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This is my first post here, but I've been lurking pretty regularly for about a week now. I was actually shown these forums by some folks over in the Penny Arcade forums Android thread.
I just want to drop a quick line and say thanks to everyone over here; The developers, the people who answer questions, thanks to the mods who keep the place going. Thanks to you guys I was able to go from being a relative Android noob to having a completely rooted, custom ROM flashed, and extremely sexy Epic.
Sometimes people only post when they have an issue, or when something goes wrong, and I wanted to buck the trend a little and post just to say thank you. As the thread title says, thanks to XDA, I'm in love with my phone
(For those curious, the technical stuff:
Samsung Epic 4G
Nebula ROM 1.0.6 w/ EXT4 (Froyo/DK28)
ADW Launcher
Quadrant is scoring around a ~1450, which is 400 points more than any RFS setup I tried...go go EXT4).
Yeah xda is a great place and we should all be thankful for the developers on here. They sure as hell don't do this to make money. If it wasn't for them we wouldn't have these great features we have now. We would also be stuck on 2.1
Sent from my Evo Killer!!!
So happy as well!
I would also like to chime in and thank the XDA community as well. After months of debating whether or not I should update to DK28 Froyo, I decided to take the plunge yesterday. After you have all the software downloaded, phone hooked up to your computer, and Odin ready to flash for you... everything makes sense.
I can kinda see why Samsung/Sprint is taking too long to have the update come out. To update everything including all of your apps, settings, contacts, and saved messages all for Ma and Pa Epic 4G user without calling Sprint and complaining why something got deleted... I can see why. Re-configuring my contacts was a pain in my ass last night! My GPS didn't work, so I also had to do the GPS trick by entering in ##74 whatever and entering in my MSL, but it worked!
However, after all is said and done... THIS PHONE ROCKS!!! It's faster, the new music player is BADASS, everything WORKS, and I'm very happy. Thanks, XDA!
Ditto,
This has been a source of bountious information.
Couldn't have said it better myself <3
Epic is as Epic does
Same as OP. Thanks XDA for really putting in the time and effort to bring the community such awesome work. Like the OP I am running Nebula 1.0.6 with ETX4 and ADW Launcher.
hey guys long time lurker and first time poster, want to chime in that i also appreciate all the epic lovin from the devs, only bricked one phone so far but that was my own dumb fault.... skipped a step and flashed the wrong thing first earlie in the ext4 roll out...
Thanks again
Glad to see so many others have had the same experience as me
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Agree.
I've lurked on XDA for a long time, didn't end up joining until sometime last year just so I could download some wallpaper or something.
Well I had no issues with my Epic anyway, but gave in to temptation and loaded the DK28 leak 2-3 days after it surfaced... kind of liked it but it was a little buggy on mine. I eventually went full tilt and loaded Bonsai at 1.1.2, had a blast with it getting the best of 2.2 without a lot of the bugs of DK28.
A week or so ago I switched to TrulyEpic, and holy cow, I love my phone so much now. It may not have the impressive bench #s of Bonsai (close), but man is it ever stable. It's like a rock, that thing is the best thing to ever happen to my phone, and I am so glad XDA and it's members are here to provide stuff like this for us. Apart from official froyo, I'm good for the long run now and getting way more enjoyment out of my phone than I thought I could.
It's nice to hear some positive posts on the Epic 4G forums
Anyways, it's nice to see someone that's happy with the ROMs we are quite fortunate to have here. Leaks of any kind are a privilege, not a right, and I wish more people would be grateful.
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Omg @Rockstar thats funny, I was just about to type that **** down but you beat me to the punch. There has been so much negativity in this forum, that alot of times I think we forget how good we actually have it. Alot of us then revert to taking everyone on here for granted. Sure were not the biggest forum, we dont have the most Roms, but the devs we do have are dedicated and do a wonderful job. We should all be gracious whether they ask for donations or not, because regardless they are all making XDA a better place, and making smartphones in general fun for all of us for years past, and years to come!
+1 for this post.
Recently I flashed back to di18. I wasn't having any luck with the froyo rims. Gps didn't work, slow auto rotate, and lags and hangs hit me with no matter what rom I flashed. Now that the devs have rolled ext4 conversion and rooting into flashing clockwork I loaded midnight and my phone is amazing. No hangs,gps locks within seconds, the.fix for auto rotate... I can honestly say screw the official update. I for one don't need it anymore. Thank you xda
Smartbench
1151/2690
Quadrant
1954
Now for this screen lift problem...
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When in Rome...
Thank you to the devs, I agree with the first posters, the community really got me into Android, it's good to see real motherfckers assembling code while Sprint and Samsung got shty thumbs.
And when ya'll get to Gingerbread, beer's on me.
Stock DK28 rooted
Picked up my HTC evo today. 4 days sooner than i planned. getting rid of my HTC hero(will be missed.... NOT) but im having issues with the camera so i still gotta wait to root it and nand, flash roms.....
Welcome to evo land. Its a good time to join us.lots of exciting things coming up very soon (cm74g , mui4g ect.)
Swyped from a galaxy far far away......
kyhassen said:
Picked up my HTC evo today. 4 days sooner than i planned. getting rid of my HTC hero(will be missed.... NOT) but im having issues with the camera so i still gotta wait to root it and nand, flash roms.....
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Did you just get it at Best Buy? Were you with your wife? Were you wearing a white/yellowish shirt?
DirtyShroomz said:
Did you just get it at Best Buy? Were you with your wife? Were you wearing a white/yellowish shirt?
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lol no. i was in dover nh when i got it. i love the phone just my Flash is broken.
Welcome. At the time, I really enjoyed my HTC Hero. I previously had an HTC Touch with a winblows OS, so android was a wow moment for me.
There's alot of great devs and support for the EVO. It think it what sets this phone apart from any other. Good luck and enjoy (when you get your flash fixed).
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Welcome. At the time, I really enjoyed my HTC Hero. I previously had an HTC Touch with a winblows OS, so android was a wow moment for me.
There's alot of great devs and support for the EVO. It think it what sets this phone apart from any other. Good luck and enjoy (when you get your flash fixed).
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thank you! i use to run windows mobile. i had the HTC mogul then HTC touch, HTC touch pro. then i went to WebOS on palm pre. then the first android i touched was HTC hero and LOVED it. im loving the evo but i hate that the LED flash is broken
Damn, people are still buying EVOs? The EVO is going to start looking like a Hero in just a couple of weeks.
My evo is a hero. Just sayin.
detusueno said:
Damn, people are still buying EVOs? The EVO is going to start looking like a Hero in just a couple of weeks.
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WELCOME!
Welcome, we've got some good stuff, like one click root, more roms than you could need, miui, cm7, and sense out the wazoo. What are you thinking of doing to your new toy? A little cm or are you a sense fanatic like me?
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Welcome, we've got some good stuff, like one click root, more roms than you could need, miui, cm7, and sense out the wazoo. What are you thinking of doing to your new toy? A little cm or are you a sense fanatic like me?
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im a Sense freak. i am gonna go with myn's warm rls5 with slayer69 cyan dragon theme.
i was thinking if i tried to flash it to see if i liked it and to see if it would fix my LED flash problem. but idk how to UNROOT the evo like i did with the hero. cause idk where to get the RUU for the evo. its on there main site for the hero but not the evo. just tells me how to hard reset by holding the volume down and power on and clean drive.
If you want instructions on how to unroot the EVO this thread on this site talks about it and has links to instructions on what you need to do.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=721843
I've had an EVO since launch day but I just bought my dad one over the week. He's upgrading from the RUMOR so it's a big step up for him. Radioshack had a promo over the weekend. Turn in your old phone and credit a $50 dollar credit for either a new EVO or EVO shift. So total it was only $150 plus tax out the door.
Also new to the EVO forums, got it today, cant wait to get home an root-root-root.
And flush my Hero into a drawer for emergencies.
I'll be seeing ya'll around here. ;-)
kingdazy said:
Also new to the EVO forums, got it today, cant wait to get home an root-root-root.
And flush my Hero into a drawer for emergencies.
I'll be seeing ya'll around here. ;-)
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Welcome to the evo family as well. I'm waiting for a question answered on my other thread before I root.
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Welcome, I love my EVO
First time poster, long time reader, just wanted to hi and that this forum site is awesome. I rooted my phone three days ago and today I'm running and loving mikfroyo 4.5. Thanks to all!!
Welcome, try cm 7
I bought an Evo almost entirely because of our dev community.
Currently running MikFroyo 4.5 with Slayer's Dragon Theme (it is badASS) but I've run quite a few others. Huge CM fan (it's been on all my rooted phones at some point.
Great devs, great phone, adequate service. Yeah, I love my Evo
Plus, we have a Honeycomb rom being cooked up by AndroidBall. Excited about that as well
lucky you. i cant run the slayer69 dragon theme. its a SICK SICK theme toon. it just keeps crashing on me. but
Welcome to this old decrepit phone. In few months I'll be ditching mine. I'm just waiting to see what radio hacks develop for the cdma iphone.
All I have to say is that the X10 guys have been a blast to learn from. I just got a Nexus One and my wife decided she wanted the X10. Hope to see alot of sick roms come out of X10 devs.
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no worries mate! there is tons of sexy rom's and theme's ! looks like your wish comes true
xD still working on them hope to get a good one soon
me: a guy named his thread> my X10 is being held hostage by my wife
my wife: lol.....that is what's coming next for urs
Let her keep it. The phone is useless anyway unless you've got supersonic hearing. I can't give mine away.
I'll gladly take it. Gimme
augie7107 said:
Let her keep it. The phone is useless anyway unless you've got supersonic hearing. I can't give mine away.
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i'll take it! i have 2 ears and 2 arms therefore i need 2 x10's
i can take it too if you want
Wife tried that,
Went and got her a x10 mini the next day
heheheh yeah im getting me a X10 with in a few days to try all the fun things we find here out on, and im guessing when i finaly get it sweet as candy im gonna lose mine to wifey also
augie7107 said:
Let her keep it. The phone is useless anyway unless you've got supersonic hearing. I can't give mine away.
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check step 11 in:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=934486&highlight=root+install+JIT
but if you cba Pm me and ill send ya my adress and paypal you the fraight cost to have it sent to me here in sweden
go3asy's honeycomb-ified eclair ROM is a nice one. root, busybox, xrecovery, flash on the rom, undo xrecovery undo busybox unroot and you've got a sessy x10. That's my opinion, anyways. Running it myself but im not unrooting cus im the careful type.
You can find it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949457&page=10
I miss you!! Today i lost my htc evo with the damn stupid gb 2.3.3 and filed an insurance claim... Crossing my fingers i get a froyo 2.2 refurb replacement!! I've been seeing that some poeple have been lucky enough so hopefully im lucky enough as well =) fingers crossed............ If you miss froyo 2.2 show your luv!!
cool story mane
Do you miss Froyo, or the ability to root your phone? Big difference, because the stock Froyo build was, in my opinion, garbage. If I have to have an unrootable phone, thank God it's with 2.3.3 and not the factory ROM that I had when I got my first EVO.
well if you end up getting a GB phone, the only other thing you can hope for is that it has S-Off
Quite honestly, I don't think the GB update is that bad. I would rather be able to root and install CM or Decks again, but being that I can't, I am starting to grow fond of the stock rom. I just wish I could get rid of all the bloat!!
Same problem here when I got mine it was stock gingerbread with s-on so I'm looking on xda everyday for root hope it comes soon I miss my kingdom rom
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@ MaxCarnage - Yea i guess you're right. I do miss being able to root the HTC EVO. Dont get me wrong I actually think that Gingerbread isn't that bad but just not being able to root it drives me insane!! according to the Trackin number it should be arriving at my house around 3:00 PST so fingers crossed till then =)
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@ MaxCarnage - Yea i guess you're right. I do miss being able to root the HTC EVO. Dont get me wrong I actually think that Gingerbread isn't that bad but just not being able to root it drives me insane!! according to the Trackin number it should be arriving at my house around 3:00 PST so fingers crossed till then =)
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Not trying to rain on your hopes and wants, but I just received my replacement from Sprint and unfortunately for me it shipped with 2.3.3. I'm not going to pay damn near $600 for a 3D, so Im trying to get use to the fact that I can't root mines right now neither.
It is what it is! I figure a non rooted updated phone is better than not having one. Nonetheless, good luck on that..
Uuuuuuuugh!! Noooooo!! It came with GB 2.3.3 =/
CLJohnson i hear you buddy... It is what it is and will be until root comes to us. But yea im really not feelin to spend 600 on no 3D either
I wanted to say thank you guys for all the hard work you put into this and thank you otaking71 for finding this crack, I salute you in the highest respect.
I honestly didn't think anything was coming out any time soon. I was a little skeptical about this at first and i said oh what the hell. worse comes down to it i go back to sprint i get a new one lol. but i just finished the downgrade process now and I'm clearly on 2.2 from 2.3.3 newest ota update. It did restart the Hboot on me only once to finish the update then told me to hit power to restart.
But many thanks to you two guys., and major thanks to you otaking71.
i concur as well
I eco this sentiment! thank you
Sent from my now usable again re rooted shift using XDA App!
What a great donation and thanks they deserve. I am very grateful
Sent from my Supremed Shift on Wires!
My wife loves me again! Worked great; already running Mik!
Big huge ass ghetto booty thanks guys!
Gentleman I salute you .