Is anyone else here still completely unable to link computer and phone? (reported to bug thread) All these wonderful solutions that I can't try!
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[EI22][GINGERBREAD][EPIC 4G] Official Gingerbread Thread
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So for this option you can only take a screenshot while your computer is plugged into the computer? That doesn't seem too practical...
After a bit more mileage with Gingerbread I'm less impressed. The keyboard still skips after all. The first time I tried using GPS it was worse than ever, wouldn't lock in until I rebooted. The phone has also spontaneously rebooted itself a number of times in just a couple of days. Booting up at first seemed faster but it's already slowed down quite a bit...
Anyone know why the media scanner runs twice when I start the phone? It did this in Froyo but I was hoping this would go away with Gingerbread. I could've sworn the first few times it only scanned once but now it does it twice which is a PITA.
First thing is to get the drivers installed. Get the 32 bit or 64 bit drivers to match your Windows. If you're still using XP it is most likely 32 bit. OEM Vista OEM installs tended to be 32 bit in the Home and Home Basic versions and 64 bit for versions like Ultimate and Business. I've yet to encounter a 32 bit OEM install of Windows 7, but I expect they're out there on lower end OEM boxes.
Once you've run the driver install and rebooted, simply plug your Epic 4G into a USB port using the cable from the charger which came with the phone. Yup, the wall wart has a power only USB port on it but the cable to it has all the wires so it also works for data.
You'll get a selection on the phone screen with three buttons. Poke mass storage. Windows will install some drivers and you'll be able to access the SD card - but the phone will not be able to. Use the Safely Remove function in Windows to dismount the phone then unplug the cable.
Now go to Menu, Applications, Development and check the USB debugging box. Plug the USB cable into the phone again and Windows should install more stuff.
When that's done, unplug and uncheck the USB debugging box, then power off the phone.
Open the keyboard, hold the 1 key then hold the power button until the Downloading screen appears. Plug the USB cable in again and Windows will install some more stuff.
You can now either power the phone off and back on to return to normal operation - or reboot Windows then use Odin to flash the kernel that stops the automatic replacement of the stock recovery and the rest of the goodies to root Gingerbread and start doing all the nifty stuff.
That's it. I hate Gingerbread. My phone seems way more buggy than ever before. Rarely did my phone just lock up in Froyo, like it has multiple times per day in Gingerbread.
On the rare occasion I had to restart my phone with Froyo hitting power/vol up/camera would let me soft reboot. This doesn't work in Gingerbread. What's the magic key combo to soft reboot in Gingerbread?
On the rare occasion I had to restart my phone with Froyo hitting power/vol up/camera would let me soft reboot. This doesn't work in Gingerbread. What's the magic key combo to soft reboot in Gingerbread?
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Pull your battery... They removed the soft reset (Vol up+Camera+Power) option in GB.
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Does anybody have a stock Sprint Epic 4G running a bug free Gingerbread without Rooting yet? About a week ago, the trained monkeys at the Sprint Service Center reflashed me to Froyo instead of reflashing Gingerbread as I requested (as some folks on the Sprint Community Forum suggested). Maybe they were doing me a favor. They did not have the ability to reflash Gingerbread back then and haven't called yet. I don't think that is a good sign. In all fairness, the front desk customer service reps are polite (thankless job) but the hacks in the service shop aren't that bright. Their suggestion was that I make sure the GPS option is turned on my phone. It's bad enough that they are not knowledgeable about the current Gingerbread issues. How they can treat customers like idiots is beyond comprehension. Now I have to constantly cancel the OTA update on my Froyo Sprint Epic 4G. I can?t believe Sprint would allow the Update to continue with the litany of bugs I?m seeing on all the Sprint Epic4G boards (GPS, LED Indicator, Lost Texts, reboots, freezing, Netflix, etc.). The game changer for me is GPS. I don?t want to carry another GPS device with me all the time when I travel. For now I am happy to hang on to my fully functional Froyo Epic 4G thank you.
I did a clean flash to stock FroYo followed by putting the Gingerbread update.zip in the root of my SD card. I then followed the directions for updating.
Next I flashed this kernel package kernel-GB-3.tar.md5 with Odin 1.85. That's the stock kernel with a keyboard fix that's even better than the fix in stock Gingerbread. It also removes the script that automatically replaces the stock recovery when the phone is rebooted.
After rebooting I used Odin to flash ACSRecovery1.0.0.5.zip It's based on ClockWorkMod.
Then I booted to ACS Recovery and installed su-3.0-efgh-signed.zip to finish rooting Gingerbread.
To finish up I used ACS Recovery to install ei22-nociq-signed.zip to remove Carrier IQ. If you've watched the news this past weekend, the media has finally noticed CIQ on smartphones and drummed up the usual hysteria. My interest in removing it was mainly for the performance improvement without CIQ using CPU cycles monitoring everything.
I also used ACS to install GPS_FIX.zip (272,988 bytes) but far as I could tell the GPS was working OK before.
One major item Gingerbread fixes, but doesn't seem to be officially noted as a fix by Sprint, is the horizontal calibration. With FroYo the phone must be calibrated with the screen facing down. Calibrate it face up and screen rotation is unreliable, the compass is all wonky and it also seems to have a bad effect on GPS.
Calibrate the Epic 4G face up with FroYo and run GPS Status. Turn the phone and the compass dial will rotate with the phone and may indicate you're facing North when you're facing South, and South for North, but oddly is correct for East and West.
When I did the upside down calibration, all those problems were fixed. The compass dial in GPS Status correctly stayed pointing North as the phone is rotated and screen rotation worked correctly.
That's one whopper of a nasty bug that somehow got past QA. Worse was SamSprint never ever bothered to produce a fix nor even published a notice about doing the upside down calibration. We had to wait, and wait, and wait lots more for the Gingerbread update, and still they didn't acknowledge the bug in FroYo EC05.
Next I flashed this kernel package kernel-GB-3.tar.md5 with Odin 1.85. That's the stock kernel with a keyboard fix that's even better than the fix in stock Gingerbread. It also removes the script that automatically replaces the stock recovery when the phone is rebooted.
After rebooting I used Odin to flash ACSRecovery1.0.0.5.zip It's based on ClockWorkMod.
Then I booted to ACS Recovery and installed su-3.0-efgh-signed.zip to finish rooting Gingerbread.
To finish up I used ACS Recovery to install ei22-nociq-signed.zip to remove Carrier IQ. If you've watched the news this past weekend, the media has finally noticed CIQ on smartphones and drummed up the usual hysteria. My interest in removing it was mainly for the performance improvement without CIQ using CPU cycles monitoring everything.
I also used ACS to install GPS_FIX.zip (272,988 bytes) but far as I could tell the GPS was working OK before.
One major item Gingerbread fixes, but doesn't seem to be officially noted as a fix by Sprint, is the horizontal calibration. With FroYo the phone must be calibrated with the screen facing down. Calibrate it face up and screen rotation is unreliable, the compass is all wonky and it also seems to have a bad effect on GPS.
Calibrate the Epic 4G face up with FroYo and run GPS Status. Turn the phone and the compass dial will rotate with the phone and may indicate you're facing North when you're facing South, and South for North, but oddly is correct for East and West.
When I did the upside down calibration, all those problems were fixed. The compass dial in GPS Status correctly stayed pointing North as the phone is rotated and screen rotation worked correctly.
That's one whopper of a nasty bug that somehow got past QA. Worse was SamSprint never ever bothered to produce a fix nor even published a notice about doing the upside down calibration. We had to wait, and wait, and wait lots more for the Gingerbread update, and still they didn't acknowledge the bug in FroYo EC05.
an easy fix is: go ahead and let the OTA install to GB, then root and flash the GPS_Fix.zip. Instructions are on this forum under "how to root." Very simple, and your phone will lock onto all the visible satellites.
Great Post! Was the GB Update a DEODEXED ROM (i.e. the one called "Mostly Stock GB")? I understood that you couldn't install the NoCIQ fixes without having to change from the stock GB ROM to deodexed first (which I assume requires a complete wipe). I have the stock GB from the OTA and rooted with the keyboard and GPS fixes, but am considering the no CIQ. CIQ service runs under the name "ANDROID SYSTEM" (I guess to fool you). I think when I do my Gemini App Manager "One Key RAM Optimizer" that it gets killed for a while, because I won't see it in running services after that.
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Word.
I wasn't getting text messages, so the sprint person on the phone suppport line said she opened a ticket for me to be reflashed with froyo. I took it to the store and 3 hours later, they gave my phone back after a factory reset (which I said I had already done twice). They sent it 6 text messages and said "Works great
"But, this was enough to demonstrate that my phone was going to be like my car and my motorcycle and my guitars: I would be better off working on it myself than paying someone else to do a sh it job.
I rooted and applied the gps fix and am pretty happy now. I haven't really done anything else yet, but the gps works now and I found out that this isn't rocket surgery. it's pretty straight forward of you follow the steps listed here. I would say to manually apply the update rather than risk any BS with the OTA update being corrupted. Then follow the steps for rooting and applying the GPS fix. If you have problems later, you can use the same methods to put it back to stock so the slack jawed lackies at sprint won't know you are a h4x0r.
I used the Gingerbread update zip from Sprint, so when that was done it was a completely stock install, ready to be hacked.
No the ciq runs under the process sprint IQ or sprint id I can't remember which right now as it's been a while since I got rid of it. Android system is not ciq.
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The "Android System" on MY phone IS CIQ. I couldn't find it until I went to manage applications and opened Android System and it clearly says "IQ Agent Service". When I had Froyo, "android system" was on all the time when I checked phone sleep in spare parts. If I kill it, it stays down for a while with seemingly no percusions to my phone which is not what I would expect if this were truly an android system app.
Sprint Samsung Epic 4G.
I am still surprized how much time I spent on fixing Epic 4G!
It seemed like a decent phone, but had several ed problems:
1. Short battery life = upgraded to thick 2x battery with a thick cover.
2. Spring has very poor coverage = after a year of suffering discovered, that roaming and data roaming are free and now always use roaming option no matter what. That solved signal problem but there is no 4G anymore.
3. The physical keyboard skipps keys especially if a key is repeated twice. I was really disappointed about that for 1.5 years.
Gingerbread update, as appears now doesn't solve this problem.
So what I did:
(originally I rooted my Froyo (old android os) and installed a keyboard fix. Rooting is a process that allows modifying the Android system deep inside. The original fix didn't fix the problem. ) Then I discovered that my phone doesn't install the gingerbread update that was feeded by Sprint. After a couple of months, I decided to force it and succeded.
(This set of instructions was great and educational, but didn't work for me - http://forums.androidcentral.com/ep...95-rooting-ei22-gingerbread-instructions.html
the phone would beep (1+3) vibrations signaling about the system crash after restart.)
Here are the steps that worked:
1. Download "App list backup" from market.
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...e.backup&feature=search_result&token=SAtxBoM-
Backup the list of apps to sd card. The program then helps installing the apps from the market one by one. Since there is so many of them it remembers which ones were installed. Not more than that.(Titanium backup is great except it requires rooting which I am not sure I want anymore since rooting prevents automatic upgrades).
2. Followed this instruction to Flash/Restore to Froyo EC05 (Procedure #1)
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ep...68-how-factory-restore-fix-bricked-phone.html
3. Manually upgraded Froyo to Gingerbread.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...read-epic-4g-official-gingerbread-thread.html
4. Installed a custom kernel with a keyboard fix.
Epic GB kernel sources! (11/22/11 EI22 keyfix kernel) - xda-developers
A quick test shows that the keyboard lag has been fixed. Otherwise it is an official Gingerbread eligible for further automatic updates.
Here are the files I used.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/83934/epic/index.html
I am still surprized how much time I spent on fixing Epic 4G!
It seemed like a decent phone, but had several ed problems:
1. Short battery life = upgraded to thick 2x battery with a thick cover.
2. Spring has very poor coverage = after a year of suffering discovered, that roaming and data roaming are free and now always use roaming option no matter what. That solved signal problem but there is no 4G anymore.
3. The physical keyboard skipps keys especially if a key is repeated twice. I was really disappointed about that for 1.5 years.
Gingerbread update, as appears now doesn't solve this problem.
So what I did:
(originally I rooted my Froyo (old android os) and installed a keyboard fix. Rooting is a process that allows modifying the Android system deep inside. The original fix didn't fix the problem. ) Then I discovered that my phone doesn't install the gingerbread update that was feeded by Sprint. After a couple of months, I decided to force it and succeded.
(This set of instructions was great and educational, but didn't work for me - http://forums.androidcentral.com/ep...95-rooting-ei22-gingerbread-instructions.html
the phone would beep (1+3) vibrations signaling about the system crash after restart.)
Here are the steps that worked:
1. Download "App list backup" from market.
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...e.backup&feature=search_result&token=SAtxBoM-
Backup the list of apps to sd card. The program then helps installing the apps from the market one by one. Since there is so many of them it remembers which ones were installed. Not more than that.(Titanium backup is great except it requires rooting which I am not sure I want anymore since rooting prevents automatic upgrades).
2. Followed this instruction to Flash/Restore to Froyo EC05 (Procedure #1)
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ep...68-how-factory-restore-fix-bricked-phone.html
3. Manually upgraded Froyo to Gingerbread.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...read-epic-4g-official-gingerbread-thread.html
4. Installed a custom kernel with a keyboard fix.
Epic GB kernel sources! (11/22/11 EI22 keyfix kernel) - xda-developers
A quick test shows that the keyboard lag has been fixed. Otherwise it is an official Gingerbread eligible for further automatic updates.
Here are the files I used.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/83934/epic/index.html
george1614
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after the upgrade to GB i only experienced a problem with the keyboard and sometimes gps..... but i recently rooted my phone with the "mostly stock root" and all of the issues disappeared.
try it! I stopped whining after doing this.
try it! I stopped whining after doing this.
Yes
This is exactly what I did at work last night:
Start with rooted EC05 Epic on ACS Syndicate ROM.
Odin back to stock EC05.
Download OTA update (confirmed it is EI22)
Install OTA Update let phone restart etc.
Update PRL
Install Facebook, play around upload pics, share pics, etc. seeing how data works.
GPS my way back home
Place on Charger.
That's it. That's all I did. So far so good.
Just to update I'm still running as smoothly or smoother than ever. I'm going to hold off on re-rooting for a bit.
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