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[Epic 4G Android Development] popssracer:
Just to throw my 2 cents in, I've been with clean since Froyo, and I won't go to anything else! I've been using go launcher with a really nice ICS theme that matches the gosms and go locker ICS themes perfectly. I get really steady 'full day of medium-use' battery life. I, like everyone else, have the gps issues occationally, and I get the problem where the thing gets rediculously hot on the charger why doing gps nav, but its been like that as long as I can remember... I have a ET4G battery as well, and have been extremely pleased with it. Its not revolutionary, but it provides just enough extra battery to get me through a longish day without a charger, or some seriously heavy use without problems. I own a Sedio 3500 battery, but it stays tucked away in my bag and I can't say I've used it since a week or two after I got it... I have sufficient battery life with the 1800 battery, I dont really find myself needing it, I also dont like how my phone doesnt fit in its case and weighs a ton and isnt flat(ish) on the bottom anymore. Kinda kills the whole 'sleek cool phone that feels good in the hand' thing that this phone has going for it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] uscpsycho:
Does anyone's phone get hot doing mundane things like heavy text messaging (not mms)? Today I was doing a lot of text messaging and my phone got pretty hot so I knew the juice was quickly being sucked out.
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
No...however if Sprint is doing work on your tower and you have almost no signal your radios and processor will go into overdrive trying to get a signal.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jbadboy2007:
Yeah extended time in a weak signal area will make your phone hot
[Epic 4G Android Development] XXCoder:
Indeed. Probably should just use 2G for sms since 2g uses vastly less power as well as works with sms.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jbadboy2007:
Has nothing to do with sms. Its that the modem is struggling to find signal and uses a lot of battery to do so. When does that motorola signal patent expire for their cdma signal quality?
[Epic 4G Android Development] gerrym:
Calendar Default conflict

Just wanted to put this bug up hoping maybe Toad could look at it for any update to FC09.

Others have this issue, not sure if it is wide spread. In Calendar > Settings > Default Calendar I always try to point it to my gmail account. But when I do that selection changes the Calendar > Settings > Ringtone to Silent

Not good.

If I change the Calendar > Settings > Ringtone back to something other than Silent, then my Default Calendar setting goes back to 'My Calendar'.

UGH!

Anyone else have this or know of a fix?

Thanks in advance!

Gerry-
[Epic 4G Android Development] SadieNibblesworth:
The only *bug* I don't like with mine is that the text messaging program by default has the flag marked to delete message threads when 200 messages have been received.

Other than that, I *heart* this release 110%.
[Epic 4G Android Development] uscpsycho:
I don't feel like my phone necessarily gets hot because it's in a weak signal. I'm under the impression there's something that's putting the processor under heavy load, churning cycles and heating the phone up.

Yesterday I moved to a bigger sd card for my phone. As I was transferring the files I discovered a lot of corrupt files. Including cache files and some files for my keyboard (Swiftkey). I wonder if these corrupt files could have been causing the phone to repeatedly try to access data that it could not find because of the corrupted files? I feel like today my phone is running cooler and the wakelocks aren't as high, but that could be a coincidence or maybe even placebo. LOL

If the phone heating up is definitely due to signal issues I'll put my Air Rave to use.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mrmondaynight:
any way to uninstall the random bloat i dont want?

Stuff like voice search, maps, navi, google talk?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Devtodi:
Yes, there is.
[Epic 4G Android Development] wolfen1086:
There is its called root and an app called AnTek App Manager, its available on play and it works great.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ÜBER™:
You can use a root file explorer like root explorer or Es file manager. And go into the /system/app and delete whatever you want.
[Epic 4G Android Development] wolfen1086:
Those work too, just beware of Root uninstaller, according to Trust go Ad detector it contains ads programs.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mrmondaynight:
you guys are awesome
[Epic 4G Android Development] nyr35blue:
tried searching to no avail but can someone tell me what file to edit and where it is in order to stop the EL30 to FC09 updates? Ive already flashed to FC09 but i still get these OTA messages.

Thanks. :cool:
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
Well since there is no FC09 version of CleanGB what FC09 did you flash to? Flash an FC09 ROM. There are 5 of them here in development. The build.prop is the file you are looking for. This was all talked about a few pages back, and in the Legendary thread too, and in General where flastnoles11 was nice enough to make flashables of these build.props. Also how did you search? A quick google of how to stop fc09 update notification shows Flast's thread in the list.
[Epic 4G Android Development] nyr35blue:
To be honest cleangb had just always worked best for me so its kinda been my go to rom. I cant even recall when i upgraded the modem from EL30 to FC09 to be honest. I was just thinking that with having the FC09 modem, sprint services(or whatever) would stop alerting me about updating. Thought i read somewhere a while back you can edit a file to stop that but i cant find where it was.
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
Modem has nothing to do with it. The only thing Sprint checks is your build.prop. edit all EL30 instances to read FC09. Best is to edit it with Notepad and do a search and replace all. Then copy it back and reboot. If you already have the notification accept it and let it fail. Clear dalvik and cache after editing the build.prop. It is in the system directory.
[Epic 4G Android Development] nyr35blue:
thanks i have gotten tired of pulling my battery to be honest. I edited the file and will see how it goes. :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
As long as you got them all you will be fine.
[Epic 4G Android Development] billamin:
i had just activated my epic 4g with reliance cdma( india) with working 3g on el30..and soon a notification to update to fc09 came..i updated..and bazinga!!!my data connectivity,be it 3g/1x,is gone!!!i can see the 3g icon but no uplink or downlink happens in any app,,except,skype, which wierdly,is able to use 3g!!!!!!please suggest me what to do...!!!:(..
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
I am not familiar with what it takes to get the Epic working on Reliance. You may have to redo the activation steps. It may have something to do with your PRL and profile.
[Epic 4G Android Development] SadieNibblesworth:
Epic on Reliance?

There is probably nothing that the Epic cannot do... except go for broke.

As an update... yesterday was the first time since first installing v1.1.2 that I had a hard crash. I had to pull the battery to reset my phone.

Pretty impressive given that I'm running a generic, touchwiz interface and routinely run a GPS program while streaming NPR or BBC at the same time, I'm guessing a few months of this was a nice way to break in the system.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Milkman00:
Since Toad has been away handling family stuff, I changed to The Peoples Rom 2.2, and while it is a good ROM, I get some force closes occasionally, and a lot of the time it really isn't very snappy for me. Lastly I do not find battery life as good as CleanGB.

I hope Toad plans on doing some additional development to get it onto the latest release of software. :/
[Epic 4G Android Development] zanderman112:
Honestly, I see no reason for this to be FC09. All that added was the "optimizer" which may/may not work right.

I think, don't fix what ain't broke. :)

~E.R.A.
[Epic 4G Android Development] orlzzt:
But then you get the annoying updates...
[Epic 4G Android Development] zanderman112:
build.prop bro. Change EL30 instances to FC09 and it never pops up again.

~E.R.A.
[Epic 4G Android Development] uscpsycho:
Been using this battery for over a week and I'm thrilled with it. Incredible bang for the buck.

However, even with better battery life I'm hating this phone more and more every day. I have to pull the battery at least once (usually more) a day and the Navigation is totally unusable. And navigation is soooooo important to me... Fortunately, Motorola and LG both have qwerty ICS phones in the pipeline for Sprint. I can't get my hands on another phone fast enough. The last phone I owned that flat out worked was a Treo 700p. Of course it didn't do as much but it did everything it was designed to do well. Every phone since then has been too unstable.

What's frustrating is that I never had these problems when I first got the phone. Navigation used to work just fine in Eclair, in fact it was my favorite thing about the phone. Then Froyo or Gingerbread killed navigation, I'm pretty sure it was Gingerbread. Maybe I should just revert? I don't think Froyo or Gingerbread combined added enough to make up for blowing up navigation.

I hope this isn't as dumb of a question as sounds like but where do you get the Touchwiz launcher?

I really like Go Launcher but oftentimes it's not smooth. I frequently have lag and choppiness when switching between launcher screens or when opening the app drawer it usually takes several seconds for all the icons to load. Do you get that too or does everything run smoothly? ADW runs better for me but I love the Go Email widget and I haven't found a scrollable email widget comparable to that for regular launchers.
[Epic 4G Android Development] popssracer:
I havent noticed any lag or choppiness with Go Launcher, or the app drawer loading issues you are talking about. If its there its subtle enough that I dont notice it. When I click the app drawer button it does the standard screen fade out and back in on the app drawer, and they're all there, no lag noticable. I use the Ice_Cream_Go_Launcher EX theme from the market, and it seems to perform flawlessly. The only time it does anything funky is that Go Locker sometimes seems to be a little laggy, occationally when I wake the screen up it takes a second for the lock screen to come up, so I get a moment of the normal homescreen before it goes to the locked screen. Never had any problems associated with it, but it does do that. I do try to keep apps running to a minimum, and disable everything I am not using a the moment, so that might help. For the record, I do not have anything overclocked, I leave it at stock frequencies, mainly because I dont have any speed/lag issues. If it was a little laggy I'd consider going to a higher top frequency and a slightly higher bottom frequency, perhaps you can try that. Or if you are already overclocking, maybe try going back to stock, as that is what I use with no issues. For the record, I think I also went in with root explorer and deleted the ADW stuff so that GO was the only launcher in there, just in case there was some kind of conflict there, and just because I dont like apps in there that I am not using.
[Epic 4G Android Development] SadieNibblesworth:
>I hope this isn't as dumb of a question as sounds like but where do you get the >Touchwiz launcher?

You know, I'm using the CleanGB launcher from the version 19 BML release. I think that *is* TouchWiz, but since I haven't seen native TouchWiz in a *long* time, I'm going to have to grab a test phone and see if it is or not.

To make a long story short... you can usually just *dump* the launcher files from a previous version into the directory and it'll all work out just fine. LOL! Talk about hack fixes.

--SN
[Epic 4G Android Development] jimmarako:
Are you running the CleanGB ROM? I had problems with my stock Epic when Samsung switched to Gingerbread and messed with the GPS signals. That should have been fixed in later patches. For CleanGB there is a GPS fix ZIP file listed on the first page that is suppose to allow tracking many more GPS signals. I'm running this and my navigation (the up pointing Blue arrow one) is rock solid. Better than my few year old Garmin.

If your phone is acting up in general you can try this: I went in to CWM recovery and wiped the caches (cache and dalvik) I then re-flashed CleanGB 1.1.2 with out doing a factory reset. This seemed to work for me. It cleaned up what ever corruption was causing my issues (phone would not reboot) and didn't erase any of my apps or data. The preferred method is to do a full factory reset before flashing but trying this way will only waste a little bit of time if it doesn't work. I'd make a full backup either way just in case.

JM
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
Touchwiz launcher is twlauncher. If it is in your system\app directory then you have it. It is the stock Samsung launcher.
[Epic 4G Android Development] uscpsycho:
Yep, I'm running CleanGB. Not just infiltrating this thread ;)

I tried the GPS Fix long ago. After Gingerbread killed GPS the fix helped but it was never as good as before GPS. It seems to have gotten progressively worse, sometimes my phone locks up within seconds of starting navigation. Every once in a while I get lucky and I can go for 20 or 30 minutes but that is pretty rare.

Never heard of reflashing a ROM without resetting. That might be worth trying to fix other problems but I don't think it will fix my navigation issues since I had them from day one on CleanGB.

I don't have it. Should it be there with CleanGB?
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
No. It is not in the ROM zip. As for GPS are you talking about Maps freezing up? Uninstall it and download fresh from the Play store.

I attached the Touchwiz launcher. Push it to system\app with Root Explorer or ES File Explorer with root explorer enabled and system set to r/w in either app. Then reboot.
[Epic 4G Android Development] gerrym:
I purchased a 3500 mah battery from an Internet cell phone shop and it was initially a good longer lasting battery. But within just a few months it began loosing longevity and I have gone back to the OE Sprint battery as result. The battery I purchased was not advertised as anything other than increased capacity and supplied with a new back casing to accomodate its increased physical size. After it arrived I noticed it was clearly marked as made in China, so to me that explains its small performance window.

HTH.

Gerry-
[Epic 4G Android Development] slybarman:
For better or worse China is currently making the best lithium batteries - quality-wise I believe they surpassed korea and japan. Not saying all factories in China, but I would not dismiss a lithium battery just because it is from China.
[Epic 4G Android Development] SadieNibblesworth:
LOL! "Chinese engineering" is an oxymoron. I trust them with lithium ion batteries like I trust them with the plastic pen caps on my Uniball micro pens.

Yes, I would dismiss a battery from China just *because* it is made in China! Why? Because of what you said - it's not *all* factories in China that are good or bad, it's a crapshoot. That's how the Chinese are. Their standards are insanely inconsistent.

Maybe that's starting to change.

I can tell you that they ruined the CD and DVD manufacturing world and I still won't purchase optical media made in China.
[Epic 4G Android Development] slybarman:
I am not sure about lithiun ion, but in the case of lithium polymer there were only a very small handful of factories (3 or 4 maybe) in China doing the actual manufacturing. The rest was just branding.
[Epic 4G Android Development] slybarman:
So far as CleanGB goes, I am wondering if CM9 1.0 will drop before we see another CleanGB?
[Epic 4G Android Development] SadieNibblesworth:
Exactly! If you can find the factory that makes the brand you're buying, more power to you! The problem is that the Chinese aren't consistent. Sometimes they'll oversell and have to have another factory manufacture their products and they won't tell you. I think that's call "contract selling" or something of that nature.

Can we just agree that CleanGB is *not* made in China? And that we all love it?
[Epic 4G Android Development] slybarman:
I am almost positive that CleanGB is not made in China! Yes, I do love it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] orlzzt:
The last 4 or 5 posts have me craving potstickers...

Any word yet from Toad?
[Epic 4G Android Development] uscpsycho:
I'm talking about the actual Google Navigation app. My phone constantly freezes while in the middle of navigation.

I don't think this can be updated from the Play store because I can't find it there. However, even though it is a separate app in the app drawer I do not see it listed as a separate app in Titanium Backup or any other app management program. So maybe it is part of Maps?

So far so good. If I notice a decrease in performance I'll let you guys know. But for now it's been a lifesaver.
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
Yes it is part of Maps and lots of people got freezes from the Maps updates. Uninstall and redownload. Try Telenav, works much better and you can understand the speech.
[Epic 4G Android Development] SadieNibblesworth:
I wish I could give this comment four thumbs up.
[Epic 4G Android Development] uscpsycho:
I will give that a try. I'm assuming you are recommending this because uninstall/reinstall has helped stop the freezes? I will be one seriously happy camper if this stabilizes navigation!

I've tried Telenav and I like Maps navigation much, much more than Telenav.
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
Yes. Several users have reported that it fixes it. My guess is old data clogs up the updated version and uninstalling it removes that allowing for proper refreshing.
[Epic 4G Android Development] gerrym:
The 3500 mah I purchased was a Lithium Ion. Had 2 day performance for a few months then quickly went downhill.

Just pulled my OE Sprint battery. Ha. It is a Lithium Ion as well and says 'Made in Korea' and then says 'Finished in China'. ???

I would love to find a Lithium Polymer for the phone, but right now I'm holding out for what the future holds on 4G LTE from Sprint. Maybe....
[Epic 4G Android Development] uscpsycho:
Can't thank you enough. Ever since I uninstalled Maps and reinstalled it's been working like a champ. Had one freeze but nothing is ever going to be perfect. I'm in love with my phone again.

I'm not the only one who's repeatedly complained (here and other sites) about Navigation causing all kings of problems. I've been looking for a solution since Gingerbread was released; crazy that it took this long for someone to suggest this. Better late than never... Thanks again!

---------- Post added at 01:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:17 AM ----------

Has anyone else noticed that Google's mobile website no longer links to Maps/Navigation?

Used to be that I could google a business then when I clicked for directions it would launch navigation. Now all I get is a navigation list just like I can get from the desktop website. And to make matters worse it seems like the majority of time it can't get my location from the GPS (I have all settings to allow it).

Anyone else notice this? I don't know what Google was thinking, seems like a major step backwards. My GF who has a Droid on Verizon is having the same problem so it's not device/network specific.
[Epic 4G Android Development] XXCoder:
Yeah I have had problems with navigation and gps. :(
[Epic 4G Android Development] SadieNibblesworth:
I've had the exact opposite experience. Google Maps works fine. TeleNav is on crack.
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
I can't understand that Googlebot. Telenav is very clear.
[Epic 4G Android Development] orlzzt:
Telenav lady has a much nicer voice; but for some reason, I find Google Nav is more accurate. TeleNav always seems to send me into the LeBrea Tar Pits...
[Epic 4G Android Development] KaL-EL3038:
Software UPDATE

hey guys ive been getting an software update notification for the longest now and i just ignore it cause the last time i came in here i tought the thread was dead so i thought it just needed to be updated well now i am back and see that its still on the same EL30 and thats what i am on now so any help would gladly apreciate it..
[Epic 4G Android Development] Cluefree:
Must...restrain...sarcastic...comments....about...the...search function....:rolleyes:

I think there are probably 50 posts in this thread alone on how to get rid of the update notice....or you can just google it. Short version: edit your build.prop file and replace any EL30 with FC09...reboot.

Look at this post for more info... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27377092
[Epic 4G Android Development] orlzzt:
We love you, k0nane!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cY2VybnyNE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Epic 4G Android Development] KaL-EL3038:
i knew i was gonna get flammed for that post lol sorry guys i havent been on here for a while and i did use search but maybe not the right way but thanks again and sorry for the dumb question ill look into it tonight!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
Actually googling your question and add XDA to the search parameter works way better than forum search.
[Epic 4G Android Development] xda751:
epic 4g on boost mobile with froyo

hello all

have been wanting to flash another rom to my epic. I have firmware 2.2.1 with baseband ec05. Could i just flash cleangb to my phone or should i let the phone update to gingerbread first(its been wanting to update by itself) and then flash CleanGB.
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
Update to CWM 5.0.2.7 and then just flash.
[Epic 4G Android Development] slybarman:
For anybody still running clean GB:

When you look at battery use, is Android System the top battery user by a wide margin? on mine Android system is @ 70% battery use and then screen or wifi is down somewhere around 20-30%. Just curious what others are seeing.
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
Always been that way on TW GB ROMs. Everything your phone uses requires some part of Android system...it is the operating system.
[Epic 4G Android Development] slybarman:
OK - thanks. On my wife's tablet running ICS, "android system" doesn't really show up.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mocheesehead:
I am sorry if this is found someplace else, but if I do a factory reset on my Epic 4G, what will it do to my CleanGB install? I am getting the Galaxy S III and I am setting up the Epic for my Wife.

Thanks!
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
It will only wipe out your data, accounts, and 3rd party apps. She will still be rooted and on CleanGB.
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
Yes, that is correct again. Different manufacturers and different OS's have different ideas on what should be grouped under android system. In Froyo it all went under Display.
[Epic 4G Android Development] slybarman:
Ah. Makes sense now.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mocheesehead:
Thanks!
[Epic 4G Android Development] zanderman112:
#BlameSamsung our battery stats have been messed up for a while on tw roms. For a while it was the opposite, display would be like 97%+ but might hardly be on. They're basically useless except to see how your battery drained by looking at the graph.

~E.R.A.
[Epic 4G Android Development] serstylz2:
What is the easiest way to delete a backup with this ROM and CWM v5.0.2.7?
[Epic 4G Android Development] popssracer:
If you mean a nandroid backup, as in the files and whatnot, the easiest way would be to connect your phone to the computer, go into the sd card files, open the "clockworkmod" folder, the backup folder, and choose the folder with the date of backup that you want to delete, and delete it. If you mean a titanium backup, you can go into the sd card and into the TitaniumBackup folder and delete whatever backup you want to remove. I'm not sure if these cover what you were asking, but hope this helps!
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
Or use a file explorer like ES file explorer and navigate to your sdcard and clockworkmod\backup folder and delete the ones you don't want.