[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Burban502:
Was a previous Fascinate user (as a PMP-only), till I inadvertently knocked it into my bed-side trash bin and took said trash out :eek: I loved the modified ICS-based AOKP that Icy Glitch did, but more specifically their kernel that was included! When I got the Epic 4G (non-touch, don't worry lol) I started looking around and Nyan Colonel looked like my cup 'o tea with all the tweaking options Marcusant included; however, not only could I not find a working link to it

anywhere

but the last version wasn't even available for JB :( Right now I'm running Nitest (Effsi's), and that actually appears to be the only stand-alone packaged Kernel available for the D700 as well. I'd honestly give compiling one a try except I'm stuck with WWAN home internet and a 5GB limit per month that 2 others use on occasion. :crying: As such I rely on the smarts and abilities of you fine XDA'ers :highfive:

At any rate, as I've no experience with Linux I do not know how complicated these requests are, so please excuse my ignorance lol. But to me it seems like certain features (commits?) are fairly modular in nature and appear as though they are almost "a la carte". If it's harder than it sounds, by all means let me know and I'll be content with what is available. :)

If anyone does take up my suggestion, which not to try and dictate anything, but the one thing that is a must-have for me is Voodoo Sound. I use this Epic as a media player and not a phone, which without Voodoo Sound the audio quality (specifically with earphones) is overly-bright and defeats the sole purpose I have it for :o

That being said, while porting Icy Glitch (Git Hub, XDA Thread) to the Epic 4G would be awesome, I do realize that is likely going to require the most work and so I don't really expect it to happen. However, what I'm primarily interested in is the ability to LiveOC, as on the Fascinate I found that even running at 101(%, MHz?) offered a significant boost to performance, in particular I/O's. While I may not always use the max achievable overclock, I did always keep it at 101 for at least the benefits it provided, but it's always nice to have more performance available literally at your finger tips!

Nyan Colonel v5 (Git Hub, XDA Thread) had it all though, and was even for the Epic 4G! I don't know if he took it down because he moved on to the Nexus, or what :( Though, I suspect the fact he moved on is why he didn't reply to my PM a few weeks ago, which is understandable and I'm sure he gets asked a lot :\

As for "Custom?"... If someone has their own kernel, or have one they are working on, this would be my "wish list" of stuff to have:

LiveOC [His XDA Thread for the LiveOC Git location links to HERE (108MB), but he also has a repo for "Nexus S ICS" which if new=better then that is HERE (118MB).]

- If not part of LiveOC: Frequency multipliers up to 1600MHz for CPU w/o modifying base frequency,

individual GPU clock control (possible?), individual RAM clock control (possible?)

Voodoo Sound [For D700]

- Preferably offer a version with and without Voodoo Color, as some users need/like it, yet for me I get

unfixable color issues

Governors & Schedulers [Nitest, at least Effsi's ver, has a bunch to pick from. Can you have too many?]

- Scary gov seems to do a good job of keeping CPU freq low (100MHz vs 200MHz) and scaling up

quickly, giving me no instability problems at 1200MHz. 'fifo' sched has been working well for me, but

I was not able to notice any performance differences between any of the choices through Quadrant benchmark

USB Hub [Looking to try out connecting my Xonar U3 USB sound card for shiz-n-giggles, but USB flash storage would be a benefit!]

Latest Linaro & Linux Kernel [Doesn't have to be newest, but fairly recent would be nice heh]

- Compiled with "O3" optimization flag, as it does seem to help some.

BigMem [As having a camera is quite handy! (Not sure if it pertains to vid playback as well)]

I'm sure there is more but let's be real, I'm probably pushing my luck the way it is! lol Though if lots of people showed interest and provided more tweaks/features they'd like, I kinda think it'd be cool to have an Epic 4G "XDA Community Kernel" :cool:

Thanks! (Especially if you made it this far lol)