[Epic 4G General] incisivekeith:
Update: List of issues available

Dear All:

Since this thread began, we have vented our frustration here, but most importantly, we have done that in an organized manner, by listing our issues in categories. I thank you all for staying on topic, and providing the much needed information in such great detail.

The purpose of the thread was to provide a comprehensive list of all the issues/annoyances/bugs we faced after upgrading to Froyo's EB13 Build, to the developers on this forum, as well as to those at Samsung. Squshy 7, a diligent member of this forum, printed the whole thread(!!), analyzed the information and complied a list of all the issues posted in this thread and others, to serve the purpose of this thread. Great job, Squshy 7!

I hope that based on this list, which is, for now, attached to this post as a Word document (and is

posted by Squshy 7 later in the thread

), we can receive great feedback from the developers and can soon receive the fixed version of EB13 from our own and Samsung's developers. Wonders of uninvited, but essential, crowdsourcing models! I wish companies realized the benefits of such models of business in this day and age.

I have PMed a mod to insert a second post to this thread so I can paste the complete list in that post.

The following is the original post of this thread. Thank you.

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I am aware there is already a thread about bugs resulting after the latest EB13 update, but I did not see a thread where all the bugs were listed in an organized way. It would be very helpful if we have all the bugs compiled as a list from this thread here in a dedicated thread meant to be seen by Samsung developers, especially SamsungJohn. It would be great if SamsungJohn, continuing the spirit of partnership with the community, can take this list and work toward providing a patch for all the issues after the update as soon as he/Samsung can.

I would greatly appreciate if people, who received their update OTA, would chime in, too.

I am listing the following information about my method of update and the issues/bugs I am facing.

Method of update:

I was on Stock rooted ROM (DI18), with some Sprint apps uninstalled, so I had to use Odin to flash back to a complete Stock ROM. After using the Odin method to flash a Stock ROM, I installed the "update.zip" file from Samsung's Web site to update Eclair (DI18) to Froyo (EB13).

List of issues/bugs:

Sound/Volume:-

- The maximum volume is less louder than what it was on DI18 (some have reported this issue)

- Sound playing at 70% (rough estimate) or above loses fidelity coming out of the speaker of the phone, which is quite frustrating and disappointing, especially when the issue did not exist on Eclair (DI18)

Android Browser:-

- Checkerboard issue

- Unable to open more than four links. The "Open in new window" option does not appear if there are already four windows open

Camera/Camcorder/Video:-

- While recording video in low light, the video lags a lot, rendering the camcorder essentially useless for capturing precious moments anywhere and everywhere

- Selecting the "Sport" mode on the camera force closes the camera app

- There is no option to stop the geotagging of the pics taken by the default Camera app (strange, to say the least)

Screen:-

- On occasions, the screen goes blank and does not come alive until several seconds seconds later, or does not come alive at all

- There is a significant lag (about 2 seconds) in rotating from portrait to landscape, and from landscape to portrait orientation

GPS:-

- Not much better than the buggy GPS in Eclair (even after six months!)

Wifi:-

- The connection to Wifi suddenly drops after a random number of hours. The attempt to turn Wifi back on, from the Settings menu, or the Status/Notification Bar, results in an error, or the Wifi doesn't turn on. To turn the Wifi on, the device needs to be rebooted, or, the radio needs to be turned off and on.

Gsensor:-

- The direction shown by the pointer in Google Maps is wrong by 180 degrees

Operating System:-

- I have several apps moved to the SD card. After a reboot, icons for the apps which reside on the SD card, do not load for a minute or so

- I also noted that the icons of apps on the SD card, organized in a folder on the Home screen, fail to load completely, several times

- A folder shortcut for Pandora fails to load it's icon after a reboot

Please list your method of update and the issues/bugs in an organized manner on this thread, otherwise, the purpose of the thread will be defeated. After we have listed almost all the issues with the EB13 update, it would be a good idea to create a poll to find the number of people experiencing each of the issues. A poll at this time is useless as we do not know the exact number of issues.

Anyone who will post, please organize your issues and categorize them (even if it is a very loose categorization), as it would be much easier for a developer on this forum or from Samsung, to use an organized list of issues and get us closer to receiving fixes as they would have enough information in the form of a list.

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