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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xda-todd:
I first installed CM9 on June 13 (if I recall) and have been installing CM9 without wiping or reinstalling apps since. That includes the current alpha 6 that you're on plus several nightlies since then.

I had a problem with Chris's MergeMe build where my capacitive buttons wouldn't light up but now I'm on backthatassup and no problems (at all, really -- good battery life using conservative governor, good performance, data speeds on all settings fine, pandora works fine, gps is great, etc.).

So you might skip #2 and #4.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] armandosal:
Ok thanks ill give it a shot when I get home. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BigJPNut:
Wow ur right Pandora finally works for me too...failed to notice that. No wipes for me either since mid July.

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Maybe im having a brain freeze lol...how do u send a mass text to multiple contacts on cm9??? Thanks in advance!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] armandosal:
Are you guys using any of the Google now apps? If so which one are you using? I'm thinking of flashing the mikey6_offline.zip
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mikelav456:
Is shabby 8/3 nightly include a safe kernel to flash from? su, thus mobile Odin, not working for me.

Just being safe.

sent from my sgs2e4t running cm9.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Should be, it will be wipe safe and if flashing to a nightly or to Alpha 6 the updater binary is safe anyhow. There was a couple kernel builds that flashing an unsafe zip on was unsafe due to a mismerge but i believe that was before 8/3 was built.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] armandosal:
So after flashing to machete I don't have to use el29?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mikelav456:
I just want to flash the machete nightly. Should that be safe, even though created by Chris and not shabby?

sent from my sgs2e4t running cm9.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] skadoo323:
I am using this one as well and not having issues. I usually just flash it after I flash one of Chris' ROM updates.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tdagraca:
mikey6-offline.zip

where can i find it? i have been looking for he best google now zip file but I can't seem to find the one that everyone is using? it would be greatly appreciated :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nandowong:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1747224

Mikey's m6 works perfectly. I'm running the offline mode version
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jahrule:
You will need a temp stock rom to do phone reprogramming.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tdagraca:
thanks man, i jsut gave you your first "thanks" lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] skadoo323:
That is what I am using as well. Works great.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tdagraca:
is there a direct link the the mikey6 offline zip? is it the one that starts with "velvet" ?

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also, its an apk, not a zip file :/
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jimbobtexas:
If you get the .apk, I think all you have to do is rename it to GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk, move it to /system/app, set permissions to rw-r-r, then reboot.

That worked for me...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Big Boy Laroux:
I've been flashing the mikey6 .zip file from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=29756226&postcount=2856
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jayjay7411:
don't think this is incorporated into cm9 yet all lockscreen settings just has a place holder for now
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kcstier:
Battery Drain Problems

I'm trying to run setcpu on this and I put the freq down to 200 and then the phone won't wake up! I get terrible battery life on this rom and any ICS Rom! I charged my phone to 100% at 2pm today! By 1130pm off of light/medium use my battery was drained to 2%. Are there any kernels yet that can go with this rom that have a battery script included or will work with setcpu?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] btaylor545:
Wow this should be way past alpha 2 this thing is miles ahead of the alpha 1 and I have yet to find a prob so far good job guys keep up the great work!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] brooksyx:
It is running quite well. I wouldnt say its quite Beta/RC status due to not having a proper recover or kernel but hey they are coming sooner, even sooner if samsung would ever release the dang ICS source :p

That being said this is an amazing rom and we are very lucky to have it on your phones.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cdw9800:
change how? i have mine set to unlock with the face detection
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] garfnodie:
Custom background image, widgets and stuff like that.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] vandizzam:
Sorry. I meant change the background on the lock screen.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mu5ic92:
any notification light bug going on with alpha 2 ? iv read the sound is working with no problem.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cdw9800:
ah yeah i forgot about that i haven't seen an option for it i been away from android for a while good to be back i miss the customization

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mine was working for text and voicemail
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jlear3:
Anyone been able to flash this, gapps, and the VVM zip? I got an extreemley long boot time and just battery pulled, flashed without the vvm perfectly tho
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nooomoto:
Not able to use video recording :( everything else is great
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] btaylor545:
Gonna put this through its paces but so far its running better than the unofficial cm 7.2 was. Had too many probs with that rom this ones much smoother so far

SN: digging the new cm boot screen **** is trippy
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] btaylor545:
Did you use calks wipe all zip before flashing this with the el26 cwm? My video is working just fine
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wtogami:
Aside from fixing bugs, it cannot be called beta until:

Build kernel from source.

Working CWM that wont permabrick the phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wase4711:
yeah, don't use setcpu on these stock kernels...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KBizzle:
Thank you. I have been searching high and low for inverted moms.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] anti-up:
Me too, I love MILFS!!!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Jonnyredcorn:
Flashed this on my girls phone and it is running good so far. She was getting terrible battery life on alpha 1 so hopefully this is better. Only thing I've noticed that is ****ty is her reception, although it is sprint after all. She is running fç07 modem....could I Odin to el26 w/ cwm, flash a different modem, then flash the rom again without wiping data?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nyeazyone:
Any help with this?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nitro_c4:
Odin the EL26 recovery, flash modem, flash ROM & gapps.

Edit: what kbizzle said. I totally forgot you could Odin those :banghead:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tdagraca:
that actually worked for me ..flawlessly too on the machaete build ! thanks !
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] daniel4653:
Yup works great :)

Except that's noise it makes seem really loud anyway to disable or lower it ?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] felibon:
Pandora is working on Machete!!!!!! Awesome!!! Front facing camera was also force closing in the previous version. Its no longer FCing in Machete. Great work!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] daniel4653:
Cool its been working on kbv3
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] CoolGui:
MTP?

There were a couple of people early on who mentioned it, but nobody seems to be talking about this... is there any work being done to get MTP working? I hate having to unmount the storage on the device to manage it on the PC.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] todivefor:
I ran into a problem with nandroid backup/restore on KillBillVol3/machette.. I did a backup to flash to machette. Backed up with killbill recovery and directboot (el29). I ran into a problem problem after flashing machette. I did not have time to figure out the problem (problem was not with machette, but my configuration). I tried restoring back to killbill. The restore failed with "error on data" message. I retried and got "error on system" message. I then restored el29 backup from machette and the restore worked fine. I would report on irc, but can't be on irc for awhile. I will collect any necessary logs, someone just point me to what and how. Anyone else seeing any problems with restore?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kc_hubbard:
Damnit...was just about to flash machete and imrichbitch shows up.

Love the pace you're putting this stuff up Chris!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] guirae:
so we should clear app data for gallery and apollo?

when i go to gallery my photos that were saved to internal storage are not there. no music on apollo (saved on SD card)

i am referring to chris replying to a comment about how pictures or music cannot be found in these two apps..

EDIT: i go to root explorer and navigate to: /external_sd and find my pictures and music in there where they always are. it's just not showing up when i go to my gallery/music app

EDIT 2: i rebooted to see what would happen. a picture i took that was saved to the "internal memory"/gallery app was no longer there. i navigate to /external_sd on root explorer and find that picture is now in my sd card.hmm..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] felibon:
At the rate he has been cranking these out didn't give me try to try that one lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] armandosal:
I flashed it and everything works except for voice search. It just kinda hangs there after I speak to it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jcrabapple:
A reboot usually fixes that for me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Big Boy Laroux:
Is anyone else having issues with photos not deleting?

- I am running Machete

- I have "Use internal storage" checked (so my removable sd card is now labeled as "sdcard" and the internal sd card is now labeled "external_sd")

- All photos are on removable SD card

- I have set camera to "Use SD Card"

- Delete a photo in the gallery - it no longer shows in gallery

- However, I can still see the photo in file explorer (in the DCIM folder), and after a reboot, the photo reappears in Gallery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] guirae:
what kernel are you on?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Big Boy Laroux:
The one included with Machete:

3.0.15-gfec8015

chris41g@gooey #1

SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 15 10:40:02

MST 2012
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
shabby doesnt "create" any builds.. he builds them from the source i, and team epic create..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Censura_Umbra:
So I have been using machete and everything has been going well. But battery life must be terrible or something. I went to sleep with 84% battery and 4g on but no auto refresh. I slept for 6 hours and my phone was dead when I awoke. That has never happened before. Will download cpuspy and keep an eye on it

But it looks like the entire time the screen was off but it was still awake
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rooster85:
Same happened to me, think its the notification light keeping it awake

Sent from my awesomely EPIC Phone
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] guirae:
so i just flashed killbill from the kernel that came with machete.

i still have the same error you have. i am able to navigate to the SD card to find all necessary files. i go to settings-storage and it states that my sd card i loaded. it also shows the appropriate amount of GB's being used up.

i just cant seem to figure out how to get the sd files (music+pictures) to show up on the system apps....scarmon recommended i flash the lowrider gapps.....

@chris41g, any insight?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] thenimboo:
Where are you guys finding these builds? The ones like hammertime, machete, etc?

What are they? Why don't they have their own thread? Why are you guys talking about them in the CM9 thread? I'm so confused right now.

I gathered that Chris41 makes them, but I just checked his website http://aosp.chris41g.org out and couldn't find any of the things being referenced here.

Can someone help? I'm pretty desperate to escape CM9 Alpha 6 as of now...it is giving me major storage nightmares (mostly in that it is only letting me use about 1/2 of my internal storage...really sucks).

Thanks guys!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bubur_bewok:
Yesss...thanks chris..bilssnye storage config come back to richbit*h..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Big Boy Laroux:
I have no issue with my pictures being shown in the gallery or music being recognized.

My issue is that when i delete a photo in the gallery, it does not actually delete from the file location. I know i could then delete via a file explorer, but it should delete from the gallery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jimbobtexas:
http://chris41g.devphone.org/index.php?dir=EpicTouch/CM9/

Now be careful...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] thenimboo:
Thanks for the link, also just found this: http://goo.im/devs/chris41g/CM

Can you please tell me what these are, though? Are these considered to be CM9 nightlies? Which would you recommend?

How do you suggest I go about the upgrade? Can I just flash it right over CM9 Alpha 6, or should I wipe? Any special things I should do to try to fix up my storage woes?

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That sums my storage problems up. My android believes that my storage is almost full, even though it also believes that I only have about 4.1gb of space taken up (if you add things up). I should have over 5gb free.

Applications won't update either. Smaller ones do sometimes, but anything close to 16gb will say I have insufficient space.

This is on CM9 Alpha 6.

What should I do to fix this?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] guirae:
just flashed imrich and problem is still present. is this what they call the "emmc bug"?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bubur_bewok:
Its not emmc bug..its just configuration for storage mounting..

Richbi*ch storage config :

11.5GB partition as sdcard

Your micro sd as external_sd

App data destination to your sdcard
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Adreaver:
The "emmc brick bug" was an issue with improperly merged(i think) kernels (before and just after source was released). Basically, something in recovery was broken and it could make your internal storage unusable.

Your issue is unrelated and not really a bug. I've noticed that Storage seems to underreport my available emmc space by about 5gb, but then I remembered I have about 5gb worth of nandroids. Storage doesn't see those backups as usable files, so it looks like you are missing space.

Sent from my CM9'D E4GT
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jimbobtexas:
They're what they say they are: experimental. Use at your own risk. Having said that, just flash over Alpha 6. I was at Alpha 6, and have flashed all these builds one over the other without issue at all. If things get weird, you can wipe, but it's not required.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Adreaver:
I've been wiping cache/dalvik every flash, but I haven't wiped data since flashing to a6 sometime in July. All my app data is saved and I haven't had any issues so far.

Sent from my CM9'D E4GT
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Big Boy Laroux:
Can someone else running machete or imrich test this? Would love to see if this is happening to anyone else.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] thenimboo:
Ok well I really hope IMRICHBITCH fixes my storage problems :( It is very frustrating.

Question: If I were to wipe everything (calkulin 2x format all), would the automatic google account backup sufficiently restore my entire system? I've never tried it.

I only ask because for some reason this whole storage issue has also affected Titanium Backup, so I couldn't do it that way. It finds 642 app data elements, but when I go to "batch" area, it only sees 5 apps. NO ****ing clue why. Titanium is also reporting both my SD card and my internal storage as having about 12gb of space (the microsd is 16gb though...), and says that they BOTH have 409mb of storage free. This is really messed up.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Censura_Umbra:
That is quite strange. But it is possible you need to wipe. Just go to cwm and do a complete wipe, maybe even a few wipes. Then reinstall everything
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] thenimboo:
Is there any ICS rom that you know of for the E4GT that "just works?" CM9 Alpha 6 seemed to work well for me for a while, but now it is completely falling apart.

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I probably will. Are you saying this is strange even for Alpha 6? As in this shouldn't even be happening on Alpha 6? That's a relief to hear, maybe I shouldn't even try other roms? I was thinking of trying some of chris41's Roms (imrichbitch or machete), or even just looking outside of CM9. Just didn't know which one I should try.

How would you go about reinstalling everything? Titanium? I can't get titanium to work right now (seems to be affected by the whole storage issue), but it does have a 3 week old backup of my apps. Does the Google account auto restore actually work? I've never tried it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] guirae:
what do you recommend i do so i can get my music playing from my sd card?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
If you test roms and then if you find something "broke" or if your then restore and things aren't working right, just restore to stock, (el26) and then start again.. as long as you are careful to always use safe recoveries and know what you are doing, then you should be able to test anything you want..

There are numerous ICS roms that as you said "just work" ..

I use Chris's or shabby's nightly builds as daily drivers.. they are solid..

sj

Sent with my Epic 4G Touch on CM9-8/16 ImRichBitch @ 128 dpi using Tap@Talk Pro v2.2.6
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rooster85:
I too am having this issue. Power amp sees the music but Apollo does not.

Sent from my awesomely EPIC Phone
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kyleinkc:
I am having the same issue using google music. I am using Chris' most recent
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] guirae:
i'm going to have to try power amp. i dLed doubletwist and it wasn't finding the music either..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] deaver_92:
I would suggest plugging in to a computer and checking storage space from there. This will also let you see what is taking up the most space (i.e. nandroids).

As far as which rom, imrich is the newest. It seems to be solid and the most up to date, so go with that one.

You can change the location of your TB backups (preferences>backup folder location). If you don't see your backups try switching to the other one. I've had to do that with previous builds.

Auto restore downloads the apps you had on your phone the last time you synced. If you have an app that isn't in Google Play it will not redownload. App data is also restored. Yes it works. TB is easier. Or try Rom Toolbox.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rooster85:
And now when I try to install a new app is says insufficient storage :/ on the latest bud from today. Also Apollo music still isn't seeing music stored to external SD.

Sent from my awesomely EPIC Phone
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mightypenguin:
Differences?

So what's different/better about these nightlies vs A6?

I know these are based on the official released kernel sources for our phone.

I'll probably try them anyway but I'd like to know what I "should" see.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] darklavalizard:
Alpha 6 is way old and out of date, run the latest build from here
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] armandosal:
I just tried that and no luck. :confused:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dj21o:
Came in XDA to see why a kernel broke my storage LOL. Can't read my SD card, just like everyone else. FMLLLLLL. time to start over.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Silentknyght:
I've tested a few builds, now, and the Google Maps

Navigation

is broken on all of them:

Mergeme

KillBillv3

Machete

It's continually stuck on "Searching for GPS". However, on each of them, Google Maps (not Navigation) seems to find my GPS location fairly quickly. Is this a fixable issue? If not, that's going to be a deal-breaker. :(
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mlewin1:
you may want to try a clean install Navigation is working fine my device, no issues what so ever.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] deaver_92:
Works fine for me. Just used Google navigation a couple hours ago. I'm on machete. Can you get a lock with GPS status? Also, if you are on wifi when you open maps then it'll pinpoint you regardless of whether GPS is enabled or not.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] brooksyx:
Trying to download arewethereyet build from goo but its saying its going to take hours...

Anyone else getting really slow download speeds?

edit: cancelled out and re downloading it now. Going a little faster at about 40mins but still should only take like 5~10mins to download.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Silentknyght:
I already tried wiping data/cache, but did restore all apps from Titanium Backup, those that weren't installed by flashing Gapps 2012-04-29.

I'll try arewethereyet, wiping data/cache/dalvik, and installing all apps from the market... plus a complete wipe of the internal/external SD cards. And I'll report back in 18 hours.

In the meantime, what version of Gapps would you recommend I use instead?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] thenimboo:
What do you mean by stock el26? Do you mean Sprint Touchwiz stock ICS? Does CM9 Alpha 6 count as stock el26? What is the point of restoring to stock before flashing another rom? Does it have to do with not having to restore apps/data every time???

I'm on EK02. Honestly I really don't know what difference it makes which baseband I'm on. I don't have a very complete understanding of what basebands are/how they affect roms. I have a funtional understanding, as in I have been able to do what I need to do in order to get different Roms onto my E4GT, but I don't really understand what I'm doing. I know, for example, that I needed to use mobile odin (and sometimes I used desktop odin) to get the el26.tar kernel loaded every time I needed to update CM9; before CWM became safe, that is. I really have no idea why there should be any difference between el26 and ek02 though. I'd appreciate it if you could enlighten me :)

I used to think I knew what I was doing. With my EVO 4g I definitely did. The galaxies seem a bit more complicated.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] deaver_92:
What he (she?) means by "atock el26" is an el26 gingerbread kernel. Alpha 6 doesn't count. Basically, flash an el26 kernel (cwm is probably best at this point. The direct-boot kernel is a good choice), wipe data/cache/dalvik (I usually wipe a couple times), flash your rom of choice.

On the other hand, with the emmc bug fixed in current cm9 kernels you are perfectly safe to flash with one of those (any of chris41g's kernels after 8/03). EL26 is almost a thing of the past, but some people still prefer to do it that way. Depends on how cautious you want to be.

"Restoring to stock" is just a way to make sure that there isn't anything left from the previous rom. It also allows you to update prl/profile before flashing the new rom. This is only necessary, however, if you are coming from a different rom. For example, AOKP to CM9. Upgrading between CM9 builds doesn't require any wiping.

Baseband is the modem. It has nothing to do with the rom. It just affects signal strength, quality, whatever else.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bonobomidwest:
Hi there. I posted on this issue in this thread a few days ago. In a nutshell, in my experience cm9 has far better GPS performance than any of the stock roms. On the stock roms i would often have to restart the GPS. In cm9 there is no issue with the GPS itself (you can check this with a variety of apps - i really like "GPS test", which also allows you to reset the GPS, which fixed issues with navigator in the stock roms).

HOWEVER, I also was having exactly the problem you described UNTIL I switched off 4G. Then as if by magic navigator has been working flawlessly. Try that, if it works for you then that's two data points! :)

Also BTW, you can download a map area's data to your phone from within google maps, which means that you don't need to have a data connection. I find this generally helps performance too.

Hope that helps
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] babololo12:
Music not working even though I have music on my pone Apollo or player pro is not detecting my music. I am on first48anyone else having that problem
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] brooksyx:
Arewethereyet is working great for me so far. I suggest if your having issues with a new build give it a try.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
New build should be up by now..