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[Epic 4G General] cpcormier3:
I can't even tell you how many times I've flashed this phone trying to get an optimal set up. I have found that over all I've had less problems with the stock rom, but it is still a lot more buggy than the evo. I would just give this phone to my girlfriend and take her evo, but I don't think she would know what to do if the phone went haywire on her. Hers is stock and I've had far less issues with it than this phone. The only times I had any real issues with her evo is when I tried to mess with it. Trust me man, I thought I was the one screwing up this phone, that's why I'm trying out the stock hardware! All I'm saying there are a lot more issues. Trust me I bought this phone for the same reasons as everyone else! I'm just getting sick and tired of having to Odin the damn thing everyone 3 to 4 weeks! I thought a program may have been causing it, so now I'm trying stock ROM EC and I've only rooted it. I've downloaded XDA, Poynt, Blow up, and the Chase apps. These are the only apps I have on here now, so I was hoping that it was maybe an app causing my problems. Today I had my first problem since going to my current set up. I've been talking about it in this forum, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=12464672#post12464672. I'm hoping that it's something that I just needed to reboot my phone. The only other thing I can think that made my phone go black screen is when I use the media player and play videos. I'm hoping it's not one of the apps, but I haven't been able to replicate the problem today. I'm just saying that my girl doesn't have any of these issues with the evo and right now I'm basically on the edge with this phone!!!! I also don't want to shell out a bunch more money for a phone so I just kind of have to deal with it and hope I can find a solution, but I would not recommend this phone to anyone after what I've been through! The Nexus S may be a different story since it's stock, but not this phone!
[Epic 4G General] jbadboy2007:
I'm not gonna say that flashing isn't a complicated thing. But that's your choice and if you really want to experience amazing ui then it takes time of the individual to figure how and what they can and can not do. That's why there is 1 click root. Flashing is not meant for everyone so if you don't have the time that's cool but don't blame the phone for your short comings either in time or intelligence or pesistence.
[Epic 4G General] cpcormier3:
Trust me I've flashed this phone many times. I'm sorry to tell you that when you flash Roms and kernels there are still going to be some problems. I realise that you may want to flash Roms and kernels to make the phone run a certain way, otherwise there wouldn't be multiple roms or kernels to flash if everything worked perfect with one. You're showing your ignorance if you think that a flashed rom and/or kernel is going to be problem free. There's a reason why there are constant updates to the roms and kernels.

I'm just tired of doing it and you should be able to use the phone, without it crashing, without having to mess with it. I don't think it's too much to ask for the phone to not crash when it's stock. Maybe I need to go to full stock with out root. Maybe that's what's causing the phone to mess up. That's my next option!

Edit: I wish I could see other things you've bought. Just curious what type of repairs you had to do to them...

Not sure why you would expect something to NOT work correctly out of the box? You make a valid point it shouldn't work correctly stock..........
[Epic 4G General] dieselg5:
Whatever you do, do NOT get the Epic. Even if it's free. The keyboard TO THIS DAY does not work properly. It still misses keys and it's not layed out all that well either. I came from a g1 that had a keyboard that ACTUALLY registered keys, even if you type faster than my grandma. Please do not get the epic, get the evo shift or wait for something else on Verizon.
[Epic 4G General] cpcormier3:
This forum is also asking an opinion. That's my opinion. You're not making a very good case for the phone if you're telling someone they are going to have to put hours of time to figure out what works.
[Epic 4G General] dieselg5:
Still misses just as many keys....
[Epic 4G General] jbadboy2007:
I'm not missing any keys with the new update and I'm typing so fast see.... :-)
[Epic 4G General] heathmcabee:
If you contract is up in 3 months, then wait for the new phones coming out from Sprint here in the coming months. There will be tons of development behind the Evo3d and the Nexus S is really nice if you want the latest OS updates and the Super-Amoled screen. I sold my Evo and kept my Epic, but the only reason I did that is because the Evo was going to greatly depreciate when the Evo3d came out.

If you have to have a keyboard, then the epic is a no brainer when on Sprint. The HTC Evo Shift is crap next to the epic. The Roms are pretty good for the Epic, and CM7 is heading forward hopefully with an Alpha 2 that would be worthy of a daily driver with the fixes it implements.
[Epic 4G General] nubsors:
The Epic is an advanced user's phone. Not because it doesn't work out of the box. In fact the stock OS never gave me issues. However, there are (relatively) few quality roms available for the Epic. That being said, the (quality) roms that are available are pretty smokin'. The phone plays games like no other single core phone out there and it even beats up the Atrix if you have the phone overclocked and on EXT4 file system. This is why the phone is for advanced users. It can be modded and customize to really blow you away. All you have to do is look at the current roms and you can find that this phone can be flashed to get a 40% boost to clock speed. Take a look at what the phone does on smart bench and even quadrant with the custom roms. With the release of the 2.2 source code, Cyanogen is being officially supported.

Known issues of the Epic:

Laggy transition between landscape and portraid: has fix

Keyboard misses keys: has fix

Camera has slow and bad low light performance: has fix

Has slow and inaccurate GPS lock: has fix

Bad battery performance: has fix

So I am not going to sit here and blow smoke up your butt and tell you that the Epic is a perfect animal, but I will tell you it is one hell of a beast. I highly suggest this phone to anyone that has the patience and tenacity to mod their phone.
[Epic 4G General] ungovernable1977:
Ok, did everyone forget the OP? So all I gather is that you want reliability, and options. If you can do dev work, the sky is the limit for options, reliability, I would actually say yes, it COULD take some work, there are some people here who never have a problem, and if you did custom roms on your droid, you probably already know what goes into that (plus, youre on XDA, so you either know what goes into it, or can read thousands of pages of what does). So its hardware wise still one of the best phones out, possibly the best, but software wise, we were left out in the cold by sprintsung... There are great devs here, soon to be about 5-7 solid roms at any given time... some more reliable, some more experimental, some streamlined, some bling bling. The Nexus S will be our phone, minus keyboard, plus google handling software directly... oh and no removable SD... most wouldnt care, I do. The EVO 3d LOOKS cool so far, but I would have to hold one up next to my epic and see how much more it weighs (oh, and we have gorilla glass, just avoid sandboxes, otherwise, practically indestructible, lookup youtube vids on it)... and of course, the super amoled... I really think it would be hard to go back to an LCD phone... its just too beautiful.

Give us more examples of what you would do with your phone, games, roms, etc... what features count most... and we can give you more than bickering. That is the worst part of the Epic, thanks to sprintsung abandoning us we are at each others throats half the time (here on XDA)... but its getting better... And I have noticed a LOT of new people, at least it seems from 20+pages of how to install a rom in the first day... which is GOOD... new people are a good thing...
[Epic 4G General] b_fizzle:
My opinion: I'm quite happy with the Epic, the roms are good and are continuously getting better. The screen is gorilla glass and samoled (beautiful and tough as nails). I play games, use remote desktop, watch movies, listen to music and do light document editing.

That being said...I'm going to look very closely at the Evo3d in the coming months and may wind up getting that. I would suggest you keep your eyes on that one too, I haven't heard if it will have gorilla glass or not: if so, it's a done deal for me.
[Epic 4G General] ungovernable1977:
Gorilla Glass would be SUCH a smart move for them... Ive heard the EVOs glass is old plate glass window breakable. Really everyone needs to be getting up on the OLED screens... its the only way to go. Its affordable at these sizes (life will be perfect when I can get a 46" TV in it, will finally be better than my CRT projector). I think HTC makes good moves, BUT I really did NOT like the false shortages of EVOs... I would have bought one waaay before the Epic came out, but they were always on 'lists'... if they do that crap again, I wont buy their ****... software dev problems can be worked out (samsung), bad marketing tricks (also on sprints part) have to be approved at the highest levels... that just makes me sick. I REALLY wish the Nexus S would have gone dual core, as I have not seen confirmation we will get an SGS2, and the Nexus would really last a few years if it had dual core...
[Epic 4G General] lancelane:
Sprint

If you don't want to root, don't go with the Epic. If you do, then it is the best phone on the market since it has a great keyboard. I am not getting a new phone until Sprint releases another good one with a keyboard.

Samsung Epic, Syndicate Frozen ROM 1.1, I tried the rest and now on to the best.
[Epic 4G General] androikid:
I LOVE my epic. That is all I have to say, rather than be someone who is on XDA "complaining" about the wonderful device they have been bestowed upon. =)
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shelooga:
Want to keep the phone as close to stock and do my own mods n work.. So can anyone point me in this direction? I haven't found anything on it..
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magneticzero:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=633246

dont let all the text scare you away easily, it is quite simple to use and easy to get a hang of.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shelooga:
Was hoping I could do it at work right over the phone.. Oh well, new project for tonight. Thanks!!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shelooga:
i cannot get this to work. my cygwin will not open. it flashes a command prompot box for a split second each time i try to open the shortcut.

any other ways to deodex the tb without using android kitchen? i just cant get it to go smoothly. i remember using (incorrectly) a program similar to this when playing around with my droidx.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magneticzero:
Apktool and something else...much more involved. I will let you know when i find the info

Smali/baksmali. But i think the kitchen is the easiest and quickest way to deodex your own rom....such a useful tool imo
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shelooga:
Think it was apktool. Ill keep plugging away when I get home

My cygwin won't open for more than a split second when I double click the shortcut. Any ideas?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magneticzero:
i have no idea about VM's, I have a linux box :(
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dave8311:
You didn't install it correctly.

The install defaults to the unzipped folder. You need the folder inside the unzipped folder.

Run the install again, and this time when it wants the path to the packages, browse to the folder inside the folder you unzipped to.

The folder inside the unzipped folder has the same name..... cygwin_packages
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shelooga:
well i finally have the command prompt open. but im totally lost form here. ive extracted the kitchen files to my home, ive ran 'cd nameofmyfolder', ive ran ./menu. i get nothing. no such file or directory. im getting really pissed
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magneticzero:
you may have to chmod +x the menu so your linux os can execute it
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shelooga:
typed 'chmod +x' and got chmod: missing operand after '+x'

im totally new to linux. or this emulator; whatever the kitchen is.

ive tried placing a 399mb pg05img file i used to root the phone through adb. nothing

tried putting up the system.img and boot.img from a backup i made of my rooted bloated phone to the original update folder too.

c:\cygwin\home\kitchen\original_update is where i put it, like the post says.

so if the kitchen starts and seemingly works, why cant it pick up on these files
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magneticzero:
having the android files doesnt matter if the kitchen works or not. you will have to import the android files while in the kitchen.

not really sure how else to go about this, never done it this way, maybe someone else can chime in.

**just thinking in my head atm... you are root(command: su , then input your password(you will know when the command prompt changes) just wondering
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shelooga:
yea i appreciate the help anyway. im going to try with the leaked stock package and see how that goes
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dave8311:
Is your Home folder in the Cygwin folder?

In your Home folder is there another folder with your name on it?

That's where Kitchen goes.

Start Cygwin from the batch file in the Cygwin folder, cd to Kitchen, then enter the ./menu command

I put my system.img and boot.img from a nandroid backup i made in the original update_folder and it worked perfectly.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magneticzero:
that would make sense.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shelooga:
i tried extracting the kitchen file to home, i tried extracting it to home/erich. it is not going. i just keep getting no such file or extension
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dave8311:
Put the kitchen zip file in the "erich" folder, right click on it and choose "extract here"
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shelooga:
.. then open cygwin and after the $ type 'cd erich' right? It's not working still for me
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dave8311:
Nope.

cd kitchen

then....

./menu
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shelooga:
bash: cd: kitchen: no such file or directory

man i am so sick of seeing that message. i cant tell you how many times ive deleted it all and redownloaded the files. or bash: cd: erich

ive tried so many combos of unzipping the kitchen and putting my rom in it and rezipping and unzipping back into cygwin home its crazy. so much wasted time
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magneticzero:
Not sure how vm works.. you sure you dont have to type the full path ie. C:/cygwin/home/username/kitchen or where ever you put the folder?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shelooga:
holy balls i just got it. cygwin installs the bash files the first time you run it into a folder named e. i ignored that folder. and also saw a new kitchen is out. downloaded. unzipped into e, ran 'cd e' and it worked. './menu' and now im in.

WHEW!:rolleyes:

Thanks guys
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magneticzero:
just glad you got it working...also wanted to warn you about one thing when cooking....the sign/zipalign features. You should only sign apks you messed with etc....dont sign the google market apks or you wont be able to download the updates from the market for the google apps. Just saving you some trouble.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shelooga:
maybe thats my problem then. i took the 605.6 release and basically just wanted a stock rooted zipaligned deodexed rom for now. then i was going to use my old method of Root Explorer to remove the bloat i didnt want. wasnt going to alter any apks..yet. i have a theme i made up on my x that id like to get over on this eventually..

so i zipped aligned and signed everything except data/apps per the intructions in the kitchen, but my final .zip puts me in a boot loop at the htc logo. i did one and selected every single option (bash, apps2sd, etc.) and got the loop, tried another with only zip align, deodexed, root, busy box, and signed it and flashed it. boot loop. tried renaming both to pg05img and fastbooting it. no dice. so further down the rabbit hole i go ...
[General Questions and Answers] sammywu:
Would some one help me to solve my problem, I tried to download new Rom by USB cable, suddenly it comes a Picture said Computer Can Not Connect the Phone.

I do not know what I did wrong, can someone tell me how to Un-lock the phone.

Thanks so much in advance

sammy
[General Questions and Answers] Omnichron:
try reinstalling your usb drivers then reconnect the phone and let it go through the process of hd detection until it finalizes. here are the usb drivers for your device:

http://hotfile.com/dl/48893334/93383a1/I9000_USB_driver.rar.html :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nkos719:
hey guys i use the rafpignas desire hd build and I want to change the builds first boot screen.the sreen before the boot animation I mean.I changed the boot animation yesterday but I cannot find how to change the builds first boot screen.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Skellyyy:
The one before or after the GO GO GO screen on MAGLDR?

If it's the one after it, then you can't. Well you can but it's really complicated and you have to know how to edit the intrid.gz file. :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] drinizi:
Follow the link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=990829
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nkos719:
the one after the go go go screen...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nkos719:
anybody who could help me guys??
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Skellyyy:
Like I said before, you won't be able to do it. Somebody else can't come out with a magical new way, you need to edit the intrid.gz which I'm assuming you don't know how to do.
[Atrix 4G General] 4real*leb:
I don't intend to be naggy or anything, but through a software point of view, what has bell done differently to their Atrix phones that make 90% of user developed software render the phone a soft-brick? Just wondering since if we figure why it is that this happens we can then figure how to work around it.
[Atrix 4G General] kevyh:
Bu user developed software, do you mean apps from the Android Market?

I've installed around 20 apps and have not run into any problems.
[Atrix 4G General] NFHimself:
AFAIK, they are the same as the ATT phones, generally, with less branding and ATT software. Both phones get soft bricks, ATT users have a few sbf files to reset to near stock in case of emergency, there are none for Bell.

One good thing is that the current Bell firmware doesn't turn off early usb enumeration after a factory reset, or didn't for me. Adb access continues. Also, you can install apks from your sdcard, so it's less locked down that way. I would rather it not be a Latest Alpha and instead be a Final Release (guess based on firmware names).

It is really the Motorola setup that causes what people are calling soft bricks, if anything is out of place by a hair, progress stops in the booting process and it blinks a red light at you and they make sure it's hard to access the phone via adb, not very useful to anybody, IMO. That doesn't happen on other android devices I have used.

*shrug*
[Atrix 4G General] Silent8Strike:
I really wish we could get some more mods for the Bell Atrix, I came from running gingerbread on my Desire Z and I really dislike the look of Moto's 2.2 theming. About the early USB enumeration, I did full brick my phone yesterday after doing a factory reset and losing ADB, so don't count on it.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] Reggie777:
I noticed that my Gallery app is showing I have no "albums" or anything. Up til now, it automatically added folders when I saved a pic, and it had a folder of pics I had on my SD2 card. Unfortunately this also affected the Multi Wallpaper App that I use. Any suggestions? :confused:

I am using Tnt 4.3.2.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] it2steve:
There have been reported issues all over in regards to media getting deleted on the sd cards. so far IMHO is to create a blank .nomedia file on both the root AND your media folder (just to cover all basis). It has seemed to work for me so far and another tab that I get to work on.

basically use whatever file explorer you use and create a 'new file' and call it .nomedia (dot - nomedia) and that should cover it.

Hope that helps some.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] Reggie777:
Thanks for the suggestions. But unfortunately, they did not work. Let me give you some more symptoms....

The pics are still on the storage cards. I can see then with my file app. When I try to open one of the pics, jpegs, Gallery will open it, but very slowly... thinking first, going to a blank screen, and then a few seconds later, displaying the file. If I choose to view it with ESFile Explorer, the pic comes up almost immediately. It's almost as if Gallery is unable to acknowledge the existence of the files unless forced to.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] nrage23:
I have never gotten photos to show up in gallery. I use JustPictures and it works great. It works with pics on the device and any online services.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] larsberntrop:
.nomedia solution works great

Thanks Steve, the .nomedia file creation in the sdcard directory worked great!
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] Grant11:
this fixed my issue too thank you
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] [Ramad]:
Please read the whole post before posting questions, thanks :)

For more info about bootloaders and which file to download, please read here: XXJVK with or with-out bootloaders?

More info will be added later.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] omeryounos:
Thanks Ramad for providing the links.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Valeo:
Indeed, thanks muchly! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] PAGOT:
Just add quickly,

RFS

TW3

and JIT enabled,

= less spam later :) (and some random post from iammodo would be nice too, so I can thank him too :D)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] scooteriuly:
thanks man !
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] [Ramad]:
Thanks for reminding me :D I did forget to add that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dan@msx:
Thanks Ramad.

You wonna add the tweaks too like CRT screen off and link to voodoo or ct root....
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] [Ramad]:
I don't have them, they all got deleted, all the links to firmwares are mine, I was able to save some informations but not all.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] iammodo:
Feels like I've burnt 1000 books :-(

Mate warned me that samsung are phoning places about this.

I haven't had a call yet but don't want one.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dan@msx:
I'll upload what i got.... And add links....

Sent from SGS 2.3.3 Gingerbread edt.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dan@msx:
Hope everythings ok bud.

Sent from SGS 2.3.3 Gingerbread edt.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] PAGOT:
Ehm, my thanks to this post seems strange :P . I Hope you wont get that call though :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] [Ramad]:
Don't worry, nothing is related to you, all the links have been posted by me... I did receive the firmware last night from several members before posting it at your thread....I got 4 copies :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] teltel:
Can i ask a basic question?

Yesterday i installed with bootloader. but i didnt choose pit and repartition. Noticed that many chose them. Should i reflash by choosing pit and repartition? Whats the difference? I was using Darky's custom rom. Please help on this. I want to complete the job nicely and forget the rom for a while...