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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] darren.wlsn1:
yes your missing the base rom cause your only dling updates, look down op further for rom.

Update 10/21 - v.2

All apps optimized with mx0 compression (more free RAM) and PNGOpt

Screen Off CRT animation

Battery percentages in 1% increments

Hacked Hotspot (3G only) (thanks Necrosan!)

Modified SystemUI.apk for 1x (thanks nivron and Orionstein)

ROM now puts viperROM folder in internal memory (emmc)

Updated vC to v1.2

-- Added quick option to restore all TouchWiz files

-- Renamed bloat option to "App Manager"

-- Fixed error with governor settings

-- Code cleanup

Downgraded to Market 3.1.5 to fix paid app download issue

Added VoiceRecorder to /sdcard/viperROM/removed_apps

Added VoiceSearch to /sdcard/viperROM/apps

No bloat left in ROM!

More bloat removed from this build (put in /sdcard/viperROM/removed_apps)

-- File Transfer Client, File Transfer Manager, File Transfer Server, Task

-- Manager, Social Hub, Swype, and All TouchWiz Widgets

Removed bootup sound

Download from HERE - md5: a740f194e7d30f1bd3181f9436eda845
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dj21o:
Thank you sir!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
I still haven't switched to this ROM, I had two questions...

1. The common loss of signal issue plaguing this phone (4G/3G data remains online, but all bars are lost and replaced with a circle with a line through it, cell service is lost). Does this affect the phone with this ROM?

2. Reverting to stock from this ROM...how's that work?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick4mitch:
It has nothing to do with the ROM, most likely the Kernels or Radios or Sprint or all of these together that gives us the LOS, not the ROM ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] asteetva:
Regarding Battery

Hello Vioperboy,

I had a very good batery life on 2.1.

Just wanted to make sure I am not missing any steps.

1). After flashing ROM let it charge for 100%.

2). Take off charge.

3). Let it get Drained fully.

4). Now this step I am nto sure, let it recharge to 100% in phone off mode or connect to charger and turn on the phone and charge it to 100%.

5). For 2.2 I am going to let to let connect to charge after 100% drain and connect charger, turn on the phone and charge to 100%.

For reporting you need the screen shot of battery use or anything else.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rast4man:
Flash over to LoStKernelEXP+ and it will take care of almost ALL LoS. At least it did for myself and a few friends. Make a backup in CWM and flash it, wipe cache and dalvik and report back how it goes. And yes, I run this kernel on viperROM latest. :)

Regards,

rast4man
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Success100:
+1, ive had one LOS since switching to viper+lostkernel works great. I was getting 3-4 a day before switching.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
I've never had luck with CWM backups. When I go to restore, CWM always tells me the backup isn't there. When backing up, I never get errors. I haven't tried with this phone yet, so maybe it's just my Acer tablet.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] smark72:
This ROM comes with lostkernelexp+ built in. no need to flash separately.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
Thanks everyone for answering others questions :) Yes, LoStKernelExp is built into the ROM. I hope the latest update is working well for everyone. I still need more reports on battery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dschachm:
Hey viper. Loving the rom and all the updates. I wanted to give you a heads up that the los kernal expect 1.0.0.6 that was just released does not play nice with vc. I had to load set cpu to modify voltage. I know this is not ur fault just letting u know. The kernal does however play nice with the rom. Thanks again.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
What happens when you try to use vC with the new update? What's wrong with the voltage?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ryanmv213:
I wonder if this is why when I updated both to viper 2.2 and the new kernel my phone is now super laggy. I can't quote on battery life yet but going between screens there is lag, games that ran before will not run, and screen restarts
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lballer69:
Lost kernel .06.....

Huge list of errors
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dschachm:
Come can't create symlinkbor something and it scrolls the while screen. Going back to. 5.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ryanmv213:
There is a measurable difference when switching to chris41g's new stable LOSTkernel from the experimental. All functions of the phone are now back to normal for me. I'll post back this evening with battery results after I charge and reset in CWM
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jdefran:
I believe someone has already posted about this but I'll follow up with my problem in case others are experiencing out also.

The phone and/or dailer become inoperable when making a phone call or during a call, I haven't detected a pattern yet though. The result is a green highlight over the status bar and the need for a	reboot. Is this a sprint service issue or software related?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shades333:
I flashed the update and once it restarted I powered the phone off and fully charged phone. I turned it on 28min. 42s ago and I have lost 7% already. VERY LOW USAGE! Not sure whats going on so I look forward to Vipers response on this post! I may be doing something wrong as well.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] makmoneynslp:
I've been on 100% for a while now and the script hasn't reset my battery. Going on 5mins

Sent from GalaxyS Vipers
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lballer69:
U have to let it drain fully ....then charge it to 100 while on ...u should get better battery life
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
I am at work and I can't use my phone right now and I can't see the thumbnail from my work computer lol so can someone take this thumbnail and just post it like a normal image? Thanks

Hmm, guess it might be best to wait off on updating the kernel. I will talk to him about this tonight in IRC.

Hmm, never happened to me. Anyone else seeing this?

This is similar to what is happening to me as well. I think I'm going to remove it since it's not working for many people. The incremental build (v.2.1, v.2.2, etc) are more like my test builds for testing things in between major releases.

How have you verified this? It will only do this on first boot from a new ROM, it doesn't clear it everytime you hit 100%
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
Nice bro! Downloading now....

1. LOS happens with stock devices as well....but I think flashing certain custom kernels enhances this for some people. I have not experienced any LOS at all since I switched to viperROM.

2. If you're asking how to go back to stock from this ROM....there's a few different methods.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1282420&page=3

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1281287

You aren't renaming the files by any chance, are you?

I've had this happen when my device was still stock....I've also had it happen while running a deodexed stock rooted ROM. Haven't experienced it with viperROM yet.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jdefran:
Interesting, I've only had the issue with this ROM...then again I wasn't another another ROM or stock long enough probably.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nivron:
Have you tried hitting the "home" button when that happens? I have seen this behavior with every ROM, including stock. Home usually fixes it (and asks for my PIN when necessary) for me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] humdrum2009:
This rom is tight
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jdefran:
Yeah, hitting home works and takes me to my screens and everything...the phone doesn't actually freeze. I just can make phone calls cause the phone thinks its calling. When I pull the status bar down (like any phone call) there is an hangup option but it doesn't respond when I press it. If I go to the dialer and try to call someone else, its unable to place call.

I've never had this 'pin option' come up before nor heard of it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fatboypup:
sweet task manager works now
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
yeah ive had this happen since i flashed the rom about 15 times over the course of a week. Sometimes it happens when i hangup, sometimes it happens when i loose signal during a call. Nothing I do except a restart fixes the "Phantom Call" issue for me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jdefran:
Same here, just reboot...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] itrackit:
battery on v2.2

viper,

when i first booted 2.2 i did not charge all the way. i just flashed v2 after full wipe and then 2.1 and 2.2 then rebooted. used TB to reinstall all apps and configured google and 4 email accounts. battery was at roughly 68% so i left it for the night to see what would happen. it woke me at 4:50am est with a low battery 15% DING! i turned it off and plugged it in. unplugged it at 85% and messed with it some. plugged it back in and unplugged it again at 99% around 9:30 am. Im now at 6 hrs 37 min on battery with pretty heavy usage and 78% battery. im happy with that but maybe its not typical. you guys would have a better idea than me. i like it man great job. thanks.

34% voice calls

29% display

13% android os

13% android system

6% cell standby

4% phone idle

2% handcent

2% mediaserver
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sweets55:
Yes I had good battery life on v.2.1 yesterday but today my battery was bad. I put in a furnace so reception probably sucked. Almost drained my battery. Some themes don't even show you that you have LOS. I was even using Tasker but it didn't help. I wonder if I should start over and reflash? I'm on v.2.1 now.

Actually now I think about it I probably had LOS when I left my house which I have good reception.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] GeneralSky2004:
Alright Mr. Viper..

I finally decided to give the ROM a shot, I had been on Starburst since it was first released. The rom flashed fine, no errors or anything and booted up without any issues as well. I love the boot animation, don't ever change that. The rom is very responsive and I like that you already had most of the BS apps that I delete removed. The only thing I did was extract TouchWiz from a previous Starburst Rom I had downloaded and pushed it to use as the default launcher. I have nothing against Go Launcher, but as far as smoothness goes, I felt the stock launcher had the upper hand.

The script, very nice touch. I enjoy controlling the processor, and have always used SetCPU, but this is a nice and unique little touch your Rom has. I love that you can set it through Terminal Emulator and it is incredibly easy to use. This was my first time every trying to figure it out, and it took no time at all. I do enjoy looking at an actual GUI, but one less app is one less app.

Battery life - I have been running this rom since last night, and it seems to be doing fine on battery life. I have been texting, making a few calls and browsing the web a little bit and I am still sitting fine at 86%.

Overall, very nice rom and I look forward to future development on it. :cool:

Edit - Just realized you could restore TouchWiz through VC. Nice. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
Did you calibrate your battery after flashing the update? Also, if your phone is constantly searching for service, it will drain your battery like a mofo.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sweets55:
My battery life was great one day with v.2.1 and bad the next day. I understand the battery drain when searching for a signal but I think I had LOS before I even left my house. This is kinda more pain then what it's worth. Not saying it's the Rom because I like the Rom.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LukeLeBron:
Any chance you'll include the lock screen mod? xD
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rickyq12:
Viper, I understand that the ROM has Chris's LostKernel installed in it. But I flashed Chris's Stock.repacked with CWM last night and wanted to give it a try. With that said, I want to flash your ROM and was wondering if it will change the current kernel that I'm running now.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
Man.....I screwed up. Lol

I was showing a friend how to do an MSL reset and I forgot that I had that superfreeze mod running which freezes system updates (I meant to uninstall it a long time ago). 3G is friggin' borked now. Thank god for nandroid backup.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
That's really good for battery life, thanks for the report.

Thanks as well for the report on the ROM! :)

just give it a charge cycle or two and see if it improves, it definitely should.

Yes, that will be in v.3 as well as all of the changes in the last 2 updates (minus the battery script, potentially). I just need to make sure it doesn't interfere with the rest of the ROM because there are many changes to framework files and such and I try to keep this ROM as stable as possible.

Anytime you flash a ROM, it will flash the kernel it is bundled with along with it, so it would overwrite your current kernel. Just flash the ROM and then flash the kernel and you're fine :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
What updated that would have borked your 3G? :confused:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
I hope to get v.3 out in the next few days to you guys. I owe some time to the E3D guys so I plan to rebase my E3D ROM off of the newest OTA and try to fix the battery issues they have been having.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rde34:
For v3 if you're going to add lockmod, is possible to make it installable through VC or somehow uninstallable for those of us already using other lock mods/apps? v2/2.1 is running absolutely beautifully with Widget Locker. Thanks for all your great work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Storm T:
Yes, please.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
I was kind of thinking of pre-installing it and making it removeable for those who don't want to use it. I think the majority of users will use the lockscreen mod vs. ones who wouldn't. I use WL, personally, but I still think it might be better to preinstall it for others.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
It wasn't anything of yours. It was that "SuperFreeze" battery saver mod by TeamVenom, or whatever. I forgot that I tried it out a little while back and forgot to disable it. It freezes Media Hub, Social Hub & System Updates. So, with system updates disabled, the device won't provision after an MSL reset. Device displays the 3G icon, but there is no connection. I tried to disable the superfreeze mod after I lost 3G, but no dice. Had to restore nandroid backup.

My device automatically re-provisioned itself after restoring my stock rooted nandroid backup. Almost like it was sitting on hold waiting for me to hurry up and restore my device. Lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LukeLeBron:
Tyvm!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shades333:
My battery has been brutal through this first charge. Not sure why. I plan on sticking with it through another charge. Love the Rom otherwise. Ill report my findings after next charge.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rickyq12:
I kinda knew the answer, but wanted to confirm with a dev. :-) Thanks for the response man, I appreciate it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
So to go back to stock, I just flash the Odin EG30 tar file, and use the USB jig and that's it?

Also, flashing from stock ROM to 2.2, what order do I go in?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] turbosr123:
Help plz... How can I get my wifi tether / hotspot to work with my PS3?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] itrackit:
Damn got los during a 1.5 hr dinner. Tanked battey to 53% from 70+%. i just got hm and rebooted. Stable now at 50% and 9+ hrs. ive gotten 3 or 4 los from yesterday in weak signal areas. once it goes los it tanks the battery. thats what happened last night and woke me at 4:50am. sux.

sent from my phone
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
Wipe everything, then flash v2...then wipe cache/dalvik and flash 2.1...then wipe cache/dalvick and flash 2.2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shades333:
Turn on the wifi and the go to ps3 settings >network >setup network connection. Then follow wireless setup instructions. mine works great.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
v2 is viperROM_v.2_E4GT.zip, right?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
Yeah....It'll be over 300MB. The updates (2.1 & 2.2) are alot smaller.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
Got em. Can I do a backup with MyBackup root on the stock ROM and restore the same backup with MyBackup root on this ROM?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
Hey viperboy...just thought I'd remind you that your stock framework zip still needs the updater script fixed. :)

---------- Post added at 06:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:59 PM ----------

Not sure what you mean. Is "MyBackup root" an app, or something? If so, I can't see why you wouldn't be able to restore backups regardless of which ROM you're running.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
Yes, it's a backup app. Quite a popular one in fact. I'm not sure how particular it is about SID's and whatnot. If you don't know what a SID is, well maybe this question isn't for you.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
I honestly don't even know what the jig does lol but whatever the thread says is what I would go by. I never looked at the directions to go back to stock.

And if you're stock, you can just flash v.2 and then v.2.2 because the stuff in v.2.1 is still in v.2.2.

I don't recall if the PS3 can see Ad-Hoc networks or not, but the phone won't show up as a regular network (infrastructure mode) like all other wifi networks.

I am working on something that will auto reboot the phone when LoS happens that DOESN'T require tasker. It might take me a little bit, but it's under development :)

Yes, but Titanium Backup (included in the ROM) is much better and more robust.

I still need the log from recovery to identify the problem. I have posted in here a few times how to have someone do it and no one has. Do you know how to use adb? Actually, if you have the SDK installed, all you need to do is type one command while in recovery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
Pretty sure it will work fine. Developer only specifies that root is required. Everyone I know uses Titanium Backup though. ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
Well I did a backup with the LightSpeed ROM on my Acer tablet, tried to do a restore on Thor's ROM, and it said it couldn't do a restore because it was from a different device... Could be because that ROM was an Asus dump.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
USB jig resets the binary counter.

Yes....I know how to use adb and I must've missed it when you asked for a log.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] turbosr123:
I did exactly just that both on my E4GT and my Epic 4g and both can't connect to my ps3!!! Don't know how yours is working ?!?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
You shouldn't restore system backups from ROM to ROM. App backups are fine. Also...tablets are a whole different ballgame.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] urinsane:
cp: can't create symlink

Hi Viper!

Loving the rom so far. However, having some issues getting your script to work.

I first tried after updating v.2 to v.2.2 (flashed v.2.1 then v.2.2, had been running v.2 for a few days). Did not do full wipe, just cache and dalvik as mentioned. After getting the errors below, I did a full wipe factory reset etc, and flashed again starting from v.2. The errors were identical with or without a wipe.

First thing was it was telling me SU was out of date. If I opened the terminal and typed su, it would pop up the auth screen, I would hit yes/authorize, and a few seconds later it would say SU force closed. Same with Titanium Backup and other root apps. There would also be a SU notification asking me to update SU, but this would force close as well. I finally updated through market and it is now working fine.

Unfortunately, when in the terminal under root prompt, and typing VC, rather than bringing up your script, lists a long set of fails such as:

cp: can't create symlink '/sbin/xargs': Read-only file system

The last is:

/sbin/busybox/: line 18: killall: not found

[: not found

Titanium is saying I have Busybox (I'm sure your rom has it installed by default). I noticed that typing VC without being under root prompt gives the same errors. Combined with my first issue, I'm thinking my superuser access is messed up somehow. However, Titanium Backup just restored all my apps and is showing root access.

I'm out of ideas, and searching this thread for symlink didn't provide any results. Sorry to be a bother, but.. help? :)

Only other thought I had was that I am not running a miniSD card... don't think that would matter though as long as when I installed the SD card was removed, correct?

Edit: Forgot to mention, I didn't run VC script until after updating to v.2.2... because I was being dumb and didn't realize how to access it. While upating to 2.2 I read the 2nd post and realized what was up. Maybe I will try going back to v.2 and running VC first?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
I'm only talking about apps...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cordell12:
Your screen was on for dang near the whole 6 hours, lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
Here's the error:

E:Error in /emmc/viperROM_E4GT_stock_framework.zip

(Status 6)

Installation aborted

...and attached is the log from running adb -d logcat>mylogfile.txt while trying to flash stockframework.zip
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
Whoa....that's weird. Never heard of that. I've restored app backups from different devices and haven't had any issues.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
No, that's a "feature" of the free version. It's so you pay for the Pro version.

Thanks for the explanation!

What kernel are you running? Latest LoStKernelEXP by chance?

That isn't the log I need. I need you to flash the .zip, have it fail, and then in adb shell type cat /cache/recovery.log > /sdcard/log.txt and if you get an error, try cat /tmp/recovery.log > /sdcard/log.txt.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sweets55:
If you need me to test anything I can try. Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] urinsane:
Correct, latest LoStKernelEXP. I'll assume this is a known issue and switch back to an earlier version of the kernal for now?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shades333:
Sorry see my reply above.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Devi0124:
In the market search density changer or rom toolbox.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] exconvictriddick:
I think there's a bug in v2.1.

When accessing task manager via long press home screen, I would hang for about 10 sec and it would reboot my device. This happens when there's no active/suspend apps. It doesn't occur when there apps populated at task manager.

Someone having the same problem please let me know....

Btw battery is better in this version....

Sent from Samsung Epic 4G Touch (ViperROM) using XDA Premium.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
Oops! My bad bro. I thought adb logcat would do the trick. Here's the right log attached to this post. :D

Looking like: line 3 col 93: syntax error, unexpected BAD 1 parse errors E
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graffixnyc:
Hey viperboy,

I'm having an issue editing the build.prop. I mount system as r/w in root explorer open the file and change it, but it's not saving or even creating a back up like it normally does. Any ideas? I had to push it manually through adb.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
Are you just editing dalvik heap? Maybe try copying build.prop to sdcard, then rename the original build.prop.bak, then move the edited one back to system.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
Yeah, roll back to 1.0.0.4 for right now.

Yes, known issue. Fixed in v.2.2.

Thanks for this!! I don't know how it happened, but some bull**** code got in there and messed stuff up. Updated file in the 3rd post. Thanks again!

This happens to me too, but it happened to me on stock rooted too. What are you trying to change?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graffixnyc:
I was changing the LCD density. I just pushed it via adb.

I'm coming from the stock rom and since flashing this rom there is a pretty bad lag sometimes when i wake my device. A couple of times the screen didn't even come on. I had to pull the battery. I'm out and about now so I haven't had time to search through the thread yet. Is there an issue? Or could it just be something funky with my setup? I am using the latest version of widget locker. Not sure if that matters or not. I even bumped up the Max sleep speed to 800

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch