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I did it!

I said that I’d root my phone and install Froyo, and last Friday I did! Go Nicole, go Nicole! I’m pretty good with computers, and I had lots of experience putting new roms on my HTC Tilt2, but I was really intimidated by the thought of touching my precious Android phone. I LOVE my phone, the Samsung Captive (AT&T’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S). It’s great for lots of things that I love, such as playing WordFeud, reading my NOOKBooks, and listening to podcasts, and I didn’t want to break it. The only thing I didn’t love about it was how slow it was. Slow is relative, since it was still faster than any other phone I’d previously owned, but I knew it was capable of more. Android 2.2 had been out for several months before I even got my phone. In fact, I’d bought it in October believing that AT&T would be updating it to Froyo almost immediately. Why? Oh yeah, because that’s what AT&T kept saying. Then November, December, and January came and went without any timetable for the upgrade. I kept holding out for AT&T, partially out of fear of messing up my phone, but also because I wanted to give them the chance to give me the official Captivate version of Froyo. What finally convinced me to take matters into my own hand was the announcement that the next line of Galaxy S phones was on their way.

I thought that rooting my phone and installing a new ROM would be a difficult process, but actually it was very easy. I guess I lucked out a bit, due to waiting for so long (I love it when my indecision works for me). Right after I decided to do the upgrades on my own, I ran across this post, How to Root Samsung Galaxy S, Captivate and Vibrant, which provided a one-step rooting process. So neat, so simple! Then I went to my good friends at XDA Developers and read this guide to learn how to put a new ROM on my phone. If you can follow directions, it’s pretty simple. I did everything in the guide (except for the rooting part, since I’d already done that), and it turned out exactly the way things were supposed to. So now I have the very sweet Phoenix Rising ROM on my phone, and I couldn’t be happier. See?