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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] driftinganomaly:
This phone doesn't have a simple carrier unlock feature. There are several guides around this forum to flash to several different carriers. You can look at them to get an idea of the scope of what all is involved. Things have to be done differently depending on the carrier that you are flashing to. That is why BluesRulez correctly suggested talking to the person who will flash it. He was correctly assuming that you would be taking it to a professional who is familiar with flashing phones to the carrier that you want to use. You can also look for a forum dedicated to that carrier and look for flashing directions there.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kcelights:
greyed out apps

Hi,

My Epic 4G Touch is running stock ICS and other than battery issues I've had no problems with it. I was using it this morning and it powered off on me (with a fully charged battery). I booted it back up and now most of the apps that are on the internal memory (not the SD card) are greyed out and say "can't open". I can still see them (but with a grey android icon) when I mount the phone to my computer everything seems to still be there. I can still run basic apps, mail, messaging, internet, but not much else (even Google play store is gone).

Any thoughts, do I just need to do a factory reinstall? Any help on getting the phone to recognize these apps again would be appreciated.

Thanks,
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] moogie522:
My power button is broken so is there a gb rom that I can flash with Mobil Odin?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
I am somewhat sure you have an external sd card?

Remove external sd card. Reboot phone. Apps should be there. If not reinstall apps from play store. Your app data is still there.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kcelights:
Tried this, still most apps are greyed out. The play store is one of the apps I can't access, so I'm not sure how to re-download my apps.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks,
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
Umm long shot.. wipe play store cache and data and reboot.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] driftinganomaly:
Stock is the only one that I can think of. I did a quick search and don't see a safe touch based recovery available. You should really get the power button repaired. It is hard to suggest flashing anything in your current state. I looked at the directbootEL29, but you would still need the power button to go back to be able to navigate the menus. It looks like you may want to just track down the problem.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] driftinganomaly:
For another long shot, try clearing the cache on your launcher. Also, I assume that you were referring to your home screen when you said that your apps were grayed out; have you tried accessing the grayed out apps from the app drawer or from the manage apps section of settings?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] djblu:
Holy God WTF!!! (I can't believe this just happened)

Sooo... while attempting to ODIN the rooted stock rom to my friends E46T, the damned power go's out halfway through and by the time it came back on, the battery had drained so far (no, I didn't unplug it, I didn't touch it, I've never had this happen before) it won't go into odin mode, it keeps saying there's not enough battery to flash the device. Yet when I plug it in I get this odd "PDA** Yellow Triangle ** PC" logo stating:

"Firmware Upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."

That message stays on for a few seconds and the the handset seems to reboot, and go right back to that screen (BTW I have it plugged into the wall currently in hopes that it will charge the battery)

Did I just completely F* off this handset?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] garwynn:
Hopefully not. Once the battery charges you should be able to try flashing again.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LucentBirch:
Updating from leaked FK23 to FL16 or GA10

If I'm running on FK23 rooted what are the procedures to updating to a newer build. I'm hesitant to do so because I don't know if I have to go back to EL29 or will I be able to flash either one directly through Odin? Then my second question is should I always do the restore version? Or am I able to get away with the noData versions if I'm rooted?

Cheers,

LucentBirch
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
If you are just interested in stock rooted builds, use the one clicks. You can try the one click that saves data first and if you run into issues, use the restore one click to reset data.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LucentBirch:
So I can jump builds without any worry? From the fk23 to GA10?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] djblu:
Thanks... so is it charging while flashing that message on the screen? Also, despite my search efforts, has there ever been a ROM created for those migrating from Sprint to Cricket?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MoHoGalore:
As always with flashing, there should be caution.

To answer your question, which I thought Blues did somewhere (or I'm losing my mind), You can nodata one click upwards. Don't do nodata's going down. If you notice odd issues, then use a full restore.

There has been a major flaw found in the GA10 build. While we know it has to do with call waiting/proximity sensor, Rumor is that may be the facial recognition equivalent, according to my source.

I've also been informed that GA10 will likely not be an official candidate, so hopefully we will get to see another build before release.

Only time will tell.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] djblu:
Would someone please come kick me in the head or something...

The damn battery died right at the begining of the ODIN flash, and now all I get is a solid blue LED? WHat does that mean? It's plugged into the wall now and its just a solid blue LED... I am so confused at the moment.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] driftinganomaly:
It is most likely not charging the battery. You should charge the battery with a dock charger or another phone.

You should never flash anything with Odin or cwm without at least 50% battery. The blue light means that it is probably a brick. Sorry to have to tell you.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] metalmancer85:
sph-d710 rooted with stock ff18 ROM

Where I am: Sprint Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch (SPH-D710) on stock FF18 ROM with root. I have Mobile Odin Pro and no access to a PC. All of my media files are on an external sd card where my contacts are also backed up.

Where I want to be: Same as above but with CWM installed so that I can make NANDroid backups and more easily flash other ROMs going forward. I'd like to try a few different ones out including CM. I also need to backup my app data so that i don't lose my conversations in google voice and my games save data. The apps themselves I can reinstall if necessary.

I've already looked through the kernel repository and can't make heads or tails of it, especially with the bit about using the GB kernel as it seems by now the eMMC issue would have been resolved. I need some step by step guidance please.

Thank you.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
You need EL26 stock cwm .tar.md5, Agat's/Ruj's/Sleshepic's ICS source built kernel from the kernel repo OR kernel threads in dev and original dev forums and FF18 stock with no CWM .tar.md5 also from kernel repo - http://rwilco12.androidfilehost.com/?dir=Kernels/Stock (TW) Kernels/ICS

Once you have all of this on your sd card..

-Flash Agat's/Ruj's/Sleshepic's source kernel from mobile odin.

-Boot to recovery. Power + Vol Up.

-Make a nandroid backup.

Now if you want to continue using your stock FF18 rom with any of those custom recoveries you can. You can flash the stock FF18 kernel with no CWM that I mentioned above to get back to your stock setup.

To flash CM roms as you mentioned, follow post 2.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] yogesh899891:
The person I know, only does MEID registration and no programming/flashing. This was the reason I thought of doing it myself.

Thanks for your reply. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 2fasttt:
Damn.. that's rough.. why would u not wait a few more mins till its charged.. instead of taking such a risk? :eek:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] saiko*:
What is the general consensus regarding the stock OTA ICS? Are people still having battery issues/etc? I was fed up with my phone and service in my area...called sprint and they told me no issues (to either...)

my ICS experience has yet to improve...battery life is still 10% per 30-60 min on standby, random reboots/slowdown/freezes, apps not loading up correctly upon boot...its like they just lagged out and they load a 2nd version resulting in one grey icon and one working icon...uninstalling greyed out icon will uninstall the actual app.., etc

sprint kept telling me my problem is isolated etc etc...except there is more than 1 epic4gtouch on my plan...and we all have the same experience. Spring kept telling me if anything its Samsung's fault for not releasing a good android version and that this is not a known issue at all.... i mean like ever....told me not to downgrade to GB because ICS is so much better blah blah....

I'm currently on FI27.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Drayspencer:
MMS Problems

My wife and I have the Boost Galaxy S2 and are both running the MIJJz JB GOODNESS JB 4.1.2 FK23 v1.0.3 which is nice and running smoothly. Only problem we have is we can't send or receive MMS on our phones. We have searched in the forums as hard as we can to find solution. We are noobs and we apologize if this is posted in the wrong thread.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
You need to edit the mms url to point to boost's mms url. I have not had to do this so I don't exactly know how to do it. I will also have to search for it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] CtDMonet:
I am currently running the AOSP 4.1.2 ROM - pretty much rooted stock. I went to it after having a really hard time flashing Goodness (see above problems in my last post on page 56). I have finally gotten everything installed after some problems with Titanium backup, modem, kernel and everything else you could have problems with. Now, it seems all my files have disappeared from my SD card. I just took a picture and tried to upload it, and I can't navigate to find it on the phone. Help?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
What file browser are you using?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigj231:
Weather not working in AOKP/PAC-man

The title says "All questions go here", so I guess this is as good a place as any.

I switched from FL04 TW to sniper's PAC-man rom, and I only have one issue that I can't figure out (so far anyway). Weather doesn't work on the lockscreen or the weather panel. I set it to auto update every 6 hours, manually updated it, tried disabling and re-enabling it, and even updated from v19 to v19.03. It still doesn't work. It just shows the gray sun and cloud with a "N/A" over it. I tried searching and didn't come up with anything helpful. Is it just broken, or is there something I need to fix anyway.

Epic 4G touch, with sinper's PAC-man ROM v19.03, FL24 modem, no tweaks anymore. GPS does work, as well as all other phone functions.

Thanks for the help.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
That function does work. You can try to set manual location under aokp weather settings.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigj231:
Don't know why I didn't try that, but it works now. Thanks for the tip. Now I found out that tapping the weather bar/icon thing in the notification panel crashes systemUI. It only happens after a reboot. Wonderful. I would post in the thread, but I don't have 10 posts...

EDIT: I disabled the custom location. Now the proper location is shown, and it doesn't FC systemUI anymore. Go figure...

EDIT 2: It didn't fix it. It crashed systemUI and broke the weather again. It seems that you must set a location instead of using automatic location. I will set custom location again and just use that.

EDIT 3: IT updated my weather automatically without setting a custom location this time. I guess tapping the notification widget causes problems.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] joe.stay:
If I want to unroot my rooted stock epic 4g touch, do I have to uninstall titanium backup and wifi tether first and than unroot? Also, is it safe update to ota FL24 from rooted FI27, and then root the FL24?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigj231:
I would think you could just unroot without uninstalling anything, but then those apps won't work. The same for installing them without root.

As far as safety, it will either break or it won't. I went from FL04 to FK23 without issue. Your experience may differ. I do like the one click packages for flashing stock ROMs.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jdoklahoma:
Stuck between a soft and a hard brick

Long story short, I've learned quite a bit about in the past few days but not soon enough. I got impatient trying to root my E4GT the other night and ended up grabbing the wrong set of files. I used the download for the GT-i9100 so now I cannot get into recovery mode to flash it (recover from a bad flash) from the SD card. It also will not detect from Odin3 (v1.85)

When it powers up it shows this message (with yellow triangle):

"Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."

I can get it into download mode but with no USB detection, it's no use. I will be trying another cable & different PC tomorrow.

I know the phone detects that it is being plugged into USB because it automatically powers up when I have the USB cable connected and insert the battery. But the PC doesn't see it at all. If I unplug the USB cable and remove/insert the battery, it will stay powered off.

So my guess is, the GT-i9100 uses a three button combo to get into recovery mode where the E4GT only has volume up/down and power (no physical home key to activate recovery)

I'm just trying all of my options before sending it off for a JTAG service. Has anyone seen plans for a USB jig to force recovery mode? Or is recovery mode even an option with the state it's in?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MoHoGalore:
Never mind. Just saw the link in your post to where you tried the recover thread...

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
Sounds like a brick. Have you tried to reinstall drivers?

Usb jig is to get to download mode.

Unroot using the unrooted one click that saves data. You can try accepting ota while rooted but it may fail if some system apps are missing, you have custom recovery etc..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] robertsanidiot:
so lost

Okay, I'm so lost.

This is my first post ever, and it's also the first time I've tried rooting a phone. I really want to start making good use of my phone and realizing it's true potential, but I'm so scared of bricking it and I tend to get very confused after a few pages. So I'm hoping someone will sort of hold my hand through my first root? Maybe a point in the right direction?

I tried following the instructions in the second post, but I got pretty confused pretty fast.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
Did you read the one click thread for the build you want to root? If so what is confusing you? Let us know so we can better assist you.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] robertsanidiot:
Okay, I THINK I know what I'm supposed to do? But I need to know a few things first.

1. Is there a right and wrong way to backup my files? So far I've just plugged in my phone to my computer and copy/pasted the files to some folders.

2. Do I need the rooted restore or the stock restore? I'm assuming the rooted restore but that's just speculation on my part.

3. do I want the RESET user data version or the KEEP user data version, and why

(I'm nearly completely computer ignorant as I've been without the internet almost all my life.)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigj231:
1) That's probably the easiest way to backup your files.

2) The rooted restore roots your phone, the stock restore doesn't.

3) The RESET version will generally avoid problems, but you will have to set your phone back up.

Since you're already rooting it, why not just go straight for Jellybean? There are quite a few nice features added. I had good luck with FL04. FL16 was good too. I haven't tried anything newer.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] CtDMonet:
Windows explorer while mounted usb? I can find the photo I was trying to upload in the "gallery" but I can't find any ringtones, or pictures taken before installing JB Rom (SPH-D710_FK23_549262_Rooted_Restore). Everything was on my SD card, and I can't really find anything on it now (it shows 16GB used, but I can't find any pictures or video). I can find everything when I use ES File Explorer, but that's on the phone, not my desktop.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
Reset User Data Will Wipe all your data as in apps and app data. if you use jb one click that resets, all internal sd card files will be erased. To back apps and app data you need an app like titanium backup.

Did you try usb debugging on in settings and then mount it to pc?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] CtDMonet:
All my apps were backed up on with TB, and they restored fine. None of the files were on the internal SD card. I'm not sure what I did - turned on USB debugging (in developer settings), and it seemed to not connect to phone when I plugged it in. I opened advanced settings, and USB options turned on mass storage? and it installed some drivers, and then I could access the files (instead of showing my phone with Card and Phone -- it showed "Drive F & Drive G" -- one being the phone, one being my SD card with all the files. It seemed to work, but I don't know why or how. I am in the process of backing them all up, but would really like to fix the directory structure.

I'm unsure how to mount a drive without recovery. I have mounted USB through recovery (and JB has no reliable recovery yet?), but I don't have CWM and flashed through Odin.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] afiction:
Hello guys. I don't seem to have any luck flashing to a JB-based rom. I rooted and flashed my FJ12 (Virgin Mobile) with the EL26CWM. Running clockwork mod, I've tried three different roms and I keep getting failure notices. Now I don't even know how to return to stock. =( Any help would be much appreciated.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rcdoma:
Which carrier do you want to flash to?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MoHoGalore:
If you want to start fresh, here's the FJ12 one click thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35073538

And are you getting status 7 errors when trying to flash the roms?

Sent from my SPH-L900 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] afiction:
Thank you! Downloading the one-click recovery right now. When I try to install roms it says

--Installing: /sdcard/"rom name"

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

E:Can't open /sdcard/"rom name"

(bad)

Installation aborted.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MoHoGalore:
Hmmm. Download from your phone? Try downloading the rom to your pc then transfer to sd.

>>

Sent from my SPH-L900 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] afiction:
Hmn, I did download on PC and then transfer. Perhaps a faulty sd-card? Because I did notice slow speeds and odd spikes when I moved the zip files onto the card.

Update: Hurray. Looks I'm back with rooted stock. Thanks for that link. I need to settle my heart rate back to normal so I'll be trying this again tomorrow.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MoHoGalore:
Haha. Been there.

And when you try again, verify md5 matches in phone after you move it if you suspect a faulty sd card. Md5 checker from the play store.

Sent from my SPH-L900 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] driftinganomaly:
Have you installed an app like this USB Switcher app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.zatta.USB_switch

The default USB setting is not true mass storage. I hope that this might help.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] aquilbankinem:
fl16 recovery

i have a sph-d710bst phone, i am running android 4.1.2, build jz054k.sph-d710.fl16, i flashed this through odin, but its stock recovery, can i get a custom recovery and if so how??? it also says the model number is SPH-D710 NOW instead of sph-d710bst THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
You need to Odin a boost full stock ROM.

And here is boost kernel with recovery.. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2112572
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zap5029:
Flashed international version

I accidentally flashed CyanogenMod for the international version (i9100). For a few days, it simply wouldn't flash, but for some reason it did today (magic?), but now I have CyanogenMod for the i9100 on my Epic 4G Touch, which mostly works okay except I can't access the cell network or wifi, or my SD card. And for some reason, the phone isn't able to connect to my PC, so I can't use heimdall or adb (which both worked for a while, but conveniently stopped when I found the right ROM to flash). All I can access is my internal storage. The correct ROMs are on my SD card, but I can't get to them for some reason.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MoHoGalore:
I'm confused, you tried for several days to flash the incorrect kernel, not knowing it was incorrect, then it took, now you're stuck?

By saying you tried heimdall and adb; are you saying you don't have access to a pc (windows) to try Odin?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zap5029:
That's right. I tried a bunch of different versions and ways of getting it on. It just seemed to work today, but I didn't try anything novel.

I already tried Odin and it didn't work either. They can't detect the phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] emezrahi:
Kind of a stupid question, but...

why dont you just flash dastin1015's CM10.1?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2099881

I am currently running this & after a few tweaks (MMS fix, GPS fix) it works flawlessly!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MoHoGalore:
They can't flash anything, that's the problem...

Sent from my GN2 or E4GT
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] emezrahi:
what about mobile odin?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pitbullmommy45245:
Hi. I am currently running jellyverse fl16. I am trying to flash my phone to cricket. I took it to cricket and they said they couldnt flash it because of the software (jellybean). I am trying to unroot my phone now so they can flash it. Is there a way to unroot my phone from my phone using mobile odin or do I have to have a computer (I currently dont have a computer).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
You need the stock ics fl24.tar full rom. It will be on sxtp forums or in rwilco12's stock rom repo in dev forums.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] erikalin:
insufficient storage available Google Play Error

Help, advice, suggestions VERY much appreciated. Thanks!!!

I've read several other posts with this question, and I have tried all the fixes I've found in the forums and none have helped. I will just wipe everything and reflash the ROM clean, that's no problem, but I'd actually like to know what's wrong so I could possibly learn?

Problem

: "Insufficient Storage Available" when trying to update an app from the Play Store. I get this error when trying to update certain apps (Android Assistant, Docs2Go, Zooper Widget). Strangely, my wife's phone (same setup) is doing it also, for a few different apps (Find Me Gluten free, and a couple others, but not the same apps as on my phone). The suggested remedy seems generally to clear data/cache, or find remnant files left behind from previous versions of apps. I think I've tried all that though...

Currently running Jelyverse FL16 v.4, stock FL16 kernel.

These are the things I've tried which haven't worked:

Clear Cache and Delete Data for Google Play Store

In recovery wipe cache and dalvik cache

clear cache from all installed apps, why not

went into file explorer data/app/ looking for any .odex files with the names of these problem apps but didn't find them in there.

Reflashed FL16 stock kernel (I don't know why, but it was suggested somewhere so I did it)

Restored a nandroid backup from a few days ago when this was not happening **

** Since restoring nandroid didn't help, this is what makes me want to know what is actually wrong. I've got a screenshot here from Terminal Emulator and (don't know what I'm talking about but...) system partition looks full. Not sure if that's the problem, or why it's full, or if I'm misunderstanding.

Anyone want to take a look and give your thoughts? Again, I'm just going to wipe everything if I can't locate what's wrong, but I'd hate to miss a chance to learn something... Cheers!