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[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
MTD BML Versions

Unfortunately, I have not had any time to dedicate to Android work at all. However, I did modify the installer script and spit out two more versions of this rom. An MTD version, and a BML(EXT4/RFS) version. If you're not sure what the difference is, please do not ask here, do a little more research so that you're better informed on rom installations.

This is going on my theory that the combination of MTD and BML is still experimental with some tweaking necessary. Thankfully, I have a new file host that appears to be much more useful for my purposes.

If ThunderHawk III Final is already working for you, then good. If you're having issues, try one of the versions specifically matched to your phones format.

Nothing else has been changed.
[Epic 4G Android Development] kehlan:
This ROM wasn't proving to do what it claims, which is the best battery life. I found myself charging my phone almost twice completely in a day, with moderate/light use, and I tested on more than one battery, more than one completely clean installation.

Also, many apps force close randomly. Apps that shouldn't, at times they shouldn't.

Don't get offended. I'm telling it like it is. And if you did some poking around, I don't post things like this much. But I've been through more than one release of RandomROM. More than one Modem.

I switched to the CM9 alpha4. I can't do the RandomROM anymore.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
Well I've tried to step you through as best I could, but I don't know what the problem is with your phone. I personally test on three different Epics prior to release with consistent results. Unfortunately, I guess you're one of the few anomalies, as more than a thousand other users have no such issues with battery life.

That said, you can hardly compare a Gingerbread rom to an ICS rom. More to the point, try another Gingerbread rom if you're trying to fix a stability issue. CM9 is currently known to have wifi-induced battery drain, a problematic camera, and other Alpha issues.

I myself regularly test other roms, no one is forcing you to devote to one rom.
[Epic 4G Android Development] BoscoCosta:
i've been trying this ROM off and on with both Legendary (MTD Version ) as well as both CM7 and CM9 but so far this one has been the most stable. My battery life has been fine so far with average to moderate use. Side note, do you recommend any kernel over another with this ROM?
[Epic 4G Android Development] xjayman:
click on the picture of the sd card in up right corner to switch directories, also no sure about bml but mtd version you have to go into settings in file explorer and tick mount system first before you can delete swype files.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
I've used Shadow and Samurai with no real issues with each. I personally prefer Shadow because Bbelos keeps things simple and efficient. Personal choice really, and some phones react differently.
[Epic 4G Android Development] v8bait:
For what it's worth, all of the updated and themed Swype's are working from here http://jbthemes.com/djdarkknight/#http://jbthemes.com/djdarkknight/daswypethemes/

I'd link that better but on my phone and lazy. Maybe that will help some. Any news on thunderchicken 4?
[Epic 4G Android Development] WrlsFanatic:
OK, need some help. First off, the Epic sucks. I had to learn EXT4/RFS first, and now there is MTD/BML. Why can't Samsung phones not suck like HTC phones do? With my EVO, I pick the ROM, flash it, and then go on with my life. With this bull****, every new day there's some new term to learn.

So, my wife's Epic stopped working, running ThunderHawk 3.2. She couldn't use Swype, was getting a ton of FCs, and she was constantly getting an update reminder. I wanted to just flash RandomHawk 3.2 again so that I could backup everything, but it kept stalling. It would say "Reticulating Splines..." and then just sit there. So, after about 10 minutes with the progress bar not moving, I pulled the battery. Now I'm trying to install TH III, and it's giving me the "file_getprop: failed to stat "/sdcard/clockworkmod/options.cfg": No such file or directory E:Error in /sdcard/ThunderHawk-III.zip" issue.

Please don't construe my frustration with the worst hardware I've ever purchased as a knock or a lack of respect for the hard work the devs do, but if any of you are married and your wife is technically ignorant and she's yelled at you to fix something "faster" that she couldn't possibly fix herself, you'd understand my anger with Samsung.

PLEASE HELP!

EDIT: I might add that while someone a few pages back had this same issue, they never posted a resolution. I DID SEARCH!
[Epic 4G Android Development] 1midniterider:
I do understand your frustration. My wife and I have the Epic 4G. She has ThunderHawk III and it was been working very well. I'm running CM9.. Have you tried using Odin to flash EL30, just to make sure it is not a hardware issue?
[Epic 4G Android Development] AOD_Corwin:
That's my suggestion. Or switch to an mtd based rom like clean gb first as it will wipe the phone clean in the conversion process
[Epic 4G Android Development] WrlsFanatic:
OK, so the FCs are fine (well, I assume so), but Swype still says it needs an update and the phone is still asking for a system update after going to TH III. Do I need to install FB15?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
I believe there is a guide in the general or q&a section that shows you how to stop the ota message on EI22 roms. There are several suggestions about how to fix swype over the last few pages of this thread. Random posted in a private testing document between me, him, and jdelano last week that he has been too busy to finish the EL30 version yet.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Volknochi:
I'm now installing this over the previous ThunderHawk; will this fix the issue of having to reboot the phone to get it to use WiFi and then reboot it again to get it to use 4G again?

Also, I'm also getting the part where it stops at "Reticulating splines" part. And, I've tried the BML one and MTD/BML. Should I just try the "MTD" one?
[Epic 4G Android Development] WrlsFanatic:
To get it to stop, I just flashed EL30. I didn't think it would matter since usually you can use any modem with any ROM, but for me, it did.

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I can just install the Swype beta, but I can't find anything about how to disable the OTA message. Am I drunk, or has the "search this thread" option been disabled here at XDA?

Thanks for your help!
[Epic 4G Android Development] caspertodd:
I'm gonna go with drunk LOL. J/k Here ya go...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1469207
[Epic 4G Android Development] VassagoX:
To each their own. I have found that the EPIC is FAR more mod friendly than the EVO or EVO Shift. I mean, one click root/mod, easily CWM any custom rom, including shifting between BML/EXT/MTD, and a Download Mode to Odin your soft-bricked phone for those problem flashes, which has happened to me just one time. What more could you ask for? Why would anyone complain about the hardware? lol

This is after having 6 HTC Touch Pros break on me within a year for various reasons, FOR NOT REASON, then having the Evo screen stop responding on a friend's phone after a few months, to the physical keyboard breaking on two Evo Shifts another friend had and horrible battery life on both based on complaints from them, and the seemingly more of a pain it was for me to root/flash their phones for them.

I love my EPIC and love RandomRom so far much more than the others for battery life and performance. Keep it up, Samsung and Random!

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Essentially, I would recommend an Odin back to stock with root and CWM, flash clean GB to get MTD, then flash RandomRom. Unfortunately, you'll get the messages because RandomRom is on EI22 and Sprint released EL30. To stop the message for a while until a few more reboots, you can choose for it to try and install. It will give errors, then go into Recovery. If not, you can pull the battery. When it boots back up, you shouldn't recieve any OTA messages for a while.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Ninja25:
how do i stopped getting fc's when i first start up? i cant even do anything:(
[Epic 4G Android Development] ksmullins88:
stability shouldnt be an issue in either roms..

Random and I have been trying to make the Leaky GB stable for who knows how long..

EI22 is official and should be 100% stable
[Epic 4G Android Development] a2tz:
I've been running this for a week'ish or whatever now. No FC's that I can remember. I had a lot with ei17 or whatever before. This is a perfectly stable and great rom for me.

Aside from a battery % mod....this rom is perfect for me at least.
[Epic 4G Android Development] sloheim:
This was linked back on page 3. Not my favorite circle battery mod, but it gets the job done.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1342896

Also, let me put my stamp of approval on this ROM. Been running it for a week and a half now, and it is ROCK SOLID. Only "problem" is that I can't sync facebook contacts with my built-in contacts... causes the Contacts app to FC. So I dont sync my FB contacts. No big deal. WELL worth the tradeoff for the performance of this ROM.
[Epic 4G Android Development] wickedclown691:
Youtube

I love this ROM and want to run it, however I have one issue that is keeping me from running it as my daily. I can not for the life of me get Youtube to work. When I open the app up and click on any video( tested at first looking at a vid I wanted to watch then later started picking random to make sure it wasnt the vid I was trying to watch) it acts as if it wants to play and you see the loading circle then the screen goes black and it vibrates and then the loading circle sometimes comes back like I restarted the video. Has anyone else had this problem or has anyone got a suggestion for me to try to get it to work. I deleted the app, data, and cache from the applications menu and redownloaded/installed it and the same keeps happening. Thanks for the help and for the great ROM.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
I'm on vacation at the moment and spending some spare time perfecting/assembling ThunderHawk 2 Final for EH17. Before you ask, no big changes. A couple theme adjustments, app changes, fixes, kernel upgrade, things like that. Just enough to call it solid and move on. For anyone wondering, EH17 is still my daily driver.

As for EI22, 3.2 will be a significant change hopefully. The rest of the theme, some fixes, changes, expected things. But most importantly, I am in testing of Maddoggin's lock mod and it's looking near completion. Once that's done, it will bring ThunderHawk 3 together.

Just an FYI.
[Epic 4G Android Development] sloheim:
Sounds like you've done all the right things to make it work. Not sure what to tell you, but I can confirm that it works just fine on my install.
[Epic 4G Android Development] wickedclown691:
I will reinstall and try a few other things

I will reinstall and try some other things just to see if maybe I can get it to work. Thanks for replying.
[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasLTE:
THX 4 that update ( especially the part about the maddoggin lock mod that everyone is just chompin' at the bit for ;) ) :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] wickedclown691:
I am not sure what I did differently this time but I am now all hawked out and rocking my favorite rom thanks random king

Sent from my hawked out Epic
[Epic 4G Android Development] JeffATL:
Kevin,

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate the great roms both you, Hoffman and RandomKing have come out with. I have been jumping back and forth between Hurricane/Phoenix/Hawk/Legendary and ThunderHawk.
[Epic 4G Android Development] yaounit:
can't wait. i was on randomrom since osprey and was loving the battery life until i started getting fc's in eh17. been waiting for a more completed random ei22 to try cause my battery life on acs ics is horrible
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
I need three testers. Framework.jar is crashing the phone on boot and maddoggin needs logcats. I'm not near a computer.

I need 3 experienced people to test the mod and return logcats to maddoggin.

-Sent from my Random Epic.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
You know I'm always ready to help.
[Epic 4G Android Development] pvtjoker42:
Wish I had read this earlier.. I was at my computer all morning, now I'm out running around otherwise i'd be all over it..
[Epic 4G Android Development] lost_:
if still looking got tester, lemme know.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Seddy318:
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned but is anyone else having bluetooth issues. When I try to turn bluetooth on it hangs up on "Turning on..." and then turns itself right back off. Not sure what may be causing it though.
[Epic 4G Android Development] hot304tee:
Random I didn't use the freeze command and my contacts app still doesn't work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] lost_:
Logcat sent but probably a little too late as I just read maddoggin's post from last night about having an update soon. That's good news.

Will you be including some other goodies in your updates as well? (A long list/lots of work.. silent camera/no-low batt limit, gps, 13-button pull-down bar, 3g/1x icon fix)

EDIT: and the black Swype from Thunderhawk EH17 of course!
[Epic 4G Android Development] yaounit:
Maddogin's done! Patiently awaiting your release random
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
The Swype will be included. I just built it into the final version of Pheonix as well. Btw, it has two themes built in ;-). I am looking into these other mods.

Should be out tomorrow early afternoon!
[Epic 4G Android Development] locomariachi:
Had that a while back for the 1st ThunderHawk. I just ended up reflashing everything. If you have a backup, great, if not, start completely from scratch. I would suggest going MTD, since I changed, I have had nothing but good times with the phone.
[Epic 4G Android Development] madvj:
I just flashed this rom and so far it seems great.

One annoying pop up i get which i want to get rid of. Every so often i get a prompt to update the software on the phone. How do I stop it?

Also, How's the battery life for this rom?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
Battery life is very great, because the rom is based on EI22 and the latest version available is EL30. You will continue to receive the update message.

There are a few posts where people have said that they have accepted the update. When it goes to reboot it won't be able to. Pull the battery and then put it back in, then 3 finger boot to CWM. From CWM reboot to system and it is fine and it wont ask anymore.

I've never tried that myself, you might want to search around more regarding the EL30 update. The other way to stop getting the update is to use a rom that is based on EL30 or CM7 or CM9.

Random may get version 4 out sometime (it is based on EL30), he just has a ton of real life (ie: more important) things going on.
[Epic 4G Android Development] pixlz:
This is a bit late coming. But to the people with trouble on the installation, make sure you have a clockworkmods folder on your sd card. The same happened to me way back when, and that was the issue.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Jed Dignazio:
Can we possibly get a mirror?

Goo-inside.me is useless.
[Epic 4G Android Development] VassagoX:
There's no need to 3-finger boot to CWM, just boot it as normal after a battery pull and it is fine.

I've found that it'll last a few days, but after a couple restarts of the phone, it comes back again. Annoying, but not a dealbreaker for this great rom. :D

Although, since I've already updated my CWM and gone MTD, I'm thinking about trying this new beta for CM9.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
Checking In

My son was born this last Thursday 8 lbs 14 oz.

EL30 has been on hold. For me, the testers, and everyone. Not forgotten, though.
[Epic 4G Android Development] orlzzt:
Congratulations to you, Mrs. Random and Random Jr! We wish you all the best! (and as always look forward to more Random goodness)
[Epic 4G Android Development] drakkahn:
Woo hoo! congrats!!

Best wishes for you and your family!
[Epic 4G Android Development] tempt:
Congrats. Welcome to Random Jr ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] whitfield77:
Congrats on your new arrival! I think you put out one of the best ROM's available. As much as I'm itching for EL30 version, you've gotta keep family first.

Enjoy!
[Epic 4G Android Development] WrlsFanatic:
No CyanogenMod until MAYBE now, though it's still not solid yet. That sucks ass, period. This ROM rules, no doubt, much credit to King, but AOSP >>>> all. Also, just comparing the phones straight up, the haptic keys on HTC phones are nothing short of amazing. Zero difference between those and actual hard keys. The Epic - even in EXT4 - is far less responsive.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Trident:
Much congratulations. Enjoy.
[Epic 4G Android Development] VassagoX:
CyanogenMod on GB? Big deal really. The Epic ICS CyanogenMod IMO runs better than the Evo Shift one after testing them both out for a couple of hours. I'm actually using the ICS CyanogenMod beta0 still on my Epic, haven't upgraded to beta1 yet, but it's been a daily driver for me for about a week with few to no issues.

Never noticed a difference in response time between the two phones. I'll take a slightly less response time any day if I have a download mode and one click root and CWM. :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] 144saint:
QUESTION

This is asking me for an update. How do I get rid of the updates on this rom?

I really dont want to loose root or the ability to tether.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Nashdogg:
Except the update. Where your rooted it will fail. When it fails pull the battery. Put it back in and reboot and updates will stop and you will lose nothing.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
Hmmm, I was just in another thread talking about this update ... hehehe
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdawg101:
for some reason, when i try to flash ThunderHawkIII.zip using CWM, i got this error:

"E:Can't open /sdcard/ThunderHawk-III.zip (bad)"

I redownloaded the zip onto my sd card and tried again but no luck. Any solutions?
[Epic 4G Android Development] VassagoX:
Did you download from your computer and transfer over?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdawg101:
I did, I downloaded it from my PC and transferred it via USB cable.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
What are you running now?
[Epic 4G Android Development] pipefitter:
I'm on the BML version and trying to flash the MTD zip. Wipe 3 times, flash says successful. Reboot to system and it keeps bootlooping....not a normal bootloop (if you can call bootlooping normal), but a never ending series of short displays of CWM. They flash on the screen for a split second and then the screen goes black, then CWM, then black screen, etc. Anyone else have this happen or know of a solution? Am I doing something wrong?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdawg101:
I'm currently running Thunderhawk 3.4.3. I'm currently using ACSRecovery v 1.0.0.5 CWM4 based.
[Epic 4G Android Development] pipefitter:
Is there anyone out there? :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] v8bait:
I would venture to assume you are getting stuck at the partitioning for MTD, either because you are using an outdated version of CWM (I think all the MTD ROM's recommended you be on CWM5, so I'd flash that first and then try again), or else the Thunderhawk installer isn't formatting correctly. CleanGB MTD also formats for MTD if you're not on it, so you could try flashing that first, wiping, then flashing thunderhawk. That's what I did to get CM9 installed... but I'd venture to say it's because you're still using ACS which is CWM4 based.

Good luck.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
I think I recall that to go to the MTD version; you have to flash another MTD ROM first. The MTD conversion in the Thunderhawk script isn't working 100%. Once you flash another MTD you can flas thunderhawk.

EDIT: I was creating this mesage while v8bait was ... lol

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Make sure you're downloading thunderhawk III for the same file system you're running. BML (which is RFS (stock file system) or EXT4) or MTD (CM or ICS file system)

If you mix them, it won't read the zip.

To know which file system is used, open the terminal (or adb shell) and type the "mount" command. It will list all mounted partitions and their file system, as well as mounting options in use.
[Epic 4G Android Development] pipefitter:
Thank you. I was unaware that the conversion script isn't working. Will flash a different MTD rom and then try the MTD version of thunderhawk. I saw that randomking stated that his rom works with CWM 3 & 5, and I am on CWM 3. I had some trouble with backups on CWM 5 giving an error at the data partition, so I reverted back to CWM 3 and have not had any problems since. I will try CWM 5 again before flashing any other MTD rom.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdawg101:
When I try to install the zip for CMW5, I get this error:

E:Can't copy META-INF /com/google/android/update-binary

I tried downloading the zip file multiple times, but it's still the same result.

**UPDATE**

I got around this issue by downloading the files from my phone's browser directly onto the sd card. I also got ThunderHawk III BML running on my phone now. =D The previous way I did was to download it onto my PC and then transfer it directly from USB. I guess that's not the preferred way to download files?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeremyglass:
Any update on the next release?!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Rivas123:
this must be the smoothest rom i have ran yet. no problems here so far. THANKS!!!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] RandomKing:
Maddoggin's 10-lock mod is in my hands. I'm currently working to bring it in line with ThunderHawk 3.2. For anyone who doesn't want to wait, the mod was based on ThunderHawk 3.1 and is safe to flash over it. :D

UPDATE: I've got the circle battery mod incorporated at long last.

UPDATE: Fixed airplane mode icon.

UPDATE: Made transparent pulldown window matching previous revisions.

UPDATE: Almost fixed overlapping powerwidgets/text.
[Epic 4G Android Development] chillywings:
Just wanted to give some feedback on the ROM. Some of the issues have already been brought up, but just providing my personal feedback:

Tried running 3.1 for a few days, and my first impression was that I loved it. Font looks awesome and the rest of the rom is very slick looking, and battery life is great. And I kind of liked not having any battery icon mods, I kinda wished I could know the %, but it's so slick looking without it. (just saw random's post about including the circle battery icon.. and I'm kinda bummed :( )

Issues: So I had a few issues that are pushing me elsewhere for now.

#1) had FCs on about half of my apps which were restored using MyBackup Root (coming from SFR 1.2). I tried rewiping and reflashing the rom and restoring the apps again... still had the same issue. I've only had this issue once before that I can remember, and it was fixed by reflashing. Also, whenever I just wiped all data and rebooted (didn't reflash), I would get an FC message from the setup app, and would be left with just a black screen, and could only access the notification bar.

#2) Contacts won't sync to FB. I could go through and manually join all of my FB and google contacts... but **** that. And yes, the contacts app crashed a few times, and I didn't do that SuperFreeze thing (w/e that is).

#3) Kernel is not compatible with voltage control

#4) No camera sound fix

That's all I can think of/remember atm. Otherwise, it's a great ROM and I can't wait for another release in hopes some of these issues are fixed. Major kudos for keeping the stock clock and memo app!!