my phone rooted, non market apps enabled and most of the bloatware gone, I just hope an update to Titanium Backup will fix that.

HTH,
Charlie

 

[sigmamason]

I don't know exactly what you are looking for, but under the stock email app it seems to work fine. I think it always did.

To test, I selected and copied text from one email response, and pasted into a new message. Seemed to work fine.

Someone else mentioned battery life. I was getting a consistent full day out of mine, with the Podkast app basically streaming audio all day, and me taking calls constantly. It would get plugged in right before I crashed, since it's also my alarm clock.

I do have a car charger, but don't typically use it.

I along with many others could not get this to work. I get replies to sales quotes or consulting deals or projects, can't always forward all of the text as the client might say something not so pleasant about someone. I am not always at my computer, thus copy/paste allows me the luxury of copying the text that I need to forward, edit some of it to get rid of the offending statements and move on. If that function is now enabled vs the 1st time I had the Captivate, Great. It was not before in either the gmail client or the other email client and K9 didn't handle it well either...

 

[SMAK]

did your fone stay rooted when updated to 2.2?
mine did not , can not use titanium backup for all my apps that i had... any ofer to get fone rerooted will be welcomed.

 

[s2h2golf]

Follow this - works good.

Root JI6 (Froyo) by Swapping Kernels - xda-developers

 

[Zips7987]

Help Please -

I have downloaded the ODIN Froyo, when holding the volume buttons and plugging in the usb it does not recognize the connected device and I get the gadget serial and not able to download a driver. I have installed the Android SDK for 2.1 and 2.2 but with no success to updating to froyo. Sorry if this is a noob question but this is my first try at anything that is not official release

 

[mojonation1487]

I have downloaded the ODIN Froyo, when holding the volume buttons and plugging in the usb it does not recognize the connected device and I get the gadget serial and not able to download a driver. I have installed the Android SDK for 2.1 and 2.2 but with no success to updating to froyo. Sorry if this is a noob question but this is my first try at anything that is not official release

Make sure you have debug mode enabled. If that isn't it then I would say search for the driver from samsung

 

[Zips7987]

have th driver

I have the driver from Samsung installed.... does not recognize the phone when the Downloading do not turn off target appears.... with the digging android... help please

 

[bdpyo]

Does ANYONE know how to turn off the "geo tagging" of photos when using the camera?