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[Bada Software and Hacking General] tibere86:
I have an unlocked S8500M Bell Canada Samsung Wave running Bada 1.0. My previous phone was a Samsung G600. I had used a Hex reader to troll through the firmware and located codes which allowed me to choose what type of voice codec to use during calls (e.g. EFR, AMR-Full Rate, and AMR-Half Rate). I loved this. Allowed me to use the best codec (AMR Full Rate and EFR) and not be at the mercy of the wireless companies' forcing of AMR-H for all calls. With Wave being a 3G phone, is forcing voice codecs even possible? I still plan to look through a s8500 firmware and see if I can locate similar codes. Would appreciate some input.

Edit - After a little peering, I have found the Wave supports the following voice codecs:

AMR 4.75 Kbps...AMR 5.15 kbit /s....AMR 5.90 kbit /s....AMR 6.70 kbit /s....AMR 7.40 kbit /s....AMR 7.95 kbit /s....AMR 10.2 kbit /s ...AMR 12.2 kbit /s....AMR-WB 6.60 kbit /s....AMR-WB 8.85 kbit /s....AMR-WB 12.65 kbit /s....AMR-WB 14.25 kbit /s....AMR-WB 15.85 kbit /s....AMR-WB 18.25 kbit /s....AMR-WB 19.85 kbit /s....AMR-WB 23.05 kbit /s....AMR-WB 23.85 kbit /s
[General Questions and Answers] SimmonsInHD:
Im mainly looking for an app/widget that shows battery percentage, cpu max/min status, phone temp, etc. Can someone point me towards an app like that?

And any other good apps that will be used on a daily basis?

Also, I plan on rooting the phone soon....I just got it a couple hours ago. :D
[General Questions and Answers] Michael_robert:
Hi,

I recommend the following apps:

- Droid Overclock

- SetCPU
[General Questions and Answers] tersey:
Skyfire - browser with support for java

lookout - malware protection for your net surfing

advanced task killer - if you dont already have something to manage things running in the background this is what i would suggest.

Robo defense - because why shouldn't you kill loads of time with your device?

Hope this helps
[General Questions and Answers] SimmonsInHD:
Thanks folks. Now, if you don't mind, what is a clean and simple rom (without bing) & kernel? I want something easy to use with a good number of themes.
[General Questions and Answers] Verdammt:
I use MikFroyo 4.5 with the netarchy-toastmod-4.3.1-bfs-havs-sbc kernel and really have had no issues to speak of. the guys over in the Mikfroyo thread in development are very helpful if you do run into any problems and there seem to be quite a few themes that you can choose from.

However, I own an EVO and it may not work if you have a different phone.
[General Questions and Answers] tiger9853:
I am using Lithium Mod and it has a widget specifically for that!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Kshitij Bhatt:
My Samsung galaxy i5510 does not support flash... does anyone can update any kinda custom rom for adobe flash support or any thing :confused::confused::confused:
[Vibrant General] :
It's weird. My new vibrant I got under warranty is screaming fast... All stock, it came as 2.2 KA6

1. No app drawer lag... over 5 screens of apps

2. Games play great

3. no lag switching apps.

4. no web scrolling lag.

This is great, but what's up?
[Vibrant General] goob1284:
Maybe luck of the draw. I replaced my captivate (sorry if its not a vibrant) but I got the same build number and it still works at the same 1.4 overclock.
[Vibrant General] MadNosf:
Neither my wife's or mine has a lag.. I agree it is luck of the draw
[Vibrant General] bartek25:
lets see when u start downloading apps ,and your system get cluttered, will see how long u can run on smasungs rfs without lag :)) i would run for ext4 before u start laggin , its not a lag anymore since official froyo its more like 2 sec pause before program starts

+1
[Vibrant General] :
System starting to lag here and there. Still screamin fast compared to my first one. First one gave me a reason to root my phone... i'm itchin to do it again... but want to make sure that i won't brick my phone again... I'm staying away from the oc kernals... damn dow
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
wait a few weeks. Samsung's RFS will catch up and slow you down.
[Vibrant General] bartek25:
dont get OC kernel get VOODOO kernel without OC u flash and it automatically converts no user input need it .
[Android Themes] schwartzman93:
Im trying to make a Honeycomb theme for Skyraider Sense and I was wondering if someone could tell me the basic names of the jpegs found in the apk...for example the name of the battery icon in the status bar...and even the status bar in general.
[Epic 4G General] Wishkah420:
So I went to the sprint store today cuz my battery took a ****. The repair guy was telling everyone not to run the OTA update to 2.2, apparently it's bricking phones and breaking camera. He said Sprint will have their own update in a couple weeks. I lol'd as I walked out with my deodexed rooted EB13...
[Epic 4G General] xTmDarren:
well that would probably explain why my wife hasnt received the update.. oh well.. I already updated with the zip files as well. :p
[Epic 4G General] Elite11b:
Go figure and they keep rolling it out.
[Epic 4G General] Elite11b:
My wife just got hers a couple of hours ago.
[Epic 4G General] tony45x220:
Damn it booiii...more dissapointment...and after such a long and druamatic wait for the release...smh, will the corrected version be another rolled out OTA or will they release it on the samsung website?
[Epic 4G General] digiblur:
Loving the official 2.2. 12hrs unplugged so far and 60% battery left. Usually my exchange email kills it during the day since the tower is overloaded downtown with awesome 20-60 kilobit speeds. So my 3g radio gets a work out constantly trying to communicate.
[Epic 4G General] blackdragon79:
Good job sprint smh
[Epic 4G General] rbjem:
I updated my buddies phone to official 2.2 last night and his phone turned into a brick. Nothing would power it on. No boot, no recovery, no download mode, no nothin... I was using odin and the tar file though and not the update.zip

I did the same procedure twice to my epic and it worked great.
[Epic 4G General] styckx:
Calling B.S. unless otherwise proven.
[Epic 4G General] snowmanwithahat:
I'm skeptical that they are still rolling it out in force... My mom and sister have yet to get it. I'm just sitting on dk28 for a bot myself so I'm not sure how eb13 is actually performing... The forum posts don't make me particularly optimistic
[Epic 4G General] FoxRacR17:
i can believe it, it was a ***** for me to update my phone using odin and the eb13 tar, it just would not work, my phones screen kept turning a different color like purple or green then odin would just freeze. Tried another computer and was able to do it using the samsung .exe file and it wiped everything and i thought i was good, running real quick and snappy, but i opened the camera and went to record a video with it and as soon as i hit the button to switch to video i got an error saying the camera has crashed and it kicked me out :/ I thought, according to sprint, that we waited this long so they could iron out the bugs and make sure there was a release that was worth of releasing!
[Epic 4G General] abduljaffar:
This official release is flawless for me. I did get the orange screen thou with the samsung tool, I just reran it and its 100 % flawless. Recorded vids with no issue.
[Epic 4G General] abduljaffar:
could this be the EVO curse we were dreading?

Btw. Everyone owes a oppology to noobl. Remember he warned us about the leak dk28 bricking some phones? And some in here claimed the epic is unbrickable? Uhhuuu... Everyone... Form a single line and appologize.
[Epic 4G General] rbjem:
I don't know how to prove that the phone was bricked, but it definitely was. It got stuck at param.lfs (or whatever that file extension is) in odin, so I retried it a few times, next thing I knew it would not turn on. He should be swapping it at the sprint store tommorow I think.
[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
I was on DK28 and since I followed instructions correctly, my phone is still in working condition. HA!
[Epic 4G General] shirpaj:
That's misinformation from the store. Here's the deal with the update... Yes, it's still being pushed and all devices should have it by Friday. There have been some reports of issues with the camera and browser force closing but those are resolvable in most cases with a hard reset (sucks I know). I haven't seen any reports of a phone that was truly bricked, although custom roms will be more likely to have issues with the OTA update. I've personally updated 8 of these both OTA and with the Samsung installer and haven't had an issue with any of them after the update.

Currently looking for a custom rom though because I don't like some of the changes that were made. It does feel like the screen is a bit laggy after the update and I hate the new messaging app but overall no performance issues
[Epic 4G General] abduljaffar:
lol. Me too. I used the 200mb samsung tool. No old odin with modified eb13 deodexed junk. Follow instructions nerds!
[Epic 4G General] themirthfulswami:
I'm not buying it. I know there are isues out there (myself included) but I would think if it was a serious problem we would have people on the forums saying it happened to them by now.
[Epic 4G General] Darkk69:
I updated my phone via the Samsung .exe file which I knew would wipe my phone which wasn't a problem for me since I use gmail to keep records of my contacts, call logs / sms (using sms backp+) and etc. So no worries there. I did get a little miffed about losing the apps but that is expected for a phone wipe.

There are few quirks and some changes in the GUI I didn't like. Big issue is the stupid SMS client they had to change so will be looking for a altnative version for it. No big deal but why change something when it works in DI18??

Screen rotation lag is fixable via screen calibration (posted elsewhere in this forums).

Least now the Devs have the source code they should be coming out with some nice ROMs soon. Rumored for Sprint to come out with an update in a couple of weeks? Not worried about it, by then most of us will be on custom ROMs anyway.

Darkk
[Epic 4G General] austin420:
i still think its effing impossible.

flashing kills the balls out of the battery. i have had a fully charged battery die in half an hour running odin multiple times trying things out. id bet almost anything that if you had an external charger to throw your battery in for a bit the phone would boot in to download mode with no problems.
[Epic 4G General] b3nny:
(Q), I updated my phone using the update.zip method (came from stock DI18, no wipe) and am encountering a few bugs such as the camcorder blur and random fcs, would it be wise to use samsung's tool to flash eb13 back?
[Epic 4G General] mattallica76:
If you flash to stock eb13 it will probably fix the random fcs, but nothing will fix the camera.
[Epic 4G General] Wishkah420:
I haven't done the update tool, but I have successfully updated to EB13 with Odin(flashing .tar) and also with the update.zip(flashing to stock DI18 and ran update.zip from samsung recovery). I also would like to note that my camera and also my video recorder both work fine. So I'm sure it was a handful of people who tried to odin or flashed something they weren't supposed to and took it in for repair. I don't give Sprint reps or repair techs much credibility. (No offense, there are a couple good ones)
[Epic 4G General] notoriouspyro:
Not BS at all, I had about 9 people come into the store today all with the same issue. Broken camera, music player and phone stating no pics. All recieved the OTA update last night, but one of my coworkers got the update 2 nights ago with no issues... IDK...
[Epic 4G General] abduljaffar:
Well, that answers one of my other concerns. I noticed my battery sucks dry flashing odin in a very short time. I was suspecting a bad battery. Now I know. :)
[Epic 4G General] abduljaffar:
Dear god, my worst fear.
[Epic 4G General] abduljaffar:
Sounds like you havent tried t record a video in low light. Do this, its night time now. Just open your window and record out the street. See the massive blur?
[Epic 4G General] mattallica76:
Well, I shouldn't say nothing. If we could get Sammy to hack some better drivers for it.
[Epic 4G General] mattallica76:
Low light definitely makes the issue stand out more, but even in broad daylight, an Epic running di18 has superior recording quality over one with eb13.
[Epic 4G General] BlondHorse:
ISDK

Hmm - backed up, ran Samsung.exe (looks like Odin-bot of some kind) and EB13 is clean. Stills and vids are NICE. Battery seems to go on forever, even on road at major convention with lots of SMS, e-mail and talk time. Feels like new wonder phone. Will check the branding in the AM. Maybe it morphed to an LG or a Droid and I missed that???:rolleyes:

OK, I read the instructions very carefully. And I was updating Bonsai all the time prior.:cool:
[Epic 4G General] Top Nurse:
So why do you expect a $500 phone to work as well as a $1,000 video camera? Not picking on you, just saying that if you want a low light vc then go out and buy one. I once paid $2,500 for a low light camera to take pics of galaxies. You get what you pay for...
[Epic 4G General] waitforit...:
Anyone reading xda will likely know enough not to trust sprint. So far, the kernel changes are pretty positive, and any issues will likely stem from the usual issues of wiping/re-loading data/cache/dalvik.

Full disclosure, I am on nebula 7 sisters with the eb13 kernel on ext4 and its ROCKIN!!
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
This isn't true at all lol...I'm sorry but I haven't heard anything about this. This sounds just like a dumb rep who doesn't know how to update phones correctly.
[Epic 4G General] abduljaffar:
U say why? Cuz its suppose to work. Thats why.
[Epic 4G General] InfDaMarvel:
Not all cell phone representatives are made equal.
[Epic 4G General] badasscat:
a) Because it did before this update

b) Because HD video is an advertised feature of the phone

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect my $500 phone to shoot video at a stable frame rate, when a $99 Flip Video camera can. This is a pretty basic function of any video camera, regardless of price point.
[Epic 4G General] mi7chy:
Sprint should seriously pull this EB13 release because it's a POS and it's bogging down their network for nothing. Today both 3G and 4G were incredible slow or unusable probably due to the mass OTA of EB13.
[Epic 4G General] ecooce:
I myself used the update.zip in recovery coming from stock DI18,I even wiped the data and cache before install,just because I know how computers can get messed up when doing an upgrade rather than a fresh install; Ill always be a big fan of starting fresh from the ground up...
[Epic 4G General] MedicStuder:
I updated mine with the update.zip. I was stock di18. I wiped data 3 times and cache 3 times before install. Since install I haven't had any issues. Camera and camcorder in normal or low light is acctually better then di18. Gps locks fasts. No fc's. I am loving my epic with the 2.2 update.

Sent from my EB13 Samsung Epic
[Epic 4G General] AndroidIsEpic:
This also happen to me first with the bricking..I would suggest not returning the phone yet..what I did was left took the battery out and held down the power button.

Then put the battery back in and wait like 30 mins and then try to hold the 1 on the qwerty and power and the phone should go into download mode again. My phone also wouldn't turn on or charge or anything or even turn on in dowload mode til I let it sit for a bit then I did the sw upgrade again and all was good!

Scared me though!
[Epic 4G General] daddymikey1975:
I also did this. I mean, when we flash from one ROM to another, we wipe 3x including dalvik and cache, then we flash the new Rom. I. Can't believe how many members with tons of posts still ignore this basic step.

Every bug post I read about usually includes someone that used Odin to update to EB13

I challenge anyonein this thread to odin back to di18, wipe 3x, use update.zip, then ##RTN#.

GUARANTEE you'll have a better experience.
[Epic 4G General] mattallica76:
This method will not magically add better camera and video drivers to the release. No matter how many times you wipe, you will still be installing the same crap.
[Epic 4G General] Pvt WhoOkid:
You know the funny thing is, I went to two repair centers for them to fix my screen and yes they fixed it but when I said go ahead and put that 2.2 on there both places said no they won't do it.

I asked why and they just wouldn't tell me, all they said was no sir we can't do that. The update right now is not an offical sprint update.

Ain't that a *****, guess we will be getting another update here soon withing a couple weeks.

P.S: I ended up using samsungs tool and I'm running 2.2 just fine. No bugs no glitches.
[Epic 4G General] tenaciousj:
About the only problem I had was with auto rotation taking forever. Had to reflash for a different issue I caused myself and read people were flashing the phone face down and that fixed the rotation lag so I did that and it fixed it. I used the Samsung installer which worked excellent both times and is idiot proof.

Now if I could figure out how to turn off 270 rotation I would be set.
[Epic 4G General] Milkman00:
I was positive I bricked my phone. I did the taboo thing, and started to flash my phone with a low battery. Duing the flash process, it completely shut down (I assume the battery died). It wouldn't turn on, it gave no appearance of charging and was really worried.

Fortunately just recently I bought an extra battery with an external battery charger. I put the battery in there and charged overnight. The next morning I got up plugged in the battery and powered on holding 1 and the power button and it worked perfect.
[Epic 4G General] dito33:
Did Odin to stock what was suggested and used Samsung .exe tool run smoothly everything. My phone works better then ever, I never seen the batt to last this long the responsiveness and no lag. I was experiencing a lot of lag before, GPS locks within a sec etc. Didn't try camera yet but I am very happy overall for now.
[Epic 4G General] ZenInsight:
Yeh? Try to use your camera in anything besides bright light. It's a mess now.
[Epic 4G General] ZenInsight:
This doesn't fix the EB13 camera issue.
[Epic 4G General] Tbtltdts:
Had no problen updating to Froyo using the. Update tool. Only issue I saw was the checkerboarding when zooming with stock browser and it force closing on facebook. Solution...use dolphin hd or firefox.

Sent from my Epic 4g Runnin Froyo...rooted for my pleasure!!
[Epic 4G General] notoriouspyro:
sorry but I watched OTA update "victims" pour into my store yesterday all complaining about the same issue. It is a valid issue, however seems to have only affected updates that went out Tuesday night so far. Concider yourself informed now. I always loved how ignorance can be manipulated into "truth".
[Epic 4G General] spitefulrain:
He's not denying the release having bugs. He's saying that no one officially said "do not update".

At least thats how it seems to me.
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
Well, i flashed the new modem, but im still waiting for new bonsai, and my phone works fine, ran into an annoying hiccup, but thats what nandroid backup is for. :D

Also my phone is running great, and the new modem fixed the occasional Wifi error that was on dk28, as for the gps all the way back since i got my phone its always been good, however it seems a little faster on eb13. :D
[Epic 4G General] anthromatt:
Update pulled. LOL

http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/62961?tstart=0
[Epic 4G General] Product F(RED):
Evo user here, but I just wanna say that given what happened with the Intercept, it's very likely it's happening again with the Epic. There are 3 Intercepts in my house and the 2.2 update bricked all 3 of them. I was able to unbrick them myself, but still. Sprint had to exchange other peoples' phones because of it.
[Epic 4G General] dwallersv:
Pretty obnoxious response.

What does he expect? He expects the camera to perform at least as well as it has before, across a software update.

If you think that's unreasonable, I strongly suspect that most people would judge you unreasonable, not him.

Sent from my mind using telepathitalk
[Epic 4G General] styckx:
Sad they had to pull the update. Samsung further cementing their "great hardware, awful software" legacy.
[Epic 4G General] notoriouspyro:
So can I get an I'm sorry to all us "dumb reps" out there???? Lol.
[Epic 4G General] mithritades:
I downloaded mines from Samsung website,everything works,I wasn't gonna wait for Sprint and their OTA update ****ery lol...Great job Sprint! smh
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
The update wasn't pulled lol....no where in that link that was posted does it say it was pulled.
[Epic 4G General] jerbeck24:
It was edited at 6:40 tonight. I saw it earlier today and it had a statement at the bottom saying that it was pulled and would be pulled from Samsung's web site too. At that time, I checked Samsung's web site and it was still live. Must be they changed their tune and gave those fixes at the bottom instead of saying it was pulled and OTAs had stopped being pushed.
[Epic 4G General] MedicStuder:
It may not do anything magic but u might have a bad download as that has happened to me before so maybe a fresh download and follow the steps and it might just work as I don't have "this camera issue." Its not magic but just common sense

Sent from my EB13 Samsung Epic
[Epic 4G General] mattallica76:
No bad DL. Flashed once and said issues were present. Flashed with Samsung updater and said issues still there. Installed Deodexed version and no joy. Re-flashed with odin again and still laggy camera and video drivers. My other Epic is staying on di18 untill they release a fix. It's obvious they modded the camera app and hacked the old drivers instead of re-writing them. The devs at Samsung have too much on their plate.
[Epic 4G General] kryptoniteman:
MedicStuder since you are not having this camera issue can u go into applications>manage apps>all select camera and camera firmware and let us know what versions you are have?
[Epic 4G General] MedicStuder:
Both are showing version 1.0

Sent from my EB13 Samsung Epic
[Epic 4G General] In_da_buff:
bought the phone on the release date - Aug. 2010

4G is up and running pretty well in Denver everyday since 2.2 OTA came online

me - still waiting and enjoying my 2.1 no issues Eclair suck version.

no update, no notifications, phone says "your system is up-to-date" LIAR

I think I complained too much about not getting 2.2 for 6 months - Sprint is making me wait until I'm last. A**holes.
[Epic 4G General] MedicStuder:
Where do I begin...

1) there was an update.zip u could have downloaded as I and many others have

2) do some research and you would find that it will be re-relased in a day or two because of the errors

3) please search and research

I think that sums it up. Before you start name calling and flaming please do research and search. In my personal opinion u don't have a leg to stand on with your comments.

If you don't like sprint then break your contract. If you don't like samsung then get adifferent phone.

Sent from my EB13 Samsung Epic