Is it true? Did Sprint turn the epic into a paperweight for us?

[Zeinzu]

CleanGB > CM7 at the moment. CM7 does not support audio out through USB.

For you. I don't use audio through usb so I'll take cm7's performance, battery, and better overall coding and features. Not knocking you just saying not everyone needs the same things.

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[jmiller0519]

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Thanks for all the input guys. Been on vacation the last week so I just got my phone back to a clean froyo ACS Syndicate ROM I had from before so it would at least function normally for now.

I think I'll check into going to gingerbread with Cyanogen mod. I'm not ready to change phones yet, although I am rather disappointed with Sprint's lack of support for the Epic. My "4g" speeds are non existent, 3g sucks, GPS is next to useless half the time. But we'll see what GB and Cyanogenmod do for me.


I just want stability. decent battery, GPS, wireless tethering that doesn't cost me $20 a month (eff you sprint!) and decent data coverage so I can surf relatively quickly.

 

[SamsungSucks]

I am on CM7 and would not recommend this to some one that just wants their phone to work. This is only at RC0 and has nightly updates. I personally like doing this.

If you want something stable go with the GB Stockish/mtd ROM on xda.

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[jmiller0519]

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I am on CM7 and would not recommend this to some one that just wants their phone to work. This is only at RC0 and has nightly updates. I personally like doing this.

If you want something stable go with the GB Stockish/mtd ROM on xda.

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Oh cool. Thanks for the input.

Yeah at this point I've had my fun with rootingand roms and all the fun of android, but I'm beginning to wonder if some of my network issues and data issues have anything to do with all my playing around. I love what rooting does as far as actually opening up the usabilty of my phone but at the tradeoffs of some of the instabilities it gets annoying.

Maybe it's the epic and the nonexistant support from Sprint and Samsung, I'm not sure. Definitely looking into a change though.

 

[jmiller0519]

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Ok really dumb question and I apologize in advance because I'm sure if I search harder it's answered.

I haven't used GB yet I'm about to try it. What can I do to just root it? No kernal no rom just root access so I can delete some bloatware (if I can remember how) and install an app to tether it.

Links??

 

[jmiller0519]

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Ok so I Odin'd back to stock, did the OTA GB update and played around with that for a bit while seeking out the most simple method of rooting I could. In the process I found my GPS to work, my data to seem acceptably fast, and everything to work quite pleasently.

At this point I kind of want to leave it for a few days and see what it's like stock, especially battery usage, GPS, and data. Honestly the only reason for me to root is to remove stupid junk like the nascar bloatware and to allow myself to tether. Assuming this stays nice and seemless.

 

[jmiller0519]

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Update: Still seems to be running quite satisfactorily. Debating doing the basic root to remove apps and add a tether. However I'm going to wait a couple days just to see. Also it appeears Sprint is pushing out another OTA starting today and I'm curious what that will do.

 

[daehttub]

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Looks like Sprint cleaned up it's OTA GB update a bit. I tried my 2nd OTA update of Gingerbread yesterday on my stock Epic 4G and everything is running quite nicely. The only minor glitch is that the LED light doesn't go on when charging but that's a quibble with NOLED installed. Even an in the city GPS test worked out OK. The acid test will come when I get on the highway to go out of town. For those frustrated users like me that got trashed with the original OTA should have the Sprint store flash it back to Froyo and try the OTA again. That is for those of you (like me) that don't want to root our phones yet. My only other quibble is that the Quadrant benchmark only came back with a paltry 1140 which is only a marginal improvement from the 1000 I had on Froyo. At least it is a bit quicker.

 

[jmiller0519]

Re: Is it true? Did Sprint turn the epic into a paperweight for

Looks like Sprint cleaned up it's OTA GB update a bit. I tried my 2nd OTA update of Gingerbread yesterday on my stock Epic 4G and everything is running quite nicely. The only minor glitch is that the LED light doesn't go on when charging but that's a quibble with NOLED installed. Even an in the city GPS test worked out OK. The acid test will come when I get on the highway to go out of town. For those frustrated users like me that got trashed with the original OTA should have the Sprint store flash it back to Froyo and try the OTA again. That is for those of you (like me) that don't want to root our phones yet. My only other quibble is that the Quadrant benchmark only came back with a paltry 1140 which is only a marginal improvement from the 1000 I had on Froyo. At least it is a bit quicker.

So maybe that's why mine is working. I just updated last night for the first time so I gotta a cleaner update.

I saw some links that say the next OTA should start pushing as soon as tonight too.

 

[daehttub]

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Update on Cleaner OTA GB Update: It's been a few days and everything has been working wonderfully on my stock SprintEpic 4g. The only snag of course has been the GPS. After over an hour on the trails, the GPS hung up on the Endomondo workout application and I lost the mapping tracks. It did retain the workout time but all GPS info stopped sometime around 30 minutes. Now that the internet blackout protest is over, I'll get the GPS fix stuff from the XDA site and give the stock non-root GPS fix a try.

P.S. The Sprint garbage application (Nascar, etc.) updates are memory hogs and worthess. I wish I could uninstall the original applications so I stop getting those update notices.

 

[jmiller0519]

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Update - I'm having the same GPS problems everyone else was now, and random freezups. Probably just going to change phones, maybe even cancel sprint. Seems that Samsungs android phones are all having GPS issues and issues with updates and stuff.

 

[daehttub]

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The EL30 thread indicates that the GPS problem might be fixed so I am going to hold off on the non-root GPS fix. Sounds like that fix might have to be undone for the EL30 update to work properly. I want to stay stock and am eagerly awaiting the EL30 update. Of course, I'll follow the EL30 thread to make sure there are not Update bugs and give Samsung/Sprint the chance to tweak the update. There definitely is a "bleeding edge" in the Android world given how messed up the original GB OTA was.

P.S. I've never had a GPS problem on stock Froyo.
P.P.S. To Moderator - Sorry for my misplaced post on the EL30 thread. Doh!