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[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
Yeah, I have to root this thing still, I haven't done the adb thing, so I would need step by step instructions on that, down to where I download adb to my comp (no idea how it works)

That being said, I wasn't a huge fan of CM on my droid, but if that's the only thing we'll have with epic and 2.2, i'll gladly use it.
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
easiest way that I found:

http://forum.sdx-developers.com/epi...and-linux/?action=thankyoupostlist;msg=101129
[Epic 4G General] ExploreMN:
I have to be honest here. I think some people talk about Froyo like it is this amazing leap forward in technology and it is like a night and day difference from 2.1 out there.

I have an Epic 4G and love the thing! I had a chance to play with a friend's G2 last weekend and, when looking at the 2.2 froyo Android, all I could think of was "Really? Seriously? This is making people decide NOT to get an Epic 4G? Are you fricken kidding me?"

First off, Froyo should be out on the Epic within a month of this posting. Second, the things you are talking about are almost non-issues! You can't voice dial over blue tooth? Wow...I voice dial all the time by holding the phone for all of about 15 seconds to tell it "dial 1-800-dont-be-lame" and then drop it on the seat as it runs the call over BT. Flash...installed already and you don't need root to do it. JIT? Really? 2.2 specific apps? Like what?

Don't take this wrong, and it is NOT meant to be an insult (though it might sound like one a bit) but you almost sound like those zealots who argue that the book is ALWAYS better than the movie even if the movie kicks butt.

The Epic is an awesome movie...
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
How do u have flash? Skyfire is not real flash if that's what ur referring to. Also in cali u can get a ticket if u voice dial the way u mentioned above. 2.2 has many advantages over 2.1 no need to argue that 2.2 is not a big deal.That being said the epic will get it soon, and even without 2.2 it is a beast. However if the op is used to 2.2 apps and some of the feautures I understand his concern, no need to start calling the op nmes because his opinion of the phone does not agree with urs.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
The difference between eclair and froyo are night and day. There is so much more you can do with froyo then you can with eclair and 3yr performance gain is well worth it. Once the epic gets froyo it will put the rest to shame. I had both the epic and evo on launch day. The epic out the box put the evo to shame. The only reason the evo is a tad bit better is cause of froyo.
[Epic 4G General] hehehe23:
Grainy dots? I'm going to assume u got this directly at sprint store and they put the crappy ass screen protector on it. Change that to realook screen protector and ur screen will look as it was intended to
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
I don't even use a screen protector. That's what insurance is for
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
Insurance doesn't cover small screen scratches. They are considered cosmetic. Also u have a deductible to pay too.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
$100 deductible and a crack in the screen they will ;)
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
Guys, don't get me wrong, I'm happy with the phone and doubt I'll be going to the evo within my 30 days, but from what i've been reading the november date is for the european galaxy phones? (haven't done enough research on that yet, just the thread here about it)

that being said, unless you had a 2.2 and used it regularly, you wouldn't know I guess ExploreMN. one nice feature was the auto update and update all feature on the 2.2. the app2sd is a nice feature too. believe it or not, the V8 JIT browser is faster, you can run a sun spider test and see the dif in numbers if you want. If it comes out in a month, I could care less really. I might not even bother rooting then, since i'll have to wait for a rooted 2.2 etc etc...

as far as the grainy dots go, if you can compare it next to another phone like droid, evo, iphone (any other smart phone) and look at the white on the super amoled, you can see what I'm talking about. honestly my eyes are already getting used to it though. I dunno, it's hard to tell, but it's there if you look. colors are def more vibrant though, grainy dots or not... lol

I'm really just disappointed about the 2.2 issue, and I hope it does come out november like engadget said.

oh, also, the speaker volume (phone ring and notifications) seems really low on this thing, I made sure it was on high... anyone else have anything to say about that?

I have the black tie thing, so no deductable here either
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
First thing I did was compare the screen to my evo. I'll take the samoled any day. I never seen these dis you speak of. Maybe you got a bad phone. Take it back compare it to another epic then replace it.
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
That's true. For me is rather pay 5 bucks for a screen protecter :P

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
no it's not the phone... I looked at the att one few months ago and realized that, so it's def not the phone. I think i'm actually the only one that sees this, had to point it out to my gf and she barely saw it. maybe she was just agreeing with me lol...

looking side by side to the evo though, the colors are def more 'vibrant'
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
I hated using swype with thr protector. I like these feel of my finger sliding across the glass
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
Yea samoled gets tiny dots on all white screen. Ur not the only one who sees it. I personaly only notice it when I look super super su0per carefully. It doesn't bother me at all, but I understand it may be a prob for some ppl who notice it.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
That's true glass feels the best! Well if ur careful then ur phone will be fine. Gorilla glass ftw!!!

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
ok, at least I know i'm not the only one lol...

you gotta look pretty close to see it, but i have pretty good eyes, so they pop out alot easier.
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
oh, for the guy who said 2.2 is junk

sun spider on epic - 16758ms

droid 1.0ghz 2.2 - 8331ms
[Epic 4G General] APOLAUF:
The OP refers to the pixelated appearance of the SAMOLED's pen-tile dsplay matrix. It is a drawback of technology. In this sense, the Evo has a higher "true" resolution.
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
I guess there it is
[Epic 4G General] blulitespecial:
I have no idea what that means, but I'm glad I never noticed it. If I did, it would probably bug me to death....Hopefully I don't now either.

As for the issue of froyo v eclair, I have to say the only thing I miss with Froyo+Evo was watching flash video online. That was really handy for watching tv shows and killing time. Skyfire doesn't work for me. Not the fix either.

But the battery life and keyboard alone are worth the switch from the Evo, to me.
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
agree, the keyboard for me is a good bonus, but the batter life is what I want. 45nm and samoled are the 2 big factors with this I suppose
[Epic 4G General] APOLAUF:
Go read this: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/03/secrets-of-the-nexus-ones-screen-science-color-and-hacks.ars , after which it will bug you to death for a day or two. Then it will stop bugging you, and you'll know how your display works. It bugged me for about 2 days (I came from Evo) and then it stopped. And I'm *really* particular about resolution.
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
one other thing i'm upset about (regards to android, not epic) is the fact that apple's facetime works pretty much perfect with solid wifi connection, yet we have qik and fring, which work straight up like crap. I really wish there was a better performing app out there.... supposedly gingerbread (2.3 or 3.0?) is supposed to have it integrated though, which means google will back it up as a stock app and that means it might work well hopefully...

I will probably never use facetime like video calls, but it's still cool to know you can do it if u wanted to reliably
[Epic 4G General] tonysohn:
I totally agree with you on this. We need a good app for our nice front-facing camera!!
[Epic 4G General] gullzway:
I use Tango which works pretty good for Video Calls. Also the Yahoo Messenger with Video calling support is out.
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
hmm, tango looks nice, I wonder how smooth it is.. not too many vids on yt for it.

I just told my gf to download it on her evo, i'll see if she can use it lol
[Epic 4G General] Comando156:
Razorseal is right. 2.2 is a big update that I miss from my nexus one. Faster performance, apps to sd, and o how do I miss true flash! Seriously hurry the f up samsung. Or the next htc that comes around that is close I will have this thin on craigs list. Great phone but samsung needs to support it deeper.
[Epic 4G General] jbadboy2007:
your screen should not be pixelated exchange it. also be patient for 2.2
[Epic 4G General] APOLAUF:
By "pixelated", the OP refers to the crosshatch pattern that is inherent as a result of the PenTile pixel positioning used by SAMOLED. Perhaps not the best descriptive name, but it is likely the phenomenon he describes. See the article I posted earlier.
[Epic 4G General] dumpringz:
hell yea. swype, browsing or for whatever. I had the defective zagg so removed it the next day after launch and can't see myself putting another protector on. the glass is so smooth!
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
with my buddies evo and my epic i dont see the pixelation

epic looks so much sharper
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
Clarivue and realook are super clear and much thinner and are barely noticeable. Zagg etc are much more durable but they make the screen feel so weird. But u can't beat the feel of true glass.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] APOLAUF:
You'd need to look at white text pretty closely to see what I'm talking about. Again, pixelation is the wrong word here. It's simply a more grainy texture imparted by the PenTile matrix.

The Epic looks sharper because it has a *lower* actual resolution. Your eye sees fewer points of light with higher contrast and mistakes this for sharpness. The Evo, because it has full RGB pixels (it's LCD afterall) will look smoother, less sharper. The Epic has full resolution in the green subpixel color band, but each composite pixel has either red OR blue subpixels to accompany the green one. See the article on the previous page. Then, take a magnifier to the Evo and the Epic. You'll notice the difference. I have 20/15, so I see it all the time, but it's a tradeoff I'm willing to make for the great contrast ratios and nicer color gamut over LCD.
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
ok..............
[Epic 4G General] specialk0324:
Give it time friend. Hopefully you'll come around. I do agree on the rape that Verizon sends you monthly
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
That is my problem too, I have 20/15 also, which is why I see them so easily...

starting to get used to it though.

I mean spec wise, this is the better phone imo, 45nm cpu, 3d gpu, Samoled (might be grainy, but it does draw less juice), actual keyboard for whenever you need it. nearly same size screen

I'm just worried we won't get to see 2.2 until 2.3 rolls around. that's my only worry...
[Epic 4G General] Erica8123:
I totally can understand someone being disappointed or not buying an Epic because its still on 2.1. When you appreciate and start depending on certain functions (such as voice dial over bluetooth) its a huge inconvience not to have it. What may seem lame to one person may be important to another.
[Epic 4G General] mmegalodon:
It's the "screen door like" effect people constantly mention about SAMOLED displays. Beauiful displays but pros and cons exist. Some don't like the in your face colors, others do.

The screen is gorgeous at times, other times you notice the little things. First 20 minutes of messing around with my buddies Epic I saw it.

SWYPED from my SUPASONIC
[Epic 4G General] Geekybiker:
Its probably like the old dlp rainbow effect. Only a small portion of the population notices. Even less without being told to look for it.
[Epic 4G General] p-niiice:
luckily I don't use a magnifier on my cellphone therefore can enjoy the superior samoled screen.
[Epic 4G General] InfDaMarvel:
yea Ive seen the reviews for this phone and thats the only way Id see any grainy dots on my epic.

No Andriod 2.2 is a downside, but I guess if you cannot wait a WHOOOOLLEE month or 2 for the update to release it would be wise to switch.

Compared to my friends Driod2 I don't see any reason to switch.

And on top of that, a friend of mine just compared her Driod1 to my epic 2 nights ago from now and she was amazed by the screen quality.

This is one of those "Its just you" moments.
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
Had the phone unplugged at 0721. It's now 1341 and I have 4% battery left. Moderate use with some gps and browser. By the end Of this post, I'm at 3%... Something isn't right. That's insane...

Sent from Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] ickyboo:
Froyo is overrated. I'm using it now on galaxy s. Samsung has now managed to make the thing even more slower with more ram hogging autostartup processes. Yes i have disabled them.I sometimes get a urge to reinstall eclair.
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
And now its stuck in landscape mode :-(

Sent from Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] nimaim:
Samsung is not the only one. My friend reports a slow down with Froyo with his Droid X as well.
[Epic 4G General] infamousjax:
This. Aside from apps2sd, chrome2phone, Flash, more settings options, and of course, JIT, Froyo doesn't offer that much more than Eclair does. When Froyo came to the Evo, I noticed that the browser's speed, particularly pinch zoom, had decreased performance wise quite a bit. Also, I didn't notice much of an overall tangible speed increase besides the synthetic benchmarks.

If you're thinking of getting rid of the Epic because it doesn't have Froyo yet, then you should really think twice. My only hopes for Froyo is that it will fix our GPS and improve 4G and our shoddy 3G radio, but my expectations don't go much further than that.
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
I'm gonna try to stick it out with the epic. One thing for sure is that the epic is faster then the evo imo. Battery life, not sure yet, but it also has a way superior camera.

I might take this back to best buy and try another epic since I'm having other issues like random restarts. But I think this is the better phone.

Sent from Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] shinma6980:
I do miss 2.2 ... a lot. Not enough to trade the phone (not that I could) but I am guilty of hawking the development thread hoping to see a 2.2 experimental rom. The single biggest feature I miss from 2.2 is the voice control. This was especially helpful when driving and I could just say "Text James I'm running late be there in 5." and then all I had to do was press send; or saying "Call Pizza Hut on Baymeadows" and it would start dialing Pizza Hut - and no this particular Pizza Hut was not in my contacts list - or "Navigate to Cougar Den". All of these things and more without ever looking down at my phone. Yes, I've downloaded Vlingo and am trying to use it when I can as a substitute but it just doesn't work quite as well.

All in all, there is no single feature that 2.2 has that is a deal breaker for me. I've had this phone since launch, so just shy of 2 months, and I'm happy overall. The only two things that had me worried was 1. the fact it was a Samsung and not HTC (particularly the development community) and 2. Samsung's development time to release 2.2 (which I suppose you could tie in to 1. but HTC was also slow to release OS updates with other phones *cough* Hero *cough*).
[Epic 4G General] dito33:
I can't see anything on the screen outside with bright or any kind of sun and evo

is better outside when look at the screen.

dito33
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avatar_43:
Well I recently updated my radio to 5.11.05.04 and it was working well for a few hours till all of a sudden it wouldn't receive a signal and I can't connect to my Provider, So I flashed 5.08.00.04 and still nothing.

I tried the SIM in my Old G1 and it works perfectly fine

Has anyone else come to this issue?

Oh also if it's of any relevance it's a locked phone

Would it be a good idea to go back to stock and seeing it the problem persists?

Thanks
[HD2 General] toreone:
I installed a new ROM and it is awesome! Shout out Chucky Dexter ROM, well seems like swype was left out..that is all I used before and miss it alot. I found a few cabs in searches but it seems they all crash my network settings and I can not connect to data?! has this happened to anyone and can anyone point me into the right direction of one? Thanks
[HD2 General] ashasaur:
The best way to get Swype is to install a ROM that already has it. I haven't seen a .cab'd version of Swype that works 100% as of yet.
[HD2 General] toreone:
Thanks for the response..I had it as a cab before but had it saved on the main memory my phone wigged...hard restore....lost the file.
[Nexus One General] sknoslo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vskBjYc745g

Edit: from the official Android Dev twitter.
[Nexus One General] stuff:
Good indication that gingerbread is right around the corner!
[Nexus One General] galaxys:
If true, then it's getting much closer :)
[Nexus One General] wdfowty:
How many threads do we need on this topic?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=816564
[Nexus One General] sknoslo:
Check the time stamps. Mine was first in this section. :)
[Nexus One General] wdfowty:
Well excuse me! lol

Point is, there's only room for one Gingerbread thread round these parts...

And you know what that means...

BATTLE ROYALE.

:D
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] SSJVegetto:
Is there an htc look alike power control widget? Cause i don't like everything that is in this widget i want to be able to put in my own 5 toggle buttons. Is there a way to do this like an app that is called free power widget? Only that looks like the htc widget? Or can someone create it?

Thnx in advance
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Doktaphex:
switchpro is what I'm using you can have up to 8 buttons.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] skimminstones:
Extended controls looks pretty much the same and you can choose what switches you want on there.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] SSJVegetto:
Thank you for your replies!However that is not what i'm looking for i'm looking for the HTC iWidget which looks alot better to me!
[General Topics] Kermode:
Google are putting up the Gingerbread man outside their HQ (and presumably removing the Froyo), guess that means its any day now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vskBjYc745g
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucbl1:
On the Eclair build, i had an option to disable and enable Geotag in Camera. But now it's gone and all the time my photos and videos are being geotagged. How can i disable this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
Turn off the gps.

Then the cam don't use it.

Sent from GT-I9000 Jpm OS kernel with z4mod
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adevem:
Froyo forces geotagging. lol.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
No.

Sent from GT-I9000 Jpm OS kernel with z4mod
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ludow:
Yes it does. JP6 here. :eek:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] almi88:
Disable in settings\location and security the "use wireless network"
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ludow:
Fixed. Thanks for the tip. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] padlad:
Well it does on mine as well unless i uncheck the 'use wireless networks' option as well as the 'use GP satellites'
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
Well then it don't force tagging.

You say yourself that you can turn it off.

Sent from GT-I9000 Jpm OS kernel with z4mod
[Epic 4G Android Development] raiderep:
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for what happens to your phone-use at your own risk. Always do a nandroid backup before using mods

This is a port of untermensch's vibrant mod found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=811532

*completed mod now available with aosp lockscreen included*

*note: these mods include framework-res.apk and need to be included in the base of a theme or rom/flashing over the top of one will overwrite previous theming done to framework-res with stock images and break some pre-existing mods*

Thanx and credit to him for getting me this far, I have made a few changes to his instructions to make it work on epic. The below mod only has the reboot option added. I have yet to try his latest instructions to add reboot recovery but it might work too. Just wanted to get this over to the Epic side for discussion and help if it isn't as easy to port the rest of it.

Add reboot option to power off menu http://www.mediafire.com/?hoetfjbq77hm77s flash in clockwork recovery (its only android policy.jar) and make sure your system is deodexed. We can add more things into it to get android policy jar mods to play together later.

Here's a .zip that has both the AOSP lockscreen mod and reboot button mod together: http://www.mediafire.com/?010dchn522nxge9

Complete mod port plus aosp lockscreen click here

Note: this .zip includes framework-res.apk,framework.jar and android.policy. jar. The recovery function gets you to stock recovery but you can still get into clockwork by flashing the update.zip you should have on your sdcard already. If any one knows how to get it to go straight to clockwork like rom manager does I would like to have it do that.

Complete mod port plus aosp lockscreen-no full battery popups click here

All three in one now, this is just like the one above but also has services.jar

Complete mod port only click here

Includes framework-res.apk,framework.jar and android.policy.jar

Complete mod port with no popups click here

Includes framework-res.apk,framework.jar,services.jar and android.policy. jar
[Epic 4G Android Development] Jsmoove1:
Works Perfect.....Ty
[Epic 4G Android Development] 265ada:
Has this been tested?

just asking cause yesterday I flashed a normal app! flash 10.1 and my phone was stuck blackscreened lol and had to odin ect AND I am very happy with the phone now so I dont wan't to result to that again :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] ragnarokx:
I've been waiting for this to get ported - thank you! :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] ragnarokx:
It flashed with no problem, but it replaced my Vanilla lock screen with the TouchWiz one. If I flash the Vanilla lock screen back on, will the reboot option still be there?
[Epic 4G Android Development] dangdang:
Holdin down power+voldown+camera after touching reboot gets you into recovery. I know a software button is better but in the mean time.

Sent from my Android using CDMA or WIFI
[Epic 4G Android Development] raiderep:
I've been using it for a few days with no issues. The only thing that might happen is what happened to ragnarox, read his quote below...

Until both are put into the same AndroidPolicy.jar then its one or the other. I will get them both together eventually, this is just a start ;)

and here you go, both together now: http://www.mediafire.com/?010dchn522nxge9
[Epic 4G Android Development] ragnarokx:
You are amazing, thank you!
[Epic 4G Android Development] raiderep:
OP updated with completed mod coupled with aosp lockscreen ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] MysteryEmotionz:
Is that a soft key to get into download moss I see?

Sent from my Emotionless Beast of an Epic using the XDA App
[Epic 4G Android Development] raiderep:
Yes indeed ;) not sure how much need there is for it but it was in the mod so I added it also.
[Epic 4G Android Development] LSanna1488:
Mediafire not working for me. Using Opera, ie and epic to try to dl.
[Epic 4G Android Development] MysteryEmotionz:
That's nice. I know we talked in private but u got an idea to make this work with my theme. This is going to be interesting

Sent from my Emotionless Beast of an Epic using the XDA App
[Epic 4G Android Development] deciple:
What update.zip gets you into clockwork by using stock recovery?

Sent from my spot on the earth