AT&T Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S) - Root, Froyo 2.2

I have had the AT&T Samsung Captivate for about 6mo and watching the Froyo 2.2 update get pushed back 30days every month I decided to take my froyo fate into my own hands. I began by reading xda forums on the "superoneclickroot" process. Feeling confident that I can root my phone with out creating a brick...I proceed.

I downloaded the v1.5.4 of SuperOneClick, extracted to the desktop, connected my phone, making sure not to mount the sd card and click. "Samsung Captivate", "Get Unlock Code". Runs, get an affirmative response., Then click, "Root" on the other tab. Runs for awhile, then looks like it hangs when it gets to "Installing Superuser.apk", but it had actually finished, just didn't respond the way I expected.

Rebooted the phone, and now I'm "rooted", yippee....so now what, right?

Installed ROM Manager by Clockworkmod, created a backup of my current ROM, then backup my SD card to an external harddrive. At least now I think I can revert, if needed.

Next, find a Froyo 2.2 ROM that I like. After searching unlocker.com I found Cognition - Voodoo ROM, read through the forums, seemed like lots of happy ROM users, so I downloaded. Changed the name of the zip file to update.zip, place in the root of my phone internal SD and Click, "Install ROM from SD card" in ROM Manager, point it to the update.zip file, and sit back and watch in amazement(and nervousness) as my phone does the rest.

Reboots, into 2.2 and done....well not yet. I install appbrain from market and sync all my apps back to the phone. I'm sure there is a better backup method for apps, but I didn't look into it.

Was it worth it???? Well, of course it was!!!! The phone is much snappier, apps load much faster(MUCH)..well at least noticibly faster. Plus, I don't have the AT&T bloatware anymore. On top of that...I have gained some knowledge(albeit useless), still more knowledge :)

My Quadrant Standard score: 1554

[UPDATE]

Decided to flash to the newest 2.3b6 so...here's what I did:
 

• Download/installed Odin One Click. Open, Odin, Booted phone in 'Download' mode, plugged in usb cable(usb debug mode on). Odin does it's thing and flashes back to stock.
• Rooted phone using SuperOneClick root 1.5.5. Ran, click get Unlock Code, then 'Root', wait till finished, done, rooted with superuser.apk installed
• Download ROM Manager, install.
• Copy new ROM to SD card of phone, renamed update.zip.
• Open ROM Manager and "install ROM from SD", click OK, then, "back-up existing ROM", I choose not to, I did check Clear Data.
• Phone reboots, click 'install', wait for ROM to finish.
• Download Titanium Back-up(TiBU), yes I paid for the Pro version. Did the Galaxy S fix, (Prefs, App processing Mode, AUTO/Indirect), then reboot phone.
• Run TiBU,  Backup/Restore, Batch, Restore missing apps + all system data.
• Enjoying my fresh ROM!

My Quadrant Standard score: 1520
not sure why I'd drop 34 pts.