[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fiernaq:
First off wanted to say thanks for a great ROM! I've had it on my little old E4GT for longer than any other custom ROM except Calkulin's original stock/rooted GB and Jellyverse has proved quite the capable DD. However, like all computers, over time my phone has begun to slow down to the point where I needed to wipe and re-install. So, naturally, I hopped back on XDA for the first time in ages to see if there was a later version of Jellyverse to apply.

I soon found v4 and proceeded to re-download all the tools I would need to refresh such as the stock rooted EL29 for a base, e4gtauto-lite-sfx to put CWM recovery on it, Jellyverse v4 of course along with a GB27 Modem and a separate copy of Agat's GB27 v1.4.2F kernel that's supposed to be in JV already, updated versions of TriangleAway and Mobile Odin (just in case), and a copy of TDunham's AiO 4.5. Alright, good to go, time to start the process.

Now, this may sound like I know what I'm doing but really I've just had a lot of trial and error experience (mostly error) and I know a few of the things that work and a few of the things that don't. I don't actually understand a lot of what I'm doing but I can see the results which in most cases has been good enough to get by.

Alright, on to the steps:

1) Data backup - fairly simple as most of my important data can be found in a few key folders. Everything else can be wiped.

2) EL29 One-Click - SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097_ROOTED_OC.7z.exe

Ran it, it extracts to a folder, inside the folder you'll find an Instructions.txt file to help you out but basically you run Odin, select the PDA file and with phone in download mode (PWR+VOL-DOWN) plug it in and get a yellow COM light then hit start and wait for process (including phone reboot) to finish.

3) CWM Recovery - put phone into USB Debug mode, plug it into computer and start e4gtauto, choose option H for EL29+CWM-Rogue and follow instructions.

*** If you want to verify that your flash counter is still 0 and your binary status is still official you can install and run TriangleAway here just to make sure.

4) Having finished step 1 of JV"s installation steps I now load into recovery, wipe cache, install the GB27 modem from zip, install the JB.Format_All_X2.zip to wipe cache, dalvik, and system, and finally install the Jellyverse_v4.0_GB27_DeOdexed.zip and reboot phone.

All seems good. The process worked, was fairly painless, and at first glance I'm good to go. Then I hit a few snags. Some of them are due to updates, some are due to (as far as I can tell) the changelog on the first post of this thread not being accurate, and some are just graphical things that I'd like to be different but haven't figured out how to change. Hopefully none of the issues are due to me messing something up but I'm not ruling that out just yet. So, let me post the details of the phone immediately following my previous step 4 with the phone having just finished rebooting.

5) Welcome screen - I choose English, log into my Google account, choose to keep phone backed up but not restore, accept location settings (for now), and hit Finish.

6) I quickly turn off 3G and 4G data and connect to wifi (I've moved my phone to Ting and cost is based on usage so I keep cellular data use to a minimum when possible).

Settings -> Device -> About Device

Model Number: SPH-D710

Android Version: 4.1.2

Baseband Version: S:D710.10 S.GB27

Kernel Version: 3.0.75+ AGAT_GB27_kernel #v1.4.2 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 20 21:09:43 PDT 2013

Build number: Jellyverse_v4.0.GB27

Hardware Version: D710.10

Software Version: GB27

There's an icon in my notification tray shaped like the hangouts callout bubble that claims that Hangouts needs Google Play Services updated in order to function. At this point the Hangouts and YouTube icons are still blue but a few minutes later (having done nothing), Google Play Services apparently updates all by itself. SuperSu and Google Text-to-Speech also update by themselves while Google Search, Google Talkback, Hangouts, and YouTube are all requesting approval to update. I'm not sure but I think Google Play Services updated when SuperSu and Google Text-to-Speech updated because I noticed that immediately after the reboot the Google Play Store was black background with blue text (and old layout) while after those two apps updated it was white background and looked stock (with new layout). Settings -> Device -> Application Manager also confirms that 4 applications have downloaded: SuperSu, Sprint Zone, Google Text-to-speech Engine, and Google Play Store. In fact, if I uninstall the Play Store updates (reset to "factory" which is actually JV's defaults) and then open it I see it go back to the old layout, black background but if I close it, wait a few minutes, and then re-open it I'm back once more to the white background stock version.

Ok, so I'll go ahead and update everything to see what happens. By the way, I do note that Gmail was not installed by Jellyverse (wasn't there even immediately after reboot). Voicemail (actually Visual Voicemail) also wants an update (which I allow) and there's a notification to "Set up Samsung account" which I click on and then cancel out of. Back in Application Manager, I see that alongside the apps that specifically requested to update, Google Play Services, Google Play Store, and Sprint Zone have also installed themselves. I uninstall Sprint Zone and disable Samsung Account and I'm tempted to disable a few other unneeded services but most of them are actually built into Android and I don't want to potentially break anything just yet.

Icons in my apps folder for Hangouts and YouTube are now green and red respectively and Play Store is definitely the new stock version and not the nice black/blue themed one that came with Jellyverse. Another thing I note is on the lock screen... big fancy letters spelling "Epic 4G Touch" up near the top. A quick search of this thread shows someone else had the same question and you pointed them at the S4-esque version with flare. I tried it out and the flare is ugly and the phone slows down noticeably while displaying it. I also know that TDunham's AiO mod has lock screen stuff in it. I try applying the 4.5 AiO directly from his page choosing the "GB27 REV4.5 Deodexed Full Download Link" and this clears up the lock screen quite nicely. I much prefer the centered text and the formatting is better too. The changelog claims the 4.5 AiO is already part of Jellyverse but maybe you tweaked things a bit or perhaps chose certain options from the AiO instead of others.

Under Settings -> Personalize I note that 3Minit is there even though the changelog said it was removed. The changelog also claims that Kryten2k35's Inverted Holo themed apps (YouTube, Play Store, Hangouts, Google Now, Gmail, Drop box, and Chrome) are included but those are obviously having some issues. Gmail, Chrome, and Google Now weren't installed at all. YouTube, Play Store, and Hangouts all had to update which removed the whole invert/holo theming. Only the inverted holo themed Dropbox appears to work correctly. I stopped by Kryten's page and it seems he's having trouble updating some of his themed apps because of issues with Google so this one may not even be fixable yet. Not sure what the difference is between the app titled "S Planner" and Google Calendar but gcal wasn't installed either and installing it from the Play Store gives me the stock white version.

I was successfully able to download the latest revisions of the Google apps that Kryten did have updated and most of them seem to work but the lack of consistency across apps is rather ugly. I'd rather have all themed or all stock. This brings me to a theming question that you may not be able to answer but hopefully you know someone who could. The simplest theming system I could come up with is one that sets all app icons to grayscale and then provides you a color tweaker to adjust what color the black is. That would allow consistent icon coloring for all apps while hopefully not breaking on an update which replaces the icon since your theme would simply set the new icon to grayscale as well.

So, in conclusion to my rather lengthy post, allow me to summarize:

Google Play Services requires an update which breaks most of the themed Google Apps and Kryten doesn't appear to have a cross-the-board solution for this yet. In the meantime, could you push a version of JV that does not include those themed apps (and preferably includes either stock icons for all apps or custom icons for all apps)? Also, apps like Gmail and Google Calendar would be highly appreciated and even Google Chrome would be nice although I could understand leaving that one for the user to decide.

TD's AiO 4.5 doesn't appear to be included or has been modified (Lock Screen). If anyone could show me how to just apply the default lock screen from that pack I would be grateful but I also think some mention of this should be included in the changelog.

3minit still exists and is usable. I don't have a problem with that personally since I would install it again anyways but the changelog should be accurate.

Sprint Zone and Samsung Account both appear to be completely unnecessary. Is it possible to remove them?

Finally, you mention both JV specific KO tweaks and Comadose tweaks and I thought JV used to include some of them by default but I couldn't tell what all was included with v4.0. Looking in my backup files I see a bunch of KO tweak stuff but I don't think Comadose was out (or if it was it probably hadn't matured yet) so I'm not sure which of them to use. It looks like Comadose is more up-to-date but KO's stuff has worked quite well for me in the past. I don't think we should be running both but if that's worth doing could someone provide the right order to install them in?

Anywho, thanks for the ROM!