[ROM] Elix-R | V2.0.1 | 5.0 + 5.0.1 Hybrid | 12/07 | Fast | Simple | Elegant | - Nexus 6 Android Development

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Elix-R V2.0 has been constructed from the ground up to bring you a revolutionary new experience. Based off the latest Google LRX21O Factory image all the ROM's
features and tweaks have been hand crafted into this ROM without any cherry picks, or any merges. There are several benefits to this one being is the ROM stays
true to Stock, NO BS, NO NOTHING. Another benefit is the ROM is rock solid virtually no bugs exist meaning no random crashes or speed bumps. Speed is a top priority
as well as it contains various optimizations to speed up the device as well as many small changes that give the ROM a speed boost. Lastly but not least is Simplicity.
The ROM has been custom themed with "Elixium UI" that brings an elegant and beautiful UI to the whole system. Hope you enjoy the ROM.
* Based Off LRX21O Factory Image
* Odexed (For Speed)
* Sensei Kernel
* Removed Forced Encryption
* Improved battery + Performance
* S2S and S2W
* Pre-Installed Gapps
* Incorporation of Elixium UI
* New UI_Tick sound
* Android 5.0.1 Merged (Hybrid 5.0.1 + 5.0)
* Android 5.0.1 Android Runtime merged for speed
* Roboto Condensed Font
* Awesome Wallpaper
* Pie Is Fixed
* Most Apps Up To Date
* Perfect harmony between performance and battery life.
* Tweaked System Transitions
* Debloated (Removed Uncommon Languages, Korean IME sorta apps, etc)
* Disabled Safe Media Volume
* Louder Tick + Lock Sounds
* Increased Wi-Fi Scan Interval
* Made Max Multiusers to 10 rather than 4
* Removed Battery Saving Mode Color
* Changed Default Settings (Usability)
* System Animations Optimizations
* Subtle Audio Optimizations
* LED When Charging + Low Battery
+ LOTS MORE
Download Elix-R V2.0.1 - Download
* NOTE - PLEASE UNMOUNT THE SYSTEM PARTITION BEFORE INSTALLING.
* NOTE - This ROM comes with an unencrypted kernel please flash an encrypted kernel if your system is encrypted before booting up the ROM (EX: Lean kernel).
* NOTE - If you have problems with signal please flash SuperSU (Right below ME).
* NOTE - If you would like ROOT please flash THIS afterwards.
* NOTE - If sprint is not working please flash THIS.
* NOTE - There is a weird bug when restoring from a google account. it causes the device to spazz out for 10 minutes while it stabilizes.
V2.0.1
First Release For SHAMU.!!!!
CREDITS
Google
Bigxie for his stock base ROM.
XileForce For his extensive patience and for being such a great tester.
RIPng for his kernel (Found HERE)
If I missed you please let me know so I can add you.
Donations are greatly appreciated but never required. If you would like to donate you can do so clicking the
link below my username or on Google Wallet to "[email protected]". Thanks and hope you enjoy the ROM.
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Kernel Tweaking Starter Guide (Including Colors):
If you are having issues please notify RIPng ,The Kernel Dev, on his hangouts: [email protected]
This ROM comes pre packaged with the Sensei Kernel which allows for a variety of tweaking options.
The following can be done using your favorite kernel tweaking app. I use FauxClock.
Updating The Kernel:
Before we get started, you are going to want to make sure your kernel is the latest! RIPng, the developer of Sensei Kernel, frequently releases new builds so its highly likely the kernel packaged with the ROM is out of date. First go to your settings menu, then about phone, then look at the section titled "Kernel Version". You should see something like "3.10.61 ~SENSEI.R7". R7 is the version of the kernel. Now go to the kernel thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/development/kernel-sensei-kernel-t2956283 you will see in the title what version kernel is the current release. As of this writing it is R9 for example. To update the kernel, simply click the downloads link and find the latest version. Once downloaded just go into TWRP and flash the kernel. Do not wipe anything. You now have the latest Sensei Kernel
Clock Speed:
To begin I prefer to leave my max clock speed at the stock 2.649ghz, this is because I have a bin 5 CPU . Set min CPU as low as it can go. As of current release this is 300. For the adventurous you can try 2.88ghz. For people near or below bin 5, you will want the voltage for that frequency around 1155mVolts. If you really wanna over clock you can try 2.95ghz. Again I've found a voltage of ~1200mVolts to be sufficient for stability. I don't recommend attempting 3ghz unless you are above a bin 6.
To find your CPU binning run this command in terminal emulator:
su (enter)
cat /proc/cpu/msm_acpu_pvs (enter)
note that the number may be displayed at the beginning of the next line.
It will then display a number from 0-15. 15 being the best. Don't stress over it too much if you score low, its not the end of the world. It just means you need marginally more voltage to run each frequency.
Governor:
Most people will probably want to just leave this set to interactive. Its a really good governor that is being actively devolped by CAF and Google. Its "smarter" than OnDemand and generally considered to offer better battery life. If you want even more smoothness some consider OnDemand to provide a bit better performance, however you may get slightly worse battery life. This is because OnDemand ramps up to max frequency when there's is load put on the CPU and then slowly works its way down. Interactive scales through the frequencies on the way up and down which saves battery life but prevents it from jumping to max speed as fast if it is needed. Simms22 recommends using the OnDemand governor with "upthreshold" set to 98 and the sampling rate set to 15000. That is the default setting of the Trinity Kernel. Mistertac made the great suggestion of turning the max screen off frequency down to 600mhz if using the interactive governor. This will prevent any misbehaving apps from keeping CPU ramped up while screen is off and give better idle drain. The actual number you would have to type in would be 652800 for the screen off frequency. As of the latest update I recommend running the intelliactive governor, its basically an enhanced version of the interactive governor created by the brilliant faux123, it is designed to run with intelliplug, but works on mpdecision as well.
Hotplugging:
Next go to hot plugging section and disable MPDecision(make poor decision) and enable intelliplug. FauxClock allows you to further configure intelliplug. If you want more battery set it to Conservative (4) mode which will hotplug the CPU more conservatively and save you battery, essentially this means it will use less cores if it can. For most people, leaving it on Balanced (4) mode will be fine. If you want further battery savings you can set it to EcoPerformance (2) which will only use a max of 2 cores.
Voltage Control:
Next go to voltage control. I'm a Bin 5 and I can use a 24mVolt undervolt without becoming unstable. This means pretty much anyone can probably get away with this and its across the board battery savings so you may as well. Rember! Never set voltages to apply on boot until you have tested them for a few hours first! Most people can probably get away with a 36mVolt undervolt. Also remember that if you are running an over clock you may not want to undervolt. If you find yourself running into freezes or random reboots remove the undervolt!
I/O Settings:
For I/O scheduler select Deadline. As of the current available options Deadline is the best. I then proceeded to do a lot of benchmarking with different read ahead sizes. 1024 seems to be the optimal setting. Going larger degraded performance as did going lower. Newer builds of Sensei now include FIOPS scheduler which is widely regarded as one of the best for phones, so I suggest using that over deadline.
Color Control:
Next you may want to adjust Screen RGB. WrinkleFree over in the Lean Kernel thread did extensive testing with a professional grade $1000 screen calibration tool.
For the most truly color accurate screen at D6500K:
Red - 248
Green - 246
Blue - 255
If you prefer a slightly cooler screen and the tuning the iPhone uses which is D7400K:
Red - 237
Green - 235
Blue - 255
More info can be found about color calibration here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57265483&postcount=620
These settings are meant to be used as a starting point. Depending on your cpu binning and desires you will probably want to tweak these slightly to fit your needs. I'll add more as new features get added, I learn more, and I think of stuff to add Hope it helps someone!

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Sweet...loved this ROM on my N5
Sent from my Nexus 6 using XDA Free mobile app

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I guess I should flash this, right?

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RIPng said:
I guess I should flash this, right?
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Of course, your contributions are greatly appreciated

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Zyxxeil said:
Of course, your contributions are greatly appreciated
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I wish we could get non intrusive nav on this device already Something like PIE or how CM used to hide the nav on kitkat.

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looks really neat! it'll be nice to have a ROM where i won't have to worry about GAPPS issues

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great. cant wait to test this out. glad to see new work coming to the n6

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RIPng said:
I wish we could get non intrusive nav on this device already Something like PIE or how CM used to hide the nav on kitkat.
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But, but, but you have all that screen
tflogic said:
looks really neat! it'll be nice to have a ROM where i won't have to worry about GAPPS issues
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You don't have to flash gapps on this one as its based off the LRX21O Factory image which includes all gapps.

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Zyxxeil said:
But, but, but you have all that screen
You don't have to flash gapps on this one as its based off the LRX21O Factory image which includes all gapps.
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I just like full screen without nav, it looks more elegant in my opinion. On another note, how often do you release new builds? I publish new kernel updates far too frequently to ask you to rebuild each time

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Zyxxeil said:
You don't have to flash gapps on this one as its based off the LRX21O Factory image which includes all gapps.
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yup! that's what I meant to say
further down the line, will you keep including gapps with the rom or will you defer to PA gapps once TKruzze gets them up and running?

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tflogic said:
yup! that's what I meant to say
further down the line, will you keep including gapps with the rom or will you defer to PA gapps once TKruzze gets them up and running?
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Well since its based on factory Image I don't think you will ever have to.
---------- Post added at 11:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:36 PM ----------
For those who don't know, he coded this whole ROM blindly since he doesn't have a nexus 6, and took it from a non booting 100% stock rom to a fully featured port of his nexus 5 rom in one day. It was amazing progress. He was pushing a new build like every 15 minutes, mainly because it took 10 mins to upload each time or he would've pushed them faster

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RIPng said:
I just like full screen without nav, it looks more elegant in my opinion. On another note, how often do you release new builds? I publish new kernel updates far too frequently to ask you to rebuild each time
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Maybe once a week. I will update the ROM with your new kernel each build
tflogic said:
yup! that's what I meant to say
further down the line, will you keep including gapps with the rom or will you defer to PA gapps once TKruzze gets them up and running?
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I will always include gapps.
Xileforce said:
Well since its based on factory Image I don't think you will ever have to.
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For those who don't know, he coded this whole ROM blindly since he doesn't have a nexus 6, and took it from a non booting 100% stock rom to a fully featured port of his nexus 5 rom in one day. It was amazing progress. He was pushing a new build like every 15 minutes, mainly because it took 10 mins to upload each time or he would've pushed them faster
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Yup, Most of the framework was already layed out with the Nexus 5 build just needed to port it over.
Plus its the first ever ROM to use Google's Factory Image. If any of you guys are interested in just the Factory Image as a ROM just let me know (Be warned its 750+MB in size)

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finally a rom without bugs!

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First bug, my recents button isn't working

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RIPng said:
First bug, my recents button isn't working
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Hmmm...mine is.

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any special install instructions? just tried to flash and got the following message:
Wiping - Be patient it takes awhile
unmount of /system failed. no such volume
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdc.1/by-name/system at /system: Device or resource busy
Enjoy!
Script succeeded: result was [Enjoy!]
I assumed nothing was flashed because i didn't see the standard "progress bars". i restored my nandroid because i wasn't sure the flash worked. thanks in advance for your help/feedback.

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cortez.i said:
any special install instructions? just tried to flash and got the following message:
Wiping - Be patient it takes awhile
unmount of /system failed. no such volume
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdc.1/by-name/system at /system: Device or resource busy
Enjoy!
Script succeeded: result was [Enjoy!]
I assumed nothing was flashed because i didn't see the standard "progress bars". i restored my nandroid because i wasn't sure the flash worked. thanks in advance for your help/feedback.
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Unmount system first.