Sprint pulls Samsung Epic 4G Android 2.2 (Froyo) update;

Sprint pulls Samsung Epic 4G Android 2.2 (Froyo) update; data connectivity, SD card issues

Not a ton of good news this week for Samsung handset owners awaiting software updates. Just three days after a highly-anticipated, Android 2.2 update began flowing to Epic 4G handsets, the code has pulled from update servers. Citing increased support calls, Sprint is looking to find the root cause of several, pesky problems.

“The issues being reported are related to data connectivity following the upgrade and SD card issues when attempting to access photos, music, etc,” reads a moderator forum post. “If you are experiencing these issues, a hard reset has been reported to resolve the problems.”

Hard reset?! Ouch. No word on who/what is at fault or when the update might be ready to download again.

http://www.bgr.com/2011/02/24/sprint-pulls-epic-4g-android-2-2-froyo-update-data-connectivity-sd-card-issues-reported/

Sprint Techs told me that my Epic will be sometime beginning 2/27.

I too have had a unplanned reboot a few times.  This morning, the bluetooth failed while connecting to my car.  The car said it was connect and Pandora said it was playing via bluetooth, however the bluetooth icon in the status bar didn't show connection and nothing was working.

Then the phone vibrated 2 or 3 times and the screen went blank, eventually rebooting.

I did a hard refresh of 2.1 and updating to 2.2.  What error did I commit, cause I'd love to do it right.

Mine was an automatic update. I received a message saying it was time to update and that it would take several minutes. I clicked OK.

Besides the Net browser and GPS functions being slower (GPS wouldn't work at all yesterday on the road), I'm also stuck in a force-quit situation when I try to add volume to sounds. I'm currently stuck with no ringer and now e-mail notification noise. Any attempt at changing the settings is met with a freeze and force quit message, whether in general phone settings, e-mail, or gmail applications.

I would like to correct this. Is a hard reset in order? If so, how do I do that? Also, will I lose all of my purchased apps, or is purchase data stored on the Market's server?

Thanks in advance. I'm an old BlackBerry user who has begun to miss his old dependable BB like a man who leaves his wife for a shiny mistress who's all show and misses the good old days. Not too many bells and whistles, but it always worked when I needed it to...

A hard reset of 2.2, or of 2.1 prior to installing 2.2.

Don't get me wrong.  The issues I'm having are few and hard between.  I think the problems I'm experiencing with 2.2 are worth the GPS fixes and enhancements.  I actually just tested my GPS on a known geocache.  At ground zero, the Epic read 2 feet away...  it use to read 30 to 50 feet away.  I'm very satisfied with that.  Also the H.264 codec on the video camera is much nicer all the way around.

I'm already installed 2.2 (obviously) and installed all my apps.  Do you recommend at this point I do a hard reset, then load my apps again?

Also, should I do anything with the SD card while doing all this?  Format it perhaps?

@bonemaro yes hard reset and redownload apps, if u'd like u can also move the contents of ur sd to ur pc, do a full format, and move ur files back

@chance_in_sargent i believe they reduced the amount of time dramatically for which the 3g and 4g modems go into sleep mode (this is to give better battery life on normal everyday usage as a mobile device) so if u happen to go inactive on ur pc web based programs for a few u probably have to refresh to get the active data connection going again, since ur modem is sleeping