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[Epic 4G Android Development] othan1:
In a typical development cycle, even though a build is incremental and newer than the last, it does not mean that bugs that did not exist in the previous one do not appear in the new one. It's very common to take two steps forward and one step back in software development.

An Alpha build is generally released for QA during incremental new feature additions. Normally, the public at large would never see an Alpha build. The Beta builds are going to be your feature complete builds. Although they contain all the features slated for that release, there will be bugs related to those features and, many times, bugs unrelated to the features. Once almost all the bugs are found (or product feels the clients aren't going to get any critical bugs) then they can begin RC testing. Not all companies do RC testing (ours goes from beta to release) and that's fine, too.

So, this was just a brief and very short summary of the development cycle. There are other theories and practices (waterfall, agile, etc.) which definitely differ upon the culture of the company.

Just for giggles, here's what happens when you have a company that DOESN'T adhere to any SOP:

1. Product has a vague idea of what they want. They tell engineering, "Build me something that kinda does this and that!"

2. Engineering gives up on trying to get specifics and start building something from their limited mind-reading skills.

3. Product sees what they're building and tells them they're wrong...repeat steps 1 and 2 for several weeks.

4. Product and Engineering finally come to a tentative agreement that what's being made is kinda, sorta what Product wants and can work with it.

5. President/CEO sees we're working on something new and wants to put his 2 cents in...repeat steps 1 through 4 for several more weeks.

6. Once a tentative agreement is reached, the CEO/President decides they have moved on to something else and tells Product that whatever they want to do is fine.

7. Repeat steps 1 through 3 again.

8. QA gets first Alpha build which doesn't work at all and is told they're testing wrong. They need to do these 55 different workarounds just to install the product that doesn't work anyway.

9. Lot's of whining, gnashing of teeth until QA says "who cares anyway, we're getting paid" and then the cycle repeats until a Beta is achieved.

10. Beta sorta works but still has many bugs but Product decides that they have to rush the release now and tells Acceptance to verify the features are in the build.

11. Even though QA finds hundreds of new bugs, the product is released because sales promised clients something that doesn't exist and clients begin calling in.

12. Support gets calls, blames QA for not testing the build properly and the Product and Engineering team gets big bonuses for getting the product out early.

The End...or is it?
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Thread cleaned. Let's try to keep this on the topic of the rom please ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Seanc13:
Hey, I don't remember if this has been asked, but is there any way to use camera or get mms through market apps? Or is it all screwed because of things apps cannot work around?
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Unfortunately, this will not work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Seanc13:
Figured so, just thought I'd ask, I'm tired of the rom I'm on and don't really want to switch to the others, I've used all of them before but I have always liked CM on my phones better, but I cant get by without mms or camera
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Yeah, have you tried ACS's rom?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Seanc13:
Yea, that's what I am running right now, I just really want CM, nothing against any of the developers, I love all the roms, I just really want CM because thats what I've been used too
[Epic 4G Android Development] maldito.boss:
Y'all anyone knows how's mms and camara doing on this so called beta1 that's is going (soon I hope so).....
[Epic 4G Android Development] coke32:
Yea I know the feeling lol. I used miui rom and cyan 7 on my girls evo and would have a stiffy for these on the epic lol!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Skimp Killah:
There's an app called camera fun I think, Ive heard it works, I used it, and it got the camera to work, but when I tried to take a picture it FCed, other people have said it works fine, and you could always do MMS through the sprint website, but thats kind of a pain in the ass.
[Epic 4G Android Development] electronicmaji:
I can get by without mms and camera's I just want to have gpu accelerated interfaces...
[Epic 4G Android Development] inimitableac:
MMS and camera and Bluetooth is all I need GPS isn't necessary lol MapQuest will suffice for that
[Epic 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
Same for me. Where's beta1 lol jk keep up the great work. ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] guruleenyc:
My SMS text messages are no longer being sent, getting exclamation marks and recipients never receives them...

Anyone having this issue?

__________________________________

Epic | CyanogenMod 7 Alpha 1
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Do they work after a reboot?

Sent from a truly Epic phone on the XDA Premium app ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] jbadboy2007:
There is a whole thread in general bout this. But if your clearing lvl 2 ram that's what is causing it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] nullghost:
We don't have Samsung's Task Manager, so clearing lv2 ram in that manner isn't possible. However if you're using another app to manage memory, that could do it.

Moral of the story: CM7 has very balanced memory management values, and gingerbread handles open apps differently. Please don't use a task killer or memory manager. In the case of cm7, they'll cause a hell of a lot more problems then they'll solve.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Dameon87:
Screen on and off animation now works. (TV screen animation, like the Nexus S)
[Epic 4G Android Development] nullghost:
See this guy right here? He gets to do all the fun stuff. :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] DevinXtreme:
I'll just leave this here...
[Epic 4G Android Development] anfrany:
Quick question, does that mean that Hardware UI acceleration is working?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffyv2:
OMG OMG OMG!!! Lol
[Epic 4G Android Development] greezestain:
Pretty sad that in my heart of hearts, I value this above camera and gps.
[Epic 4G Android Development] inimitableac:
Hate to sound negative but what's so special about screen on and off animations? I rarely notice the difference whether I have one set or not. Now MMS, GPS, HW Acceleration, and Camera I notice. Once again I'M NOT TRYING TO BE NEGATIVE so can some one please explain to me why it's so important maybe I'm missing a point somewhere lol.
[Epic 4G Android Development] DevinXtreme:
When you get to try it out, you'll understand.

It's purely a cosmetic feature, but it's a big deal. You'll know soon enough.
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
@Devinxtreme

This has nothing to do with this thread but everytime i look at your avatar i think that little robot thingy is a mask and u are wearing it.. lol :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] inimitableac:
Thank you for the answer and yea I thought it was a mask too lol
[Epic 4G Android Development] NEXUS 4G:
Screen animation, tho the option is there, does not work in the cm alpha builds. Youtube it and the difference will be obvious. It's also on the "xda tv" wrap up for last week, I believe.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Phasma343:
It means that hardware acceleration is working on the interface. :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] knx2:
Oooooh!

Sent from my Samsung-SPH-D700
[Epic 4G Android Development] deano0714:
And most likely it has a gingerbread kernel.
[Epic 4G Android Development] icreative:
Mmm...wonna a4 or b1 link (= maybe epic cm team can give us this happy link?)
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Please wait; it's not polite to be begging for links.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Etrick:
Tv animationsmade cm7 feel different on my hero. Video doesn't do it justice. Maybe its just me but its real slick. I se it on wifeys and miss it. Its the speaker toggle on calls that's holding me out. Impressed with your work.

On another note, is a3 a dfferent kernel? I haven't flashed it, assumed the newer kernel is what added the new bugs/allowed new fixes...

Ps... Is there a twitter account tied to this?
[Epic 4G Android Development] K@ng2011:
Dont mean to be noobish but since I am kinda Noobian, is CM 7 a Gingerbread Rom 2.3 or is 2.2 Rom.

Thanks,
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
2.3 all the way :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] ninz0rz:
all CM7 roms are based off gingerbread
[Epic 4G Android Development] wj0t:
Wow, I search for pancakes and i find this amazingness.. whats working in the version that y'all have?
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
See what's working on the first post ;)

Sent from a truly Epic phone on the XDA Premium app ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] riceknight:
They do indeed have a twitter, though it hasn't been updated this month.

TeamEpicCM7 Twitter
[Epic 4G Android Development] LiberatorUSA:
I grabbed the code for this ROM from Git via DevXtreme's profile. You guys might want to add a link to the code archive in the first post for people willing to build from source? :)

I never compiled a ROM before just native apps. Is this somewhat the same? Can I just invoke the NDK build system for your .mk in your archive root?
[Epic 4G Android Development] D`Nyed:
there's a whole thread about how to build CM7 from the source
[Epic 4G Android Development] LiberatorUSA:
This is not "official" CM right? So do the same instructions apply?

Could you please point me in the right direction? (URL) Thanks!
[Epic 4G Android Development] ninz0rz:
This will be an official CM
[Epic 4G Android Development] kab0b0:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=978544
[Epic 4G Android Development] silver03wrx:
Read people read. This is becoming ridicilous. All of these questions have been answered time and time again. Please read before posting questions so this thread can be open so updates from the amazing cm7 devs can be posted not rederick that's posted in several threads already. Read before you post take 10 minutes too reasearch before u post. So ppl like me and the rest of us can follow this thread without nonsense. Thanks
[Epic 4G Android Development] CrfEpic4g:
Sooooo when's this gunna be fully functional
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffyv2:
Only in a perfect world lol
[Epic 4G Android Development] nullghost:
CM7-EPIC4G-ALPHA4

http://www.multiupload.com/RWQ0DYGSEM

google apps are in the first post.

Changelog compared to Alpha 1:

Screen On/Off Animation working

hw accel mostly working

video codecs partly working

wifi works even through data wipe

bluetooth works (except in call, sorry)

If I forgot something, oh well :p
[Epic 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
Downloading now thanks for the hard work guys
[Epic 4G Android Development] jbadboy2007:
Wow sooo late but great lol. What happened to the status being beta?
[Epic 4G Android Development] silver03wrx:
Number 1 rule or cm Don't ask for eta. Be grateful read and appreciate
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffyv2:
Its just a status....as long as there is progress
[Epic 4G Android Development] ninz0rz:
i think this is just to keep people quiet a little longer until the beta is ready....
[Epic 4G Android Development] silver03wrx:
Number 1 rule of cm Don't ask for eta. Be grateful read and appreciate
[Epic 4G Android Development] DevinXtreme:
Posting your feedback here in this thread is the most useful right now. That way, the entire community can be involved in our debugging and see how problems are fixed as they arise.

Now that we have an alpha-release out, we'll try and get things fixed and pushed out in a timely manner. Hopefully we can hit nightly/beta stage soon.

Stable might be a ways off though.
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Ok here goes:

Besides listed issues, here's what I see....

On some apps and text boxes, the hardware keyboard's arror configuration is messed up

No led notifications

No hatic feedback strength changer or haptic for key press

Signal not showing in status bar, says I have 0 bars when I don't ;)

That's all I can think of for now, overall very nice alpha :)

Sent from a truly Epic phone on the XDA Premium app ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Shiggity:
Sweet mother of a monkey! haha I'mma flash this baby now, and let y'all know what works, and what doesn't, though I bet it'll be 100% usable in its current form.
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Oh yeah its more than useable :)

Sent from a truly Epic phone on the XDA Premium app ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] AproSamurai:
I'm legitimately in love with this alpha right now, I helped with testing for CM6 on the moment so I have no problem sacrificing in certain areas, but this is amazing I must say, I can use this as a daily driver honestly, not too much bad going on. Yeah no screen off animation, but that's not important it still runs beautifully. One cool thing is holding the search button opens up a blank sms to send a new one to anyone which is cool. It's a nice shortcut even if it's not meant to be that.:) Also on the hw keyboard the up down left right buttons are inverted, or at least mapped strangely. Up is left Down is right left is up and right is down, at least in messaging, but other than that this is beautiful.:) Thank you Dameon, Nullghost, and Devin, as well as Noobnl for his predecessing work, you guys are amazing developers. An Alpha this smooth is beyond comprehension.
[Epic 4G Android Development] epic4GEE:
Reflash, I had a similar issue the first time I went ext4, a second flash of my rom fixed it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] flopez76:
New bug, when ever you're sending a text message and it exceeds the total number a letters and has to make a second text, it sends a whole bunch of random letters and symbols.

Which equals no fun when sending those long dirty text (; haha I kid

Sent From My Command Center... (aka basement)
[Epic 4G Android Development] ms79723:
changing the lockscreen style froze the phone. had to reboot. also, before that reboot nothing was working really. couldnt install apps from astro file manager. couldnt load a page in the browser. the reboot fixed it though.
[Epic 4G Android Development] XtaC318:
Means MMS is broken. You won't be able to send pictures either :/
[Epic 4G Android Development] ms79723:
mannn >.< it did that with the miui and cm6.2 rom..I forgot all about that. Just when I thought I escaped...
[Epic 4G Android Development] AproSamurai:
I believe I saw an option which sends the first message and continues onto you typing another message.

EDIT: Just tried it, go into your messages and do SMS split every 160 and then it should separate the messages so no gibberish comes up, I just tested it with my brother and no issues, as far as I can see. I'll try it further to be sure.
[Epic 4G Android Development] krazyflipj:
There should be a setting in the messaging app that lets you split text

Sent from my CM7 Powered device
[Epic 4G Android Development] DevinXtreme:
I need MMS sending and receiving logcats. Make them and pastebin them and I'll take a look tomorrow. I'd like to get them going. The more, the merrier.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jaronow:
There is. Its in the settings menu for you to check

I also experianced the intense heat upon flashing the Tom but after changing the live wallpaper to a standard pic it cooled down in 2 min. It must have to do with the hardware rendering not working

Sent From My Epic Bonsai Tree
[Epic 4G Android Development] yogi2010:
hi, i managed to move Visual Voicemail in from another ROM, and it installed but it isn't verifying my account..... do you think that if i give it time it will work, or is there an incompatibility with this ROM? thx
[Epic 4G Android Development] ddpacino:
I await a beta for testing at least. Great work!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Shiggity:
Yeh.. I played with this ROM for a few mins (yeah I know.. not really enough time) but I could already feel that it wasn't ready for my everyday constant usage. I'll wait for such [cosmetic] things as the cellular signal bars getting fixed, mms, camera (photo and camcorder), gps, hw gpu acceleration, and anything else that may create bugs. I'll use this ROM fulltime when all EXCEPT 4G is functional. EvDO 3G is more than enough for moderate data usage, at least for me, as I really just occasionally tether when traveling, and listen to streaming radio when I'm out and about.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Whosdaman:
My one question is why the use of the froyo kernel?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jbadboy2007:
OMG this trumps EVERY ROM MADE even in its alpha stage. OMFG this is every thing i i thought a rom was supposed to be. is it the tw framework that normally makes the phone so restrictive or is it samsung? this rom is mindblowing and for all of you that are leary of an alpha dont be this might as well be a beta and will be my daily from now. I thought ACS frozen was pretty good ha not even on the same level as this rom. no dis respect this rom is just that good. Thank you too everyone involved i never used a cyanogen till now.
[Epic 4G Android Development] krazyflipj:
Do u use titanium backup? If so, make sure you have a backup of visual voicemail from a stock rom and restore data when u install the app in cm7

Sent from my CM7 Powered device
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffyv2:
No need to repost just edit ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] drizek:
And I just got ACS to run stable...

Oh well, can't wait for the screen off animation.
[Epic 4G Android Development] epic4GEE:
I read that last part and pee'd a little!!! THANKS:D

Diving in now.
[Epic 4G Android Development] professoroak:
OOhhh so tempted to run alpha4! I wanted to wait for Beta but the screenoff animation is seductively calling my name! How's it running so far guys??
[Epic 4G Android Development] epic4GEE:
Well I literally just dl'd A4 and flashed. So far all looks good, all 2 minutes of it:D

To the cm7 team should I opt into anonymous data reporting? I will if it helps at all.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
Dude it runs so smooth u wont be disappointed at all
[Epic 4G Android Development] professoroak:
Is it dailydriver-able? I heard A1 was a few people's daily driver, but A3 was a bit buggy. Just wondering if A4 is A3-like or A1-like regarding stability.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
I think it runs better than a1 but tomorrow will be the real test. I had a1 as my daily so ill see how this goes. Ya its daily driveable
[Epic 4G Android Development] FrameCityJackal:
Is MMS working?

I didn't see it in the OP anymore....
[Epic 4G Android Development] bullitnutz:
A3 seemed to be situationally buggy - some folks had bugs and some didn't but there were some strong correlations among who did and didn't have issues. I had no issues either on A1 or A3, but I'm now using SRF because, well, I wanted camera and GPS (you beat your heinie I'll be coming right back when those are working).

Overall, I imagine the sheer amount of input from users on A3 resulted in those issues being addressed in A4. This coding team has been better than Blizzard in their execution (and seemingly of a similar attitude on timetables - it's done when they feel it's been done right.) and I have little doubt A4 is a beast. It's just currently a blind beast with only a vague sense of direction.

Anyway, you could just make a backup and then flash A4. If it isn't working out for you, roll it back, no harm no foul.
[Epic 4G Android Development] epic4GEE:
It feels complete, but determining if it's a daily driver is up to the user. I can't make that call for you. I love the cm7 settings tho, like battery percent by checking a box, move the notification bar to the bottom of the screen.....cool stuff I didn't play with in A1. Feels better than A1, but haven't used A1 in weeks.

Good job CM7 team
[Epic 4G Android Development] FrameCityJackal:
I'm thinking of using this for a day, now when I do a nandroid backup my current setup, if I don't want CM7 I can jus restore my setup from before without any problems correct???

Or would rom manager be easier??
[Epic 4G Android Development] ninz0rz:
just back up before you flash this rom and you should be able to restore in recovery.
[Epic 4G Android Development] maldito.boss:
No is not working I just try but no luck
[Epic 4G Android Development] showmrock:
GPS and Camera not working......can't locate my SD Card either....weird....guess i'll have to keep waiting
[Epic 4G Android Development] epic4GEE:
If your backup is bonsai or midnight you will have to flash the rom over your backup to get the kernel back, all others with separate kernel packages will just require the kernel flash after restoring. Also if you prefer no journaling, flashing the rom again will be necessary. No rom manager.

On to A4, I see they switched out that adreno 200 from A1 with the proper sgx540:D. I've been putting this baby through it's paces and I see very good CPU and GPU performance. If it had cam, GPS and 4G it would be a release candidate. I think I'm running this for a couple days at least...me likes it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
thinking about giving this a test run. where do you download the additional alpha releases like a4?
[Epic 4G Android Development] epic4GEE:
Here ya go.
[Epic 4G Android Development] icreative:
A4 work quicker and smarter, almost no bugs, but the memory card does not see and did not even format) =
[Epic 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
thanks for the help
[Epic 4G Android Development] epic4GEE:
Funny score on sb2011 prod-554 game-969

Everything else is running great tho

Sunspider0.9.1=5900

Sqlite=48.64

Quadrant=1500+

Neocore=53.4fps

nenamark=48.3fps

Good ****!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Dameon87:
Please note that they changed the cumalitive score calc in the 2011 version of smartbench.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ttieder:
Is there any way to fix the sd card not reading that's a must for me and is everyone having this issue
[Epic 4G Android Development] Skimp Killah:
Had the same problem in A3, tried mounting and umounting the SD card in recovery, and still, nothing

Any Ideas?
[Epic 4G Android Development] epic4GEE:
Mine is fine, no issues here. Didn't format SD, just wiped factory, cache and dalvic 3x. Came from bonsai.

Can you guys get into cw3 still? If so I'd say wipe and flash again.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ttieder:
Did the same should I wipe and flash again
[Epic 4G Android Development] icreative:
oO i find mistake!!! !!!/system/etc/vold.fstab!!!

"sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc2"

at rom

"sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc2:....etc"

open
[Epic 4G Android Development] NEXUS 4G:
What does this mean... How do I get my sd card to work
[Epic 4G Android Development] icreative:
NEXUS 4G, install rootexplorer, mount r/w at /system/etc/ edit file vold.fstab
[Epic 4G Android Development] ThrIsNoSpork:
screen animations still not working for me :(

nvm had to set the window and transition animations in spare parts to normal. oh well its worth it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ttieder:
Can you explain that a little better
[Epic 4G Android Development] terinfire:
I'm going to finally take the plunge and try A4. Will keep ya'll posted on any issues. Thanks Team Epic! Looking really forward to the final/stable releases (and future CM releases going onward into Honeycomb/Ice cream sandwich, etc)!
[Epic 4G Android Development] icreative:
ThrIsNoSpork, all works great!

ttieder, soory but i speake english badly)=
[Epic 4G Android Development] NEXUS 4G:
Edit the file from what to what please?

Also I can install cm7 from cwm 3 but can't install google apps... Can this be done from 3.0 or do I have to go back to 2.5 to run cm7 with gapps ... If so do i have to odin back to 2.5. Or can I do it all from my phone
[Epic 4G Android Development] LemonHead2089:
works fine for me in CWM 3.0.0.6. try downloading the gapps again from the OP
[Epic 4G Android Development] NEXUS 4G:
That's where I got it from this morning... Did u flash them back to back or flash boot reboot than flash gapps