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I am running:
Samsung epic 4g from sprint opened from box on monday,
Syndicate Frozen Rom 1.1.1
Twilight kernel 1.1 (came with it)
have restored to stock 3 times (due to bricking)
setcpu and profiles (specific details if needed) but am only clocking to 1.0 not 1.3 Ghz min of 100 mhz
powermanager full (bought NOT hacked) with battery saving profiles similar to the suggestions made on youtube.
process manager as recommended by the same source.
normal apps and buffoonery expected of people with smartphones.
My problem!:
After many trial and error goofs I have a stable version of Syndicate Frozen 1.1.1 (all system related downloads came from these forums)
I have two problems.
1.(most important) My screen has 3 times today turned black as normal when it locks from being idle. But i cannot wake it up and no lights come on.(not even the keyboard) It's like it's been turned off but cannot wake up. I have to remove and replace the battery to wake it back up. This is a major problem. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated.
2. I have not noticed any performance or even the slightest of battery improvement after jumping through many hoops and spending literally till dawn every night this week to install reinstall, uninstall.. fix.. then install these systems. If i'm "doin it wrong" or have some magic button to press, or if the electronic gods just hate me, I'd like to know.
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EDIT:I HAVE FIGURED IT OUT!
I'm an idiot and anyone making my same mistake can find their answer on the 5th post of this thread (the frozen rom 1.1.1 thread)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1091680
It says that using setcpu with a screen off profile (like mine ) might cause it to not wake up @[email protected] common sense really but it was saving me plenty of battery power XD'
I can only assume it stalls the processor. SO! to clarify.. no screen off profiles if this happens!
Thank you to QBking for all his incredible help!
Here is where I'll post my CM10 builds.
qwerty was the name I gave to the kernel I used to post here before I started to post entire ROM builds.
This is based on the amazing dhiru1602's work, big thanks to him.
Dowloads:
Google Drive
You can't resume downloads with GDrive. If you prefer other hosting websites, you can use the direct link of my builds to remotely upload them somewhere else. Dev-Host allows you to do that and allows you to resume downloads. Feel free to mirror my files.
Sources:
Device, kernel, vendor
Misc changes/instruction to build this ROM. The patches not available on Github are here.
Please, read carefully the whole post.
There are two different versions of the ROM. One is using the kernel 3.0, the other the kernel 2.6.35. Read the known bugs and flash the one you prefer.
I did some changes to this CM-10, I updated it and added some extra features such as inbuilt SD swap (Settings > Storage > Use external storage), possibility to show the navbar without rebooting (System > Power menu > navbar and enable it from the power menu. It doesn't work perfectly, keyboards and notification panel can go behind it) possibility to limit the number of background apps and other handy options.
I also backported some performance patches and misc fixes from CM-10.1 and some apps: Trebuchet, Apollo, Gallery (camera), Clock, CM File Manager and Superuser.
CyanogenMod 10 - kernel 3.0
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Known bugs:
Backlight issues for some users: the screen backlight will automatically turn on when it's supposed to stay off.
Audio/video sync issues while recording videos at 720p, along with frames and fps drops.
Rare reboots. If they happen, post the content of /proc/last_kmsg.
CyanogenMod 10 - kernel 2.6.35
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Known bugs:
Missing HW composer.
WiFi doesn't work perfectly. Some users report continuous disconnections or problems connecting to netowroks. Try to use a static IP in case you have problems.
Native USB tethering doesn't work. Use a third party app (tested: android-wired-tether).
The inbuilt Wi-Fi hotspot can be used only once, sometimes more, and after that a reboot is required to use it again. You can though use this modified version of android-wifi-tether, reboots are not required.
HD video playback suffer low framerate issues.
The 720p preview framerate is intentionally limited, especially while recording. The recorded video is (almost) fine.
There are sometimes lags in the preview while video calling with the front facing camera
Poor bluetooth headset sound quality. (I don't own a bluetooth headset, hence it's very hard for me to find the problem) - flash libaudio-BT-NR-fix.zip.
Release changes:
Code:
Look for the name of the zip in this thread to find its changes. This is no more updated.
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20130425: Camera HAL updates. Removed background apps limit. Use the modified dev settings to choose the number of background apps.
20130416: Camera HAL: experimental changes
20130407: Partially working WiFi tethering (perfect with [I]android-wifi-tether[/I])
20130402: Several kernel changes, UMS regression fixed
20130329: Video pillarbox. Regression: UMS requires adb
20130326: Optimized build
20130320: SSID fetch fixed
20130319: Better wpa_supplicant support: WiFi scan and disconnecting bug fixed. Missing WiFi signal intensity fixed.
Instructions
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Stock ROM / CM7 / CM9 / CM10 Alpha3 (or older):
dhiru1602 said:
IMPORTANT! READ BEFORE FLASHING THIS RELEASE!
This ROM will wipe data due to different partitioning. The device would reboot while flashing and resume again.
Once on this ROM, the most effective way of going back to any other ROM would be to repartition from Odin.
While converting the filesystem, your efs that has your IMEI is backed up to /emmc/backup/efs. Keep a backup on your PC just in case.
Incase if you don't get a network signal, check if your IMEI and Baseband are proper. If not, go back to stock and try again.
Do NOT use Odin to flash Modems. Due to different partitions, Odin will screw up your existing MTD setup.
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Stock ROMs only: Make sure you have CWM. Flash a custom kernel otherwise
Download the zip of the ROM and save it into the internal SD or the external one (*)
Reboot to recovery
Flash the downloaded zip
optional: Flash mobiledata_off.zip if you want mobile data off during the first setup
optional: Flash Google Apps (for Android 4.1.2, many things will break otherwise)
Reboot
(*) While flashing, the device will reboot and you'll see a different recovery after that.
If the zip is inside the internal SD, the flash will re-start automatically after the reboot.
If the zip is inside the external SD, you have to re-start the flash manually re-flashing the zip. If you don't do that, only recovery will work until you flash the zip.
CyanogenMod 10:
Download the zip of the ROM and save it into the external SD or the internal memory
Reboot to recovery
Flash the downloaded zip
optional: Flash Google Apps (if you have already flashed them once, you can skip this step)
Reboot
Data wipes are mandatory only if you are not using CM10, it's not required otherwise.
It doesn't matter if you are going to flash the version with the 3.0 kernel and you are using the other, it should work.
CyanogenMod 10.1/10.2:
Download the zip of the ROM and save it into the external SD or the internal memory
Reboot to recovery
Flash the downloaded zip
optional: Flash Google Apps
optional: Flash mobiledata_off.zip if you want mobile data off during the first setup
Wipe data/factory reset
Reboot
Downgrades are probably not expected, that's why you need to do a data wipe.
Important note:
The modem is always replaced with XXLE4 modem when this ROM is flashed over a stock ROM, CM9 or CM10 Alpha 3 (or older).
You can easly replace it. Take modem.bin from the tar of a stock ROM, place it in /radio overwriting the existing one and reboot. This is required only once, modem.bin is never replaced while updating the ROM. I9003L must do this, I9003 users can use the included modem, but it's better to use the modem made for your region.
Useful informations
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The latest versions of Instagram are not working due to a problem with related to the GPU binary blob. Instagram 3.4.0 is the latest working version. Probably every device using the same binary blob is affected (Optimus Black for example). You can download a modified version from here that will allow you to login.
The latest versions of Skype do not work properly, the preview is stretched and wrongly rotated. Use Skype 2.9.0.315 or see this post.
LEDs are not supposed to blink when a new notifcation arrives. They'll light up, but they won't blink. Making them blink would prevent the device from entering deep sleep.
(3.0 kernel) Once the battery is fully charged, it will start discharging and it won't be recharged automatically if at least 90 minutes have passed. You can forcefully charge it by unpluggin and re-pluggin the cable. This is an intended behaviour, charging the battery continuosly to keep it at 100% can shortnmyself toer its life.
This ROM allows you to force two apps to stay in memory. See this post for more info.
I made possible to toggle the navbar state directly from the powermenu modifying the existing expanded desktop feature, however it's not working perfectly. The navbar can go over the notification panel and the keyboard while in landscape. However it works as expected if you enable the navbar by setting qemu.hw.mainkeys or modding framework-res.apk. I have no intention to "fix" this as I can't see the utility of the navbar on our device.
(3.0 kernel) For some reason when the screen is turned off during a call by the proximity sensor, if enough time has passed it won't be turned on automatically. You can wake the screen immediately by pressing the home button or the power button or you can increase the backlight timeout from the settings. That will make the proximity sensor work for longer (I'm not sure, but I think the proximity sensor stops working exactly after this timer has expired). this problem is maybe solved.
FM radio is available through third party apps, such as Spirit FM
"Native" 3G video calls are not supported and most likely never will, flash a stock ROM if you need them. GTalk, Skype and all the other apps works though.
(3.0 kernel) if you lost your IMEI, WiFi will probably not work. See this for more info and instructions to fix the problem. No more required.
(3.0 kernel) part of the RAM is reserved. You'll see that we have 442MB 454MB of RAM, that's fine, the missing RAM is not really lost, it's still used.
If the keyboard keeps crashing, you probably flash the wrong gapps.
The magnetic sensor sometimes reports wrong values. When it happens, the field intensity is very high. This was observed with the 3.0 kernel, but probably the same thing happens with a 2.6.35 kernel.
(3.0 kernel) my SD card (it's probably a cheap SD card) is not working properly and I often have corrupted files. It worked fine with the kernel 2.6.35, so if you often have corrupted files, try a different SD card or use the old kernel.
Weird activity in standby? Read this.
(3.0 kernel) 1.2GHz is not stable on every device. I had to disable SmartReflex because it was causing crashes on my device. This means that the voltage of the OPP5 is locked the value I chose is not universally good. I'd prefer not to increase it more, if you have too many reboots, don't overclock. WARNING: don't tick "Set on boot" unless you are sure your device can handle OC. f you are stuck in a bootloop, flash disable_opp5.zip.
In case the max frequency is 1.1GHz, then SmartReflex is enabled and the option in DeviceParts has no effect.
If you find a bug not listed, please report.
Post as many informations as possible, ways to reproduce it and logs.
You can easily grab (almost) all the logs I need by pressing vol down, vol up and power at the same time ("recent" builds only). LEDs will blink and /storage/sdcard0/logs_qwerty/log_DATE.txt will be created. In case the memory is not ready, you'll find the files in /data/logs_qwerty/log_DATE.txt.
The standalone kernel is no more mantained. Flash the ROM instead.
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Kernel - 2.6.35
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After months of use, I decided to publicly release my kernel.
This is for CyanogenMod 10 Alpha 4.
It's based on the GB kernel sources released by Samsung (GT-I9003_GB_Opensource_Update2.zip), modified (mostly by dhiru1602) to work with CyanogenMod.
Because of my lack of fantasy I named it "qwerty". It sucks, but at least it's easy to remember.
Main features:
XDA_Bam's code and fixes:
◦ 5 OPPs
◦ Booting at stock speed (1000MHz)
◦ Slight undervolt (3%) on all OPPs
◦ Home button double presses fix
◦ Lowered processor transition latency
◦ Stable Bluetooth connections
Modified light sensor driver: [1]
◦ Disabled hardcoded filter. CyanogenMod has its own filters, enable it from the settings.
◦ Dynamic polling interval
◦ Code cleanup
Modified battery driver [2]
CPU Governors:
◦ Ondemand (default)
◦ SmartassV2
◦ Conservative
◦ Performance
I/O schedulers:
◦ Deadline (default)
◦ Noop
◦ CFQ
◦ SIO
Toggable FSync
Fixed always ON LEDs bug when used for notifications only
VPN networks support (not tested)
Slightly increased touchkeys sensitivity (from 45 to 35)
Other minor changes and optimizations
Downloads:
version 4.0: kernel-qwerty-cm-10-galaxysl-v4.0.zip: kernel with custom DeviceParts.apk [3], hostap and tiap_drv.ko [5]
clean-qwerty-cm-10-galaxysl.zip: restore zip with dhiru1602's kernel
UPDATE: USB composite is still a bit messed up. Windows can't recognize the phone when RNDIS (USB tethering) is enabled (working fine with Linux).
If you need RNDIS, flash this kernel release or the previous one.
Additional zips:
powerHAL-cm-10-galaxysl.zip: power HAL for boosting the CPU when ondemand is used [4]
libsensor-cm-10-galaxysl.zip: custom libsensor. Read note [1]
Changelog:
Code:
22/04/13: [URL="https://github.com/sconosciuto/android_kernel_samsung_latona/compare/v3.1...v4.0"]v4.0[/URL]
02/04/13: [URL="https://github.com/sconosciuto/android_kernel_samsung_latona/compare/v3.0...v3.1"]v3.1[/URL]
01/03/13: [URL="https://github.com/sconosciuto/android_kernel_samsung_latona/compare/v2.1...v3.0"]v3.0[/URL]
12/02/13: [URL="https://github.com/sconosciuto/android_kernel_samsung_latona/compare/v2.0...v2.1"]v2.1[/URL]
09/02/13: [URL="https://github.com/sconosciuto/android_kernel_samsung_latona/compare/v1.0...v2.0"]v2.0[/URL]
08/02/13: [URL="https://github.com/sconosciuto/android_kernel_samsung_latona/commits/v1.0"]v1.0[/URL] - Initial release
Notes:
[1] I made it compatible with the prebuilt libsensor included in CyanogenMod, but I'm using my own libsensor and maybe I didn't test this kernel with the stock one for long enough. I hence added my libsensor, just in case. If you want to restore the original libsensor, simply remove /system/lib/hw/sensors.latona.so.
[2] You can modify "samsung-battery" wakelock length through DeviceParts. By default it behaves like the original module. If you see "Android System" or anything else eating your battery with no reasons, increase the delay or restore the default one.
[3] DeviceParts.apk (System Settings > Advanced) is included because of some additional settings useful when this kernel is used. I'm not a Java dev, so it's probably not perfect, but it works quite well. I took pieces of code from other devices (mostly Crespo, Aries and S2). The source code is available, suggestions are more than welcome.
[4] Power HAL will make the CPU jump to a certain frequency (I set 800MHz) whenever Android requires it (when the screen is touched for example). Power HAL will also limit the max freq to 800MHz (my choice, not too fast, not too slow) when the screen is off. You can change the boosting freq from my custom DeviceParts. CPU frequencies changes (See XDA_Bam's thread for more info about variable overclocking) are not expected. If you don't like it, simply remove /system/lib/hw/power.latona.so. Few more lines about power HAL here.
[5] hostap and tiap_drv.ko make WiFi tethering possible using this modified version of android-wifi-tether.
Special thanks to dhiru1602 and XDA_Bam for their awesome work.
Wow. I'll flash it for sure.
Thanks for sharing.
Update:
Flashed and it works just fine. Just changed max freq to 1200.
Deviceparts looks very professional as well.
Hats off to u buddy. Also kernel name is really good buddy. Dont worry about that
Suggestion : Can u add SIO schedular? For me smartassv2 (thanks for adding it) with sio works really well.
Request : Sorry but I am not exactly getting power HAL description. Can u please explain me a little bit.
Re: [KERNEL][CM10] qwerty [08/02/13]
have any issues of wifi connections? like always dc.. and got any problem connecting back?
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Re: [KERNEL][CM10] qwerty [08/02/13]
I am now on slimbean rom, please kindly advise a proper flash procedure becoz I always stuck on the Samsung splash screen …
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imjustafq said:
have any issues of wifi connections? like always dc.. and got any problem connecting back?
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Works fine for me. Try wiping cache+dalvik cache.
erickkhhk said:
I am now on slimbean rom, please kindly advise a proper flash procedure becoz I always stuck on the Samsung splash screen …
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Are you using SIRI kernel?
Hetalk said:
Works fine for me. Try wiping cache+dalvik cache.
Are you using SIRI kernel?
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I am just using the signal fix kernel by loSconosciuto before ...........
^ Did you flash kernel, then wipe cache/dalvik ... if yes try fixing permissions and see if it works. Else, post in the slimbean thread ... Lolation might be able to advise on how to make it work. I see he did thank the OP here.
Re: [KERNEL][CM10] qwerty [08/02/13]
How's this kernel's battery drain? Is it as good as alpha 11 kernel?
I'm so pleased with alpha 11 but I'd love to switch to this kernel.
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Re: [KERNEL][CM10] qwerty [08/02/13]
Hetalk said:
^ Did you flash kernel, then wipe cache/dalvik ... if yes try fixing permissions and see if it works. Else, post in the slimbean thread ... Lolation might be able to advise on how to make it work. I see he did thank the OP here.
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i post here becoz i wanna flash this kernel will try what u say later, thx
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^ You'll need to wait for users to get thru a battery cycle to report battery drain. I did charge my phone to 100% after flashing qwerty .. so will report my experience tomorrow.
Re: [KERNEL][CM10] qwerty [08/02/13]
just flashed this kernel.. on top of my cracker that i am using previously.. no problem on boot.. upgrading apps as usual.. ive noticed the speed, scrolling and such.. its faster than cracker .. the speed of gb is there..gonna test for some time.. thanks.. via slimbean 3.1 A4..
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I am pleased thank you very much !!!
Governor smartassV2 and IO Scheduler deadline (reputable boost daily)
Mini CPU 300/1000 is an exellent choice (I guess the hotboot fix)
it's just what I need ^^
Thank you for taking us solicitous
Thank you for the kernel...I'm on Dhiru's CM10 A4 with Alpha 11 kernel, now switched to this kernel, I do not find "DeviceParts" installed..is it normal?
just added a tab (specific options) available in the parameter menu
vishal24387 said:
Request : Sorry but I am not exactly getting power HAL description. Can u please explain me a little bit.
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As you may know, what a CPU governor does is to decide when the current frequency needs to be changes and what's the target frequency. These decisions mostly depend on the current CPU load: high load -> high freq.
What power HAL does is to require a high CPU frequency regardless the load. This mostly happen on user interactions (ie: the screen is touched)
Its aim is to provide a smoother experience, because basically it's trying to predict high CPU loads. The downside is that sometimes the CPU is boosted for no reasons.
For example if you touch the screen to scroll a page, when the scrolling starts the CPU is already at a high freq and there won't be probably initial lags. If you tap the screen, just for the sake of it, the CPU will be boosted for no reasons (by default a CPU boost will last 500ms).
I think it's part of the project butter.
The only governor with a boostpulse interface between those included is ondemand. The other governors included most likely will never have a boostpulse interface.
Try to use ondemand with and without power HAL. You can "see" the difference with CPU Spy. 800MHz will be used a lot when power HAL is present (you can change the boosting freq from the advanced settings).
By the way I updated ondemand, it's faster than in the original kernel.
vishal24387 said:
Suggestion : Can u add SIO schedular? For me smartassv2 (thanks for adding it) with sio works really well.
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Try to use Deadline for a while. I tweaked it to better perform on flash devices. Anyway I don't think that changing I/O scheduler will make a tangible difference.
imjustafq said:
have any issues of wifi connections? like always dc.. and got any problem connecting back?
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All our kernels based on the sources released by Samsung use a prebuilt module for WiFi. Dhiru tried to use the opensource driver, but it didn't work.
This prebuilt module, taken from our stock ROMs, requires a prebuilt and modified wpa_supplicant which is not completely compatible with Android 4.0+ (Samsung didn't give us the changes required to make the opensource one work). To make things worse there's dhcpcd, we have to use an old version because of the old wpa_supplicant.
In other words: it sucks.
With some access point there are no issues, with others WiFi works, but not so well and with some others nothing works.
EDIT:
Now that I think of that, there are maybe some differences when this kernel is used. I took the prebuilt module from XXLE4 instead of taking it from EDIT2: XXKPM
The warning message I get the first time I turn WiFi (maybe it happens even with the other module, I didn't try it) on suggests me that something was changed in XXLE4, but I don't know if this is a good thing or not.
erickkhhk said:
I am now on slimbean rom, please kindly advise a proper flash procedure becoz I always stuck on the Samsung splash screen …
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I'm starting to think the problem is CWM. For now only you and spacebar2011 had issues. I will PM you something when I'll have some free time to find the problem. If nothing works, I'll just give you the tars to flash the kernel with ODIN as I did with my signal fix kernel.
@Hetalk
Thanks for trying to help, but he is a peculiar situation. The problem is not the updated blob or a wrong flash, he (and spacebar2011) tried to flash my signal fix kernel several times over a clean CM10 with no success.
rodero95 said:
How's this kernel's battery drain? Is it as good as alpha 11 kernel?
I'm so pleased with alpha 11 but I'd love to switch to this kernel.
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Dunno, battery life had never been exceptional for me. If you use your phone a lot, any kernel will give you a bad battery life. You can see differences only if you keep your phone most of the time in idle, with mobile data disabled.
wee2wee said:
Thank you for the kernel...I'm on Dhiru's CM10 A4 with Alpha 11 kernel, now switched to this kernel, I do not find "DeviceParts" installed..is it normal?
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As I wrote in note [3]:
DeviceParts: System Settings > Advanced
It's not in the app drawer.
loSconosciuto said:
As I wrote in note [3]:
DeviceParts: System Settings > Advanced
It's not in the app drawer.
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Thanks...found it...
loSconosciuto said:
As you may know, what a CPU governor does is to decide when the current frequency needs to be changes and what's the target frequency. These decision mostly depends on the current CPU load: high load -> high freq.
What power HAL does is to require a high CPU frequency regardless the load. This mostly happen on user interactions (ie: the screen is touched)
Its aim is to provide a smoother experience, because basically it's trying to predict high CPU loads. The downside is that sometimes the CPU is boosted for no reasons.
For example if you touch the screen to scroll a page, when the scrolling starts the CPU is already at a high freq and there won't be probably initial lags. If you tap the screen, just for the sake of it, the CPU will be boosted for no reasons (by default a CPU boost will last 500ms).
I think it's part of the project butter.
The only governor with a boostpulse interface between those included is ondemand. The other governors included most likely will never have a boostpulse interface.
Try to use ondemand with and without power HAL. You can "see" the difference with CPU Spy. 800MHz will be used a lot when power HAL is present (you can change the boosting freq from the advanced settings).
By the way I updated ondemand, it's faster than in the original kernel.
Try to use Deadline for a while. I tweaked it to better perform on flash devices. Anyway I don't think that changing I/O scheduler will make a tangible difference.
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Thanks for ur simplified explaination This means in order to bring smoothness ondemand will keep most of the time freq at 800 mhz (as per ur settings). But definitely its going to affect battery life as just for a simple touch freq will raise to 800 mhz directly. Anyway overall it depends on user who want battery life or smoothness
I have used ur fixed signal kernel for longer time. That kernel really works very well when we use phone (even with 2g net). But surprisingly in deep sleep mode (means with gsm network on on and 2g net off) then there is very heavy battery drain For me its 25% battery drain in 9hr deep sleep mode. But if we keep our phone phone offline in deep sleep mode then it will drain battery just 4% in 9hr. Strange...!!!
I will monitor tonight also with that signal fix kernel. and final tomorrow I will flash this kernel on clean cm10a4 so that I can compare both ur kernels
EDIT : My doubt was right. Your previous signal fix kernel works really good. Yesterday night tested and I found that lost 3% battery in 8 hrs standby. Means my previous 25% battery loss was not a correct observation. Anyway now I will flash this kernel and tell u the results
Re: [KERNEL][CM10] qwerty [08/02/13]
Well, its obvious that keeping a continuous connection with the network costs battery and that when we are connected with mobile network it will eventually change between signal modes (2g, HSDPA, edge, etc) and that also costs battery.
That's why mobile network use to consume more battery than WiFi or offline.
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Really nice Kernel with good combination of battery and performance and many good tweaks
Thank you very much Sir :laugh:
Code:
#include <std_disclaimer.h>
/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.*/
Features
You get all those well known features of a custom kernel, like usual sets of IOScheds and governors, tweaks optimizations. However I will be only mentioning the key ones:
Wake Gestures - Double Tap, Sweep Up, Down, Left, Right, Diagonals, Draw 'L' and 'V'
Music Mode - Control Music without even unlocking the device.
Pocket Mode - Turns off wake gestures when it detects it in pocket to save battery
ZD Charger Control - Full control over USB charging currents.
ThunderSonic Engine - An unique, customizable sound control driver written by @varun.chitre15 for MSM8930 boards.
Dynamic Fsync 1.6 - This feature does not need any introduction, however it is now more optimized to run when screen is off, while halt when screen is on.
Overclock to 1.5Ghz, Underclock to 188Mhz
Permissive SELinux in kernel.
Uses live Ramdisk patching during flashing, so need not worry about ROMs on which you are flashing on.
Compatibility
Android 4.4 based ROMs - Theoretically yes, testers needed for confirmation.
Android 5.x based ROMs - Theoretically yes, testers needed for confirmation.
Android 6.0 based ROMs - Yes and confirmed by me working on CM13.
Installation Instructions
Download and put zip in phone.
Go to recovery and flash it. No need of wiping anything. And the zip will flash appropriate files depending on your system.
Reboot & Enjoy.
Notes
Toolchain used - GCC 4.8 by Google for stability.
Source - https://github.com/TeamButter/zd_taoshan
Downloads - Here
Recommended App
Presenting my very own app to control wake gestures. Find it here - ZD Kernel Control
F.A.Q
For which phone will it work? Sony Xperia L with above ROMs.
Do I need to have Unlocked BootLoader? Yes
Credits
thewisenerd - For bringing up new DT2W for XL, and many other stuff.
varun.chitre15 - For bringing LP to XL, CAF Kernel for LP, ThunderZap Kernel, ThunderZap Control App and many more.
showp1984 - For original DT2W driver.
Video Walkthrough
Hey great work, I thought varun chitre was going to surprise us but you beat him to it. Anyways I think its a really good start. Good job and thanks to anyone else who was involved in the development of this.
adil089 said:
Hey great work, I thought varun chitre was going to surprise us but you beat him to it. Anyways I think its a really good start. Good job and thanks to anyone else who was involved in the development of this.
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I do not intend to compete with anyone. Just we 2 (me and twn) are on our own. I am a fan of this thing, so I thought of adding the same (with twn's full support of course).
Download link updated
Download link updated. Kernel now available as fully flashable zip.
Do let me how good/bad dt2w works.
so this is varuns caf kernel +dt2w ? any other changes or just that?
really important to me:
does this dt2w function make the phone avoid deep sleep mode?
Lemme quickly answer that last question: no.
How this works? irq_wake.
How does your phone switch on when your phone is in deep sleep and you press the power button? It's because though there is deep sleep, there's still power being routed to those buttons since you want to get those 'interrupt's (viz: key presses).
Similarly, that's what we do with the touch panel: in your device's case, cyttsp3. We don't allow the touch panel to 'sleep', viz. Power is always routed to the touch panel. So, battery drains because the touch panel is always turned on, and not because the phone doesn't go to deep sleep.
P.S. if your touch panel has a 'low power mode' of sorts, that could be used to slightly lower power consumption, thus 'slightly' reducing battery consumption.
thewisenerd said:
Lemme quickly answer that last question: no.
How this works? irq_wake.
How does your phone switch on when your phone is in deep sleep and you press the power button? It's because though there is deep sleep, there's still power being routed to those buttons since you want to get those 'interrupt's (viz: key presses).
Similarly, that's what we do with the touch panel: in your device's case, cyttsp3. We don't allow the touch panel to 'sleep', viz. Power is always routed to the touch panel. So, battery drains because the touch panel is always turned on, and not because the phone doesn't go to deep sleep.
P.S. if your touch panel has a 'low power mode' of sorts, that could be used to slightly lower power consumption, thus 'slightly' reducing battery consumption.
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really love this detailed answer
Sent from my C2105 using XDA Free mobile app
@corphish awesome work !!
@thewisenerd @corphish
It works even if you tap it once(Which shouldn't happen AFAIK and it accidently unlocks too :/). It is functional though I can provide you logs if you need to find the issue.
Navneet Suresh said:
@thewisenerd @corphish
It works even if you tap it once(Which shouldn't happen AFAIK and it accidently unlocks too :/). It is functional though I can provide you logs if you need to find the issue.
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Its a known thing. We both know about it and its mentioned in the bugs.
We are still trying to resolve this.
And thanks for offering help
corphish said:
Its a known thing. We both know about it and its mentioned in the bugs.
We are still trying to resolve this.
And thanks for offering help
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Sorry my bad :/ I didn't bat an eye on the bug list :/
corphish said:
This kernel will only work on CyanogenMod 12.1, and not on CyanogenMod 12.0.
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This may be a stupid question but will this work on any 5.1 rom or only cm12.1?
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This may be a stupid question but will this work on any 5.1 rom or only cm12.1?
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Should work on any ROM based on Android 5.1.
Best Kernel
The kernel just works. Did not find any issues with battery drain till now.
Thanks @corphish for this awesome stuff. Making me feel like using 1+1
Phone didn't go into deep sleep for me after flashing the kernel. I've attached screenshots showing the same. Problem persisted even after turning off dt2w. Tried clearing cache too, didn't work.
Tap2wake worked exactly as expected, even with single tap, as you already said.
primemonitor said:
Phone didn't go into deep sleep for me after flashing the kernel. I've attached screenshots showing the same. Problem persisted even after turning off dt2w. Tried clearing cache too, didn't work.
Tap2wake worked exactly as expected, even with single tap, as you already said.
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Yes I can confirm that it doesn't go to deepsleep. @corphish need some logs to find out what is causing it ??
primemonitor said:
Phone didn't go into deep sleep for me after flashing the kernel. I've attached screenshots showing the same. Problem persisted even after turning off dt2w. Tried clearing cache too, didn't work.
Tap2wake worked exactly as expected, even with single tap, as you already said.
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Navneet Suresh said:
Yes I can confirm that it doesn't go to deepsleep. @corphish need some logs to find out what is causing it ??
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It won't get into deep sleep state. Perks of the wake gesture (not only for us but for any phone). So as a side-effect, battery performance is reduced.
corphish said:
It won't get into deep sleep state. Perks of the wake gesture (not only for us but for any phone). So as a side-effect, battery performance is reduced.
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not necessarily.
the device should go into deep sleep regardless since the two (touch panel staying awake && device going to sleep) aren't correlated.
something is wrong, i guess. wrt. irq handling.
@thewisenerd so according to you the phone should enter deepsleep mode ?? It contradicts to what @corphish said just above your post ?? You can PM me with test builds I would love to help you with testing (if needed)
Update 1.2
Here comes update 1.2
Changelog
SingleTap2Wake should be reduced, though, is not fully eliminated.
Changed LED colurs while booting to distinguish kernel. Light Blue for normal boot, light green in recovery.
Download Link updated in OP.
About Recover Key Combo issue - I have realised why recovery key combo is broken, but cannot do much about it. In short, the situation be like, DoubleTap2Wake or Recovery Key Combo.
Also this is the last release for Android 5.1, before Varun outs another beta. Reason : Frequent BSoDs.
HEATING:
Heating while charging isn't an issue pls. You can let your phone cool down before charging it in a cool place. You can either power it off or put it on Airplane mode while charging. (This will reduce the charging time and also some activities by apps which slow the charging) Heating is normal while charging owing to the Quick Charge x.0 capability of Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 (MSM8952). It will heat up. Heating is reduced in the latest builds, especially while recording video via the camera. This semi-budget oriented processor isn't designed for heavy gaming pls, despite 3GB of DDR3 RAM available to it. If you're a hard core gamer or someone who likes to overclock stuff, this isn't the right phone.
If you feel your phone is heating with normal usage too, consider removing apps which are useless and clear the cache followed by a reboot. See to it that the apps are updated. You can switch to WiFi instead of Mobile Data (keeps my athene cool idk why). If nothing works, consider a factory reset; else shift to a custom ROM if you can and test.
PERFORMANCE:
General phone performance of Nougat has been better than Marshmallow for sure, but for many, 7.0 has had the notification drawer stuttering issue in some cases and Bluetooth being turned on automatically after turning Airplane mode ON. Overall experience is smooth. But many people do not like stock ROM very much, because of the lack of features. AOSP and LineageOS based ROMs are much better that stock in terms of speed. For god's sake don't use the task killer apps or battery savers like CCleaner / CleanMaster/ DU Battery Saver. Apps staying in the memory (RAM) are good for your device until your phone is lagging. Clearing the things from the recents panel will force them to start again from scratch, consuming the CPU and of course the battery.
BATTERY & CHARGING:
Stock N wasn't very good in terms of battery after all in comparison to MM despite the improved doze mode introduced in Nougat. Well this is the case in almost every android OEM that the battery performance went down in transition from one Android version to another. However, the March 1 update is said to fix a bit of battery and security issues. Android has the habit of collecting garbage (but that makes it smart too) and this can be one of the reasons why battery and performance issues occur after an OTA. The best thing after a "dirty/problem causing" update is to do a factory reset. Anyways, it is advised to clear the cache before and after doing an update. For god's sake don't use the task killer apps or battery savers like CCleaner / CleanMaster/ DU Battery Saver. Apps staying in the memory (RAM) are good for your device until your phone is lagging. Clearing the things from the recents panel will force them to start again from scratch, consuming the CPU and of course the battery.
Battery Saving and charging Tips:
Please understand the difference between Screen On time of a complete cycle and the usage time. People start judging the battery from the estimated time left after the first charge itself. A tip is to fully charge the battery after a clean flash and then let it drain till 15%. Do not let the battery drain completely, Li-ion batteries lose their capacity over time and are designed to run between 20-100 percent. Battery life of your phone is completely dependant on your usage. Turning off Auto-Rotation, WiFi, Bluetooth, Sync, Mobile Data, Location Services and scanning (almost everything ) when not needed can give you the best battery life possible. You can consider using Greenify although you should avoid any such thing. Android learns how you use it, no need to comment about the 2 H SOT you're getting after a clean flash. You might also want to uninstall the useless apps and block the wakelocks (which you understand) if possible. Turn off the SIM card if it's in very low network. If nothing is helping you, you might consider doing a factory reset too.
Checkout this amazing thread by @rirozizo and the video by XDA TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zt2j8lFbJQ
Ghost Touch: Your touchscreen is at fault. Visit the service center please.
Screen Retention: Your display is defective. Turning the phone off for a while and then setting blue light filter at 5% for Black colour or changing the RGB values is a temporary fix. Visit the service center please.
Random Reboots: Try factory resetting your device, see if you installed something wrong and flash latest stock firmware, just in case, you know. Else the service center only can fix the issue if still present.
For not being called a noob:
1. Read XDA and other forums and think before you do anything to your phone.
2. Ask in the community if you have doubts. (Read Rules and XDA University's New User's guide first)
3. Always make backups before flashing new things. (Use TitaniumBackup and TWRP backups)
Check the videos by XDA-TV and Rootjunky ( @Tomsgt )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rEsgCrvEqY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyr3FstDKH0&index=1&list=PLgLZvFga2ml4Atl32E4c_ZslfrTJJDUfr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-i59R51Cys
4. See this video by XDA-TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA
5. Stop using useless apps and be patient pls.
Valar Morghulis!
Good thread, I'll add a couple of my tips here.
- ohmergerd, there's thousands of ROMs for the G4! Which ones are the best???? Nearly every single ROM for the G4 subtracting perhaps GZR ROMs and RevivorOS/optimized stock is LineageOS based (Invicta is basically Lineage with MM kernel blobs and faux/OMS integrated). There's basically no performance differences, just feature differences based on the discretion of the dev.
- If heating is STILL an issue for you, disable the 4 big cores. There isn't a significant difference in everyday use- the LITTLE cluster handles the UI and basic apps anyway.
- Haven't noticed notification bar lag since the 7.1.2 builds. If you have lag (depending on your ROM), using blur or transparency helps trick your eyes into seeing no lag. If lag persists, force enable scrolling cache and speed up the animations.
- If you have a custom kernel and your RAM usage isn't an issue, disable KSM, Adaptive Memory Killer, and/or ZRAM and Kernel Adiutor/EXKM. While useful if you let your memory use skyrocket, if you are conservative in your memory use these memory killers just suck up CPU cycles.
- Build prop tweaks/L Speed/HEBF don't work. Completely placebo, except for governor tweaks.
- USB-OTG is great, I recommend getting a dongle if you're a flashaholic. Much easier and quicker to simply plug in your USB to flash instead of plugging in your phone, transferring the ROM, flashing, etc.
- Use a trickle charger, and save that fast charger for emergencies (camping, flights, etc.).
- Disable a bunch of Google's **** in settings- I advise going through Activity controls as Google takes snippets of keyboard input, voice, web history, video history, etc. This adversely affects battery life especially if you have a weak signal, as Google Play Services continuously attempts to push through their telemetry data. This is also why you get 2hrs of SoT after a clean flash.
- On stock-based ROMs (to eliminate lag), boot the ROM once, then reboot to recovery and flash the latest Aroma GApps package with the apps you want. Then, mount /system, and start deleting all apps in /system/app or /system/priv-app that begin with "3c". This effectively removes Motorola updates and telemetry, and also updates your GApps- the stock GApps are very old, and updating them caused Play Store errors and miscellaneous battery sucking services.
- Mr. Shield Protectors suck. Badly cut-out, misaligned, etc.
Hard reset: A term with the common misconception here in the group. Hard reset means nothing in android smartphones. It is only a term for older computers where you manually had to reset the old electrical parts from the charge they held.
Factory reset via the settings is equivalent to the Wipe Data/Factory reset available in the stock recovery.
Also, always sign out from your Google account before doing the wipe, else chances are your device may enable Factory Reset Protection and lock the device.
Normally my phone was using two BIG cores (and the four LITTLE ones). Each core was utilized around 40-60%.
Withing kernel manager I have set the minimum value for the BIG cores to 1 and I have lowered the minimum frequency value for that core. Now the utilization on that core is close to 100%.
Now the phone is cold all the time (except when charging with the Fast Charger) and I have no lag issues whatsoever.
Oh, btw, on some kernels (EX 1.07, Vegito), workqueue power saving is built in which iirc tries to schedule tasks on the fewest cores as possible, so on these kernels which tend to turn off cores and lower frequencies while asleep the wakeup action, especially while dozing, the wakeup action will be met with significant lag/delay.
If you have a delay when turning on your phone with these kernels (or even stock kernels for some ROMs), disable the setting called wq_power_saving.
I have the solution for random reboots. But only for those devices that reboots 4 or 5 times every day. Just open your device and disconnect the battery for 30 minits. Or also you can change the battery (confirmated it works)
negusp said:
Good thread, I'll add a couple of my tips here.
- ohmergerd, there's thousands of ROMs for the G4! Which ones are the best???? Nearly every single ROM for the G4 subtracting perhaps GZR ROMs and RevivorOS/optimized stock is LineageOS based (Invicta is basically Lineage with MM kernel blobs and faux/OMS integrated). There's basically no performance differences, just feature differences based on the discretion of the dev.
- If heating is STILL an issue for you, disable the 4 big cores. There isn't a significant difference in everyday use- the LITTLE cluster handles the UI and basic apps anyway.
- Haven't noticed notification bar lag since the 7.1.2 builds. If you have lag (depending on your ROM), using blur or transparency helps trick your eyes into seeing no lag. If lag persists, force enable scrolling cache and speed up the animations.
- If you have a custom kernel and your RAM usage isn't an issue, disable KSM, Adaptive Memory Killer, and/or ZRAM and Kernel Adiutor/EXKM. While useful if you let your memory use skyrocket, if you are conservative in your memory use these memory killers just suck up CPU cycles.
- Build prop tweaks/L Speed/HEBF don't work. Completely placebo, except for governor tweaks.
- USB-OTG is great, I recommend getting a dongle if you're a flashaholic. Much easier and quicker to simply plug in your USB to flash instead of plugging in your phone, transferring the ROM, flashing, etc.
- Use a trickle charger, and save that fast charger for emergencies (camping, flights, etc.).
- Disable a bunch of Google's **** in settings- I advise going through Activity controls as Google takes snippets of keyboard input, voice, web history, video history, etc. This adversely affects battery life especially if you have a weak signal, as Google Play Services continuously attempts to push through their telemetry data. This is also why you get 2hrs of SoT after a clean flash.
- On stock-based ROMs (to eliminate lag), boot the ROM once, then reboot to recovery and flash the latest Aroma GApps package with the apps you want. Then, mount /system, and start deleting all apps in /system/app or /system/priv-app that begin with "3c". This effectively removes Motorola updates and telemetry, and also updates your GApps- the stock GApps are very old, and updating them caused Play Store errors and miscellaneous battery sucking services.
- Mr. Shield Protectors suck. Badly cut-out, misaligned, etc.
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Thanks for the tips.
Using Root explorer I deleted the 3c stuff and updated the Gapps via Aroma installer (never knew this Aroma version existed).
Where do I find the Activity controls thing?
bluegrass55 said:
Thanks for the tips.
Using Root explorer I deleted the 3c stuff and updated the Gapps via Aroma installer (never knew this Aroma version existed).
Where do I find the Activity controls thing?
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It's in settings>Google, first 3 menus iirc.
i just had to unroot, re-lock my boot, and flash the latest firmware because someone has been hacking my phone. I purchased a Samsung phone and been switching the SIM between phones. I wish custom ROMs were more secure, flashing every ROM available, some took longer then others. After seeing that the Samsung KNOX wasnt able to be hacked, i decided to flash your stock N package. They are yet to get in my XT-1644 since earlier after the flash.
Am i stuck on the Stock ROM or is there a way to keep from getting a rooted with unlocked bootloader, hacked?
Code:
/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
*
*/
Hi,
here you can find my version for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 on LineageOS 19.1.
At first I want to thank @rINanDO, @ChronoMonochrome for all your work which was reused here and helped a lot.
Spoiler: Links
TWRP
ROM Android-Filehost
ROM Mega
Spoiler: Whats working
Boot
Audio
Bluetooth
Graphics
Cameras
GPS
Wifi
USB
Video playback (HW/SW)
OTA Updates
Tethering via USB, WIFI and Bluetooth
Sensors
RIL
Spoiler: Whats not working
NFC
Encryption
Maybe random reboots
SD card maybe can't formated as internal memory
Maybe more
I would recommend to use microG instead of gapps,
here you can find the installation instructions:
Spoiler: microG instructions
Download Magisk 24.1 and flash it via TWRP (yes, flash the APK file), reboot
Open Magisk and update the App (and do a reboot if it's asking)
Enable Zygisk in Magisk
Download and install microG installer in the Magisk manager, reboot
Download and install safetynet-fix in the Magisk manager, reboot
Check with a safetynet checker app and you should pass
Spoiler: Changelog
26.01.2022
08.03.2022
17.03.2022
25.03.2022
04.04.2022
19.04.2022
03.05.2022
15.06.2022
08.07.2022
22.09.2022
25.01.2023
Spoiler: How to install it?
Instructions
Wanna improve your sound configs, control your charging current and more?
Now you can use my app to access all boeffla configurations, there will follow more functions.
Exynos4 Kernel Manager - Apps on Google Play
This app provides Boeffla sound control and other kernel + charging tweaks
play.google.com
Telegramm group:
Samsung Galaxy Note II testing group
t.me
Do you like my work?
Than you can simply hit the thanks button and consider to spend me a coffee or a beer,
I'm doing this in my free time and it also costs a lot of money to buy hardware.
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XDA:DevDB Information
[ROM][12.x][N7100][BETA] LineageOS 19.1, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2
Contributors
html6405
Source Code: https://github.com/html6405
ROM OS Version: 12.x S
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.x
ROM Firmware Required: TWRP 3.3.0
Based On: LineageOS
Version Information
Status: Beta
Created 2021-12-30
Last Updated 2023-01-25
Alternative download link for the initial version:
File on MEGA
mega.nz
Originally posted in [ROM][UNOFFICIAL][11.0][N7100][Samsung Galaxy Note 2][LineageOS 18.1][ALPHA][TREBLELIZED]:
I just flashed the newly Android 12 LineageOS 19 build this morning.
It's currently a bit early to share my experience yet since I need some more time, but I already like to share my first impression.
First of all, I was surprised that I could just do a dirty flash over your current 18.1 dec build without any problems.
I did not perform a clean flash because I couldn't backup my Session messages, normally I always perform clean flashes.
I used TWPR 3.5.2 custom recovery to flash this ROM and only wiped Cache and Dalvik Cache/ART partition.
Everything went smooth. It didn't take too long for the first boot either.
Right after the first boot, just when it was booted, the phone rebooted.
After this reboot, I didn't encounter any random reboots yet.
Everything seems working smooth and snappy at the moment.
I can confirm that Magisk 23 is still working on this ROM. You just need to re-flash it after the first boot.
The only annoying thing I discovered is a blinking LED issue and the battery that last less longer, but that's maybe linked to the blinking LED issue.
Something I immediately noticed is that my notification LED is actually red now while charging and green when it hits 100%.
In previous 18.1 build, the LED always got a weird yellowish colour while charging.
Another thing that caught my eye was "Google Play System update" in settings.
I don't understands why it's there since it's supposed to be a degoogled ROM.
Google Play System updates is a part of the Google Play Services ecosystem.
I didn't install any GAPPS and this ROM didn't came with GAPPS pre installed.
Spoiler: What I can confirm is working
- It (re)boots correctly
- Able to receive and sending sms messages and phone calls (didn't try SIM unlock yet. I used the workaround that is mentioned in the main post)
- Camera's
- Wi-Fi (both, 2.4 GHz and 5GHz)
- Video's (YouTube in browser)
- Sensors, except compass (phone rotates correctly)
- Charge correctly to 100%
- S-pen (just as a regular styles, no button functionality)
Spoiler: What is not working + bugs
- An annoying blinking LED issue.
I never experience this before on any ROM.
Can be a coincidence, but after the battery drops below 75%, the notification LED is constantly blinking red, even when the screen is on.
I already tried to literary turn off all notifications options. I even disabled blinking LED option, but it still keeps blinking, even after a reboot. It only disappears after fully charging the phone but will come back in time.
I didn't find a way to fix this.
- Android 12 theme engine seems to be broken.
Some things like buttons (like emergency call button on lockscreen), text (search apps in launcher) and backgrounds in notifications icons in notification panel are still LineageOS teal.
Switching a wallpaper with different colours, but it doesn't change the theme colour of the device. Buttons, lockscreen clock etc. are still light blue. I try to add some screenshots to highlight this problem.
Also, the options to change the icon shape seems to be gone, even in developer settings.
Everything turned into circles after the update. Can't change it.
- USB (can't connect to pc (MTP))
- Extended screenshot beyond your screen
- There was a weird issue that my device is stuck at Samsung Galaxy II screen when turning on the device (not the LineageOS boot screen). I only had this once so can't describe how to reproduce it yet.
I just turned off my device in the power setting inside the ROM. The next time I turned on the device, it was stuck on that screen for 10 minutes. It was fixed by simply holding the power button for a while to turn off the phone.
After doing this, the phone rebooted normally again. I didn't got this issue again.
Besides the blinking LED issue, I had a very good first impression.
I really don't mind that some gimmick features are not working.
I only have this ROM for a few hours, so please keep in mind that I need more time for extensive and more in-depth testing.
Maybe there are some critical problems that I still need to discover.
I just wanted to give a quick update.
@html6405
If there are some specific things you like to try or things I need to keep an eye on, please let me know.
A big thank you to html6405 for this rom! Almost everything seems to work good.
The only thing i am missing is wake by proximity sensor. I use the app Waveup from F-droid for this. I know from trying other roms, that this is an unreliable feature. The sensor hardware is working, that much i know.
When using Lineageos 16, this is a built in feature in the rom, but it deactivates after every reboot. I have to manually turn it off and on every time to get it to work.
No big issue. Just glad to have latest Android on this device. I hope you get more appreciation from this than what you got from your Los 18.1 thread.
Let me know if you want feedback of any kind.
Happy new year!
It does work! I couldn't resist trying the future LOS19.
The overall impression is quite good, as the system seems to be more stable than the previous LOS18.1 for this phone. Still, the development options screen hanged a couple of times. At some point the system crashed and kept rebooting into recovery - fixed by erasing data partition. GPS works, although not well enough. The compass doesn't work in GPStest, but works in Compass app from Fdroid. I tried web browsing and viewing HD videos with Brave browser - very smooth experience. In order to access files on the phone I set up default USB mode in developer settings to files.
Two preinstalled applications are unsafe, contain trackers: camera and via. These had to be removed. Open Camera from Fdroid is installed - it works. The system web browser is preconfigured to ring Google; one may want to review its settings.
Installed Insular app (a sandbox made of the work profile) from Fdroid. The work profile works, but looses its filesystem after disabling and enabling it again. To bring the filesystem back reboot is required.
Phone encryption doesn't work, sadly. This is the same as with many previous custom ROMs for this phone.
A strange horizontal bar is seen at the bottom of the screen (nav bar home button??). Disable "Navigation hint" to get rid of it.
All together, it's an excellent result for the first attempt on LOS19. Looking forward to further releases!
Happy New Year everyone! Thank you html6405 for such an exciting present!
porcino said:
GPS works remarkably well, better than in the previous ROM, but compass doesn't work. I tried web browsing and viewing HD videos with Brave browser - very smooth experience. In order to access files on the phone I set up default USB mode in developer settings to files.
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This are really great news, could some one else confirm that GPS is working?
I cant test it by my own...
If it's working fine, I will add it to the working list.
GPS seems to work better with "Force full GNSS Measurements" and "Use GNSS APIs" disabled in GPSTest. I also disabled "Force full GNSS Measurements" in "Developer options". From inside a room it locks on 3-5 satellites, although sometimes after a delay.
With GNSS it finds also Russian and Chinese satellites, but uses only the US constellation.
GPS performance, of course, is not as impressive as in new Samsungs, which lock on several constellations at the same time.
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Added later... Still, GPS is not working well enough in this first release. It finds satellites slower than my ancient HTC DHD (ace) running cm13. Then it locks and in a moment loses the lock. I'll look into this in more detail...
porcino said:
GPS seems to work better with "Force full GNSS Measurements" and "Use GNSS APIs" disabled in GPSTest. I also disabled "Force full GNSS Measurements" in "Developer options". From inside a room it locks on 3-5 satellites, although sometimes after a delay.
With GNSS it finds also Russian and Chinese satellites, but uses only the US constellation.
GPS performance, of course, is not as impressive as in new Samsungs, which lock on several constellations at the same time.
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Great, hopefully some one else can confirm this , you're the only person so far.
Yes indeed - working GPS very important, and needs to be confirmed by multiple sources.
But kudos to the developer for making progress on this.
hello, dear! tell me, what is the battery life? I use rr 5.8.5, the battery lasts for a day of average use. I tried to install lineage 16 - the battery was enough for several hours( now I would really like to switch to this rom, but everything depends on the battery life. thank you for the answers!
alexfire_s said:
hello, dear! tell me, what is the battery life? I use rr 5.8.5, the battery lasts for a day of average use. I tried to install lineage 16 - the battery was enough for several hours( now I would really like to switch to this rom, but everything depends on the battery life. thank you for the answers!
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Just tried: flight mode, screen off, location off, BT and NFC off, no GApps, just sitting on the desk starting with fully charged. After half an hour the estimated battery life is 10h, 6m. Not great. The battery felt fine last night for a couple of hours of experimenting with secure messengers, then fully charged, then down to 2% by morning. I'll try uninstalling the messengers in case they are draining the battery - wait for an update.
I could not find a way of disabling the clock on the sleeping screen. It disappears after a while, but the screen power consumption is suspect.
Well, this is the first alpha release, the things with power consumption might improve soon.
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Update: I found a way to disable the clock on the sleep screen and the battery life increased to 23 hours, mobile network 1% (still the flight mode is on), phone idle 1%.
The method to disable the display was to press the power button while the notification panel is open...- perhaps another bug.
porcino said:
Well, this is the first alpha release, the things with power consumption might improve soon.
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The always on display will be turned off in the next build, this will improve the power consumption a lot.
You should be able to disable the always on display in the quick settings (AOD) and give your test a retry .
html6405 said:
You should be able to disable the always on display in the quick settings (AOD) and give your test a retry .
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Just tried the AOD button: first enabled it and then disabled again... - it worked! Not sure, though, whether any of my previous attempts to modify the settings via adb played any role. I'll repeat timing of the battery with this setting. Thanks.
porcino said:
Just tried the AOD button: first enabled it and then disabled again... - it worked! Not sure, though, whether any of my previous attempts to modify the settings via adb played any role. I'll repeat timing of the battery with this setting. Thanks.
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Theoretically it should be enabled by default (what I will change in the next build for sure), but anyway, it's good if you can turn it off yet.
Great news, another person confirmed with a video that GPS is working ,
so I will add it to the working list.
Nice to see, that this worked out nearly blindly, because I have no testing opportunities...
With AOD button on then off the battery life is estimated as "more than 2 days left" (flight mode, idle). Let's wait for a little longer...
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Update: after 11h it predicts "5 days left" and counting! Very good! The graph shows slightly increased power consumption in the first hour, and then it goes almost horizontal. I think it will be more than 5 days at idle, perhaps twice as many.
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Further update: after 1 day 5 hours it says 9 days left. The way the graph in Battery Usage page goes makes me think that it will last about 20 days if left idle. I don't know what caused the quick discharge in the first hour; after that the graph is a straight line pointing beyond 20 days mark...
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Yet another update: 28 days predicted after 23 hours of idling. Very good! This is with all wireless interfaces off, Always On Display off and NavBar off.
For reference - Note 4 with cdDroid 9 under similar conditions reports 45 days.
I checked this rom. the sd card is not mounted as internal memory, the phone falls into the bootloop before the lock screen, after which the bootloop again. wipe data or format does not help
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udp. the backlight of the hardware buttons does not work, although it is enabled in the settings
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upd. the indication of charge percentages in the status bar does not work when the display is selected with a circle inside the icon
alexfire_s said:
I checked this rom. the sd card is not mounted as internal memory, the phone falls into the bootloop before the lock screen, after which the bootloop again. wipe data or format does not help
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Simply remove the sdcard.
alexfire_s said:
udp. the backlight of the hardware buttons does not work, although it is enabled in the settings
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You're right, this will come later from lineageos.
alexfire_s said:
upd. the indication of charge percentages in the status bar does not work when the display is selected with a circle inside the icon
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Ok, this will also be fixed from the linageos side.
html6405 said:
Simply remove the sdcard.
You're right, this will come later from lineageos.
Ok, this will also be fixed from the linageos side.
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now I use the 7100 as the main device, I actively use it, I can quickly share bugs if I find them. is it possible to contact you directly without communicating on the formum? do you use a group of testers in telegram?