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Official gingerbread isn't really ever coming to Epic 4G, is it?

At least, I'm beginning to get that idea....
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well some rumors say its coming soon
and some ppl say that on the sprint website it says that epic 4g ships with android 2.3
but i just got a replacement phone right now and it was 2.2
so im not sure but maybe it will be here one day hopefully soon.

OMG! It took this long to get Froyo from when it was released in Europe! Relax people! Let them get it right. People are still buying Epics which means 22 months for them on this phone from now. We have had 2 major upgrades in a year! Lots of apps coming out for GB only which equals money for Google which means pressure to get phones that are capable on GB. I have been on GB since May. It makes you wish Samsung never announced the upgrade and just did it when it was ready so al these kids in the back can stop saying "are we there yet?"
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All i gotta say is , WTF to Casio Gzone Commando phone getting Gingerbread before the Samsung Epic 4g. lol I mean seriously.. haha I just think thats awesome. However though i am ok with my froyo roms for now.

Here is a list of the phones that got Gingerbread out of the 10's of thousands out there and the ones that will get it. Of course ignore HTC phones since people said their GB made the phone unuseable.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/18077/android_23_upgrade_list

Patience is something we must all have with the epic
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kennyglass123 said:
OMG! It took this long to get Froyo from when it was released in Europe! Relax people! Let them get it right.
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They'll never get it right.
Just sayin'
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SocialReject said:
They'll never get it right.
Just sayin'
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Lol no I think it'll just take a while

It REALLY is coming!
m.sprint.com/mobile/landings/epic_mr.html?ECID=MSM:SZ:20111027:SZEPIC4GMR
Just got the message!

These slow updates may be what keeps me from buying a Samsung ever again.
At least they don't lock the bootloader like HTC did.

TROOOOLLLLLLL!!!!!!
TROOOOOLLL IN THE DUNGEON!!!!
Thought you ought to know... /faints

^^ /thousands of kids screaming

chrishighs said:
These slow updates may be what keeps me from buying a Samsung ever again.
At least they don't lock the bootloader like HTC did.
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Lol unless your going with LG you'd better stick with Samsung, plus it was slow but faster than the Evo got their GB.
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HTC seems to have the best update schedule, but I love the Samsung screens. Galaxy Nexus will probably be my next phone though, best of both worlds.

sgtkwol said:
HTC seems to have the best update schedule, but I love the Samsung screens. Galaxy Nexus will probably be my next phone though, best of both worlds.
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But they have almost always came with problems.
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True, for the average user, the early upgrade bugs are bad. I'll wait for others to update and complain and go from there, dive in myself and figure it out that way, or just run a rom.

[Q] If you were to get a new SPRINT phone right now, what would you suggest?

Title says it all. I'm up for upgrade as of right now and I think it's about time to move to a different device.
What do you suggest?

The 2 best looking phones there IMO is the evolution 3d and the epic touch the evo design my cousin and her boyfriend have and they have lot of problems. But if I had to pick I would wait a little longer because the galaxy nexus is coming to sprint if you look on their main page
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If it had to be a now thing.. can't go wrong with the Samsung Galaxy S ll, Epic 4G Touch. However... I am in the same boat (new phone time!), but I am waiting to see what they announce this quarter and the future of LTE.
Dallas, Atlanta, Houston and San Antonio are slated to be the first to go LTE, so if you are in those areas it might behoove you to see what comes out. Right now the Galaxy Nexus and LG Viper are upcoming LTE phones.

I'm leaning toward the Epic 4G Touch as LTE means nothing to me. My area doesn't even have WiMAX (now it never will). And from what I read, the E4GT will get official ICS Q1 2012 anyway. That right there pretty much evens the playing field between the two phones.
Still interested in hearing your opinions though.

Levels the playing field?
What about the fact that Gnex is pure Google without the ugly Twiz UI? And will get regular updates thru Google ?
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scottspa74 said:
Levels the playing field?
What about the fact that Gnex is pure Google without the ugly Twiz UI? And will get regular updates thru Google ?
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Is that "feature" alone enough to justify a probable $100 price premium for the Gnex vs E4GT? For me, it's not.

I say if your not worried about lye e4gt is the way to go or u can join the apple fanboys and get a 4s lol
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Et4g over 3vo any day of the week and photon is a big disappointment had all 3 in my house et4g was the winner still have that crappy photon too lol it sux with its funky bootloader and borking stuff to unlock it the 3vo was a launch day and had crummy radios in it so it got traded for the photon which is a better all around phone than the 3vo just isn't great for flashaholics

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IPhone 5
lol jk!
Anyways as of recent new phone I would pick gs2. But I'm holding off until Sprint lte hits my city.
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Epic touch 4G for sure
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wait for lte phone.

I've had so much success with the eVo og that I'd have to go with the eVo 3d.....

Galaxy S2 at the moment, although that new Nexus is coming.....

I've heard nothing but good things about the epic touch but I'm personally trying to hold out for the nexus

Epic 4G Touch has me scared now. All I read about the phone is poor signal and useless GPS. I'm not able to find any recent threads that confirm if this stuff has been fixed or not though. Can anyone help out? Maybe first-hand experience??

Wait for the Galaxy Nexus phone

dabbill said:
Wait for the Galaxy Nexus phone
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I might have to do that. It'll be more than $199 for sure, but hopefully it won't be a hunk of garbage like it sounds like the Epic 4G Touch is.

I moved to the photon. Only phone that has a kickstand now. And reception...I hazzzz it!
My only complaint is pentile display but its no biggie any more.
Rom dev is kinda slow but all quality stuff.
After my experience with a nexus s 4g I am gonna skip sanding as they seem to be having the same issues with the cdma radios on the big V
Good luck either way.
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I'd go with the Galaxy Nexus. Good battery life, nfc chip, and ICS without bloatware.
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Ummm, sorry for OT but what happened to the Nexus?

Is it me or does it seem like Sprint forgot about it in favor of the new Evo? I thought the Nexus was the first LTE phone for Sprint......

Who cares about the nexus? That thing was already behind the curve when it came out.

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Who cares about the nexus? That thing was already behind the curve when it came out.
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Still a nice phone with full aosp and lots of custom rom support such as CM9. That being said I am fully happy with the my epic touch. Such a sweet phone. Especially once CM9 gets better.

brooksyx said:
Still a nice phone with full aosp and lots of custom rom support such as CM9. That being said I am fully happy with the my epic touch. Such a sweet phone. Especially once CM9 gets better.
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Yeah when CM9 gets on par with the NS4G versions I will be all over it
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It will be the first, the Evo 4G LTE still won't be out for another while. The Nexus should be out before then, but like the Nexus did for Verizon, it'll probably come out quietly without the big commercials and announcements.

You mean the phone sprint employees apparently just recieved training materials for?

I bet it hits this month. The EVO LTE will be late May or the first couple of days in June I'd wager.
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I'm way to happy with the SGS2.. I think the nexus would be a step back. Cm9 for our device is about there..
Locked bootloaders turned me off with the evo 3d.. I'm holding off on that SGS3...
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Your input SGS3 to buy or not?

Father's Day is coming, so is the S3 and Evo LTE. My contract expired in April and I'm eligible for an upgrade. So my wife asked me, do you want me to gift you the S3...
I am perfectly happy with the S2 and beside the NFC of S3 I'm not too thrilled. The question is: (a) get the S3 or wait for something special might pop up around Christmas time?

I would get the s3. Even just to play around with on wifi if you want to use your e4gt still. I plan to do this, as I get (ok) wimaxx but am not anywhere near any of the first roll out areas for lte. Just my suggestion. This phone is great, but I want to play with that new too lol. If you are near lte tho then it is no question. S3 imo.
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there already a few threads open about this fellas..

It's the next "big thing" so I would get it unless you are considering the iPhone 5. You could always get it and sell it on Craigslist for like $600 and keep your S2.

I don't know, the ET4g and sprint in general have left a bad taste in my mouth with radio issues... I'm thinking my next phone will be a HTC or maybe a moto.

abegoods said:
I would get the s3. Even just to play around with on wifi if you want to use your e4gt still. I plan to do this, as I get (ok) wimaxx but am not anywhere near any of the first roll out areas for lte. Just my suggestion. This phone is great, but I want to play with that new too lol. If you are near lte tho then it is no question. S3 imo.
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I agree im im thinking of getting the s3 just to play with it until lte hits Miami my upgrade is up on July 7 but I really love the features of the s3 plus I think there's going to be killer developing going on on that phone but for now im sticking with Wimax im always on 4g getting between 10-16mbps
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jmejiaa said:
I don't know, the ET4g and sprint in general have left a bad taste in my mouth with radio issues... I'm thinking my next phone will be a HTC or maybe a moto.
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I think the new evo is a great phone, hardware and screen are great. Just the ui and HTC in general is not my style. The wife has HTC though, and loves it. So I'll get to play with both on July 1st when our upgrades are eligible.
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yellowman82 said:
I agree im im thinking of getting the s3 just to play with it until lte hits Miami my upgrade is up on July 7 but I really love the features of the s3 plus I think there's going to be killer developing going on on that phone but for now im sticking with Wimax im always on 4g getting between 10-16mbps
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Man I would LOVE those speeds. I'm at around 3.5-4.5mbps on a good day. 3g is horrid tho, under .1 sometimes, as high as .4 rarely. In the process of reading up on the PRL tweaks tho, that should help a lot on my 3g. But I'm that guy that reads everything about stuff before I try it, so I'm slow
Sorry! Off topic
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Couldn't this have gone in the gs3 thread? Not flaming anyone or nothing but that's why we have one.
IBTL.
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peanut1596 said:
Couldn't this have gone in the gs3 thread? Not flaming anyone or nothing but that's why we have one.
IBTL.
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peanut1596 said:
Couldn't this have gone in the gs3 thread? Not flaming anyone or nothing but that's why we have one.
IBTL.
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Your right, my bad. So would you hold off or buy lol

I am in the same boat. I dont get wimax at all tho D; HD screen ftw tho!

Buy it
Sprints not the type that would have a **** ton of variants
If we were on att I would say
If u want great community dev buy it now
If u want good hardware wait
Att had attain skyrocket note and the skyrocket HD almost
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Alex1x said:
Your right, my bad. So would you hold off or buy lol
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I would buy it if I had an upgrade.
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My strategy is, IF I get the s3 (kinda doubtful), the decision that would make the most sense, would be to WAIT until LTE is fully deployed and active in your area. If not, you will be stuck on 3g for quite a while until it happens, whenever that might be. Don't be in a rush. I know how hard that is to practice when you're a xda kind of person, but that makes the most sense to me on many areas. So many people are very frustrated with 3g performance lately, it wouldn't be logical to force yourself into that mode for god knows how long. For me, the deal breaker is the camera with the not such a big deal improvements done to it. Yes, faster camera is better but no substantial improvements with low light, better f stop, I will pass. When I had it, I loved the iPhone 4s camera, but the cons outweighed the pros IMO. Even if you have to wait up to another year for LTE, the s4 might be around then and I would hope that one would be a lot better than the 3. With my experiences with a couple of htcs, they are too temperature sensative and prone to hardware failure issues when compared to all the samsungs I've owned. I'm not a Samsung fan either, I've just had much less problems with them and they're much easier to do custom things to like rooting and roms.
Besides, you said it yourself, you're happy with what you have already. Also, pentile s3 screen, eww.

Well if you know you want that phone get it asap so your new contract starts being used asap.... Means new upgrade sooner down the road. I just got mine in October or whenever the iphone came out. Personally the s3 and the galaxy nexus are the only two phones that I would consider over the et4g. As you can tell I am alittle partial to Samsung as all my previous phones who weren't Samsung I've had problems with excluding the HTC sensation
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[Q] You're no longer who you think you are!!!

Howdy!! I'm Soap, and owner of the amazing og Epic 4g running 4.1.1. I was on Sprint site hoping for a pre-order for the Note 2 when I saw this:
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[FONT="Century Gothic"][COLOR="red"][SIZE="5"]it seems this phone is no longer Epic.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT]
What do you think about the change?
Does it matter?
Is that the end of the Epic line?
Will there be an Epic 3?!
:cyclops::cyclops:

Probably sprint distancing themselves considering the legal trouble in re: apple.

Official Sprint support for the OG Epic is going. They are not longer issueing updates for it (IE Official ICS/JB) she stopped at GB (2.3.6 I believe) I just recently left the OG Epic to the touch (got a good deal on it) So Galaxy's are still good to go.. not even worried about Legal issues.. they are still slinging the S2 and S3 so jump on one if you like... (S2 should still be getting a an update, but not 100% sure) Hope this helps clarifiy.
This is only my thoughts on this.. not an official statement by anyone important, just how i understand it to be coming from the OG Epic side of XDA and folks on there..

Are you implying that the form should be renamed to Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II SPH-D710?
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Mattix724 said:
Are you implying that the form should be renamed to Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II SPH-D710?
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Yep. lol.. :silly:
I was responding to EOL on device... for some reason i thought pic was actually of the S2 (oddly i didn't look at mine sitting next to me! lol) been a long day at work.

Sprint is done with "EPIC" as samsung will not make carrier specific modifications as in EPIC and EPIC 4G TOUCH. Galaxy SIII is just Galaxy SIII.

milky1112 said:
Yep. lol.. :silly:
I was responding to EOL on device... for some reason i thought pic was actually of the S2 (oddly i didn't look at mine sitting next to me! lol) been a long day at work.
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Yeah it's a shame about the EOL, but I'm actually surprised the Hero is still on the page. More bummed out than surprised I suppose, I went threw 9.5 Samsung Moments. I gutted 2 & zombied them together.

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Yeah it's a shame about the EOL, but I'm actually surprised the Hero is still on the page. More bummed out than surprised I suppose, I went threw 9.5 Samsung Moments. I gutted 2 & zombied them together.
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Yeah, my OG epic was bulletproof. I loved it.. in fact my mom has this, it's running Xbox's CM7 Build with Crespo. lol

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Yeah, my OG epic was bulletproof. I loved it.. in fact my mom has this, it's running Xbox's CM7 Build with Crespo. lol
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Agreed! This is only the 2nd Epic I've needed, I drowned the first one. I'm using my upgrade to get my wife the Note 2 & keeping both our OG Epic's as wifi devices. Maybe then I'll finally sell back the only working Moments I ever owned!

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Agreed! This is only the 2nd Epic I've needed, I drowned the first one. I'm using my upgrade to get my wife the Note 2 & keeping both our OG Epic's as wifi devices. Maybe then I'll finally sell back the only working Moments I ever owned!
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Nice, I found my Epic Touch (S2) for $50 on Craigslist... Loving it.. I'm going to upgrade to the S3 later this year/early next year probaly, but wanted to mess with something different for now. Mom took the OG Epic inplace of her Photon. lol.. I'll prolly sell back this thing when i upgrade. It'll eat some of the cost.

So any idea if there will be another hwkb device? Or is it touch screen from now on? I remember something on the CM9 blogspot about the masses calling for another device with a full layout.

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So any idea if there will be another hwkb device? Or is it touch screen from now on? I remember something on the CM9 blogspot about the masses calling for another device with a full layout.
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Nexus Slide.. Moto Photon Q, I'm sure there will be more. Seems they are coming around again.. I don't miss it as much as i thought i would honeslty. S2 is quite nice to type on.

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Nexus Slide.. Moto Photon Q, I'm sure there will be more. Seems they are coming around again.. I don't miss it as much as i thought i would honeslty. S2 is quite nice to type on.
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I agree with you. I was a little skeptical at first about going to a phone with out a keyboard, because all my previous ones had a keyboard. I actually like it a lot better, don't get me wrong though I do miss it sometimes lol

I just see friends (with out swype) struggling to enter text as I just smash words at about 45 WPM!! I don't think I could be happy without all my extra working parts

I thought i wouldnt be. But honestly, keyboard on the touch wih the larger screen isnt that bad.
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milky1112 said:
I thought i wouldnt be. But honestly, keyboard on the touch wih the larger screen isnt that bad.
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And there's the 5.5" Note 2 w/ Quad-Core & LTE. I hope my wife hates it..... Muhahaha!!!

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And there's the 5.5" Note 2 w/ Quad-Core & LTE. I hope my wife hates it..... Muhahaha!!!
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HEY! I'm looking to move to that phone next! I hope so, either that or if the Nexus devices are better this time around I might go with one of them.

E4GTUser94 said:
HEY! I'm looking to move to that phone next! I hope so, either that or if the Nexus devices are better this time around I might go with one of them.
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I want one too!! But I have to wait till I can pick up a used one. By then it will be safe & fun to (Cyan)mod.

It's safe to use CyanogenMod on this device right now... why wait?
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Mattix724 said:
It's safe to use CyanogenMod on this device right now... why wait?
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Because I'm patiently waiting for your flavor of the lucky 7.
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