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Wifi Connection Drops

I recently rooted my Galaxy S2 and put in the Caulkin's Custom ROM. The baseband I have is EK02 and the Kernel Version is EL29. My Wifi connection keeps on dropping.
Can anybody help me on this?

You could always try to flash your modem to EL29 ... It seems better on battery and more stable in my opinion.

You mean to upgrade my baseband from EK02 to EL29 right?

wifi keeps dropping
my galaxy s2 have the same problem.. and everytime i have to toggle wifi and it will connect again..
i have the same experience with stock.. and calkulin's rom... and various different kernel / modem
i am now on EL26.. and it's the same..
your wifi will just continue to drop..
it's so annoying that i am contemplating to switch to a different phone..

boxta said:
my galaxy s2 have the same problem.. and everytime i have to toggle wifi and it will connect again..
i have the same experience with stock.. and calkulin's rom... and various different kernel / modem
i am now on EL26.. and it's the same..
your wifi will just continue to drop..
it's so annoying that i am contemplating to switch to a different phone..
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I had the same problem and I switched out phones for a new epic touch and haven't had the problem again.
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Is the sleep policy set to stay connected?
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ClutchR1 said:
Is the sleep policy set to stay connected?
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Make sure the sleep policy is set to NEVER.
And also, alot of people, including myself, had horrible battery drain with EL26 and EL29. I flashed the Ek02 modem and EL13 kernel, and my battery life is back to being awesome.

I got it resolved. Once I upgraded it to EL29 the problem seems to be gone. Now my wifi seems to be stable. The sleep policy is set to never. I am going to test with the EL29 and see how my battery life is. If it is bad then as per your suggestion I will revert to EK02 and EL13.

In the future, is it also a good idea to reprovision the phone after switching things like modems. That will give everything a fresh start. For those who are unsure the Toolkit link in my signature had instructions for the Hand Free Reset (reprovision) process.
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Back to my Gingerbread ROM! ! !

after trying most roms, I have come to a conclusion! Aokp beautiful smooth great rom, has terrible data loss (los) both wifi and 3g. blue kuban rom, good rom many many features, no matter how many times I wipe and reinstall, I keep losing wifi. and f f 18, scrolling is too laggy. Cm9 LOS! ! ! Badly... Smooth and beautiful ROM, but I have to have data, and I have to the other make a call. So it was a no go for these roms. I'm thinking that we will just have to wait for source kernel to evolve. I have no doubt that these two roms will be the best soon.

davidstjohn1 said:
after trying most roms, I have come to a conclusion! Aokp beautiful smooth great rom, has terrible data loss (los) both wifi and 3g. blue kuban rom, good rom many many features, no matter how many times I wipe and reinstall, I keep losing wifi. and f f 18, scrolling is too laggy. Cm9 LOS! ! ! Badly... Smooth and beautiful ROM, but I have to have data, and I have to the other make a call. So it was a no go for these roms. I'm thinking that we will just have to wait for source kernel to evolve. I have no doubt that these two roms will be the best soon.
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CM9 Alpha 6 has some weird Data LOS but I assure you was not in Alpha 5 if that was your issue (Alpha 5 doesnt have recovery). Nightly 7-11 seemed to have been fine on that issue. If battery life was an issue the last Nightly that was FF11 kernel based (6-29?) is great as well as having a safe recovery baked in.
Just a thought on CM9 until the next release. Its my daily and I am never going back.

So I guess the point was, or is, you suffered los.. . Just curious..
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RainMotorsports said:
CM9 Alpha 6 has some weird Data LOS but I assure you was not in Alpha 5 if that was your issue (Alpha 5 doesnt have recovery). Nightly 7-11 seemed to have been fine on that issue. If battery life was an issue the last Nightly that was FF11 kernel based (6-29?) is great as well as having a safe recovery baked in.
Just a thought on CM9 until the next release. Its my daily and I am never going back.
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I really tried to like cm 9 but with the data loss it was just a no go. I originally went with the 712 build, quickly realized that was a bad idea and went with the 711 build. after a full wipe I still had data loss. if I can get data work properly on that that would be my favorite rom!

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So I guess the point was, or is, you suffered los.. . Just curious..
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yes my point is l o s on I c s roms, whether it be wifi or 3g, plus I just like the smoothness of gingerbread and until we get the kernel source sorted out I will be happy on gingerbread I guess.

davidstjohn1 said:
yes my point is l o s on I c s roms, whether it be wifi or 3g, plus I just like the smoothness of gingerbread and until we get the kernel source sorted out I will be happy on gingerbread I guess.
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Haven't been on cm9 but im guessing either I haven't suffered anywhere else or I haven't noticed it.
What were the triggers that you noticed? (And im not being hateful, im seriously asking)
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Yeah ive been having a weird issue with fall backs on 7-12 but 7-11 seemed fine. Either way there are those people having LOS issues altogether while the rest of us are fine. But Alpha 6 brought an issue to alot of people where it would just not have Data and voice was fine. Whatever nightly I was on before Alpha 6 was good as well.

MoHoGalore said:
Haven't been on cm9 but im guessing either I haven't suffered anywhere else or I haven't noticed it.
What were the triggers that you noticed? (And im not being hateful, im seriously asking)
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Well for cm9 los completely after 2 hours on the rom. Nothing installed our altered in anyway. Blue kuban, was great except i lost wifi after the phone sat for any length of time. But was an easy fix, toggle wifi off then on. Blue kuban was the best by far... Aokp los just like cm9 wifi &3g

I'm not sure what the triggers are! But in cm 9 and a o k p I could only get data back by restarting and even then it will come back sometimes.

davidstjohn1 said:
Well for cm9 los completely after 2 hours on the rom. Nothing installed our altered in anyway. Blue kuban, was great except i lost wifi after the phone sat for any length of time. But was an easy fix, toggle wifi off then on. Blue kuban was the best by far... Aokp los just like cm9 wifi &3g
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Good to know and haven't strayed too far away from what I know.
I did try the Kuban for a bit but like I said, I either didn't have the issue or didn't notice.
And you're right. The next few weeks are hopefully going to be fun.
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Try Mijz's "Goodness" ROM. I just reflashed it after running stock for awhile. I went back to stoc a while back because the leaks were to much to keep up with. Now I'm running Mijz's latest Goodness FF18 release and its smooth. No trouble so far, battery life settling in too.

Did you really need a whole new thread. Come on lol.
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MoHoGalore said:
Good to know and haven't strayed too far away from what I know.
I did try the Kuban for a bit but like I said, I either didn't have the issue or didn't notice.
And you're right. The next few weeks are hopefully going to be fun.
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that's exactly what I'm getting at we are in such a great time for this phone, there is going to be a ton of development coming out, so in the meantime I'm going to be staying on my gingerbread rom while they get it done!

ewynn9 said:
Try Mijz's "Goodness" ROM. I just reflashed it after running stock for awhile. I went back to stoc a while back because the leaks were to much to keep up with. Now I'm running Mijz's latest Goodness FF18 release and its smooth. No trouble so far, battery life settling in too.
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hey I'm willing to give that a try definitely! I did hear good things about that 1.

ics roms are not that bad... anyways. the galaxy s3 is the last galaxy s im getting. these devices are blazing fast and are probably the fastest out there but i figured that these devices does not have much support from sprint and developers so im going over to the nexus lines. ive had my galaxy nexus for a while now and i love it more than my gs3. well IMO this is what all i have to say. and im sure a lot of people here would agree too.

daniel4653 said:
Did you really need a whole new thread. Come on lol.
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Daniel, i just wanted too share my experience, i don't think i did anything wrong. I also wanted to see if anyone felt the same. Or if i could learn something more. When i had los i posted in each of those roms threads, and received no response or help. And i understand there are a lot of people needing help. Also isn't this general thread why can't i post this? Just curious why you chimed in with that.

davidstjohn1 said:
Daniel, i just wanted too share my experience, i don't think i did anything wrong. I also wanted to see if anyone felt the same. Or if i could learn something more. When i had los i posted in each of those roms threads, and received no response or help. And i understand there are a lot of people needing help. Also isn't this general thread why can't i post this? Just curious why you chimed in with that.
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While I don't see anything wrong with creating a thread about your issues, I feel it would have been more productive to have it in the Q&A section. Asking if others had the same findings as you and what they might have done to resolve them seems like a better way. While I don't think you meant it to come across this way, it could be read by some that those roms you listed have problems that many many other folks are just not seeing. The fact that your seeing similar issues across so many options, maybe some basic troubleshooting questions needs to be asked.
What changed? Answered
When did it start? Answered
When is it NOT happening to you? Answered
When is it NOT happening to others? Still outstanding. So is it that others are less sensitive to the phenomenon? Is it geographical? Is it some external factor like a common app you use or a specific setting or procedure you follow when setting up your phone? Are you using the FF18 modem for all these builds you tried? Etc. Etc.
I am not discounting your findings or saying your wrong at all, just suggesting you indict the phenomenon and not the rom until everything else is ruled out. I for one have been running ICS leaks since April and have only seen LOS to be a problem specific to one early leak and the fd02 modem. And even then I can't prove it was the modem.

CyberpodS2 said:
While I don't see anything wrong with creating a thread about your issues, I feel it would have been more productive to have it in the Q&A section. Asking if others had the same findings as you and what they might have done to resolve them seems like a better way. While I don't think you meant it to come across this way, it could be read by some that those roms you listed have problems that many many other folks are just not seeing. The fact that your seeing similar issues across so many options, maybe some basic troubleshooting questions needs to be asked.
What changed? Answered
When did it start? Answered
When is it NOT happening to you? Answered
When is it NOT happening to others? Still outstanding. So is it that others are less sensitive to the phenomenon? Is it geographical? Is it some external factor like a common app you use or a specific setting or procedure you follow when setting up your phone? Are you using the FF18 modem for all these builds you tried? Etc. Etc.
I am not discounting your findings or saying your wrong at all, just suggesting you indict the phenomenon and not the rom until everything else is ruled out. I for one have been running ICS leaks since April and have only seen LOS to be a problem specific to one early leak and the fd02 modem. And even then I can't prove it was the modem.
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Thanks for the reply, my bad in posing in the wrong area. After thinking and reading your reply your right. Idk if i could have a moderator move this our if its even worth it. My apologies.

ewynn9 said:
Try Mijz's "Goodness" ROM. I just reflashed it after running stock for awhile. I went back to stoc a while back because the leaks were to much to keep up with. Now I'm running Mijz's latest Goodness FF18 release and its smooth. No trouble so far, battery life settling in too.
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I'm also running this rom now after gingerbread. Good stuff.
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I am running AOKP milestone 6 with the 11115 prl and I have never had a problem with LOS. In fact I haven't had it at all with this one or on CM9. As a side note, some people say that you can't use custom prl's on ICS but I found that if you Odin to el29 and flash the prl 2 times it works wonders. 3G data roaming on Verizon and NO LoS
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E4GT Jelly Bean?

I understand the E4GT just got ICS, and, according to many people, it is filled with bugs. But would making an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ROM be too terribly hard? As I understand, the reason making the ICS ROMs was so difficult was because it was a massive upgrade that completely skipped one step in between. Hence why the update took so long in the first place. But since Jelly Bean is just a few enhancements over ICS, would it be difficult to port a Jelly Bean build over to the E4GT? Just a thought I had jumbling around in the ol' noodle lol Thank you for any answers or responses
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I don't experience any problems while using ff18 ICS build.. but jb will come in time.
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worn_chaos789 said:
I understand the E4GT just got ICS, and, according to many people, it is filled with bugs. But would making an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ROM be too terribly hard? As I understand, the reason making the ICS ROMs was so difficult was because it was a massive upgrade that completely skipped one step in between. Hence why the update took so long in the first place. But since Jelly Bean is just a few enhancements over ICS, would it be difficult to port a Jelly Bean build over to the E4GT? Just a thought I had jumbling around in the ol' noodle lol Thank you for any answers or responses
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To correct your understanding, ICS ROMs (as in TouchWiz) weren't difficult to make at all. It was ROMS like AOKP, CM9, etc that were more difficult. It was mainly due to not having kernel source for ICS. There are already some developers working on porting Jelly Bean over, you'll just have to wait a little bit more.

sai5o4 said:
To correct your understanding, ICS ROMs (as in TouchWiz) weren't difficult to make at all. It was ROMS like AOKP, CM9, etc that were more difficult. It was mainly due to not having kernel source for ICS. There are already some developers working on porting Jelly Bean over, you'll just have to wait a little bit more.
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My mistake. Thank you for correcting me. I'm certainly no developer, as you can plainly see lol That is great news though, and I can't wait to see what they come up with. I'm certainly in no rush
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I don't experience any problems while using ff18 ICS build.. but jb will come in time.
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I also haven't noticed many bugs with it. I don't understand what all the fuss is about it being terrible. I enjoy it. I use it as my daily driver and it seems to work just as well as el29 GB did, if not better because of the new functionality features and improved battery life, etc. Good to know someone else is happy with it
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worn_chaos789 said:
I also haven't noticed many bugs with it. I don't understand what all the fuss is about it being terrible. I enjoy it. I use it as my daily driver and it seems to work just as well as el29 GB did, if not better because of the new functionality features and improved battery life, etc. Good to know someone else is happy with it
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Ff18 improves battery life? I've heard exact opposite. And I've heard it slows down data speeds
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moparfreak426 said:
Ff18 improves battery life? I've heard exact opposite. And I've heard it slows down data speeds
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My battery life has seemed extensively better than with el29. That's not to say I didn't have satisfactory battery life prior to ff18. I seem to get maybe 12 or 13 hours out of ff18 whereas I would only get 10 or so with el29. Then again, I'm also constantly tweaking my running tasks and such so my battery life generally is much longer than many of my friends lol but yes I have seen some major improvements all across the board with ICS, as well as some bugs here and there.
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worn_chaos789 said:
My battery life has seemed extensively better than with el29. That's not to say I didn't have satisfactory battery life prior to ff18. I seem to get maybe 12 or 13 hours out of ff18 whereas I would only get 10 or so with el29. Then again, I'm also constantly tweaking my running tasks and such so my battery life generally is much longer than many of my friends lol but yes I have seen some major improvements all across the board with ICS, as well as some bugs here and there.
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So prep before going ff18?.... Wrote davlik cache, all cache or just wipe everything? Before attempting to flash? And flash it 3 to 4 times to be safe?
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So prep before going ff18?.... Wrote davlik cache, all cache or just wipe everything? Before attempting to flash? And flash it 3 to 4 times to be safe?
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I manually updated to ff18 from the post by sfhub including what he said was the exact same build as the OTA update. The process used odin to flash the build onto my phone. Upon recieving the update, after a day of use I had some debilitating lag and hanging all over the place. So I was curious as to what wiping the cache and such would do. I went into the stock recovery (not CWM) and did a wipe data/factory reset, then wipe dalvik cache, then I did a reboot from stock recovery. Since then, the only bugs I have noticed are the task manager aesthetic bug, and a few hang ups here and there. However, battery life hasn't been an issue, I haven't had issues with wifi or force closing, and overall it has been an enjoyable experience. I still use the ff18 build daily.
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Don't do a factory reset with the stock recovery. That bricked a lot of phones. Even the OTA FF18 stock kernel was released with this bug. Use one of Agat63's new kernels or Calkulins format all zip. No bricks reported with either of those methods.

ICS Battery life.
I haven't tried factory reseting or wiping cache, but I know personally my battery life went to $hit when I tried any and all ICS leaks. I get far superior battery life out of el29 gingerbread with MIUI on my S2. Only way I think I'll update to ICS is if Jellybean comes out to put over top of it.

For what it's worth, when I first rooted my E4GT back in May I had terrible battery life as well. It has come a long way. There are lots of ROM's to choose from but the Blu Kuban (you have to enjoy the theme) has been excellent with battery life. I had 24 hrs yesterday with email, voice, some messaging and web. Attached is a screen shot showing what I have as of now. Of course there are apps that drain the phone but they did that on GB as well. I have not regretted ICS at all.

DataHawg said:
Don't do a factory reset with the stock recovery. That bricked a lot of phones. Even the OTA FF18 stock kernel was released with this bug. Use one of Agat63's new kernels or Calkulins format all zip. No bricks reported with either of those methods.
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I'm not calling you a liar by any means, but I've done it twice now with no ill effects. It is completely possible though and if so I am lucky to have not bricked my phone. All I know is after I did it the hang ups and such from ff18 lessened significantly. Thank you for the warning though.
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worn_chaos789 said:
I'm not calling you a liar by any means, but I've done it twice now with no ill effects. It is completely possible though and if so I am lucky to have not bricked my phone. All I know is after I did it the hang ups and such from ff18 lessened significantly. Thank you for the warning though.
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There are random cases here and there where phone haven't bricked using the factory reset method. But I would consider yourself extremely lucky!
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Nothing but hell since ICS

I have had nothing but hell out of this phone since ICS. Has anyone had a lot of problems with ICS or is it just me? Nothing works consistently anymore. I believe this phone has become unreliable.

Wow hell.. huh?
Did you consider rooting and try custom ROMs to get to heaven?
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BluesRulez said:
Wow hell.. huh?
Did you consider rooting and try custom ROMs to get to heaven?
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I did. :/
The several i tried lasted a week at the latest. But most did the same thing as stock ics. Calls never recieved, voicemails never received. Once i couldn't dial out and it took three flashes to fix it. I got a new one from sprint but i really just don't know if i want to go through anymore drama.

PoisonerKA said:
I did. :/
The several i tried lasted a week at the latest. But most did the same thing as stock ics. Calls never recieved, voicemails never received. Once i couldn't dial out and it took three flashes to fix it. I got a new one from sprint but i really just don't know if i want to go through anymore drama.
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Try OC EL29, you'll get no bugs, and a better battery life than on ICS.

Still had trouble with ics and el 29. I tried just running GB but that message never goes away. Its always trying to download and killing my battery and connection. I never had this niche trouble with my evo 4g

There's an unrooted trick that is said to kill the update notification.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28921256
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Wow hell.. huh?
Did you consider rooting and try custom ROMs to get to heaven?
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The devs did a great job with the ROMs but its not the same like gingerbread since Samsung and sprint screwed our ICS, every custom ROM I tryed still has that nasty super fast scroll, it has that glitchy freezing up a bit also when scrolling. OP if you want ICS you will need to get on an aosp ROM or cm9 and aokp that's the closest and smoothness of ICS you will get or you could just roll back to gingerbread.
Another thing is there's a lot of folks that would claim how smooth these ICS custom ROMs are but in reality it isn't its either you guys are blind or your just to into and to used to ICS that it blended in you guys soul.every time I roll back to gingerbread I see a huge difference in smoothness and butter heck even these jellybean aosp and cm10 ROMs are way smoother then the ICS that Samsung and sprint gave us.
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yellowman82 said:
The devs did a great job with the ROMs but its not the same like gingerbread since Samsung and sprint screwed our ICS, every custom ROM I tryed still has that nasty super fast scroll, it has that glitchy freezing up a bit also when scrolling. OP if you want ICS you will need to get on an aosp ROM or cm9 and aokp that's the closest and smoothness of ICS you will get or you could just roll back to gingerbread.
Another thing is there's a lot of folks that would claim how smooth these ICS custom ROMs are but in reality it isn't its either you guys are blind or your just to into and to used to ICS that it blended in you guys soul.every time I roll back to gingerbread I see a huge difference in smoothness and butter heck even these jellybean aosp and cm10 ROMs are way smoother then the ICS that Samsung and sprint gave us.
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Maybe I'll try a jellybean ROM. With the short gap between ICS and JB, i wonder if ICS is the Vista of Android.

PoisonerKA said:
Maybe I'll try a jellybean ROM. With the short gap between ICS and JB, i wonder if ICS is the Vista of Android.
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JB is awesome its just the battery but I prefer it then ICS.
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One piece of advice: Go get sfhub's stock ek02 or eg30 auto package. Start from the beginning and go back and flash an ICS ROM. That usually fixes any bugs. :good:
I don't know about the other ICS ROMs but I have tried CM9 and Blu Kuban and they come as close to perfection as we could've gotten without source kernel. Haven't fully tried ICS since just because I prefer the better battery life of GB though.

I'm on cm10 and the battery is much better than anything I got in ICS, and I've tried half the ROMs out there. Blue kuban, codename, cm9, aokp, etc. The cm10 ROM is freaking amazing. Honestly, try it. You won't regret it
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MultiLockOn said:
I'm on cm10 and the battery is much better than anything I got in ICS, and I've tried half the ROMs out there. Blue kuban, codename, cm9, aokp, etc. The cm10 ROM is freaking amazing. Honestly, try it. You won't regret it
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I might try cm10, but I've tried CM on this phone and the evo4g I had and they were both horrible experiences.

I'm getting pretty decent battery on pics and not to many bugs lol.don't use 4g.task manager doesn't kill me. So its working beautifully for me
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Also I hope you are not restoring apps and data when downgrading etc. Start clean 100%.
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BluesRulez said:
Also I hope you are not restoring apps and data when downgrading etc. Start clean 100%.
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I always start fresh. I don't back up texts, apps, hell not even a NAND back up.

Q _ Q moar OP

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Q _ Q moar OP
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Awh cmon.that's uncalled for meanie.
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PoisonerKA said:
I always start fresh. I don't back up texts, apps, hell not even a NAND back up.
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Look, if you are doing everything right as you say, and are having problems that are making your phone "hell," the problem is likely your device itself. I have personally never had issues with any ICS builds, from the leaks, to the OTAs, to CM9. And the latest FH23 leak gives me excellent battery life. Unfortunately, since you didn't give any more information to go on than the fact that you phone has been hell, I have no further advice to give you then to get your phone replaced. Again, I have had no issues with ICS. Running much smoother than GB.

sputnik767 said:
Look, if you are doing everything right as you say, and are having problems that are making your phone "hell," the problem is likely your device itself. I have personally never had issues with any ICS builds, from the leaks, to the OTAs, to CM9. And the latest FH23 leak gives me excellent battery life. Unfortunately, since you didn't give any more information to go on than the fact that you phone has been hell, I have no further advice to give you then to get your phone replaced. Again, I have had no issues with ICS. Running much smoother than GB.
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I have never had any battery life issues. All my problems revolve around the phone part of my smart phone. I didn't start a thread to cry as as one jerk off suggested, I am having huge problems around ICS that is making my phone worthless. Even this replacement phone that i just activated is getting **** phone reception compared to my old one with GB. If they both have ICS installed they both get crap signal. I wonder.if its related to Sprint.

PoisonerKA said:
I have never had any battery life issues. All my problems revolve around the phone part of my smart phone. I didn't start a thread to cry as as one jerk off suggested, I am having huge problems around ICS that is making my phone worthless. Even this replacement phone that i just activated is getting **** phone reception compared to my old one with GB. If they both have ICS installed they both get crap signal. I wonder.if its related to Sprint.
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First thing, have you updated profile and PRL? If so, have you tried using the ODIN one-click to go back to EL29 ROM, kernel, and modem? Let's start there. If you are having no issues using EL29 as I suggested, we can further explore this being an ICS-related issue. Otherwise, it could very well be Sprint. If that works fine, use ODIN to install the latest FH23 leaked ROM, kernel, and modem. Forget flashing through recovery for now, and only use the one-clicks that erase user data. Also, do you have these issues everywhere you go, or is this localized to a particular area? To put it simply, for 2 phones to be having an identical problem (given a device that is not really known for having problems) is very strange, which leads me to blame Sprint in your particular area. But if you say that you did not have these issues on GB, let's explore that further. ODIN EL29 and report back.

GPS problem on JB Rom?

Ever since I installed Aopk jb rom on my phone my gps havent come back to life, i went to diff roms like blue kuban and i got now cm 10 alpha 5.3 jb rom still gps not working, some1 help me? Also most roms comes without a voicemail app? Why?
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Rasmux said:
Ever since I installed Aopk jb rom on my phone my gps havent come back to life, i went to diff roms like blue kuban and i got now cm 10 alpha 5.3 jb rom still gps not working, some1 help me? Also most roms comes without a voicemail app? Why?
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I've also tried AOKP, CM and JB Roms - liked many of them but GPS was horrible. I even tried the temp el29 to lock GPS then go back but eventually my GPS performance degraded. I finally decided to go back to Touchwiz Rom but I guess all the flashing permanently degraded my GPS. I was about to get a new phone when I tried one last ditch effort. Make a long story short it worked. Here's what I did.
1. Go back to El29 stock Rom
2. Either OTA update to FF18 or manual update FF18 and FH13
GPS works great!
I also used one click Odin to install CWM - one click ff18 Odin: option during then option en for ff18 kernel with agat recovery 4
Finally I updated my modem to FI03 for better 3/4G.
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Did u tried any other rom after that?
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Yes, several times with same poor GPS. I also tried different kernels that I liked for battery savings such as Kobridge and Agat but GPS was not as good. So I One click Odin back to FF18 stock with Agat recovery. I think my phones GPS likes stock Rom and recovery. I should mention that my wife's phone had the same issue and I did the same process to fix her GPS. But her phone's GPS works great with Agats battery tweek kernel. She has great GPS and great battery life. Go figure...
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cd7 said:
Yes, several times with same poor GPS. I also tried different kernels that I liked for battery savings such as Kobridge and Agat but GPS was not as good. So I One click Odin back to FF18 stock with Agat recovery. I think my phones GPS likes stock Rom and recovery. I should mention that my wife's phone had the same issue and I did the same process to fix her GPS. But her phone's GPS works great with Agats battery tweek kernel. She has great GPS and great battery life. Go figure...
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I too have been having bad GPS issues.
First I was on CM10 alpha 5.1 and I couldn't even maintain GPS signal in the I95 from NYC to Hartford, CT!
I then switched to Codename Android (latest one and what I'm on now) which was a lot better and held signal during a 2nd trip up to Hartford. But yesterday I lost signal going up to Bear Mountain (where I've never lost GPS before with previous phones and so had to switch to my wife's iphone for directions).
So I'm thinking I'll have to make the switch too.
But I wanted to ask cd7 if you've ever tried other TW roms like Calkulin 3.0 or re-Calked 0.2.1 for GPS strength? or am I stuck with stock roms forever in order to have consistent GPS?
thanks!

themsn said:
I too have been having bad GPS issues.
First I was on CM10 alpha 5.1 and I couldn't even maintain GPS signal in the I95 from NYC to Hartford, CT!
I then switched to Codename Android (latest one and what I'm on now) which was a lot better and held signal during a 2nd trip up to Hartford. But yesterday I lost signal going up to Bear Mountain (where I've never lost GPS before with previous phones and so had to switch to my wife's iphone for directions).
So I'm thinking I'll have to make the switch too.
But I wanted to ask cd7 if you've ever tried other TW roms like Calkulin 3.0 or re-Calked 0.2.1 for GPS strength? or am I stuck with stock roms forever in order to have consistent GPS?
thanks!
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You have to use a temp gingerbread Rom to get a lock.
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revamper said:
You have to use a temp gingerbread Rom to get a lock.
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Thank you for the suggestion.
However, I did do the GPS lock from Calkulin's 3.0 (GB) then flash to the various roms.
I learned that the hard way after not being able to get a signal at all after flashing cm10 the first time.
My problem is that the signal keeps dropping when I travel longer distances (signal is fine when I'm driving around NYC). CM10 alpha 5 was was pretty spotty and would take longer to get a GPS signal. CNA (codename) was a lot better, quick lock and stay locked from NYC to hartford, but still would lose signal in some more rural areas (whereas other phones ie. my wife's iphone or my older LG android phone never had issues).
That's why, like cd7, I'm thinking of having to just go back to a TW rom, but hoping that I don't have to stick with stock forever and can at least use some of Calkulin's stuff.