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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] trmitche2:
OMG, never mind... I'm an *idiot*. I'm currently on EK02, *NOT* EL29. I mis-spoke because I keep getting the Sprint OTA nag screen to update to EL29.

So, to restate my original question in a way that might actually make sense now: Can I use the CWM 5.0.2.7 that came with *EK02*, which was/is installed on my phone via sfhub's one-click app? Sorry for being a moron folks....

I'm guessing the answer is yes, they're the same, but I will wait for confirmation before moving forward. Thanks and sorry again.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Duce HD2:
Why don't you just flash EL26 with CWR as suggested, then flash CM9? No point in risking, takes 3 minutes.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
Also, having the bug tracker in the OP could cut down on repeat bug reports in the thread.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] info[]box1:
http://e4gtcm.blogspot.com/2012/04/coming-soon-in-cm9-alpha3-for-epic.html?m=1

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-Sent from my @lmighy Epic 4g Touch Ltd™ powered CyanogenMod9 alpha2 using xda premium
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] satur9ine:
Yeah, saw that over the weekend. So pumped for the possibility of better battery life! That is one of the few things holding back this ROM IMO.

Here's hoping it drops soon! :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] coiledwire:
Yes you can. Most of us are using a later kernel, so we just Odin the latest kernel that has cwm, which is el26.

Sent from my SPH-D710
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Richkid:
I've tried EVERY avenue to get the native mms working... searched, read, and applied the varies possible fixes - nothing works...

What I have notice after a clean wipe is it works temporarily as in 24 hr / maybe less then gets stuck "sending".

I was curious to see whether the app itself was acting up, so I downloaded GO SMS. Been using the app for the past 9 hours with no problem. I can send and receive both pictures and text whereas with the ICS Messaging app I can do all but send.

Perhaps this will be corrected in the next release?

I hope my alternative fix to this will help someone else as it is frustrating.

Happy Monday!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VeNuMuS:
Listen, asking for battery life, in my opinion is pointless. Every device is different and also the users. Some people report 15 hrs of battery life while others get 7 or 8. Also each persons view of usage of the device is different. Some say they are getting great battery life with heavy usage. The one who defines said usage is the user himself. So unless you try it out and test it to your amount of usage, getting averages and asking other users what their battery life is doesn't really matter. Its all up to You.

Sent from my SAMSUNG IMPALER 4G
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] locoboi187:
I wants alpha 3 zomg
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VeNuMuS:
I'm with ya buddy. Super anxious

Sent from my SAMSUNG IMPALER 4G
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] riassan:
bug fixes are being done daily so when it does drop a lot of the issues (as if there really are many) will be fixed. :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wase4711:
Hope there is a easy upgrade path to the next release from a2..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] garfnodie:
Still going to have to Odin to el26 to put alpha 3 on your phone. I don't think custom recovery is a priority at the moment since Odin works just fine. I may be wrong, but seeing as how the recovery is tied to the kernel, we may not get a custom recovery until we get kernel source, which won't happen until Samsung and sprint officially release ics.

Sent from my SGS2E4GT using the XDA Premium app.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] huskerpat:
There is. You just flash it over the top. No need to wipe anything... Unless you really think you need to.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] darchstar:
we can add a custom recovery to the rom. it's actually really really easy to do. we just don't because it protects users from bricking phones. to put it simple, in the leaked kernels, there's apparently a bug, which isn't cm exclusive. when formatting a partition, it can fail on a random occasion and mess up your partition table. that essentially hard bricks your phone. this is the reason we're not including a custom recovery in the kernels just yet. once we get kernel sources, our developers (or anyone else into kernel developing) can try and pinpoint that bug, patch and fix it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] locoboi187:
wedrf!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] squshy 7:
Hmm...I would imagine this is actually a major part of what's holding up the official release.

Stock recovery needs to be able to format /data, cache, and others; it wouldn't just affect those flashing custom ROMs, but also normal users as well. So I'm hopeful it's a moot point darchstar, as I'm willing to bet the bug will be squashed by Samsung/Sprint.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] garfnodie:
Good to know. Thanks for the explanation.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
http://e4gtcm.blogspot.com/p/cm9-status.html?m=1

Bullet point #4 on the release notes :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Gh0zt718:
Lol for the love of God please let it go you are not the forum police darch is and the mods humans are forgetful and miss things sometimes believe it or not
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] :
How's that for screen time! (1800 battery) actually had my screen turned up earlier, played a few games... Staying on CM9! Best rom out! End of story! :D

Note: This is from the first round too..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ethandissi:
Rentamod. But anyways, anyone else have that bt audio weirdness
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
What audio bug, the one talked about and reported here?

http://code.google.com/p/epictouchcm/issues/detail?id=3
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Custodian:
Lawl.

Sent from my SPH-D710
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rizdog23:
Anybody know how to add the on screen buttons? I use a skin on my phone that covers the hardware buttons and I love the look of the on screeners. That is the only thing keeping me on AOKP instead of CM9
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] godofwar762:
Wut skin do I use
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rizdog23:
I use one i custom-made on skinit. Its gunmetal grey....sorta resembles the gnex. I saw in the android section under development about Reloaded ICS but it only works on cm9 and i'd reallly love to enable the on screen buttons so i can theme them
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] godofwar762:
Ya just curious but is there way to disable swiftlet buttons
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] garfnodie:
Here's one possible way to do it, if you don't mind messing around with code. Might try it myself tomorrow and see what happens :o
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jerdog:
Thank you (and others) for your attempt to help. However, XDA's stance has always been - report posts, let us as moderators deal with them. Don't troll, which is what many are doing as an attempt to "keep order". Just report posts.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wase4711:
do you really want us to report every post that asks how to fix gps, what the battery life like, How do I flash this rom, and all the other endlessly repetitive stupidity that is all over the dev section recently?

thanks for your help!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jerdog:
Look at it this way - if you see a post that is violating the rules then report it. It will draw attention and posts will be dealt with.

If the post just assaults your sensibilities, let it be and move on. Don't feed the trolls.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
Weird bug with this ROM...if I have music playing, headphones or car stereo...when I get a notification, the music volume drops way down until I pause the music and hit play again.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Kevin_Q:
If you just hit one of the volume rocker buttons the music jumps back to loud.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hermeticist:
You can also tap the volume button.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Onumis:
I’ve had a weird issue. My wifi worked fine for a few weeks now it won’t auto connect to the wifi networks I have setup. If I turn wifi off and back on it does but it won't unless I do that.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] riassan:
known issues that is trying to be narrowed down, but maybe kernel related and lib related.;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Frederick_1:
So, HDMI out just isn't working for this rom version or is it just me?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] C3jay:
Nope. Mabey later.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] locoboi187:
I'm allll alone in IRC ;/

no more dev chats :(

on a side note, wasnt HDMI mirroring working on the kanged CM9s?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] N4STYNATE:
I checked the issue tracker and don't see anything there about this.

If I go into gallery, share to picasa, it won't upload and just says "failed to retrieve account information".

But, all my pictures in picasa sync, I just can't upload.

Can someone else verify this or if its just me.

Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] EmperorX:
Verified yesterday. I thought it was because I'm using a Google apps account instead of gmail.. Guess not
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cknuth:
I cannot seem to get my external SD mounted. I read that it is mounted to a different path but it is not mounted anywhere. And storage option through settings force closes instantly. Apologize if I missed a solution somewhere...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] garfnodie:
You sure it's not showing up at /emmc or /mnt/emmc ?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ssconceptz:
I'm liking CM9 aside from horrible battery life. Hopefully there is a way to underclock this thing.

---------- Post added at 02:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:15 PM ----------

I thought the same, it's not external_sd in CM9 it's /mnt/emmc
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
On wifi battery is fine...off of wifi battery is HORRIBLE!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] odub303:
That's the opposite of my experience, as well as many others who chat frequently in the irc channel. The E4gT wifi in ics is not yet the battery friendly connection it was in tw.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
http://e4gtcm.blogspot.com/2012/04/coming-soon-in-cm9-alpha3-for-epic.html

Bullet point five of the change log might interest you...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] EmperorX:
Doesn't help me. I tried already ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] huskerpat:
you aren't in the right channel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] h20wakebum:
Posted in General CM9 Discussion but realized these might be bugs so posting here...

1) Randomly, my phone will completely power down. I'll be checking email one minute, then 15 minutes later I go pick it up and hit the power button and NOTHING... I just did a test to see if it was still on by calling it... but it just rang... kinda strange as if the phone were OFF it would go straight to voicemail... so this makes me think I have some deep sleep type issue going on...

2) When I get a phone call, the phone only rings once... Say I had a ringtone like the digital phone one, it'll go RINNNNNNNGGGGGG.... then no more sounds, the screen still shows an incoming call, but if I didn't hear the ring I'm SOL...

-RR
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] blackroseMD1:
This post needs to go in the hall of fame. I LMAO'd.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cknuth:
There is no /emmc directory. Anywhere lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
/emmc is where the external sd is located on AOSP ROMs.

It is also under /mnt/emmc
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] D_A_M_A_G_E:
I had the same ringer problem and got to thinking about my SD card with all he flashing I did ....a lot of different ringtone folders were on them so I formatted my SD card and cleaned internal storage and the went into system sounds and chose a new ringtone and that has fixed that problem for me ...on a side note I was having Los issues until I used Odin to flash the fd05 modem and have not had one Los issue and my notification sounds the used to quit working have been working flawlessly since !!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jb8301:
Ok, so I know this is going to sound completly noobish but I am going to ask anyway....a buddy and I were thinking about taking this ROM out for a drive but can not for the life of us figure out how to install it, and BEFORE someone comes in here and flames me about read the OP, etc, we did and we got to the website but it is all confusing from there...any input would rock and thanks in advance....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cknuth:
1. Put the ROM, and the google apps on your SD card.

2. Make a nandroid backup. (important.)

3. ODIN the one click el29 restore.

4. ODIN the el26 kernel with recovery.

5. Using CWM, wipe everything, recommend calks format all zip and A manual wipe.

6. Now flash the ROM, then the gapps and reboot.

Do not restore a nandroid between gingerbread and Ice cream. And I wouldn't recommend using Any team rogue recovery with this ROM (I tried, ended up soft bricked) if you want to go back to a gingerbread ROM use the one click el29 and restore a GINGERBREAD nandroid if you wish. To go back to an I've cream ROM one click fb something and then restore an ICS nandroid if you wish.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jb8301:
Thanks for the quick response!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Custodian:
Quite annoying...no matter how I edit the build.prop in this romm it soft bricks...wtf?!.. alpha 1 doesn't have this issue

Sent from my SPH-D710
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
More details in your edits may lead you to an answer.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] EmperorX:
Use rom toolbox. One edit and restart at a time.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HappyFillmore:
My daily for sure. Battery life is not to bad. Alpha 3, I will dream about you.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ascertion:
Battery life is better on this than el29 for me. No reason to go back now. :p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] locoboi187:
But that's always been the irc channel name! Haven't changed it from my bookmark!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] daniel4653:
Hey conceptz I heard somewhere that you can underclock to 800 using tegrak ultimate
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] :
I've been using setcpu to set profile for screen off at 800 max "on demand" from the beginning and haven't had any sods.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] plmiller0905:
Hopefully someone can guide me in the right direction. I just flashed this rom and everything seems to be working fine. But can someone please tell me if there is a fix or workaround to make my contacts pics show better? When I select a contact, their pic is all distorted.

I thought I saw a fix about this but I cant seem to find it. So any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] paranoid android85:
haxsync shows high quality photos from facebook if thats what you want. not sure about photos from gallery
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] charlesvw9:
Friendcaster also syncs high quality photos too
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bambam126:
Is the accelerometer fixed coz every ics rom I use it always moves to the right can't play any racing games thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] beserker15:
Sounds like an error with your phone. I haven't had issues with the accelerometer in any ics rom.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mkeena0305:
Go to settings...... advanced....... sensors for calibration.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] humdrum2009:
As good as this rom is sprint should base the ota off this lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ascertion:
Samsung likes to skin things, as do all other manufacturers. I really like the UI, but Samsung thinks their UI looks better (lol).

Anyways, I'm having GPS problems. I love this rom to death but I need GPS later today so I'm going to have to odin another rom. :(
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Frederick_1:
This rom is amazing. I'm afraid to ever upgrade, everything's finally set up perfect besides I can't get Wi-Fi to ever connect.. EVER! Anyone else?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] z31k:
+1
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neuteboomt:
I am running Alpha 2 and have not had a issue with WiFi. My phone connects to the house and work networks just fine. I did see issues when I change my WiFi sleep settings from "Always" to "Never". I changed it back to "Always" and have no issues.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] moodswang:
I'm seeing a lot of people having success installing this rom so I can't help but think I'm missing a step here. Is this the rom you all are installing (update-cm-9-20120324-SNAPSHOT-epic4gtouch-alpha1-signed)? I'm coming from caulks 2.8.1, is their more needed other than whats in the instructions? I notice the rom says its an update, is their a core\non-update base rom that is missing here or do I need to be on CM7 or CM9 beta or something before installing this?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wase4711:
what kernel are you on now?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] stargaterules:
You can't really brick your phone by pulling the battery out or closing Odin when flashing a kernel because kernel is not messing with your boot image.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] snake4812:
Not sure but I think only aosp based Roms have this issue and touchjizz roms dont
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
Wow, huge plus with this ROM...all my apps are restoring automatically!!!!!!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] locoboi187:
So this is CM with official support?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] barnacles10:
You can find every bit of info you need from the resources provided in the OP.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cvnntg:
Tried this, but the pictures still get saved to the same location.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
I don't see as many CM settings and configurations in CM9 as I did in CM7.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] barnacles10:
This is work towards cm9. Cm9 is not final yet.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
Ohh alright. But CM9 is far superior to AOKP so far... Just lacks the other configuration settings. I can live without it for now. I'll miss the homescreen weather text though.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Asked this earlier but thread is moving pretty quick. If this is official does that mean we'll have nightlys?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] barnacles10:
I dont have official word, but unless darch or sbrissen builds them themselves I doubt youll see them showing up from cyanogenmods build bots. The rom still uses a prebuilt kernel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ikennai:
SD Mounting

I read the resource file and it said that "if you have a problem" with the apps installing to SD....So does that mean that it should be fine in most cases and it will go to the external sd folder now, or does nobody know if this is a possibility yet?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dougiefresh36:
After you do that reboot, so your phone could do the SD configuration stuff when you first boot up your phone. Then snap a pic and you could check is on your SD card.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
Wait a sec...this ROM isn't rooted. What's with that?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] garfnodie:
CM9 is by default not rooted, but there should be a menu option somewhere to turn root on. It's a new security measure they're introducing with CM9.

CM9 Post about this.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
Oh yeah I remember reading that on Android Police... brain fart.

Or can I flash an su zip?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] barnacles10:
No need. The rom is rooted. Its just disabled.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] smoothone:
Flash videos will not play in the browser for me either.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] b0tes:
I agree with the above posts--this version of CyanogenMOD alpha2 is running lean and mean!

Is everyone running the stock kernel included with the ROM or has anyone had any success with any of the Rogue kernels?

I saw a few pages back that someone said it wasn't recommended and to stick to the stock kernel included, but I wanted to see everyone else's feedback.

Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Custodian:
Using the repacked kernel will fix the stupid battery drain.

Sent from my SPH-D710
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] b0tes:
Which repack version have your experienced this with?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] air2k57:
Yea, which one?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] coiledwire:
Darch posted the fd02 kernel several pages ago; you could try that one.

Samsung stock kernels need to be modified to work with aosp roms. Even if the rogue-repacked kernels are edited for aosp, the only thing you're gaining is rogue recovery which you shouldn't use anyways. So I suggest to use the included kernel or the one darch posted.

Edit: Oops, meant fd02 as linked below. Thanks. vvv

Sent from my SPH-D710
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
^ im pretty sure you're referring to the fd02 kernel posted by darch

sent from my sgs2e4gt
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] air2k57:
I looked through his recent posts, I don't see anything :(. Must be blind. It's an fd05 one I'm looking for? Right?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] coiledwire:
My mistake. See above.

Sent from my SPH-D710
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] b0tes:
Hrmm...how do I flash the zip from the stock kernel? It's not a TAR file so I can't go thru Mobile Odin...?

/pardon my noobness.

UPDATE: I just tried rebooting into stock recovery, and when attempting to flash the FD02-CM9.zip, I received an error regarding the e-signature.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Specialksg1:
I believe you can unzip and flash the zimage file.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kiekan:
Just flash the EL26-CWM tar through mobile odin and then, in recovery flash the new kernel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] b0tes:
I did exactly that, and was able to get the zip to flash thru CWM Recovery. I'll report my results on the new kernel [batt life, etcetera].

Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] satur9ine:
Just to clarify, are we talking about steady's re packed FD02 or darch's FD02 kernel providing superior battery? I've been on darch's FD02 since he posted it and battery life is pretty horrible.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] b0tes:
Correct, we are currently discussing Darch's repack, and not Steady's.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RichTJ99:
Where can I download the one click el29 restore & the el26 kernel?

Is this: SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097_ROOTED_PDA.tar The one click odin?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] coiledwire:
No custom recovery was included in cm9 to protect you from bricking your phone. Odin back to el26 cwm to restore your backups.

Sent from my SPH-D710
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] coiledwire:
It's not the one click, but it looks like an Odin tar. Check sfhub's signature for links to his one clicks.

The install instructions for cm9 have links to el26 cwm. I'd link all of these again but I'm mobile.

Sent from my SPH-D710
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RichTJ99:
Do I need to install a new modem after installing beta 2? Does that get effected at all?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nitro_c4:
You don't need to. When you flash it you'll have the same modem you had before the flash.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] garfnodie:
To clarify even further, moderns run completely separate from ROM and kernel. As long as it's a modem for the e4gt, you can run any modem with any ROM. Modems flashed through Odin do not trigger yellow triangle, and if you seem to have crappy signals, wifi/3g/4g, then just start experimenting with different modems until you find one that seems to workfor you.

Sent from my SGS2E4GT using the XDA Premium app.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cknuth:
So in the release notes it says if your mms does not work you need to purge something from data/data com telephony. I didn't restore any backups but my mms won't send. Can someone walk me through the fix for this?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rickyq12:
You really need to read the CM9 status page and install guide.

Tells you all sorts of information.

Sent from my Epic4GTouch with CM9 Goodness
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] luisrodg:
I just tried to reboot into download mode but it just restarts normally, not into download mode. Can anyone confirm?

I guess its obvious but to be clear this is what I did:

hold power button -> choose Reboot -> choose Download -> hit OK

instead of going into download, it just restarts
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sunnyd313:
i notice this as well. i just have to do the down vol and power a few times, then it starts into download mode.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] b0tes:
I would do it manually: hold down the power button to power off, then hold the power button and volume down until the download mode activates.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] air2k57:
Flashes repack kernel maybe 4 hours ago, has substantially decreased battery usage of android os. Seems to be improving battery life as well.

Prior to flashing it, I have experienced pretty decent battery life though, just usage by os was high and it did seem to drain quicker than previous releases.

Try disabling pulsing notifications light for both low battery and notifications, I had to do it ever since alpha one, otherwise for some reason my phone dies very fast.