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[Epic 4G General] || Acer ||:
I love you!!! =D

I want someone to test this first
[Epic 4G General] apatcas:
yes... but remember this is stock too
[Epic 4G General] ateld:
Mac OS 10.5 ~ 10.6	Feb 21, 2011	Device(Install) (Software) (ver.Epic 4G Froyo Update (KB13))	91.14

Looks to be it, wonder why it says Mac OS though.

Great find!
[Epic 4G General] AmericanJedi001:
Umm, could it really be??? I'm DLing right now to see what this is...

<Shakily clicks on it>
[Epic 4G General] NoSoMo:
Windows is the bottom link
[Epic 4G General] || Acer ||:
Posted already in another thread...but anyway, someone test it out. (I don't want to be the first lol)

Mine's at 70 MB
[Epic 4G General] dc13:
nm got it fixed
[Epic 4G General] shook187:
unfortunately I don't have access to a computer. You think someone could make this to a update.zip?
[Epic 4G General] ScientificOne:
Direct link here:

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/SW/201102/20110222031955436/Epic4G_FroyoUpgrade_KB13.exe

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/SW/201102/20110222051537858/update.zip

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c...22061912233/Epic4G_FroyoUpgrade_EB13_Tool.exe
[Epic 4G General] gsxrdennis25:
nice find, looks like upgrade app similar to the moment upgrade tool
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
That must be a typo!! Awesome its on here early b4 ota, hopefully there is a modem in there and is real?
[Epic 4G General] || Acer ||:
Mine just finished downloading! Gonna send it to my epic and download
[Epic 4G General] Quis89:
Yes...

Sprint ID and all...

Just kidding...no Sprint ID. But all the other Sprint "goodies" are included

I ran the .exe file from the Samsung page. I was previously on DK28 Bonsai. I ran it straight from that with no issues. It is indeed EB13
[Epic 4G General] TheDub:
Am I the ONLY one who has NEVER seen this bug?! Ever. Not once. My time without signal is always less then 2%... Maybe it's a tower thing....idk. Maybe its a hardware problem they fixed in later models and kept quiet about it? Who knows.
[Epic 4G General] tokyomonster:
JIT is in Froyo. Also, see here: http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa...ID=2&PROD_SUB_ID=557&PROD_ID=559&AT_ID=351569
[Epic 4G General] drizek:
Ya, GPS works for me too, so far.

It actually always works when I'm indoors, posting on a forum. It just decides to crap out when I'm on the freeway and I'm late for something.
[Epic 4G General] drizek:
JIT only helps snapdragon phones get ridiculous Quadrant phones.

Don't lose any sleep over it, the Epic is still the fastest phone out there until the new wave of Tegra II phones comes out.
[Epic 4G General] tenaciousj:
When I try to install it says it aborts and something about the asphalt demo. I had removed it at one time but redownloaded it. Shouldn't this have fixed the problem?
[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
Same. And I live in an area with poor Sprint signal too. I do the airplane mode trick anyway most of the time, but even when I didn't I don't think I ever saw the bug or at least not to the degree others did.
[Epic 4G General] Quis89:
This would appear to be the final OTA. Otherwise why would Samsung release it publically?
[Epic 4G General] Quis89:
Wow...

"QAOL" was definitely typed....and I didnt press "O"...
[Epic 4G General] darrinbc:
Either I am doing something stupid or they did something stupid and killed wireless tether.
[Epic 4G General] ryno502:
My download speeds seem to be dramatically faster. Im gonna run some tests.

Im on Wifi havent tried 3G yet.
[Epic 4G General] ryno502:
i have the QOAL bug too.
[Epic 4G General] drizek:
50% TWS here, using 4G. I'll see if it drops now that I have done airplane mode.

At least the GPS doesn't break after doing the airplane toggle. 6m error by the window.

Edit: it has dropped to 44% now. Wow.
[Epic 4G General] Silent25r:
50% tws? What is tws? I was thinking it was touch wizard.
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
They have absolutely made wifi faster. I am hitting 19325 kbps down and 11290kbps up. Usually I wouldn't breach 16000kbps down.
[Epic 4G General] Bobbywatts:
I'm about to run CWM3 have anyone tried yet?
[Epic 4G General] chino0131:
"Time Without Signal"
[Epic 4G General] drizek:
time without signal. It is a bug where it keeps looking for a signal all the time and wastes battery.

Go to settings - about phone - battery - cell standby to see yours.
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
I am at 59% TWS. I think somehow they made it worse.
[Epic 4G General] slybarman:
Update.zip will not install for me. I keep getting a Status 7 error. I am running stock non-rooted DI18. Anybody else?
[Epic 4G General] jrjpoohscell:
do i do this through my phone or through my pc
[Epic 4G General] ms79723:
The browser is friggin insane. Want to test it? On DK28 load up cracked.com and then do it on this newer 2.2.1. I just loaded that site up in less than 8 seconds on 3G.
[Epic 4G General] Integrals-t:
anyone having issues changing their ringtone or notification tone, mine will only vib, when I click to select a ringtone it vibs and then a window pops up saying that you must force close any help would be great this started only after update

seems like anything that tries to get to my sd card has to be forced closed, double twist, ringtone player, and sound settings, not sure whats going on.
[Epic 4G General] KaL-EL3038:
TWS???

ok guys i am a noob at this problem how do you find out or know what this problem is??
[Epic 4G General] ptfdmedic:
Who will be first to have this deodexed?
[Epic 4G General] Bobbywatts:
If you loaded the update.zip thru your phone
[Epic 4G General] Silent25r:
I think that is what they are trying to find out. I'm going to wait a few days before installing. By then some of the kinks will be knocked out.
[Epic 4G General] s84471:
Alright, my Epic is in Download mode and I'm running the .exe file, but it doesn't see my phone.

Windows did say 1 of the drivers was unsuccessfully installed.

Could it be that I'm on a 64-bit OS?
[Epic 4G General] KaL-EL3038:
???

what i am trying to figure out is what this bug is about?? like that does it do???
[Epic 4G General] snowmanwithahat:
ROOT?

So has anyone been able to verify that we can still root after doing this?

That's the biggest thing holding me back at this point. It's going to be a major PITA goin back to DI18 and then flashing this but if I can keep root that eases the pain slightly.
[Epic 4G General] drizek:
yes, it is rootable. A bunch of people have done it, including me.
[Epic 4G General] drizek:
It kills your battery, basically.
[Epic 4G General] Silent25r:
My guess is time without signal means they are not keeping a strong signal which would mean poor battery and phone reception.

Is that what's happening?
[Epic 4G General] JudasD:
anyone know what all of the different versions are that samsung shows for the epic:

SPH-D700ZKXSPR

SEP-D700ZKASPR

SPH-D700ZKASPR

SPH-D700ZKOSPR

They all appear to resolve to the same EB13 package to download. Just curious mostly.

Thanks,

JD
[Epic 4G General] nerdtaco:
installed, ran oneclick 2.5, sdx stock app remover complete, tested wireless tether (it works), profit.
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
I have always understood it as the radio trying to connect to GSM towers and since its incapable of that you have TWS. The reason it drains the battery is because it constantly tries to connect.
[Epic 4G General] djbacon06:
If you are on stock 2.1 and rooted with oneclick root, installing the update.zip WILL FAIL due to asphalt 5 being deleted (even if you re-download it)

Use the upgrade.exe for windows instead. Unless you want to Odin to stock DI18 then run the update.zip, but that seems silly.

hope everybody is enjoying their FROzen YOgurt
[Epic 4G General] ryno502:
My time without signal is 50% but cell radio is only using 1%. Is that bad?
[Epic 4G General] darrinbc:
I got my wireless tether to work finally as well and its faster than it was before.

win-win

edit: posted this while using it actually.
[Epic 4G General] xTmDarren:
the Note says it doesnt support 64 bit OS.. I guess you get to join me in the waiting line for the OTA update :( lol
[Epic 4G General] KaL-EL3038:
so how?

do you find this TWS problem or if your phone has this problem??? ive exeprienced the checkered problem but never really seen the the rotating lag...didnt even know there was fixes either..
[Epic 4G General] s84471:
Okay, do you need anything other than the .exe file from Samsung's site to flash EB13?

I tried it on both my x64 and x86 Windows 7 computer, and both times it couldn't install the phone's driver (causing the flash utility to not see it).
[Epic 4G General] edonnelly:
I don't think that's it. At least, the signal is incredibly strong where I am at work, the phone just isn't happy. I think fundamentally the phone by default is looking for the wrong kind of tower. I see this with the "network" app I downloaded. By default, our phones seem to be set to look for "WCDMA," which, unfortunately, is actually a GSM protocol incompatible with our phones. When I change it to "CDMA" (the protocol we actually use for data) my time without signal drops from 50+% to about 2%. I suspect the infamous switch in and out of "airplane mode" accomplishes the exact same thing.

It seems the phone is never happy when connected to CMDA and instead spends an enormous amount of energy and effort (battery and maybe CPU) looking for an alternate tower when, in fact, it really is talking to the exact kind of tower it should be talking to.

The problem is that every fix that anyone has come up with is only temporary, and resets whenever you reboot and at many other times without your knowledge.
[Epic 4G General] edonnelly:
It's possible the samsung program doesn't support 64 bit, but Odin certainly works fine with it, and all you need is in the "How to return to stock" thread (already updated with EB13):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=773032

and you should be good.
[Epic 4G General] nerdtaco:
I used win7 x64 and it worked fine.
[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
Wait, WHAT? I rooted with a method similar to this and it left Asphalt 5 (and other stock apps) completely alone. Why would a root method delete a game app?
[Epic 4G General] relic419:
I'm running Win7 x64, and the update (exe) went fine. In the development section, there are 64-bit drivers for the Epic, try those out.
[Epic 4G General] Mutiny32:
What the hell were they thinking? Not fixing the second most battery-impacting bug in their software? Yeah, way to show some real effort put forth in those 5 months between build releases, Sprint/Samsung. Christ.
[Epic 4G General] mooshubob:
Can I just download the update.zip if I'm on 64-bit, DI182.1 <rooted>, or will it not work because of Asphalt being missing after the oneclickRoot process?
[Epic 4G General] OneEyedWilly:
I'm completely stock. Is there a method to downloading this straight to my phone from Samsungs website?
[Epic 4G General] s84471:
I have those (needed them for the one click root)

But when I plug my epic in in download mode, Windows just says "USB Device Not Recognized" and nothing happens in the flasher (Just sits at "Detect Port")
[Epic 4G General] drizek:
This is seriously really messed up. I mean, if you were expecting them to get Gingerbread on this thing, forget about it.

And samsung can forget about any future purchases from me.
[Epic 4G General] flyers2114:
Well I wouldn't be so sure its not fixed.....first off lets see if it does indeed have an effect on battery or not..but for whats its worth mine used to be at 50% and now it is sitting at 1%.....so lets wait and see to be sure before we go jumping off cliffs...**** its only like an hour old...lmao
[Epic 4G General] mooshubob:
Yeah I don't get it either, but it deleted my Asphalt 5 demo. Good riddance, I said at the time. But now? Definitely don't wanna Odin back to stock :(

Is there a really good way to backup EVERYTHING? I use MyBackupRoot, but that doesn't save my text messages at all...is there a tutorial for Titanium Backup? It didn't work very well when I tried it a month or two ago when I was messing around with custom ROMS
[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
I also use MBR and it appears to save them...that's weird. And unfortunately CWM doesn't want to install on my phone for some reason so nandroid may be out of the question. TTB has a great rep but is complex...keep searching and I'm sure you should find plenty of info.
[Epic 4G General] tokyomonster:
Are you guys with the TWS issues updating your PRL and Profile? Doing so seems to fix some issues with signal that I was having.
[Epic 4G General] darrinbc:
It saved everything for me including all text messages.

I ran the update, rooted, installed mybackup root from market and then put my phone back to where it was last night. The only issue I had was with wireless tether, but I uninstalled it and reinstalled if from market and I am VERY happy.
[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
So I take it you ran the full 200MB .exe method, and wiped your phone?

Wondering if a wipe is in fact a safer, cleaner way to get this done if rooting is still no issue and MBR does what it should.
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
Trying it now. I dont know what that could do though, since I have terrible signal at my house and an AirRave 10 feet away pumping 5 bars to my phone. Its not like it needs to see any tower other than my AirRave.
[Epic 4G General] darrinbc:
Forgot to mention that I did both of those things as well and I don't have the issue they are having.
[Epic 4G General] herzzreh:
OK... not too excited.

1) GPS is too early to tell

2) Compass is still fuqed. Side by side, Evo is accurate, Epic still isn't. Evo is still, Epic is still jumpy. Both were freshly recalibrated.

This confirms my suspicion that the hardware is crap, not the software.
[Epic 4G General] Death259:
Follow the instructions i gave for the update.zip. I dl'ed from samsung and put it up on different mirrors for everyone.
[Epic 4G General] darrinbc:
Yes, I used odin back to stock and then did the full exe directly from Samsung. No issues that I can find yet, Everything seems to be happy
[Epic 4G General] hardrock121:
So is it really required to oidn back to di18 to use this .exe program ..because it seems to be doing a complete wipe??? has any one who is rooted and on a custom rom( i m onviper) run this program to put eb13 on????

doesnt look like viper guys have the update.xip yet ready...therefore wondering if i can simply use this... i m rom hopping right now so no data to save...

also, I have a nandroid of stock di18. i guess i can always recover that.
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
Wow, updating the PRL and profile seems to have absolutely fixed the TWS issues. Maybe Samsung isnt completely inept after all. Went from 53% TWS down to 0% TWS after I restarted and let it sit a while. Everyone needs to make sure to do this before flashing custom roms because I am pretty sure you can't update PRLs and such with a custom rom.
[Epic 4G General] poit:
I installed it on my Windows 7 64 bit system, no problem.
[Epic 4G General] hoyingcc:
Updating Issues

I am currently doing the .exe from Samsung's website, and it has been over 30 mins and I don't see any activity. I got to the screen that says to "Start Software Download" and I clicked on it; then it did the initialization for about 5-10 mins, and now it just says Ready in progress bar and ready down at the bottom, but across the main screen it still reads "Updating, Do Not Disconnect". And like I said, i've been at this screen for 30+ mins. Did I somehow brick my phone? I was running the stock rom, but it was rooted. I am also running Win7 64bit. Any ideas? Should I disconnect the phone?
[Epic 4G General] slybarman:
wimper . . . wimper . . . sniffle.

Nobody else getting this error?
[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
Hmmm...perhaps I should take back what I said about pushing PRLs to folks ;)

I'm surprised on a board like this that people aren't totally OCD about updating those things. I always get newer PRLs, although I do it voluntarily. However I have never understood what a "Profile Update" is supposed to do. What changes there? It's not like Sprint's system looks at me differently over time, do they?
[Epic 4G General] ryno502:
Is there a way to root the phone or calibrate the sensor without the usb cable? Stupid question, I know, but I left my cable at work and wont get it back until Wednesday.
[Epic 4G General] poit:
Updating your PRL or Profile will temporarily fix the problem until you reboot the phone because it resets the radio, just like the airplane mode trick. Once you reboot the phone the problem is back.

This isn't just an Epic problem. A google search will show that it seems to be on many of the CDMA Android phones from multiple manufacturers. It seems to be a problem with the radio control module in Android.
[Epic 4G General] Death259:
No, you dont have to odin back to di18. Just download the exe and run it.

DL links and instructions.
[Epic 4G General] Apollo83:
I'm glad it worked out for you but you did an extra step that you didn't have to do. If you just ran the Samsung updater no matter WHAT your configuration it would of worked. I came from newest Bonsai with EXT4 CWM3 and no Sprint bloat. Downloaded the Samsung update file from the website, followed the VERY detailed instructions and within 10 mins I am stock EB13. Now is the waiting game for the devs to update everyones favorite rom!
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
hmmmm GPS no locky.... me no happy

anyone tried the audio out on the docks yet?
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
Not true. I rebooted the phone immediately after updating the Profile and PRL and so far 0% TWS.

Edit: May have spoken too soon. TWS is creeping up to 15% now.
[Epic 4G General] Bobbywatts:
Try using Odin
[Epic 4G General] darrinbc:
Yup, didn't know that last night when I wiped the phone "just in case" though.

I definitely should have waited. LOL

Darrin
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
If I downs it on my wife's mac, can I just use the sd card adapter and put it on the card? My pc died.
[Epic 4G General] DiGi760:
download again and try again? It may be a bad download.
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
is there a setting to enable push notifications.. for example for facebook? i'm still not getting notifications in the status bar
[Epic 4G General] Death259:
Yes you can if you are going to do the update.zip method. You will need to be on stock di18 though. If you aren't on stock di18 then you will be SOL for now until a dev gets a better update.zip out or you get a pc, since the other method requires the exe..

Links and Instructions
[Epic 4G General] slybarman:
I did download again from another mirror . . . same result.
[Epic 4G General] kmalsom:
Anyone else having force close issues with any sound app? can get system sounds, but can not play music files
[Epic 4G General] exspecto:
I ran it just fine in Windows 7 64bit.

(sorry, I didn't see that someone already replied to you)
[Epic 4G General] xTmDarren:
I just tired again and it will see all the files and everything about the phone fine.. but as soon as I boot up the update then plug the phone back in it will not recognize my Epic anymore..
[Epic 4G General] Amalord:
whats is the three finger salute?
[Epic 4G General] exspecto:
Try a different usb port. Also, remove the battery and put it back in before you get into download mode.
[Epic 4G General] Death259:
Volume Down, Camera and Power button all at once.

Turn phone off then to turn it on hold down those three buttons.
[Epic 4G General] edonnelly:
Thought I'd share my restore experience, because all is good.

I had Quantum ROM 2.7 running and CWM 3.0. I made a nandroid backup using CMW.

To get EB13, I used the .exe from the Samsung download. That went fine (64-bit Windows Vista, by the way). Then I did the one-click root method which also gave me CWM 2.5

From Clockwork 2.5 I did an "advanced restore" and chose /data only. After a reboot, all is exactly as I had it before, and I haven't found anything that isn't working. GPS lock within a minute or two at 2 meters accuracy (so it claims).

With regard to TWS (time without signal), it's too early to say, but it looks bad because right after boot the network menu shows the preferred network is "WCDMA" (which, despite its name, is not a CDMA protocol, and is not something our phones can talk to). Time will tell on this issue.

And, of course, the email app is as stupid as ever when it comes to subfolders, but what are you going to do? It's certainly no worse than it was before the upgrade.
[Epic 4G General] xTmDarren:
im gonna try the sd card method first.. then if not ill go diggin for another usb..
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
Im on stock, but I'm considering waiting for the ota so I can test its results and post...I bought mine on release day and imagine I have to be high in the queue.
[Epic 4G General] Amalord:
any known working one click roots?
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
Sounds like same as always.
[Epic 4G General] edonnelly:
Yep, same old one-click (sticky post) that we had before works perfectly.
[Epic 4G General] lbe:
finished upgrading to 2.2.1, the whole system seems to be much snappier. Flash works on stock browser, but doesnt seems to work with opera mobile even after reinstall. Should i manually download the flash 10.1 version from market or we have to use the flash player came with the rom?
[Epic 4G General] Death259:
I would dl the one from the market. Should be some updates that might work better.

you can always uninstall app updates anyways.
[Epic 4G General] xTmDarren:
yay!!!!!! looks like the SD Card install method is working!:)
[Epic 4G General] ryno502:
Opera doesn't support flash. Try dolphin or skyfire
[Epic 4G General] adelmundo:
Do you have to use the stock recovery to flash the update.zip without losing your apps and data or can you do it with Clockwork Recovery?

Also how do I boot it to the stock recovery instead of Clockwork. The 3 finger salute only gets me to Clockwork.

NM, I downloaded an app called Quick Boot from the market and was able to boot up to the stock recovery instead.
[Epic 4G General] Slovak65:
How long should the wired update take? Mine seems to be frozen and says updating do not disconnect...what do i do, it has been this way for almost 15 minutes and the progress bar is not moving.
[Epic 4G General] edonnelly:
Mine took about 2 minutes and the progress bar was moving the whole time. I'd say pull the battery and start over.
[Epic 4G General] xTmDarren:
wish I could help.. I was still at stock recovery.. Like you said..Everything was saved over and now im running 2.2.1 :)

I hope you get yours working
[Epic 4G General] kmalsom:
Should be able to select run:update.zip or something like that.
[Epic 4G General] squshy 7:
i don't know, since i had the same question so i went back to stock recovery just in case ;)

there isnt a method since CWM replaces stock recovery. you have to reinstall it. theres an all-one here, but its hard to find so just go over to sdx-developers, under the epic forum, theres a sticky for it...it's a one click that has the option to reinstall stock recovery
[Epic 4G General] JS81:
I had the same problem. Unfortunately, it flashed too much and wouldn't reboot. I did however recall that I had problems installing the drivers on my computer a few weeks ago, and when I used my laptop it was fine. So I redownloaded the exe on a different pc and it worked fine. There should be no hang up, the % should increase constantly.
[Epic 4G General] adelmundo:
I downloaded an app from the market (free) called Quick Boot and it lets you reboot into the stock recovery.