Don't take your Captivate to an AT&T store, they don't have the ability to complete the update.
The upgrade process must be completed twice if your Captivate is currently running Android Eclair 2.1. The list of features in the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update are impressive, with the addition of download manager, active app management, shortcuts, one-touch copy/paste, widgets, icons, app groups, updated calendar options, camera geotagging, improved email synching, and camera auto-focus improvements. Then, it appears Samsung heard about it and promptly. There are also game enhancements for with 3D driver updates, better multimedia performance and concurrent garbage Collector technology imbedded to reduce lags in playing games. News leaked out today that an Android 2.2 (Froyo) update for the Samsung Captivate was imminent and the evidence was the update page itself. Samsung warns that you should be sure that all data has been backed-up before applying this upgrade. Currently, there is no support at this time for Apple computers.įeatures of the update include, fixed top-menu in Gmail and voice search added into the search categories.
To update the Captivate, you will have download and install Kies Mini using your Windows PC. It has been replaced by the Samsung Galaxy S II at AT&T as the top smartphone of the year by Wireless and Mobile News top best final list. The Samsung Galaxy Captivate was one of the top best smartphones of the year, for AT&T in 2010.
The Android 2.3 Gingerbread upgrade is finally available for the Samsung Captivate (SGH-i897). When the Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate was updated to Android 2.3 Gingerbread, Captivate owners were very disappointed, now they can enjoy Gingerbread features. Looks like Kies Mini is the path Samsung has decided to take with the Galaxy S Froyo updates (at least in the US) - first, the Vibrant got its 2.2 fix via the Windows-only software, and now it.