[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AtrophiedAnnie:
Alright, I am new to all of this, but finally decided to root my Epic yesterday after a fit of jealousy over my room mates new Charge. My room mate is experienced with rooting so he has been helping me with it, but some of the things going on with my phone since I started this yesterday morning (at 6 am mind you) are beyond either of us. I'll also add, while I am a noob in terms of rooting, I am not a technological retard.

I spent several hours deciding on what exactly I wanted with a root and rom on my phone, finally decided I'd go with a oneclick I found on here; I flashed and did the root, but adb would not let me do anything with the su to test as the instructions said to do. I got the "$" when I typed in "adb shell" and superuser did show up in the app drawer, so I assumed it took, despite the error I received in cmd. At the recommendation of my roommate, also installed the SDK and the required JDK for that. My phone then went nuts. I installed on my phone the ClockworkMod since it was not with the root as I had thought I read it would be. I then downloaded and installed the SyndicateROM Frozen, thinking it looked the nicest and operated in terms in I could live with/ Enter phone acting incredibly retarded. My phone got stuck in a boot, no matter what we did, it would not boot further than the first Samsung screen. I hadn't even been able to install the ROM at this point. ClockworkMod had accidentally been run in 2x not the 3x as stated (thank you roommate) and apparently, my phone did not appreciate this.

After a few hours of hunting down info and being deliriously exhausted (I had not slept in some36 hours) we finally got my phone to restore to factory defaults and started over. The root took perfectly this time, still not giving me the su cmd I had tried, but it didn't give me any other errors as before (my av software on my computer had been scrubbing the rageagainstthecage file causing the root to only half work apparently). 8 hours in and the root is good. Back it all up and I then move on to putting the SRF on. It refuses to go. CWM said it was vr 3, but when I would go to Reboot in Recovery through CWM it booted into stock recovery, which would not allow the rom to take. I gave up at this point and got some much needed sleep.

This morning I get up to give it another whirl so I can hopefully have a semi-working phone before going to work today and run into the same problem of CWM booting the stock recovery. I say eff it and try to boot into recovery by the stock options, power, camera, volume...LO' AND BEHOLD CWM3 has kicked in. This its the part that really baffels me, and maybe its my noobness, but I just don't get it, from within CWM stock recovery boots, but from booting recovery, CWM boots. I let it go though, and decided, hey, it's working, let's get that Rom on there. It installs with no errors and boots up. I would post a screenshot, but a whole new set of problems has come up now preventing me from doing so.

So if you're following me so far, we now have a successful root, and seemingly successful rom installed. Bloatware is all gone, and my favorit, the Carrier IQ crap is ripped out. YAY right? Wrong. I unlock the phone and while it does look shiney, there is something missing. Everything is stock, MINUS the wallpaper and apps. The rom installation did take outall the bloatware etc, but aside from this, it looks just the same. I saw eff this too and I'll just put a theme on with a launcher I like.

I am now unable to access the SD card on my phone through USB, it locks my windows explorer completely when I try, just the explorer though, not the computer. I cannot open the SD, or any other drive when I try. It is sitting in an endless loading loop. Extremely aggravating considering I know its not the computer as I just (literally this week) upgraded everything in my computer, added more RAM, new HDD, new Vid, new Mobo, pretty much new everything cos I couldn't do any gaming on my previous POS set up.

In short:

Running the one click that says its not joeykrim, but loads joeykrim when installing and SyndicateROM Frozen 1.1.0. I'll list what the About Phone says below since I can't get in the SD to pull the screenshot:

Model Number:SPH-D700

Firmware Version: 2.2.1

Baseband Version: S: D700.0.5S.EC05

Kernel Version:2.6.32.9

Build Number: SRF 1.1.0/TwilightZone 1.1.0

Hardware Version: D700.0.5

Please help me figure out what's wrong here cos I really don't know, and I just want to make this thing work. I was fine with what I was running before, but would like to take advantage of the root, but I can't as long as this is acting up. If any other info is needed, let me know and I will get it for you. Thanks!