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[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gigamesh:
Forced to agree to google location consent after each pwercycle?

I run a lifetime subscription of wavesecure & since updating to SRF 1.1 with the ec05 modem flashed over EB13, it seems that everytime I powercycle, I have to re-agree or disagree to the google location based consent at startup. It is not sticking to my settings. This is forcing my Wavesecure security into a re-register prompt each time I reboot, I have never had this problem before with the same 1 click root/CWM/EXT4 running SRF and not sure what is causing this. My Girlfriend is running the OTA EC05 and rooted the same with same rom & this is not a problem for her. Should I just reflash SRF or a complete wipe and sd format and try fresh again, or has anyone else had this same situation and maybye there is a patch?

NM...I reflashed the rom and re-installed the app and all is good!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
To find out your clockwork version, with the phone's power off, press and hold camera button, then press and hold volume down, then press and hold power button. Continue to hold all three until the recovery pops up. It will say the version on the top when it does. Or what color are the letters? Orange is CWM 3.x.x.x with an EXT4 file system. Green is a 2.5.x with RFS file system, and Blue means you are stock without root.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafa3L:
Stock Epic won't boot

I have a stock Epic with EC05 that all of a sudden won't boot. This morning I woke up and it was at a black screen with the touchscreen buttons at bottom lit up. I rebooted it, pulled battery, tried the vol.down, camera, power to clear cache first and then reboot, tried booting without flash card.. none of this helped. I see the Samsung text, Sprint animation, then Samsung Galaxy animation, then the screen goes black and I feel the slight vibration (same one you feel when powering down the device) and thats where I'm stuck with the touchscreen buttons lit up. Eventually it tries to restart on its own but fails at same spot.

Luckily I have a backup phone so I'm ok for now, but I'm curious to see where this phone is failing during the bootup process. Is there anything I can do to see this? Maybe install something on my computer and connect the phone to monitor the bootup? Also I'm hoping to get this thing running at least once before doing a factory reset so I can get my DB from my checkbookfree app. My last backup to SD card was a couple of weeks ago, I'd rather not start with that older backup if possible.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Not sure, but you might have a bad battery. Does it do this while connected to the charger? Best bet is to Odin to stock. Your data base should be safe on the sd card (that is where it is stored right?). Most programs trouble shoot booting systems with errors like logcat.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafa3L:
I couldn't find the data base on the sd card unless its hidden somewhere I'm not seeing. Its not in the same place where the "backup to sd card" checkbook db files go.

Its not the battery, I've tried a second one. Issue occurs on both batteries with or without charger.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
And you can't even get into clockwork with the 3 finger salute?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafa3L:
I'm stock. Never rooted. Maybe I'll look into this Clockwork to see if it can help.

I can get to the stock recovery but haven't tried to factory reset yet because I'm hoping to access the phone once to get this database.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
OH, I did not realize you were not rooted. Is there a folder on your sd card for your app that might have the data in it?

Yeah a factory data reset will erase your app data on your phone but not on the sd card.

If you Odin a new system it wipes everything too. Clockwork recovery is what is installed when you root, so that will not help you right now either. To get at that data you will need to get the phone up again. Maybe take out the battery, hold the power button for 30 seconds to discharge everything. Plug it into a charger, wait 30 seconds and try to boot. If that don't work try the same procedure with installing the battery and booting at the end.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafa3L:
30 second discharge isn't helping either. No db on the sd card. I think this app only does that if you use the "backup to sd card feature" which I have done but not recently enough. Have a feeling i'm out of luck here, probably easier to just deal with the checkbook transactions manually, eventually my accounts will balance out :). If I don't hear of any other ideas I'll probably try the factory reset just to see if this phone successfully boots after that. I know I won't have the checkbook data, oh well.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafa3L:
Oh $#%t it just powered up. Time to grab the db and run!

EDIT1

I was just about to factory reset too, lucky I didn't. Phone was just sitting rebooting every five minutes on its own and after the third time it completely started up. I'd left it for a longer period of time sitting several times earlier today but it never did this. Cool, I got what I needed.

Funny thing is I have two Epics right now because of an issue with my previous Epic. Sprint replaced it and Samsung replaced it. I'd been working with both simultaneously and in the end Samsung mistakenly sent me a replacement even though I had told them that Sprint already provided a replacement. I was waiting for things to settle in before deciding on which I would send back. Looks like the Sprint refurb may be going back since its the one I had this boot issue with. We'll see how long I can hold onto both of these Epics.

EDIT 2

And 10 minutes later its off and at the black screen again. But this time it booted up after the first manual restart. But seems that every app at startup force closed. I wonder whats up with this thing.

EDIT 3

Now from the samsung recovery utility I get:

can't mount /dev/block/stl10

Even after factory reset. Stuck in reboot loop.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Is your checkbook app linked to your account? Maybe it stores the data offline. Well, good luck. Maybe it will come back to life. Only things I can think of will wipe data.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slider6:
I'm a complete newb when it comes to Rooting & Flashing ROMs. I just happened into this thread and will be reading it, but wanted to ask my question since I haven't seen it in the multiple other threads I've skimmed looking for the answer.

If I was to do the Clockwork Mod 3.0.0.6 and install the Syndicate ROM. How do I restore my contacts, SMS, pics, etc? I can take care of the settings and preferences, but I don't want to lose any contacts or SMS or pics.

Thanks so much!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monotune:
all my letters (menu screen) are in Green

I just wanna update my damn fone :(
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androikid:
Okay So I have read (most of) the theming guide but still am not sure what to do...

I have 7zip and I use that to open the location of the images for the system

Then i open them with fireworks (they are already fireworks files so thought that would work best) and edited them.

Then when I drop them back into the location to overwrite themselves and try to flash it, i get force closes and none of the images are changed.

If anyone can tell me what i need to do and what process i need to follow please message me...

I would like something like

Open the files

edit them

save them and drop them into the original file

something of that nature... if there is something else I need to do such as another program please tell me that as well

I know it may be annoying and take time for someone to help me out this way but it would be very appreciated! If anyone has the time and is willing to do this for me, as I said-please message me through the forums [not so much a response here]

ps

All i want to do at the moment is to change the colors of the current images
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
OK, then you got Clockwork 2.5.x with an RFS file system. So what kind of update are you looking for? If you can't get your computer to recognize your phone then the other option is to put a ROM on your SD card with a card reader and flash it. I will link you to a few RFS or dual file system ROMs:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1006186

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

I would look at the second one first.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
Hey, I'm trying to root via Gingerbreak and it keeps saying "Not sure what happened...reboot and see if you have Superuser?"

I know it's possible to root it this way, and others have had this problem too.

Anyone know why? Any fixes?

Thanks, in advance!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monotune:
nah, when I connect Epic to PC, it recognizes my Epic

I'm trying to do an over the air update

it's from Sprint and says it's for Froyo (13.3MB)

I wanna update b/c my Epic's been acting a little weird
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
So you are all set then.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shiftr182:
It sounds like they might need to install the stock recovery in order to get the update. It wont install when it checks for the recovery.

I personally use the sw update anytime that I want to go back to stock for a prolonged period of time....that way everything is clean.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shiftr182:
Here is a link to stock recovery you should be able to flash in cwm

http://drockstar.devphone.org/EpicTools/epic4g.stock.recovery.ec05.zip
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slider6:
I found the video on backing up contacts to sdcard and to google, very helpful.

I'm still looking at how to make sure I get my SMS/MMS & pics backed up and restored. Any help is much appreciated!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monotune:
no, I am not all set

CWM will NOT install the update

[YOUTUBE]j99Hcfh0syE[/YOUTUBE]

so I have to flash back? :(
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Unfortunately. If you are not able to unroot. Backup all your stuff, Odin to DI18 or EB13 stock and accept the update and receive the OTA. You can also flash an EC05 ROM and not have to worry about it.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Yes, the error you received meant something was not stock enough for the update. It searches for all the stock apps, like Asphalt game and other things and will fail if not perfect. I have heard of rooted phones still updating but all stock apps have to be present.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
Question...I'm trying to get Samsung drivers to work, and while I tried updating the drivers for the phone (most worked, some needed to be updated) So I tried updating this one thing called CDC Abstract Control Model (ACM), and it's been stuck on this for quite a while and I'm afraid to cancel it because it says it might the computer to become instable or something. The device is recognized but not by the one-click-root, so should I just restart the computer or let this driver still try to install? It's been on it for like 10 minutes. Thanks
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
After 20 minutes time to give up and reboot.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
Yeah, I just unplugged the phone and then tried running the One click root. It worked. Converted to ext4. Flash SRF. Overclocked to 1.2GHz. Changed boot animation. I am happy :)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Awesome! Another epicly satisfied customer :)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monotune:
FML! :(

ok, thanks a lot guys
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
I wonder if you flashed one of the old stock apps files if that would let it work. Did you check if Asphalt is on your phone?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
There are apps on the market to back up your messages and call logs. Your pics should be on your sd card already.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoSeriouS:
Changing themes, Not everything gets themed

I've noticed that when I change themes some items don't get themed (generally the keyboard/dialer/etc.). In the past when I've wanted a specific Swype keyboard (for example) I've extracted the files of the theme zip, pulled out the Swype keyboard from the theme and replaced it with the Swype I wanted to use, and then flash the theme. I've also done this with dialers and even other aps too, but it bothers me that I still don't have items that are getting themed.

For example, I Odin'ed to the EC05 Stock Plus that chris 41g posted, then installed SRF Fully loaded and then finally flashed the EC05 rEVOLUTION REMIX theme by D-Breezy, but the keyboard was the standard grey SWYPE keyboard not the black/green one from the theme. The dialer wasn't themed either and it bothers me that I don't know what to do to simply flash a theme and get all the components themed as intended. Please help.

Lastly, I installed CK's Urban Legend Urban Fury Rom and the Urban Fury theme and I have the same issue with certain things not being themed. I also notice that after charging my phone last night that the batterry is shown at 100% and will not change, any ideas on what I need to do?

Thx in advance for assistance.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinomitsu:
ROM flashing n00b here (on my phone anyway).

So, rooted my phone yesterday, and tried to install Syndicate Frozen today.

It rebooted and stopped at the Samsung logo screen during boot.

Stayed there for quite some time. (20 minutes or so).

Pulled the battery and tried to boot, same thing.

Booted into recovery and tried to restore...

The restore has stopped and i'm not sure if it's done and if so what to do next. Don't want the phone to brick.

This is a restore from ClockworkMod which is included on the current One click root in the development subforum.

This is what I see...

The progress bar is not moving.

Can anyone give me a heads up of what I should do next?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Etrnlwanderer:
Thank you, I plan to format my SD card after I have gone back to stock, so I guess that should take care of any trace files like CWM which would be there in the SD card.

I have the SPH-D700-DI18-8Gb-REL.tar.md5 and s1_odin_20100512.pit which I guess should suffice to Odin back to Stock Eclair. I had used these same files to Odin back from Froyo.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gowind:
The new TouchWiz in Froyo

Hello everybody. im getting my Epic 4g in a weeks time and i was going through the net to learn more about it in the mean time. I know Epic is having a downgraded version of ToucWiz with limitations.

So my question to all those geeks who already use Froyo in their Epic is that;

1. Is it upgraded to TW 3.0

2. Is it on par with the TW that other Galaxy S line up Has recieved with their

Froyo Update.

3. If not, what are the limitations and features lacking in the Froyo TW in Epic.

Thanx in advance :)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Top Nurse:
You don't need the PIT file when you are using the tar file. The tar file has the pit already in it.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirate-M.Lifnen:
Question:

I cannot connect to my Epic in download mode on mac os x either.

I was trying to install a lag fix, and now all my phone will do when powering on is show switch between the normal Samsung screen, and another reading "Samgung GT I9000".

I can still boot into Clockwork Recovery. But OS X will not recognize my phone.

Either that, or Heimdall isn't recognizing it and won't let me flash.

Help! Any ideas?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thomasskull666:
It's the new TW, through and through.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gowind:
Thanks Thomas. So u mean to say that now even epic users are gonna get all those guddies in TouchWiz like other galaxy s users. Thats great news.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gowind:
@Etrnlwanderer.

Hey do you get evdo speeds for yr epic in india. since u are a user who stays in cochin. can u put some light on it. whats the maximum internet speed u get on yr epic.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkasick:
Where's the pit in the tar file?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thetruejay20:
So I flashed the leaked DJ29 ROM and was wondering if I could just wipe and flash an older custom DI18 ROM without any problems?

Thanks JC
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decalex:
Quick and unrelated question: what is MIUI?

Sent from the future.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dj21o:
I just rooted my Epic. I used to have an HTC Hero and I got good at everything.. But can someone elaborate on what the "modem" is? From what I learned:

- kernel was for overclocking

-firmware is the version your running 2.1, 2.2, etc.

What is the "build number" exactly? (& why I need to change it when switching roms..)

People are saying everything about the D18 and D28 and I am lost lol.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] styles420:
How much do you know about computers? Think about what a modem does in a computer... (A developer can elaborate on this further, but it sounds like you don't necessarily need all of the details about the inner workings, or you wouldn't have to ask this question)

Also, I wanted to clarify a fallacy in your statement about the kernel - it isn't just for overclocking, every phone (and every linux or unix based operating system, in fact) has a kernel, whether it is overclocked or not. The kernel is essentially the core of the operating system. The reason you need a custom kernel for overclocking is because the stock kernel doesn't support OC, so developers make modifications to it to provide that functionality.

Also, you don't change the build number... EVER... you can think of it as the version number of the firmware (you'll notice that each leak of Froyo has a different build number to differentiate them from each other), and it doesn't change - when you put a different version of the software on the phone, it will have a different build number. But to say that you changed the build number would imply that you kept the same software, but hacked the internal info to reflect a different number... this is probably just a semantic issue, but I wanted to clarify just in case.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dj21o:
So your saying it does NOT matter what the D## is? You can still flash a ROM over the stock D18?

If I wanted to put 2.2 on my phone, all I have to do is literally make a backup, clear everything, and then flash like I did on the Hero?

And some of the kernals are optimized to save battery, yadda yadda yadda.. right?

I think I am getting it. :)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] styles420:
Sometimes it matters which rom you flash over, sometimes not - it all depends on how the new file is set up - it never matters what you start with if you're doing a FULL Odin flash (because of the full overwrite). For modems and kernels, you need to follow the directions provided with the file (Kernels are *usually* only compatible with certain roms, I believe that is always the case but I'm allowing room for exceptions - I only know so much :) )

Update.zip methods are generally much more particular because they're most often designed as an incremental upgrade - they basically only contain the files that changed from the previous version they're intended to flash over (which is why those files are so much smaller than the full .tar... zip compression isn't THAT good, lol)

Regardless, just make sure to read the instructions that come with the particular file you want to use. If they aren't in the download, then they will be in the thread where you found the dl link. If you can't find any instructions, don't use that file, find another one - I can guarantee there are plenty of threads with detailed instructions in this forum.

But the instructions you used for the Hero are essentially correct, you just need to make sure you have all the details straight... again, if you find a rom you want to try, read that thread thoroughly - most, if not all, of the questions you might come up with along the way have already been asked and answered in the thread pertaining to that rom (and many of us, myself included, have gotten pretty irritable about repeatedly seeing the same questions... so please read first, okay? Good...)

And as far as kernels, it sounds like you got the idea well enough ;)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D623:
I am non rooted, upgraded to DK28, I want to flash back to DI18 stock.. can someone help me out.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] styles420:
There is a thread in here that is a full guide to returning to stock, it may be on page two or three of this section at the moment... Basically, you're going to need Odin and the stock DI18 tar file (both linked to in the aforementioned guide thread), simply Odin that tar, then reroot if necessary. The guide thread has very thorough instructions, so I won't rewrite the entire guide here (if you can't find it, I'll see if I can send you the link when my computer is available - virus scans take forever on large hard drives... Gotta love Windows, right?)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JediWing:
I have upgraded both my wife and my Epic's to DK28. I Odin'd my phone, my wife's was done through an update.zip. I haven't bothered to re-root either of them after the upgrade.

I discovered that both of our GPSs are no longer working today. I've read that flashing back to DI18 with the DK28 modem and acquiring a lock that way works to restore GPS, and I would like to try this. However, I don't want to go through all the hoops of re-setting up everything on the phones (i.e. losing e-mail setup, launcher setup, progress in games, etc.)

Is there a way that I can backup the exact image on the phones now and Odin that in after I've restored the GPS? Does it require root?

Any help is appreciated.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] styles420:
So far, it seems that trying to do this will just result in constant force close issues... The only thing that I have heard of that *might* work is to use Titanium Backup, but I haven't tried that method yet (after reflashing several times before the source of the force closes was identified to be from restoring my data, I got used to just redoing my settings)

Anyone care to weigh in on the Titanium Backup success ratio?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tony45x220:
I'm going to try this one last time...

I'm still running Baked Snack 1.6...and I'm interested in trying out one of the Froyo versions...people are having waaayyy to many problems with ODIN...is can you upgrade to Froyo and work with the different ROM's out by just using Clockwork Mod Recovery the same way as the 2.1 Eclair updates (DI07 to DI18)?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dj21o:
That is my issue too. I do not want to go to 2.2 because of Odin, and my current set up has my battery lasting longer than any of the kernels that are on this thread. But I do not want to have the stock look. I have tried Ninjamorph on my current stock rom, but it doesn't work because its odex. Does anyone have a stock "look" 2.1 rom that is de-oxed? I just want to change simple things like the taskbar and the pulldown image.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
You're trying to flash an EXT4 rom when you are on RFS. SRF is not made for cwm2.5.1.0

You needed to do a one-click root to EXT4 to get CWM3.0.0.6. Remember, after you root and boot into CWM, it will convert your files to EXT4 and you HAVE to flash a ROM after. If you just reboot, you will be stuck in a boot loop.

Watch this video on how to root to EXT4 and flash SRF.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy2Et6qVGdo&feature=channel_video_title

btw, great ROM choice =P