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[Epic 4G Android Development] ThrIsNoSpork:
x2. Stop bloating this thread.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Phasma343:
I was enjoying the cyanbread theme a good bit.
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
Do you guys know when the camera, gps, & MMS will work
[Epic 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
Its being looked into. I believe that they got gps working (check a few pages back) but it won't be available to us till the next release. Mms they haven't really said its working yet
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
K But what doesn't make sense is that i can understand if MMS wont work as well as Bluetooth and GPS but the camera is hardware and is just an app so how does that not work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Dameon87:
The camera is much more than just "hardware and an app." The camera consists of the application, two camera libs, in which other libs are compiled against. Furthermore, the problems we are having lie inside of the libs.

I find it funny that out of ALL of the things in there, you picked the HARDEST one to fix.

MMS will be fixed, Bluetooth is working, just needs some fixing of audio routing. GPS is working.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Darkshneider:
Lol, snap!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Nunchucker:
To make a piece of hardware work with an operating system, a bit of code needs to be written that tells the OS how to use it. This code is called a "driver."

Samsung only wrote drivers for the epic's camera that worked for the Touchwiz interface that worked alongside Android.

Since Cyanogen Mod doesn't have Touchwiz, the developers have to write drivers that tell Android how to use the hardware instead.
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
Alright i figured it would be the easiest of all lol, but thats good that GPS is working

Those are like the three best things to have. Cant wait to next release to use all of it and have some Cyanogen Flavour on my phone.

Dude that was stupid i was just asking a question and he responded with sarcasm a bit we weren't arguing at all.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Darkshneider:
****'s your problem? Chill out homes. Take **** seriously on the internet, youre bound to get ulcers.
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
Thats my point why do you gotta act like that, your starting a stupid argument.

Because of your comment.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Darkshneider:
Ugh, Im done. Proceed with CM7.
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
So my other question was how far along are you guys coming to the next release?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Darkshneider:
Do not ask for ETAs... first rule of Cyanogen. Check the github.
[Epic 4G Android Development] boostedjti:
Have you guys tried contacting jt over on the fascinate side? I mean I know our devices are different but he fixed half of our camera.

It's great to read the progress. Just waiting for a few more things before I flash the gf's epic with this. You guys are pretty awesome!
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
It wasn't an ETA it was more of how far along are you guys on the progress so far? besides the things he had mentioned i mean like what else are you guys are working on?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Darkshneider:
*Not worth reading*
[Epic 4G Android Development] boostedjti:
Anything that doesn't work is on the list........
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
i thought that was just a basic list i meant more like the things there stuck on exactly

Can you just keep your damn comments to yourself? Seriously like WTF is your problem. Do you like the attention because your getting it right now.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Darkshneider:
Stop posting, seriously. Just read the pages starting from April 1st and get answers.

Edit: Oh and btw, my *not worth reading* post was an edit to the original post I made, which I deleted to prevent further ****.
[Epic 4G Android Development] boostedjti:
I'd say they're stuck on that.

And anything else that doesn't work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
Thanx for the info
[Epic 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
Sounds like you guys have made great progress. Looking forward to flashing
[Epic 4G Android Development] squshy 7:
Ughh..unappreciation abound...

Anyway, back to the last little tid bit as far as battery life...

I need to do some further testing, but two gut feelings I had were that the screen was using more power than it should, and that the system wasnt killing processes efficiently.

The latter I'm divining from the fact that the system bogged down pretty frequently after moderate use, and I found myself having to kill processes manually in order to regain the CM smoothness its supposed to have (which I know isn't supposed to happen given how well gingerbread manages free memory and processor time).

The former, the screen thing, is just a hunch. I'm off Sunday so I plan on doing some system panel battery plots in correlation to some screen on time experiments (all in comparison to a non undervolted viperrom), as well as plotting overall system activity.

And on a side note: the notification bar is funny. Its almost like you guys had to build a workaround to get it working. I say this because it doesn't respond to things like enabling a swipe gesture in order to pull it down in either adw or launcher pro, nor does hitting "menu" from the homescreen and tapping "notifications" bring it down. Its like its not, what's the word, system persistent? Or maybe its just a Gingerbread thing.
[Epic 4G Android Development] sm_x:
I don't usually post, but this thread is starting to frustrate me.

For every1 complaining about noops asking questions, please stfu.

If you have the energy to post an angry post answer the damn question and save every1 the trouble. Else stfu and let some 1 answer it. You are in no way obligated to answer the question.

For every1 else. If you have a question please don't let the trolls discourage you from asking. I will do my best to answer every question asked after this post.
[Epic 4G Android Development] biscojams:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=940095

Does this help anything? Looks like its for the captivate , fascinate and galaxy s..
[Epic 4G Android Development] gophergun:
It's mainly an issue of questions that are already answered (asking for ETAs and asking about 4G). It's alpha software, not ready for consumption by the general public. Support shouldn't be expected, especially if a search saves the post. Obviously, intelligent, development-related questions are still welcome.
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
Both of you are correct but mainly if people can understand what the question is and not just assume something and take the time to read each word in the statement,question, or phrase. Then there wouldn't be stupid arguments or assumptions.
[Epic 4G Android Development] amirite:
I definitely agree with all of that. Especially your point LostSoul. Don't be afraid when you're legitimately confused, because people who have been lurking for awhile can tell! And we will do our best to help you :)

From now on maybe we should just ignore those posts that have less thought put into them. They don't deserve an answer (because they will probably find it themselves anyway), but they probably don't deserve the flame either.

I'm just flabershasted at the posts that say "Hey guys, any updates on MMS, 4G, GPS, Camera, and all of the other broken things???" like, literally listing all of the current bugs in the rom.

No **** you're on the edge of your seat - so are all of us! :P The only reason ANY of us are getting worked up is because we appreciate the dev's hard work and we want to provide productive discussion.
[Epic 4G Android Development] squshy 7:
Well I vote stay on OP. This is a discussion best saved for the general subforum. Please stay on topic.
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
Well im going to flash this now and hopefully everything goes good and it works fine but will most likely jump back to SRF seeing how its in production state haha
[Epic 4G Android Development] GucciPilot:
Wow, they have front facing camera working for the gsm phones... What I don't understand is if those phones and our phones use the same camera sensors, why couldn't we easily port their code to ours? Especially something like a camera, which I wouldn't think has anything to do with the cell radio. I just hope the new sprint gingerbread rom and or nexus s 4g gets released asap, along with source code to help development on this project. I feel that I can never fully express my gratitude to all our devs and their hard work. Thanks again!
[Epic 4G Android Development] amirite:
From 2 pages ago:

Should give you an idea as to why it's difficult. And as Daemon says its the most challenging issue.
[Epic 4G Android Development] XxLostSoulxX:
Running this now but its very plain obviously and what's wrong with the sd card saying its not popping up. I know this was mentioned pages abck but can't seem to find it?
[Epic 4G Android Development] InfDaMarvel:
The entire camera issue is pretty funny. Ive never thought about how a camera works.
[Epic 4G Android Development] squshy 7:
If you go even further back theres a fix posted...
[Epic 4G Android Development] brendan802:
from post 1230 page 123

Open root explorer, and go to directory /system/etc/ in this directory please click button "mount r/w" and find file vold.fstab, long tap on it, and select edit. In this file delete all that comes after "...sdcard / mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc2". Reboot device, and your sdcard is on (=
[Epic 4G Android Development] amirite:
Don't forget, about the camera... the guys just snagged another dev, Decad3nce, who I believe worked on other Cyanogen projects...? Anyway from what they say he has a great pedegree and you can see his camera commits to the github here (at least some of them). Thats probably the best thing you're going to get for a while as far as progress reports on the Camera fixes.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Darkshneider:
Deca did wonders on the Hero for Sprint, I would know, I was there. My phone would just not die from battery, even with full brightness, playing video, GPS, wifi, bluetooth and OC (I was trying to calibrate the battery), the thing would just not DIE! And this was with his kernel.
[Epic 4G Android Development] evohog:
Thanks. This worked perfectly. My epic is my music center so I can't live without the sd card, thanks again.
[Epic 4G Android Development] brendan802:
I know how you feel I was going crazy without access to my sd card too.
[Epic 4G Android Development] pimpin oh boy:
Is there a fix for the aipplane mode it keeps freaking out flash it self on and off
[Epic 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
I haven't had that issue. Try reflashing the rom again see if that works
[Epic 4G Android Development] smugface:
I know this rom is not supposed to use a specific modem. But try flashing a different modem. That seems to be what causes this issue.
[Epic 4G Android Development] AproSamurai:
I'm curious, as to the theming aspect has anyone tried using Metamorph to change anything lockscreen, animation wise?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
I haven't tried iit. The only theme thing I've used was galaxy green from the market. Its really cool how it changes everything and makes the notification pull down transparent
[Epic 4G Android Development] AproSamurai:
Yeah, theme chooser makes everything amazingly easy I'm using Steel Blue(ViperRom Theme somewhat) But i'd like to also change the lockscreen, but that'll come in time, as of no my phone still is running amazingly.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
Same here :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] knx2:
Nvm 10chars
[Epic 4G Android Development] couraage:
Great work, CM7 team. Can't wait to flash this.
[Epic 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
Are you using cm7 as your daily driver? What kind of battery life are you getting?
[Epic 4G Android Development] amirite:
I've been daily-driving this since alpha 1 because I am a masochist and like having things not work on me while I'm on the road. I hesitate to answer this question because this is an Alpha and the answer will be completely different once we have a release candidate.

For the time being, I would say its pretty much on par with any other stock ROM that doesn't have any optimizations built in; maybe even a little less. But again, this is an Alpha and literally no work has been done on optimizing the battery life, and the custom kernel we have is at v0.01 so it'll probably be a while.

Unplugging in the morning at around 8:30 I can make it until the end of a work day, 6:00 for me. Im pretty much unable to listen to any music or do anything on the bussride home because theres a 90% chance that's when it'll die. But this is with my screen at the dimmest brightness, and with me controlling the running services pretty liberally. I have a lot of apps, and they are beasts (VNC, multiple social network sync accounts, an EVE online app, folder organizer, and a few others that probably switch on often). So take that for what you will. Occasionally I will get lucky and I'mm have a charge that lasts well into the evening, but thats rare and I dont expect it because I don't understand what kind of black magic even makes that possible. Happens with other roms too.
[Epic 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
This is very helpful. I have been wanting to flash but battery life is important to me as well. I will run it for awhile and see how things work. Thanks again for taking time to get back to me.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Shadomastr:
Along the lines of battery life, I've noticed that when I turn my phone on in the morning after a full night on the charger it has about 89% charge. I need to charge with the phone on to get to100%. Is this a problem others are having? I suspect that turning the phone on takes some battery but 11% seems excessive.
[Epic 4G Android Development] 903tex:
You need to charge to full with phone on. Turn phone off and then let it charge to full. Go to cw3 do a battery wipe in advanced menu. Then turn phone on and charge to full and you should be good to go. But being alpha it may still drain that battery to 90% the first fifteen minutes.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
Ya I'm running it as a daily and I get pretty good bat life. It could be better but this is alpha so I'm not complaining lol.
[Epic 4G Android Development] littlepr:
Sweet! Can't wait to see thus baby in full.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jspielberg:
Hey Gopher...

You can get details at:

CODE CHANGELOG:

Available at these three links.

Device files: https://github.com/EpicCM/android_de...ts/gingerbread

Kernel source: https://github.com/EpicCM/samsung-ke...commits/master

Initramfs: https://github.com/EpicCM/samsung-in...commits/master

You might also be interested in

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=978544

Which are step by step instructions for building from source. It is pretty much straight up if you follow the first three threads diligently.
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
For those of you that want VVM, see my post here :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] spf2722:
No problems at all, only fc I have gotten was when I tried the camera.(yes I know it doesnt work, I was just checking). Never used cynogen before, so there id alot to get used too. Amount of options is insane. Great job CM7 TEAM.

Sent from my Premium Epic, bliatch.
[Epic 4G Android Development] othan1:
I know it's a small detail, but I got a chuckle out of reading "Your screen willh NOT flash..." instead of the usual "will flash" message.

Stupid, I know, but little details amuse me.
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
You're not alone, I enjoyed that too :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] joshottley:
I'm getting the same bug I got with cm6. Every so often it will say I have a voicemail an to dial *86. But I have no vm.
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Did you take the steps to set up VVM as detailed in my thread? How did you set it up?
[Epic 4G Android Development] :
When Devin says that the radio is working, does that include 4G? I don't see it mentioned, and I wasn't sure whether getting 4G to work for CM was as difficult for the Epic as it was for the Evo.
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Not even an option to turn on 4G, so I'm going with no :p
[Epic 4G Android Development] NEXUS 4G:
Pretty good for an alpha haventhad any funky issues with fc's. But I do get errors when connecting wifi AP, and I can get Bluetooth on for anything.

Also when u make a phone call u can't adjust the volume for speaker or regular. The volume changes on display but actual volume doesn't change. Either way I'm keeping it
[Epic 4G Android Development] humdrum2009:
this is sweet given time we will have a nice aosp

unless we all hop on the nexus s 4g bandwagon lol.
[Epic 4G Android Development] yogi2010:
thank you very much, sir, i will try this. and while i'm at it, do you know of a fix for the 9016 text message for every voicemail? i tried moving different sms apks into the ROM, but no other ones would install. thx!
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
I'd try blacklisting it using a blacklist app from the market, I think one of them is called red call or something like that...... :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] stir fry a lot:
Two questions.

1. If I flash this, when updates are released can I just flash it over the existing build or will I have to wipe data everytime?

2. Just a suggestion, but could you map the smiley button on the hardware keyboard to be an @ symbol instead?

Thanks for all the hard work. Up until just a week or two ago I was becoming seriously disenchanted about buying this phone and considered jumping ship to the Evo.
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Usually you can just flash. Sometimes wipes are recommended, but not required.
[Epic 4G Android Development] nullghost:
1. Yes. since you're going from CM7 to CM7, leaving apps alone is fine. I'd still recommend a dalvik-cache wipe each time though.

2. Smiley button is disabled because it causes Power and Volume buttons to not work. If we can come to a reasonable solution (like a .com popup instead?) we may re-enable it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Are you guys aware of the arrow inversion on the keypad? Not trying to push you, just want to make sure you know :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] johnbarry3434:
+1 This is an annoying bug, it was also present in the cm6 build. I am keeping it regardless also though.
[Epic 4G Android Development] nullghost:
No, we ignore all the posts in this thread that don't come from us. ;)

But seriously, we'll look into it. If and only if it's as simple as changing button mappings in one file, you might see it fixed in the next release.
[Epic 4G Android Development] 063_XOBX:
I'm no developer, but is there a reason the Nexus S camera drivers wouldn't work? I mean its the exact same hardware with AOSP drivers.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Decad3nce:
Nexus S: Samsung S5K4ECGX

Galaxy S: NEC CE147

Not same hardware.
[Epic 4G Android Development] 063_XOBX:
Good to know, from what everyone was saying, I was lead to believe they were the same.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Darkshneider:
You can tell the difference by looking at the camera specs. The Epic can do HD video, the Nexus S cant.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ddpacino:
I'm averaging about 12-15 hrs/day, managed to get over 20 hrs when I'm on wifi most of the time.
[Epic 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
Much thanks to all who responded about battery life. I will flash and see how it goes.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
Its good dude just run it today and try it out what ever rom u have now just do a back up in cwm that way tomorrow morning u can restore and be good to go :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Lord-Audie:
Will this help?

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/16/galaxy-s-gingerbread-update-now-rolling-out-across-europe/
[Epic 4G Android Development] drizek:
Can't hurt.

Is the source code out?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Dameon87:
It will not help. Unless it is a leak of our device running gingerbread, then it will not help at all.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Shinzon2006:
Hello all, just wanted to say I used to develop for my hero but I am not familiar with samsung. If I can offer my assistance to any of the devs please pm me and I would be happy to help the development of cm7.

-rick
[Epic 4G Android Development] jbadboy2007:
You should pm them.
[Epic 4G Android Development] DevinXtreme:
You're more than welcome to fork our git and shoot us pull requests when you get something working. We aren't an exclusive team and appreciate all the help that we can get. Hop on IRC, too, and we can get you set up right proper. #epic on irc.fossnet.info. (We have our own channel, but it's dead)
[Epic 4G Android Development] drizek:
Well ED12 is supposedly Gingerbread.
[Epic 4G Android Development] 063_XOBX:
Well it's not leaked.
[Epic 4G Android Development] drizek:
Well not yet.
[Epic 4G Android Development] NEXUS 4G:
even if it were the same hardware, the camera app on our phone runs samsung camera... with panorama features and all these other things...

nexus s is aosp they are different camera softwares, its like the camera on the "moment" compared to the camera on our phone, completely different... people seem to forget that samsung spent allot of time and effort bloating up and f'ing up our phones with all there touchwiz crap.

the camera is based off tw framework. just like our dialer, task manager, camera; even something as simple as our contacts list has tw framework built into it. thats why only galaxy s phones (or at least phones with tw framework) can install the samsung video editor app... hence when first installin launcher pro on your phones, if u clicked either the dialer or the contacts button in the dock, it would say application not present... everything on our phone is infested with tw... thats why the camera wont "just work". it doesnt have anything to do with the hardware... but dont worry... our devs are smart. i forsee us having a fully functional cm7 released and synced with Cyanogen himself by the end of the summer. 4g included, with or without the help of the nexus s 4g.

and if it doesnt... touchwiz 3.0 isnt actually that bad... i mean the dialer is dope. the camera is wicked, i like the ability to slide left to message and right to call, we got a free video editor app, built in task manager is dope, pinch to zoom homescreen, calculator app is nice when held in landscape. brightness slider in the notification bar, not to mention the date pops up whenever u touch the notification bar, easier than switching to the calendar. and the list goes on... sure samsung doesnt update to often from what i here * cough cough *

but keep in mind they have four versions of the same phone they have to upgrade with different cariers, which has to be a pain, some with this feature some with that feature, this is gsm that is cdma, this one has a keyboard, that one has 4g... wait those are both us :)... anyways u get the point... and we did get upgraded first out of all of em,,, didnt we... and if nothing else... at least Sammy aint lockin there bootloaders right....
[Epic 4G Android Development] NEXUS 4G:
it cannot because aosp camera software is not capable of hd recording, the hardware on the phone is capable. i think it only takes pictures up to 3MP. should all be remedied soon from what im hearing,
[Epic 4G Android Development] Shinzon2006:
Alright. I'm at work now so it will be a little later. But id love to help.

Sent from Epic 4g. Using XDA app.
[Epic 4G Android Development] icreative:
I understand that the only camera not working? Perhaps you would have gladdened to changelog and the new version?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Coriolis3ffect:
When they feel its ready...
[Epic 4G Android Development] evohog:
This rom is damn good for an alpha, only bug aside from the obvious is the screen staying dark on incoming calls. I press power twice and it shows up. Quadrand doesn't mean much but I do like high numbers.
[Epic 4G Android Development] cabi24:
http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-releases-gingerbread-source-code-i9000

I know this has very little bearing on this project, I just wanted to make everyone aware. :)