[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dudebowski:
OK first dive into the land of Hood Pope:

Download hoodpope to PC. better than goo.im, not saying much but it's certainly faster. Thanks for hosting, guy.

md5sum checks out

adb push HOOD-POPE-08172013-d710-v2.zip /sdcard/

adb reboot recovery

CWM backup CM10.1 8/17 nightly (which is the JAM, dastin, thanks. Why can't the LZ kernel be used in official production?)

wipe data... enter mounts/storage and format system and preload too.

flash HoodPope && gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip (android 4.3 compat)

reboot system, boots!

run through a quick one-time-init without sign-in. hopped on wifi, connected, status icons for both wifi and signal turned blue.

=======begin system check =================

Note: on a Sprint MVNO carrier, so basically pure sprint as far as tower tech goes. Using 11119 PRL on FI27 (final ICS) modem.

mobile phone check:

expected: spotty crappy connection because the tower(s?) here sucks;

result: no magic here, works as expected.

GPS check:

expected: 10.1 GPS locking is spotty, have to toggle GPS a couple times to get it to lock sometimes.

result: used gps status app. saw 1 satellite nearly immediately, fully locked in <30 seconds. better than expected.

WiFi check:

expected: my router is in my line of sight, should be no prob.

result: connected in no time. all's well.

camera/focus/photospere check:

cursory testing seems positive. im not a heavy camera user but this seems like a really nice update.

4G wimax check:

expected: I can't check cuz there's no 4g towers near me.

1x/3g data check:

expected: someone's got an airrave femtocell near here, so i usually get 2 bars+ from where im sitting. too bad there aren't more actual towers where it would mean something. I do get data through it on 10.1 though.

result: turned off wifi, opened browser app, attempted to load the default home, tried some other sites, no connection. notification pulldown says "no internet connection"

Tried airplane mode toggle, mobile data icon says 'searching for service, 'sprint', but still 'no internet connection'

status says im not roaming, but tried to allow roaming, to no avail. mobile network state disconnected.

D/ConnectivityService( 2164): [CheckMp] isMobileOk: not connected ni=NetworkInfo: type: mobile_hipri[CDMA - 1xRTT], state: UNKNOWN/IDLE, reason: (unspecified), extra: (none), roaming: false, failover: false, isAvailable: true

GFX check:

expected: never seen unexpected graphical disturbances on any previous rom.

result: the status icons in the top right got squished for a moment, clock disappeared. turned screen off/on, fixed.

when running gps status, noticed some full-screen flickering, particularly when the advertisements were scrolling through at the bottom of the screen.

when looking at some system menus, for instance the VPN configuration settings popup menu, i'd click on a type-able area and the contents of the menu would try to squish to the area that was left on the screen after the keyboard appeared.

although jellybean fling didn't want to start, Sid-fling did, and worked as expected. I'm assuming here this is kind of a graphics debugging so therefore relevant. please correct me otherwise?

EDIT: checked holo spiral, looked fine, adb logcat didn't spit out anything strange.

tried the water/fall/maple leaf live background from developer tools, and just got a black screen, then used back button, and adb says 'screen all black!' and 'window died' ... maybe some relationship to the quirky graphics?

nvm.... added it as a live wallpaper to trebuchet, no apparent problems, works as expected.

boot animation check:

expected: something new other than the cyanosnake spinner

result: same old kinda cool but now kinda old spinner. Cmon CM team, digital artists are pretty easy to find.

===========end system check============

can't wait until data gets fixed again. from what i remember during CM9, 10, and 10.1 development, this is a perennial problem when doing dist-upgrades. Good luck and thanks again dastin.

CM team: 10.2 settings menus make a lot more sense and are much better organized this time around. It feels like a complete system rather than tacked-on changes being implemented on the fly, which im sure they were at the time. The changes are worth having, despite the hoardes of change-haters out there.

EOL