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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I have been reading a lot of good things about FD10 including increased 4g signal strength so I have really been tempted to test it out for a few days then the 2 new RDFs popped up so I figured I would hang back a day or two and see if a leak pops up
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] reddragon72:
I have the same issue. At home and out on town my phone will last a full day and a half with over 2 hours of screen time. At work it drops 3-6% per hour and I am not even touching it. At home I have an airave, but at work we have those repeaters in the ceiling. They are everywhere and the network through those things are horrid!! But luckily I have a WIFI at work that I can attach to, but it still doesn't help my battery at all.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Just like all of you already know, there are some biggest battery monsters -

Screen (screen on time), radio signal (signal strength) & 4G.

This means that if we are in the area where the signal is very strong, then battery consumption is very minimal.

As you noticed, it seems like John is located in the area where he's getting almost full signal. I believe that's the reason why his phone is lasting very long and forever. For me, I'm in the area just getting one or two bars. Sometimes, no bars. That's the biggest reason why I battery went out so fast.

Because I cannot handle the signal strength without changing the PRL (roaming), my only choice is dealing with cpu, memory, and saving battery during the sleep mode.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] daniel4653:
Are you sure about that? Lol jk this was this morning when I woke up.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] :
I can't wait to go on this trip.. Lol. I will post screenshots of my killer battery life. I too, live in a terrible zone. Signal is usually around -96----> -114. Sux. One thing I did notice is my NS4G (using LC1) blows my e4gt off the map with reception. (on all modems) Even stock, still its almost night and day. However, e4gt gets more screen time. I've never been able to get the amount of screen time I do on my e4gt with any other phone, yet. :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Yes. I'm almost sure and your screenshots also prove it.

Almost no screen on time, no voice signal, no 3g.... I believe it's only happening when the screen is off (getting more battery life).

In somewhere in this forum, I posted the great battery life with some tweaks - lasting 8 hours and only spent about 20%. During the night, only 10% of battery used for 6 hours.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] daniel4653:
Yes there is something going on when the screen is off or in deep sleep. This would never happen (this badly) on any other ics rom or gb. Currently on Nocturnal Venum rom
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] clshores:
Any word of an FD15 or FD16 leak coming our way? If anyone has seen or used these is that darn notification bug gone?

I stopped updating unitil it is confirment to be elminated.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Oh definitely true. For instance in NYC I go from 4g to 3g to 1x in 2 blocks and my battery is horrible at times. Bad signal drains battery faster than 4g and probably faster than the screen
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Sakujou:
I haven't used 4G once, I'm in SF area and 4g comes in and out like no other, after seeing this the first couple days I got the phone 4G hasn't been turned on since then.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Turn 4g on when you really need it. Otherwise keep it turned off. This will extend your battery life couple of hours at least depending on the 4g signal strength.

When I turned 4g on at my home, it used 1% battery in every minute, but when I turned it on in the area with full signal, I watched movie for 1hour and battery consumption was about 20% (1hour continuous screen on time + 4g data).

So, minimize the 4g usage in bad reception area and only turn it on whenever you need it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Yeah at home in California I live in a full bar 4g area and I slightly adjusted the WiMax settings in ##3282# and it wasn't too bad on battery. I adjusted the scan interval and the timeout
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RCOVA:
I think people should invest in a extended life battery. This phone is awesome and that sh*t makes it perfect. In one charge I can get up to 9 hours of display time. Sure it looks a little weird from the back. And there isn't that many cases for them But IMO I think it's a fair trade.

2hrs Display time with cool looking phone/case or 9hrs display time with slightly heavier and bigger phone. You decide :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I just keep my 2 OG Epic 1500 batteries in my pocket. I dont even know they are there. I hardly have to use them though and they hold a charge for months! Those 2 batteries and the external charger/stand are great
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RCOVA:
True. But I personally hate have to charge alot. (which is why I don't own multiple batteries) I'm happy with one overnight charge lasting me a few days :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
That's cause SF is the autoroot full restore KING!

Thanks SF for all the tools that we can't play without!

sj

Sent from my sgs2e4gt on AoKPb32 FD10 aOS 4.0.4 using Tap@Talk 2 Beta 5
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] satur9ine:
Okay, so as far as I am concerned there are two big bugs left to fix before OTA. The infamous notification bug AND the kernel issue that is causing some apps to not play nice (I'm looking at you Chrome, PvZ, etc).

Hopefully Calk is doing his own testing on these and will let us know. I know many, many people would be very interested in a leaked build that fixes Chrome!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gershee:
there was a chrome update today. maybe give that a whirl?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] stevetrooper:
I updated Chrome today, and it still is very jerky when you scroll down a page, anyone else see that?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingdazy:
Seems about the same to me, a bit laggy, randomly freezing, scrolling stutters.

Like they added features, not fixes. Unless the issues are samsung ics leak issues, specifically, nothing in the update does anything good.

Sent from my calculator watch.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] satur9ine:
I am 99.9% sure that the problem with Chrome (and some other apps) is due to the leaked kernels Sammy has been putting out for our phone.

Evidence:

1. Chrome works on ICS official and leaked builds for every other phone except ours. (Skyrocket, AT&T Galaxy S2, GNex)

2. Chrome does NOT work on any of the leaked Sammy builds or AOSP variants for our phone. These AOSP roms are built from source and are completely independent from the leaked Sammy builds for our phone except for one detail: the kernel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] :
I was in the irc for CM9 earlier and Darchstar said it is a kernel issue with Chrome beta.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] satur9ine:
So he came to the same conclusion, then. Excellent!

Now we just need some new kernels from Sammy to test. FD16, donde estas?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] daniel4653:
En el cielo?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] :
En un mundo que no existe

Cooking with Monkeys with my Nexus S 4g running on AOKP build 31
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] satur9ine:
Dentro de tu madre.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] master acehole:
me gusta
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kali323:
Pene
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kc_exactly:
So, no leaks today. I wonder what they fixed.

Sent from Team KC's founding member HTC Evo 4G LTE.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Calkulin:
FD16 still has the bug :(
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
That's a bummer. Though there have been some promissing builds I still keep coming back to my EL29 build becuase of this and other problems I can't have with my daily. Hoping this week will see something better. Thanks for all the work Calkulin. Much appreciated!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Crucifixion:
I had notifications in FD10
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] donsh00tmesanta:
Still on el13 unnamed lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dchibro:
At least the notification bug can be avoided with a little bit of muscle memory retraining. I'm still waiting for them to fix the compatibility issues with Bluetooth media streaming. I have yet to come up with a workaround for the Bluetooth media issues I have in both of my cars.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] master acehole:
As did I only a few ppl had notifications they can't do a ota with half the phones with the bug ='<
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Gordon Ramsay:
FD16 Modem is out in the usual place.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kc_exactly:
Does anyone else think they have better or worse signal with ICS?

Sent from Team KC's founding member HTC Evo 4G LTE.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] batting1000:
How's battery life?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Anon9mouz:
Is there a flashable??

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Anon9mouz:
And also whats this notifaction bug I keep hearing but idk if I ever experienced or not if there's a link so i can read that be great thanks:p

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] :
When I was on gb.. Stock and rooted, el29, el26..etc.., I could never dl apps in certain areas where i live.. (Sprint hasn't done any work in my area in a while, I checked..) When FC15 dropped, I could for the first time. I seem to get a better signal with ics modems.. Compare e4gt to my NS4G and its very clear that the NS4G gets way better reception. (on LC1) Anyway, that's my experience..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] T.C.P:
which would be?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Johnny Halo III:
Modem here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23185497
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingdazy:
interesting. anyone check to see if anything has changed?

(winMerge def shows that there are differences, lord knows I couldn't tell you what they are. ;)

yay for tars, yay for odin. i'll have an opinion on perf tomorrow)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jt_hatch:
winmerge for the win... love being able to look at hex binary file diffs... tho I agree in this case, no clue at ALL what they mean. :p

flashed the new modem tonight myself; gonna be tomorrow before I have much opinion on performance too.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Complete sfhub's FD16 Rooted Rom available now

Now sfhub released his rooted FD16 Rom/Kernel/Modem

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=24997374&posted=1#post24997374

Enjoy it!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sweets55:
I like the FD10 modem but guess I can try the 16. Or maybe all the modems are about the same and it's the kernel I like.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] daniel4653:
first mirror is done uploading for FD16!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Second mirror is up too :p

He only has one file left to upload. The no data tar is up and done though he hasn't come back on to edit the post. I MD5 checked it on my server. Whats hilarious is I came home I was about to patch the auto sync to get it ready to go live for this build. I said screw that closed my pm to sfhub and layed down. I get a pm like 5 minutes later... lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] daniel4653:
Personally i have had better signal with ICS modems but slower speeds and i mean from el29 500kbps-2.1mps

to FD10 20kbps-320kbps
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] satur9ine:
Chrome is no longer FC-ing on me using FD16 kernel. I had to wipe data for the app. Still jittery as hell though.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sandwich11:
3G on FD16

A word of warning, I flashed FD16 and it seems to have killed my 3G. Playstore just says "retry" and Speedtest app says network issues. Wifi and 4G work OK. Tried rebooting and updating my profile but still no 3G (although it appears that I have 3G signal in the notification bar). I didn't have any issues with FD10. Not sure if it's just happening to my device or if it's a problem with FD16.

Edit: Tried updating the PRL but still no luck. I may try to go back to FD10 modem. Hope others have better luck with this build.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sweets55:
I had to reboot to get my 3G working on the FD10 modem after I messed with 4G.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mavd5831:
*Hosting site high 5* ;D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
Must've been a bad download. It flashed fine for me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gerstoscar:
I'm liking FD16

I installed this morning...so far i like what i see, smoother transitions, scrolling is a lot better even thou i miss the speedier scrolling of fd10, specially on the forums when selecting the page on long threads, something change on Google play...displays my apps a little different than on F10 or before. A lot less lag on transitions in general. I have not test the message bug but i'll try later. Gmail feels a lot better when scrolling or changing webpages. I hope the battery improves a little. My best battery was on FC24. F10 was very inconsistent.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Gazzuk:
Is there a way to find out which one is installed?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingdazy:
which... what...?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] batting1000:
Anyone getting a sense of how battery life is so far?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] reddragon72:
I sure hope you are kidding..... If not on the first page of XDA they have a link to a fire retardant clothing delivery company.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dcowboys2184:
Bet they waiting until they release the gs3 with tw5 then they'll release their version for this phone
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mad5870:
That's what I'm thinking. I find it hard to imagine that they are going to update a phone to a newer OS (being ICS) without actually updating their TW.

HTC updated their Sense. I feel like people don't want the same thing even though its a newer OS.

I could be really wrong as well. Because it seems like TW really hasn't had major changes like Sense has. This is my first Samsung phone so I'm going off of what I've seen with my brother's and friends phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Drybonz:
Notification bug on FD16?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nextelfixer:
yes, still there
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RayTrue04:
Still present. Either Samsung hasn't caught on to it or their dumb assess are having a hard time fixing it. All these ICS builds and still no notification fix smh
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Wizard Knight:
The og epic didn't get official gingerbread until the epic touch launched
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Drybonz:
I wonder if they are leaving one major bug in the pre-release builds? I can't imagine that they don't know about something that big.

Anyway, thanks for the info everyone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Specialksg1:
But the OG Epic did get Froyo before they launched the Epic Touch. Which was an upgrade to the Eclair it shipped with.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSaint:
Doesn't count

Froyo was supposed to be released a month after the release of the phone itself it ended up not coming out for i think 5 months?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] beast4romtheeast:
FD16 Is an Improvement from FD10

I'm in NYC and with FD02 i had decent Signal and Battery Life was also around the 9-11 hour mark with fair amount of usage, I get over 500 SMS a day a few phone calls, Data usage, when i got on FD10 battery life suffered, i got max 8 hours, thus far with FD16 battery life is looking great, the ROM seems more stable, scrolling seems on the money, only thing I notice is Bluetooth not working for my JabraClip device.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] batting1000:
TwLauncher is laggy when doing the pinch in screen overview action.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] carlangas20:
Yup
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] The Root:
I tried DK28. It was crap. The Epic was supposed to be a Bada phone. They decided to go android and rushed eclair and were behind on Froyo. It has since gotten like 3 versions of GB and if partitioned with MTD can run CM9. People are still having a blast with it. That's kind of the history of that. This phone will have its own fun life but let them get rid of the notification bug and the OS drain for the people who don't customize.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kc_exactly:
I am going to make a prediction. Sprint will get new ICS devices out before we get the update. Since they are selling some new ones this Sunday that prediction is pretty solid. Maybe a new rdf today with the fix will be a welcome sight.

Sent from Team KC's founding member HTC Evo 4G LTE.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] qbking77:
That's not a prediction, thats a guarantee ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] stevetrooper:
A guarantee for a new leak or phones released with ICS before we get official OTA? :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] brooksyx:
I am sure they know about it. They are probably just concentrating on other bugs/features right now.

How about for the next leak we get a source leak instead of a build leak :p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
The epic touch will have an extended life due to it being sprint's last Wimax phone, they can't abandon it until lte is ready to go, and that is a few years away.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] reddragon72:
Ummm you do realize that Sprint already has LTE up and running in 7 cities..... LTE is "ready to go" now and Sprint is launching two phones, possibly, in the next 5 days that support LTE and will be using it from launch.

---------- Post added at 12:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:49 AM ----------

I just noticed something VERY strange. I backed up my ICS rom yesterday because I needed to go back to my old GB rom, which is the second to latest blazer rom on EL29. Well guess what I am seeing the notification issue on the GB rom??? WTF! I have both the blazer and the ICS backed up VIA the standard recovery way using a CWM5 kernel.....

Right now I am getting both TXT and Google talk and there is a blinking light, but no sounds..... And yep I wiped cache, delvik and system before the restore....

So I just made a call to my Vmail and hung up but let the dialer close out itself and sounds are back. This is really really strange!! How could the problem roll back to GB? I was running blazer for a month or so before I jumped to ICS fully but kept my backup just incase I wanted to roll back to GB.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Do you have any idea how many cities there are in the US? 7 is a fraction of a percent. Sprint's own projections say lte won't be widespread until 2014. It would be a bad business move to abandon wimax so soon. They aren't going to invest in new wimax phones, but expect the ones currently on sale to stick around for some time.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] reddragon72:
And they will have all the Wimax cities covered within the first year of the LTE launch. Sprint already stated they are doing nothing with Wimax and plan to cut it in 2015 so you'll have to upgrade. The last Wimax phone(Evo Design) will hit EOL in 2014 but Sprint will continue to support Wimax through 2015.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Lol I have better things to do than debate this with you, especially since it is not the topic of this thread. You don't know what I know, but I am right. I will leave it at that and let time prove me right.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] reddragon72:
Fair enough. I have nothing but time.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] winfan:
I've heard from others the notification bug is in gb rooms too. Even el29 stock rom. I sometimes feel I don't hear the phone but my notification light is blinking.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tmeader:
Yup, I've definitely seen the same on EL29. Kinda doubtful if this will ever get fixed.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] stevetrooper:
Anyone having problems with WIFI dropping and reconnecting? I have noticed the problem starting today, upgraded to FD16 yesterday.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] weboide:
I do, but it depends on the wifi. At home i didn't see any issues, but at work it drops, even though i get good signal at both places.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] stevetrooper:
Exactly what I am seeing...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] reddragon72:
I have never seen it at all on GB and only once on ICS, but now I am seeing it constantly on GB... I'm going back to my backed up ICS tomorrow so I'll see if it follows the switch. If so then maybe that will give something for the devs to think about.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Torgohype:
Scrolling Wallpaper

All,

I just put on the themed FD16 and wanted to make sure I was not missing something. It appears that not even with GOLauncer or the stock ICS Launcher you can use scrolling wallpaper? Is that correct?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] krisI0N:
Probably a good idea because I thinks it's safe to say Samsung wont care about this lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tmeader:
Honestly I'm not sure how it's even that big a deal. All you have to do is just give the dialer the 2.5 seconds it needs to get back to the contact list on its own, instead of pushing home or back... done.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dchibro:
True, but it's that pause that has trained us all to immediately hit the back or home button after a call in the first place. I still keep hitting the back button after a call out of habit, even though I know what will happen.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] reddragon72:
I have an idea behind the notification issue and am posting the idea in the other thread for it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] satur9ine:
Seriously, you guys? Everyone that has been complaining about the notification bug never bothered to check if it was happening on GB?! This pretty much means it isn't even being looked at in their ICS testing.

As someone else mentioned, its hardly a bug anyways. Its never happened to me cause I've never been in a rush to exit a call anyway. Just hit end call instead of back???

Does this mean we won't see another release from Calk until OTA? This ain't ever getting fixed guys, face it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bhavi_jp:
It is a big deal. This is such a basic function of a phone. This should have been fixed with a priority but instead they are releasing these useless builds just slapping a new date on it.

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dchibro:
No offence meant, but you're ranting about leaked firmware that we're not even supposed to be using yet. Why would you expect ANY fix to be a priority? I think we need to keep some perspective here.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tmeader:
My point is just that 1) there's an extremely easy way to NEVER see this bug. As long as you let the dialer exit on its own, you'll never encounter this issue, 2) there's a very easy fix if you do happen to trigger the issue, and 3) this isn't anything new to the ICS ROMs, and has always been on the phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Success100:
totally agreed, definetely test builds
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dchibro:
I don't buy this. I've hit the back and home buttons after ending a call for months on GB and never had the notification bug.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] someguyatx:
Not true Ive had this happen without a call taking place. Backing out of the stock messaging app also seems to cause it and who knows what else.

Yeah i never saw it on gb in a month and im back to gb this week and havent seen it yet.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Specialksg1:
I've never seen it ... on anything ... gb, ics, cm9, aokp. Of course, I make maybe 3 actual phone calls a month. So that could have something to do with it. I text a ton though. This notification bug is just weird.

Knocking on wood lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
FD19 is up thanks sfhub - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1609255
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neudof:
FD19 posted :D

Sent from my ICS'ed out SPH-D710
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Echo in the room? ^^ :D:p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neudof:
What he said....

:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mattix724:
I just flashed 16... Now 19? When will we get the official OTA update?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
My guess is around GA27 lol. I mean you know right after i ditch this thing in a lake for an LTE phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I want to give FD19 a shot but I am going to roll with 16 for now. What I have noticed on 16 so far...increased wifi range. It connects when I get as close as 3 houses away when I walk up the street. 4g signal is great. I have signal in places I didn't before. Idle battery drain is outstanding on wifi! I slept for 5 and a half hours and battery still 99%! If FD19 improves on anything then we are in for a treat. They are definitely heading in the right direction

Sent from either ET4G or NS4G using Xparent Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bondosho:
Wonder if the notification bug is still there?