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xTraFactory
100% Stock Odex Factory IMG debloated from optional Gapps , Systemless Root and No Force Encrypt
This rom is created on 100% stock factory.img with the intent to optimize extremely performance and battery consumption without altering the originality.
With xTraSmooth you will have a stable rom like the original factory.img of google, you can leave safely traveling with my rom without risking blocks or problems.
This is my daily rom for nexus 5 uploaded for you at the request of some xda users.
I plan to regularly update xTraSmooth and give support to all users if necessary.
My ROM is a official Nexus 5 factory.img with maximium optimization.
Do not just read the build name, just my xTraSmooth currently offers a 100% stock-based on official factory.img, where they were introduced all optimizations possible without altering the originality and reliability.
Now I work with a Team of my community users and xda users for built all Nexus's xTra Rom.
This group of developers has been called xTraTeam.
You can read the ROM developer on build info on AFH.
xTraROMs Official Google Plus Community
xTraROMs Official Facebook Community
xTra Rom's has 3 priority:
- Stability on long time.
- Speed
- Battery.
xTraFactory
Features:
Android 6.01
xTraFactory MMB29K Hammerhead
- 100% Stock MMB29K 6.01 Factory.img debloated from optional's gapps.
- Stock MMB29K Kernel
- Reduced running services and improved ram usage
- 100% Clean System Aligned with new Systemless Root
- No Build Name this is a 100% Factory.IMG flashable ROM.
- Supersu 2.64 included in the zip , auto root and patch stock kernel with new systemless Root.
- Fully Odex system/app , priv-app and data/app
- Super Fast and Stable 4 Daily Driver
- Disabled ADS on browser and apps
- Compatibile with xposed framework
- Compatibile with all Layers themes
Data Wipe Factory Reset is required , without it layers not work properly , use titanium in future for backup your apps and your data apps.
Guys if you like my work and dedication in helping all of you, to consider making a small donation, I am working day and night to provide the best for all us.
All donations will be appreciated, just press on donate button..
Bugs:
Ahha Ahha Ahha Is a joke .
No bug here.
This is a daily driver rom, stable as the stock, maybe even more.
**What is ODEX and DEODEX?
TL;DR:
Odex = More speed__Less customization
Deodex = Less speed__More customization
Extensive explenation:
In Android file system, applications come in packages with the extension .apk. These application packages, or APKs contain certain .odex files whose supposed function is to save space. These odex files are actually collections of parts of an application that are optimized before booting. Doing so speeds up the boot process, as it preloads part of an application. On the other hand, it also makes hacking those applicationsdifficult because a part of the coding has already been extracted to another location before execution.
THEN COMES DEODEX
Deodexing is basically repackaging of these APKs in a certain way, such that they are reassembled into classes.dex files. By doing that, all pieces of an application package are put together back in one place, thus eliminating theworry of a modified APK conflicting with some separate odexed parts.
In summary, Deodexed ROMs (or APKs) have all their application packages put back together in one place, allowing for easy modification such as theming. Since no pieces of code are coming from any external location, custom ROMs or APKs are always deodexed to ensure integrity.
I think that you like more speed and less customization (less costumization for dev because is to difficult mod an odex file) and for this reason you press thank and download my work!
Another explanation is this:
If you use a odex rom, you'll have also more space in data (this is important because if you don't have partition ext4 in sdcard, you won't have too free space), increase battery life, more stability and increase perfomance( the Rom is more faster to load system and app) but you can't modifie apk after odex (you can't mod program with classes.dex).
Infact ODEX is an OPTIMIZED-DEX and Android load system and app faster than deodexed (DEOPTIMIZED-DEX) app and system.
When you have a deodex file (a lot of roms are deodexed) you have File.apk in system/app and in data/dalvik-cache [email protected]@[email protected], but with odex file you have File.apk in system/app and File.odex in system/app
Advices And Tutorial For xTreme Battery Life , Custom DPI , manually set Speaker Boost , manually set Earphone Stereo Boost and Increase touch response.
Multi DPI
This rom from 2.7 and up is Multi DPI if you can't see some app in PlayStore or any apps is incompatible with your device, go to my folder and download latest Multi DPI Gapps.
Simple App For Chance Display DPI
Tutorial to manually set Speaker Boost and Stereo Earphone Mod Boost.
1) Download a Root file manager personally use solid explorer, the best ...
2 Go to the following location / system / etc and look for the file mixer_paths.xml
3) edit at will the two strings highlighted with values from 88 stock to 95 +7 Boost
- ctl name="RX1 Digital Volume" value="0"
- ctl name="RX7 Digital Volume" value="88"
RX1 = Earphone (Set 0 to disable it)
RX7 = Speaker (88 Google Stock Value)
With the set values should not be a problem for 95% of users, however, have some nexus defective speaker that with the default values do not highlight this issue .... The stock ringtones are of poor quality, the board before changing these strings to try with audio 320kbps or HDAudio ....
Increase Touch Response:
- Set all animations to developer options at 0.5 to substantially increase touch response;
To drastically increase the battery life:
The system and the kernel need some charging cycles / days of adjustment, Android finished its first installation starts to sync your phone with google server, load the images in the gallery, sync contacts and so on.
My nexus with this rom and FKU beta with power saving profile consumes with good coverage and wireless network,10% of battery with 1 hour SOT.
There are too many variables that affect the battery, cpu temperature, ambient temperature, humidity, mobile network signal, synchronization in the backgroud, applications in your device, so it would be extremely difficult to judge your consumption without knowing all these things.
How to reduce battery consumption and exceed 6h Screen On Time with xTraSmooth Rom.
1) CPU
To simplify the set-up of the CPU the application FKU integrates three custom profiles that allow you to automatically set all these parameters to suit your needs. However for those who wish Further, use another application or manually change these parameters I provide these simple advice.
- Undervolt, this practice serves to reduce the overall heat of exercise and consumption of the CPU.
A CPU that uses the correct current is still more stable compared to a CPU which uses the standard tables set with average values adapted to all CPUs.
Each CPU is different so you need to calculate their boards UV.
To calculate their boards UV is necessary from a global base of -25 or -50.
Working frequency by frequency by setting the same value as the minimum and maximum frequency and disabling start at boot is that the frequencies of the voltages.
Example set the frequency 300 MHz and 300 MHz as max as min, get off gradually with small steps -5mv until you find the limit, when you restart pinned the value of a piece of paper or on the notepad.
You will find the limit, now set 5/10 mv more and you will have your first value of the table UV.
Now proceed so for each frequency using a moment smartphone before you jump to conclusions.
These values can not be adapted to each kernel, but you will have to redo this procedure for each kernel. Without this you will have your tables UV ready and saved as in my case on google keep.
- Use a frequency that allows to work with a low voltage, in my case a frequency ranging from 1036 MHz (765mv) 1267 MHz (795mv)
- Hotplug limit work on Core 2, setting the use of the 4 Core when the load reaches 99%
- Touchboost on kernel using the touchboost set to values less than the maximum frequency, such as 1267 MHz maximum frequency and touchboost with values between 883 MHz and 960 MHz.
- Hi speed freq set the same frequency as the touchboost.
- Limit the GPU working frequency between 200 MHz and 320 MHz
2) Android
- Disable Geolocation
- Turn off system sounds
- Disable vibration to the touch and keyboard
- Disable adaptive brightness
- Use a brightness value between 5% and 10%
- Manually set in 2G if you are in areas with little signal and if necessary set airplane mode.
- Disable use mobile data and set 2G when using WiFi.
- Use a few applications that use push or remain active in the background, in my case use whatsapp, facebook stable, tapatalk and FKU beta.
- Do not change rom or kernel continuously will make continuous wipe system.
Android is that the kernel need a period of adaptation and some charge cycles to work properly.
- Use a few gapps to reduce app in sync automatically or disable synchronization of the app that you use in the shortest way, and that you do not need a synchronization between multiple devices in real time.
Many gapps have a web version app that saves space in SD and have less app in sync automatically.
- Turn off Google Now
- Deactivate Ok google hotword
- No close the app by recent, open and close the app to continued increases fuel consumption and reduces the fluidity of the system, lollipop has a system like iOS and works well with all the app open.
- Do not use greenify sharply reduces the fluidity of the system and increases the overall consumption.
- Do not use task manager to free up RAM.
- Do not use the Clean master plan to avoid unnecessary.
- Do not use snapdragon battery guru or similar programs that promise lower fuel consumption.
- Avoid heavy 3D games and games continuously running type clash of clans, Simpson, etc. etc.
3) Battery
- With modern lithium battery is not advisable to go below 20%
- Lithium batteries like short courses of charge, does not always pay full charges from 0 to 100, but prefer partial charges.
- 1 charge cycle means from 0 to 100 so if charge the battery from 50% to 100% will have carried out a half charge cycle.
- You can even connect the battery to charge a 10% charge, I repeat the lithium batteries do not damage unplugging and plugging the power supply but working with infeririore charge to 20%.
- Perform a complete cycle 2/3 times in 1 year from death and charge off up to 100%.
Guys if you like my work and dedication in helping all of you, to consider making a small donation, I am working day and night to provide the best for all us.
All donations will be appreciated, just press on donate button..
Delta Update:
When is possible i'll release a small delta update, to avoid that you have to download the full rom, recommended xTraSmooth Updater for best OTA experience. They allow the upgrade of your xTraSmoth on the go in 4G \ 3G.
Installation instructions:
Instructions For xTraSmooth and StocK
-Dirty flash on you rom, the script perform an automatic wipe cache
FOR M BUILD USERS IS NECESSARY START FROM ANDROID M2 FACTORY , FROM LOLLIPOP THERE ARE MANY BUGS.
INSTRUCTIONS
- FLASH BY TOOLKIT MPZ79M
- FLASH TWRP
- FLASH DIRECTLY MY ROM
- BOOT
CHROME SINCH NOT WORK ON M2 , FOR FULLY WORKING CHROME DOWNLOAD LATEST CHROMEDEV.
Downloads:
xTraFolder
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=20898
Donations
A special thank you to those who appreciate my work and decided to contribute to the project.
Thanks to all donators, You are the people who push me to continue my work.
Guys if you like my work and dedication in helping all of you, to consider making a small donation, I am working day and night to provide the best for all us.
All donations will be appreciated, just press on donate button..
Acknowledgements
First my work friend
- Prempal Singh my xTraSmooth Partner Great App Developer
- Cristiano Spada aka @CriGio Best Themes Developer and app icon designer
- Google
- franciscofranco
- flar2
- hellsgod
- tassadar
- sshafranko
- chdloc
- Adr990
- badboy47
- david279
- GtrCraft
- guerreromanuel
xTraSmooth Signature
daniel84cs said:
no root for best performance e more battery life ;
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I lol'd, oh well goodluck with the rom
Sorry it was my mistake edit it.
Thanks for your job, :good:
Guys could you help me, I can not make the title bold :crying:
daniel84cs said:
Guys could you help me, I can not make the title bold :crying:
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Sorry can't help you I'am noob and I never open thread on XDA but I wait for a link to download and try your rom. I new rom is always be welcome on XDA. Thank's to work for the Android community and Good luke :good:
Thank you, upload the rom is 33%, as soon as possible up on other file hosts.
Hi I'm on cyanogen 11 right now all I have to do is that download your ROM ,,, do full wipe ,,, and install ?
Am I right ?
Thanks Daniel
B.E.H.N.A.M said:
Hi I'm on cyanogen 11 right now all I have to do is that download your ROM ,,, do full wipe ,,, and install ?
Am I right ?
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Yes....
- full wipe
- flash the LPX13D modem on OP ,
- flash supersu
- reboot in rom
For sd bug this is because 4.4.x seems to point to: storage/emulated/0 & L points to: data/media/0 :
- root by supersu zip
- download terminal emulator from playstore and run :
su
restorecon -FR /data/media/0
For remove root dirty flash my rom .
For future update no sd bug fix is not necessary.....
upload is at 66%
Can you make advanced reboot?
It is currently not possible, I look forward the final version of Lollipop, there may be other changes. Mine is a stock ROM that optimized use every day. Flashing my ROM has the same effect as flashing the stock LPX13D by toolkit, except that I tweaked slightly around to my liking.
An temporary alternative to advanced power menu
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scartech.hololightreboot
Ok, thanks you.
ROM is online on mega...
https://mega.co.nz/#!gNgXzJLD!eu4PqiaIfQEnENnRtdUZUccyN2GGT36ergrlFkxSHso
DevHost in uploading
thanks for creating another Android L ROM
any chance of exchange services being added as POP and IMAP are not good for me when connecting to my work email.
other than that, so far looking really good and fast
@AirwolfUK
Test this.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-gmail-5-0-t2912373
With Franco Kernel, does not have the "No enough space to install" or no folders thru any file explorer?
No....
Read the original OT, the "no SD bug" not is a problem of franco kernel.
My SD work fine...
This is my daily ROM....
As for those who want to set the SELinux to permissive is an application which lets you toggle, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mrbimc.selinux
daniel84cs said:
No....
Read the original OT, the "no SD bug" not is a problem of franco kernel....
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Yes, i used that App to change to permissive when flash FK or CodeBlue on Sykopompos rom... nice, i'll give it a try to your rom
I'm going to create update.zip to update the rom when I make small changes to make sure that you do not have to download the whole ROM every time. Of course also put the full version ...
Now I'm going to sleep, I awake from yesterday, in Italy is 3:33 pm ..... almost 24 hours a day online for work-related reasons. Whatever you need we will reply when I wake up.
Related
Please leave non-development related posts to the discussion thread in general section: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27389678
STOP! This kernel supports ONLY Samsung JellyBean or CM10.1 ROMs. It won't work on ICS, CM9.
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Sources :-
Sources at http://github.com/gokhanmoral/siyahkernel-sgs3
Ramfs at http://github.com/gokhanmoral/ramfs-sgs3
Toolchain at http://github.com/gokhanmoral/android_prebuilt
Simply clone all to a directory and run build_kernel.sh in the kernel directoryFeatures :-
Samsung and CM10.1 support with a single kernel image
based on i9300 update9 sources
CPU OC/UC/UV
GPU OC/UC/UV (5 step GPU clock)
Audio enhancement and sound boosting for great headphone experience (partial-port of wm8994 based implementation from project-voodoo)
init.d support
Triangle-away app support
Auto-root
Adjustable charging speeds for AC and USB
Automatic EFS Backup
Samsung proprietary ExFat modules are loaded. Don't ask about ExFat support for aosp roms in this thread.
Kernel based gestures support by Tungstwenty. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831254
NTFS automounting for USB sticks, mounted to /mnt/ntfs folder in Read Only mode.
mDNIe negative effect toggle with 4 consecutive press of home button
mDNIe values can be adjusted using the interfaces in /sys/class/misc/mdnie.
Almost everything is configurable via simple and free STweaks (included in the kernel or from Google Play)
Dual-booting. You can have Samsung JB and CM10 ROMs on a single device at the same time.
slide2wake (WIP, still incomplete)
Known Problems :-
No known problems.
Thanks To :-
Chainfire, AndreiLux, Tegrak, Entropy512, Netarchy, Pikachu, Tungstwenty, Codeworkx, XploDwilD
This part will be expanded. most of the patches I applied are coded by someone else. please remind me if I forget to give credits to anybody..
Downloads :-
http://www.gokhanmoral.com/
Changelog :-
See http://www.gokhanmoral.com/ for changelog.
Todo:
these are my future plans and some of them are dreams only...
fix bugs
add optional teamwin recovery
implement BFN (BackFlashNotification)
...
Video Review of v1.7rc1 by KingRamo
IRC support and chat:
Server: irc.FreeNode.net
Channel: #siyah-kernel
web client: http://siyah.twosx.net/ (thanks to omniwolf)
READ THESE FIRST
First thing you need to have before posting to this thread is respect. If you don't have it for others you will regret leaving a post as people in this thread don't like disrespect. The items below are just detailed description of what "respect" means in this context. If you have common sense you probably won't need to read all the following items but please do read them anyway.
Never report any bugs to CM9/CM10 thread if you use it together with SiyahKernel
Do not ask questions to me directly. This is a common thread, not my personal inbox. Ask your questions in the thread and do not target them to anyone.
Do not expect answers to all your questions. There are some questions which nobody knows the answer of.
Do not forget that this is a development thread. There is another thread in general section for those who wants to discuss battery life and chats. If your post does not include a feature request, bug report or suggestion it should be posted to the other thread.
Make sure you state your ROM, settings and any other relevant information while telling about your problem/a bug. "I have lag", "I had crash" or any similar posts will be ignored if you don't give any more details.
No ETA for new version. Even if I sometimes talk about release dates those may change and they change for some good reason or because of my real-life obligations.
Make use of "Search this Thread -> Advanced Search". If you humiliate people and waste their time by asking a question which is answered in the last 3 pages I guarantee that you will be treated as you deserve.
You need STweaks app to configure/change most of the features in this kernel. However it is not required if you don't want to modify anything.
Never ever discuss anything deep-sleep related in this thread. I do not make modifications to prevent sleep and 99% of deep sleep problems are application/ROM related. discuss it in general section. I do not want any positive ("this kernel sleeps like a baby") or negative ("There is a big problem with deep sleep. Please fix it") messages in my development thread.
I am not interested in any bug reports if you undervolt your device. I don't want ANY kind of undervolting related discussions or bug reports in this thread.
Useful Links:
Almost everything that you need to know about Kernels, schedulers and so by droidphile
Another great post explaining more and ICS differences by droidphile
Although I put it in the first post, this is my github for kernel sources, initramfs and some more
You can find all the answers you need here, even those that I don't know
last one
FAQS and More
FAQS and More
In no particular order.
1. "How the heck do i flash the kernel.tar within device. I see a boot.img and recovery.img in the tar and not zimage like before?? I don't wanna increase flash counter by using odin from PC!"
A. Use mobile odin. (Paid on market, free on XDA).
Open the app, Click on "kernel", select the kernel.tar. Scroll down, select "flash firmware". Reboot.
2. "Why two mountable image files in tar?"
A. GS3 has separate kernel and recovery partition.
Kernel partition : /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
Recovery Partition: /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
Both partitions has a max size limit of 8 MB each.
3. "Does that mean i can flash only kernel/only recovery if i don't need the other?"
A. Yes. However, if recovery was modified to support a new feature in kernel, you may want to flash both.
4. "If i flash tar from Odin on PC, both kernel and recovery is flashed and i can't choose to flash only one?"
A. Yes, both are flashed.
5. "How to flash only kernel/only recovery with cwm flashable zip?"
A. If you know what you're doing, open updater-script in the zip and comment out the line that starts with write_raw_image for the one you don't need - kernel or recovery.
6. "Should i wipe cache and dalvik before flashing kernel?"
A. NO
7. "Best governor, best i/o scheduler for this kernel?"
A. Define best governor and best i/o scheduler!
Pegasusq is good enough to be responsive, battery friendly and quad core friendly if tweaked properly. Use any i/o scheduler. Sio/deadline are good.
8. "Why is Idle+Lpa default on STweaks and the recommended settings. In Siyah kernel for GS2, Aftr+Lpa was recommended!"
A. Aftr ofcourse saves more power than Idle if you consider what each of those low power state modes do. But combination of quad core architecture and pegasusq governor (or any external hotplugging logic combined with other governors) which need to respect rq values along with load thresholds makes it a little slower to turn off last 3 cores (if all the cores are ON obviously). AFTR requires that all cores except first (cpu0) be turned off - to kick in. So we're better off with Idle+Lpa.
However if you're using forced single core mode always (which is non sense in this powerful device), you can go for Aftr+Lpa.
9. "How do i overclock/underclock/undervolt GPU?"
A. Either use STweaks app or use a script
Ex:
#Frequency steps
echo 160 > /sys/module/mali/parameters/step0_clk
echo 266 > /sys/module/mali/parameters/step1_clk
echo 350 > /sys/module/mali/parameters/step2_clk
echo 440 > /sys/module/mali/parameters/step3_clk
echo 533 > /sys/module/mali/parameters/step4_clk
#Voltages
echo "875000 900000 950000 1025000 1075000" > /sys/class/misc/mali_control/voltage_control
10. "My device is not stable at 1.8 Ghz. But i still wanna overclock the device to possible maximum and show off to friends"
A. Try setting last frequency as 1750 mhz. (Modify 1.8 to 1.75 ghz with 1.7 ghz still in place)
Use kmemhelper interface. Put this line in your initd script.
kmemhelper -n exynos4x12_apll_pms_table -t int -o 0 14353152
11. "I OCed to 1.7/1.8 Ghz. My device is able to handle it. But i can't get high benchmark scores. Why?"
A. Your CPU is getting throttled during benchmark during benchmarking because of heating. This is a thermal safeguard measure. It might be getting throttled to 800 mhz or so.
Forget benchmarks, treat the overall responsiveness in daily usage as the criteria to determine if the device is fast enough for you or not.
12. "Any rule of thumb to increase life span of the battery? And I see percentage drops to 99 immediately after a charge till 100%"
A. Do not recharge to 100% often and even if you do, don't keep it plugged in 100% for long time. Best is to charge till 98%. And make sure charge does not drop below 10% while on normal use.
Charge dropping to 99% swiftly is a protection mechanism, not a fault with your battery or kernel or rom.
13. "I adjust the voltage by some mV in STweaks. I checked SetCpu and voltage has not changed!"
A. Voltage settings in STweaks follow VDD interface. They're applied ONLY during boot time. Why? The code is to reduce X mV specified by you in STweaks, for all voltages. If the settings is applied real time, it will cause reduction of voltage every time and instabilities.
14. "If I have no root, and flash this kernel using desktop odin will i get root?"
A. YES. However, if you don't see a CWM recovery, download and flash a recovery from Chainfire thread.
15. "Does the kernel backup EFS partition automatically?"
A. YES.
16. "Is there NTFS support?"
A. YES. Mounted to mnt/ntfs in Read only mode. Unmount and remount in Read Write mode if you need to.
17. "What voltage step does GS3 support while UV/OV?"
A. Regulator supports increments of +/-12.5 mV (Those who had GS2 will remember it's regulator supported +/- 25mV)
18. "Why is resetting STweaks profile recommended sometimes after a kernel flash?"
A. Your profiles are stored under /data/.siyah with ".profile" extension. ".active.profile" file under the same directory stores the name of your active profile. Contents in profiles are in the format parameter = <default_value>
There could be changes in Stweaks interface for a new build:-
i) Some new tunables were added
ii) Some tunables were removed
iii) Transposition of some tunables
iv) Default value of some tunable was changed.
When such a change occurs, your profiles should know it too so that it can contain all the parameters. That's why you have to reset profiles after a new kernel flash if it changes something in STweaks.
Resetting simply copies .profile files from /res/customconfig to /data/.siyah . You can do it manually using a file manager to avoid a reboot to recovery and back to rom. Kernel already detects STweaks changes to reset profile automatically on first boot after flashing.
19. "How to insert a module that's available in /system/lib/modules?"
A. Safe to be root. In terminal or adb
su
insmod /lib/modules/<module_name.ko>
20. "How to know which modules are pre-loaded by kernel?"
A. Terminal or adb:
lsmod
21. "I don't see an init.d folder in my rom. I wanna create some initd scripts. What to do?"
A. Using a root explorer create init.d directory under /system/etc. Set perm 777.
22. "After flashing a new kernel i see there are some stuffs missing from STweaks"
A. Either the support for those missing tunables were removed or just the STweaks interface was removed. The parameters might still be accessible through scripts. Check the file path to make sure.
23. "Does notification LED cause wakelock and lot of drain?"
A. Hm Yes and No. CPU has to wake to help turn on notif led and to turn off when it's timeout. When LED is blinking, no wakelocks are held. Notif led is controlled by a diff h/w and not directly by CPU.
24. "How do I know if my modified charge current settings (using STweaks) are effective?"
A. Use CurrentWidget from playstore. Monitor the reading while charging.
25. "What happens if my smooth scaling frequency is greater than my scaling max frequency?"
A. Smooth scaling will be inactive/disabled.
26. "Can I flash this kernel on a non-international variant - At&T/Korean/Japanese...?"
A. NO. Don't risk 800 dollars. Dev might release different variants for these devices later.
27. "I tried setting a negative value for a symbol using kmemhelper interface. I see the value is not applied properly. What could be wrong"
A. The negative value might be detected my kmemhelper as an argument. To prevent that, use two minus signs (--) before the negative value.
Ex: "kmemhelper t int -n touch_boost_level -- -1" (This resets touch boost frequency to default).
28. "I wanna disable all the audio enhancement stuffs. How?"
A. In your script
echo 0 > /sys/class/misc/scoobydoo_sound_control/enable
29. "Least voltage for a CPU frequency I can undervolt to?"
A. 600 mV. Maximum = 1500 mV
30. "Does sound enhancements in stweaks applies to bluetooth headsets?"
A. NO. Only for wired headphones.
31. "Do we have temperature sensor in our CPU?"
A. YES
32. "I have this habbit of unknowingly pressing home button multiple times and that result in inverting colors on my screen."
A. Disable "mDNIe negative toggle under Screen tab in STweaks.
33. "I sometimes get unexpected reboots. What could be wrong?"
A. Number of reasons.
- Problem from ROM side - wrong dpi setting for an app, wrong build.prop tweaks, etc.
- Too much UV on CPU/GPU
- Too much CPU OC/GPU OC
- CPU/Battery heated up too much because of weather/benchmarking/faulty charger, etc
34. "I want to help dev debug an issue providing a kmsg. How to?"
A. After the problem (random reboot/freeze/lockup), do not pull out battery to recover. Just long press power button so that device can reboot. Then connect device to PC, (provided you have setup adb), type
adb pull /proc/last_kmsg
Save the file as .txt and post in the thread along with description of the problem and possible way to reproduce it.
If you can't use adb from pc, just copy last_kmsg file from /proc directory to internal sd, copy it to your PC and post in the thread.
35. "I'm not able to copy Person X's undervolting settings. Why? Sometimes, across different builds of Siyah, my UV settings are stable in one version and not in another. Why?"
A. One or more of the following
- Every device is different - diff grades of CPU
- CPU drivers might change across different builds
- Power requirements may differ depending on the temperature, altitude or the defaults.
36. "GPU OC/UC range?"
A. 54 to 700 mhz. With voltage range of 600mv to 1200mv at 25mv steps.
more might follow..
Know the STweaks Tunables
You have a custom kernel and an app to control different tweaks. Read below to have a fair understanding of all the sliders and drop-downs in the app plus read some faqs.
Q. "What's STweaks?"
A. It's an app developed by GM to provide a simple interface for various kernel tweaks.
STweaks works using /res/uci.sh interface. (Universal Configurator Interface). Ideally when you run /res/uci.sh config you get an xml file. The app render that XML file to an UI. (The xml is customconfig.xml in /res/customconfig directory)
Q. "Where are profile files (default, performance etc) stored in my device?"
A. /data/.siyah with extension ".profile"
Contents are in the format <tunable> = <value>
Q. "How come STweaks takes a little long to load every time? Other CPU tuner apps like SetCPU opens faster!"
A. Stweaks needs to query the values of ALL tunables from the active profile file, then set the UI elements (sliders, checkboxes, dropdowns, etc) to match the values queried. Only after these it can expose itself for you. So yeah! Some time is needed.
It loads in about 2 seconds now.
Q. "So every tunable possible with SiyahKernel is included in STweaks?"
A. NO. That would make the app complicated and while some users like to have lotttsa tweaks in the app, some users prefer the opposite. So to be fair, STweaks will not be cluttered with way too many options.
For users who know what they're doing, there are scripts, and kmemhelper.
Q. "After flashing a new version of Siyah, I can't see STweaks in my app drawer. Help!!"
A. Using a Root File Explorer, copy STweaks.apk from /res directory to /system/app. Set permissions rw- r-- r--
Q. "I find that after flashing a new kernel version, while adjusting some tunables there's no effect."
A. In the app, under EXTRAS Tab, hit "Reset settings to default". Now reconfigure all your settings. Should be fine in most cases.
Q. "Sometimes, after flashing a new kernel build, i see all my settings are reset to kernel defaults. Is it normal?"
A. YES. It's just so that profile files contains all the tunables matching config XML in the latest build. If resetting is not done, some settings will not work.
Q. "Does that mean - every time I flash a new kernel build, I need to reset settings?"
A. NO
Q. "What should I change in STweaks to have best battery/best performance?"
A. Read below to know what each tunables do. If you still don't get it, don't change anything. Trust defaults. All will be good.
1) CPU Tab
Gentle_Fair_Sleepers:-
This is a CFS tweak. CFS aka Completely Fair Scheduler is your default Task Scheduler. Task Scheduler is responsible to manage task executions - decides what task to execute next from a queue. CFS scheduler tries to fairly distribute the CPU time among all tasks in such a way that each of them gets the same amount of the virtual run-time. CFS maintains two arrays - active and expired. Tasks once served from active array are placed in expired array. When there are no more tasks in active array, the two arrays are swapped. Sleeper Fairness means to consider sleeping tasks similar to the ones on the runqueue and credit the sleepers in a way that it would get CPU as if it were running. With Gentle_Fair_Sleepers enabled, sleeping tasks will get a little bonus time w.r.t to their virtual run time. While this may seem fair in some cases, disabling this tweak may possibly improve UI responsiveness:- may be because sleeping tasks are not given additional priority and the task that's responsible for UI do not sleep while screen is ON.
* Arch_Power:-
Another scheduler tweak. Helps in using specific ARM topology functions instead of generic functions. Benefits may include idle higher number of threads in a core, etc.
* CFS Tweaks:-
Three options which sets different value for your task scheduler's a) Minimum Granularity b) Latency c) Wake-up Granularity
A new "epoch" or a new time origin begins when scheduler swaps active and expired array.
Latency is the length of an epoch in nano seconds.
Minimum Granularity is the granularity of one epoch.
Wake Up Granularity is the ability of tasks being waken up to preempt the current task (5 ms by default). The larger the value the more difficult it is for the task to force the preemption.
- Samsung Defaults:- Leave it as Samsung defaults if you want higher benches.
-Linux Kernel Defaults:- My fav.
-Thunderbolt Scripts Defaults:- Pikachu's tweaks are aggressive low values for parameters. May improve UI responsiveness.
CPU Idle Modes:-
Leave it as Idle+Lpa. AFTR seems to be a difficult world to conquer for i9300.
* Smooth Scaling Level:-
Leave it as 1800mhz (which disables smooth scaling) if your governor has the parameter "freq_step" (ex: Pegasusq). Otherwise, the two concepts may conflict. Use smooth scaling for other supported governors. CPU driver scales CPU to frequency as defined by Smooth Scaling Level before jumping to Max Frequency.
Sched_mc:-
Leave it disabled = 0. 1 will overload first core, 2 will try to save power by biasing task-wakeups to semi-idle core.
CPU Undervolting:-
[Courtesy Andreilux for the info] 32 nm Exynos 4412 on our device decreases the need for higher voltages for transistors to switch and decreases voltage leakage. So they actually successfully switch more of the time compared to SiON on Galaxy S2 i9100 where leakage was big enough to not make a transistor switch and crash the system. In short, this is why GS3 supports higher UV compared to GS2. You might be lucky enough to UV more than 200mv on certain frequencies. Try on own risk.
Max CPU Lock:-
Defines no of cores to be used along with Pegasusq governor. Leave it quad core. You have beast of a phone. This parameter actually changes the max_cpu_lock parameter of your governor - pegasusq or lulzactiveq.
CPU Governor:-
Use Pegasusq.
CPU Max Frequency:-
Sensible OC for our device is 1.5 Ghz. You can try more and see what happens.
CPU Minimum Frequency:-
Use 200 or 100.
2) CPU_UV Tab
Like SetCPU or voltage control, sets voltage per CPU frequency. Note that the values DO NOT represent the actual voltage levels on the frequencies. If you UV in Stweaks and also use SetCPU to set voltage levels, SetCPU will over ride Stweaks.
3) GPU Tab
* Mali Touch Boost Level:-
If this option is enabled to any steps, when you touch on the screen/press soft back or menu keys/press homebutton - GPU voltage is set to the GPU step that match the step set by you here and frequency is set to that step. This may helps in better responsiveness of unlocking via lockscreen, etc. Note that, this doesn't mean GPU is locked to that forever. After one second, depending on thresholds and stepcounts, soon GPU is clocked down or up.
If Mali Touch Boost Level is disabled, GPU resumes at lowest frequency (your first step).
GPU Frequency Steps:-
Now we have frequency steps taken from Korean sources, as hard coded in clock-exynos4212 file. You won't find a formula to calculate valid frequency steps. (Unlike i9100 for which any GPU step was 800 divided by an integer)
GPU Voltage Levels:-
You may be able to UV a little more compared to GS2 if your ex device was GS2. Try and see. (Thanks to 32 NM SoC). Remember that you will know UV was too much only while GPU is being heavily used - like gaming.
GPU Thresholds:-
If you're not sure about this, use default thresholds. Wrong thresholds can cause lags.
* GPU Stay Counts:-
Stay count is the number of Seconds GPU should stay at a frequency level before it can scale up or down, overriding "load exceeds threshold condition". To avoid any possible stutters in gaming, use staycount = 1 second for the last step. May be for 4th step too, just to be sure.
If you don't find StayCount interface in the app, use script.
echo "0 0 0 0 1" > /sys/class/misc/mali_control/staycount_control
From left to right, each digit represents StayCount for lowest to highest GPU frequency steps.
4) AUDIO Tab
Speaker Tuning:-
Check to enable better bass response on speakers. Note that GS3 speakers don't play well with bass (even with open source audio HAL developed by codeworkx for CM10. So if you find sound distorting on speakers, uncheck this option instead of trying to play with some equalizer.
Speaker Amplification Offset:-
Default zero. Increase to amplify speaker volume. At level 5 or 6, speaker is most likely to distort playing ringtones/sounds.
Headphone Amplifier:-
Volume boost for your headphones. Level 0 = -57 dB. Level 63 = +6 dB which is the hardware maximum. Please take care of your hearing.
3D Effect:-
Stereo expansion may tighten the stereo field. In general, there are multiple techniques to achieve surround effect/3d effect/stereo expansion effect.
3D Effect Gain:-
Valid only if 3d effect is enabled. Higher value may not sound pleasant to most ears. 2-4 should do.
EQ Presets:-
Use inbuilt presets or use graphical equalizer bands to tune the 5 band equalizer.
Graphical Equalizer:-
The five band equalizer(with a range of -12dB to +12dB) is a hardware equalizer. So it controls all the sound coming from your headphones. Software equalizers such as inbuilt EQ of powerampp can only control the sound output 'formatted' by this 5 band h/w EQ. As you know, the first two bands - Lows/Bass. Middle one - Mids/Vocal and last two bands for - Highs/Treble.
Negative Digital Gain:-
Or dynamic range. Increase this to prevent distortion. It defines how much volume is to be digitally reduced from headphone amplification level.
FLL Tuning:-
Aka Anti Jitter is an audio enhancement technique as an internal clock optimization to reduce noise and produce a better quality sound.
DAC Oversampling:-
Increases dac oversample rate for a 48 khz rate and produce better outpund sound.
DAC Direct:-
Aka DAC ME, Bypass analog channels and redirect sound directly to output.
Mono Downmix/Force Mono:-
Force mono sound even if source is stereo.
5) SCREEN TAB
* MIN_BL, MIN_GAMMA, MAX_GAMMA:-
In simplest form, set this higher to have lower brightness at bright conditions on automatic-brightness settings. And vice-verse.
We have lowest brightness for a brightness level read from sensor less than min_bl. Any level higher than min_bl will be linearly mapped to min_gamma:max_gamma to interpret brightness of the display. Difference between min_gamma and max_gamma along with their values affect overall brightness response curve.
mDNIe Sharpness Tweaks:-
Makes thin fonts more readable. You're most likely to see weird display if you disable this option.
mDNIe Negative Toggle:-
If this is enabled, quickly pressing home key four times will invert all the colors on your scree. Useful for ex: Reading a webpage in the dark which has white background by default. By inverting colors to make it black, your eyes will strain lesser, plus it saves battery in such cases.
Touch Boost Level:-
Defines the frequency to which CPU is instantly ramped up to when we touch the screen. Advantage? UI responsiveness. Setting this too low might be a v bad idea on some devices.
Slide2Wake:-
If enabled, slide on screen in a straight fashion from left to right to wake your device. Helps prevent wear down of physical home/power buttons. If in doubt this drains more battery, leave it disabled.
FB Early Suspend Delay:-
Early suspend delay to run CRT off animation. If you're sure that Settings > Developer Options > Windows Animation Scale is 1x or higher (not 0.5x or off) and still can't get CRT-off animation to work, set this param to 100 ms or so.
6) MISC TAB
Android Logger:-
Enable disable android logger. Logger hardly uses any extra battery, and will be very useful if to pull a log after a crash or freeze. Leave it enabled.
* Insecure Adbd:-
Enables to run your Android Debugging Bridge Daemon (adbd) in root mode by default. Use "adb remount" command in a terminal to mount /system as r/w.
I/O Scheduler:-
Use any among deadline/sio/noop.
* Zram Size:-
Compressed swap space aka compcache aka zram allocates defined amount of space from your physical RAM as compressed swap space. You can debate all along to see if zram is useful on a fast device like GS3 with a fast flash storage inside. If in doubt, disable this option.
Notification LED Behavior:-
Force blinking/fading of notification LEDs. Useful for Sammy based roms. (aosp roms has blinking/fading setting inbuilt).
AC Charge:-
Charge current from your wall charger. Increase the value for faster charging at own risk. If you see currentwidget app displaying only 800/1000 mA (when you have set 1200 mA in stweaks) while connected to car charger - it's because the charger can not output more current than that.
USB Charge:-
Charge from usb charger. Increase at the risk of possible damage to PC motherboard. (if it's an old board)
Discrete Wakelock Status:-
Helps betterbatterystats app to report deleted and non-overlapping wakelocks. You may see new wakelocks like your mailclient-inbox-sync, etc if this option is enabled.
Remove Root:-
Some apps detect root and refuse to work if found (certain banking apps for example). To remove root, click this button, run your app and re-enable root when you're done.
Auto Install Root:-
Tries to install superuser apk and binary. If it fails, download latest superuser flashable zip from here and flash in recovery OR download SuperSU from playstore.
6) DUALBOOT TAB
Reboot into 2ndRom Utils:-
Reboots to alternate recovery where you can configure and play with dual boot options. This doesn't change your cwm recovery, but just runs an alternate recovery.
Reboot into 1stRom:-
As it says, reboot to 1st rom without displaying a timeout.
Reboot into 2ndRom:-
As it says, reboot to 2nd rom without displaying a timeout.
No boot logo:-
Check this to disable Siyah bootlogo displayed during dual-boot rom selection time out. (If you're dual booting, logo will be shown anyhow)
Default Rom:-
Specified the default rom (among 1st and 2nd) to which device will boot into, if no keys are pressed during boot. If 2nd rom is default, pressing home/vol down keys will boot 1st rom.
Hijack Recovery:-
We know the second rom utilities aka embedded recovery is a part of the kernel - it holds the same partition as kernel. You can use this button to flash the embedded recovery to main recovery partition (overwriting your existing recovery) so that 3 button method/booting to recovery using extended power menu will take you to Siyah recovery. This is NOT a dangerous operation. You can flash cwm/twrp recovery anytime if you need another recovery.
7) EXTRAS TAB
Reset Settings to Default:-
Reset the profile file, and resets all values in device files to kernel defaults.
Check for Updates:-
Checks and downloads a new build.
Flash Kernel:-
Flash a .tar kernel. Alternative to Mobile Odin!
* Indicates tunables removed from STweaks as of now.
Flashable Zips
Update: Find sample Stweaks Profiles as flashable zip here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2034981. Profiles after flashing will be available in the profile app.
Here are 5 Governor Tweaks scripts as flashable zips.
Flash remove_governor_tweaks zip to remove init.d script that contains governor tweaks. One governor zip can be flashed over another and it will just replace the previous. All governor tweak scrips contains tweaks for pegasusq and luzactiveq. Gamerstweaks is also a governor script that's similar to extremeperformance script but does some additional GPU tuning (for which there is no interface in Stweaks) to enhance gaming experience.
Since order of execution is like this:-
1) STweaks applies its settings
2) Init.d scripts are executed
3) Apps such as SetCPU applies its "set on boot" options,
Script applies the tweaks to the governor selected in Stweaks (depending on if it's pegasusq or lulzactiveq). So if you want pegasuq tweaks to be applied, make sure pegasusq is the default governor in stweaks, and same for luzactiveq.
I will keep updating zips while new kernel builds are released - if it changes any tunable.
DualBoot FAQs
Dual Boot FAQs
* "Alternate Recovery" or "Embedded Recovery" is embedded recovery that's the part of kernel since 1.7.x versions when dual booting was introduced. It's the recovery you boot into using "Reboot to 2nd Rom Utils" in STweaks.
"Regular Recovery" or just "Recovery" is your CWM recovery in recovery partition (/mmcblkp06) which is accessed by 3-button method or "boot to recovery" in the extended power menu from your rom.
1. "Why would I wanna dual-boot?"
A. You don't have to.
Suppose you're more of an aosp rom fan. But misses the HDMI out, FM radio and love sammy camera more. Do a minimal installation of sammy rom and boot into it when in need of these features and use aosp rom otherwise.
Or you are a sammy rom fan but love the responsiveness and pure android feel of aosp roms.
And while you can dual boot two sammy or two aosp roms, it doesn't make any sense.
2. "What if I don't need dual booting?"
A. No issues. Kernel won't force to setup 2 roms. You can single boot as before. And if you don't want to see the Siyah logo as well, create a .nobootlogo file without any extension or content in internal SD.
3. "Will dual booting change my bootloader or do any dangerous stuff like setting my phone on fire?"
A. NO. Changes are at kernel and ramfs level only. Some space in your internal sd card is used, and also the unused hidden partition mmcblk0p10 is used to store cache of second rom. Dual booting doesn't repartition the filesystem or perform anything scary.
4. "I want to setup dual booting."
A. There are four situations:-
1) Sammy rom now. Want to use aosp as secondary.
2) Sammy rom now. Want to use aosp as primary.
3) Aosp rom now. Want to use sammy as secondary.
4) Aosp rom now. Want to use sammy as primary.
Special Cases:-
5) Use an existing nandroid backup as 2nd Rom (and existing rom as 1st)
6) Use an existing nandroid backup as 1st Rom (and existing rom as 2nd)
Prerequisites for any setup is
a) Flash latest Siyah
b) Atleast 90% battery left.
c) 2 GB free on internal SD.
d) Some spare time
1) Present sammy, setup aosp as secondary:-
i) Hit "Run 2nd Rom Utils" in Stweaks app from your current rom. This will run the embedded recovery in the kernel. Under dual boot options, wipe 2nd Rom data and cache+dalvik. Format 2nd Rom System.
ii) Using install zip to 2nd rom option, flash aosp rom as 2nd rom.
iii) Fix 2nd Rom permissions
iv) Flash Siyah again
2) Present sammy, setup aosp as primary:-
i) Hit "Run 2nd Rom Utils" in Stweaks app from your current rom. This will run the embedded recovery in the kernel. Under dual boot options, Clone 1st Rom to 2nd Rom.
ii) From recovery (your default cwm recovery which can be accessed from extended power menu or 3 button method), full wipe and install aosp rom zip as you'd normally do when you were single booting.
iii) Fix 2nd Rom permissions
iv) Flash Siyah again.
3) Present aosp, setup sammy as secondary:-
Same as (1), instead of flashing aosp to second, flash sammy to second.
4) Present aosp, setup sammy as primary:-
Same as (2), instead of flashing aosp to first Rom, flash sammy.
5) Restore the nandroid backup using "Restore as 2nd Rom" option in the embedded recovery. If there are problems while restoring, wipe 2nd Rom data, cache+dalvik, format second rom /system and try restoring.
6) Clone 1st Rom to 2nd Rom from embedded recovery then restore nandroid backup from your regular cwm recovery.
NOTE:
-To dual boot Two Aosp or Two Sammy roms, just follow (1) or (2) (depending on which one of them you want as primary/secondary), just flash Sammy instead of aosp or aosp instead of sammy.
5. "What things should I be taking care off while dealing with dual booting?"
A. - Make sure to fix permissions of second rom after setting up 2nd rom for the first time or else you're likely to see a black screen.
- If Wi-FI on aosp doesn't work, flash a sammy ICS rom (on to 1st rom or second rom depending on location of aosp) before flashing aosp rom.
- If NFC doesn't work, flash that NFC fix zip you can find on XDA which replaces ICS NFC firmware on aosp with JB NFC fw from sammy.
- Even if you're installing second rom for the first time, wiping data and cache+dalvik of 2nd rom and formatting system of 2nd rom is necessary; As it creates empty 1.5 gb system.img to be used as system partition for 2nd rom and also creates data directory of second rom in /.secondrom dir in the internal sd.
6. "How to boot into primary rom?"
A. Wait for the 3 second timeout or press volume up/power to skip the timeout. Or use the option in Stweaks if you're booted into second rom already.
7. "How to boot into secondary rom?"
A. During the 3 second timeout, press volume down or home button. Or use the option in Stweaks if you're booted into 1st rom already.
8. "Is kernel partition shared?"
A. Yes. Same kernel boots both roms.
9. "If I flash another kernel (that doesn't support db) do I lose dual booting?"
A. Yes
10. "I lost dualbooting after flashing another kernel. I didn't do anything to second rom files in sdcard/.secondrom. How can I get db back?"
A. Just flash the latest Siyah.
11. "Will there be any performance degradation on the rom used as secondary compared to primary?"
A. NO
12. "Will my phone run slow overall because of db?"
A. NO
13. "How to flash a newer version of 1st rom?"
A. As usual, just flash it from recovery. Flash Siyah again if Rom zip flashed another kernel.
14. "How to flash newer version of 2nd rom?"
A. Using stweaks, boot into 2nd Rom utils. Flash the rom using "Install zip to 2nd Rom" under dual boot options. Flash Siyah again if Rom zip flashed another kernel.
15. "Would upgrading 1st or second rom cause other rom to fail on boot?"
A. No. Partitions of other rom are not touched during upgrading.
16. "I miss the recovery I used before, so much.."
A. You can use any recovery. Alternate recovery can be just run using the option in STweaks.
17. "User apps of 1st rom are automatically available for second rom?"
A. NO. However, if you had backed them up using Titanium Backup or similar apps, just restore apps while on second rom.
18. "I wanna keep separate backup for apps in both the Roms, since I use one Rom for say entertainment and other productivity."
A. Setup different backup directory in Titanium Backup in 1st and 2nd rom.
19. "I don't see Stweaks app in second rom."
A. Delete /system/.siyah/stweaks-installed file in 2nd rom. Reboot to second rom.
20. "Do I need to anything special before flashing a newer Siyah?"
A. NO. Just flash kernel as tar or in recovery - whichever you used to do. Kernel image is copied to the unified kernel partition.
21. "How can I run same STweaks settings of 1st Rom in 2nd Rom?"
A. While on 1st rom, copy the file /data/.siyah/default.profile to /data/media/.secondrom/data/.siyah directory. If you modify STweaks settings in 2nd rom and want to avail same settings on first rom, do the other way around. (Copy "default.profile" from /data/media/.secondrom/data/.siyah to /data/.siyah while on 1st Rom)
22. "How do I remove everything related to DB and run single boot again?"
A. In recovery, under dual boot options - "delete 2nd Rom". OR Delete .secondrom directory in /data/media while on 1st Rom.
23. "If secondrom files are kept in /data/media, will wiping data in recovery erase second rom files?"
A. NO. /data/media is skipped in CWM recovery.
24. "I was using ExFat card on sammy rom without any issues. I have setup dual boot with aosp and now after booting into CM it says microSD card is corrupted."
A. Aosp roms doesn't support ExFat out of the box. The data was corrupted by aosp vold. Even if you boot back to Sammy rom, it still would be corrupted. To recover data, manually mount the card in recovery, copy contents to internal SD and reformat card to a Fat32.
Also try
chkdsk X: /f (where X is the drive letter of microsd), you may be able to copy data.
25. "I read somewhere that both rom data partition use the same space. Doesn't that mean my apps are shared across roms?"
A. NO. It just means they uses same partition. They're still different directories.
1st rom data = /data
2nd rom data = /data/media/.secondrom/data
26. "Will hitting "Reboot to 2nd Rom Utils" in STweaks change my recovery?"
A. NO. It just runs (not flash) an alternate recovery so that you can configure dualboot settings. Using extended power menu or 3 button method, you always lands in your own CWM recovery.
27. "How do I backup 1st Rom and 2nd Rom?"
A. To backup 1st Rom, do what you did to backup rom while you were single booting a while ago.
To backup 2nd Rom, use the feature embedded recovery, which can be accessed using "Reboot to 2nd Rom Utils" in STweaks app.
28. "I booted into recovery using 3 button method. But some dual-boot options are not working even though dev said they're implemented.
A. Use "Reboot to 2nd Rom Utils" in Stweaks app to boot to embedded recovery.
29. "DB architecture?"
A. Like you know, every rom has a /data, /system, /cache partition and a kernel to boot.
For primary rom, it's
mmcblk0p12 = /data
mmcblk0p9 = /system
mmcblk0p8 = /cache
And these won't change whether you're single booting or dual booting.
For secondary rom, data and system is stored in internal sd, cache in hidden partition. Note that internal sd in our device is mounted to /data/media.
We have data as a directory, System as an image in data/media/.secondrom. Cache in mmcblk10 which is hidden partition and not used otherwise.
- When second rom is booting, second rom data is bind mounted to mmcblk0p12 as /data/
- data/media/.secondrom/system.img partition is mounted as /system.
- mmcblk0p10 is mounted as /cache.
More FAQs will be added and the list will be updated as DB is improved.
Nice! I like your work on Galaxy S2 hope to see you here often and regulary updating your thread.! well done mate
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energie said:
Best kernel ever finally
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gokhanmoral said:
last one
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This is gonna be HUGE!!!
Thanks GM
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siberian tiger said:
This is gonna be HUGE!!!
Thanks GM
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fully agree ...now i am using 0.94 and no problems at all
PS: just a USB Mass Storage is only little thing i miss...but DropBox and FTP are ok too
Looking forward to this. Using 0.94b now and it is oh so smooth. I'm sure 1.0 will be even better.
Cheers gokhanmoral.
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Many thanks, the best kernal ever, is the focus on battery life on this release? can the kernal fix the high cell standby issue? i believe my device will keep your kernal until i sell the device !
Thank you
WOOT!
Where is the download link I opened the link above but there is no 1.0 only hv 94
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Where is the download link I opened the link above but there is no 1.0 only hv 94
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compiling now.. I will edit the blog post after editing the first post in this thread.
As I tested v0.92b, this kernel is very promising ( of course because of Gokhan ) but not yet stable. I love to see @gokhanmoral progress like sgs2 kernel .
I will test v0.94b right now .
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System details:
Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) - latest official HTC One X+ 2.18.401.2 (WWE) firmware
This is improved version of stock ROM - no visual changes!
Very fast, clean & stable!
Full HTC Sense 5.0 Interface
Multi-language (WWE)
For HTC One X+ (not for AT&T)
Thanks to HTC for the base firmware
Included kernel details:
Stock kernel (the most stable)
ROM details:
Removed software (CPU) rendering - full nVidia Tegra 3 (GPU) rendering
Fully optimized and tweaked
Root access
Unsecured boot.img
Newest BusyBox
RAM optimizations
System signatures check enabled for system security and safety
Improved virtual memory management
Speed optimizations
Enabled GPU UI rendering
Data, cache and system partitions mounting tweaks
Bloatware applications removed
All /system applications updated to latest available
All /data applications updated to latest available
Improved CPU governors performance
Most optimal system scheduler
Disabled kernel debugging for better performance
Zipaligned (Improved RAM management)
Zipalign on boot (for user applications on data partition)
Fully de-odexed
init.d scripts (BusyBox run-parts) support
Auto init.d permissions set on boot
sysro/sysrw commands support
Excellent battery life!
Improved EXT4 performance
OpenVPN support
Most up-to-date system files permissions
Adobe Flash Player support
Support almost 24h a day
...and many more!
You need:
HTC One X+ unlocked with htcdev.com (S-ON) or S-OFF
Custom recovery
Firmware package from here
How to flash:
Download ROM and place it on your virtual SD card
Flash boot.img from the downloads section
Boot your phone in recovery mode (vol down + power)
In main menu, select "install zip from sdcard"
Select "choose zip from sdcard" and browse to the location of Android Revolution ROM
You can use data wiping option in AROMA (optionally if coming from earlier version of my ROM, obligatory if coming from stock or other custom ROM)
After flashing process is complete, reboot the device
Android Revolution HD 8.0
--- release date: 30 August 2013 ---
Based on latest official HTC One X+ 2.18.401.2 (WWE) firmware
Included and updated applications:
--- Data partition ---
Adobe Flash Player 11.1.115.81 (Android 4.0+)
Adobe Flash Player 11.1.111.73 (Android 2.0+)
Adobe Reader 11.1.3
Dropbox 2.3.12
ES File Explorer 3.0.9.1
Facebook 4.0.0.26.3
Twitter 5.0.9
--- System partition ---
GmsCore 4.1.31 (Android 2.3+ / SDK 9)
Gmail 4.7.2 (Android 4.0+ / SDK 14)
Gmail 2.3.6 (Android 2.2+ / SDK 10)
Google Play 4.5.10
Push Service 1.1.14 (Samsung devices)
SuperUser 1.0.2.8
SuperSU 1.89
--- Aroma installer ---
Google Hangouts 2.0.217 (Android 2.3+ / SDK 9)
Google Maps 6.14.4 (Android 2.2+ / SDK 8)
Google Maps 7.5.0 (Android 4.0.3+)
Google Plus 4.2.4.58179886 (Android 3.0+ / SDK 11)
Google Street 1.8.1.2 (Android 2.2+ / SDK 8)
Google YouTube 5.3.28 (Android 2.2+ / SDK 8)
Google TalkBack 3.5.1 (Android 2.2+ / SDK 8)
Google Chrome 31.0.1650.59 (Android 4.0+ / SDK 14)
Google Music 5.3.1317M.940995(Android 2.2+ / SDK 8)
Google Keep 2.1.01 (Android 4.0+ / SDK 14)
Google Drive 1.2.484.18 (Android 2.3+ / SDK 9)
Google Search 3.1.24.941712 (Android 4.1+ / SDK 16)
Google Search 1.4.1.338691 (Android 4.0.3)
Google Search 1.1.2.64376 (Android 2.3.5)
Changelog since latest Jelly Bean 4.1.1 release:
Android 4.2.2 with HTC Sense 5.0
HTC BlinkFeed (available under Settings)
New Lock screen style widget
Show battery level in status bar
Add sleep mode option in Power settings
Quick settings panel: 12 default settings by new touch gesture
AE/AF lock feature: Lock Exposure/Focus on view/finder screen
Video Highlights: Create 30 seconds show in 12 different themes
Music channel: Visualization with live lyrics
Greatly improved UI performance
Improved Wi-Fi performance
Tweaked CPU settings for the best batter life
Super-smooth scrolling
Optimized Tegra 3 performance and power consumption
Many more amazing improvements for HTC One X
- If your current firmware version doesn't match ROM firmware version, wiping data inside AROMA is highly recommended!
Android Revolution HD 8.0 + boot.img for 8.x
--- MD5 Checksum: 7230920DB84F03BCA47B793DF800816B ---
Important notes:
1. If you want to say "Thanks!"
There are many ways to show your support to the developer. You can:
Press the "Thanks" button.
Hit the donation button and "buy me a beer".
Share your opinion about my work and write some feedback in respective thread.
Advertise my work to your friends.
Rate my thread with 5 stars.
Every way of support is highly appreciated, but it's not expected!
2. Sharing policy
This forum is about sharing. If you want to use any part of my work, please feel free to do it but remember about some simple rules:
Inform me about using my work by sending me a message. You don’t need my permission, just inform me.
Include link to my thread from where you took particular files.
Give proper credits for what you used.
When it comes to using my ROM as a base you are free to do it only if I don't have "Stock ROMs" thread available for particular device. If such thread exists, you are
obligated to take ROMs from there instead. These threads with "Stock ROMs" are usually updated within 24 hours from the moment when I release my custom ROM.
Sharing is one thing, but please respect some areas of my work like:
ROM name - "Android Revolution HD", "Android Revolution", "Revo HD", "AR HD" etc.
Graphics used in my threads, especially head-banners designed exclusivity for me.
Other parts of my work that are not supposed to be used by others without proper permission.
Please let me keep my threads design unique. I’m sure you can do something even better yourself!
3. Support
If you have any issues or questions, please feel free to post them in the respective thread. Due to my commitments in real life I can't answer every PM, tweet or facebook post.
If you want to get the fastest and the best answer - ask the question in the thread. Every month I need to remove about 1.000 new messages from my XDA inbox. I’m sure it’s better if I spend this time cooking new ROMs.
4. Signature banners for users
Due to the increasing number of users flashing my ROMs we introduced some time ago 3 special groups of members.
Android Revolution HD Recognized User – every user might get this rank with proper banner by being active in my thread (or threads).
Helping users to solve problems, answering questions or preparing threads with add-ons for Android Revolution HD are the most common ways to gain this rank. Just be active and we’ll contact you!
Android Revolution HD Advanced User – every user might get this rank with proper banner by doing some amazing modification, application, theme etc. for Android Revolution HD.
Creating simple bootanimation might not be enough, but you never know! Having Recognized User status before is not needed!
Android Revolution HD Supporter – every user who shared some server space with us (with proper bandwidth) will get this banner. Please keep in mind we can't use DropBox shared folders.
What we can use is minimum 20 GB of space and 10 Mbit upload speed. If you want to donate some server space to us, please contact me via private message.
Apart of those special banners, every user might use one of our amazing user banners collected in this thread.
Finally, thanks for using my work! I hope you will enjoy Android Revolution HD!
XDA:DevDB Information
[ROM] Android Revolution HD 8.0 | High Quality & Performance | Sense 5 | 2.18.401.2 | Sense 5 Toolbox 2.5, a ROM for the HTC One X+
Contributors
mike1986.
ROM OS Version: 4.2.x Jelly Bean
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.4.x
Version Information
Status: Stable
Created 2013-09-13
Last Updated 2014-03-18
Performance Tweaks for Android Revolution HD
data_writeback journalism for /system, /data and /cache partitions.
This mod will turn ON data_writeback for all 3 partitions - system, data and cache. This will drastically improve I/O performance (mostly on write operations) at the expense of file system integrity in certain situations, like unexpected system shutdown. The risk is not extreme, but still bigger then regular. Use this to improve your system performance, but you flash it at your own risk!
Download here:
Android Revolution HD EXT4 Tweaks v.0.1
Force GPU rendering on 2D operations.
This mod is working similar to "Render GUI with GPU" option in Development Settings. Flashing this will force whole system to use GPU rendering (instead of CPU) for all kind of 2D/3D operations. This might improve 2D operations performance, but keep in mind that some apps are not working correctly with GPU rendering. After using this mod you no longer need to tick "Render GUI with GPU" in settings. Even if un-ticked it will be still working. Flash it at your own risk!
Download here:
Android Revolution HD GPU Rendering v.0.1
--- User banners prepared by KID_1194, adsamcik, sigeltek, jotha, Super-Veloce & D3VICE ---
Q 1: After flashing Android Revolution HD my battery drains much faster. What can I do?
A: Please charge your battery to 100%, boot your device in ClockworkMod Recovery and go to Advanced ---> Wipe Battery Stats. Also see Question 7.
Also please read this ---> [GUIDE] Enlarge your battery life : an attempt to fix the battery drain
And this ---> [How to] Brilliant Battery Life 100% working!
For more details about wiping battery stats please read this
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Q 2: My Premium Navigation doesn't work correctly. What should I do?
A: Your Premium Navigation may not work correctly for many reasons. Most of them are not ROM related. You can try the following things:
- reinstall your Locations under "Settings" ---> "Locations"
- remove /sdcard/.data/navigator/Data/Temporary from your SD card
- re-download Google Maps from the Android Market
- clear data from Google Maps in system software management
Q 3: When recording HD video, the playback of the clip keeps freezing. How to fix it?
A: This is probably SD card problem. Format your SD card (FAT32 recommended) to gain silky smooth playback.
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Q 4: After I reboot my device, mp3 ring-tone is back to default. What should I do?
A: Go to Ringtones > Menu > More Ringtones > Create new ringtone > Select the one you want (Thanks to kill4l)
Q 5: Is there any alternative for SetCPU? I think it slows downy my phone.
A: You can application called No-frills. Remember to check "Allow on boot" option.
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Q 6: After flashing Android Revolution HD my SD card is being mounted as ready only. What should I do?
A: Connect your SD card to your PC and do defragmentation process. If you still have some problems with SD card, please read this.
Mac users can use the repair function of the MacOS disk utility to solve the read only problem (Thanks to Calimero1205).
Q 7: My CPU load is all the time nearly 100% and in most part it's used by system. What is the reason of that high CPU usage and how can I fix it?
A: Delete your htcsense.com account. It takes A LOT of your battery and CPU usage.
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Q 8: Do I need to wipe data partition when upgrading from old version of Android Revolution HD?
A: I always recommend wiping data partition but it's absolutely necessary only if I mention that in the changelog. But normally you can live without it.
Wipe data partition if you experience any issues.
Q 9: I have some strange issues with my ROM that nobody reported before. What should I do in first place?
A: In first place you should check, if the MD5 Checksum is correct. Then flash ROM again and see if the issue is gone. A lot of strange issues can be solved this way.
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Q 10: I had SetCPU installed on Android Revolution HD, then I flashed new version of AR HD and SetCPU doesn't work any more. How to fix it?
A: Please reinstall SetCPU.
Q 11: I can't send/receive MMS or I can't connect with mobile data connection. How can I fix it?
A: Please check your MMS settings or mobile data connection APN settings.
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Q 12: My phone got random freezes or reboots. How can I fix it?
A: Every CPU is different. It seems that your CPU doesn't like OC or UV (undervolt). Set your CPU to default 1GHz.
If it doesn't help, then you need to flash default kernel from the second post.
Q 13: When I listen to music from HTC stock player it accidentally pauses for short time and then keep playing.
A: Turn OFF fastboot in settings.
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Q 14: My GPS signal is very weak or GPS is not working at all. How can I fix it?
A: There are some solutions:
1. You can download and install FasterFix to improve your signal strength.
2. You can download and install GPS Status & Toolbox to manage your GPS settings.
3. Turn off "Fast boot" under "Settings" ---> "Power" and reboot your phone.
4. Read this, this, this & this
5. [Trick] Speed Up Satelite Fix for GPS on Android
Q 15: My clock/weather widget doesn't show my location. How can I fix it?
A: Please clear data from Google Maps, Clock Widget, Weather, HTC weather sync provider and Weather Provider.
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Q 16: My Quadrant score is not as high as on different ROM. What does it mean?
A: It means absolutely nothing. Benchmarks on Android System are more or less lottery and they are not showing the real system performance.
There are many settings that can force Quadrant to show more then 3000 points but it's faked performance, that actually can slow down your phone in some circumstances.
What I always emphasize is a real performance, the one you can feel under your fingers. Remember that I/O has some limit and surpassing it shows just a numbers without true ratio.
Also keep in mind that Quadrant has support for Android Gingerbread only in version 1.1.7 and higher.
Q 17: I have com.htc.bgc process force close few times a day. How can I fix it?
A: It's because you have removed HtcTwitter.apk (HTC Twitter application). Please restore it.
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Q 18: My screen-lock sound and keypad sound while dialing numbers is very low. How can I fix it?
A: Download "Quick Settings" application from Android Market and check system volume slider.
Q 19: When I open up the call screen (where I see the recent calls and callers), the calls won't appear in the list. What to do?
A: Probably you are using 3rd party launcher. Remove the dialer shortcut and re-add it.
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Q 20: My Wi-Fi doesn't reconnect automatically after boot. How to fix it?
A: Disable fastboot in settings or check this solution.
You think you're addicted from flashing ROMs, checking forum the whole day and you feel like "Android" should be your second name? Well, here's something for fun
preacher65 said:
Okay, now I'm getting my world news from XDA. I had no idea this had happened until I read this. Something tells me I'm spending too much time on here!
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Whiskey103 said:
Well i have some similar experience. I just found out my wife is pregnant for 6 months already... Lol.
And the first thing I asked was : When will you release it?
So I guess i spend to much time here also.
Still a had some spare time it seems. Otherwise the baby is not mine!
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DarkAdrien said:
My wife is pregnant for 4 months, ETA October 22nd (her upload speed is not so good). If only I could do a nandroid backup of my current life to be able to restore it after
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Reserved 3.
Great Mike!
Nice to see you in this section
orb3000 said:
Great Mike!
Nice to see you in this section
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Thanks orb! I hope to finish this thread as soon as possible with working link to new ROM
wow, that's great news! after my sensation, i know this rom also will be great
Do you have this device?
Would be nice to know you do have it or not?
@home said:
Do you have this device?
Would be nice to know you do have it or not?
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No, I don't have it yet.
thanks
greate im happy to see you here i ask you a time ago if you going to run your rom with HOX+ i'm waiting for at&t usa, you are going to made the rom for at&t usa version or both are the same bands and lte if are the same i made the order in this date. thanks againg.
wphoto2 said:
greate im happy to see you here i ask you a time ago if you going to run your rom with HOX+ i'm waiting for at&t usa, you are going to made the rom for at&t usa version or both are the same bands and lte if are the same i made the order in this date. thanks againg.
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If both devices have the same hardware then you will be able to flash it.
Sent from my HTC One X
I think the only difference between the one x+ and the one xl+ is the modem, the one x+ has an intel chip and one xl+ has a qualcomm icera chip. Other than that the phones should have identical hardware.
ryanjsoo said:
I think the only difference between the one x+ and the one xl+ is the modem, the one x+ has an intel chip and one xl+ has a qualcomm icera chip. Other than that the phones should have identical hardware.
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Then you will surely need two separate roms.
mike1986. said:
Then you will surely need two separate roms.
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Unless someone writes a script than can identify the 2 different devices and pushes the correct kernel/libs to the device. I've seen similar methods for devices that have GSM/CDMA variants.
Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk 2
AndroHero said:
Unless someone writes a script than can identify the 2 different devices and pushes the correct kernel/libs to the device. I've seen similar methods for devices that have GSM/CDMA variants.
Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk 2
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Correct, it's quite easy actually. But the size of ROM will increase and the hard part is that usually it's not just a kernel and few bins/libs. Those are also carrier related and sometimes signed .apk files.
Mike, any luck in breaking the rom's protection?
HTC is really screwing with us.
uqadwe said:
Mike, any luck in breaking the rom's protection?
HTC is really screwing with us.
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Nope. But there is a workaround
Closing
Hey Mike, I have closed thread to avoid cluttering before you place the ROM.
Let me know whenever you need it open.
ROM will be out today, it's almost ready
Hi Mike,
In the "You Need" section, firmware package is mentioned. Does that refer to the boot.img or is it something that we need to flash at a later stage?
Using CID Getter app, it displays my CID as VODAP001.
Thanks
Mskh
SLD3, Now a Powerful GAMING ROM
Play Alphalt-8 without lags (ref) & flat 6 hrs
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SuperLuminalDAD will now be called... SLD-ULTIMATE v2,v3
(now on my new A116i Base Rom)
now SLD will buglessly fly more high
This may not be so good-looking rom but is the only reliable rom on the planet for A116 (lolz) I am not kidding. It will be good looking and cool very soon.
Micromax Canvas HD A116 / FLY IQ451 / MYphone 919i Duo
Wiko Cink 5 / Qmobile A600
Now Insanely and Heavily Tweaked
Buttery Smooth, Screaming Loud, Fastest & Stable
[AOSP based 4.2.2 Style Port]
***made for people who like minimalistic fast roms***
.
**NOTE**
I know, this rom title is very strange,
but the reason is I am DAD of maker of SuperLuminal Rom. ha ha :laugh::laugh:
Since long time (years) I was away from making ROMs and ROOTing experiments,
but srihari210's post tempted me as it was easy . Thanks to him for motivating.
I actually made this for my personal use, but looking at the best results, thought I should share with all.:angel:
I am still learning and will do more complex things, experiments, tweaks and mods as and how I get time.
Features:
Bhaarat Theme with Tricolor Flavoured Wallpapers
New Cool BootLogo and JB BootAnimation
Nova Launcher (recommended for good battery) and Stock Launcher both included.
Sim Toolkit Fixed & Working
New Seeder tweak by RemZej
GPS Tweak, Ha ha ha! Now GPS Satellite Fix without EPO setup in 20 seconds even first time
4.2.1 rom based on AOSP ROM with frameworks from CELKON A119Q with 4.2.2 binaries.
Base Rom changed from Nov 2013's base rom to my own new A116i Base Rom
Fully Zip-aligned and signed
This rom uses A116i Stock Kernel
Pre-Rooted with updated SU Binaries.
4.2 Stock Camera 1088p Video Recording (Patch for Stock 4.3 with working Panorama also available)
VERY FAST and STABLE
Lightly and carefully HEAVILY & INSANELY Tweaked, Tested OK.
Init.d support -- Perfectly verified and working
Loopy Smoothness Tweaks (touchscreen optimization)
New Ram Optimization Tweaks (good for gaming)
New SQLite Optimization Tweaks (for gaming)
More Power Tweaks
-- New Network Tweaks = STRONGER PHONE NETWORK
-- New WiFi Tweaks = STRONGER WIFI NETWORK , go some more far and see.
-- Faster Wi-Fi connection initialization
-- New DHCP Tweaks = HALF SECOND WIFI CONNECT
-- New TCP-Buffer Tweaks
-- New Photo and Video Recording Tweaks
-- New Streaming Media Tweaks
-- New Photo & Video Recording Quality Tweaks. Beautiful Photos
-- New Google DNS Tweak
-- New Better Flash Tweak
-- New Bravia Engine Tweak
-- Sound is enough loud and clear. Great quality sound in Speaker, Headphone and Bluetooth Headset. All 3 tested ok.
-- Launcher forced in memory (Reboot if launcher is changed, for great results)
-- Render UI with GPU to reduce CPU usage
-- Deep Sleep tweaked
-- Camera Sound forced to silent with double ways.
-- Super-Responsive and Smooth Touchscreen Sensitivity
Xposed Installer + Gravity Box works flawlessly (XPOSED TUTORIAL AND APK HERE)
You can get FREE RAM between around 490 to 650 MB. With all required apps installed on my phone I have 600MB FREE RAM all the time. (Screenshot)
After flashing free Internal Storage will be 890+ MB (Screenshot).
Fully Rooted ROM with SuperSU
Long-press Menu Button = starts Google Now
Pre-installed Lightweight "Stock File Manager" & "ES File Explorer", so you can directly browse system areas/files. Immediately after flash you can start installing APKs, both from Internal and External SDcards.
Good Battery Backup as stock rom. (Install Greenify , Recommended for more best results)
As per user-report the Proximity Sensor responsiveness is improved and better than stock.
In AOSP roms you can use any Universal Language. Search and install any language from PlayStore.
Quick Boot (small app pre-installed) for Reboot / Reboot to Recovery Option
No need to swap storage default after flashing.
Camera now saves photos/videos in external sdcard. (long time pending work)
USEFUL UPDATED APPS Added (Most uninstallable)
-- Stock File Manager , ES File Explorer , YouTube , Gmail , Google MAPS, Greenify , SMS Backup App
-- Added Updated Nova Launcher
-- Added Updated Google TTS
-- Updated Google Play Store 4.5.10 and Google Play Services
-- Added back AOSP Launcher
-- Added GREENIFY. (how to effectively use GREENIFY?)
-- Added SMS Backup App
-- Live Wallpaper Picker added
Restored 4.2 Stock Camera 1088p Video Recording (4.3 Flashable addon zip available below)
Very Lite ROM. Only 283mb (first release). Most other custom stock roms are 400 to 450+
v1.0 = 279 MB
v1.5-2 = 339 MB
v3 = 304 MB
Sim Toolkit Fixed & Working
Tested OK Things
Both SIMS working perfect
Enable 3G in any sim (first or second) your wish
Battery backup is same or better than stock (I get 2 full days, results may vary)
OTG Cable works perfect both for PenDrive (shown as "usbotg") and Mouse. (screenshots)
Wi-Fi working. Wifi Lan also works perfect via ES File Explorer (Screenshot)
Faster 10-15 seconds GPS Fix from home window (Screenshot)
Internal and External Both SD working. (Shown as sdcard1 = Internal and sdcard0 = External)
Camera (and FLASH too) working perfect, Auto-Focus perfect. Rear Camera 8MP and Front 2MP working perfect. Saves photos in external sdcard by default.
FM Radio perfect.
Bluetooth tested ok with my Sony MW600 A2DP Stereo BT Headset.
Engineer Mode working: From phone's dialer type code *#*#3646633#*#*
Proximity Sensor Issue of Stock, not found in this rom (reported by haree)
What else you people want me to test?
Request to all friends
Before asking any question, Please read FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS in third post and see if your query is answered there.
PM.Please do not send PM. Ask queries/problems in thread only. I hope this request is very much visible and easily readable. If you post your query in thread, and when I am not around, someone more experienced will sure help/reply/hint you. Please keep patience until me or someone responds to your question.
Please do not sent request to add any application / app / themes, which are easily available to install/update in Google Play Store.
This is minimalistic ROM and is planned to remain like that only.
Please checkout whole thread to find many many fully satisfied users.
Warning:
I do not promise or guarantee anything with my roms. Take it or leave it and use at your own Risk.
I am not responsible for any type of brick or dead device.
You lose manufacturer warranty after flashing this or any custom ROM.
This ROM formats data and system partition. You must take backup of all your data.
Installation Procedure:
BE READY WITH THIS:
BATTERY: Keeping at 100% charged is recommended before flashing.
BACKUP: Take BACKUP from recovery, useful in case you mess up. Or try Titanium to backup all data and apps.
IMEI BACKUP: Install "Mobile Uncle Tool" and backup IMEI and save backup file safely on computer.
ACTUAL FLASHING STEPS:
Download ROM and store on Internal or External SD
Start TWRP/CWM Recovery Mode
Do Factory Reset FULL WIPE [Warning: Data will be deleted)
Install ROM
Clear Dalvik Cache & Reboot Phone.
*** DONT FLASH ANY KERNEL AT LEAST FOR A WEEK OR TWO TO EXPERIENCE POWERFUL PERFORMANCE OF INCLUDED KERNEL WITH POWERFUL TWEAKS ***
DONE! Enjoy...
Addons/Patches/Mods:
ORIGINAL STOCK KERNEL: Download here
FULL WIPE ZIP PATCH: If you are coming from other custom roms with different partition and may get bootloops, then do flash this FULL WIPE ZIP Patch which should re-format the required ext4 partitions perfectly. WARNING: It really formats system and other partition, so please take backup.
*Totally Optional
MemorySwap Fix: If you want SDCard memory mapping to be fixed or getting problems in restoring Titanium Backup data, then flash this patch. : Download and flash Patch & after that reset storage option. See FAQ section.
(*Optional. Everyone else can ignore this patch.)
AOSP Launcher REMOVED in 0.3F but If you still want it flash this (may refer this post )
*Optional
Flash Stock 4.2 Camera: Download (if you need the original one) 1088p video recording.
*Optional
Flash Stock 4.3 Camera: Download (the one which is included in this rom)
*Optional
UPDATED KITKAT4 LAUNCHER COMBINATION by CMahendra for SLD Rom (Download and Install from here) (NEW)
*Optional App. *Only launcher, no additional apps included.
Live WallPaper and Live WallPaper Picker Add-on (all versions): Download
*Totally Optional
Xperia Z keyboard for SLD V3 suggested by FB user Click here.
Bugs:
-- None at the moment for Indian users! All fixed.
Date & Time settings issue for users out of India:
-- This rom have Base Rom from India and some people outside India may get FC while doing manual date settings and its known issue related to Indian MT6589 chipset phones used out of country. It is recognized by GravityBox and they have provided a fix for it. Please do this workaround to fix. Even if users do not do this workaround, the rom works perfect in Automatic mode.
If you find any other bugs, please report me with LOGCAT. I will try my best, but please dont expect immediate fix. It all matters how much time we get for this social work.
Download Links & ChangeLog in Second Post below:
(*PLEASE DO NOT MIRROR without permission, coz changes are happening very often)
CREDITS:
Some good friends for suggesting various tweaks in various threads in last few years.
bgos10 for collection of assorted tweaks from various devs.
RemZej for some tweaks.
I used my own Tweaked A116i Stock rom for Base ROM from ver 2.
srihari210 for his celkon rom till v1 final.
Vijay4b7 for A116 Stock rom for Base ROM upto ver 1.
***If I have forgot anyone to thank/add credit anyone for any work I may have used here, please forgive as it will be unintentional and request you to please inform me so I will add credit for them too. Thanks.
More SCREENSHOTS in 3rd post.
Full Screenshot Album: http://forum.xda-developers.com/album.php?albumid=10289
OTHER REFERENCES:
SLD3 Facebook Discussion
Links to all my roms here. and useful patches here
Gaming Report in FB: Here & Here
XLD vs SLD for Gaming. ha ha ha ! discussion
SLD2 Gaming Review discussion
MyPhone Group discussion
Nova 3 working on SLD discussion
Downloads & Changelog
ChangeLog & Download Links: (Latest on top)
(19-Apr-14): SLD-ULTIMATE Version 3 : >>> Bhaarat Look, More Power More Gaming. <<<
-- Download Links: XDA Link (DevHost Link) <<< LATEST VERSION
-- FULL WIPE VERSION (Data will be deleted) (you must take Nandroid Backup)
-- Always check MD5 Checksum before flashing: XDA Server code>>> 08e7ef51289824092cafad03abafe751
-- Full Init.d support -- Perfectly verified and working.
== Bhaarat Theme with Tricolor Flavoured Wallpapers
== New Cool BootLogo and JB BootAnimation
== Sim Toolkit Fixed & Working
== New Seeder tweak by RemZej
== GPS Tweak, Ha ha ha! Now GPS Satellite Fix without EPO setup in 20 seconds even first time
== Some more things I forgot
-- Loopy Smoothness Tweaks (touchscreen optimization)
-- New Ram Optimization Tweaks (good for gaming)
-- New SQLite Optimization Tweaks (for gaming)
-- Few more tweaks
-- No need to swap storage default.
-- Camera now saves photos in external sdcard
-- All Apps Updated.
-- Facebook Discussion
(5-Mar-14): SLD-ULTIMATE Version 2 : >>>More power more gaming. <<<
-- Download Links: XDA Main (DevHost) (FireRio)-- FULL WIPE VERSION (Data will be deleted) (you must take Nandroid Backup)
-- Always check MD5 Checksum before flashing: XDA Server code>>> 5f86905526ef4d1d4a4dfcca9b75c0b1
-- Full Init.d support -- Perfectly verified and working.
-- Loopy Smoothness Tweaks (touchscreen optimization)
-- New Ram Optimization Tweaks (good for gaming)
-- New SQLite Optimization Tweaks (for gaming)
-- No need to swap storage default.
-- Camera now saves photos in external sdcard
-- All Apps Updated.
(11-Feb-14): Final Stable Version 1.5 : Fully Smooth and Stable... More tweaks.
-- Download Links: DEV-HOST LINK --similar to 1.0 but with all updates and changes merged. Full fresh rom.
-- DIRTY FLASH VERSION (No Data Wipe required) Install on previous SLD version (but still you must take Nandroid Backup)
-- Always check MD5 Checksum before flashing: f26faa934917bc5e8f04261bf57e69ea
-- Init.d support -- Perfectly verified and working
-- New Network Tweaks
-- New TCP-Buffer Tweaks
-- New WiFi Tweaks
-- New Photo and Video Recording Tweaks
-- New Streaming Media Tweaks
-- New Photo & Video Recording Quality Tweaks. Beautiful Photos
-- New Google DNS Tweak
-- New Better Flash Tweak
-- New Bravia Engine Tweak
-- Added Updated Nova Launcher
-- Added Updated Google TTS
-- Added back AOSP Launcher
-- Added Stock File Manager
-- Added ES File Explorer
-- Added YouTube
-- Added Gmail
-- Added Google Play Services,
-- Added Google MAPS
-- Added Greenify
-- Added SMS Backup App
-- Only 339 MB
-- Updated Google Play Store 4.5.10
-- Live Wallpaper Picker added
-- Restored 4.2 Stock Camera 1088p Video Recording (4.3 Flashable zip available)
NOTE: First reboot may take 2 to 3 minutes or more wait with patience.
(16-01-14): Final Stable Version 1.0 : Fully Smooth and Stable... More tweaks.
-- Download Links: DEV-HOST LINK-- DIRTY FLASH VERSION (No Data Wipe required) Install on previous SLD version (but still you must take Nandroid Backup)
-- Always check MD5 Checksum before flashing: a1457ac969a85db962390ac368229c75
-- Init.d support -- Perfectly verified and working
-- New Network Tweaks
-- New TCP-Buffer Tweaks
-- New WiFi Tweaks
-- New Photo and Video Recording Tweaks
-- New Streaming Media Tweaks
-- New Photo & Video Recording Quality Tweaks. Beautiful Photos
-- New Google DNS Tweak
-- New Better Flash Tweak
-- New Bravia Engine Tweak
-- Removed Nova Launcher
-- Removed Google TTS (Install from PlayStore)
-- Added back AOSP Launcher
-- Added Stock File Manager
-- Added ES File Explorer
-- Added YouTube
-- Added Gmail
-- Added Google Play Services,
-- Added Google MAPS
-- Added Greenify
-- Added SMS Backup App
-- Only 283 MB
-- Updated Google Play Store 4.5.10
-- Live Wallpaper Picker removed (Patch provided in ADDON section, if someone still wants it)
-- Restored 4.2 Stock Camera 1088p Video Recording (4.3 Flashable zip available)
-- Some people may find more battery drain in Final 1.0 than 0.3F, that is because 0.3F had only Nova Launcher and Final 1.0 have only Stock Launcher. You are requested to use the rom with Nova Launcher as default launcher & Greenify for best results.
(11-12-13): Stable Build 0.3F : Fully Smooth and Stable... and now more lighter.
-- Download Links: DEVHOST
-- DIRTY FLASH VERSION Install on previous version (No Data Wipe required, but still you must take Nandroid Backup)
-- Always check MD5 Checksum before flashing: 46f35665d286496b3d85effa657fa664
-- Only 254 MB
-- AOSP Launcher REMOVED (24MB Free ) If you still want it flash this and check this post
-- Updated Nova Launcher Free Added (only 3mb)
-- Updated Google Play Store 4.5.10
-- Updated OI FileManager
-- Live WallPaper removed (just to save few MBs)
-- Live Wallpaper Picker removed
-- Live Mtk Video Live Wallpaper removed
-- Gallery Editor FC Fixed
NOTE: First reboot may take some time.
Bug Minor: Google Text to Speech FC: Fixed with this update patch in this post.
(10-12-13): Build 0.3E :
-- Skipped due to messed up rom.
(01-12-13): Stable Build 0.3D : Fully Smooth and Stable
-- Download Link: DevHost
-- Only 270 MB
-- ROM Fully re-compiled and all known bugs fixed. Camera 4.3 and Email working perfect.
-- Touch Sensitivity Improved.
-- Ad Block's hosts
-- Launcher forced in memory (Reboot if launcher is changed, for great results)
-- Render UI with GPU to reduce CPU usage
-- Faster Wi-Fi connection initialization
-- Deep Sleep tweaked
-- Camera Sound forced to silent in two ways
-- Quick Boot (small app pre-installed) for Reboot / Reboot to Recovery Option
-- Important: Full wipe version. Please download full rom.
Bugs:
-- Gallery Editor FC (minor bug found & fixed here)
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(28-11-13): Experimental Build 0.3b : Small Update (Previous version to 0.3b don't try on higher builds)
-- Touch Sensitivity Improved.
-- Ad Block's hosts
Bugs:
1) Email, Exchange FC. Fixed in next update.
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(19-11-13) : Experimental Build 0.3a
-- Fully Zip-Aligned and signed
-- some minor fixes in libraries. (replaced some new versions so files)
(18-11-13) : Experimental Build 0.2b
-- Fixed Camera Panorama mode. Updated missing Library files.
(16-11-13) : Experimental Build 0.2
-- Latest Play Store 4.4.21 added
-- Lighter Google Boot-animation
-- Removed Boot sounds, so we can flash roms at late nights, without disturbing sleep of other members of family.
-- Silent Camera (Click, Focus, Shutter all sounds silenced) now take quiet shots even if volume is full
-- some minor adjustments
-- FIX: Camera 4.3 Fix for build V0.2 only, provided by is0l4ted. Download from this post. Remember this is not required for next build V0.2b or later. Thanks for the great timely and time-saving help. *Not tested by me.
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(15-11-13) : Experimental Build 0.1B
-- Fixed Camera 4.3: Now working Panorama (PhotoSphere360 removed as not compatible)
-- Boot-animation Changed back to CHD Stock
-- Removed Boot sound
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Day1 (14-Nov-2013) : Experimental Build 0.1A
--- Bug: Camera FC in Panorama and PhotoSpere360 -- fix available in thread
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MISC DOWNLOADS:
Special BootLogo for this rom. Flash if someone is still getting boot image from any previous rom.
Download Flashable
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Wallpapers: Download whole bunch of Wallpapers or find how to extract single current wallpaper
REFERENCES:
XLD vs SLD for Gaming. Which Better? ha ha ha ! discussion
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Frequently Asked Questions
1) Why there is more battery drain in Final v1.0+ than v0.3F?
Answer: In v0.3f I removed stock launcher and provided only single Free Nova Launcher which was experimental step. The launcher performance was smooth and great due to Nova's commercial skills. Its very lightweight and less battery consumer. But in Final V1.0 , I completely removed NOVA and re-added Stock Launcher which takes more space in memory and also few more points of battery is consumed.
But now in 1.5 , both launchers are installed and I will suggest all to select NOVA LAUNCHER when asked for default launcher. However you still have choice to select all wallpapers from stock launcher.
2) I have TWRP 2.6.3.0 and getting "cannot create folder" error when I try to take backup?
Answer: Solution A) Visit this link for simple workaround for this 2.6.3.0 backup issue.
Solution B) If possible try to be on TWRP v2.5.0.0, it works flawlessly. You can install it with Mobile Uncle too. Just copy recovery.img on root of external sdcard and run "Mobile uncle tool" app and click update recovery and select this recoery.img file. No need for 2.6.3.0 when 2.5.0.0 is working flawlessly.
3) GPS is not fixing out of Bhaarat (India). Any solution?
Answer: GPS locks very fast in Bhaarat (India), tested ok. Its possible that for users out of Bhaarat, GPS may not lock. Try updating EPO Assistance as mentioned on this post. Carefully read all steps. May solve your problem like many others confirmed.
4) BootLogo Not Changing? After your rom, I flashed another rom, but the your bootlogo remained/not changed. Why it is still showing? How to restore back to Original Canvas HD bootlogo?
Answer: Generally every rom-makers should wipe previous Boot-Logo and install fresh logo for new rom, but if they dont do it, it is obvious bootlogo from previous rom will keep showing. There are many workaround for this.
---- Flash this DEFAULT LOGO patch.
---- If still previous logo is seen for 1 second while booting, then find and delete this file
/system/media/images/boot_logo
5) My GPS is not connecting in India/out of India. What to do?
Answer: GPS works perfect in Bhaarat (India) without any workaround, tested ok. But for some it may not work at first attempt. You may try updating EPO Assistance on following link. Please read instructions carefully. Confirmed working for users within and outside Bhaarat. http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...1&postcount=89
6) Titanium Backup not recognizing External SDCard. How to fix/setup Memory Swapping and Mapping?
Answer: MemorySwap Fix: If you want SDCard memory mapping to be fixed or getting problems in restoring Titanium Backup data, then flash this patch. : Download and flash this Patch
After this patch your memory will be mapped freshly, so you may need to go to reset: Settings > Storage > SDCard option for all apps to work normally.
7) Should I flash any other kernel?
Answer: This rom is Optimized to extreme level to give you best performance. This smartly tweaked rom comes with Stock kernel which have confirmed advantage of No Bugs, Reliability, Good Battery Backup and Superb Power performance. It is advised that you try this rom with included stock kernel for few days and then if you are not satisfied, you are free to flash any kernel you want as per your choice. If you face any issues on other kernels, I cannot help you much and you should contact kernel developer for further help.
EDIT: Just to add, heavy games like Asphalt8 and NOVA3 runs like butter. And most of the gamers are getting more than 5 hours of game time in single charge which is unbelievable but true. I am not gamer, but other gamers have confirmed it.
8) When the battery is below 50/40%, then battery is jumps/drops down rapidly.
Answer: Generally after flashing any rom, the battery Synchronization may get disturbed due to some time spent in recovery mode or by due to some miscalculation of actual battery count and battery information saved in phone. Therefore I always add Battery Synchronization app in all my roms.
To Synchronize...... Charge phone upto 100% then do Battery Synchronization with app and then remove charger.
Do this again after 12/15 hours. Now your battery should be in proper sync. Generally a properly battery sync'ed phone should give you 2 and half days and it is confirmed by hundreds of users. That also means its only your problem.
If this still does not improve then most probably your battery health is deteriorated and it could be the time to buy new battery.
More Screenshots:
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3G in Second SIM.
3G in First SIM.
My Standard Lock and Home Screen
OTG CABLE WORKS PERFECT WITH PENDRIVE AND MOUSE
Screenshots please
@op
woooo, 800 mb free ram at boot, tats quite awsum ... wanna try this, but it's very hard to migrate from MIUI u know ... ... anyways will check out the screenshots .... :good::good:
So exited..
Reserved for feedback and mods..
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So exited..
Reserved for feedback and mods..
manojbose1986 said:
Screenshots please
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rkn989 said:
@op
woooo, 800 mb free ram at boot, tats quite awsum ... wanna try this, but it's very hard to migrate from MIUI u know ... ... anyways will check out the screenshots ....
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Screenshots up there in OP/2nd post and more in following Album
http://forum.xda-developers.com/album.php?albumid=10289
kaydee said:
So exited..
Reserved for feedback and mods..
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So exited..
Reserved for feedback and mods..
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ha ha Thanks @kaydee I can feel your excitement with your post. Lets make this rom, more perfect with tweaks and mods. Suggestions are welcomed (in PM).
Thanks Mahendra. Flashed the ROM. UI seems smooth. Will post my review soon.
Can you please confirm free ram of 800MB+ at first boot? I got 568MB only. Please confirm and thanks again.\
EDIT: See that you misunderstood Internal storage for free RAM
Also getting chinese characters+AMOI screen at boot and shutdown. What is that?
Lol i was about to upload this rom in a day or two, thanks for doing the job, appreciate it :good::good:
akshay380 said:
Thanks Mahendra. Flashed the ROM. UI seems smooth. Will post my review soon.
Can you please confirm free ram of 800MB+ at first boot? I got 568MB only. Please confirm and thanks again.\
EDIT: See that you misunderstood Internal storage for free RAM
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Thanks for trying. Hope you also did not find any bugs like me. Yes, I mixed up two lines in a hurry, now seperated. Internal Storage and Free Ram. Thanks for notifying. I hope you pressed thanks button too
akshay380 said:
Also getting chinese characters+AMOI screen at boot and shutdown. What is that?
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Thats Bootanimation which will be changed later with bootanimation update. Please wait with patience, will release an update asap. Or you can flash stock bootanimation for A116 found somewhere in forum
skdmech94 said:
Lol i was about to upload this rom in a day or two, thanks for doing the job, appreciate it :good::good:
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Thanks a lot. Actually I made this for personal use as I like minimalistic roms and did not know that it will give so stable result with selected base rom. By the time everyone will be on P18 baseband so everyone will get good performance with this rom. I will be doing some more changes in the rom. You may please post your rom too with your chosen KitKat UI on Canvas4 base rom. Best of luck :good:
cmahendra said:
Thanks for trying. Hope you also did not find any bugs like me. Yes, I mixed up two lines in a hurry, now seperated. Internal Storage and Free Ram. Thanks for notifying. I hope you pressed thanks button too
Thats Bootanimation which will be changed later with bootanimation update. Please wait with patience, will release an update asap. Or you can flash stock bootanimation for A116 found somewhere in forum
Thanks a lot. Actually I made this for personal use as I like minimalistic roms and did not know that it will give so stable result with selected base rom. By the time everyone will be on P18 baseband so everyone will get good performance with this rom. I will be doing some more changes in the rom. You may please post your rom too with your chosen KitKat UI on Canvas4 base rom. Best of luck :good:
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An Awesome Port!!
Reviews Await!! :victory:
is0l4ted said:
An Awesome Port!!
Reviews Await!! :victory:
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Review?? Lol I have tested his rom and this is perfect masterpiece and also its so light rom. In Love with this rom. Pure AOSP. M gonna download it soon and check with mine what wrong I did. And then start working on kitkat ui Soon.
Hope u dont mind @cmahendra
is0l4ted said:
An Awesome Port!!
Reviews Await!! :victory:
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Thanks a lot. Reviews are welcomed.
skdmech94 said:
Review?? Lol I have tested his rom and this is perfect masterpiece and also its so light rom. In Love with this rom. Pure AOSP. M gonna download it soon and check with mine what wrong I did. And then start working on kitkat ui Soon.
Hope u dont mind @cmahendra
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Thanks but please check PM.
a lil' dissatisfied!!
Everything is great and minimal, but panorama and 360 panorama in provided camera app is giving fc.
Other things---
-> old version of Play Store
Some suggestions --
-> Can use Camera from MMX latest Stock
-> I float and apps would be good but it is a minimalistic so no arguments.
Other then this everything is great and good about battery will update after..
Thanxxxx for the ROM brother... Great Job!!
Awesome, I flashed it on my Wiko Cink Five, and it's working great! True AOSP at last!
is0l4ted said:
Everything is great and minimal, but panorama and 360 panorama in provided camera app is giving fc.
Other things---
-> old version of Play Store
Some suggestions --
-> Can use Camera from MMX latest Stock
-> I float and apps would be good but it is a minimalistic so no arguments.
Other then this everything is great and good about battery will update after..
Thanxxxx for the ROM brother... Great Job!!
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Thanks for review and bug report.
1) I did not test panorama in camera. This camera comes with Panorama/360 which requires Gyroscope with magnetic compass. CHD does not have it as hardware. I am providing camera fix in OP for people who already flashed rom.
2) Play Store gets updated within 5 minutes when connected to Wi-Fi but it will be added soon.
3) Yes, you got it right. People like Minimalistic rom. Not everyone is comfortable with Floating windows on phone which costs 12.5K (including me)
Soon I will upload full rom with bugless 4.3 camera and updated Play Store
sebbync said:
Awesome, I flashed it on my Wiko Cink Five, and it's working great! True AOSP at last!
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Thanks a lot for trying. Please give feedback.
Camera Fix (Install 4.3 Camera)
Camera Bug WorkAround. Photo and Video Shooting works perfect but Wide Panorama and 360 PhotoSpere does Force-Closes. The reason is the feature requires hardware features like Gyroscope and/or Magnetic Compass. CHD does not have it. But I am providing following camera fix in OP for people who already flashed rom.
1) Download this APK and save in sdcard. http://d-h.st/EXx
2) Before installing this APK, you should "DELETE" both following files (whichever exists) via "ES File Explorer" or "OI File Manager" or "Root Explorer"
/system/app/Gallery2.apk
/system/app/com.google.android.gallery3d.apk
Before deleting this file with ES File Explorer, you will need to mount System Partition in R/W (read write) mode as follows...
---(settings > Tools > Root Explorer > Mount R/W)
3) Install this APK like any normal APK and reboot. Done!
You will be now able to use Horizontal Panorama normally with all other features of 4.3 Camera.
Hope this helps.
is0l4ted said:
Everything is great and minimal, but panorama and 360 panorama in provided camera app is giving fc.
Other things---
-> old version of Play Store
Some suggestions --
-> Can use Camera from MMX latest Stock
-> I float and apps would be good but it is a minimalistic so no arguments.
Other then this everything is great and good about battery will update after..
Thanxxxx for the ROM brother... Great Job!!
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As said, play store gets automatic updates. And for camera, its obvious that all things wont work as some missing H/W.
So, for camera, you can use, Lenovo SuperCamera (you need 3 more libs for that)
libjni_filtershow_filters.so
libjni_mosaic.so
liblightcycle.so
Install Lenovo Super camera in /data/app and not as /system/app. OR you can use your stock camera if you want.
srihari210 said:
As said, play store gets automatic updates. And for camera, its obvious that all things wont work as some missing H/W.
So, for camera, you can use, Lenovo SuperCamera (you need 3 more libs for that)
libjni_filtershow_filters.so
libjni_mosaic.so
liblightcycle.so
Install Lenovo Super camera in /data/app and not as /system/app. OR you can use your stock camera if you want.
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Oops!! My Thanxxx count exhausted.. Will sure thank you for letting me know the libs as I tried the Stock one of MMX from Turbo ROM but that was also giving FC so going to try again... Will post links as I found one working.
Edit:
I found one everything is working except BurstShot.
Well, Lenovo Super Camera produces heavily noised images with about 8mp shot on the same hand Included camera app does good in noise reduction. Added libs as you stated but burst not working. Thanxxxx
Another diagnosed error : Parse Error! In SuperGallery of Lenovo Super Camera on playing Captured GIF images and just disappearing when playing downloaded GIF images. Workaround required!!
Provided another Camera app by OP in #18 is working well rather you have to have rename the downloaded apk to "Gallery2" to install as normal apk otherwise you will get App not installed error.
My sugestion Camera app from Turbo ROM by kenu_Ritz will be good for near future updates.
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I guess , it is about time to move my ass and do something useful in here
In this Guide i will try to provide you with the best optimization for the roms , based solely on my use and testing for the past days :angel: , so lets get started
As always , basic knowledge is required at least , you know how to do a Nand backup in TWRP , so make sure you know what you are doing
It is better if you do this on a clean install
Note : i'm merging the guide for the two roms , but i will provided side tips for each rom if needed
Note 2 : lollipop is still , in early stages in development and if you didn't already know , there has been a bug that hit the wave in his weak point "Ram"
second to that there is a great lag in dialer , so that making calls or receive them , will give you a headache , read further in links
Lollipop memory leak http://www.xda-developers.com/lollipop-memory-leak-fixed/
Dialer lag https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=81593
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82949
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/lag-dialer-contacts-t1958171/page2
i will provide you with my work around on this bug
Note 3 : due to memory leaking sometimes the phone just reboot ,
Note 4: Omni 4.4 / Lollipop / GearCM /better , honestly for now i only recommend using Omni 4.4 (NAND) or GearCM (NAND) i tested/used it for long time with no major bugs . but looking forward to the next release of Lollipop
Reviews
Omni review by Hero355
GearCM review
Lollipop review
How to Install Android Lollipop on Samsung wave devices
Best Roms (Very stable and recommended for daily use)
[ROM][WIP][NAND] Omni 4.4 - 11.12.2014 by @volk204
Omni review by Hero355
[GearCM][NAND|S85xx][4.4.4] Optimized CyanogenMod 11 for Samsung Wave I/II by @Alberto96
Tip 1 : note that some of this tweaks will take place after you reboot your phone
Tip 2: Start this Guide by deactivating All "other sounds" in sound settings .
1- Apps you gonna need / recommended / and Gapps
As stated by @volk204
volk204 said:
GAPPS make our ROM slowler, because also slim GAPPS take about 15-20 MB RAM permanently
I use PICO MODULAR PACKAGE from http://forum.xda-developers.com/par...apps-official-to-date-pa-google-apps-t2943900
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*Do NOT install Gapps unless you really need them , specially with Lollipop , (NB : note that i don't use Gapps , and this Guide is based on that)
*Use an apk downloader website and search for your application , download, put them on the sd card , and install . couldn't be any easier
*Root you rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1538053
*Download those APKs
To remove android bloatware System app remover (ROOT) (if Lollipop) Andromizer (if omni)
To replace native browser : Opera Mini (for casual browsing on 3G ,fast ,save battery and data) and Atlas web browser (an great browser , with awesome features that will be more useful on the wave)
Apps/Ram/battery saver : Greenify
Tweaking the kernel : [ROOT] Kernel Tweaker
File manager : CM file manager 1.0.2 search for it , or download it from the attachment .
Video player : Mx player
2- Install the above apps and remove those
Use andromizer (omni 4..4) or System app remover (Lollipop) to remove the following apps , and reboot (and remove andromizer/System app remover , you don't need them anymore )
you don't need most of those apks , and you could remove more , those are the apps i don't need , and probably so do you , i recommend you remove them
Q: What those apps do ? is it safe to remove them ?
A: Safe , yes . read further in this guide What Android Apps(Bloatware) are Safe to Remove?
3-Battery Calibration / Voltage control / Kernel governors
*you probably already know this , there is no such apk that do battery calibration or saving battery , our amazing devs already put so much effort in tweaking the kernel to safe battery .
a Software will never repair a hardware
*but before all that (calibrate) it by : draining your battery until the phone shut down , try turning it on again to make sure battery is truly low
the trick is to fully charging it in Bada mode , by pluging the charge in while pressing the call button (phone off).
*Voltage control :
100 Hz and 200 Hz work on the same voltage , seeing that most of time in state are in 100 HZ and in this frequency ,CPU would take more time to accomplish tasks than in 200HZ , it is only logical to reduce the voltage on 100 HZ ,
you need a 3rd parties apps to modify the value as the original Dev asks to not implement the code the rom directly (use [ROOT] Kernel Tweaker) .
i played with value and here is the value the phone freeze at it (governors was set to performance , and max value is the freq tested).
phone freeze at this value 100HZ-750mv 200HZ-800mv 400HZ-875mv 800HZ-1075mv 1000HZ-1175mv
i used 100 mv (Omni) 125 mv (lollipop) above this setting , with no freezing or problems , you can push it further and test it more
Use kernel tweaker , under the UV table, enter the voltage value , make sure to give root permission and set it to apply value on boot , and reboot.
*Kernel Governors:
-For omni 4.4 , i really like what i have on interactive 100-1000 mhz , i didn't tweak it but you surely could , if you want ;
read this [REF][TWEAKS] Kernel Governors, Modules, I/O Schedulers, CPU Tweaks, AIO App Configs before you make any dummy change
NB : make sure to note this , as the wave now is considered a low end device , some governors will put a reverse effect on battery , for example setting the governors on Conservative will drain battery much more .
Since the processor will run on low frequency , it will take it much time to do tasks , and therefore it will consume much likely than it do on high frequency , roughly 5 seconds on 200mhz consume more than 3 seconds on 800mhz
Further more you we'll notice a slight lag , due to the fact that the conservative governor increases and decreases CPU speed more gradually. Simply put, this governor increases the frequency step by step on CPU load and jumps to lowest frequency on CPU idle.
so if you use heavy tasks apps on your mobile i don't recommend using "conservative" , it is much suited with daily life usage (calling , messaging , casual browsing ...)
ok : (tested for Omni 4.4)
you need Performance : Go with 100-1200 interactive
In the middle : Go with 100-1200 conservative
Battery safe : Go with 100-1000 conservative
-For Lollipop; well for starter interactive on 100-1200 mhz is a nice choice , i will dig it further and report
*Battery Testing : 100-1000 Mhz interactive
Playing movie from Sd card on full brightness drain battery by 12.17%/hour about 7 hours and half play time at full brightness
on Standby , don't expect so much , battery drain at 0.9 to 1.2 %/ hours on (3G mode , Auto sync deactivated ),so about 110 hours (4 days and half) :fingers-crossed:
4-Ram management software
Ram manager or such software is just a bull****, there is a saying i read it a while ago on xda that "A free Ram is a wasted Ram " so don't try to kill apps because they just take more battery and resources when they relaunch .
5-Using Greenify : (donated version recommended)
Greenify help you identify and put the misbehaving apps into hibernation when you are not using them, to stop them from lagging your device and leeching the battery , with that been said
Do not Greenify any app that you use a lot or an app that relaunch itself like "download manager" "Google play services " it will only cost you your battery life
For example you can greenify mail.apk if you disable auto-sync
For me ;
6- Gapps (what if i need google play service)
-well ; note that there 's always an alternative to any apk that require Google play service , Google oblige you to use them , so that they push you some Ads and keep track of your location :laugh: , maybe isn't quite true , but i like to believe so .
-any way here is what you need to do :
*Install Gapps link
*Log to your Google account let it update "Google Play service" and "Play store"
*Download 3C Toolbox Aka Android tuner
*Disable play store , it will ask you to remove updated , say yes (activated it when needed)
*Disable also : Google contact sync , Google calender sync (if you do not sync events from your google account) , Google backup transport ( backing up data to your google account , also disable if not needed)
it will get a little tricky here so :fingers-crossed: :angel: and Say thanks to xda assist @timmaaa for his guide , (i retouched it a little )
*Go to setting - Apps permissions - Google play services and put every thing to off
*Next step we gonna reduce the wake locks of Google play service to the point , like it was never installed :highfive:
timmaaa said:
*Open 3C toolbox , give it root access , pull out the side menu, scroll down to the Apps Manager section and select Application Startups. Open the box at the top and change it to All, click the button in the bottom-right until it says System, scroll to Google Play Services and select it, a huge list will open, scroll to very near the bottom and find the Wakeup option, uncheck the box.
*Go back to the main menu of Android Tuner and pull out the side menu on the left, scroll down to the Apps Manager section and select Application Manager. Click the centre box at the bottom until it says System, scroll to find Google Play Services and highlight it, press the Manage button in the bottom-right and select Permissions. This should bring you to the Perms tab, swipe across to the Services tab. In this list you want to uncheck anything that starts with Ads or Analytics ,Games , Wallet you also want to uncheck anything that starts with com.Google.android.location.reporting as well.
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NB: make sure to not ; i repeat to not uncheck this com.Google.android.location.reporting.preference.service . it will cause play services to keep looping and never go to sleep
timmaaa said:
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* if you want to push this further , disable the same services ( Ads or Analytics ,Games , Wallet , location report) from the other tabs (receivers , providers , activities ) be careful to not causing a loop that will keep wack locking your devices , do it at your own risk , it needs more testing :angel:
the result will be like this
screenshot in Google setting when opening "play games" , completely disabled :highfive:
NB : if you see , a pop up at boot saying , google play service crashed , just click ok , ( crash related to the service not needed , we did disable) , Google play service still work fine with apps and Google maps
Note : remove 3C toolbox (not needed) after you do every step correctly and the apps work as it should
7- Applications :
*Browser :
Set your default browser to Atlas browser , there 2 awesome thing about this browser :
1- it offer free Ad block , and Java script pop out windows blocker , and believe me it 'll deliver say thanks for Xda senior member @tliebeck
2- The "Experience" selector controls what types of rich content are displayed. The "HI-FI" mode provides the full experience, while the "LO-FI" mode disables JavaScript and rich media. Using LO-FI can have a tremendous impact on performance, but may come at the expense of web site functionality. A final "TEXT" option can be useful in critical low-signal situations.
*Mediaplayer :
from setting Set MX player to always use S/W decoder for online and local , it will give more space to the processor to work .
8-Managing media scans :
Media scan , for multimedia files , runs every times at startup and every time you lunch gallery or take picture , it will scan all folders in your storage and it will take sometimes more than 20 mins to finish , which will cost you some % on battery
so open CM file manager :
*one by one select every folder with no playable media like for exemple "android" folder
*press and hold , and select proprieties
*check "skip media scan"
*click ok
9- Loollipop Caller lag , and Omni 4.4 optimization :
probably there is a bug with the animation scaling , or it is a bug that over eat the ram
to fix temporary the lag in Lollipop caller lag ; do the following :
*Go to developer option
*scroll down , and turn off the following :
NB : note that effects will take place after you reboot your phone
NB 2: make sure to deactivate All "other sounds" in sound settings .
Appling this on Omni 4.4 will result in so much improvement , specially in opening big apps with boot animation
10- Moving apps and links2sd
[Guide] partition and link2sd [pictures included for each step] by @sanny5
Don't use this on Lollipop , there not even the available RAM to open the native apps
Moving apps to SD , uses at least 30 MB of RAM (Xposed + Modules + Link to SD )
It is not worth it , even on Omni 4.4 with a few apps installed
11- USB mass storage support
This only supported in GearCM ROM
12- Mobile Network
Bad Call Quality while on 2G (GPRS & EDGE) Networks (probably related to AMR_WB)
Dynamic Switching between 2G (GPRS & EDGE) & 3G (UMTS & HSDPA) doesn't work (it is recommended to use 3G Only mode)
13- How to solve encryption is unsuccessful Error :
The problem came from the Data partition being formatted in F2FS format , because you did it or the previous ROM you installed did it automatically
The problem rises when you try to install omni 4.4 , because the kernel has no support for F2FS , and Kernel read data as encrypted and can't do anything
to solve this boot to TWRP , and format everything to "ext4"
Flash rom again
If this Guide helped you in anyway , make sure to thank first xda developers @volk204 @Rebellos @Alberto96 , without their work and effort developing the ROM , this Guide won't be possible .
Thanks also for all the original Badadroid porting team .
enjoy !!
Reserved
also add
developer option-> background process limit ->at most 2 processes
m90ultimate said:
also add
developer option-> background process limit ->at most 2 processes
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that maybe will cause a reverse effect if you think about it ,
setting it " at most 2 processes" , surely will give you slightly better performance
but in other hand , android keep killing background processes , but those processes never sleep , it keep relaunching
that will cause a loop
and launching app take more of battery than when leaving it running
en plus an unused ram is wasted ram
regards
m90ultimate said:
also add
developer option-> background process limit ->at most 2 processes
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Side note : you can't set it to load at boot , anyway
nice guide
Hi ice_ice, i see you have done many things for tweaking those roms! Thank you for the guide! :good::good::good:
Majd7667 said:
Hi ice_ice, i see you have done many things for tweaking those roms! Thank you for the guide! :good::good::good:
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you welcome
recommendation
thanks for explanation of following tweaks
but
for voltage values i have better one
1.850mv for 100 & 200 mhz
2.950mv for 400mhz
3.1100mv for 800mhz
4.1150mv for 1000mhz
these values are highly stable.
Hi, @ice_ice.
Please give proper credit for section 6 of your guide, that was almost entirely written by me. I know you mention to say thanks to me for the guide but that doesn't really make it clear that that section is (mostly) a copy of my work.
Thanks, and well done on your thread.
timmaaa said:
Hi, @ice_ice.
Please give proper credit for section 6 of your guide, that was almost entirely written by me. I know you mention to say thanks to me for the guide but that doesn't really make it clear that that section is (mostly) a copy of my work.
Thanks, and well done on your thread.
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done , sorry for the inconvenient
black0000 said:
thanks for explanation of following tweaks
but
for voltage values i have better one
1.850mv for 100 & 200 mhz
2.950mv for 400mhz
3.1100mv for 800mhz
4.1150mv for 1000mhz
these values are highly stable.
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yes , you can push it further , as it fit best with your daily use
i tested my value on different use , and situation , and it probably work fine in most situation
i have little concern about "1150mv for 1000mhz" , since i tried that and the phone freeze on heavy tasks , i tested that with endomondo and playing music with apolo , phone suddenly freezes , run tracking was ruined :crying:
since the phone use the following frequencies by order of % , 100mhz , 800mhz , 200mhz , 1000mhz , it is more interesting to tweak the 100mhz
ice_ice said:
yes , you can push it further , as it fit best with your daily use
i tested my value on different use , and situation , and it probably work fine in most situation
i have little concern about "1150mv for 1000mhz" , since i tried that and the phone freeze on heavy tasks , i tested that with endomondo and playing music with apolo , phone suddenly freezes , run tracking was ruined :crying:
since the phone use the following frequencies by order of % , 100mhz , 800mhz , 200mhz , 1000mhz , it is more interesting to tweak the 100mhz
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I'm using these values since one year no freezes at all
but remember although we have same processor but it's not identical since it is not possible to produce two identical thing
these values may be differ little bit.
also, freez may occur with other values not only 1000 mhz
like if ur 1000 mhz values is correct but 800mhz values is unstable then also freez occurs
ihave played asphalt 8, mc4,5 , most wanted gt racing2, real racing 3 etc. using these values in ics with no freeze.
:good:
black0000 said:
but remember although we have same processor but it's not identical since it is not possible to produce two identical thing
these values may be differ little bit.
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didn't consider that , thx :highfive:
can you post screenshots for battery statistics and wacklocks from the performance menu :angel:
any way here is some batteries
*this one is 3,000mAh extended but so ugly
http://www.yoobao.com/en/product.asp?b_id=127&m_id=256&a_id=364
*others interesting (samsung wave battery dimensions are 64 mm x 43mm x 5 mm , so some alternative 3rd parties batteries )
2450mah - High capacity golden battery
Link Dream B494358vu 3.7v 2500mah Li-ion Battery
maxximus extra power 1700mah for samsung wave
Link Dream 3.7V 1700mAh Cell Phone Battery EB504465VU for Samsung Admire
Regards
ice_ice said:
:good: didn't consider that , thx :highfive:
can you post screenshots for battery statistics and wacklocks from the performance menu :angel:
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my battery is 4 year old
so it doesn't deliver good performance
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☆☆[ZIP] [GUIDE] NOTE 4 - KERNEL Profiles and Tweaks [Simple, Easy] [5 Jan] ☆
NOTE 4 Snapdragon Kernel-Tweaks
*Post 4 Updated with profiles zip , but don't forget to read
Hello fellow Note 4 users and all other who have a device with a Snapdragon 805 SoC , Ever since I made the Nameless Optimizer for our Nameless ROM , there was a lot of requests for making it available for all ROMs , I wish to express here that such a thing is impossible without modding the whole ROM , but I'll guide you to use some important tweaks that would make a DIFFERENCE
CONTENTS
1. Introduction and Credits
2. The Guide
3. The tweaks
4. Profiles zip (NEW)
5. RAM Manager (*NEW)
6. Troubleshooting and FAQ
Optimizing the CPU
I am sure you have always wondered whether it is possible to have a better battery life without sacrificing performance ,
I won't say its magically possible to get 10 hrs sot with ultra-heavy usage...
But if you follow this guide carefully/use these profiles it would much better than what u have ever had on your Note 4
Contributors
@Senthil360
Google+ : Find Me Here
My sincere thanks to
@Crimsonthunder for adding things in kernel and helping me,
@Pafcholini for that incredible touchboost option , and lot of other helps
@friedrich420 for AEL kernel
@psyntific and @F4uzan for testing the values
and my whole Nameless Team
Note to users : Be helpful to each other , use this thread as an opportunity to enhance your knowledge in kernel tweaks, I sincerely expect this thread to be filled with any/all sorts of tweaking doubts , so before posting something, kindly hit the search button
Ok lets cut to the chase
So I want to mention here three things which affects the battery and performance
1. Screen Brightness (affects only battery) - Well it depends on our personal usage , and we can't do much regarding that
2.Apps , services , background tasks- These topics have been discussed a million times here on XDA , disabling services , amplify , greenify and infinite other things...
My personal settings are
Greenify - Yes - (most of the data dependent user apps ,excluding system apps)
Xposed -No
Sync - Occasionally
Location - Disabled(default)
P.S - I use a greenify widget at homescreen to hibernate time to time
** I will provide the custom lmk values below
3.CPU frequencies and Voltages
Ok this is the most important thing that we are going to discuss here,
This is for INTERACTIVE and Interactive based governors.
Most of us use Interactive and interactive based governors because its the most reliable and its good balance between battery and performance , but actually it could be improved way more than how it behaves at default state...
The Problem
The most annoying feature of this governor are
1. It spends unnecessary time at higher frequencies draining too much battery
2. At times it stays at lower freqencies when we need that sudden burst , instead we only see stutters and delayed app opening/loading
These silly behaviour is what we are going to change (Note : Tested with following kernels , NL (not official), Emotion and AEL)
A Comparison
Take a look below in these screenshots, the first one is without tweaks ,
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This is below is tweaked interactive
** Tweaked interactive has more battery life and performance than default **.
So now after those screenshots you might be wondering , yeah I see a bunch of frequencies being used , What's the deal?
Here's the answer, what we are going to do , we are going to instruct the CPU to use frequencies according to the situation ,cleverly to improve battery life without sacrificing performance.
** Here CPU = Governor + Hotplug
For example consider the activity of *Loading and reading a webpage*
Default interactive behaviour :
Opening browser : 2649 Mhz
Loading : 2649 Mhz
And while u look at screen , without touching - it scales to 1574 Mhz every 2 secs for no reason
Scrolling webpage - It will start with minimum of 1574 Mhz at 2 cores and reach 2649 Mhz
Damn thats too much...
**Tweaked Interactive Behaviour :
Opening browser : 1190 to 1497 mhz
loading 729 mhz to 1728 mhz on each core (depending on load of webpage)
looking at screen : 300mhz to 499 mhz
scrolling webpage : 729 to 1190 mhz across each core ( it will increase depending on ur scrolling speed )
That was just an example for Browser , but it is optimized for every activity, right from listening music in idle to Playing a hd game )
The Solution
"Really? But How?" you might ask , lol
** A) Well first of all, you might not have heard a dumber thing than this, Samsung had put tons of Exynos value on the snapdragon variants which we are going to deal with (Note : stock exynos values may have beem removed in custom kernels)
** B) Next , here is the golden formula
Power consumption = (Voltage^2) × (Frequency× no of cores)
**(Actually the real formula also needs to be multiplied with the Capacitance of SoC but since it is a constant it is insignificant in this formula)
Alright what that means , To put it simply More cores with LESSER frequency is MORE EFFICIENT than lesser cores with HIGHER frequency
Yeah that's right,and huge thanks to @psyntific for helping with me during all tests irrespective of Night or Day
See these calculated values,
For 2649 ghz at 2 cores
(1080^2) × (2649 × 2) = 6,179,587,200 (i)
Similarly for 1497 at 4 cores
(890^2) × (1497 × 4) = 4,743,094,800 (ii)
Dividing (ii) by (i) , we are saving 25 % at higher frequency, but as i said above this saving is much more in other cases , i.e Browsing , scrolling , app opening
C) Tweaking more cores to start scaling up from lesser frequency
This is one other important tweak , the holtplugs are tweaked in such a way that they will give priority to using more cores rather than frequency while task is increasing and shutting down much better while task decreases , infact its a combination of governor and hotplug tweaks
D) And tons of more governor and system tweaks like Boost duration, frequency sampling/polling rate (Every milliseconds makes a difference) , pardon me its impossible to mention everything here , I'll add it in the tweaks section
Oh have to mention this,
However, if you put any trust in Quadrant scores you could use them to prove that dancing naked for 5 minutes in your garden affects device performance.*-*Chainfire
Phew and now that you are ENLIGHTENED , let's proceed to the easier tweaking part
The Tweaks
Required app : Kernel Adiutor (special build for Note 4 by @Pafcholini)
Find it here :
https://mega.nz/#!JgMjBLab!m1Hgm0S0Xs-YqN5PM5wkmREndb_QsLsNLH66yzo3bj0
☆ 1. Interactive based -performance and battery
Hotplug tweak
* Disable all other hotplugs
*Enable MSM Mpdecision Hotplug (at bottom)
* Minimum CPU online = 2
* Maximum CPU online = 4
* Max Cores Screen-off = 1
* Idle Frequency = 960 Mhz
* Start delay = 5000 ms or lesser
* Delay = 75
Interactive tweak
Follow the same order while tweaking and do exactly as described , otherwise it won't work
* Set governor to Interactive
* Disable scheduled workqueues
*Disable cpu-boost unless absolutely necessary
Open governor tunables and change the following
*(Note for Emotion users) If bk_locked is 1 change it to 0 before tweaking and then for making the new values stick change it back to 1
* boostpulse_duration = 80000
* go_hispeed_load = 95
* hispeed_freq = 499200
* input_boost_freq = 960000
* min_sample_time = 100000
** target_loads = 98 422400:15 729600:30 1190400:35 1344000:40 1497600:55 1574400:60 1651200:65 1728000:75 1958400:85 2035200:90 2265600:95 2496000:98
(just copy paste lol)
* Now above_hispeed_delay = 20000 1497600:40000 1728000:30000 1958400:30000 2035200:15000 2265600:20000
== If above_hi_speed_delay does not stick copy and paste these values in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/interactive/above_hispeed_delay , save the file and change its permission to 444 to prevent overriding
CPU Voltage tweak
* Decrease global offset by 40 mV (Minus 40 mV)
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Other recommendations
* Intellithermal ON (for gamers)
* I/O scheduler cfq
* KSM OFF (u really don't need this )
* Software CRC control OFF
That's it for now so simple right , more guides technical info will be added later
Even though my intention was to teach you and help people to make thier own tweaks, its proving to be difficult for few or some don't have much time
So now I share my profiles as a falshable zip , you can use it , as it is or as a base to make your own settings , somehow I hope this will be helpful to all the users. Good luck
1. Marshmallow
2. Lollipop
MM kernel based
PROFILES-V4 StableRelease date : 12 / Jun / 2016
These profiles were tested on
* Nameless Kernel 1.2 MM edition
Download here
Spoiler
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24580943222146101
LP kernel based
PROFILES-V3
Release date : 06 /Feb/2016
These profiles were tested on
* AEL 8.4
*Emotion RC23 & 24
*Nameless V7
Download here and flash from recovery
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24399994186369309
PROFILES-V2 StableRelease date : 18 /Jan /2016
These profiles were tested on
* AEL 8.2
*Emotion RC23 and 24 betas
*Nameless V7.0
Download here and flash from recovery
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24369303960687778
PROFILES-V1 StableRelease date : 05 / Jan / 2016
These profiles were tested on
* AEL 8.1
*Emotion RC23
*Nameless V6.0
Download here and flash from recovery
https://mega.nz/#!V9M0kDCI!yc8T4T7-S5BoDwTaboYtODkWn4sdRrLxHUIRLTD5eBQ
The profiles here have few additional codes for settings that are not available in UI of Kernel adiutor , so for full functionality apply after each boot manually. For those who are wondering if these profiles are just the result of changing few settings like governor , hotplug . Its not that and in reality its much more complex, It involves things such as ,
*Going through committ changes of each kernel to make best use of the available features.
*Calculating tunables for governors ,I/O schedulers ,Hotplugs based on the complex algorithms ,formulas that govern them
*Applying these knowledge for our device considering the real-time usage and the interaction between Cpu,hotplugs,schedulers,VM,LMK ,/proc/sys values /sys/module and a lot of other things.
What you see in app is just what the app allows you to see
*Setting up tasker for set on boot :- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64875576&postcount=261
RAM Management
So without further delay let me start with the LMK (Low Memory Killer) parameters
1.Foreground Applications - These are the the current applications that you are using in front of your eyes , For example the browser while you are browsing
2. Visible applications - Let's say after downloading something using browser , it loads another page in the meantime you open the file with a file manager, Now here the Browser is Visible Application and File manager is Foreground application
3. Secondary Server - The components of UI and launcher fall in this category
4. Hidden Applications - This one is little anamolous , the apps which are not running currently visibly like the browser or file manager i mentioned above , but these are the apps that run in background and live on RAM (some are essential, some are useless (bloat) )
5. Content Provider - We can call these linked apps , for example when pressing a number in whatsapp , the dialer comes up here the dialer app is content provider for whatsapp
6. Empty Applications These are needless apps just running and living on RAM which can be killed
Ok Now let's see what happens with the values we set..
To put it simply , suppose say we set the values as 88 , 110 , 132 , 164 , 176 , 220 respectively for the slots 1 to 6 .. (Note 4 5.1.1. Default values ) ,
Lets take the 132 , 3rd slot for example , I said the 3rd slot i.e 'Secondary Server' holds things such as UI launcher related stuff ,
That's Ok but what the hell does 132 represents ? It is nothing but a parameter which tells the system to always keep the 3rd slot a minimum free available memory of 132 MB , so when you try to add more launchers or UI stuff see lags because the system is killing/struggling to keep 132 mb free but you are not allowing it to settle by overloading stuff , you may ask then why can't we simply reduce that value so that it can survive ,
That's right way to think but the problem are
1. To keep android stable the lmk values should be in order i.e 1<2<3<4 <5<6
2. When you reduce these values RAM is piled up with loads of apps which will have negative impact on battery and performance ..
So which way to go , what's the ideal solution , before we discuss that let mention a few more things ...
* The RAM management is completely different in Touchwiz (poor) and Aosp/cm (good) - Samsung has tons of bloat apps , services processes which are like a parasite on the RAM
*Note When i said System keeps a minimum of 132 mb for secondary server it doesn't mean 132 mb out of whole RAM
** Total Availble RAM is NOT the same as Total physical RAM
** There are things such as overcommitt ratio , memory , low watermark to consider which is too much tedious to discuss here right now
** Lastly locking app in memory or assgning oom (out of memory) score to apps are not possible since kitkat due to changes in Android Run Time (ART)
With these points in mind lets proceed to find out the working method to improve our Note 4's RAM management
If you have read all the points , I guess by now you might have an idea of what does what..
Generally,
The first three control multitasking
The last three, can be increased to free up RAM
** NAMELESS Users need NOT use any values , I have intergrated special formula and mechanism inside ROM for scheduler and RAM management
LMK values
Default 5.1.1 - 88 , 110 , 132 , 164 , 176 , 220
Multitasking - 48, 56 , 64 , 110 , 132 , 166
Balanced - 56 , 64 ,82 , 194 , 250 , 305
Gaming/ Aggressive - 32 , 64 , 128 , 250 , 470 , 512
Thank you , thats it for now
* Setting up tasker to apply profiles on boot : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64875576&postcount=261
* Cannot add or delete Profiles? Follow this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=64954992
* App Crashes or lag builds up , check this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64991257&postcount=350
* Further reading (deeper stuff) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64622626&postcount=35
I've failed at the first hurdle. I don't get the MSM mpdescision hotplug option.
Update. Doh. On nameless kernel. Sorry.
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ninjabadger said:
I've failed at the first hurdle. I don't get the MSM mpdescision hotplug option.
Update. Doh. On nameless kernel. Sorry.
Sent from my SM-N920C using Tapatalk
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Oops , NL kernel with msm_mpdecision is coming soon ?? , right now this guide is applicable with Emotion and AEL kernel ?
Nice thread and well organised
Semma Post bro :good:
May I know which ROM , kernel , bootloader , modem combo is best for battery backup (N910G) ?
I wanna try ur kernel adiutor settings in it.. :victory:
I'm not able to find emotion and AEL kernel for our N910G 5.1.1 .. where can I get it bro?
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/rvxdm018fdm1o/EMOTION_KERNELS_NOTE4#dsxr7ruz9p0ub
kalaishere said:
Semma Post bro :good:
May I know which ROM , kernel , bootloader , modem combo is best for battery backup (N910G) ?
I wanna try ur kernel adiutor settings in it.. :victory:
I'm not able to find emotion and AEL kernel for our N910G 5.1.1 .. where can I get it bro?
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/rvxdm018fdm1o/EMOTION_KERNELS_NOTE4#dsxr7ruz9p0ub
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Thanks bro.
Correct link than,
The 5.1.1 910F kernel will also work on 910G , ?? ,
The link you provided in the 3rd post for Kernel Adiutor for Note 4 doesn't work
http://"https://mega.nz/#!JgMjBLab!m...sNLH66yzo3bj0"
Wise.Guy said:
The link you provided in the 3rd post for Kernel Adiutor for Note 4 doesn't work
http://"https://mega.nz/#!JgMjBLab!m...sNLH66yzo3bj0"
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Thanks for the tip bro ,updated . Check now
Senthil360 said:
Thanks for the tip bro ,updated . Check now
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It's ok now. Thank you
@Senthil360 can you provide kernel backup settings and share it with us? it will be easier to restore your backup so we can test.
if you have time, please provide backup settings for the 2 kernels below (either from synapse or kernel auditor)
-emotion r23 rc1
-ael v8.1 multivariant
thank you! i love to try your kernel settings ?
Dealte.
Whenever I downloaded the emotion kernel it changes from a .zip to a .jar
Anyone else get that?
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ninjabadger said:
Whenever I downloaded the emotion kernel it changes from a .zip to a .jar
Anyone else get that?
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yeah. you have to use firefox or use pc to download.
b.eslabon said:
@Senthil360 can you provide kernel backup settings and share it with us? it will be easier to restore your backup so we can test.
if you have time, please provide backup settings for the 2 kernels below (either from synapse or kernel auditor)
-emotion r23 rc1
-ael v8.1 multivariant
thank you! i love to try your kernel settings ?
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No no bro , see that's the whole point , I want the users to be individualistic and i want you to help do these things on your own , Its very simple to follow and its been tested and approved , I hope that every bit of time you take to do this will certainly be useful and I cannot provide ready-made things outside Nameless now bro.
Senthil360 said:
No no bro , see that's the whole point , I want the users to be individualistic and i want you to help do these things on your own , Its very simple to follow and its been tested and approved , I hope that every bit of time you take to do this will certainly be useful and I cannot provide ready-made things outside Nameless now bro.
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no problem bro ? i got your point. im just suggesting for easier ways tho
when you say interactive governor, it includes all the governor which are based on interactive such as interactive pro, intelliactive, etc