From a poster at XDA:
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I work at an AT&T device support center and we deal with nothing but warranty issues with all AT&T phones. I have noticed a trend with the captivates and I wanted to pass some info along to all of you. 80% of the captivates we get into our Device support center are unavoidable (more on that in a minute) power down issues, 15% are advance task killer related which is fixed by educating and uninstalling, and the remaining 5% are speaker related which is sometimes easily fixed.
I did some research and made some calls to samsung and some internal AT&T contacts as well as some other fellow Device support center associates and I have found the issue with the power down. It is a flaw in the power savings display settings and screen time out. My sources state that eclair on the captivate is causing this issue and that it will be addressed with an upcoming OTA push coming late december. I have also heard that this OTA may come bundled with Froyo which is a very likely scenario. Hold on, a fix is coming.
DO NOT RUN Advance Task Killer period. It does nothing but cause problems for the phone on eclair. Google recognized this and added a task managment solution built into froyo that works much better and won't cause random BS. If you think you know how to run ATK then you probably don't so read up on exactly what it does. Just remember people, when you boot up the phone, it starts most of these services because they are essential to the phone operating properly... imagine that. Don't try to be smarter than the phone. You are not going to save battery by removing processes out of memory. Period. Let them run. If you wanna save alot of battery, turn your display off automatic and run at a lower brightness level and turn your 3G radio off when not using data. Its that simple.
BTW... Just to qualify myself a bit. I am samsung certified and I am running a Captivate on the Leaked froyo, rooted, sideloaded, overclocked to 1.2ghz, verizon market fingerprint build.prop mod, LCD density mod = 210, startup sound mod, battery percentage in task bar.
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I work at an AT&T device support center and we deal with nothing but warranty issues with all AT&T phones. I have noticed a trend with the captivates and I wanted to pass some info along to all of you. 80% of the captivates we get into our Device support center are unavoidable (more on that in a minute) power down issues, 15% are advance task killer related which is fixed by educating and uninstalling, and the remaining 5% are speaker related which is sometimes easily fixed.
I did some research and made some calls to samsung and some internal AT&T contacts as well as some other fellow Device support center associates and I have found the issue with the power down. It is a flaw in the power savings display settings and screen time out. My sources state that eclair on the captivate is causing this issue and that it will be addressed with an upcoming OTA push coming late december. I have also heard that this OTA may come bundled with Froyo which is a very likely scenario. Hold on, a fix is coming.
DO NOT RUN Advance Task Killer period. It does nothing but cause problems for the phone on eclair. Google recognized this and added a task managment solution built into froyo that works much better and won't cause random BS. If you think you know how to run ATK then you probably don't so read up on exactly what it does. Just remember people, when you boot up the phone, it starts most of these services because they are essential to the phone operating properly... imagine that. Don't try to be smarter than the phone. You are not going to save battery by removing processes out of memory. Period. Let them run. If you wanna save alot of battery, turn your display off automatic and run at a lower brightness level and turn your 3G radio off when not using data. Its that simple.
BTW... Just to qualify myself a bit. I am samsung certified and I am running a Captivate on the Leaked froyo, rooted, sideloaded, overclocked to 1.2ghz, verizon market fingerprint build.prop mod, LCD density mod = 210, startup sound mod, battery percentage in task bar.
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