yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
That sucks... I hate being yelled at... plus with that bad ass cm9 theme that I rocked forever, you deserve a thanks on every post of yours I see! That theme had everything!!!
[Epic 4G General] eigerzoom:
the golden age begins when we finally uncover the elusive dg17 rom with video-out from a device still sealed in packaging that somehow just made its way to craigslist and into the hands of a developer after 2 years on the shelf at grandma Ertyl's house

most phones shipped with dg27...some did make it out as late as mid sept with dg17 from posts you can still see on sprints site

many satellite stores didn't know there were special flashing procedures for phones with dg17 to upgrade to di18/dk28 and many were bricked.

my understanding is that in the final stages there was a copyright or other legal battle between qualcomm/sprint/samsung over the video-out feature

presumably since it was qualcomm it was hardware...and the fix was software

from flastnoles rdf post in august of 2010

DF14

DF21

DG06

DG16

DG17 (official)

DG23

DG27 (official)

DI07 (official)

DI18 (official)
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Lol... I never posted any rdf in 2010... I wasn't even a member then!
[Epic 4G General] eigerzoom:
fine...no credit 4 u

it was probably whosdaman

:p

also i just read a post from september 2010 that someone with dg17 didn't have anything in the software that corresponded to video-out

however it could still have been capable.
[Epic 4G General] orlzzt:
To Upgrade or not to Upgrade?

I look through the Epic development threads and I gaze at the AOSP rom threads; I think "Do I dare? Do I dare disturb the universe?" (ts elliot quote). But I can't. I cannot depart from the totalitarian solidarity and sheer perfection of TPR 2.2.1. I will not flash out of boredom. I will not flash out of boredom. (the verb I used to use was "eat". Oh, Epic, how you have changed my life!)

26 days until available upgrade. In 26 days, I can switch phones for no other reason than being able to flash roms again at will. Have to give up my tactile keyboard. The "Trey" folks chime in; They tell me "you won't miss it." They say Trey's hardware is better, the camera is better, the processor is faster... The Gnex-Gnomes come back and chatter away about "pure Android...more development...better display". I look over the now-deserted Epic TW development threads... Sensei and Toad, abducted by aliens... Random, Starsky, CK23, Darkie,Hoff, Chris41g, BT...how I miss you all!

Do I sacrifice the absolute perfection of TPR? The great battery life, the smooth speeds, the familiarity of the setup of my LauncherPro with all my apps running in harmony like the US crew team?

Do I Dare??
[Epic 4G General] TexasLTE:
Nah .... Not Yet .... Wait until we find out what's coming out later this year ( we might be suprised ) .... and even IF nothing better is available by then , you can always hop on the G-Nex or III train where you will see your friends are still chillin' .... ( jusy my humble opinion ;) )
[Epic 4G General] orlzzt:
Thanks, old friend! That is the way I'm leaning. I'm curious if we get a Nex Slider or another offering from Sammy that might make more sense to wait for. I love the SGS3 but that "little voice inside my head" keeps telling me to hold off. (that, and a host of other unwholesome things...)
[Epic 4G General] iSaint:
Damn you :p

Love ya bro .. and everyone else from the good ol days :)
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Remember "Can Zanderman make money by not rooting" thread? Good times....good times!
[Epic 4G General] Ragnar:
I just want to thank you for this thread and the memories :(:thumbup:

Sent from a phone...
[Epic 4G General] TeamERA:
Yeah, times were so much better back then. DK28 holds a special place in my heart. I dont know how to even say this, everyone in this thread holds a place like that in my heart. This was/can be a better place if there were more like us, respect for a place we call our digital home away from home. There are so many things that came from the epic side, very epic indeed.

Thanks for that banner TexasEpic4g \/
[Epic 4G General] DCRocks:
It all started for me on my moment, looking for a way to make the battery last past 5 minutes, then to get the GPS to work, (ha!, good luck with that) and then to actually get 2.2!

Starting on the Moment locked me into the course that eventually lead to the Epic

Best thing that ever happened to me, as far as Android goes, IMO

I probably did more testing and tweaking on the Moment than I even did I my Epic, though my Epic got a lot more flashes, as they tended to be much more polished (complete) without a need to flash an additional couple hundred extra zips to get to the final setup.
[Epic 4G General] darkierawr:
Ugh I hated that!

My dad had an Intercept. That was the worst thing ever. The Epic was so hard to break, that thing you'd pull the battery and would have a six step god forsaken process of getting it back.
[Epic 4G General] DCRocks:
For me, the moment was SUPER easy to get back to the starting point, it was getting from "start to finish" that took forever.

Using the SWUpdate program with a tar file for both the image and the recovery, and 2 quick flashes and I was good to go again.

Now, I DID have to go through that half a dozen times at points, trying to get each separate piece of the phone working...

...dam flashing piece 6 broke piece 7... time to start over again... AGGHHHH!!!

Fun times!!! :p
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I came from the Palm Pre and there it was sideloading Homebrew apps and finding sources for them.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Same with my Touchpad. We do have an app to get them, but by default it only has a few sites it checks.

Sent from Mr. Z's Galaxy S3.
[Epic 4G General] shane6374:
I remember when Darkie here released theme port that erased a few peoples pictures on their SD cards then The Root decided it was a good time to blame all of us Epic themers. Whoops!

I think the first rom I flashed on mine was Syndicate Rom on Eclair then fell in love with Thomasskulls Mysterious Beast theme. That was the theme the inspired me to start themeing.
[Epic 4G General] xBTx:
Reading this thread kind of makes me sad that I got my Epic so late in the game. :(

Mine already had EC05 on it. I missed out on a lot. :/
[Epic 4G General] tazfanatic:
I remember testing your theme's.
[Epic 4G General] Wishkah420:
This is probably my favorite non-development thread ever!!!! I started my Android journey with the stupid Intercept. I finally talked the wife into dropping Verizon and jumping on board with Sprint the day the Epic came out, we were playing with it at Best Buy and I fell in love. Only problem, sold out across the country. So in full on Sprint is better than Verizon mode I made her sign up with Sprint and the rep talked us into the Intercept seeing as how we wanted a keyboard phone. WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!!! After living at "the other site"(SDX) and yes I remember a couple of you from there ;) I sent email after email to Dan@sprint.com about how much of a piece of garbage that Intercept was they finally let me pay the difference and get an Epic when it was in stock and I've been here ever since.

My poor wife was stuck with the junk Intercept (which is now my 9yr old daughters) until radio shack had it for $50 and we added a line. Here I am 2 years later and have witnessed some great accomplishments and atrocities still not willing to upgrade to "the next best thing".

In my opinion with the devs we have new and old there will never be "something better" due to the sentiment. Nowadays I mostly lurk as I'm afraid to offend anybody and have Zeinzu smell blood and come running from the other forum.

The thing I love the most in all of my flashing days is seeing different people go to different devices, watching some people move away from "the other site" when they got rid of their transforms, intercepts, and moments. I love it when I see familiar faces over in the Touchpad threads and can't wait to see who I know when I actually do find "the next best thing".

It's been a long journey down this epic road we travel but there are still many miles left on the odometer.
[Epic 4G General] TexasLTE:
:laugh: LOL .... Ssshhhh .... he has eyes & ears everywhere .... LOL :p
[Epic 4G General] Zeinzu:
:what:

Sent from my AOSP Android 4.1.1 Galaxy Nexus
[Epic 4G General] darkierawr:
Ahh! He's here!

Don't worry friends, I'll hold him off!

Go! Get as far away from here as possible!

I believe in you.
[Epic 4G General] zacnking:
Dude I think just like drugs we get hooked and can see our lives in stages. I love the epic phone and can't wait till I go quad core just like weed to meth its great just without the death of your family or your complete loss of money. Thanks for the killer roms and being a stud! I need to go where everyone of you devs go and I vote we all get hooked on the same sweet phones. I love you all
[Epic 4G General] ac16313:
I remember spending all last summer waiting for gingerbread, lol! Everyone remember hearing "gingerbread next week!"?
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
"Gingerbread in June! *insert rdf file*"

"My source is saying late July/Early August"

"Okay, so Sprint is having issues and the update has been pushed back. Looks like September."

"Okay, now it looks like October"

Tehehe, I kid, I kid. WDM was consistent on letting us know when things changed, whether we liked it or not.

Oh, and remember when rjmjr69 got temp banned for mega-flaming WDM, and claiming he faked an rdf file?

Or how about when we got our leaks from SamFirmware?

Or maybe when I finally got this thing rooted and everyone went out and celebrated :D

And then there's crap like when theimpaler747 stopped being our mod,or when ecooce got banned(he'll be back in October!)

Sent from Mr. Z's Galaxy S3.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
What about when we lost Bonsai on XDA for offering early beta release for donations on their new site? We still get a lot of those kind of developers and I like to call that infraction the "Bonsai Law".
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Do you bonsai? ;) lol

Sent from Mr. Z's Galaxy S3.
[Epic 4G General] orlzzt:
Remember the ACS recovery? It had no "no's".

Its been one helluva ride, hasn't it, Darkie???
[Epic 4G General] styles420:
@zanderman112 - don't be hurt by my comment from the other day, I just meant that I was more easily convinced ;)
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Oh, I knew lol. I'm not really hurt.

Sent from Mr. Z's Galaxy S3.
[Epic 4G General] darkierawr:
Oh and Zanderman!

I almost forgot about...ADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Epic 4G General] snowmanwithahat:
I don't know if I'd call DK28 the golden age lol. I really loved the first ACS builds, 1.0 and 1.1... hell look at my sig. I still haven't taken out the banner (and the link to the page). I haven't owned an epic since the first day the Nexus S came out on Sprint but I still keep it there to remind people of what ACS did for this community (and android in general) with the uprooting (lol word play) of CIQ and the full removal from those ROMs.

k0nane

noobnl

rodderick

theimpaler747

ptfmedic

Those 5 are names I remember, by far the most influential people developing for this device (not to discredit everyone else) because they were here at the start and gave it the momentum it needed for all the current devs to really get interest. Bravo to you all, but to the 5 I remember especially.
[Epic 4G General] vwags:
I clicked on your link for old times sake to see where I began my Epic journey and had forgotten all the effort to get rid of the checkerboarding
[Epic 4G General] snowmanwithahat:
lol that and the gallery bug... seems like those two things never really stayed dead no matter which update you rolled to. Someone would fix it then it'd pop back up again in the Sammy source and roll out into every rom again before everyone realized and got a fix in a week later.

My favorite was the ACS 1.1 build in my sig with the Gingerbread theme. Going to the real thing on the Nexus S though was a tiny bit better and less buggy lol
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Mwahahahah!!

I'm going to add this thread to my sig.

Posted by Mr. Z's Galaxy S3.
[Epic 4G General] HeartGold95:
Oh my I remember DK28! Haha I was such a noob at flashing. Got my phone bricked and panicked! I didn't sleep till 3 AM that night trying to fix my phone, although Quantum Rom was worth it. Oh and SRF, that was the smoothest Rom I flashed to, its crazy how this evolved during months, years actually.
[Epic 4G General] darkierawr:
Still says MIUI 1.3.5 in your signature!

You make me proud!
[Epic 4G General] A_Flying_Fox:
Awwe I remember all the bickering between noobnl and the entirety of the devlopers. He (she?) was such a hothead but I loved it cuz people just HAD to prove him (her?) wrong at everycorner, which led to the race to port 2.2 :D

Wow our phones shipped with 2.1 and we're at 2.3 officially and 4.1.1 unofficially hahah all thanks to you guys :D I remember when you popped up darkierawr, caught my attention cuz of your name lol I remember the whole todo to get miui working properly and xboxfanj's quest from nub to nub with experience lol (:P)

Tbh I never liked ACS. All the developers joined and suddenly roms stopped coming out because everyone was working together so there was no difference between any of the roms. I loved bonsai and frankenstein! Eccoce needs to come back :( his roms were the greatest with batterylife.

Anyone remember legendary rom 2.2? That was probably the only rom I ran for months because it just worked...flawlessly...

I remember when bbelos released his first shadow kernel and everyone was trying to poop on him and call him a nub and inadequate compared to nyan and I tried his kernel and it was amazing and he just kept making it better and better and he learned about voodoo color and fixed all his mistakes. I actually looked forward to the stuff he would put out lol

I never really ran marcusants stuff lol idk he reminded me of like a 13 yr old kid with the way he handled situations lol "OH YOU PORTED THE G1 KEYBOARD? I CAN DO IT BETTER" lol I never respected that kind of stuff, but I did (and still do) love how he would put experimental stuff in his works...I feel like marcusant is the one to tread into unknown waters and the other guys actually make the stuff work for us. He's good at PoC's

Man idk I miss this community I hate how dead it is now lol it pains me to see the epic forum die slowly...I got into a lot of arguments with people here but it was always fun hahah especially when I would defend the troll (rat??) because you guys would hop all over him for legitimate posts just because he was a known troll lol

Dam I wrote a lot my bad
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
How could you not mention me!!

/me runs back to SGS3 section.

*PS ecooce hasn't ever left <.<.........>.>

Posted by Mr. Z's Galaxy S3.
[Epic 4G General] xboxfanj:
Yup still a nub with experience. Definitely much more knowledgeable than when I started out though. I was thinking when I first read this forum, "Odin, isn't that Thor's dad?"

Now I know a little but still not much, but that's OK.
[Epic 4G General] xboxfanj:
Yeah I can always tell when it's him.
[Epic 4G General] HeartGold95:
Haven't changed that since then just so you get the idea of it :D
[Epic 4G General] orlzzt:
Didn't Ecooce cook "Scrambled EGgs" when EG22 leaked?
[Epic 4G General] xboxfanj:
Yeah and he's coming back officially in September or October.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
October.

Posted by Mr. Z's Galaxy S3.
[Epic 4G General] MДЯCЦSДИT:
I rooted about the time ext4 was ported and noobnl freaked out over it
[Epic 4G General] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Nyan was like 2 months younger than shadow and originally was a kang of shadow...
[Epic 4G General] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Oh, and sammich
[Epic 4G General] styles420:
@A_Flying_Fox - we jumped on the rat for his "legitimate" questions because it was difficult (impossible) to take him seriously - more than half the time, he already knew the answer. We knew that he knew, because it had already been answered, and he had already trolled in the previous conversation in which it was answered - he just liked to keep dead horses alive... (zombie horses... :shudder: lol)

Just setting the record straight :)
[Epic 4G General] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Anyone else remember waiting and waiting for froyo source hoping that it would do magic on cm6?
[Epic 4G General] orlzzt:
@Marcus- I loved watching you bag Looney every time he tried to sneak back into the forum...
[Epic 4G General] :
What's happening, guys? You completely forgot about MysteryEmotionz.

But yeah, k0nane was a badass. He just helped people out & wasn't ever rude about it, or not to me at least.

And qbking with all his helpful vids. He made rooting/flashing so easy through those vids.
[Epic 4G General] orlzzt:
We will NEVER forget Mystery!

QB is one of us. K0nane IS Android.

Big shout out to TPhilips, BT, Rodderik, and the rest of Team Viper..
[Epic 4G General] darkierawr:
:(

I haven't flashed a new ROM in six weeks.

Damn Paranoid. And I got a few extended batteries from Sprint. Improving my already impressive battery life.

I miss flashing a new ROM every opportunity :crying: But JB is so perfect!

...

I meant to put this is the FA thread...
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
How did I get left out of memory lane? I'm sad now :(
[Epic 4G General] TexasLTE:
I thought he did acknowledge korey somewhere in there ... :eek:
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Dang must have missed it. It was a long read. I could tell a great story. How about we go back to HTC Vogue development where I got my stardom. Not only that, it was the device everyone had. The Vogue ran WM6.1 and I loved it. DHarvey was my mentor, omj had just bought the htc diamond, vetvitto left ppcgeeks because of nfsfan. Then no2chem caught him stealing his software and claiming it for himself. I worked closely with nfsfan and to this day still could not understand how he made his ROM a bit faster than mine. My M2D Diamond theme was flawless, yet still fell short. Nfsfan was banned from ppcgeeks and he left for xda. I followed him here and posted my ROMs here as well. Then I ported the Mega ROM to the Vogue and bought a HTC Hero. I went silent for about a year, especially since I knew nothing about Android. I got a job at Sprint and gained access to all the software updates. I leaked all stock and shipped Roms for every Sprint smartphone. All was great until the DK28 froyo build came out for the Epic 4G. Leaked it on BriefMobile.com where Kenny literally PMed like a week before asking me to write for him. Then DK28 showed up, and I knew it was legit build because of past experience. I posted it that night and the site blew up! Awesome. Sprint cut of my access and I was done for a long time. Me and Noobnl were working together, and so was I and Robert Jr, founder of ACS. We were really good friends, or at least I thought we were. I had become moderator of the Epic 4G forum at this time as well. It was terrible, trolls, flamming, and spam all over. I went hardcore and trying to restructure the community and make it usable. I guess I stepped on the wrong toes along the way and pissed off Rob and ACS. He went on a trip of a rant going off on me. I replied as to inquire why the hate? He claims I got his source fired and ruined the communities chances to get leaks in the future. Ha! Impossible. I will say this time and time again, stock Roms don't contain confidential information. There is nothing inside that can be linked back to a specific employee. So when ACS made that excuse for not releasing the md5, it was a bold face lie. They did it to force the community to use their ROM in order to use the latest update. Complete monopoly and against all ethical open source development standards. Not only that, but Rob fired k0nane, his head software developer. Evidence was uncovered that rob conspired to get me crucified by the community. It nearly happened. Everyone believed Rob, qbking, and the other ACS members. Well, after awhile it died down, and the community grew from it. It became more united, but I stepped away again. Not to return til I got my Epic Touch, but I came with a new alias...anyways I'm tired and it literally took me three hours to write this haha. I get sidetracked easily
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
FYI I'm not wanting to start a fight with ACS, I have no beef with them. Just telling a story of the dark side of the epic 4g forum
[Epic 4G General] styles420:
I remember the dark period in our history - it felt like going back to middle school, lol. But the turn around that followed was nothing short of amazing. You (whosdaman) had one of the roughest moderator positions I've ever seen, and I think your persistence paid off. Kenny is a great moderator, and I'm sure that he could have also fixed this forum (things continued to improve when he got here), but there is no doubt in my mind that your efforts made his job in this forum easier. So on that note, a huge thanks to both of you for being the most memorable, friendly and effective moderators to ever grace the epic forums with your presences :)
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
There was a period in between me and Kenny where theimpaler ran the forum but he went MIA and the community went nuts again haha
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Oh man, that was terrible. That's when ecooce got banned by TheRomMistress. Because we had no dedicated mod, svetius, Mr.Clown, and TRM were all here. Some mod claimed ecooce was asking for money in a thread where he was asking for something else(voting for his niece in a baby picture contest) and closed it. He said some "wordy dirds" if you will, and the ban hammer was brought in.

Man, this place is full of drama!! Would make a great TV show if it were scripted into more real life arguments lol.

Also, KrazyKamel, LooneyRat(or whatever your favorite username of the dozens you used was), where art thou? I miss you. Let's go back to when I tricked you into thinking that ViperROM DK28 was CM7 w/ working 4G. Man, that was great. We were pretty much ROFLing in the epic IRC channel, cause all of the regulars there knew it was going to happen.
[Epic 4G General] Olds_96:
Wow all this really brought back memories, ptfmedic really stood out to me how he coped with his personal life gains (I wont say a struggleas a father he loved his family) his blog lostandtired. and still give us the "build your own rom" to play with. Then I found out he lived in akron area 40min from me. Because of the epic ice storm he posted about. A shout out to him...

And viper rom was just wow to me all the A.I. sounds I thought where awsome!

First rom was frankenstein rom when the boot ani was the eye moving and the sound was from yoing Frankenstein "it is alive! " im on to the S3 now where we have a Frankenstein killjoy rom. I enjoyed our run as epic users

4inchs of the deepest darkest glass haha.
[Epic 4G General] jayharper08:
Damn. I never owned an Epic, but you guys sure make me wish I did.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Oh...we were quite the family! And still are.

XDA Moderator
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Good times...good times lol
[Epic 4G General] frostedunit:
Yeah. We made the Mason family look like the Partridge family.
[Epic 4G General] darkierawr:
I love you.

And Iove you.

And you.

And of course you.

You too.

I love you so hard.

You suck.
[Epic 4G General] darkierawr:
Wow. That was a good read.

:)

I regret my time with ACS. I don't know how they are still around.

I'm glad you're back though.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Good thing this tablet is waterproof! You made me spit my soda with the "you suck" comment! LMAO!

But I love you!

XDA Moderator
[Epic 4G General] darkierawr:
Daww I wub you too Kenny.

Stay golden.

And eat more bacon.