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As titled, I installed the leaked OTA tonight for the 720p recorder, boot animation, etc. It did reboot 3 times initially right after the update but I was expecting that.
I waited about 30 minutes for good measure and then restored all of my apps and data with Titanium. Ever since then my phone has been rebooting itself for no reason. I have noticed that it does it more when I am launching certain programs. For a while it was just rebooting one right after the other and the home screen never came available, it just had a Loading... notification. Once it finally did load the home screen it looked like the Weatherbug was struggling to load and as soon as I click on it, the phone shuts off.
I uninstalled the app and it hasn't been rebooting as much but for a phone that has never ever had one problem I'm kind of inconvenienced by this.
Has anyone else out there experienced anything like this where the phone just keeps rebooting? It's like every minute I was hearing "Drooooid."
Any intuition on the subject would be appreciated tremendously.
Worse case scenario I have to do a Nand restore I guess...
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Why update to something that hasn't been officially released?
Also GPS enabled makes it reboot. Guess there is no salvaging this one. I'll be waiting for Froyo to come OTA. Screw all this nonsense
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shoman24v said:
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Why flash a rom? Why root?
The reboots are caused by seomthing you restored in Titanium, not the OTA.
I figured as much, but at this point its going to be easier to just wait for the official update. I got my taste of it for now. I do like the news widget though on the update. Good stuff
Hey werent you from Android forums?
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I'm everywhere.
I also answered your thread there
If they only had this handy little free app to check their forums too I would have checked it.
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htc_woe_is_me said:
If they only had this handy little free app to check their forums too I would have checked it.
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I posted a nandroid backup of stock post ota, its way down this thread by now. Try downloading and restoring it to see if that can fix ur problems, just be careful what u restore with titanium.
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yeah. just do a fresh wipe and use the phone for a while to see if you get reboots. it is most likely an app causing the issue.
Waiting
I apparently rooted my phone without knowing about it because unrevoked.com makes it waaaay too easy.
After installing the leaked OTA, my wifi, gps, bt, and camera stopped working. Thank the lord almighty I created a nandroid backup.
Based on the rumor from droidedup this morning that they are halting these OTA updates for a couple of weeks and releasing Froyo, I suggest you unroot, go back to your previous version and wait for Froyo.
I did do a nand backup before I pushed the OTA so I had something to revert to and now my phone is back to full functionality.
Yes, undoubtedly we have all heard about Froyo 'coming soon,' but again I will believe it when I see it and there's no chance of me unrooting before the update is officially out.
And I know a lot of people are claiming that they're going to wait until unrevoked can "fix" it (froyo) for those root users, but not me. I'd rather have Froyo and no root than the opposite. It's like waiting for Christmas morning and then when everyone else is opening up their goodies, you unwrap an IOU that says "we're still working on yours."
Not me.
Sorry, Charlie.
Lol, I'm sure they will figure out how to root again, if its any different of a process at all. Hopefully HTC realizes that a lot of people are chosing their handsets over Motorola simply because their phones can be rooted. Why mess with a good thing?
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I got this phone in early Sept. Running it completely stock except using Launcher Pro Plus. Haven't rooted it because it's hardware locked. I read that all the customers will get the update by the end of October. Am I the only one that hasn't received their update officially over the air? Should I just wait a couple more days?
I just tried dialing *#*#8736364#*#* to start software update and just got connecting to DM something in notification bar. That went away after a couple mins. and tried start software update again. Got the same results.
I would wait a few days and if by Nov 1st you don't get the update then you can call your carrier and ask them to force it to your phone.
Or you could just do it manually, which honestly I suggest, because I just like many others , got a soft brick when I installed the update over the air.
You can use the software that Samsung put out, Mini Klies , to apply the update.
here's the link: http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa...ID=2&PROD_SUB_ID=557&PROD_ID=560&AT_ID=341559
I encountered a strange issue updating through mini kies. All went well, and my phone was running sluggishly so I did a reset and my build number went back to'eclair' but my baseband stayed ji6. I odin'd back to stock and I might just wait for the ota
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I guess I can wait a couple more days. I waited this long. I'm just afraid of anything negative happening. My vibrant is hardware locked, so I'm scared to do anything to it. If the official OTA update messes me up, can I do anything to fix it, or get a new phone or anything?
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I guess I can wait a couple more days. I waited this long. I'm just afraid of anything negative happening. My vibrant is hardware locked, so I'm scared to do anything to it. If the official OTA update messes me up, can I do anything to fix it, or get a new phone or anything?
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Honestly, if you want to take an hour or two to read up on it, it's really easy to get rid of the hardware lock by flashing a fix through Odin. Yeah, it's daunting at first, but I took the plunge and now I'm a ROM-flashing whore. You probably don't need to read that much, but I did just because of my cautious nature. There's a thread in the Development forum with the fix and instructions.
My take is that it's far more likely the OTA will mess you up than using Odin (use v1.3!). Once you remove the lock, it's *almost* impossible to brick this bad boy.
connect with KIES braa
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connect with KIES braa
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Where can I connected with the "bra"?
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Honestly, if you want to take an hour or two to read up on it, it's really easy to get rid of the hardware lock by flashing a fix through Odin. Yeah, it's daunting at first, but I took the plunge and now I'm a ROM-flashing whore. You probably don't need to read that much, but I did just because of my cautious nature. There's a thread in the Development forum with the fix and instructions.
My take is that it's far more likely the OTA will mess you up than using Odin (use v1.3!). Once you remove the lock, it's *almost* impossible to brick this bad boy.
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I should look into that. I really don't look around too much. I just click on a few random threads here and there. Are the instructions simple? I know nothing about programming and this is my first smart phone.
Is this the correct thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804305
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I should look into that. I really don't look around too much. I just click on a few random threads here and there. Are the instructions simple? I know nothing about programming and this is my first smart phone.
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Heh, I came from an ancient Blackberry, if that makes you feel better.
But yeah, using Odin is stupid easy (but you need to be on Windows AFAIK). Just to give you a quick overview of what you'll need to do, you need to download
1) the Samsung phone drivers,
2) Odin 1.3,
3) the hardware lock fix, and
4) the Android SDK (just for adb, which is like a terminal program that you use to boot your phone into download or recovery mode; since a hardware locked phone can't get into download or recovery with the buttons, you use adb to force it to reboot into download or recovery).
Use adb to boot your Vibrant into download mode, drop the right file into Odin and go. There are actually good Youtube videos on using Odin too (can you tell I researched the crap out of this before risking it?).
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haha its "brahh"? but no really get Kies and connect ur phone and u ll get the update. nothing special about update really. its gay anyway. get bionix fusion. its the ****
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haha its "brahh"? but no really get Kies and connect ur phone and u ll get the update. nothing special about update really. its gay anyway. get bionix fusion. its the ****
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Is there a link or something? I need instructions that are meant for a child. That is how little I know about this stuff.
Updates
Are there supposed to be updates available to US t-mob vibrant customers or is this only for European customers?
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Are there supposed to be updates available to US t-mob vibrant customers or is this only for European customers?
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Yeah, there is supposed to be a minor update for US tmo vibrant owners. It just feels like I'm the only one that hasn't gotten it yet.
you don't want to update....makes swipe word predictions super retarded....doesn't samsung test this before sending it out????? WTF
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Haven't rooted it because it's hardware locked.
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you can't root a phone that's hardware locked???
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you don't want to update....makes swipe word predictions super retarded....doesn't samsung test this before sending it out????? WTF
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I do not agree; my swype keyboard works good after update...the swype mic could be better but hey what u gonna do.
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you don't want to update....makes swipe word predictions super retarded....doesn't samsung test this before sending it out????? WTF
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Really? That sucks, I use swype frequently.
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you can't root a phone that's hardware locked???
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I am under the assumption that you can root, but if something goes wrong, you can't do anything to fix it. I was going to get a replacement with tmo, but heard this update will fix the hardware lock issue. I also didn't want to risk getting a refurb for my replacement phone.
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I do not agree; my swype keyboard works good after update...the swype mic could be better but hey what u gonna do.
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Wait, what is swype mic? You can talk and it'll swype it for you?
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Wait, what is swype mic? You can talk and it'll swype it for you?
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The update added a microphone button to the swype keyboard so now you can talk to text.
Yeah, it's coming up on the end of the month and I haven't gotten the update either. I'm not closed to using the Mini Kies update, however the last time I updated something from Kies, (READ: JI6) it really ****ed things up, so much so that I'm still feeling the effects. Will the Mini Kies update prevent me future updates like Froyo, or will I me married to Kies and unofficial updates and flashes?
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So epic finally got the factory 2.2 rolling....... anyone want to play the guessing pool on how long it will take before Vibrant gets their factory update
Here is the reference Thread
http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/12/05...d-2-2-1-update-for-samsung-epic-4g-right-now/
My guess 1-3-2011
I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt, and saying 12-30-10.
Now, if it was real money to bet, I'd say 2-10-11.
-bZj
My guess is:
1-20-11
12/9 to start, that will give 3 weeks to be done by the end of the year
i hate this forum.. i got tempted into flashing my phone last night with jk6.. lol
that was easy.. i like it a lot, but some changes I'm nnot too fond of, like the prompt color from light blue before to dark blue, the gallery being too fast it almost don't have the cool animation 3d anymore, the prompt on gallery as we when yyou want to delete, set as, share.. i like the old style prompt better... hmmm what else oh the capacitive buttons became feeble somehow and there is no option to adjust it too.. the heptic feedback only works for the dialer, and keyboard.. but not the capacitive buttons.. i like how it is before better..
the phone' s performance overall is just a lot better.. it's snappier, responsive, less lag (it still lags lol) annnnnd the gps is better, i like the new search widget, the wifi calling, tmobiletv...
yup the phone is like a complete new phone..
so when the update becomes in the horizon, ill have to flash back to jfd... then to j16??? to get the ota? im thinking jfd should be fine, and that's how I was able to flash to jk6, because my first attempt of flashing (through odin) i got stuck in recovery mode loop with some red fonts on it and I can't remember what it said.. lol.. and i was on stock unrooted j16 too... i forgot to uncheck on repartition on first attempt, it's probably why it brought me to recovery mode loop?? so i had to flash to jfd then to jk6... i wish i wouldn't need to flash to j16 too in order to get the update, otherwise it will be too ughh.. but whatever flashing through odin is easy any way..
thanks to this forum i learned how to flash...
missed the point?
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i hate this forum.. i got tempted into flashing my phone last?night with jk6.. lol
that was easy.. i like it a lot, but some changes I'm nnot too fond of, like the prompt color from light before to dark blue, the gallery being too fast it almost don't have the cool animation 3d anymore, the prompt on gallery as we when yyou want to delete, set as, share.. i like the old style prompt better... hmmm what else oh the capacitive buttons became feeble somehow and there is no option to adjust it too.. the heptic feedback only works for the dialer, and keyboard.. but not the capacitive buttons.. i like how it is before better..
the phone' s performance overall is just a lot better.. it's snappier, responsive, less lag (it still lags lol) annnnnd the gps is better, i like the new search widget, the wifi calling, tmobiletv...
yup the phone is like a complete new phone..
so when the update becomes in the horizon, ill have to flash back to jfd... then to j16??? to get the ota? im thinking jfd should be fine, and that's how I was able to flash to jk6, because my first attempt of flashing (through odin) i got stuck in recovery mode loop with some red fonts on it and I can't remember what it said.. lol.. and i was on stock unrooted j16 too... i forgot to uncheck on repartition on first attempt, it's probably why it brought me to recovery mode loop?? so i had to flash to jfd then to jk6... i wish i wouldn't need to flash to j16 too in order to get the update, otherwise it will be too ughh.. but whatever flashing through odin is easy any way..
thanks to this forum i learned how to flash...
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Interesting commentary and narrative.... but you were suppose to guess when we will get our 2.2 update........... and yes flashing is not hard
oh flashing j16 is through kies right? may be i can odin that firmware as well?
when is the update coming? tmo should at least say something, this leak should for now.. id say December 20 well get it..
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Interesting commentary and narrative.... but you were suppose to guess when we will get our 2.2 update........... and yes flashing is not hard
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umm either way whether through odin or ota should do.. but ota feels more official. lol lol.. i kid! but however way to have the official one, im down for it... ill try to wait for the ota. and if it takes a long time then I'd odin to it..
i have become a complete geek.. lol
12/22/10 is my guess for the first day of OTAs being pushed out to Vibrants.
I am going to guess 1-22-11
12/12/10
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oh a little correction, the prompt on gallery to set, share more is still the same.. i thought that was changed..
i hate the feeble vibrate on capacitive buttons..
yet another 2.2 speculation thread????
it just seems theres a new one every week...it will be out when its out, what does guessing get you?
i mean i am mildly excited for an official release so i can see what the devs do with it. other than that i am very happy with my phone running a JI6 ROM, and there is plenty out there to play with still until 2.2 is released. so im really not counting the days, because honestly, 2.2 is not as unbelievable as one would think if they counted how many of these threads exist for the Vibrant and just how impatient people are getting over it....you would think we were waiting for 3.1
12/10/10
And gingerbread 12/23/2012
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5/20/11
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I don't think we will get it before 2011.. I work for tmobile n we don't even have a clue when it will be out. As for 2.3 sorry but that's a no no
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I'm going with2/8/11
huh? I have 2.3 (Ginger) on my vibrant. unofficial of course.
Wheel of froyo!
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February 30, 2011!
My stock (but rooted) T-Mobile Vibrant just start getting an OTA! What could it be? Froyo perhaps? I'm undoing my lagfix just in case.
Did you get any previous updates before this? Because this just could be the ji6 ota, which is 2.1.
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Yes, I got the previous update (running UVJI6)
OMG! maybe it's gingerbread...............
I hope you guys aren't getting trolled...
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logcat before you accept the update just incase it is 2.2
Wow~ I'm going to try it through Kies Mini.
Kies Mini stopped seeing my phone altogether after the last update. Windows just sees it as a dumb thumb drive (cause the drivers are installed, ofc).
But if someone who's phone works can post if Kies mini even tells them there's an update available that would be nice.
It usually gives the basebane of the update, and that can/would tell us what it is.
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My stock (but rooted) T-Mobile Vibrant just start getting an OTA! What could it be? Froyo perhaps? I'm undoing my lagfix just in case.
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Canadian Vibrant.....
Well, if you read the thread...
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My stock (but rooted) T-Mobile Vibrant just start getting an OTA! What could it be? Froyo perhaps? I'm undoing my lagfix just in case.
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Yes, I got the previous update (running UVJI6)
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He clearly states he's on a T-Mobile Vibrant.
They have those in Canada?
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Well, if you read the thread...
He clearly states he's on a T-Mobile Vibrant.
They have those in Canada?
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humm i guess not......
And of course Kies Mini chain crashing everytime I plug my phone in (Win7 32-Bit).
Well... Uninstalled again, lol.
The OP is suspiciously M.I.A., though...
EDIT: Kies Mini on XP 32-Bit says JI6 is the latest version. Cool tactic (starting the thread at 2am), though...
Everyone who wakes up will be running to this thread.
I searched twitter with no results.
Thus, op is not getting froyo.
There is a report of a user getting the 'DM arrows' over at the t-mobile forums. Not saying this is anything, but it could be. Or maybe not. But, then again...maybe.
http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/Samsung-Vibrant/DM-ARROWS/td-p/628481
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There is a report of a user getting the 'DM arrows' over at the t-mobile forums. Not saying this is anything, but it could be. Or maybe not. But, then again...maybe.
http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/Samsung-Vibrant/DM-ARROWS/td-p/628481
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When I came into my store yesterday our demo Vibrant had 'DM arrows' showing but had already been upgraded. I went ahead and "told it" to upgrade. Nothing changed.
The phone already had the upgraded market as well, so I don't know what's up with these showing up.
A short story
At home, I have this big ol' gang of dogs. They all want me to throw the tennis ball. One of the dogs is a little smarter than the others. He has learned from experience the throw might be a fake out. The rest of the dogs NEVER learn and always go running off after the phantom ball. The smart one just stands there waiting and continuing to watch. (Or maybe he checks his Twitter feed; I'm not 100% sure.)
When I really do throw the ball, he is the one who always gets to it first.
The moral of the story is: Keep an eye on the smarter dog.
(PS... I think that damn dog just hacked my credit card... unless one of you guys just sent me 800 pounds of cubed Kobe beef...)
Just Bricked my Phone
I got this DM update and said yes , install, reboot , etc... The install "failed" and rebooted. Now I can't get past the Vibrant screen and logcat basically shows me a kernel panic/fail and keeps repeating itself.
I had rooted my phone and had Ryan's OCLF installed and configured. Any ideas how to get back to stock firmware and try again ?
What version were you coming from? 2.1? If so I bet the kernel failed updating and 2.1 and 2.2 kernels are not compatible with each other.
Coming from 2.1 ... hoping I can push a stock firmware image to my sdcard and boot into recovery - searching for links in the forum but no luck yet
Engadget Confirmed it but for Canada not US
Samsung Vibrant and Fascinate get Froyo in Canada
So I went to the sprint store today cuz my battery took a ****. The repair guy was telling everyone not to run the OTA update to 2.2, apparently it's bricking phones and breaking camera. He said Sprint will have their own update in a couple weeks. I lol'd as I walked out with my deodexed rooted EB13...
well that would probably explain why my wife hasnt received the update.. oh well.. I already updated with the zip files as well.
Go figure and they keep rolling it out.
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well that would probably explain why my wife hasnt received the update.. oh well.. I already updated with the zip files as well.
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My wife just got hers a couple of hours ago.
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Damn it booiii...more dissapointment...and after such a long and druamatic wait for the release...smh, will the corrected version be another rolled out OTA or will they release it on the samsung website?
Loving the official 2.2. 12hrs unplugged so far and 60% battery left. Usually my exchange email kills it during the day since the tower is overloaded downtown with awesome 20-60 kilobit speeds. So my 3g radio gets a work out constantly trying to communicate.
Good job sprint smh
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I updated my buddies phone to official 2.2 last night and his phone turned into a brick. Nothing would power it on. No boot, no recovery, no download mode, no nothin... I was using odin and the tar file though and not the update.zip
I did the same procedure twice to my epic and it worked great.
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Calling B.S. unless otherwise proven.
I'm skeptical that they are still rolling it out in force... My mom and sister have yet to get it. I'm just sitting on dk28 for a bot myself so I'm not sure how eb13 is actually performing... The forum posts don't make me particularly optimistic
i can believe it, it was a ***** for me to update my phone using odin and the eb13 tar, it just would not work, my phones screen kept turning a different color like purple or green then odin would just freeze. Tried another computer and was able to do it using the samsung .exe file and it wiped everything and i thought i was good, running real quick and snappy, but i opened the camera and went to record a video with it and as soon as i hit the button to switch to video i got an error saying the camera has crashed and it kicked me out :/ I thought, according to sprint, that we waited this long so they could iron out the bugs and make sure there was a release that was worth of releasing!
This official release is flawless for me. I did get the orange screen thou with the samsung tool, I just reran it and its 100 % flawless. Recorded vids with no issue.
could this be the EVO curse we were dreading?
Btw. Everyone owes a oppology to noobl. Remember he warned us about the leak dk28 bricking some phones? And some in here claimed the epic is unbrickable? Uhhuuu... Everyone... Form a single line and appologize.
I don't know how to prove that the phone was bricked, but it definitely was. It got stuck at param.lfs (or whatever that file extension is) in odin, so I retried it a few times, next thing I knew it would not turn on. He should be swapping it at the sprint store tommorow I think.
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abduljaffar said:
could this be the EVO curse we were dreading?
Btw. Everyone owes a opt to noobl. Remember he weaned us about the leak dk28 bricking some phones? And done in here claimed the epic is unbrickable? Uhhuuu... Everyone... Form a single line and appologize.
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I was on DK28 and since I followed instructions correctly, my phone is still in working condition. HA!
That's misinformation from the store. Here's the deal with the update... Yes, it's still being pushed and all devices should have it by Friday. There have been some reports of issues with the camera and browser force closing but those are resolvable in most cases with a hard reset (sucks I know). I haven't seen any reports of a phone that was truly bricked, although custom roms will be more likely to have issues with the OTA update. I've personally updated 8 of these both OTA and with the Samsung installer and haven't had an issue with any of them after the update.
Currently looking for a custom rom though because I don't like some of the changes that were made. It does feel like the screen is a bit laggy after the update and I hate the new messaging app but overall no performance issues
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I was on DK28 and since I followed instructions correctly, my phone is still in working condition. HA!
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lol. Me too. I used the 200mb samsung tool. No old odin with modified eb13 deodexed junk. Follow instructions nerds!
I'm not buying it. I know there are isues out there (myself included) but I would think if it was a serious problem we would have people on the forums saying it happened to them by now.
I updated my phone via the Samsung .exe file which I knew would wipe my phone which wasn't a problem for me since I use gmail to keep records of my contacts, call logs / sms (using sms backp+) and etc. So no worries there. I did get a little miffed about losing the apps but that is expected for a phone wipe.
There are few quirks and some changes in the GUI I didn't like. Big issue is the stupid SMS client they had to change so will be looking for a altnative version for it. No big deal but why change something when it works in DI18??
Screen rotation lag is fixable via screen calibration (posted elsewhere in this forums).
Least now the Devs have the source code they should be coming out with some nice ROMs soon. Rumored for Sprint to come out with an update in a couple of weeks? Not worried about it, by then most of us will be on custom ROMs anyway.
Darkk
abduljaffar said:
could this be the EVO curse we were dreading?
Btw. Everyone owes a oppology to noobl. Remember he warned us about the leak dk28 bricking some phones? And some in here claimed the epic is unbrickable? Uhhuuu... Everyone... Form a single line and appologize.
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i still think its effing impossible.
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I don't know how to prove that the phone was bricked, but it definitely was. It got stuck at param.lfs (or whatever that file extension is) in odin, so I retried it a few times, next thing I knew it would not turn on. He should be swapping it at the sprint store tommorow I think.
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flashing kills the balls out of the battery. i have had a fully charged battery die in half an hour running odin multiple times trying things out. id bet almost anything that if you had an external charger to throw your battery in for a bit the phone would boot in to download mode with no problems.