Monday, April 16, 2012

CM9 alpha3 now available for the Epic 4G Touch

After much bug squashing, feature fixes, and stability improvements, the Epic Touch CM Team feel we have a build worthy to be released as another alpha. As always, follow us on Google+ and Facebook, for the latest info regarding progress on CM9 for the Sprint Epic 4G Touch. Mind you, this is still alpha, and not yet a release candidate, nor the final product we hope to present in the future. There will be a few bugs and kinks here and there, but it's still deemed stable for us to release an alpha build for the masses. Be sure to check in the Issue Tracker to see if your issue has been posted.

Changelog
  • Faster GPS triangulation. In previous builds, you may have noticed yourself unable to locate more than 2 satellites. this bug has been squashed, and now more satellites should be available to get a signal from. That, and also, with improved gps binaries, getting a GPS lock shall be much quicker.
  • Phantom voicemail fixed (seriously)! In alpha 2, we didn't compile the Phone.apk with the proper flag for the fix. We didn't forget this time! :)
  • Manual CPU frequency settings. We patched the Settings app so it sees our frequency table, thus aptly allowing us to manually adjust this. Be aware that any mods done in the performance section can be a bit dangerous. Be smart when adjusting your frequency maxes and mins.
  • Improved battery life. Tweaks in the frameworks xmls to optimize it for our phones have led us to have much improved battery life.
  • Fixed Roaming Menu. Previously, there was a bug where making a change in the system select menu for roaming didn't persist through reboot. We've fixed that, as well as making it possible to select more roaming options as featured in Touchwiz. 
  • Updated kernel to FD10. This is pretty self explanatory.
  • Pinch to zoom in camera. This feature was brought into our builds from upstream. 
  • Expandable sound menu. This patch was also brought from upstream. You can now make it so that when you change volume with your rocker, you can make that more expandable, to edit other sound volumes, eg media or alarms.
Release Notes
  • For the phantom voicemail fix, we made it so it disabled incoming voicemail notifications coming directly to the phone; you should still be able to get voicemail notifications from your Sprint VVM or Google Voice account. If you're on a carrier which supports handling voicemails through the phone, you can check the checkbox in Phone>Settings>Voicemail Notifications..
  • This is posted in the CM Status page, but we figured we should post it here as well: if you're having difficulties with MMS, it is almost assured it's an issue with a bad telephony.db file in /data/data/*telephony*/databases/ which google may have restored during the initial setup. Just delete that file, reboot, and resend your MMS; it should work from then, on. 
  • There's a bug in CPU Settings in Performance Settings, where the changes don't persist on a reboot. We're aware of it.
News
The Epic Touch CM Team has still been working hard on getting working kernel sources. Darchstar has been making some very good progress. He's taken teamhacksung's repo, made changes to it, and compiled a kernel which is quite functional. Besides the underlying factor that makes it our phone a phone, the cdma radio, it works quite well. Be sure to be on the lookout for more progress. We may actually beat Samsung to the punch here! If you're interested in helping out, kernel sources can be found on darchstar's github

Links
See the CM9 Status page for more details on the ROM, then head over to the CM9 Install Guide to install the ROM. Please check the Epic Touch CM Issue Tracker to see if your bug has been reported, before filing a new issue report.

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23 comments:

  1. OMG YES FINALLY. DOWNLOADING NOW

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  2. Darch working on kernel source? That's the best news I've heard since I got this phone. Keep up the great work man!

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  3. So i assume this special kernel is what will let us customize out phones more like cm7?

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  4. My cellular radio is now not working?... Please help asap as this is kind of important. lol.

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  5. individual ringtones for contacts do not stick on alpha 3... Is this a bug anyone else is experiencing?

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    1. I have noticed this too. Think it has to do with profiles but can't seem to get it working

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  6. My battery life sucks now compared to alpha2. Already recharged twice today and WiFi and 4g are off along will all other now essential services. Only giving me about 3 hour charge. Any ideas on how to get the improved battery life the post mentions?

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  7. I know. My battery life has gone down by about half from what it was in alpha 2. No explanation. Flash back to GBread and reflash CM9. It has worked for others. I will try that tomorrow and hope it fixes the problem.

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  8. My battery seems close to the same. Maybe little better but I made sure reset my phone before applying alpha3.

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  9. Anyone having GPS issues? It appears completely non-functional for me.

    Fresh install, wiped before, etc.

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  10. That's odd my GPS works great, maybe go stock then back to alpha3.

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  11. Great Work Guys!

    My E4GT is better now than when I first bought is with the Touchwiz infused, bloatware filled Gingerbread OS in October. The GPS finally works! I have the ability to tether like my old Nexus One. The signal strength seems to be much better even though I have not upgrade my EL26 modem. Battery life is much better although it seemed to get chewed a bit faster than normal when I was talking on the phone. That is OK as I am almost always near a charger or have lots of spare batteries.

    Great job! I can't wait to see the how this turns out when this goes beyond Alpha 3.

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  12. My GPS is not working I need help in fixing that...everything else is working except for the GPS it seem to not lock at all even after 30-40mins of searching for a gps

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  13. First time I installed cm9 I had no working GPS. Also wasnt connecting to sprint towers. I flashed to el29 (stock), realized that didn't have cwm so I flashed to el26 and did a factory wipe/clear caches. Then flashed same cm9 alpha from and all was well.

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  14. Is video recording fixed. The newest info on that I can seem to find is from the initial port to the e4g2 where it was broke.

    M.

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  15. i cant send mms plz help i dont understand your method posted up top

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  16. Anyone experiencing low video frame rate on recording video through the camera?

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  17. any news on getting video recording up and running?

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