Please share what is preventing you from using ICS roms. The Cyanogenmod developers for the Epic do not know what to fix unless you tell them. Currently I feel that CM9 is fully working for the Epic and have not run into a bug. It feels more stable than a stock ROM to me.
Please try to reproduce the issue on a clean CM9 (latest version) without a custom kernel and after wiping data before posting.
I've posted this issue on CM bugtracker but they ask for logcat and I can't present one (don't know how AND this is a random issue so impossible for that)
Gotta post it here:
The prob lasts from CM9 Beta4 to the latest RC2 Nightlies. Often when I wake the phone up from sleep, live wallpaper stops moving and when I pull down the statusbar it's empty (aside from carrier label). Only after 10+ secs will everything recover and LWP start moving again.
Tried disabling my task manager, won't work. Tried static wallpaper, no luck (drawer still appears blank). Triple-wiped and clean install, not better. Dunno why.
AOKP has this issue for me too, but ParanoidAndroid doesn't (maybe related to its tablet UI)
As said above this is a random issue so I guess even if I know how to produce a logcat I won't be able to get one.
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What's stopping me from using CM9 or AOKP as my daily driver?
My Galaxy Nexus.
Sent from my AOSP Android 4.1.1 Galaxy Nexus
LOL!