Got A Epic Touch! - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

Switched from t-mobile goodbye Nexus S :'(, Hope it was a good buy this late in the game and I won't end up regretting it. Will be receiving it Monday or Tuesday.

Youll regret sprints data speeds (unless your in the lucky .000005% that get advertised 3g speeds)
But youll also be happy anout no throttling!

You wont this phone is a beast. Our ICS leaks are pretty stable and official is coming soon. Welcome here man!!
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thanks guys! Couldn't wait almost a year for the GS3.

Welcome to the club.

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thanks guys! Couldn't wait almost a year for the GS3.
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I remember seeing you over in the Nexus forums. If you need any help with anything on this phone, feel free to PM me. You will love this phone!
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First post
Hi, first time poster, trying to earn my stripes as they say. I"ve had my E4GT for about month and have been patrolling these forums for last several weeks, following along with the daily ICS leaks and then Steady's repacks, etc..I specifically see JC's posts in very timely and helpful manor and I've appreciated his follow up comments and humor as well. Just a quick shout, I've noticed it a lot.
Anyway, I'd like to post here and there in the Dev section and says you have to have a certain amount of posts in the more "general" forums, so this is that first attempt. Hope to see more of you in the Devs sections.
Love this phone, I came from an OG droid that was awesome and worked over and flashed to all hell so this little upgrade is sweet sauce.

I change from T-Mobile to Sprint back at the beginning of September and honestly where I'm at I have very little problems. You won't regret the phone however as you can see in the dev section we do have ICS builds and from looks it's getting pretty close to an OTA push. The SGS2 alone is one beast of a phone "old" or not as some would call it this phone is great.

Bear gri11z said:
Youll regret sprints data speeds (unless your in the lucky .000005% that get advertised 3g speeds)
But youll also be happy anout no throttling!
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Not true for all I average 600k and I get 4g. There is not a better phone to get right now. And there is not a better plan to get if you actually use data.
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Gratz! I just got mine earlier this week and you are definitely going to love this big and beautiful phone
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I have to agree with everyone here. This phone is a beast. I have the black one and the white one..and I like them both. But I rock the white one for its beauty. I call it my "Snow Powder"..lol.
I was at a little get together earlier, happened to pull out my Snow Powder and all eyes turned at me. People was like "wtf is that..is that a phone...that is nice as hell" They were all stunned at the screen the lightness of it and everything. I felt like I was in a samsung commercial...lol
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Welcome aboard! You're gonna love this phone especially with the kickass devs working their butts off to keep us in flashing paradise. lol

I actually came from the tmobile nexus as well ive had the phone since launch and i love it. Hope you enjoy it.
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agaddis said:
Hi, first time poster, trying to earn my stripes as they say. I"ve had my E4GT for about month and have been patrolling these forums for last several weeks, following along with the daily ICS leaks and then Steady's repacks, etc..I specifically see JC's posts in very timely and helpful manor and I've appreciated his follow up comments and humor as well. Just a quick shout, I've noticed it a lot.
Anyway, I'd like to post here and there in the Dev section and says you have to have a certain amount of posts in the more "general" forums, so this is that first attempt. Hope to see more of you in the Devs sections.
Love this phone, I came from an OG droid that was awesome and worked over and flashed to all hell so this little upgrade is sweet sauce.
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Glad I still had a "thanks" left! Appreciate that.
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Welcome aboard man. If you need any help let me know
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Darrien13 said:
Switched from t-mobile goodbye Nexus S :'(, Hope it was a good buy this late in the game and I won't end up regretting it. Will be receiving it Monday or Tuesday.
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I made a Similar jump back in October my only regret is the data speeds. Sprints network sucks plain and simple from sucky data to dropped calls. but the phone it's self is a beast!!! You won't kick yourself over it... Hopefully your lucky like me and have 4G almost everywhere you go.

Welcome, I've had mine for a week now, actually I think I finished rooting and flashed my first rom about this time last Saturday, and I'm loving it. I have no problems with data and the speed that apps load compared to my EVO 4G are phenomenal.
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That was over 4g
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Ill be getting mine this week and I'm pumped. Coming from the Nexus 4g completely stock. Haven't even rooted yet and its going bye bye lol. Look forward to flashing some Epic roms.
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Ill be getting mine this week and I'm pumped. Coming from the Nexus 4g completely stock. Haven't even rooted yet and its going bye bye lol. Look forward to flashing some Epic roms.
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I bought my one month ago. I purchase mine on craigslist for $325.00 and it is worth it so I did not waste my upgrade and I can still buy the latest phone when it comes out. In my opinion with the LTE phone coming out soon it was not worth an upgrade.

It's a great phone but pretty much unusable in my area unless I can connect to wifi.
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Off topic: Lets keep the trolling and arguing to a minimum..this is a GREAT PHONE!

Alot of us came from the Evo 3d forum where there was nothing but trolling, huge arguments and dev fights. Id like for us to keep this forum clean, or at least try to..as this is a really great device. If anyone is with me then please clap your hands!!
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*golf clap*
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Agreed.
Though already the first thing I noticed was how nice and civil people were...and even when there was a hint of people getting confrontational everyone has been polite and apologetic. We are, after all, here for the same reason.
The way the E3D forum went down was a breeding ground for, well, exactly what it became. The forum was opened a month and a half before the device released. Add in the unlock debacle. Even worse was the fact that after HTC backed down on locking it made it seem like being rude and trolly and confrontation worked...and that was infused with the massive numbers of Hero owners coming off of contract and a massive number of us yearly upgraders getting ready for the EVO4Gs successor. Sprinkle on top the unlocking debacle and drama surrounding AlphaRevX and TeamWIN that had nothing to do with AlphaRevX or TeamWIN...for a while. Then the fact that the Sensation was a nearly identical device with not identical development and seemed like extra dev attention--regardless of the fact that everything went back and forth very quickly, that bread epic ****-tons of butthurt amongst the massive amounts of people who were already pissed on, pissed off, angry and ready to fight before the phone was even released and, well, it isn't surprising. It was sad.
I gotta say I love all you guys already.
agreed.......
Agreed. We should also set up a Google+ chat group... Just saying.
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Agreed. We should also set up a Google+ chat group... Just saying.
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I didn't like Google+ that much call me crazy. But I'm down with the idea
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It will be pretty hard to keep evo3d owners who know they have a lesser phone from coming here and saying how much the phone sucks etc etc because they made the mistake of getting one.But we can try.
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Alot of us came from the Evo 3d forum where there was nothing but trolling, huge arguments and dev fights. Id like for us to keep this forum clean, or at least try to..as this is a really great device. If anyone is with me then please clap your hands!!
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Yup i came from the 3d forums and watched the trolling and general disrespect increase as time went all. Hope to not see that here
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I was there watching as well, swapped the 3vo for the SGS2, couldnt be happier with my choice!
As for a google huddle, i used to use it a lot with my atrix i had. it was a busy huddle. It was nice if you couldnt get on xda to follow all the rom discussions and what not.
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I was there watching as well, swapped the 3vo for the SGS2, couldnt be happier with my choice!
As for a google huddle, i used to use it a lot with my atrix i had. it was a busy huddle. It was nice if you couldnt get on xda to follow all the rom discussions and what not.
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You guys wanna get one started?
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Im down..
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Yeah ....the Ev3D forum is a Jerry Springer Show every day. I'd hammer rude comments on it.
Would love the Google+ group!
Despite my issue with the browsers lack of useragent settings option, the Epic 4ag Touch is the device I've envisioned for the last 10yrs
It is fantabulous.
Amazing phone, no room for trolls here....
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Yeah its great... Btw how do you change the lockscreen wallpaper?
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I started a thread for getting a group going
Post your emails here!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1265309
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deano0714 said:
Yeah its great... Btw how do you change the lockscreen wallpaper?
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Go to menu, settings, display, screen display and then lock screen wallpaper. Took me a while to figure out as well.
Coming from evo 3d as well. So happy with my decision so far. Hope to get to know you dudes better.
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Agreed. The EVO 3D forums were terrible all the way around.
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uofajac said:
Go to menu, settings, display, screen display and then lock screen wallpaper. Took me a while to figure out as well.
Coming from evo 3d as well. So happy with my decision so far. Hope to get to know you dudes better.
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Thanks alot man!
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I am very happy with this phone

Today being Christmas I am thankful for this smartphone. Yeah there is always something better coming around the corner, but not to be greedy lets be happy with this awesome device.
Being rooted with a great ROM and cool ICS theme this phone is warp speed fast, with great battery life, and looks so damn cool.
Even compared to my buddies new Nexus, I honestly like this phone a bit better, for numerous reasons.
Merry Christmas
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Great phone.
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I just got one for Christmas. Love it already. Rooted and running a custom ROM.
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The thing I am so amazed at, is how far Android has come along in such a short time.
My first Android was the MyTouch 3G, which was very clunky and choppy, and just a couple years later I am holding this awesome Galaxy SII with 4.5" AMOLED screen that is razor thin and very lightweight.
Wow Android has come a long long way compared to those first year devices.
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Zorachus said:
The thing I am so amazed at, is how far Android has come along in such a short time.
My first Android was the MyTouch 3G, which was very clunky and choppy, and just a couple years later I am holding this awesome Galaxy SII with 4.5" AMOLED screen that is razor thin and very lightweight.
Wow Android has come a long long way compared to those first year devices.
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Android has come along way. My first Droid being the G1 on TMobile.
My cousin who still has a MyTouch 3G Fender, and man compared to this GSII you can see the night and day difference. His even has the old Android market... SMH...
Zorachus said:
The thing I am so amazed at, is how far Android has come along in such a short time.
My first Android was the MyTouch 3G, which was very clunky and choppy, and just a couple years later I am holding this awesome Galaxy SII with 4.5" AMOLED screen that is razor thin and very lightweight.
Wow Android has come a long long way compared to those first year devices.
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I had a my touch 3g but my first smartphone was the htc 8125 windows mobile 5
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Ahhh the wizard, that was my pocket computer.
This is truly an amazing machine. soo silky smooth and lightning fast. great battery life. Super amoled screen.... its only proof that we are back on schedule in reaching the Jetsons soon.
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Ahhh the wizard, that was my pocket computer.
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Yep somehow it ran wm6.5 faster yhan wm 5. I almost bought a tilt but waited awhile and got mytouch 3g. Wizard was built like a tank though look at how much bigger screens got.
I still have it actually:
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I like this phone a little bit more everyday. I honestly have no phone envy for any other device out there. This is the best $240 I have ever spent
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JohnCorleone said:
I like this phone a little bit more everyday. I honestly have no phone envy for any other device out there. This is the best $240 I have ever spent
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I agree the best penny I ever spent....
Sent from my fingertips to youre eyeballs....
Definitely a great phone. Cant wait for what the future of android and the galaxy line holds. But a family member had his Nexus and I feel so much better. I already knew it was not worth jumping through hoops to get. But now I have no jealousy at all. Only things it has is ICS in pure form. It also feels a bit more solid.
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My brother recently got an iPhone 4S and I got to play with it for a bit, and it made me really appreciate the GS2 that I have so much more. It's an amazing phone and I'm perfectly happy with the phone I have, finally.
I'm very happy with this phone. I haven't even rooted it yet and I'm not sure I have a reason to. Yet? lol
My only gripe is the slipperyness of the back cover. I have a case on order so I hope that will help it.

Samsung Galaxy S3 May 22nd?

Just saw this posted on phandroid. After looking at the recent horrible renders....do you guys think its finally time for the real deal. Personally the glimpse provided is rather sexy.
What's your thoughts??
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Woah, I hope that is the real deal! Looks sleek to me. I think my other line is upgrade eligible at the perfect time.
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That's very sleek. If it's real it'll be one more reason to give the SG3 a hard look when (if ever) it comes out.
Yea. It looks almost too sleek. Like a touch screen remote or something. Its a serious stretch from what we've seen. But with the advancements this phone is supposed to usher in.....its almost kinda fitting. My OG Epic line is up in October.
Hopefully that's enough time for it to get jerked around by sprint and have a decent rumor on a release date.....
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But that will be GSM International so cdma may be in december when htc and other might start preparing for android 5.0...Knowing samsung this one will come with 2.6 with promise to upgrade in future...
Looks like its gonna be made with aluminum and ceramic maybe? Looks like it could be the real deal tho the invite date is right afaik, the only problem is the US variant won't make it here til sometime end of 3rd or 4th quarter since Sammy didn't let this one out of the cage til September I don't see them dropping another flagship device less than 12 months from the last especially since the epic 2 is coming this summer which is basically our phone with LTE instead of wimax, but most of the specs are very similar otherwise
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That looks legit, and like some Star Trek slickness. Want in my pocket nao.
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Looks like its gonna be made with aluminum and ceramic maybe? Looks like it could be the real deal tho the invite date is right afaik, the only problem is the US variant won't make it here til sometime end of 3rd or 4th quarter since Sammy didn't let this one out of the cage til September I don't see them dropping another flagship device less than 12 months from the last especially since the epic 2 is coming this summer which is basically our phone with LTE instead of wimax, but most of the specs are very similar otherwise
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Honestly I could see them dropping it sooner. While the Epic 2 is known about it's pretty much a refresh of the Epic that is already there and no it's not a Epic Touch it's the Epic with the keyboard so it's the update to that model nothing more and with better specs. I could see Sammy dropping this on everyone if what they said was true about wanting to release it world wide in 1 shot instead of how the GS2 was released where people pretty much had to wait almost a year to get their hands on it (outside of the GSM version)
Also that looks like the back of the phone as many have said in that posting. I tend to agree with it as well but seriously if that really is it....Shut up and take my money please now!!!!
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I've seen this guy before but where?
Also I started thinking if by any chance sprint releases 2 gs3s at the same time
Same specs-ish but one has a physical keyboard one doesn't which one should I get?
Keyboard was the main reason I bought the og epic over the evo
I don't miss the keyboard but its nice to have
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aerodynamic Galaxy S III damn god please let it be true
<3
only benefit I see to thicker phones is thicker batteries
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gtuansdiamm said:
I've seen this guy before but where?
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That's John Lithgow as one of the main characters in 3rd Rock from the Sun.
Also, these KIRFs. Man, these KIRFs.
gtuansdiamm said:
I've seen this guy before but where?
Also I started thinking if by any chance sprint releases 2 gs3s at the same time
Same specs-ish but one has a physical keyboard one doesn't which one should I get?
Keyboard was the main reason I bought the og epic over the evo
I don't miss the keyboard but its nice to have
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Harry and the Hendersons.
True the hard keyboard is nice to have at times but I have to admit after using one for so long and pretty much jumping ship to a touch only phone I don't see myself being able to go back. I love slim phones I always really have I just could not get away from the keyboards but now that I have I don't see me going back ever again.
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I've seen this guy before but where?
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Cliffhanger
Do want the S3 though!
Trinity killer on Dexter too lol that dude gets around everything from a family man with a Sasquatch to an alien to a creepy serial killer
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Man I can't wait but the only thing that mucks this up is lte. Need 4g.
I feel like HTC is the American car of phones apple is German. And Samsung is jap. I only buy jap cars Lexus and Infiniti
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Lithgow is a legend. The World According to Garp, Footloose, Twilight Zone the movie (the dude freaking out on the airplane), Raising Cain (more evil than his character in Dexter). Plus his great character on 3rd Rock. Love that guy.
Oh yeah the SGSIII looks nice too.
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But that will be GSM International so cdma may be in december when htc and other might start preparing for android 5.0...Knowing samsung this one will come with 2.6 with promise to upgrade in future...
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Yup.
No way the states will see a sexy design like that.
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Forever alone?

I've been noticing less and less posts in the epic forum...
When I press refresh, there are not a bunch more posts and bumps and questions accidentally posted in the dev forum... Looneyrat has not even been back. It seems that a lot of people have been moving on to new phones...
Why don't people just wait it out until the S3 or something... are these people paying full, off-contract price for their new phones?
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I've been noticing less and less posts in the epic forum...
When I press refresh, there are not a bunch more posts and bumps and questions accidentally posted in the dev forum... Looneyrat has not even been back. It seems that a lot of people have been moving on to new phones...
Why don't people just wait it out until the S3 or something... are these people paying full, off-contract price for their new phones?
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Looneyrat's IP was blocked forever. Upgrades for release day Epic was June, I got it 10 days later and am eligible July 1st.
My upgrade is aug. 1st, I'm going to try and get them to give me a early upgrade sometime in july. Then my epic will be my wife's epic till her upgrade comes. Then it'll be my back up phone/ play around on wifi phone.
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Krazykamels vacation is self imposed. No ip block can hold him down.
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Looneyrat's IP was blocked forever. Upgrades for release day Epic was June, I got it 10 days later and am eligible July 1st.
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I have hundreds of IPs ....
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Yea I noticed during this recently. While at work, I refresh the forum's page often and lately it's been rather slow.
I think that --
1: most people are on an HTC device or SGS2, and
2: there hasn't been any further releases since FC09 official, (Excluding FC19) so there isn't much to really comment on.
Yeah my upgrade is not till Oct but I noticed that too...I hope people stick around though...
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I mainly stay in the the Upgrading phone discussion/a few others in General, then the TPR thread..
Been trying to post a bit more though. I've been a silent observer for a very long time..
I'll still stay in this forum
And I've officially preordered the Verizon SG3.. Hopefully we can all stay friends / I can get at all of Sprint's ROM's/tweaks I know you guys will make
A lot of them may have qualified for the early upgrade under the old premier program and jumped to something else.
I always have a full upgrade available. Benefits of having 4 lines. =)
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I come here sometimes
Just don't post that often
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I'm not abandoning my Epic, it's worth more to keep than to sell... but I'm running out of things to do with it. And apparently I'm running out of users to share with. My files downloaded are at half the rate they were just 3 months ago.
There's even less questions to answer (repetitive or not), most discussion is on new devices rather than the Epic 4G... Yes, lot's of users, are, have, and likely always will pay the full price rather than waiting a couple of months to subsidize most of the cost. I don't have that freedom of flowing cash... so here I wait for my upgrade to arrive.
I still have 140 days or so for my upgrade discount, the lady has about 40. I'll still be around for a bit. Even after my upgrade I'll be checking in as I plan on letting my daughters use these 2 epics as wifi devices for games, music, and netflix.
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I still have another year until my upgrade. I suppose I'll be holding down the fort once y'all leave. This phone will be going to my mother, which will be its final resting place. No device in her possession ever comes back alive.
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I post every now and then. I check here everyday and other forums too. I have an upgrade in 2 weeks so I don't know if I'll stick around.
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I'm waiting till i can spend some time playing with the gs3.. see if it's worth the money to upgrade or not.. probably not as i'll miss the hw keyboard way too much, but who knows.. the urge for something new and shiny might overwhelm me..
I have 2 kids in college... I'll turn out the lights when I leave...
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A lot of them may have qualified for the early upgrade under the old premier program and jumped to something else.
I always have a full upgrade available. Benefits of having 4 lines. =)
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Lol same with my family
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But I have to say, Marcus raises an interesting question; I spend quite a bit of time in the OG Evo forums (having had as many as 3 on my acct, once upon a time) and I still see a lot of activity over there. And that phone turned 2 on June 4! But they also still seem to have a lot of development going on. New devs have come on to replace the originals. If Kenny hadn't stepped up to make TPR, we'd have only 1 dev left (Random) who does TW development.
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Wow I've been through 3 phones since my departure from the epic 4g last fall.
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a humble confession to Cyanogen

I have a confession to make to you.
Cyan, I cheated on you... And it wasn't pretty. I'm so sorry but I thought that the grass was greener on the other side and as it turns out, those other roms only held false hopes. They were all dressed up in lacy red lingerie, with their big boobs all hanging out but inside they were empty and unstable.
Let me explain what happened and maybe you will understand and hopefully forgive me for my transgression.( too much drama?)
(not yet? ok)
So I bought the GNex on Verizon the day it came out and went straight home to unlock/root it. Despite all the negative opinions I read, at first, I was really happy with it. It was the beginning of a crackflash addiction that has lasted for almost two years. Since then, I've flashed every rom out there, and there were some that I really liked.
v.4.0 (ics) was like the girl next door that was a little nerdy and homely looking so you didn't pay much attention to then one day you see her in Kroger (or whatever your local grocer is called) and she's all grown up and she's dropped dead sexy but still in that nerdy looking way with like glasses and everything. It offered a lot of new things and the things devs were doing to get the best user experience out of their roms gave me hope that I wouldn't have to buy a new phone for a while (cuz frankly, phones are way too damn expensive). And I really liked my phone and showing off to my envious *iphone friends what my phone can do.
Then came Jelly Bean.
I thought at first that I should go back to stock and wait for Verizon to release it but that is like waiting for that girl next door to become legal. so I went with one of the first releases from one of the major roms (I won't name any names) and at first everything looked okay.
I should back up a sec,
One of the major flaws in the VGNex is the radios and from the start it was plagued with issues as I'm sure most people know. So one of the reasons I like being rooted is that when a new radio is released I could try it out and see if it worked for me. Eventually, Verizon or somebody solved that issue and my phone was okay being on stock. However, after JB was released, I noticed that pretty much any rom I was running I would have tons of issues, mostly related to my network signal or Wifi or both. sometimes GPS was non-existent, and other times it was bluetooth.
That is until I found Cyan.
Cyanogen you are the greatest thing that ever happened to my phone. I started using your rom a little over a month ago ( which is the longest I've ever ran a rom) and it's weird because I didn't like you all that much when I first tried you out on my original Dinc. You never are feature packed and so I thought that was a negative. How naive i was back then.
Since that time I have been extremely pleased with how my phone behaves and I really thought I found the one. Days would go by and I wouldn't even get on XDA or Rootzwiki to check if there were any updates or anything I might be interested in trying.
Everything worked and other than a few occurrences where I noticed a little lag which was fixed by wiping chache/dalvik, I never noticed anything that prompted me to look outside our relationship. But I do have wandering eyes and I started to notice other roms that had some pretty cool features and I thought that maybe I could look and not touch. But we all know how hard it is to navigate the adulterous waters.
I should say that I'm not trying to bash other roms. I honestly think that maybe it is just the 'one' phone I got and it only works on stock and Cyanogen, Which I admit, would be a weird flaw to have in a phone. Or maybe I just don't know what I'm doing.
Maybe there was a memo that I overlooked.
All I know is that the last few days without you have been a whirlpool of frustration and desperation. I almost cried earlier when I pulled my phone out and it wouldn't power off because the last 24 hours it was constantly freezing up on me. I can't stand not having GPS or have it only work sometimes because it always seems the times I need it to work it wants to act up and make my phone look like a old man that needs Viagra. The signal is super frustrating too because not only does it not want to connect to anything when I need it but it's also a huge battery drain.
It makes me regret ever making that horrible decision to hurt you. I'm sorry I betrayed your trust in me. I never want to relive those horrible days again. The shame and guilt was... (okay, was that too much? alright.)
The point is, Thank you Cyan for being a true dependable light that I can count on, no matter what happens. And I hope that when I do upgrade my phone it's on one that you are supporting , or else I might just stay with this one until death does us part. (now, just stop it)
Thanks for listening and I hope this funny little story doesn't hurt anyone's feelings. I don't want to make anyone think that other roms aren't good or stable. My experience is exactly that so it might be a different experience for someone else. I also want to thank all the devs out there for making my half-baked/Verizon Nexus as fun as it could be without actually being a true Nexus device.
Thats the greatest love story. Better love story than twilight. Good job.
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automaddux said:
I have a confession to make to you.
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DeHuMaNiZeD said:
Thats the greatest love story. Better love story than twilight. Good job.
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Thank you kind sir
Toxina said:
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...hmmm...
Just wow ...
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Doesn't matter, had Gnex. :laugh:
Life....get one..
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b1337 said:
Life....get one..
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Original satire... Your doing it wrong...lol
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Steve kondik should read this and marry you.. Damn... :thumbup:
-3StarsAndaSun
Many tears were shed. ;-;
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All I can say is lulz.
Waiting for the girl next door to be legal.... hahahaha! Nice description of Vzw updates
mixtapes08 said:
Steve kondik should read this and marry you.. Damn... :thumbup:
-3StarsAndaSun
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I would so have his baby
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Entertaining post how long till the girl next door becomes legal
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jimmyhook said:
Waiting for the girl next door to be legal.... hahahaha! Nice description of Vzw updates
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Ikr. That actually never happened. The girl next door when I was growing up was two old people
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GNex on Cyanogen with Enzo's theme..........beautiful.
CM is an awesome team, and they create a very professional ROM. +fav
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Funny
Too Funny
Can i bring a flower?
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