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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dbarrett480:
Fwiw my phone has had no Los on eg31 as long as I stick with the stock kernel
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rgregg504:
They have to have a way to update eg31 eventually there's no way they gave sprint something that can't be updated
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
I am just the messenger, who knows. I can tell you with 100% certainty, if you flashed the EG31 tar, and you receive the same OTA that I received, it will fail.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
the error is from not being on eg30 modem..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chunology:
Aww rats, so you did mean modem :( Does that mean everyone that is on EG31 modem is SOL?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cidica:
Wow they got us on this one off the start. I went back to stock with EG31(and Modem) guess we wait a bit more that kinda sucks lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigtoysrock:
You have to be stock EG30 to flash any EK02 modem. Where the EG31 and EG12 come in is, you can only change to those if you leave EG30.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] schwab002:
Yarg. Ok this time you early modem adopters give it at least a day or two before declaring LoS has been solved. I think that's why most people jumped on EG31, including me.

Also keep up the good work, devs. Thank you as always!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
The modem is not a full modem, it is a delta of eg30>ek02 which means it only contains the differences in those 2 modems. any other modem wont patch correctly
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cidica:
Anyway around this at all by chance? or are we kinda SOL at the moment?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigtoysrock:
I say give them till tomorrow and they will know more, they just got it about 2hrs ago.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Kikoshi:
How do i know that my stock is ODEXED?

I haven't flashed any Rom's, its all Stock EG30. Only thing i tried to do is flash a backup which ended up being corrupted and had to start all over.

So then in this case, the stock rom i have is fully ODEXED then?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chunology:
Thank you for all the quick responses and thank you to everyone involved for all your hard work!!:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cidica:
Yeah I was kinda figuring on waiting anyways so it's not a big deal. yet just "patching" the modem would be simple if we could get a eg30 modem pulled (which it's been tried and failed) I'm just wondering if there is anyone that still has eg30 on their phones that one of the devs might be able to get or maybe pull that modem from. That alone would fix the issues since we "could" then roll back to eg30 and update.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigtoysrock:
Zip file yes, MD5 odin

Like you said they tried and it failed. BUT, they might figure something out. I still have EG30 with no LoS :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
Should have cleared up everything in OP. Please read!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cidica:
*cough* *cough* maybe you should help them to see if they can do it again :p *cough* *cough* I mean no pressure or anything lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
It's something to do with Samsung, dumping the radio makes it an EG12. Sounds weird, but we dumped the EK02 radio and it was the same as EG12, even though it wasn't. Very weird stuff.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Will of fire:
So when we do get the official update if we have the 31modem it wont update? Im confused, if you could explain it would be appreciated. i went to stock without knowing it was putting me on eg31. Kind of bumed. the download is misleading it should be changed to say eg31 [SPH-D710.EG30_CL435803_REV05_user.tar.md5] See it says 30 so i thought i was good.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cidica:
Yeah right now there is no way to flash the modem if you have EG31 modem. I'm kinda wondering if I can go into a sprint store after the update gets released and just say well when I got the phone it was like this... with EG31 on it and see what happens.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Will of fire:
yea i got the eg31 and didnt even know i had it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caaznkid:
Ah to flash or not to flash....that is the question.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cidica:
did you flash the rom from here? if so I knew that one had EG31 in it. At the time I didn't worry about it though. I think there is a few ways of going about maybe getting sprint to reflash my phone at the store (maybe with a EG30 build IF they have one if so I might try that. I mean not like it would cost them anything to flash the phone it takes all of 5 minutes and I'm out the door and they are done.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I agree. Whenever the next official release comes out, we should have a full stock tar to flash otherwise anyone who takes their phone to Sprint and gets a phone fixed would be permanently stuck on EG31. I can't imagine that happening. Thanks again kings. I also went to dead spot on EG31 with EK02 kernel. I had no bars but 3 dots and it connected right back up on its own. I hope I didn't already post that in this thread. It will probably be a 2 tier update. Usually people get them over a few day period. Probably EG30 to EK02 first then EG31 to EK02.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dchibro:
This is exactly what I suspected was going to happen. 100 bucks says on OTA update day, Sprint receives a bunch of service calls from people who had brought their phones into Sprint for service, walked out after the tech flashed the EG31 tarball, and doesn't understand why the update is failing.

EDIT - Oh I really should mention ... thanks for doing all of this Kingsway. You've done a lot for the development community and even this additional test will go a long way on helping people understand what may happen on official update day. Good stuff man.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MarkMyShark:
I got my phone yesterday and was on Eg30. I rooted it and flashed the EK02 rom and then this radio everything is working great. I wouldn't imagine people being stuck on eg31
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Chinook Pilot:
Thinking out loud...

Just thinking out loud here....

What's the possibility that the update server queried the phone the 1st time it attempted to push the update to resolve the baseband. From that point it set the version to push for his ESN off the initial ping. Obviously one of the lingering questions is the mechanics of the Sprint update system... I suppose time will tell...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rgregg504:
I am not at all disputing what you say just tryin to calm the naysayers. Sooner or later it has to get straightened out or this would be a bigger screw up than the Moment lol. I think what you did was awesome and then to sacrifice your ek02 to try and help everyone else was just amazing on your part. BTW if it makes you feel any better I have had no LOS since flashing ek02 ROM with eg31 modem so it may not be all bad news.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Lol so I will be forever alone, right lmao. No, it is unlikely that is the case, but even if it is, the real ota will come any day and I will flash a CIQ rootkit free ROM anyway. Hopefully you are right because someone well be able to pull it, but most likely we will wait for a tar. It won't be long, they have to give it to the store techs to reflash phones.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sportsplayer5959:
Well it was worth a try. Thanks for having the balls to try it out. You're the best. Don't worry. We should all have EK02 soon. Good luck my friend :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sling:
EG31 Crew RULES!

lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
From what viper posted earlier, the updated radio appears to just clear ram when LoS occurs, so it is not much.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
No, that won't happen, atleast, I don't think so. The full update should have a FULL radio in it and it would be really dumb if they didn't do that but I can't imagine they wouldn't.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Maybe I was a beta tester for radio bug fixes and I just screwed their data up lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rgregg504:
So if we don't get an update till February its your fault lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] droidiac13:
I actually laughed out loud at this. Thanks for the laugh!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
No I increased their data pool exponentially by posting on here. I basically did their soak test for them. If the fixes were good, the ota will come sooner, if the fixes were not, prepare for a delay.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Yeah you did...and they will probably get a better test base from here than by doing it on their own
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
They knew I was on xda before they pushed me the update. My original email to them LINKED TO THE LoS sticky thread on XDA!!! Unless they are incompetent, they had to know it would end up here.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sportsplayer5959:
Well we are doing them a favor by testing for them. So if anything they should thank you for leaking it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] droidiac13:
No doubt about it. No one cares about the phone like we do!

LOL! You've spoken to Sprint enough to know that answer! :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bbedward:
Maybe they used Carrier IQ to know you would be here! :p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fatboypup:
so is there anything holding the devs back from making roms out of 2.3.6 being they have the stock?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I have zero complaints about EG31. I am not let down by being stuck here for the time being. Everything has been rock solid for me. I just hope kings has the same results...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
There are ROMs already, look for ones with an EK02 somewhere in the description. They will be based off of 2.3.6
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Calkulin has one in his thread. Its version 2.0. Some developers may wait to see if EK02 ends up being the final official build before they go to work on it. It used to drive the OG Epic devs nuts when we would get a new leaked release and they built on it then another rdf showed up meaning it wasn't final but this sounds like it may be final considering where it came from and the fact that it got pushed OTA to kings
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fatboypup:
other than the stock rooted one Calk put out I havent seen any ..... at least on this site :confused:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] droidiac13:
Kings,

I haven't said this yet, so, thanks for all the hard work by you and all involved! Much appreciated.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] alwaysbelieve1:
So what is recommended to do for us on EK30?

What the tutorial exactly?

Thank you very, very much! :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kc_exactly:
Just a dumb thought

I understand you cannot flash the modem if you don't have "30". Is it possible to just change the name of 31 to 30 and it would flash? I am sorry if that is a dumb idea. I am just a firefighter. Does it look for the name of the file or what is inside of it?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Just a firefighter? Don't sell yourself short. Don't think that's possible but here's a "thanks" for laying it on the line every time you go to the office
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zachslavin:
Calk just released a sneak-peek of v2.0.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1332837&page=290
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
No, not sure how Android handles updates but usually there is some type of "checksum" that ensures the files match before flashing it. Even if you did manage to trick the phone into thinking the files are the same, it would mess things up really bad.

What was pulled from my phone is called a "delta" radio. It modifies the radio on your phone, it does not replace it. A good analogy is this if you have ever used Windows (the blasphemy).

Think of EG30 as Windows Vista and EG31 as Windows 7. The update pulled from my phone is comparable to the updates Windows receives every few weeks. Obviously you can't use an update for Windows Vista on Windows 7. You either need an update design for Windows 7, or a full Windows installation disk.

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There is another but it is heavily themed. It uses the new EK02 kernel, it may use the new 2.3.6 ROM, not positive though.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1323763
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sling:
Ive been scanning EG31 & modem update picking it apart for 3 hours trying to find value that may trigger install.

I'm sure its miner seeing that M31 was produced within 24 hours of M30
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Tiffany84:
Such a GREAT post and I couldn't agree more. Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
A better analogy for you is this, if you hook up a hose to a stoplight somehow, is water going to come out?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dchibro:
ROFL! This thread got off to a shaky start with all the shenanigans, but now it's full of awesome.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Paiyne:
Man....I give up.....Going Back To EG31 until we can get a complete EK02 system
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
Here is a simplified explanation.

OTA Updates usually include

1) modem

2) kernel

3) rom

Most of the time OTA updates are delivered as "patches" to your existing system so as to save space. If not that much is changing, then you don't need to send the whole modem/kernel/rom, just the differences, which are usually significantly (5-10x) smaller.

Think of it this way, if you just bought a BMW 3-series and it didn't come with Navigation, but you wanted it, they could ship you a whole new car with Navigation, or they could just ship the Navigation system and install it on your existing car. The latter is conceptually what they are doing with the OTA updates. Now if they ship the Navigation system for the BMW 3-series, but you actually have a BMW 5-series, chances are it won't fit properly thus it won't work. That is why you can't apply the EK02 modem patch to EG31. It was made to work with EG30.

As to the kernel and ROM, you also can't apply those patches to EG31, however, the folks here have applied the patches to EG30 and then pulled a complete EK02 (no longer patches) kernel and ROM, creating update.zip and ODIN tar files. With the "Full" versions, you can apply that to any phone.

The reason they can't do the same with the modem is nobody has figured out how to pull a modem off a phone yet.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lballer69:
Viper Team ? Lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
There is a complete ek02 system. I am done trying to explain something that had been repeated a 1000 times just in this thread.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rgregg504:
Why is this particular leak confusing everyone? I dont ever remember this much confusion.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cyclonut:
lost data connection

First thanks for all the work everyone does for this phone, love it so much more than my EVO which I didnt think would be possible!

Need a little help now though...I am running stock rom with the eg30 modem, loS kernel. I flashed the ek02 modem update last night and all worked fine afterwards. Ran a few speed test looked about the same.

Anyway I turned wifi back on went to bed got up this morning and when I turn wifi off for my drive to work... wala...no data connection, 3g doesnt even show up. I turn on 4g and it connects but still no data connection.

What direction should I go with this? :confused:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] magoo5289:
Try enabling/disabling airplane mode. Or reboot.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] clipcarl:
First, have you tried rebooting? I have had no issues whatsoever since installing the ek02 modem a couple of days ago (including no LoS) but the first thing I would try is rebooting.

Second, double check to make sure you haven't accidentally turned of data: Settings -> Wireless and Network -> Mobile Networks

Third, try updating your profie by going to Settings -> About Phone -> System Updates -> Update Profile and see if that works.

Fourth, have you changed any of you proxy or HA server settings (probably by using the ##4382# method) to try to get faster data rates? Try switching them back.

Lastly, try when you get to work. Maybe the tower near your home is having issues.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cyclonut:
Should have mentioned this...tried reboot, mobile network is enabled, turned wifi on & off again, updated profile, turned airplane mode on & off again, reflashed the modem update...still no data...oh and I'm at work...still no data...this sucks never knew how addicted to it I was..lol

Could it be a bad download possibly?

I'll try redownloading and flashing again...it's just strange that it worked right after the flash...it does show up in about phone as EK02... so hmmm...

Edit: Redownloaded and reflashed no luck...forgot to mention I did change the RTSP proxy addresses to all "O's" a long time ago...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] clipcarl:
Reflashing the modem won't do anything useful (you'll probably just get an error). However, doing a factory reset and / or reflashing a ROM could help.

Perhaps it's the tower near your office having issues... Did you also have the problem at home before you left for work?

Oh, and how are you testing data? Maybe the site you are trying to reach is down!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cyclonut:
Yes had it at home and at now at work...never picked up any data on the way here...

Trying to avoid wiping it but if thats the only option left..

Edit: Testing data...no data whatsoever on the phone...no syn, no websites anyting data...I can make a call and text...that about it..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] clipcarl:
If you know your MSL you could try reactivating your phone by dialing ##72786#.

It also can't hurt to call Sprint support and have them troubleshoot it (if you have some time to kill).

If none of that works I would definitely try doing a factory reset and flashing the stock ek02 ROM. You'll need to do that to exchange it at a Sprint store if the modem actually died anyway. Although it doesn't appear that your modem has died because you can make phone calls.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
just quoting because it needs to be read..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cyclonut:
Tried the reactivating..no luck...I guess I will have to try the factory reset...let you know what happens

Thanks for all your help...I do appreciate it!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ElAguila:
This rom with the EG31 modem seems to have fixed my LOS issue. I have never been able to go 2 days without 1 or more LOS and I am working on 2 and half days now. Thanks to all of those putting effort into this. As a side note I spoke with a tech from sprint a week ago about another issue and mentioned the LOS and he looked on the known issues and it isn't even listed as a known issue with this phone. If you are on EG31 and still having LOS and haven't flashed it yet, flash this rom and see if that helps you.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mgrmitch:
Do I install the flash the modem first then the ROM if I am on EG30?

Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bane126:
I don't get as many LOS issues on EG31 compared to before...but have you noticed any data speed increase or better reception when pairing the EK02 ROM with the EG31 modem?

Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Suprcynic:
I was getting LOS 10+ times per day and flashed the eg30 stock rom and the EG12 modem a few days ago and haven't had one in 3 days now. Phone also roams which it never would do before. I actually like this phone now. Before I couldn't do anything without rebooting to reactivate the radios.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] clipcarl:
It doesn't matter. You can flash the zips in whichever order you like.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ravizzle:
Can someone on this rom test if headset controls work? Like double click to skip etc...

Sent from my Galaxy S2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cyclonut:
data again!!

Update: So before I got to extreme with wiping, flashing another rom etc., I thought I would try just restoring a nandroid backup I made just before flashing. I knew this would not affect the modem but I though what have I got to lose.

After the restore the 3g connection showed up in the notification area. At first I was happy but nothing connected, it was active but nothing was working.

So then I updated my profile and it said it would reboot after it was finished (it has never done that before).

Long story short everything is working again albeit I have no idea why, just happy it works again!!

Thanks again for all the ideas and help!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
You probably just had a tower outage
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cyclonut:
I thought about that but all of our work phones were working fine..they're on sprint also...

Swyped from my Samsung Epic 4G Touch using Tapatalk.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tomyboombotz:
Maybe this is eko95 for us look at the software revision in the pic http://phandroid.com/2011/12/02/ver...ves-android-4-1-0-update-ready-for-primetime/

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] veritasaequita:
just out of curiosity do u recall if u updated the latest busybox close to the time your issue started with the data? ill explain if u did, if not its a lot to type so well just null my post.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cyclonut:
Wow to funny I was going to post an update stating that I can duplicate what happened and it is indeed related to busybox somehow not the flashing of the new modem.

Yes I did update BB and that's what seems to break it...downgrade and all is well...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
This has nothing to do with our phone...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
Please explain. I'm sure others would be interested.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tomyboombotz:
Just a joke sorry
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wontonboy:
Hey guys, I've looked everywhere for a solution but I couldn't find one. I flashed the stock kernel untouched onto my rooted phone and CWM recovery went away and is replaced by "Android system recovery <3e>" and it won't allow me to flash anything else. It appears that I broke root (no more yellow triangle) but when I get back to my home screen I still have superuser and can still use TB and Rom manager. What can I do to get CW recovery/root back so I can flash again? Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
The yellow triangle doesn't mean root. It means you flashed an unsigned (or signature check failed) kernel. It went away because you flashed the stock (signed) kernel.

Stock kernel has stock recovery, not CWM, that is why you lost CWM. Just reflash the EK02+CWM zImage in chris41g's thread and you should be back to where you were.

In this case, the root is installed on your ROM, which is why it wasn't affected by flashing stock kernel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -viperboy-:
Download one of the stock repacks, not stock untouched. Stock untouched won't have clockwork recovery just the stock Android recovery you see now.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] footfingmaster:
Just making sure I have this correct. Currently on Calk's 1.5 rom and eg30 modem. According to the OP I have to flash a odexed rom in order to flash the new modem. Does it matter which rom it is?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
That is only if you are using the OTA update that came from Sprint.

ViperBoy broke out the EK02 modem flash as a standalone install. You can flash that independent of any ROM.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] footfingmaster:
Gotcha. Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Devi0124:
Damn kings...so you were the only one with the update...gave it to all of us and then got stuck out...man thanks ha ha
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
I wouldn't say stuck, just missing the radio, it is 16mb of an almost 500mb ota, something that will almost certainly be fixed in the next couple of Weeks. I am good, knew the risks when I tried it. People are overreacting to not being able to install the radio.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] :
Why I can't flash EK02 over EG31? Am I suppose to downgrade to EG30 than flash EK02?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] eagercrow:
You just can't. Its been answered a million times. Read
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
So are your LOS woes still gone on EG31 modem?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Why can't you flash a Windows 7 service pack on Windows XP, the mysteries of the universe...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Devi0124:
Yeah I know...just ironic but seriously thanks for giving it a shot
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Couldn't say. What I can say is I have not experienced a noticeable LOS, ghost or visible, since the ota was pushed to my phone Monday, both with the EK02 and EG31 modems.

Either the fix is in the kernel or ROM, or the problem was EG30.