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

[jmiller0519]

Hey guys, I haven't been on or done squat with my epic for a while, but lately my what was once super stable phone has been buggy. I thought I'd swing on by pick up a new root, flash to stock etc.

What I hadn't realized was the gingerbread news. WTF happened? So sprint pushed an update that effectively makes our phones suck royally from what I'm reading? At this point is my best bet to just go to whatever root I was running of EC05 and get that all back up the way it was? It seems like there aren't any good answers. I considered going to stock, updating OTA and then rooting that or even just leaving it, but sounds like that's asking for instability.


What's the consensus?

 

[Skunkape60]

Loaded clean gb ROM on my daughters epic and have never had an issue with anything.

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[cerobles1]

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

I'm running Thunderhawk 3.3, and the black out 1.1 theme. Still running on 25 % of my battery left, and my Battery Use screen says my phone has been on for 1D 7hrs 15 min. That's more than 30 hrs and still havr a quater of my battery left for the day. U should try a Custom ROM based off EI22. That's ur best bet

 

[jmuru]

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

Any custom GB ROM won't give you any problems. The stock GB does have a few bugs, but if you know how to root and flash a ROM, you get past those in about 15 minutes flat.

RandomROM, legendary, CleanGB are all excellent choices.

 

[Paul627g]

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

I would take the above suggestions and run with them... Just like Eclair or Froyo, GB custom ROMs will normally resolve any left behind headaches from Sammy & Sprint.

 

[Zeinzu]

Official cm7 > all.

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[jmuru]

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

Official cm7 > all.

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Agreed. It's what I'm running and I have no intention of running anything else in the near future. But, I think for first-timers, I'd stick to something more familiar and based off Touchwiz, and transition to CM later.

 

[adlebo]

I'm confused. I tried many roms including mostly stock, legendary, & ics something... but experienced random reboots even while just speaking on the phone. That made me think it was the roms fault. So I went back to stock but I'm still having rebooting issues. So is there any rom that's really stable? Cause I'm sick and tired of going back and forth.

 

[ratsttam]

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

I've found the stock GB to work pretty well compared to stock Froyo. It did introduce some issues such as the gps locking itself out after about 15 min, but that's not anything that wasn't fixed by the devs. Cyanogen works wonderfully on it, and it felt like a brand new phone.

 

[adlebo]

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

Do you have a link to cyanogen? I cant find it in the index of roms. I might try that.

 

[ratsttam]

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

Do you have a link to cyanogen? I cant find it in the index of roms. I might try that.

cyanogenmod.com

CyanogenMod Mirror Network - Powered by TDRevolution

Keep in mind, that you will NEED ODIN to go back to stock OR a non MTD based rom. Choose wisely.

 

[adlebo]

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

True but in the past I needed to odin back to stock from any rom that wasn't RFS. It's a pity we don't have yet the odin file of gingerbread. It would make things quicker.

 

[Zeinzu]

Not just that but should you return to stock or bml rom you need to have repartition checked in odin when you flash stock.

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[jmuru]

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

I'm confused. I tried many roms including mostly stock, legendary, & ics something... but experienced random reboots even while just speaking on the phone. That made me think it was the roms fault. So I went back to stock but I'm still having rebooting issues. So is there any rom that's really stable? Cause I'm sick and tired of going back and forth.

Random reboots stopped happening about a month ago. It was due to a RAM leak, but any of the current ROMs have it fixed, so you can flash any of the ones you tried and it should no longer reboot. Go with legendary or CleanGB if you want stability.

 

[adlebo]

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

If I go back to a rom, is there a way that I can put on back the touchwiz launcher? (call me crazy, but I prefer it rather than the "vanilla" ones)

 

[kitchin]

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

I'd recommend either Clean GB or Cyanogenmod, worked wonderfully. I live in Charlotte 4G was important and have stayed with Clean GB, but Cyanogenmod works wonders

 

[adjmcloon#IM]

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+1 on CleanGB. I am running CleanGB MTD, no problems. Works great! No force closes, good battery life, everything works!

 

[dchawk81]

If I go back to a rom, is there a way that I can put on back the touchwiz launcher? (call me crazy, but I prefer it rather than the "vanilla" ones)

CleanGB has a flashable Touchwiz zip in the posts for it over on XDA.

Sent from my hoe. Forgive the typoes; it's an Epic.

 

[Skunkape60]

CleanGB has a flashable Touchwiz zip in the posts for it over on XDA.

Sent from my hoe. Forgive the typoes; it's an Epic.

My daughters phone has had cleangb since it was released and according to her it has never locked up or rebooted since i installed it several months ago.

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[HAAS599]

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