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[Epic 4G General] gTen:
Cause they want to take pictures of long lines standing outside their stores...
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
LOL

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[Epic 4G General] rasstar:
I wonder if the OP will post again. Maybe his 'reliable source' has more information
[Epic 4G General] scottmc129:
This Story finally broke on Engadget today.

mobile.engadget.com/2010/08/06/epic-4g-pre-orders-starting-today/

is this really a big joke or is this real??

What do you say OP?!?!
[Epic 4G General] jzh797s:
Spoke w/ a rep at the OP Kansas Campus store (Headquarters)... so take this with a grain of salt, but she said that they HAVE been trained on the Epic. She said that the latest she has been told is that it will probably not launch until Sept., but they did not give her an exact Sept. date. She also put me on hold to check on pre-order, then stated that they are not going to have a list until the release and then run out of stock in which case this will be another EVO type scenario w/ a waiting list.

Just passing along what I have heard.
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Has been confirmed they will allow a "waiting list" and the phone must be picked up by the first day of release or your "reservation" is gone. Also it's true that it's 1 per cust and no cash/credit card required for a hold on the phone, which in my opinion is dumb.
[Epic 4G General] IRT:
3 phones

About the one-phone limit: does that refer to off-contract phones only? Because I want to switch over three lines from Verizon, and would like to pre-order. Am I out of luck?
[Epic 4G General] MameJunkie:
Wonder what the policy is for exchanges? I know they have a 30 return policy but on exchanges, not sure if any $ is required out of pocket. If no fee for exchanges, can always pick up another phone and exchange it within 30 days.
[Epic 4G General] scottmc129:
Howcome nobody has taken into consideration that the 2 videos on the Sprint.com/epic4g are still blocked and coming soon??

If this was coming out next week wouldnt these be playable by now?
[Epic 4G General] blakehess11:
The two videos are regarding Samsung's media store for all Galaxy S devices, which has not yet gone live.
[Epic 4G General] LiberatorUSA:
Android Police just posted that Engadget is wrong, they confirmed with their Sprint Rep. that there will be no pre-orders starting today.

Regarding the video's,.. I had the same trail of thought. I expect them to enable the next one and then one more some time after that which would lead you to believe it won't be released anytime soon considering how long that page has remained this static already...
[Epic 4G General] scottmc129:
Boom goes the dynamite!

androidpolice.com/2010/08/06/from-the-horses-mouth-samsung-epic-4g-pre-order-not-starting-today

saw this coming a mile away.
[Epic 4G General] koolhand79:
So all in all, we are back where we started. We know absolutely nothing about anything and will continue to wait and argue over the release date and validity of sources. Gotta love that.

Sent from a FRESH EVO using xda app
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Guys.... there is no "pre-order" going to be available for this phone. There is going to be a "reservation" list with 1 per customer, no cash or credit card required. If the phone is not picked up the first day, then your "reservation" is lost. This IS it, nothing else beyond this. As far as when this reservation list will be started, we don't know yet.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
These release dates for phones are a perfect example of Sprint as a company...no indication when it will actually be profitable and full of empty promises >.>
[Epic 4G General] fooo1:
Anyone have any great websites to go look at completely non-EPIC related so we can stop obsessing over this phone?:)

Like maybe some TMobile future phones with keyboards that have HSPA+ and will come out before the EPIC does?:)

The lack of information on this release is amazing. I don't see how people in Sprint marketing aren't fired over it.
[Epic 4G General] ScientificOne:
LOL....this "reservation" list sure sounds like a pre-order to me!
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Because as you can see it keeps people obsessing.... you think the marketing is bad? Not at all.... look at how many of you can't stop searching online for different websites for different information. It IS marketing as it's finest, even if you don't agree with it.
[Epic 4G General] LiberatorUSA:
Only problem with this kind of marketing,... If your like me coming from AT&T you don't want to see a company which looks to be in chaos as your destination,.. Its making me think twice about switching to Sprint. On top of that developers have deadlines and development plans. If I don't hear about any concrete release date any time soon I'll have to go with one of the other Galaxy S phones as a development platform. It's that simple.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
This only effects the "tech crowd" not the average consumer...An EVO for example was all over the Engadget site and every where..even a friend who doesn't care much about cellphones texted me asking about the EVO...

The Epic 4G is hidden behind a wall in the middle of nowhere...I mean at this point its like the TP2...where there is no information then boom it comes out hidden via tele-sales and in no stores >.>
[Epic 4G General] radar5:
I think we're the only ones obsessing about it. Average Joe consume doesn't even know so he doesn't even care.
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Not really.... pre-orders stay alive longer than 8 hours.
[Epic 4G General] ScientificOne:
OK, pre-order with a short time limit...so what?

Oh, and for being a sprint employee, you're not really telling us anything we don't already know...
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
So go with another company... nobody is forcing you to go with Sprint. Go pay more and get less ;)
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Because there is no information to tell... get it?
[Epic 4G General] ScientificOne:
Sure there is...I just guess you're position isn't high enough up the chain of command. SOMEONE at sprint knows when this thing is coming out...
[Epic 4G General] fooo1:
I discovered android for the Touch Pro, so I guess that'll hold me over for now.:) Yay sero + android phone.
[Epic 4G General] LiberatorUSA:
No need for a sarcastic post, I'm pointing out real-world scheduling issues. In order to plan ahead you need to know about your third-party scheduling to take dependency roadblocks into account.
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Good luck getting to that position. Just email Dan Hesse and ask.
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
It's a cell phone my man, do you really need to plan "ahead" to switch cell phones? Stay with your company until the phone is released and then switch... it's not that big of a deal. Jesus, people are so impatient these days...
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
Thats a bad example...a new employee who sells off commission for a month knows more what going on in the company then that guy >.>
[Epic 4G General] ScientificOne:
LOL...Dan Hesse? The same guy who said there would be no extra charge for 4G? Good one...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] appelflap:
http://twitter.com/samsungukmobile/statuses/20315093058

Would it be possible to upgrade not official firmware versions?

If not, if someone get his hands on this upgrade, please post a Odin "prepared" version
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ed10000:
Are you sure it is for the Galaxy S? I don't see the phone/model mentioned anywhere :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BronzedDroid:
Look in the upper left hand corner. ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ed10000:
Oops :p Thanks :o
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Dark-Master:
Is it a global upgrade? Just ask to make sure. Because if it is, I will have to fix my "MTP Driver Failed" problem.

Thank you for this news.:)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pika007:
What is this? Samsung are actually doing something about the GPS? i'm speechless.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] appelflap:
I checked the samsung uk tweets from the past and I hope it's not just a follow up of this tweet: http://twitter.com/samsungukmobile/status/19838609573

Let's wait and see. Any news yet? I also have some Kies driver problems.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
hope it's true, it'll be fun to try something new.

i don't have the GPS issue just for the record
[Galaxy S I9000 General] thebazman:
hi

since i updated kies i cannot connect to it.

as soon as i connect phone to usb kies opens, my phone says its connected but kies says its not.

strange:rolleyes:

regards
[Galaxy S I9000 General] borchgrevink:
Any suggested date?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
related

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=745331
[Windows Mobile] OndraSter:
Hey,

you remember me, I many months ago said I’m working on new kitchen. I was, but everybody seemed to like osKitchen when airxtreme overtook it. Then DaG promised me/few people/us something. I was thinking since then for many months, deciding whether to do or not the new kitchen. I tried that many months ago but I ended that project (if anybody still interested, few screenshots can be found on http://cantina.plnydisk.cz/cantina.html). Now I got few ideas and the biggest one is and sounds quite awesome. Instead of cooking ROMs, you will be designing them. Instead of working through EXT, OEM, SYS, ... folders, you will work directly within dump directory. You will simply drop package on the kitchen and the kitchen will try parsing it for registry, build dsm file, add lines to initflashfiles.dat etc. The kitchen itself will be built on hopes for valid .dsm files to create, modify, ... packages. Main advantages would be speed of cooking after you finish design – only reloc modules (if needed), build XIP (if something has changed), build IMGFS and then insert it nb -> nbh, skipping completely platformrebuilder part with copying ton of files from one place to another. Also new set of IMGFS/NB/NBH building tools, that will completely work with memory, prefetching and what not, so imgfs building will take only few seconds even with LZX and inserting it into the IMGFS itself. (Maybe LZX compression can be done directly in dump, so it won’t be done while cooking, so packing it into IMGFS will be matter of seconds, but who uses LZX nowadays anyway?)

Also this will be developed taking ImageUpdate (which I don’t like much though) and mostly WP7 in mind. I have some basic draws on paper, but also some primitive „sketchups“ already programmed:

So, is it worth doing? Or is this idea totally forgettable? Should I end up forgetting about WinMo and go to something future-usable like... girls? :D

This isn’t work for one night, nor one week. This is a bit longer run, which I could spend doing better things (like.. money :D).

I hope to get some comments on how it should work, ideas, tips, pure DISCUSSION.
[Windows Mobile] af974:
Well, in all honesty , i would give my vote to girls :D but since we are speaking about PPC,Development and so on,i will give my vote to continue your project,you know been a while that im waiting for it :)
[Windows Mobile] OndraSter:
Like I said, it is just pure idea, what you see on screenshots is pre-set values, it took me about 10 minutes to do in Visual Studio, no live data, no buttons (except New project @ 1, Create @ 2 and both Cancel/close) work...
[Windows Mobile] ai6908:
Sounds like interesting idea. Basically we are going back in time, where we used to build ROM from dump! In other words hand kooking??

Anyhow, sound like a mammoth project. You sure you are upto that? LOL I am willing to give a hand, if you need it.
[Windows Mobile] Staxxthedan:
Hmmm, This is dafinately a worthwhile project, Girls cost money, (unless you are a pimp, which I suspect you are not, or maybe become one, then make money- :D lol!)- Okey I think there will be valuable lessons learn't from the project which will let all of us have something even better for mobile development. pls Proceed- forget the girls lol!:D
[Windows Mobile] OndraSter:
@ai6908

The kitchen would work within dump, you would have integrated editors for initflashfiles.dat, view registry etc. Like I said - main advantage would be in speed of cooking. Relocing about 5s, packing into IMGFS with XPR would take about 10s, into NB 3s and NBH around 3s too. (Judging by my cooking in RAMdisk with current tools.) The kitchen would work similar to platformbuilder (well, platformbuilder from MS works different, but in terms of target "dump" directory before ramimage.exe is run (hope it is the file). Mostly because the DaG's stuff will be using .bib files just as original platformbuilder.)

@Staxxthedan

"Forget about girls" -- well they pi..ed me sooo many times so I'm not sure I wanna do something with them in near future anyway :D. From this project, I and maybe even you, not sure how it will be fully implemented, will learn a lot about WinCE. But is it worth, when you're not about to start working in MS on WinCE platform? :D.

Like I said, the kitchen will be taking WP7 in mind, but not sure if it will be anytime used because even now isn't Zune hacked permanently.
[Windows Mobile] Nixeus:
Hello my friend,

I cooked from 4 years, and, since PlateFormeRebuilder is out, a lot of new generation kitchen was creating, (like oskitchen,etc....)

So, today, creating and cooking rom is more and more easy than before. Before Plateforme rebuilder, there was a lot of manually things to do, that was a very good lesson in order to be a good cooker.

If you creat this new generation of kitchen, i think there will be some problems :

* First, it will be possible to use as base all the rom ( and rom already cooked). It's very bad, because you know thaht in order to make a good rom, it's better to use a stock rom as base.

Secondly, the cooked rom will all unprotected, and i think thaht is a very bad idea, because a lot of noob whitout knowledge on cooking will dissasemble and modify the chef's rom, and consequently, there

will be a lot and a lot of bad quality rom.

* Finally, these new kitchen generation kitchen will be ( i think) too easy, and , the same problem, there will be more and more bad quality rom.

Your idea is very great because it's a nice idea to doing nex kitchen, but, personnaly i don't think that it will be a good idea

....Or....find a way to protect the rom as actually.

Regards,

Nixeus
[Windows Mobile] OndraSter:
There are ways how to simply break it that current tools can't get IMGFS out of the NB and you have to play with hexeditor first :).

Cooked ROMs can't be used as source as of now, because they are built the way that there are no dsm's except one that contains all files. Also, they miss all relocation info, so once dumped, no way of using them again (for modules). That will be changed with new toolset, because that relocation info must remain, if we need ImageUpdate working. The same for dsm.

The choice is easy -- easy kitchen, with support for ImageUpdate (and faster) but dumpable or different kitchen, without imageupdate (and slower) and un-dumpable.

Actually, I don't think that the mine would be much easier - sure, initflashfiles.dat, registry stuff etc would be viewable directly from kitchen, but you'd have like zero access to the original packages, since they would be already in dump folder ready to be packed into IMGFS :)

Even now, the osKitchen Zero, is so simple...
[Windows Mobile] ThaDeanesta:
hmm

you need to do something better.

something that could have a main set of ext if your cooking for multiple devices, and suck out the device specific ext from a different folder. also, you should have it completely automated for chefs cooking for different devices. (maybe even some automatic compression and uploading) all nicely made into a fancy GUI
[Windows Mobile] jwzg:
Nixeus, I think it's petty for ROM chefs on this forum to worry about "protecting their work" since most of us who cook beg, steal or borrow everything anyway. Now, I've ported almost all of my Raphael S2 ROM packages by hand with the exception of Manila and sure don't mind a newbie cook using them if they want. That's how I learned.

I've been cooking ROM's since late 2006 and I've used almost every type of kitchen in the book. I still prefer using the old "doubleofour" kitchen (from the Wizard days) as it gave tremendous control over everything that went in. In addition, if someone wanted to dump my ROM, all folders would disassemble properly.

I encourage OndraSter to run a search for something called Molski's kitchen which was the first kitchen released for Wizards using Imgfs tools. The old Scoter Kitchen was neat too. Both had their faults but ultimately the cook controlled the show.
[Windows Mobile] tomcug:
I don't think it's important to protect anything too :). If everyone would protect their work, I would never learn how to cook properly ;). And about this kitchen, it seems very nice, please proceed with this project. So far I've been using only old style tools with lots of manual work but I like them because I can learn much more this way. Anyway, using this next gen kitchen would be a great fun for sure so please make it fully working in the future, thanks man!
[General Questions and Answers] KCRic:
I'm hate saying I'm a noob, I'm not but honestly with android I am. So here's my issue:

I have all my adb drivers and all the files I need. I stuck all of them on my C drive root and set up command prompt to CD to the 'tools' folder. When I first tried to root my MT3GS I (not sure why) didn't know to press 'vol. up + power' and after much frustration, just gave up :mad: Now that I've spent all my spare time reading up on everything android related and studied some more adb commands I've tried to root again. Once I start the loop and boot to recovery, adb sees my phone for a second (one loop) then - nothing. For the past 3 days I've tried and that's all I get, I've re-installed the drivers so that's not the issue.

Anyone know what's going on? I really don't want to do a factory reset but if that's what I have to do then I'll suck it up and pray my backups are good. Thanks in advance.

**EDIT**

mod please delete post
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burningwheels:
Hi,

Does anyone notice this?

When I run Google Navigation while playing music through bluetooth using the standard music player the music stops after Google Navigation gives a voice instruction. This would not be a bad thing if the music resumes but it doesn't. I have to manually press play to start the music again.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
why start a new thread when there is one straight above this one discussing the same thing:rolleyes:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burningwheels:
Oops... didn't see that one. This one can be closed.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theSWiT:
hey mod-troll, how about a link

Why not include a link to that "straight above" thread so that people who get here from a search engine (like me) can easily find the "straight above" thread. If your going to be a troll moderator at least make you snarky comments useful.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ForayeEvo4g:
I just upgraded to Netarchy 2.2 Rom. I then attempted to restore a data.img file from one of my Nandroid backups.

I copied the data.img to my >androidsdk/tools folder then using Fastboot USB I tried to execute [fastroot flash userdata data.img]from the adb shell.

I got the following error: sending 'userdata' (317381 KB)...FAILED (remote: data length too large)

I did not use Ti Backup for my data, just Nand backup.

Can anyone shed some light on where to go from here. I have searched...

Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hero's Hero:
Looks like its too big...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 702DROID:
if your starting a thread in dev that starts with [Q] STOP
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ForayeEvo4g:
Thanks Knuckle!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kperry1911:
Give these steps a try...

How to restore individual components of a nandroid backup.

1. Locate the backup on your SD Card under the folder "Nandroid".

2. Navigate to the target backup folder.

3. Copy the folder(s) that you want to push back to the phone (i.e. data.img to a new directory on your pc; c:\nandroidbackup).

4. Open the cmd prompt (type "fastboot devices" to verify that your pc sees your phone). If not, you will need to change to the directory containing fastboot. This might be be c:AndroidSDK Directory \ tools.

5. Type "adb shell reboot recovery" in the cmd prompt to get to the bootloader. Then type "exit" to quit the adb shell. *Alternatively: manually use the buttons on the phone to get into FASTBOOT mode.

6. At the cmd prompt type "cd:<target folder location>" i.e.

the location of the data.img file (example cd c:\nandroidbackup) to change to the directory with the backup location.

7. At the cmd prompt now type "fastboot flash userdata data.img" [enter]. It should now indicate: "sending" followed by "writing".

8.When done, type "fastboot reboot" [enter].

Good Luck!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ForayeEvo4g:
Thanks for the detailed reply...

I might not have been clear in my post, but the above was exactly what I did, and got the error I'm inquiring about.

Thanks again...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kperry1911:
Sorry if you already tried this... The difference I noticed from your original post is in: Step 6. The command "Fastboot Flash...." is entered from the command prompt, not within adb shell at that point.

That was my understanding of the instructions.
[Droid X General] sfreemanoh:
I just got an early upgrade notice from VZ (really early, like over a year early, but I'm not complaining) and I'm planning on checking out the X after work and probably ordering it. Now, my question is with the 3g hotspot functionality. I see that it's apparently available now but VZ charges extra for it... Is that some sort of VZ app that provides the functionality? Froyo isn't out yet for it, so I'm wondering how they're providing it, and whether anyone knows if they'll continue to charge for it once it's available via Froyo. Thanks for any information!
[Droid X General] Big Dawg 23:
You will always be charged. However do the one click root and install barnacle then it will be free.
[Droid X General] sfreemanoh:
Makes sense...it's not like VZ doesn't try to limit functionality on any of their other phones and only provide the functionality through their own pay features...

I mean, I realize you may use more bandwidth using your phone as a mifi, but you're already PAYING for that bandwidth.
[Droid X General] Zaphod-Beeblebrox:
Technically this does work. It will not however, be free. You will be violating your Terms of Service. *If* you ever get caught, you will likely be billed, or have the line terminated, etc.

Don't get me wrong. I'm rooted, and have the Wi-Fi Tether app on my phone, and it's unlikely that VZW will make much of an effort to stop the small minority of us who get that capability. However, one can never be certain. If you take these actions, you should do so knowing full well that it isn't "free".
[Droid X General] Big Dawg 23:
Agreed. I also don't tether to the point that I hit 5GB that might cause a flag. Now i you tether a laptop daily you will likely get caught. I have hit 3gb on my droid an it was via streaming and downloading.
[Droid X General] dr154:
There is no way for VZ to find out that your using services that are paid for free, unless you root your device and take it in for repairs without unrooting it.
[Droid X General] oldmacnut:
i just cant seem to get tethering to work. i mean i can connect to the phone and computer to connect, but not web access. tried the wifi tether app included with 1 click root, and barnacle. nothing

Sent from my DROIDX using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Droid X General] moosc:
yes there is app built in from vzw for there hotspot app. it cost 20$ a month and u only get 2gb. on the palm free it started out as a paid app then went free. there is tethering on 2.2 and when you use it it takes you to vzw.com and you have to add this feature
[Droid X General] sp1kez:
root your phone, download android wifi tether, and you're set, for free!!