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[GUIDE] Update Epic 4G to Android 2.2.1 Froyo (DK28)

Guide: Install Android 2.2.1 Update DK28 on Epic 4G
UPDATE: Full SPH-D700-DK28-8g-rel.tar.md5 ODIN FLASH HERE.
Instructions: Update Android 2.2 Froyo for Epic 4G
Android 2.2 Epic 4G Instructions
Intended for those going from stock Android 2.1 (DI18) to the latest firmware. Others, see here and choose the alternate method using Odin.
Download the required update.zip file
Mirror: http://www.multiupload.com/EBDH959PPM
Mirror 2: http://vps.ian.im/update.zip
RENAME the file to “update.zip” (If you get an error while flashing, your file might accidentally be named "update.zip.zip" due to Windows' file renaming system. Simply rename it to "update" to make it update.zip and flash)
Move the file to your USB storage on the Epic 4G. Place it in the root folder, the highest up folder.
Boot your device into “recovery mode” (if you don’t know how: click here)
Apply the sdcard update.zip from Recovery Mode
Congratulations! You now have Android 2.2.1 Froyo (DK28) on your Samsung Epic 4G from Sprint!
Android 2.2 Epic 4G Instructions
Frequently Asked Questions
Will I lose root?
Yes.
Do I need to be on the STOCK DI18 Update to flash this .zip?
Yes, you will need to be on the STOCK rom (DI18). http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773032
Can I still install themes?
Previous themes will probably be incompatible with this release until developers re-create them. Just know you will lose your themes.
Troubleshooting Errors
If you rooted with the old method from joeykrim, you'll need to re-root or un-root using the new method.
Once you've updated, you can One-Click Root!

How do you move file to internal storage?

Thanks alot

BBlunts456 said:
How do you move file to internal storage?
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Plug in your device, you should get an option in Notifications bar to "mount USB storage" -- do that. Then you'll see the Epic 4G's internal storage has been mounted on your computer. From there you can copy-paste the update.zip to your device!
If you don't see that option in your notifications bar... try going into settings > Applications > and enable USB debugging. Then plug in your device and you can pull down the notifications bar and see Mount USB Storage.

And if you're already on Froyo, you can just use the .tar file. I noticed on your website it still says the .tar file is not available.

kennethpenn said:
Plug in your device, you should get an option in Notifications bar to "mount USB storage" -- do that. Then you'll see the Epic 4G's internal storage has been mounted on your computer. From there you can copy-paste the update.zip to your device!
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But doest this only put it on sd card? its says move it to internal storage. im confused!

Rootable
If after applying this update will rooting still be possible using the current one click method?
Anyone try this yet?

BBlunts456 said:
But doest this only put it on sd card? its says move it to internal storage. im confused!
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If you mount your phone, there should be two separate mounts. One for your external SD and one for internal storage!

If you're not on DI18 and don't wish to flash back, you can just use this, which is based on the full DK28.

i only get the one for my external sd card

toypaj said:
i only get the one for my external sd card
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Drag the update.zip into there and flash in recovery.

k0nane said:
If you're not on DI18 and don't wish to flash back, you can just use this, which is based on the full DK28.
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Excellent! Thank you

Update from stock DI18 worked. When it loaded I got a message saying there was no update available, then it said I had the wrong password for my google account and I had to enter my password again. Seems normal otherwise.

kennethpenn said:
Drag the update.zip into there and flash in recovery.
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i get an error E:can't open /sdcard/update.zip
( no such file or directory)

viperacr99 said:
Update from stock DI18 worked. When it loaded I got a message saying there was no update available, then it said I had the wrong password for my google account and I had to enter my password again. Seems normal otherwise.
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That's odd. Might have something to do with checking for the update on Sprint's servers

toypaj said:
i get an error E:can't open /sdcard/update.zip
( no such file or directory)
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Did you rename your update.zip?

kennethpenn said:
If you mount your phone, there should be two separate mounts. One for your external SD and one for internal storage!
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Unlike other Galaxy S (incl. Captivate) Epic 4G does not have 8/16GB internal storage.

chocoberry said:
Unlike other Galaxy S (incl. Captivate) Epic 4G does not have 8/16GB internal storage.
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My bad. Well then drag it into any storage you have and it should work

Great post kennethpenn...
Would be nice if this was stickied.

ghostrid3r said:
Great post kennethpenn...
Would be nice if this was stickied.
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No problem! A .tar file is coming soon.

[Q] PLEASE HELP!! can't mount SD Card

trying to install rom from sd card (phone has been wiped after trying to install leedroid 3.0.3) and I get the following messages when in recovery;
unable to moun't sd card
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0p1)
(no such file or directory)
E: Can't mount /sdcard
HELP!!!!
Does this when I try installing from SD, formatting SD, all sorts. I cna access the card though from the computer when I select mount USB storage.
any ideas? I'm phoneless at the moment. eek. Thanks

westleydan said:
trying to install rom from sd card (phone has been wiped after trying to install leedroid 3.0.3) and I get the following messages when in recovery;
unable to moun't sd card
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0p1)
(no such file or directory)
E: Can't mount /sdcard
HELP!!!!
Does this when I try installing from SD, formatting SD, all sorts. I cna access the card though from the computer when I select mount USB storage.
any ideas? I'm phoneless at the moment. eek. Thanks
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This sort of happened to me before. try downloading and installing the file attached. It should do the trick. N.B- You need to have root access.

ok thanks. I have root access (i think, fairly new to all this, apologies).
How do I run the file??
Thanks.
sorry to be a pain

westleydan said:
How do I run the file?? Thanks. sorry to be a pain
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Boot your phone (make sure the file is on your phone), then simply select the file and follow the onscreen instructions. After that, select it's icon in the menu and choose to allow it to automatically operate when USB is connected. Then just allow root access and you're good to go. Try your rom flashing again and it should be successful.

hey
thanks for your help, but I currently have no ROM / OS installed on the phone, so can only boot into recovery / fastboot etc.
not into android os.

westleydan said:
hey
thanks for your help, but I currently have no ROM / OS installed on the phone, so can only boot into recovery / fastboot etc.
not into android os.
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Since you can boot into recovery and access your phone from your computer, then just flash the stock windows mobile rom to your phone. I think that would work and it does make sense. If it does work then you can continue doing what you want after you have done it.

Do you mean flash it via fastboot? I'm sturuggling to get files across from my pc... sorry to be a pain...
I can access the SD card to drag files in recovery. but cant isntall from the sd on my phone.
tried flashing files direct to phone with fastboot but coundt. probably just got it wrong. gahhh.

westleydan said:
Do you mean flash it via fastboot? I'm sturuggling to get files across from my pc... sorry to be a pain...
I can access the SD card to drag files in recovery. but cant isntall from the sd on my phone.
tried flashing files direct to phone with fastboot but coundt. probably just got it wrong. gahhh.
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Have you tried a different SD Card or a sdhc card? One of them might help.

I haven't tried another card yet no.
I need to purchase one first, hopefully will get chance this week.
Any links to best guide to make a goldcard btw?
Thanks.

westleydan said:
I haven't tried another card yet no.
I need to purchase one first, hopefully will get chance this week.
Any links to best guide to make a goldcard btw?
Thanks.
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Go here and read my first post [OP]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052063. Hope this helps.

[Q] E: Cant mount /sdcard - CWR

Hi guys and gals. I'm a complete newb when it comes to tinkering with Android, I have a little experience with iProducts as I have mucked around with them for a while. Jailbreaking an iProduct is piss easy compared to this!
I have just unlocked & flashed my Xoom with JWTylers One click method here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1011196
All works well. In the 'about' section it showed the Tiamat kernel to be 1.1.6, or something like that. I also downloaded Rom Manager and flashed CWR through it. What I wanted to achieve was external sdcard functionality, so I tried reflashing with this step to 1.3.1 ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13036180&postcount=497
Worked a peach.
So, I did everything step by step, and created a new folder called 'sdcard2' in the sdcard directory. After finishing everything I downloaded the 1.3.2 zip and moved it from downloads to sdcard2 folder with Root Explorer? Ran the CWR recovery and when I go to press the flash zip from sdcard I get an error: E: Cant mount /sdcard".
I dont have an sdcard in the slot while I'm doing this, so, I don't know if this is the cause.
Any help to explaining this would be great!

Hey, just flash the new Timat kernal 1.4.0 and download auto mount from the market and your set!

endine said:
Hey, just flash the new Timat kernal 1.4.0 and download auto mount from the market and your set!
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Hi, thx for your reply. Can I just download the file directly to'my downloads folder on my Xoom, like I did in the second link I pasted in my post, and follow those steps? I also mentioned that I don't have an sdcard inserted. Would this make any difference as to why I'm getting the error message in CWR?

flombs said:
Hi, thx for your reply. Can I just download the file directly to'my downloads folder on my Xoom, like I did in the second link I pasted in my post, and follow those steps? I also mentioned that I don't have an sdcard inserted. Would this make any difference as to why I'm getting the error message in CWR?
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You need an sd card, that is probably why you got the error.

endine said:
You need an sd card, that is probably why you got the error.
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Appreciate your help. I'll be getting my sdcard soon, I hope it works.
I also did download an auto mount program from market. What is it exactly suppose to do? It had one option at the top to tick which was to auto mount, and that was it. I suppose it runs in the background doing it's thing?

OK. I got the sdcard working, I flashed to 1.3.2.
I can transfer stuff onto my sdcard2 within my xoom and it will show when i insert the card into my PC. It won't work the other way around though. I can't get the files to show up in root explorer, or with any media player even if its a video file. Why is that? Is there a work around?
All help appreciated.

flombs said:
OK. I got the sdcard working, I flashed to 1.3.2.
I can transfer stuff onto my sdcard2 within my xoom and it will show when i insert the card into my PC. It won't work the other way around though. I can't get the files to show up in root explorer, or with any media player even if its a video file. Why is that? Is there a work around?
All help appreciated.
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You have to reboot the xoom for them to show up.
Sent from my Xoom

hahaaaa....
That was the simplest advice I could've ever received in my life!
Thanks again.

[Q] Can't find zip in recovery mode when trying to install rom

Hi All.
I'm new to this and trying to install my first rom (aiming for cynagenmod 7- it has the language support i need, or so they say)
I rooted my phone and followed a yourtube video titled "How To Install CyanogenMod 7 Nightly on T-Mobile G2x after Nandroid Backup"
When i get to the part where i need to install zip from sd card, i can't find the file. I went back and copied the zip file into a few different folders, and although i can locate the folders, it tells me that the file cannot be found.
How do i get around this? Your help is much appreciated.

Maholly said:
Hi All.
I'm new to this and trying to install my first rom (aiming for cynagenmod 7- it has the language support i need, or so they say)
I rooted my phone and followed a yourtube video titled "How To Install CyanogenMod 7 Nightly on T-Mobile G2x after Nandroid Backup"
When i get to the part where i need to install zip from sd card, i can't find the file. I went back and copied the zip file into a few different folders, and although i can locate the folders, it tells me that the file cannot be found.
How do i get around this? Your help is much appreciated.
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How did you download it? Through rom manager or from the phones xda app, browser? Look in folders with xda or rom manager?? Next time just copy and paste it to the root of the sdcard, not in a folder.
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium

Downloaded it on a computer and then copied it to sd card

and you can't find where you put it? did you place it in a certain folder already created... you can plug your phone in to pc then enter recovery mode, go to storage and mounts at the bottom select mount usb then copy the zip to your sdcard in no folders.

When i try to do that t tells me unable to write to ums lunfile (no such file or directory).
From recovery mode there are some folders i can't see when i browse the folders on the computer when the phone is booted up normally - and vice versa. Is this an indicaiton of a problem?

Silly question: do you actually have an SD card inserted in your phone? If so, what did you use to format it?

i do have an sd, and i actually didn't format it. should i format? if so, what is the best way?
Your help is much appreciated

Maholly said:
i do have an sd, and i actually didn't format it. should i format? if so, what is the best way?
Your help is much appreciated
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Did you try, while in recovery, taking the back off your phone, pop out the sd card, wait 1 second, then pop it back in?

Stupid question, but it's a mistake some beginners make, but did you unzip it by any chance? That could be a reason CWM isn't seeing it. Once you DL the ROM you need to leave it untouched. Then place on SD.
After that in CWM go to choose zip from sd.
And you attained CWM via NVFlash correct?

buru898 said:
Did you try, while in recovery, taking the back off your phone, pop out the sd card, wait 1 second, then pop it back in?
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Yes, tried that and still no luck

mackster248 said:
Stupid question, but it's a mistake some beginners make, but did you unzip it by any chance? That could be a reason CWM isn't seeing it. Once you DL the ROM you need to leave it untouched. Then place on SD.
After that in CWM go to choose zip from sd.
And you attained CWM via NVFlash correct?
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no, didn't unzip, left it as cm_p999_full-201.zip
and yes, did get the CWM via NVFlash

Maybe you accidentally copied it to internal memory instead of the sdcard. You can check in cwm under internal sdcard I believe is what it is called.
When you connect the phone through USB it mounts both internal and the sdcard.
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium

My file explorer sees it in both the root and the folder I created in the root - both can't be seen in recovery mode.
Should i list the directories i see in both views?

In cwm are you selecting install zip from sdcard or install update from sdcard
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium

I ask it to install zip from sd and not update

Maholly said:
My file explorer sees it in both the root and the folder I created in the root - both can't be seen in recovery mode.
Should i list the directories i see in both views?
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you may have put it on the "internal sd card" instead of external sd card, however this is not an issue if you flash CWM 5.0.2.0 or later, it has an option to install zip from internal sd and external. i renamed my external sd card to avoid future confusion (otherwise i see two "removable disks" when i plug my phone into my computer)

Check your file names on your SD card. Check what you see listed in Recovery. If you see differing file names, then you're accessing the wrong memory.
I'm going to assume you tried booting with the physical buttons. Try booting with CWM which should give you a blue menu.

i did try to boot both ways and both times i did not find it... for the millionth time i took the sd card out and put it back in and rebooted using cwm, and funny enough, it found the direcotry... and yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, cynagenmod7 is my new rom
thanks for all your help, support and commiseration... really, much appreciated. i do ve a few more issues that i have to research now... again, external sd not found though... will probably solicit more help
again, thanks

Facing the same problemm
Hello,
new to this rooting and stuff.. I rooted the rom , installed clockworkmod... Now the rom is just not getting detected... Did it a million times.. What to do.. facing exactly the same problems.. I did all that was mentioned... The file is unzipped only card is inserted, using the cmw reboot and stuff itself so no tension.. plzz let me no what to do... stuck here since hours.. !!

hippoalways said:
Hello,
new to this rooting and stuff.. I rooted the rom , installed clockworkmod... Now the rom is just not getting detected... Did it a million times.. What to do.. facing exactly the same problems.. I did all that was mentioned... The file is unzipped only card is inserted, using the cmw reboot and stuff itself so no tension.. plzz let me no what to do... stuck here since hours.. !!
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Don't unzip the file. When you flash anything via clockwork, it flashes using .zip files.

OK i wiped everything...HELP!

Stuck in TWRP and realised i deleted everything, i mean everything by mistake...
the sdcard folder is empty
what the hell to do now? how can i copy a ROM over in order to install? damn!
thx for quick help

zerozoneice said:
Stuck in TWRP and realised i deleted everything, i mean everything by mistake...
the sdcard folder is empty
what the hell to do now? how can i copy a ROM over in order to install? damn!
thx for quick help
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Copy ROM and gapps to microsd and install it from there. or copy from microsd to internal and install

stenc55 said:
Copy ROM and gapps to microsd and install it from there. or copy from microsd to internal and install
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i dont have a microsd

zerozoneice said:
i dont have a microsd
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does twrp have usb mount to pc? do you have ADB installed?
or, this one is big enough
http://www.mimovrste.com/artikel/25...e-digital-microsd-kartica-verbatim-2-gb-44001
You can find 500mb even cheaper. or borrow one from friend

zerozoneice said:
Stuck in TWRP and realised i deleted everything, i mean everything by mistake...
the sdcard folder is empty
what the hell to do now? how can i copy a ROM over in order to install? damn!
thx for quick help
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This link will provide info how to use sideload in twrp to push a file to your sdcard with adb.
http://teamw.in/ADBSideload

ok borrowed a microsd and now i'm installing a rom....phew.
what happened is strange though...i can't remember "wipe data" working before in TWRP, now it actually did and obliterated everything....

It's OK then...
But welcome to my club aniway (see my signature)

zerozoneice said:
ok borrowed a microsd and now i'm installing a rom....phew.
what happened is strange though...i can't remember "wipe data" working before in TWRP, now it actually did and obliterated everything....
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so you pushed it just for the fun to seing it failing? I dont exactly get it...