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[Nook Color General] HWBevin:
need app?

i don't think so
[Nook Color General] alpha112:
I use audiogalaxy for my music which is simple and working great so far.
[Nook Color General] kirbfucius:
You can stream Netflix through Playon? Hm... might have to try that out. I've been pretty happy with VLC S&C since I've got it working, but Netflix would be nice until they get around to making a proper Android app for it.
[Android Apps and Games] supercurio:
Who

After running the app idea on twitter, several developers showed interest in the idea.

I have no plan to write or promote this application by myself.

However I'm interested into acting as a host, incubator or something like that, and also contributor.

Who showed interest right away (developers)

@bvalosek

@BFGarzilla9k

@ytt3r

@ogdobber

@KhasMek

@TheEscapist_xda

And also a few people before the the the idea was described publicly.

I guess this app can have a very large user base quite fast, especially since it will be promoted by about every kernel developer here on XDA.

How

I propose a shared git repository on https://github.com/project-voodoo with plenty of contributors with write access to the App SDK & NDK code.

Maybe forks all over the place could do also, but if it enhance freedom I'm not sure it would favor collaboration so much :D

Hey, your turn guys!
[Android Apps and Games] zerkai:
This would be extremely useful. Hope it goes well!
[Android Apps and Games] ytt3r:
This is a really cool idea. I know enough XML to work on the UI, so I guess if I want to be involved, thats the way in :)

I won't be much help this week though.
[Android Apps and Games] storm717:
nice posts bud-- good to see you starting the ball rolling from your idea on Twitter earlier. Just some quick info before I head out... more tonight probably

Some thoughts on the app:

the changing of states is definitely a huge thing to work into the tests, as this is where some of the more subtle problems between the voltage/freq steps seems to manifest themselves.

I have yet to find a synthetic test that can fail/detect problems as quickly as say launching a game like Cordy.., so there are ways to bash the system harder than the current tests it seems

what i can bring to the table

No experience with the NDK but pretty solid C experience for embedded systems

Can probably help the most on UI/metrics/feedback parts of the app. Creating views to reflect test status, sysfs state info, etc. Example of an app that shows time_in_state info i wrote a few weekends ago -> CPU Spy

my dev environment

Arch Linux

vim + android SDK command line tools

git for VCS (github for the few opensource projects I've done)

I'll be watching this thread to see what sort of dev activity we have going on over the next few days... looking forward to working with some of yall fellow XDA guys
[Android Apps and Games] ytt3r:
Do you have a twitter? It would be good if you made one for collaboration
[Android Apps and Games] storm717:
@bvalosek
[Android Apps and Games] TheEscapist:
I agree with supercurio on the Linpack, detecting errors part. My idea was something like Prime95. Have an array of known primes, first 1000, lets say, then start generating the first 1000 primes. After each division(inner loop), change the frequency max and min level to a random step. If the generated prime number ever fails the comparison to the known primes, you are unstable. Since a lot of the instability in mobile oc comes from the voltage switching, the frequency switching would stress that as well.

EDIT: Heh, we made front page.
[Android Apps and Games] SammyM00782:
Toastcfh and Decad3nce have given us HTC guys some incredible Kernels in the past. You might wanna run this past them if they haven't seen it already. I know zero about kernels or I would jump in this asap. There's nothing like flashing a kernel update script to find your device doesn't boot anymore :-)
[Android Apps and Games] supercurio:
Alright let's create a repository to boot with then ;)

Incoming here: https://github.com/project-voodoo/android_oc-uv_stability_test
[Android Apps and Games] ytt3r:
Could you add me as aa collaborator? We also need to brainstorm names.
[Android Apps and Games] supercurio:
Yep, I created a team on github containing already KhasMek, ogdobber, storm717, TheEscapistxda, you and me :)

I'm also on IRC (signature)
[Android Apps and Games] ytt3r:
Got any ideas for a name? That's important...
[Android Apps and Games] supercurio:
Eh he when the stability test is the latest app to detect errors or crash the phones it shows there's a lot to learn :)

Sounds good. I have no experience with NDK either yet but reading the NDK samples a bit earlier showed that it is almost trivial to do the glue with it :)

What you did with CPU spy is awesome, it allows to understand very easily how the states & frequencies are used and also if the device enter sleep properly.

Looks simple but at the same time really useful. Congrats !

Cool.

I guess most devs will use Eclipse but there is no problem building/editing the sources with or without Eclipse itself.
[Android Apps and Games] supercurio:
I would suggest OC/UV stability test, or Overclock stability test

You can never go wrong with a name describing what the application does.

− Especially with mobile apps which traditionally do one thing ;)
[Android Apps and Games] tdrussell:
I don't have any technical expertise to contribute to this project, but i've spent a whole lot of time staring at BIOS screens tweaking OC's. This is exactly what is missing from the Android OC scene. The app QuickClocks has a feature that attempts to do this, through what it calls a "lag spike test," but it did not behave properly on my Droid X. I will be following this project very closely and contributing whatever feedback i can. Good luck guys.
[Android Apps and Games] tkienzle:
Looks like a great idea...:cool:
[Android Apps and Games] Kezzainc:
I am a huge PC overclocker. I have owned 2x HD2s now. First Euro over a year ago and could clock easy over 1400mhz. My new T-Mob crashes at 1190. Its the same kernal/ROM so its very clear to me its a voltage problem.

It sucks I cant clock it up more and willing to cost some battery sometimes. Great App going here guys keep up the good work.
[Android Apps and Games] mazroui:
id like to enroll for testing if possible, i know iv tested every version of SOK and helped with finding bugs. i know my phone is a quality built coz its rocking 1.4ghz stable wether it was gaming/stress-testing or whatever.

if u think i could be of any help with testing simply message me ^_^
[Android Apps and Games] AspenTree:
I have an idea for apk Icon. I can make it once the name is figured out but it could be a clock with lighting bolts as the clock's hands to symbolize the clock speed of gpu / cpu and the bolts to symbolize the voltage.
[Android Apps and Games] ytt3r:
do a quick mockup, I'm interested to see
[Android Apps and Games] suntzu123:
Im always OC... When I need it.

UV is very usefull tool.... But Stability Tester from market is "s...". I know one thing, if it crash I have to rise 0,5V voltage. The best stability test for CPU I think is a browser.

We need good tool. And there is no good tool for GPU. SGX540 works with 400MHz, not in Galaxy S (200MHz)... But is it possible to OC GPU? I mean this is SoC, and there is much more related controlers here. Is possible to make it (ofc not save), but "not 100%" bricking phones tool.

There is only one game that need souch a power. Dungeon Defenders, and only CPU is here bottleneck (you can addjust grpahics).

But I hope there will be some.... And I hope there will be no limits like now. Nvidia sponsoring developers to make games only for Tegra 2.
[Android Apps and Games] zacharias.maladroit:
Hi guys,

here's a repost from my kernel thread listing the steps I do to make sure it's at least 95-99.999999% stable for me:

Angry Birds Rio from my experience seems more challenging since I already had 2 hangs & reboots with it whereas there were none with Gun Bros

there are probably more challenging games but currently I don't know much - and it should be free

all of these steps would be needed to be incorporated in the stability testing app in some sort :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] :
are you talking about my idea for the app icon? lol
[Android Apps and Games] ytt3r:
Yes.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Will try and get it up this weekend :)
[Android Apps and Games] max_82:
How the progress of this project?
[Android Apps and Games] aweaver33:
I agree. One of the problems with most (all?) of the existing stability/stress tests out there is that they peg the processor and thus really only test the max frequency. Users are then left with a manual process of testing each frequency individually and are unable to test the transitional dynamics. While I don't have the time or the Android development experience to make a meaningful contribution to the app, I figure I could at least share a small shell script I hacked together to randomly cycle scaling_max_freq (I would have used the scaling_setspeed, but my kernel of choice doesn't have the userspace governor). I kick this script off before running StabilityTest when I'm testing my UV settings. Anyway, I doubt many of you will find this all that useful as-is, but it is an interesting proof of concept.

#!/system/bin/bash

# Cleanup function to restore original max frequency
function cleanup()
{
echo $maxfreq > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
exit
}

# Get the list of frequencies that we want to cycle through
typeset -a allfreqs;
allfreqs=(`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies`)
minfreq=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq`
maxfreq=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq`
numfreqs=0
typeset -a freqs
for i in ${allfreqs[@]}; do
if [ $i -ge $minfreq ] && [ $i -le $maxfreq ]; then
freqs[$numfreqs]=$i
numfreqs=$(($numfreqs + 1))
fi
done

# Restore max frequency if we're interrupted
trap cleanup SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM

# Get number of loops from command-line with a default if not specified
numloops=500
if [ $# -ge 1 ]; then
numloops=$1
fi

# A single pass through this outer loop sets all the frequencies
for ((i=0; $i < $numloops; ++i)); do

# Shuffle the frequency order
for ((j=0; $j < $numfreqs; j++)); do
randPos=$(($RANDOM % $numfreqs))
tmp=${freqs[$j]}
freqs[$j]=${freqs[$randPos]}
freqs[$randPos]=$tmp
done

# Set the max freq to each frequency in the list for a while
# If userspace governer were enabled, we'd set the target freq instead
for j in ${freqs[@]}; do
echo -n "."
echo $j > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
usleep 100000
done

echo " $(($i+1))"

done

cleanup
[Android Apps and Games] dog77k:
The stabilitytest app mentioned in the OP is now in v2 which allows a frequency scaling stability test...very useful and well on its way.
[Android Apps and Games] lordofazeroth:
I installed Stab. Test but it tells me with the root testing (name forgotten) that only 1000 MHz max are tested.

I have an overclocking kernel which should go to 1200.

How can I test 1200 with this app?
[Android Apps and Games] dog77k:
You have to have 1200 set as your current max freq. The app tests between whatever your current clock settings are, not what the kernel supports.

Sent from my Inspire 4G
[Android Apps and Games] caldeio:
Im looking forward to all the great updates on this app! :D
[Android Apps and Games] leperousdust:
This sounds like exactly something i'd be after. Something i could essentially leave to automatically undervolt and rigorously test my phone to find it's limits. I don't need any more bleeding edge performance per se, but jumping through the hoops and undervolting would be well worth it battery wise i'm sure. The problem being that there are SO SO many values and different ways of testing "stability" that it's largely sensibly impossible to ever get the "perfect". An automated process that could do this if i left it (i wouldn't care if it took hours just once!) would be an absolute god send. With yours and other popular dev names behind it, it also seems like something you can trust :)

I will wait patiently for this! My i9000 honestly never seems to get old. I have on and off thought about getting an i9100 and i just can't justify the slight improvement compared to unsurpassed dev support of the i9000, between everyone here the i9000 have super-polished an fairly decent phone, one which we can thank Samsung for innovating so much with yet leaving "us" to finish...
[Android Apps and Games] Magnumutz:
Is this project still alive?

Cuz i'd love to see the real app.
[Android Apps and Games] loonieryan:
+1

I am running StabilityTest for over 40 minutes without any issues, but my GPU is still crashing every now and then while using my phone. My phone is overclocked, and it's evident that StabilityTest just isn't stressing my GPU enough.
[Android Apps and Games] Stannieman:
The problem with the stability test from the market is that it focuses on one operation only.

I guess their approach was: "How can we let the cpu work? Aah yes, calculate prime numbers, that will make it sweat. Let's calculate lots of prime numbers and check if the result is good!"

But when you compile a prime calc app, not all ARM instructions available are used, only those required for the prime calculation algorithm.

A better approach would be: "What are all available ARM instructions on this ARM version? Lets do a run for each ARM instruction where that instruction is extensively tested. Then do some runs with all instructions mixed up."

The thing is that you need to write some ASM, cause otherwise the compiler chooses what he thinks are the best instructions, and some might not be tested good enough.

With stability test as it is now, you are sure your cpu runs stable with the instructions used by the test. It might very well be however that if some app uses an untested instruction, the phone crashes because that instruction causes problems.
[Android Apps and Games] melbourne408:
This looks really interesting!

Miss you all from my cappy days!

I'm down.
[Android Apps and Games] mbze430:
is this project still alive?
[Android Apps and Games] lu94sca:
news?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MДЯCЦSДИT:
http://mau5.net/
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxLostSoulxX:
Its alright i really like Deadmau5. But i think if they changed the battery icon to something else cool, a few things and we be even more awesomer!!!!

yea i said awesomer lol
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Or deadmau5. I made a custom mau launcherpro but I cant post it until I habe access to a pc.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Im going to attempt a port (OMG I CANT THEME!!!)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MДЯCЦSДИT:
OK, I can't get the statusbar to theme... if anyone wants to port this, please.
[Nexus S General] msnxda:
Compass is not working (model 9023 Dutch). I'am not the only one reporting this. Apps like streetview are not working in compass mode.

When running GPS status the needle is pointing everywhere but the right direction. Callibrate does not work.

Anybody an idea if this a hardware or software issue?
[Nexus S General] MarkusPO:
there have been reports that the nfc chip affects the compass. try removing the back to see if it helps. though the back plate is only one part of the nfc system i think.
[Nexus S General] msnxda:
I tried it without the backcover with no results. Nfc is turned of btw because its of no use in holland.
[Nexus S General] banoncn:
me too..my i9023 have the bug..

who is same too?
[Nexus S General] umbrella42:
You should star this issue so Google is urged to fix it!

The following quote is from another "defective compass" thread:
[Nexus S General] mariosergio2112:
In the 9020, i need to recalibrate the compass every time i use it.
[Nexus S General] RomG74:
compass needs calibration

Hi,

I have the same problem on i9023, the compass needs calibration after each boot... without calibration the compass is stuck...

In which file calibration results are stored ? because those results seem lost when the phone is turned off
[Nexus S General] msnxda:
I gave up. The compass is a failing in every way. I could sent it back, but there are reports that a replacement has the same issues. The sensors are a piece of crapp or the software can not handle them properly. Either way this sucks.
[Nexus S General] dobrin25:
Compass not working

Hey,

I've tried calibrating the compass on my Nexus S numerous times.

We have 4 Nexus S' in the house, each with the same problem.

Compass never calibrates.

Google SkyMap doesn't work because of this issue.

Does anyone know if there is a fix?

I've noticed some links to report it to google so that's what I'll do but does anyone know why this is happening? I tried the backplate removal, nothing.

On all 4 phones I am running : I9020, KD1, GRJ22. Android 2.3.4
[Nexus S General] msnxda:
Hi, you can return your phone(s) because its a design failure. But I didn't because the nexux S is still a great phone. There a threads about this issue, but amazingly enough not that many that samsung or google feel the urge to take action. I would expect massive complaints, but probally a compass is not a first requirement for many people. Strange because even Maps is not working good if you navigate during walking.
[Dell Streak 7] MajikUF:
I have a S7 that is an X rev and it only has one camera on it and it has a different ID than the current streak 7s, so I can't apply the update that tmobile put out.

So I rooted the S7 and ran ROM MANAGER and it insists that the clockworkmod is installed correctly, but I can't reboot into recovery from that program (I don't think it works on s7 anyway) nor can I do it with the volume+ and power. (All that does is to boot into android)

The fastboot seems to work fine, so is there a way that I can push one of the .ZIP file ROMs using fastboot? I was thinking the "Dell Streak 2.2.2 update with FULL ROOT" would be a good one to try, but there are many .img files in the zip file and when I try fastboot update, I get the following errors:

archive does not contain 'android-info.txt'

archive does not contain 'android-product.txt'

error: update package has no android-info.txt or android-product.txt

I know that the following lines will work, but there isn't a system.img in the .zip file.

$fastboot flash boot boot.img

$fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

$fastboot flash system system.img

Thanks

Maj
[Dell Streak 7] thatruth132:
You cant use regular fastboot commands its something like "fastboot -l 0413e blah blah search my threads for "how to flash stock img. " at the bottom of first post you will see fastboot help link
[Dell Streak 7] thatruth132:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11929063&postcount=23
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
Hey thatruth I've never used fastboot -iowhatever. All my fastboot cmds are fastboot (cmd) (dir) (file). Op so when holding +volume and power it doesn't put you in the bootloader? Your device may not work with cwr. Being a X device. And op are you using ubuntu/linux?

Sent from a signal
[Dell Streak 7] graffixnyc:
to get into cwr you have to hold vol and power. Then at the android menu select option 2 update.pkg. it will then boot into recovery

you can also reboot into recovery via adb

adb reboot recovery
[Dell Streak 7] MajikUF:
I have not found a way to get into recovery. Using adb, fastboot, reboot into recovery options, and attempting vol+ and power, just boots straight into android. It says "cold-booting linux" and boots into android. It seems as if there isn't a real partition to do that, so I somehow need to dump an image onto the s7 so that it will have all of these partitions.

I have a Droid Incredible in which I've hacked to death, so I know how to get into the other menus, they just don't appear to be there or accessible for some reason.
[Dell Streak 7] MajikUF:
Yah, the +volume and power just boots the phone right into android. ROM Manager tells me that my rooted s7 installs cwr just fine. (in fact I've tried every different version it offers) I use w7 x64.
[Dell Streak 7] jiwengang:
did you try flash cwm through fastboot yet?

http://www.4shared.com/file/l2JpliG6/recovery-clockwork-3019-streak.html

use this to download cwm recovery img
[Dell Streak 7] MajikUF:
Assuming that's the same cwm that I got in the streaksmart forum, yah. I flashed that using fastboot as the recovery and then issued the reboot into recovery command and it just booted up android.

At this point, I am assuming the build/version I have isn't a standard build and I will have to do something outside the normal channels to get it to work. I might just chuck this and get another. Especially since I heard that there will be a compatible version of honeycomb for devices with less than stellar resolutions like the s7.
[Dell Streak 7] fatlard:
I think the key here is to unplug usb from computer and hold down the power and Vol+ button to reboot into recovery mode.

I struggled with this for probably half a day figuring that out.
[Dell Streak 7] chavezop:
thx for your help and I finally figured out the fastboot and then recovery.img. So then I rebooted and seleted the software upgrade via update and it been stuck on that selection for awhile. is that normal?
[Dell Streak 7] chavezop:
by the way upper left hand it has in white lettering Booting recovery kernel image.
[Dell Streak 7] fatlard:
It should say Booting recovery kernel image and then take you straight into clock work recovery...
[Dell Streak 7] Geramy:
Mines doing the same thing just getting stuck when it says Booting recovery kernel image and the dell logo apears then when i press the power button it turns off if i boot the device up not plugged into my computer and hold the power and volume+ it will flash red the LED and turn off.
[Dell Streak 7] JRUMJ206:
Resolved Yet???

I'm having the same issue... CWM says it's working fine but when I try to load ROM it reboots normally back into the menu... Red lights blinking and does nothing when trying to get into recovery mode. Fastboot is only thing that seems to work and that even doesn't work properly...

I'm stuck with a ROM that is constantly crashing. Every 10 min or so, it needs to go. Please anyone that may have a method I could try would be appricitated...

J
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbrits:
A few weeks ago I noticed that when connected to wifi I wasn't receiving consistent notifications for emails from my Gmail account or my exchange account, but still able to get on the web, check Facebook, and basically do anything else that required a data connection. At the time I was running Incredibly Re-Engineered 2.3. If I received an email while using the phone, I sometimes received a notification, but if the screen was off and the phone was on my desk, then I wouldn't receive a notification. However, the moment I pickup the phone and unlock the screen, I receive an email notification.

I've been experiencing this problem while using multiple ROMs - Redemption 2.4, Incredibly Re-Engineered 2.3 and 2.4, and Incredibly Re-Engineered Z 1.2B (which I'm running right now) - so I don't think the issue is being caused by the ROM. I've made sure that the Wifi sleep policy is set to "never." In Accounts & Sync, "background data" and "auto sync" are both checked, as are all the sync options for my individual accounts. That being said, everything works fine on 3G, regardless of the ROM.

I really don't know what else I can do to fix this problem, and I'm desperate to fix it. Any suggestions?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbrits:
Bump - 'cause I'm desperate.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smtom:
Happens to me as well, different ROMs, but same thing.

I find it better, not solved, but better as I flash different kernels with ROMs.

Never happened on stock rooted setup, maybe that's a clue for me...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbrits:
Thanks for the reply. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who's had this problem. Do you recall what kernel you've had the best luck with??