The Epic CM team is proud to announce the release of CM9 beta1 for Sprint's Samsung Epic 4G. Please follow us on Google+, Facebook, or Twitter for the latest news! This release contains bugfixes and a few minor features since beta0.
Tour of Android 4 CM9 on Samsung Epic 4G
Changelog of CM9 beta1 (see previous)- Voicemail Notification option for those suffering from the "Phantom Voicemail" bug. Phone < menu button > Settings > Voicemail Notifications is disabled by default. Epic users on non-Sprint or overseas CDMA carriers may want to enable this option if they want voicemail notifications.
- CM9 boot animation version 2
- Device Encryption kernel support enabled.
- Currently Untested! Not compatible with CWM! Do not use!
- 1.9MB memory freed by disabling the FIMC1 mmap and reducing mmap usage for the JPEG driver. It is unclear what if any negative effects this causes. crespo is also testing this currently.
- Disable Samsung's mdnie improves color quality.
- New CM9 Features
- Holding Volume Up/Down while screen is off will change the current playing music.
- Settings>Profiles
- Settings>Developer Options>Root Access allows you to choose your root access mode.
- Settings>Display>Rotation now has additional rotation options.
Release Notes
- Thanks to user feedback, bbelos decided to leave the Dock Audio behavior as-is. Alarm and ringtones will play from the phone's speaker, not the dock.
- The newly working Sprint Visual Voicemail (see Customization Guide) has a few glitches, the most annoying of which is that it does not block the text messages from 9016 that you receive when there is a new voicemail. We will fix this eventually.
- When using a wired headset, users have reported that the microphone volume is too low, making it difficult to be understood on the phone.
- These issues are targeted to be fixed by, or after the crespo kernel merge. bbelos is making good progress on the kernel-3.0.x port. Not booting yet but getting closer.
- CM9 for Epic is missing 5 of the 8 motion sensors usable in Gingerbread. This apparently is the cause of auto-rotation not working for the minority of users. Many of these users are able to make auto-rotation work by calibrating sensors using the temporary sdcard EL30. Thanks to Joseph Shugzda for identifying this issue!
- Maximum speaker volume is much smaller than Samsung's ROMs.
Links
See the CM9 Status page for more details. Then proceed to the CM9 Install Guide. Please check if your bugs are already filed in the Epic CM Issue Tracker.
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DeleteAnybody having trouble with the Google News & Weather app? I use the weather section regularly but ever since Beta 0 it has crashing when I tap to get the time temp/precip graph. The rest of the app works OK, it's only when you tap the current weather to get to the detail that it dies.
ReplyDeleteI know a lot of folks prefer the more balanced look of color saturation and such without the mDNIe driver enabled (as is the case in beta 1). I actually find text to be sharper, and the color saturation more appealing as it was with beta 0 with mDNIe enabled. Seeing as some like the change and others such as myself don't could we get the option to enable and disable mDNIe ourselves?
ReplyDeleteLovin' it! The problems reestablishing connections with pop servers and whatnot with wifi enabled in beta0 seems to be fixed in beta1. Super snappy speed on everything I've tried so far. Thanks, dev team!!
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ReplyDeleteI have found one issue with my phone running the Beta1. When making a phone call, as soon as the call is placed, the screen automatically goes dark as if the proximity sensor is functioning. This happens when you are no where near the sensor. It makes it difficult when calling a call center where you have to use dial prompts as you have to try to turn the phone back on using the power button.
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