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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tt281gt:
WAAAH! How long have these prices been going on for? I paid $199.99 about a month or so ago for an upgrade :o
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] texas83:
Thanks for all the replies, but I already know abt the $79 amazon deal. I need to UPGRADE an existing sprint line that is eligible for discounted upgrade - i dont need to sign up a new phone number or line. So the amazon price/wirefly price is $150 for upgrades. Regarding radio shack, do you know if that $100 price is for upgrades as well?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ajonesma:
I believe the $79.99 deal at Amazon is only for new customers, not upgrading. If you are upgrading then it is $149.99

Ill be getting it for $79.99 next week :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] TxJ0k3r:
I got mine on the 26th from Sprint.

They were having a deal (25th-31st) if your upgrade was near that they would upgrade you sooner and I got my et4g for $126.00 with the trade in of my evo.

By far this phone is immaculate but I think I just got my first problem with it.

The vibrate is making a super weird noise that it really shouldn't be making.

Hope you find a good deal for it! :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] colorado_al:
Sprint will give you $90 (as a credit to your bill) for your old HTC EVO, even if you don;t buy a phone through them.

https://secure.sprintbuyback.com/cns/

You'd do better to sell it on fleabay.

I sold mine for $200.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] TxJ0k3r:
Unfortunately I already traded it in and got my ET4G. :/
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kbjcooke:
My Target has the upgrade for $99 as well (I'm near Seattle). Don't know if it's like that everywhere, but it is here. They've also been out of stock since Christmas so I went to Best Buy and although they're supposed to call and verify availability, they didn't! Also, Best Buy has better insurance than Sprint, 10 bucks a month and no deductible! Also, if you can get it at Target, they have a better trade in program. Best Buy was only going to give me $30 for a brand new Vibrant, Radio Shack was $65, but Target was $90! Still going to sell it elsewhere, but it's good info to have!
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] HeavyTakeMusic:
My go lockers themes aren't working. The only one that works are the two optional themes that come with Go Locker. I've tried downloading new ones from the market but when I click the powers button twice, it just resets itself to a default one(that boring one wig the field). I also turned off the nook and rebooted it and still nothing. Any ideas?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
I just recently came across this great new app in Android Marketplace called BT Controller. This is a free app. It's fairly new but I've confirmed it works very well. This app allows you to turn any Android device, whether your phone or the Prime itself. You install this app on both devices. Then you run them both at the same time. Both devices will prompt you to cut on BT. If devices already been connected before then the rest is easy. If not, then follow the usual methods of connecting or the marketplace description for app has instructions to easily do it. After that you press Connect on either device. it'll prompt both screens and ask which one you want to be Host(emulator or whatever) and other one the controller. once you choose one for a device, the other will automatically choose the remaining option. So lets say for example you have prime as the Host and phone as controller. Your phone screen will change to a controller. The Prime will have a box up the top right with 2 checkbox options in them. One is to configure input method. this is to select the BT controller to even be an option to use. Then the next box, when you click it, will actually allow you to select BT Controller as the keyboard input method.

After that then you good to go. I found that the phone actually controls the homescreens also. allows you to scroll through the apps or homescreens. if you press start on phone it'll bring up all your apps. Haven't figured out how tl confirm choices yet in homescreens with controller. Anyways, go to the emulator you want to run. Snesoid for example. to to options in there. cut off the touch display controls. then go to map hardware or custom buttons. then just match up the phone controller inputs to the one on emulator by pressing corresponding input. After that start the game and you good to go. The marketplace description has list of known working emulators or games. There might be more but haven't been found out yet.

I've only tried this so far with Snesoid and it plays very well. no lag at all. Now the prime just looks like a high definition monitor and you using your phone as the controller. Its pretty cool how it connects like that. I will try out my other games that have support for external or wireless controller n see how this fares. I have a good feeling it will work. I'm hoping this might be a temporary solution to playing more Onlive Games that don't have touch controls for it yet. Since this is seen as a BT controller on the Prime. I could easily map the buttons to whatever. so wish me luck..lol

I just wanted to let those know that there's another option to having a wireless controller if your haven't bought a physical one yet. Being able to use your phone as the controller is cool and works very well with this app. Sorry for the wall of txt but wanted to cover the description of app and how to set it up. ENJOY here's the link below

https://market.android.com/details?id=droidbean.btcontroller
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Dr.Jeckyl:
Ads in the notification bar... no thanks. I fully support a need for devs to get paid but those ads are no good in my opinion.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
I have the free version and haven't seen any ads yet..lol they also have an ad free version.

plus I just confirmed this works great with Snesoid, Genesoid, FPse, and Riptide GP THD. This also works as an external controller on Onlive, to an extent. Any game that uses regular direction pad will work. those that use analog stick only won't work. Like I couldn't move in Batman Markham Asylum because its only mapped to analog sticks. the buttons worked though. Then I tried the new Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade edition. That worked great with the controller. it uses directional pad. so without my phone as external BT controller, I wouldn't of been able to play it. Couldn't get it tl work with N64oid though. trying to map the buttons came up unknown on controller setup. Still more games tl test out but this is pretty cool though.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] thomas.raines:
I am wanting to add bootanimation with bootsound support to my ROM. I am running RaverX3X's beautifulsgs4g 2.3.5 with KJ1 + voodoo kernel. I have found many threads about bootanimation and that your kernel needs to support it and you have to add the binary. I think this kernel supports it, but I cannot find anything on how to add the binary. Anyone have any guidance/ideas on this?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Bassmanjames:
To my knowledge the only GB kernel we have that has boot animation support it's the kj6 beta kernel versions 2c & 2d.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] thomas.raines:
I actually used KJ1 with Ravers MIUI and had boot animation there so I think I am just missing the binary... In the OP Raver (for bsgs4g) said he removed the bootanimation (for whatever reason) so that just adds to my theory of just needing to add the binary. But then again, I could be wrong... lol
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Bassmanjames:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1194032

In Dr.honks kernel thread he doesn't say anything about boot animation support. You can always get a qmg editor. I think Samsung has a free one on their website.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] thomas.raines:
I've been searching for a qmg editor for months now with no luck. Of course, my pos windows machine has been know to fail me in the search area...lol...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Bassmanjames:
http://innovator.samsungmobile.com/...om:80/down/cnts/toolSDK.list.do?platformId=13

This should be what you are looking for. I haven't used it but I stumbled across it right when the beta 2c kernel came out. I was on a similar mission as you :) let us know how it goes
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] thomas.raines:
I tired that already. It doesn't work. I am trying to contact the actual company that makes the software... But thanks anyways...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
You can always flash bhundven's kernel. The latest posted has bootanimation support, but I'm not sure about the bootsound.

I also tried editing qmg's directly but it's more trouble than it's worth.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Bassmanjames:
Oh well. Don't really know about anything else
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] bhundven:
Technically, from what I understand. Boot animation isn't really a 'kernel thing'.

bootanimation is executed from init.rc. I feel that bootanimation was added to the kernel because of lazy rom devs... or maybe that is just my opinion.

The next version of the kernel will not have this support.

If you want bootanimation support, your rom better support it properly. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ieisha:
Since the is no sd card on this phone to save stuff on (i.e. pictures music, etc), when we flash a rom and have to do a wipe , do we lose all of our stuff?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sn0warmy:
Before you install a custom ROM, make a backup of your current ROM in Recovery. The phone uses built in storage instead of an SD card, but the process for backing up and restoring is the same.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ieisha:
ok do a backup in CWM ? so when I flash after the new rom is on , my folders and files will still be on the built in storage ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] irb123:
Create a CWM backup and backup the apps you want on titanium. My suggestion for titanium, after you wipe let the market automatically restore your apps and use titanium to restore your data from the apps you want. Most everything like pictures and what's on your internal storage should still be there after wipe, but I would throw them on your laptop or wherever just in case.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zephiK:
The phone does have a "sdcard." Just think of it as a irremovable 16 GB sdcard.

Everything else is the same.

Making a backup is optional, you can do it if you want. Or not do it.

You can always restore yourself back to stock using the stock images provided by Google (google it if you wish to find it).
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
GINGERBREAD ROM

2.3.4 EF17 "Osprey" v.0.9.1 Official [Journaled]

Updated 1/8/2012

Updates, Important Notices, and General Information Posted Here!​

I maintain RandomROM as a distribution across multiple forums.

All pertinent information is maintained on my personal site.

As always, I will still answer questions here.

Donations appreciated. Never required.

No subscription necessary.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

I do not, nor will I ever, have a Sprint plan for my tablet.

All testing on my end is performed in Airplane Mode.

I've made no adjustments to reception.

Any signal changes are arbitrary.

Disclaimer:

I am not responsible for problems you may incur.

Please do some research if you are a first timer.

Only you can choose to use this software.

By downloading you agree to these terms.

REQUIREMENTS FOR INSTALLATION:

A Rooted Epic 4G

MTD | EXT4 | RFS

SCREENSHOTS:

Coming Soon!!

DOWNLOADS:

Osprey EF17!

If you like my work, click the Thanks button or Donate a beer!

CHANGELOG:

CLICK HERE!

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Take a look at my personal kitchen!​
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
Installation Steps

HOW TO USE:

Get your tab ready to flash

Click Here!

Download the rom

Flash via your newly installed CWM

Power off and hold Volume up and Power buttons

(Optional) Wipe cache x3, wipe data x3, wipe dalvik cache x3

Select "Install zip from sd" and choose the latest .zip

Reboot your tablet

Spread the word

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

I do not, nor will I ever, have a Sprint plan for my tablet. All testing on my end is performed in Airplane Mode, unactivated, on Wifi.

FEATURES IN PROGRESS:

Advanced Power menu (i.e. reboot option)

Transparent pull down window

Further theme adjustments

CIQ Removal
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] dognhat:
cdma or gms ?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
It's Sprint, ergo, CDMA.

:D

Seems to me like the CDMA tabs never got much love!
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] 1musicman:
I had a couple problems installing it nothing I couldn't fix. Installed on Sprint tab. Had JT CM7 on there with cwm 5. something. When installed from the CWM 5. it stuck at samsung logo. rebooted into CWM again which had been changed to 4. in initial flash, did the 3 times wipe of everything again then reflashed and it worked. SO far I'm liking it really smooth. I have it OC with SetCPU at 1200. Haven't played with it much yet but so far so good.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
If it's not working, reflash with Odin the stock rooted kernel available by rodderick in the mega starter thread. The experimental one I included seems problematic.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] tpike:
Exciting stuff. Congrats Random.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] 1musicman:
Been using since yesterday, no issues or fc at all so far. Only small ripple was music player would randomly skip. Installed winamp and that completly solved the problem. Battery life has been the best of any rom Ive flashed.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
Our Sprint tablets need some love too! Unfortunately this power menu reboot option is killing me. I'm not sure what I'm missing.

Hm, I'll see if I can get it to skip on my end. Glad you like it!
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] 1musicman:
Do you have any themes for this rom?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
If you're familiar with my Samsung Epic 4G Rom (or if you're not, click here!) then you'll know that I currently provide matching blue and green themes, with a red one on the backburner.

The default theme for Osprey is WIP port of the green theme. I will also be porting the blue theme when that's done, and the red theme when I make it.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] rjumawan:
@randomking.. If I download this can I just do the wipe cache thing and just flash over my old rom. Don't have access to pc is the reason I'm asking. Thanks
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
I don't see why not. No special steps involved.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] 1musicman:
Thats all I did, download to my tab. Reboot into cwm wipe everything three times flash and wait for reboot. First bootup takes a little longer than normal though.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] nick325i:
And old Sim City player I see...

Reticulating Splines...

Just loading now after a triple wipe. I'm also a battery nazi but haven't figured out the rom development thing yet.

Thanks for the work!

Nic

---------- Post added at 09:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:04 AM ----------

Like 20 minutes or ? Mines been sitting for about 20.

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Update:

SoftBricked on Samsung screen
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
Someone finally recognized it! Only took 8 months and ten thousand downloads...

Odin roddericks kernel after flashing the ROM. Just the kernel, no partitioning.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] nick325i:
That worked like a charm!

Thanks
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] nick325i:
Your rom has the "old" looking market. will this update auto or is there a force update?

Thanks,

Nic
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
Mine updated ultimately. But it's something I'll fix in the next version.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] 1musicman:
When I first flashed from cm7 with clm 5. Smething it wouldnt boot. Reboot into recovery and check your cwm again it should have flashed the cwm Random has included with the rom. If it has triple wipe again and reflash, then it should work. Took maybe 3~5 min max to boot after reflash
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] Alleus:
is this rom multilanguage?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] 1musicman:
I think it is just englush and espanol.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] robdotcomus:
Thanks for this. I installed on my VZW Tab and it is running flawless when using WIFI only. I have been running Thunderhawk on my Epic for quite sometime and love it. You put out quality Roms. Thank you so much for sharing.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
Glad you like it. It's got a few more things I'd like to bring into spec, but overall I'm trying to find new features to incorporate.

Didn't know a Sprint rom could work on a Verizon tab. Good to know. :D
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] kevalin:
Just loaded this rom on my Tab last night, and must say, I like it quite a lot. For the most part, it runs very smoothly, and I am particularly impressed with the battery life.

It does, however, have a somewhat irritating habit of picking an app or two to force close when you wake it up after it's been asleep for awhile, and the only thing to do for it more often than not is restart it. This round, Google Maps keeps force closing in the middle of playing one of the hockey game apps... but Launcher Pro, the stock video player, the stock launcher, the Market and MyCast Weather Lite have all had their turns, too. Also, Swype seems a bit jumpy, but that could be a version issue, not something with the rom.

I've tried to solve the problem by clearing the dalvik cache a couple of times. It seems to help for awhile... but then again, that may simply be the placebo effect, since I don't know what in the hell I'm doing.

Regardless, I'll be sticking with this rom for a bit, and hope there will be more versions. Thanks for your efforts, RandomKing; I'll buy you a coke as soon as the year's longest month finally comes to an end.

EDIT: The newest version of the Google Search widget doesn't seem to work. Which is all right by me; it's uglier than hell anyway.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] vabeach454:
I am running Stock EF-17 with Roddericks 1.2GHz Kernel, will this convert me to EXT4 when Flashing thru CWM?

And yes I have a Sprint Tab Wi-Fi Only :p
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] kevalin:
I'm having a problem with "sleep death." It's happened twice, now, after the tab had been on for somewhere between 12 and 14 hours.

Grrrah! Looks like I'll have to go back to the rooted basic rom to see if it's something with Osprey or a deal with the Tab itself.

Back soon... I hope.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] tpike:
you can use voltage control or setcpu to keep the min cpu speed above 200. worth a try and definitely better than stock :)
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] kevalin:
Which of us are you talking to, tpike? If it's me, then thanks... I'll definitely give that a try, because the only way to get the blasted thing to turn back on once it's died is to send it into and then reboot from recovery.

If you're not talking to , "well shut my mouth..." and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. :D

One other question/comment: does anyone else have notice that their Tab takes HOURS to fully charge? Mine can take up to six hours to charge to full from 30-40%, longer if there's less battery available. It sure isn't my Cappy in that respect, even if the same company does build it.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] tpike:
Yes kevalin i was talking to you :p
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] kevalin:
Cool. I've reloaded Osprey and I'm using Voltage Control. We'll see how it goes.

I noticed that someone was talking about getting rid of CIQ in the 1n1tia|C0ntact_V_1_6 thread. I'd love to see the same happen here. Honestly, if I'd realized that Sprint loads their OSes with it, I would've paid the extra to get hold of a used GSM Tab, or even one from Verizon, since I've heard they don't play with CIQ.

Since I didn't, and don't really want to go through the hassle of putting this one back on the market, I hope one of the devs can off CIQ really, really soon... or suggest a way to get rid of it without trashing the Tab.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
Its no simple task, but I'm in the process of trying to port the removal. Its woven into quite a lot of things.

-Sent from my Random Epic.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] kevalin:
The addition of Voltage Control has eliminated the problem with "sleep death," which is great. Still having some issues with programs force-closing after the Tab has been asleep for awhile, but opening a different app, then closing it and going back to the one I originally wanted to play with usually solves that problem... and as I've seen the same happen in the stock OS, I'm thinking it's not an issue with this rom. Battery life has been excellent.

One truly problematic issue though: Flash videos will not play. Not on websites, not in Yahoo, not anywhere in either the stock or Dolphin browsers. And that, despite having the Abobe Flash app.

Is this an issue with this OS, or is this a Tab issue? I googled to find some info on it, but no luck.

This actually threatens to be a deal-breaker, because I do a lot of late-night business viewing (and access to my desktop goes away after about 11PM) and I need Flash to do that. I really hope there's a way to fix this, and any ideas would be most welcome.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
Try uninstalling and reinstalling adobe flash. Also, try roddericks kernel linked in his starter thread.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] kevalin:
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, RandomKing... just reinstalling Flash did the trick; didn't have to install rodderick's kernel, though I will keep it handy, just in case.

I've made a donation; you should be able to buy a Coke or two with it. :D

Please keep up the excellent work!
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
Thanks! Glad it was simple.

-Sent from my Random Epic.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] zentex:
I wanna thank you for this ROM. My tab is much better and more enjoyable...the color scheme ain't too bad either.

My only wish is for CIQ to be gone, and it would be perfect.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] RandomKing:
I'm trying on that one, it's fussy. Not a lot of free time recently, plus I've devoted most of my time back to the Epic 4G updates. I'm also trying to add a reboot option, and looking for any mods worth adding.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] DaKillaWilla:
I know your busy working on the epic. I was rockin your phoenix rom back when I was on froyo. I would love something similar to that for this tab.
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] raineyland:
Sweet

We certainly do need more love....flashing now....will let ya know...thanks for you work....

Flashed and totally awesome! Just what I needed. Thank you so much. Any idea why our tab is so ignored?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] kevalin:
Well, unfortunately for me, the considerable awesomeness of this rom has been overrun by it's growing tendency to repeatedly crash apps at random.

At the moment, it's Google.framework, or whatever it's called that's all annoyed, but almost every app I've run has crashed at least twice over the last few weeks. I've changed the kernal to Rodderik's and cleared the Dalvik cache twice in the last few days, thinking it might help. It's helped for a bit, but it doesn't keep, and it's just too annoying to have to wonder when the next app is going to force me to do a restart because it won't stop crashing.

Very disappointing; I really like this rom, and am NOT looking forward to going back to the old, bloated stock state (albeit a rooted, old bloated stock state)... but this is frustrating the hell out of me.

EDIT: Well, before I very reluctantly made the move back to stock, I had the hit to not only quit using Launcher Plus, which was the app that was crashing the most frequently, I decided to remove it altogether and just use the stock launcher.

I've had only one app force close since then, and after 18 hours, the Tab has run continuously, without once shutting down by itself.

Hmmm... too bad I ordered a Tab 7.0 Plus before I made this discovery...
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] DaKillaWilla:
Any updates to this rom?
[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] mario23:
Can anyone share some screenshots?

Tks