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[Epic 4G Android Development] SenseiSimple:
If you have it running smoothly, stick with what you have or at least back it up so you can roll back... So far my battery life has improved drastically over FC09 (i'm still using the FC09 modem), and i haven't had any lockups in 24 hours, which had become a regular thing with straight FC09. Notification/charging lights are back in this version.

My pleasure, since i put this rom out a year ago, i've had 35,000+ downloads of the various versions, to me that is plenty of encouragement to have continued. Also, i love the combination of utility and speed this phone has, i rely on the slide out keyboard daily for typing in the terminal... no phone has come close to beating out the OG galaxy, even though i have been tempted by shiny new things, they're all missing a certain something...

Please let me know if the issue is resolved, i hadn't experienced any issues with ringtones/sounds but that could have been a file manager issue since i always leave out the stock file manager, in this version i've switched back to ES File Explorer as the antek explorer has become almost unusable...

haha Thanks!

Hope this adds stability to the phone that's been sorely lacking for the last few months, especially when watching videos and doing mapping related things.

Once again, thank you all, feedback is much appreciated, i'm still poring over the threads to see what's new and has been suggested, i still have some mods i'd like to do to leave this off for posterity, since the powers that be are forcing me to decide to keep loving my phone by not releasing a comparable followup.
[Epic 4G Android Development] SenseiSimple:
i can't reproduce. try to select a sound with the SD card removed, using the Android System option, see if that works. If it does there may be an issue on the SD card that is locking up the system while scanning for external media.. please let me know!
[Epic 4G Android Development] justan00b:
Sensei you rock man! Thanks dude for being so loyal to your free awesome ROM. If you ever need anything coded in windows in C#, VB.NET, or anything like that I'm your man! :cool:

BTW your homer icon rocks.

Later
[Epic 4G Android Development] lawlhai:
I've always loved this ROM and I got excited when I saw a new update and immediately installed...but now I remembered why I had to leave it ... :( For some reason anytime I attempt to play MP3s it will only play whatever my first choice is - if I try to skip or choose a different song the music player will hang and not play anything else until I kill the process and start over.

The mystery is that this is with ANY audio player I have tried and it's only on this ROM I've tried several players, uninstalled Voodoo, etc. I'm kind of at a loss as to what might be causing it. Does anyone have any ideas what might cause this? I had this problem on the last version of the rom and both last time and this time I re-flashed twice just to make sure it wasn't a faulty flash.

Thx in advance for any advice!

EDIT: Tried searching through forum and I didn't see anything specific. When searching through this thread I did find a few mentions of it but no one seemed to address it :(
[Epic 4G Android Development] stevie13.xo:
I had the same problem too..
[Epic 4G Android Development] WBaumgartner:
I can confirm this also. Happened with the included music player and also with TRMP. Had to do a battery pull to recover.
[Epic 4G Android Development] SenseiSimple:
I'll check on this players issue asap, i have an idea as to what it might be
[Epic 4G Android Development] WBaumgartner:
Looking forward to it. Great rom otherwise, I'd like to go back to it once this is resolved.
[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasAggie97:
All these "freeze" issues originally on 3.0.0 were fixed on my phone by deleting the ontents of init.d in the system directory. There should be a post inserted by Kenny on the main page of this ROM.

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See the link above inserted by Kenny for the "fix" to freezes for this ROM.

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BTW, about changing desktop folders, I downloaded the "Kodev Ice Cream Sandwich Theme" from the Play store and thought it a good fix. However, the resolution is not fine enough on my Epic 4G to show the contents inside the folders. The theme states it works on HDPI devices which I thought the Epic 4G was.

Any suggestions? I have emailed the developer with no response yet.
[Epic 4G Android Development] lawlhai:
I think he may have already fixed those issues - this is related only to audio as far as I can tell.
[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasAggie97:
Ok. I misunderstood because I had identical problems with audio selection of ringtones as well as switching songs in the music player with SleeperROM3.0.0 until I deleted the init.d files.
[Epic 4G Android Development] lawlhai:
I had some time to kill tonight so I deleted the files in the init.d folder and rebooted on the off chance it might also fix the sound issue - it didn't make any difference, unfortunately.
[Epic 4G Android Development] yoxboxyo:
Try this, it installs the drm files should fix the music player.
[Epic 4G Android Development] yoxboxyo:
Opps
[Epic 4G Android Development] stevie13.xo:
Did you try this and it worked?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Mike_77:
If you use ES File Explorer to find the ringtones, it works. It freezes for me when I use Android System or Zedge, but was fine with ES. Good Luck.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Trident:
Now I remember why I wasn't using this ROM recently.

This is still the only one that gets "stuck" after a clean install on the Media scanning... SD card at 90%. Doesn't matter how long I wait or how many times I wipe. Everything seems to be working and I love the look, but it just bugs me that that notification stays there and won't go away.

When I installed it dirty, I didn't have this issue, but it was constantly freezing and rebooting on it's own. So I tried wiping and installing and after two attempts, I'm done.

Not asking for any help or demanding any fixes, just giving some feedback. I guess it really is time for a new phone. I'm leaning strongly towards the GS3. Been a good run for the old EPIC...
[Epic 4G Android Development] SenseiSimple:
3.1.1

Update

Nothing major, re-fixed gps, updated apps again, updated bash environment, hopefully fixed the sound issue.
[Epic 4G Android Development] galahadUSA:
I wish I had some money to donate.

Hope you accept my sincere thanks for all the great work you have done for our epics.

You are the MAN! :beer::beer:
[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasAggie97:
Thank you for continuing to update this ROM. I'm on a fully-functioning 3.0.0 and loving it (no need to mess up a tood thing, right?) Is there some way to edit/change the lockscreen background photo using this ROM?
[Epic 4G Android Development] rawready:
Music bug still present. Did a clean install. Came from another gb rom. Other than that rom is running smooth. Still may have to switch...I don't see any other issues that are crippling this rom though.
[Epic 4G Android Development] yoxboxyo:
If you install the file i posted a few posts back in cwm, it will fix your music issues. One of the drm files is missing in rom.
[Epic 4G Android Development] SenseiSimple:
I haven't experimented with changing the background for the lockscreen independently from the home wallpaper.. if anyone else knows i'd be interested as well...

Question:

How many of you use SleeperROM on an MTD partitioned device and how easy was the installation for you?
[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasAggie97:
Forgive my ignorance, but how do we know if we are using MTD posrition?
[Epic 4G Android Development] galahadUSA:
Well...Sleeper el 30 and sleeper fc 09 had been my dailies for months. I tried cm9 but couldn't stand the whole 9016 issue plus battery drain.

You spoiled me. Had zero issues coming back to Sleeper. I always do a full clean install

But then cm 10 official came out while you were away and I had to give it a go. And I haven't let it go yet either. It is pretty awesome to and haven't had any issues to the point I no longer miss visual voice mail now that I have Google voice working just right.

I miss the awesome battery life but I've read its a pain to go back to tw from JB.

For cm 9 to Sleeper just wiped everything as usual and all was as it should be.

Thank you again for these great roms and while your here have one on me...':beer:
[Epic 4G Android Development] BloatedDuck404:
Well if you flashed the MTD version or if you go into settings about phone and you see MTD under kernel or the rom version( I dont know which cause im not running this) that how you tell if your on MTD or BML partition. Now posrition im not sure what that is :p

:D

Sent from..........iOS

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I know that a while ago when i flashed cut and paste from cm10 to try it out I went through hoops. I think it has to fo with clockworkmod 6.X.X.X because I flased CP and when I rebooted i got stuck at the samurai bootscreen nothing happed until i booted into CWM 5.0.2.7 and reflashed why is it like this i wish someone could answer. But now im on a sense rom. I hop too much:o

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[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasAggie97:
Lol, autocorrect! Thanks, looks like I am in BML, or art least no sign of MTD on my about screen...
[Epic 4G Android Development] Jesse6749:
Well I was on MTD and Paranoid JB Hybrid 2.10 and had some rebooting issues and I tried going back to oyur 3.1.1 rom and was having constant lockups at bootup and I tried clearing the delvik, cache parttition, and even fixing permissions with not luck. I ended up Odining back to Stock EL30 and the I flashed you Sleeper Rom Slim Deodexed 3.0.0 and now the phone is running smooth as I expected again.
[Epic 4G Android Development] rawready:
if i am not mistaken. paranoid 2.10 is cm10 based and cm10 has different mtd partitions. This was your problem. So from after flashing any cm10 based rom you must either odin to start from scratch or repartition manually. This is not the issue with cm9/7 and any other mtd rom. Unless otherwise stated like xbobx's sense rom.
[Epic 4G Android Development] BloatedDuck404:
I flashed from cm10 to GB without odin. The thing is you gotta flash 2 times once in the JB recovery and once in the GB recovery. I used to switch back and forth from cm10 to cm9 and Sense.(To see what felt comfortable) It just takes extra steps from JB

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[Epic 4G Android Development] Jesse6749:
I agree it was the partitioning, that why after using Odin to go back to stock fixed my issue. :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] Jesse6749:
I did reflash the rom over itself after I wiped the cache and delvik as well, and even after doing that it would not even allow me to unlock until

I Odined back to stock and then reflashed the rom and now it is working great.
[Epic 4G Android Development] omair2005:
I'm having freezes after disabling the flashlight in the notification toggles..
[Epic 4G Android Development] glen_e:
Hey Sensei, sorry about my inattentiveness to this thread and your question. I have had a few hiccups with the ROM which were fairly consistent among the three separate flashes, two of which were from same ZIP originally placed on the SD card. Flashing the third time with a newly downloaded/copied ZIP killed the CRT on/off animation and again the ringtone/notification assignment -- I'm lucky if it plays my SMS ringtone once per day, otherwise it will only vibrate.

I decided to mount the SD card to my computer via the card reader, move all files off, format it clean, and transfer everything back. It didn't go as well as I planned, running into numerous errors during the process, including an inability (by Windows) to quick format the SD card back to default parameters. It took three tries to format the card, and I encountered a half dozen semaphore errors during both file transfers. I'm pretty sure I just have an SD card with bad sectors. I transfer hundreds of megabytes worth of photos between an SD card and my computer every day and never ran into any such issues, so I know it can't possibly be the card reader, drivers or computer hardware issues.

This may seem rather long winded for explaining a simple problem, but I believe it is necessary to stress the importance of two very crucial elements to modding any device: A good USB cable and an SD card free of bad sectors. I have been using the same 16GB SD card since I purchased the phone two years ago. It is very likely the culprit for many issues I have had with ROM flashes in the past.

What I will do sooner or later is once again format the card and then reflash, just to see if there are any changes. Eventually I will buy a new micro SD card and try it with a totally clean slate, and let you know what happens.

Thanks again for all the hard work and your insightful, timely responses.
[Epic 4G Android Development] eigerzoom:
everything has been good here

after i got everything how i wanted it, I odexed the rom.

running 3.1.1 MTD w/ fc09 baseband
[Epic 4G Android Development] lilajrestnom:
How exactly did you odex it? I know there was a zip for cm7 but I never knew how to do it for tw roms.
[Epic 4G Android Development] flastnoles11:
Here ya go bud... http://senseisimple.com/downloads/MOD_CWM-ReOdex-20120208.zip

taken from here >>>>http://www.igottadroid.com/ModMarket/Listings/SenseiSimple1465628.html
[Epic 4G Android Development] glen_e:
Okay, following up. The SD card worked fine while transferring files and formatting via USB while in the phone. It may be a card reader or adapter issue. Anyway, I went ahead and did a clean flash of the newest ROM. Android again fails to set a notification tone for me (even through ES File Explorer, which will crash while playing the sound). However, I think it may be the sound files I am using. Selecting a different sound file from the ones I was using works just fine and doesn't lock up the phone.

Although I sometimes manage to select the particular sound without freezing up, it only will play upon receiving a notification about 1 out of 100 times.

Attached is a ringtone I had trouble with. For some reason, it wasn't an issue in the past, and I believe I had it set as a notification tone with earlier SleeperROM builds. It was downloaded via Zedge however I have been trying to set it as a ringtone/notification via other means.

Obviously, I can always use a different ringtone (I'm not being stubborn!). However, you may want to try this out on your device to see if you have the same issue; factors such as the length (<0:01 sec), bitrate, etc. may not be handled by Android properly which is causing mine to lock up.

Otherwise, everything is great and it's all running smooth. Great work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] DiMa1720:
Has the sound lockup issue been resolved? I am still getting lock ups using android system select. Ive been using the ES File explorer as a work around
[Epic 4G Android Development] ColinPM:
Always good to see a Sensei ROM update

Upgraded (with a clean wipe beforehand) yesterday to the new version (Full Deodexed 3.1.1 FC09-EL30 Hybrid) but am seeing frequent lockups where I need to take out the battery. I will try to remove all the init scripts as described in the post by kennyglass123 linked from the first page.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ColinPM:
More Lockups

Hmmm - removed the init scripts and still getting lockups requiring a battery pull. I haven't had to do that for months until I loaded this version. The most recent one happened after a popup asking me to OK Google location tracking when I used Google Search for the first time (I had earlier uninstalled and reinstalled it).
[Epic 4G Android Development] flastnoles11:
Your phone just may not like this rom... if you're confortable with odin I suggest odining a stock rom, rerooting and reflashing... sometimes after multiple flashes rogue data can be left behind... its worth a shot...

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[Epic 4G Android Development] bordermadman:
I installed this rom on my wifeys phone, the weirdest thing is happening, when she uses it I can hear feedback, over the speaker, weird :sly:
[Epic 4G Android Development] glen_e:
Sorry if this is sort of a newbie question, but I'm unsure if it differs between ROMs: Is it safe to uninstall ADW Launcher via Titanium Backup in favor of another (LauncherPro), instead of having two home launchers?
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
Yes. Install the new launcher first. Then you can uninstall adw, reboot and it should then show the new launcher.
[Epic 4G Android Development] offtohavasu:
I just installed this on my wife's phone and her notifications will initially sound and vibrate but after some time the sound stops and vibrate only, even though it's still in sound/vibrate mode. Am i missing something or is a reinstall in order?

They are the standard sounds nothing from the sd card
[Epic 4G Android Development] offtohavasu:
Even after a fresh install having same issue. Notification sounds work for a while then they just stop after a while.

Any help would be appreciated.
[Epic 4G Android Development] DiMa1720:
I am having same issue aswell.. trying 3rd party software to see if that can be a workaround
[Epic 4G Android Development] offtohavasu:
Let us know. Other than that issue, this ROM ran great on my wife's Epric.
[Epic 4G Android Development] offtohavasu:
Nothig yet? I really like this ROM, but without notifications, kinda hard to stick with it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] offtohavasu:
Just want to give this a little bump.
[Epic 4G Android Development] iamterence:
No disrespect to the OP or his efforts, but you might be better off with The People's ROM v2.22. Everything just works flawlessly, and no notification issues. Or even CM7. CM7 is ungodly stable, at least on my phone.
[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasAggie97:
Just wondering, does anyone still have the Epic 4G or has everyone switched to newer/different phones? I still use the Epic 4G and LOVE this ROM. Any updates coming soon?
[Epic 4G Android Development] DaKillaWilla:
My epic still running strong....
[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasAggie97:
So is mine. Are you using this ROM? One thing I've noticed about my Epic is that the internal memory gets eaten up by old installed program files that are not uninstalled when I remove an app. I had 20+MB of memory being taken up by old apps I had uninstalled. Had to do a file explorer search based on app size in order to remove them so I could install/update my current apps.
[Epic 4G Android Development] DaKillaWilla:
I don't run this rom, I run crispy. I don't think I ever had that problem.
[Epic 4G Android Development] macb1997:
Running CM10.1 on my Epic still, but I could upgrade. Waiting to see what the Note III offers. If it's not what I want, then I'm gonna get the GS4.
[Epic 4G Android Development] samep:


Still have my epic on a TW ROM. Passed on an upgrade opportunity on the s4, hoping for a better octo CPU or Snapdragon s800 processor to maximize battery life to last all day. May hold out for the Note 3.

Disliked Samsung/Sprint TW development halting at Gingerbread so next upgrade has to be at or near factory release on a potential winner to maximize factory/provider support. Hopefully, I pick a winner.
[Epic 4G Android Development] macb1997:
Your best bet is to probably wait for the Note 3 (If you don't mind the large screen). The only drawback from the Note 3 is the screen size. I feel as though the S4 has a perfect balance in screen size. Once I had it in my hand, I knew it was a keeper. But if Samsung does something really amazing with the Note 3, I might consider getting it. But so far the S4 has and will have great support and so will the Note 3, so it's a win-win essentially :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] orlzzt:
Right now, the GS3 is at the peak of its development evolution. All devs are cranking right now, and the roms and mods are slick and plentiful. But I think with the release of the Note 3, many will depart and we'll begin the development stagnation that we saw here after Sprint/Sam announced no more updates past FC09. It's "the nature of the beast". I have no upgrade till summer 2014 so I'm hoping the GSV (GS Roman Numeral 5) is awesome and has a qwerty slide

;)

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[Epic 4G Android Development] Cam3ron1:
Any reason why the music player locks up while switching vetween a song playing and a new one then forcecloses???
[Epic 4G Android Development] DuzIt4You:
I have to start by giving you big thanks for this one!

I'm coming from CleanGB, and I absolutely love the overall appearance of this ROM. I also ran into some issues with FC's, especially with Swype as well as some other apps (and earlier on with Play Store).

The one thing I'm wondering most about is with installed apps. I've noticed that when I flash in this ROM, that many of my installed apps (both system & user) end up uninstalled, while others appear properly. Any thoughts on what I need to do, or is this by design? I think I ran into the same thing on the last iteration of SleeperROM.

Sent from my CleanGB Epic!
[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasAggie97:
I ran into the "uninstalled Apps" issue with earlier versions of SleeperROM (which I still use). My problem, though, was with any app previously moved to or installed onto my storage card. Apps installed to the main memory were fine, apps on the storage card were not installed and I had to reinstall over the previous version.
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
yea, i have same thing.
[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasAggie97:
Question: Do I Odin the FC09 Modem before or after flashing the new ROM????
[Epic 4G Android Development] hayzooos:
Technically it doesn't matter as modems are independent of ROMs. You can use any modem with any ROM as they don't have a relation with the other.

However, since the OP said it's best to use this ROM with FC09 modem, I would do that first. Might want to reboot after the modem switch to make sure all is well before flashing the new ROM. Probably not needed, but it certainly won't hurt anything.
[Epic 4G Android Development] akuentzler:
Just got a replacement phone last week and I've been on stock anticipating this rom. I formatted my SD card, rooted, wiped data, cache, dalvik, and sleeperrom is running smooth. No issues to report! Thanks Sensei!
[Epic 4G Android Development] iamterence:
I think maybe I got a bad flash or something, but for some reason everytime I tried to set a ringtone and/or raise the volumes levels within the Settings menu, it would always lock up and get extremely sluggish. I'll try a another flash first to see if this fixes the problem.
[Epic 4G Android Development] aboomit17:
Update from EL30

I have Sleeper ROM EL30 I assume this will just update on top of that without any problems? Also do I need to flash thru ODIN or can I do this from the recovery and flash zip from SD?

Thank you for the help.
[Epic 4G Android Development] SpicyBurrito:
This can only be flashed from recovery.
[Epic 4G Android Development] aboomit17:
Thank you, Is there any wiping I should do prior to installing? just looking to update from EL30 to this.
[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasAggie97:
What I did on the last go-round was nothing but flash the zip, everythign stayed intact. I've heard good and bad things about wiping. I haven't tried this update, but will try without wiping. It makes everything easier, except for the SD card program issue I have had.
[Epic 4G Android Development] aboomit17:
Thanx, I will back up first and give it shot.
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
you really should wipe. I didn't and I had to fix a number of things and the phone isn't sleeping like it should. Plus ive never been able to get the crt animation without wiping.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Naddict:
Ahh, memories of the SD card problem...I had these issues also..you are not alone Texas....

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