Simply put, can rooting your phone (Epic), flashing roms, kernels, themes, etc... harm the phone itself? Things such as data connectivity, screen or rotation lag or anything else?
Any insight would help!
Well if you know.what you are doing no. You can always Odin back to stock.
Sent From My Evo Killer!!!
Counter?
I wonder if there is a counter like on the TP2? When you were in EPST it would show the number of times the phone had been flashed...I think I was up to almost a 100. I imagine Sprint would know you were up to something if they saw that but harmful to the phone....naw
There really isn't any harm in the root it self. or the Roms or anything else.
There is harm in not following directions or jerking the USB cord out while ODIN is working.
This is why Cyanogen and other devs include:
#include <std_disclaimer.h>
/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
*/
Now the chances of crap actually going south and destroying your phone? Pretty slim. The processes here are pretty stable at this point.
Ok great! Thanks for the replies guys! I'm pretty positive I've done everything by the "rooting book or guides" lol, but it may just be a coincidence that my phone is having an extremely difficult time browsing to the point where the loading page just hangs forever and ever and ever when I'm stock or rooted or running different roms... Also the auto rotate no longer works once I odin back to DL18 (stock). I know rooting and running the terminal yamaha commands fix this but my phone pretty much is useless when it comes to browsing right now. It took me about 10 minutes and 7 tries to download a picture text because of my data connectivity issues!
Could EB13 have caused these issues? My browsing and connection worked just fine when I first updated to EB13 via update.zip but after using odin to return to stock and then odin to EB13 I've had issues.
I think there's been a bit of an issue in other places about EB13 and "data lag." I would do a more specific search in the forums to see if you find an answer. As of now, though, I think it's just a bit broken for some phones.
Do you get the data issues on wifi?
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If you're not sure about going all out modding your phone, simply rooting it and staying on a stock rom/kernel is the best option for you.
Blankrubber said:
I think there's been a bit of an issue in other places about EB13 and "data lag." I would do a more specific search in the forums to see if you find an answer. As of now, though, I think it's just a bit broken for some phones.
Do you get the data issues on wifi?
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Well if I was to odin to eb13 should I have any issues regarding data connection and as far as wifi goes when connected, browsing is just fine, no issues.
Overstew said:
If you're not sure about going all out modding your phone, simply rooting it and staying on a stock rom/kernel is the best option for you.
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Its not that i'm not sure, I have no issues with modding my phone, its fun and provides features that should come stock!
I have been flashing phones for about a year. I started with my Pre. I have flashed that things more times than I care to count. I have had my Epic for about 4 months and have probably flashed to odin images (or what ever the official name is) about 15 times including installing patches and other modifications.
Overall with the maturity of the community I would say you are safe. If you want to be extra safe let others be a guiniepig for new roms or images. Just wait a day or two and see if anyone is having any problems with their phone.
Either way, with the way the phone is set up you can usually get into download mode and restore the phone to factory.
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So, i rooted my phone today, bricked it a couple times, then fixed it(this doesnt matter)
Ok, so i was really excited to get this rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=864445
(I got the trinity, NOTthe Frozen one)
Long story:
So, I install the rom on my phone, no problems...but it seems I'm missing something and I've looked everywhere because i can't sign into Gmail, even with WiFi...Then again, I have no service...3g, or 4g, or for calling. Absolutely no bars in one of the strongest areas of my house. I'm thinking I'm missing some type of modem... I cant find it, I think i found it previously but from a different website, and they didn't even give instructions. Please help me because this is an awesome rom and I don't want to go back to stock rom.
Short story:
-no service, or data service, either.
-Missing some type of "modem" to enable data
-Airplane mode wont turn off. When clicked, it keeps going on and off. Please help!
Thanks in advance.
Not sure if this helps but I was getting major signal drop on 4g. Come to think of it 3g too. I don't think you are missing anything if it boots up and opens. Sometimes devs make tweaks internally that may not be known to us. I know when signal is constantly searching you get major battery drain
UFE (Unidentified Flying Epic)
Well, at least it's not just me.
For me the only way I've found that reliable works is to Odin back to DI18 and start from scratch.
Unfortunately, I basically can't touch CWM afterwards, because doing anything in it seems to bring the bug back.
Hopefully there's a fix out there for those of us that are continually plagued by this rather bizarre issue.
Seems rather strange that reflashing the modem with Odin doesn't even do the trick.
Just to.let u know you said you bricked your phone a few times. If you brick a phone it doesn't come back. You can't brick a phone a couple times. To answer your question sounds lime you need to reflash the.modem. go into.settings and about phone and see what your baseband version is. It should the same as the software you are on. If you are on dk28 then it should be dk28. Also I would upgrade to eb13 since dk28 is ikd school now and to many bugs that were not fixed. Just my 2 cents. Good luck
Sent From My Evo Killer!
I got the update pushed to my phone yesterday and ever since there has been nothing but problems! First, the battery drains at a ridiculous rate. I unplugged it at 10:30 am and by 3:00 pm I was down to 60% without anything going on except 7 text messages. I can usually go 24 between charges. Second, the overall speed of the phone has slowed to a crawl. Web pages take forever to load, the app marked just hangs on the loading screen, and apps even take minuets just to open. Third, my phone randomly loses data connection. I cannot load any apps that require a data connection even when the wifi and 3G logo are showing with full bars. I get an error massage that says "connection failed" or "retry." it's so bad that when trying to sync notes or email my phone has the scroll wheel of death and freezes on that page. I've had the phone since thanksgiving and haven't done anything to it, its completely stock, I don't even know how to jailbreak it! I haven't had any issues whatsoever before I updated and now my phone is pretty much unusable. Is anyone else experiencing this? I need there to be an update to fix this update or for someone to tell me how to downgrade back to 2.3.4
You should try rooting and running an custom rom or kernel. I've received the ota as well but i immediately rooted afterwards. Im running the stock rom but using a custom, overclockable kernel, and its quick! Rooting is VERY easy on this particular phone & the instructions can be found here in the android development section of this phone model. Or you could simply just take the phone back and ***** to sprint about it and maybe they'll issue you a new unit.
I prefer not going to sprint at all simply because the only store with a repair center here where i live i worked at and it was terrible, but I need help. I want to know the simplest way to root and revert back to 100% out of the box stock if possible... If not i'll suck it up and go to the store
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL11g3-LKj4
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Do I need to root because this just shows him unrooting the phone?
You have been such a blessing! Thanks so much for being patient and dealing with my ignorance...
lol don't know yet.. but you are definitely more of a professional than I am so I am taking your word for it
I appreciate it. If I do encounter any problems I will let you know but so far so good. It's pretty easy to follow
It worked! Thanks again
Thanks! Being that I'm a pro now I will look into the whole rooting and flashing rooms. I even got the lingo down lol
Question though... Do I flash roms the same way as in the video or is there something different I have to do?
Hi Guys,
I'm really new to doing all this stuff. Got my phone rooted on a stock mod and am running the latest TWRP. I'm really unsatisfied with the JB 4.1.1 in terms of speed and would like to downgrade back to ICS 4.0.4. I've looked at a few threads on how to do this but there isn't really a direct answer. From what i've read it's just flashing the old stock rooted rom using Odin but is there anything else I have to do? Also all the other tutorials seem to be for CWM which I haven't had much success in installing. I just don't want to trip the flash counter. Thanks for any help.
ODIN is the only way to downgrade from a 4.1.1 to 4.0.4. You can get more information from here --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687
If I were you, would try other ROMs such as Frosty, DaRTHSTALKER, and WICKED first before spending so much time downgrading. There are some steps you can do to speed up your phone including removing un-needed apps such as weather, stock, SCloud, freezing the sync apps like google account (only sync when needed), or over-clocking your CPU.
DroidNewbcake said:
Hi Guys,
I'm really new to doing all this stuff. Got my phone rooted on a stock mod and am running the latest TWRP. I'm really unsatisfied with the JB 4.1.1 in terms of speed and would like to downgrade back to ICS 4.0.4. I've looked at a few threads on how to do this but there isn't really a direct answer. From what i've read it's just flashing the old stock rooted rom using Odin but is there anything else I have to do? Also all the other tutorials seem to be for CWM which I haven't had much success in installing. I just don't want to trip the flash counter. Thanks for any help.
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+1 for debloating. That's the problem.
What issues are you having with getting CWM on your phone?
VibrantThemer said:
ODIN is the only way to downgrade from a 4.1.1 to 4.0.4. You can get more information from here --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687
If I were you, would try other ROMs such as Frosty, DaRTHSTALKER, and WICKED first before spending so much time downgrading. There are some steps you can do to speed up your phone including removing un-needed apps such as weather, stock, SCloud, freezing the sync apps like google account (only sync when needed), or over-clocking your CPU.
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Thanks for the link. That was the thread I used to initially root my phone. I'm a little iffy on putting on custom roms as i've read that some of them mess up the calling and tethering and etc.
I've also run the de-bloater using the recommended settings. Should I go further? The phone itself isn't that slow for the most part but it lags at times. I find it extremely annoying when it lags when i'm typing a text message. Which is one of the main reasons i'm even trying to do this.
Also would downgrading trip the flash counter? Thanks for all your help so far guys. :good:
It sounds like some apps is constantly running in the background. Find out what apps is causing that issue and freeze it to see if it helps.
Anyway, in regard to the flash counter, you can use triangle away to reset the counter before downgrading.
DroidNewbcake said:
Thanks for the link. That was the thread I used to initially root my phone. I'm a little iffy on putting on custom roms as i've read that some of them mess up the calling and tethering and etc.
I've also run the de-bloater using the recommended settings. Should I go further? The phone itself isn't that slow for the most part but it lags at times. I find it extremely annoying when it lags when i'm typing a text message. Which is one of the main reasons i'm even trying to do this.
Also would downgrading trip the flash counter? Thanks for all your help so far guys. :good:
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VibrantThemer said:
It sounds like some apps is constantly running in the background. Find out what apps is causing that issue and freeze it to see if it helps.
Anyway, in regard to the flash counter, you can use triangle away to reset the counter before downgrading.
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Jellybean is way ahead of ICS in terms of batterylife and speed, the problem is on your end, try many of the rom's in the dev section, my rom i easily push 4 hours screen time. Make sure you stick to wifi as it uses less juice, turn wifi off when your away from a hotspot, keep bluetooth and gps off if your not using them. Limit the app's you have running in the backround
Danvdh said:
Jellybean is way ahead of ICS in terms of batterylife and speed, the problem is on your end, try many of the rom's in the dev section, my rom i easily push 4 hours screen time. Make sure you stick to wifi as it uses less juice, turn wifi off when your away from a hotspot, keep bluetooth and gps off if your not using them. Limit the app's you have running in the backround
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That's weird because I never had this issue when I was using ICS. My RAM usage is never usually past 700-800/1.5gb. I always clear it and clear active programs as well. I would love it if I could just fix the issues without having to downgrade but I really don't know what it is at this point aside from the upgrade that could be causing this. I also have uncapped internet from my cell provider so I never use WIFI. Those things are always off. It's not so much battery life i'm concerned about it's sheer speed. I also don't use bluetooth and once in a blue moon i'll use GPS. Needless to say, I also shut down every night when I go to bed.
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That's weird because I never had this issue when I was using ICS. My RAM usage is never usually past 700-800/1.5gb. I always clear it and clear active programs as well. I would love it if I could just fix the issues without having to downgrade but I really don't know what it is at this point aside from the upgrade that could be causing this. I also have uncapped internet from my cell provider so I never use WIFI. Those things are always off. It's not so much battery life i'm concerned about it's sheer speed. I also don't use bluetooth and once in a blue moon i'll use GPS. Needless to say, I also shut down every night when I go to bed.
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Have you tried the 4.2.2 Linaro base Roms? They really fly. Check the original development thread.
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Hello all.
First time poster. You guys got a great site here, you do great work. I need some help....
First, I'll tell you what I'm working with...
HTC EVO 4G
CM 7.2 Rom
anom ra recovery 4.3 smelkus by team dirt (before I started experimenting I had clockworkmod 5.0.2.2 recovery, but will stick with amon ra now)
HBoot-2.18.0001
Radio-2.15.00.12.19
What I've been trying to do is flash the new radio. Every road I go down leads to a dead end.
-I've tried going back to the sense rom and accepting the system update, it wouldn't update for me
-I've tried downloading a sense rom and flashing that, it flashed, but offered no firmware updates
-I've tried renaming the radio update file to PC36img,zip and going to the bootloader, but I have that dreaded S-on so it wouldn't take
-I've tried installing from zip in the recovery, that wouldn't work
I've tried several other things over the past couple of days. But, due to being frustrated (sometimes to the point of being close to vomiting), it is all running together right now and is difficult to outline each thing I tried right now.
Most things I've seen say I need S-off to do this. But, then I google the steps involved in getting my s-off, and that seems like such an insane and convoluted process that I think there HAD to be a better way out there. (I don't know why the unrevoked people wont make a product that works with the hboot 2.18.0001, but that's neither here nor there). I've also seen threads referencing relocking and then unlocking the phone again...those are months old. Someone has to have a better way by now.
Basically, I am having a very difficult time wrapping my head around the concept that this can't be done with an S-ON phone either through the recovery or through the ADB. There's got to be a way. What is it I'm missing?
Before anyone asks, here's why i want to do it...
Both me and my wife's phones have radio 2.15.00.12.19. We're constantly getting 1x no matter what we do. A few days ago, I rooted a friend's phone. Same phone, same rom, but I noticed he is getting 3G. I investigated, and he has radio 2.15.00.01.15. Since I would like for me and the wife to have our 3G back, naturally I'd like to get this radio flashed.
I have the new radio and it made zero difference in anything
Getting S-off is not that hard. Just follow directions. My 10 year old nephew can do it.
To be clear, you *must* have S-OFF to flash radios.
You're *sure* your friend has the "same ROM"?
Because the most obvious explanation for your heartburn is that Sprint often *does* drop any given phone (regardless of radio ) down to 1x: CM based ROMs accurately report this, while most stock or stock-based ROMs just ignore it and report "3G" all the time.
Is this really your only reason for switching radios?
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NxNW said:
To be clear, you *must* have S-OFF to flash radios.
You're *sure* your friend has the "same ROM"?
Because the most obvious explanation for your heartburn is that Sprint often *does* drop any given phone (regardless of radio ) down to 1x: CM based ROMs accurately report this, while most stock or stock-based ROMs just ignore it and report "3G" all the time.
Is this really your only reason for switching radios?
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First questions:
Yes, absolutely certain. I even used the same downloaded file to flash his as I did mine and my wife's.
Your second paragraph...yeah, I've been reading that. But, I'm thinking that "You can't win if you don't play" and I have to try something.
And, yes, this is my only reason for wanting to switch radios.
PlatinumPenguin said:
Getting S-off is not that hard. Just follow directions. My 10 year old nephew can do it.
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Your 10 year old nephew has probably had more success than I have finding a walkthrough that didn't contain one more more dead links to needed files. So far, I have not been as fortunate.
xflbret said:
Your 10 year old nephew has probably had more success than I have finding a walkthrough that didn't contain one more more dead links to needed files. So far, I have not been as fortunate.
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Search "HOW to root hboot 2.18.0001 + S-OFF"
Look here: http://themikmik.com/showthread.php...-18-HBOOT-with-HTCDev-com-No-More-Watermark!-)
Captain Throwback lays it out pretty well.
The advice is free....the bandwidth, not so much
Well, thank you for MOST of the responses.
I did what I didn't want to do here...I finally had some luck finding an S-OFF tutorial that didn't contain dead links. The links were mostly to outdated files, but I did the best I could with it. Now my phone has S-OFF
And, just as with HipKat, flashing the radio didn't make any difference at all.
Because the most obvious explanation for your heartburn is that Sprint often *does* drop any given phone (regardless of radio ) down to 1x: CM based ROMs accurately report this, while most stock or stock-based ROMs just ignore it and report "3G" all the time.
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Yeah, I'm starting to think this way, too.
xflbret said:
Well, thank you for MOST of the responses.
I did what I didn't want to do here...I finally had some luck finding an S-OFF tutorial that didn't contain dead links. The links were mostly to outdated files, but I did the best I could with it. Now my phone has S-OFF
And, just as with HipKat, flashing the radio didn't make any difference at all.
Yeah, I'm starting to think this way, too.
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If I'm not mistaken, there's a way to change your network priority settings.
For instance, If you're on Boost Mobile, Sprint has a lower priority for these devices to maintain a better service for its higher paying Sprint customers.
I've never changed these network settings myself, so some one else might help you if this is your issue.
xflbret said:
Well, thank you for MOST of the responses.
I did what I didn't want to do here...I finally had some luck finding an S-OFF tutorial that didn't contain dead links. The links were mostly to outdated files, but I did the best I could with it. Now my phone has S-OFF
And, just as with HipKat, flashing the radio didn't make any difference at all.
Yeah, I'm starting to think this way, too.
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Hey, other thing to consider is that Sprint is upgrading the network in your area. My experience in the las 6 weeks was that during the day on monday thru friday the data signal was awful, switching from 3G to 1XX and sometimes all day in 1XX. Check if there's a pattern when you have no data or is bad.
Now I have awesome data speeds even in 3G, I mean, in PR standards
Cheers
unfortunately, it has been constant 1x since I flashed the roms (CM7.2 for both of ours, several roms on mine alone but I'm back to CM7.2 now).
My wife has observed that she doesn't notice a difference, positive or negative, with her data speeds. I have to say that I have observed the same. I am really starting to believe that Sprint has deliberately mislead us with their 3g icon in the stock rom. If this is indeed true, isn't this like...you know...a crime or something?
you're on a Sprint PRL right? (I've noticed whenever I force CM to roam on "affiliated networks" all my data is 1x)
Sprint should give you 3G at least sometimes, CM or not. Have you observed this outside of your usual home area?
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you're on a Sprint PRL right? (I've noticed whenever I force CM to roam on "affiliated networks" all my data is 1x)
Sprint should give you 3G at least sometimes, CM or not. Have you observed this outside of your usual home area?
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If by "home area" you're referring to geography, since I've flashed my rom I haven't left town really. Just work, home, and the usual errands. If you're referring to Sprint vs. Competitors...I don't know. My network system select was on home only. I have now set it to automatic. I'll toggle airplane mode and see how that does, I guess.
Maybe this is one of those occasions where updating your PRL and profile would be useful?
(Just to remind, this can only be done from a Sense ROM, so you may want an expert to chime in before you spend any time making a nandroid, flashing (or nandroiding back to) a Sense ROM, doing the update, and restoring back to CM)
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NxNW said:
Maybe this is one of those occasions where updating your PRL and profile would be useful?
(Just to remind, this can only be done from a Sense ROM, so you may want an expert to chime in before you spend any time making a nandroid, flashing (or nandroiding back to) a Sense ROM, doing the update, and restoring back to CM)
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tried it. About four days ago (give or take a day) I flashed back to my rooted stock rom. I attempted to update it. It would download, but on the reboot it would hang and give me a picture of the green little android guy standing next to a big triangle with an exclamation point in it. I googled and googled and googled, but could not find an answer as to why. I reattempted that about three times, same result each time.
So, I downloaded a stock rom (rooted) and updated the PRL successfully, profile successfully, tried to update firmware but told there was none, and I didn't try update the rom itself of course. Of course the sense rom told me I had 3g, but when I flashed back to CM7.2, same thing...the 1x.
That android with the red triangle typically means your recovery has been deleted.
Intro:
I have the Samsung Epic 4G. Great phone, running into problems. I originally started out rooted and modded with the CyanogenMOD 10 Nightly. Everything was going great and I love the mod but I started getting MMS problems where I couldn't see the pictures being sent or the ones I was sending. There was an easily located temporary fix found online to delete the telephony file and restart the phone. No biggie I can deal. Then bigger problems started arising as I was no longer getting all of my text messages. Sometimes none. I contacted Sprint and they ran through the whole ordeal of giving me some codes to input which of corse wouldn't work on the MOD and I couldn't update the profile so they said they'd check the tower where I was located and turned out nothing was wrong with it.... My wife and I are having a baby so being unable to contact her without calling constantly is a no go.
Main:
I flashed the stock for the SPH-D700 and all of my problems were fixed. This is a no bueno for me because it's full of bloatware and the phone without modification dies before my workday is out practically, even without heavy usage (and forget heavy usage because that was like shooting the battery into the sun and who the hell wants a smart phone that works for only like an hour?). After looking around I located the stock FC09 Deodexed MTD which comes with ShadowKernel (aweeeesome!) and flashed that. Didn't have any issues and all my texts were coming and going through. This was tested at work using a series of seperate sequential alphanumeric texts and all was good. I installed the usual suspects, Voltage Control, Juice Defender, SD Maid, ES Explorer, the WiFi hack, etc... Not being a fan of the stock messaging app I also downloaded the standard Chomp SMS app (which is def a step up and ad free) as well. I knocked the voltages down reasonably and tested them using Voltage control to do that and control the CPU (no overclocking). I got rid of all of the apps that the XDA Wiki said I could and backed everything up. All was well until yesterday. I charged the phone the previous night and went to work doing the normal kinda day act. I sent my wife some messages but figured she was busy when she didn't respond. Hours later I realized that she probably had responded because she never goes that long without doing so. I asked a few friends to text me and I texted myself as well and now I wasn't getting ANY texts. I did the phone dance with Sprint to no avail and they told me to take the phone to my local store. This would be the second Epic 4G that they would be replacing. The first one had this problem too but fixed itself when I flashed the stock rom. Then there was some water damage which thankfully insurance covered and I got my replacement earlier this week when I worked on modifying my phone to something I found acceptable. I think this rules out a hardware issue. On a whim I restored to a backup that I had made after getting my phone neat and tidy and some odd things happened. I started getting texts, but not the ones that I had already missed, and I was getting some later ones first before getting the first ones sent, I.E. i'd send 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and get back 5, 2, 3, 4, 1 but they would arrange themselves in the correct order onces they came. It was also taking them forever to come in as I would send them and have to wait five to ten minutes for them to come.
Conclusion:
Tired, frustrated, and somewhat perturbed I reflashed the stock rom and the problem again has fixed itself. My question is has anyone else run into this? I've looked everywhere and can't find a similar case. Am I just not seeing something that's directly in front of me? Ideally i'd really like to put Cyanogen back on but I can't afford not to be in contact with my pregnant wife. I'd also reaaaally like the WiFi cabailities that were advertised with the phone but then neglected to mention that I would have to pay 30$ extra a month for. Is this a similar issue to the MMS telephony file issue that can be resolved with perhaps a nightly deletion of a file? Is there anything I can do NOT to be on the stock rom with the worthless battery life and bloatware that chokes?????
Sincerely,
Ignored Thoughts
ignoredthoughts said:
Intro:
I have the Samsung Epic 4G. Great phone, running into problems. I originally started out rooted and modded with the CyanogenMOD 10 Nightly. Everything was going great and I love the mod but I started getting MMS problems where I couldn't see the pictures being sent or the ones I was sending. There was an easily located temporary fix found online to delete the telephony file and restart the phone. No biggie I can deal. Then bigger problems started arising as I was no longer getting all of my text messages. Sometimes none. I contacted Sprint and they ran through the whole ordeal of giving me some codes to input which of corse wouldn't work on the MOD and I couldn't update the profile so they said they'd check the tower where I was located and turned out nothing was wrong with it.... My wife and I are having a baby so being unable to contact her without calling constantly is a no go.
Main:
I flashed the stock for the SPH-D700 and all of my problems were fixed. This is a no bueno for me because it's full of bloatware and the phone without modification dies before my workday is out practically, even without heavy usage (and forget heavy usage because that was like shooting the battery into the sun and who the hell wants a smart phone that works for only like an hour?). After looking around I located the stock FC09 Deodexed MTD which comes with ShadowKernel (aweeeesome!) and flashed that. Didn't have any issues and all my texts were coming and going through. This was tested at work using a series of seperate sequential alphanumeric texts and all was good. I installed the usual suspects, Voltage Control, Juice Defender, SD Maid, ES Explorer, the WiFi hack, etc... Not being a fan of the stock messaging app I also downloaded the standard Chomp SMS app (which is def a step up and ad free) as well. I knocked the voltages down reasonably and tested them using Voltage control to do that and control the CPU (no overclocking). I got rid of all of the apps that the XDA Wiki said I could and backed everything up. All was well until yesterday. I charged the phone the previous night and went to work doing the normal kinda day act. I sent my wife some messages but figured she was busy when she didn't respond. Hours later I realized that she probably had responded because she never goes that long without doing so. I asked a few friends to text me and I texted myself as well and now I wasn't getting ANY texts. I did the phone dance with Sprint to no avail and they told me to take the phone to my local store. This would be the second Epic 4G that they would be replacing. The first one had this problem too but fixed itself when I flashed the stock rom. Then there was some water damage which thankfully insurance covered and I got my replacement earlier this week when I worked on modifying my phone to something I found acceptable. I think this rules out a hardware issue. On a whim I restored to a backup that I had made after getting my phone neat and tidy and some odd things happened. I started getting texts, but not the ones that I had already missed, and I was getting some later ones first before getting the first ones sent, I.E. i'd send 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and get back 5, 2, 3, 4, 1 but they would arrange themselves in the correct order onces they came. It was also taking them forever to come in as I would send them and have to wait five to ten minutes for them to come.
Conclusion:
Tired, frustrated, and somewhat perturbed I reflashed the stock rom and the problem again has fixed itself. My question is has anyone else run into this? I've looked everywhere and can't find a similar case. Am I just not seeing something that's directly in front of me? Ideally i'd really like to put Cyanogen back on but I can't afford not to be in contact with my pregnant wife. I'd also reaaaally like the WiFi cabailities that were advertised with the phone but then neglected to mention that I would have to pay 30$ extra a month for. Is this a similar issue to the MMS telephony file issue that can be resolved with perhaps a nightly deletion of a file? Is there anything I can do NOT to be on the stock rom with the worthless battery life and bloatware that chokes?????
Sincerely,
Ignored Thoughts
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So that's a big wall-o-text. I didn't read it, and just skipped down to your conclusion. You can flash another CM based 4.2.2 rom to test SMS/MMS. It all works fine for me on Slim. If you want TouchWiz, then flash The People's ROM. This rom has no bloat and better battery life than stock. All of these roms have the Wifi access point built in.
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So that's a big wall-o-text. I didn't read it, and just skipped down to your conclusion. You can flash another CM based 4.2.2 rom to test SMS/MMS. It all works fine for me on Slim. If you want TouchWiz, then flash The People's ROM. This rom has no bloat and better battery life than stock. All of these roms have the Wifi access point built in.
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I'm dloading the latest CM 10.1 RC4 to give it another shot. I'm not confident that this won't happen again either immediately or within a few days. Thank you for your input.
IT
I guess my concern is that this happened across both roms, FC09Deodexed and CM10.
Ok so no luck. Flashed CM10 and no bueno. Not getting all of the messages I send to myself. Massive delay between send and receive.
Then you're left to using Odin to get back on stock. Check auto-reboot, repartition, and f. reset time. After you are back on stock FC09, you may as well update PRL, but be sure to update profile. Test on 100% stock again.
If things work like they should on stock, then Odin in CWM without auto-reboot checked. Battery pull, then reinsert. From there boot into recovery and flash a rom of choice. Test again on newly flashed rom.
If things are not working properly on stock rom, then bring it into a Sprint store for service.
Sorry to say but all of that's been done and put in the original post (which you only speed read through the last part). I appreciate your help though. This is the second Epic 4G to do this to me on everything but the stock rom which makes me think it's not hardware but if it's not happened to anyone else then not much else I can do.
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Sorry to say but all of that's been done and put in the original post (which you only speed read through the last part). I appreciate your help though. This is the second Epic 4G to do this to me on everything but the stock rom which makes me think it's not hardware but if it's not happened to anyone else then not much else I can do.
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Haha, yea well it was a big wall of text.
I've burned through my ideas, lol. Good luck to ya.
Np, I really appreciate the advice. So far i've rerooted, reflashed the FC09DeodexedMTD and did a straight sprint (no lollygagging with install and uninstall of apps) to a barebones what I want system, apps include then backed up via CWM. So far it's still working great though i'll keep my fingers crossed. Should anything happen I have a backup from the getgo that should put things back to the way they were, ie. working. Stupid problem, of corse it has to only be me with it.
Ciao
IT