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Just odined back to 2.1 and it runs great.

I've tried every rom on DK28 since it leaked and today I odined back to 2.1 and I'm pretty sure this runs better. Anyone else?
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+1 on 2.1 for me

No I love dk28 with ext4 and bonsai rom with no journaling. Phone has never been this fast before.Also 1 meter locks on gps and even in my house. Never got a lock on eclair before. I'm never going back to eclair. I'm gonna update to the official froyo manually.

Guys,
What do you mean by better? GPS fixed with better battery life with snappy speed than when it was launched or are you refering to it being more reliable than DK28 leaked froyo?
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littlepr said:
Guys,
What do you mean by better? GPS fixed with better battery life with snappy speed than when it was launched or are you refering to it being more reliable than DK28 leaked froyo?
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Like I tell people when they ask for what rom to use. its all in the eye of the beholder. What works good for you might not work at all for me.
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Like I tell people when they ask for what rom to use. its all in the eye of the beholder. What works good for you might not work at all for me.
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You are def. Right. By the way I love your theme mystery. I've showed it to a lot of people that don't have epics and they all love it. Thank you for everything that you and to all the developers. Without you there wouldn't be a point in rooting our epics and we wouldn't know how.

Sorry I don't agree. 2.1 is buggy because Samsung doesn't have it set up right. DK28 runs smother, faster, and gps performs much better.

I agree with the OP. GPS is the only real world improvement that the dk28 roms have brought me. I like to play games on my Epic, and the graphics performance is just not up to par compared to di18. I still get the occasional lag and jitter in the UI also. But I need gps for one of my jobs so I'm gonna keep running dk28 roms untill sprint drops the official froyo.
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No way DK28 is much smoother and better battery life; however, I have not hd much luck with the custom DK28 roms. Sticking with stock DK28.
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I'm back on 2.1 because I finally got win7 on my comp and wanted to test odin. Had problems reoding dk28 so I went back to di18. Works great.
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Yeah, I went back to di18 every time. Some of my dk gripes were the checkerboard and flash in stock browser and being unable to successfully put a custom hosts file in it and it works. I left out of frustration and went back to di.

Quantum Rom working great for me on DK28. The only thing I am not pleased with is the inability to tether w/ infrastructure mode.

Im on my second dk28 rom ive actually had running for more than an hour, midNIGHT 2.6 w EXT4, and Im pretty happy with it. I have seen for a split second the checkering on the browser, i think, but I was wondering, is that just what the browser does when its having issues loading, i.e. an annoying, but normal issue? I did not like it on some of the early dk28's, but that was with a lot of other kinks that appear to be worked out. Also, has anyone who went back to di18 noticed the keyboard dropout issue??? I never noticed it myself, but as someone else had pointed out it may be software, I chalked it up to 2.1 builds... but I THINK i have noticed it, maybe 10 times, but could just be looking for any little thing and actually missing keys. Maybe I dont text-type as fast as others, idunno. Also, w my third epic (second a replacement that fc'd on everything, but was the most solid physically built ive held), I noticed that hardware quality varies a lot, I expected this with the slider, but maybe extends to the kb? Anyways, di18 feels stable, but I wonder if its just the feeling that it is 'official'...

Good info. I've run quantum, bonsai (I prefer it leafless), midnight, ee all are amazing I just always find my self back at stock. Oh yea cyanogen nightly's are fun too.
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I've tried dk28 twice now with different roms and went back to di18 each time. Besides the gps "issue" di18 is the most solid phone build I've ever used.
Dk28 has the last.fm skipping, considerably bad keyboard lag/missed keys, captivate button lag, touches to the screen lag randomly.
Dk28 to me feels exactly like what it really is. A "good enough" leak, but it is far from polished.
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If you can live with the retarded hardcoded accuracy in 2.1, then just flash the new radio. It seems to work fine.
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I'm just as happy with my Ext4'd Nebula rom as I was when I ran Baked Snack 1.6 with Ultimate Kernel.

herzzreh said:
If you can live with the retarded hardcoded accuracy in 2.1, then just flash the new radio. It seems to work fine.
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You saying flashing the dk28 modem will work if flashed over a di18 modem and run on 2.1? And give us the benefit of better gps with it?
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styckx said:
You saying flashing the dk28 modem will work if flashed over a di18 modem and run on 2.1? And give us the benefit of better gps with it?
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+1 yes if i upgrade my modem will it give me better gps or improvements on my signal?

i dont think so now that im using ext4

For all with locking issues, fc's, and other annoying stuff...

I would just like to put this out in the open for those with serious issues with ec05. My epic recently was going absolutely bonkers. From randomly frequent freezes to framework fc's. My phone now is in perfect working order. What I found that screwed everything up for me was the stock odin of ec05. The version I had (EC05 FULL) was causing these issues. If you have the same issues try this...
Odin back to eb13 and upgrade to ec05 ota instead of flashing ec05 from the get go. What I found was that the version I had must of been modded in one way or another. Not only that but when I redownloaded ec05 full I couldn't extract with winrar. I get getting a file is corrupt message. Anywho if your having issues try the above. After the above I have absolutely no issues. No freezes, no fc's, and my battery life is back to top notch and the phone flies! Cheers!
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I've been running midnight 5.2 with journaling on @1.2ghz since then with absolutely no issues whatsoever. Just an fyi if your curious...
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Im gonna say a mojor percentage of problems are coming from the kernels,I am now using DRockstar's kernel,and no problems at all. So for me its either "clean kernel 1.02" or "Twilight Zone 1.0.4" for the most stable ROM. I dont disagree with what you have said,but I think the bigger problem is the kernels.
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Im sure it is too. Not negating that. A software issue wouldnt make my screen artifact and turn into a dark yellow haze. Lol I swear I thought my phone was done. At one point the phone locked up and the screen went black with just 3 blue and red pixels. After flashing my phone a crapload of times since ec05 came out this has been the surefire way to get ec05 to work properly. From a stock rom standpoint atleast. I believe we still don't have the official ec05 tar right? If so next time you decide to flash from scratch try this method instead. My phone hasn't run this well since acs 2.1 shuriken. That says ALOT lol
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The only real stock EC05 was put out by K0nane and ACS. All other tars were modded and prerooted.
Do you BONSAI?

Syndicate Frozen lags, what could it be?

Ok I posted a few weeks back about my phone being a little laggy when I first started it up but it started becoming progressively worse even with closing all running apps in the settings>applications>running services thing cause I thought there might be a lot running but that didn't help.
So last night thinking a fresh start would help I reflashed the newest syndicate frozen rom and my phone is still being a little slower than I would want not to mention slower than everyone elses reviews. And on top of that my battery drain iis pretty bad (dropped like 20% in the last hour with moderate use).
So I was just wondering if there's any way to pinpoint what might be causing this (like certain apps running) or a way to try and correct it? Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
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Not sure what it is but ill give my experience. A while ago I had the same issue. Turn out there was something wrong with the stock ec05 tar. I had a modified version and didn't know it. No matter what rom I flashed it didn't perform well. Also, I use my epic is my main form of internet use. Most roms and mods I dl str8 to my phone. Well, it also turns out that downloading roms str8 onto the sd card game me some errors. Probably because of some fault in the data. Redownload everything you need. When you odin back to ec05 format your sd card also. Should do the trick unless there's something wrong with your phone.
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cconwing said:
Ok I posted a few weeks back about my phone being a little laggy when I first started it up but it started becoming progressively worse even with closing all running apps in the settings>applications>running services thing cause I thought there might be a lot running but that didn't help.
So last night thinking a fresh start would help I reflashed the newest syndicate frozen rom and my phone is still being a little slower than I would want not to mention slower than everyone elses reviews. And on top of that my battery drain iis pretty bad (dropped like 20% in the last hour with moderate use).
So I was just wondering if there's any way to pinpoint what might be causing this (like certain apps running) or a way to try and correct it? Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
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One thing that might help is if you have Titanium backup or Mybackup Root freeze DRM content and SNS services. Also are you running setcpu? If so try removing it to see if that helps. If it does then your setting are off and you need to tweak your settings. Do you have journaling enabled? Another thing what kernel are you using? I liked Vision kernel over Twilight some have also mentioned Genocide being good also. I am NOT saying Twilight is a bad kernel just it does give some people issues with certain setups.

tazfanatic said:
One thing that might help is if you have Titanium backup or Mybackup Root freeze DRM content and SNS services. Also are you running setcpu? If so try removing it to see if that helps. If it does then your setting are off and you need to tweak your settings. Do you have journaling enabled? Another thing what kernel are you using? I liked Vision kernel over Twilight some have also mentioned Genocide being good also. I am NOT saying Twilight is a bad kernel just it does give some people issues with certain setups.
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Thanks for the response. I already had drm frozen, just froze sns (what does that do?), so we'll see how that helps. I also uninstalled setcpu to see if theres any improvement there.
Im running twilight kernel, maybe if the problems persist ill have to try out another one. With kernels all I do is flash? Will any info be lost or wil I have to wipe etc? Or just flash and your good to go?
Thanks again
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RushAOZ said:
Not sure what it is but ill give my experience. A while ago I had the same issue. Turn out there was something wrong with the stock ec05 tar. I had a modified version and didn't know it. No matter what rom I flashed it didn't perform well. Also, I use my epic is my main form of internet use. Most roms and mods I dl str8 to my phone. Well, it also turns out that downloading roms str8 onto the sd card game me some errors. Probably because of some fault in the data. Redownload everything you need. When you odin back to ec05 format your sd card also. Should do the trick unless there's something wrong with your phone.
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I think I got the tar file straight from either the acs thread or tge midNIGHT rom thread, cant remember but it should be good I hope. It may come to this but im really hoping it doesn't, I already reformatted my sd card months back and its kind of a pain :/ but thanks for the help, this will be my last resort if all else fails.
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In the development section in the sticky about bringing ur phone back from bricked. Look at my post. (Its the last few) use that eb13 to odin. That one always works 100%.
Also, don't use twilight 1.1 that came with srf. I've tested it and it has several issue's. Use genocide. (Genocide 1.1 was posted on pages 195-199 I believe)
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Isnt the new syndicate based on ec05?
I'm definitely going to check into using the genocide kernel. I'm not quite sure I fully understand what a kernel does and what the differences would be to change so much? Do I have to clear data before flashing it?
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cconwing said:
Isnt the new syndicate based on ec05?
I'm definitely going to check into using the genocide kernel. I'm not quite sure I fully understand what a kernel does and what the differences would be to change so much? Do I have to clear data before flashing it?
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It is ec05 based, they're saying to odin to eb13, then update to ec05 instead of odin straight to ec05.
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zanderman112 said:
It is ec05 based, they're saying to odin to eb13, then update to ec05 instead of odin straight to ec05.
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thanks zander for clearing that up.
and omg why zander WHY?!?! i miss ur old avatar =(

Shoulon said:
thanks zander for clearing that up.
and omg why zander WHY?!?! i miss ur old avatar =(
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First, no problem.
Really? May I ask why?
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zanderman112 said:
Really? May I ask why?
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Because it was you. idk about other people but I look at the avatar then post then screen name. It'll take awhile to adjust to this new one. =/
EDIT: op please do post back your results

cconwing said:
Isnt the new syndicate based on ec05?
I'm definitely going to check into using the genocide kernel. I'm not quite sure I fully understand what a kernel does and what the differences would be to change so much? Do I have to clear data before flashing it?
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Just flash the kernel no need for wipe. Just make sure you nan first.

Thanks everyone! I just rewiped and reflashed the SFR 1.1.1 again and it seems to be working fine so far.
I haven't installed all the apps I had before and don't plan on it because I have all I need on it now and it could have been an unnecessary app causing problems or just a bad wipe but either way so far so good.
Ill post back if theres any issues in the next few days. Thanks again.
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Flash the genocide kernel 1.1.
"The greatest respect you can earn is self respect" Louie Simmons

Ok so I reflashed and it was working perfectly, buttery smooth no lag nothing. I was completely happy. I charged my phone and used it until about 10% turned it off and replaced the battery with a 100% charged one I have as a backup.
Once I turned it on it began lagging again, as well as draining the battery quicker than before and on top of that it did an old problem I had that I didn't mention before which when you turn off the screen it turns back on showing the lock screen then goes off after about 5 seconds.
I have no idea what it could be and why it magically came bac after a shut down/reboot :/
Also if I switch to the genocide kernel do I have t reinstall all my apps again or does it just flash and keep all info? Do I have to wipe data/cache?
Thanks again
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You have to wipe cache and dalvik, then flash Genocide. It will retain all data.
Have a nice day.

This rom was suggested to me. Check it out. 0 problems

I have been using [ROM]ACS ICS v6 (Now with moar gps! (and a theme)) [eh17]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295515
I have also been using the above ROM with the following kernel
[KERNEL][ROOT][GB][EH17] nubernel-2.6.35_v0.0.0
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1326679
Before you apply the following theme, that installs lockscreenmods amongst other really cool items (reboot, recovery, etc), download the .zip to your machine and open the .zip and remove the /system/apps/phone.apk from it before flashing to your phone:
[THEME][EH17][ACS] ░▒▓█4.0 ICS█▓▒░ [lockmod]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1320894
With everything above, I have a stable GB ROM with no reboots and no FC on phone calls ending. Battery life has been slightly better than SFR 1.2 and I use this as my daily driver with 0 issues (other than some lock screens showing erroneous battery details, but if that's the only thing so far then so be it.
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Ha ha. Plus one on this combo. I didn't use the theme though I might try now with the step to remove phone from the zip. I've been using Ripple Lock and loving it with the theme and it works like a charm.

Kinda insulting that samsung just can't get it right but the developers here can. So far I been testing the hell out this rom. Not one single problem yet. Even the boot up time is faster
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+2. I've been using the same setup since V6 was released (sans 6 lock mod) and no reboots, no FC's, and the keyboard skip is gone!
One weird issue I've been having lately- (might not be ROM related)- SMS messages are not coming through. Or I'll get replies to SMS' I've sent like 3 days later. Probably more Sprint than anything else....
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I'm on v6 with nubernel v0.0.1 and honeycomb fusion theme
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I've been thinking about taking this for a drive; I used bamboozle EF02 and it was pretty nice, I went back to EC05 because of the reboots using gb leaks (tried EE03,EF02, EG22, EH06 and EH17) and well my battery life with this ec05 rom is nuts.
I really like marcusant's stuff. He is young but talented.

I'm really digging the whole blue theme. Still so far no random reboots. A few days before flashing this rom I would get about 50 reboots a day. Really frustrating now my phone seem to be running like a new right out the box phone
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I also installed this and wow, it feels like I just got a new phone.
I also dig the blue and dark theme. This stockish ICS theme is really what I was looking for.
So far the phone is snappy and GPS works, and looks so bad ass.
On the side note, I can't go back to stock EC05. I went back to froyo to get stable GPS but the UI was laggy compared to gingerbread. The froyo for Epic is so not optimized I had to go back to leaked gingerbread.

[Q] EL30 vs MTD or just wait

So I've stuck with BML through several different Roms. I originally rooted because I needed working gps and wifi. I had decided I was going to switch to MTD this weekend but now I'm not so sure. Any suggestions?

If I was in ur spot I would probably just wait and see what happens with el30
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There's no gps fix in el30 as far as I've seen... just make the move eventually they will have el30 mtd roms within a week or two
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cm7 or miui ROM is best for me... Im using miui and not switching til cm9 gets here.. try miui rom and u will see wat i mean..LOL
its different with more feature than TW roms has to offer..

Hmmm..I guess I would wait for your favorite ROM to do all the upgrades, grab the modem and then convert to MTD. Should be about a week.
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I switched to MTD so I could run CM7, as well as my FAV ROM that I converted over, but besides the loads of extra space, it hasn't been much different.
If you want to try CM7, backup your fav BML setups, convert them to MTD, install CM7, the switch as you like.
But unless you are going to checkout CM7, I would stick with BML until EL30 ROMs come out, then jump.
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sounds like a good time to try CM7 or MIUI.US. ran cm7 for a week, switched to MIUI.US for a week.
Most likely the devs will come out with a good MTD rom do you don't have to odin back to RFS to go back to EL30.
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Hmmm..I guess I would wait for your favorite ROM to do all the upgrades, grab the modem and then convert to MTD. Should be about a week.
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I'm thinking this sounds like a plan. Thanks for the suggestions guys!

Id say just switch to mtd, EL30 ROMs will be kind of cripple or in beta for a bit since mods have to be ported and debugged
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After using CM7 there's just no going back... tons of features. Love the ability to revoke permissions from apps.

ac16313 said:
Id say just switch to mtd, EL30 ROMs will be kind of cripple or in beta for a bit since mods have to be ported and debugged
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This +9000. I am readying an MTD of EI22 for my rom, its out to testers to make sure nothing is borked. EL30 is currently low on my list until someone proves it is completely CIQ-free.
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lol EL30 is just a fix we have already had on cm7 and most any other EI22 rom for months now i say waste of time stick with MTD CM7 is a dream and with now official nightly updates it gets no better then that.

CM7 sounds really good, but is it ready for daily use in a business? I can flash every couple weeks and need emails, texts, gps navigation and working phone. I don't mind testing and installing different apps but reading the cm7 thread... well maybe it is just some of the noob questions. Is it ready for daily use?

davidh59 said:
CM7 sounds really good, but is it ready for daily use in a business? I can flash every couple weeks and need emails, texts, gps navigation and working phone. I don't mind testing and installing different apps but reading the cm7 thread... well maybe it is just some of the noob questions. Is it ready for daily use?
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I was skeptical but have been using it for days without issue. Check out my tip sharing thread in General and decide for yourself.
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davidh59 said:
CM7 sounds really good, but is it ready for daily use in a business? I can flash every couple weeks and need emails, texts, gps navigation and working phone. I don't mind testing and installing different apps but reading the cm7 thread... well maybe it is just some of the noob questions. Is it ready for daily use?
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Okay
Emails - works just the same
Texts- the only issue with this is that you have to go into the messaging settings and split messages(not really an issue but there's a fix)
Gps- works better than on TouchWiz ROMs although I've never used navigation
Phone- only sight difference is when a call is ended it says "call lost" mightve been fixed idk don't make to much calls myself. But once again not really an issue, the call still ends the same.
So as you see its more than ready for daily use
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ac16313 said:
Okay
Emails - works just the same
Texts- the only issue with this is that you have to go into the messaging settings and split messages(not really an issue but there's a fix)
Gps- works better than on TouchWiz ROMs although I've never used navigation
Phone- only sight difference is when a call is ended it says "call lost" mightve been fixed idk don't make to much calls myself. But once again not really an issue, the call still ends the same.
So as you see its more than ready for daily use
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Well email app has no way to pick "always show pictures" so using K9 is better.
MMS does not send over wifi with stock mms.apk but works with GoSMS.
Calls end normally now from what I saw.
There are even some ported TW stock apps in Apps subforum.

kennyglass123 said:
Well email app has no way to pick "always show pictures" so using K9 is better.
MMS does not send over wifi with stock mms.apk but works with GoSMS.
Calls end normally now from what I saw.
There are even some ported TW stock apps in Apps subforum.
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Ah I see that could be annoying
MMS "over" wifi I believe wasn't fixed I could be wrong but mms while on wifi for me currently works on nightly I don't even remember 14 I think lol 3g comes on and sends over 3g, everynow and then I have to send it twice because data didn't really connect but that's a different issue
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ac16313 said:
Ah I see that could be annoying
MMS "over" wifi I believe wasn't fixed I could be wrong but mms while on wifi for me currently works on nightly I don't even remember 14 I think lol 3g comes on and sends over 3g, everynow and then I have to send it twice because data didn't really connect but that's a different issue
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Yes, that is what happens but it is more like 50/50, like it doesn't wait long enopugh for 3G to connect. But GoSMS doesn't switch to 3G, sends right over wifi.

I remember reading a change log on the recent nightlies where the mms over wifi was fixed.

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Yes, that is what happens but it is more like 50/50, like it doesn't wait long enopugh for 3G to connect. But GoSMS doesn't switch to 3G, sends right over wifi.
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That's true
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