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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xjaynee:
A few others have used the JB rotation fix from the AT&T's Skyrocket thread on their T989 and reported that it does work. =) You can try if you'd like: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1779819
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] switchfo0t:
Didn't work for me.. I'll keep searching! If anyone has something, feel free to post up D:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xjaynee:
Hm. Maybe if you used the instigator x kernel with it, it may work. Most that have said it worked used both. I have yet to try to rotation fix, but I'll probably try tomorrow and let you know!
[HTC Desire S] Pik0:
Hi Guys,

Just updated my phone using the Desire S ICS link from HTCdev (can't post links as I just joined)

The phone has updated fine, I can connect to the net it all works fine, except I need to modify the APN for work and mobile networks doesnt appear.

If anyone has an ideas on how to fix this it would be much appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slyd0997:
Anyone have an old apk for better battery stats. The recent update broke it - no stats show.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Petrovski80:
Stats show just fine for me. Try an uninstall and reinstall.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iJimaniac:
Okay, so using my dad's tab 10.1 2 today, I noticed it can no longer search anything but the web with the Google quick search bar! Looking on the market, I see that the app no longer shows up. I know Google had to change some stuff concerning this for the galaxy nexus, since apple sued Samsung over it, but did the galaxy tab also get a "fix"? This makes the Google search bar essentially worthless, and I could happily kill Tim cook right now! (Alright, I would prefer to kill Steve Jobs, but he already died :P) Anyone else know about this?

Sent using Tapatalk
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sean_Seany:
GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk needs to be replaced with an older version for it to work again ( pull out from an old back up or a previous ROM).

Think the ten inch version was hit , not sure about the 7 as its too small to be compared to an iPad/iPhone.. Some of the patents were about software so a lot of Samsungs tech was included. Stay up to date with the case as Im pretty sure an appeal is being made and its all subject to change.

One of the benefits of using a custom ROM is no sneaky updates from Samsung. Looks like Apple is going to take on Google next , Those mother ****ers want Android dead ! Gonna get real messy lol. :cyclops:
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] JeonZiro:
Can someone give me 2.3.6 for Galaxy player 5 without it being modified or changed (Super user isn't a issue with me at all) but i want the icons to have the boxes and the custom roms remove it
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Mevordel:
You're looking for the stock XXKPL. However, since 2.3.6 was only released for international, if you have a us player, you'll have to flash entropy's kernel afterwards to make your home button work.
[Epic 4G General] johnp1991:
So today i seen a review of the new kyocera rise. Whats very baffling is that the rise has the same specs of the epic and yet it has 4.0? its a shame that samsung has to lie to us.
[Epic 4G General] GuestK00145:
what did they lie to us about ?
[Epic 4G General] b16flybye:
Samsung never stated our phone cant run 4.0 It needed to run mtd and there would have been too many issues with that official update. Get yo facta str8 gangsta
[Epic 4G General] MeetFace:
Besides, forget specs, it was 100% an economical decision. Why allocate dev hours to a 2+ year old phone that isn't selling on store shelves any more?
[Epic 4G General] AproSamurai:
Nah, this is some McBullshiz. Hehe.
[Epic 4G General] stevie13.xo:
Amen.. lol
[Epic 4G General] faceless:
not the same specs, the Rise is using a Snapdragon with worse CPU and GPU performance. hahah, just sayin'
[Epic 4G General] Grompy:
I assume you meant isn't, but sprint. Com is still selling our phone. For the same price as the galaxy nexus with new 2 yr agreement. lol.
[Epic 4G General] nikon120:
Bubble now burst

Samsung only promised owners of the SPH-D700 (Epic 4G) ... wait for it ...

Froyo

Everything beyond Froyo was lagniappe. Threads such as this are pointless.
[Epic 4G General] MeetFace:
Haha, you're right =] ...on both accounts ;)
[Epic 4G General] milky1112:
However, does it really and truly matter? We have 4.0, we have 4.1 as well as others. Why? Because of the developers in this community that keep our phone from fading away. Who cares if it's official or not. If it was, don't ya think it would probaly be loaded down with bloatware and nonsense to begin with? Official means more stuff i gotta delete to make room for apps i will use! lol.. Just my thoughts on the thing. I love my OG Epic.
[Epic 4G General] MeetFace:
No doubt, I have a buddy that went from his Evo, to an iPhone 4s, to a Nexus, and now back to a 4s (work required him to switch this time).

I told him I was running Jelly and he didn't say anything at first until he remembered I'm still rockin' the Epic 4G, then he flipped. Haha he said "my theory is that you'll have that phone the rest of your life". Maybe he's right =]

Just hoping something fails before December so I can make claim for a new refurb before my insurance expires =]
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
What is BS about our phone & samsuck. Is the fact the GPS is kinda useless. GPS will not work/get lock outside of CDMA coverage. IMA that makes GPS useless! Drive from New York to LA & tell me that its all 100% CDMA covered:banghead:

Not to mention if you take your epic out of North America and want to use the ****ing GPS on it your **** outta luck

**** SAMSUCK!! I love this phone but I still have NOT BOUGHT one thing samsung after finding out the GPS is just totaly ****ed on our phone & there seems to be no fixing it with software.

Rocking cm9.1
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Actually there is a fix for this... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=21339400 I see you've posted there, did that not work for you?

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[Epic 4G General] orlzzt:
Speaking of the 4S; did anyone happen to read the Gizmodo article on the Apple employee manual?

http://gizmodo.com/5938323/how-to-be-a-genius-this-is-apples-secret-employee-training-manual
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
No that does NOT WORK! I did a lot of testing with that.

If you Jam the radio bands for CDMA you can not & will not get a GPS lock. Samsung sucks ass! I mean how about if WiFi or bluetooth just refused to work out of CDMA coverage zones!

Rocking cm9.1
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
It works... used it out camping when I had no coverage and gps worked great... it was a while ago, but I seem to remember having to reboot a few times to actually get a connection... sorry it didn't work for you...

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[Epic 4G General] zman519:
If you are say out on Lake Michigan or the Ocean or you have the Epic 4G with in a Jamming field of CDMA bands used in the U.S. the GPS is rendered useless. That is proof that the GPS is somehow tied to the cell radio reception and is not an independent true Sat based GPS.

Samsuck ****ed it up totally & never admitted it's falt:banghead: IMA its wrong to say the SPH-D700 Has GPS the Epic 4G's GPS is only going to work in parts of the world that have CDMA so forget trying to use this thing some day as a backup nav unit on a boat, survival bag, in the middle of bum **** NV or AK WI or Off shore, maybe an Oil rig or a fishing boat to log you fishing trip fun in the golf.

Rocking cm9.1
[Epic 4G General] XxLostSoulxX:
HD2?
[Epic 4G General] xboxfanj:
He's saying for samsung not xda devs. Htc never did anything for android on the hd2.
[Epic 4G General] xboxfanj:
Try and see if it works on the ns4g modems w/o cdma (or in airplane mode).
[Epic 4G General] A_Flying_Fox:
Samsung definitely said "The Galaxy S will not be receiving an update to ICS 4.0 because of hardware limitations." and that was why they released that stupid "Value Pack Add-on" which added some ics goodies to GB (like face unlock) onto the international Galaxy S.

If the international version "cant run ICS", what makes you think the Epic can run ICS (although we ALL know it can...samsung didnt bother.)

Stop trying to defend these companies when they obviously make piss poor decisions. BTW< to the dude who said why would they continue development on a 2+ year old phone....the Epic 4g only JUST made 2 years last month. Thats a good 2 months after the release of Jelly Bean. The galaxy Nexus came out around october/november of 2011 with ICS, that makes ICS 14-15 months in the epic's lifecycle, 4-3 months before the promised 18 month support.

Although, i really dont give a rats butt because we're running ics perfectly fine and i never expected them to update, just check your facts if youre gonna tell someone else to check their facts, got it?

Heres a links from the very first page of a google search for "Galaxy S ICS" (feel free to use Google, it comes built into your phone.)

http://pinappu.hubpages.com/hub/Sam...e-update-to-Android-40-aka-Ice-Cream-Sandwich

"lacks sufficient RAM and ROM"
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
Will do xboxfanj,

I am going out on the lake tomorrow. I'll try & go out 15 20 miles off shore & see how cell bars are looking, then I'll power on the RF jammer just for good measure. I'll post the results in the other GPS thread.

Rocking cm9.1
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
What they really meant was that It wouldn't run on BML.
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
true, but in any case they are full of BS (cough cough lies) BLM vs MTD would be a low leave software layer if I remember form class. Correct me if I'm wrong. Right??? Partition maps are Low Leave software layers. There was no reason samsuck could not Help cm make ISC & then just leave it at that. (IE 4G radio driver, the audio driver how about the FM radio & HDMI over USB, video out via the audio jack. Ya samsuck are a bunch of ass hats, I mean think about how the samsung HW engs felt after seeing there masterpiece SPH-D700 get its Nutz chopped off VIA U.S. telcoms BS & the software teams! [Ranting\]

If only Motorola would STOP there locking down BS, cuz they make vary nice hardware.

Rocking cm9.1
[Epic 4G General] notsosmrtgeek:
Can't. Be as bad as the moment. Lol
[Epic 4G General] ÜBER™:
Root your phone and take control, or buy a nexus device. Nexus s is getting jelly bean soon. :D Tomorrow actually.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Epic 4G General] A_Flying_Fox:
If that was what samsung meant, then that's what they would've said. They never mentioned anything about the partition of the phone. Read the link I posted, or google it yourself. Samsungs one and only reason for not releasing ics on the GS1 was the lack of sufficient ram and rom.

We all know the truth, but I'm giving the official reason. This dude said they didn't cop out. I'm showing him how they did.

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Lol I'm sure samsung doesn't even acknowledge the moment anymore :P
[Epic 4G General] nikon120:
Think about like this. You have a few hundred thousand people using this device? (Just guessing at a figure.) Imagine having that many customers swarming Sprint/Samsung support when a software update repartitions their phone and they essentially get a factory reset. You would have a boat load of angry people demanding answers and possibly taking their money elsewhere.

Now, don't get me wrong here. They used a pretty BS excuse in their public response as to why no official ICS for Galaxy S 1 devices, but that's their prerogative and majority of users wouldn't know better.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
That IS what they said and meant. For them to release a Touchwiz ICS ROM on their proprietary partition it would be impossible with that size ROM and RAM. For the other 99.9% of the Epic users out there this information was sufficient. The other 0.1% that still reside here know that equals problem with the BML partition. The 99.9% don't know MTD from MTV.
[Epic 4G General] BlueCrescent94:
The BS did produce flowers

I can say that without Samsung and their "maybe" on ICS, I would have never lookded into rooting and realizing the true power of my phone and not a real need to buy another phone just to get an operating system. Glass half full I guess.
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
Back in the xbox days (the good one the OG black one) I got a

"Girls gone wilde" from Best Buy for like $7. It was a regain free disc well M$ thought it was a good idea to lock down the DvD player. Well I wonted to see titys so i modded my xbox that was only the first of 100's. This was before there was xbmc before Halo 2. So I get what your saying about when company's lock stuff down it motivates us to hack them.

Rocking cm9.1
[Epic 4G General] Zeinzu:
I haz official Jelly Beans!

Sent from my Stock AOSP Android 4.1.1 Galaxy Nexus.
[Epic 4G General] A_Flying_Fox:
They didn't mention the filesystem at all. Give me links where they mention the switch from BML to MTD?

Like I said, we all know the real reason was because of the filesystem. But that's not what samsung stated at all. they never mentioned partitions. At. All. If they did, provide a link, I'll happily read it, but if you read their statement (part of which is in the link I posted) they exclusively mention lack of rom&ram. No bml. No mtd.

Again, I know (as well as everyone here) the real reason is mtd. But let's not put words in companies mouths here, ok? I'm reiterating what they stated, along with some proof. If you can find me ANYWHERE that samsung said "BML" or "MTD" I will read it. Till then, let's not confuse people as to what was said and done.

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Btw I mention several times that everyone here knows the real reason is mtd, why does that keep getting ignored? No need to tell me what I already said I and everyone else knows over and over.

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P.p.s. didn't mean to sound all douchey it wasn't meant like that at all lol :P
[Epic 4G General] DCRocks:
That was not how Samsung framed it, they just stated it was a space issue.

Techies know that more space was obtained by hacks and the conversion from BML to MTD, but that was a "fix", not a cause of the lack of the update

So no, Samsung would not mention MTD as it did not deal with a "fix", but with the issue, lack of space.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Fox, I think you missed where I said that the other 99.9% users that are not rooting their phones and reading technical articles would not know the difference between MTD and MTV. As DC stated they did say not enough space and in another article not enough memory (which could be storage or RAM). Samsung's reports were all based on the phone as is with it's proprietary partition table. What you are proposing is like saying Sony could have saved BetaMax if they just changed it to the standard VHS format. How do you know that the Touchwiz version of ICS would be able to run on the Epic even if they did screw up a majority of the phones with an OTA repartitioning software? It is preposterous to assume that a company with many new phones with much more capabilities out and being released would majorly overhaul a 1 1/2 year old phone with the possibility of Sprint rejecting every trial for 6 months like they did with Gingerbread. It is not cost effective and dangerous to do all that with an OTA. Sprint gave the specifications that it would have to be an OTA release. Imagine the lawsuits they would have to wade through and replacements of all the bricked phones of the common user. Stop thinking every Epic owner is on XDA and technically capable.
[Epic 4G General] MeetFace:
Dudes, $, Benjamins, green backs, Scrooge McDuck's mistress...

It's all in the money, cost/benefit analysis. You can think of the benefit as increased goodwill, I doubt they would have received more than a very marginally small increase in direct epic 4g sales. The phone was already nearing 2 years old. Anyone savvy enough to care about ICS, wasn't to going to get the previous years' hotness.

You can consider the costs, the actual application of resources and human capital. At that point out don't think it's worth it. And THEN you start to consider all of the risks, limitations, difficulties that Kenny reiterated, and it's a no brainer to just let it didn't out to sea...Especially with the knowledge that those who really care can go to XDA and and get their ICS and JB jimmies.

Coach Z's got MONAYYYY! $$$$$$$$
[Epic 4G General] josidhe:
Kind of loling at all the angsty teenage anger in this thread. I especially liked the part where someone said they literally had experience taking the phone onto a lake and using GPS without CDMA coverage, and the very next post was an ear splitting whine about how NOYOUDIDNTTHATSIMPOSSIBLEGRRBLSAMSUCK.

Maybe I'm just not as emotionally invested in all this, but I don't see the big deal. ICS? Who cares? I realize the hacking community has a low bar for performance as long as the developer is a hobbyist (the only thing anyone here seems to care about is supporting devs with no skin in the game), but it's getting tiresome seeing people pretend that ICS runs anywhere near as smoothly as GB on the Epic.

Spoiler: it doesn't. ICS is NOT as responsive as GB on an Epic. There is a quantifiable drop in performance, even compared to stock GB, and that's GB with TouchWiz, so chew on that for a bit.

There's no economical reason for Samsung and Sprint to both waste resources building and providing long term support for the conversion to 4.x, and even people here understand the sensibility of keeping this device at 2.3 (look at how CM7 is still alive and well, and has the best support for NS4G modem).

I guess there will always be people who just want to be angry, and high five each other for expressing that anger, no matter how poorly thought out, but the funny thing about angry, whiny, immature ramblers is that they probably aren't actually contributing anything to the development here. Devs, though often childish in their own way (I say that with love), are a lot more likely to be gracious and, well, chill the fark out.
[Epic 4G General] DCRocks:
The only performance drop I saw with ICS over GB, was with the battery, and in just about every other aspect, I saw significant gains running ICS over GB.

Also, the NS4G modem installed and configured with ease, both on CM9 and CM9.1 :victory:

IMO, if your ICS build doesnt run as smooth as, and FASTER than, your GB build, you set it up wrong, and the blame should rest with you, not the SW.
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
REALLY JUST REALLY YOU THINK ITS OK TO MAKE A GPS UNUSEABLE out side of CELL COVERAGE :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

MAYBE THE BLUETOOTH SHOULD ALSO STOP WORKING WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE CDMA!:rolleyes:

I MEAN MAYBE YOU NEVER LEAVE THE USA. IDK BUT FOR PPL THAT DO & THERE GPS WILL NOT WORK WHEN OVERSEAS WHERE THEY REALLY NEED THE MAPS. YEP YOUR RIGHT SAMSUCK DID IT RIGHT THE GPS SHOULD NOT WORK OUTSIDE OF CDMA ZONES, CUZ WE ALL KNOW THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE WHERE PPL SHOULD BE USING A GPS MAP

Rocking cm9.1
[Epic 4G General] LemonHead2089:
any word on how it worked with the NS4G modem?
[Epic 4G General] styles420:
Calm down and think about it for a moment - does Ford make all of their vehicles off-road ready? No. Does Nintendo support their games when you run them on an emulator? No. Does Microsoft support their software for users who run it on Linux? Absolutely not. If it works, great, but if not, well, they never promised that it would.

So, is Sprint in the cell phone business or the stand-alone GPS business? ;)
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Cool story bro!

Always wanted to say that!

But what has the GPS have to do with SamSprint not putting ICS on the Epic?
[Epic 4G General] PythonFanTN:
Could be wrong, but starting to think that all that beer and cheese must really do something awful to a person over time... :eek:
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
True True. Well its just the Title of the thread. "samsung full of BS" I mean you know i love to ***** about samsucks suckass GPS in our phones

BTW i'l have you know that i love my Beer & my Cheese, but i eat a vary healthy diet:victory: and i am NOT one of them Wisconsin FATTYS about as far as you could be.

Its all good guys. I just think samsuck sucksass after dooping me into buying this phone, had the box side "NOT Real Sat based GPS" "will not work with out CDMA coverage" i would have LoLed & never thought more about buying this phone. I was way past the return time when i found out that the GPS does not work as it should. I should have just returned it on DI18 when the no < 100' lock thing was pissing me off, but i really want a keyboard. This is something that phone reviewers need to start testing for!

Ok Kenny i can let the thread stay on topic about ICS :highfive:
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
It's been awhile since you had chance for your gps rant...lol.
[Epic 4G General] styles420:
@zman - A.) Why aren't you *****ing about Honda not fixing her speedometer? Because it is out of warranty? The warranty is a service provided for a set, contracted amount of time - once the contract is up, the service is up. It also has limitations to what it will cover, just like Sprint's service

B.) An Epic without service is not Sprint's concern, because they are a service provider

C.) Samsung made the Epic exclusively for Sprint - they made it as a phone, to be used with a specific phone service provider. If they intended to support the phone without Sprint, they would sell it directly, without getting Sprint involved. Sammy sold the phones to Sprint, so Sprint is their customer - and Sprint is more than pleased with the product they received.

I understand that it would be better if the gps in the phone worked without the phone service, but it's actually stupid to be pissed at Sprint or Samsung, because your expectations and sense of entitlement are stupid and go well beyond what is logical to expect, given the nature and focus of the businesses you're pissed at. It's not much different than being pissed at McDonald's for refusing to refill a Burger King cup...
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
@420

I think your smoking to much at 420.

Samsung ****ing sucksass!!!!! Show me one other phone made by ANY ONE THAT HAS GPS & IT WILL NOT WORK WITH OUT CELL RF IN RANGE!

That's the point all other phones work that way. But not the POS epic

Rocking cm9.1
[Epic 4G General] styles420:
Just because I disagree with you, and can back up my reasoning?

Besides, I think you meant that I'm smoking too much - so remind me how you intended to insult the pothead's intelligence ;)

Oh, well when you put it that way, your argument seems so much more believable :)

That's your point, and I already get what you're saying. You are also ignoring two things: one, just because you don't know of another phone that does not work without a signal, does not mean that the Epic is the only one - you have no idea how many others might exist (absence of proof does not count as proof)

Two, the phone works AS ADVERTISED - regardless of your opinion about possible improvements, it does do everything Sprint and Samsung promised. I think our phones would be better if they had use of the fm radio hardware and tv out hardware, which originally was advertised, but I can't justify complaining to Sprint about it - the phone still sends and receives phone calls, texts and data, and those are the services Sprint provides.
[Epic 4G General] nikon120:
There really isn't much else to say about zman's GPS argument after styles' rebuttal; straight and to the point.

@zman: If you are that hard up about the GPS not operating to your expectations, then sell your Epic and move on. No use beating this specific topic any further.