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[Epic 4G Android Development] Devtodi:
On alpha 4 for about six hours. All is good.

My wishes for the future are small. Would like to lose the camera shutter sound, and the email app is thin on features. GPS is sick fast, and wifi is solid. Love how smooth everything is. Thanks to devs again for your wonderful work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] kobby2k6:
Never had this issue with alpha 3 but I have this issue with alpha 4...can anyone help?
[Epic 4G Android Development] murso74:
seems i was wrong about wifi being fixed as far as keepign the phone out of deep sleep. as long as my wifi is off my battery life is great
[Epic 4G Android Development] Xavion2004:
I searched through 20 pages before posting this but I wanted know can I flash alpha4 on top of alpha3 or do I need to do a clean wipe like did to begin with?
[Epic 4G Android Development] brooksyx:
wow obviously you didnt read through the last 20 pages as I have answered this at least twice in the last 20 pages. :mad:

Wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache. Then install alpha 4 and install new gapps.
[Epic 4G Android Development] chrishighs:
I did some resetting of battery stats and have been playing music over the speaker for the past few hours to run down the battery. I am definitely seeing better battery stats on alpha 4. This battery is a cheap replacement my dad stuck me with, but trust me 15 hours with this use is good for this battery.
[Epic 4G Android Development] nastypup:
It's been answered several times in this thread. Just wipe cache and Dalvik. You don't have to wipe your data but you must reinstall the updated gapps. Hope that helps.

Cyanogen Mod 9.4, stock kernel, EI22. I like my Ice Cream Sandwich!
[Epic 4G Android Development] nastypup:
My custom ringtones keep disappearing. The Ringtone folder does not contain the ringtones that appear in the settings so where are they located?

Cyanogen Mod 9.4, stock kernel, EI22. I like my Ice Cream Sandwich!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Xavion2004:
Thanks, yeah I figured it would have shown up earlier so I read the first 20 pages...well skimmed through but thanks for the quick response.
[Epic 4G Android Development] murso74:
Nothing to complain about here. Can't wait to get my epic touch battery in a few days
[Epic 4G Android Development] Vizzo:
Wiping battery stats can not affect or make a difference in your battery life.
[Epic 4G Android Development] bryanfritz1:
Quick question, why does it seem when I run cm or miui I get a message in the market for a lot of apps "this device is not compatible" ? I have found ways around it but its always bothered me.

sent from the other woman
[Epic 4G Android Development] whoopass20:
I appreciate that.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Ragnar:
when your in the camera app, use the volume toggle down to shut the shutter sound off.
[Epic 4G Android Development] zanderman112:
What edfunkycold said, and also our devs don edit the email app, that's up to upstream CM to determine if it needs editing.

Sent from CM9 EpicMTD.
[Epic 4G Android Development] funktron:
Absolutely off the hook, fellas. :-) I mean, A+ effort so far. This cannot be understated.

With a busy schedule lately, I wasn't motivated to hop on the CM9 alphas yet. But after my fiancee dropped her Epic in the toilet, I decided to root her replacement with Clean GB on MTD. I was on a roll, so went that route, too - to great effect - does the MTD partition+yaffs2 make a noticeable difference in the snappy, or an iffy highly-tweaked ROM? Because it was llike night and day.

Anyway, after I got all set up and nandroided, I figured i'd give the alpha 4 a whir.

And now that Clean GB setup that lived for 14ish hours will probably spend the rest of it's existence in the ClockworkMod folder on /sdcard.

I've only got two weird reports. One, as noted, can't run awesome launcher pro calendar widget. Fc-loops lpp.

Two, I am getting some weird display bug that occurs after I drag an app from drawer to a launcher pro homescreen in which the very bottom (3-5) rows of pixels on the edge of the screen appear to be a ghosting of the dock icons. So you are seeing a sliver of the dock through a window 5 pixels deep and all the way across the screen.

Anyhoo, this rocks. Thanks cm team. :-)

Hand delivered by Supercharged Epic CM9
[Epic 4G Android Development] neuton:
I can confirm the post above that launcher pro does fc with Calender widget and also the shadow icons on the bottom of page

I just tried the Calender widget on go launcher ex and it works just fine. I didn't sync it but it looks like it works just fine, the launcher team might need to update there app for cm9 alpha 4
[Epic 4G Android Development] ylcricky:
The CM9 series seem to have poorer wifi signal. I wonder if it needs improving!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Vizzo:
My wifi signal is just fine. I get the same distance from my router, it always connects fine and stays connected, never disconnects, just maybe displays bars more accurately imo.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdee323:
Happened to me on a1 & 2. Just save it to your sd card and set it as wallpaper from your gallery.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Speedin07si:
I get that little arrow when I'm moving like driving or walking.

Sent from my CM9 Epic 4G.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Speedin07si:
My wifi is rock solid.. Connects every time, signal strength is the exact same as before.

Sent from my CM9 Epic 4G.
[Epic 4G Android Development] neuton:
I have to Thank the CM team once again for such a great rom and all the work they have done for us and keep on doing.

I had previously just installed the updated alpha roms on top of the previous ones just deleting the cache and dalvik only. But last night after checking the issue the issue funktron had with launcher pro and me testing it out and then trying the widgets on go launcher with success. I decided to do a clean install from scratch.

So I use the back up apps that the CM team recommend on the install guide and then cleared out dalvik and cache and data and installed alpha 4 and the new g-apps and I have to say I love it how after logging into google from setup that the market automatically downloads all the apps I had on before the wipe even the apps I downloaded last night :)

Again great work CM team a donation is def on the way to you all. A congratz also to the new hardware you have gotten to do more work on CM for us.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Devtodi:
Here's a screenshot of my battery usage lasts night with wifi on. Alpha 4 completely stock. I lost 33 % of my battery in 8 hours. Is this typical?
[Epic 4G Android Development] stkiswr:
No. I would say its not typical. Mjne can sit overnight and lose maybe 2-3% in 6 hours
[Epic 4G Android Development] murso74:
were you connected to wifi the whole time? seems to chew up battery pretty good
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
Alpha 4 - battery drop

Hey all

I have noticed a significant drop in battery since flashing A4 yesterday morning. After flashing it I charged to 100% and after 18 hours (with an extended battery) I was down to 25%. With no use basically.

I've included a battery screen shot from A2 where the phone was on for 27 hrs and I had 61% remaining (I saw similar results on A3).

I am and have always run CM9 as is; no kernel changes, themes or anything also I am a light user of my phone.

I have included a bunch of screen shots from battery stats, better battery stats and cpu spy as well as a bugreport grep for kernel wake lock in a text file.

What I have done so far:

I downloaded WinMD5 and double checked the zips I downloaded and flashed. Both checked out.

Checked these stats attached as screen shots; which show the light usage but 5hrs of wake time in android system and 3hrs of mmc_delayed - i don't have apps running from the SD card, no notifications or ringtones either.

What I am going to do:

first just wipe all data in CWM; charge to 100% and see how things go.

If I see the same; then I'll odin to EL30 and go from there.

I am hoping perhaps someone might see something in the attachments that might help.

I have 13 files I wanted to attach to this thread, it only allows for 4 here. So I created a folder on my SkyDrive with the screen shots and kernel wake text file.

https://skydrive.live.com/redir.asp...7B44A6C9BBFCBA41!160&authkey=!AHTB-F25bW0ZBcw

Thanks; please let me know if there is some other information I can grab

EDIT: I wiped data/part cache and dalvik and reflashed CM9A4 and GApps, rebooted and google installed my apps (really love that) once I logged into google. Right now I have 18 hours and 36 min w/74% battery remaining, a slight improvement over the 16hrs and 25% I had yesterday morning ;)

Thank you to stocksja for the tip about turning off google backup and to meat face with this post in the tips area about google talk; which is automatically setup to login. I totally forgot about g-talk.

So the 3 things I did was wipe all 3 items, reflash (didn't odin back to stock), turned off google backup and logged out of g-talk.
[Epic 4G Android Development] nastypup:
Here's what happens with ringtones and music. I go into ES and play a song for a few seconds then all music and ringtones are recognized. If the phone reboots, then they are not found again. The phone must have rebooted last night because, instead of waking up to my music, I almost fell out of bad because the alarm sounded like machine gun fire! So how do I keep my ringtones and music from not being recognized? BTW, I did find the default ringtones. They're in system/media/ringtones.

Cyanogen Mod 9.4, stock kernel, EI22. I like my Ice Cream Sandwich!
[Epic 4G Android Development] quasi13:
I was quite skeptical about this. I made a poor assumption of what wiping battery stats was all about. Here is a good explanation:

http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...-battery-stats-does-not-improve-battery-life/

:o
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
You might try to copy all the data from the SD card to a PC, then format the sd card in CWM and then copy your files back.
[Epic 4G Android Development] InhumanElmo:
So far my battery life hasn't been too bad. in 5 percent in 2 hours. Light use (Email set to sync, a couple of text messages, wifi on and connected, and i spent a half an hour trying to set up a diff email address). The percent in the status bar is nice. The mic reverb is FINALLY GONE! I did encounter the media not being detected though. A quick unmount and remount did the trick for me to get my stuff back.

Edit: Im on a new 1800 mah sprint battery (Not the samsung one, the generic sprint one)
[Epic 4G Android Development] RyleyinSTL:
I'm now over a day (1d2h) on the battery with 37% left and about 30mins of screen time (a few e-mails and txts). This is a %100 percent improvement over A3 for me. I'm running the original battery.

However to accomplish this I had to disable the notification LED unfortunately. If I leave it on, even with the LED battery saving improvements of A4, things drain much quicker.

I also have about 26 minutes of MMC_delayed_work wake lock during this time waking the phone randomly (see screen shot) and I have wi-fi on but set to sleep when the screen is off (which obviously isn't completely compliant at this time).

Anyway...much improved on the batt life side. If I could kill whatever it is that causes MMC_delayed_work things would be brilliant.
[Epic 4G Android Development] nastypup:
Sounds like a drastic measure. It never did that before alpha4 and I'm not the only one who has reported it. I just need a workaround that will stick after rebooting.

Cyanogen Mod 9.4, stock kernel, EI22. I like my Ice Cream Sandwich!
[Epic 4G Android Development] stkiswr:
This is from today on 3g only. Hyperion 3500 and alpha 4. I have no complaints. Many phone calls, texts. Using built in performance 200/1000 interactive.

If I had a stock battery I would think at least half this or close which I could only get 2ish hours of screen on time on el30 and a stock battery. 2 1/2ish on an 1800. As you can see I am not in the greatest signal area all day at work. Pretty much the same if not better and I like all the little features ics gives me over gingerbread. Thank you cm9 and all the hard work you put into this. This is the sole reason I still own this epic 4g.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ac16313:
This is a media scanning bug that is known, the only way to get them to show again is to force a media scan through the dev tools app

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Epic 4G Android Development] ylcricky:
When my friend's Moto Defy had two bars wifi signal,my epic had only one,sometimes even disconnected.We were at same place and under the same wifi network!
[Epic 4G Android Development] brooksyx:
Check out the new official CM9 bootanimation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-5Av_EVpyI
[Epic 4G Android Development] ÜBER™:
That looks sick :D

Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0 :sly:
[Epic 4G Android Development] nastypup:
Thanks. I'll try it.

Cyanogen Mod 9.4, stock kernel, EI22. I like my Ice Cream Sandwich!
[Epic 4G Android Development] stkiswr:
nice, would like a link ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] brooksyx:
ha I looked for it but didnt see it, I think it will be in the next upstream upload.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ohiostater86:
Boot ani

Sweeeeeeet!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] nastypup:
Thank you. It stuck even after booting.

Cyanogen Mod 9.4, stock kernel, EI22. I like my Ice Cream Sandwich!
[Epic 4G Android Development] DCRocks:
Very cool! Cant wait for it to be available for DL
[Epic 4G Android Development] nastypup:
This will be my last post here for a while. I installed the new Shadow kernel optimized for a4 and now my GPS and wifi are superb. To those of you who insisted that it was not a kernel issue, either it was, or it's a coincidence, or it's a Mardi Gras miracle ;-). Happy Mardi Gras to all!

Cyanogen Mod 9.4, Shadow kernel, EI22. I like my Ice Cream Sandwich!
[Epic 4G Android Development] bones420la:
market issue?

i have a fascinate so i cant keep up with everything going on here... but i flashed my friends epic to cm9 alpha 4... everything works except for the market... i can send apps to the phone using the google market website. but the market on the phone wont download anything.. ive tried clearing data and cache from the app... no luck.. anyone else having a similar problem that has found a fix?
[Epic 4G Android Development] RyleyinSTL:
Did you flash Gapps after you flashed the ROM? If not, do that.
[Epic 4G Android Development] bones420la:
yeah i flashed the newest gapps from the cyanmod site... this is really confusing me... ive never had this problem before
[Epic 4G Android Development] BrooklynsFinest:
I turned off pulse notification light but it sooooo blinks when the screen is off. If it supposed to do that?

Thanks.
[Epic 4G Android Development] sonarchist:
Turned mine off + no more blinking (flashed alpha 4, then new gapps).
[Epic 4G Android Development] BrooklynsFinest:
I have the same setup but only blinks when screen is off.

I still get texts from 9016 and it blinks when I get voicemails
[Epic 4G Android Development] tazfanatic:
Did you flash from here (recommended):

http://epiccm.blogspot.com/p/cm9-install-guide.html

or upstream?
[Epic 4G Android Development] bones420la:
i used that site... mirror 1 for the gapps

wonder if i could pull the vending.apk from my fascinate and make it work right?

im running 4.0.3
[Epic 4G Android Development] RealTic:
I have had bad downloads a few times from mirror 1 links. Try a different download source, i bet thats your problem.
[Epic 4G Android Development] skyjedi:
redownload, check md5's, wipe data and caches, flash CM9, flash Gapps. Problem still present?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Zeinzu:
Different hardware is a possibility. You should test it side by side with another Epic for a more accurate test of whether wifi is indeed worse signal or more accurate.
[Epic 4G Android Development] || Acer ||:
Alright so today I decided to do a test to see how my battery life would react.

During the morning, I played music for about an hour and 15 minutes on airplane mode, and I only lost about 10-15%.

However, just a while ago, I decided to play music NOT on airplane mode for only 17 minutes (yes, 17 lol), and my battery life went down 15%.

So what I'm wondering is, what is it about the signal that takes away an hour of battery? I'm on EH17 modem so some may argue that affects this test, but CM7 never gave me this big a different. In fact, it was roughly the same. I know the battery life on this isn't as good as CM7, and most likely never will be, but I'm curious if it's the signal that's really draining everyone's battery.
[Epic 4G Android Development] omair2005:
Download this app from market called, Network. It is by Philipp. Change to cdma auto. This setting doesn't stick so you might have to check every so often..
[Epic 4G Android Development] bigdbag:
I think I've figured out the culprit, or least a major contributing factor in my battery woes.... CHROME browser. Using it for 10 minutes drains my battery literally almost 10% on 3g. I'm not sure if this is normal, or if anyone else can duplicate a similar result using the browser.

On separate but somewhat related note, is there a bug report about the screen flickering like crazy as it loads webpages? I get this flurry of horizontal dark lines as if it's trying to adjust brightness almost.
[Epic 4G Android Development] || Acer ||:
Alright. Just curious, what does that do exactly? Has this increased your battery performance?
[Epic 4G Android Development] DonToolBag:
Question that is probably * not * CM specific, but how do you all backup Swype properly to restore after flashing? I have the Swype installer, and I have a valid swype account (to redownload) after each flash, but is there an easier way to keep it as an apk to re-install?

Once again, sorry because I know this isn't CM specific. And yes, I have a VALID Swype account to download off the site. Not asking for the apk, I can extract if someone can give me a clue as to how. Thanks!

Alpha4 is running strong, and seems that it's better battery life (for me)!

Thanks to the CM team!

DTB
[Epic 4G Android Development] omair2005:
Your radio will be searching less for signal.. hence better battery
[Epic 4G Android Development] Frostacious:
I downloaded online a blacked themed swype that worked perfect in cm7 and cm9a3. it should still be available just by searching through google.
[Epic 4G Android Development] || Acer ||:
Alright so will this make my signal strength worse though? I still want to have a good signal. Also, how will I know when it's on/off?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Shinydude100:
There's so many factors that come into play that in order to "properly" test battery life, you have to record more than the information given. And eliminate as many factors as possible. While I don't have all the info in the world, I can tell you what I know, which when you think about it, comes as common sense. Observe.

Epic User 1, 2, and 3 Have the latest CM9, (Alpha 4 atm) Stock CM9 Kernel, Stock Battery, All have 25 apps from the Android Market. 4 Apps Sync at 1hr intervals on all 3 phones. One user lives in a rural area with ****ty coverage, averaging out at 54% time without signal, while the second user has airplane mode on 100% of the time. The third user lives in a big city, he averages out to 8% time without signal. In a day's worth of time, the 1st user runs from 100% battery down to 75% in 3 hours, while the second user's battery goes down to 85% in that same 3 hours, and the last user's battery runs down to 54%.

You'd think that the user with the best coverage would have the best battery life, but he had dropbox syncing in the background in those 3 hours alotted. Not to mention he was listening to music.

The second user was ONLY listening to music, and while he also had a heavy load to sync on dropbox, it was ignored by the Android OS BECAUSE he used airplane mode.

The last user didn't have anything on dropbox and yet he had the most drain, even more than the first user because all 25 apps PLUS the integrated apps were syncing at an 1hr interval for 3 hours. He was in the 3g coverage and his phone took advantage of that.

So as you can see. There are many factors. Depends on how you use your epic.

To keep it simple, an excess of anything is bad, just keep a lookout. From the end-user down to the developer kernel.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Speedin07si:
Are you using a kernel that supports voodoo color? I remember before CM7 came out and i was a flashing junkie voodoo color will do this from time to time if the settings aren't tweak right.

Sent from my CM9 Epic 4G.
[Epic 4G Android Development] di14:
Does CM9 use the official ICS People app (the one with the magazine-like appearance), or is it just a regular Contacts app?
[Epic 4G Android Development] lmsomb:
why isn't my music/videos/pictures not recognized when using this rom?
[Epic 4G Android Development] kosai:
Has anyone had an issue where the back button is "pressed" randomly? I've only seen it with the keyboard extended and in Pocketcasts. I'm testing it now in a different video player. I get the "buzz" and the capacitive touch buttons light up as if someone hit the back button however in testing it I have it propped up and am not touching the phone at all. Is this a weird hardware issue with my phone or something with this ROM?
[Epic 4G Android Development] ac16313:
This below :)

It uses the "people app"

That is not a bug with this ROM sounds hardware related or a bad flash id download it again and clean install. Make sure not to restore old data with titanium or anything similar.

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Epic 4G Android Development] brooksyx:
Bleh I just gave up on using my 1800 epic touch oem battery. Only got like 7 hours on it today. Back to the cheap 3500 mah extended battery.
[Epic 4G Android Development] InhumanElmo:
Im on my 1800 mah battery and right now im at 42 percent after being in a TOTAL DEAD SPOT FOR SPRINT. I would post a screencap, but my time on isn't right for some reason. Its like my phone rebooted without me knowing at all so it says Im at like 8 hours which is totally wrong considering i've had it off charge since 6:30 this morning.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Shinydude100:
It's the official one, but the magazine like experience is if you use their google plus. Lol. Hopefully that changes in the future. I use haxsync for high res pics and fb friend updates.
[Epic 4G Android Development] gizmoneil:
can I use 4g on this rom
[Epic 4G Android Development] Bluerai:
Yep...
[Epic 4G Android Development] EvoSideHustlAZ:
did they take the download link down?The newes is alphaa4?thanks in advance
[Epic 4G Android Development] fromchaos0646:
when you flash this and when you update to new alphas, calibrate your battery properly each time. it makes a huge difference in how credible and accurate your battery life is.
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
i have both and im on CM7 and the reason why CM9's battery life will never be as good as compared to CM7 is RAM. ICS requires at least 400Mb we only have 360Mb and that's even on MTD. So yeah battery is getting eaten up because of memory swapping i believe is the term?
[Epic 4G Android Development] nimitz87:
stupid question but where do you access LED notifications?

Chad
[Epic 4G Android Development] whoopass20:
Battery

I reflashed from Tanto kernel back to stock alpha4. My battery is now draining at around 18%/hr!

I have the exact same widgets that I always run... a simple clock, evernote, facebook, power control, and LED flashlight. I am checking an Exchange account every 30 minutes, but that's something I've always done. GPS and WiFi were on for the majority of the day, but something is certainly not jiving with me on this rom.
[Epic 4G Android Development] nimitz87:
is the phone sleeping? wake locks? we need more info.

Chad
[Epic 4G Android Development] MДЯCЦSДИT:
cm9 does use more ram.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Gavisann:
I will upload pictures tomorrow, but I went most of the day with 4g/3g/wifi off and my battery life was great. As soon as I turned on 3g my battery drain was about 15% an hour.

Send from my SPH-D700 (Samsung Epic 4G)
[Epic 4G Android Development] MДЯCЦSДИT:
That isn't ram. That is space on /data/..