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[Epic 4G Android Development] Hero_Over:
Which kernel are you using? the one included? if so it looks like im gunna have to up voltages a bit for the masses! but i will still have a couple versions of hero special

Can you please explain buggy? I havent seen any bugs at all in this rom other than I knew that some people may have issues with hero special#2

What could be happening is that astro backup isnt liking the a2sd partition. I dunno why you had to use odin though?

I havent heard that 270 degree rotate messes with disc view but i never really saw a point to disc view tbh. If youd like to remove 270 degree rotate just go into a terminal of some sort (adb, terminal from market) and make sure you are in root. (once you type su and accept superuser) just type 180forme.sh and it will make the change and then just reboot. also using that same process you can instantly swap out your youtube without need of reboot.

i believe your problem is herospecial#2. the low voltages across the board could cause this type of activity. also 1.3 is undervolted on special #2! gotta remember that if hero special doesnt work then to try the one included

yeah i think im gunna end up making my theme an addon for people who like it instead of throwing it in your face lol. I like it though ;)

it should work no problem. and yeah hero special is doing that probably because of the voltage decreases. im gunna play with his apks tomorrow to make sure emotionless theme runs like a dream
[Epic 4G Android Development] nimaim:
Wow getting some insanely good battery life with herospecial2. Set SetCPU to 200 / 1300 mhz conservative and it's flying and battery is not draining much at all. I'll report exact stats later, but this is pretty solid :) Another masterpiece from you Hero. My chip likes your special voltages (and no, this is not a pick up line) :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] blazewit:
mobile ap support?

Hey hero, I was gonna post this on the b.s. forum but since. I see ur on xda atm I'll post hear. I'm just about to flash 1.5 but I wanted 2 see does your kernel support the mobile ap mod? Cuz I just got that tegra 2 g tablet and wanna tether with my epic but obviously the wifi tether apps a no go cuz it uses ad hoc. If not, do you have any suggestions ona work around?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Dameon87:
Not sure if its just me but... I partitioned sdcard using cwm to 512 and 0m swap. I then flashed the rom. Now when I install apps everything is fine unless I shutdown and turn the phone on. This results in all installs apps to disappear. Can anyone else confirm?
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Currently running BS 1.4 with herospecial kernel. Everything is great. Just tried flashing herospecial2 (still waiting for BS 1.5 to finish downloading) and won't boot past the Samsung logo. Flashed back to herospecial and everything is good again.

I'll try to flash it again once I get BS 1.5 flashed.
[Epic 4G Android Development] sniperkill:
When you partition the sdcard(i did it b4 I try installing BS-1.5), how are you supposed to know that the partitioning worked? I mean, nothing looks any different on the sdcard.. I opened up root explorer and didnt find anything there either??? I have a 8gb class 6 sdcard, and im wondering if that might work better for me, but i dunno, anyone have any advice? plez??
[Epic 4G Android Development] fromchaos0646:
Thanks hero. Downloading to my phone now and will flash after school. Excited to compare acs to your newest work. Especially since I've been a long time baked snack user and recently switched just to test some new stuff.

Sent through the Matrix
[Epic 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
flashed 1.5 and phone says firmware version is 1.4. Is this correct?
[Epic 4G Android Development] nimaim:
Guys, just a heads up ... if you're on a ROM that has the battery percentage mod, and you try to flash Hero's kernel, it'll freeze on Samsung logo on bootup. Flash to a ROM that does not have it installed, flash the kernel, and THEN flash the mod back. The mod isn't worth it for that reason, because you can't play around with dif. kernels if you have it installed prior. Plus, it seems to drain a lot of battery since cpu has to constantly poll it for voltage.

Hero ALWAYS forgets the little things :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] blazewit:
The 270 rotation is in the build prop. just open it in a text editor and change 270 rotation=true to 270 rotation=false the reboot. Tht way u don't have to deal with the terminal
[Epic 4G Android Development] adamw1101:
Can you post setCPU settings thee minimize freezes with hero special 2 kernel
[Epic 4G Android Development] nimaim:
If you're getting freezes, you should use the default kernel already provided in the ROM. Don't flash herospecial2 if your chip can't support the lower voltages.
[Epic 4G Android Development] adamw1101:
Also thee media scanner send to be taking a really long time is that to be expected?
[Epic 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
Thanks. Just making sure I wasn't going crazy. Also, cpu screen off profiles (200 max and 200 min) cause phone to shut off.
[Epic 4G Android Development] omair2005:
Try 400/200
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
The use of profiles is not recommended on Galaxy S phones. It's a known issue with SetCPU.
[Epic 4G Android Development] JungleJiujitsu:
Does the reverting back to 180 fix the disc view in the music player, do ya know?
[Epic 4G Android Development] JungleJiujitsu:
400max? Can you please share your experience/results with this configuration?
[Epic 4G Android Development] JungleJiujitsu:
Yup I just booted up my phone and all my DL's from last night are now gone!!! However when I go into Market>Downloads, I see all the previous apps list, so at least I dont have to keep track of which have to be reinstalled and what not....Can someone please explain the whole ext cache partition thingamahjigga!? I created one successfully last night, oh so I thought, but all it did was wipe my SD card, which is fine being that I was able to organize it better this time around, and all my apps are backed to my PC. Besides that, I still have not seen the benefit of doing so!
[Epic 4G Android Development] mrkrabs:
I'm not sure what it is about baked snack roms...but they always feel way smoother and snappier than any other rom out there...love the work hero!
[Epic 4G Android Development] omair2005:
+1
[Epic 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
That explains it. Thanks for your help
[Epic 4G Android Development] ericizzy1:
tried this rom after odin and card formating, all started well, beautiful look, very fast too, but after reboot i got stuck with a black screen. had to battery pull, odin again, flashed the rom, and again after reboot, got the black scree.

thank you for your work, is there a way you can give us a copy of this beautiful theme?
[Epic 4G Android Development] KL4V1CL3:
Same. I've reflashed 3x now, issue continues to repeat itself.
[Epic 4G Android Development] evancg:
Same thing happened to me. I wouldn't doubt that it's user error, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
[Epic 4G Android Development] JungleJiujitsu:
Im hoping he missed a step cuz Im sure we all did it right, but after creating the partition, there's probably something else that needs to be done to get a2sd working! Can someone who did not create a partition please share if they are experiencing the same errors with apps staying installed? TIA
[Epic 4G Android Development] Mecca_TA:
I had skipped the partition and I'm having no issues retaining apps.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G Android Development] JungleJiujitsu:
Thanks dude for posting! Idk if whether I should wait now to have Hero_Over fix the issue or if I should delete the partition and continue w/o it until he gets rid of the bug/or posts any additional steps required to get this thing working!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] FoxRacR17:
Thanks for the reply, after I posted that I decided to reflash the rom to get the other kernel back, then I reinstalled OC widget and put it at 200-1.3ghz again and everything seemed fine but maybe 10 minutes later I was in the gallery scrolling through my pictures making it rebuild the album thumnail cache on the sd card and my phone just froze again :( so I guess that's proof that my phone can't handle 1.3ghz.

I'm back on herospecial2 but with max clock at 1.2ghz so hopefully my phone can at least handle the uber UV 1.2ghz you have set up and I can get some nice speed with great battery life :) Ill post back with my results.

Also I didn't make a ext4 partition since I don't see the point because the epic already has enough internal storage and it doesn't lag like the other galaxy phone and I'm having no problem with my apps disappearing after a reboot
[Epic 4G Android Development] ZenInsight:
Mobile AP uses infrastructure (Access Point), but it doesn't work on deodexed ROMS apparently. I would like to know a fix for this too.
[Epic 4G Android Development] badwolf:
oc widget, if i install it isays 000. do i need to remove setcpu? if i tap it it wants to delete....

Removed setcpu.reboot.good
[Epic 4G Android Development] sceptor:
Just so im on the same page with all this -

I updated to the #2 kernal with lower voltage and apparently running at 1.3gighz. My question is IF this is stable which it seems to be im better off using this one then your regular one at 1.4 correct? I assume you've yet to find a way to get 1.4 with anywhere near the lower voltage you can do on 1.3 stably?
[Epic 4G Android Development] LoveisPeace2012:
I get force closes going into disc view of the music player
[Epic 4G Android Development] formula84:
@Hero_Over I read somewhere that the Epic uses a faster internal storage than other GlaxyS phones, if you can afford the storage space would it be faster to use internal storage vs. this Ext4 method even with a class6? Also wouldn't this cause more battery use because the SD card is constantly accessed?
[Epic 4G Android Development] sceptor:
also was hoping your rom fixed it but the Nfl app still doesnt work even on wifi on my epic and i think on many peoples. Not sure why the update screwed everything up so hard, it works on my gf's evo but the quality is very poor compared to how it used to be
[Epic 4G Android Development] bigdbag:
BUG:

When I make a phone call, the proximity sensor turns the screen off correctly, but after my call is over my screen refuses to turn back on and I need to do a battery pull.

-using the super undervolted kernel fyi.

Otherwise the rom is great so far, much smoother than the "android creative syndicate" rom/kernel, which has questionable claims to 1.6Ghz honestly.
[Epic 4G Android Development] sryans2004:
Had a little problem earlier using the rom + hero special 2. Was on the Facebook App for android looking at pictures and the phone froze on me. I couldn't press any buttons or even turn the screen off, had to pull battery to fix. Not sure if its app or the ROM.

Other then that, I haven't experienced too many problems, I don't mess with setCPU or anything so that could be why. Great ROM! Very fast & stable minus the minor bugs I have came across.

Checking battery out today to see what I get.. Been off charger for about 55 minutes now and at 90% seems to be same battery life I been getting ever since i got the phone no matter what ROM I have, I always seem to go down 10% in an hour...
[Epic 4G Android Development] omair2005:
i would suggest use the included kernel and not the hero special because your phone doesn't seem to support it... you should not have to pull battery.
[Epic 4G Android Development] drago009:
Also my youtube app is not working.
[Epic 4G Android Development] sryans2004:
Why do some phones support it and not others? Aren't we using the same phone, with the same hardware? Sorry for the noob question but I don't understand
[Epic 4G Android Development] y2bangali:
Hey hero_over, idk if this is a bug (i think it is), i installed your 1st link then the hero special 2 kernel and found it just a bit laggy when switching thru homescreens so i reinstalled the 1st link to go back to the first kernel..

now my problem is, i'm trying to calibrate the battery so i charged it to 100% then wiped battery stats.. now im trying to drain the battery and here are the stats:

Display: 29%, 32m 21s

Phone Idle: 14%, 9h 9m 37s

Voice calls: 7%, 1m 51s

and i havent lost a single green mini bar yet.. my battery is showing full.. i know that cant be possible.. come on 9h 41ms total and not even a single battery down?
[Epic 4G Android Development] sryans2004:
I wouldnt rely on the battery meter, my battery meter has not dropped one bar but I have battery indicator installed from market, & GOTO Settings lockscreen (which has a percentage battery) and both say I am at 87% but still no bars has dropped..
[Epic 4G Android Development] ZenInsight:
go to your dialer like you are going to call someone.

type:

*#4636*1111#

You should get to a screen that has battery information with a battery level number. That should be fairly accurate.
[Epic 4G Android Development] y2bangali:
thanks a lot both of u.. i realized i could check the battery stats using spare parts and i just realized the battery meter drops every 20%.. so yeah i just lost a few bars... its on 79% now.. but thats some AMAZING battery life considering I havent charged at all in 10 hours..
[Epic 4G Android Development] sryans2004:
Yeah it is. Im down to 80% not even 2 hours later... Using ROM + Hero Special

What is your tricks!? I am also trying to calibrate my battery and wiped stats and everything
[Epic 4G Android Development] y2bangali:
lol no tricks at all man.. has ur phone been idle for 2 hours? or have u been doing sum heavy usage? after 10h 18ms, my phone is now on 78% but the display has been on for only 40mins.. so i'm barely even using it.. just checked my email and stuff here n there.. and i'm running setcpu interactive scaling with 1300mhz max..
[Epic 4G Android Development] FoxRacR17:
Yeah its the same hardware but not every piece of silicon is the same. The silicon your cpu is made out of doesn't handle the low voltages as well as hero_over's or my cpu. And my cpu can't handle 1.3ghz no matter what but it can handle 1.2ghz on the herospecial2 kernel.

Its just like overclocking cpus in desktops, not every cpu is created equal and some can go faster with less volts
[Epic 4G Android Development] sryans2004:
I wouldn't say heavy usage, maybe medium... My battery stats read:

34M 22S Since unplugged (which is wrong, I took it off charger around 12:30pm and its now almost 3pm)

Voice Calls 75% 13 min 6s (just got off the phone about 10 mins ago. Only about 10 min phonecall)

Display 22% 14m 21s

Cell Standby 3% 39m 44s

Phone Idle 2% 25m 30s

SquareParts Battery history reads :

Running: 42.4%

Screen on 34.4%

Phone on 35.0%

Wifi On 99.9%

Wifi Running 99.9%
[Epic 4G Android Development] Cam3ron1:
Anyone having trouble with installing apps and not seeing them til reboot?
[Epic 4G Android Development] SemiGamer:
Did you reboot your phone 34M before reading that?

When you reboot your phone, it wipes the "Since unplugged" and puts it all to 0.
[Epic 4G Android Development] deano0714:
Well my first question is is the app2sd in the kernel or rom and will it work with the sd card that came with the phone or is it too slow?
[Epic 4G Android Development] ZenInsight:
This works best when you do this after you let the battery completely drain, plug in, recovery mode, wipe battery stats and then turn on.

1. Charge to 100% while phone = ON

2. Once at 100%, unplug charger and turn phone OFF

3. Plug in charger for 5 minutes while phone = OFF

4. Unplug charger and turn phone ON

5. Leave phone ON for 5 minutes

6. Plug in charger for 5 minutes while phone = OFF

7. Do this 4 or 5 times until the blue light comes on the 4th or 5th time and when you look at your battery stats the level is 99 or 100% after 5 mins, not 90-96.

I also recommend an external battery charger that u place the battery into. Because of the trickle charge effect, no need for the above trick.

But it does work. I went from 10-12 hours to 23-24 hours. No problem. Same usage.
[Epic 4G Android Development] sryans2004:
I did that as soon as I woke up except I didn't let my battery drain, it was at 100% and I followed those steps under the other forum (how to train your dragon?) still not seeing great battery life. I am going to finish the calibration progress and try everything from scratch tomorrow, also going to give juicedefender another shot, I tried it before and didn't seem to help. And I just disabled DRM from starting up and a couple unnecessary apps. Hopefully I will see better battery life.

Sorry for turning this into a battery discussion when there are already 20 different discussions on how to improve battery life, I was just hoping this ROM/Kernel would help my battery life since I have tried a couple and nothing seems to work. Will report back tomorrow on battery life hopefully I get better numbers!
[Epic 4G Android Development] fromchaos0646:
Just flashed. So far so good, like always with heroes work. Battery has been great and feels very snappy even at default cpu speeds. Haven't had much time to play around and find bugs butive never had a problem with baked snack before. I will continue to switch between baked snack and sydicate/xtreme seeing as though those are my two favorite roms/kernels for my epic. Thanks hero and keep up the good work!

Sent through the Matrix
[Epic 4G Android Development] DriemMastR:
Great work! Also theme request.

Hey man,

Long time forum user, first time poster. First of all, your ROM is the awesome. I'd been using the same one for the six weeks I've had the Epic, changing only for a few hours here and there to try out other ones... yours is the first to make me switch. I really appreciate all the hard work you're doing!

As for themes, this may not be what you had in mind, since it would require more work/porting, but at sdx-developers there's a guy named bcparker and his Minimal Elegance theme looks so amazing, it ALMOST makes me miss my Samsung Moment!

So I'll throw that out there as a potential port.

(Sorry there's no link, as a new poster I can't add one in yet. I you go to SDX-developers home page, it's the fourth story down)

Keep up the amazing work!
[Epic 4G Android Development] ericizzy1:
hey hero, would it be possible for ypu to post a flashable file with your theme, i just love it. thank yo
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
This is freakin awesome! Love the theme and notification icons! Running fast and smooth with herospecial2 kernel at 1.3Ghz. OP states 1.2 or 1.4 but I guess that's a typo. Keep up the good work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
I am able to replicate this also, but not a big deal to me since I use WinAmp.
[Epic 4G Android Development] y2bangali:
my battery life is already decent but i just wanna follow ur ur steps so maybe then im not left out of any other advantages lol.. the thing is after installed the rom/kernel, i charged the remaining amount of battery i had left to 100%, wiped battery stats, now in the process of draining it so i can charge it back to 100% to finish the calibration.. question is, now that im in the draining process, where do ur steps come in? i dont have to wipe battery stats again do i? Thx
[Epic 4G Android Development] johnsongrantr:
I think my phone sucks or something, got nothing but freezes all day with this.

I flashed the super undervolted kernel previously and that lasted about 15 battery pulls because of lockups. This morning I reflashed the normal kernel and while not as many lockups it still locked up when scrolling though lists or interacting with the sd card, installing apps, or awaking from sleep. There doesn't appear to be any ryme or reason to the lockups other than randomly doing the aformentioned things. What works once won't work the second attempt or what doesn't work the first time will work the second.

I thought it was possibly because of overclocking, so I knocked it down from 1.3 to 1ghz same results.

Redownloaded and reflashed, same results.

WiFi on/off same results

OC widget and setcpu same results.

Not really trying to debug this, just felt like reporting. I've been trying to get fullspeed psx ff7 working on the epic and while somewhat better at 1.2ghz not better enough for me to live with the lockups. The general feel is aproximately the same as heroic epic rom w/ included kernel (my current fav)

good luck
[Epic 4G Android Development] ZenInsight:
Have you stopped DRM in running services? Do you leave wifi on all the time when at home? Have you tried using Juice defender?
[Epic 4G Android Development] ZenInsight:
I'm using Stock DI18 and the Extreme Kernel. No probs here at all.
[Epic 4G Android Development] BBlunts456:
I really want to try this ROM and kernel, but I dont know if I can switch without the Emotionless Beast theme. I read in the OP to make a request for this, so heres my request!lol Also reading thru this thread I noticed someone saying that Metamorph doesnt work, and thats also something I need. Thanks. This ROM/ kernel seems great, cant wait to try it!
[Epic 4G Android Development] JungleJiujitsu:
Thanks FYI, did not know Winamp was on droid!!! Just DL'ed and its pretty sweet!
[Epic 4G Android Development] johnsongrantr:
I'll try to go back to stock then try to reflash this, I was experienceing issues when I tried to flash this on top of it's self, it hung at the "formatting system" had to flash something else first then it allowed me to reflash this.

I never understood why when flashing a rom what you have installed originally effects what you flash over it. when I think "formatting system" I think that should take care of anything that is there minus the firmware and nv programming. But I've experienced this problem on multiple android phones (hero/evo/epic)

edit: also I think cw recovery might be partially to blame for this. I wouldn't consider this to be a solid recovery as I still get cannot find partitions and unable to mount issues, plus the whole "wipe 3 times" craziness... wtf is that all about?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Hero_Over:
yeah cwm can be pretty bad at times. just wipe 3 times and if your having lag or troubles then flash the 1.4 stock kernel. i added it to the OP
[Epic 4G Android Development] bigmcq77:
I keep getting black screens (of death)? after a while with this rom. I feel it might be a problem with the a2sd because its fine until I install a few apps, and then on the next reboot I get the bsod, forcing me to go into cw and wipe/flash something else.

I tried with both the normal and included kernel. I did partition my sdcard, but no luck. I hope this gets worked out soon, this rom was super fast. Thanks.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Djinn23:
Same happening here.apps gone from drawer after reboot
[Epic 4G Android Development] troyolson92:
Finally! Tried the apps2sd and it caused last3 hours getting back.

However it sooo worth it! I was on the synd rom with 1.6 over clock and while the rom is an excellent concept the kernel needs some work. Nothing worked right everything sooo slow. This rom however with the kernl rocks! So fast, reliable and looks good.

I installed the beast theme on top which is awesome! Perfect combo.

Only things about this rom id change is removing apps. Myfiles memo samsung crap etc. Free up space slim it down and impliment the beast theme! If possible set system settings in rom so we don't have to constantly fix like, allow roaming, allow text while roaming etc. But I can do all that on my own so no biggie.

Bye FAR the best and smoothest. Good work hero! Thank you!!!!!

Oh fyi, yes quad scores are slower the the rom/kernel I mentioned above but this rom feels at least twice as fast and IS smoother, faster and more reliable!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Hero_Over:
try to use the stock 1.4 kernel. that kernel will not be using apps2sd! also i personally havent seen anytroubles with a2sd but i am also the developer who knows exactly how to set it up
[Epic 4G Android Development] Zeinzu:
Benchmarks are synthetic anyway, highest benchmarks does "not" = highest performance, in the end user experience and stability are the only realistic factors

Btw, special 2 still will not boot past samsung logo

Sent from my Epic 4g