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[Q] Updating from DK28

I like many downloaded and ran the DK28 froyo upgrade when it came out only for official releases to come out later down the line.
I stood with DK28 until now because for the most part it worked really well. Ten, I started encountering random problems from the phone never calling out successfully on the first attempt to the wifi refusing to turn on unless I turned the phone off then back on.
I have gotten tired of these problems as well as sluggish performance. I wanted to update to the last official build. Are we on EC05?
What is the easiest way to do this? I am not rooted. I have never used Odin or the samsung updater. I am not that tech savvy on my own but can easily follow well explained steps.
I appreciate any help. Thank you.

Jzar said:
I like many downloaded and ran the DK28 froyo upgrade when it came out only for official releases to come out later down the line.
I stood with DK28 until now because for the most part it worked really well. Ten, I started encountering random problems from the phone never calling out successfully on the first attempt to the wifi refusing to turn on unless I turned the phone off then back on.
I have gotten tired of these problems as well as sluggish performance. I wanted to update to the last official build. Are we on EC05?
What is the easiest way to do this? I am not rooted. I have never used Odin or the samsung updater. I am not that tech savvy on my own but can easily follow well explained steps.
I appreciate any help. Thank you.
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Flash a ec05 rom then an ec05 kernal. Like syndicaterom 1.2 and then genocide 1.1
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Wow u stayed on dk28 that long?
"The greatest respect you can earn is self respect" Louie Simmons

dk28 was awful!
at least in my experience..
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He's not rooted so probably doesn't have a custom recovery your gonna, have to odin ec05 just search for it
marcusant said:
Flash a ec05 rom then an ec05 kernal. Like syndicaterom 1.2 and then genocide 1.1
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Search for qbking77 on here or youtube he has videos of how to do what you want and much more.
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How are you on DK28 and not rooted?
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How are you on DK28 and not rooted?
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I simply ran it as an update.zip and it was like receiving a pseudo OTA. I never rooted because I never had a reason to. I am tempted to root now so that I can create a backup of apps and maybe some texts.
Since I am not rooted, could I simply run EC05 as another update.zip file or will this simply not work.

It would be easier to follow this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1128546
Kudos to crawrj
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tazfanatic said:
Search for qbking77 on here or youtube he has videos of how to do what you want and much more.
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Thank you!
I checked his stuff out and everything went extremely well. I'm now on EC05 and rooted. Woo!

Current "best" rom suggestions?

So I owned the epic, played with Midnight, played with ACS and finally said **** it and went with a NS4g... I haven't touch an epic in a few months now and was wondering if you guys have CM7 yet, or any other good AOSP-like alternatives.
My mom and sister are still using epics and are sick of the sprint UI and bloat and I was looking to help them out by loading something different no their phone.
Any suggestions?

Well no aosp yet.... but syndicate rom frozen is veryy battery efficient and fast... and I would use genocide with it, atleast untill vision kernel comes out
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IMO... as mentioned above,
rom: srf 1.2
kernal: genocide 1.1 or twilight 1.1.1

snowmanwithahat said:
So I owned the epic, played with Midnight, played with ACS and finally said **** it and went with a NS4g... I haven't touch an epic in a few months now and was wondering if you guys have CM7 yet, or any other good AOSP-like alternatives.
My mom and sister are still using epics and are sick of the sprint UI and bloat and I was looking to help them out by loading something different no their phone.
Any suggestions?
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Also, ACS just stated a new AOSP project. It looks promising, though not at a usable stage, yet.
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Everything is pretty much the same since you left. Development on every rom has progressed but the selection and pros/cons of each one are about the same.

Baked snack is a monster! (Public) CM7 alpha is a beast.
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Custodian said:
Baked snack is a monster! (Public) CM7 alpha is a beast.
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+1 on baked! SFR/Genocide also good

I'm using Bonsai and I love it so far. Had some fcs with ACS.
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Tandrew86 said:
I'm using Bonsai and I love it so far. Had some fcs with ACS.
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Report what happened to ACS. It's more likely a flashing issue.
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Are they still working on cm7 I haven't seen anything about it but I've also been out of the loop for 3 weeks but doesn't seem like anything new or updated.
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dexterboy1106 said:
Are they still working on cm7 I haven't seen anything about it but I've also been out of the loop for 3 weeks but doesn't seem like anything new or updated.
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Waiting for gb source
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The Root said:
Report what happened to ACS. It's more likely a flashing issue.
Sent from Godot's place.
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I've been using Genocide/SRF with almost no problems. The only FCs I had were from flashing an Email patch from Midnight on top of Syndicate. As long as I didn't try to mix ROMs, I was fine.

Ok quick Questions Ladies and Gentz

My wife has the epic 4G and was wondering
1. if you guys were affected by the OTA update?
If so..
2. Are you guys still able to root?
And...
3. What version should you have on your epic to root?
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infamousteeboy said:
My wife has the epic 4G and was wondering
1. if you guys were affected by the OTA update?
If so..
2. Are you guys still able to root?
And...
3. What version should you have on your epic to root?
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1. What OTA is it
2. Probably
3. So far all of em
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wtf OTA update today? So weird, unless he bought an older epic and just got the old EC05 OTA

Art2Fly said:
wtf OTA update today? So weird, unless he bought an older epic and just got the old EC05 OTA
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I didn't know how to respond to this either...what update?
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Ok my bad idk anything about the epic maybe its a lil different than the Evo but the Evo got an OTA update a couple months back and I wasn't sure if she had gotten the same thing on her epic
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1. No, she probably got an old OTA update
2. Yes
3. You can root any baseband version with the lastest one click method (EC05 is the latest official).

shane6374 said:
1. No, she probably got an old OTA update
2. Yes
3. You can root any baseband version with the lastest one click method (EC05 is the latest official).
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Ok cool thanks
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Sorry for confusing you guys with the OTA
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infamousteeboy said:
Sorry for confusing you guys with the OTA
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They were confused because our Gingerbread official release appears to be around the corner, and you were mentioning an OTA update lol.

So man... how can you live letting your woman get the better phone? I mean I can't see any reason why unless she cooks and cleans constantly....

When gb comes out though u will root using odin or heimdale. Our phones are not locked down by the bootloader like the evo is.
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Art2Fly said:
So man... how can you live letting your woman get the better phone? I mean I can't see any reason why unless she cooks and cleans constantly....
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Dude are you serious? Ahaha you know how many keyboards, power buttons, camera buttons, and speakers I've gone through fixin that damn phone? It's horrendous bro come on you can't come at me like that! thinkin I don't know lol she's on her 5th speaker and you know what I'm talkin about lol don't play dumb lol I've sent her phone in 4 times cuz the damn screen wouldn't let her unlock her phone I have never sent my phone in once and we've had our phones since the beginning of the year she's on her 2nd keyboard and her 4th phone 3rd camera button Wthell she does with it I have no clue but seriously that's a lot of **** I replaced in 7 months bro so you better knock it off lol
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nikon120 said:
They were confused because our Gingerbread official release appears to be around the corner, and you were mentioning an OTA update lol.
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I see what your saying again sorry bout that fellas
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Don't take things personal...I have never seen any Evo love around here. Its definately a hate/hate relationship.lol. I personally like the Evo. My friend has one. I think its a good phone but you have to expect everyone around here to say the Epic is better.
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JohnCorleone said:
Don't take things personal...I have never seen any Evo love around here. Its definately a hate/hate relationship.lol. I personally like the Evo. My friend has one. I think its a good phone but you have to expect everyone around here to say the Epic is better.
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I'm not takin it personal at all lol I promise I guess I'm jus wonderin what the f$%k is up wit your guys buttons bro? Lol
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DON'T GET ME WRONG I LIKE THE EPIC I like the epic I had a gay ass blackberry before my Evo and she had the epic before I decide to get the Evo a week after she got her epic I was messin around with her epic and for some reason it encouraged me to get the Evo idk why lol
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infamousteeboy said:
DON'T GET ME WRONG I LIKE THE EPIC I like the epic I had a gay ass blackberry before my Evo and she had the epic before I decide to get the Evo a week after she got her epic I was messin around with her epic and for some reason it encouraged me to get the Evo idk why lol
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You get the best of both bro, that's cool
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My roommate has a Evo & he had to replace the phone 8X!!! Ive had my Epic & never once had to go to sprint to fix anything & he had never had it rooted my epic 4g is rooted to the max thanks to my epic mafia crew everyone whos help me with my noob ? I'm only a month & 2 weeks in to this wonderful
World of rooting thanks xda!fam
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Killasmoke said:
My roommate has a Evo & he had to replace the phone 8X!!! Ive had my Epic & never once had to go to sprint to fix anything & he had never had it rooted my epic 4g is rooted to the max thanks to my epic mafia crew everyone whos help me with my noob ? I'm only a month & 2 weeks in to this wonderful
World of rooting thanks xda!fam
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Oh well that's real cute boast away lol this guy didn't even answer one question lol grant it the questions were answered does it seem like I'm interested in how much your phone is rooted? Lol I wanna know what I gotta do to root my wives epic guy thanks for not paying attention lol
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ac16313 said:
You get the best of both bro, that's cool
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Anywho so how do I go about rooting MY WIVES epic? I'm sure your able to help not like the other guy lol
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When will the gingerbread update be released for the Epic?

Its taking forever...... I thought it should have come by now, the epic is nearing its EOL, I wonder if it will be out before then....
When do you think it will come out?

Oct 22nd
Posted by Mr. Z's Epic 4G Touch+Keyboard

zanderman112 said:
Oct 22nd
Posted by Mr. Z's Epic 4G Touch+Keyboard
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is that 4 sure this time ?

TexasEpic4G said:
is that 4 sure this time ?
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Its always been fo sure dates except they kept scrapping gingerbread versions for 2.3.3 the date was 9/20 or something and it got scrapped then they started on 2.3.4
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ac16313 said:
Its always been fo sure dates except they kept scrapping gingerbread versions for 2.3.3 the date was 9/20 or something and it got scrapped then they started on 2.3.4
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Precisely, Oct 22nd is the deadline for 2.3.4
Posted by Mr. Z's Epic 4G Touch+Keyboard

http://androidadvices.com/update-samsung-epic-4g-gingerbread-234-firmware/3/
Just did this on my girlfriends Epic. Worked like a charm.

xTMFxOffshore said:
http://androidadvices.com/update-samsung-epic-4g-gingerbread-234-firmware/3/
Just did this on my girlfriends Epic. Worked like a charm.
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That's a leak. Bug ridden. And its not even the newest leak which is EH17.
Posted by Mr. Z's Epic 4G Touch+Keyboard

I haven't seen any issues with it yet. And if you have a place for the newest version I am all eyes.
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Its here, in the development section. Look for EH17.
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Sweet. Does it require root? Cause I haven't done such yet. Thanks for the help
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xTMFxOffshore said:
Sweet. Does it require root? Cause I haven't done such yet. Thanks for the help
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not necessarily. You can use the odin one in download mode.

And there is the EH-17 for Odin? I haven't done much with her phone so I am trying to catch up. Appreciate all the help.
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xTMFxOffshore said:
And there is the EH-17 for Odin? I haven't done much with her phone so I am trying to catch up. Appreciate all the help.
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Right here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242326

Sweet deal. Thanks a bunch. I presume you guys have a CWM flashable recovery too for this phone?
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xTMFxOffshore said:
Sweet deal. Thanks a bunch. I presume you guys have a CWM flashable recovery too for this phone?
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Yes, but in order to install CWM you need to root first, as you might already know. The latest one click is under development as well and its "stickied" to the top
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Yeah. I knew I would need to root to flash the recovery. Thanks for the info.
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Neverrrrrr

xTMFxOffshore, your girlfriend should be aware that she's getting a leak, and I hope there's a good reason you're doing this, for your sake. I love messing with my devices when i can deal with the issues, but i wouldnt put a buggy leak on someone elses phone who may not be as open minded. Two common problems I experienced myself and read about on here were:
-random reboots. They've got a compelling theory in the works but you're messing with cpu speeds and voltages
-stock browser sucks. No way to go back a page; back button closes browser.
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I know better than to even install an app on my girlfriends phone. she would blame me for anything that's wrong afterwards. no thanks

She had a thousand problems with the phone all ready it was a refurb. so I'm not too worried about it. if it causes issues, then I can root it. It was partly a reason for her to finally let me root the phone and flash a custom ROM. But we'll see how it goes. So far it runs fine for me. Plus I updated to a different modem.

getting rid of the sprint stuff?

I apologize if this has been asked before but i just put gingerbread EF02 on my epic 2.3.3 thanks to qbkings youtbe video. Is their a way to get say the nexus s stock gingerbread on this phone or another way to get the sprint crap off my epic?

Why don't you use EI22?
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Lol I forgot ef02 even existed
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MikeyLee said:
Why don't you use EI22?
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Look at his post count--that will tell you.

I am new to this stuff. I dont much and i Just put ef02 on my phone last week

EI22 is the official GB release for the Epic. Read up and work your way into a stock rom based on EI22.

Is your phone rooted?
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No sir my phone is not rooted. qbking video showed how to usea program called odin to put gingerbread on without rooting. it works well i just hate having sprint junk on my phone. people say rooting does wondersi just have no clue how to. qbking showed a very easy 5minute video on how to put gingerbread on and it worked.

OK so i took the plunge into rooting my phone. Thanks to Qbkings video I was able to put on the Legendary ROM in about 10minutes. Rooting was actually very easy. The ROM is amazing and removed all the crap off my phone and made it super fast. Now i flashed to 3.2 from 3.1 and 3.2 to 3.3 without rebooting and everything is fine but i read that you should reboot after doing each one. Does anyone know if this will be an issue? thanks