Is samsung john around still? - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

It would be nice if he worked a little harder on the relationship and leak GB to the delvs. Havent seen him post in ages is he ok?

Someone didn't pay attention as to why SamsungJohn was here . If you want to ask him a question, he's on twitter @samsungjohn
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I don't think anyone expected him to just disappear
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I know hes on Twitter he dosnt reply there either. Just wondering if anyone is able to communicate with him.

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Not much of a development community yet.

I am new to Samsung, I came from an HTC phone. Over on the EVO3d there was tons of roms and themes second bootloader was unlocked. Was just wondering how it is on this side. I miss flashing things lol.
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It seems like that, but in reality the phone was out for a month almost before it was unlocked. The devs had plenty of time to play with the contents of the phone.
This phone has been out like a week.
Woaah buddy, gotta be careful with what you say here.
Anyways, I came from the HTC evo 4g community which has been around a lot longer than this one. But still, it took a month or two to get things going.
I mean the 3D just got root like a month ago. I think progress here is going swimmingly. Just give a few more weeks.
We probably wont have the sheer quantity u are used to, but i assure you we will have plenty of high quality roms and themes.
I wasn't being negative. Was just wondering what developers are on this phone and what kind Samsung has. What I mean by not much of community is not many roms yet. If anyone thought I meant disrespect I'm sorry.
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jprovan1 said:
I wasn't being negative. Was just wondering what developers are on this phone and what kind Samsung has. What I mean by not much of community is not many roms yet. If anyone thought I meant disrespect I'm sorry.
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Well cyanogen now works for Samsung so what does that tell you about who Samsung has? ;-) I think Samsung is trying to turn its rep around.
I also came from the evo 3d and am very happy with the switch. Sure the evo 3d has a lot of roms but a lot of them are the same ****.. and there aren't too many "real" devs on the evo 3d.. a majority of them are just cooks who ran the stock rom through a kitchen just adding tweaks. Hell empire who clams to be a dev didn't write a single line of code. Just mashed up other peoples work
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Cyanogen now works for Samsung?
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chazglenn3 said:
Cyanogen now works for Samsung?
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Yup.. where have you been? Lol it was all over the tech sites when they saw he changed his employer to samsung on his Facebook page
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graffixnyc said:
Well cyanogen now works for Samsung so what does that tell you about who Samsung has? ;-)
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It SHOULD be stressed that only the founder Steve Kondik was hired, NOT Cyanogen as a whole. The team continues on, business as usual. Just to clarify
Rome wasn't built in a day. It's only been a week. I would rather have the devs take their time and release something solid and better than a themed stock ROM but that takes time... especially if it's thoroughly tested. It seems like a new trend to release ROMs with a few hours of testing so little things pop up like an apk missing or a function force closes. I will try ptfdmedic's ROM when it releases because I know his work from using it on my Epic. I am sure the devs are in the lab building masterpieces as we speak.
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Bandage said:
It SHOULD be stressed that only the founder Steve Kondik was hired, NOT Cyanogen as a whole. The team continues on, business as usual. Just to clarify
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And what's Steve's handle? Lol I always refer to the group as cyanogen mod and refer to him as just cyanogen.
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I do have to say this phone is amazing. I am so happy I made the switch from the E3D. Can't wait to see what this community can do.
Also isn't the cyanogen rom for the European galaxy S2?
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And what's Steve's handle? Lol I always refer to the group as cyanogen mod and refer to him as just cyanogen.
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True, true...just clarifying for those not familiar. Next thing ya know, people start sending their donations to Samsung instead of Cyanagen...lmao! Ugh...please no, we've "donated" enough already!
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True, true...just clarifying for those not familiar. Next thing ya know, people start sending their donations to Samsung instead of Cyanagen...lmao! Ugh...please no, we've "donated" enough already!
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Hahaha
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I want to see this ported already got the ok from the developer.
themikmik.com/showthread.php?7841-Theme-09-20-11-Blue-Glass-(V2.5.4)-for-Mik-2.5x
It'll take a bit but I'm certain we'll see increased activity soon.
First, based on comments, a good many probably just got their phones if they ordered from 3rd party vendors. Especially Let's Talk.
Secondly, the transition may take some getting used to. Going from OG Evo to 3D was primarily the same software. In fact, many probably worked with it with their OG Evo before they got the 3D. So now they have to "get to know" Touch Wiz, Odin, etc.
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Is there any info for someone new to oden
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jprovan1 said:
Is there any info for someone new to oden
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Don't mess with your partitions unless you are told to, lol.
Srsly.
daneurysm said:
Don't mess with your partitions unless you are told to, lol.
Srsly.
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Also dont use the pit unless told and dont check anything that your not told to... Or youll have a fancy paper weight
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Basically FOLLOW DIRECTIONS PERFECTLY, and everything will be fine.

[Q] WiFi Calling ?

I'm not sure I'm posting this in the right forum and I'm sure if I'm not then I will get flamed/moved to the correct spot and hopefully not lifetime banned.
That being said, I know Tmonews recently announced that our phone will be getting wifi calling on or around November 13th. Thats a long way away. I do not get service in my house OR at work. So effectively until I get some form of wifi calling my phone is useless for anything more than web surfing.
My question is, now that we have root (THANK YOU EVERYONE BTW FOR THAT!!) is there some way to develop a wifi calling app with T-Mobile giving it to us? I really hope the answer is yes as a month and a half without phone service will be slow torture.
Thanks for the anticipated help!!
I understand your pain I'm in a similar situation.. that being said you shouldntve posted in Dev section..
I don't think anyone has found a working wifi calling apk with our device yet but other voip apps are available but may not use your tmobile #
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I had a feeling I was posting in the wrong spot. I've been a lurker on these forums for a while but I was always nervous to post because I'm not really a fan of flames. I realized just about as I hit post that there is a Q & A section and thats where I should have posted.
So, I apologize profusely to the Dev community. I meant no offense. If a mod could move this post, I would appreciate it.
Thanks for all the hard work guys and sorry again for posting in the wrong spot.
If you're ever worried about
your post being in the wrong section, err on the side of safety and post in general.
as for wifi calling you are a but sol sally.usually this requires pinch of more than an app and since it is coming natively the Dev community really has no reason to waste time. Best luck mate.
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From what I remember, the wifi calling app requires some stuff based in the kernel. I haven't personally tried it, but I'm assuming those lines of code aren't there yet.
At least that's what I can remember from my nexus one days...
wifi Nov 13th?
According to Tmonews.com, the update to get Wifi calling will be available Nov 13th.
http://www.tmonews.com/2011/10/wi-fi-calling-coming-to-the-galaxy-s-ii-amaze-4g-on-november-13th/
Thank you for starting this thread. WiFi calling is the only thing I miss on this phone over the G2X.
go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1303332
Hacked wifi calling app?
Any way to get it?
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Should be out in less then a week, just be patient.
This phone is a BEAST!
ThC23 said:
Should be out in less then a week, just be patient.
This phone is a BEAST!
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Ok sounds good. I was surprised that it didn't have it, especially since I depend on it at my house with no signal lol.
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I wish!!
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Wifi calling??
Is anybody working on getting wifi calling on the SGS2?
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There's supposed to be an OTA soon from T-Mobile to add the wifi calling feature.
Rumor update is tomorrow...
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movieaddict said:
Rumor update is tomorrow...
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will the update include anything else?
wifi calling
Sooooo...its Nov 13th....weren't we supposed to get wifi calling today? I need this feature. What is tmo doing???
Probably not today cuz it's Sunday, but I think sometime during the week.
#Havingablast w/ my SGS2
porting from sgs 4g
Is it possible to just grab the .apk file from my galaxy s 4g and install it on my mom's galaxy s ii?
ChadBFlores said:
Is it possible to just grab the .apk file from my galaxy s 4g and install it on my mom's galaxy s ii?
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It's not apk its software now. It will be under wifi setting as shown in an amaze 4g video.
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A cool trick I stumbled upon.

While browsing in internet and different forums for our phones I stumbled across this video.
I looked through threads here and didn't find it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_du-rW1Ns&feature=related
I found it cool and useful so I decided to share it with you guys.
I didn't know where to post it so I put it in general section.
If I posted this in wrong section mod please move it to where this belongs.
Holy crap, I wish I had known about this a few months ago. Great find!
Lol awesome. Thank you
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Its been posted before... but I guess some didnt know
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Bear gri11z said:
Its been posted before... but I guess some didnt know
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+1 Even the OG Epic has it
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This has been used since OG Galaxy S I used it all the time on my vibrant... I will give thanks for the users who didn't know about this though
Found out about that when I had my captivate...def a cool little hidden setting shortcut!
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I didn't know this either. Thanks for the find. Any other tips? I remember back when I had my BB Curve I spent hours trying to learn all the shortcuts like cut and paste, bottom of page, top of page, reset. I bet there are more we don't even know.
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kc_exactly said:
I didn't know this either. Thanks for the find. Any other tips? I remember back when I had my BB Curve I spent hours trying to learn all the shortcuts like cut and paste, bottom of page, top of page, reset. I bet there are more we don't even know.
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Lol read your manual once...
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If it has been posted before I'm sorry for bumping.
I did search in forum and didn't find it. May be I used wrong key words for search.
At least few of us didn't know about it till now. Some good came out of this post.
Another tip. When you are in your log you can hold and slide to the right to call someone and to the left to text them. This saves a couple clicks and is pretty cool. I believe you can also call from the texting app by sliding to tthe right too.
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Nice thanks
who cares if it's been posted before geesh! lol It helped a few people!
i thought everyone knew about this.
cyaiphone said:
who cares if it's been posted before geesh! lol It helped a few people!
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I dont care if it was posted again... Obviously not everyone knew about it.. Thanks op!
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I didn't know about it. This is my first Samsung phone and I've only had it for a week. Thanks again for the tip.
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This and the slide to call or text from log or messaging are the 2 biggest things I wish were in CM7 and CM9. I use both features all day, every day. Gotta give Sammy some credit there.
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I liked this feature so much when I had an Epic 4G that I wrote code for Cyanogenmod 7 to implement it there.
To all those that complained about Op posting his find, please try to remember when you were a nooB. It's not like this feature is posted on a Wiki or anything for everyone to browse.
-Daryel
Old Epic had it too.
Thanx for this tip though,because its little different than it was on old epic.I tried it on my new epic touch and it didnt work,i thought why would samsung take away such useful feature?But they didnt-they just made it different.
On old epic you could just slide your finger across top bar.But on epic touch you have to hold your finger on top bar for about a second before sliding.Its a little harder than it was before but prevents acidental setting.
daryelv said:
I liked this feature so much when I had an Epic 4G that I wrote code for Cyanogenmod 7 to implement it there.
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Any chance that could be updated for the E4GT? If so I wouldn't think twice about making a permanent change to CM.
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Solution for the wallpaper yet?

Jw if anybody knows of a newer apps that has scrollable wallpapers but as in a different picture for each screen. Since EL29 took that out for example multipicture live wallpaper no longer works. I know some roms have fixed it but I just had to get my previous phone replaced which was rooted but Im not gonna root this one just yet I might as well wait for the ICS update whenever that is lol. But Im trying to get my phone like this. http://mycolorscreen.com/2011/12/09/multihome/
Oh ok. Idk why I post here. People only respond if it has to do with rooting. Over 200 views and nothin. My last post either oh well Android central actually helps ppl out
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I wouldn't have replied to this thread normally like most people because I just don't know the answer to your question...
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Eric1985 said:
Oh ok. Idk why I post here. People only respond if it has to do with rooting. Over 200 views and nothin. My last post either oh well Android central actually helps ppl out
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Well first off you posted in the wrong section. Then you get annoyed because people don't respond. Maybe they don't know the answer? I wouldn't want a bunch of "no clue" and "I don't know" responses....
Try finding the answer for yourself. Chances are someone has had the same question or problem.
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I just searched play and found several.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=multi+wallpaper
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I don't know of one that changes when you scroll but Wallpaper Changer app has options to change wallpaper every time you unlock the phone or you can set it to change every certain amount of minutes that you are able to set
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Starting a Sense 4.1 port

Hey I'm about to start a Sense 4.1 port and I was looking for some help. I know the sense 4 all people tried but i refuse to believe that it's impossible to port to the GS3. I've sent some PM's out to some respected developers but nobody has responded. I understand the basics but need more knowledge. So if you feel like contributing then by all means please do so. If you aren't a Sense fan but still understand how, your help is welcomed too. Just no negative people saying stuff like "why would you want Sense on this phone.You should have bought the Evo." Just trying to give back to the community. Thanks on advance
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I find it a nice port would love one of these ports I don't know android development but I do know basic programming
+1 to a sense port , I would love a sense port.
Demand
I know there is a demand for it and our phones are more than capable of handling it. Ive seen it ported to lesser devices so Im amped to get this started. I just need someone with a little more knowledge about porting to chime in. I think my main issue that i dont understand is getting the kernel set up to work on our devices. Spread the word lets see if we can get this development going
There was a tread started before and closed because people was not helping and acting childish, the people that was working on it said the hell with it. They had a decent port it had problems but hell it worked. Good luck but people always flood these threads with stupid questions like why don't you just get a htc phone or use a different launcher .
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bonebeatz1234 said:
There was a tread started before and closed because people was not helping and acting childish, the people that was working on it said the hell with it. They had a decent port it had problems but hell it worked. Good luck but people always flood these threads with stupid questions like why don't you just get a htc phone or use a different launcher .
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Yea i know I've seen it get pretty ugly around here. My thing is if you don't like Htc Sense then don't download it. I know a lot of people that really want to see this port happen. That won't stop me from trying
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TuscaloosKen said:
Yea i know I've seen it get pretty ugly around here. My thing is if you don't like Htc Sense then don't download it. I know a lot of people that really want to see this port happen. That won't stop me from trying
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Maybe you should get in touch with the guys that have already started that port project. Not sure what kind of trouble they ran into but their work might provide a nice heads start for you. Just be sure and give them some credit. I personally would love to see a Sense port not because I necessarily like sense but this is XDA and this is what we do! Good luck with this!
+1 on the Sense port, sense has a better integration with android than TW does. Though TW is good in its own way...
get in touch with the team developing the initial port, their major problem was that they didnt have a sprint GS3 to test directly.
That's a great idea you guys. I'll shoot them a PM so we can get this ball rolling.
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I'm not sure I'll be able to help. I know java / android programming, but have never messed with ROMs and such.
However I'd love this and if there is anything sort of simple that you would rather have someone else do, send it my way.
Also would probably donate for a working ROM! I love sense!
I know nothing about developing, but will test and give feedback.
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Idk if these are the same guys you guys are referring to but they have a port for the international version and have a poll to port to the sprint version. I'm sure they'd appreciate the help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1764005
Also id love to help out in anyway I can. I don't know much about java but I love to learn and also would be more than happy to be a tester and post logs and issues.
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That will be sickkkk. I love the sense camera its way better than the s3s thats for sure
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I would love to test I'm sorry I can't offer other help I'm no programmer but I'll test the hell out of your ROM lol
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Hey guys I'm coming from the EVO LTE side and saw this port I get my phone Monday ill see what I can do about getting u guys a port
I've started a sense port and if anyone is still interested I could use some help testing and what not. Just pm me if you're game.
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Anyone interested in porting this Rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2015525
Challenge accepted.
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Sac boy an I glad to see you. This porting is not easy. What's the status on Chubbz?? I PM'd him a while back about help.
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TuscaloosKen said:
Sac boy an I glad to see you. This porting is not easy. What's the status on Chubbz?? I PM'd him a while back about help.
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Have you had any luck getting it to boot yet?
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