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[Adam Forrest]

<p><p><p><p>So for all you in the dev meeting knows CM9 Alpha has been droped i will provide links for donwload and a install guide. Please post feed back bugs experince and such, lets hear it for all the dev who worked so hard to bring us CM9 and continue to put there blood sweat and tears in to keeping our Epics on the cutting edge and not the garbage bin.


CM9 For the Epic 4G download links and install guide


Changelog

CM9 beta0 Wednesday, March 7h, 2012

    36MB memory has been freed!  Upgraded the MFC driver to match crespo, then found the minimum amount of cache necessary to allow camera, camcorder and video playback to work.  This allowed us to free 36MB memory from the kernel. 
  
Fixed the annoying disappearing sdcard ringtone issue.  Thanks to everyone who contributed discussion and logs on the problem!  

  Fixed visible artifacts during video playback.  Youtube, Netflix and other videos should be less distorted now.    Fixed 720p video playback skipping caused by the video artifacts fix.
    
Fixed the signal bars to behave like stock ROM.  No real change in signal, it just makes users feel better about the signal bars and Time Without Signal percentage.    Dock audio kernel support.  Requires the Galaxy Dock Sound Redirector app from Market.    

Fixed (one cause of) data reconnection failures that otherwise aren't remedied by toggling mobile data or airplane mode, but only by reboot.    Quiet Hours settings allow you to customize the behavior of notifications during the night.    XZ compression of kernel shrinks the ROM size by 1MB.   
 
Improvements to kernel build and debug support scripts.  Not relevant to users, but helpful to Epic kernel developers.

• CM9 alpha5 Sunday, February 26th, 2012
  
  • Fix to allow Chrome Beta to work on CM9.
    
  • Fix that prevents the modem from crashing in certain conditions.
    
  • Fixed ability to turn off blinking LED during low battery.  Blinking LED causes the battery to drain faster.  Settings > Display > Pulse low battery light.
    
  • Slick new CM9 Bootanimation by Cameron Bezadpour, optimized for Epic by Rodderick.
• CM9 alpha4 Sunday, February 19th, 2012
  
  • Fixed the much hated Ringing of Death bug.  This was the short chirp before the ringtone, or constant ringtone that would play during or after an incoming call.
    
  • Fixed ICS multitouch protocol in qt602240 driver.  This should make it possible to play certain multitouch games like Dead Space™.  It also fixes the touchscreen driver with CWM 5.8+ (not released by koush yet).
    
  • LED notifications have been changed to enable significant power savings.  LED notification has been changed to blink every 15 seconds, roughly matching the delay in Samsung's EL30.  This alone eliminates ~71% wakelocks, while previously the CPU was unable to sleep at all while the notification LED is blinking.
    
  • LED notifications may be turned off entirely for additional power savings.  Settings > Display > Pulse notification light.  This allows you to continue to hear the notification chime and vibration without the added battery drain of LED blinking.
    
  • Adjusted heap settings to match crespo. This is very similar to a popular tweak in the forums.  It prevents some Out of Memory crashes (i.e. NPR News).  You can use these three lines in /system/build.prop to benefit from this tweak prior to alpha4.
    
    • dalvik.vm.heapstartsize=5m
      
    • dalvik.vm.heapgrowthlimit=48m
      
    • dalvik.vm.heapsize=128m
  • Dialer will no longer lockup in rare occasions.
    
  • Numeric battery % indicator now works!

• CM9 alpha3 Monday, February 13th, 2012
  
  • Battery Related
    
    • Fix automatic brightness setting.  In alpha2 you could save power by turning off automatic brightness and manually reducing brightness. This is fixed by updating the array values for brightness levels to match CM7 and stock.  This reduces wasted power and hot screens reported by some users.
      
    • Capacitive buttons backlights (Menu, Home, Back, Search) now mimic TW behavior by turning off the backlight after a 6 second timeout.  This both saves battery and improves the user experience in darkness.
      
    • Fix the power profile.  Previously battery usage blame percentages were less accurate.
      
    • LED charging indicator no longer turns off after you dismiss a notification.
  • Switched to crespo kernel audio driver.  The kernel audio driver (wm8994) now matches the userspace driver (libaudio) we added in alpha2.  Should hopefully resolve speakerphone mic issues.
    
  • Voicemail default number is set to your phone number and not *86 by default on new installs.
    
  • MMS now shows profile faces.
    
  • Fix roaming bug.  Prior to alpha 3 opening Mobile Networks settings unintentionally disabled roaming.  Folks upgrading from alpha2 should open System settings and ensure Auto: Domestic Roaming is selected to enable roaming support.
    
  • Added roaming options.  Alpha3 includes domestic, international, both, and no roaming options as found in gingerbread TW ROMs.
    
  • Fixed the annoying "Data usage warning" that was previously impossible to dismiss from the notification window.
    
  • Removed Chinese and Japanese IME.  Install the better IME's from Android Market if you need Asian language input.

• CM9 alpha-2 Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
  
  • With alpha-2 and all future versions of CM9, you will no longer need to update gapps after every upgrade.  It is highly recommended that you upgrade to the new gapps-ics-20120201.  This new gapps-ics has the face unlock split into a separate .zip because it is rather large and not very useful with our low resolution front camera.
    
  • 4G WiMax curtain toggle.  If it doesn't appear automatically, you may need to manually configure it in Settings > System > Notification drawer > Widget buttons > Toggle WiMAX.
    
  • Video recording longer than 1:45min retains A/V sync.
    
  • "Call has been lost." popup no longer occurs on a far-end call hangup.
    
  • libaudio ported from crespo (Nexus S), resolves audio distortion during phone calls and improves Bluetooth audio quality.
    
  • Re-enable SEC_ADJUST_LMK in kernel to fix the low memory killer.  There was a problem where kswapd0 went crazy needlessly consuming cpu, killing performance and wasting battery.
    
  • Manual brightness setting slider now works.
    
  • Changing camera resolution no longer crashes the camera app.

• CM9 alpha-1 Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
  
  • Location services - it was causing the CPU to spin for a long time wasting power. - Uberpinguin
    
  • Soft Keyboard dismiss when slider is open - mkasick/wtogami
    
  • CWM scrolling - wtogami/koush

• CM9 alpha-0 Monday, January 30th, 2012
  
  • Initial release

[Jason Silpher]

A huge thanks to the devs that made this possible!  So excited to be checking out ICS soon.  Currently backing everything up, but I'll have Alpha 0 installed and will post bugs as I find them.

[Synical_99]

Just flashed cm9 and its blazing fast! Im just blinded by overexposure of pure awesomeness!!


One thing i did notice is while restoring my apps using AppBak the market just stops working and FCs.

Edited by Synical_99, 31 January 2012 - 04:33 AM.

[jpmorris123]

Wow ... amazing how fast and hard the dev team has worked on this

Beautiful ... how they have taken a piece of hardware and continued to make it cutting edge, when most of the world seems irresponsibly content to treat mobile phones as disposable items

[iCSteven]

This is amazing. I wish I could donate but I am underage. I flashed it and everything is working well. Minor bugs, but good enough to use as my daily driver. ( I just don't want to restore back to CM7).

The only bug I found was the on-screen keyboard popping up when I open the physical keyboard.

[iCSteven]

Battery status style does not change anything. It's stuck on icon (default).

The status bar brightness control does not seem to work.

[stilesja]

OK this is seriously fantastic. I have found a couple issues. With the status bar. Changing the battery style or the signal meter doesn't do anything. Even tried rebooting after changing them.  Also I miss the setting to disable the voicemail waiting indicator from cm7 but perhaps that will just motivate me to activate an old phone temporarily to clear out my voicemail :-)

Overall this is simply amazing!

Thanks devs!Edit: Seems I was beat to the punch on my reports :-)Edit 2: could be an app issue but I can't seem to get Facebook to sync contacts. After installing the app I do have a Facebook entry under accounts and sync settings but when I choose it nothing happens.

Edited by stilesja, 31 January 2012 - 05:56 AM.

[RangerMateo]

Can't get BT Tethering to work...but I might be doing it wrong as well.  Computer connects but never gets past identifying then drops the connection.  Other than that and the aforementioned battery icon thing, nothing.  This is unreal for an alpha release!

[Adam Forrest]

Ya its a really early alpha still alot of bugs they need to work out i played with it for a while but i dont think its stable enough for daily driver just yet so i just restored back to cm7 and im going to keep going with nightlys till CM9 gets picked up for nightlys but they did a incredable job on it so far. The rest should go rather fast seeing as how much already works im super excited to see what comes in the future.

[astraith]

Any tips on how to download and upload the ZIP file for this ROM with a Mac? My phone is all ready rooted however I don't have a Windows computer I have a Mac. MY Windows 7 PC currently not working. When I download the zip Snow Leopard pre unzips the file without asking. Does that matter?

[Steve McNeil]

awesome rom! its running great.. quick question tho.. is there anyway to remove the voicemail icon? just says to dial *86 but that wont clear it..

[K3VlN]

Amazing job devs its simply beautiful aside from the minor known bugs that are expected in the early builds but for this to be as stable as it is i am truly impressed. not stable enough to use as a daily driver just yet but its really close   so much fun to play with

amazing job truly!!!

[Kynolin]

First bug I've noticed is my video playback has weird horizontal artifacts. They are like glitchy looking lines that appear during YouTube or MMS, so far.

I'll be making a list, best I can, and reporting back as time goes on. Overall, ICS is my new daily driver. It's good; really good! Thanks to all the devs.

[kobby2k6]

i have been running it for an hour and I like it so far but It can't be daily driver at the moment..

Most of my favorite games don't work or freeze (my biggest complaint)
asphalt 6 crashes
blood and glory doesnt work
the zombie game (by glu) doesn't work ( and the market says it is not meant for my phone)
deadspace doesnt work well due to the multi touch issue
street fighter IV crashes

some app incompatibilities (due to apps not supporting ics in general)

camera recording issue (already noted by cm) and few minor bugs (like showing battery percentage in status bar doesn't show) and a few fc's here and there..

I haven't used the GPS for a while but it fine so far.


few lags, but the rom is really smooth

The CM team is amazing for the awesome rom (cm7 as well) and I am loving it so far...i am definitely donating

I think this rom is more a beta because it only has a few quirks to work out imo

[SwimDrewid]

Never thought I'd see ics on this "end of life" phone. We really have the most amazing, dedicated devs on the block.

Thank you

sent from my fully armed and operational space phone

[iCSteven]

Kynolin, on 31 January 2012 - 08:02 AM, said:

First bug I've noticed is my video playback has weird horizontal artifacts. They are like glitchy looking lines that appear during YouTube or MMS, so far.

I'll be making a list, best I can, and reporting back as time goes on. Overall, ICS is my new daily driver. It's good; really good! Thanks to all the devs.

I am getting this bug as well. It also happened to me while using CM7.

[jasonsf]

Is there a way to set the timeout on the capacitive buttons? Besides that, I can't find anything that isn't working. Awesome job. Can't wait for the bug fixes! This is going to really extend the life of the Epic. So much for Samsung's excuse that this phone just can't handle 4.0.

[stilesja]

I have installed google voice search, and in the android keyboard settings I have chosen voice input button to be on main keyboard and also tried on the symbols keyboard but it never showed up on either.

[shirpaj]

First of all MAD PROPS to the devs!!! if I were having more kids I would name them after y'all. So far this is smooth and I'm loving it! For an Alpha, this is amazing

[rocket321]

I tried taking several photos fast in the camera app and after the first couple it started creating graphical issues (sections of the pictures have green or pink blocks, and at one point was showing two images horizontally on the "view finder" screen).

Not a huge deal but figured I'd mention it.

Examples:
http://www.box.com/s...t6626jveylcpi8n
http://www.box.com/s...mjghqdefmxuab92

Edited by rocket321, 31 January 2012 - 05:52 PM.