yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
OK Day 3 of it sticking at 100 Mhz rebooting while on a charger. This weekend I will try a reboot without the charger to see if it goes back to 200 Mhz minimum or if it finally decided to stick.
[Epic 4G General] DCRocks:
Any tip to prevent incoming calls from dropping your data connection, the so called "DDTM mode"?

Is this still unavailable for CM9?
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
You need to be on 4G or wifi. Our phone shares a radio with 3G so you cannot surf and talk on 3G.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Just swapped batteries and rebooted without a charger and it went back to 200 Mhz minimum and nothing I do gets it back to 100 Mhz. It took 2 boots with a charger and resetting my VC settings and saving as init.d to get it back to 100Mhz again.
[Epic 4G General] jdelano:
Wow; that was a hell of a thing.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Yup. So if anyone else is having trouble keeping their phone able to go down to 100 Mhz try that. Set everything to 100 Mhz and reboot with A charger on forcing the phone to 100 Mhz. Best is still shadowkernel with deadline and ondemand with this method.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
If anyone is having trouble getting the Wired Tether 1.4 to work here is how:

IMPORTANT: USB debugging must be off. With cable unplugged and usb debugging off start the Wired Tether 1.4. Click to start tethering. Now connect the cable to the PC. It will install drivers (again...I know). When it completes the driver installation a new network will appear and $$$ Profit.

This was tested on Shadowkernel 0.4 and CM9 Alpha 5.
[Epic 4G General] nvertigo:
Anyone else have a problem with your phone not waking up when you press the power button? I've had to do 2 battery pulls in 2 days so far on a5. Sorry if it was asked, search seems to be gone.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I have only seen one or two people with this issue. Are you doing any undervolting (don't), are you doing any overclocking (don't) and are you on a custom kernel? Try another.
[Epic 4G General] fromchaos0646:
about 100 not sticking...i honestly just forgot about it. it bugged the **** outta me for a while but i had to let go and literally as soon as i did, 100 began to stick. i believe it stuck after i took it out at a full charge and ran it down all the way. it took maybe twice and then it stuck. at the time i was using vr and conservative but now im using sio and smartassv2 and 100 continues to stick.

i also heard that 100 is actually a higher voltage then 200. im not sure if this is correct but im just throwing it out there. i also heard that 200 is the so called "sweet spot" for the galaxy series.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Both 100 and 200 are at the same voltage. As for the sweet spot, I seem to get much better battery life when my phone drops to 100 Mhz. This is also where it should sit when on charge.
[Epic 4G General] fromchaos0646:
hrm, i stand corrected. well my 100 is sticking fine and idles there when its charging.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Mine seems to do whatever it wants. I tried shadowkernel 0.5 and it would not go at all. Went back to 0.4 and got it back...for now.
[Epic 4G General] fromchaos0646:
im using the latest samurai. under the performance settings, make sure that you have your mhz are set to your liking but dont check set on boot. then go into control freak or set cpu or voltage control and set your mhz but make sure you check set on boot in that respective app. let it run down from a full charge to dead, charge it up again and see if that does anything. honestly, i was just screwing around with the settings over the course of a few days and all of a sudden it stuck.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
You mean let it run out until it shuts off? And it only goes down to 200 Mhz that first time down?
[Epic 4G General] fromchaos0646:
yup. maybe do a fresh install or at least wipe and reflash when youre at a full charge. then run it down till it shuts off. charge it back up and hopefully it will stick. kinda like calibrating. oh and like i said, make sure like i said that under performance, set as boot is unchecked and in your chosen app, set as boot is checked there.

no guarantees, but that seems to be what worked for me.
[Epic 4G General] mookiemoo:
voice mail icon?

does anyone have a suggestion for getting a voicemail icon with CM9? did not know i had a ton of voicemails until i called my own voicemail box the other day.
[Epic 4G General] Speedin07si:
Hummm most people can't get rid of the vm icon lol.... but short answer use a 3rd vm app like google voice or visual voicemail plus.

I personally use google voice integrated with sprint. I never miss a voice mail. I also get them transcribed and sent to my email. As long as the person speaks clearly it usually gets it right.

Sent from a CM9 powered Epic.
[Epic 4G General] offtohavasu:
I'm running Alpha 5 and a few apps have been trying to update and I get an "Insufficient Space" error. I look at my apps storage and it starts off at 62 mb free then moves up to 250mb free. Nonetheless, either way I have plenty of space to install. Does anyone know a workaround?
[Epic 4G General] tazfanatic:
Try d/l sd maid from the market and run it that has helped me in the pass.
[Epic 4G General] JettMartinez:
I must have a bunch of mumble mouthed friends! The transcriptions I get are way off. Hysterical, but way off.

Other than that though, integrated google voice works great for me.

Added bonus, on the rare occasions I forgot to bring my phone to work, I get an email when someone leaves a message and can listen to in online.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Nandroids are now working with themed Alpha 5. KGBlues and Big Goron's themes have successfully been tested.
[Epic 4G General] offtohavasu:
That didn't work but thanks for the suggestion
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Something weird is going on if your memory first reports a low number then moves to the higher number. Not sure if your card needs reformatting or you need a reflash. But something is up.
[Epic 4G General] offtohavasu:
This is what I notice. When I go in to Manage App and vew "All", the "Internal Storage" shows about a large amount used. If I click on an app you can see "Gathering Information" in the file size, etc. As information is collected, then internal used goes down and free goes up.

I'm wondering if this is an issue since I installed SuperCharger. Like it has to recache all the allocation everytime. Or maybe I'm way off here.

Thank you all for your replies.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I couldn't tell you. But I can tell you the easiest way to diagnose is to start fresh with a clean install of Alpha 5 and see if it works there. Then add things until it no longer works or starts doing the wierd memory space reporting.
[Epic 4G General] offtohavasu:
Thanks Kenny. I'm sure we're close to 6, so I can just hold off on the updates until it comes around
[Epic 4G General] offtohavasu:
I think it was supercharger. I wiped cache and delvik. Reinstalled 5 and all is good again. Thanks Kenny
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I had trouble with the Supercharger too. Glad I could help.
[Epic 4G General] :
I seriously don't even know where to put this.

I was gonna post in the official CM9 thread, but I was probably gonna get flamed. Then I thought about the Q&A...but reached the same conclusion. So..

I came here to ask you guys. ANYWAY, I just switched from CM9 to CleanGB (I need the video recording & some other stuff for school!) I was looking for the font that is used in CM9. It's so nice & clean. I downloaded a couple online, but they're all missing a couple of characters & just show those annoying squares. I'm not even sure if they're the EXACT same one.

Any help would be nice. Thanks!

Sent from my Épico Ranchero.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I am not sure what the font is called...I think it may be droidsans. Anyone else know for sure? In my theme it changes it to Roboto which is really good looking but the Clock font is different.
[Epic 4G General] fromchaos0646:
kenny, if my suggestion to you about the 100 not sticking didnt work, try this. i found it on the epic cm9 blog.

"Minimum 100mhz CPU scaling is broken in Bug #14 if you have ever modified the CPU scaling options in CM9 in the past. If you want 100mhz to return, use your favorite root-capable file manager to delete the /data/system/throttle directory then reboot. It is strongly recommended that you do not change the CPU scaling options for now. Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to achieve maximum battery life without changing these settings. It is far more important to kill the causes of wakelocks than to screw with your CPU settings."
[Epic 4G General] s89281b:
get some hd youtube http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1529715
[Epic 4G General] edufur:
Funny how the goal of this OP was to have a concise thread of TIPS due to the multitude of other threads that have useless posts. This thread has suffered the same fate... I suppose with my observation contributing to it... but it just had to be said. Good intentions rarely pay off here at XDA.
[Epic 4G General] JettMartinez:
If you look back at the OP, it is full of usefull tips. Kenny complies the best of what's discussed in the thread, and lists it in the OP. If you don't want to go through the rest of the "stuff", just check the first post now and then.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I try to maintain the OP with the best tips Ed, so you won't have to read through a lot of posts. If anyone feels I missed a tip that belongs in the OP that was helpful to them then please PM me and I will add it. Sorry Ed, it seems this is our Facebook sometimes. They should give OPs the power to clean posts out as well as delete a thread they created when it served its purpose.
[Epic 4G General] offtohavasu:
Holy Crap! I sincerely mean this. I'm sorry. I failed to realize I posted this in the tip not bug forum. Sorry guys! Feel free to move it as necessary.
[Epic 4G General] :
Funny how the goal of the post is to contribute to the thread, but is completely contradicting.

Anyway, I tried it Kenny. It's not the same font for GB, but I'll live with it. Thanks, man.

Sent from my Épico Ranchero.
[Epic 4G General] wtogami:
I don't mean to diminish the good intentions of kenny, but the tips in the OP are problematic in a few ways.

Some are old and no longer needed.

Some are inaccurate.

Poorly formatted and difficult to read.

With the upcoming release we will be reorganizing the XDA threads and I have a planned solutoin to this.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I will look at the OP this weekend and redo the whole thing. Thanks Warren for pointing it out. I try to keep up and also help out everywhere I can. I will put more time in on this so it can help others better.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Please PM me with ideas and criticisms to make the OP better. I don't use every tip in the OP so not sure which ones are outdated so any help with that in a PM would be great too. I don't want to clutter the thread talking about the OP. So let the tip sharing continue and thanks all fcor your support.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Warren, I just read through the OP again and do not see which tips are no longer needed. I don't see inaccuracies, but I will give you the formatting one, I can organize it better. This thread is still a 1000 times better than the CM9 development thread and the 100's of battery screenies, the flaming and the repetitive questions.

Please PM me which tips I need to remove and what changes I need to make for others to be more accurate. Thanks. I appreciate all that you do. I would be very happy to work with anyone on the CM9 team to make this a better thread.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Beta 0 is out and there is a new thread for it in Development.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Open or Close?

If you want I will keep this thread going and maintain it even though it is "unofficial". I am sure the official thread will go the way of all like that and turn into a flame war of those who do not read every post in the world before posting. If you guys want this thread to remain then it will be for the "working man" with no flaming tolerated. I will report flamers to keep it that way if necessary. Take it to PMs guys.

With that said, I welcome any and all tips either here or in PMs and the talented, friendly users that visit here will try to answer questions about the tips posted here. I don't want a stupid poll whether or not I should maintain this. I will be able to tell by the volume of posts if I should just let it drop or not.

Thank you all for your support.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Theme up

KGBlues for Beta 0 is up:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1499740
[Epic 4G General] blong82:
Gooch also has his blue mist theme updated for beta 0....super nice theme....glad your keeping this open for us working men kenny
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Thank you my friend. Yes I seen Gooch's theme, very good work.
[Epic 4G General] ÜBER™:
I just updated my blue infinitum theme but hey you know no one really cares ... :rolleyes:
[Epic 4G General] narddawg314:
VVM

anybody ever figure out a way to get sprint VVM working?
[Epic 4G General] ÜBER™:
Not possible...use google voice or just go old school and dial your #.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Why am I the only one that can get Sprint Voicemail working? All I did was restore app and data with Titanium Backup from CleanGB. Then I turned off voicemail notifications and changed the voicemail number from *86 to my phone number. I get a text from 9016 to tell me I have a voicemail then just hold the 1 key on the dialer and it goes to my Sprint voicemail. The visual text does not work nor would I pay $5 a month for it. Google Voice or Visual Voicemail Plus are alternatives. VVP charges $1.99 a mont for the text service if you want it. GV is free.
[Epic 4G General] wscott9903:
Because ur awesome Kenny G... :cool:

I just use Google Voice, and although I love all the back ups. I just created a filter in my gmail so all my notifications from G.Voice goes to a folder so it doesn't clog up my inbox.
[Epic 4G General] Ragnar:
Lol.....this is funny stuff....
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Probably not as funny as earlier posts today...LOL.
[Epic 4G General] ÜBER™:
If for whatever reason you need to reinstall cm9 gtalk might be unistalled...if so you can extract talk.apk from the rom.zip and download zip signer 2 from the market and sign it. It will place a talk-signed.apk in the same folder install that an viola fixed. I just had to do this.. :D
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Tip: If your phone has trouble going down to 100 Mhz, reflash the ROM and do not use any control app. Wait a little and check it in settings>performance>processor. It should be hitting 100Mhz...test it with a charger plugged in...that should force it to 100Mhz at idle. The CM9 team recommends using the stock kernel and not messing with the default settings for best battery life.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
OP reorganized and updated.
[Epic 4G General] MeetFace:
Rollin' beta 0, it is scrumscalescent.

Another little battery tip:

I'm assuming it is on by default for everyone after flash (probably if you clean-wiped like I did), but after my first battery run I noticed a 4G wakelock, sure enough I checked my toggle and the 4G was on.

If you aren't in a 4G area like me or don't use 4G, turn that sucker off. Not sure if it's a big battery drain since it probably just polls occasionally for a signal, but it probably keeps you from deep sleep here and there.

Thanks for the thread kenny, if we can get some peeps to confirm this, I'll see if JD will add it to the blog post on battery life.
[Epic 4G General] danipoak:
If I am using GV for my voicemail what are the consequences of leaving this frozen? Once I unfreeze it the notification comes back after a few minutes. If voicemails can still get through to GV then leaving it frozen seems like the best bet.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
You can log into Google Voice with a PC and set up your notification preferences.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
If you don't do a clean wipe it starts up with whatever you had on before. But for those not in a good 4G area that is something they should check. Thanks MF.
[Epic 4G General] jdee323:
Thanks to caileb, who suggested this, i downloaded a stock tw ics rom from the epic 4g touch forum and extracted sprint vtt and installed it. Stock vm is now working like how it should.
[Epic 4G General] jdee323:
Here it is
[Epic 4G General] jdee323:
Still getting 9016 text messages, but at least you dont have to call for vm anymore.
[Epic 4G General] TechnoGeezer:
Just DL'd & installed; looks like it works but wait for missed call to test. Thanks for this; VM was one issue keeping. Me on CleanGB (a great Epic ROM Btw)

Tested from other line & works fine; Msg volume seems low. I had to turn up all the way to hear & I don't have any of the reported low sound issues (afaik!). Get the 9016 txt but maybe that's like a "backup" reminder.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Added to the OP. Thanks Jdee!
[Epic 4G General] Ragnar:
I installed everything looks right, it provisioned and everything but I have left two voicemails for myself and nothing. I am getting that shadow ghost image everyone mentioned on the main thread but I don't care about that, I can live with that.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I got my voicemail right away and don't have the ghost image after deleting the first Sprint voicemails. It's nice not having to hold the 1 key to play voicemails again.
[Epic 4G General] Ragnar:
Lol...its me I had vvm issues on legendary and now while everyone else reports that it works mine doesn't. Watch I will put this apk on my wife's phone and it will work perfect...
[Epic 4G General] ÜBER™:
My black Infinitum theme is up and fully working... it is for sure It took me 4 hours to fix it.....:( but its up.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Maybe you have to start fresh with odin Ed.
[Epic 4G General] Ragnar:
Naw! Phones working too good, I will keep dialing my VM to get my messages if I have to. Back on legendary it was a simple fix with the sprint extension apk ans updater apk and vvm started working and provisioning. With cm9 this new apk installs and provisions correctly I even tried sending the activate@vvm.sprint.com message and it just doesn't work.
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
probably editing it?

changelog

CM9 alpha-1 Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Location services - it was causing the CPU to spin for a long time wasting power. - Uberpinguin

Soft Keyboard dismiss when slider is open - mkasick/wtogami

CWM scrolling - wtogami/koush
[Epic 4G General] JojoSteez:
What do you mean "will break a custom launcher?" What happened?

EDIT: I assume you meant customizations to Trebuchet are lost. I'm using LPP and it seems fine. Just booted after flashing and everything seems fine. Gonna test location services.
[Epic 4G General] ÜBER™:
Just flashed alpha w/o wiping data and reflashed gapps and flash the newest samurai kernel ryu and works just great fixes that where implemented are working as planned ;)
[Epic 4G General] JojoSteez:
Same minus samaurai kernel. Fixes are working. I can use tasker again to turn on wifi when I get home, ha!
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
no actually i was running nova launcher and now its gone. settings for tebuchet are still there

i also lost my ringtones. i knew i'd have to reset them but they won't show up on the list
[Epic 4G General] JojoSteez:
Oh, well I dunno then. My LPP is exactly how it was before the flash. My ringtones are still there and set too. Maybe it is just a problem with Nova.
[Epic 4G General] ÜBER™:
I'm using nova and everything is the same...
[Epic 4G General] JojoSteez:
Got me then, murso, you may have just had a bad flash. I would try again.
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
eh everything else is working fine. dont' really need the nova launcher anyway. gonna play with stock.

now where's our buddy noob?
[Epic 4G General] JojoSteez:
haha, he's pitching a fit in the alpha1 thread he "beat the devs" to, lmao
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
imma let him run with it for a while. he's gonna be on vacation soon
[Epic 4G General] JojoSteez:
I just wanna see what happens when one of the devs sees the thread, lol
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
its closed and the kid is viewing the moderator thread.
[Epic 4G General] K3VlN:
CM9 Development thread is open again in case anyone like me was still wondering
[Epic 4G General] AmericanJedi001:
CM9 Wiki created!

Kenny, I created a new Wiki specific to EpicMTD CM9. It's for recommended downloads and hints & tips. I suggest we point everyone there to begin compiling a good single source of knowledge:

EpicMTD CyanogenMod 9 (CM9) Wiki - Recommended Downloads and Hints & Tips

and don't forget about the general EpicMTD CyanogenMod (CM) Wiki - (currently leans toward CM7 since CM9 didn't exist until recently)

Please contribute, people! If you think you have a good idea for a recommended app or other download, or you have a tip you'd like to share with the community, add it to the Wikis! If it's for CM9 specifically, hit the first link. If it pertains to CM on the Epic in general, add it to the Wiki in the second link. Thanks!
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Awesome! Thanks! Added it to the OP.
[Epic 4G General] DCRocks:
Ok, I am pretty sure I just missed something really simply, but figured I would ask just in case.

In the CM9 settings, themes are listed as underdevelopment.

If I am using 100% of the CM9 setup as it was released (no extra launchers or such) is there a way yet to use themes, or will I just need to wait until the implementation comes about?
[Epic 4G General] luna_c666:
OK, my tip sharing..

Number one, shadowkernal over clocks fine, but no voodoo sound!? OK that just won't do.

Number two shuriuken (sic) seems to get unstable and force reboots if oc'd to more than 1200mhz, tried both setcpu and the settings menu performance tab..this is the kernel I'm using now.

Number three..scrolling mod should be implemented, but occasional hiccups still occur.

If you get green screens the screen dim or gamma settings will change this, I got it to green screen by dimming too low and adjusting gamma too low in voodoo.

Stick to 1.2g Oc, and oh yeah get the swype install packs from app section. And scroll mod in dev section. Running well enough to be daily driver now..

Sent from someone using something with some kind of thing that sent this.
[Epic 4G General] socos25:
I added the speed/Data fix that Marcusant created. My Wi-Fi speeds increased greatly.

Seems to of had no negative effect for me, YMMV.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
You either have to flash a theme that goes the traditional route of replacing framework and systemui or wait.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
All I did was download the file posted by Jdee323 and clicked on it, it installed and it provisioned right away. Then I read your post so called my phone and left a test message and got it in 5 seconds as well as the 9016 text. Maybe something will trigger yours from the tower and you will get them all at once.
[Epic 4G General] Ragnar:
+1. Looking forward to that but if not oh well I like my cm9 ics to much to care.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Looks like someone started a thread in Development with the same issue Ed.
[Epic 4G General] Ragnar:
Thanks and yes I am on every thread trying to see if anyone has any ideas. I followed the cm9 tip sharing thread instructions and nothing Wtogami was giving me some advise but ........? I'm still trying to see if what I thought and you said earlier would happen that a signal would come from some tower and they all hit my phone at one time. I installed the vvm app on my wife's phone and nothing as well, so I'm hoping its a Sprint thing and not phone issue.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Ah ha! So there may be an issue. Are you both on wifi? Maybe boot into that sd card EL30 ROM and try updating profile and prl?
[Epic 4G General] Ragnar:
No not on wifi, tried all of that wifi, 4g 3g everything even no g lol. I haven't tried the booting into el30 as my prl is updated and shows on my cm9 setting correctly and its the same prl I had on tw and VM worked perfect. But I might try that later today.

Edit: I have a third epic I'm going to try later....
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Ha..the more the merrier! I saw your PM before this post so ignore the 3G question.