[Epic 4G Android Development] justan00b:
Hey Sensei. Just wanted to thank you for staying active on here and trying to keep your ROM up to date after so long. I've stuck with Sleeper forever, it has been my daily driver for a looong time now. I had been using EL30 for awhile and resisted updating to SleeprROM FC09 since I saw there were a lot of problems with it. I just tried the official JellyBean Cyanogenmod 10 [CM10] thats on here because I wanted to play around with the new features, interface, Google Now, etc, but my battery life seemed to decrease, had a bunch of force closes with recording videos, phone restarts while on calls etc, and some other stuff. I mean it did work great considering its a nightly/beta whatever, so mad props to the devs who worked their butts off on that.

I guess I'm still just an old school fanboy and wasn't quite used to ICS/JB and wanted to come back to a stable, classic, and fast gingerbread rom. I did have a nandroid backup that I could have loaded to restore back to Sleeper EL30, but I wanted to start completely fresh and load MTD SleeperROM EL30/FC09 hybird. Anyway, I'm gonna write about my whole experience in case someone else has to go through the same thing. Maybe I was being a n00b and missed a good sticky thread, but I had to do a lot of searching to figure out how to do this. I used the Odin tar and pit file here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1501424&highlight=stock+el30+odin to load stock EL30, which of course had no ClockWorkMod root or anything like that...

I tried to Odin a clockworkmod tar but for some reason that didn't work, so I found a video qbking77 made on rooting EI22 and EL30, and from his video I Odin'ed a modded kernel kernel-GB-3a.tar found here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1307980 and it looked like after that it gave me me the latest up to date ClockWorkMod.

Next I flashed kenny's the peoples rom FC09 because I wanted to try it out. It looked like a nice rom, so props to kenny and other people who put some work into that. The swiping notifications mod was pretty cool since I had just came from ICS/JB and you could do that too, so that was nice. I ended up not really liking the theme though (no offense kenny, your rom still is nice!), and instead of trying to modify it or search for another theme I just figured I'd install SleeperRom FC09 EL30 hybrid. I was kinda planning on installing this anyway, but I wanted to use kennys rom to convert me to MTD first and as Sensei said his rom will keep the same file system.

Sleeper installed pretty smooth, on first boot up it took awhile for the first time to boot past the animation, but after that booting was quick. I did what you said Sensei and unlocked the screen and let it sit, I saw it kept popping up notifying me it was installing some apps. It was going pretty slow for some reason, like taking 1 minute or so between app installs, and bombed out eventually and said I'd need to restart to retry or finish installing some apps or something (like you said it might). For some reason I kept having some crazy problems with superuser, like running titanium backup it kept popping up super user requests over and over even though I'd check always allow. Root wasn't working for some reason, I ended up reflashing and then updating the super user binary. Not sure what the problem was but its working great now.... so if anyone else has that problem just try updating superuser binaries/app I guess.

One thing I forgot was that I was still on EL30 modem since none of the roms updated it (?).. ..anyway after googling I found out that apparently the modems are BML and you can't flash them on MTD? Or maybe I'm wrong, but anyway I followed this here http://epiccm.blogspot.com/2012/04/el30-to-fc09-cwm-zip.html and made sure to follow this too since I'm on MTD http://epiccm.blogspot.com/2012/01/boot-cwm5-bml-from-sdcard-no-flash.html and it worked like a champ.

Sooooooo, anyway now I'm on FC09 modem and EL30/FC09 hybrid SleeperROM. I used titanium backup to restore the default Gallery since it wasn't included (I like the Picasa integration), and I used UOT Kitchen to change the battery icon ( http://uot.dakra.lt and I used one like this http://uot.dakra.lt/duomlink/batteryshow/batfull2.png ) just because I like having a battery icon that shows the % while charging as well, easy to see from lock screen, etc. No offensive to your battery icon Sensei.... well anyway looks like everything is running nice and smooth now. Back when I was on EL30 regular Sleeper for some reason my phone would sit at the Galaxy S loading screen animation for like 3-4 minutes and take forever to load, also gifs never worked for some reason. Everything appears to be working great on this ROM now... Maybe I went about going back to Sleeper the super hard way, but yeah just figured I'd write it out all in case it might help some one else.

I also used this site as a good reference to disable some unneeded services, like samsung, DRM, SNS, etc other crap that I don't use. Thanks to RandomKing for this great tutorial: http://randomkings.wordpress.com/android/battery-saving-tips/ and also used that Spare Parts app to set animations to fast, and the phone seems so speedy (thanks for recommending the app Kenny) ... now to figure out how to disable that annoying sound that the phone makes when you lose signal. GRrrr :(

TLDR: Been using EL30 forever, tried JB CM10, came back to Sleeper and installed EL30/FC09 hybrid MTD, works smooth and great now.

Thanks Sensei!!! :cool:

P.S. If you still have an account on here when I get a job in like... eight months, I owe you a donation. :)

Edit:: Hm weird looks like I'm having some problems with the sound picker app freezing when selecting ringtones, just like some other people are having. Maybe I'll try that DRM fix like someone suggested a few posts back, or use EFS Explorer. :(

Edit2: Sound picker app or whatever its called is working fine now, not sure what happened.. I rebooted and its working good, sorry to post so quickly about problems with it.

Edit3: Man, SleeperRom is working so smooooooth, feels good to be home.

Edit4: ugh ok sorry I keep editing this.. now music player is acting ghey and randomly freezing for no reason, not FCing, just freezing. Play a song, plays fine, hit next, freeze.... and does anyone ever restart their phone, and before they restarted their battery was at like 45%, after restart its at like 15%, what the hell is the problem there?

Edit 5: Applied drm fix yoxboxyo posted a few posts back ( http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=32533239&postcount=240 ) now music player works like a champ, schweeeet... Maybe it was me disabling the drm content services providers tho, who knows. Guess I'll disable it again and see what happens.... Using the drm fix reneabled the drm service, don't know what else it did. I disabled the service back using terminal emulator, and music player still works great, so it looks like I'm set. Good deal....