yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Epic 4G Android Development] shane6374:
Plenty of places to get it, but thanks Marcus.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ptfdmedic:
We'll see what happens. They shut it down, they shut it down. Life will go on.. :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] ptfdmedic:
I was going to update my gingerbread release with a BYOR Edition...but not sure what I doing. It would be nice to move passed Froyo.
[Epic 4G Android Development] nfamisnme:
Would be very nice to see and a BYOR edition for ef02 that was autism aware.......with the same font from this rom.....jus saying.....
[Epic 4G Android Development] Anon9mouz:
Damn I haven't been on in like a week bc of school and look what the hell happens roms and modems everywhere
[Epic 4G Android Development] deathleprechaun:
I have been having this issue since I can remember, but it hasn't been a big enough issue to bother me.

But, I figured I would ask if there is a fix for it.

When adding/joining a facebook contact to a phone contact the phone force closes "android.process.acore" when you click save.

But whats funny, and why I haven't cared too much. It makes a standalone facebook contact and you can then add that facebook contact to your phone contact manually instead of searching facebook.

Does anyone else have this issue or know how to fix it?
[Epic 4G Android Development] neuton:
I have a weird problem and I don't know if its the software or hardware. It only happened a couple of times but its annoying, like my phone would be fine and I would be texting or using facebook then after go back to my phone to try and check messages or Fb again my touch screen completely freezes. It doesn't let scroll or open any app on the screen, I can see the power off when I press the button but I can select any option to restart or shutdown so I have to pull battery.

Another thing that has happened at least twice and it happened like 30 mind ago my phone will be but when I go to use it my screen stays black, I press the power button or the slide open the keyboard and I see the lights but no screen again I have to pull battery.

Anyone have an idea? Sorry for long post.
[Epic 4G Android Development] leftkidney:
I was looking for that but what version is this one - it says EC05 on the name of the tar so shouldnt that be good?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
when you went to 5.5 how did you get there? I always find that it's best to actually start from scratch when installing new ROM the only data I restore is call log and text messages I backup my APK's but not the data for them.

It always seems that when you just try to go over an old ROM with a new one even when it's from the same family of ROMs strange things happen; and you end up spending more time trying to fix weirdness then if you had just started from scratch and set up some of the programs yourself again.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ptfdmedic:
Guys I'm hoping to get a Gingerbread BYOR edition out this weekend perhaps. Just really busy lately.
[Epic 4G Android Development] leftkidney:
sounds cool

I want to wipe my phone completely so in the post maybe post an odin to get back to stock and allow OTA then do this rom install so people like me with a messed up phone can get it going with minimal problems

I posted a link I found in an earlier post, will that work fine
[Epic 4G Android Development] thegameksk:
Anyome having Market problems with this rom? My market loads extremely slow. If i scroll through it is freezes for a bit before letting me scroll through.

Now I keep getting network errors.
[Epic 4G Android Development] leftkidney:
havent installed it yet but in the past this was what happened at first and after everything was left alone for about 1 hour it all worked fine

not sure why but I have had this happen almost every time I wipe and reinstalled everything, I would just wait like 1 hour and everything was back to normal speed or better
[Epic 4G Android Development] neuton:
Well I actually came from 5.3 but I did wipe 3x like I usually do. I think I experienced the screen freezing on 5.3 also I believe
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
If I were you I would Odin stock EC05 to your phone

boot skip setup & get gps lock (can take 10 min)

copy 5.3 to sd card

1 click root w/cwm 3.0.2.5

boot to cwm (it will convert to ext4) don't restart the phone

wipe 3 things 3 times - immediately flash 5.3

this will ensure you have the cleanest install possible.

good luck
[Epic 4G Android Development] whoojong:
I love the rom! But not a huge fan of the font. Is there any way to change it to stock?
[Epic 4G Android Development] imdjenk:
Sounds like what happened to my last epic. Nand damage.. some might say from running ext4.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Neptune5k:
Well I decided to give the latest version of Midnight ROM a go yesterday after experimenting with some other builds, just wanted to say thanks and great work once again Rob! I do have a quick question, since I haven't ran the last couple of versions of Bonsai ROM, what tool/settings are they recommending for CPU/voltage/speed control these days? I skimmed through the thread and didn't see this question come up for this latest build, but if its a repeat, sorry for that. Right now I'm just running SetCPU on a conservative governor, but if bonsai has something special cooked up that I'm not aware, that would be good to know.

Also, just a tip for the LauncherPro with bookmarks widget users like me - pretty much any custom ROM out there uses some tweaked version of the browser now that doesn't play nicely with this widget. I keep a LP backup of all of screens minus this widget. Once you get your new ROM flashed, flash Rob's "defaultbrowser" under Midnight Extras folder and then the Bookmarks Widget will work just fine. Keeping a copy of your back up without the widget will keep you from the dreaded FC loop, then you can just add it back once you've replaced the browser.

Thanks in advance for feedback
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
I keep mine at 200/1200 ondemmand

there is a good bit of discussion in the 5.3 thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=963568
[Epic 4G Android Development] whoojong:
Got it. I just used Font Changer from the market place and used the Sans-Fallback font. Thanks guys!
[Epic 4G Android Development] buggerritt:
You could have just flashed "Stock Font" from Midnight Extras folder. Sorry for not replying sooner. I haven't been watching this thread or any others much due to playing outside and such.
[Epic 4G Android Development] leftkidney:
I am going to be coming from stock, have 4.2 now but getting all sorts of FC's out of nowhere so I want to start from stock and redo everything

I have to root and ext4 before I can install this I assume, so what is the best method for doing this from stock?

use one click root with CWM?

or the Bonsai method to get root?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
5.5 won't install via CWM, you have to use Masterkey. I just looked on their site and I don't see anything about EXT4 conversion via that recovery. I am on 5.3 and am just waiting for gingerbread to drop to flash again.

Anyway; Odin stock EC05

root/unlock with masterkey

as far as ext4 goes:

from the bonsai site:

So from a stock phone does this also convert the file system to ext4?

No. Conversion to Ext4 is handled by the ROM install. The pain we used to go through and the install challenges created by that imposed filesystem conversion are no more.
​

I read a few earlier posts in this thread where users reported just unlocking, wiping and installing 5.5 and all went well.

checkout page 5

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1126163&page=5

grin and enjoy

hope that helps and good luck.
[Epic 4G Android Development] In_da_buff:
1st install didn't seem to go right, there were a few issues,

so I Odin'ed (?) back to stock 2.1, OTA to Froyo with the EC05. Clean download of Bonsai Masterkey 1.1.0, and new clean download of 5.5. Installed the sd zip - smooth and everything worked to start except the few issues were still there.

home key doesn't work - have to back out of everything.

then

internal phone memory went from 318 MB available to 4 KB available. I can't remember if that was before or after installing the standard upgrade.

then apps started FCing - browser, messenger, mail, market.

Anyone having these issues?

Thanks in advance.
[Epic 4G Android Development] leftkidney:
I have an Odin tar thats from when 2.2 EB13 came out, it was used to get EB13 2.2/CWM 3.0.0.6/ROOT/EXT4 all in 1 flash, but you had the stock rom just CWM and EXT4

would it work to just use that to get the EXT4 and ROOT, then just odin the modem you need EC05 or whatever is newest, then masterkey to install 5.5? - or maybe just install the 4.2 that I have that came out at the time and then install 5.5?

dam, I need to flash my phone because I keep getting FC's for "Google Services Framework (process com.google.process.gapps) has stopped unexpectedly. Please tyr again." all I can do is press the Force Close buton at the bottom - this happens when making calls and receiving them, as well as just using my phone for just about anything - sometimes they keep going one after another and sometimes they are just a few then stop for a little

so should I just go with what I know works and wait for GB roms, or just try this because I will have to do this anyways to install the GB rom when it comes out?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
You can do 1 of 2 things:

1. Download 5.3 from http://lostandtired.com/android-development/ I am using it with no issues at all. I would wipe everything 3x before flashing it because you're having FC's and you don't want to bring any bad data forward to 5.3.

delete midnight extras folder from sd card (did 4.2 have that, I can't recall)

copy the zip to the sd card, boot to recovery, wipe 3x, flash 5.3

2. to get to 5.5:

Odin this : Download this tar SPH-D700-EC05-8Gb-REL.tar

from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1052813

use masterkey to unlock/root

boot to recovery

wipe 3x and flash 5.5
[Epic 4G Android Development] thegameksk:
How is ur guys battery life with this rom? Mine is awful. Ive hardly used my phone, 3g is off, brightness set to lowest setting, not using setcpu, and my battery has gone from 100% at 830 am-15% as of 5:34 pm. Only thing I did with phone was send some text messages. From 8:30 to 11 my battery dropped from 100 to 80 with absolutely no use at all.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
5.3 has great battery life.
[Epic 4G Android Development] In_da_buff:
so I wiped and flashed 5.3 and 5.2 - still having the same issues now.

home key doesn't work and my internal memory is nearly full (this is right after the install - no new apps downloaded.

5.2 worked great with no issues on the first install - and now it has the same issues I have when 5.5 is installed. Lots of FC on other stuff too with 5.5 - logs (phone), framework, and messenger. I'd go back to 5.2 but now that is jacked too.

The process:

ODIN back to 2.1, OTA to 2.2 with EC05, root with Bonsai Masterkey, download 5.5 Fixed to SD (fresh download of 5.5), install and then the problems listed above.

I've done this twice - so I can't figure out what the issue is?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Anon9mouz:
Well family be easy I'm moving on up to the nexus s I got a love deal on a brand new one in box 270 tried to get him to go down more but that's still strait for not being able to upgrade. Well I hope rob is doing something in the nexus s 4g world will look forward to it thank u everyone for dealing with all the blond moment questions and helping u out u guys r great take care
[Epic 4G Android Development] leftkidney:
if I am at 4.2 now (yes it has a extras folder on the sd card) I already have root so do I have to use masterkey - or is the odin removing root?

also if I go into CWM now and do the full wipe what happens, am I back to stock or when it reboots will it reflash 4.2?
[Epic 4G Android Development] thegameksk:
Jdelano, what are your settings to get such great battery life and what programs do you run? My phones been off charger since 830 and all ive done is send some texts, and its from 100 to 85%.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
I use SetCPU set at 200/1200 ondemmand, I use Wifi if available as it is far less taxing on the battery, a black and white theme; simple mono colors require less battery. I set my network to sprint only; so it is not always trying to find a stronger signal.

email is setup to never check, I do that manually when needed, weather is set to check every 12 hours automatically, I will refresh it if I want to know current

things like that, I turn off as many automatic items as I can; as i'd rather click refesh when i really need the info and save battery than have it refresh automatically and drain the battery.

I ran the battery calibration steps using the off method.

lastly I am now using an extended battery, though I was getting 2 - 2.5 days with the standard battery, the battery I bought was $25 and as you see I get almost 3.5 days

I could extend the battery even more if I shut the phone off at night; but I don't
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
You have to use masterkey if you want to run 5.5, not if you run 5.3.

if you do a full wipe you will still have 4.2; it will just not be setup with your contacts and what not. Full wipe does a reset of all data not the ROM.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
good luck with the nexus ... take care
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
After you unlocked/rooted with masterkey, did you factory reset/ wipe cache partition and dalvik cache each 3 times before flashing 5.5?
[Epic 4G Android Development] thegameksk:
Where did you get the extended battery from? Does the phone fit into a case if you use the extended battery? I never calibrated my battery...Maybe thats the issue. How do I do that? In the same way I have nothing set to go off. If I need something ill refresh it myself. For weather I use beautiful widgets.

Its so annoying I hardly use my phone and it dies. Its down to 50% right now. Its been on for 4h 6m and 47 seconds. Only an hr has been used for the screen. Maybe my batter is just bad.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
I got the battery from here:

http://gorillagadgets.com/samsung-epic-4g-extended-battery-3500mah-with-back-plate.html

Here is where I found the battery calibration instructions:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=884684

I used the power off method
[Epic 4G Android Development] leftkidney:
well I onid'ed back to stock and then flashed CWM 3.1.0.1 and installed 5.3

then I was getting a FC message about the market even when I wasnt using it so I waited a while and it never stopped so I installed the bonsai and then 5.5 and so far I have no problems - also with journaling off quadrant standard gives me a score of 1878 and with journaling on its 1574 - so I performance hit I guess but I dont notice it so I dont care, also since these phones use oneNAND (check my other posts) it wont get damaged just corrupted so as long as you have a nandroid I dont see a problem

I am wondering if there are any screen shots that show what the themes look like for the EC05 themes - I know its only a little top bar thingie and lock screen but I would like to see what it is without having to install them and seeing if I like it all the while doing the 3x wipes so there arent any problems

about the 3x wipes, you have to (or should) do it 3x so why dont the makers of bonsai and CWM make it just do it 3x with 1 press and even better do both the cache and the davilk with 1 press of the button so save time
[Epic 4G Android Development] leftkidney:
I notice the market is missing some apps that I know where there before - like google sky map for one that I know fir sure wouldnt have been removed

I think that the market is reading the version number of android OS you are running and is confused and thinks its an old version or something and is not showing the apps

EDIT: after many reboots and clearing the cache and turning on and off airplane mode it seemed to come back - I searched for it before and it never found it, but now it shows up - whats up with this?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
this where YMMV (your mileage may vary) comes in; I remember one time a friend was looking at the apps on my phone was was downloading them to his (same phone same ROM); a few though would not display in his market. If I looked for them I could find them using market on my phone; nice quirk I guess. Usually clearing the cache for market (or even removing updates and letting them reinstall) can fix that weirdness.
[Epic 4G Android Development] neuton:
@jdelano I re-did my phone like you suggested by odin back to ec05 and then using masterkey and installing 5.5. My question is do you think I can upgrade the modem and will it work correctly with the 5.5 midnight rom? And will it give better battery life and service?

Also for the setcpu app what are the pros/cons of using it? And are the settings you use recommended or just what you like to use?
[Epic 4G Android Development] leftkidney:
I thought that EC05 was the latest modem

I also odin'ed back to EC05 but I used the odin file for people with a bricked or semi-bricked phone so I got all stock rfs - I tried to get an ota update but it said it was up to date - it checked so fast I dont believe that it actually checked anything so I waited a day and still no updates came up

then I did the install of 5.5 after masterkey and bonsai - btw I like bonsai better then cwm so far, backup seemed to go way faster then the times I have done it using cwm in the past
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
Modem: I know that people have mixed and matched modems with varying degress of success. Personally I have stuck with te EC05 modem with EC05 ROMs. I figure that there may be certian items in the modem that may be specific to the version of android it was released with (I do not know that to be the case, but in my overly analytical mind that works for me) :)

SetCPU: you can overclock the phone's CPU to get faster response times and also tell it to use much less CPU when the phone is at idle thus saving much battery life. So 1200/200 means ... when I an using it go as high as 1.2Ghz to process my requests or drop down to 200 when the phone is not being asked to do anything.

200 seems to the basement value; as anything lower seems to cause issues trying to wake the phone from sleep.

EC05 is the newest *released* OS for the Epic, all the GB items you see on here (EE03, EF02 and EF16) are leaks only.

Here is where you can get the newest modems, they've done a nice job here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1123103

Hope that helps
[Epic 4G Android Development] nfamisnme:
Hey guys, I just tried video chat using qik with my wife(she's using htc sensation.....great phone by the way) and she see's 2 to 4 of me. The visual she gets of me is blurred completly. Has anyone else had this problem? Or is it just me.....also I tried taking a picture of myself using the front facing camera and the pictures come out very clear.....
[Epic 4G Android Development] rckozma:
I have not tried Qik, but I do not have that problem with Fring.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
Tango

I have tried Tango and had no issues talking with a friend who has an EVO
[Epic 4G Android Development] rckozma:
I use Fring to talk to the wife and kids....they are on the iPhone4.
[Epic 4G Android Development] nfamisnme:
Thanks guys, I tried tango and fring and still I have the same issue. I've also noticed a couple of other issues...I've flashed this rom before and it worked flawlessly, I think maybe I should reflash when I get home. Thanks again guys.
[Epic 4G Android Development] leftkidney:
I dont seam to have a gallery on the phone, I can take pictures but the only way I have found to see them is to press the icon of it when the camera is open

if I look in wallpapers I dont see anything other then 2 wallpapers

maybe there is a gallery.zip I can flash in the extras folder I will have to look when I get time
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
here is the gallery3d from 5.3; should work for you

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B8...YTUzMS00ZjExLWEwMzItOTM2MmZjYmU3MDNl&hl=en_US

copy the apk to your sd card.

use astro file manager (in the market) to install it.

open astro, click the apk, open install manager, install.

or use root explorer to copy the apk to system/app folder

Open Root Explorer.

Go to /sdcard where you placed the gallery3d.apk file.

Press the menu button to 'Multi-Select' and copy. (Or individually long press and copy)

Select the gallery3d.apk file you placed on your SD card.

Go back to the " / " folder. (Press the [...] dots at the top)

Open the 'system' folder.

Open the 'app' folder. (You should now be in /system/app)

MOUNT AS R/W! (By default you are mounted as R/O) little button at top right.

Paste the gallery3d.apk files

mount as R/O again

or use ADB push to copy to system/app folder

here is a guide for adb:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=532719

hope this helps
[Epic 4G Android Development] neuton:
@jdelano, I did what you suggested and I went back to stock then rooted the phone and installed 5.5 in a clean install I even formatted my sd, but the other day I got the same issue, I made a phone call and when I went to hang up my screen was.black and I couldn't do anything except pull battery
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
it sounds like you might have an actual hardware problem, to test that theory out try running EC05 100% stock. Use that for a week or so and see what happens.

If it does it to you again at least your phone will be in a state that you can bring it back to a Sprint store.

That has got to be really frustrating!
[Epic 4G Android Development] neuton:
I was thinking the same thing actually, also I have one of the phones that has the back arrow button at the bottom that you have to press a certain way or hard for it to go back. The only reason I am scared of taking it back is cause they will give me a refurb when I bought this brand new :-(
[Epic 4G Android Development] leftkidney:
I still have that sound when its done charging, the message is gone but the stupid sound is still there

this has to go, why remove the message and not the sound?

this wakes me up all the time, I cant stand it

someone please tell me where this sound file and how do I remove it
[Epic 4G Android Development] RushAOZ:
I'm trying to install 5.5 with the recommended masterkey. Once masterkey is done the pone reboots fine. but when I shutdown and try and boot into bonsai recovery (3 button trick right??) it doesnt work. Just sits at the sammy logo and the buttons wont light up. I'm trying it this way because I tried flashing with cwm3101 and I cant get this to work. Any tutorial vids? This is getting annoying :(
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
According to this page :

http://www.bonsaigeek.com/install-bonsai-sphd700-41x

3-finger boot to Recovery mode (Volume down - Camera - Power buttons in that order)

is how you get into their recovery.

Found this on you tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWAw8m2x1JE

hope that helps.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RushAOZ:
Didnt work :( I did everything right to a tee. Just stays on the sammy boot logo.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
I'm not sure, almost sounds like the file system isn't correct. You should be on ext4 when using midnight 5.5.

I am not sure if bonsai auto converts or if you have to do it in recovery youself. I don't use it but u might want to check that out.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mekkelrichards:
So, I am having problems installing. I was rooted. Was on some other ROM, wiped and flashed to midnight5.3. Then I flashed over 5.5 and it gives me a status 7 installation aborted error in cwm when I flash.

Can someone please post a super simple step by step on how to flash this rom? PLEASE, it really needs to include what prerequisites that need to be done, ie radio and whatnot.

SOMEBODY HELP PLEASE