bbelos you sir are awesome!
i do not have any more bugs to report than are already mentioned, but i did get my data connection to come back after turning wifi on and then off. *#*#info#*#* in the dialer, then phone information, then hit the menu button and select radio band. the menu will fc like it should and kick you out of the phone info menu, just go back into it and set "set preferred network type" to cdma auto and data will reconnect. not a great workaround, but a workaround nonetheless. hopefully that helps anyone listening to figure out the reconnection bug.
also, i noticed the keyboard apk is rather large, we can cut out some of that bloat by ripping extra languages out of the apk. i'm guessing from past experiences we can reduce it's size from 40mb to around 10-12mb at the largest. other apks can have bloat (like images for ldpi, mdpi, etc, we are hdpi right?) removed to save some space too.
also on the cannot install apks front, has anyone tried es file explorer's auto apk installer?
long live the epic!
edit: ripped languages out of LatinIME.apk using 7zip in the /res/raw/ folder, and reduced size of keyboard from 40mb to 3mb. way better than I even dreamed of.