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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JDinAZ74:
I laughed. I've given up on eagerly checking for release every morning. I hope Sprint reps read these forums and know how disappointed your customers are. I mean you got beat by T-Mobile
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Esoteric68:
Not 100% accurate, yes T-Mobile pushed out their update sooner but they only got 4.0.3 while we are getting 4.0.4. :good:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JDinAZ74:
True, I didn't really think of it that way. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Esoteric68:
It's possibly just a minor bump up, but gives us something to hold onto. lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris-allen:
Amazing how a a handfull of Devs on here can accomplish more in a weekend then a multiBillion Dollar company can in 6 months.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MoHoGalore:
Its because the devs here like what they are doing ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingdazy:
as much as I love our devs, and every damn thing they do, you do a great disservice to the people that actually code it from scratch by implying that they are not accomplishing anything. any real dev would tell you the same.

(also, this thread is failtrollbait.)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] GoldBarSniper:
I would agree. But, Samsung/Sprint have multiple phones to develop for, and I'm sure their rules and guidelines are a little more strict.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fendulon:
Agreed. Coding from scratch and reworking source code are two different beasts. Not to put one or the other down, they are just two different flavors of developing. I give mad props to all our devs as well as those on the Samsung and/or Sprint teams. Even if it does take a while I'm sure they will deliver a polished product and our devs can make it shine even more through the many possible tweaks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
4.0.4 wasn't that minor in the upstream it has massive fixes for video, flash, and web based flash video. 4.0.3 got pushed with some janky ass Meth lab patches to get video and flash playing, 4.0.4 has the fixes implemented by Google and not the mfg. It was about an extra gig (just shy) to the raw source b4 compile.

We are legion, for we are many.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] reddragon72:
So I've been reluctant to mention this but my old source that was pulled off of our phone and put on the gs3 mentioned something odd the other day. So he is still in the same lab as our phone and the rest of the gs2's and said that the base gs2 has JB on it in the lab and is being tested. He was told that all testing on ICS had been put on hold for gs2 and no one knew why then Monday(our Sunday) he said that a single gs2 JB build came in for testing. I would not read much into this but I can't help but think that its odd that ff18 is still pretty buggy and its been two weeks and no new drop. Interesting stuff. He hasn't mentioned our phone yet so no clue if there is a build for our phone but the base gs2 has one in the testing house.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kevmo1965:
Im hoping we go straight to jb.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] darktranquility18:
I was watching a video and android central asked this guy from google about only 7% of the phones having ICS and all he said was whatever lol. I think they're taking JB a lot more seriously now
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ascertion:
Won't happen.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] heroisnotdead:
Certainly, one must try to compensate for the rampant ignorance of ones customers.

Meanwhile, the less ignorant and more discerning have to wait for the lowest common denominator to catch up.

If it's good enough for the dummies it should be good enough for most, right? Nobody will care about the batch of ****ty gps radios or lack of ICS; android 1.5 is the ****! :screwy:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elliwigy:
dont forget we wouldnt be here at akk if ir wasnt for samsung/sprint.. we wouldnt even have had an ics leak for our devs to work with.. delayed yes, to be expected from sprint.. jb? maybe one day but they miggt as well release source if they are going to be working on jb
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Esoteric68:
Minor from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4, not from GB to 4.0.4 but I have no real knowledge of exactly what the difference is between the two ICS builds so maybe it is more than a minor bump. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Yea that's what I was getting at 4.0.3 > 4.0.4 included major fixes to video, flash and webbased flash video. It was somewhere in the neighborhood of 700mb of raw source code prior to compile added in between the 2, there were other small fixes but these were the major ones allowing Netflix, YouTube etc to work with out crappy patches put in by the mfgs, the patches were now included in the raw source making it a pretty significant update for those who like video and flash based games etc :D

We are legion, for we are many.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Esoteric68:
Awesome, one more reason to be patient for a little bit longer. lol Thanks for clarifying that. :good:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nuenjin:
How many ICS builds have been released for the e4gt? What about all the money spent on that development? Unless they/them/someone figured that JB would help sell more of the e4gt, with its wimax limitation.

It seems too good to be true but it would be nice to go straight to JB.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gilbydakid:
maybe Samsung is more worried about the gnex and galaxy tab issues?

Sent from my sprint Samsung galaxy s2 Epic 4g touch with ics using cm9 on the blazing slow now network
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
No problem I was keeping an eye on the source merge in the upstream just b4 my dev box blew a video card, I had compiled ICS for the og Evo and the kindle fire and was trying to figure out the zimage for the et4g when my video card decided it was gonna cook itself into oblivion and scorch the motherboard in my laptop :eek: spent 200$ on a new video card to find out the whole board was shot and they aren't available new any more so now I'm saving for a new machine, think I'm gonna go alieneware this time around tho. HP and Toshiba haven't been to good to me, my Vaio was great til my son stepped on it and broke the screen and housing

We are legion, for we are many.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Esoteric68:
Geez that sucks :( hope you find something soon that doesn't cost you an arm and a leg.

Back to the OG EVO ICS, is this available somewhere? I rooted my old OG EVO recently and would love to try out a few ROMs on it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
There's a bunch of ICS roms for the OG now most are pretty good, I need to pull mine and find a kernel for it when i was building mine I was still working on drivers from scratch, this was before the ICS kernels for the Evo were really worth a damn. Team D.I.R.T has some good ICS roms available over in the Evo dev section :cool:

We are legion, for we are many.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Esoteric68:
Thanks, will look them up (sorry for going off topic everyone lol)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dz1:
this could potentially be true in order to sell more ep4t they could draw the crowd with jb. My theory is that they were about to release ics but they are on hold and testing jb in our device. Just my crazy theory

you know what would be funny if we got ics 4.0.3 :good:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rooster85:
Love the sig!

Sent from my awesomely EPIC Phone
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Don't mean to make accusations of trolling, but your track record is awful. Perhaps 4chan would be more suitable for you?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Pretty sure corporations like Samsung are capable of multi tasking. One thing is for sure though, something flaky is going on. Calk, who has proven himself to be reliable, said ff11 would be an ota with the minor lingering bugs fixed in subsequent builds, similar to the eg30 to ek02 to el29 gingerbread ota's when the phone was first released.

Pure speculation, but I suspect that ff11 is currently going through the bureaucratic corporate channels and will be an ota, since Calk has always been accurate on things like this. However, Jelly Bean is actually a minor update to ICS, barely worthy of a new version name. I suspect google choose to give it a name to help sell their new tablets and would have made Jelly Bean a 4.0.x ICS release otherwise.

For this reason, I am speculating that ff11 will be an ota as Calk said, the subsequent planned maintenance release Calk mentioned has been abandoned in favor of a Jelly Bean release since it is so similar to ics, which is why there haven't been any rdfs in a while.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] eltormo:
If this doesn't change i will strongly consider moving to an iphone 5,android updates been up to the carries is a pain in the ass,since carriers will stall it on purpose to make you buy another phone.

I love my galaxy 2 but between sprint craptastic network and slow os updates do to carriers and phone makers i am getting tire.

I just called Sprint complaining about the service which now is even lower in speed in Puerto Rico than it was before,and the call dropped..lol i asked for a discount,and i will ask again tomorrow i will not pay $80 dollars for a service that works when sprint want to..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gilbydakid:
Yeah cause the iPhones updates just fly out the door.

Sent from my sprint Samsung galaxy s2 Epic 4g touch with ics using cm9 on the blazing slow now network
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
IPhones only get updates after apple finds some new "innovation" to steal from android, or when they release the next iOS which is after they've stolen several "innovations" and then broadly patented everything they can think of so they can file a lawsuit when the next android version is about to drop :rolleyes:

We are legion, for we are many.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] yellowman82:
Was going to say the same thing lol. when they are complaining about updates folks tend to bring up the iPhone like if theres going to make a difference when it comes to iPhone upgrades lol

Edit: update
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Wizard220:
THIS

Couldnt have said it any better.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] eltormo:
No i am not saying they do,but when they roll they roll for everyone not just one brand,or one particular carrier.

I think google should by pass carriers with updates,waiting for updates is a pain look now JB is here,and we still waiting for an official ICS...

Is the same story over again that happen with the galaxy s 1.

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Actually unlike some here,i can see when a product from the competition does something right,apple doesn't update every week,but that wasn't my point my point was that when they do,every one can update without having to wait for AT&T and other companies.

I don't know about you but i am sure that is you asked android owners around the world,that if they liked that google released their updates on their phones like apple does and not their carriers or phone making companies like it is now,the great majority would agree.

I know i sounded a little dramatic but somethings apple do are done right,not everything they do is bad,it happen with all competition.

I love my galaxy and defend android at broken back,but the problem here is not android it self,the problems are the carriers and manufacturers.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Omar04:
I never will consider apple but I agree with you 100% with the horrible speeds and call drops in Puerto Rico specially Arecibo, PR 00612 damn it wasn't like that a few month ago to be exactly January February 2012 now epic slow.

And when you call to complain the tell "you know we are upgrading to NV and LTE?" yeah but only in San Juan PR and not this year so I live on 00612 what's happening? Oh there a problem with the tower... They always said. I tell them that you always said and nothing yet? I want credit or cancel my contract... - they "did you know we are upgrading to NV and LTE in PR?" WTF? Lady did you hear me are you a machine? I hung up urrrggh
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gilbydakid:
I'd rather be stuck on froyo than consider a iPhone.

Sent from the Terminus system using quantum entanglement
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SkuzFoz:
IMO, if they're only making ICS optional, they might as well go for Jellybean. Samsung can't stop supporting the GS2 yet, and Jellybean doesn't look like a HUGE change in features (certainly not like ICS), so I think it's a possibility.

I hope so, because I'm tired of lack of support. This is my 3rd phone on this 2 year contract which ends in October because they all lost update support. I learned my lesson, I'm only buying Nexus phones from now on.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Omar04:
I never considered any Nexus cause hardware are always a step behind but the hell my next phone will all be Nexus from now on, and support "forever" jeje and updates on time, well not always but yeah!

Who wants to trade their Sprint Galaxy Nexus for my new E4GT White? No one is that crazy jeje but trying doesn't hurt.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gilbydakid:
manufacturers aren't obligated to support your phone for x amount of time. do like most of us and learn how to tweak things to your liking.

The 3 phones i've had on my contract never got updates but it doesn't bother me one bit.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] The Root:
I thought google's new policy made it so they have to for 18 months.

Sent from my SPH-D710 running tFF18
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tgruendler:
Not a policy. It was an alliance the manufacturers signed up for but have not kept to. Here is a good article to read about it and how it sucked:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/what-happened-to-the-android-update-alliance/
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] apatcas:
Yeah, read that article too. I have to say it makes Google look really bad. Kinda sick of not having the same options as the rest of the people.

Wish they made the OS like x86 where you can install it and pay the license. Anytime you want to upgrade just shell the upgrade fee and go ahead if you meet the minimum specs.

Fragmentation is horrible. And Google has been licking their ass instead of doing anything about it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 2easilyamused:
This argument misses the fact that Google isn't a manufacturer, while Apple is. Google can't be held responsible for the lack of updates, only the manufacturers can. The problem really is the variations in hardware and the custom UIs. That's why the Nexus devices get releases of Android first... except Verizon's GNex... Stupid Verizon!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ravaged Pheonix:
6 bars 6 kilobits per second. Makes sense, right? Of course when I actually do connect to 3g I might get 45 kilobits. Been with sprint 2 months and it only seems to be getting worse. And I have screen shots to prove it.

Edit

Oops sorry. Responding to a post from yesterday. Darn tapatalk. Didn't mean to derail the topic

Sent from my ridiculously long named phone while firing up a Blu Kuban ---

Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] piscesjoey:
Yeah that whole alliance thing was a joke. Unless Google really put their foot down fragmentation won't end, but since Android is open sourced & Google gives the OS away to the OEM's, they don't really have a say when it comes to the OEM's & which phones of theirs they want to update. Your best bet is Nexus if you want timely updates.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ravaged Pheonix:
No, your best bet is xda.

Sent from my ridiculously long named phone while firing up a Blu Kuban ---

Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] piscesjoey:
Yeah I should've said that too lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris-allen:
hahaha!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ravaged Pheonix:
I would go back to eclair before touching another iPhone. Oh wait, I did that once. Got a hand me down icrap and I threw it in the trash. Went and bought a moto back flip when it was on cupcake.it did eventually get eclair after a year. Horrible phone but still better than icrap.

Sent from my ridiculously long named phone while firing up a Blu Kuban ---

Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Well the iPhone hasn't really changed since Froyo was released. The phone became glass, they got a horrible implementation of multitasking, and they got Android imitation notifications, that's it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] The Root:
Which one is mine?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RPerry435:
Yup and please verify Sunday is the day you can sell them correct?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jdmrevelations:
Just got a call from Radio Shack... looks like they are getting them today and will be selling them.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tuscani1821:
The white one lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] squshy 7:
Yes we're selling them Sunday! Just got in 10 blues and 15 whites :))
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tuscani1821:
Samsung Sunday is the day
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] animal7296:
:crying: I have one line eligible in 1 day and another in 63. Unfortunately the one that is eligible tomorrow is my wifes and she wants to get the EVO 4g LTE. :crying:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dr. Fed:
How much "buy-back" money for the S2? Maybe buy-back money will offset some of the contract buy-out fee and then its worth getting. I love my E4GT but I could get much better pics of my kids with the S3.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ben's:
I see yours and raise you 40!

$105 but who knows, might drop as soon as the S3 launches? Maybe not.

Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] daniel4653:
Thats sad. Sell it for $200 at least on eBay or CL if you want it gone quick.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VikingoRMCF:
I work for RS, and I activated one yesterday. For the first 15minutes the customer didn't touch it because I was too busy playing with it, haha.

Wasn't too impressed, i'll wait till it drops a hundred bucks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ruffneckZeVo:
I just gave 250 for a white e4gt on cl
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Sunsparc:
I'm kinda on the fence about it.

I played with a customer's that brought one in from pre-order the other day. While the new Nature UX looks amazing and the device is smooth as butter, the size is a deal breaker for me. It's too large for my hands (twss). I almost fumbled and dropped it. :x

I'll probably stick with my Epic Touch for now and wait for ICS kernel sources so that I can get amazeballs battery life on AOKP. I'm rather enjoying this ROM. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] oscarthegrouch:
I haven't compared the actual pics and videos but essentially the s3 has the same camera as the s2, just faster and with more options. People should really take the time to read the posts in the s3 section. Many people are reporting issues that shouldn't be happening with a new phone. Many are discovering that it really is just a s2.5. It's also experiencing lots of LOS (loss of service). If you REALLY want one, it would be wise to wait until the problems get ironed out in a real update. I'm not talking about the little security update that's going to get pushed to the sprint version on sunday.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamesey:
I said all this once specs were announced it's the lte version of the s2. It's basically the same phone. The performance difference shouldn't be noticed. It certainly isn't worthy of my 2 year renewal as it's an equal gen phone to what we have now. Besides who can't wait 4 months for the nexus
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tuscani1821:
My boss was trying to activate one of the demo units and it had a hard time activating..... I smell a rough launch day
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Becoming:
From someone who has one, it's well worth it. It's nowhere near "basically the same".
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tensux:
sprint is releasing an LTE version arent they? I dont think LTE will be available until 2013 in my area. I cant see knowingly upgrading to lose 4g until the phone could be almost a year old.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamesey:
Maybe well worth it if you are not coming from an s2. Upgrading to the s3 means you can't upgrade to a next gen phone. Next gen phones come out in q4 for Christmas season. It's like having an iPhone 4 and upgrading to a 4s sure it's nicer and more refined, but upgrades for most aren't yearly anymore and most would just wait for a true upgrade rather than some polishing.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ascertion:
There's an ota already being pushed by Sprint
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Becoming:
I have (and still have) my Epic Touch, so I'm pretty sure I'm in a position to comment on the differences.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ascertion:
Lte capable is the only thing that's got me really sold.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tensux:
is it just capable or lte only?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Esoteric68:
I'd love to hear some more feedback from past/current E4GT owners who now have the SG3.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] punwik:
This is very interesting! I wanna see how everything pans out! I have an S2 right now and I get my upgrade in sept and my wife is october so I kinda think it would be wise to wait and see whats around the corner!

S2.5 LOL!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Tripsyk:
I work for Best Buy Mobile in a heavy city area and we have still not received any AT&T S3's.... but we have 5 of each color for Sprint.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Becoming:
I can write up more detail tomorrow probably, but the main thing is take everything I loved about the Epic Touch and make it faster, incredibly smooth and just better. I'm loving it.

I can dig down into specifics if anyone wants a boring amount of detail, but I'm extremely happy with it so far.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] j0hnnyth3f0x:
I get my s3 in about a week or so, when Verizon finally gets shipments in...long drawn out sorry about why Sprint sucks. But I'm excited to actually have lte as well as reliable service! I'll stop by and give a comparison of anyone's interested.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miles Prower:
Hello XDA,

I just bought a Xoom 2 (16Gb / Wifi only) and am a little confused, since there's no specific board for that tablet. It will be a gift, but I want to set it up first.

So it's already rooted.

Two questions:

- Are there custom ICS roms for this hardware?

- Is there a Recovery of some kind available?

Also,

- why does Tegra Zone claims the device doesn't have a Tegra GPU?

- how do I mount the device in mass storage mode via USB?

Thanks!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FCN:
You picked the wrong tablet if you expect fun.

Cons:

-Say goodbye to any kind of development.

-No ROMS. Perioid.

-No recovery.

-Motobloat.

-No SD.

Pros:

-Thin

-It's a universal remote control.

___

You should have got the Xoom.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mjamocha:
I second that motion.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miles Prower:
Meh.

Brought it back to the store.
[General Questions and Answers] PhantomWolfDX:
Hello everyone, I have a question about the Cyanogenmod on the HTC Hero. The question is, how do I uninstall it and get the old software back.

I used to have a HTC in the past, so when I could buy a HTC Hero for 60 euro's, I was kinda glad. At home, I however noticed that the Cyanogenmod was on it. I didn't really mind, untill I noticed that, because I have it, I just can't download certain apps. The most important onces I would find Facebook and Google Calender.

So my question is, how do I delete it. I heard about flashing the old software through Odin, but that wasn't possible.

Hopefully someone can help me and my apologies if I posted this in the wrong forum.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morpheousrx:
I rooted device using one click meathod. Installed clockworkmod app...then installed recovery from the app itself. Now from a off state, tf101 just boots to cwm recovery and not a rom. I have to hold down vol + pwr to select boot cold linux to boot into OS. Any suggestions please.. Thanks in advance...
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thing O Doom:
This is the ROM manager bootloop, I have a warning thread about this at the top of general...

You'll need to run Roach2010's fix and flash a working recovery, my PERI tool should be able to do this for you as well.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morpheousrx:
Thank you sir...as always these forums are a full of knowlegable android folks. Thanks again