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[Q] I want to get my Epic to stock.

Hi guys. First time posting here. I have a Samsung Epic 4g and I was wondering if there are any roms out there that will get me to a stock Froyo condition. I am not interested in any themes or any extras, just plain old android. Basically, I want my phone to act as if it were a Nexus One. Please advise.

There is a Froyo leak that is going around currently. However, if you really want to make it look like the nexus one, follow these steps.
1. Look in the development section, there's a guide on how to flash froyo.
Next, download Launcherpro and Desktop Visualizer.
The launcher is similar to the nexus ones launcher.
Next, download some nexus one icons online, and use the desktop Visualizer. Its in the widget section and use the first option. The steps are pretty straight forward. Hope this is what you were looking for!
You won't get it exactly like the nexus one anyway due to a different processor btw
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Thanks for the reply. However, I should say, I am not looking for a Nexus One look. I am looking for stock android. I have used Launcher pro before... I can't exactly agree with you that it looks like the stock Froyo launcher however. I have disabled the Touchwiz launcher though and am using the stock Froyo launcher. Honestly, I just want a true Google device with no bull on it. Thanks.

We dont have a 100 percent aosp rom.
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What is ASOP?
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AOSP is android open source project. The straight code from google with no carrier changes.
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Will I be able to root the device and then remove certain touchwiz elements?
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(Q) Sense preview on Stock 2.2

Hiya guys, quick question.
Is there a way to have the Sense style preview (the one where you prress the home key & it shows you all the screens) on Stock 2.2? I'm rooted so it doesn't bother me if I have to flash something. Its the only feature of Sense I like
Thanks in advance
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Just get a new launcher. I think Launcherpro and ADW Launcher have it default.
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dnlsmy said:
Just get a new launcher. I think Launcherpro and ADW Launcher have it default.
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I don't want a new launcher though, I'm loving Stock Android. If its not available just let me know & I will live without, But if I can get it I would be in heaven!

I don't think there's a way to. However, you can set LauncherPro to look exactly like stock 2.2 in the settings.

I think is to pinch the on-screen will show that kind of screen, from the first n1 Rom I used.
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Nunchucker said:
I don't think there's a way to. However, you can set LauncherPro to look exactly like stock 2.2 in the settings.
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Shame there isn't a way to do it, Don't fancy using a launcher so ill give it a pass! Thanks
bountygiver said:
I think is to pinch the on-screen will show that kind of screen, from the first n1 Rom I used.
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Tried & doesn't work. :-(

Need help choosing between CM7 or MIUI? Look Here!!!

Okay so I have been seeing many threads and questions about MIUI or CM7 and which one is better?!
Or go to:
https://www.youtube.com/macaronyalan
Here I have two videos to CM7 or MIUI and maybe this will enlighten you to choose wisely.

another CM7 tease. I've been holding off on flashing this.
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iynfynity said:
another CM7 tease. I've been holding off on flashing this.
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try them both, their both wonderful. i stuck with MIUI for over a month.

I tried both of them and I think they both have their advantages and disadvantages. Right now I went back to 2.2 because NOVA dont work on 2.3. If any of you can play NOVA on cm7 or miui please let me know. MIUI has the lockscreen and pop up messages. As Cm7 has optimization tweaks and Stock aosp feel. I really want to go back but still trying to decide if I should wait.
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krazie1 said:
I tried both of them and I think they both have their advantages and disadvantages. Right now I went back to 2.2 because NOVA dont work on 2.3. If any of you can play NOVA on cm7 or miui please let me know. MIUI has the lockscreen and pop up messages. As Cm7 has optimization tweaks and Stock aosp feel. I really want to go back but still trying to decide if I should wait.
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Im contemplating on whether to go back also but the only thing that I hate is the battery life
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duboi97 said:
Im contemplating on whether to go back also but the only thing that I hate is the battery life
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The battery life is really horrible on standby. I just wonder if theres a way to make it like stock vibrant roms.
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hitman818 said:
The battery life is really horrible on standby. I just wonder if theres a way to make it like stock vibrant roms.
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Yeah that's what keeping me away. Its fast and all but I need battery life for texting people and chatting. Until battery gets better ill stick with simply honey 1.0 xe speed boost
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went ahead and flashed this, i hope i can still go back to stock. lol

Hey Alan, I noticed on your CM7 review the voodoo control app has Voodoo Color options. Do you know if this only appears in gingerbread builds maybe?
I have tried to find color options in the Voodoo Control app in 2.2 roms, but all there is, is Voodoo Sound options.
Thanks!

i got bricked, hay what a sad day.

i like MIUI.. i've never tried CM7 and dont know if i will.
i had miui for almost a week until earlier this morning when was playing music using the music widget, it would skip songs or not even finish a whole song then on to the next song.. weird, i didnt like that, it's probably because i was browsing through pictures at the same time on miui gallery ( buggy,makes my phone FC, sluggish) that made the songs skip?. so i went back to 2.2
i like the rom. it's very nice! very customizable and easy on the eyes.. ill get back to it when it becomes stable even if gps is still broken...

Damn! How many apps do you have on your phone Alanrocks? That's nuts! I just counted mine, I have 16 downloaded. But I dont play games on my phone and Im OCD about having too much stuff and any bloat so I keep my apps to a minimum.

imitebewrong said:
Hey Alan, I noticed on your CM7 review the voodoo control app has Voodoo Color options. Do you know if this only appears in gingerbread builds maybe?
I have tried to find color options in the Voodoo Control app in 2.2 roms, but all there is, is Voodoo Sound options.
Thanks!
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Yes sir only in 2.3.3 since the stock temperatures were changes
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seanp666 said:
Damn! How many apps do you have on your phone Alanrocks? That's nuts! I just counted mine, I have 16 downloaded. But I dont play games on my phone and Im OCD about having too much stuff and any bloat so I keep my apps to a minimum.
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I have 98 lol
16? u crazy brah

seanp666 said:
Damn! How many apps do you have on your phone Alanrocks? That's nuts! I just counted mine, I have 16 downloaded. But I dont play games on my phone and Im OCD about having too much stuff and any bloat so I keep my apps to a minimum.
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246 don't worry I deleted them a long time ago
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do you really guys have a bad battery life? So when you sleep, do you charge the phone? about how many hours does your phone survive?
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iynfynity said:
do you really guys have a bad battery life? So when you sleep, do you charge the phone? about how many hours does your phone survive?
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Some people dont like charging their phone at night or are too lazy to do so.
To avoid further complications charge it!
and by the way.
I HAVE WIFI TURNED ON ALL THE TIME SINCE I DONT HAVE MOBILE INTERNET AND IM OCD TO 1.3GHZ AND IT LASTS ME ALL DAY SO DONT COMPLAIN.

wow. that's impressive. I might go back to CM7 later, there's a new kernel btw.
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Both of these roms is amazing, if only they were less buggy I'd flash them but until then Im sticking with the 2.2.1.
Good job on the reviews btw Alen.

Thanks!
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Upgrades/Bugs between EC03 and EC07 :)

Things i have noticed....
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Updates:
- Updated to 2.2.2
- The timing for the full functionality of the ticker seems better xD
- New Dialog when turning off Mobile Network and when turning on GPS from the Pulldown Options..
- Browser actually works for me now lol
Bugs:
Ticker Twitter SNS Service still errors out for me when i try to log on.....

ive got backlite issues sometimes when i turn on the phones backlight will flicker rapidly until i press the menu button.

trailblazer101 said:
Things i have noticed....
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Updates:
- Updated to 2.2.2
- The timing for the full functionality of the ticker seems better xD
- New Dialog when turning off Mobile Network and when turning on GPS from the Pulldown Options..
- Browser actually works for me now lol
Bugs:
Ticker Twitter SNS Service still errors out for me when i try to log on.....
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Updated to 2.2.2?!?!?! Where? How? joshkoss made mention of this. Something about thanking imnuts for the update...
Okay, I'll calm down... Thanks, in advance...
(Someone have any chocolate for me? That will calm me down... Yeah right!)

EC07:
Browser based apps acutally are working now, not crashing. IE. TDbank and words with friends.
Way better memory managment. Apps not closing as much!
Better battery life by far!!!
Also EC07 can be rooted via superoneclick

So where it at? I been looking but no new posts or threads in xdaprem apo....
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Coming Soon

p3droid made it available in the Team BlackHat app over at mydroidworld.
For those who want to know.
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EC07 is from TeamBlackHat, if you feel like getting it immediately and having a stock phone, then go for it and spend the $2 for the app to download it. Otherwise, wait another day or two and we'll have deodexed, pre-rooted, and debloated versions for you to flash.
Based on the upgrade to 2.2.2, I'm thinking that this is roughly equivalent to ED05 for the Fascinate.

imnuts said:
EC07 is from TeamBlackHat, if you feel like getting it immediately and having a stock phone, then go for it and spend the $2 for the app to download it. Otherwise, wait another day or two and we'll have deodexed, pre-rooted, and debloated versions for you to flash.
Based on the upgrade to 2.2.2, I'm thinking that this is roughly equivalent to ED05 for the Fascinate.
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Okay, okay, okay... Sorry I became a little over excited.
In all reality, I really appreciate all that you, trailblazer, pastorbennett, and joshkoss have done for the Continuum. I will contribute where I can, however, it is you guys that have really done a bunch of work on it. Yes, I can be patient. Thank you again.

May not be tube right place for this question, but is there anyway that we get some cool roms like cm7? Or is that Technically unreasonable?
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When can we get EC07?
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AUATL said:
May not be tube right place for this question, but is there anyway that we get some cool roms like cm7? Or is that Technically unreasonable?
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whether or not the continuum ever gets aosp is one thing...but froyo leaks probably wont help much...froyo and ideally (although unlikely) gb source would
although who knows...i know imnuts took a crack at continuum mtd awhile ago

Albinoman said:
When can we get EC07?
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When we know it works correctly. =)

Awesome. Can't wait.
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I've been runnin ec07 for about 2 days without incident, and even though its not a huge upgrade it does feel less buggy and battery seems to have improved dramatically imo....I rooted using soc and so far awsomeness.....one dumb question: what does deodexed mean?
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Deodexed is a non optimized rom meaning it can be themed and modded. Odexed is the exact opposite.
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I am not quite sure what you mean is "not optimized" There is no optimization differences, other than the fact the first boot is faster on odexed roms than deodexed roms xP
But you are right with the theming
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problems with orientation
Has anyone been able to make their home screen rotate with the froyo roms? I saw some others mentioning being able to make their's rotate when tilting the phone sideways but mine will not, any suggestions?

gingerbread theme
I also lost the gingerbread theme when i swapped roms to EC07 (joshkoss beta1) will the gingerbread theme for the ec03 beta3 release work on the ec07?

Absolutely not xP
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so MANY miui

omg what is this?? I go to vibrant dev section and all i see are like 800 roms of miui...
Can someone explain how they differ? I understand some do, such as neobuddy's new rom because of the massive tweaks and mods, but the others? Theres a miui stock, miui.us, miui 360 ... what is this?!?!?

There's only 3? Lol
The Stock MIUI is like stock CM7,
The MIUI 360 and that other one by Neosomething are almost the same, they have similar tweaks.

Because it's so customizeable an there are more CM7's I think
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VeryCoolAlan said:
There's only 3? Lol
The Stock MIUI is like stock CM7,
The MIUI 360 and that other one by Neosomething are almost the same, they have similar tweaks.
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MIUI-NB
MIUI-US
MIUI SS
MIUI LITHIUM
MIUI NEXUS PRIME
MIUI IPHONE360
MIUI ANDROID-STYLE
MIUI ICS
I count 8 so far - may be more though

Hmm how many 2.2 roms are there.....how many Ginger ,2.3 roms are out there....in my opinion miui is taking off nicely...
Although miui is 2.3 its not at all like Ginger or any other filmware out there
Its a whole different animal

i'd say the 4 MIUI roms under the same thread has the most support ...
and i got my working GPS using their rom. great work
i was in CM7 too but i just love MIUI for its customisation

On the MIUI discussion. Has there yet been a MIUI published that has an App Drawer built in, or has the capabilities of using one? I tried MIUI a while back but could not get past it not having an App Drawer. I know I move the apps to a folder and have the folder docked but this does not work quite the way I want it to, that and I have over 130 apps, and this takes a long time to move them to a folder. To be honest it is the only thing holding me back from using MIUI again.

Just use a different launcher that does have an app drawer, I'm using go launcher and loving it
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bfranklin1986 said:
Just use a different launcher that does have an app drawer, I'm using go launcher and loving it
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Last time I tried, a couple of months ago,I had issues using any other launcher. I was using stock MIUI. If we are able to use additional launchers, I may have to give MIUI another try.
Oh and GOLauncher is what I use with CWM right now. Best Launcher I have found so far.

For one yes you can use any launcher you want and have an app drawer and second there is an alternative app drawer in android developement forum and the market.

Raistline said:
Last time I tried, a couple of months ago,I had issues using any other launcher. I was using stock MIUI. If we are able to use additional launchers, I may have to give MIUI another try.
Oh and GOLauncher is what I use with CWM right now. Best Launcher I have found so far.
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Market launchers certainly work fine with MIUI ROMs.... Plus, if anything, you can just make a folder for all of your apps, set it to "arrange alphabetically" and just put all of your apps in that folder.

I like turtles.
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VeryCoolAlan said:
I like turtles.
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you remind me of my friend Hadyn.
He says that constantly but makes me laugh so hard haha

thinking of trying a different rom. Been using bionix. Would you suggest if MIUI is a good rom to move to? Hows the battery life?

Miui is faster and smoother, battery life isn't quite as good as a 2.2 rom but it's getting better. It's defiantly good enough for a daily driver.

xriderx66 said:
you remind me of my friend Hadyn.
He says that constantly but makes me laugh so hard haha
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Is she hot?
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ok, no miui app drawer. if you have 130 apps then i would suggest you sort them by use/function in folders. ie. Social/Tools/Games/etc.
other then the miui.us version all the roms you see are themed variants with additional apps/build.prop tweaks. most are setup by Nick and his team.
i usually just download stock miui, and rip the build.prop out of nicks rom edit it to suit my needs, strip out the crap apps i don't ever use zip and install.

boystuff said:
ok, no miui app drawer. if you have 130 apps then i would suggest you sort them by use/function in folders. ie. Social/Tools/Games/etc.
other then the miui.us version all the roms you see are themed variants with additional apps/build.prop tweaks. most are setup by Nick and his team.
i usually just download stock miui, and rip the build.prop out of nicks rom edit it to suit my needs, strip out the crap apps i don't ever use zip and install.
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hehe.. that what I do....

any suggestions on which miui rom to get? i keep seeing nick's 4 roms and neobuddy's nb rom on top views.

VeryCoolAlan said:
Is she hot?
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I said HE in the sentence, alan what the hell lol