CM9 RC1 for Epic 4G Release Notes

UPDATE: CM9 RC2 Warning

CM9 RC2 for Epic has been released.  Unfortunately, it has a major bug where it fails to retain addon .zip's, causing folks to have problems like broken gapps or losing Sprint VVM after they upgrade.  You are fine if you manually flash addons immediately after upgrading RC2.  You may want to wait for the next release if you want a stable experience.

The CyanogenMod Project has released CM9 RC1 for all supported devices including Sprint's Samsung Epic 4G. CM9 RC1 contains primarily stability and branding changes since Epic 4G's beta4.  Please follow CM for Epic 4G development on Google+ and Facebook!

Release Notes

• If you have trouble with auto rotation after enabling the settings in the Customization Guide, try calibrating your sensors with the temporary FC09 sdcard utility.
• If you use any 3rd party kernels, mods or "tweaks", please do not report any bugs to the CM team.  We are not able to help you if you have modified your operating system in any way.
• CM9 RC1 is officially supported by the CyanogenMod project.  So if you are using the CM9 RC1 build, you may now report bugs directly here.  See CyanogenMod's official announcement of CM9 RC1.

Changelog of CM9 RC1 (see previous)

• One cause of the keyboard backlight failing to turn on when desired has been fixed.  It is possible other causes have not been fixed.  Please report if you continue to run into issues with the keyboard backlight.
• Switch from binary libsensor to source-built libsensor from aries.  Theoretically it should behave identical to the old libsensor.  Please report any differences you notice with sensors.
• Rescaled signal levels to fit AOSP's signal bar thresholds.  It should be roughly equivalent to the behavior in beta4.  Please report if you experience any major problems with signal bar behavior.
• The new CM9 boot animation featuring the Cid mascot is now included.  If you want the old boot animation, download the flashable .zip from the boot animation page.

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.

If you appreciate this work, please consider supporting the Team Epic. Thank you!

Testing toward CM9 RC1 for Samsung Epic 4G

Nightly Builds
Download nightly builds of CM9 for Epic 4G from get.cm.


News

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• Big News!  6/18/2012:
• noobnl got the crespo4g modem (from the Nexus S 4G) to mostly work on Epic 4G, allowing CM9 to Update PRL and Profile natively for the first time!  Currently it has stability problems that noobnl is attempting to fix.  This is very experimental and unstable so no test builds are available yet.
• If public testing of the crespo4g modem on Epic 4G does commence, it will initially be for advanced users only.  Flashing the crespo4g modem means you cannot use any other ROM on your phone.  Even temporary stock from sdcard will no longer work.  Users will need to know how to manually flash the crespo4g or Epic 4G modem with Odin or Heimdall in order to safely test the upcoming test CM9 builds.
• Update: 6/16/2012: Fixed MMS Sending
• Download [1]
• md5sum d8af976c1cfec0c272984fbf5658dad6
• Read below for changelog.  Please test and report here on Google+.
• Update 6/12/2012: CM9 beta5-pre1
• Download [1][2]
• md5sum 29cf30a6b2f138cd01944f4e00af0285

Changelog

• Fixed MMS sending.
• Switch from binary libsensor to source-built libsensor from aries.  Theoretically it should behave identical to the old libsensor.  Please report any differences you notice with sensors.
• Rescaled signal levels to fit AOSP's signal bar thresholds.  It should be roughly equivalent to the behavior in beta4.  Please report if you experience any major problems with signal bar behavior.
• The new CM9 boot animation featuring the Cid mascot is now included.  If you want the old boot animation, download the flashable .zip from the boot animation page.

CM9 beta4 for Epic 4G Release Notes

CyanogenMod's Team Epic is proud to announce the release of CM9 beta4 for Sprint's Samsung Epic 4G. CM9 beta4 is contains mainly new features merged into CM9 since beta3.  Please follow us on Google+ and Facebook as we post the latest news and test builds there quite often.

Release Notes

• If you have trouble with auto rotation after enabling the settings in the Customization Guide, try calibrating your sensors with the temporary FC09 sdcard utility.
• If you use any 3rd party kernels, mods or "tweaks", please do not report any bugs to the CM team.  We are not able to help you if you have modified your operating system in any way.

Tour of Android 4.0.4 ICS CM9 on Samsung Epic 4G

Changelog of CM9 beta4 (see previous)

• epicmtd: Fixed photo taking after video recording.
• epicmtd Kernel: Add CIFS and FUSE.
• Phantom Voicemail fix now merged in CM9.
• Non-Sprint carrier users probably will want to enable Phone > Settings > Message Wait Indicator if they use non-visual voicemail.
• Changes in CM9 since beta3.
• Option to hide the IME switcher.  Settings > Language & input > Selector notification
• Lockscreen Calendar.
• Lockscreen Weather.
• Apollo music app, although reportedly it needs more work to look good on smaller screens like Epic.
• Lockscreen Shortcuts.
• Key repeating in recovery enabled for epicmtd.

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.

If you appreciate this work, please consider supporting the Team Epic. Thank you!