Inactive user rom - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I got this epic as a extra phone and I'm trying to find a inactive ROM so I can use WiFi and use it as a gaming and music device.. thanks
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I guess not
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What do you mean by "inactive"? Like the phone is no longer being used for calling/texting and is not on a contract of any sort?
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Exactly.. just looking for a ROM to use as a tablet for games n such.. one that takes up little space.. right now I'm on slim ROMs...
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Honestly, that's probably the smallest ROM you'll get, you can remove a lot of stuff from the system like ringtones, notification sounds, etc.
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I let the kids play with my spare Epic as a gaming device. Just keep it in airplane mode w/ wifi enabled. Then I hide the phone app in the launcher so they're not opening it by accident.
I doubt any reasonable amount of space would be recovered by removing the phone app altogether.

Random king made a WiFi only version of thunder hawk... I had it somewhere if I find it I'll happily spread the goods.
Edit
http://goo.im/devs/RandomKing/epic4g/mods/ThunderHawk-WifiOnly.zip
Dudes ROMs were pretty intense. My one e4g ran beautifully on thunderhawk.

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[Q] lanucher pro on warm 2.2 help

Okay so just flashed warm 2.2 and I love having launcher pro because of the transition when flipping threw pages and 3d apps when scrolling through the apps. I'm not sure if launcher is something to be running as a daily but I do. It shows great eye candy to my phone which I'm every happy with. Now my question is to save even more battery when I work is to toggle mobile network on top of my kernel I am running. The only thing is I can't find a 1. Widget 2. Shortcut. For it. I hate going into my settings and I do it .. little on the lazy side. so can you help me? Thanks.
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There are plenty of free Widgets in the market for toggles to turn off data, wifi, etc.
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Ya just not trying to pay 1.13 off the batt. Might have to but trying to see some alternative first
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A rant...any solutions?

My Pandora doesn't like to multitask on this phone. When I opened xda app, pandora autoclosed. Same thing with camera, and some other apps. My signal is great so whats going on? Lol
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Xheck your RAM and check for settings in any task killer/launcher/apps you may be using including pandora if it has a option to close when RAM gets close to none available it will close out the biggest strain...
When did you get your ET4G TODAY?
also make sure you have the newest version of pandora ;p
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nate420 said:
Xheck your RAM and check for settings in any task killer/launcher/apps you may be using including pandora if it has a option to close when RAM gets close to none available it will close out the biggest strain...
When did you get your ET4G TODAY?
also make sure you have the newest version of pandora ;p
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Yep, I've got no task killer (other than the preinstalled one). Just got the phone today and I got the latest pandora. Maybe once I root it, it'llsolve the problem itself.
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Overstew said:
Yep, I've got no task killer (other than the preinstalled one). Just got the phone today and I got the latest pandora. Maybe once I root it, it'llsolve the problem itself.
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Believe I would hold off on root for awhile...seems like some problems right now...

Juice defender

Have any of you used the juice defender app on the s3 yet?
Pros and cons
Any known issue with it
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bluedevils2003 said:
Have any of you used the juice defender app on the s3 yet?
Pros and cons
Any known issue with it
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Yes, use it now (Ulitmate) I have found nothing wrong personally. Mine's set for Data on with screen on, Data off screen off.. I don't have a schedule set or anything (i'm always off and on the phone anyway) does increase the battery life a bit.. Download, try it for a bit.. see what you think overall.
I did use it before, just the light version. it was indeed a battery extender. But now I am using ON(X).
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Well i have have it on my e4gt and it works great but sometimes it force closes
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Nope. IMO, battery saving apps like Juice defender burn more battery than they claim to save.
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I did use it before, just the light version. it was indeed a battery extender. But now I am using ON(X).
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What does that app do?
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Juice defender WILL help. I get about 24hrs to a charge. It simply disables data/location/wifi when not in use and can be customized to run different ways for different apps
-SlimBean...the bulimic's choice for the Galaxy III
Hope this helps. It's fully customizable and it does wonders. U can train it to learn your wifi and after a while, never touch the toggle again. Use it for games so they don't go online and pick up those annoying ads (if your unrooted). And u can schedule when the net comes on to get emails and so forth when your not touching you phone.
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I've the free one. It works out pretty well. Same usage I've got on average two to three extra hours.
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Orrrrrrr you could change to CM10 ROM and get bout 9 hours on screen time without battery saving apps
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Been using Ultimate from the beginning and if set up correctly is the difference between night and day for battery life. It works very well with no problems whatsoever on my end.
+1 When setup properly it can save a lot of juice. Or turn data off when not needed it will save a little more than using JD. But I rather have JD running so things are seamless. For Streaming audio like Spotify I find setting for enable/screen off works the best.
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Orrrrrrr you could change to CM10 ROM and get bout 9 hours on screen time without battery saving apps
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Be honest and tell people you have an extended battery.
i got a small issue with JD ultimate:
i set it quite correctly i think, but then, it prevents datas from coming to my phone, even when they're enabled.
let me explain better:
i set it so datas are off when screen is off and on when screen is on.
so i turn my phone on, datas take smth like 5 to 10 seconds to enable, everything normal till here, then the small H or G appear meaning i'm connected through 3G, but even then, i'm still offline... i wait, and wait 5 mins, but still, the H or G is visible on top right of my screen but.. no data.
i disable juice defender, restart my phone, didn't solve.
then i uninstall it completely, restard my phone, and everything works fine again...
anyone could help me on this one?

Greenify

I'm sure some or many of you have heard of this, but the app Greenify is amazing. I just wanted to try and get the word out to anyone experiencing unsatisfactory battery life.
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Greenify is great. It lets you hibernate the apps that you are not using without the confusing interface which other apps offer. It's impossible to put yourself into a bootloop using Greenify since your not disabling individual services that the general user might not understand. I've been there and done that using other apps.
By hibernating the apps you're not using, not only do you get better battery life, you also get more free RAM that can be used by other services and applications making the overall experience with the system that much better because you have plenty of memory.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify
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Thank you, your explanation is definitely a lot better than mine ever would have been I also appreciate you putting up a link. I made this thread from my phone and I don't usually create many threads or post much so I'm still trying to get the hanf of it.
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It's not too hard. Just minimize the app and open the Play Store, find the app, click share, if you have a clipboard app you can copy the link or do what I do and copy it from the text message option, then pull up XDA and paste.
I kinda made it sound like a sales pitch... but that's just how I explain stuff.
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I'm sold!
Is the process similar to what RomToolbox pro does when you freeze an app?
Pp.
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I use autostarts but its not noon friendly at all. I've soft bricked a bunch of times with it stopping the wrong process
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PanchoPlanet said:
I'm sold!
Is the process similar to what RomToolbox pro does when you freeze an app?
Pp.
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I think its much more user friendly. The app stays in its hibernated state till you use it. No need to defrost, like when freezing. And its not system heavy, or use much ram
This is a very useful app. Nice find.
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I've had absolutely zero problems with this app and as my screen shot shows I'm getting great results
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Are you running JB? Also, does running this app allow your phone to deep sleep?
I am running jb, and I have had no issues with my phone deep sleeping.
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Looks good but how much screen on time?
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Are you running JB? Also, does running this app allow your phone to deep sleep?
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This combined with ds battery saver will give you incredible results:beer:
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Which apps do you guys greenify?
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Did I read wrong or when the screen is off the ds batt app turns off data and phone?
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btoddweber said:
Did I read wrong or when the screen is off the ds batt app turns off data and phone?
jellyverse soaked E4GT
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It turns off data, shouldn't effect your phone service.
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Did I read wrong or when the screen is off the ds batt app turns off data and phone?
jellyverse soaked E4GT
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Data and phone service is two different things
You can get cut off from data on sprint, AT&T, Verizon..etc. and still get phone calls and all....but you wont be able to stream, download..etc
Thunder Buddies 4 Life!!!!!!!
Love Greenify, it's great for annoying apps that like to run all the time in the background, that you use only very occasionally, like Number Guru for example.
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Bear Knuckles said:
Which apps do you guys greenify?
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All of them! Only ones i don't are the ones i need running in background (dropbox, drive, chrome, maps, Google voice, and a couple widgets that auto update)
No performance hit so far and battery is noticeably better. Gonna add ds battery saver tomorrow and see how far i can push it.
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I always Greenify any social networking app since I'm not really too worried about simply refreshing the app once I open it. This method has allowed me to get a solid 4 hours of on screen time with about 15% battery left.
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My MIUI experience. Pros/Cons

Well, I brought myself to removing my CM10.2 and trying the MIUI ROM. It was a very slick, very smooth ROM. I overall enjoyed it. But with it being a ROM of course it had a few minor bugs. And I did have a few dislikes. So I'm gonna list a few things I personally noticed about it. Fell free to post your thoughts and any resolutions to anything I'm gonna lay out.
PROS:
-a smooth, soft feeling touch that was full of color and a very nice setup. The was miui was set up in settings for example was on of a kind. I was not disappointed. The theme app that was there gave me full control of changing the status bar, lock screen, home screen, etc. You have full control of customization. WiFi also seemed to work just fine.
CONS:
- Sadly, my LTE didn't appear to work. I tried adjusting my setting to fix it. No avail and that kinda was frustrating. But with WiFi working it didn't pose to much of a issue. I also experienced to apps for my gallery, and I was unable to delete it because it was a system app. Some of the themes I downloaded froze my phone, causing me to remove my battery and restart my phone. I wasn't bothered by it to much, I'm rather used to having to do that with previous phone.
Over all if you like a fresh and fast ROM you will love MIUI. But with these few issues I went back to cm. As I need my LTE cause my phone is also a work phone and I need the fastest internet I can get. So feel free to post your thoughts on MIUI and any fixes. Because I would like to switch back and continue using MIUI.
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LTE works you just have to select it in settings when you first flash the rom because it doesn't default on. Reason there are 2 galleries is because MIUI has its own gallery and since we have to use 4.2 camera it comes with its only gallery also hide one in a folder if you dont like one. And theme issue I've never experienced this
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Thanks for the advice. Looking forward to flashing back and getting it sorted out
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Notorious said:
LTE works you just have to select it in settings when you first flash the rom because it doesn't default on. Reason there are 2 galleries is because MIUI has its own gallery and since we have to use 4.2 camera it comes with its only gallery also hide one in a folder if you dont like one. And theme issue I've never experienced this
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Another thing I was having a issue with was my xda app on miui. When I signed in. I was unable to view any threads
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dalton912 said:
Another thing I was having a issue with was my xda app on miui. When I signed in. I was unable to view any threads
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That's not a issue with the rom xda app is wonky sometimes
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Notorious said:
That's not a issue with the rom xda app is wonky sometimes
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Okay. And how about this screenshot. On the far left page of the left side of my screen. Looks janky. Like a bug?
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I love the visual development compared to all other ROM.
Looks great.. but I'm still in love with AOSP.
Right out of the box, I think MIUI looks a lot like ios . Maybe too much.
It is a great ROM though, and very user-friendly.
Could I see a screen shot of the phone? Keypad, in call. These are things people over look, but this is our phone is it not? For most if not everyone on here, the only phone they use.
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