[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] easyrider77:
Yeah I always do a clean install, but still 3g just does not wanna work right.

As posted before, 3g just gets lost, and does not come back.

When it gets lost I am not sure as it happens when the phones off most times.

The Icon is still present that 3g is active and on, so it's not just bars at the top, it's a 3g icon, telling me that 3g is still there,

When I try and check mail or anything tyhat deals with data, nothing works. To fix I have to toggle data off then on again.

I have tried 3 different modems, letting it sit with the state it's in to see if 3g will reconnect, and still 3g jsut gets lost.

VERY annoying because others say theirs is working fine, I guess mines the only phone that has this issue.

The dec 14th release everything sticks and works fine but I tried the latest dec 17th release and it to has the 3g data lost bug also, so I know for a fact it's not my phones problem it's something in the rom doing it.

The process I use to install at all times, doesn't matter what I've done or how long I've had the rom on, I ALWAYS do a clean install in this order:

I always use an ICS modem, one of 3, FI27, FI22, and FL24. I normally use FL24 since it's the latest ICS modem out, but revert if I have issues with FL24 for whatever reason

-El29 direct boot

-Boot into el29 (not the OS)

-Clear cache, factory reset, and clear dalvik

-Install said rom of choice

-Install gapps of said rom (IE: depends on what android version but 4.1, 4.2x 4.3x, and kitkat)

-reboot to system

I always do this process each and every time, so this is a clean install every time, not a dirty flash, so as not to have any issues.

When I test I give a very intensive and thorough test to gps and 3g/data. I port cars around town so I get a ton of travel time in, approximately 400-500 miles easily a day, possibly more, so I am all over the place, which is an ideal situation and testing ground for testing 3g data and gps out, because your not in a single spot......in my mind to truly test these 2 you need to be spread out so as not to be stuck on 1 single tower all the time and so as the gps doesn't cache to a single spot or area geographically all the time and it has to re-search the area you are currently in.....kinda like visiting a web page 10 times, if cache is on, the page will load fast, that's a given, but if you load the page each time fresh not using cache, that's a true test then there is no middle man to get in the way.

All this said it still remains I have the 3g issue, and it is a problematic thing, and not my hardware or phone, because if it WAS the hardware or the phone it would happen in ALL cases, and it doesn't....it works in the cm release I am using and also works in Touchwiz, so that tells me something somewhere in the rom, be it a setting, a line of code, or a file that went haywire is causing the issue.

SO many people leave out gps, well if I wanted to use a garmin, then why have the gps on the phone, kinda like buying a 10 bedroom house and never living in it, it makes no sense, especially when the functionality of the stuff works fine, yet everyone just pushes it aside.

I have this one 3 different roms I've tested, Hood pope, Villuminatti, and CM10.2, 17th release. Release on the 14h does not have the issues, but the 17th release does.

I don't have the magical answer, all I know is it happens and it's not due to hardware nor modem revision.