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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fus3D:
I'm sure, that's what it is because I noticed it didn't have the interactive mode
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Appreciate the insight on the changes you are making
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dmarden:
In the interest of full disclosure... I did finally experience the phone/3G death thing. Not notification icon, but phone and 3G data stopped working. Wifi was fine, 4G was fine. Reboot put it all back to normal.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
So is this a 3G only thing here? I haven't had any of that behavior at all today on 4G. The battery did take a bit of a hit being rooted as did benchmarks. I am hoping that changing the governor will fix that
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iamtimmah:
My phone started doing the 3g/phone death thing BEFORE I did root.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhantomPhreak53:
Uh oh do we have another death grip scandal on our hands?!!? haha
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rdcrds:
Yeah i thought i was doing good but i just tried to call my epic with my spare phone and 3 times nothing.Then looked and seen the circle.I am glad he got us root and his hard work is great but you really should make a out if you are going to make a in.Cause people are stuck and many can't return it to sprint due to the splash screen.

Many of us have learned now and next time we won't jump so fast.Some will i am sure but if i get out of this root i will not be back to this one.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leatherneck6017:
You could always pull the cable during Odin. Should get you a hard brick to take to sprint.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kpkimmel:
Agreed, i posted a forum earlier about all this development and got -5 deductions....not sure what that is...but unless you brick the phone (ie make sure the repartion box is checked, you cannot return the phone.....)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] odub303:
Are you sure about that? Samsung has been using ondemand...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rdcrds:
I personally do not care i just want back to stock and look elsewhere for root
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] odub303:
I'm not sure how new you are to Android and rooting, but there are disclaimers everywhere. You should NOT be rooting your phone unless you are comfortable troubleshooting it, especially when there is no way to flash back to stock yet. And FYI, *this* root vs *that* root is meaningless, the method is the same as it has been for devices that are already unlocked. The problem here is that we do not yet have a fully stock EG30 kernel build to flash back on the device. I do not mean one that has been compiled form Samsung's source, I mean one that has been either pulled from a fully stock device or pulled from a full EG30 odin tar.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rdcrds:
See this is not what should be happening.Bugs yes people trying to find ways to take it back to sprint is just wrong.I know we do it at our own risk but they way it was posted there was no report of these issue's till after we had rooted our phones.You test stuff before you release it is that simple.Not rush it out for the glory.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bbedward:
Im fairly confident samsung uses ondemand by default, someone that's still stock could tell you

Sent from my sprint galaxy s2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] geomatiq:
bricked

so i flashed it and have no 3g no wifi no 4g is working now...and stuck here saddest thing is that i dont have a phone to swap.. my life sucks now:(
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hermeticist:
Same. An hour afterI got it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] odub303:
First of all, it was tested by the developer. He did not experience the issues that are being mentioned. Apparently you still do not understand what "at your own risk" really means. It does not mean "at your own risk, but if something goes wrong, you have a safety net to fall back on."
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hermeticist:
After my stock phone crashed I searched for updates and the phone updated the PRL. I don't know what that is but I haven't had any more crashes since saturday.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leatherneck6017:
I'm stock, how would I do that?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jlear3:
Preferred Roaming List

Doubtful that it would have anything to do with reboots, but who knows?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Ok, are people getting GPS lock in Maps and GPS Status?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fus3D:
Id install setcpu, run it and see what is displayed, I'm guessing
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] plmiller0905:
I'm gonna give it till tomorrow. If there is no way to return to stock by then, I'm just gonna stop by the sprint store on my way home and try to exchange it even though its rooted.

The most they can say is send it in to asurion or sonething
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jlear3:
Just locked with maps, idk how to check gps status
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Issey_phresh:
....especially when within a few posts of the OP Z clearly states that once rooted there was no turning back. Even bricking one of his phones In the process...it's simple really...developers section= read!+ risk :-)....hope you get stock kernel soon tho bro.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wingzfan:
Yeah in maps i lock in about 4 seconds within 10 meters

Sent from a Galaxy far far away...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fordmanck:
SetCpu requires root...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ddialogue:
Just experienced here; not rooted!

Sent from my Epic 4G Touch
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PsycloneTW:
Doesn't setcpu require root?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] joetemp75:
Got a lock on 8 sats from inside my room
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Yeah, once a stock kernel gets posted the issues people are having should be resolved. I don't think people need to resort to trying to return their phones yet. Thanks for the GPS feedback guys
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jlear3:
not to just open it, I don't believe..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Steady Hawkin:
Just checked, I'm not.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jimbobtexas:
...Said the guy with a working phone...:rolleyes:

I just missed a meeting because I don't have a working phone. I feel like I'm working in the 1980s again! :D

Stock kernel, anyone? I'll give you 5 bucks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Chainfire:
Not without root, no.

Once you have a flashable stock zImage, making a root can be as little as a 30 second job. I was asked to do so yesterday by a couple of people, but without a stock kernel, I'm not even going to try. It's just asking for trouble - as you can see, there has already been a brick.

Waiting until a stock firmware is available is by far the easiest way to get this done. There is one other way to do this, involving quite a bit of effort, but it's a lot of work and frankly not worth it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
Look who showed up to the party ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] timdorr:
I know the sha1sum will probably be different for yours, but this is what I got when I compiled their kernel (finding the Mentor toolchain was way too difficult, btw). The file size should be nearly the same, though.

timdorr@Ubuntu-VirtualBox:~/SPH-D710_Kernel$ sha1sum arch/arm/boot/zImage
c3e509a1183a321fdb75558c376962e21a9305ab arch/arm/boot/zImage

timdorr@Ubuntu-VirtualBox:~/SPH-D710_Kernel$ ls -l arch/arm/boot/zImage
-rwxr-xr-x 1 timdorr timdorr 3634940 2011-09-17 03:42 arch/arm/boot/zImage

What did you get, zedo?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tenaciousj:
Hope this is good to go for Tuesday when mine gets here :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shabbypenguin:
i guess ill stop in to say my 2 cents, someone flash the sgs2 stuff, use dd to pull ALL the stls/bmls that are needed. someone then takes the /system dump and made its into a pre-rooted factoryfs.rfs. then someone else flashes that (without using the sgs2 stuff) and tada then they can pull stock kernel.

altho if the sgs2 is anything like the sgs if you guys are flashing a rooted then you should be able to dd stock recovery and use that to make cwm for this phone, then you dont need to make a pre-rooted odin tar..

PS to anyone thinkin it would be a good idea to flash a freshly compiled kernel, unless samsung switched to boot.img format, your going to need teh ramdisk/initramfs compiled into the kernel to get it to be bootable. without it, you arent getting far
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Chainfire:
The first method you describe is what I was referring to earlier... but its a complicated way to do it if you don't have two people who have the device available and know what they're doing. I expect flashable stock firmwares to be available within days, so...

The second method you mention - that just doesn't make any sense, though possibly I'm misunderstanding what you mean.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shabbypenguin:
the sgs had two seperate kernels, boot and recovery. so if this phone is anything liek it you should be able to dd the one that isnt getting flashed by teh sgs2 stuff. which from my understanding is the boot kernel (hence why the radios dont work) so it should be leaving recovery kernel alone. allowing you to dd it and then use that to port/make CWM for this device and then everyone can just flash a su.zip.

like i said tho that all hinges on whether samsung has changed since the first sgs, since i dont have this phone i dont know and dont have a way of finding out ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Chainfire:
I'm not sure which SGS you got, but the original SGS did NOT have two seperate kernels and neither does the SGS2. So that won't work. (Unless they modified that for the E4GT).

If it did, yeah that method would work, but as far as I know, none of the Hummingbird and Exynos devices are set up this way... (Sammy's Tegra2 offerings are, though). They use a single kernel for both boot and recovery. This while they all do appear to have a special partition for a recovery kernel, it isn't used.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] squshy 7:
The OG epic had those two separate kernels. Hence why it was possible to 3 finger boot into cwm, but if the boot kernel didn't include it, then adb reboot recovery brought you to stock recovery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RoadRAGEN:
A lot of good interesting information. I have a few statements,

A) I am willing to do what ever it takes to help someone achieve root even if that means taking the risk of hard brick, I have friends that will hold E4GT for me as they come in so getting a replacement isn't a big deal.

B) do we have an IRC channel for this phone yet on freenode? if not I have registered samsung-epic-touch backin august when I first heard of the phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] banksj17:
I don't understand why we can't pull the kernel from the system dump posted earlier?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
This is what I got:

[root@server boot]# sha1sum zImage

2344327a5c8a54801dec1a96a200a36bbaeed46d zImage

[root@server boot]# ls zImage -l

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3642016 Sep 16 22:12 zImage

[root@server boot]#

Btw, what setup do you have on VirtualBox? I couldn't get anything compiled with VB so I had to use my web servers.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ballerx43:
As far as unlocking the bootloader, take it he phone comes with it unlocked stock right?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] timdorr:
VB 4.12 and Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit. I let it run updates and also installed git (I was going to pull AOSP, but forgot that's down :( ).

Then installed the 2009q3-68 version of CodeBench Lite for ARM EABI (like the compile guide said) and ran the installer. I also got the tarball version and copied that into /opt/toolchains/arm-2009q3/.

When I started getting errors about missing arm-none-linux-* files during make for the kernel, I went back and grabbed the 2009q3-67 tarball for the GNU/Linux version, and installed that into /opt/toolchains as well.

Ran "make c1_rev05_na_spr_defconfig" and "make" as requested and that's the zImage that popped out.

Interesting that we have a 7k difference in size. I would expect a small difference, but not that much...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] timdorr:
Here's my zImage. For the love of god, use this at your own risk! This will likely brick your phone just like zedomax. I haven't even tried it myself. I'm too much of a wuss. :eek:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
For those of you who try and brick your phone, you can flash any original Galaxy S2 kernels to get your phone booted again (but with no more radio).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shabbypenguin:
there is an irc channel on fossnet already set up for this phone, ill be in it when i get off work. ill need 2 people, one that isnt afraid to flash teh sgs2 kernel and be without a "phone" for a while
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] r.kim:
You should take that down as it will put your phone into a boot loop. I compiled using both the sourcery toolchain as well as the one provided via the android source - neither will work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ravizzle:
Also got one on free node. #epic-touch4g
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
Yeah might have to call up my brother in law at Samsung Korea to complain about open source code that doesn't work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rdcrds:
So does anyone think we will get a fix for the call bug today? i have not had any other issue's but the call bug so far.

Been reading and not sure if i read it right that we may get the fix.If we do i hopw how to flash back to stock will be posted also.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leatherneck6017:
Confirmed. Installed SetCPU on my stock device, scaling is set to ondemand.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] plmiller0905:
Are u serious....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wingzfan:
I got 10 on it

Sent from a Galaxy far far away...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
So you flashed the ACS kernel and still nothing?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] geomatiq:
So i just flashed this kernal and i have no 3g or voice.. i read that people are saying to wait.. but i am confused what should i wait for.. because of me jumping in to this so quickly i got stuck on the no 3g no voice. i dont know wat should i do..:mad::mad::mad::mad:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jlear3:
eventually stock zImage will come out, either from sammy or a dev... once it comes out you'll be okay... there's no reason to run and return your phone
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fordmanck:
Once the ACS team gets back on it I think it'll get hammered out tonight. I'll be flashing and risking mine tonight so the people that shouldn't have flashed in the beginning can get fixed....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jimbobtexas:
That is correct. I do not have phone service.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wingzfan:
I thought i read clockwork could be installed on a nonrooted phone. Cant someone unrooted install it, make a nand and let a dev rip the kernel out?

I know ZERO about how this crap gets done so if that was a dumb question feel free to impail me with a dull object

Sent from a Galaxy far far away...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fus3D:
it will still install and still load
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fordmanck:
I had clockwork working last night, but I lost root when I flashed it. I have a nand but it's not a stock kernel. No one has it yet...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fus3D:
Booya
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wingzfan:
So then we just need someone whos not rooted to flash cwm and make a nand correct? That should give us a stock everything except recovery and the kernel could be yanked out.

Sent from a Galaxy far far away...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jlear3:
edit: nvm fixed
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Same here. I will flash any tester I get to see if it has everything working properly. I think I can reproduce the 3G loss issue but obviously total loss. I will gladly make multiple calls between phones,test 3G, 4G, wifi, GPS, etc as soon as I get another one in my hands
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leatherneck6017:
If a dev could confirm that this is a possibility, I don't mind risking my phone to try it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fus3D:
The only reason he was able to flash clockwork is because he HAD root.. Right? Or does it not matter?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] geomatiq:
so im at work trying to fix my phone, i get a called to the office and they tell me that the my son's school has been trying to reach me on my cell phone. Im gonna tell the principal that i was trying to root my phone with this kernel i saw and ended up bricking my phone..:D:D:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fus3D:
Lol, he might say "like father like son, up to no good" lolol, hope he didn't get in trouble!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Sorry guys. On the Epic I always get kernels early to test all of these kinds of things. I am sure round 2 of the kernels are coming soon...hopefully very soon for those who are having all of the problems
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] volwrath:
Hah man all you guys should have your sprint number set up as google voice so you can forward to another phone if necessary!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] woodyth:
Pretty sure we could tag team the tester thing, I miss testing like i used too, time to get back in!

ALSO i still have a non rooted phone to get stock kernel rom if needed!

Woody
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wingzfan:
Ok so I read through the CWM thread and it required a prerooted kernel. However someone else had a decent idea as well and the only drawback I see is one person had to reset their phone.

ADB into recovery, make a backup and post it so the kernel can be taken out.

Seems pretty reasonable to me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] churro7:
So the only way to root this awesome phone is via odin ? will it also flash cwm ?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fordmanck:
Yes and yes but it's a modified version and it breaks root. Be patient, it'll get fixed soon.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
If I was you, I would wait. No recovery yet and people are having bad issues losing phone, 3g,4g..battery isn't as good either
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jlear3:
If someone does this and I was right, I'll feel so freaking special :P
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wingzfan:
I hope to hell you are right cuz im dying to unroot this beast. Damn it feels so wrong to say "unroot"

Sent from a Galaxy far far away...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hermeticist:
Gps status is an app. It can help to fix in satellites faster. Though I'm not having any problem with speed myself.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fus3D:
Guys, zedomax is working on these issues as we speak, shouldn't take him long, he's a pro. If it does take long, I don't mind
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fattires:
Have the no 3g/phone issue earlier. Phone is completely stock.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hermeticist:
Netflix works fine for me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] plmiller0905:
You're the 3rd person that said that....I encountered the no data/no call issue earlier. Since then I rebooted and I haven't had any issues.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] darren.wlsn1:
guess im lucky or did something you guys didnt cause i have been on this root second it came out and not a single issue with anything and didnt reset phone till i killed battery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hermeticist:
My data froze so I hit airplane mode then...

When I turned of airplane mode service wouldn't come back. Just the o with the line.

Reboot fixed it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Same here. Only increased battery consumption but its not crushing the battery it just isn't quite as good.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wingzfan:
To the people with data loss, what prl are you on?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fus3D:
Me too, no data loss, no thing wrong, I did have data loss on stock, had to update profile
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jimbobtexas:
Couldn't tell you - there's no way to check it. It's as if there's no radio installed at ALL on my phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] joetemp75:
+1

tenchar
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] weltwon:
Root works, wireless tether doesn't

Kudos to Zedomax, ShabbyPenguin and Tanimn for the root. Happy to report that all standard apps, phone calling, 3G, 4G, WiFi and Bluetooth working perfectly on my E4GT. I then installed Rescan Media Root from Market which eliminated the annoying media scans during every boot. Hoping other rooted apps would work, I downloaded Wireless Tether for Root Users. Sorry to report that neither the V 2.0.6 (works perfectly on my Nexus One running CM7 #177 nightly) nor any of the WiFi Tether betas 3.1, 3.2 or 3.6 work. In fact, when I ran v3.6 and tried to close it, it froze my entire system and required battery removal to reboot.

I suspect we won't have wireless tether until you geniuses create a custom kernel that supports netfilter (iptables). If I had the expertise, I'd be helping you work on it right now. I will definitely be donating the minute you guys deliver it! :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wingzfan:
WIFI tethers working, its somewhere in this thread
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kpkimmel:
Wireless tether works fine....the beta6 even does it over 4g
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] plmiller0905:
I probably spoke to fast about having the no data/call area. Im an officer inside the high school...so I'm not always near a window. But I was sitting in my office and the no service appeared on the screen. I was getting ready to reboot the phone, then the service bars reappeared.

I looked at the screen again and the no service icon reappeared. I went outside of the school and the reception bars reappeared.

So maybe I don't have that issue after all.

I'm just gonna keep monitoring it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
No problems on 3.1 beta 6 here either. No need to turn off 4G or anything like that
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] geekaren:
I was able to do wifi tethering w/my phone and laptop today using Barnacles (after flashing the rooted kernel).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dutchman71:
Same here. Noticed no issued at all yet. Just rooted last night with the #1 version. Unplugged from charger at 8AM and still at 73% battery usage...

EDIT: Ok, I just lost service 1 1/2 day after rooting... Bug finally hit me..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] weltwon:
beta6 of wifi tether is what froze my system completely. To conduct my wifi/tether test I'm trying to connect it to my Acer A500 tablet. I know it's not a problem with my tablet because my rooted nexus one tethers perfectly (N1 running Cyanogen nightly #177 and using the built-in hotspot to tether).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jlear3:
only problem so far is I had a freeze during Futurama on netflix, needed a battery pull..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] stacio88:
I used Wifi tether on my brothers vibrant and every time he connected to my phone he couldn't connect to another hot spot. He had to re-install his kernel in order to be able to connect to something else.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] deano0714:
How did you guys extract the intramivs from the stock kernel or are you using the original gsII intramivs?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kpkimmel:
there are two modes to tether....a500 doesn't support adhoc...thats how the tether works on ET4G
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] darren.wlsn1:
just a thought and again i have no issues but my steps to get where im @ were this: odin'd shabbys http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1267762 which was "no wifi working kernel" then this thread had root so i odin'd this and all works except wifi tether. with shabby odin i used this pit http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1265023 so anybody think if i odin rooted kernel now that would fix my wifi or cause more issues?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tdavis42:
All this complaining will only push the devs away and then you'll really be stuck with a broken phone.

I find it funny how people say they should have posted a way back when posting a root method. Maybe you should have waited till a way back was available before you rooted your device. Dumbass.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SSaxman:
Not true. It depends on what the issue is. If the issue was caused by the user rooting or attempting to root his/her device, he/she is out of luck.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AvatarOfFrost:
So has anyone emailed Samsung about the "bad" open source files they posted? I mean, that is the problem, right? Our kernel cannot be compiled from source for some reason and the one that's used right now is causing problems.

So why don't we email Samsung?

I'll do it, just let me know what to tell them.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fus3D:
Exactly, I'm chilling waiting lol, and besides I'm more interested in a oc kernel rather than the stock one, lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wingzfan:
Tell em you want the firmware...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
That's a load of BS. There is nothing posted that states you can't go back to stock.