yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Epic 4G General] NateWhite:
Hopefully Samsung will drop the tool to flash (wipe out) your phone and put it directly to EC05. That would be the cleanest way to go since your on such an old version.

Of course you could use the Samsung tool or odin it to EB13 now, but you might as well wait.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Ya, me too.

Sent from my always stock, froyo Epic
[Epic 4G General] Ree$e:
Ill be going to sprint tomorrow they gone order me another phone. So ill have to wait for the refurbish phone will come in Monday and ill make them update it to the 2.2 then winning lol
[Epic 4G General] josidhe:
*snip* Wrong thread, oops.

Actually, that's pretty weird. I didn't even have this thread open. What the heck...?

Ah. Some sort of merge apparently. Huh.
[Epic 4G General] cberrios:
The Epic 4G will be updated OTA to EC05

This was just posted today.

http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-epic-galaxy-tab-and-transform-otas-coming-sprint-march-21

Sprint ID is the new thing plus new fixes... Again, take it with a grain of salt... Sprint hasn't officially said anything yet...

:cool:
[Epic 4G General] mpscmedic:
I am glad I have a rooted phone. Sprint ID sucks
[Epic 4G General] Ex0d0s:
You should have added this to the rumor thread, I assume this will be moved.
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
Who says its a rumor ;)

Op this was already posted. Nice try tho
[Epic 4G General] cberrios:
Yeah... I should have clicked the search bar and look if it was already posted... Is late and I'm in lazy mode... Anyway, like I said, with a grain of salt...

:D
[Epic 4G General] budderocks:
Phandroid.com just reported that it is being released March 21st
[Epic 4G General] ecooce:
I guess me confirming this dosnt matter anymore,but I know the person that leaked this first ;)
[Epic 4G General] arashed31:
WHAT THE FUDGE. Noobnl assumes correctly once again.

http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-epic-galaxy-tab-and-transform-otas-coming-sprint-march-21
[Epic 4G General] Top Nurse:
Not really thrilled with the Sprint ID. Dang thing is 50Mb of junk!

Sent from Bonsai 6.0.3 :D
[Epic 4G General] ecooce:
I don't remeber noob saying EC05 was FROYO,nor did he say it was coming,and that EC05 would be the build... I did though,about a week ago in my ROM thread... Look out for EC05OCE ROM coming soon...
[Epic 4G General] apache2:
I'll be avoiding this for a while :)
[Epic 4G General] brickwall99:
What's this gonna do for us? Fix 10 things and break 15 things?
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
Yep. Maybe this time the update will lite the battery on fire? Lol

Sent from my ComBadge..
[Epic 4G General] brickwall99:
This is Samsung we're talking about, think big! The battery is going to explode and spray the glass around like claymore shrapnel!
[Epic 4G General] tenaciousj:
Still froyo? Gonna pass.
[Epic 4G General] poit:
Why do you people even own Samsung phones if you hate Samsung so much?
[Epic 4G General] cadams14:
I say proof is in the pudding. I seen what someone posted on Sprint site about EC05. Sprint did not publish anything. As far as I am concerned, its a rumor.
[Epic 4G General] jasonsf:
I don't know exactly how Sprint ID will be implemented, but I read in another thread that one of the "IDs" you can choose is very close to stock AOSP. I doubt they would actually get rid of TouchWiz, but one can hope.
[Epic 4G General] insanity213:
This is my 2nd and last Samsung phone. Through the years I've had many phones from Moto, Crackberry, and Nokia. Recently I thought I'd try something new, and what a disappointment. The hardware is blazing fast, but the pluses end there. I could go on, but I don't want to derail this thread...
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
I didn't know the upgrades and support from Samsung was this bad. I thought the epic being a top of the line phone for sprint that Samsung would take care of it. If it wasn't for our developers I wouldn't even have it now.

Sent From My Evo Killer!
[Epic 4G General] ptfdmedic:
Top Notch hardware but POORLY implemented customer service and software support. Very sad.
[Epic 4G General] Marlinsfan88:
*smh* shame they are still wasting time on Froyo. Hopefully we will get 2.3 before 5.0 comes out. 20 bucks says the Dev's have a gingerbread port before these slackers at sprint and samsung compile a single framework file. someone said it earlier, if it wasnt for this site, i wouldnt have this phone. Hardware is amazing but man doess official support blow =/
[Epic 4G General] jasonsf:
I feel the same. I was warned by a Moment owner, but I just couldn't believe they wouldn't support what looked like a premier product.
[Epic 4G General] Ex0d0s:
It could mean that they have a stable version and now they are testing for Gingerbread vanilla version.
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
Where have you been, CM7 is already out in the development section. :rolleyes:
[Epic 4G General] DCRocks:
Can't wait! WOOHOO!

Heck, if it wasn't for Dev support, I probably wouldn't own an Android phone at all, as I figured that was the whole point of Android... ROFL!!!
[Epic 4G General] skee/07088:
+1 musclehead....if it werent for the devs i probably would've changed fones 2, but a "sprint id" for epic?? when they're removing it from the lg optimus? but why implement sprint id on 1 device, when its been removed from another??? sounds useless....
[Epic 4G General] niv3d:
Should EC05 fix the data connectivity issues from EB13? It seems no matter how I update/flash/odin to EB13 my connectivity goes down the drain, even when running different ROMs. This Epic is only 2 weeks old btw.
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
I wouldnt get another phone i liked my epic even on stock d118 :D

But this community has made it better:

Here is the best thing i love about the latest custom roms:

1. No CARRIOR IQ!!!

Seriously i still dont understand why this was on our phone if the logs were off and why the need to spy on our personal stuff..
[Epic 4G General] skee/07088:
same here, Drules....real sneaky man...
[Epic 4G General] megabiteg:
Another Update coming on March 21st???

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/18/samsung-epic-4g-galaxy-tab-and-transform-software-updates-comin/#

What does everyone think????
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
I think you didn't look at the General section, there are half a dozen threads about this already.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
update-SPH-D700_DI18Toec05-mar08.zip

That's the zip file of the new update. Someone try to find it. I'm at work so I can't search for it.
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
Its out there and most the devs have it already.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Internal Documents for Epic 4G Update to EC05

http://briefmobile.com/internal-documents-for-epic-4g-update-to-ec05

It seems someone was naughty today :)

I can't attach the file here because it is too large, but it can be found in my article.

Enjoy,

Korey N.
[Epic 4G General] twolostminds:
Well now that the cat is out of the bag why doesn't SamsungJohn give us some info on this release? I'm starting to believe that he was all talk/company hype.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
All the information about the release is in the document or just click on the link and read the article. I basically laid it out for everyone.

Sprint ID isn't replacing TouchWiz. It is just being added.
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
Is there any info on how much space ID is going to take? It really pisses me off that Sprint thinks it's alright to take up much needed space, from what I read ID takes up almost 50mb.
[Epic 4G General] flopez76:
So, TW + S ID = lots of need memory!

Sent From My Command Center... (aka basement)
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
No more then before. The Epic has a partition specifically for the system files. Data memory is on a separate partition within the filesystem.
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
If your really concerned about sprint id and dont want it, im sure if you jumped on to getting on custom roms it wont be there. ;)
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Exactly, and it says it is permanent...lol, yeah

There is a thing called rooting your device, then deleting the Sprint_ID.apk
[Epic 4G General] brickwall99:
Sweet! This should be a nice update when we get it in 6 months.
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
Yep, lol

Is that all sprint id is a system app?

Its not tied in to the framework which carrior iq was? :D

(keyword was)
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
I currently have a custom ROM on my phone and won't be changing it, it pisses me off because the rest of my family has Epic's running stock (not tech savvy, I definitely won't be bothered constantly when they run into issues) and they could potentially be losing space on their phones.
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
Do what i did for some of my family (ie: brother,Dad,Step dad)

Hook them up with some no carrior ciq rom and fun stuff.

My dad, brother and step dad are enjoying, free wireless tether, not being spied on,

The only thing i have a complaint about is the bluetooth being dumb, hopefully the ec05 fixes the bluetooth repairing issue.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
You'll definitively want the new modem

Also, the update is effective March 21st, starting with 5% on the first day. Then 30%, then 55%, then on the 4th day it will be at 100%.
[Epic 4G General] texasredrider:
So, has anyone heard anything new about this CIQ business?
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
Is there any time frame that you are aware of when its going to drop, or do u think the source will go up right away on monday??
[Epic 4G General] crawrj:
Do you have any idea if this will fix any of the actual problems that EB13 had? I love how they just copy and pasted the standard 2.2.1 fixes and spent time introducing Sprint ID but didn't say anything about fixing any of the actual problems. One can only hope right.
[Epic 4G General] D3luSi0n4L:
EC05 Dated for Monday Confirmed!

Well guys, looks like its official EC05 is coming to us on 3/21 - this coming Monday!

Check out the post!

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/18/samsung-epic-4g-galaxy-tab-and-transform-software-updates-comin/

Enjoy!

D3luSi0n4L
[Epic 4G General] stinger4321:
New epic OTA 3/21/11 EC05

Here is some links of the up coming re-release of 2.2.1 OTA

http://www.gizmocrunch.com/android/5961-sprint-epic-4g-samsung-galaxy-tab-transform-update

http://m.engadget.com/default/artic...-comin/&category=mobile&icid=m_eng_latest_art
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
face palm :p
[Epic 4G General] dzuchowski:
i like touchwiz and wish they leave it... that or root root root man

i so if sprint id is 50mb that is a hugh hit. i dont see any htc sense devices getting sprint id as htc wants a uniform look to all their phone regardless of platform... I think even windows phone series will get it at some point that is sense....
[Epic 4G General] tclarkey:
Not that this surprises me, but I was passing by a Sprint kiosk in the mall and asked the guy about this. He looked at me like I had 3 heads. He then pulled up his internal Sprint email and there it was announcing the same thing being discussed here.

Just goes to show how clueless these people really are. One would think being a Sprint employee that corporate would have let these poor bastards know. The email just came to this guy today.
[Epic 4G General] FoxRacR17:
All I ask is that they fix that ****ing annoying bugin the modem where the signal drops out completely for like 30 seconds. Ever since DK28 my phone has had this problem.
[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
So can someone sum up how to avoid Sprint ID when starting EC05 for the 1st time, as I think that's said to be possible?
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
Wait for a custom rom
[Epic 4G General] mattallica76:
Sprint ID is only 376 KB, and they didn't remove touchwiz.
[Epic 4G General] ecooce:
I'm wondering why all these EC05 threads keep getting merged into this rumor thread ;) lol ...
[Epic 4G General] Slovak65:
Being as how no one has EC05 officially on their phone, how do you know this?

Sprint ID is nothing more than a POS crapware that Sprint uses to keep the average user stuck with what they want you to have on their phones. It is basically a theme manager so to speak, and if an average user that doesn't want to root their phone doesn't like one of the themes from Sprint ID, then they are SOL. If anyone doesn't want Sprint ID then wait until EC05 is rooted and remove the .apk associated with it.
[Epic 4G General] ecooce:
I've seen Sprint Id when my brother had the Zio,it dosnt come with any theme at first,but when you first start up the phone it hits you with an install Id window (this after wiping the phone ).
[Epic 4G General] Ex0d0s:
These are all rumors of Froyo until they send the OTA update to the Epic.
[Epic 4G General] jasonsf:
The pdf that Whosdaman uploaded from Sprint said that the version on the Epic would not launch automatically. It will have to be manually launched from the application icon to start it and install an ID.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Yeah, I posted the pdf lmao...I know wtf is going on
[Epic 4G General] niv3d:
Hey guys when EB13 was released didn't Samsung post the EB13 update file online like a few hours before the 2/21 release date? My point being who thinks we'll have an update.zip in the early hours of the morning for EC05?
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Will this be released for eclair>froyo, then eb13>ec05? Or will all phones receive the notification no matter which version?

Sent from my always stock, froyo Epic
[Epic 4G General] jerbeck24:
Sprint has updated the maintenance blog to include EC05.

http://community.sprint.com/baw/message/271318#271318
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
This is what im not happy about:

• If you choose not to use Sprint ID, simply do not click on the Sprint ID icon. The icon can be moved from the Home screen to another screen, however, it cannot be permanently removed.

Sent from my always stock, froyo Epic
[Epic 4G General] jasonsf:
Yeah, that will be annoying...until I root and remove it.
[Epic 4G General] niv3d:
How do we grab the update.zip to share with everyone from the OTA update?
[Epic 4G General] counterfeit187:
I believe you can just use a different launcher/homescreen like ADW or Launcher Pro, Zeam is also a good one, and will be able to customize to your liking without the ID on a homescreen.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
I hope so, cause i already use launcerpro. Imma make a backup of my setup just in case...

Sent from my always stock, froyo Epic
[Epic 4G General] Top Nurse:
Who cares whether its official or not. A lot of us have been running EC05 for over a week now.
[Epic 4G General] iil:
I do.
[Epic 4G General] jackal516:
EC05 on custom Rom

zanderman112 and who it may concern:

If you want to keep your Custom Rom and dont want the Sprint ID, then take a look at the link below.

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1003447

I was running SyndicateROM Frozen 1.0.2 EXT4 EB13

I grabbed a the Modem tar (15Mb) and ODINed it onto my phone.

Didn't have to wipe or anything.

Now im running SyndicateROM Frozen 1.0.2 EXT4 EC05

Hope that helps.
[Epic 4G General] arabdrifter:
Received FROYO 3hrs ago OTA, nice surprise for a morning wakeup:-)
[Epic 4G General] collegedude10:
I received the update notification on my phone this morning. Went thru it and everything went fine, except, now every once in a while I get a background music playing. its the weirdest thing. its low and soft playing.

anyone?
[Epic 4G General] noreboy:
I'm almost sure you hear the noice when you get a new text msg. My phone upgraded last night, and I had the same issue. I kept hearing this soothing background noice, until I finally realized it played whenever I got a new text.Though the sounds settings said it was on my previous tone, I had to save for it to take back affect.
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
What version were you on?
[Epic 4G General] maconu:
10 posts....

My phone is working great on sydicateROM Frozen 1.0.1
[Epic 4G General] z4fir:
Cool veryCool
[Epic 4G General] JBTY:
does anyone know where i can get the Eco5 update.zip so i can manually update to 2.2? The google links i found on another post are broken so i fugured this would be the best place to ask :o sorry im a noob :confused:
[Epic 4G General] omair2005:
if you haven't got it by now, check the dev. section.
[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
Yes if you go to my videos I have updated links. The link to my videos is in my signature.
[Epic 4G General] G.I.Geoff:
I am wondering why this hasn't been locked and deleted yet. 2.2 is out. 2.3.3 is confirmed, and Samsung, and sprint are doing a good job. So...Mods? Thread lock? It doesn't need front page anymore.
[Epic 4G General] osvaldoalejandre:
has any one having problems updating there prl,profile, or its just me
[Epic 4G General] othan1:
Second on this. Especially because this ISN'T the only 2.2 thread now.
[Epic 4G General] gmadez:
so?.. what's next?
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Please stop posting in this thread.

Sent from my Epic 4g thats perfect in stock form.
[Epic 4G General] steviee7:
we will stop posting in this thread when it is locked :)!
[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
I think it'd be better if they just renamed the thread to Gingerbread rumors discussion. ;)
[Epic 4G General] steviee7:
+1

tenchar
[Epic 4G General] othan1:
I don't believe any literature of any type (even trolls and attacks) should ever be deleted simply for historical and education purposes. It should be kept (especially electronic media) for as long as possible for future generations to learn about our lifestyles and how we interacted with each other under the guise of anonymity on the internet.

It's not a popular opinion but there it is.

Now, I DO, however, feel this should be locked and archived.
[Epic 4G General] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Please change this to gingerbread
[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
Gingerbread will be out soon. LOL
[Epic 4G General] cocochannel:
why is this thread still a sticky?
[Epic 4G General] Grogck:
Indeed. While I had some trepidation coming from HTC and knowing Samsung's track record with updates the hardware on this beast was just too much to ignore.

I'm actually still running unrooted stock. Other than not being able to store apps on the SD card I'm really not sweating Froyo too much. This thing's already faster than most of my friends' Froyo-based devices. Once our stock Froyo build gets here I'll try that. If it sucks or once I outgrow it I'll pick one of the custom ROMs. You can always change the software to some extent. But this isn't like the PC days where you can just swap out individual hardware components for a performance boost.
[Epic 4G General] vita10gy:
Even if that were true, people make way too many assumptions about what it means. Every place is different. We like to get our clients in on the testing fairly early. Now, obviously we don't bother to have them test dummy pages and completely faked processes. There's obviously some level of 'doneness' there, but it also wouldn't be fair of one of their clients to conclude "they're testing it, therefor it must be 99.9% completed."

Sprint might not have to do ANYTHING to get their apps working from version to version, so this notion that lots of people have that the manufacturers get Sprint their updates all set to go out, and Sprint bumbles for 6 months trying to get the NASCAR app to run is just silly. Virtually every update to every phone takes way too long. It's not just Samsung, and it's not just Sprint.

It might not be priority #1, but then again why should it be? Everyone wants their stuff ASAP, what makes us so special? It will be done when it's done, it will have problems, they will be slow to fix those problems. That's just the name of the game.

Once we get source we'll prob become officially part of cyanogen, CM6 will be completed, CM7 prob not far behind, someone will roll a pure AOSP build, a few over/underclocked kernels will hit, and 6 months from now we'll all have phones that are 50%+ better, and wonder why we needed Sprint/Samsung for anything.
[Epic 4G General] Jayavarman:
Thanks for the megathread. ;)
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
Thank god. This thread should have been made MONTHS ago. Thank you to whatever MOD finally did it.
[Epic 4G General] AndrewZorn:
I said the same thing... but I'm nearly 1/4 done with the phone (6mos of 24) and still not seeing what I expected.
[Epic 4G General] noobnl:
my leaker said: sprint software group can't give him the tar because they are afraid to death about losing their job
[Epic 4G General] hardrock121:
since we are legally allowed to whine here...

Where the F%^% is my froyo??????????
[Epic 4G General] jrjpoohscell:
ok, new here, what's hummingbird and froyo?
[Epic 4G General] iSaint:
So tired of hearing about Froyo

Your earlobes line up with your nipples

Your mind=Blown
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
and
[Epic 4G General] Eteocles:
Most processors on phones have code names, HTC phones generally use a 'Snapdragon' processor while Samsung phones use a 'Hummingbird' processor. More or less its just the code name for the processor. Each processor has a different architecture, the names make it easier to tell them apart. (More importantly Hummingbirds murder Snapdragons in gaming performance)

Froyo is the code name for Android version 2.2... Not sure how you could have missed what that meant. Every iteration of Android has a different name,

Android for Phones:

1.5 = Cupcake (C)

1.6 = Donut (D)

2.0 / 2.1 = Eclair (E)

2.2 = Froyo (F) (Actually stands for Frozen Yogurt)

2.3 = Gingerbread (G)

Android for Tablets:

3.0 = Honeycomb (H)

The future versions of Android will follow some sort of dessert name in alphabetical order. (Ice cream is next (I))
[Epic 4G General] noobnl:
EB09 is latest

<Tortel> http://device.sprintpcs.com/Samsung/SPH-D700/DK28.rdf
<@Shabbypenguin> i was talking about the chipset, not the phones
<Tortel> ^^ it says we have 2.2
<Tortel> ( thats some file downloaded when you get a MMS)
<nonoo2> http://device.sprintpcs.com/Samsung/SPH-D700/EA17.rdf
<@Shabbypenguin> if dk28 was supposed to be final then why are people still using the nexus 1 keys in their roms?
* nonoo2 is now known as nonoo
<tanimn> validation failed.
<Tortel> ah damn, i didnt notice it was build based
<nonoo> http://device.sprintpcs.com/Samsung/SPH-D700/EA18.rdf
<@Shabbypenguin> yea just saw that nonoo
<@Shabbypenguin> 19 and higher fail
<nonoo> http://device.sprintpcs.com/Samsung/SPH-D700/EB07.rdf
<!noobnl> yay!
<nonoo> http://device.sprintpcs.com/Samsung/SPH-D700/EB09.rdf
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
Sweet so any code saying when this comes? Can't wait.

Sent from my awesome epic 4g
[Epic 4G General] flopez76:
So Noob, what exactly does that mean? Do we now have a new leak, or just confirmation of the new builds?
[Epic 4G General] AproSamurai:
Well it depends on what else was said after the messages that were shown. But it means there is confirmation of the latest build as a for sure. So if anything we have proof that there is one, now whether or not it's going to be released anytime soon is debatable as it always is.
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
EB09? So that is a version that was made today?
[Epic 4G General] Darkk69:
It'll be interesting to see if they actually release it to OTA on the 21st which is President's Day and I'm off that day. :)
[Epic 4G General] apatcas:
noobl that looks like more of a confirmation that they havent finished with the update then anything. or am i not reading this right?
[Epic 4G General] PythonFanTN:
I'd guess so, since after looking at that I went back to EA17 and manually went forward by altering the numbers in the URL through January and into EB/February and found several other pages. Not one for every day but several that weren't referenced in what noob posted. There's an EA30 and an EB01 as well.
[Epic 4G General] spitefulrain:
*knock on wood*

With the 21st release date rumor, and all these builds so close to each other, AND noobnl even talking about it :p, I'm getting kinda hopeful here.
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
Thats just what they want? They feed on your hope.
[Epic 4G General] spitefulrain:
Well damn :/ good thing I'm happy with what i have until then xD
[Epic 4G General] jrjpoohscell:
Thanks for the info, bc i had no idea what everyone was talking about.
[Epic 4G General] Darkk69:
Star Wars IV: A New Hope.... Long time ago... In a Galaxy far far away....

Oh this is gong to be Epic!