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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cp320703:
I hate to feed it, but first I did play it a little fast and loose with punctuation, however most of the internet is at least slightly illiterate- at least I use words and grammatically coherent English as opposed to the mishmash of emoticons and bastardized abbreviations that pass for written communication these days- and I stand by my post, overused ellipsis and all, hell Joyce had a 4,300 word sentence in Ulysses, I'm nowhere near that...

Secondly are you really trying to tell me that this thread and the dozens exactly like it, with virtually no useful information to troubleshoot from, only anecdotal complaints about an OTA that, again, have NOTHING to do with the overall raison d'etre of XDA conforms to the summation of rules laid out in the old XDA intro video??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl6TENoT07A&feature=related

I'll answer that for you, it doesn't... As I pointed out in my first post for those of you capable of reading that far garwynn started an OFFICAL OTA THREAD a day or two before they began pushing it, that's where things like this belong. You would have seen that had you used search, or scanned the first two pages of the board. You are not special. This thread is useless, accomplishes nothing, and is bad. You should feel bad for attempting to justify it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Jamin13:
Of course the thread useless. Both our opinions are useless but we still voice them. You might as well say the OP is wrong for taking the update because he can't deal with bugs. I don't know much about whatever disarray is the Epic 4G Touch forums because I don't come here enough to see the sights so to speak. If you have duplicate threads of useless info, take care of it with your mod-like fury (or get a mod to answer your every beck and call). Either way, make sure you're having fun doing it.

I ran out of cookies so you may have this picture of a cat.

|Trolling with a smile|
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhAkEer:
See look... Even while phone is off and you are sleeping or roo or whatever youre still drawing power for internet connectivity. I'm not sure what you can attribute this to, but I can promise its a large part of your drain.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cp320703:
why are you even posting here then? By your own admission you dont follow this forum and you're trolling... How does this further the cause of android development on the e4gt? I raised a legitimate complaint about the rash of junk threads related the ota and its effect of making legitimate information harder to locate amongst the crap. Obviously I'm not a mod, additionally I think our mods in this forum do a very good job, I just wish other users would use search (and google) and not treat this place like its tier one sprint tech support. I like to come here to learn new things, as do a lot of others judging from the amount of development that takes place. The OTA has nothing to do with development, none of the FF18 based roms have the issues complained about in this thread, and as previously stated no one here will be pushing a patch to the ota. These complaints belong on sprints forums not here... I'm done responding to you
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] yellowman82:
Bro what are you talking about? The pics your looking at is caulk gb rom and this was not overnight or anything look at the clock I was at work and the drain you see is me using my phone look at the awake I actually use my phone that's why I prefer gb stability and battery life over new kool features
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] yellowman82:
This is what I finished with and mind you this is my first charge cycle now check out that screen on time
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ebuc:
lol ;)

ota isn't isn't bad either.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhAkEer:
Fair enough, I did that thing I sometimes do where I reply on xda beforw Im awake enouhh to read.

I wouldnt try and say that battery on ICS is or even can be what it was on the platform our phone was made for, all Im saying is that its more than acceptable with a decent setup.

Im a bad example. I flash a lot of crap all the time testing everything I can but I still get 4 plus hours of screen on.... So I just dont get it I guess.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] yellowman82:
Screen on time? Cuz I could careless about 20+ hrs as long as I don't need to plug in my phone until 9-10pm im good what I focus is screen on time cuz I use my phone alot, with ics I was never able to have 3hrs screen on time when the battery was at 54% around there if I wanted 1day or 2 ill just let my phone sit there and not use it ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ebuc:
:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Omar04:
Battery life sux on FF18

On GB around 9.5 - 18 hrs moderate to heavy use.

On ICS 4.5 - 6.5 moderate to heavy use.

And a new bug I found if you disable Roaming guard (unchecked boxes) after a while all boxes will be enabled (check) by itself again wtf? :banghead: :banghead:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dz1:
Ok guys so i have been trying different things to try to fix battery issues.

1. I followed the videos tutorial exept i took off the battery when phone completely died then charged my phone to full while being on... then i took off the battery let it sit for a couple of minutes. I put the battery back on and pluged in the phone to charge while being off.. phone keept charging for at least 30 minutes.

Second I unistalled kies air /wifi, google voice apps with titanium backup did my backups!!!

Also have stopped using stock browser instead using chrome

Im now on 16 hours 49% with 2 hours screen battery life

If you guys try something different and get results let us know let us know.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cas8180:
Do you use wifi much or leave wifi on? I have read a ton of posts where people are mainly associated the major drainage to leaving wifi on.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] joe.stay:
I have a question. I turn off auto-brightness so that I can have it at 100% brightness at all time. It seems to turn back on and I have to go turn auto-brightness off. This happened a couple of times already and is still happening. Anyone else have this issue?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
Check auto brightness option in browser.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wraith404:
Just a few points.

1. This is the GENERAL forum, not the development forum.

2. A good number of people are in fact experiencing at least a subset of the issued in this thread.

3. The stock FF18 ROM is still an FF18 based ROM.

4. Sprint tier 1 support is useless.

5. As you say, if this thread is out of line the mods will deal with it, you don't need to designate yourself hall monitor.

6. Take a deep breath, relax. We're all on the same side, and want the same thing, a stable OS. Some people get a little more frustrated than others, and need a little extra help. That's what the boards are for.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] yellowman82:
Well said and I'm sure as he can see this thread hasn't been deleted yet so there for it isn't that bad as he thinks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] joe.stay:
Thanks. That fixed it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dz1:
This is what I got on battery today got better by deleting samsung apps... also had a random reboot while using color note as you can tell lost alot of power at around 45%
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cas8180:
So I have been dealing with this guy Demetre from Sprints corporate office I have so far received 2 phone calls and two emails. I posted the actual emails I received here:

http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/94157?tstart=30

When I was talking to the gentlemen he stated to me that sprint has acknowledged the issue and they have reached out to samsung for a fix however at this time there is no ETA :( for those interested I will post the additional emails I receive in the thread I provided above. He did say he was going to reach out again to me next week if he receives some updates.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cjbechtel:
This is from my wife's phone. The battery has been pretty bad since the update. Maybe someone can shed some light on this usage. It looks like the kernel is using excess battery. This doesn't seem right.

Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cjbechtel:
The picture wasn't showing in the app.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nirvashone:
Here's what I did and it gives me about 12-14 hours if moderate usage. Go into developer options and all the way at the bottom is a max background processes option and limit it to 4. Also I turn the data off via a data disabler widget when the phone is in my pocket. Before I changed to background processes to 4 every time I would run the task manager it would kill about 25 of them.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Omar04:
Did anyone notice ICS sometimes does not broadcast file changes on SD card and for that reason gallery and other apps do not see the new files or edited files until unmount/mount SD. :banghead:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Crsdr37:
The excessive battery at least in my wifes case was due to the fact for whatever reason. Her CPU was to run at 1200Mhz all the time. I installed Cpu Spy and saw that it was running at 12 for 18 our of the 19 hours on battery. Then installed setcpu and noticed the rec. detection found the min and max to be 1200 when it should be 1200 and 200. :confused:. But setup a new profile for her being 1200 and 200 and now all seems well.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
That has always been a problem on Android. There are apps that will rescan your sd card on demand, just search sdcard rescan.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhAkEer:
While I mostly agree with you, I must ask... Is that what people want? I just installed the ota update JUST to see what all the "issues" are like first hand. Choppy start, ( i didnt bother wiping since I know most of those complaining didnt) system ui had a tough time, as did preloadinstaller since I have folders and file in mmcblk0p12...

Rebooted to recovery and flashed Calks Rom debloater..

. Rebooted

I have no mods, tweaks, or anything else inatalled and it was immediately rock solid.

Immediately.

Fast as crap,

batterry is meh, lost 20% in the last 3 and 1/2 hours but mind you thats directly after flashing and not with light use at all..

Sobwhy am I never victim to any issues that arent that easy to solve and some ALWAYS are? Ill tell you why...

Because they DONT want their phones fixed. If they did, they would listen to us instead of brushing off all suggestions while whining more in the same breath. Period. And Im not being mean...

I objectively tried to see your side, how many of you can say the same?

Im actually considering keeping this OTA as is forba while. Itbis absolutely the smoothest and fastest ROM I have been on in a long time.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cp320703:
Thanks for doing the experiment, ive felt the same. People would rather complain and post endlessly rather than do their own research to solve their own problems or listen to those kind enough to reply to their threads that never needed started and could have been answered with the search bar... heck I was reading another ics "problems" the other day where both ruejules22 and venum posted, they were largely ignored and argued with... I mean, seriously? Team venum roms and blu kuban are hella bug free, those two just might be worth listening to... hell I just noticed who exactly I'm quoting... phaker your placebo script work wonders, you would think your opinion would be taken seriously given your contribution to and knowledge of the device as well
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cas8180:
Perhaps you guys should visit the sprint community and look out the countless issues. Better yet Google samsung + ics + update and you will find the issues exist on almost all of there devices that got updated. You will see note issues s2 international you name. And of course our epic touch the problem is how Samsung did a piss poor job of implementing ics. Period. I am a developer for a living and my company would never stand for this. We would be doing a rollback or pushing a hot fix in record time. Samsung just seems more focused on the s3 right now then giving its legacy devices the proper support they need. To put out a half ass build then expect end users to perform voodo on there phone to get it back to where it was prior to the update is BS. And effectively breaks the definition of "update"
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhAkEer:
You know what you will find if you google those+are+the+people+who+we+are+saying+whine+instead+of+trying+to+be+proactive?

Nothing.

Because we dont fill the internet up with useless information while we are busy trying to fix the mess' of others.

:p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] filebug:
On all the ics builds ive had a weird buzzing noise on my camera untill i take one pic. And random button presses with low signal. Battery is pretty crappy also but the camera thing is most annoying
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cp320703:
Ever since the ff18 update sometimes it burns when I pee, also the battery sux! Samsung and sprint need to fix this NOW. I'be been emailing Obama about it most every day but he's yet to get back to me, will post when he does. Dis needs fixed I am the angry!!1!1 PS what's a custum room? I've been told these may fix my issues but I HATE words and search bars and refuse to reed them, so I DEMAND you tell me more, and don't use a lot a damn words!!1!11!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kali323:
When FF18 was a leak and not an ota there was hardly any *****ing. Most known bugs that people discuss at the time werent really a big deal (Task manager visual bug, exchange on sp1, roaming notification bug, brightness turning back to auto, voice cutting of like vlingo, no notification pulse while charging). Sure it will be nice if these bugs didnt exist but they dont really affect your phone much except maybe exchange bug and brightness if you dont use auto. Most of these bugs didnt exist in FD26 (The last 4.0.3 build) if anyone wants try a non official build. Battery life will vary from everyone.

You going to have to do a clean install for best results. It may not fix all your problems but it will definitely help. ICS is a big jump so its natural. This even happens in the iPhone when major update comes out, that most problems are fix by restoring.

Heres what you do to get best results.

1. Odin Stock FF18 tar (Dont odin EL29 or previous versions and then ota to FF18)

2. Flash calks barerom remover to delete all bloat (i edited the remover so it doesnt delete the download app, you actually need it). If anyone wants a link to to my modified version, ill uploaded.

3. Uninstall remaining bloat that arent system apps, like sprint apps, nascar telenav, etc

4. Go to settings and turn on data usage and click on most individual apps/services and turn off background data. It will prevent from running in the background. Dont turn off for apps you need notifications.

5. Turn off auto sync, unless you really need it.

6. Sign out of google + and google talk (usually sign in by default and it will drain battery) unless you really need them. Delete play books or restrict background data like in step 3.

7. Turn off wifi when not in use. In ICS, wifi drains your battery when in standby.

8. Optional, disable notification light (I personally dont do this)

9. Optional, use stock ICS launcher runs smoother and looks nice with touchwiz. (You may have wallpaper issues and some samsung widgets will either be unsable or may have visual bugs. Probably not a bug just not meant for ICS stock launcher)

You dont need to be rooted to do any of this but you will need odin to flash the stock tar and to flash CWM.

I got close to 5 hours without tweaking anything but i easily got over 5 and close to 6 hours doing this.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] apatcas:
Damn dude you really working hard on this. Best of luck to you.

Problems look like they are still gonna exist since the OTA was a ****ty leak with a lot of bugs,.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhAkEer:
Absolutely Lmfao
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fredrick1213:
I have my phone flashed to Cricket so will C in option 1 affect any of those settings?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhAkEer:
If you want it to stay the same than you don't want to change it.

Catch my drift?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fredrick1213:
Gotcha
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rocket321:
The main issue I had with ff18 was battery life, however after doing a clean install with sfhub's one click and not restoring any apps/data I am now getting very good battery results. Yes it is a pain to re-customize everything but I would advise it for anyone getting high battery drain.

Granted my screen shots are only 1hr screen on time, but it is reaching deep sleep and staying there for long periods. If Samsung would only fix the wifi sleep bug..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] locoboi187:
It just looks like you used it. Went to sleep and used it again
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rocket321:
Yeah, so this can be used as a baseline of minimal use to compare against. Before I wiped I was draining several percent per hour with screen off. This is just to show ff18 can sleep properly and if it's not for you, you probably have a misbehaving app not a misbehaving os.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhAkEer:
OMG THANK YOU!

(pssst, WE GOT ONE!)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wraith404:
No, this also a valid ICS bug. Perhaps not in core ICS, but at very least in Samsung's bastardization of it. It doesn't just happen with the system camera app, it also happens in 3rd party camera apps. Sometimes toggling between video and still fixes it. That's not a user error. It's intermittent, but the camera will at times activate the haptic feedback continuously. Why are you so offensive? If you knew the first thing about troubleshooting you would know that there is no such thing as coincidence.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] core24:
for me:

Reset to factory defaults: FAIL

Clear battery stats (rooted): FAIL

Sign out of Google Talk: WIN!

I used Better Battery Stats after I tried the first two and had installed only minimal apps and had used Titanium backup to freeze many default system apps that were started automatically that you couldn't uninstall like Yahoo, AP news, etc. battery life was still abysmal.

I happened to notice a couple items in the partial wakelocks category for google talk. Zoinks! ICS seems to automatically log you into google chat!!! And that was killing my sleep time. After killing google talk (sign out of it), I had a nice uninterrupted period of complete sleep on my phone. I need to watch after a full charge tomorrow to make sure nothing else is awry and the decay time is still much better. I've so far been 8 hours on battery with heavy usage (1h 17m screen on, lots of wifi downloads) and have 37% left still!

I also changed my wifi sleep policy to sleep when the screen is off, but no matter what you set that to, it doesn't always come back on so you have to turn wifi off and back on to reconnect. Lame!

Also, following the tips of #101 http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=29196468&postcount=101 seems to also have made the network signal get a couple more bars. Or it could be confirmation bias :silly:

But I may not have to downgrade to GB after all. Thanks for all the tips here!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BrandoKC:
Anyone having issues should do a full wipe then reinstall ICS. Perhaps Samsung should have made the update perform a wipe

I've run almost all of the ICS leaks and not encountered any of the issues mentioned here.

Seriously though, check out CM9. No signs of the abortion that is TW and none of the issues.

If you are beholden to stock TW go to Sprint Users. Our AOSP and tricked out TW ROMS don't seem to be having these issues.
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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] centro714:
My wifes et4g's foxfi stopped working after the update.

I tried reinstalling, clearing data, restarting, and no luck.

any help? Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] maxvsmith:
Something I can actually answer and help with?

I had the same problem. I could not use foxfi at work today and I wasted my 15 doing so.

But when I went to re-install this I saw this on their website.

http://foxfi.com/bin/

I suggest rooting your wife's epic touch 4g because it is extremely easy now. Even I did it. I believe there are tons of wifi tethering out there for root. But I am sad because I LOVE foxfi too. I hope they do get support for ICS soon.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] centro714:
i'm rooted myself but didn't want to root the wife's phone.

I might just have to now. Or go with easy tether
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mschmidt33:
Same issue here, Foxfi no longer works... so how do I root? Be nice if this is dumb question. I know what it is just never looked up the latest "easy" method. Save me some time please.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jziggy101:
I rooted my E4GT the other evening in less than 15 minutes. There are several great One-Click methods to root your phone it all depends on what your current phone firmware is and whether you want to go to the latest release. I decided to take my phone from FH13 to the latest leak FI03 with a one-click. You will need a PC, your usb cable and the single download available on the following links.

for FI03

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1877041

for FH23

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1859610

for FF18

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Omar04:
This is from Foxfi Site :

"*Support for the new Galaxy S3 and the new ICS update for Epic Touch are being worked on. Should be compatible soon in a future update."
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] iurylima:
Anyone else is having issues with the Nike+ Running after updating to JellyBean?

I can still use the app, but just if I choose to run without music.

Have already tried uninstalling and installing again, and had it updated today, still with no luck.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] marcusva79:
I'm a runner but I just use the running band I got. If your having problems must be a GPS problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] iurylima:
I don't think so...

I can still use the app normally, unless I choose to listen to music.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
I don't think it's compatible with JB yet. I had to switch my rom back to ICS because I use the app quite often.