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[Epic 4G General] adelmundo:
Used the stock recovery after downloading the update.zip and placing it into the root of the SD card. Rebooted using stick recovery after downloading Quick Boot from the market. Ran the stock recovery and flashed it and it is now on Froyo with no hitches. Still have all apps, widgets, etc on my phone and data was preserved. Still has root as well. Thanks to you guys I have now have Froyo sweetness. Going to celebrate now by going out and getting me some Frozen Yogurt from the local yogurt shop!

EDIT: Did lose root, just reran one click root and all is fine now again.

Thought I had issues with 3G speed, but I guess it's my area. Used speedtest on both my phone after update and my wife's EVO and we are getting the same lousy 3G speed, so it has nothing to do with the update. When I went to get a frozen yogurt today, there is a Sprint tower and was getting DL speeds of 1-2 Mbps, so I guess it is fine. Will test tomorrow where I work about 50 miles from where I live.

At first no screen rotation and GPS not locking, but after a reboot, GPS locks within 10 seconds with 10 or 11 out of 12 birds locked and accuracy of 6 feet at best. Also I was never able to lock inside my home and now I could. Screen now rotates fine 270 degrees. Seems most problems are fixed, more testing needed.

Consequently rerooting again removed the Asphalt App.
[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
Hold up hold up--you didn't lose root? Anyone else see this? You sure? I find that extremely hard to believe. There are only 2 reasons I haven't flashed yet...1 is I'd rather not have to do a data restore, and the other is that I don't want to re-root...
[Epic 4G General] DeeODoubleD:
I may be one of the few who care about this... but when I used ANY dk28 ROM before this my USB (using Easy Tether) tethering would randomly drop. This did not happen with DI18. Now with EB13, so far, it's not dropping either. This is huge for me and means there are definitely changes made in this build.

EDIT: Nope, wrong. It just dropped me. My phone is apparently running hot again too.

You know while waiting for this update running DI18 I got insane battery life and my phone never even got warm. Now 5 minutes into running EB13 and my phone is on fire and has the same problems from the DK28 leak months ago.

These people just don't care.
[Epic 4G General] nebrando:
I upgraded from DK27 tonight and the GPS is well worth the wait on its own. My GPS sucked a$$ before and now, sitting in my house I was locked within 24 feet in less than 10 seconds and in about 30 seconds to a minute locked to within 5 feet and holding steady!!
[Epic 4G General] pidge2k:
And the clock begins on Samsung to release Gingerbread/Android 2.3 for the Epic 4G. Downloading update right now. Hope the update goes smoothly.
[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
Does anyone know if the OTA will be any different? Is there any chance it will be different? Also, has anyone even received it yet?
[Epic 4G General] rjccviii:
installing from update.zip -- will you keep your apps, etc?
[Epic 4G General] hybridsix:
At this point, I'm considering waiting for the OTA now. If I dont have it by 1am EST, then I'll load the one from sammy's website.
[Epic 4G General] jocala:
I installed from a asus i7 quad running 64b Win7, no problems.
[Epic 4G General] incisivekeith:
I just tried what I proposed in the above post of mine. The update.zip file is in the root folder. I went into the recovery mode, and clicked on "apply sdcard:update.zip." The installation began but aborted with the following message when trying to verify the system:

"E:Error in /sdcard/update.zip

(Status 7)

Installation aborted."

Anyone knows what that means? Thanks.
[Epic 4G General] Orbiting234:
Why wait? The update.zip file is the exact same thing (well, besides naming of file) whether you get it from Samsung or OTA.

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

OTA gets the file from here: http://android.clients.google.com/p...0/e496d32b95ae.update-SPH-D700_DI18ToEB13.zip
[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
Are you POSITIVE the OTA will be the exact same?
[Epic 4G General] Orbiting234:
YES! Those two files are byte for byte IDENTICAL!
[Epic 4G General] ss4rob:
Thank you, this is what I was looking for. I was stock rooted DK28, and I didn't want to redo all of my data. I made a nandroid backup using cwm 2.5, then I used the .exe from Samsung on Windows XP (32-bit), used my previous one click root already on my Mac which gave me cwm 2.5 back, and then did an advanced restore choosing data only. Also between each reboot I turned GPS on and did a lock with GPS Status and Maps... just in case. :) I'm now back to exactly where I was, no issues, running EB13. Terrific.

I had a cwm compatible DI18 zip that worked previously when I had to go back to Eclair to fix GPS, but this time, even when using the stock recovery, it would not accept the EB13 update.zip, failing at updating the modem with an error 7. Luckily I had a Windows machine around to use Samsung's version of Odin with big animal pictures. :)

Finally, I noticed that the option under Privacy to backup application data and auto restore it has disappeared.. I don't know if this actually did anything but it isn't present anymore to determine.

Rockin' Froyo, going to bed, thanks Internet!
[Epic 4G General] edscheenstra:
I'm trying the .exe method and can't even get past the eula screen cuz its perma windowed and I can only see half the exit button and no "next"....I guess I'm full on tarded today...anyone else have this problem?
[Epic 4G General] midnitenyc2001:
Try to get the 64bit drivers for windows vista, that will work with windows 7
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
You must not of had clockwork on your phone cause quickboot takes you to whatever recovery is on your phone. If you have clockwork installed it would have taken you there. Obviously you didn't that is why you went to stock recovery.

Sent from my Evo Killer!!!
[Epic 4G General] NoSoMo:
Same for me, and I was the first to post that samsung had it on their site.... I click accept and all I can see is exit. Devs think they're smart limiting window sizes, but they're idiots for not realizing that some of us have very high res screens and use an increased font size which knock some of their dumb $hit off the small locked window.....use the SD card method
[Epic 4G General] TallCan211:
Everything worked for me.

I had the leaked DK28 installed w/root. I used Titanium to back up all user data and apps. Odin'ed back to stock DI18 then installed update.zip (EB13) with stock recovery.

One click root worked (after a couple of times). Used Titanium to restore all data and I'm good to go. The only thing I lost was log of text messages.

GPS locked in really quick and indoors, which was always hit or miss before. The keyboard seems to be considerably more responsive but still misses a couple keys if you type really quick.

Haven't noticed any other changes from DK28 but I'm sure I'll come across some more.
[Epic 4G General] edscheenstra:
thanks...at least I'm not alone. I just got the phone a couple days ago to give to my wife on her b-day next week, it didn't come w/ a sd card (should get one tomorrow). So the .exe is my only current option. It's weird cuz I'm just running 12x10 res on my windows 7 computer...nothing crazy.
[Epic 4G General] vrojas25:
cuz thats for macs not pc's try the 1 under it 200mbs
[Epic 4G General] itsmebryan:
I used the mac one no problem. With that one it doesn't wipe the phone. You just install the zip on you SD card(I use my card reader to transfer file) and followed the instruction on the Samsung page.
[Epic 4G General] midnitenyc2001:
Ok, I have both the exe and the update.zip file. The exe stops about halfway from loading, and I have the 64 bit drivers for the epic. Not sure why i keep getting an error. This is the error I'm getting:

1152: error extracting for SPH-d700.msi to temporary location

Any ideas????
[Epic 4G General] midnitenyc2001:
Ok, i seem to have found the correct downloads to do it both ways to EB13. I'm not sure how to post the correct exe file to share with everyone who wants to do it on Windows, especially 64 bit operating systems. And I also have the update.zip file that works, only if you are on DI18 though, not DK28
[Epic 4G General] Top Nurse:
This is caused by a bad dl
[Epic 4G General] NoSoMo:
The phone comes with a 16GB card from samsung???????????
[Epic 4G General] midnitenyc2001:
Thanks Top Nurse. I finally have my EB13 up and running!!!!
[Epic 4G General] vrojas25:
this is the official update i just spoke to a samsung rep and she said it is she said i could wait for over the air or n my own
[Epic 4G General] midnitenyc2001:
Did you get it from a Sprint Corporate Store or a 3rd party store? The phone comes with a 16Gb memory card installed on the phone already. Be careful because some 3rd party dealers remove them, then try to sell them to you for $100
[Epic 4G General] kidnoble:
All updated to froyo via the update.zip. Took all of 10 minutes...it was a cinch...didn't delete any of my apps or reset the phone or anything.

I was coming from DI18 btw.
[Epic 4G General] vrojas25:
me 2 my web runs much faster and smoother. Did u downloaded it from samsung
[Epic 4G General] pimpin oh boy:
im coming from dk28 will I have to downgrade to get it

Sent from my SPH-D700 on BoostMobile 3g
[Epic 4G General] brandenk:
Doing the update on my gf's stock phone it wiped the SD card and I lost all of her titanium backups and the phone did a full wipe. She is not happy. :(
[Epic 4G General] vrojas25:
not mine i still have everything:d
[Epic 4G General] sarcoptic:
Epic4G_FroyoUpgrade_EB13.exe (200.73 MB)

The EB13.exe will WIPE WIPE WIPE WIPE your whole phone so be prepared to lose it all. This will give you full instructions as you go through the process. It's like an ODIN for dummies. This method can be used to go from any version of android whether its stock or not or DI18 or DK28 or rooted/unrooted.

update.zip (91.14 MB)

The update.zip will need to be placed on the root of the SD card. You will need to be coming from stock DI18.

You will need to do the three finger salute to be able to use the update.zip.

From there you should be able to find an option that lets you choose an update.zip file. (Haven't been on stock in so long i forget what exactly is there.)

Once that process is done you will reboot the phone and you should be in 2.2 froyo heaven...
[Epic 4G General] adelmundo:
I did have Clockwork recovery on there. When I did the 3 finger salute before I had Quick boot installed, it took me to Clockwork. After I installed Quick Boot, it went to stock recovery. I know what both recovery screens look like btw.

I actually learned about Quick Boot from this post after doing a search on the Fascinate forum:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7925570&postcount=7
[Epic 4G General] kidnoble:
I downloaded one of the mirrors posted, yes. I am, however, experiencing the bugs some others are reporting...ie.

Anything regarding camera or music is a fail....and no photos whatsoever are showing up in my gallery.

Anyone know if I did something wrong here?
[Epic 4G General] vrojas25:
I GOT MINE FROM HERE ITS THE OFFICIAL 1 http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SPH-D700ZKASPR ALSO I ROOTED MINE WITH 1 CLICK ROOT CWM 3
[Epic 4G General] kidnoble:
And it didn't give you the camera force closes and it shows everything in your gallery?
[Epic 4G General] kidnoble:
I've just noticed that when I go into the video player, it says I have no sd card installed. Do I need to reformat the card? Could that be why the camera/music is force closing?
[Epic 4G General] vrojas25:
no everything works perfect gallery camera. i also rooted the phone with 1 click root and i have viper rom trinity its working good:)
[Epic 4G General] vrojas25:
my sd card is installed with all my music
[Epic 4G General] kidnoble:
Were you having any of these problems prior to rooting and installing the rom?
[Epic 4G General] vrojas25:
no none before or after
[Epic 4G General] WATRD:
I downloaded from Samsung and ran their .exe. Everything seems to be working properly, however, when I visit the market to reinstall my applications, most of my paid apps show as unavailable.

I can find the apps in the market website, but when I attempt to install them, it tells me that they are not compatible with my device now.

Google whitelist problem? At least that is what I have been reading. Any solutions?

Thanks!
[Epic 4G General] flyers2114:
Run the exe from Sammy site.....clean install that way.....problems will be gone....and to any that are having issues with sd card wiped....come on man....remove it before you flash a major update like this...:confused:
[Epic 4G General] bluebrent420:
Here is what i did to download froyo very easy and it works perfectly. There is no need to run any exe.'s or install drivers

1. click the first link on the very first page of this post.

2. click on software and it will bring up options to download for mac or windows. choose Mac even if your running windows (like me). click on the icon to the right and its a simple install.zip.

3. transfer file to sd card, take the battery out the back pop it back in and do a hard reset, ( hold down vol down, power, and camera buttons at same time). this brings up the little BIOS, use vol down key to select apply sdcard:update.zip. and hit the house looking key.

i did not loose any apps contacts nothing this does not wipe your phone!!
[Epic 4G General] kidnoble:
I tried the install via the Samsung tool thing...and now my Froyo works flawlessly.

No camera/sd card bug....no music app bug.

Froyo tastes so good!
[Epic 4G General] edscheenstra:
yeah I got this phone on ebay from a reputable reseller. the phone is great so far, looks brand new. But yeah no sd card...I got one coming from newegg today for 25 bucks...
[Epic 4G General] muaythai619:
i had bugs with my phone after the update my camera didnt work at all keep force closing i talked with a sprint rep over the web and they refreshed the phone and now its working great for both me and my wife
[Epic 4G General] abduljaffar:
Wut u mean by REFRESH? what they do?
[Epic 4G General] abduljaffar:
Whats the best way to flash for a super clean stock eb13 froyo? Use the 200mb samsung tool or the 91mb update? Does the samsung tool whipe the cache and dalvik?
[Epic 4G General] nemt:
Apologies if this has been addressed already:

Can I update directly from stock DK28 to EB13, or do I need to Odin back to DI18 or something else beforehand? I am not rooted and don't have CWM. I just did update.zip from the original stock rom to stock DK28 in December, can I do the same thing with the EB13 update.zip now?
[Epic 4G General] abduljaffar:
id suggest getting the 200mb file from samsung. That thing does rhe job no matter if your running ubunto or windowsxp or anything. The tool works.
[Epic 4G General] DonnieGQ:
ViperActive OTA

I Downloaded Everything Needed. But Im Using MAC And Its Not Working For Me. Everytime I download the update zip when it gets on my computer it turns to a regular file and not the zip one. then when i zip it with the phone or zip tool on mac it still turns up wrong saying that the signature cant be verified or sumtin like that.... i guess ill just wait for OTA since I Can't Flash it From SD Card.
[Epic 4G General] RSPC:
Just a FYI for anyone who wants to know what I did.

Windows 7U 32-bit

Flashed to DI18 using ODIN

I dl EB13 from Samsung, Installed using swupdate tool

Then in debug mode ran OneClickRootCWM3

tried the update.zip from recovery and NoGo.

Flashed midNIGHT ROM v3.2 (standard) from SD card in recovery.

My Epic reports I'm running Firmware ver- 2.21

Baseband ver- S:D700.0.5S.EB13

Kernel ver- 2.6.32.9

Build- midNIGHT ROM v3.2 (Standard)

So Far everything I tried works great. GPS,WiFi teather,MMS picts, Phone, Music ,Video and Camera
[Epic 4G General] mrclean697:
Reverting back to Eclair with a Mac

How do I revert back to stock Eclair using a Mac?
[Epic 4G General] DiGi760:
What do you mean it turns into a regular file? What happens when you put this file on your sdcard and flash without trying to zip it?
[Epic 4G General] Th3Dutchman:
E:Error in /sdcard/update.zip (Status 2)

E:Error in /sdcard/update.zip (Status 2)

Installation aborted.

Anyone know what this means?
[Epic 4G General] nemt:
Really not what I was asking, dude. I want to know if I can go from stock DK28 to EB13, regardless of whether it's the update.zip or .exe file (I imagine if one works, the other would too).
[Epic 4G General] KaiserLinux:
Official Samsung Update Program for 2.2 FROYO

Upgrade your EPIC phone to Froyo in easy steps:

1. Download flasher program from SAMSUNG

2. Install the program

3. Follow the steps to flash your phone to FROYO.

http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa/jsp/faqs/faqs_view_us.jsp?SITE_ID=22&PG_ID=2&PROD_SUB_ID=557&PROD_ID=559&AT_ID=351569
[Epic 4G General] nemt:
"•Desktop/Laptop Computer Running 32bit Versions Of Either Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, or XP (SP2+)"

64bit Windows doesn't work with the install tool?

any word on the update.zip method from DK28?
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Use Odin, all instructions are here: http://briefmobile.com/how-to-update-your-samsung-epic-4g-to-official-eb13-android-2-2-1
[Epic 4G General] jcazes:
I did this exact thing last night. DK28 stock to EB13 stock, on windows 7 x64. Used the exe file from samsung and followed the software's instructions. The install seems to have been a success.

Proceeded to root using the clockwork mod and although it took me a few tries to get the computer to get a lock after enabling usb debugging, it rooted and everything seems great.

Does anyone else have a weird bug where no sound/ringtone is assigned for notifications and voice calls, so you have this endless loop of some awesome jam (not sure which tone it is)? I had my phone on vibrate so I didn't notice until tonight (flashed yesterday)...
[Epic 4G General] nemt:
Does the Samsung updater .exe require USB debugging on the phone enabled?

How about the USB drivers?
[Epic 4G General] jcazes:
drivers come with the exe file and are updated automatically. Don't need to enable USB debugging unless you plan on rooting. Just run the EXE file and follow the instructions.
[Epic 4G General] kidnoble:
I'm running into a problem trying to update my friend's epic via the Samsung exe.

When it's plugged up and I get to the point where it should be downloading to the phone with the progress bar....it does nothing. When I did mine it downloaded and installed to the phone immediately.

On hers, it's not doing anything after letting it sit for quite awhile. Any suggestions?
[Epic 4G General] nemt:
Any word on DK28 to EB13 yet? I really don't want to have to Odin it.
[Epic 4G General] pmoline:
I had this exact same problem after the sd card / update.zip method. Everything was fine except I couldn't assign any sound / ringtone. Just would force close. Also could not pull up any photos or play any music on sd card. I backed up my sd card to my pc, then on the phone I formated the card. Then I put all my music, ringtones, and pics back and it was perfect after that.
[Epic 4G General] kryptoniteman:
So people that used the 200mb file are reporting that the camera is not blurry when recording? Please respond if u did this method and have a great working camera.
[Epic 4G General] blazinazn:
used the 200mb file, did a fresh install of froyo and have no issues with my camera being blurry. Also didn't experience any issues with my media or gallery not showing up either.
[Epic 4G General] ewiesner:
On a Mac if your download automatically unzips you will need to go into your browser preferences and under the General tab uncheck "Open safe files after downloading". Then download the file again and it will stay in the zipped format and then copy it to your SD card. You want the file to be zipped on the SD card.
[Epic 4G General] nonzenze:
This retarded version clears everything out. Not so useful for those us that want to upgrade without losing everything.
[Epic 4G General] nemt:
Yeah, Odin is pretty useless unless you want a 100% clean install, like if you're selling the phone or trading it back to Sprint.
[Epic 4G General] NoSoMo:
See my post here on how to update without wiping data, also, how to download without needing a computer! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=964260
[Epic 4G General] nonzenze:
Doesn't work on DK28.
[Epic 4G General] shaggy24:
Using mac to upgrade epic from DK18 to new Froyo

I am getting a status 2 error. Since I am on a Mac I cant use Odin... So what should I do?
[Epic 4G General] shaggy24:
Typo

I hae DK28...not 18...sorry for he typo. Again, I keep getting installation error status 2. Using a mac.
[Epic 4G General] djgabor:
So my phone was stock, rooted (one-click) and I ran a titanium backup before I installed the 200M udpdate from the Samsung website. The install went smooth, no issues, and when the phone rebooted - it was wiped. It looked as if I had just taken it out of the box with Froyo installed. So I used the one-click again to root it, and then I did a app+data restore from Titanium. Everything came back. The phone seems to working fine, but it seems sluggish. For instance, if the phone is unlocked and I randomly open or close the keyboard slider, then all the icons vanish for about 7 seconds.. its really annoying. Any ideas ?
[Epic 4G General] nemt:
backing up contacts to the SD card and importing them after the upgrade/wipe will import the linked twitter/fb/gmail/etc accounts as well, right, not just the phone contacts?
[Epic 4G General] tamani29:
I have an issue where it won't ring any tone at all, and it will not vibrate for calls unless I have Bluetooth on. It does however ring and vibrate for every other notification. I want to wipe clean and start over but I don't know how to back up my apps.
[Epic 4G General] styckx:
Just had a massive moment like evdo lock up and phone crash. Was in 4g and getting spotty connectivity in this area. Disabled it and had zero evdo data as the 3g arrows still animated. No data after waiting a minute. Deactivate data network mode, reactivated it, still nothing. Tried the airplane mode trick, when I disabled airplane mode the phone went to hell. Browser locked up during startup showing a black screen then the entire phone vibrated a few times and completely locked up.
[Epic 4G General] abduljaffar:
everyones camera is blurry. The members who state that the camera is not blurry, have not recorded in very or just low light. I used the 200mb tool like 20 times trying to miss match files to get the cam to work perfect like eclair or dk28.
[Epic 4G General] In_da_buff:
finally got around to the manual install,

lucky number 12 -- that Samsung tool blows.

so far:

- low light video camera blur - known.

- checker boarding when expanding browser - also known.

yeah?
[Epic 4G General] Kitteh298:
There's a fix somwhere.

From My Samsung Epic Using TapaTalk.
[Epic 4G General] kryptoniteman:
The is a kernel in the dev section for the camera blurr....it only takes 30 secs if you already have the tools
[Epic 4G General] RSPC:
Wow I'm allowed to post here. Just a few more to go.

Yes there is a fix for the Cam and Video lag problem and it works Great!.

Anyone know if the geo tagging toggle can be brought back?
[Epic 4G General] RSPC:
If anybody is interested I flashed "Genocide_0.3a_EB13_OC-UV_Kernel"

from recovery cwm3 and still on midNIGHT ROM v3.2 (standard)

I didn't loose anything and the phone is even faster yet!

Thanks guys For doing such a Great Job!!
[Epic 4G General] yogi2010:
any fixes for the physical keyboard lag or the browser checkerboarding? longshot, but thought i'd ask.
[Epic 4G General] vita10gy:
If the download is going slow please cancel unless you know what to do to get it to everyone else, and most importantly the devs.

For all I know it's flying, but generally these things get crippled fast by 2 million looky-loos, when we really only need one dev to get it for us all to have it in a few hours.
[Epic 4G General] edonnelly:
Did it come? Mine says "12 hours left," and the link with the "detailed instructions" goes to an error page (which says "System error is occured in current page" --- Doesn't exactly instill me with confidence).