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[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinomitsu:
*thanked*

Thanks a lot Acer. I'll look into that.

What about my current state.

Phone won't load. Rebooting the phone boots straight into recovery.

Working on restoring the backup that clockwork made for me and it hangs where I mentioned in my last post (... recovery). Currently it's been sitting there for over 2 1/2 hours.

Is my main issue my version of clockwork?

Can I update clockwork FROM clockwork and then flash the rom?

Do I need to break out Odin and wipe the phone? :(
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Yes either Odin back to stock and start again or pull out your sd card and throw and RFS rom on there to flash assuming you are still booting into CWM 2.5.x. If you are only showing stock recovery (blue letters) then you should Odin back.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
I suggest using Odin in this case =\

I assumed you were able to boot up your phone still, in which then you could've just rooted to EXT4 (this works even after rooting w/ RFS). But unfortunately, if you're stuck like this, I suggest Odin.

I've seen this happen before, actually, and I think Odin is your only option. I know it's a pain, but better than a brick, right? Just be a bit careful next time ;P

Don't worry, I've been there lol

P.S. Do you have an RFS Rom on there? If so, then flash that, assuming you're in CWM2.5.1.0 still. If not, then just Odin.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinomitsu:
Thanks guys... I Flashed back to EB13 using Odin, grabbed the OTA to EC05, rooted with the right version of OCR and then flashed SyndicateROM.

That video helped a TON!

The fact that the dude actually has a bad flash in there made me not have a panic attack when I saw that screen.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
Glad the video helped! Yeah, I actually just flashed SRF two days ago and I got that same screen. Just did what he said: pulled out battery, and reflash. ;)

Btw, I recommend overclocking to 1.3 GHz. It's so fast! (Battery drain may occur so I'd use it only at home or something)

If you don't know how to do that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k7hqewGoWk

Skip to 2:40 :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinomitsu:
Yeah I know how to OC that's not a problem.

Still getting the phone set up the way I used to have it right now.

But one thing... I thought the ROM defaulted to 1.3GHz b/c they figured out a way to do it without a voltage increase... Oh well... I'll take a look.

Even without it, it seems a lot faster already.

Man... I wish there was some support on xda for the Samsung Moment. That phone is in need of a TON of help. That's what my wife has and the process hasn't been nearly as streamlined last time I checked. And I don't even see Moment support on here. I see the Intercept though... and the Hero which came out around the same time.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
The intercept came out a year after the moment; it's pretty much the successor to it.

And yeah, the ROM is at the stock 1 GHz. Fast, right?! Then I overclocked it to 1.3 GHz...and I was blown away by the difference.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinomitsu:
Maybe something changed then?

As soon as I installed my overclock app, it said it was running 1.3 at default. But I set it back to 1.0 and it was still pretty blazing. After reboot it went back to 1.3 and I didn't change the boot up speed.

Either way... I'll tell you what man... Carrier IQ must REALLY suck the performance right out of this phone.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k0nane:
CIQ does suck. ;)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinomitsu:
OK so this is odd.

After a straight boot, my OC app was telling me that it was set to 1.3.

I've been playing with some benchmarks just to see the performance difference between stock and SRF.

After boot with the OC app TELLING me I was at 1.3, Quadrant was giving me 1700s.

Switched to 1.0GHz and tried again and it was still giving me 1700s

Switched BACK to 1.3GHz and now it's giving me 2100s!

Is it actually booting at 1.0GHz but telling me 1.3GHz?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
Try running the tests a couple more times; sometimes they're not all that accurate.

P.S. Quadrant scores are lame =P

Here's me a 1.3 GHz:

1st time: 1855

Second time: 1973

And third time: 1953

As you can see: There's an average for me.

Try a couple more times; it's probably just a glitch.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinomitsu:
After boot I got high 1700s average.

At 1.3 I was getting 2100s average.

I know Quad isn't great as far as a benchmark goes when comparing to other phones... but I don't use Quad to compare with other phones, but I did use it to see what kind of boost in performance I was getting... a before and after check.

I answered my own question though. Was just looking at something wrong. It was telling me max freq of 1.3 not current freq.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RandomKing:
Just out of curiosity, why do so people get so hung up on scores? My phone is lightning fast, actually gets decent battery life of a couple days, and blows all my friend's androids out of the water thanks to heavy modding. It never lags on any app for any reason. It's awesome, what minuscule amount does it matter if your quadrant score reads 1900 or 1951? You can't tell me you notice a difference, cause I push my device pretty hard...

Just sayin :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Not sure, especially since Quadrant can be manipulated therefore making it worthless. SmartBench is the better test. And then for what? Bragging rights? Bonsai is maxxed at 1120 Mhz right now and hardly notice the drop from when I was running 1.3Ghz with Genocide. Still is super fast. Only 3G slows it down.

Do you BONSAI?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RandomKing:
I don't even overclock anymore. Setcpu was using more battery than the overclock was gaining me speed... I like it exactly the way the devs have it by default ;)

Occasionally :cool:
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinomitsu:
It doesn't matter.

As I said... I just used Quad to get a basic idea of the before and after.

Before putting SRF on my phone I was getting around 1000 to 1050... it's nice to know that after I'm getting high 1700s at 1GHz and high 2100 at 1.3GHz.

That's the only reason I had for using it.

I don't care how my phone compares to other phones... just to itself.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
No, that is fine. But just so you know in the past routines were put into code on certain ROMs to fool Quadrant into reading higher than it should have. It is also unreliable. You can get 3 different readings 3 times in a row. Smart Bench is better for comparing before and afters.

Do you BONSAI?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinomitsu:
Fair enough.

Never used Smart Bench before. Just used the Market and typed in "Benchmark" and Linpack and Quadrant are the first 2 to come up... so those are what I used.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
Quick question...been getting some freezes on my phone today (twice, VERRRY spread out between the time they happened. like 6 hours)

But, anyway, the first time it froze it made my screen just show all gray. Like the entire screen was gray, and I had to pull the battery and reboot (thank god I have journaling on)

The second time, it just froze on a regular screen, which happens like once a month for me.

All I'm wondering is if anyone has experienced the gray screen before. It's not consistant enough to have to fix it (if a freeze happens twice a day that far apart, I'll live with it) but just wondering if anyone has had these problems before.

The first time, I was trying to listen to music and the second time I think my phone was starting to overheat a little from just usage and being in the dying heat here.

Thanks!

I'm running SRF 1.1.0, journaling enabled, twilight kernel 1.1.0
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
Another thing, do I have to have the stock music player app to play music? Or can I just delete it and use a different music player app? Thanks!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Telperion:
Just wanted to pop in and say this thread has been helpful, was looking to pick an Epic up for another line on my plan, good info.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
You can delete it and use any one you want.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EpicSaga:
Difference

What is the difference between the Roms on this site and sdx-developers.com?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epic4GEE:
If its one of the same roms you see around here, prolly nothing.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EpicSaga:
I don't know what the roms on here are like. This site is hard to navigate around in. How can I compare the Roms? That is what I want to compare right? In order to root the phone?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EpicSaga:
???????

I can't even find where I posted messages at.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epic4GEE:
Once you find the epic section of xda(which you obviously have) just bookmark it. All the roms are in the epic4G development section. With headers like [ROM] for roms and [KERNEL] for kernels....ect. Always read the OP by the developer and follow their instructions, you'll get use to it eventually.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NoncolorG:
Update.zip not working

I fairly new to all this mumbo jumbo, but whenever i try to flash am update.zip it keeps giving me that error message. I dont have anything as far as software altered. Just rooted my phone from the method given from these forums. Any help? Thank you
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epic4GEE:
Lol@mumbo jumbo

Where did you get this update.zip? What are you trying to do? Did you read the OP where you got this update.zip from? Are you sure you know what your doing?

I needs more info.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NoncolorG:
Forgive me for sounding clueless, but I tried the froyo 2.2 from a couple different sources as well as gingerbread 2.3. Other people said they've had no problems with it but i do an no one seems to be able to figure out what is wrong. And I kinda know what I'm doing. Figuring things out as i go along
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hustletron:
I attempted to use the One Click Root from this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=770388

Ran the ADB script, it said it finished, I rebooted my phone because nothing happened with it after it said it was done.

Now my phone doesn't boot, stays on the white SAMSUNG logo screen when it first boots and never changes.

Can't get into recovery either.

Only thing I can get into now is the Download screen.

I've attempted to flash back to stock using the SWUpgrade tool I found on SDX and the download fails.

I'm running EC05 and I'm not new at rooting but I'm new to rooting the Epic, I've rooted my EVO and Moment, never had this much trouble before :(

I can't boot into recovery to flash anything that way right now and I'm not sure why

I attempted to flash the EB13 stock using SWUpdate and the download fails every time as well.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
You will need a computer and have to Odin your phone back to stock. Instructions are here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
I kind of have a silly question:

I made a backup of SRF 1.1.0 with journaling already on

So when I restore it will it still be on, or does that disable it?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qbking77:
A way to turn journaling on is to make a nandroid backup and restore it, so any nandroid restored would have journaling on ;)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hustletron:
I attempted to go the ODIN route, followed the directions and it fails

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/004> Initialzation..

<ID:0/004> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/004> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/004>

<ID:0/004> Re-Partition operation failed.

<ID:0/004> Removed!!

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

<ID:0/004> Added!!

Tried it again with repartition unchecked and it gets farther then fails

<ID:0/004> Initialzation..

<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/004> boot.bin

<ID:0/004> cache.rfs

<ID:0/004> datafs.rfs

<ID:0/004> factoryfs.rfs

<ID:0/004> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

<ID:0/004> Removed!!

Then the windows notifications starts popping about an unrecognized device and now the screen is red.

Now the phone wont even turn on or boot into download or recovery.....................****.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Try it with the battery out and the usb cord connected to get to download mode.

Also make sure the tar file you are using in PDA does not have the .md5 extension. If it does just remove it so it is a .tar.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Sounds like the cable is flaky too.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hustletron:
The file I was using to restore ends in .tar and I can't get the phone to boot into Download with the battery out, it's not doing anything now.

I've used this cable to flash my moment and evo before and I've been using it at work to charge my evo up until I got the epic yesterday.

I somehow got it to boot into the Download again with the battery in randomly, it's sitting right now on Download, not sure what my next step should be?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hustletron:
I managed to plug the USB cable into another port on my PC, ran the Odin again with repartition and it succeeded. Very scary stuff. I thanked all your posts that helped me man, I really appreciate it.

It's booted and looking good, I still want to root it, I'm just not sure where I went wrong now.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
It may have been the port. Now that you have a known good connection and know how to get back try again.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hustletron:
I can't root my phone for some reason, I have the windows drivers for the phone installed, I've tried both my desktop and netbook, when I plug my phone in, Windows sees it as Samsung and the model number and identifies it, I try and do the 1 click root again and it keeps saying it can't see my phone.

Very odd.

EDIT: rebooted my desktop, rebooted phone, and now it got root, very very odd.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
Looking for a quick response here :

When flashing aa theme, how do I go back to my original theme? (Regular ACS)? Just curious because I want to try some themes out but wanna revert back to the regular ACS theme just in case. Do I just have to restore a nandroid backup?

Sent from my Samsung Epic
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qbking77:
Yes restoring a nandroid would work. Or you can wipe cache and dalvik 3X and reflash the rom.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Not really. This is normal behavior and fixes. The rooting and Clockwork Mods for the Epic are ported and imperfect, and then add the variables of phones and computers that act differently to the same variable. You did good Grasshopper.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] im_drink:
Problems upgrading CWM 2.5.1 to 3.x

From a stock EC05 phone I followed rooting directions (zedomax youtube). My end goal was CWM 3.0 and the syndicate ROM. No problems with the root, but it left me with 2.5.1 instead of 3.x .

I'm having a hell of a time upgrading it. I found Rodderick's post with the manual zip update from today. Downloaded, CWM accepted it and the install went through according the the prompt. I reboot in CWM and it still give me the green 2.5.1 screen. Did some searching but couldn't find much. Any thoughts?

-Drink
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Try Odin back to stock ec05 tar and then do CWM 3.0.0.6 from there. If it doesn't do the EXT4 conversion the first time you boot into Clockwork then 3.0.0.6 didn't take. Make sure antivirus is off on computer.

Do you BONSAI?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
I just changed my modem to EB13.

Now youtube and google search doesn't work. What should I do? Just reflash the ROM?

Nevermind, I fixed it! :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] resetreflectt:
Hey guys, I'm new to the Epic. Just came from an Evo, because I needed a keyboard and I strangely unlike most people really like touchwiz. But anyways, I updated to EC05 as soon as I got it and I can't seem to find stock Samsung Wallpapers. I have the live ones but not the static wallpapers.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brand_x:
Working through rooting my 2 day old Epic

I am running through the directions here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=798067

All the steps up to 2.3.2 went perfectly. Got drivers, got sdk, jdk, adb, ran the

one.click.root.exploitv2.5.5 run.bat

When I got to step 2.3.2, specifically the part where you open the adb shell and remount rw, the mount errored out. I would provide you all the exact error but I can't, see below.

I thought I could just skip down to koush's method. So I d/l'ed the clockworkmodkernal zip, plopped it into / on the SD and did the volume+camera+power reboot.

Since I had already finished step 2.3.1, I ended up in Clockwork and saved a backup. Then I installed the zip and rebooted.

I was expecting to go to the market to get the ROM manager, instead I got the Android system recovery <2e> (blue menu).

No problem, I thought I'll just boot into clockwork and restore my back up.

So I did that and it looked like it worked, it says restore complete, except it said that it was skipping the restore of /sd-ext/.

So then I went to "reboot system now" and I ended up in the Android system recovery.

Now whenever I boot I end up in the Android system recovery unless I do the v+c+p reboot, which gets me to the clockwork menu.

What should I do now? please help.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brand_x:
I just tried wipe data/factory reset from both clockwork and ASR <2e>.

I can still boot to clockwork and if I reboot system it still boots into the ASR. Do I need to try Odin?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
ROM manager is the first problem. It is not compatible with the Epic. When you boot into Clockwork are the letters green? If so then you have gotten clockwork 2.5.x on your system so you can try to flash an RFS ROM like:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1027904

If that doesn't work then you will have to Odin back to stock and start again like here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brand_x:
I started trying to odin it back to life just before you posted. It keeps failing. first with a red screen, then it just went dark and sat for 20 minutes. The most recent attemp had the screen turn blue. I guess I'm just going to keep trying.

man am I getting grumpy... at myself
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brand_x:
Finally got odin to work.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Sometimes the cable is a little flaky, other times Odin is finicky but you see being persistent pays off.

Do you BONSAI?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brand_x:
So what did I do wrong? Or what should I do differently so it works when I try again?

And by try it again I mean fully rooting the phone and slapping a sexy rom and a lean kernel on it.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
You might need a new data cable based on the Odin difficulties but since you already got Odin to work, find and download your sexy new EXT4 compatible ROM, then Odin in this EB13 prerooted EXT4 tar, then boot into Clockwork 3.0.0.6 with 3 finger (NO ROM Manager), it will convert you to EXT4 file system, then before rebooting flash the sexy ROM you downloaded. Here is the link to EB13 tar, get the 2nd one listed.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=853209
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
Deleting old Nandroid backups?

Does anyone know where to delete some old Nandroid backups? I have a few on my phone, and they take up a lot of space on my SD card.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Yup, there in the clockworkmod directory under backup.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brand_x:
[Attn: moderators, if this posted in the wrong forum please feel free to move it where it belongs]

Is there a bash cli rom? I would love it if I could mod my phone such that it boots into a locked terminal, from which I could "login" (unlock the screen) then issue commands such as (incomplete list):

If there is no such thing, how crazy am I for thinking about trying to make it, considering I have no android dev experience, cannot write java and know only enough about linux to really screw up my slackware/debian machines? Additionally would there be any intrepid devs/chefs out there who would like to take on a project like this?

I envision this as just an alternate UI with additional apps, not as a full rewrite. For example iwconfig would not really be iwconfig, it would just be a cli version of the wifi setup menu and apps like camera, web and gps, would just open up into their standard graphical modes. The difference is once you closed, say camera, you would be back to the terminal.

The boot and shutdown animations would be something along the lines of a canned version of the scrolling text you see when you boot and shutdown linux. Unless there is a way to replace the animation with echos of the actual boot process without making the phone take years to turn on.

And while I'm wish-listing why not throw on the ability to set your default runlevel via /etc/inittab ie, 0=cli and 1=gui. And maybe add an editable /etc/issue and motd? And the ability to d/l linux tarballs and compile them for use on the phone?

Oh and of course the shell should include features like command history and tabular completion and multiple terminal sessions if possible. Maybe FN+1 instead of ALT+F1 or we could re-task the home, search, menu and back buttons.

Okay really need to stop typing now :o

TL;DR Is there a debian port for the epic and if not who wants to make one?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
You can just delete them in cwm? Oh, didn't know that.

Where exactly?

Well, good to know.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
OK, my bad...they are in clockworkmod\backup on your sd card. Delete them with any file manager. They are listed by date.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
Oh, okay! =D

Do I really need the before ext convert backup if I am back on RFS? =P
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Not anymore and usually not 15 minutes after converting..lol. That file is meant if you blow up after converting. Since you are on ED12 and RFS now all your EXT4 backups are no use until you go back to EXT4.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
Thanks :)

Now I went from 500 MB to 2 GB =D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
There's a button for that :)

You're welcome.