Convince Me!!!

To paraphrase Morpheous in the Matrix,

The choice is yours, you can take the white pill and continue on as though nothing happened (using the iPhone), or you can take the green pill and open your eyes to the Android phone and it's possibilities.

I have not had much problem with lag, I am using stock 2.1.  I do notice that when memory gets below a certain point (55-60 MB free), my phone will start to lag.  There are several options to fix lag.

Lag due to memory consumption can be fixed by running Advanced Task Killer Free, you can run this on demand (which I do) or set it to run automatically at regular intervals.

Lag due to File System can be fixed by rooting your phone and running One Click Lag Fix (OCLF).  Which does work and I have tried. 

Obviously, the decision is yours and no matter what I or anyone else says, you are going to have to make up your mind.  There are fixes to just about any problem, but complaining about them does not solve the issue, doing something does.

I have had mine for about 2 months and it has been fine as far as lag. My daughter, her friend and my boss have the Captivate and they don't have lag issues. It does slow down a little when the memory got down to about 50mb to 60mb. I use advanced task manager and advanced task killer. I use the safe setting. I tried to use the aggressive and crazy setting but I seemed to have weird problems. I think something was being killed that shouldn't.


Do you think that there could be something you are doing to cause the lag or did all 4 Captivates have the lag problem right out of the box?

That would be some sucky luck to get 4 bad ones like that. I feel for you. Hang in there it's a great phone. If it get close to your 30 days take it back and get another one. I'm sure you know it's a sweet phone when it's working correctly.


Jim

Well I dont think switching your phone 4 times would really do anything to fix the lag all that it would do is get you a shiny new phone each time. It really depends on what what you mean by lag and how much stuff you have running in the background. Yes phones do lag it doesnt matter if you have something running in the background or not its all up to the ROM that you have. I can get a custom rom installed on my phone and guess what even with Voodoo enabled and nothing running my phone still hiccups and lags and i dont know why and i have 128mb of ram available

right now as i check my phone after a fresh reboot i have 141.2mb of ram free and after refreshing it im now up to 153.4mb free and as i switched screens my phone wanted to lag. IF you want to try a program called AutoKiller. It has speed up my phone considerbly since i started using it and i also use a task killer too but that i have as a widget so i can choose when i want to kill programs myself which also saves battery since its not running in the background

just because a phone may hicup going from screen to screen doesnt mean it lags considerbly just think about it you are holding a computer in your hands which is considerbly smaller than your laptop and has a preccessor which is about the same as it too to me having a 1ghz proccesser is more than i ever wanted and i can even overclock it to 1.2ghz if i wanted to with teh capability of going to 1.6ghz (which you would need a heatsink just to keep the thing cool) but anyways...

if you dont want to root the phone or change roms then you problably are not going to get 2.2 anytime soon with this phone and you are going have to stick with what you have. 2.1 worked great for me yes it was slow but laggy umm i didnt think so it just took some effort into getting things to load. The choice is yours if you want to go to an iphone which they have locked up considerably or stick with the Captivate or any android where you can disguise the limit because right now im changing the bootloading screen, some of the icons for the phone, and the battery gauge and im loving it because i can do whatever i want!