yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
it probably was not..

but if you add .md5sum to the end of the download link you will download an md5sum file to verify it..

but thank you, i will get that fixed
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
actually, the md5sum was updated... that is not correct. what mirror did you download from?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] EmperorX:
Is this the same build that I downloaded last night that Chris41g posted on goo.im? Alpha 6 that is?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
yes.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] playya:
Lets keep it real here... If there was any type of problem and I mean any minoooot problem with the recovery it would of been plastered all over the forums. With well over a 1000 downloads w/nightlys and quite sure double that on flashing I would say its pretty damn *safe*.....

Now I have seen people say they can not flash modems but other than that I think thats it. Quite sure if I missed something someone will chime in...

Personally I have restored, saved. wiped and flashed
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
I approve this message
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
Rain motorsports multiple times. #5 must be corrupt.

I just downloaded from #7 and the MD5 came out correct.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hduenas1989:
is there much of a difference between Alpha 6 and the 6/27 nightly?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick_rick:
Summed it up nicely :D Yea I believe no modem flashing in ICS custom recovery. Would have to go back to GB custom recovery to flash a new modem. Or just use Odin :cool:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ChristianBundy:
Update: I flashed back the direct boot and wasn't able to reflash CM9 because of a weird build.prop error. I flashed EL29, reflashed direct boot, flashed CM9A6 (and gapps), and it worked. Looks like just a horribly bad flash.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] flyingandroid:
Odined, flashed, and the home key won't work. Gapps won't show up either. Looks like it's stuck on the FE16 Kernel
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] piscesjoey:
Thanks for the heads up, about to flash CM9 for the first time, looks like I should flash the latest modem first while I'm still on GB then flash CM9
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] brooksyx:
Nice work guys, will be flashing this in a little bit.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] b0tes:
It doesn't matter really. You could flash a modem regardless of the current build you're running, before, after, or during the same session that you're flashing to the latest version of CM9, so long as you're flashing it with either desktop ODIN or a GB recovery kernel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
you would...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SantinoInc:
Sound advice my friend. ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wildside84:
Nice work guys. Everything is smooth as butter...now if we could get project butter hmm lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mikelav456:
Just making sure, can I flash this through the recovery in the nightlies? Do I need to wipe anything?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
I concur that #5 is corrupt
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mitchellvii:
Yes, that's what it gets for hanging around with a bad crowd. I was almost scared I soft bricked. Only way I could get phone to boot again was to flash a nandroid.

Ah nandroid. Saves my bacon yet again.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Fixed. Darchstar seems to have no luck uploading to me... Dunno what to do about that. Might have to drop out if i cant get him SSH. No clue what it could be, sfhub has never had an issue nor has you or qbking that I know of.

Sorry for anyone who wasted time due to that.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
Yeah I never had a problem. I never had a problem using yours for cm until now though. I figured it was just a glitch lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
Is it possible to flash modems through the included recovery? I keep getting installation aborted error messages. Same thing happened in the quickboot EL29. :confused:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick_rick:
No, you'll have to flash through either el26 cwm recovery or Odin.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] godiZFICTION:
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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tmarr04:
Just upgraded to a6 and running very smooth. Only thing I've noticed is the back button to kill app appears to not be working. Anyone else experiencing this or should I try to flash again? Thanks in advance and for the awesome Rom
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rooster85:
Hold it longer... about 2-3 seconds. They extended the time to keep from accidentally killing an app.

Sent from my awesomely EPIC Phone
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] piscesjoey:
Keep getting status 7 error when trying to flash alpha 6? Anyone knows what is causing that?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick_rick:
What are you trying to flash with?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] piscesjoey:
Rogue ET Recovery, coming from Calk's EL29 ROM
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wildside84:
Doesn't work for me either
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick_rick:
You need to flash using the directbootCWM or el26 cwm recovery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] b0tes:
Use Chris41g's el26 stock cwm repacked kernel, instead.

Also mirror 5 is reportedly giving errors.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
The initial upload of A5 was bad as well i replaced it before anyone said anything to me. Figure it out I guess. I just need to look into ssh for windows server.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hermeticist:
Is there a difference between tonight's nightly, 5/28, and alpha 6?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rrmzr1:
Are u able to turn off lockscreen vibration
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jmejiaa:
Glad to see we can now flash with any recovery.. So tempted to install now but I need my phone all day tomorrow.. Maybe I'll just do a Nandroid....

hmm...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] piscesjoey:
Still a no go for me after trying with both kernel/recovery, I must be missing something simple
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
Try redownloading.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick_rick:
Odin one click back to el29. Then once you boot into the rom, odin the el26 cwm kernel again and only wipe data/cache/dalvik. Then flash alpha 6+gapps.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] donsh00tmesanta:
so nandroid then odin el26 flash this and then gapps and enjoy right?

then odin el26 then restore nandroid to return? hai?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] piscesjoey:
I re-flashed Calk's ROM, then ODIN'd EL26 repack kernel, booted into recovery, profit! I owe y'all some thanks when I get back on Tapatalk!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SouthPhilly:
Ok so I've finally decided to try out a ICS rom and settled on CM9(Alfa5)... Went through the all the threads linked in the OP, watched the videos, did my backups and flashed. Now I'm not new at flashing by any means... Just a little new to ICS roms. I flashed a few here and there over the last couple of months and then backed off a bit when the whole eMMc scare started up.

Now I know what your going to say... "here we go again, someone else droked their ET4G". Actually everything went great, or at least I thought it did. The only issue I am having is that when I use a Root Explorer its not seeing a lot of folders. Let me lay out an example...

I go to download Team Wins FF11 kernel (the safe one) using the stock browser. Download goes fine, so I open up Root Explorer to move it from the Internal storage download folder to my external download folder like I've always done. Well the download folder is not there. So just to check, I hooked up to my laptop, mounted usb storage and checked. To my surprise folders that show up on my external sd card are showing up as if they where in the internal storage. And the sd card extention is empty. It seams that the file structure is all messed up or something.

Has this happened to anyone else? I really tried searching for an answer using the search engines from both Tap-a-talk and chrome, and we'll it turns out my search skills really must such.

And why I have the floor so to speak... :cool: I have a few more questions real quick.

1. What are you guys doing for the voicemail... I tried out "Youmail" from the Market and I just could not get it to work.

2. Has anyone tried out this kernel/recovery yet... twrp-2.1.8-epictouch-TWiz-FF11??? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27283447

If you guys/gals have any suggestions on a "safe" ICS kernel/recovery I would love to hear them.

3. How do you guys/gals feel about Mobile Odin??? I'm not to sure if I'm going to use one of these "safe" kernels yet and if I can just use Mobile Odin to flash back to EL26 do what I need to do then just Mobile Odin a ICS kernel... I may just do it that way.

Any help will be appreciated... And thank you for your time and consideration in these matters.

Sent From My Galaxy10. 1 Class Starship...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
internal sd is called /emmc and external is called /sdcard, that has been mentioned quite a few times.

i dont recomend mobile odin personally. and that kernel you linked will not work with this rom, only TouchWiz based roms...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
Firstly, in CM9, internal storage is now /emmc/ while external storage is now /sdcard/.

I use google voice for voicemail. I always uninstall sprint's voicemail app right away after installing any rom. Google voice also has a feature where it transcribes your voicemails and texts it to you (optional).

Look at the release notes for alpha 6. The included recovery in A6 is supposed to include workarounds for the emmc bug.

Definitely use mobile odin. It saves tons of time and you don't need a computer.

If you're going back to EL26, you need to have an ICS recovery saved on your phone to flash in CWM. You will not be able to boot into your ICS rom with a GB kernel, therefore you cannot use mobile odin.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] N4STYNATE:
I've seen this asked by a couple of people but no one responded.

Which nightly will incorporate RC1/Alpha 6 code?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
Alpha 6. You can download it from here:

http://e4gtcm.blogspot.com/p/cm9-install-guide.html
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
nightlies do not incorporate release candidate code, they are based on nightly code.. if you want alpha6, which is RC1 based.. then you have to download alpha6, if you want edge code (eg nightlies) then you download nightlies
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
Doesn't the xda premium app have unlimited thanks?

sj

Sent from my E4GT on AoKPm5 FF02 OS4.0.4 w/ dpi @ 128 with Tap@Talk 2.1.1 Pro
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jmejiaa:
Getting status 7 error, I just tried from EL26 CWM from here

http://chris41g.devphone.org/index.php?dir=EpicTouch/Stock+Repack/EL26/

Same issue, re downloading the rom to see if maybe my file was bad.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tmarr04:
Thank you, that's the trick...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] piscesjoey:
I had the same problem, I had to reflash Calkulin's EL29 ROM, after it booted up I ODIN'd EL26 kernel/recovery repack, booted into recovery, then flashed CM9 & it went through
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SouthPhilly:
LOL... Just went digging through all the folders and found everything. Was just coming back to post it, but if you don't mind me asking... Why the change???

Again LoL... I just gave up my old GVoice number!!! So your saying GVoice is going to be my best option?

Anyone else floating around using something other than GVoice... Or even "Youmail"???

Edit: Found out that Sprints VVM works on CM9... So all good.... I think, and we'll see.

Ok... So I just dug around in the release notes for Alpha6. There is lots for mention of the new safe kernel (based on FF18) but not a single link to a download for it. Is there another repository or site I can get it from???

Ya love Mobile Odin... Great time saver...

As for flashable ICS kernels... Got any favorites?

Edit: Found this thread; http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=26295021 It's like Xmas in May over there!!!

Again thanks for the help everyone.

Sent From My Galaxy10. 1 Class Starship...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
the safe recovery is included in the rom..

and the /emmc /sdcard is not a change, AOSP and CM have always been that way, its samsung who changed it with TouchWiz..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jmejiaa:
I reflashed a ROM, Odin'd the direct boot recovery the CM team recommends and it works...

SO EXCITED lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
You can use your current sprint number with google voice. It will all work together. I only have one number.

The kernel/recovery is already in A6.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jmejiaa:
Is there a "dark" sms messaging theme?

I need to start searching now before bombarding the thread :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] acme64:
anyone got the andy boot load animation? cid looks too retarded to bear any more.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
People are replacing the apps with inverted apps. Here is an example:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1647274

You can pull the bootanimation.zip from /system/media/ in an older build and push it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] donsh00tmesanta:
so now i can flash from calks el29?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SouthPhilly:
I realize it is included in the rom... I'm still not 100% on board yet with flashing from an ICS kernel yet. Want to give it a bit more time and see how things go. Needed a ICS kernel to keep in my root zip file on my sd card so when I mobile odin back to EL26 I can flash back to it and boot up.

Sent From My Galaxy10. 1 Class Starship...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] EmperorX:
We've been flashing safely for a couple weeks now. Whether cwm or twrp it works great now.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Natedog1:
I haven't heard of anyone having any issues with either cwm or twrp. I have used both quite a few times without and problems at all.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wp7chris:
Cm9 is why I keep this phone!!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Custodian:
So I went to sleep with the phone off the charger and this is what I woke up to. Any reason why the phones not deep sleeping? Running cm6 with latest KOB.SF tweaks and ff18 modem/kernel
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rey_1178:
this happens to most of us if not all of us. for now all you can do is turn off notifications via led, perhaps underclock to 1ghz at the most and use apps like rom toolbox to prevent certain apps from starting up.but you will still see this problem. until a kernel can be made from source we will continue to experience these issues with the battery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Omar04:
I read somewhere something about KOB tweaks settings on CM9 and AOKP preventing deep sleep can't remember where is that post exactly.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rey_1178:
i stopped using KOB tweaks since i saw no difference and in some cases worse battery life. when you use apps like bad ass battery monitor under app usage you can see at the top of the list "kernel" using most of the juice. juice defender can really help but i didn't like some of the side effects.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] piscesjoey:
No don't do that, that's how I messed up at first, just use ODIN to flash the EL26 kernel/recovery repack, then boot into recovery & flash CM9
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] playya:
I agree do what makes you feel the safest but if you look at the numbers and how people are quick to post anything in here you will notice the one thing you have not seen is the "New Recovery B****ed My Phone" thread - I dont even want to type the word out....lol

Plenty of crazy, brave or just not too bright people in here that I am sure have done god knows what with these recoveries and still no issue. Got to give it up to the developers for this one... They kept going and going till they found a solution... Again thanks :good:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rey_1178:
there should be a like button next to the thanks one. :good: +1
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] garfnodie:
This only just got release a few hours ago, your going to have to wait a day+ for some good battery usage reports.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bo5ibbs:
Getting 25 hrs with 15 on screen time :-p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dcowboys2184:
how do i get rid of thee yellow triangle things ugly
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jonathaflores:
except right ? just making sure ..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nitro_c4:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neuteboomt:
triangle away in the play store.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] salty6924:
Apologies if this is somewhere else, But I couldnt find it with search or google.

Installed alpha2 and its amazing BUT, i have no mobile signal, all other radios work.

When i attempt to update profile or PRL i receive an activation message, And when i attempt to activate it tells me to turn off airplane mode, even though its off.

I DID see that CM9 does not have hands free activation, but why would i need to activate now?

any help would be appriciated. If i figure this out ill post the answer of course.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rsloan:
http://e4gtcm.blogspot.com/p/cm9-install-guide.html
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick4mitch:
Ok, this happened to me once and what I did was flash a radio, it can be the same radio but just flash it, I hope it fixes it for you, good luck ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] salty6924:
Amazing on the helpful and cheery response, i will try this and report back at once!

Edit: Flashed FB27 Via ODIN and it worked. Thank you amazing XDA helper!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rsloan:
The battery drain on 4.0.4 has seemed to level out a bit, Android OS isnt munching on battery nearly as much as before.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hoopsdavis:
Anyone still getting the phantom voicemail icon?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] asteetva:
which radio are you all using?

I am in North East area ( Newyork, New Jersey), which is the best radio in this area?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick4mitch:
I went crazy when it happened to me, and by cheer luck I flashed a radio and booted and funny enough it did the trick, Im glad it worked for you too :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xplosiveone:
Is anyone else having issues with their playstore purchases not registering in the market. For instance, I have purchased titanium backup and after flashing this rom, the market doesn't register than I own that app and prompts me to pay for it again.

EDIT: Removed Gmail Account and Re-adding it fixed the issue.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Vandam500:
Not the ROM http://phandroid.com/2012/03/29/google-play-store-glitch-makes-paid-apps-disappear/
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Somairotevoli:
damn my phone is charging fast. no issues yet. using fc07 modem.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 19fonzy:
Only one problem, there is no Facebook sync :(. Great rom overall trhough.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] euphoria:
Dang, just flashed CNA, and I have a calculus exam tomorrow....

Eh, whats a little flashing gonna harm :D

Thanks darchstar, sbrissen, and the rest of the team
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
That is known ....Google hates Facebook use

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync

Facebook won't use the right API when making app so Google broke the Facebook contact sync
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Scar107:
For alpha6, do I have to wipe the data, or can I just wipe the cache and delvik.

edit: oh and I'm on nightly 6-21.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jmejiaa:
The ROM has been great, getting used to all this new ICS goodness.

I have two issues,

My gps won't pick up signal at all, not even with gps status, not sure what's up.. It doesn't even show satellites to connect to.. Anyone else have this with the alpha 6 build.

Two is my camera was making a buzzing noise when I started, sounds hardware related but it only started happening with this rom.. It seems to be gone today.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] te45a:
I'm having same issue with GPS, but it started couple days ago for me, even when I was on alpha 5, it worked for a long time but suddenly on Tue decided to f... with me. Used temp stock from emmc method and got a fix within seconds using GPS status but when I boot into cm9 and use GPS status can't get a fix!

Sent from my SPH-D710
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jmejiaa:
Weird, other than that I'm loving ics and this rom. Once we go final it will definitely keep me content with this phone for a while.

Now I just need sprint to hurry up and get their act together in my area.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iamAtR:
I noticed this Rom has Rom Manager installed. I haven't touched that app since I had my evo. Is the recovery on that app safe to use?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rwright64:
Nope
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hakcenter:
The tweaks actually put cell "standby" on the list for my battery use and instead of losing 1% of battery per hour while i sleep WITH DATA/WI-FI OFF, goes directly to 1% every 6 hours.

I've got a screen shot of my phone lasting 2days and 10hrs. Sure minimal screen time of 3hrs but the phone can't do that without the tweaks.

What i want to figure out is why vbus_present rapes my battery for no reason.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rey_1178:
i think if you download bad ass battery monitor it'll give you more details on what is sucking the juice.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hakcenter:
I have it. That's why i know it's vbus_present whatever that is in the kernel
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Wizard Knight:
Can somebody please link me to the aosp FF18 kernel. I can't find it... Assuming it's available
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1662295
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Freeroot:
Okay, I have been (reluctantly) testing the recovery in this build and have some things I think are important enough to be posted to this thread and not the one in general.

First, making a backup and restoring is functional. Second, and I may have been scared out of my mind while doing it, but wiping and flashing works, not only to a gb rom, but also to ics.

I tested it by flashing to alpha 6, booting, rebooting to recovery, backing up, wiping, flashing to alpha 6. I then booted, booted into recovery, wiped, then restored my backup and booted. Everything worked.

Some side notes: I found that recovery had been function since the nightlies. I forget which one(lol), but I think it was 06/24/2012.

I also found that calks format all does not work. It will wipe /cache, but will stop at wiping /data. This not only means that /data will not be wiped, but also that /system will not be wiped. To wipe /data, simply go to the main screen and wipe /data factory restore. To wipe /system, go into mounts and data and select format /system. This is a rather important step and I think you should always wipe /system.

Over all, it is mainly functional. Thank you all so much for your hard work on this. Its really awesome you guys got this to work.

Finally, and I have said this before, please, please PLEASE limit this thread to development and/or information directly pertaining to testing and/or problems. Most of the conversations arising have already been conversed about or are in the release notes in the op. Please search and read before posting. If you are unsure, post in the thread in the general section. Thank you all, I just don't want to see this thread get closed again (again).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Scar107:
Hey guys, can we flash alpha6 over a nightly without wiping the data. I know worth the nightlies I can just wow the cache and delvik.

I want to try it out but I an not in the position right now to redo everything.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cknuth:
I just went from 6-27 to a6 without wiping anything. No issues. I don't think there is a drastic difference between them but I could be wrong?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Scar107:
Thank you Sir, I will give it a try as soon as I can. :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] b0ricua:
I'm currently on nightly 6-25 and in those changelog notes it was stated:

We now have a "safer" recovery thanks to the work of chris41g and Dees_Troy. They have implemented a number of safe measures into CWM recovery to work around the eMMC bricking such as the removal of commands known to cause bricking and the use of a safe gingerbread update-binary when flashing .zips.

With that being said, I'm assuming I can flash alpha6 cleanly with the included recovery rather than flashing CWM5 first?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] donsh00tmesanta:
How can I come back to gb?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] luisrodg:
I installed alpha and all of my purchased apps appear as if I hadn't bought them. It appears with the price to buy etc. I have tried to buy them again, with the hope that the system realizes I have already bought it but instead it just gives me an error.

Why does this happen? Any help? I can't install any of my purchased apps.

Thanks.