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Update is launching today!

The latest update for the Epic Touch is launching today(12/7). Some people are already getting the OTA.

The first member who gets the update please post it
Thanks

That's the best news I've heard since earlier....(facepalm)
The bummer is we already have it so until there's a .tar we will still have the modem issue
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I think jmejiaa from the other thread has received the update. I have already asked him to post the update.
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So if you are on a custom ROM, will the update push / prompt? Or do you have to go back to stock?
Does it matter if the custom ROM is EG30 or EK02 based?

xhadudkenx said:
I think jmejiaa from the other thread has received the update. I have already asked him to post the update.
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Oh no, I don't have it. Sorry if it seemed like I did.
I'd be glad to grab the update if I am pointed towards some instructions on how to do that. My phone is not rooted it that matters.

bralkan said:
So if you are on a custom ROM, will the update push / prompt? Or do you have to go back to stock?
Does it matter if the custom ROM is EG30 or EK02 based?
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You won't get an OTA on a custom ROM
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Question: I'm rooted and on Calkulin's Rom. Should I accept OTA update when I receive it?
Does this Unroot or brick my phone?

Will I still get the update even if I did the qbking manual update? 100% stock not rooted.
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I think the bottom line is, if you have anything but stock EG30 on your phone (ROM, kernel and modem) the update will download but the install will fail. I doubt it will brick your phone as the update probably does version checks before it starts the install process.
Same goes for people with the EG31 modem. You folks will have to wait for a TAR leak.

Dchibro said:
Same goes for people with the EG31 modem. You folks will have to wait for a TAR leak.
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theres no proof of that eg31 was provided by a sprint tester so that would mean his phone wouldnt take the ota either? we will just have to wait and see! but you do have to be on a stock not rooted phone and currently the only way to get back to completely stocl is with the eg31 tar

So im guessing a factory restore odin of eg30 is in order.
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toprock23 said:
So im guessing a factory restore odin of eg30 is in order.
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there isn't a Odin of eg30 tar
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toprock23 said:
So im guessing a factory restore odin of eg30 is in order.
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not necessarily it will be posted as soon as it hits so no need really unless your going to stay stock or something!

toprock23 said:
So im guessing a factory restore odin of eg30 is in order.
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Not possible

maddoggin said:
not necessarily it will be posted as soon as it hits so no need really unless your going to stay stock or something!
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Oh oh, I don't mind waiting then. I was going to odin my phone with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420

toprock23 said:
Oh oh, I don't mind waiting then. I was going to odin my phone with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420
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unfortunately that wont work to get update, its not original sam-firmware tar

If anyone is on stock EG31, gets the update pushed to them and it works - please let us know

just went to stock eg31, flashed the odin tar, no luck!

expertzero1 said:
just went to stock eg31, flashed the odin tar, no luck!
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Yea we'll just have to wait it out then and stick w/ stock kernels for now. So far i haven't gotten a single LOS since flashing it. It's def a bummer tho, I wanna go back to those fancy kernels.

Updating to official ICS from custom ICS

Okay, so I've searched and searched, but it's difficult to put into words my question:
I have a rooted Epic 4g touch running Calkulin's E4GT ICS rom v1.5 and Android Version 4.0.3. I don't use the root that much anymore, and the official Ice Cream Sandwich update is gonna be rolled out soon. Is it possible for me to update to the official Ice Cream Sandwich OTA update or do I have to unroot and do some other things before I can do that?
If worst comes to worst, I'll just stick with it being rooted. I just don't want to lose everything just to update to the official rom.
Thanks!

EL29 or no OTA update
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The simple answer is, don't take the OTA but rather wait a day or so until one of the Devs have it rooted and ready to flash.

Esoteric68 said:
The simple answer is, don't take the OTA but rather wait a day or so until one of the Devs have it rooted and ready to flash.
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Simpler answer IMO: Download sfhub's FF18 Odin OC and apply, unless you're waiting for a debloated version to be done. (I believe these are even already available...)

Esoteric68 said:
The simple answer is, don't take the OTA but rather wait a day or so until one of the Devs have it rooted and ready to flash.
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That makes sense to do it that way. Just wondering though. Do you know what would happen if someone tried to do an OTA update in this kind of way? Where you are going from unofficial to official?

gnasty15 said:
That makes sense to do it that way. Just wondering though. Do you know what would happen if someone tried to do an OTA update in this kind of way? Where you are going from unofficial to official?
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I believe if you're on anything other than stock EL29 the OTA would simply failed when you tried to apply it. Nothing major just a minor inconvenience.

I'm running sfhub's rooted FF18. Is there any benefit to flashing back to EL29 and then taking the OTA or will it be identical?

chiefplt said:
I'm running sfhub's rooted FF18. Is there any benefit to flashing back to EL29 and then taking the OTA or will it be identical?
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No one knows for sure if there are any differences between the leaked FF18 and OTA. Just stay where you are and wait for people to get OTA so then you can decide if there are any changes you wanna odin back to El29 or not.

But can you still have EL29 stock but with root and still get the Stock FF18 update?
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cob11341 said:
But can you still have EL29 stock but with root and still get the Stock FF18 update?
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I believe so but you will lose root. Also if you have any stock apps removed, update will fail.

BluesRulez said:
I believe so but you will lose root. Also if you have any stock apps removed, update will fail.
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What if I uninstalled all the Sprint Bloatware, I think it will still work, won't it?
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Fc09 is the latest build for gingerbread, but i'm good on el29 is what I keep reading? Because my phone won't update at all. I just unrooted back to stock el29 as it says in qbking77's how to unroot//unbrick video.
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GiantJay said:
Fc09 is the latest build for gingerbread, but i'm good on el29 is what I keep reading? Because my phone won't update at all. I just unrooted back to stock el29 as it says in qbking77's how to unroot//unbrick video.
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yes EL29 is the latest GB, that update made my location services nearly useless. are you trying to update to ICS? if you are, it has not been released just yet.

scott_0 said:
yes EL29 is the latest GB, that update made my location services nearly useless. are you trying to update to ICS? if you are, it has not been released just yet.
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Yes I unrooted to get the official update that supposedly comes out starting tomorrow. My GPS is horrible too if that's what you are talking about.
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cob11341 said:
What if I uninstalled all the Sprint Bloatware, I think it will still work, won't it?
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I had a nandroid backup of stock EL29 w/ root and rogue cwm. So I restored backup(all apps and widgets present just like I had)
And then..
I just removed customer recovery and root using Auto Root Package

GiantJay said:
Fc09 is the latest build for gingerbread, but i'm good on el29 is what I keep reading?
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LOL FC09 is not a firmware for this phone. Thats the Epic 4G.

RainMotorsports said:
LOL FC09 is not a firmware for this phone. Thats the Epic 4G.
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That's what I thought, some guy on the sprint Facebook page showed a link to all the updates and it said fc09 at the top. So either sprint misprinted or this guy had the wrong phone all together. The build below it was el29 though? I'm going to go look at it again.
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just to make sure, there should be no reason why i can't update with my rooted el29, correct?

GiantJay said:
That's what I thought, some guy on the sprint Facebook page showed a link to all the updates and it said fc09 at the top. So either sprint misprinted or this guy had the wrong phone all together. The build below it was el29 though? I'm going to go look at it again.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592994 Thats FC09 for the Epic.
All builds leaked to XDA this year were ICS.

RainMotorsports said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592994 Thats FC09 for the Epic.
All builds leaked to XDA this year were ICS.
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Yes I just went back and looked at it.
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Manually pulling the ics update

I followed the link from the xda forum followed all instructions and went to install, but it failed. Says that it can't verify signature, any ideas?
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Can you be more specific please? Like what xda post you followed, your curent rom and your kernel/recovery/?

Stryke_the_Orc said:
I followed the link from the xda forum followed all instructions and went to install, but it failed. Says that it can't verify signature, any ideas?
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Either you modifed or deleted a file from the rom or your downloaded ota update.zip is corrupted.

Not sure what the problem is, I downloaded the file from a direct link to Google servers. I didn't modify the package at all. Oh well, the ota can't be far off. Thanks guys!
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Stryke_the_Orc said:
Not sure what the problem is, I downloaded the file from a direct link to Google servers. I didn't modify the package at all. Oh well, the ota can't be far off. Thanks guys!
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If you're not specifically wanting the OTA process but want the official ICS then you can use sfhub's FF18 one click and get it without waiting for OTA.

Awesome, that's the road I'm gonna take I think. Don't know why the one click option never occurred to me lol.
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Question regarding official update

Since I'm running off a custom rom. Would it be safe to follow through with this official update whatsoever?
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DraggyWan said:
Since I'm running off a custom rom. Would it be safe to follow through with this official update whatsoever?
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Well if you have a custom recovery, then it may or may not flash. Some users tried to take it and got a status 7 error, while others took it to remove the notification and (hoping it would error out) were suprised to find it go through and it removed their root. The only difference with this update really is the firmware, but you can find flashables of those in freezas stock rooted thread

DraggyWan said:
Since I'm running off a custom rom. Would it be safe to follow through with this official update whatsoever?
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First off, the unpleasantness: This topic has been covered in many, many threads. Please run a search (or scroll through the threads for 10 minutes) and you'll most likely find your answer.
Ok, now for your answer:
Are you still using the stock recovery or do you have a custom one (CWM or TWRP)?
If you're on stock, you *should* be able to run the update. I'd recommend going back to Stock Rooted before updating, though.
If you're on CWM, you can try running the update. It works for some people running CWM, not for others. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason why it works for some and not others.
If you're on TWRP, you can't run this update, but you can run the update files given by Freeza in his thread. If you just want to keep your ROM with the newest baseband, run the file "MB1 Firmware/modem/baseband update."
Hope the helps!

topherk said:
First off, the unpleasantness: This topic has been covered in many, many threads. Please run a search (or scroll through the threads for 10 minutes) and you'll most likely find your answer.
Ok, now for your answer:
Are you still using the stock recovery or do you have a custom one (CWM or TWRP)?
If you're on stock, you *should* be able to run the update. I'd recommend going back to Stock Rooted before updating, though.
If you're on CWM, you can try running the update. It works for some people running CWM, not for others. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason why it works for some and not others.
If you're on TWRP, you can't run this update, but you can run the update files given by Freeza in his thread. If you just want to keep your ROM with the newest baseband, run the file "MB1 Firmware/modem/baseband update."
Hope the helps!
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CNexus said:
Well if you have a custom recovery, then it may or may not flash. Some users tried to take it and got a status 7 error, while others took it to remove the notification and (hoping it would error out) were suprised to find it go through and it removed their root. The only difference with this update really is the firmware, but you can find flashables of those in freezas stock rooted thread
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Thank you. I tried using the search button but the search on the app seems alil vague. Pulls up a whole ton of threads that are unrelated from other phone forums.
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DraggyWan said:
Thank you. I tried using the search button but the search on the app seems alil vague. Pulls up a whole ton of threads that are unrelated from other phone forums.
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Yeah the search from the app is really bad....if you wanna do ANY search, you gotta go through the browser if you wanna search just a specific device forum / subforum, and if you wanna get relevant results

DraggyWan said:
Since I'm running off a custom rom. Would it be safe to follow through with this official update whatsoever?
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How did you put it name on the status bar?
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kingable said:
How did you put it name on the status bar?
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I themed it?
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DraggyWan said:
I themed it?
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I believe kingable is looking for a link to the Mod/Theme that you used to get the "Chris" symbol up in the status bar.

topherk said:
I believe kingable is looking for a link to the Mod/Theme that you used to get the "Chris" symbol up in the status bar.
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Exactly
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kingable said:
Exactly
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2091363
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GB27 root?? (same as previous leak)

I just updated my phone through Kies. I would like to have root back obviously, but not sure if that has been posted anywhere.

It is the same as the leak. You could have just stayed...
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I was stock rooted ICS before. Didn't see a diff was done.
To get root back can I flash the one from the repository with no data? Or is there a simpler solution
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dbldown768 said:
I was stock rooted ICS before. Didn't see a diff was done.
To get root back can I flash the one from the repository with no data? Or is there a simpler solution
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Ah. I see.
You are correct. That is the simple method.
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You could always flash a recovery then flash superuser and flash back to stock kernel.
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Mattix724 said:
You could always flash a recovery then flash superuser and flash back to stock kernel.
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Doh! Forgot about that.
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I'll just leave this here... *walks away casually* *whistles*
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34297546
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(Sorry if I'm asking a repetitive question.)
Does the leak GB27 match the official GB27 that just came out?
I'm on FL24 stock + root. I don't want to use flash an unrooted FL24, download Kies, update to GB27, then root it.
Wondering if I can just use the One-Click method from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191954
so I can avoid doing all that work and still have the same result.
I'm only asking because I read that GB27 repartitions the storage (or something like that).

I did what you didn't want to do. Some people stated that they are the same but I don't know for sure. I'm having problems accessing the settings and I wanted root back so I just flashed the no data on top of all this. My settings is still messed up and crashes.
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I just updated my phone to latest JB as well, I was previously FL24 ICS Stock Root.
Have you figured out if you can use the same Odin Root?

Trytohaxme said:
I just updated my phone to latest JB as well, I was previously FL24 ICS Stock Root.
Have you figured out if you can use the same Odin Root?
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There is a root method in the general section.
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I saw this... but not 100% sure what that means
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39725957&postcount=22

dbldown768 said:
I just updated my phone through Kies. I would like to have root back obviously, but not sure if that has been posted anywhere.
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Did you unroot it before updating? Did you just let Kies do it while rooted and had no problems.

graydiggy said:
Ah. I see.
You are correct. That is the simple method.
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Did you flash with a "no data"? Did it work?

I have flashed it before and it works.
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