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[Epic 4G General] The Root:
Bad Sprint reps, you get a spanking, and as my wife says, "Not the kind you'd like."
[Epic 4G General] daddymikey1975:
this is synonymous with saying "no homo" after something that could be mis-construed as such..

just sayin'

BWAHAHAHAhahahaha
[Epic 4G General] Ron_91:
They probably mean that when you order, by the time you get it you'll get an ota for 2.3. I called sprint today and they halfway confirmed this. He didn't admit it but he kept saying an update is "very likely to come soon".
[Epic 4G General] poit:
Well, If I ordered a new Epic today I could have it by Friday. Don't think there will be an OTA update by then.
[Epic 4G General] schnowdapowda:
"You can't prove that!!!" -guy in darth maul costume to guy in spock costume.

cd's or tapes?
[Epic 4G General] MikeyLee:
Replacement devices arent brand new. They are refurbished and I doubt they would update them to 2.3.
[Epic 4G General] ac16313:
Guys remember, it happened with froyo also.

But the thing is that they changed it too early then they announce the update a few weeks later

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
It's gotta be good news in that regard and warrants full rumor status, then.
[Epic 4G General] Tandrew86:
I feel like the fact that Sprint has still not corrected the error is probably a good sign. But maybe I'm too hopeful.
[Epic 4G General] sceptor:
Assurions normally refurb anyhow
[Epic 4G General] ecooce:
Ok Ill chime in, Ill have an answer Friday, but I think I already confirmed this ;)

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[Epic 4G General] tony45x220:
The build number on these is the EG07 right...can anyone conferm?

Sent from my rooted, suited, & booted Epic 4G kno dat!
[Epic 4G General] austin420:
Zomg. I can't believe this thread has over 1000 views. Xda truley is massive.
[Epic 4G General] tony45x220:
Somebody anybody...u KNOW this is building the electricity in the Epic forums...we can taste the Gingerbready goodness on the tip of our tongues...along with all the beautiful customizations that will shortly follow!

Sent from my rooted, suited, & booted Epic 4G kno dat!
[Epic 4G General] variance:
Confirmed.

My friend at the sprint store is going to let me quickly root/CWM a new epic

and dump the rom tomorrow morning.

Trying to figure out the quickest way to do it.

I think z4root type apk + rom manager on SD card might be the fastest.

either that or hooking to my tabletpc really quick and trying to dump with odin
[Epic 4G General] Esteway.619:
U don't have a laptop?
[Epic 4G General] adelmundo:
Sweet. Considering this is official GB, can't wait. Good luck!
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
I bet it'll have EC05 on it. Unless its a hardware 4 model, that gets test builds. I trust WDM and ecooce. The builds still have modem issues that need to be fixed. If it does happen to have GB on it, that is newer than what leaks we already have, kudos to you.

Posted by Mr. Z's Epic 4G.
[Epic 4G General] FrameCityJackal:
By the time I wake up this better be up.....I'll be up around 4 PM EST lol

Thanks guy

Sucks because I just got my new epic from sprint yesterday....
[Epic 4G General] Custodian:
Lol funny **** I just seen this! I was playing with an epic yesterday around 8pm est that had GB on it at the sprint store in tampa by eb games/ off of fowler across from the imax! Its the first demo phone to the far right by the accesseries case!

#Detailed.
[Epic 4G General] tony45x220:
Do you remember what the build number was?

Sent from my rooted, suited, & booted Epic 4G kno dat!
[Epic 4G General] megabiteg:
http://www.planetinsane.com/samsung-epic-4g-update-may-be-released-within-the-month/2620155/

this is something I found...
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
can't take that article seriously... they say "the popular samsung epic" about 10 times
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Asurion ships refurbs. not new phones. That is why he got Froyo.
[Epic 4G General] counterfeit187:
So I should be getting ready to odin to stock EC05 to receive OTA updates?
[Epic 4G General] myerk2008:
You shouldn't need since we can get modem updates we should get the ota update as well but if not you need it we be posted on xda of hat to do
[Epic 4G General] Pete720:
Are there any other major changes with GB other than Netflix that make it a must have? I only ask because Frozen 1.2 has made my Epic one of if not the best smartphone I have owned. Also if this update does not address the physical keyboard skipping I don't want to go back to that.
[Epic 4G General] crawrj:
No. If this was going to ota it would have been in the playbook. If it was in the playbook we would know by now. Hopefully somebody can rip it for us.
[Epic 4G General] henboffman:
The Bonsai release that came out this morning fixes the physical keyboard skipping issue.
[Epic 4G General] NEXUS 4G:
Just saying- I got a refurbished phone from asurion, came with a ****ed up mother board. Called them and they said "ok, we'll send u another one however, we're out of refurbished units, so I'll be sending u a brand new one"
[Epic 4G General] XtaC318:
Too bad z4root won't work. The old root exploit has been patched.
[Epic 4G General] formula84:
He could use chainfire's gingerbreak
[Epic 4G General] xboxfanj:
http://devphone.org/files/epic4g/oneclickroot/OneClickRootCWM3.0.2.5-EC05.zip

Running that one click is easiest root.

Just install drivers. Double click run.bat. Press enter and it should work. If not, install free pdanet from your phone and tether briefly as that installs some adb drivers.
[Epic 4G General] xboxfanj:
Did that work for you? For me, it kept making that weird force close buzzing sound and said it didn't restart but if I restarted it might be rooted, but it wasn't
[Epic 4G General] lynyrd65:
That root method uses the Rageagainstthecage exploit which was patched in Gingerbread. The only known method for rooting the gingerbread builds is to pre-root the kernel (devs would do this).
[Epic 4G General] XtaC318:
Doesn't work either, DRockstar made a post about it.

Samsung patched that exploit as well.

We'll always be able to gain root access though, thanks to our good old friend Odin.
[Epic 4G General] AngelosDracul:
My PRL just updated automatically this morning to 60680. Maybe this is step one? Anyone else updated?

Sent from my Epic. Which is better than yours. :P
[Epic 4G General] galland1:
Same here.
[Epic 4G General] smark72:
I had to manually do mine but it did update.
[Epic 4G General] lynyrd65:
This PRL was pushed to most sprint phones a day or two ago. I got it yesterday, it's unrelated but definitely welcome.
[Epic 4G General] Pete720:
I had to manually update the PRL also and it did got to 80.
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
I got a replacement phone from Asurion about 2 weeks ago and it was brand new in box.
[Epic 4G General] twyster:
Just want to warn you all... I'm not sure if it will be the same with the Epic (there are far more devs with Epic than Evo Shift) but if you update to GB you might be stuck there for a while. I haven't tried RUU on my wife's Evo Shift to send it back to 2.2, and haven't read if that actually works or not. We're going to buy her an Epic so it wasn't worth trying. However, updating her phone to GB was a huge mistake for us. Sprint hasn't sent an update to fix all the bugs, and we can't root the phone for customization. It's frustrating. I'm keeping my Epic on SFR 1.2 with Genocide 1.1 and modem EF10. I'm not messing with OTA 2.3 update until I see reliable root achieved and stable ROM/kernel available.
[Epic 4G General] Pete720:
That's what I wanted to hear. Frozen 1.2 + Genocide 2.0 has just been so phenomenal that I don't want to change anything unless it's a "must have." At least until hopefully there will be a 2.3 ver of Frozen :D
[Epic 4G General] CapsLockKey:
Fortunately we have Odin to keep us from being stuck like that. The last GB leak was rooted in short order by Odin'ing CWM recovery and Superuser. Even if that doesn't work this time around, can always Odin back to an older rom if official stock unrooted Gingerbread isn't your cup of tea.
[Epic 4G General] squshy 7:
This.

It's one thing we have over the HTC guys, rooting our phone's w/o exploit is simply a matter of one of our devs compiling a kernel or ROM with superuser built in. since samsung always releases the source, we'll never be without root. it just means one clicks will be obsolete soon.

unless down the road samsung stops using odin all together lol.
[Epic 4G General] twyster:
This is comforting to know. I know with my wife's evo shift the security was set to on and there's nothing we can do about it until the devs come up with a root or the next update hits without the security. There aren't a lot of devs on the evo shift. Also, from what I'm reading, HTC isn't being so quick with releasing the source.
[Epic 4G General] henboffman:
This was just floating around yesterday:

"Preferred Roaming List (PRL) Release

Effective 7/5/11, EVDO PRL 1115 will no longer be available to Business IL and CL accounts in Florida, Michigan and Ohio.

Business IL and CL accounts will move back to the National EVDO version of 60679 for handsets and 60779 for datacards/modules.

Exception: Business CL accounts with a customer service area (CSA)/homed in Florida and Michigan will now support PRL 11114, which provides continued 3G/Mobile Broadband roaming services in Florida, Michigan and Ohio.

All Business IL and CL accounts outside of Florida and Michigan CSAs, will experience a loss of 3G/Mobile Broadband roaming services as we move them to the National PRLs."
[Epic 4G General] alexnaoumi:
i want GB NOW!!!!!!!!! im freaking excited for this!
[Epic 4G General] jfharden:
Sooooo...... Is this out? There were a couple of people who "confirmed" this without pics, screenshots or otherwise.
[Epic 4G General] nickwn88:
I'm skeptical because the same thing happened to the evo a couple months ago. They changed the software version on sprint.com but fixed it later that day. But of course, 2.3 came to the evo a couple weeks later.

Edit: Ok, I just spoke to my girlfriend (sprint rep) and she said the update is indeed coming out. She hasn't given me an exact date yet.
[Epic 4G General] ac16313:
Remember it happened with us with froyo and it came out promptly after that.

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Epic 4G General] swear0730:
If she won't give you a date then she's not really your girlfriend, is she...

JK. Hope you get that date.
[Epic 4G General] lynyrd65:
Pics and an Odin Tar or it didn't happen.
[Epic 4G General] LemonHead2089:
I work at the University right by there. I'm gonna go today and see what the build number is after work
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Epic Detectives!
[Epic 4G General] LemonHead2089:
Well the store had two epics and they were both running EC05 :( bummmmmerrrr

Edit: here's the pic

http://i53.tinypic.com/34xtl.jpg
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Yepp 10char
[Epic 4G General] nikon120:
I'm not sure there is anything (feature-wise) super exciting with the jump from FroYo to Gingerbread. Especially to exclaim that you want it now, lol. To each their own. :) Now I do understand Cyanogenmod may be possible with the Gingerbread source code, but we will see.

Comparison article 1

Comparison article 2

I'm looking forward to see what they have in store for Ice Cream Sandwich.
[Epic 4G General] MikeyLee:
Personally if Sprint is doing this before taking care of the customers that have been paying for service all this time then Sprint is full of s**t
[Epic 4G General] crawrj:
You can root Gingerbread up until now by using ODIN to install CWM and flashing su.zip. Reference: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1128124
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
This makes no sense. You realize that people that already have sprint can also buy this phone?
[Epic 4G General] pvtjoker42:
I'm sure he means customers that already have the Epic should receive the update first or at the same time as new phones...
[Epic 4G General] blakehess11:
I disagree. I've been running the EF02 GB leak as my daily ROM for weeks now, and I'm absolutely loving it. With Gingerbread, my Epic finally feels like the phone I had wanted it to be when I got it almost a year ago. The vanilla GB UI is insanely nice looking, and just about everything on the phone is BUTTERY SMOOTH now, with almost no choppiness or stuttering. Not to mention my battery life is HUGELY improved, even compared to SRF 1.2 w/ Genocide kernel and any other EC05 ROMs I've tried.
[Epic 4G General] tragiquexcomedy:
Existing customers can OTA easily; it makes much more sense to have a new customer not have to go through downloading that update right out of the box. I used to sell cell phones for multiple carriers, but my store didn't have wifi, so when we had to OTA an update right away, customers were stuck in the store way longer [they usually refused to leave until the phone updated, "just in case it crashes"]

Existing customers probably have ETF's to worry about. If new customers are unhappy they can be gone as long as it's under 30 days. Makes more sense to tailor to them & OTA the update to the customers who have clearly been patient this long already.
[Epic 4G General] castro08:
I'm confused? Is it offical? I mean sprint still hasn't taken it off so that's good right? But no one knows the build number or has any pics
[Epic 4G General] nikon120:
Well, something to keep an eye out for when we start to see updated ROMs from official Gingerbread. I've stayed on SRF 1.2 since I finally have a stable flash.
[Epic 4G General] LunaticWolf:
EF02 reduced my battery life by 50%

My brother also used EF02 for a long time, but he got sick of the bugs and went to frozen 1.2 and says his battery life was also improved on srf
[Epic 4G General] cds0699:
I can't wait for ACS to get their hands on it (official that is) and build a GB based ROM :) That's what will make me happy!
[Epic 4G General] blakehess11:
Huh, I wonder what the hell it is I'm doing wrong then. I've tried SRF several times for weeks at a time and have always gotten pretty horrendous battery life, even after setting up CPU scaling and everything.
[Epic 4G General] tragiquexcomedy:
My battery life on EF02 tanks as well, which I'm attributing to CIQ not having been removed from any of the leak-based ROMs.
[Epic 4G General] shadowlink217:
I've been getting pretty fantastic battery life across all EF02 roms. Make sure you're using the EF02 or EF10 modem
[Epic 4G General] Robbzilla:
Netflix.

That is all that matters.
[Epic 4G General] tragiquexcomedy:
Given the fact that most people are dropping the DVD option with the price hike, that's a pretty accurate statement.
[Epic 4G General] Esteway.619:
To bad netflix is changing there plan. Now if u want online streaming and dvd by mail it will cost u 15 bucks. Or u can do dvd only or online only for 7bucks each
[Epic 4G General] FrameCityJackal:
If thats the case sprint is getting epics with 2.3 maybe other retailers are.

If my store gets shipments in, I'll sell a epic to a customer and check out the build.

I have killer battery life on STOCK EC05 my phone has been unlpugged all day so far 9 hrs and I'm barely past the full bar icon.....
[Epic 4G General] alexnaoumi:
the possibility for cyanogenmod is EXACTLY why im excited!!!:D
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
I KNOW!!!!

Annoying but i cancelled the dvd service and only have streaming, so actually im saving money now :)

Anyway i can always go online and watch movies or goto redbox :D
[Epic 4G General] tragiquexcomedy:
I cancelled DVD service, I'd rather spend that $7.99 on Hulu Plus.
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
well this turned into nothing. i'm calling BS
[Epic 4G General] othan1:
Until the GB build has the following two fixes in it, I have no desire to upgrade:

1) Keyboard lag (even the Moment didn't lag like this!)

2) Farking dumbass, stupid, retarded, backwards moving, annoyingly loud battery pop up.

I'd prefer that they fix it in stock so I don't have to dink with my phone but will probably have to wait until it's fixed by people who don't even get paid for their work. Lazy-ass Sprint/Samsung.
[Epic 4G General] dieselg5:
has anyone called Sprint and asked?
[Epic 4G General] castro08:
Call call call
[Epic 4G General] tragiquexcomedy:
YESSSS do it.
[Epic 4G General] dieselg5:
Lol I was asking if anyone did, but I'll try online tech support via chat for the "lolz"
[Epic 4G General] tragiquexcomedy:
We await a report with baited breath ;D
[Epic 4G General] htc_joe:
I like the full charge sound. I want it to stay or I trade for an evo 3d.
[Epic 4G General] tragiquexcomedy:
I see the merit, but frankly when my phone is plugged in at night & I'm woken up at 3 AM by that sound, it's not my favourite feature.
[Epic 4G General] dieselg5:
Wow....curve ball....

Jessica: I apologize but at the moment I do not have any information about the future releases. I request you to please keep on visiting the site www.sprint.com for the latest updates.

Jessica: I would suggest you to, please contact our Customer Care at 1-888-211-4727. They will be happy to help you.
[Epic 4G General] tragiquexcomedy:
Well color me surprised lol
[Epic 4G General] lynyrd65:
Once, while I was asleep, my phone turned on and started playing pandora. I didn't wake up but instead dreamt I had a phone which played loud annoying music that couldn't be turned off. I did everything I could to destroy it but pandora continued playing even after I removed the battery and threw it on the ground.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
Are we trying to get something useful from sprint agents? cause they won't know anything for at least a month after people at xda know about it...
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
I have that too and netflix streaming service, i just wish there were no ads on hulu sinceim paying for it :rolleyes:
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
I did a long time ago.

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[Epic 4G General] shane6374:
I'm just tuning in for the entertainment value of the thread.
[Epic 4G General] tragiquexcomedy:
I've not activated service yet due to waiting for replacement bank card but the idea of ads is saddening.
[Epic 4G General] alexnaoumi:
http://www.androidcentral.com/no-epic-4g-isnt-yet-shipping-gingerbread-sprint-says#comment-161970

apparently its a typo just like the Evo 4G
[Epic 4G General] .OmEgA:
Shocker! Lol.

Posted by some phone named the Epic.
[Epic 4G General] AngelosDracul:
When I spoke to a Rep last week, the only thing he said about GB getting released for the epic was,"closer to the end of the year." We then went on to talk about rooting and all the like. But end of the year (especially if he meant fiscal year) really aggravated me. Considering I have been getting arse service since January.

I will patiently wait for the ACS to get ahold of the official leak and play with it before I bother going back to GB, leak or otherwise. The battery life was awesome, but I want official. For now, it is all SRF 1.2 :-)

Sent from my Epic. Which is better than yours. :P
[Epic 4G General] ac16313:
Lol a typo ? They didn't need to touch it at all if it wasn't coming out soon.

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Epic 4G General] Ron_91:
Thats what I was thinking.

This is obviously a sign that we're getting an update soon. They are probably going to wait until 1 or 2 weeks after the Photon is released so they don't have to compare it to the Epic when trying to sell it because of gingerbread.
[Epic 4G General] CapsLockKey:
No kidding. A typo would be like 2.9 or something. It's more like a "we were updating the site in anticipation but didn't mean to publish it already" kind of error.
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
:: sigh ::
[Epic 4G General] sonza:
Just purchased my daughter an epic today from the local company run store as she really wanted that phone. It does not have Gingerbread. When I asked the rep there, he stated they have not heard of a release date for the update. They have rumors of the epic2 coming sometime late next month or September, but again, nothing firm.

Seems like a nice device, but as is typical, the coverage map shows me having 4G by the house, NOT :mad: Not sure the sensitivity on this unit is all that great as it has one bar for 3G and my Touch Pro 2 has three bars. If I take it up the street 6 blocks where a tower is, get good 4G signal, with download speeds of 4MB using dslreports, and 9MB if I use speakeasy.
[Epic 4G General] cds0699:
They havent changed it yet either.
[Epic 4G General] htc_joe:
Well plug in your headphones then.
[Epic 4G General] xboxfanj:
Well paint me purple and call me Barney
[Epic 4G General] jfharden:
So where is it? Do you have pics or anything?
[Epic 4G General] tragiquexcomedy:
Oooooh snarky! :P Hey everybody's going to feel differently about features, that's why we love customisable roms :D
[Epic 4G General] stud_muffler:
It fixed now. Back to 2.2

:cool:
[Epic 4G General] XxLostSoulxX:
My replacement came back with 2.1 i mean really?

what a F'ng fail from asurion and sprint
[Epic 4G General] nickwn88:
^ This

I looked through the playbook last night and I could not find any trace of an Epic update. Although my girlfriend has heard rumors within her store, rumors are rumors.
[Epic 4G General] AngelosDracul:
Just released about 12 hours ago.... basically saying it was a big screw up, and they are sorry and my previous statement is seeming to be more true...

Http://www.planetinsane.com/update-for-samsung-epic-4g-delayed/2620400

Sent from my Epic. Which is better than yours. :P
[Epic 4G General] ultra78721:
Not surprised at all:rolleyes:
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Rumor has it the modem still crashes at low signal areas and has random reboots. So much for EG07. If they only realized it is in the ROM not the modem. My leak crashes in low signal areas even with the EC05 modem.
[Epic 4G General] || Acer ||:
Damn, I hope that rumor isn't true..

I was in a low signal area for two weeks (like no bars), and my modem would crash after about 12 hours. Just decided to put it on Airplane Mode the whole time. It really sucked.

The random reboots only happened to me on one day, and I learned that it may have something to do with Google Services, I'm not sure.
[Epic 4G General] teco2010:
Hey, Monday I'm requesting a replacement unit as well. How did your came? Any scratches or anything?
[Epic 4G General] dcowboys2184:
Can't deny this phone potential but on the other end makes me hate this phone .. there the pros n cons about samsung but right now I think letting the devs here work on gb and the modem have a better chance of it working properly.. Just saying
[Epic 4G General] alexnaoumi:
samsung should just release everything they have (source codes and all that crap) to the devs here so we can at gb already
[Epic 4G General] ratsttam:
EG14 is the latest internal build. Link not allowed.

With them still plugging away with new build numbers, shows they know there is a major issue, and want to squash it before release.

I would like another leaked build, so we can see how far along they are. The leaks we have out are 2.3.3, the internal builds (I think the last two) are 2.3.4.
[Epic 4G General] dcowboys2184:
EF16 EF29 EG07 EG14 all 2.3.4 i think
[Epic 4G General] AngelosDracul:
Meh, I am running bambooz.... wait *ducks the mods* a certain GB ROM that is awesome. Ee03 and killing battery life. 15 hours, moderate tis heavy use, still at 17 percent. Huzzah!

Not too many bugs, either. No random reboots, and only the occasional fc! Love live love me some gingerbread. And not for Netflix, either. As that is available on any ec05 ROM now.

Sent from my Epic. Which is better than yours. :P
[Epic 4G General] xboxfanj:
Actually, Bamboozle is EF02, but it is awesome. Can't wait for it to be EG22.
[Epic 4G General] AngelosDracul:
It comes with ef02, but I flashed ee03 and got almost 200% better battery life.

Sent from my Epic. Which is better than yours. :P
[HTC Sensation] getrdy:
I've noticed that in the last few days when I turn on WiFi I still get cell data.

I have WiFi then 4g icon with 2-3 bars. Wasn't like that before.