[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] marshra:
My 2 week update

I've been using this ROM for two weeks. This is my feedback on this thing.

Things I like

1. Should be Beta I think. It's ROCK SOLID and I'm a pretty heavy user. I've installed tons of apps and tried to really crush the thing.

2. VERY fast

3. I was able to setup my ASN settings using voice dialer. Just say "open ASN settings" and you can modify them. Works great!

4. GPS works great (I do sometimes have to reboot it to lock though. Could be me there. I have GPSstatus installed.

5. Setting your phone into PDA/Modem WORKS. Granted I did have to find a custom ADB script to do it. I will post if you need.

Before I get to the "bad" I want to say I'm TOTALLY grateful for all the work that has been done. Despite all of these things I'm STILL USING this ROM. I'm only posting this as feedback and as a guide to others and possible suggestions to the developers if they feel it's something they want to change or keep the same.

Things I wish were different (These issues are by no means deal breakers.)

1. Phone app

A. The phone, contacts, and call log are all on the same screen. Whichever you were on last...it will remember...So if you're on the home screen and hit the phone icon...it might bring you to contacts if you were there last. Kinda a pain to have to click on phone again.

B.. When dialing using the phone it doesn't auto populate matching numbers from contacts. Kinda sucks because of "C"

C. Searching contacts is pretty much a pain. I'm used to being able to scroll on the right side and going down the alphabet. This still does* work but where I used to scroll using my finger on the far right hand side where the scroll bar would be....it would allow me to scroll through the letters. With this version....it will allow you to but only after you start moving the list. Once you move the list fast enough...the scroll bar appears and then (and only then) can you use use the bar to search the alphabet.

2. Scrolling speed

A. Scrolling speed seems pretty slow. You REALLY have to fling your finger to get it to scroll fast. Otherwise It just seems like it loses momeum too quickly. This is system wide. Webpages, contacts, emails, sms, etc. There is a setting called touchscreen sensativity (which might fix this) but it didn't seem to have an effect. It may do something totally different. I don't know. I changed it to max speed and it didn't see to change anything.

3. Battery life

A. I'll admit.. I have a TON of apps. But I have wifi turned off when sleeping (except when plugged in), and don't use it more than I have before. The battery in this things seems to both charge quickly and discharge quickly. I took a nap yesterday for about 6 hours in the middle of the day (nice nap right? lol) and the phone was unplugged from being fully charged and sat next to my pillow in case I needed to answer the phone. When I woke up the battery was practically dead and had 6% left.I'm guessing because stupid google thinks it cool NOT to tell you how much numerically lol. So I had only "!" left lol. Which means charge or it's going to die soon. I would love to see a numeric mod added at least as a link. I know the idea is to keep it as close to source as possible.

I would also like to add that it could very well be my battery. I haven't done enough testing (anyone suggest a good app?

4. Ring tone doesn't seem to stick. Could be the odd place it found the file. It will repeat some of the files like 4 times in the list of selectable ring tones and notification sounds. The first 3 don't do anything..but the 4th one works fine. It seems to reset after reboot. I haven't tested this enough to be sure.

________UPDATE for battery_______

While reading

http://e4gtcm.blogspot.com/p/customization-guide.html

it mentions an issue about the blinking LED. I have mine on....which is probally the reason haha. I totally forgot about reading that. Going to try and report back.

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5. Install instructions? Wait.. there are install instructions? lol It was a bit tricky. I know QBKing has a few vids.. but it wasn't that clear. He says to install a recovery friendly kernel....But gives no link on which one to get. Onliny a link to ODIN which he tells you about EL26.. which is not the one you want for JB. Anyway, to make a long story short I wish he would have said use this kernel, do this process. Only thing he left out. Then I read about bricking your phone on an old kernel with Jellybean and all kinds of scary stuff. He HAS updated the link in the ODIN video to the EL29 which is great. I also found this website REALLY useful despite being for CM9.

http://e4gtcm.blogspot.com/p/cm9-install-guide.html <---VERY USEFUL. Also has the link the safe kernel as well. Also reminded me to backup my SMS, call log, etc. You will NOT be able to get back to your old ROM without reflashing another kernel unless it's JB based (I think...ICS as well?).

As far as the google apps (a link also would have been awesome)

Go here:

http://goo.im/gapps

I guess there is a more updated version, but I am using the 7-26-12 version. No issues. I'm sure the updated one is fine as it did update within a day or so anyway.

That's all I can think of right now. I hope that was helpful as it took me a while to figure that all out. Again thanks so much for this awesome ROM and keep up the great work!