...and exchanged it for another one first thing this morning. I was having abysmal battery life, 6-8 hours tops with all the tweaks. The GPS didn't work, of course, and I was having flaky problems with the "back" soft button not working right and the wifi constantly disconnecting at home. I signed in and when my name came up, I told them how I was on hold for 4 hours with Samsung and couldn't get anything resolved. I told em, find me a new one in the back, whatever is the newest ones you just got in, I don't want anything from the initial shipment. They found one with a shipment date of 7/29 and a battery date of 7/15. (They've started putting a HUGE $35 restock fee sticker on all of them now, covering the whole front of the box.. maybe too many are coming back, lol!)
Well the new one:
-GPS worked at the AT&T store, the first time, got an instant 30ft lock. Of course it didn't work at all when I got home. Why does it work at the store always? Oh well. Hope they fix it soon. Samsung's stonewalling concerns me, however.
-Back button works perfectly 90% of the time (there's still that little lag thing of course but the button lights up and registers).
-Battery came charged 47%. I didn't tweak anything, left on live wallpaper, the whole deal. Guess what? After 5 hours the battery is at 39%. After 9 hours the battery is 33% and that's with browsing the web and re-downloading all my apps and stuff. Impressive.
-Phones been on wifi for the past 3-4 hours. Hasn't dropped once.
-Also got the body glove case, to try it out. It's nice! Fits right, doesn't stretch.
-PS - I love you Android, I can't quit you.
So this is the fifth one. I think it might be the good one. I've got ~14 days to find out. Maybe the Samsung quality control monkey was full of bananas and paying close attention on this one. Let's hope!
Backstory:
#1 Captivate, got on release morning, first one from the store (aside: of course I had to ask for it specifically because they were hidden in a back corner and the sales guy assumed I wanted an iPhone
). Well the first one, I should never have left the store with no signal on it but the guy said it would need time for the sim to register and the data plan to kick in. Whatever. Still no signal, or wifi, or gps - the internal antenna was missing or broken or whatever. Brought it back that night. So then...
#2 Captivate, did an even exchange. Guy puts the sim and battery in, phone won't turn on, won't boot. No power. So we move to
#3 Captivate, sales guy is frustrated by now, we get the this one set up and turn it on, guy says hey lets test it first. Well he can't figure out the soft buttons on the bottom. He hands the phone to me. Turns out the soft buttons won't press. At all. We reboot it, and when it comes up, says the media card is corrupt. Well it ate my 8gb SD card (the one from my previous motorola) with all my photos and media. Nice.
#4 Captivate, finally got one that works! They weren't happy about giving me a free 8GB microSD though. This is the one I've had for two weeks until I returned it today.
Moral of the story? If your captivate sucks, maybe you should exchange it for a new one not from the original shipment. You might get a good one!
Well the new one:
-GPS worked at the AT&T store, the first time, got an instant 30ft lock. Of course it didn't work at all when I got home. Why does it work at the store always? Oh well. Hope they fix it soon. Samsung's stonewalling concerns me, however.
-Back button works perfectly 90% of the time (there's still that little lag thing of course but the button lights up and registers).
-Battery came charged 47%. I didn't tweak anything, left on live wallpaper, the whole deal. Guess what? After 5 hours the battery is at 39%. After 9 hours the battery is 33% and that's with browsing the web and re-downloading all my apps and stuff. Impressive.
-Phones been on wifi for the past 3-4 hours. Hasn't dropped once.
-Also got the body glove case, to try it out. It's nice! Fits right, doesn't stretch.
-PS - I love you Android, I can't quit you.
So this is the fifth one. I think it might be the good one. I've got ~14 days to find out. Maybe the Samsung quality control monkey was full of bananas and paying close attention on this one. Let's hope!
Backstory:
#1 Captivate, got on release morning, first one from the store (aside: of course I had to ask for it specifically because they were hidden in a back corner and the sales guy assumed I wanted an iPhone
). Well the first one, I should never have left the store with no signal on it but the guy said it would need time for the sim to register and the data plan to kick in. Whatever. Still no signal, or wifi, or gps - the internal antenna was missing or broken or whatever. Brought it back that night. So then...#2 Captivate, did an even exchange. Guy puts the sim and battery in, phone won't turn on, won't boot. No power. So we move to
#3 Captivate, sales guy is frustrated by now, we get the this one set up and turn it on, guy says hey lets test it first. Well he can't figure out the soft buttons on the bottom. He hands the phone to me. Turns out the soft buttons won't press. At all. We reboot it, and when it comes up, says the media card is corrupt. Well it ate my 8gb SD card (the one from my previous motorola) with all my photos and media. Nice.
#4 Captivate, finally got one that works! They weren't happy about giving me a free 8GB microSD though. This is the one I've had for two weeks until I returned it today.
Moral of the story? If your captivate sucks, maybe you should exchange it for a new one not from the original shipment. You might get a good one!
