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[Epic 4G Android Development] erych:
LOOK MR. KNOWITALL: This is NOT my first rodeo, I was thinking of doing a nice non-nonchalant reply but then re-red it twice, and see that even with that dumb smiley face trying to hide your real feelings of annoyance, you don't know the whole story, so your "attitude" is neither welcome, nor appreciated!!!!!:mad: im not nearly as mad as this little emoticon resembles, however i am fed up with people like you who think they know the whole story and know the whooole reason why people do things, AND JUDGE!! i hAAAte when people judge unreasonably.... I OBVIOUSLY looked on the forst TEN pages, then finnaly had to resort to GOOGLE, not even xda, where it should be.... to find cm9 dl link. fell free to pm me if you wish to unnecessarily discuss this dumb conversation any further, we do not need to clutter this pristine(not with conversations like this) forum with such babble....

THANK YOU AND GOOD-FREAKING-NIGHT
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
I understand your upset. These kind of things are best settled in PMs to each other. Otherwise a development thread turns into a battle between 2 people. I answered your questiom a few posts later.
[Epic 4G Android Development] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Does anyone have a bootanimation.zip for the new boot animation? I can't seem to find one.
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
epiccm.blogspot.com just got an update for the actual website newer look is all but something different. Looks more like ICS kinda haha
[Epic 4G Android Development] brooksyx:
It will be packaged in with the next alpha, which hopefully will be out in the next few days :p
[Epic 4G Android Development] || Acer ||:
I want them video artifacts in LQ videos to be fixed first! :p

Sent from my Galaxy Tab 10.1
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
most likely sunday or monday. And for the new boot.ani if you really want it now im sure you could download a nightly or or different cm9.zip for other phone and swap it out and put it on your zip
[Epic 4G Android Development] brooksyx:
Ill wait for an official announcement from some who is on the dev team...
[Epic 4G Android Development] JojoSteez:
Appreciate it! Not just launcherpro. It took a few apps to get it all working correctly. I wanted something nice looking that was different from the norm, but also functional. See this post for an explanation of how it was all done:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=22079660&postcount=1520

All in all it took about 8 hours total, but I tweak it a little every now and then. I may change it up completely sometime soon when I get some time. I've had this setup for a little while now.
[Epic 4G Android Development] k0nane:
The devs aren't the only people who work on the blog.

These do not exist.

I'm not even sure that other phones have the animation...
[Epic 4G Android Development] nastypup:
BTW, Cyanogen is a poison. It's a compound that releases cyanide ;-)

Cyanogen Mod 9.4, Shadow kernel, EI22. I like my Ice Cream Sandwich!
[Epic 4G Android Development] nastypup:
The updated one that was released today works on your phone? If so, you're the only one.

Cyanogen Mod 9.4, Shadow kernel, EI22. I like my Ice Cream Sandwich!
[Epic 4G Android Development] nastypup:
I love go launcher. I put it on my phone as well as my husband's and granddaughter's tablet. Go launcher plus App Manager keeps everything organized.

Cyanogen Mod 9.4, Shadow kernel, EI22. I like my Ice Cream Sandwich!
[Epic 4G Android Development] stir fry a lot:
Another golauncher fan here. I have it installed on my epic, my nook color, wife's ns4g and friend's touchpad. I don't get all the hate for it either. I love the customization and gestures.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Qwallace70129:
Running A4 now. No hiccups over the last 2 days. Now if only CM9 for my E4GT can get this far along!!!!

Sent from either my E4GT or my OG Epic. Either way I'm running CM9. We ALL scream for ICE CREAM SANDWICH!!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Zeinzu:
This ROM only needs two things now. Everything else is just icing on the cake. Fix for some occasional artifacts in video recording and visual tearing in some video playback. Seriously, everything else is just icing on the cake after that.

Don't really have any other bugs to report. Had the "no media" bug once. Re-scanned, never happened again.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Ceelos09:
IMHO, the whole "privacy fiasco" that the Go Launcher Team had going on a while back made me (and a lot of the community) uneasy. I, for one, enjoy my privacy. I'm not gonna say Go Launcher isn't nice, cuz it is :) but that whole fiasco just left no trust in me for the Go Launcher Dev Team. Wonder if they have updated to stop the data collecting off...

On Topic tho: Alpha 4 fixed the annoying ringing I would get before a call. I do get occasional tear in video playback and video recording is choppy at times, but its bearable. Had the "scanning" bug, manually scanned, and haven't had a problem yet.
[Epic 4G Android Development] wtogami:
Chrome Fix ... Caveat

I wrote a detailed analysis of the Chrome Beta issue in this blog entry. Be sure to read the warning!
[Epic 4G Android Development] hayzooos:
To those stating a 'fix' for battery life is to turn off data, I think that kind of goes without saying. The only issue is, that's basically castrating your phone. I bought a smartphone for a reason, not to turn it into a feature phone that looks nice.

I could make my phone last for days if I put it into airplane mode and never turned the screen on, but seriously, then what's the point of having a phone at all?

I guess it just irritates me a bit when people use 'turn data off' as a 'solution' for getting better battery. That's not fixing the issue, it's simply a work around, and a bad one at that, if you can even call that a workaround.

The devs are working hard, harder than most of us can probably imagine and I'm sure that's up on their list. Considering this OS is supposed to have a minimum RAM of more than our phone actually has, I don't plan on having battery life equal to any TW ROM or CM7 as those were built based on specs which our phones meet. ICS, and subsequently CM9 isn't.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Ragnar:
There is a patched apk for Chrome browser which you can download and install for the latest version of Chrome that works with ICS and you don't have to do any build props. Here is the link but read before using as this just like the build prop posted affect the android market.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1515900
[Epic 4G Android Development] Xinlitik:
O.o If you're not using data, why have it on? It takes three seconds to turn it on every time you want to use it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ÜBER™:
Pretty sure he means emails and so forth...easier to have on push notifications that check them manually :)

Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0
[Epic 4G Android Development] roguejam:
I've found that changing the background process limit (Settings->Dev options) to "At most 4" does seem to help with my battery life.

One caveat with it, is that upon rebooting, it resets to standard
[Epic 4G Android Development] 1midniterider:
Surprised by current battery drain... I had forgotten my spare battery at work. So it was on the charger for over 24 hours... and now I'm over 16 hrs on standard battery with light usage... way over any rate I've experienced on any rom...
[Epic 4G Android Development] amateurhack:
I have realized that if I don't turn everything off on my phone except wifi when I'm at work, its battery is dead in three hours.

I have also realized that that has nothing to do with the rom.

I recognize the efforts of the EpicCM9 team to do what they can to add power saving tweaks to their rom when they can. But, in the end there are too many variables that are out of their control that affect battery life. As a matter of fact, there are many things that we, the end user, have no control of, and certainly the devs have so control of, that affect battery life.

I'll give an example:

I have been running Alpha4 since about 1 hour after it was posted. My battery life has varied from day to day, but has been what I would consider within normal parameters. On Wednesday, though, I forgot to put my phone in airplane mode (auto sync off, wifi on) like I normally do, and my battery was dead in 3 hours. My epic just doesn't get good reception where I work. My fault entirely.

On Thursday, though, I did put my phone in airplane mode like normal. For some reason, though, my phone was almost completely dead in 3.5 hours. I looked at the batter use history, and my phone hadn't gone to sleep, even though the screen was off for much of that time. It turn out that one of our mail servers had gone down, so my phone was continually trying to establish active sync with the server.

The same sort of thing could happen anywhere, and a user would not even know it. A tv station is running a microwave feed from the parking lot next door, and your data signal is scrambled, so your phone eats the battery while trying to transfer clean data to your local tower; Verizon is upgrading the fiber on a router that your local wimax tower has to route through; Google is migrating your account info to a new server and is changing their security protocols, and your phone eats your battery trying to sync your contacts on the new rom you just installed.

So, while there may be legitimate issues with a rom and your battery life, most of what affects your battery life has nothing to do with the rom. And how you decide to handle it is your choice.

I realize that this post is off topic, and I apologize for that. My hope is that we can move much of the battery life discussion elsewhere.
[Epic 4G Android Development] vita10gy:
Because people don't call me up and tell me "hey, I sent you an email, so turn your data on"
[Epic 4G Android Development] Lord Syrics Jr.:
In regards to battery, I'm most likely going to go back to Marcusant when v4 drops. (our I'll finally try clean gb that everyone raves about) I like having a phone that last all day. Yr goes without saying though that this ROM is awesome! I love how far we've come with this. (i take no credit when i say we). But as stated above, are phones aren't meant to handle this much awesomeness. It's a shame but that's life.

Lord Syrics Jr.

EPIC 4G
[Epic 4G Android Development] Xinlitik:
It takes me all of 10 seconds to turn on data and click "Check Email". Emails are by nature not meant to be immediately acted upon; that's what phone calls are for.
[Epic 4G Android Development] tkeyes:
i tried to install the fixed sprint hotspot and then phone restated i got this message:

android is upgrading...

process56 has has violated its self enforced StrictMode policy. then it just starts up normally but without the hotspot installed.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Speedin07si:
Unless you live in a world where your work or school professor relies on emails to communicate.
[Epic 4G Android Development] vita10gy:
I'll explain that to my boss. Not all of us use our email only for receiving weekly newsletters from cooking websites and v1agra spam.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mis3:
Could not disagree more. I only own a smartphone because of my need to sync my work email. I rarely get phone calls.

Everyone has a different need for their phone, which is why it is not appropriate to make generalizations like this.
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
Well alpha 4 did as well as alpha 3, 2, so yeah pretty sure its in that order
[Epic 4G Android Development] tazfanatic:
I have been with sprint just about a year now because of our phones and family plan I have to be on the 1400 minute plan since my entire family has only used 750 minutes all text and email. I have 3 phones each one of us uses it differently. I text, email, listen to music and xda, my kid text and streams sports radio, my wife text and facebooks. If I ever told my boss email's weren't meant for immediate action I would get written up.
[Epic 4G Android Development] gpeterson:
Huh? 10char.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Xinlitik:
I receive urgent emails all the time. Luckily I'm capable of tapping "Data enabled" and then "Check email". I can understand your difficulty considering your 10 broken fingers ;P

Listen, if it's so important to you to have emails pushed, then dont complain about bad battery life. The unavoidable fact on every rom and every phone is that repeatedly using processor and data will drain your battery.
[Epic 4G Android Development] zanderman112:
There is no set release date for new builds, so, why don't ya let the devs do it on their own schedule?

I am Z.
[Epic 4G Android Development] NoPh33rRaCiNg:
Tried searching this thread... But is anyone else having issues when your in a text message conversation with someone, and you press back, instead of it going back to your main text screen it goes to the home screen?

NVM. Flashed shadow kernal and its fixed.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Master K:
WRONG! I have posted a screenshot below. Keep in mind that I still had 24% batt remaining and I am sure I could have made it to 1.5 days without a charge easily.

That is with Wifi set to always on, bluetooth always on, Push Gmail, and a weather widget that updates hourly. I use autostart manager to make sure that apps don't run that I don't need running. Beyond that my usage profile is pretty low. Only a few quick calls and emails.

Apps and usage patterns are the biggest factor in battery life. If your phone drains fast while sitting idle you have a problem, either an SDcard problem causing MMC Wake Lock, or a bad app.

I can also tell you that I tried having wi-fi set to sleep but that forced more usage of 3g and it is worse on battery. If you have good wi-fi signal most of your day (at home and at work) leave it on. Your battery will do better not worse.

Can we please stop with all the battery talk?!? Someone make a thread for just that and lets move on!
[Epic 4G Android Development] vita10gy:
The person's original point was that while, yes, there are measures you can take to save on battery, he, and many others don't consider some of them valid.

A battery saving tip is a reminder that lots of apps set up syncing by default. You can, for example, have twitter text you for mentions/dms, so there's no need to have twitter syncing every 15 mins if you only open the app twice a day. If doing things like THAT gets you an extra hour out of the battery, then that's sweet.

If someone posts a screen shot where they got 10 hours out of their battery and people ask for details, and the tip is "turn data off, and try to use it as little as possible" then that's not a "real" tip.

Why not turn the phone off, pull the battery out, and put it on a shelf? It would probably last years. :p Obviously disabling things that make these devices the tools they are can save battery, but it defeats the purpose.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Xinlitik:
I 100% guarantee that you would get even longer battery life without pushed emails. Obviously you are happy with your battery life, so there's no reason for you to disable data; however, some people are not, and they need to decide whether they prefer whatever battery life they desire or pushed emails etc.
[Epic 4G Android Development] n756gkj:
Here's a thread for it:

Mindnumbing, endless discussion about CM9 *alpha's* "Battery Life"

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1516961

A thorough cleaning/deletion of offtopic ramblings, didn't read the 1st page fails, etc in *this* thread would be really helpful ...
[Epic 4G Android Development] ralf_97:
If u are not using data why have it on? If by turning data off while I'm not using it and it would give a few more hours of battery life, why not do it?
[Epic 4G Android Development] brooksyx:
Easy fix for battery life, just delete exchange.apk. I just set all my exchange emails to forward to my gmail and delete the exchange apk and now my battery life literally lasts double.
[Epic 4G Android Development] vita10gy:
I don't want to prolong this, and maybe we should take it to another thread, but suffice to say, "because this isn't my treo 650". "You" not using data isn't the point with these devices. The phone is.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Ragnar:
Johnny la gente esta muy loca
[Epic 4G Android Development] RyleyinSTL:
For me the ability to disable the LED notifications was instrumental in fixing battery life issues. The blink interval improvement helped too but disabling made a huge difference. Is extreme battery drain from LED an inherent ICS/CM9 issue with our phones or something "fixable" in the future?

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How is a smart phone supposed to do it's smart phone things with the data off exactly? Being a phone is such as small part of the whole equation with the Epic or any other device like it. E-mail notifications, flight updates and gate changes, gtalk notifications, streaming music, MMS messages, Facebook/Google+ notifications (if your into that), weather updates, etc, etc...you know, all the things smart phones do. You could do all that manually but then you could also do your taxes manually.

I think battery life is a very important discussion at this point and on topic. I'm sure the developers need some kind of feedback to determine how to make things better - if not, why release an Alpha in the first place? What about when location services were killing the battery in the beginning....I doubt the developers said "that relates to the battery we'd better not do anything about that because using location services is not a core issue and completely a personal preference thing." Batt life issues can be related to so many things, so unfortunately some of the talk will be less useful and less helpful.

Unfortunately some of us are excited and yet also ignorant. Comparisons to CM7 and other ROMs are inevitable. That's just the way it is. If batt life is off topic then I would expect direction to that fact in the OP...no?

What is off topic is arguing about whether or not batt life is on topic or off topic.

IMO
[Epic 4G Android Development] paullueders223:
Second this, mods need to get on here and clean the thread up, way too many ongoing arguments and "didn't search thread" posts. I recommend if people ask a question without prior reading of thread, they should be ignored or someone should simply post a link to the FAQ thread, nothing more. Just my 2 cents.

PS if mods come through here and clean, you can delete this post
[Epic 4G Android Development] murso74:
i have the best battery life ever. when i'm not surfing or texting or on the phone i turn the phone off. battery lasts forever! i mean, i can always turn o nthe phone to see if anyone messaged me right?
[Epic 4G Android Development] kehlan:
No way to update Profile or PRL? What the hell?

I just embarrassed myself on the phone with customer support trying to hash out a bad service issue, and when she asked me to update my Profile I almost exploded from realizing I couldn't.

Input on this?
[Epic 4G Android Development] ralf_97:
Do u need data to get a txt message?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jwebe03:
There is a workaround on the status page
[Epic 4G Android Development] Ragnar:
You rooted and are running a custom rom. That's basicly the main reply, there is a way to update user profile and prl either by using the bootable bml from from SD card and or flashing a tw rom to update the user profile and prl. Both these options have been discussed at length in this thread. Some users the updates have stuck when they go back to cm9 others have had an issue with the updates sticking.
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
Wow...dude read a little please. That is a known issue. you need to flash a TW ROM or the EL30 that boots from your sd card.

Never flash anything without at least reading the whole 1st post.

http://epiccm.blogspot.com/p/cm9-status.html
[Epic 4G Android Development] RyleyinSTL:
Solution: http://epiccm.blogspot.com/2012/01/boot-el30-stock-from-sdcard.html

But ya...this was all covered by link in OP and has always been the case with CM so far as I know...and I don't really know anything.
[Epic 4G Android Development] zanderman112:
No, but a picture message you do.

I am Z.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Giftedx29:
this is a issue since release of alpha 0 , there is a workaround please follow cm blog @ http://epiccm.blogspot.com/2012/02/important-announcements.html
[Epic 4G Android Development] 1midniterider:
That's a bit drastic... My "light usage" includes 1 MS Exchange and 3 POP/IMAP email accounts... I've taken advantage of some of the "fixes"... Disabled the LED notification, use vibrate or silence for other notifications and disable data connection when in poor signal areas... currently on cm9 kernel with no OC or UV... using noop and ondemand governor...
[Epic 4G Android Development] murso74:
do i smell an update coming? or do i just smell

http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#q,status:merged+project:CyanogenMod/android_device_samsung_crespo,n,z
[Epic 4G Android Development] helchez:
I didn't think they would. That's why I was surprised when it looked like they blocked us on purpose.
[Epic 4G Android Development] nimaim:
Oh wow, this looks very nice: Change Ie3ab3b7a: Upgrade Kernel to 3.0.22. Mmm.
[Epic 4G Android Development] murso74:
it doesn't say epicMTD but im hoping this is a universal thing for samsung phones
[Epic 4G Android Development] nimaim:
Ya, I noticed, I guess we shall find out shortly.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ac16313:
No its not, crespo is not our device.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Speedin07si:
As previously said that is not our device. Yes the dev's have used bits and pieces from crespo but we are not the same.

Go here http://review.cyanogenmod.com./#q,epicmtd,n,z for EpicMTD.

Sent from a CM9 powered Epic.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Speedin07si:
Also incase anyone has a bug go here http://code.google.com/p/epiccm/iss... Type Status Priority Milestone Owner Summary. If it is listed on that then there is no real need to post relentlessly about it.

Sent from a CM9 powered Epic.
[Epic 4G Android Development] caileb:
Sometimes when I send MMS - it gets "stuck" in sending. Is this a known issue?

Wish the stock texting / messaging had a black or transparent background.

Stoked for alpha5! Thank you for your continued hard work, devs!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Speedin07si:
http://code.google.com/p/epiccm/issues/detail?id=47&can=1&sort=priority milestone

I'm legally blind in 1 eye and found that. But i do agree black backgrounds in a few system apps would be better. :-).

Sent from a CM9 powered Epic.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Ragnar:
Try this;

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=22895593
[Epic 4G Android Development] Zeinzu:
I don't think re-theming stock apps would make any sense, as this is supposed to be stock 4.0.3 with tweaks. I think that's the kind of stuff that should be done post-release by themers who are willing. Personally I like the true stock experience, and think the layouts/colors are just fine.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ÜBER™:
Those that are interested in the Black Infinitum theme Razer came out with a blue version and I ported it. Found here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1517599

Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0
[Epic 4G Android Development] birdturbo:
Same here.
[Epic 4G Android Development] EmperorX:
Hey guys, flashed this rom for my lady and she told me today that she has no gallery (alpha 4). I am mobile so I can't really search easily (that I know of). Is there any "easy fix" that I can fill her in on? She is out of town so if it is difficult I will most likely take care of it when she gets back. Thanks everyone!
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
Just have her install quick pic or something similar from the market.
[Epic 4G Android Development] k0nane:
Did you install the gapps?
[Epic 4G Android Development] EmperorX:
Yeah everything else is there. Lol, pretty odd.
[Epic 4G Android Development] A_Flying_Fox:
Awwe man even downloading videos from email results in tearing?

I dl'ed videos from my yahoo account using the yahoomail app and they all tear :(

I thought it was just with videos you've recorded yourself :(