Remove All Traces of AT&T from the Samsung Captivate
| by Kevin Krause on July 26th, 2010 |
Love your Samsung Captivate but does all of the AT&T bloatware and disabled sideloading got you feeling a bit disenfranchised? If you don’t mind thumbing your nose at the man while take a few constructive liberties with the software of your device, BriefMobile has a complete guide to removing all traces of AT&T from your Captivate (aside from the logo printed on the top of the phone, but hey I’m sure some creative solutions could rid you of that as well). After taking the plunge to root and performing a bit of housekeeping in the backend of the Captivate you’ll be saying bye-bye to bloatware and hello to third party APK files. What’s that? You’re almost feeling like a real Android user? Be careful if you do undertake this procedure, young ones, because the only thing worse than an AT&T Android is a bricked one.
[via BriefMobile]
1. Eli wrote on July 26, 2010
and now verified as completely legal!
2. Sean wrote on July 26, 2010
What about the vibrant
3. 14_ wrote on July 26, 2010
does anyone know if the sideloading process commands are compatible on mac ?
4. Nick wrote on July 26, 2010
Nice! I can finally recommend this device to people wanting a good Android device in AT&T!
5. Vegeta wrote on July 26, 2010
*Thumbs up*!
6. Steve wrote on July 26, 2010
@14_ mac version is command line select a number interface link follows:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/android-applications/24362-sideload-wonder-machine-linux-mac.html
7. Danny wrote on July 26, 2010
@eli- can you point me to that info?
8. Danny wrote on July 26, 2010
@eli- you know.. by pointing me to the next headline. lol. thanks though
9. JBaker wrote on July 26, 2010
I did this to mine last Monday. LauncherPro is a Godsend! TouchWiz sucks.
10. ari-free wrote on July 26, 2010
Remove All Traces of AT&T from the Samsung Captivate
well…except for the fact you can’t use it on verizon/sprint
11. JJFNIGHTS80 wrote on July 26, 2010
I’ll wait till something good comes after the Captivate and the crappy Dell Streak.
12. Eric wrote on July 26, 2010
After doing all of this: 2x better battery life! Wayy faster, less lag. Awesome.
13. Sean wrote on July 26, 2010
Does anyone know if you can do this with the tmobile vibrant…… I mean they’re the same Damn phone
14. joe wrote on July 26, 2010
@jjfnightS80 Dell Streak is awesome!!! if you dont live in uk wait a bit and try a friends, i love it.
15. ari-free wrote on July 27, 2010
JJFNIGHTS80 if it wasn’t for samsung, the best android phone on AT&T would be an iPhone that had android ported to it
16. ari-free wrote on July 27, 2010
launcherpro plus isn’t on the market so you have to do this for the sake of all those developers who live in countries with no paid app access to the market
17. zac wrote on July 27, 2010
@ Sean – twice you’ve asked, and twice you’ve been ignored, why, you ask? because i’m sure somewhere on your browser there is a search bar, hopefully if you have a brain it’s pointed to Google, i and probably all of us could tell you exactly where to go, but we’re not gonna ;) biatch!!!
18. Sean wrote on July 27, 2010
Oh no you did not just try and start a geek fight with me on a tech blog…Give me you address pussy! Better yet, give me your mommy’s address cause I know you live with her. At least I hope you do, cause no self respecting adult who has a well balanced life would do what you just did. You better be some comic book reading zit faced teen cause if you’re an adult…I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
19. Alex Android wrote on July 27, 2010
This is fantastic! Especially now that “The Man” is now almost encouragingus to root our phones. As a backflip user, it is very frustrating to see my phone slowed by all the crap ATT loads onto their phones. And the fact its not the easiest phone to root either…
20. whiskey wrote on July 27, 2010
@zac- That was extremely mean… But also extremely funny. It made me laugh, keep it up. PS ive never owned an andriod before and I have the captivate but im afraid to root it on my own. Anyone know where i can get some help.
21. vafifty4 wrote on July 27, 2010
@Sean- the vibrant doesn’t have any AT&T stuff to remove
22. steveget wrote on August 5, 2010
@Zac – you’re a deek. If he can’t ask that question in your precious comments section, then why even have a comment section at all? To hear baseless speculation and pointless “I wish statements? A Google search would likely lead right back to this post.