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Download an application called "Advanced Task Killer". This will kill any unnecessary applications running which consume lot's of power on your phone. You can also try looking into your settings as to how everything else on your phone is running, which you may be able to change, which will also save power on your mobil device.

I added what is called the "power scheme toolbar" to one of my pages and yet the battery still does not last all day. I have everything off besides the brightness to the screen. granted it does help improve the battery some, but not by much. And that is also with installing ATK (advanced task killer).

If you can live without the back ground tasks enabled the battery will last all day and then some. Turn off GPS, Bluetooth, and WiFi when you are not using them. Go through all the settings and turn off anything which updates or allows automatic updates. Then minimize the time the screen is on by not playing with it. When its all shut down like so, my Epic will be on standby all my working day and the battery icon will be full come 5pm. The Advanced App Killer helps also.

I recommend the use of the Program Monitor widget along with the spare battery charging system. The widget will allow you to close out any apps similar to advanced task killer. The spare battery system come with the charging system and another battery. I just swap my battery out when mine is about to die and it has allowed me to completely negate ever having to charge my phone.

-disable "Auto-sync" under "Accounts and sync" in settings.
-enable airplane mode or disable individual radios when not in use or in no signal areas like a basement (example: WiFi, 3g, 4g, GPS)
-If you disable "Automatic brightness" under Display settings you can control brightness by sliding your finger along the notification bar located at the top of the screen, Tip: the lower the brightness, the less power the display consumes.
-Use the built in task manager by pressing and holding down the HOME button and selecting "Taskmanager" from there press the "Help" tab to get more suggested tips To extend battery life.

Get power cords for work and home. If you use your car for travel during the day, like a salesman, get one for your car. All those other options are defeat the purpose of buying the phone. Airplane mode? Turn down the brightness? Disable auto sync? Huh? The reason we all got this phone is to USE THE PHONE AS IT WAS BUILT. The only way is to get more power cords. Swapping out the batter is requires removing of a case, if you have one. Pop the back. Reboot. How practical is that if you're using the GPS, on a call, or checking e-mail at the time the battery is about to die?

Cords. Cheaper. Faster. Simpler.

You don't need to add any apps. What you need to do is completely drain the battery for a couple of days then let it fully charge. Then you won't have anymore problems. My husband and I did this and it worked perfectly! I can go the entire day without charging.

Every one will deal with this in their own way. Having cords everywear is common sense when you consider that you bought a very high power machine. Another solution is to have a charger for travel that is also a back-up battery. I saw one in a magazine and plan to buy it.

I think that draining batteries is a real solution consistent with all of my understanding of batteries. The down side to repeatedly charging batteries that are Partially Drained is a poorer reliability. For example, a few days ago I left work w/~70% charge, an hour later I got the battery notice. I attribute this to repetitive charging. I think, in the final analysis, changing batteries is the best practice.

Extending battery life on your Epic 4G is pretty simple. First, you want to use the built-in task monitor to make sure you don't have any unnecessary applications open. Also make sure the phone's display is on the minimal brightness setting, unless you absolutely need it higher. As another user suggested, letting the phone die completely (where the battery is so dead that the phone won't boot) and then charging it again, and repeating this process (not charging the phone again it's completely dead) is a good way to improve battery memory and overall life, otherwise the battery begins to get confused about where full and empty are, and has issues holding a full charge. If you're still having issues after all this, check out an app called Juice Defender. This app manages your wireless data connections and other services to make sure they are not running and draining your battery when not in use. I hope these ideas have helped.

go to settings>applications>running services and kill the service that says something like DRM service. Also check your battery stats if your cell standby is like 50% then go into airplane mode for about 10 seconds then toggle back out of airplane mode. You need to do that everytime you reboot the phone. Those 2 things should help your battery life immensely.

You do not have to drain your batteries until they are dead and then re-charge it. The batteries in these units are a Lithium-Ion battery and as such do not develop a memory such as the Nickel Cadmium batteries did in the olden days. Your problem may stem from too many things running in the background such as GPS, Bluetooth and any other power sucking apps or other services. From the home screen touch the symbol tot the left that brings up your utilities menu, then select settings. Select the wireless and network line, touch bluetooth and make sure it is off, unless you need it for an ear bug or something else. Touch the back symbol, then select location and security, and see that the GPS is off unless you need that too. The screen brightness also should be turned down and you can also shorten the time outs for the keyboard and screen. A little here and a little there will extend your battery life. I have not checked, but the stock battery is 1,500 mah, getting a larger one if they have it will also increase your time. I hope that helps!

1. Make sure you keep 4G, Bluetooth, and wireless off unless you are actually using them.
2. Use your task manager to make sure you turn off unnecessary background programs and clear the memory occasionally.
3. Very important! Make sure you update your firmware and android op system. Sprint recently and finally released update to 2.3 Gingerbread. This will depend on your carrier.
4. Make sure gps and other background tracking etc is turned off on apps you don't use very often.
5. Let the phone battery get low till it warns or turns itself off. Then turn off phone and charge overnight or until blue light comes on that battery is fulled charged.
6. Keep prl and profiles updated.
7. Delete any extraneous or unused apps, especially those that tend to be more intrusive and use gps etc.
8. Adjust your roaming settings.
9. Finally, always keep charging cords available. usb for computer, car charger, and home charger around and with you. If battery gets to 25% its time to charge. Again, you can let it get low and turn off and charge overnight or until full.
I am sure there are other fixes but those are my thoughts off the top. good luck.

What you can do is turn off all running applications; they tend to be a memory hog. Most of the running applications are apps that you do not even use.

If you take off the back cover, you will see it towards the right side of the camera. the sd card should already be inserted in this slot. you can easily remove it and replace it with a different sd card. hopefully this helps. good luck.

under the back cover above the battery

To insert the sd card it inside by the battery though it not a standard sd card it is a micro sd with 16gig that comes with the phone

Remove back cover. Remove battery. sd card above battery, just slide it out

Open up the back panel by prying it off, starting at the bottom. There is a little slot where you can stick your finger nail in to pry it off. The micro sd card slot is right above the battery.

First, remove the back cover, by releasing the cover at the bottom of the phone. Once the cover is removed, on the back of the phone, below the camera lens and near the volume controls is a flat metal slot for the sd card. slide in the card with the Samsung name facing you and to the right. The slot seems to have a bit of a spring to it, so when you press on the sd card to remove, it sort of jumps out. Occasionally, the phone will say that there is no sd card installed. just remove it and re-insert it.

Take off the back cover and there's a little holster for the micro SD card between the camera lens and battery.

You can ask a sprint associate to assist you.

For you to connect the phone to the PC, it would require you to have the memory card inside the phone and a data cable that is part of your standard box contents. Once you already have the requirements, and then do the following steps:

Select Menu.
Select Settings.
Select Applications.
Select USB settings.
Choose Development
Make sure that USB Debugging, Stay Awake and Allow mock locations are all unchecked.
Connect the USB cable to the device.
Connect the opposite end of the USB cable to the computer.
Bring down the Notification Bar, and select USB Connected.
Select Mount

Check on the computer screen if it will recognize the device and Removable Disk will pop up on the screen. Select open folder to view files. Choose Image/Graphic folder, drag and drop/copy and paste the file from the source folder going to the destination folder

Have a good day

disable usb debuggging.

I am connecting to a Windows XP 32 bit PC. I found that I needed to CHECK (not uncheck) USB Debugging in Settings. Otherwise, USB Connected did not appear in my Notification list.

I went through tech support as well, and was informed that there was no way to connect via the USB port. I was informed that I would have to remove the micro SD card and connect it directly to the computer. The real solution is to go to Samsung.com, click support, enter model number (sph-d700). Under the download section select the device (install) USB driver. Click download and follow the instructions. Once the zip file has been downloaded, click to extract it. Double click to launch the app and the device drivers will be installed. Reconnect the device and you should find it under my computer.

Here is what I did, Win 7

Downloaded current driver from Samsung
Hangs when USB debugging is "on"
turned it off, drivers loaded (you will need to unplug the USB cable to turn it off)
Plugged the USB into a slot directly connected to motherboard
tapped mass storage
unplugged USB from phone
Turned debugging back to "on"
Plugged USB cable pack into phone
Windows recognized device and I can see all the folders.

#1 - Everything is unchecked and there is no "USB" choice, found them under the "DEVELOPMENT" section.

#2 - There is no USB selection from the pull down menu.

#3 - I've tried everything ... reinstalling the drivers

#4 - This is very frustrating ... have to do it by turning off phone, plugging in, then turning back on ...

Not real easy / convienient --

I was having the same problem yesterday. Today, I bought a mini-USB (female) to micro-USB (male) adapter, put the adapter onto a different USB cable (thicker than the one that came with the phone) and connected the phone to my computer. The computer immediately recognized the phone and everything worked as stated in the manual.

I found that the USB ports on the front of my tower would work for every device I tried except my Epic. I used the ports on the back and it was recognized just fine.

Hi, the phone only has one camera and it is located at the back of the phone. However it doesn’t have a front camera.

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In answer to Samsung7's reply, this is not correct. You do have a camera on the front of the Epic 4G phone for use with the Qik application which should be preloaded on your phone. The Qik app uses the front camera for video chat. You can also select the primary camera Qik uses to be the front or back one by pressing the menu button while Qik is open and choosing settings. There you will find the option to select your camera. You can then use the front camera to record video of yourself.

if you prefer to use the native camera app with the front facing camera, follow the following steps:
1) Open the Camera App
2) On the left side, you will see 4 icons. These may autohide after a moment, but you can get them to display again by tapping the little arrow tab that is now on the left side.
3) Press the upper left icon (Shooting Mode)
4) Select Self Shot in the upper right side of the new menu.

This is how you can also get to panoramic photo settings, as well as a number of others. Just remember the process so you can go back to the rear camera (Single Shot) once done.

The answer given by Samsung is correct and yes there is a camera on the Epic 4g front of phone.

It has a camera in the front. Just tried it.

When you open the camera app you will see arrows at the top to switch from front to back camera

Tap on the camera, on the left hand side tap the 1st icon that has a camera with arrows that look like it's rotating the camera, now you should see yourself on the screen. Tap the icon again to go back to the back camera.

Media Hub was released as of yesterday should of had a firmware update, the android 2.2 update is unknown though it should be before the end of the year

I doubt it. Phone is at end of life. There are problems with the phone that Sprint finally admitted. sdx-developers.com may be able to port over android 2.2 from another Samsung phone in the future.

I don't know when it will release, but I really don't think that a phone that was released a month ago is end of life........ Make sure that you are posting to the CORRECT group - as this is for the SAMSUNG EPIC 4g.............

if you go to samsung mobile it tells you that the US will be getting the 2.2 update soon they are updating by region starting with japan,china and etc. africa asia are first then europe then we will finally get it probably b4 the end of the year. just keep checking

I read that it may be released on February 21

It was available Feb 21 and then it was taken away. Some sort of QC issue. It works fine on my phone. Be nice if they would just go for 2.3 or even 3.0 since most of the apps will not work with 2.1 anymore.

After doing all of this your contacts are list first name first and there is no option to sort by last name.

There is no synch software for the Epic 4G. Serious product deficiency. To synch contacts you have to export Outlook contacts to a comma separated values file - then import that file into Gmail. Exporting Gmail contacts back to Outlook did not seem to work.

I have not tried the calendar export, I assume it works the same.

Manual conversion of data is not an acceptable work around.

Export them as a '.vcf' and copy them into the SD card and then import them into your phone.

If you search on Bing or Google, you'll find two useful solutions on the first page. Although, Android Sync Pre-Alpha is not working for my device for some reason even though I see the icon on my device and it says "connected".

You can sync your calendar seamlessly with outlook using Google calendar sync. It works wonderfully.

I purchased a 3rd party application gsyncit and have been using it to sync my office computer with my Epic and then my Epic with my home computer. Seems to work OK, but really uses up your battery. Best to choose to sync when you are asleep and it is conntected to a charger.

There's no configurable option to do that thing on your Samsung Epic 4G.

Go to the market and download Astro file manager. the free version seems to work well for me. Place a period (.) at the beginning of any file that you wish to hide.

If you create a folder with a name beginning with a dot (like .noshow), the picture gallery app will not index the contents of the folder.

To do this, you can just use the file manager that comes with your Epic to create the folder and move the pictures/videos there.

Photovault is a great little app.. i love it.. had to hide some myself.. if only it did video as well.

There is no way to do this thru the device itself. However, there are several apps in the market that will allow you to hide pictures. I use an app called audio manager. It works very well.

If your trying to hide pic/videos from lets say a spouce or girl/boyfriend then go to app market and get AUDIO MANAGER it disguise itself as an actual phone audio manager that allows you hide pictures and videos and does not store them on your sd card.
If you just want to hide pictures/videos from general people who may use your phone.... kids, friends, family etc.... then try VAULTY FREE. This does the same as audio manager but can not be access unless they know the password. Hope this helps

Greetings!
Upon checking the phone information, the Google Calendar color is a default color and there are no configurable options to change it.

It was a pleasure doing business with you.
Technical Support Team

To change the color associated with a particular calendar, just follow these steps: 1. In the calendar list on the left, click on the down-arrow button next to the appropriate calendar. 2. Click on the box containing your preferred color; your calendar will immediately update with the new color scheme.

I am not sure how to change the Samsung "My Calendar" color but for your Google calendar, go to your Google calender Home page (on the internet). In the left hand column it will say "My Calender". Click on the down arrow next to your email address and choose your favorite color. Do a Sync and all should be well.

Have fun.

Sounds like you've accidentally shut off the Orientation option. Go to "Setting" then select "About Phone" then scroll down to the bottom and ensure that the Orientation option has a green check mark. If it doesn't select it. Hope this helps. Cheers

Made a slight mistake in my first posting to this question: Don't go to the "About phone" option (I was talking on the phone at the time I typed the response, sorry). Go to the "sound & display" option. Then scroll down to "Orientation." Ensure that it has a green check mark. If not, select it. That should do it.

I had this problem when I first got the phone. They changed it out the first time, but when it happened again they looked further into it. They found that my casing or the protection gear i bought wasnt allowing the phone to close apprioately for the phone to recongize the timing of the rotation. For instance if I slammed it close then it would rotate. So just take the casing off and try that. It may take a few minutes but mines bounced back. Hope it works for you.

On your touch screen, press and hold the text you want to copy. When the pop-up appears, select copy text. To paste, go to the area in which you want to type, press-hold and select "paste." Good luck,

The answer given to this question is not correct. In a received email and an individual calendar item, you cannot copy and paste.

As the earlier answer said, you can copy the text message by clicking and holding down on the text. Then A popup window allows you to copy and paste.

they already are.

I have the same problem. My pictures do NOT save to my SD memory card.
They only save to my phone in a folder.
I was told that I needed to download a driver to get my phone to acknowledge my card.
I have not been able to find that driver yet.
Anymore info would be helpful.

Make sure gps is enabled in settings and use wi fi to help too.

Hi Steven28211!

Sorry for the inconvenience.

You may improve your GPS experience by enabling the aGPS (Network Location) on the handset.

To enable additional aGPS functionality on the device, follow the steps below:

> Go to Settings
> Location and Security
> Check “Use wireless networks”

Thanks for writing!

Technical Support Team

You can pair the SPH-D700 to the Ford Sync since the phone can be paired to Bluetooth device.

Please contact the manufacturer regarding the Ford Sync so you can check if the SPH-D700 is listed on the compatible phones for the Ford Sync.

Works great on my Ford Focus.

To forward a text, follow the following steps:
1) Open the text message conversation you want to forward from
2) Scroll through the conversation until you find the individual message you wish to forward
3) Tap and hold the message until a pop-up menu box titled "Message Options" appears
4) Click the fourth option titled "Forward"
5) A new text message conversation window will open, with the forwarded text in the text box.
6) Add recepient, and press send

When you are in the individual message thread with one of your contacts, put your finger on the screen on top of the text that you want to fwd, hold it there until a pop-up displays giving you the option to fwd that message. done.

Hi wildfire7685!

Thank you for your inquiry.

Regarding about your concern, upon checking the specification and settings on the Samsung Epic™ 4G Android Smartphone (SPH-D700), there is no configurable option to sort the contacts to appear last name first.

As what sappha58 said, we suggest editing the contact and then put the last name of that contact on the First Name field.

Again, we thank you for comments and appreciate your patience and understanding in this matter.

Based on my experience with the phone, the only way to do that is enter your contacts last name first.

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My guess is you only have the application shortcut. I have no idea why the rest dissapear, but it happens. To get them back go to Applicaitons then Home > Edit then then tap and drag the application down to the Primary Short Cuts.

We are unable to speculate when/if this software revision might be available due to the fact that this might lead to inaccurate information and confusion.

Should this become available, it will be posted on our website in the Samsung Download Center or you will be informed by you Service Provider.

Have a good day

Unfortunately, there are no other option to sync your calendar except thru Exchange server. If your Outlook is set with the server then you will be able to sync it.

Please copy paste this URL to access and download the driver for your device.

http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.com/downloadfile/ContentsFile.aspx?CDSite=US&CttFileID=3185503&CDCttType=SW&ModelType=N&ModelName=SPH-D700&VPath=SW/201009/20100901010102890/Samsung_Mobile_Driver_V1.3.800_For_SPH-d700_Epic_4G.zip