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[Epic 4G Android Development] Randy_T:
Thanks for the donation!

Testing has been confined to about 12 people for now and frankly is not for the faint of heart. Often the release we drop ends up being a complete dud and causes a fair amount of headaches for the testers. Luckily they did not get their hands on the one I tested last night... :eek:

Since we are releasing about every month, I consider everyone to be testers to some level. For now, we will keep the test group on the smaller side. IF we decide to start stretching out the releases a bit, then we will likely have a general "beta" version that is available to everyone that wants it. Still trying to figure out best approach here in order to stay agile.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mrhocuspocus:
you know it doesnt really matter what msg app comes with the rom, you can just take whatever one you like out of a previous bonsairom.zip and replace the mms.apk in the system folder, then fix permissions and reboot.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Mjacobsen:
So, I have a question for the testers, particularly those who have posted 3.0 scores...

A while back Randy mentioned packing the OC into the kernel and setting the range by default.

Are your scores 1Ghz (SC) or OC?

Either way they are phenomenal! But 2.0.1 scores were much higher than stock DK28, so it wouldn't surprise me if you are running SC. (which would only serve to make me giddy about the possibilities of OC!)
[Epic 4G Android Development] asdfghjkl:
Sorry to hear about the brick..il try to donate when the money comes in.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
In my experience so far, the SC scores on 3.0.0 are comparable to the scores on bonsai 2.0.1. It's the OC scores that are obscenely high.

Of course the same Disclaimer Top Nurse used above applies to my comments as well.
[Epic 4G Android Development] musclehead84:
The scores I posted were using.on 1.2 ghz but.I also have like 40 apps installed as well. I'm sure.they would be higher if I didn't have all my apps that I do. Metallica is right.the SC scores are very similiar to 2.0.1. While.I was stock on eb13 on SC my benchmark scores were slightly lower than stock dk28. I don't know if Samsung made any.changes to the stock kernel that made it slightly slower it not. Its not noticiable though.

Sent from my Evo Killer!!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] kenny782:
ahh didn't no that, thanks for the tip :-)

Kenny
[Epic 4G Android Development] MasterQu:
Originally Posted by Top Nurse

DISCLAIMER: The following test runs are in no way indicative of what you might get if running the upcoming version of Bonzai (the release version may run faster or slower). I ran these tests with my phone loaded up with all the stuff I normally have on it, while our illustrious Grand Pooh Bah Performance Tester runs with the phone stripped which is why I suppose he gets higher scores than me.

Are you calling me the grand poohbah? rofl.

Anyway to answer the testing score questions. Once Bonsai started rolling over user data there was no way for me to use a stripped version. Currently I have over 160 apps on my phone. (Yes it sux when i have to do a Titanium backup).I do use swap and most of my apps are on the SD card. My home system is ADW EX and that always sits in active memory. The reason I get the good scores is because I rerun the same test multiple times.

Have you noticed the Epic cycles it power? The first score in my benches is usually lower than the rest and pending on the length of test sometimes the 3rd or 4th test will be lower too. The other thing when testing is to make sure nothing is running in the background. If your phone syncs, you recieve a call, a sms or anything during the test it will give you lower scores. I try to benchmark late night when no ones going to bug me and i turn off my auto syncs.

I've done this since day one and except for adding new tests as apps are created I always test the exact same way. The key to benchmarking isn't whether a score is lower or higher, its how much change occured between builds and its imperative to make sure the test remains standardized.
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
Damn i hope all those 160 apps include the system apps!!! :eek:.

I have a lot too dont get me wrong but a lot of them are games, so many awesome games on android. ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] musclehead84:
Wow that is alot.if apps. Speaking.of games I'm addicted to mobsters. I love that game. So we now.have a.nickname.for.masterqu!! Lol

Sent from my Evo Killer!!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
my phone appears to have bricked as well, was acting strange all day rebooting when it turned off, then i reflashed and it seemed normal but wouldn't sleep well. then it started going between 100 and 76 battery life just bouncing up and down randomly, then i powered it off and now its dead. no power, no charging when i plug it in with two different cords.
[Epic 4G Android Development] musclehead84:
i highly doubt that its bricked. im sure you can get into download or recovery. if you werent flasing anything than im sure you can odin or resore a recovery. remember if you brick a phone its nothing more than a paperweight.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Top Nurse:
Bummer! Need some help here. What OS and what rom? If you were running eb13, how did you apply it?

One good thing about bricked phones is that it shows they can be broken. Seems lately I have been hearing that epic's are unbreakable. Nothing is unbreakable...

Sent from Bonsai 5.0.3
[Epic 4G Android Development] nubecoder:
This sounds like it might be something battery related, do you have another battery to try?

Does the "phone-off charging animation" show up on the screen every few seconds when you plug in?

That is what happens to me when I plug my phone in w/o a battery in it.

If you truly get nothing, then it must have been some kind of hardware failure (IMO). =[

Anything is easy to break, if you know what you are doing.

=]
[Epic 4G Android Development] SwimDrewid:
Some clarifications/ques that a lot of us tech-savvy non-chefs may not know:

To odin up to eb13 out back down to di18, will I lose root? Will it take me back to stock? if so, would I need to reapply bonsai 2 prior to flashing 3?

thx for all your hard work guys!

sent from my fully armed and operational space phone
[Epic 4G Android Development] Top Nurse:
They were both OC with setCPU at 1.2 Ghz. I also cleared my caches and killed everything with Memory Booster. I would say the average scores were about 2430 in Quadrant.
[Epic 4G Android Development] flyers2114:
I am with you on this...sounds more like a battery issue......
[Epic 4G Android Development] skandranon314:
I just got my hands on the beta. Coming from DK28 running Bonsai 2.0.1 I was able to upgrade to Bonsai 3.0 with EB13 with no data loss.

The only thing special you need to do if you are coming from Bonsai 2.0.1 with the DK28 modem, is use odin to flash the EB13 modem tar. After that you will be ready to flash the new Bonsai from CWM and be all set.
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
okay, so i got the phone back on again, wouldn't work when i pulled the battery, i had to get the battery out of my wifes epic to get it to start, her phone started no problem with my battery and its working fine, i'm now using her battery.

phone won't charge correctly, sometimes it will charge if i reboot, won't charge at all if phone is off, i have to pull the battery to start it.

now its not even charging after reboot. when it did charge,it just jumped to 100% pretty quickly and just stuck there and wouldn't move, wouldn't charge. i flashed 1.14 and then 2.01 and still like this.

should i try to odin it? as it is, i guess i'm not using it tomorrow as it won't charge. when i turn it off now, it just reboots. now i can't get it to charge at all,kinda freaking out here.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
If you can get into download mode, I would either odin or use the Samsung updater to get to stock eb13.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Top Nurse:
I would odin. And if your going to that trouble I would just go to eb13.

Sent from Bonsai 6.0.3
[Epic 4G Android Development] skandranon314:
I got a weird bug wondering if anyone else has it.

Happening on v3.0 and was happening on 2.0.1.

Using spare parts, if I set the wifi sleep policy to and exit the app, the transition animations are changed to very slow and the wifi sleep policy changes back to android default.

Anyone else have this issue?
[Epic 4G Android Development] huytrang90:
Had this problem on 2.0.1, but did not think it is the rom
[Epic 4G Android Development] skandranon314:
You may be right. I am not sure. Any ideas on what it may be?
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
i noticed this as well,so ijust went into setting/wifi settings/advanced/wifi sleep policy and it fixed it, i think it might be a spare parts issue..
[Epic 4G Android Development] musclehead84:
Why use spare parts? Just go into settings and do it there.

Sent from my Evo Killer!!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] skandranon314:
Cause I'm lazy :p

Also I dont think there is a setting to turn up the transition and window animations to fast in the settings.
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
yea i'm probably gonna try this if i can get it into download mode, something tells me its hardware related though

EDIT: so much for that, turned phone off to try to get into download mode and now its completely dead again, pulled battery multiple times, tried other battery that got it working last time and nothing, guess i'm going to sprint later and see if they can do anything.
[Epic 4G Android Development] SwimDrewid:
Hmmn. Odin 3.0 didnt complete -- i think it was looking for a pit file... won't that wipe and unroot the phone...? Thx

<ID:0/006> Added!!

<ID:0/006> Odin v.3 engine (ID:6)..

<ID:0/006> File analysis..

<ID:0/006> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/006> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/006> modem.bin

Using EB13_modem.tar (from bonsai wiki) in pda and nothing in pit
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Yes, you need the PIT file to flash modems or kernels.

If the modem you are flashing is a bin file, it goes in Phone. If it's a tar file, it goes in PDA.
[Epic 4G Android Development] SwimDrewid:
Well, Duh. Of course, that worked. Winner. (Been chanelling Sheen for the past few days. It'll pass)
[Epic 4G Android Development] cballin22:
i got a beta last night coming from eb13 rooted with ext4 with latest recovery flashed it right on top no issues what so ever everything working nice and smooth benchmark test on top end for me was about 2430 range
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
That's about what I've been seeing in Quadrant on the top end.
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
does anyone know how I can get this back to a stock configuration without odin? seems like the phone has hardware problems. something with the charging circuit. when it does charge, if you unplug it, it just stays flashing like its charging. reboot works but poweroff is permanent, need to pull the battery, push it in at an angle to get it to start. it will go into download mode but won't actually do anything. usb debugging will turn on and off while its charging which it shouldn't be doing, its like its not seeing the link or something or a pin is messed up.

So is there a update file that will get me back to stock as all I can use is the clockwork recovery.
[Epic 4G Android Development] JettMartinez:
Same here, I haven't hit a single problem yet. Great work as usual!

For giggles, I also flashed the v1.1.4 Bonsai theme on top. Seems to be no ill effects. It did give me a little scare sitting at a black screen with the hard buttons lit for a minute or more on first boot but smooth as could be after that.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Is it possible the usb port on the phone is damaged? Or maybe the battery terminals?
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
that is my best guess, so I need to get it back to stock before I go into sprint and play dumb. I don't really understand, I didn't drop the phone, be rough with the phone, I just charge it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Some of the cheap after-market car chargers have been known to cause issues like this.
[Epic 4G Android Development] JettMartinez:
Sounds like what happened with my first epic. Just swapping the batteries a few times and one of the little copper terminals got bent pretty far out of position.

They replaced it no problem, though it did take a few days to get it in.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
There is currently no known way to get back to complete stock without the use of odin or the Samsung updater. Anything you flash through clockwork will still leave CWM on the device.
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
Disagree, you can flash the back to rfs zip and then you can flash the remove clockwork zip, although it sometimes doesnt work if your on froyo.. Ive done it..

However odin is the best way and easy as hell... as long as you follow instructions and not dumb...
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
I saw that thread. It looked like it had a high fail rate.
[Epic 4G Android Development] SwimDrewid:
Strange. Live wallpapers ain't working? (wonder if it's latest emotionless beast?)
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Also, how do you get the di18 or eb13 modem back without odin.
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
so am I just screwed, just take it into sprint like this? odin is definatley a no go, something is definately screwed up with the usb port. is there a wireless way to connect to odin? I believe there was some way to connect to adb wirelessly.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
I believe the Live Wallpaper picker was removed as bloat. You can add it back in if you need it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
2-shay, forgot about the modem... ya but besides the modem, its possible to flash stuff...
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Did you try the Samsung update tool? If your having a driver issue, it's known to fix it sometimes.
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
Not driver issue, if I plug it in and then unplug it, it thinks its still charging till I reboot
[Epic 4G Android Development] Randy_T:
Correct. We have removed the picker tool.

Live Wallpapers as I understand it are a general battery drain. How do people feel about not having the picker on the base rom? Extra hoop to jump through to install Live Wallpaper?
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Is there anything jammed in the usb port on the phone? You try wiggling the plug on the usb cable to see if you can get it working at least momentarily?
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
Blowing, wiggling, etc
[Epic 4G Android Development] SwimDrewid:
I like lwp, regardless of battery drain. That said, i'm adept at installing/flashing apps (so long as the bloatware is easily accessible (wiki, etc)
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
Take it out!!! Live wallpapers were cool when i first got the phone back in august, now they just hog battery, the less bloat the better, just have a flashable or add ons for people who want it..
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Your situation sucks. If you had a full-on brick you could take it back for an insurance swap. You should ask Randy for whatever he flashed that killed his, LOL. ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
lol he could try flashing a rom/modem/kernal for another phone lol!!

And i think randy said he was messing with partitions, so he could do that if he got help from randy lol!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
I agree. They're nice for showing off but not very practical. Even on the Epic, which is arguably the fastest single core phone on the market, LWP's tend to make it lag a little.
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
I thought they didn't lag at all!! On d118 at least, i haven't used one for a long time tho.. I really like the aquarium one tho pretty cool, you can feed the fish and die if you don't, pretty cool to show off, but got bored after the first month i had my phone and they were eating battery, however i didn't notice much slow down at all..
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
well no insurance on the phone, never needed it on a phone, from looking around, seems other galaxy s phones have the same problem. i don't drop my phones, I don't lose them, I don't expect a usb port that is used freaking 3 times daily to break. i'm a little frustrated right now.

but I'd at least like to play dumb and not show up with a modded phone so they can blame the hardware failure on that. you know like when you go to the car dealer and they blame the malfunctioning speakers in the car on the aftermarket exhaust that you put on the car.

So I'm all for it if randy wants to help me brick this thing.
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
Let me know how that turns out, you should do some crazy stuff to it like flash htc roms on it lol it probaly wont work, but would be funny to see what would happen.. good luck and hopefully you will have a new one soon. ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
The LWP's don't lag, but they make the UI and app drawer lag, at least in my experience. Maybe I'm just picky.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Yeah I have 5 lines with TEP on all of them. I've had to use it a couple times a year between my wife and kids.
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Solar Winds is great and never lags for me :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] dnathan13:
Bricking is easy. Go into odin and make sure you check repartition, but dont flash anything new. Basically you will wipe everything off your phone and then not put anything on. It will be a true brick with no recovery, no download mode, no filesystem. Totally bricked. Just claim you did it when using the samsung updater.
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
May have a good point, but still even when i was on stock the phone was still blazing fast with the live wallpaper. Its pretty awesome how fast this phone is and beutiful to look off, so easy to make people jeolous, a lot of my friends have the droid x or the incredible also other galxy s variants and mine takes the cake and all the mods i have on it, just makes them look at theres and want to throw it away. LOL

Anyway, hopefully new bonsai will come out this week and a new compatible emotionless beast!! So excited!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
LOL, awesome!!! I love playing dumb at the sprint store, cause at my sprint store people dont know the difference between anything that has to do with smart phones they are all blackberry owners!! If i ever have issues ill brick mine lol!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
His USB port is borked, no odin.

Never thought I'd see a thread titled, "Help, I can't brick my phone!" LOL :p
[Epic 4G Android Development] bjhill2112:
What about doing something in a terminal? Is there a way to blow away partitions using su?
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
yea, the usb is broken, no odin, thats the problem here, otherwise I wouldn't be having this problem.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Randy_T:
I am fully able to brick'er for you... :cool:
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
send me the file, lets get her done. better than bringing it in like this. then I can probably claim the new update bricked it and not have to pay out of pocket. I have zero dollars, i'm negative dollars.
[Epic 4G Android Development] tonysohn:
LOL we should probably have a sticky post titled "How to fully BRICK your phone with or without USB"...
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
ROFLMFAO!!!:D
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
brick it, get it back to stock, whatever it takes. i'm totally stuck at this point, phone is working, bonsai is running, but no way to do anything. at least its charging right now. not sure why the battery has to go in at a certain angle and held their to start it up. very strange.
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
am i better off just taking it in like this and saying the usb port broke? phone has a warranty doesn't it?
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
I called the store, they said I had to buy a new phone or go to the manufacturer. Way to stand by your customers sprint.
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
LMAO This is hilarious.

rofLMFAO

This is even more funny!!!

Sorry rob, i bet you are pissed. :(
[Epic 4G Android Development] tonysohn:
What did you tell them? Not every store may be like that, so why not try calling another store?

To share my experience with two Sprint stores around us, my wife dropped her Samsung Moment the day before yesterday and the screen was not turning on while the touch screen seemed to be functioning. We brought it to one store and they said it'll take a couple of days to figure out what the problem is, but since she needed her phone right away we went to another store. Guess what? The technician there opened up the phone, told us that he's going to replace the whole screen unit, and did that in 15 minutes. The charge came out to be $35 since it's under warranty (but no insurance). Of course the key here was that we did NOT tell Sprint that the phone was dropped. Your best bet is just not saying anything that may void the warranty.
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
well I just said the usb port isn't working. and the guy said i likely would have to buy a new phone since i had no insurance. man they are hard up for that insurance sell huh? anyway, i said isn't it 35 dollars, he said it depends, we have to look at. but from the part where he said you probably have to buy a new phone, it wasn't encouraging. then I said, what about the warranty, he said you have to go to samsung.

35 bucks i'd pay in a heartbeat. but i'm worried that because the phone is rooted, they will void my warranty.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Keyboard missed key fix.

This should be incorporated into the final release if it isn't already.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=975611
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
+1 and hopefully it will be in genocide b4 the release :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
Maybe this too should be included: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=964925
[Epic 4G Android Development] richse:
Why not grab a modem for one of the GSM galaxy s phones, load it on dropbox, and flash it. I think this would have a high probability of bricking.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Yep +1. Damn that mkasick guy is good.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Randy_T:
The fix has been added... (apparently the word "done" is too short of a response)
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
lol, sweet!! Don't forget the wired tether mod thingy i posted a link to it above. :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] tonysohn:
So, any ETA on 3.0? Sorry for being pushy but can't wait! :o
[Epic 4G Android Development] p3dr0maz:
Video Lag Fix / Sports Mode FC Fix

Can we also add the video camera lag fix if we have not please?

Video Lag Sports Mode FC Fix

Mwaahhahaaahha. Patiently waiting in anticipation.

TIA.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
It's in there.
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
for those of us that can't odin, will there be a way to get the new modem on the phone?
[Epic 4G Android Development] nathan951:
ok so i upgraded to 2.0 2days ago...

it made a backup...

i was trying ti get a vid of my daughter, but dumb batter warrning prevented me from shotting vid, so i yaned my battery to put a 100% one in...

well now its in a boot cycle. How do i restore the .gz backup that bonsai saved during the upgrade, clockwork didn't recognize it....

thanks

nathan
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
If you have the dk28 modem, i dont think so :(
[Epic 4G Android Development] Top Nurse:
The best solution I have ever heard is to get a 24 volt power supply. Take the + and - leads and just run them across the battery terminals. They will never figure it out.

Sent from Bonsai 6.0.3
[Epic 4G Android Development] nathan951:
Just tried to install the bonsia 2.0.1 zip over my non working pkone nada.

why is there nothing in the wiki on how to restore the backup made by bonsia script?