yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Epic 4G General] adelmundo:
That is correct. gps.goldfish.so was added and gps.s5pc110.so is the same from EI22 (I compared the md5 from the extracted file from EI22 with the file on the phone and they were the same)
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
That's all good if you are not moving. Take a long trip with 4 out 9 locks. 20 minutes into it, no gps signal and navigation locks up. Apply fix, get 9 out 11 locks, no issue on a 2 hour trip. I don't care about battery life when using GPS because I am driving, car chargers are cheap.
[Epic 4G General] machx0r:
This is why I applied the fix. With stock EL30 I never had an issue with it locking on to only a few satellites. It was usually locking on to all but one or two that it could see. My issue was that it would consistently lose signal after 10-15 minutes and I would have to restart the app and/or GPS to get a signal again. After the fix I get strong and reliable signal that doesn't drop out.
[Epic 4G General] Dougrun:
My results:

Wifi: improved speeds

GPS: better inside

My wallpapers dont scroll anymore and messaging a 7 digit # doesnt work in my area code.
[Epic 4G General] Uptownchulo4u02:
I cant get calls

The process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again I keep getting that error every single time I get a call....
[Epic 4G General] poit:
Hmm..

Looks like they took scrolling wallpapers out of TwLauncher. My wallpapers still scroll on LauncherPro.

I live in a 7 digit dialing area so everything I send is 7 digit, it works fine for me. Are you using the stock SMS app? Do you have North American Dialing selected in Settings>Call Settings?

That's all I can think of.
[Epic 4G General] uscpsycho:
There's been some discussion of the EL30 update failing for people who applied the GPS Fix to EI22. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm trying to figure out if this is a widespread issue or if these are isolated incidents.
[Epic 4G General] machx0r:
The update will fail if you've modified/removed any number of stock system files/application. EC05 -> EI22 OTA failed for me because I had removed stock bloatware. Did the same plus GPS fix on stock EI22 and the EI22 -> EL30 update failed as expected. Is simple enough to backup apps/data with Titanium backup, ODIN to EC05 and apply the EI22 and EL30 update packages through stock recovery.
[Epic 4G General] uscpsycho:
No it is not simple enough. Not if you aren't rooted.

If you aren't rooted a complete Titanium backup is not possible. So rolling back to any previous version involves complete loss of apps and data.

In my case all I did is install the GPS fix which will make EL30 fail. Frustrating because I was assured that the GPS fix would not cause problems for any future OTA updates.

Now if I can get my hands on the original gpsd file I can put it back and get EL30 to work... Does anyone have the original gpsd file?

EDIT: For anyone looking for the original gpsd file it's posted here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21774720&postcount=68
[Epic 4G General] RandomKing:
Open the updater-script for the update and you will see the immense number of files the patch checks before installation. Conversely, you could potentially remove any number of those checks before manually applying the patch yourself if you know how to use Notepad++.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Nice job, RK!
[Epic 4G General] uscpsycho:
Great suggestion!

I see two lines of code involving gpsd. I assume one applies a new gpsd file specific to EL30 and the other checks to see if you have the correct gpsd file from EI22.

apply_patch("/system/vendor/bin/gpsd", "-",
247c9e1193e13db1d91b407d92ecc0ed1e223527, 164064,
c33c3795a0261af0365e92304fe71ce44c901122, package_extract_file("patch/system/vendor/bin/gpsd.p"));

assert(apply_patch_check("/system/vendor/bin/gpsd", "247c9e1193e13db1d91b407d92ecc0ed1e223527", "c33c3795a0261af0365e92304fe71ce44c901122"));
set_progress(0.959003);

Should I delete both lines of code from the script or just the second one?
[Epic 4G General] mkasick:
gps.goldfish.so is the GPS library for use on the Android emulator. It's presence on the phone has no bearing on GPS.

The "active ingredient" of the EI22 GPS fix is simply "gpsd", everything else is either the same or suprerfluous. For the record, that gpsd is identical to the one that shipped in the official Mesmerize 2.3.4 GB update that came out a few months before EI22.

Find the post that mentions this and "-1" it. It was inaccurate information and known at the time that the EI22 GPS fix had the potential of blocking future OTA updates (particularly if they contain a new gpsd) without restoring a backup of the old gpsd.

I really wouldn't recommend doing this. The asserts are there for a reason: they prevent an OTA install from doing an incomplete update when /system is in an unexpected state.

Many of the files updated in an OTA update are shipped as patches. They require that the stock version of said file is installed prior to the update, which is what the asserts check for. By removing the assert the OTA update will run, but any modified files won't be patched. In some cases it might be the desired outcome. But in general, blindly ripping out the assets may well cause the OTA update to do harm, e.g., soft-brick.

If you're trying to apply the EL30 update over the "EI22 GPS fix" you'll have to remove at least the assert. You can (and I probably would) also remove the "apply_patch" line, but it's not going to function as the original file has been modified.

Of course, the result of applying such a modified update is going to be running EL30 with the "EI22 GPS fix" gpsd, not the EL30 gpsd. However, according to reports here, that may be exactly what you want.
[Epic 4G General] uscpsycho:
This is exactly what I'm trying to do. Install EL30 over my stock EI22 with the GPS fix. If I end up with EL30 + GPS fix that is fine by me.

In my case, does your warning against editing the updater-script file not apply?

I'm not seeing a file extension to the updater-script file. Is that correct or is there a hidden file extension I need to make sure is there after I edit the file?

At this point my options are to modify the GPS fix zip so that it will install the original gpsd file, then run EL30. Or run EL30 with a modified updater-script so that it skips the gpsd file. What do you guys think is the safest option? If I restore the original gpsd file I'll probably end up running the gps fix again after installing EL30.
[Epic 4G General] machx0r:
The safer option would be to modify the GPS fix package to "break" it again with the gpsd I sent you in the other thread. Then the update (which is changing a lot more) can be run in it's stock form and you can apply the GPS fix again.

There is no extension to the updater-script, just edit it with notepad or whatever your favorite text editor is and you'll be good to go.

Edit: For the GPS restore option you wouldn't need to actually edit the updater-script. I attached a package that should drop you back down to the EI22 gpsd if you run into issues with yours and want to give this a try.
[Epic 4G General] rando991:
Well I couldn't stand the 2-4 satellite lock under EL30 so I installed the GPS fix and voila! 9 of 10!
[Epic 4G General] drunkskunk:
There goes your battery! Lol

Just buggin out, me an my eye balls.
[Epic 4G General] drunkskunk:
Just buggin out, me an my eye balls.
[Epic 4G General] propjockey:
I've been lurking here for a while, so forgive my noob status. I'm a commercial pilot so I have some experience with GPS. As far as I know, 4 satellites provides a sufficient location including altitude. The 5th satellite can provide verification (RAIM, random autonomous integrity monitoring) to make sure that the first 4 are reporting correctly. Any after that should be overkill. I don't know how our phones treat satellites, but that's my understanding.
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
You would think... but if you go on a long drive with only a 4 satellite lock you will lose gps signal and it will lock up on you... 4 should be sufficient, but for our phones it is not...
[Epic 4G General] propjockey:
Yeah, I figured phones were built to different user standards than the aviation units. You would think of you have 8 sats in the wings, it wouldn't be an issue though.
[Epic 4G General] adelmundo:
Yeah flash this .zip file in CWM. This will revert you back to the EI22 gpsd. After this, then run the EI22 to EL30 update zip to bring you to EL30. Then it's really up to you if you want to rerun the GPS Fix or not. I have not rerun the fix because my GPS has been running flawlessly in navigation, although I did do a GPS clear state and redownload in GPS Status first.

EDIT: If you do decide on rerunning the GPS Fix, I would suggest backing up the EL30 gpsd file onto your SD card so if there is another OS update in the future, you have this file to return back to stock for future updates. The current EI22 to EL30 update zip's gpsd file is a patch file and is not the full gpsd file for EL30.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Most of us on here are not 12 and don't need GPS to walk. We use it to navigate in a grown up conveyance called an automobile which has a place to plug in a charging device for our phones. Who cares if it drains more battery if you are on a charger?
[Epic 4G General] rando991:
If and when I use my phone GPS for golf, I like having a faster lock, more accurate satellites (9 vs 4). I carry a spare battery for golf though. In the car, I plug in with a zip retract charger, so it's like having a string attached to the phone. Hardly noticable.
[Epic 4G General] Woozy82:
When did EL30 come out? I got the ota this morning but if fail to install, is that because its rooted? Now it says my software is update. More importantly what android version does this upgrade come with & can it be rooted.
[Epic 4G General] machx0r:
Yes it can be rooted through the same process used to root EI22. Kernel version is 2.6.35.7 and the build number is GINGERBREAD.EL30.
[Epic 4G General] rando991:
That would be fine (you are describing Common View GPS receivers, like a lot of older car GPS receivers). Except that, currently our gps takes too long to lock, and sometimes locks 6, 4 or as in my case today only 2 all day long. This can cause your nav apps to lock up. I'd prefer an All in View GPS receiver that can lock onto as many satellites as in view...like your hand held Garmin. so I went back to using the GPS Fix I used in EI22. Works like a champ now!

I like to use mine for golf sometimes and more sats the better, but if you are not a heavy user then stock EL30 maybe fine for you. If you are using it for navigation on a trip, and it gives you trouble you can always install it. Keep the GPS_Fix.zip file on the root of your sd card so that you can boot into recovery and install it if you think you want it later.
[Epic 4G General] Woozy82:
Thanks machx0r. Where can i download EL30 since my update failed and is this still 2.3.5
[Epic 4G General] machx0r:
Download it here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1457734
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
And you will have to unroot and be on stock to do the update...
[Epic 4G General] adelmundo:
You can be rooted, but you do have to be stock. I am rooted and I was able to do the update (once I restored gpsd) via CWM (I am on BML and fully stock). The update does remove root, so you would have to re-root again, and also removes CWM, so you would have to odin CWM, re-root, remove install-recovery.sh and re-odin CWM
[Epic 4G General] samep:
I was on stock EC05 for months and see no difference in signal strength indicator with EI22 or EL30.

Is yours an Airvana or Airave? My Airave was replaced with a Airvana shortly after upgrading to the Epic. May be OT but I got two different opinions from Airave support about outgoing texts not sending. First tech said the Airave was not compatible with smart phones and replaced it with the Airvana. The second tech said there was a bulletin out on sync issues and applied a service add-on to my account: "Real Synchronization Prov". IIRC, the service add-on, added to my phone, fixed my outgoing text problem at home.
[Epic 4G General] Woozy82:
I am on stock EI22 no custom recovery just rooted. When I did the ota update it failed, the error was something about cache. Ohwell I will just wipe it and see if the update pops back up or try to update manually thanks
[Epic 4G General] uscpsycho:
This is new to me. Do you do the GPS clear state & redownload in a program called GPS Status & Toolbox? Do you need to be rooted to do these things?
[Epic 4G General] adelmundo:
Yes the application is called GPS Status, available for free in the Android Market. Go into "Tools" in GPS Status, select Manage A-GPS State, choose Reset. Then go back into Manage A-GPS State again and choose Download.
[Epic 4G General] rocket321:
EL30 stock browser no longer uses "sticky" horizontal scrolling. Its bugging me now but I'll probably get used to it. Opera and CM7 browsers are the same...I really liked EI22 and below that scrolling down would ignore small left & right movements and keep the text centered.

I like the aurora live wallpaper and that they dropped the bright icon backgrounds in the app list.

The fact that scroll-able wallpapers is disabled is annoying.

Seems like a franken-combination of EI22 and EL30 would be perfect...but the more stuff they screw up the more people will just jump over to AOSP roms. I'm trying to decide what to do with my wife's phone. May just disable the update notification and keep her on EI22.
[Epic 4G General] rando991:
Yeah I did this, but it had no effect and so I installed the EI22 GPS Fix, and BOOM! 9 of 10 satellites within a minute. Then did the same for my wife's phone, same result. I recommend it.
[Epic 4G General] rando991:
NoNoNo! Get her on EL30, if nothing else to get rid of CIQ!!!
[Epic 4G General] uscpsycho:
Right after installing EL30 I couldn't access any of the apps installed on my SD card. They were all grayed out and when I tried to open them I got an error to the effect of "this application is not installed." I thought I was going to have to reinstall all those apps along with possibly losing all their settings and data. Fortunately, after about five minutes all these apps came back and everything is back to normal.
[Epic 4G General] IDShade95:
Ever since updating to EL30, my keyboard lag has come back even stronger. What's going on ?
[Epic 4G General] uscpsycho:
I think you're in the minority. Lots of people are reporting elimination of lag.

I don't have traditional lag anymore (that I've noticed) but I do still have the problem where if I'm typing quickly the shift key over-engages, for lack of a better word.

Let's say I want to type "Dog" if I hit the shift key and spell d o g very quickly I'll get DOg. Same effect happens with the function key.

I haven't experienced this in the real world but I can force my keyboard to skip a character. If you hit the shift or function key then very quickly hit another key three times you will only get two characters. It will only skip one character though so if you press the key five or six times you'll still only be short one character.

So kind of strange where if you use shift/function and quickly press two different keys the shift/function over-engages. But if you press the same key you lose one.
[Epic 4G General] sniderjadam:
I got the update, and...

...I still have no clue how it is. I installed, and whenever my phone came back from sleep, it wouldn't let me go to the home screen. It just rebooted!:mad:
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Still buggy

Booted EL30 and reverted back to CM7. Just have a longer battery life with no problems with my keyboard shift problems on CM7 and no key board lag. :D Still cant wait for ICS CM9!:cool:
[Epic 4G General] ss4rob:
I assume that stock / odexed doesn't have the CRT off animation - does the old EI22 zip work with EL30? I would guess not being that the framework files surely have changed between 2.3.5 and 2.3.6. If someone got CRT off working on stock / odexed I'd appreciate the link. Thanks.
[Epic 4G General] drunkskunk:
Is it me or is this rom flashed cleanly not as good on batt life like ei22? Also I hate the new tw. It looks better with the icon background. but I'm running miui launcher so I can't complaint. Is this ended final official update from sprint btw?
[Epic 4G General] adelmundo:
Possibly not since Samsung keeps posting new rdf's for the Epic. I don't know if these are just fixes for EL30 or possibly ICS or an ICS "value pack.". Word as of now is that Samsung has said no ICS for the Galaxy S devices, but who knows, they may change their mind. We'll just have to wait and see. In the mean time, you can get ICS via CM9.
[Epic 4G General] drunkskunk:
I sure hope not. Best phone I ever bought. After its initial launch, not one failure.
[Epic 4G General] Danibal79:
The only issue I had with the stock EL30 was on my wife's phone where when she opened the keyboard and would start typing. If she hit the S it would open up her text messages, if she hit the M it would open up something else. I couldn't figure out how to stop that, so said the heck with it, and against her better judgement installed a custom ROM.
[Epic 4G General] drunkskunk:
Bizzare. Never happened to me. Bad flash most likely if the costume rom Fixed it.
[Epic 4G General] rando991:
Sounds like a menu:settings/quick launch key has been activated.
[Epic 4G General] rocket321:
FYI you can load the EI22 browser.apk over the EL30 one to get sticky scrolling back. This just bothered the heck out of me and is the same reason I don't like most (any?) 3rd party browsers.

And for anyone wondering about the browser text size hack, it still works: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1136116
[Epic 4G General] fatstrat67:
Ok I am rooted with the GPS fix applied. I'm getting ready to Odin back to stock using QB Kings vid. Do I still need to apply the EI22 gps restore or will the GPS Fix be wiped?

Thanks

Strat
[Epic 4G General] Cluefree:
Modems R Us

So... for everyone reporting about how many bars they do or don't get once they've gone to the EL30 modem... do you know if you are really getting better speed/throughput? I'm not saying you aren't... I'm just trying to figure out if Sprint or Samsung has something in this phone that "calibrates" what it thinks a "100% signal" is during a modem flash and then calls that max from then on... for me, when I went from EC05 to EI22, my wifi dropped to where I NEVER got full bars... I was really ticked... until I ran speedtest and noticed that I seemed to be getting just as good throughput as before... anyone out there smart enough to know what is really going on? Heh... it just seems like there is an unfreakingbelievable amount of variability in people's modem experiences... heh:confused:

Cluefree
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Well I tested the EL30 modem versus the EI22 on an airave to remove signal variables and the EL30 was consistently slower by about 300 kbs. BUT that was on an EI22 ROM and was also with the flashable. I may try Odining in the EL30 modem this weekend and test it again against the EI22 on an EL30 ROM.
[Epic 4G General] Cluefree:
Would love to hear if you saw a difference, Kenny... I'm starting to think there is a variability here that were just not understanding...or every phone is just really that different...

Now the fact that the el30 modem could be tweaked to work best with the el30 ROM....I could see that...
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
That's exactly what I was thinking. Will post as soon as I get some results. Not sure if I trust speedtest, may try it on brighthouse's speedtest.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
OK the results are in...(drum roll............)

Inconclusive!

OK so I am on Marcusant v4 beta EL30. I ran speedtest and speedtest.cfl.rr.com which is Brighthouse broadband speed test. I took the best out of three runs for each modem. For the EI22 modem I got 1300 kbs download on Speedtest AND on the broadband test. Then I odin'd in the EL30 modem. On Speedtest I got 1150 kbs as the best download BUT 1700 kbs consistantly on the broadband test. If someone can chime in on which I should believe I would appreciate it.
[Epic 4G General] cloudhoppin9:
I just flashed the stock rooted el 30 deodexed rom and have noticed that my Rom Manager app or the cwm recovery option from the expanded power menu reboot me into what appears to be stock android recovery. This leaves me with the exclamation point. When I pull my battery and the power up into recovery it takes to the proper CWM recovery menu. Just curious if any one else has seen this or knows why it is happening.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
You have to have a kernel that supports that. You should be able to flash CWM in ROM Manager and it will boot into the downloade cwm5.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wer11:
How to small or resize Power Saving widgets ?

Like this
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wer11:
link http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/21/androidpowersave.jpg/
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wer11:
Any Answer or Help ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ROiD_II_oJIPo:
I think that is the old theme from 2.3.4, when i updated my galaxy s2 to 2.3.5, i have the newer version of the power widget...?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wer11:
i think Newer version bad and old version power widgets is good because new version size 4x2 old version size 4x1 :)
[Blade Themes and Apps] sensez:
Hello

RTL support for blade can be through "madmack" batches look at his blogg.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1063205

i can't post a reply in wbaw post because i'm a new user :confused:

Hope wbaw add RTL to gfs :) some one can tell him maybe since i can't. :D
[Blade Themes and Apps] wbaw:
Can't be done easily, my rom is just a modification of a zte stock rom. I'd need full source code to be able to attempt it. Try CM7.
[General Questions and Answers] kira993:
Hello, I searched the web for a solution and have found none... Well.. my problem is random closing of programs on my omnia i900.. It happens when, lets say, I have opera opened, and i get sms, so when i minimize program to view message it automatically closes... Or sometimes it happens even with one program opened, like when I listen music with S2P and after some random time it automatically exits.. So, I have wondered if anyone had problem lie that, and if someone knows how to fix it.

PS. Im using sector & khuanchai rom.

thanks in advance, and sorry for bad english
[General Questions and Answers] ruscan.calin:
I don't have such a problem better try a new ROM
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clarence0:
Where the black circle is its ripped and want to know if its fixable before I buy a new screen digitizer. I tried using the touch screen and it didn't work and then I seen this.
[Desire HD General] Hasimir:
Since I'm still too n00b to post in the Dev Forum I'll post this here.

I just installed this awesome ROM and it all woks pretty fine... except for the bugs everybody has already mentioned in some topic or another.

About the bug regarding the capacitive buttons (the little Home/Menu/Back/Search) non correctly lighting up I found out a peculiar thing not mentioned by anyone else (afaik).

Maybe it could be useful, maybe not.

Anyway... in my phone (DHD ex-Cyanogenmod7, s-off, wiped) they are consistently turned off except when I open an ebook with Aldiko.

It always happens, and they stay ON untill I leave the ebook's pages.

It happens with both pdfs and epubs.

It only happens with Aldiko ... both Kindle and MoonReader failed to show the same glitch.

Just wanted to let people know u_u
[Desire HD General] ersintnt:
its look like kernel problem try diffrent rom on ur phone.
[Desire HD General] Hasimir:
Maybe I will ... this ROM is still too raw (performance-wise) for me right now.

Browser navigation is quite slow and the overall phone is not very snappy (compared to CM7).

But my post was intended as a little help for the Dev Team ... maybe noticing this Aldiko glitch may help them understand where to put theor hands on the kernel.

Or maybe not XD