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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rondietz1:
What really changed

OK, yeah I know it shows in the changelog, etc., but in reality, everyday world for normal user of this phone, what has changed in 2.9 vs 2.8.1 that I will really notice. I have been running 2.8.1 since it came out, it has been virtually flawless, great rom. I guess what it comes down to is, if I take the chance and upgrade to 2.9 (I know it's not really a chance, I can nandroid back, just a figure of speech) what changes, if any, will I really see in everyday usage. I consider everyday usage as occasional phone call, texts, a email or two, use browser to look up random things, play some music, use calendar reminder and appointments, occasionally use google nav, and look at some weather forecasts. I know there has been a huge anticipation for the release of this update, and yes all updates are progress, either large or small, but I just don't see anyone stating changes in everyday use. What am I missing??? I want to get excited too! I can appreciate the need for interim updates without major changes, fix bugs, add small features, etc., but once again, what am I missing?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I haven't jumped to 2.9 myself. 2.8.1 works so well and has tons of theme options. I haven't had a single issue using it so unless the 2 themes I like for this ROM get updated, I will stick with 2.8.1. I switch between my nandroid of this and strongsteves to keep things fresh. However, if I am needed to test the scripts issue, I gladly will
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rondietz1:
I am constantly updating themes, launchers, and adding and tweaking programs, which I know a lot of included items are updated or changed in some rom updates, but I do all this manually. When I change a version of a rom, it is due to a considerable change in the os, or os related features. Maybe this is why I am more hesitant in updating with minor upgrades.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] vanberge:
Must set which way? Wifi sleep on never?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] meatwadathf:
Yup.......
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
Just to put it out there - not belittling the update by any means - 2.9 has only minor changes as far as what you'll notice. The code is still the same though. If it worked with 2.8.1 it'll work with 2.9. Really you can just pull a few files from 2.9, insert them into your /system/***, change permissions, and reboot. That saves you from having to reflash themes and whatever else.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Probably because there wasn't really much to improve on the Gingerbread ROMs. I am pretty sure the devs are going to start shifting their focus on ICS since these leaks are starting to fly out now. Great advice about pulling the files to keep current setup/theme etc
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] coiledwire:
Ok. There's a few small edits in the screenstate script between 2.8.1 and 2.9. Take the one from 2.8.1 and replace 2.9's with it. Then reboot.

I don't use these scripts, but thats what I'd do next.

Sent via EM waves.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xb0n3z:
I thought that the latest Rogue 1.5.0 Kernel w/CWM Touch was supposed to be included in this Rom. After installing the ROM through Hitman Recovery, I noticed I still have SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097 Kernel.

I was going to manually download and install the Rogue, however I've been reading issues of Brick/Reboots due to the CWM portion of that Kernel.

Did anyone else not get their Kernel upgraded in 2.9? Also do you think that not having (or having) Rogue could be causing the Battery Saver Script not working issues?

Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] parmend:
Still getting used to the phone . Is it normal for the battery to drain without use ?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dafluke24:
that depends on what you have running in the background and what you have set to auto refresh like weather apps and facebook stuff. But in general, yes there is drain, but how much depends on what's loaded and running. Mine drains roughly 1% an hour without any use with wifi turned on. on 3g, it's about 2-3%/ hour. The only thing i have synced is my gmail
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] parmend:
Yeah its a little annoying but not that bad . The only other thing is power amp does not work right with this phone .
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iahk:
What's happening with poweramp on your phone? That's the music player I use and I haven't ran into issues with it yet. As a matter of fact, I works quite well (better than on my evo since the big poweramp update).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] parmend:
When surfing the net or on xda the music volume spikes up and down.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mr Ian B:
Updated to 2.9 a couple of nights ago and flashed Nothing but the Honey theme and it is working flawlessly with no issues.

Just wanted to let everyone know,

Ian B
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
PowerAmp works great on my Epic Touch as well. If I am not mistaken it can read off of internal and external memory
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tcooper85:
Is anyone else having GPS issues?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] vanberge:
You wouldn't by chance be on an ICS modem eh? FB15 ?

my gps is solid on an EL29 modem
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] TripleAgent:
Yeah, PowerAmp is super solid. It is the only player I found that works with all the DRM junk uninstalled, also, saving power as well.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mb3:
How do I re-enable popups? (One of my apps auto-updated and a new bug is keeping it from refreshing it's database.)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jrb7561:
For my own edification, how do I verify whether the underclocking battery scripts are working or not? And if not, are you guys just using set cpu?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] daniel4653:
Use root explorer and go to sysytem / etc/ intd or something like that
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Isriam:
im going back to 2.8.1 the battery usage on 2.9 is killing me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
it takes a few weeks for a ROM to settle in and get the best battery life
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] parmend:
Man this phone would be perfect if it didn't drain while not in use . I lose about 5% an hour just in idle.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Isriam:
thats silly, the battery scripts arent working in 2.9. no need to wait weeks to see that.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rondietz1:
Unless there is some sort of learning script built in, I find this hard to believe. If this is true, what info is it gathering and how is it using it to improve battery life. I firmly believe that battery life is solely dependent on cpu speed, what apps are using cpu time and the amount of power needed to run it. There are many scripts and programs that we all use to do this the most efficiently for our personal needs, and over a period of time we manually tweak them, but I don't know of any that learn as they go along. If there is one, I would love to know about it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Anon9mouz:
2.9 running great just curious can we change the lockscreen wallpaper?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Anon9mouz:
Also i wished boot manager would work :(

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rickyq12:
Yes...

Menu-Settings-Display-Screen Display-Lockscreen...wallpaper.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wwl2008:
Volume keys will wake phone from sleep? But I can't wake phone from sleep in 2.9.Who can test it?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] acme64:
i can't flash it, i go to install zip from sd card and it doesn't list. im on cwm5.8.15
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] vanberge:
Flick scroll down. But i would use non touch recovery as touch has seemed buggy
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rickyq12:
Just did it...works for me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ervman1:
Hey I love this rom but I'm having an issue where the device memory becomes full as if it's saving something continously. This happens on a fresh install right after I install the stock pulled kernel.. It's the only kernel I have no Los on. I was thinking it might be something in the script not jiving with the stock kernel and somehow filling up device memory within a minute? Do you have any idea what could be causing this?

Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kasper19:
Getting file is currently unavailable
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JoeBruin32:
According to CPU Spy, it doesn't appear to work. The file saves, but I'm still getting instances of 1200 and 1000. I changed the kernel to stock pulled repacked with CWM if that makes a difference (don't think it should?)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] themykel:
LOVE this ROM but when I flashed to 1.05 I noticed that I had browser lag. I did some searching and found this:

This works on v1.05 (I am posting because I read MOST of the thread and didnt see it posted).

Also - I wanted the infrastructure wifi so I flashed this:

No CIQ mod from k0nane and got an error on the gapps force closing. A reboot fixed this issue and now I am VERY happy with this ROM! Very fast, infrastructure WiFi and no browser lag!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Calkulin:
Correct but for testing, I would use SetCPU or something like that as the script is only read at boot, so in order for that to take effect, you would have to reboot everytime you change it
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bones8229:
Just to be sure, if i have 1.0 already flashed, all i have to do is dowloaded the rom update ? Then flash without wiping anything. Or should i wipe cache and dalvik jus to be sure?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chunology:
I believe only the Experimental versions of the LoStKernel will work with the uv/uc/oc scripts/SetCPU.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ryanmv213:
Quick question; will flashing stock kernels with CWM with your rom mess with any of your tweaks? I had a couple of rounds of LOS and I don't think I've gotten LOS with the stock kernel with CWM but I don't want to lose out on whatever makes your rom fly and lock into gps so fast
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chunology:
People have reported that not flashing cache/dalvik worked for them but I always wipe cache and dalvik before flashing any zip.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JoeBruin32:
ah. guess I'll flash 1.0.0.8 and try that then
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] naerok:
stock pulled with cwm does not have init.d support (it did a few versions back, but the latest doesn't seem to work).

the scripts need init.d support and I think the LoSt kernels are the only ones that have functioning init.d at the moment for our phones.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] asqwrd:
does this overwrite any of the changes caulk made because u are using a different framework.jar so if caulk made any tweaks to that it will be gone flashing this. Caulk is there a way you can add an update patch that fixes the browser lag because i am experiencing it too?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Duce HD2:
Thanks for the help.....

Did not know script would default back on reboot, good to know.

Pretty laggy on my end when running at 800000Mhz.....think I'll stick with 1.0Ghz as for lows..

Sent using Calkulin's V1.0
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JoeBruin32:
Just flashed 1.0.0.8 and cpu spy still reports 1000 and 1200 being used :confused:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chunology:
Then I am just as losted as you :(

EDIT: I believe the script defaults to not working when it detects SetCPU as installed.. Maybe that's why? Anyone else care to shed light on this issue?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Just_s:
I had this the first time I flashed. I tried everything in the book to no avail. Fresh download and install of the ROM fixed the issue immediately.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ebuechler3:
setcpu

how can i manually undervolt 75mv with aet cpu? On the first screen i know how to set the min, max to 200-800... Here are my screen shots from yesterday/todays battery life using the 75 uv script... yours is better!! thanks for your help
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] srgwidowmaker:
Megaupload is down can someone upload a mirror for the full rom
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JoeBruin32:
I uninstalled setcpu and tegrak, that's exactly why I'm using cpu spy instead of those to look at the reported speed
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Duce HD2:
You're correct, the script gets disabled when it detects setcpu.

Sent using Calkulin's V1.5
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wwl2008:
just flash 2.9? no usb plug？do something settings？
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rickyq12:
Yeah, I was on 2.8.1 prior to updating to 2.9

Downloaded 2.9, flashed with no wipe(as the script in the rom wipes what is needed during flash) booted up and that's it.

I don't mess with anything else. As far as mods go. I personally think that this rom is awesome as is.

Lock screen mod would be the only thing that I'd want. But it's known that the lock screen mod causes issues with this build.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Man, THANK YOU!! I was going nuts thinking of reasons why my music wasn't showing on stock music app, Miui Music, etc....the DRM stuff pulled. I knew there was something I was missing and you just reminded me..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] acme64:
Jeez. A scroll bar would go a long way. Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Isriam:
edit the file in /system/usr/keyboard/sec_key.tl or whatever and add WAKE to the key.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DevalB:
Does anyone have a mirror? The hotfile link timed out on me, and the mirror was deleted.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] A10Loogie:
Upgraded to 2.9 and fb15 yesterday. Everything is gdyexcept that I'm getting an error 492 from the Market when trying to update apps. I updated profile and PRL, but no change.

It's very hard to search the thread from the XDA app so I apologize if this has been covered. I read about 20 pages before posting.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
I've read that the kernel causes that.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jxb25:
I updated the modem and the rom and as soon as I charge my phone and unplugg it the thing goes from 99 to 96 and my battery drains like crazy and I'm using the hitman kernel I was using the kernel provided and the battery dragon was worse than that
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SSaxman:
Thanks for this tidbit. I must've overlooked the fact that the volume keys wake the device in 2.8.1. Personally, I only want the power button to wake the device. I edited that file, removing the WAKE for the volume keys, and now only the power key wakes the phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] asbjörn:
That's my current setup right now and I fully confirm!

Mi nuh tek intimidation...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] meatwadathf:
Try doing a battery calibration. If not, do a clear wipe and reinstall. Then advance restore data and you should be good.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jxb25:
Well actually I'm coming from a full wipe and a advanced restore data I'm letting my battery drain and hopefully when it charges up ima do battery stats wipe to see what happens
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] meatwadathf:
Good Luck... If that still doesn't solve it, get better battery stats from the market to figure out what the culprit is.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Overstew:
I got some kind of kernel panic right after Flashing this. I waiting for it to backup all CA RAM to AP RAM then it sat there (waited about 5 minutes), pulled battery, rebooted, and tried to restore my apps via My Backup Root, and the phone reboot during the backup. I never had this issue with any Calk version prior to 2.9. Did I do something wrong? :o
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wwl2008:
I do not really think that will work.I do 3 wipe and format system,then I flash 2.9 again, but Volume keys still not wake phone from sleep.

My /system/usr/keyboard/sec_key.kl list like:

key 115 VOLUME_UP	WAKE

key 114 VOLUME_DOWN	WAKE

key 102 HOME WAKE

key 107 ENDCALL

key 105 DPAD_LEFT

key 106 DPAD_RIGHT

key 103 DPAD_UP

key 108 DPAD_DOWN

key 232 DPAD_CENTER

key 116 POWER WAKE

key 212 CAMERA WAKE

I was so confused,who can help me?:confused:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Overstew, did you try clean install of the ROM, boot, then install Gunslinger kernel and restore apps? I have found that Gunslinger got rid of the bit of lag on waking the phone from sleep. It really seems to work well....at least it does on 2.8.1
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pinoyqt:
yes a clean install will cure all the problems....

at least for me.

sent using GAME n Watch 1980 limited edition....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Overstew:
I wiped, Idk what happened. lol

I reflashed and problem is gone! :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wraptor:
Can someone please help me. I'm on 2.9 and have no clue what I did but every time I hit the home button a blue clock screen pops up with the date/time/weather. Doesn't matter if I'm in an app or on my homescreen. I can't figure out how to make it go back to my homescreen. I have tried changing launchers to no avail.

*edit* well a reboot fixed it. f'n weird.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jxb25:
Which settings would I use on battery stats to try and find the culprit
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nibrwr:
Partial wakelocks, kernel wakelocks, processes
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jxb25:
OK cool
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] A10Loogie:
Well, I flashed and earlier kernel (the Rogue kernel that came with 2.8.1) and somehow my recovery got trashed. When I try to boot into recovery I get the Clockworkmod version at the bottom of the screen and then the phone reboots. I'm traveling for the next week and don't have a computer. ROM Manager won't flash the recovery either-it keeps pulling up the wrong model # for the phone. Any ideas how I can repair this recovery?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
You can Odin another or the same kernel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
It's the phone calibrating the battery by itself by going through charging cycles.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dutchman71:
Car mode

I was just wondering if anyone else is having some issues with car mode on the last two versions?

When I put the phone in my car dock it goes into car mode as it is supposed to. Then recently it stopped coming out of car mode automatically when I take the phone out of the car dock. This seemed to work fine before.

I can manually turn off car mode but once I do that it will not go back into car mode until I restart the phone.

Anyone else with the same behavior?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] flamebeats:
Mobile odin from the market
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] A10Loogie:
Yes, but I don't have my computer for another week. Bummer.

I wonder why ROM Manager won't do it properly?

I have a full Nandroid backup if I could just get the recovery back.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] srkmagnus:
Use Mobile Odin: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1347899

The above is the link to the Lite version. You will need to install the .apk and accompanying flash kernal .apk for the Epic 4g Touch a few post down. Read through the first post to understand it and what you need to do in order to flash the .tar file properly.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tdunham:
A10loogie, When you go into ROM manager, what version does it say is installed of cwm?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ryoung07:
I'm on 2.9 and Hitman and I'm having an annoying Market issue. If I click Menu-My Apps no apps are listed. It just says your apps will appear here and 2 buttons appear to browse apps and games. If I search for an app to update it sees it associated to my account. I've tried clearing cache and data and reinstalling the ROM without Hitman but it happens with either kernel.

Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wrceuro:
Is anyone using the new modem with the 2.9 build yet?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lokko21:
Any Idea why I get this..?? With only this application, when I have plenty of space..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Toonlinkmaster25:
I'm running 2.9 and whenever I try to restore app data on my phone through MyBackup pro it reboots my phone. I've tried reinstalling MyBackup Pro but it won't work. This only started recently so I belive it has to do the update.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] trevoc1:
Calk everything running great on 2. 9 snappy as a Daytona 500. But the pic of FB 21 in the general thread is killing me.. lol can't wait.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Bazirker:
No, I haven't had any issues with the car dock behaving inappropriately.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Henri Blanche:
Not sure but I'm running into this on a few apps in 2.9. Wiped all caches but that didn't help. Happens even if I try to install from the APK file directly so it has nothing to do with market apps.

And like you I have oodles of space everywhere.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ret4425:
Sorry if I'm late to the party, but what's with the green plus sign notification with ads? What did THAT come from? How do it go away?

Is it some Go! thing?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaloGLC:
voice notification question

First of all, great rom! Love it. However when people call or text or email, i get a voice command "incoming call from so and so" or "2 new emails" when I receive either a call or email even when the phone is set to vibrate. Does anyone know how to turn it off? Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lanevovi:
Not sure if anyone has said this recently but ads don't seem to be blocked. Is it only for certain apps?

Just thought I would share.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sony3127:
Same here, I didn't get them on previous versions of this ROM, but I'm getting them on this one. Other than that though, EXCELLENT ROM!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SSaxman:
Do you have the Samsung Voice apps installed (VoiceToGo.apk)? If so, launch Voice Talk and see if Driving Mode is enabled. If so, turn it off and that should fix it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mynaga:
Turn off google voice settings which 1. Screen calls and 2. Send emails of the voicemail/text.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Toonlinkmaster25:
I've encountered another issue. My phone claims to be fully charged and the LED changes to blue at 96% instead of 100
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Clear battery stats in recovery or power down and charge to full then power on and plug in and charge to full...should straighten that out
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Deijavuu:
Can someone please post a download link . The ones in the OP don't seem to be working . Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Henri Blanche:
Insufficient Storage Available

Okay, I reviewed the logcat file and it seems like the error message is misleading.

To recap the situation... for a few apps when trying to install from Market or directly from the .apk file the installation fails with an error message that is a variant of "Insuffcient Storage Available."

The installation seems to be bombing out when an attempt to move a file in the \data\dalvik-cache\ directory fails for some unknown reason. Afterwards additional error messages pop up because the file in question can't be found or renamed. I notice though that I have another dalvik-cache directory under \cache\. And in the OP Calkulin mentions that one of this ROM's features is "moved dalvik-cache to cache partition". What does that mean and why is this an enhancement?

I think that somehow the installation of these apk's is becoming confused. It has nothing to do with actual free storage space. In fact I can install or update apps which are much, much bigger than the select few that fail.

Anyone have any thoughts? :confused:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Calkulin:
Posted direct links from my new host, so from now on, I'll only use file sharing sites for mirrors
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Calkulin:
FB21 modem is up in the OP.....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nibrwr:
Damn Calk. Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Toonlinkmaster25:
Can someone tell me what's going on? Battery % mod is showing while I charge, phone claims to be fully charged after going up 1% so it is slowly dying. Please help. It just started doing this on its own after I flashed the crt animation while on 2.8.1 then updated to 2.9 to remove crt.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] A10Loogie:
It says "ClockworkMod Unknown"
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tdunham:
Ok, first of all have you wiped the data for Rom Manager then removed and reinstalled it from the market (I used Titanium to wipe data and uninstall)?

Then, when you click on 'Flash ClockworkMod Recovery' in Rom Manager, make absolutely certain you select the Samsung Epic 4G Touch. If you do not select the correct phone, it will download and install a different version of CWM ( I know, I did this once :rolleyes:) You should be using v5.0.2.7 if you have an E4GT.

---------- Post added at 11:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:06 PM ----------

The battery % mod is normal for Calk's 2.9. It shows the percentage WHILE it is charging. The change is in the OP changelog for 2.9.