Your opinions on the Epic Touch 4G

**gTen** · #1 (**permalink**) 09-17-2011, 07:05 AM

List the Pros and Cons that you have experienced with the Epic Touch 4g so far!

uofajac · #2 (**permalink**) 09-17-2011, 10:38 AM

I love mine so far. The standard ringtones suck, but who really cares about that. Everything else is awesome. We need a dedicated forum for this phone asap. I'd rather hang here than over at xda.

Can anyone make this happen for us?

**gTen** · #3 (**permalink**) 09-17-2011, 12:02 PM

we are working on it...so far we will use this section then everything will be moved to a permanent forum once we can get a hold of an admin..sorry

jimmiekain · #4 (**permalink**) 09-19-2011, 05:05 AM

I'm having some issues with mine. It may be a defect. I listed them here... @gTen let me know what you think please.

[Q] Is mine a defect or is this normal? - xda-developers

Daren W. has been nice enough to help me out. I'm gonna go on and do a hard reset tomorrow and see if it helps.

**gTen** · #5 (**permalink**) 09-19-2011, 09:38 AM

1. this one sounds like it may be defective..this is similar to when we underclock phones and when they can't handle the low sleeping voltages it does not turn on..but its a guess hard to say..did this only happen once?

2. you can reconfigure 4g sleep settings in the EPST

3.have you tried temporarily to set it not turn off the screen at all?

4. does this also happen when you get a phone call while phone is on?

5. if this happens multiple times and you can replicate it..try a logcat..

6. you 100% sure that was the 3g icon and not the 1x icon? what is possible is 4g didn't connect and its at 1x and not 3g, thus data would not work.

jimmiekain · #6 (**permalink**) 09-19-2011, 01:21 PM

@gTen
1. Once while driving the phone home from the sprint store on friday (it was hooked up to a motorola car charger... could this have something to with it?

2. Do I need to be rooted to do that?

3. No I have not but I will and I will report back.

4. I have not tested it, I will and I will report back.

5. Its only happened once so far.

6. 1000% sure. Next time it happens I will take a screen shot and post it here.... More details: I can put the 4g on and the data will work fine and be super fast then maybe 5 or 10 mins later it just changes to both 3g and 4g then no data at all (It happened a whole bunch of times friday and saturday but not at all sunday. Lets see what happens today.)

I'm on my way to work so I wont be able to report back until I get home.

**darren.wlsn1** · #7 (**permalink**) 09-19-2011, 04:12 PM

jimmiekain 4g is not all around my are not sure about yours but mine jumps in and out at times. did you hard reset yet and i dont ever use a carcharger but thats just me but if i did it would not be one other than one thats for my device.

**gTen** · #8 (**permalink**) 09-19-2011, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jimmiekain

@gTen
1. Once while driving the phone home from the sprint store on friday (it was hooked up to a motorola car charger... could this have something to with it?

Generally it shouldn't..how much amps is the charger?

Quote:

2. Do I need to be rooted to do that?

no

jimmiekain · #9 (**permalink**) 09-20-2011, 01:11 AM

@darren.wlsn1 if I just go on amazon and buy any samsung car charger will that work be better?

@gTen I have looked at the charger and I have no idea. It dose not say on it.

Here are some screens of the 3g and 4g being on at the same time. I even saw it do it w/ wifi so i took a screen of it too. I'm about to do hard reset and I will see it goes for a few days and report back.

**darren.wlsn1** · #10 (**permalink**) 09-20-2011, 01:26 AM

i see no issue? looks like 4g just dropped? mine looks exactly like that now