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[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Burban502:
EDIT: *sigh* Nevermind!!! Despite flashing Deodexed 2.3.6 and 2 different kernels originally, it didn't fix it. HOWEVER, after going to 4.2.2 everything is fine! O_O (Alias's AOKP if somehow that ends up being the miracle behind this)

I'm just going to leave my original Q posted in case anyone else runs across the same issue.

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Anyone have any suggestions on what I can try, be it through software or with a soldering iron, to try and get this Epic to charge?

I bought mine off eBay "As-Is", no battery or SD with a Bad ESN, but still had the protective little stickers all over it. I guess it was a fresh refurb though it wasn't mentioned by the seller, only found that out when I got it from the battery compartment sticker saying so. Anyways I bought a new "3rd Party" battery (reason for quotes, it says "SAMSUNG", but is made in China and does not look like the OEMs from some Stratosphere's I have) with a dock and AC adapter, but it won't charge. While on, nothing shows up to indicate being plugged in unless it's a USB cable. While off, the battery indicator is not animated, nor does it change levels. The only way I've gotten it to charge is by letting it run flat out, and connecting it to the dock (if I connect it with any charge, it will automatically turn on which is annoying, but I do get why). I know it isn't because of the battery, because a Strat's battery I rigged in won't charge either (any of them), and an external charger will charge it so I know it isn't bad. USB works fine, I've rooted it via Odin, and the port isn't wobbly either.

The only info I can provide that might be of help is from OS Monitor app which in the Message log says:

<today's date> <17:28:26> [DEBUG]

/V-F/ s3c_bat_check_v_f failed (adc=88)

<today's date> <17:28:36> [DEBUG]

/V-F/ s3c_bat_check_v_f failed (adc=87)

I thought 88 and 87 would indicate the battery level, but those same two entries occur a number of times, and never anything but 88 or 87

Ideas? Suggestions? Or am I "effed"? :(

Thanks!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steelcitymetal:
CleanGB: BML to MTD

Currently on CleanGB v1.1.2 BML, would like to switch over to MTD.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1483903

Do I need to flash the MTD kernel first, and then the rom? Or will flashing the MTD rom include the kernel?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flastnoles11:
It will include the kernel, just flash the Rom, all conversions will be done for you.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nike0518:
could someone help with micro sd card problems im having on epic?

out of the blue my phone started saying microsd card unexpectedly removed and similar messages but i figured no big deal.

then a few days later apps on the sd card no longer existed. so i looked online including here for help and i formatted the sd card on the pc.

made a back up on the pc of all my data. I inserted my sd card with no problems but after 2 days they reappeared. apps gone. i did a factory reset

and restored a nandroid backup but to no avail, problem came up again after every so and so days after i clear something such factory reset.

so finally i tried updating from cm 10.0 to cm 10.1 m snapshot. and again the error messages pop up suddenly.

now the sd card usually works in the phone as in it tells me what is stored on there and stuff.

but i have apps like rom toolbox pro and i downloaded overdrive for reading ebooks for studying.

on rom toolbox it fails to send any app to sd card even the ones that wouldnt require root and this app has never failed me before

on overdrive it says it cant download any of the ebooks to check if sd card is removed

now i have a few epics at my disposal for exhanging parts or phones and to try on a non rooted epic.

i just tried overdrive on their and it downloaded the files with no hassle to the same sd card that wasnt working on my phone.

and i tried a diff sd card on my phone and same error pops up suddenly .

My sd card is a sandisk 32gb and the 2nd sd card i used to test is a samsung sdcard 16gb

sorry for alot of info but ive been trying and trying myself to fix this and decided to finally ask

does any one here no what i could try to fix this ? or whats wrong with my phone?

btw i ran the log option on cwm and got this

I: Can't format unknown volume: /external_sd

I: Can't format unknown volume: /emmc

ive mounted and unmounted the sd on cwm too and it still sees the files on sd card on cwm as well

any help will be deeply appreciated ...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rlanza1054:
The problem could be that the SD memory card is bad.

They can die, I had the same problem and it turned out to be a faulty SD card.

Called the manufacturer of the SD card since it had a lifetime warranty and they replaced the card.

If you have a spare SD memory card, try using that to see if the problem still happens.

At this point, I have a few memory cards laying around, so I'm hoping you do so you can run a fast test without having to wait for the replacement to arrive.

Rob
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nike0518:
damn i factory reset and everything was good for a today but the problems arose today again at night.... just factory reset again and rom toolbox cant move the apps again ....

could the problem be like permissions or something? with rom toolbox pro the folders /system and /sdcard have owners and groups 0:root

but the /storage has 1000 system on owners and groups.

and the permissions for the folders are rwxrwxrwx on /sdcard and /storage and on /system is rwxr-xr-x

dont know if that info is important?

i do have some extra sd cards but i think i remember them doing the same thing too ...

can someone plz help?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nike0518:
so nothing ive tried seems to work ...

so far what is found was the something is very wrong in the settings

ive tried factory data reset, fix permissions, wipe cache, wipe dalvik , flashing fresh new roms but nothing works long. it helps for almost a day then the settings get all screwed up again ...

ive formatted it on pc and on phone and nothing

but what boggles my mind is in cwm it still shows up the sd card and makes and restores backups but yet it shows on log cant find /sd etc.

does any one how to solve this???

because i dont like having to restore backups every day...any help will be greatly appreciated
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frostedunit:
Have you Odined back to stock and checked for problems there? It could be a lot of things causing your issue. Run stock for a day or so, and if nothing's wrong, redownload CM 10.1 and reinstall. Then reinstall all of your apps one by one from the Play store. This way you can tell if it is a specific app causing the issue.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nike0518:
Could you tell me how?

because when I first rooted I wanted to try to unroot with Odin but my phone bricked so I am a little hesitant about using Odin
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikon120:
Tutorial on using ODIN and getting back to stock

Don't bother with the EL30 tar. Start just below that where the SPH-D700-FC09-8Gb-REL.tar download link is. That is the file which will give you 100% current stock.

EDIT:

After reading your original issue with the SD card...

You should remove the card from the phone.

Connect the card to a computer.

Backup whatever stuff you want to keep.

Format the card. (FAT32)

Move whatever stuff you backed up, back to the card.

Put card back in phone.

In CWM, run Fix Permissions in the advanced menu.

Optional: clear cache partition

Try again with the steps you took where you encountered the write issue to the card.

If you still experience the problem, then try ODIN to test against 100% stock.

If you still experience the problem on 100% stock (FC09), then replace the SD card.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikon120:
Pebkac on my end with this reply
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikon120:
Apparently Tapatalk didn't like me cutting/pasting into another thread last night. It made me reply to this thread twice with the same reply. SMH.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nike0518:
alright i just looked up what cables samsung has so i can which one i got and my mine i believe is their "travel charger" cable, the ends are a smooth glossy type plastic. it has the square shape adapter. now ive used this in the past for rooting my phone and another epic .

i also have other different samsung cables that didnt work for rooting so i want to know that if i used this before for rooting, will it work for flashing with odin again?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nike0518:
alright sorry for so many posts guys but many my heart was beating like crazy but yes final result i went to stock fc09 like you all recommended and i used odin and a samsung travel usb cable and halla***leuah it worked!!!!!!!

i post this because many ppl say dont use a samsung usb cable but im here to give my word that the samsung travel usb cable has worked at least 3 times with no fails so yeah now ima use the sd card and see how it goes and post back on here to let yall know but yes thank you all ....
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nike0518:
fixed my phone guys i hope i swapped the entire sd card slot with another good working one.

its all good thnx for the help
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kcladygemini:
problems with gingerbreak

I'm not completely new to rooting, but this is my first Epic 4g that i am trying to root and im not having much luck using the "no computer" method with gingerbreak. I have followed the videos and the threads explaining the directions thouroughly and still, nothing. These are all the details about my phone....

firmware - 2.3.6

base - FC09

build - gingerbread.FC09

I see a lot of different threads and how-to's for slightly different phone specs and dont want to chance using the wrong info. Everytime I run gingerbreak it will sit on the screen saying its rooting until i finally restart the phone, i've left it attempting to root for up to 30min.

I have never rooted any other devices using any computer software and would prefer to complete it this way, but i am fairly confident I could learn to do it the other way if thats my only option. Any advise is appreciated. this is my first post on this forum, thanks in advance.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flastnoles11:
Gingerbreak will not root the epic 4g, search qbking77 on YouTube "qbking77 root epic 4g fc09" if you put that into the search bar on YouTube you'll find what you're looking for ;)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] infyrno676767:
Well shucks. I can't figure out how to delete posts on here. I'm only finding ways to edit them. Hmmmm.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikon120:
Once there is a reply, you can't delete.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kcladygemini:
Worked perfect! Thanks so much!!!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nike0518:
anybody know a command that I can type into android terminal so that I can force my phone to remount my sdcard....

I get tired of rebooting my epic just to use my sd card... plz?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brandnu:
multiple issues on multiple roms on multiple epic 4g's i need answers.

ok so this epic 4g i have in my possession now is the 4th one ive had since it first came out. i have rooted flawlessly an exponential amount of times over different epic 4g devices, i have installed an array of roms available here: acs ics rom(batt life sucked), the peoples rom(decent), sleeper rom(ok), super nova(awesome for its time), cm7, cm9 stable, aokp stable,paranoid android(horrible batt and stability) etc an i come across the same issue over different epic 4g devices....every time i reboot using the power menu my batt life is drained considerably or reboots to 15% or something close to that. i realize battery life is different per rom but why this consistent reboot battery drain across a multitude of roms???..also another issue i have experienced across all of the above mentioned roms as well as other is my dialer activity gets forced closed or a delay in placing a call ex:i hit the call button but nothing happens i close the phone app using the task manager and try again but still no phone call until after either i clear out my memory in the task manager or after an annoying period of time the phone app will place the call....why is this???? i used to think it was me doing something wrong while flashing a new rom but i follow instructions pretty well i think, especially from qbking on youtube so please can any one provide me with some respite concerning these issues before i go out and get a note 2....im currently running Legacy Rom 1.04 no mods or themes,and about to try 1.05(without the notification ani) titanium back up has just told me that it doesnt have root privileges even after a reboot, some how root got broken(problems such as this across these roms)

.......not sure if any one else been having these problems as i havent seen a post concerning this. i got annoyed at reading peoples post on how great battery life was and how stable EVERYTHING was on all of these roms while i was experiencing the total opposite had me thinking if some of them were lying just to have something positive to say or to say at all....so i waited until i tried a good amount of roms before i posted this...gratitude for all help.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DynamicN:
It is normal for the battery percentage to sometimes drop down after a reboot because the phone is trying to accurately read the voltage to display the correct battery percentage. Give it a little time and the battery percentage should come back up to what it really is. Have you experienced this issue with a brand new battery though? I don't mean a new or used Epic 4g, I mean a brand new battery that's never been used. As for your second issue with the dialer not immediately responding it sounds like you have very little available ram, when you go to the task manager how much free ram is there? People have great battery life because they understand every process that's running and stop things that drain their battery, I'm not saying your inaccurate but what I am saying is with a little tweaking I'm sure you can have great battery life too.

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This may help http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1724278
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chzeckmate:
If you'd had all these issues on one Epic 4g I might say device issues but these issues repeated over four Epic's is user issues. My recommendation: Get a new Samsung branded battery. Get an Epic 4G Touch battery from a proper retailer (not Ebay or Craigslist). Next restore your device to factory defaults and then go stock rooted. You've gone switching from ROM to ROM and very likely given little consideration to whether the ROM is MTD or BML and what effect each would have on the partition. I could be wrong but the issues you're having sound like it. Odin back to stock and reset the partition. Then root again and stay stock. Or go ahead with your idea of getting a Galaxy Note II. I have one of those on one of my lines (running MacksROM AllStar 3.5) and I'm happy with it. I may sound blunt or insensitive but I want to mention that I also have two Epic 4G's (running The People's ROM 2.22) and I'm happy with those lines too. Let us know how it goes for you.

regards - chzeckmate
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bill720:
Possible to force 1xrtt on AOKP ROM

Hello. I was going to post this in the proper AOKP thread, but that's locked now, so I'll try here:

Is it possible to force 1xrtt data on the AOKP rom? One of my favorite vacation spots is out in the boondocks where I have to force roaming and 1x to actually have data at all (even then it's at dial up speeds, but you take what you get out there). In the past on Samsung based roms, I was able to use dialer codes to get to a menu where you could force one or the other, but that code doesn't do anything now. Is there any chance of having access to that menu or one like it here on the AOKP rom?

thanks.

b
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flastnoles11:
Try *#*#the number#*... if that don't work use the same but switch up the *and# in both

Sent from my ANTHRAX sniffing GS3
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nike0518:
thanks man very helpful

thanks man for the link... really appreciate the help
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DynamicN:
No problem, all I did was Google search lol.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bill720:
q

While we're at it, I have another question from the thread that was locked up;

In the stock messenger in Jellybean on the AOKP rom, pressing enter on the keyboard sends the message instead of going to the next line like it did in the previous version. I discovered that hitting "Fn+Enter" will allow me to insert a new line, but I'd rather that it didn't have to do that. Can this behavior be changed for this application?

Interesting. I wasn't quite sure at first what you meant at first by "the number", but it turns out if I type my MSL in there, it does pop up a new window called "TerminalMode", but I can't really do anything from within here. Is there more to it?

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[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flastnoles11:
The number meant the dial code you're trying to access... so instead of ##data# you out #*#*data*# and the same for all the other dial codes... so "the number" refers to the dial code your trying to access

Sent from my ANTHRAX sniffing GS3
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bill720:
q

Oh, I see now. That actually gets the menus up and working, but anytime it prompts for the MSL, a box pops up saying "modem error", and then it says, "Modem exception occurs". At this point, I can either go back to the MSL prompt with the back button, or click "yes", and it'll just exit (see the attached compressed screenshot). For what it's worth, I get that error no matter what I type into the MSL box.

I read some threads on this elsewhere, but the question was never really answered as far as I could tell. Is there anything I might be doing wrong or any way around this?

b
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nike0518:
damn didn't work for some reason
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anthonygpace:
SPH D700 stuck at boot logo, I have Cyanogenmod 10 installed on here. I tried unbricking it with oneclick unbrick and it didn't do anything. Can anyone direct me toward the proper files I need to get this bad boy running again. I can still get into CWM and download mode etc..

The stock rom was the FC09 rom.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vwags:
Here you go.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brandnu:
doesnt matter if you sound "blunt" or "insensitive" im a big a boy,lol and yes you are wrong, i do have an official samsung branded battery and i know what i am doing when flashing a bml rom or an mtd one, and if i forget like i menioned qbking youtube vids are there to help. did i mention that i was running legacy rom 1.05 ?? which is mtd, havent seen a bml version soo...i do not see how my issues can be user related, you might like the way your battery drains out in 4hrs or reboots to 15% after it being on 78% i do not....or you culd be one of those people i spoke about lmao... either way your post did not provide any progress what so ever but thanks for trying...

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hey i do realize the battery life slowly creeps up but not back to what i was when i first turn on the device, and yes this was a brand new epic 4g battery from sprint. as far as my dialer i know im losing memory but not sure to what i dont have any extra processes running in the back ground from apps that i installed, i dont even have a clock widget on my homescreens, i thought it was my launcher eating my memory(NEXT LAUNCHER 1.28.1) but i uninstalled that to check if my issues would cease but they continue...ill look again an check what other processes might be eating memory...but these things did not happen immediatly after installing a rom, it took a few days or weeks to start acting up...im open to suggestions, what can i tweak? i thought about going back to rooted stock but i cant stand not having a side scrolling notifications bar. thanks for your response

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i guess try to re flash but if you used one click unbrick and that failed then i would try odin...never fails...try this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQ6Rn0FBSk
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chzeckmate:
My mistake...used devices usually come with used batteries so I just assumed it was not a new battery

The point I was making is that is you've been switching from ROM to ROM some of which are BML and some of which are MTD so your issues could be well related to this. Have you calibrated your battery? You mention the QBKING77 videos but have you seen the one on calibrating your battery? If not then here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbYVv4nCveM ...Also I should point out that QBKING77 is a well respected pro in this arena but I'll also point out that I've watched Kobe play a lot of basketball but it doesn't make me a pro.

I'm not experiencing these issues and I've sampled many ROMs across four different Epics just like you. I will say that I have experienced some issues and taking the approach of starting from stock root enabled me to systematically and logically find and solve the problems. I should also mention that the Epics I have are still going strong and I've had them since August of 2010.

My suggestion was to get a new

Epic 4g touch

battery. OG Epics have 1500 mAh but the Epic Touch batteries have 1800mAh...big difference there. I use the 1800 mAh batteries in two of my Epics and the difference is noticeable.

I made this suggestion and you have thought about it...it's logical to go back and at least start there. why ignore the obvious logical first step?

I think it's pretty obvious...you've done everything QBKING77 has done (apparently) and he doesn't have this problem. I and many others have switched ROMs and made numerous mods on our devices and we do not have these issues. You on the other hand have had these issues repeat across four different devices. Consider the possibility that you might have repeated an error...most likely a minor one that is easily overlooked. Start fresh from stock rooted and go from there. Don't be offended when I say that this is user error. It's far more likely that one human could repeatedly overlook some step in a process than to think that four different devices are "out to get you"

Just consider this... were your devices having these issues before you started modding them? So now you can see my point...just because you may not yet see how this could be user related it's pretty clear that it is a very real possibility.