[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
Personally I think it is confusing because there are 20 ways to do everything and sometimes there are solutions to a particular problem which everyone is appreciative to have, but then some new event comes up later, which makes the previous steps unnecessary. For example, there was no EG30 modem available for the longest time. This is the modem that shipped with the phone. This resulted in lots of confusion. Just a week ago, we finally got an EG30 modem and lots of workarounds and tenets that people had grown used to were now outdated. Same with rooting. Early on, they only way to root was with Odin. Later on an exploit was discovered which made the whole process much easier.

Now consider if you had just got your phone today, never installed anything, and wanted to achieve

1) no yellow triangle

2) no CIQ

Well you would never have had a yellow triangle because you wouldn't have flashed an unsigned kernel. In fact you might never have needed to use Odin in the first place.

You would have headed straight to the Auto Root thread, chose Option A and then Option D. That would be it, you would be done.

I think that is pretty easy, no?

Most of the stuff you went through in this thread is actually to undo what you did earlier.

Phew, that is great to hear.

I'm sure there have been attempts to write such guides. Look in the Wiki. The problem usually is people write the guide and then they are off doing something else, then things progress and new events and issues come up, then the guide is out of date. It takes a lot of effort to maintain these things.

There was a new user guide with a glossary before. I don't remember where it went. It is probably in the Wiki (first post in every forum) somewhere. If you have some ideas on how to organize better for new users, edit the Wiki and help the community. Before there were stickies in the forum so people read things first, but then there were too many stickies, so they just switched to a Wiki system to organize the information.

Superuser is just a special account (like Administrator on Windows) which allows you to make any changes to the system you want. Otherwise you are restricted in what you can do with the system just like you would be with a guest account on Windows.

You would need Superuser to issue the configuration changes to disable CIQ. The yellow triangle you can get rid of from ODIN. Yellow Triangle means you flashed a Kernel that was not signed by Samsung (ie an official Kernel). Your phone consists of (simplification) Modem, Kernel, ROM. Modem controls the radio interface. Kernel is the linux OS. ROM is the UI and most of what you are interacting with, including the Java VM that runs all the apps.

I don't know if there really is a big deal. People theorize that Sprint techs or Samsung techs may be less apt to work on your phone if they see you've flashed unofficial software. They may try to deny your warranty. IMO they cannot do this unless they prove your changes caused the defect. Anyway, everytime you flash an Unsigned kernel *in ODIN*, the Odin counter increases and the yellow triangle will show up. If you install the kernel via CWM or via the Auto Root package, it will not trigger the yellow triangle nor will it increment the counter.

I don't believe there is some magic number where the Odin counter will cause issues. It is just trying to keep track of how many times you flashed unofficial software.

Need motivated people like yourself to improve the situation by writing or editing what isn't clear and making it clear. Go look at the Wiki and see what you can improve.

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Found it:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1265399