yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Epic 4G Android Development] sweepingzero:
Do we have some sort of defrag prgram or somthing that can test and check sectors? I myself am willing to take the risk because imo Ill break my phone some other way long before ext4 does any damage hehe

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[Epic 4G Android Development] swp22:
gracias on that feedback.... i just read that entire post on noobln ext 4 danger and him and dameon are going back and forth on it bad. It seems like if it does do damage it will be years down the road when i will already own about 6 new phones lol so i think we should be ok running ext4
[Epic 4G Android Development] MeetFace:
Sweet, I figured as much. Thanks!
[Epic 4G Android Development] robertkyle62283:
I'm having the same gps issue as well.
[Epic 4G Android Development] MeetFace:
Yeah, with another developer I think we might have had to worry about an "oh $***" moment. But we're in good hands with the Viper crew.
[Epic 4G Android Development] swp22:
Only thing that makes me sit here and talk to the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other about switching to 4.2 from 4.1 is the post of people saying they did the steps and this doesnt work and and that isnt working and this is failing, then you have people saying they followed the steps and there phone works great and have no issues at all. LOL its taking a toll on my brain in trying to make a decision to flash it. Would it be wise to wait until bt has a chance to look into everyones posts stating problems there having or go all in and just suck it up and stop crying and do it and pray for the best?
[Epic 4G Android Development] sweepingzero:
I think peopl having problems are either messing up steps or coming from a different rom or setup that's conflicting. I myself accidently rebooted recovery when I wasn't supposed to and pissed my phone off. Oops haha but it was worth it

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[Epic 4G Android Development] crodgers79:
Need e-mail as well

I second that! I tried extracting the email.apk from 4.01 and installing it using Astro and it failed to install (probably a permissions problem?). Anyway, I too use the E-mail.apk for my work e-mail so if you'd push this one up a little higher in the priority queue it would be much appreciated!!

Thanks!

Chris R.
[Epic 4G Android Development] yogi2010:
what i did was read the directions very carefully, before doing anything... until i wrapped my mind around what was involved. and it turns out... not much is really involved. i mean, not much more than we are used to. the only thing different than choosing and flashing zips from your sd card is rebooting recovery after the first flash. the only other thing different is when you download the initial 4.0.2 file, extract it first, and then put the four files on the root of your sdcard.

hope that helps :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] jbadboy2007:
I restored data on quantum rom 2.7 ext 4 no issues at all. also with quantum you are not able to flash any .zips after cwm3 but viper is not using cwm3 with edify so im not sure what the deal is for you all. also there are no fc's or gps problems on quantum and installing it was flawless and took 2 min
[Epic 4G Android Development] cballin22:
i tried to do this again with stock everything upgraded to dk28 with pit and modem then one click root followed by clockwork flashing step one i went to advance n reset n it went back to the factory recover mode not clockwork its just not working for me no matter how many times i try it
[Epic 4G Android Development] blademonkey:
I have gotten the 4.0.2 ROM to load successfully. I attempted to install the A2SD app from the Viperstore (downloaded to my SD Card) through the CWM 2.5.1.0 and it initially gave me a line 3 error. I cleared the app and Dalvik caches and rebooted and that seems to have helped (for whatever reason).

I think something that may be of great use for people is an MD5 sum of each file, as the zips don't always download correct, or you can actually accidentally modify them by double clicking on them.

These are the MD5Sums i get for ROM 4.0.2

MainInstall.zip e51432b829f3df7a73ed1d948c3f1eb9

Flash First.zip 08ba1538e8f50d38f5adbd0d93d48112​

Flash Second.zip fbd7d8646f00384facf63a87c1273b81​

VIPERrom [Apocalypse] EXT4 DK28 4.0.2 dcb9042acfe05f504abed0c48ae10618​

Flash Last.zip 573981d68cee7554f292b358c8916f4d​

hope that helps.

Also, I am a little confused about what the status of the SD card should be after the 4.0.2 install. Should i expect to have:

1) a EXT4 formatted SD Card?

2) a Wiped SD Card?

3) Both 1) and 2)?

4) none of the above?

FYI, my SD card was neither formatted to ext4 nor wiped clean. not sure what i should be expecting.

Great mod, thanks for all of your work, VIPER Team.
[Epic 4G Android Development] JohnCorleone:
yogi, you are dead on the mark. Viperrom 3.0.3 was the first customization I had done ever. I printed the instructions and read them thoroughly. BT is so thorough in his instructions! It may seem overwhelming when you first look at the instructions but if you take your time, you will be good.
[Epic 4G Android Development] hayabusa1300cc:
I am reading this last page about the ext4. Honestly if it takes years, even 2, to wear down the phone I dont mind. You have a better chance getting a replacement before that happens as result of theft/loss, broken screen etc.

i get a new phone every year, the latest and greatest.

i think that may be the same for the majority here. I mean the ones that do all this flashing are geeky enough to be on top of the game and upgrading when a better phone comes out.

so I say bring on ext6 lol
[Epic 4G Android Development] JohnCorleone:
Also for those who aren't going back and reading through the posts, BT said 99 percent of the time you WON'T lose what is on your SD card. He is just looking out for the 1 percent who may lose what they had.
[Epic 4G Android Development] yogi2010:
exactly John! BT did a great job making it understandable for us.
[Epic 4G Android Development] devo52:
so if i already have a rom with ext4 do i still need to follow all the steps or just flash
[Epic 4G Android Development] MeetFace:
If you read back, I think you will find that there hasn't been success doing this. Plz do your HW, so we don't have to rehash X]
[Epic 4G Android Development] devo52:
my apologies I just got exctied over the vipor rom having ext4 thanks for the direction
[Epic 4G Android Development] MeetFace:
np, just trying to minimize all the fluff here, as you can see, a bagillion posts in this thread, it's even hard to find an answer to your question that you know has already been answered, let alone one you can't remember seeing an answer to.
[Epic 4G Android Development] blademonkey:
I was actually trying to figure out how I could put this info on a wiki. if anyone knows how to get a wiki page from XDA started, i will gladly add some info in there.

That way there's like rehash-ness....or something like that.
[Epic 4G Android Development] napoleon321:
Would anyone like a youtube video on viper rom 4.0.2a?

sent from my fallen epic
[Epic 4G Android Development] konaman:
FINALLY I have time to flash this. I'm backing up my SD card now.

And my 2 cents on the EXT4 dilemma is, who cares I'll have another phone long before this phone shuts down on me or I'll just buy another one. At the rate new phones come out and how much I hop around from them I'll forget all about this thing while I'm modding my next one.
[Epic 4G Android Development] konaman:
I think that will be a good idea for the folks who can't make up their mind on if they want to run EXT4 or not.
[Epic 4G Android Development] MeetFace:
A wiki would be sweet. I think there are two problems with this thread being a goto point:

One, the useful information and posts are scattered about hundreds of posts.

Two, although BT's instructions are good, a lot of the guidance only applies to certain versions of viper mod, mainly previous versions.

My suggestion is to try and have a general FAQ, but also have a separate page for each version, or each major update, while still posting the generic setup steps on each page to make it easy to follow.

Of course Viper team may want to police the content.
[Epic 4G Android Development] USMC_LOPEZ:
I was actualy looking for the video..please load
[Epic 4G Android Development] konaman:
Will all available themes work with 4.0.2? Sorry if it's been asked but I tried to find it and couldn't
[Epic 4G Android Development] blademonkey:
I would actually want the Viper team to police the content (when they have time).

I think i would illustrate some precursory notes by making a "risks/disclaimer" section.

Then i would pretty much just cut and paste most of the information that is on this thread, minus the chatter.

that way, we can refer to sections in the wiki from the forum without having to bloat the forum very much.

i'm still quite new to the modding scene, as such i think there are some terms that i'm not 100% familiar with, and a wiki would help.

Again, if anyone can point in the right direction that would be great.

Thanks in advance.

PS: i think ALL Roms should have their own wiki, perhaps this will set a good example. there alot of overlap in knowledge between the ROMs.
[Epic 4G Android Development] MeetFace:
Couldn't agree with you more.

And if someone was going through the trouble of copy/pasting posts, they might as well include the absolute reference to the posts, or at least the post #'s. I think it's important to keep open dialogue on everything, and that would get people back into this thread to see the context of the answer they are looking at.

At the same time, it would give us something to redirect people to, when they are asking questions that have been answered 4/5 times. After a while, people browsing the threads will see a bunch of responses like "Look "here" in the Wiki for your answer" and will check there first before impulsively asking here.

If that happened, we'd have a thread that progressed from one question/issue, to the next, at least in theory. While having a wiki that organized all that in way that is easy to glean information from.
[Epic 4G Android Development] darren.wlsn1:
if it helps anybody i came off another ext4 rom and i just used "reboot recovery" app to get to clockwork with "2" and wiped and flashed vipers rom. been running it all day with no issues/fc's.
[Epic 4G Android Development] A4b_mercenary:
Mine works great
[Epic 4G Android Development] MeetFace:
If you have any reservations about EXT4 or about why Samsung didn't implement it, I recommed reading some of the latest posts in the EXT4 "Danger" threads 95-98 here.
[Epic 4G Android Development] blademonkey:
Cool, i'll have to do some more research on it later on tonight. I have to take the GF to Disneyland right now.

i'd like to start a wiki off of the XDA site, if that's even possible. but if I can't figure that out, i'll probably start one offsite (and port the content to XDA once i figure it out).

i like your idea of referencing post numbers, that's a good point. there's definitely a need to do forks on sub topics, personally i am looking for more info on the GPS functionality. so compartmentalizing the sub topics into an organized wiki should help (in theory).

hopefully the implementation will hold up to expectations (no guarantees though). I'm hoping that once i get it started it will be more of a community effort (ie. wiki) than a solo mission.

will check back in tonight.
[Epic 4G Android Development] blademonkey:
Thanks, i'll have to try your procedure tonight when i get back. i'll report back.
[Epic 4G Android Development] MeetFace:
@A4b Is he referring to a specific procedure you laid out to fix the GPS? Or the suggestions you gave in actually flashing the ROM. I looked back and couldn't find anything specific.

[ GIVE ME SOME WIKII!! ;) ]
[Epic 4G Android Development] RayTrue04:
I'm new to rooting and stuff. But I've been using VIPERrom heaven for like 2-3 days now and it's the best thing ever! But I have a question thats bothering me. My epic has a glitch with the notification volume being low even at max. (Had two epics and same issue).. Anyways VIPERrom heaven and Hell seem to fixed the issue which I was happy about but now that I'm trying out Apocalypse I see the low volume is back. Is there any idea as to why this problem exist on the epic? Also the battery meter is way off and barely drops down. My batt is halfway thru and it's still showing 80%. It took about 30 mins to go from 100% to 80% and just froze at 80 lol..
[Epic 4G Android Development] konaman:
Ok well I'm up and running 4.0.2a and here are my issues.

Gingerbread keyboard fc (previously reported)

Back button fc in contacts

Battery meter stayed at 100 till it was actually 80

And I can't flash anything in clockwork as it went back to the old version
[Epic 4G Android Development] yogi2010:
this may have been answered before, but I'm wondering if we just have flash that first zip again from the 4.0.2. install and reboot into the new recovery, each time we want to flash something extra to 4.0.2?
[Epic 4G Android Development] MeetFace:
Bring the WIKI! =]

As for the battery, get BattStatt or something similar to track your battery for now. The built-in battery meter is borked, has been said here in the thread that it only reports in increments of 20%. Appears to me that this is true and that it rounds up, even if it's 1% over 60%, it will read 80%.

As for flashing in Clockwork, remember that you had to modify Clockwork to get into Apocalypse in "Step 1". Every time you want to flash things in Clockwork (at least zips & whatnot), you'll need to repeat Step 1 ONLY.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RayTrue04:
The batt is no issue I always used batterylife anyways. How about that volume glitch? Any explanation for that one lol.. I'm going back to Heaven just because of that. Well also bcuz I'm missing my email and talk app and I can't seem to know how to get them back..
[Epic 4G Android Development] konaman:
Well f! I thought I was supposed to be in that damn gingerbread clockwork that's posted on here so I flashed that. Now I can't get off of it. Is there anyway for me to flash back to the old one without odin back to stock and all that stuff?
[Epic 4G Android Development] MeetFace:
I'll have to defer to someone else...I'm only 4 days old with Android X^D
[Epic 4G Android Development] ickwonder:
I was on 3.0.3 then tried 4.0.2a I couldn't get past the first flash it never was successful. So now im on 4.0.1 hell. Whenever I press the power button the phone restarts. This is very annoying since I always press it. Can anyone help with this. Thanks in advance...
[Epic 4G Android Development] konaman:
I think I'm going back to hell. This ext4 stuff doesn't seem any faster.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Peabodyfunkwyler:
NEED HELP Stuck in recovery

If you have a solution for this please let me know or found one
[Epic 4G Android Development] ickwonder:
Yeah, I odin back to stock dk28. Then Re-rooted. Sorry not much detail im at work...
[Epic 4G Android Development] MeetFace:
Just want to know of a safe way to re-root once I've flashed Apocalypse. Somehow my "root" has disappeared after flashing.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Peabodyfunkwyler:
how did you get it to root.. i cant even boot into os
[Epic 4G Android Development] Peabodyfunkwyler:
1 las question

How were you able to re-root i cannot even get into the OS I have reloaded the .bin ect... Thanks a million
[Epic 4G Android Development] ickwonder:
This was the thread that helped me I believe. It down somewhere in development.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Itbelikedat:
No email app besides gmail?
[Epic 4G Android Development] BThomas22x:
Here's the email app for those who wanted it...

http://db.tt/UHrmzhI
[Epic 4G Android Development] chris378:
Is there a .zip file that can be flashed to beable to get the stock email instead of the galaxy tab email for the 4.0.2a?

Thanks in advance Awesome ROM by the way love you work Viper Team
[Epic 4G Android Development] Spdstr:
If I already have ext4 installed can I just flash viperrom v4.0.2a? Thanks in advance.
[Epic 4G Android Development] chris378:
I dont see why not but BT has a Quick and easy setup for the EXT4..I would say your best bet is to start from scratch with his setup
[Epic 4G Android Development] darren.wlsn1:
yes your fine, i did with no issues/fc's.
[Epic 4G Android Development] wizzlewizzle:
Brick

I tried to flashed the latest version of ViperRom Apocalypse and i followed the 1,2,3,4 steps but at step 3 it got an error and now i can't flash any roms nor can I restore anything, because everything gets and error. If you have any idea what i can do to fix this, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
[Epic 4G Android Development] darren.wlsn1:
just odin dk28 using this link with tar and odin to use.

http://briefmobile.com/how-to-update-sprint-epic-4g-to-android-2-2
[Epic 4G Android Development] asapelectric:
This is indeed correct! I did this halfway, because I already had clockwork 2.5.1.2. But, I found that I did NOT after, flashing just 2,3, and 4, which made sense to me. Everything was good, except no cw 2.5.1.2. I had to odin back, for the first time ever. It's ok, needed to anyway.:rolleyes:
[Epic 4G Android Development] chris378:
Your going to have to odin flash it back to DI18 let it activate and everything.. then odin flash it to DK28.. once you have done all of that root your phone then follow the 1234 steps. You can get everything you need from the Wiki area for samsung epic
[Epic 4G Android Development] asapelectric:
I odined dk28 tar and seems fine, so far. Why DI 18?
[Epic 4G Android Development] darren.wlsn1:
no need to odin back to di18, link i posted has dk28 tar which has modem ect. included and that will get him going, i have done this method on 2 of my epics with no issues and one was in exact same delema he is in.
[Epic 4G Android Development] elevenpoint7five:
There are a lot of people either not following directions or there is some serious download issues happening. Perhaps something along the lines of "if you have issues you need to Odin something else and try again" should be put in the first post?

There should be no need to go back to DI18 that I can see. For anyone that has issues rooting after flashing a stock ROM, you might try to Odin this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=853209

It's what I have to do every time as the 1 click root has NEVER worked for me.

Andy
[Epic 4G Android Development] shortyboy:
flash back to DI18 for GPS fix.If your GPS is fine with Dk28,no need to go back to DI18.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Truballa11:
Zip 3

So everytime I odin with dk28 I get to stock froyo sprint. Then I go through the zip files in order. I get to 3 and it says E:Failure at line 12. Copy_Dir Package"system System Installation aborted. Anybody no a fix for that. I know my next step is to odin back to stock. But even when I try to one click to 2.5 clockwork its blocking everything. And it keeps me on 2.5.1.0. Someone help me out.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Rodderik:
any problems can be solved by using odin to go back to stock dk28 using the method quoted a couple of pages ago... here is the link again http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=861253

return to stock with odin, reroot, follow the instructions that come with VIPERrom and the 4 files. I have had to do this 2-3 times so I know it works

For any1 who wants to maintain a wiki page TeamViper will help with the content.
[Epic 4G Android Development] thedarkness81:
I get the same thing even after I went back to stock and tried again
[Epic 4G Android Development] Rodderik:
you guys have to make sure after you flash the first zip that you goto Advanced>Reboot Recovery before continuing
[Epic 4G Android Development] Truballa11:
Thanks Rodderik. I hope than works. Do we reboot recovery after every flash in the steps
[Epic 4G Android Development] conf1de:
I got to the part where you install the first zip then go to advance and reboot recovery, but it doesn't reboot to the modded clockwork. it goes the to the android recovery. any ideas?
[Epic 4G Android Development] cerebralzulu:
Rodderick, I went through all of the steps and the ROM is running great. My only issue if I can say only is that I have lost root. Will I need to go visit Odin or is there a work-around that you are aware of?
[Epic 4G Android Development] A4b_mercenary:
Just what I had said in the post but you might ant to try t get the sprint nav.apk and run it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Truballa11:
It works thanks
[Epic 4G Android Development] conf1de:
I'm having trouble getting into the modded clockwork after the first .zip file. It goes straight to the android recovery(not green). Any ideas?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Rodderik:
it sounds like the first zip is erroring out and not flashing the modified clockwork...you might have to odin back to stock and do that whole dance
[Epic 4G Android Development] Rodderik:
are you certain you do not have root? you could always try to reroot
[Epic 4G Android Development] 1midniterider:
This may have been asked and answered but, can a nandroid backup be used to recover after installing 4.0.2?
[Epic 4G Android Development] JohnCorleone:
Been running Apocalypse since last night and loving it. I didnt think it could get any better until I read about the Spare Parts adjustments! :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Rodderik:
a nandroid restore is meant to restore the phone to the state it was before you flashed something new
[Epic 4G Android Development] sweepingzero:
what spare parts adjustments?
[Epic 4G Android Development] JohnCorleone:
Ok all, if you have this running, go in Spare Parts and change Window Animation and Transition Animation from normal to fast and youll see! ( I got this from a post Mammom88 wrote) It really flies when you open something!
[Epic 4G Android Development] 1midniterider:
Exactly... Maybe I should have phrased the question differently. If for whatever reason I decided to revert back to the previous os (i.e. 4.0.1) will it work since the underlying filesystems are different? Are the nandroid backup file/directory based or more like a diskdump (dd)?
[Epic 4G Android Development] conf1de:
odin3 epic rar file is down.. i found another odin3 but im not sure if it's universal
[Epic 4G Android Development] MeetFace:
You talking about this post?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10310335&postcount=2323

Installing Sprint Nav didn't help =\

...wonder if it's related to me losing root.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jpcahn:
Thanks for putting up the email app for us exchange users. One thing that has been a problem for all the Froyo roms so far is that opening an email works fine but if you try to reply or reply all it FCs. I assume this is a hard problem to track down but I figured I would let you know. I appreciate the work and will be sending in a donation tomorrow night after work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Topgamer:
quick ?

does the 4.02a have the ungovener built in and installed already like before? and the battery mod is also build in and done after flashing automatically right?
[Epic 4G Android Development] MeetFace:
I'm having a similar problem, all of my root-dependent apps no longer have permissions.

How would you re-root without ruining your 4.0.2 flash?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Rodderik:
we will have 4.0.2b out shortly that is just an update to 4.0.2a which will include a battery mod and many other changes....i will package up a full rom for 4.0.2b but i will also include an update.zip to go from 4.0.2a to 4.0.2b
[Epic 4G Android Development] NeeceeBabe:
Yay cause this battery thing is driving me nuts! LoLoL...
[Epic 4G Android Development] conf1de:
alright this is really frustrating. i odin with PIT and MODEM files. wiped the phone 3x, wiped cached 2x, wiped dalvik 1x, installed first zip, went to advance and reboot to recovery......THEN it reboots NOT into modded clockwork...
[Epic 4G Android Development] thedarkness81:
I did that as well