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[Epic 4G General] Bluerai:
I'm going to try some of the other methods in this thread, and hopefully I can just delete this post... But for now:

Rom: ACS 1.1

Kernel: Vision 1.2

FS: EXT4+Journaling + On

Sd: stock

UV: NOOP - 1200-50, 1000-50, 800-50 ,600-50, 400-50, 200-50

Programs installed: Lots.. Had Voltage control and Pimp My CPU, lots of games, etc

Programs running: None/Just the launcher

Failure on

[When it started]

: Power off via menu

If failure was on power off/reboot, were you trying to get into recovery via the 3 buttons? NO

Previous freezes from UV: Yes

Battery Life on failure [

shut off

]: 8%

Strange behaviors list:

1) It didn't 'fail' per say.. I was shutting off my phone to install a fresh battery (3 batteries FTW)

--I have done this numerous times already on the 1.2 Kernel, and that's why I'm so confused about this..

2) My phone won't turn on, no lights, nothing, period.

-3 finger CWM, booting into recovery, just holding the power button...

3) Everything has been fine up until now. The screen has frozen a few times when I tried bumping up the UV, or the OC higher than what I have now. I've been running my setup for a few days with no issues once I left it all alone

EDIT: Seems like I'm pretty similar to trumble117 up on post #14
[Epic 4G General] intx:
Download mode wasn't working, I tried every tip in the thread.

I also tried mystery's "button", but it was just a piece of plastic on my device, no button.

And I've used SetCPU since the day I got my Epic and never had any problems, I've heard of problems when you combine voltage control app and SetCPU, but never by itself.

Wondering why you're saying that.
[Epic 4G General] azyouthinkeyeiz:
But a kernel can cause the overheating which could damage memory or the device hardware, which in turn causes the brick....

You guys and your deflection... If you state something, it *HAS* to be true... And when the breadth of the community doesn't know enough, it takes these answers as truth...

Like this "super secret button"(that doesn't exist) find, that magically comes out when someone tries to place blame on your group for indirectly harming devices...

Instead of the safe route, "hey guys discontinue use of this kernel until we figure something out one way or the other.",

The chosen method was "Hey, nothing we did could do that.. The issue is only on this kernel and rom, but hey, its out of our control. We didn't do that."

Not to mention, a month ago when it came out, there were many people complaining that when they used the reboot control they lost system apps.

And then add a quip about "How you guys only deal in public."

Yes, in public, but with misinformation...

O RLY??????
[Epic 4G General] anfrany:
Rom: ACS 1.1

Kernel: Vision 1.2

FS: EXT4+Journaling + On

Sd: stock

UV: BFQ - 1000-25,800-25,600-25,400-25,200-25,100-25

Programs installed: Stock ACS with some number of apps added

Programs running: Voltage Control was the only app I had that should have played with settings that matter, i.e. root.

Failure on: Power off via menu

If failure was on power off/reboot, were you trying to get into recovery via the 3 buttons? YES

Previous freezes from UV: Yes? The previous day I got a large number of FCs and had to reflash ACS (and VisionKernel 1.2)

Battery Life on failure: 60-70%

Strange behaviors list: The day before it started spitting FCs at me constantly, I wrote it off as corrupt data and reflashed. I attempted to enter Download mode and got no response from the phone, it wouldn't show the powered off charging screen, it wouldn't even show that it was charging with the LED, computer couldn't see the phone.
[Epic 4G General] burgerpimp07:
X2

I have had my bricked phone for two days now. Tried every method mentioned in all the threads, including mystery's button. Even left my phone battery out for 24hrs+. Nothing works, no download mode, nothing. I took it to the sprint store, they tried to fix it for 3 hours before giving it back to me and saying WTF DID YOU DO TO IT, and ordered me a new one, which should be arriving later on today.

I'm not a dev, so I can't say what caused it, but all I know is that it has something to do with the combination of SFR 1.1.0 and Vision Kernel 1.2. And seeing as how the only people experiencing FULL bricks are also running the same combo, that statement might not be too far fetched.

I do not want to bash any of you guys, because you guys do great work and I am sure you will get this patched and going as soon as you can. Plus, it's not like any of us don't have insurance for our phones, bricks get replaced for free :)
[Epic 4G General] rsperko:
What are you guys telling them when you go in with the brick? I should have canceled my insurance after installing a custom rom, oh well.

Rom: ACS 1.1

Kernel: Vision 1.2

FS: EXT4+Journaling + On

Sd: stock

UV: whatever is default. never touched it.

Programs installed: A bunch. Nothing crazy.

Programs running: Tasker, JuiceDefender

Failure on [When it started]: Power off via menu

If failure was on power off/reboot, were you trying to get into recovery via the 3 buttons? NO

Previous freezes from UV: whatever is default. never touched it.

Battery Life on failure [shut off]: 100%

Strange behaviors list:

Tasked FC'd this morning for the first time, then gmail. Shut it down after that. And that was the end. Had been running great with 1.2 for days.
[Epic 4G General] burgerpimp07:
Should have cancelled your insurance?

I walked in pretending to be stupid. I just told them it shut off and wouldn't start up again. They asked what I was doing and I said nothing, that I had just turned on the screen and it happened.
[Epic 4G General] rsperko:
Yes because I feel fairly confident "no custom kernels" is in the contact somewhere. Would love to hear that it is not. Going to look it over a bit.

Ordered a used phone on ebay. Back to my palm-pre until that arrives.
[Epic 4G General] Top Nurse:
Best way to handle this is not to volunteer anything and just tell the truth: I turned it on and it wouldn't...

Sent from Bonsai 7.0.3
[Epic 4G General] intx:
This. You turned the phone off, it wouldn't turn back on.

You can even add something about the battery getting low and you turned it off, if you'd like.
[Epic 4G General] rjmjr69:
So does it go into download mode?

Its charging then just not turning on? Have you tried letting it sit for a few hours no battery then trying dl mode? I am very sorry your having issues Hopefully a fix is found and a cause

This is quite true what can you do if the phone does nothing but return it. Sorry you have had an issue.

So yours is working but not getting hot just acting weird? Maybe you should flash a new kernel to be safe while you still can. Might I also suggest you install the new recovery to reliably clear cache and flash

Good to hear yours is still working and hundreds of other peoples which makes it extremely strange as to why there are a handful of people who are having problems. I do not recommend SETCPU as its unsupported by the dev.

So your also up and running with weird issues?

Are you bricked? DOWNLOAD MODE WASNT WORKING? that mean it is now?

SETCPU is not supported for the Epic4G by the dev

Not trying to deflect a thing if its the kernels fault then be the kernels fault and we will take that blame. But you did read the DISCLAIMER that clearly puts all RISK on you as the END user installing and using the kernel right?

Not trying to sound or come off as rude but no one is trying to deflect or minimize a thing. There only seems to be a handful 6 or so people with this issue making it bizarre and rare at the most.

We are truly sorry that anyone is having ANY type of issue with ANYTHING ACS and Thomass puts out. We are actively investigating this issue and will be solved if its the kernels fault. If you have some sort of proof other than a hot chip which can be bad manufacturing then please PM me and let me know so we can take care of this instead of turning it into something it may not be.

There are HUNDREDS of users who enjoy and are using this kernel WITHOUT an issue

Thank you for the encouraging words. We are truly sorry if the kernel or combination of kernel and rom has caused you a brick. We are investigating and trying to find a cause and solution to the issues at hand.

Thank goodness for exchanges huh ;)

As for you all ONCE AGAIN we are SORRY if any of our work has caused you any type of grief. It is not ACS's intentions nor Thomass's intention to do any harm to anyone's phone. We and they spend DAYS WEEKS working on getting these phones running at tip top shape and to the ability's they should be at. Remember we all assume the risk when altering our phones that there maybe issues and possible bricks. All post's are clearly marked and should be read easily.

Lets all try to work together to try and find a fix instead of pointing fingers.

Thank you

Sincerely,

RJMJR69
[Epic 4G General] danidi:
Rom: ACS 1.1.0

Kernel: Vision 1.2

FS: EXT4+Journaling + On

Sd: stock

UV: I have never played with UV or OC

Programs installed: Stock ACS with usual apps. Last 2 unusual Apps spare parts and textFree

Programs running: Never Played with UV or OC

Failure on: Power off (via 3 buttons)

If failure was on power off/reboot, were you trying to get into recovery via the 3 buttons? NO just reboot

Previous freezes from UV: Yes

Battery Life on failure: 20-30%?

Strange behaviors list:

1) plugged the phone to the computer to charge and everything went off except LED lights. After that I got bricked.

Hope this helps
[Epic 4G General] anfrany:
It did not go into download mode, even holding the buttons and then plugging it in would not pull up anything odin would recognize
[Epic 4G General] lviv73:
Trust me-it is nearly ipossible to brick your phone.

I thought I bricked mine before when I used Odin and repartition partitions,i was just bout to take it to Sprint.My Epic dint even have led light up when pluged in!It was completely bricked.

This what I did:

I took out the battery for like 2 hours.

Then I pressed all buttons(to let the phone internals completely disharge) and took out sdcard.

Then I put battery back in but kept sdcard out,and let it charge for an hour because my battery was almost drained(led light still dint come on and screen completely black).

Then I unpuged the phone and didnt try to turn it on.

I held 1 and power button to get it in Odin restore mode and BAM I had the yellow android sign!

Pluged in Odin and checked repartition and did factory restore and my Epic is still good 6 months later!

This phone is a BEAST and almost impossible to brick.

Try what I did,u might have to leave it off overnight with no battery but its most likely still alive,lol.
[Epic 4G General] Bluerai:
Oh I definitely bricked it.

Held the power button to discharge anything.. Kept the battery out for over 12hrs before messing with anything again, etc etc etc.

-Download mode, CWM, all of it.

Nothing I did mattered, plugging it in didn't do anything.. totally and completely bricked.

Took it to my Sprint store today, they couldn't do anything.. (all they tried was a new battery, and maybe a few other things that wouldn't do anything lol)

--Was handed a new phone in about an hour :)

And to the people asking what we told them, I told them I tried to do the computer upgrade to 2.2 and 'something happened' because now my phone won't turn on.

What else can I add... Nothing got hot when the phone was plugged in, and I don't know what else to say.

@rjmjr69, I wasn't up and running when I made that post. Phone was shot. Everything has been taken care of now though :D (got a new phone..)

I was just trying to explain that nothing was acting too oddly beforehand. Everything was working fine for a few days. All of a sudden when I turned off my phone, it stayed that way
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
Just for reference, I was nice to the girl that helped me and she gave me a free spare battery from another return.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
The "Strange behaviors" part is for people to mention if they had any strange behaviors BEFORE they bricked...aka if they are not totally bricked they shouldnt be posting here.

idk to say if its charging or not..all I do know is its "discharging"..aka without the charger if I leave phone with battery in after pressing the power button and leaving for an hour I can feel warmth..so "something" inside the phone is working..just cant say what...

Its "probably" also charging correctly..as if I leave it in the charger it will get hot...which is the usual behavior of Charging+discharging...

It "feels" like some components are running and some or not..so if I were to "guess"..

Cpu=running

screen=nope

usb=nope

leds=nope

---------

now PLEASE DO NOT DERAIL THIS THREAD...THIS THREAD IS FOR US TO POST OUR INFO SO THAT DEVS CAN FIGURE OUT WHATS WRONG AND EASIER TO COMMUNICATE WITH US!!! IF YOU WANT TO COMPLAIN TAKE IT TO ANOTHER THREAD!!
[Epic 4G General] mattallica76:
I noticed the heat from the device when a battery was installed also. It's possible something is running, but it's also very possible the heat is being generated by a fused/short in the board. If one of the components is fused or fried and shorting the rest of the circuit, you could get some heat.
[Epic 4G General] lviv73:
I had strange behavior too so I Odined before it was too late.

Even after odin I notice that my phone takes longer to hit Samsung logo than before,my guess is that kernel burns up ram chips or somthing like that.

Oh for everyone here,ya need to Odin to stock because I had strange freezes with screen artifacts even after flashing TwilightZone kernel on top of VisionKernel.My guess is that VisionKernel leaves sht behind even after I flashed different kernel 4 times.

To make it short-Odin to stock then flash Syndicate and latest TwilightZone if u dont want your Epic bricked.

One more thing,when I flashed TwilightZone on top of Syndicate my camcorder stoped working,however if you use 7zip and replace kernel files inside Syndicate rom zip with kernel files from TwilightZone zip and then flash your modified Syndicate rom-your camcorder will work and everything will run smoother.

Because kernels in Syndicate dont flash properly.If you flash kernel after you flashed Syndicate and go to "Aout this phone" and check kernel version it will say TwilightFrozen1.1.1 RC but if you use my method it will say the name of the kernel you put in your rom zip-indicating your kernel flashed properly.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
can you run this?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=900930

I know its not for ram chips but rom chips but just curious if maybe any damage was done to the rom...
[Epic 4G General] lviv73:
export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH

$ $cat /proc/L*/bmlinfo

FSR VERSION: FSR_1.2.1p1_b139_RTM

minor position size units id

1: 0x00000000-0x00040000 0x00040000 1 0

2: 0x00040000-0x00080000 0x00040000 1 1

3: 0x00080000-0x00a80000 0x00a00000 40 20

4: 0x00a80000-0x00bc0000 0x00140000 5 3

5: 0x00bc0000-0x00d00000 0x00140000 5 4

6: 0x00d00000-0x01200000 0x00500000 20 21

7: 0x01200000-0x01980000 0x00780000 30 6

8: 0x01980000-0x02100000 0x00780000 30 7

9: 0x02100000-0x12d80000 0x10c80000 1074 22

10: 0x12d80000-0x32f80000 0x20200000 2056 23

11: 0x32f80000-0x3de80000 0x0af00000 700 24

12: 0x3de80000-0x3eb00000 0x00c80000 50 11

(0)(0) bad mapping information

No BadUnit RsvUnit

0: 912 4090

1: 937 4089

2: 1027 4088

3: 3701 4087

Are the numbers good?
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
It says you got 4 bad blocks..which falls in with the average...so your rom nand is at least fine...
[Epic 4G General] epic4GEE:
$ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH

$ cat /proc/L*/bmlinfo

FSR VERSION: FSR_1.2.1p1_b139_RTM

minor position size units id

1: 0x00000000-0x00040000 0x00040000 1 0

2: 0x00040000-0x00080000 0x00040000 1 1

3: 0x00080000-0x00a80000 0x00a00000 40 20

4: 0x00a80000-0x00bc0000 0x00140000 5 3

5: 0x00bc0000-0x00d00000 0x00140000 5 4

6: 0x00d00000-0x01200000 0x00500000 20 21

7: 0x01200000-0x01980000 0x00780000 30 6

8: 0x01980000-0x02100000 0x00780000 30 7

9: 0x02100000-0x12d80000 0x10c80000 1074 22

10: 0x12d80000-0x32f80000 0x20200000 2056 23

11: 0x32f80000-0x3de80000 0x0af00000 700 24

12: 0x3de80000-0x3eb00000 0x00c80000 50 11

(0)(0) bad mapping information

No BadUnit RsvUnit

0: 1706 4090

1: 2381 4089

$

Mine seems fine right? Really not sure what I'm looking at, but I had 1.2 on here for about 3 days and just flashed over it, didn't odin.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
2 bad blocks, your fine...it does not mean this is a test for failure or not though..was just gathering information.
[Epic 4G General] chris41g:
I seem to have found what bricked my phone, and how to fix it. wasnt UV or OC or heat as was suggested.. it was a filesystem problem. I detailed in the other thread how I fixed it but Ill summarize.Basically either my SBL or PARAMFS was corrupted after running the kernel. so I did some charging batter pulling, discharging patterns until i got into DL mode, and flashed an OLD tarball update with repartition, bootloader update, and autoreboot checked. now its all good. important not to use EC05 or any tarball that wasnt an OTW update bc they dont come with SBL.bin or PARAMFS.rfs.. anyway worked for me, hopefully itll work for someone else..
[Epic 4G General] burgerpimp07:
I went to the sprint store to pick up my new phone on thursday. Oddly enough, he was going to use the old battery from my bricked epic on the new phone and it wouldn't boot. He said "battery is dead huh? ill get you a new one". My battery was at 50-60% when my phone bricked and was somehow drained.
[Epic 4G General] rsperko:
I wish I was so lucky. So far no amount of charging, pulling, or discharging has gotten my phone into DL mode. Obviously if I could get there, I could get my phone back. I would love to know how to get this unresponsive brick to give any indication of life. I keep seeing posts about how hard it is to brick the phone and we all just need to Odin our phones. There is no sign of life. If it were not for the laws of physics, I would expect it to fail as a paper weight.

So can anyone come up with a combination of charging, pulling, and discharging that can get us into DL mode. I am wiling to put in a few hours and even willing to wear a silly hat while I do it, if it works.

While I do not in any way blame ACS for my paper weight, I was surprised how long it took them to pull the kernel download link. I have been a huge fan of their ROMs and knew I was risking my phone, but that link being up so long after the bricks started showing up troubles me.

-Rick
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
Did anyone in this thread update to their current firmware via OTA or did we all do it via Odin?
[Epic 4G General] azyouthinkeyeiz:
This is the first meaningful question I have seen asked.. kudos
[Epic 4G General] thomasskull666:
I would like to know this also.
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
I think that the ram undervolt has something to do with it. The bonsai kernel was ram undervolted as well

Sent From My Evo Killer!
[Epic 4G General] chris41g:
I don't have sprint service, so no ota updates for me... I originally used the prerooted tarball posted on androidcentral then deodexed it myself and made my own tarball and used that. But have been running acs since.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
I did Odin to di18 then update.zip...and I'm one of the bricked people.

Would you like me to add this question to the first post?
[Epic 4G General] chris41g:
all epics have the files, the modem has nothing to do with it. mine were corrupt. so i needed to repartition and reflash them. the ec05 update doesnt reflash them, so i needed and older odin tarball to flash to ensure they were written. this has nothing to do with your modem, and if you arent having problems, then you have no reason to mess with flashing those files..
[Epic 4G General] epic4GEE:
Those that bricked on bonsai should be thinking about their upgrade path to ec05 as well.

This is something I'm wondering after reading chris's recovery post about ec05 not containing the files to repair the corruption.

My upgrade path was as follows and didn't involve bricking;

Stock di18 to OTW stock eb13, rooted from there and have been on custom roms ever since. So when it was time to go to ec05 based custom roms, I simply just flashed them over the custom eb13 rom I was running at the time and used odin only for the ec05 modem.

I seen a lot of people using odin to go back to stock di18/eb13 so they could upgrade to the OTA ec05, then root and begin their custom ec05 journey. Is this what most of those who bricked did?

So to those that have bricked. What was your upgrade path to ec05?
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
I just find it odd that some people switched to different kernels and it still ended up bricking them later on. Its almost as though something got carried over from the kernel itself.
[Epic 4G General] thomasskull666:
If somehow the kernel corrupted a bml block then it would persist unless re-formatted or overwritten. Going back to what chris41g said, as of now messed up sbl seems to be the issue. **** you Samsung and Sprint for not releasing an EC05 tar.
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
I updated my replacement to Ec05 OTA. Should I take one for the team and give 1.2 another shot?
[Epic 4G General] lviv73:
I Odined before my phone got bricked,but even after Odin I dont get Samsung logo anymore when turning on or restarting my phone.

Buttom buttons light up but I get black screen and no Samsung logo,then my phone goes straight to Syndicate boot screen.

Its no big deal but my epic suffered perminent brain damage,i guees Odin cant fix everything and yes I repartitioned my phone.I wonder what got damaged Nand,bios or what?Looks like bios because if Epic is anything like pc then the Samsung logo is part of bios.

Is there such things as bios updates on cell phones?
[Epic 4G General] thomasskull666:
I would advise against it just for the sake of sanity. The issue is still not clear but I have a flittering of an idea so I would just hold off until I get the bugs worked out.
[Epic 4G General] lviv73:
Thats what I did and now my phone got no logo at bootscreen.
[Epic 4G General] thomasskull666:
Try odin back to DI18
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
Ok. I made a good impression on the manager there and don't think it will be an issue to take it back again since they gave me a refurb anyways. I've been having an intermittent issue with applications opening randomly and I'll say that's why I'm revisiting her. I don't mind being a beta tester if you need one. This is by far the best kernel I've ever used and would like to see it up and running again.
[Epic 4G General] chris41g:
for the record, though my phone is working perfectly now.. i stil dont have a samsung bootscreen either..
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
You're still booting though so that's a good sign.
[Epic 4G General] lviv73:
R

Did u tRy Odin to DI18?

I Odined to EC05 and repartitioned but no boot logo.

You can try DI18 but I dont think that its gonna fix our problem because me repartitioning in Odin should have fixed it.
[Epic 4G General] rsperko:
I did odin all the way up to EC05. Never had a OTA firmware update. I ran 1.2 for days and it was good until it wasn't.

Received a refurb off ebay today and leaving that on twilight for a bit :)

-Rick
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
Check out this thread, I found someone still on 1.2 and they EC05'd via the OTA update.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1047204