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[Epic 4G Android Development] punzada:
Just wanted to say thanks for this rom. I had been running a mostly-stock gingerbread rom and the performance and GPS issues made me check out what's available. Thunderhawk has been great so far.

One bug I noticed revolves around the Touchdown exchange app, you can't download the licence patch if you paid for it (I'm guessing because of market version or some such, its not even listed). I was able to easily restore it from a titanium backup however so I'm getting 100% functionaliy. (Alwas make sure you backup entirely before flashing folks :p)

Any issues or concerns I'll certainly post to help with development if I can, thanks again for the wonderful rom.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jweavis:
No FC or reboots, but can't seem to get my bluetooth to turn on.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
Looking into it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] lost_:
For me, it takes about 12 seconds for BT to turn on (just as long to turn it off). Otherwise it works fine. It usually doesn't take that long with other ROMs.

I've had 3 reboots since Saturday. And I don't know if it's the rom or the MicroSD, but a few hours after I flashed and was setting up Wireless Tether and Roam Control, my Kingston MicroSD suddenly 'disappeared' - it was unmounted and the metal clip that held it was hot to the touch, and the phone randomly rebooted twice in a row.

I took the card out and plugged it into my laptop, but it wasn't seen or recognized. Every time I put it back on the phone, the metal clip would warm up again. As with the card, I had been using it for a few months with no issue. I lost some pics and some SMS backup - sigh. Like I said, not sure what caused this and I'm not blaming the ROM, and it could be just a coincidence. Other MicroSD works fine with the phone.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
Only seems a problem when ram gets too low.

-Sent from my Random Epic.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Donmeister85:
Hmm.... I had this problem in the last revision of this ROM. Hadn't tried it since. I updated to thunderhawk and just tried it just to see. My bluetooth radio is functioning. :D Hope my RAM doesn't get too low...

Great job once again RK. This thing is extremely stable. I ran Hawk for a little over a week with minimal force closing (mostly the first night I installed it) and few (if any) reboots. Had a problem with GPS constantly dropping. A restart and clear AGPS state seemed to help. But I'll gladly deal with this than to still be on Froyo.

How devs update devices better than Samsung is beyond me...
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
Collaboration. Creation. Dedication.

Use of XDA as a huge testing crew.

-Sent from my Random Epic.
[Epic 4G Android Development] smader12:
Tried a couple of other GB ROMs and this is the only one that never reboots for me. For me it seems to be the most stable. Thanks!
[Epic 4G Android Development] jweavis:
Interesting.... I'll take a look.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jweavis:
273... That too high?
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
When the phone has somewhere around 115 mb free ram or less is when problems arise and reboots occur.

-Sent from my Random Epic.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jweavis:
Got it down to 122 free and still no BT. No other problems, even running at 70mb free.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
I'm piecing together a matching EH17 version. Both will be posted simultaneously for anyone to test which one is more stable.

-RandomKing
[Epic 4G Android Development] mmj12345:
Anyone having dropped keypress issues on the hardware keyboard? It is happening pretty frequently for me, probably every 3rd word or so doesn't register one of my keypresses. If there is a known fix or anything please let me know!
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
There is no keyboard lag fix available for gb roms that I have found yet. I have seen someone post that downloading the touch pal keyboard from the market and telling it to spell check the physical keyboard is a decent work around for now. I have not tried it myself.

Still running smooth with thunderhawk since release with no fc issues. Random reboots still happen 2-3 times a day. System ram seems to hang around 90-100 as opposed to 60-70 on hawk v3 and v4 for me. I have been working big hours out of town all week, so I haven't been messing with my phone as much as usual.
[Epic 4G Android Development] FrankyFiggz27:
any way u can put up a mirror download? i wana test this ***** out but the site's still down.
[Epic 4G Android Development] joejunior253:
Mirrors to RandomRom 2.3.4 Thunderhawk

Here is the download link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TV8MVS36

Make sure and thank RandomKing

Also after installing and letting the phone boot up initially I would reboot back into clockwork mod and install from zip this file:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B8AHNFXM

Make sure and thank Juwe11 for the above script by clicking here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1111145
[Epic 4G Android Development] Ragnar:
Looking forward to that. I have personally tested all Gb roms. My two favorites are Hawk n Hurricane.
[Epic 4G Android Development] lost_:
couldn't turn BT on with sd card out. still takes longer than other ROM to turn on BT with SD card in.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
Looks like another great update coming today from what I just read. I'm out of town working again, so I may not be able to try it out untill the weekend.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
No SGSII Email apk

Unfortunately, it turns out the SGSII email app is capable of performing all its normal functionalities on the Epic 4G... except write an email. So if you downloaded 1.1 before I pulled the links and simply want to read your email on your phone but not respond to them, then enjoy. For the rest of you, I am switching back in the original email.apk and re-uploading the files as I type this. I may try to find a way to make this awesome new email app work, as I really do like it, but don't get your hopes to high.

UPDATE: ThunderHawk links with working email.apk are up.
[Epic 4G Android Development] lost_:
RandomKing - thanks!

Beside the apps, could you tell us of any specific fixes in the 10/18 release? I don't use the stock email app, Polaris Office, or Talk, so not sure if I need to flash today's release over the earlier one.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
Mainly updated google services. You should be good.
[Epic 4G Android Development] joejunior253:
Love these roms

First off let me say that you do great work.

Now then, I was curious if anyone else is experiencing the reboots that arent like full reboots. The epic will vibrate then make the dropped signal sound, screen will go black, home keys will stay lit, and then it shows the lock screen. But all of this happens within about 10 seconds. Just was curious if anyone knew how to prevent or atleast spread these out. I did a fresh install of version 1.1 (i was on the 1.0 version before that) at about 10am today and just had my first one at 3:30pm.

I have the ramscript97 running with it and the keyboard speed demon. Any other help is appreciated. Thanks guys. Keep up the great work and I will continue to keep testing for you!
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
That is common with all gingerbread leaks on the epic untill official source drops. I get 2-3 a day. It is what people refer to as random reboots, just the android system rebooting and not the whole phone. Some people claim to be able to get rid of them playing with voltages. Others think it is a system ram issue. I have never been able to stop them. It's just a minor annoyance to me.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
Now that GB source has dropped

I can't wait to see what Random does :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] lost_:
For those who can't turn on BT or seeing it takes so long to turn on, do NOT restore Bluetooth Settings in Titanium Backup. You can safely restore BT pairings. I found out the hard way after re-flashing a few times.

Also, restoring TB with data with the included MyBackup Root led to FCs. Restoring app only works.
[Epic 4G Android Development] JeffATL:
How do you restore only bluetooth pairings?
[Epic 4G Android Development] lost_:
"Bluetooth pairings" and "Settings Bluetooth" are separate entries in TB.
[Epic 4G Android Development] punzada:
Ended up pulling the battery a little too soon (didn't realize it wasn't entirely shut down) which ended up with some of my file system corrupted (I assume) and some force closes. Luckily I had most of my stuff backed up with titanium (restore from CWM didn't work).

Is there any way to run fsck on the phones ext4 filesystem that I don't know about to help these types of issues? Seems silly to me if there isn't - just not big into the whole ROM'ing scene so don't know all the quirks and tricks.

Otherwise still absolutely loving this rom, can't wait to see what the official GB source release has in store for us all :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
The file system should be running the same as Froyo. Unfortunately the gingerbread leaks all have some coding issue that is leading to Google Framework data corruption either in the rom or the kernel.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ragnsep:
CIFS

Is there a way to load cifs.ko with this kernel? Are there any other kernels compatiable with this rom that support cifs.ko?

I really love this rom minus the lack of... go figure.. cifs.ko for my streaming media.

Thanks!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Scias:
Does EH17 work on this rom?
[Epic 4G Android Development] thefangedkanga:
I've been playing around with different roms for a while, so I am familiar with most of the processes. I have tried out SRF 1.2, the CM7 Kang, ACS ICS 17 Beta, stuff like that, and I wanted to try another 2.3 rom.

I made sure I was on EXT4 and had a EH17 modem. Wiped data, flashed blah blah.

No issues, and it runs really smoothly. I am really enjoying it.

However, I am having battery issues. I attached some screenshots. For some reason, my "android system" is using up massive amounts of batter life.

Last night my phone was at about 75% battery life, and I slept for about 6 hours, and it was done to 50%. To me 25% over 6 hours seems quite extreme, as on other roms (even your 2.2 rom) It would drop at 1-2% per hour.

I did freeze using the Terminal emulator, and I tried searching but I couldn't find anything. Anyone have any ideas?

EDIT: I forgot to attach the screenshot that showed the process that was using so much.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Ragnar:
With all the gb leak builds it will show android process as your biggest drain.unlike a froyo rom built on actual released code. The only one I have seen that goes back to display as your biggest drain is cm7 kang.

Sent from my CM7 Kanged Epic 4G with no 4G @ the moment....
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
Like mentioned above, the stats presented are not exactly efficient at determining whats draining your battery in the present leaks for the Epic. One thing I notice is that you have 4G on, that could be an obvious one I assume you've taken into account. From the looks of things, your battery starts off draining at an expected rate, and then the slope of the graph seems to double after an hour or two. And you mention similar problems on other roms?

My guess is a rogue app, or bad restored data if you use a backup program.
[Epic 4G Android Development] thefangedkanga:
I just turned on the 4G just now so I could download the screenshot application.

I didn't restore any apps / data, as I wanted to start fresh. EVERY rom I have used always had my display being the number 1 battery hog. So I wonder if this is the case here as well, it just is not displaying it. However it still seems weird that overnight it maintained that high percentage when I wasn't even using it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
I'm trying to reduce the SD card footprint of my roms. Using an alternate compression method I've managed to squeeze the size of the Lite version down even further. Anyone want to test if it flashes properly for me? Only people that don't have any problems with the current release, please.

RC Download Link
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
Downloading and running my backup ritual now.

Edit: flashed the zip and got stuck at a genocide 2.0 splash screen.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
Damn. That is so the wrong kernel for the wrong rom :rolleyes:. I'll post another version a bit later, hopefully this will work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
Lol, yeah I figured you mixed some stuff from phoenix in there.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
Try this one.

Kernel should be matching, and I think I fixed some updater scripting. I'm only saving about 15mb on the Lite version, but it's a start.
[Epic 4G Android Development] lost_:
Cancrusher is running Rodderik's EH17 Test Kernel on this ROM. Hope things go well.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
I'm hopeful that a genuine kernel may address Google Framework FCs. Not counting on it, but hopeful. :rolleyes:

6 People downloaded this, can anyone confirm a successful installation?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
I never got around to it yet. Got caught up running my daughter around and playing battlefield 3. I'll give it a go today.

Edit: just flashed it and got stuck at the samsung splash screen. Not genocide this time.
[Epic 4G Android Development] tbob18:
Great job RandomKing, Thunderhawk is running awesome for me!

While undervolted, I am seeing some the the best battery I've ever had on this phone. While idle, battery drain usually less than 1% an hour, this is with K9 set up with 3 imap accounts.

It is also very snappy, at least as quick as any other rom I've tried.

I have not had a single random reboot in over 40 hours, I am not using SetCPU screen off profiles or overvolting 100-200mhz like required on any other GB rom I've tried (including RandomKing's older versions) we'll see if that keeps up over the next few days... Usually I get 3+ reboots a day on other GB roms.

Heavy usage battery results are below.. Stock 1500mah battery. :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] JeffATL:
Will this affect future releases?

http://www.sprintfeed.com/2011/10/gingerbread-kernel-source-for-epic-4g-now-available/
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
One of our best kernel developers is already on it. Hopefully it's not a bad thing that Samsung already pulled the source back off of that site, though. There's some confirmed enhancements, notably, a keyboard fix like Froyo. We'll have to wait and test to see if it has any effect on Ram leakage or FCs.
[Epic 4G Android Development] tbob18:
Was almost 3 days without random reboots and just started experiencing the reboots again.

It was nice while it lasted, back to my old voltage settings and screen off profile I guess.
[Epic 4G Android Development] lost_:
Any tips on how I can change the background colors of 1) drop-down and 2) radio-button selection in pop-up dialogs?

I prefer not to install a whole theme. Everything else is fine for me, but those two are just not readable.

EDIT: Using apk manager to look at framework-res.apk. Would appreciate any warnings of what not to do, etc. Still looking at which values to edit in colors.xml...
[Epic 4G Android Development] turbosr123:
I was just wondering what the difference is between thunderhawk and phoenix? When I flashed them a couple weeks back they looked real low def or off in a way. I'm not too good with the whole rfs/ext4 stuff so could this be related to it? How can you tell what rom is what file system and what my phone is on right now?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
Thunderhawk is based on a leaked gingerbread 2.3.4 EG22 build. Phoenix is based on froyo EC05. To see what rom you currently have press the menu soft key, settings, about phone, and look at the build number. The op will usually tell if a rom is ext4 or rfs.
[Epic 4G Android Development] viper786:
Do you have a fix for navigation? I really love this rom but if I can't get navigation working I'll have to go to another rom until its fixed
[Epic 4G Android Development] Jae4prez:
would it be possible to incorporate voodoo sound into this?
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
Working on it.

This is kernel based, not on me.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Trident:
Ummm, where is the battery icon?
[Epic 4G Android Development] locomariachi:
So far running eagle was fun. 4g in baltimore was kind of sucky though. 3g worked fine, 4g constantly disconnected on me. As for quadrant was averaging 1500 but not OC. Navigation was fine, used it to find a few spots to eat at and I was nice. The only thing bugging the hell out of me is the keyboard. The slide out keyboard is missing a lot of keys. Can anyone help me out there? Look forward to downloading n checking egert when I get home!
[Epic 4G Android Development] locomariachi:
Oh yeah also have no mms sending on my phone still :( hopefully egert fresh install will change that
[Epic 4G Android Development] Trident:
I'm also not getting nav to work. Telenav works sometimes, but Google nav won't do anything. I can get it to open, but it doesn't see contacts and can't access any maps [instaFC].
[Epic 4G Android Development] il buono:
Egret is working flawlessly for me. Every app I have works great. You should see your benchmark score increase on egret
[Epic 4G Android Development] durhamite:
I glanced through the entire thread and I may have missed this but. I don't have a battery indicator in the status bar. Does anyone else have this issue or have a fix for this?
[Epic 4G Android Development] il buono:
For that you have to mess around with Settings- Lockscreen settings- statusbar settings
[Epic 4G Android Development] il buono:
I didn't notice it till you brought it up. I rarely use navigation but I tried it and the same thing does happen to me with Google Nav.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Jae4prez:
when my device is plugged in and turned off i only get the charging indicator with loading symbol in it that doesn't move, i'm running egret with the AIO patch, is this a known issue
[Epic 4G Android Development] locomariachi:
Just flashed egret, but still no mms working on the sending, i can receive, but not send. any clues? i did a fresh install too after wiping 3x. any suggestions?
[Epic 4G Android Development] younggangsta_s:
Actually SuperHiJacked has been smoother for me. I'll flash this again when the next version is released.
[Epic 4G Android Development] thatdudepoops:
I wish I could post shoot me Pics but it has always said its the wrong format...I'm testing the two heavily for the next few days. Although I don't usually test quadrants and such. Ilk test battery life once I Put my regular battery back in..im on an extended life I just got at the moment:-)
[Epic 4G Android Development] gtuansdiamm:
The app terminal emulator by jack something keeps force closing on me

Anybody have any suggestion for a substitute
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
Script manager. I'm trying to push out a new version. Terminal emulator should be installable, but for some reason it refuses to flash properly with Gingerbread.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Alkah0liK:
Did you dl from markt or restore it with titanium / similar? If you restored... uninstall and reinstall but restore app only and it should work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] il buono:
ShootMe pics post fine for me. When you attempt to attach a file does it convert the .png to .jpg?
[Epic 4G Android Development] locomariachi:
now receiving of mms is busted. the file has to be sent twice then it finally gets to be viewed, but still nothing on the sending. any ideas on what i should do? i already had started from scratch. i'm using the EG22, should i use EE03? any suggestions would help :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] turbosr123:
Good to know ... thanks! I'll try thunderhawk again on it instead of the cm7 which is having some bugs right now on the mic sound issue. Any idea if I need to be on ext4 or rfs?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
You should be ext4. Pretty much all gingerbread roms have bugs right now, but it should hopefully get better soon with people working on the EH17 kernel source. If you want the best shot at stability stay on EC05 roms for now. I deal with the bugs for a trade off in better battery life, and overall smoothness on thunderhawk. You have to be prepared to accept force closes and random reboots at any time on gingerbread leaks. Just keep fresh nandroids and its not a big deal. Any issue I have encountered is always fixable within 15 minutes.

I usually get 1-3 random reboots a day, and get hit with fc's every 1-2 weeks. My girlfriend is still on hawk v4 for over a month now with zero fc's, and 1-3 random reboots a day. She pretty much never reboots her phone, and I reboot mine several times a day. 90% of the time the fc's hit after I manually reboot the phone. Its kind of a double edged sword to make daily nandroids and hope you don't get fc's after booting to system.
[Epic 4G Android Development] andrewt328:
if i use the sprint hotspot will it charge the sprint fees?

thanks
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
Nope.
[Epic 4G Android Development] andrewt328:
ok, thanks, cuz i didnt want to see a $30 fee popping up on my sprint bill for just turning it on once to see if it worked
[Epic 4G Android Development] ryanthomas:
Hi. I instlled this rom and have found a way to deal wth random force closes but the main issue I'm having is when your go to settings > voice input and output > text to speech settings.. it Immediately force closes. If I try to click on a speech synthesis app it immediately force closes. How do I fix this?
[Epic 4G Android Development] lost_:
Try running "Fix Permissions" from CWM purple (Advanced menu). There is also an app (same name) in the market to fix FC's for non-system app. That fixed my FC with an app.

My phone has been pretty stable - only 1 random reboot in 2 weeks and that's because it 'overheated' when I ran hotspot while charging. I reboot nightly after TB scheduled jobs. Had to restore to a nandroid backup after I installed apps and mucked around with settings, and Google Framework started FC'ing. Restored, reinstalled apps, and good to go. I wasn't aware of fix pemission at the time, so not sure if that would've fixed my problem instead of restoring from nandroid backup.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
Text to speech does not work on this rom. There was a discussion about it somewhere in the thread. It fcs for everyone.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Aloth600:
How do you "push" these? I downloaded them but they will not copy
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
"Push" is just ADB talk for copy. In ES File Explorer, under settings, towards the bottom, make sure Root is enabled and the file system is mounted.
[Epic 4G Android Development] turbosr123:
Thank you so much for an Awesome and stable rom... I flashed over from cm7, this is for my daughters phone.... She's extremely happy with it as well. Thanks again!
[Epic 4G Android Development] 300baud:
FC after a few days - every time

I have had this problem with other roms but now it happens after a few days every time on every rom and I love this rom so when it started happening I tried 3 times to hope my way through it. Do the typical factory clear 3 times, install rom, su superfreeze. Everything is beautiful for a few days and then the google framework and sometimes other services start to FC over and over. I just don't understand why a phone that is working great and I asume getting no OTA updates will just crap out. It could be the phone at this point so I just finished doing the rerfs and de-CWM. But another thing is that I couldn't get into download mode afer flashing this rom. I was able to a few weeks ago before thunderhawk and can get into it now afer the stock restore....

So any light on the limited 3 day lifespan would be great b/c I plan on swapping this phone for a retread next week and will probably try and load the rom again.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
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This is a known issue with Gingerbread leaks for the Samsung Epic 4G. New kernels developed from recently released source may stem these problems.