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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ayman86:
i had the evo3d since launch and the e4gt since launch.

im quite the opposite with the touch responsive. i find the evo3d way too sensitive. with that said, the resolution of the evo3d is a big plus (though changing the lcd density of the e4gt minimized it). i prefer the haptic feedback on the evo3d

as for ui, i got tired of sense. dont care for it. dont like either stock messaging. always used 3rd party (handcent or gosms). default lockscreen is much better on the evo3d. no doubt. with that said, widgetlocker/golocker minimizes the difference

camera. its no contest. the e4gt isnt a little better than the evo3d, its a lot better. but one thing the evo3d is better is audio recording. sadly the e4gt is horrible. cant handle loud music at all while the evo3d did just fine (its at least audible). flash is another thing my evo3d sucked cuz it had the green tint to it (not all evo3d suffered from this but mines did, so it made any flash situation useless)

power consumption. for my use, the e4gt is a bit better. havent used custom roms for either

i agree on the body of the evo3d is preferably since its narrower.

software. both were speedy. though the evo3d's scrolling is never as smooth as the e4gt. (on stock). tbh, i dont see any lag on the e4gt. 4g is the same on both phones.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cdszoke:
I doubt it because on the T-Mobile version with the Qualcomm chip I seen reviews where reviewers complain about slight lag when compare to GS2's with the Exynos Processor. If the UI was hardware accelerated there would be no lag for either chip set. Just a theory though.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rrmzr1:
Idk if I got the less than greater than signs wrong. But in my opinion. Evo 3d last. Photon second. Epic touch first.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] blestsol:
Did you really quote his whole post? Lol

The Op isn't a troll is he? I Just keep saying why you mad.. That's crazy annoying.

My experience is the opposite. Never felt any lag on this baby. But maybe his E4gT is different.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cobraboy85:
No, definitely not trolling. This was originally posted in the general section. Orb owned me… sometimes he flies around the site and nobody is spared from his wrath.

The phone has been better since I wrote this review/comparison whatever you want to call it.

HOWEVER…

I should have trusted my first instinct while I was at the sprint store… none of this, camera, anything… changes the fact that it is still a Samsung phone. I got the infamous signal drop today. Phone just randomly lost connection. My last Samsung phone was a Samsung moment…. Any of you who had one of those knows the absolute hell and headache that phone was. Samsung better get a fix out ASAP because if it comes day 13 of having this phone and they haven’t fixed it, it is going right back. I am not dealing with them not providing quick updates/patches to serious issues AGAIN. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

So yeah, got online after it did this and was suspicious simply because of the brand name… sure enough, tons of people, reporting the exact same issue. I was actually a little irritated at the fact that when I was at the sprint store I asked the salesperson if there were any known issues with the device and he said no. guess that was my fault for not doing any research.

Like I said, still have that 14 days, we’ll see what happens. I hope they fix it because the phone is starting to grow on me a little bit and as I said before I like the fact that I can get through more than a full day of pretty moderately heavy use and have around 20 percent left by the end of the night on my battery. Battery packs are ugly, heavy, and cumbersome. I am pleased that this will not require one (assuming I decide to keep it as my dd)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xisaacbx:
Wow I must be the only person ever to not have this LOS bug and I've had the phone since it came out. But then again xda is only a small % of people who have the phone. O.O I live right under a Sprint tower so I guess that helps some.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] eman3316@optonline.net:
lol, I was reading it wrong then. I thought you were listing them in order from best to worst. I stand corrected, your opinion is perfectly correct and can now be accepted as fact!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cdszoke:
I appreciate your opinion on the two phones. But, I must say your opinion seems really biased towards HTC. I too owned the the Samsung Moment. The phone was poorly supported by Sprint an Samsung I remembered. The moment only received Froyo because of the developers over @ SDX. I in turn bought myself an Evo 4g. I instantly fell in love with my Evo. I instantly became a HTC fanboy. It was fun to watch Samsung fail again with the OGEpic and it's update. The Epic just received Gingerbread today. But, than the Galaxy S 2 came and swept the world.

I know your biased because I was there but the Galaxy S 2 is world renowned as probably the best phone out. I own both the Evo3d and the Epic Touch and I have to say the Epic touch is just a better phone in my opinion. Not only my opinion but also the opinion of damn near every other tech bloggers and reviewers in the world. Once again this is all opinions so no one is actually wrong or right. But, I'm just saying that if you say the Evo3d is better than your opinion differs from damn near everyone else.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fatboypup:
The e3d battery is waaay better the wife's been unplugged for 15½ hours with 47% battery remaining in can't get 15 hours on an entire charge
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cobraboy85:
Haha I don't know about the battery life being better on the evo. She must not turn it on very much during the day if it is at almost 50 percent in 15 hours lol. I know that phone sucks juice pretty hard when you are using it extensively.

And yeah I think maybe I am a little biased against samsung... but that's because of the 2 "smartphones" I have owned from them... 2 of them haven't been very smart in the development and testing area. Your phone should at least function without any problems before it is released and sold. I can understand something small... like a widget force closing, or something more trivial... both of the phones I have owned from them have had major issues. My evo was flawless. I work in quality engineering for a living... so I guess it irks me a little more when I see things like this, lol.

That being said... I HOPE they work it out soon. I really do like this phone otherwise. And I think my dislike is more the company behind it

yumadtho?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LoveisPeace2012:
I hated how every HTC phone I owned would get dust under the screen, it was kinda sad. But honestly the evo 3d only strength against the epic is the community because the hardware on the evo is anemic dull and fat.. (processor, screen, body)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cobraboy85:
Yes I agree I do like the slim sexy look and feel of the touch way more than the evo

yumadtho?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sling:
Owned since launch no LOS here either
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Khilbron:
I'm in the same boat. Launch day E4GT no LoS at all for me either.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xisaacbx:
So I'm gonna take it that only a small % must have this defect? Or must live in a really bad sprint coverage zone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] beserker15:
I think the general believe is that it occurs more on rooted phones with custom kernels. After flashing a stock pulled kernel on mine, I've been trouble free for over a week. Before that it would happen once or twice a week.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cobraboy85:
So you aren't rooted?

yumadtho?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] beserker15:
Lol I am. Sorry for not clarifying, most roms comes with custom kernels. However, there is a stock pulled one that you can flash over the rom, that keeps the kernel stock, and for me that has solved the LOS issue (at least for the 8 days that I've used it).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cobraboy85:
You got a link to this? Or is it posted in the dev section?

whyumadtho
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cobraboy85:
Also... Is this flashable zip just a zImage or an entire boot image? Reason I ask is I don't want to lose any ramdisk tweaks from the rom I am going to flash later

whyumadtho
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] beserker15:
It's a flashable zip that I flashed through clockworkmod. http://www.forums.acsyndicate.net/showthread.php/3167-KERNEL-ODIN-Stock-Pulled-Repacked-with-CWM5
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cobraboy85:
If I have any problems I will give it a shot

whyumadtho
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] eman3316@optonline.net:
This statement means nothing unless you show is the on-screen time. Why don't people get that!

The E4GT runs circles around the E3D battery when compared equally as far as use goes. You can go 15.5 hours on any phone with 47% battery left.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Success100:
oh! i missed the other 14 threads about the same thing
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shiftr182:
I just bought the Epic Touch a week ago and came from E3D. At first (within 12 hours) I thought about selling the ET4G, then I rooted it and started manipulating the ram, proxies, 4g, etc. I love my ET4G now. I like the looks of sense, but the performance on the ET4G cant be compared. I compared both phones side by side, both rooted, with similar mods, and the ET4G is more responsive and quicker to load. The only thing that is not as fast is when I wake the phone from sleeping, there is some severe lag when its waking up.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cobraboy85:
nice myspace avatar bro
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
The zImage here includes initramfs, so your tweaks (including CWM recovery) would be overwritten.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cobraboy85:
Ahhhh... lame. Anyways, running latest version of starburst right now. Lovin it, but its only been a day so we'll see how it turns out after a week or two and everything is settled in.

Is it not possible on this phone to extract and flash just a zIamge?

yumadtho?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LoveisPeace2012:
Hve you tried calkulin? It's an absolute beast of a rom, btw your signature is hella funny bro

Peace & Unity
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cobraboy85:
Flashed it last night, yes. Booted powered down to charge after I flashed and when I booted up it got stuck at the lockscreen and did some kind of boot loop thing every time the radios would load. Touch was also unresponsive I had to battery pull.

A little bit of searching through the thread revealed a few other users had the same issue.

My experience in flashing roms/rooting has taught me that sometimes roms just don't play nice on your phone for some unknown reason when others are doing just fine lol... guess that was one of those times for me haha

yumadtho?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] housry23:
I had this problem on calkulin's ROM & it is a problem with restoring data from apps through TB, out any other backup app. It's solved it by installing apps through the Market. I'm guessing it's caused by the tweaks or something because once i restored the data from my apps from the stock rooted, everything got real wonky.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cobraboy85:
Hmmm.... not sure if that is the issue. I use my backup root but I never backup data. Just apks. And I don't even restore them with MBR I use root explorer to manually install them one by one from the SD card. Fail proof every time.

I have used/flashed hundreds of roms and have always only backed up apks as restoring data is always a risk with custom roms. Never had any issues.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cobraboy85:
And since this is my thread I will derail it a bit.... how do you like your Evo compared to the e4gt? And what rom are you running on that right now?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] limeaid:
agree with this. in my experience, the photon actually has the best battery life out of the 3, but the SGS2 trumps it in other ways (camera, screen) which makes it worth it for me. to be honest, the evo 3d has no redeeming qualities for me
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] clamknuckle:
I haven't had an LOS in a week on Caulkins Rom.

Your evidence is anecdotal at best,(as is mine) but blaming custom roms/kernels is wrong. In fact, I rooted to hopefully solve the issue, as my unrooted phone was doing it every 3-4 hours.

It's something in the radios and hardware that aren't working. My guess is the fix coming from Sprint is a new radio, which is why we have been unable to resolve it with kernels and roms
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] beserker15:
lol no you're right, it's definite something Samsung/Sprint needs to fix themselves. With my phone the stock pulled kernel doesn't give me any LOS (in the 10 days I've used it now) and others have reported that custom kernels are the ones that fixed their issues...while a smaller group is screwed either way and no kernel can resolve their los issue. In the off chance that the OP's phone behaves like mine lol, I recommend the stock pulled kernel.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] iefen:
hello, i have a hd2 leo and had nand android on it with magldr(1.13)

i had to switch rom because i wass bored of the one i had. i changed in the ad recovery my rom to another rom. i just followed all steps correctly but when i start the rom it just hangs on the rom load screen... when i try another rom they stuck at the load screen and then reboot the phone.

when i try to go in the hspl to use task29 it hangs at 0% when i try task29

when i use the usb flasher in magldr to task29 it it doesnt see its connected.

i cant go back to my default rom womo 6.5

cant start the rom

cant change eveything

please help me, and if i have a new rom how could i clean my sd card from all the files that are on it?

please help me
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huggs:
You don't use the usb flasher in magldr to do a task 29. You must do task 29 from bootloader (Tri-color screen. turn the device on while holding the volume - button down)

It is possible that you don't need to do a task 29 anyways though.

If you still have magldr, then keep it and don't do a task 29.

You probably just have to re-flash CWR with a different partition layout.

What nand rom did you have before, and what rom do you wish to flash now?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] iefen:
i tried also the tri color screen but it stucks at 0%

how do i reflash cwr with a different partition layout?

and i used all kinda roms and they all say the same

but those i tried:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=733649

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1264828

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1298188

btw i have magldr v1.13

cwm 3.0.0.5
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
If you don't do a "wipe data / factory reset' in cwm, the next rom rarely boots.

enter cwm and do the reset, see if it helps. The comment above about partition size is the next most common reason.

as for "hangs at 0%",,, does it say "2.08.hspl" in bootloader?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] iefen:
hello, i always do wipe data factory reset and also cache

it says:

pb81100 HX-BC
spl-2.08.0000 8g XE
microP(led) 0x05
MicroP(touch) 0x30

EDIT; i tried to update the tri color screen to 2.08 HSPL and now i have 2.08.Hspl

but it still doesnt work

Edit2; now i did a task29
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] iefen:
okay, so i changed my hspl to 2.08 it was 2.0800000

i did a task29

formated my sd to fat32

i reinstalled my magldr v1.13

i reinstalled my clockwordmod 3.0.0.5

and i tried to launch a rom and it stucks to the first screen (a girl with htc on it)

then i tried another rom ofcourse i wiped all my data/factory also stucked to the first screen (nrg z energiz)

what am i supposed to do now because it just dont wanna work.

change back to winmo 6.5? and then again flash to nand?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] iefen:
please someone help me i updated to hspl2.08

installend stock winmo 6.5

reinstalled magldr 1.13 and clockworkmod 3.0.0.5

tried to boot a rom and still doesnt work

please help me please
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] iefen:
pleaseee help me i m still paying for my phone pleasee help mee
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
what did you do <-------> ? because you dont mention flashing any rom, just skipped straight from reinstalling magldr and cwm to 'tried to boot'

What partition size did you flash? what rom did you flash?

lots more details please,.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] iefen:
I didn't flashed anything, In the video I saw the man didn't flashed after installing cwm

Partiton no one told me about partitions so I didn't made one
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Monk4Life:
Looks like engadget finally caught on to the screen issues our phones are having.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/08/t-mobile-galaxy-s-ii-screen-issues-have-some-seeing-poorly-rend/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] lookitzjohnny:
i just read that also was gonna post it! hopefully this crap samsung trying to pull on us gets fixed!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jdlorinser:
.....NICE!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AllGamer:
is nice to highlight the issue

but it's not really that big of a problem, it all comes down to from each point of view

personally i don't like to use the device in so low brightness

now lets go back to the original topic http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1320942
[HD2 Android NAND Development] brush2:
Hi all,

i noticed that GPS only works once after a reboot on this ROM.

Please note - This fix may work on any ROM, which uses tytung's GPS Libraries:

[26.Aug.2011][Dev] GPS Libraries v2.1 with AGPS support for HD2 Gingerbread

So even if your don't use dungphp RUNNYMEDE 1.05.401.4 - Android 2.3.5 - Sense 3.5 - it's worth a try to fix it this way.

You can fix it by modifying your gps.conf file from /system/etc/.

Note!

When modifying the file via ADB pull, its nessecary to set correct file permissions when pushed back to device by ADB.

Please note the original file permissions of gps.conf and ensure it has this permission settings when finshed editing the file.

There are alots of guides how to check/change file permissions on XDA/Google, so please read on this if your are not familiar to work on this.

e.g.:

Google: get set file permissions ADB

Google: get set file permissions ES Explorer

Pull your gps.conf file or edit it on device.

Your file should contain the parameter GPS1_CLEANUP_ENABLED=1 which it set to 1 by default.

If this parameter is missing in your file - add it.

Set the parameter to 0 (zero/off) .

It should look like this:

NTP_SERVER=yourCountryCode.pool.ntp.org
XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com
SUPL_PORT=7276
###########################################
# Enable/disable automatic (periodic) #
# download requests of gpsOneXTRA #
# assistance data to client #
# Range: 0 to 1 #
# Default: 0 (Disabled) #
###########################################
GPS1_XTRA_AUTO_DOWNLOAD_ENABLED=1

###########################################
# Time (in hours) between automatic #
# download requests of gpsOneXTRA #
# assistance data to client #
# Range: 1 to 168 (168 = hr in a week) #
# Default: 24 hr #
###########################################
GPS1_XTRA_DOWNLOAD_INTERVAL=24

###########################################
# Enable/disable to shutdown the gpsOne #
# engine properly on GPS off #
# Range: 0 to 1 #
# Default: 1 (Enabled) #
###########################################
[COLOR="Red"]GPS1_CLEANUP_ENABLED=0[/COLOR]

###########################################
# Time (in seconds) between invoking #
# pdsm_get_position() #
# Range: 2 to 120 #
# Default: 2 seconds #
###########################################
GPS1_SESSION_TIMEOUT=2

Save your file or push it back to device and boot into CWM.

Don't forget to set the correct file permissions!

Thats it - reboot now.

GPS should work now everytime you need it.

Yours, Stephan
[HD2 Android NAND Development] OCedHrt:
Is this just a bug with RUNNYMEDE? Because GPS works fine on HyperDroid with that enabled.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] brush2:
Hi mate,

i tried it on 2 EU HD2 with this ROM - both showed the same behaviour - GPS didn't worked more than once before the fix and after fixing all was fine :)

I don't know if it's a problem on other ROMS, but it's worth a try when the ROM comes up with this particular symptom.

Greetz, Stephan
[HD2 Android NAND Development] dungphp:
Nice man ! Thank you very much...
[HD2 Android NAND Development] brush2:
Hi dungphp,

you are welcome :)

We have to thank you for your hard work on the ROMs!

Yours, Stephan
[HD2 Android NAND Development] Ty5982:
do we add ALL the text here you've written or just GPS1_CLEANUP_ENABLED=1,so sorry for the noob question lol
[HD2 Android NAND Development] brush2:
LOL - hey mate,

of course only the parameter and it's value is required:

GPS1_CLEANUP_ENABLED=0

Btw: You wrote the parameter set to 1, this is the default value and is the reason for GPS failure.

This value must be set to 0 to get it to work!

I pasted the whole modified file here to show how it could/should look in the end.

Now we can see - even posting the whole file did not help in your case :p

Just kidding - have a nice day.

Greetz, Stephan
[HD2 Android NAND Development] Ty5982:
must apologise lol,early mornin here,not fully awake yet lol,was just curious as ive flashed loadsa fixes,even a gps fix apk floating around here and also faster fix that comes pre-installed,i've even edited my build prop,but nothing ever seems to work lol,but i've tried your solution,will use gps test from the market to see if anythings happening

EDIT: after this i get 9 sattelites in view 8 used,as before i didn't get any or if my phone was in a good mood i'd get 1 lol..........SO IT WORKS
[HD2 Android NAND Development] brush2:
Ok mate - good luck.

I hope i didn't promised too much :)

Would be nice to get some feedback from you - your info may help others!

Greetz, Stephan
[HD2 Android NAND Development] Ty5982:
IT WORKS,IT WORKS,IT WORKS,IT WORKS,IT WORKS,IT WORKS,IT WORKS....................CAN'T SAY THANK YOU ENOUGH,i've got 4 bars signal as to the usual none and i aint even outside lol,will see when i take my little girl school in 15 min..........will tell u more then,feels like christmas has come early lol
[HD2 Android NAND Development] brush2:
Hugs from germany :D

Yours, Stephan
[HD2 Android NAND Development] chrisrj28:
So using Dansta's Runnymede rom does that line get pasted at the end of the gps.conf info? Like the last line I mean.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] brush2:
Hi mate,

maybe; - maybe means of course only if it does not exists upwards. I am not sure how it reacts if the parameter occurs twice with two different values - but i think the last occurence of this parameter in file should "win" ;)

Greetz, Stephan
[HD2 Android NAND Development] Ty5982:
the english aren't suppose to like the germans lol,but u can be an exception lol.........my results using gps test from the market not GPS STATUS & TOOLBOX AS ITS NOT AS ACCURATE........

satellites in view 17

satellites used 15

accuracy(feet) 14.9

speed(mph) 0

NOT TO SURE HOW GOOD THESE RESULTS ARE,BUT THEY ARE 1000% BETTER THAN WHAT I USED TO GET

1 thing i did notice and is VERY IMPORTANT is if you have previously done a fix permissions for anything else,DELETE THE LOG SAVED ON YOUR SD CARD 1ST,add file to gps.config,save,reboot,then clickon fix permissions
[HD2 Android NAND Development] brush2:
Regarding "love between brits and germans" - i don't understand this is really a topic - damn; ain't there bigger problems in life? :D

The fix should not touch/change anything about accuracy. It only forces GPS to work as it should - .. more than once after a reboot...

Regarding deleting of fix permission log file - i don't think it has to be deleted to get the fix to work. But fixing the permissions is important to set the correct permissions for gps.conf file after modifying it.

Greetz, Stephan
[HD2 Android NAND Development] Ty5982:
it works and that's all that matters