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[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
If you wipe your data first, there will be nothing for it to restore. If you're currently running Bonsai, you can just wipe data, and the ROM will remain intact. Go to settings/privacy/Factory data reset.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Sean Hicks:
alright, ill give that a try. Thanks a lot
[Epic 4G Android Development] abonet:
I'm pretty sure this was working for me on EB13 -- as I prefer the Android Keyboard over Swype, so I'm pretty sure I would have noticed it. I also ran MidnightROM for a while, but I was running the Gingerbread keyboard so I don't know if the problem was there too.

In any event, I installed Gingerbread KB on my Bonsai ROM -- and that one is word-correcting just fine.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ryoung07:
Just tried this and it didn't work. I guess I just lucked out and have a phone this version of the rom doesn't like.
[Epic 4G Android Development] illadvised:
I've been having issues for quite some time now that has just kept me on bonsai 2.0. Every time I upgrade the ROM, it installs fine and everything works great, then exactly 3-4 days later my phone just flips out. It starts with a swype FC, then it moves on to acore, and just about everything else. This has happened to me with every ROM update since 2.0. I just end up restoring back to 2.0 and it works flawless.

This time when going to 3.0.1, I ODIN flashed back to DI18, updated the modem to EB13, installed CWR (completed the EXT4 conversion), then flashed 3.0.1. Again, phone worked awesome (best ROM so far) then this AM I find out the phone crashed during the night again with the FC on swype, then acore, but that was it swype crashed a couple more times, i cleared data on swype and restarted and it hasn't popped up since.

ANY ideas on what is going on? besides wiping and reflashing, I don't know what to try.

EDIT: everything is FC now, google won't sync and half my apps won't even open.

:confused:
[Epic 4G Android Development] KennyG123:
Sorry. This is definitely an awesome ROM to miss out on. Just in case you want to try again to Odin to stock EB13 Deodexed with CWM 3.0.0.6 built in, here is the link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=853209

Scroll down for that file not the first rfs one listed. I can assume Odin is working fine for you since you have used other ROMs already.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Do you use Titanium Backup? If so, is it set to do a scheduled backup, and if so, do you have it set to auto-reboot upon completion?
[Epic 4G Android Development] illadvised:
I am using Ti Backup, with no scheduled backups. I have been doing everything manually.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Do you use Quickboot or any other method to reboot the phone other than the ones in the shutdown menu?
[Epic 4G Android Development] fsc137:
flaky/marginal memory

Reading over some of these bug issues, I wonder if many of them are not connected with memory problems either in the Epic or the SD card.

I learned long ago that many irritating and flaky issues with computers would disappear if you bought the best memory, tested the hell out of it, and discarded any memory that was the least bit questionable. Also, if you want the best reliability, don't overclock.

Static memory and eeprom memory can be unreliable, but devices based on marginal memory may work for a while if the memory is overwritten from time to time with the correct information.

The "wipe three times" and "reflash eeprom" admonitions often seen here would seem to indicate that device memory operations are not as reliable as one would hope.

This "packing down the bits" approach often provides a temporary fix, but it's just a stopgap.

So, my question: what does the formatting operation at Bonsai installation actually do? Does it in fact test the memory, and flag bad regions of memory, which are then not used?

And are there any memory testing apps? I looked in the market, and what seems to pass for memory testing are quizzes for humans, not computer memory.
[Epic 4G Android Development] dwallersv:
The missing piece here is the apps you put on, and restored data, after install of the ROM.

Unless your hardware is different in some way, there are only two possibilities: Hardware defect, or configuration.

I suggest you try a generic, clean install of the ROM, similar to what you already did, but this time don't put anything else on it. See if it will work successfully past the point where it usually starts failing after a few days.

Then, carefully start putting apps back. Reinstall each fresh from the Market or the virgin apk -- don't restore from backup, and don't restore data over the clean install of the app.

This will help you figure out what's causing the problem... I've been where you are with past ROMs, and simply learned painfully that some apps can't be restored over a new ROM without screwing everything up. Not the fault of the ROM.

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[Epic 4G Android Development] ToiletDuck555:
I have been using this rom for a while and love it but this morning everything just started FC. acore, keyboard, inputmethod.latin are the most common. Tried reflashing and going to try a different rom see if that clears it up. What I dont get is why it started doing this for no reason, didn't install anything else or change anything.
[Epic 4G Android Development] xeonbuilder:
Same problem here. All fine for over a week then today started fc a bunch of apps and even my 4G stopped working correctly. I had to switch back to 3G to get data working again.

I didn't add anything new either.

Guess its alla big crap shoot.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ToiletDuck555:
Maybe an app auto updated and is causing an incompatability?
[Epic 4G Android Development] illadvised:
no quick boot, only use shutdown options in the power button menu on the phone.

I have already had to 3x wipe everything and reinstall the ROM.

after reading a later post about the apps being installed I would have to highly agree with this. However, I have already restored apps from Ti Backup. This is how I typically do it, i don't restore from recovery, not sure which way is better or it it matters? There really aren't many apps that I use. I install Ti back from market, then restore bookmarks, BT pairings, alarm clock, angry birds, ROM manager, xda app, spare parts, quadrant, smartbench, setcpu, shootme, logmein, craigslist, and ATK. i guess everything that I don't need settings retained from I could easily re DL from the market.
[Epic 4G Android Development] fsc137:
"lots of fcs"

I suddenly saw a lot of fc's, for swype, for the launcher, for google sync.

This happened a few days ago, and it started the exact same minute that I got a pop-up on my PC, saying that Google had pushed a new version of Google sync onto my PC.

I did a factory reset in CW, set up my GMail account manually after the reboot, and then restored all my apps and data from backup except for GMail.

Perhaps this is coincidence, but my phone's been fine ever since. My guess is that the transition to the new Google sync corrupted the data on my phone.
[Epic 4G Android Development] asdfghjkl:
Ive had problems before with Ti.Backup so what i did this time around was ODIN EB13 with 3.0.0.6 prerooted and download every app. Then with root explorer move them all to the /data/app folder. This way when bonsai installs it will bring over all the apps and data. Make sure none are on SD. And after i just moved them back to their spots (mms.apk back to /system/app) and ive been fine since day one. I try not to use TI.backup except to freeze DRM. Hope this helps...and with clock i think you can install it from your /data/app folder so it will always be there and keep all alarms...try restoring BT pairs and bookmarks one by one...i know ...it suckss
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Usually when you have multiple Fc's like the ones reported here recently, it means you have corrupt data. Not sure if there's any one app that can cause a chain reaction of Fc's other than a core app. The only time I've experienced this behavior is when the system shut down prematurely or incorrectly.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jman805:
I seemed to have carried over an issue from dk28. I have to toggle the speaker for people to hear me. The problem must be in my data but I'm not sure how to weed it out. Anyone else with this issue? Thanks in advance for the help.

B4all v. 3.0.1
[Epic 4G Android Development] illadvised:
thats what I figure, I only run "regular" apps, not many that effect the system or core files. I have only recently started using setcpu as the OC kernel is built into bonsai now. I was running it and the OC kernel on 2.0 with no problems.

After a 3x wipe and re flashing 3.0.1, i realized there was an issue on the first flash. The google account "welcome to your phone touch the android" intro never popped up and TW was missing all the quick launch short cuts. I will run it like it is for now, and if it doesn't survive, I will go back and install my apps one by one fresh after if it survives 4 days on a fresh barebones install.

thanks guys
[Epic 4G Android Development] asdfghjkl:
Did you ODIN the EB13 modem? go into settings/about phone/baseband version...If its DK28 at the end, look for the EB13 modem and flash with ODIN and youre good. Ive had no problems with calls anymore...
[Epic 4G Android Development] jman805:
Thanks for the reply. Yes I did Odin EB13.
[Epic 4G Android Development] asdfghjkl:
No prob. And as far as i know (not much lol) you could just ODIN the modem again and it should clear the problems...If not try ODIN the whole EB13 with 3.0.0.6 ... What i would do is search for nubecoders thread about "databackup like bonsai". Use the backup flash before you ODIN. Then after the first boot you can try the "datarestore" zip in clockwork. Make some calls and see if its ok. Then reboot and install bonsai again. All problems should be gone...or an easier way would be go into clockworkmod and clear data (still not sure if that deletes all your apps lol) so just on case run Databackup.zip....Let us know if you find a fix
[Epic 4G Android Development] jman805:
I will give it a try and report back. Thanks!
[Epic 4G Android Development] abonet:
I can't help but wonder if some of these "code rot" issues are related to ext4. ext4 is very aggressive about buffering and caching -- only performing physical writes when it's good and ready. This increases performance, but sacrifices some reliability -- especially if journaling is turned off (not sure if this is the case with the ext4 that CWM installs).

In any event, if something bad happens on your phone and ext4 hasn't flushed, you could end up with a corrupted file system -- which may manifest itself in odd ways.

It's my understanding that Samsung's RFS filesystem flushed much more often -- which made it slower, but arguably more reliable. Which makes me wonder if users have experienced this "my phone started acting weird after X days issue" with RFS? Maybe Sammy is smarter than we're giving him credit for?

Just a thought.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ToiletDuck555:
Fixed my FC issues by restoring data partition from an old backup. Guess I will just have to be more aggressive with my backup schedule.
[Epic 4G Android Development] badbeats:
Hey everyone

Rom: Bonsai4All EB13 V3.0.1 EXT4/Clockwork 3.0.6

Kernal: Bonsai4All EB13 V3.0.0

No theme currently, and no widgets running

I wanted to give my phone a couple weeks, to see how 3.0.1 was running. I have icons disappearing, but overall everything is ok, except for 1 problem.

I must have something (maybe setcpu) wrong, I am not getting great battery life. I have set cpu set for 1.2/400 normally, and then 200/100 when the screen is off.

When the screen is off my battery life is great losing less 1% an hour.

If I have a phone call, even if I set the phone down, and use speaker phone with the screen blank, I am losing 1% every minute or 2. Before 2.2.1 if I did this during a phone call, I could talk for 4 hours on a full charge.

If I am on wifi, and browsing the internet again I am losing 1% a minute.

(This is with screen brightness on the lowest setting)

Thanks for the help, I look forward to some good advice!
[Epic 4G Android Development] p3dr0maz:
I wanted to get some more opinions on this as well and here's mine.

Listing what SetCpu settings I've used and put them in order from best battery life performance to least battery life performance IMHO.

1) 100-1 ghz conservative

2) 100-1.2 ghz conservative

3) 100-1 ghz smartass

4) 100-1.2 ghz smartass

I don't use profiles. It's all relative I guess. I am not a heavy user. I text every now and then. I have background data/syncing on cause I need it for my work email and that's about it. I have one widget: Clockr. Usually on Wi-fi set to never sleep. FWIW, I usually notice with battery life that the first 10-20% go really fast, I think this is because we never really charge all the way to 100%. When i get to the meat of the battery from like 79% and down is when i notice the percentage drops are much more steady and less frequent. IMO, a big battery life saver is killing the OmaDrm.... service.

Only services that are running:

Clockr

SanService

AndroidSprintExtension

SnsPhotoService

MakeSimDBService

Google Messaging Service

CM_Service

SyncManager (email)

SnsService

Android Keyboard

I just plugged in my phone to charge and it's at 10% with setting 1. 18 hours unplugged.
[Epic 4G Android Development] didopido:
Did you get an answer for this issue? I tried to find a fix for the camera closing at low battery, but no luck so far.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ryoung07:
The rom below is the one I'm currently running. Sucks that I can't get bonsai to work.

I do want to thank kennyglass123 for taking the time to try to help me out. It's appreciated.
[Epic 4G Android Development] supercluver:
battery drain testing

Here are two plots from Juice Plotter.

Plot 1 shows where I toggled airplane mode after rebooting which gets rid of my TWS bug, which I believe is not only visual but causes increased battery drain. I'm lead to believe this because I get much better battery life on wifi, like ridiculously better.

Plot 2 has two red circles. The earlier one is my drive to work, before I toggled airplane mode, which lasts about 1 hour. My TWS was 50%. I added a line to show the slope. The later circle shows my drive home, after toggling airplane mode. My TWS is 0%. I copied the earlier line and pasted it there by the later data, showing the drain is much less. I lost 13% on the way to work, and about 6% on the way home. I never touched my phone either time, it was idle the entire hour.

I'm going to do more testing, but to me it really appears that the TWS bug is more than visual.
[Epic 4G Android Development] dps33:
First time ever , I jsut rooted my Epic and loaded Bonsai4All. So far no issues at all. I haven't added anything extra either and left all defaults. Battery lif e is great specailly when it is idle. Waht are the best settings for SetCpu or for that matter for anything else to get great performance and battery life? Has anyone published any defacto setups?

Oh, ya I did install SPB 5 beta on my phone and no problems. One thing it is very quick with Bonsai ROM compare to how it was before with Sprint Std. Epic.

I did notice that gettign connected takes long time while making a phone call and some tiem it will stay at dialing................... and nothing will happen. Also If I dial a number and turn on the Speaker right away, call would not go out.

Great ROM. NO FCd. No quams. Very quick. :)

Dipak:)

Edited: Is there away to have Camera come on when you press Camera button without , one have to login? Or Play Music?
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
The reason for better battery life on WiFi is that WiFi is more power efficient.
[Epic 4G Android Development] supercluver:
Yes, I know. What I am talking about is very poor battery life on 3g. And that it is appearing to me, based on my prior experience and now my two plots and others experience, that the TWS bug is more than visual. It is appearing to cause somewhat higher battery drain.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jaronow:
That could be, i've never been plagued with tws, knock on wood, but I have noticed that certain apps and games that have adds will cause tws like symptoms with battery drain until I either reboot or do a level 2 memory clear to kill all tasks/processes

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[Epic 4G Android Development] musclehead84:
So I guess all this work.that everyone has done on eb13 will now be ported over to ec05 once its released on March 21st. Please Samsung get it right this time around. Along with stupid sprint Id. I hate upgrading to a release especially since I'm happy where I'm at now. Oh well ill quit ranting. Sorry

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[Epic 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
I agree with u :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Top Nurse:
This time I will make sure that the new Bonsai will get tested with my BT devices. What else should I use besides my earpiece?

Sent from Bonsai 6.0.3 :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] pjjohn73:
You have a hands free car device to try. I'm having the same repeat pinn issues but more so with Ec05.
[Epic 4G Android Development] danasmith2816:
Maybe they will finally get the update right and bugs removed giving the developers the tools for some even better roms than we have now, although this Bonsai 3.01 is going to be tough to improve on :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] huytrang90:
Bt works good.ast least with my first play with the moto hd set.

g
[Epic 4G Android Development] dps33:
If EC05 is out on 3-21, and I ahve Bonsai4All 3.0.1, OTA would not show up on my phone ? will it? I am guessing that I just ahve to wait for newer ROM from Bonsai based on EC05.
[Epic 4G Android Development] iSaint:
you guys think you have it bad -_- my stupid computers are both messed up drivers wont install anymore so odin doesn't work for me 8(

i have no idea how ill be able to upgrade
[Epic 4G Android Development] supercluver:
If you need bluetooth testing, I use my epic with Ford's SYNC in my car, and I have a 1 hour commute (each way) every day of the week for testing. Let me know, I'd be happy to help. Thus far I have had no issues with bluetooth on 3.0.1, other than my car listing my phone as "BRCM Bluetooth" rather than "Epic 4G" which is what is listed in the bluetooth settings. But that doesn't seem to affect anything.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Yeah, if you edit the name, it will stop showing as "BRCM Bluetooth".
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
did you flash the EC05 modem?
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
is this supposed to have flash built in? i went to a site last night and it said I didn't have flash, thought foryo has that built in? anyway, i downloaded 10.1 from the market, is that what i'm supposed to do? tried a site i know is flash, it comes up now but can't go anywhere past the home page.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Yep, that was the right move.
[Epic 4G Android Development] contradude:
That's unusual. Try running ccleaner from piriform in registry mode after running the portable version of superantispyware to make sure there's no spyware on your machine
[Epic 4G Android Development] aypanthony:
Any car kit or headset that also uses A2DP.
[Epic 4G Android Development] maddogv6:
My BMW iDrive has issues with the Epic4G. But i dont think its related to the ROM. It did this with stock DI18 and EB13. I cannot get my phonebook to sync up with up with car. i can just make and receive calls. but when i switch off bluetooth on my epic, and then turn it back on when i get to the car, it sometimes will not repair. its a hit-n-miss!

does this mean i have to loan out my car for testing?
[Epic 4G Android Development] musclehead84:
Yes you do. Ill be over to pick it up soon. Ill promise to bring.it back when testing is complete. Lol

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[Epic 4G Android Development] dwallersv:
But aren't those plots visual?

nyuck nyuck nyuck :D

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[Epic 4G Android Development] supercluver:
hahaha I needed a laugh being stuck in my office on this beautiful friday.
[Epic 4G Android Development] abrcrmdl23:
So I know I have seen this issue in this thread but my search was unsucessful and there are so many pages i just couldn't look through them all. I used to have random reboots and that issue seamed to fix itself, but some times when I do a reboot my battery icon will be at around 60-70% and then after the reboot it drops to 15% or so really low sometimes lower. I wanted to knwo if anybody knew if the battery icon before or after the reboot was acurate and why it would be giving me false readings. or not updating properly and a possible fix for the issue. thanks.
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
This has been an issue since stock eclair and dont think there is ever going to be a fix, besides dont reboot more then 1 time in a row, its weird but doesnt bug me..
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Thread cleaned. Please do not post warez. Thank you.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Kelvala:
Make sure you swing down here to Fl so we can test the "range".
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
For me, this phenomenon seems to happen whenever I reboot unconventionaly (by conventional I mean hold power button and hit power off). If I reboot using quickboot, the reboot option in the shut down menu, or if the phone reboots on it's own, that is when it throws the battery meter off. I've also seen it happen many times when using the One-clicks for CWM(where it also reboots on its own).

My theory is that the batterystats file is not completely writen to disk before it shuts down, causing the OS to create a new one on boot time. It eventually evens out after a charge cycle or a battery swap.
[Epic 4G Android Development] musclehead84:
Sure thing. I want to come to Florida so bad.

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[Epic 4G Android Development] spf2722:
Getting some weird activity on the lockscreen on/off. When I turn the screen off the lockscreen wont engage. I will turn screen back on and screen wont be locked.

Sent from my Premium Epic, bliatch.
[Epic 4G Android Development] badbeats:
Hey I only saw one response and wondered if anyone had any ideas. Also I could not find a threat that has... set cpu best settings..... I think that would be a great thread!

"Rom: Bonsai4All EB13 V3.0.1 EXT4/Clockwork 3.0.6

Kernal: Bonsai4All EB13 V3.0.0

No theme currently, and no widgets running

I wanted to give my phone a couple weeks, to see how 3.0.1 was running. I have icons disappearing, but overall everything is ok, except for 1 problem.

I must have something (maybe setcpu) wrong, I am not getting great battery life. I have set cpu set for 1.2/400 normally, and then 200/100 when the screen is off.

When the screen is off my battery life is great losing less 1% an hour.

If I have a phone call, even if I set the phone down, and use speaker phone with the screen blank, I am losing 1% every minute or 2. Before 2.2.1 if I did this during a phone call, I could talk for 4 hours on a full charge.

If I am on wifi, and browsing the internet again I am losing 1% a minute.

(This is with screen brightness on the lowest setting)"
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
ooooo Warez... :eek: What was it exactly ? Just out of curiosity to see whati missed.
[Epic 4G Android Development] musclehead84:
I'm not sure either. I was wondering the same thing myself.

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[Epic 4G Android Development] bjhill2112:
Somebody posted a link to a cracked SPB beta.
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
oh............
[Epic 4G Android Development] Top Nurse:
Simple. Fdisk your drive, reformat, and install os. ;)

Sent from Bonsai 6.0.3 :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] Top Nurse:
I would be pleased to test out for you. Can we swap cars for about a week or so. :D

Sent from Bonsai 6.0.3 :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] abrcrmdl23:
Hey thanks guys I guess I won't do the quick reboot anymore then I just wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy haha.