After my last post, I went ahead with upgrading my Captivate to Froyo. The upgrade was pretty seamless to be honest. No real data loss to speak of (1 issue, read on). Everything pretty much came up as expected. And of course, all the AT&T bloatware was back again. But that's not such an issue if you root your phone.
So, what do I think? I can see some speed improvements, the screen actually looked sharper than before (really). I have however seen my battery life go down a bit. But this may be because I'm tinkering with my phone more. For now it's not a big deal since I charge pretty much every night.
I've had to search for options that I could just about go to in my sleep since things have been moved or split. Again, not a big deal and once you get use to the change you are fine. The other thing you should notice is that there are color icons on the settings screen. A nice addition.
The only issue that I had doing the upgrade was that the QuickOffice that came with my phone magically disappeared....or did it? You will notice a new application with a generic icon and the text "This file is read-only" on your phone. When you run it, it is the missing QuickOffice. However, you can't seem to upgrade it or do anything with it properly. No amount of root-hacker-y will remove it or rename it also (thank goodness for GO Launcher -- you can at least change the text). I ended up opening a trouble ticket with QuickOffice which got me a link to a new version of the software to install. Thanks QuickOffice!
So, in all this upgrade seems to be fine for me so far. Speed improvements (perhaps) and pretty screens aside, it only took the better part of a year to get it. But I like it and am glad it's installed.
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