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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Has everyone jumped to the ics bandwagon? Ive noticed that many gb based roms are not being updated or any new roms are being made from gb...
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Has everyone jumped to the ics bandwagon? Ive noticed that many gb based roms are not being updated or any new roms are being made from gb...
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I have noticed that too, I kinda like the GB ones my self...more stable at the moment, I think anyway...
I'm still running Caulk's EL29. I see way too many issues with the ICS leaks.
I don't want to have to put up with force closes, loss of notification sounds, bad battery life, loss of the ability to move apps to the SD, or any of the other seemingly random bugs that may or may not plague me depending on the phase of the moon or if I had the right amount of toadstool and eye of newt ready when I flashed.
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I agree, I don't think we should be wasting our time on ICS until it becomes a final product. I have been tempted to go to another phone because of the lack of development. I personally like running Blazer ROM 4.0, really good ROM.
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I perfer GB roms more as well. And agree with finding them more stable and better GUI interface. Still running Caulk's EL29 as well. no problems at all with it. But could someone help me with a Kernel issue of trying to find the right kernel that supports BLN?? please and thankyou.
I prefer gb as far as reliability but like the look n feel of ics... Didnt realize gb roms would come to such a halt...
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I like the blueish look of ICS and the icons but not the feel for the simpleness look of it.. woulda expected a bit more for a vast or anxious release that many people want. some of the added features are interesting as well but should be hard to implement them for GB as well..
Well, here goes my first post.....
I took the plunge tonight. Went from from stock rooted el29 to sfhub's stock rooted fc22.
It seemed a little unstable for me so oc rooted back to el29, installed cwm and used my nandroid backup to restore all my settings.
All in all, it was a good exercise to see all the capabilities of ICS, but i am going to stick with GB until the official roll out.
I am pretty amazed with the development community here!
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I've tried just about every leaked ICS build and currently am running sfhub's one-click FC22 but EL29 remains my go-back-to build for guaranteed stability.
I've stopped installing all my apps, mostly because I'm unsure of restoring apps within new builds, so it makes it easier for me to play around with the leaks and learn something new.
Stick with gb. Ics is not a daily drive in my opinion. I have tried them all. Calks el29 is by far the best rom for this phone at the moment.
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Has everyone jumped to the ics bandwagon? Ive noticed that many gb based roms are not being updated or any new roms are being made from gb...
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What is already made is what is going to be for gb no one is going to go back and update ...they are all working on ics
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What exactly are you wanting them to update? I only run calks builds but I assume nobody left a half finished project out there except maybe cm7 lol. ICS will be final very soon and everyone will forget about GB.
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I agree, I don't think we should be wasting our time on ICS until it becomes a final product. I have been tempted to go to another phone because of the lack of development. I personally like running Blazer ROM 4.0, really good ROM.
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were just getting a head startfor when 4.x.x comes out
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Stick with gb. Ics is not a daily drive in my opinion. I have tried them all. Calks el29 is by far the best rom for this phone at the moment.
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Same here!!
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GB is the way to go and believe Dev's should still work and update GB roms because of the community that still want GB over ICS.
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were just getting a head startfor when 4.x.x comes out
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Everyone has to realize that many of the developers have taken the Gingerbread Roms just about as far as they can.
Also, they're releasing these ICS builds so that they (and we) can learn more about ICS so when the finalized product does arrive from Samsung we'll all be better prepared. They will have a better handle on it from a programming perspective and the end users will already have a better idea on how to handle certain problems as they arise.
Edit: I'm running Calkulin's GB Rom btw
Everything's stable, more colorful, and battery life is definitely better. Ics was fun whole it lasted, but I just realized how good EL29 is, compared to ics (for the tome being).
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Don't go you just have to stick with one rom and let it settle.
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Don't go you just have to stick with one rom and let it settle.
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I've given all ics roms a chance, no disrespect to the devs, they made it a lot more enjoyable. It's just that it's based on unofficial leaks and I'd rather have everything workig rather than finding out what's broke in a situation where i need it.
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Everything's stable, more colorful, and battery life is definitely better. Ics was fun whole it lasted, but I just realized how good EL29 is, compared to ics (for the tome being).
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+1
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I find fc22 to be perfect for me ( havnt ran into anything broke, besides setting wallpaper), and I see about a 10% increase in battery life, but I have removed as much as I would in a gb rom. Im happy. And I have done the right tests to make sure my battery life is better...
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I find fc22 to be perfect for me ( havnt ran into anything broke, besides setting wallpaper), and I see about a 10% increase in battery life, but I have removed as much as I would in a gb rom. Im happy. And I have done the right tests to make sure my battery life is better...
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Like I was saying earlier I was getting 11 hrs battery life 4G and brightness on full internet music for a hr or so angry birds and fb I'm not even rooter either
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I've given all ics roms a chance, no disrespect to the devs, they made it a lot more enjoyable. It's just that it's based on unofficial leaks and I'd rather have everything workig rather than finding out what's broke in a situation where i need it.
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I am on Agat63 FC22 and the only issue is the notification sound and that is kinda user error. I get about the same battery as I got on phantom blazer el29. Same usage.
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Hey Overstew is there a good place to read up on what to change in these roms to get ICS blue? I use to do custom roms on touch pro 2 but that was a lot diffrent.
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Everything's stable, more colorful, and battery life is definitely better. Ics was fun whole it lasted, but I just realized how good EL29 is, compared to ics (for the tome being).
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wut el29 are you running anyways? Stock, Calk's tweaked, etc. Just curious. I've been thinking about going back. Battery life was better for me on GB. Btw, ur ics themes for them were awesome!!
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I ran CM9 Alpha for a few days, and im back on Blazer 4.0. Missed the battery life, GPS stability, and overall fluidity. Cant WAIT for all the kinks to be worked out in CM9 though.
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I've given all ics roms a chance, no disrespect to the devs, they made it a lot more enjoyable. It's just that it's based on unofficial leaks and I'd rather have everything workig rather than finding out what's broke in a situation where i need it.
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I flashed about 5 different EL29 roms and haven't flashed ics once.Because i know that ics is nowhere near ready yet and there isn't cwm for it yet.
The whole procedure is tricky(i can do it),flashing cm7 and then ics.And to go back to gb is think Odin i best bet if you don't want a brick.
Once there is stable ics and stable cwm for ics so i can flash different roms(without flashing cm7 first) then i will make that move.But i ditched Sprint and flashed to Virgin Mobile and i don't have warranty anymore to fix Epic if it bricks.
Hey over stew what method did you use to go back?
I've been wanting to just scared of bricking my phone lol
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dw3bb10 said:
I ran CM9 Alpha for a few days, and im back on Blazer 4.0. Missed the battery life, GPS stability, and overall fluidity. Cant WAIT for all the kinks to be worked out in CM9 though.
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Im on Blazer but i never achieved great battery life on it,my battery last about a day.
When i was on MIUI GB my battery lasted about two days,i would go back but he dont update it anymore and no hw acceleration.
daniel4653 said:
Hey over stew what method did you use to go back?
I've been wanting to just scared of bricking my phone lol
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Just odin back
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kanekz said:
wut el29 are you running anyways? Stock, Calk's tweaked, etc. Just curious. I've been thinking about going back. Battery life was better for me on GB. Btw, ur ics themes for them were awesome!!
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Stock EL29, stock theme. I just odin'd back to stock.
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I ran CM9 Alpha for a few days, and im back on Blazer 4.0. Missed the battery life, GPS stability, and overall fluidity. Cant WAIT for all the kinks to be worked out in CM9 though.
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I really loved cm9 but it's just not there yet.
daniel4653 said:
Hey over stew what method did you use to go back?
I've been wanting to just scared of bricking my phone lol
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sfhub's restore to el29.
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Everything's stable, more colorful, and battery life is definitely better. Ics was fun whole it lasted, but I just realized how good EL29 is, compared to ics (for the tome being).
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I did the same thing. I would much rather have full function and stability for now. We will have full source for ICS before too long. Then I will go back.
For all the people switching back, whats your main problem with ics fc22. Because I thought about switching back until I moved to fc22 from fc18.
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For all the people switching back, whats your main problem with ics fc22. Because I thought about switching back until I moved to fc22 from fc18.
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Battery life in low signal areas. Certain incompatibility in some apps. (words with friends, for example.) And scrolling.
It really depends on ur needs. I agree that the ICS leaks are a lil flaky. I appreciate what the devs have done and all, but now ive moved on to asop cm9. It is ridiculously smooth! And notifications work perfectly. I dont use gps, i rarely use camcorder anyways. Although these deficits are ok with me, others so not much.
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For all the people switching back, whats your main problem with ics fc22. Because I thought about switching back until I moved to fc22 from fc18.
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Honestly my main reason is due to all the constant updates. I personally tweak each ROM I run as what I want isn't readily available and I can do the work myself to make the build I am after. I get one done and a new one pops out. Which is great and frustrating at the same time. The fact that not everything is out for it either puts a damper on it too. Like a hotspot hack for the latest builds. I don't blame any of the devs for not keeping it updated as once they do update it another build comes out. That is a lot of work. Just moving PNG's around is a ***** much less coding framework files. It is little things that will take source for people smarter then me to fix. As far as issues I really haven't had a lot of them. The battery and scrolling can be aggravating. The notification sounds is a little annoying too but easily dealt with. But mainly I just would rather run a complete build now. Gather my PNG's and such and then once a final build is out. Make the one I have been waiting for.
Anyone still running EL29 stock or rooted instead of the ICS roms / leaks? If so, why?
I did for a day after reverting back from ICS, but it absolutely sucked. Touchwiz is ugly as hell. It's unbelievable how ugly it is. Did I mention it was ugly? I went straight back to blazer after that terrible, terrible day. The battery life was crappy anyways. Never again...
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I did for a day after reverting back from ICS, but it absolutely sucked. Touchwiz is ugly as hell. It's unbelievable how ugly it is. Did I mention it was ugly? I went straight back to blazer after that terrible, terrible day. The battery life was crappy anyways. Never again...
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Only thing holding me back from Blazer is the Settings menu theme. I know, i'm OCD.
I am had some smoothness issues with ics plus the fear of bricks lol
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Only thing holding me back from Blazer is the Settings menu theme. I know, i'm OCD.
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I would suggest going for Calkulins 2.9.2 then. It runs on lightly themed touchwiz. I just absolutely cant stand the pull down notification bar on the stock rom. The reason why I say 2.9.2 is because 3.0 runs on gunslinger which doesn't play well with the stock underclock/undervolt scripts. It's meant to be used with SetCPU. Also 3.0 uses a 4x5 drawer rather than 5x5. 4x5 is retarded in my opinion. I can't stand it.
Well I like the ICS leaks which I''m using now. Only thing that bugs me is the turbo scroll bug and battery life is about 85 percent of what it is on GB but I'm still gonna give it a few days for the kernel to settle.
I came from the og epic and found that extreme overclocking and my inclination to try tweaks and tinker outweighs my desire to run any leaks. Therefore I have stuck with el29 as source is available. Calkulins 2.9.2 with gunslinger is working suitable to me...
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revamper said:
I did for a day after reverting back from ICS, but it absolutely sucked. Touchwiz is ugly as hell. It's unbelievable how ugly it is. Did I mention it was ugly? I went straight back to blazer after that terrible, terrible day. The battery life was crappy anyways. Never again...
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You forgot to mention TW is ugly. Only part you left out.
---Jay--- From the CM9 powered E4GT
bryce850 said:
I am had some smoothness issues with ics plus the fear of bricks lol
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You can't brick as long as you don't flash anything with ICS based recovery.. as long as you use EL29/cwr5 kernel for flashing, you can play just like its GB
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ICS at this point in time isnt all that on our device
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ICS at this point in time isnt all that on our device
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Who doesn't like bragging about how updated their device is with co workers
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I find ISC smooth as could be with great battery life. I always use SFHubs odin and stock ICS launcher. I dont restore data and back up with google and have not had a problem. SFHubs self extracting odin has got to be the safest most user friendly way to flash in my opinion.
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Yes, using rooted stock EL29. Reason is that while I love to tinker and geek out, I have been doing that for decades... There comes a point when you just want some stability and choose not to create more work for yourself than what one would classify as fun.
I can't say that the bricking is or is not a concern for me. There are a few bugs that really tick me off at times, don't get me wrong. so if anything would make me consider going to ics leaked roms, it would be another round of media scanning reboots at startup
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because i touch myself at night.
I'm running an EL29 based rom. Because GB works. I find these ICS leaks abysmal, no offense to the hard work that the devs do.
I don't care to suffer through crap battery life, glitches, bugs, notifications that don't work, terrible browser experience etc etc.
Until we have an official ICS rom, i'm really not interested anymore in these unfinished leaks.
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I don't care to suffer through crap battery life, glitches, bugs, notifications that don't work, terrible browser experience etc etc.
Until we have an official ICS rom, i'm really not interested anymore in these unfinished leaks.
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This. Still running TSM Revamped 1.2.9 because i like how it looks and it just works.
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LordLugard said:
I'm running an EL29 based rom. Because GB works. I find these ICS leaks abysmal, no offense to the hard work that the devs do.
I don't care to suffer through crap battery life, glitches, bugs, notifications that don't work, terrible browser experience etc etc.
Until we have an official ICS rom, i'm really not interested anymore in these unfinished leaks.
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You hit the nail on the head with exactly the same way I feel. When the official ICS ROM comes out and the devs work their magic on it then I'll move to one.
I live for turbo scroll. Touch Wiz is the biz. Touch Wiz 4.0 is the bomb.
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I haven't been able to use any other ROMs since CM9 came out. It really makes everything else feel unusable. I can understand those that wait for battery life to improve but I can live with it
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Until they drop the official ics ota, in the mean time I I'll keep rocking Calks E4GT el29 v. 3.0/Overstew'a ics theme. TW4.0.
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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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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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_dan said:
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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moparfreak426 said:
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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Hello there peeps I need some help figuring this out. I I don't own this device I am just updating it for a friend who is stuck on gb.. I flashed a ics rom but it seems to be a Lil buggy even tho its apparently stock.. One of the blazer roms. What I'd like to know is which ics official stock rom should I flash not a custom rom but just pure Samsung stock ics? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Dont get ICS. It sucks your better off on GB for this phone. Its all buggy
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This link is to all stock links. Leaks and officials. You'll get tons of opinions, but i think this its what you asked for. I would recommend Fi03 or Fi25 if your friend is really wanting ics.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31961585
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I'm running Kobridge's FI25 ROM. It's pretty stock-ish, fluid and overall great. Battery is nice as well. I'd give that a look and try.
Just go to settings and about phone and update firmware or android. The latest official ics build is fh13 so if he is on gb you will have to update to ff18 then fh13 or you can download a one click and use Odin to update. Depends if you want it rooted or not. If he is rooted now and has removed stock apps you will have to use a bone click option or revert back to stock first. You can look up qbking77 on YouTube and every custom rom he pretty much has a video for along with how to get the stock ota updates. To get the stock ics look after updating to the ics build go to Sprint id to change to the stock look or download a launcher like nova launcher or apex or whatever you prefer. If you want a stock ics rom with root you would want an aosp rom like cyanogenmod beta 1. Go to the original development thread.
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So even the official builds suck? Wtf lol.. She's a chick so I don't wanna hear botching but GB is just not happening its gotta be ICS. So anybody recommend a stable rom? I25 leak any good?
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I had the international s2 before my s3 and ice cream was sweet all day. Sad this phone gets no love
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I have had no issues at all with the ics ota updates but a lot of people have claimed issues. I did a factory reset and wiped cache after the updates and never had issues with battery or blue tooth or whatever else people complain about. I would say let her try ics for a week and see for herself. You can always go back to gb if she doesn't like it. I love cm9 beta 1 I just have some data issues sometimes but it's still being developed so I'm sure the minor issues the rom has are being worked on as we speak. There is also tons of leaks for ics the latest released leak is fi25. And I think it's supposed to be the last leak for ics until jelly bean is leaked.
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Dont know what everyone is whining about concerning ICS on our phone. There's a bunch of options now for all tastes. I get a day and a half or more every charge with 3+ hrs screen on time. Every ICS leak/ build has gotten better for a while now.
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FH13 which is the latest official works great for me.
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FH13 the best so far.
Check this thread [Oficial OTA Repository] . I post all official OTA links. Download them all in order them copy paste them in SD card. Go to recovery and flash them in the right order.
Note: You must be pure stock and use stock recovery.
Instructions just in case:
1. You don't need to rename zip.
2. Copy to SD Card not Internal.
3. You most be full stock. (no root, no custom kernel etc.) these are official OTA zips directly from Google servers.
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pezlomd said:
I had the international s2 before my s3 and ice cream was sweet all day. Sad this phone gets no love
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Whatdooya mean "no love"?!
I put my woman on FF18 Stock rooted and changed build prop to say its Fi03 to avoid the update nag, added some lite placebo tweaks and she has zero complaints at all.
She actually used 3 times the bandwidth as me last month lmao and her battery is a rock thanks to screenstate, WiFi_idle_ms and a small a sysctl.conf..
No maintenance needed..
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Whatdooya mean "no love"?!
I put my woman on FF18 Stock rooted and changed build prop to say its Fi03 to avoid the update nag, added some lite placebo tweaks and she has zero complaints at all.
She actually used 3 times the bandwidth as me last month lmao and her battery is a rock thanks to screenstate, WiFi_idle_ms and a small a sysctl.conf..
No maintenance needed..
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I'm guessing no love because this phone still doesn't have a proper running vanilla ICS or JB experience for it. I understand where he's coming from. With the Nexus S 4G I had, obviously a Google phone, they'd have various ICS and JB roms running smoothly. But for this device, Samsung/Sprint is holding it back from its potential.
I just can't say enough good things about Re-Calked ROM. Battery life and smoothness are top notch and there are tons of mods for theming purposes, including a transparent status bar mod.
Offically, FH13 is the way to go.
Leak-wise I think I'm going to try this combo next:
FI03 ROM
FI03 Repacked Kernel
FI25 Modem
...and see what happens. Love the signal on FI25 but hate that so many other features were either removed or changed. Also hate Connection Optimizer on FI03 but I can just leave it off.
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I'm guessing no love because this phone still doesn't have a proper running vanilla ICS or JB experience for it. I understand where he's coming from. With the Nexus S 4G I had, obviously a Google phone, they'd have various ICS and JB roms running smoothly. But for this device, Samsung/Sprint is holding it back from its potential.
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Atrue we are a little bit behind and they treat us like step children, I'll give you that.... but have you not met the devs around here?
I think the dev and user support shown in E4gt's slice of paradise far outweighs official support at arms length
( and I've tried three jb builds, all of them daily-able)
I do see your point though.. a little official love couldn't hurt.
What I meant by no love is that ics is something I've been running so smooth since my HTC Sensation. The epic 4G touch has the same processor as the gti9100 yet I feel like sprint or Samsung is holding back. All the s2s I see are on gingerbread with people complaining about bugs and issues in official builds I find that unacceptable. But I don't have this device so idk how bad it is. I had a great ics experience both Sammy and aosp on international s2. The sprint variant seems like a killer device that just needs killer software to go with It.
Ps. thanks for everyone's input.. Putbuee on the latest ics leak odexed version with matching kernel and modem and the phone is flying!
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garwynn said:
Offically, FH13 is the way to go.
Leak-wise I think I'm going to try this combo next:
FI03 ROM
FI03 Repacked Kernel
FI25 Modem
...and see what happens. Love the signal on FI25 but hate that so many other features were either removed or changed. Also hate Connection Optimizer on FI03 but I can just leave it off.
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What garwynn says is correct.
My g/f likes to stay on official releases, so she's on FH13. It was a HUGE improvement over the piece of crap that was FF18, so I would recommend that one.
Myself, I'm using stock rooted FI03 with stock FI03 kernel and FI03 modem. I'm pretty happy with this setup, and I probably won't be jumping to another ROM until JB is more stabilized.
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What garwynn says is correct.
My g/f likes to stay on official releases, so she's on FH13. It was a HUGE improvement over the piece of crap that was FF18, so I would recommend that one.
Myself, I'm using stock rooted FI03 with stock FI03 kernel and FI03 modem. I'm pretty happy with this setup, and I probably won't be jumping to another ROM until JB is more stabilized.
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Why do people make statements like that? " Huge piece of ..."etc blah..?
I used several ff18 builds with zero issues .. my woman's been on it for 2 months with zero issues as well.
So it was bad how exactly?
Not trying to be an ass . I've just never understood these blanket statements about an entire build being bad vs the possibility of one flash being bad...
Edit: for clarity, I'm not saying i dislike fh or fi builds either... I'm just saying I havent had a major issue with any build since fc27(I think)
I'm using stock rooted FI25 with the Agat 5.4 kernel and the Pegasusq governor. Works great for me! There are a lot of great custom ROMs out with CM9 being one of my favs but the bugs make me stick with stock.
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