Coming from a Hero and a Moment to a Captivate. Where are we Dev wise?

[gunnyman]

Is there a catch all guide to what has been developed for the Galaxy S platform? I'm curious about the state of CM6 and something akin to Tkirton's apps2sd. Just want to read up on what's going on before my phone arrives this week.

Thanks.

 

[designgears]

read some of the top threads would be a good start, and the stickies

No custom roms yet, but SRE 1.0 hack is amazing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=751934

CM6 is in the works for the Vibrant, nothing for the captivate yet, but I am sure it wont be to hard to port the vibrant version over.

Unhelpful's 1.2GHz overclocked, sweet, awesome kernel
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=762171

The I9000 roms are pretty smooth compared to a AT&T crapped up roms
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=763543

True stock one-click recovery, reverts EVERYTHING so you can hide your rooting and such from AT&T
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989

 

[Zilch25]

No custom roms yet, but SRE 1.0 hack is amazing

Not biased at all
(But seriously he did a kickass job)

 

[ranova]

Its just depressing to see Vibrant listed for future support for cyanogen roms, while the captivate is not. Hopefully the port is easy.

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/home/cyanogenmod-6-0-status-update

 

[TheTodFather]

Last I heard they where making a universal cm6 for galaxy S. Perhaps working on the vibrant but end goal would make it universal. Oh well...perhaps i was wrong it wouldn't be first and def wouldn't be the last.

 

[votum]

Same hardware so I don't see the problem with getting CM6 to work for us. Hell the Vibrant one might work straight across.

Side question, has anyone tried flashing a captivate with a vibrant kernel?

 

[Sirfearoth]

pretty good chance that CM6 should work as is, I'm running Vibrant6 at the moment with no issues other than the TMO stuff but that is nothing to worry about

Sent from my 42 node TI 89 cluster

 

[mykenyc]

Is there a catch all guide to what has been developed for the Galaxy S platform? I'm curious about the state of CM6 and something akin to Tkirton's apps2sd. Just want to read up on what's going on before my phone arrives this week.

Thanks.

Just out curiosity why didn't you stay with sprint to get the epic cause im switching to them?

 

[Unhelpful]

Side question, has anyone tried flashing a captivate with a vibrant kernel?

I'm actually using the Vibrant source release to build my Captivate kernels. They're about the same but many things are missing from the Captivate sources. The compiled kernels are quite different though - the two version are built with different configurations and have different files in initramfs.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

 

[gunnyman]

Just out curiosity why didn't you stay with sprint to get the epic cause im switching to them?

A couple of reasons
1) there isn't any 4 G coverage where I live and refuse to pay an extra 10 dollars for a service I'll never use. I'm in agreement with the folks behind explainthefee.com on that subject.
2) EVDO sucks here as well. 90% of the time I am on 1x instead of full EVDO.

 

[gunnyman]

Thanks for the answers so far by the way. Has Samsung finally gone along with the rest of the Open Handset Alliance and standardized on their file system layout or is it still as screwy as the one on the Moment?

 

[mykenyc]

A couple of reasons
1) there isn't any 4 G coverage where I live and refuse to pay an extra 10 dollars for a service I'll never use. I'm in agreement with the folks behind explainthefee.com on that subject.
2) EVDO sucks here as well. 90% of the time I am on 1x instead of full EVDO.

Oh okay i completely understand you, i got screwed by ATT thats why i'm switching, i thought sprint and verizon share towers virtually. i guess everyone have different experience i hope you have good one with ATT, but i'm sure you will .

 

[gunnyman]

Oh okay i completely understand you, i got screwed by ATT thats why i'm switching, i thought sprint and verizon share towers virtually. i guess everyone have different experience i hope you have good one with ATT, but i'm sure you will .

They don't share towers, BUT you can install a VZW PRL file which force a sprint phone to use VZW towers. That helped me a little.

The main reason I moved to AT&T was Sprint's decision to not include Froyo on any of their older Android phones. The Hero, which now runs CM6 and the Moment, which has the same CPU as the moto droid, will get no further enhancements. I hated that. I was ready to jump to T-Mob and the Vibrant but the Amazon deal for a penny on the Captivate got me here.

AT&T is great here. I'm not in a major metro area, and that seems to be where AT&T fares the worst.