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[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
Updated the OP with new kernels. I've updated the CWM binary (see the recovery thread) as well as added in boot animation support. If either of these files exist, /system/media/bootanimation.zip or /data/local/bootanimation.zip, the phone will boot with a custom boot animation, otherwise, it will be the stock boot animation.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Echo5Kilo:
Does this mean the stock boot animation will be "smooth"? I couldn't care less about my boot animation, but I figured I'd ask this question right off the bat. Can't thank you enough for the work you've done. :cool:
[Verizon Droid Charge] stranula:
Thank you sooooo much imnuts, I've been hoping someone would come up with a way to change the boot animation. It seems like such an unimportant thing, but I didn't like the stock animation even when it worked properly, it just looked awful, and then with voodoo, it was like having a horrible seizure. Thanks again, and it works perfectly.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
No, this does nothing to smooth out the stock boot animation, and honestly, I have no idea why it's like that because it doesn't do it on other phones that I've seen when using voodoo.
[Verizon Droid Charge] davey11:
No issues with the new voodoo kernel on GC FE. Bootanimation support is the bomb! Mahalo imnuts.

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[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
imnuts sorry for the noob question but I know JaeKar99 put up a ton of boot animations in his thread in the Fascinate forum, would those be usable on the Charge?

blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
The zips, yes, but you may have to edit the updater-script if you want to flash them via CWM. You could extract the zip and put the boot animation in /system/media or /data/local with root explorer though (or similar)
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
ok cool thanks, shouldn't be a problem dropping one in with root explorer. When I get to it I'll let everyone know how it goes, also I saw someone link to jaeKars' page in your OTB thread so some people must have the same idea lol

blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G
[Verizon Droid Charge] :
This should have a banana in the background when in recovery right?lol.
[Verizon Droid Charge] piizzadude:
maybe you would want to add the Version number on the OP so we can check to make sure the newest kernel installed. That being said, is 2.6.32.9 the newest?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Outsider2011:
Does this work with any/all gingerbread roms(ep1f/ep1h) or is this still only for ee4? Also if this isnt for gb at all when will we see a working kernel that had voodoo?

Premium Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
When we get source code from samsung. Usually soon after an OTA update.
[Verizon Droid Charge] rukshmani:
No Voodo?

After I installed the zip, the option to turn on voodoo lag fix is gone from the cwr any suggetions?
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
Use the app voodoo control from market, its free
[Verizon Droid Charge] cujo6801:
download voodoo control from the market.......:) I guess type to slow....lol
[Verizon Droid Charge] rukshmani:
Thank you

I will do so thanks a lot.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ellisz:
Does voltage control work with this kernel? It keeps telling me that the kernel is not supported and can only work in limited mode. Is this normal? I had the same issue with the 7-10 kernel. Do I need the OTB kernel?
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
yes, only the OTB kernel works w/ voltage control. This kernel is UV slightly and is not adjustable.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Kormac:
Getting a black screen when I a custom boot animation (tried both /data/local/media and /system/media). In the OC kernel thread, someone mentioned to rename the stock boot animation to bootanimation.bak, where is that file? I only have some .qmg files that look boot related in /system/media (bootsamsung.qmg, bootsamsungloop.qmg).

Kormac
[Verizon Droid Charge] deadpenguins:
Flashed this update over my old PBJT and am now bootlooping at samsung logo screen with robot woman saying "convert data partition: not enough space in partition". Any thoughts?
[Verizon Droid Charge] hazard209:
Were you using any kernel tweaks? I was using one tweak and it was causing me bootlooping as well. I just wiped and flashed everything over and it works fine now.
[Verizon Droid Charge] piizzadude:
is making nandroid backups with the 7-30 kernel fixed or is it still borked?
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
were you on a voodoo kernel and then flashed the novoodoo kernel w/o converting first? I've never heard of that error before.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
Sounds like you were on no-voodoo, now it's trying to convert data and there isn't enough space on the sdcard to perform the conversion. Not sure why it'd boot loop though.
[Verizon Droid Charge] likuidxd:
Boot Animations

Do I need to compile JaeKar99's png's into some form of video file and rename to qmg?

EDIT: Never mind, I need to learn to read more
[Verizon Droid Charge] scourge99:
I am having the same issue. It does not appear I have root with the kernel.

Specs and Files Used

* Started from a stock EE4. Changed the kernel; kept the stock ROM.

*Odin: I9003_Odin3 v1.82.exe

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=15897406&postcount=1

*CWM: 0730_CWM_Recovery.tar.md5

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1112804

*Kernel: 0730_charge_novoodoo.zip (confirmed install by kernel version in phone which reads: 2.6.32.9 imnuts@virtualbox #1)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1104634

*applied SDcard patch by kerjar31

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1118111

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"root check" app reports : Superuser.apk installed; but it can't find the su command in /system/bin/su or /sbin/su/.

"terminal emulator" outputs "permission denied" when attempting to use "su" command.
[Verizon Droid Charge] quarky42:
Thanks for the update. Running it now. Having a custom boot animation is a very nice touch.
[Verizon Droid Charge] KassaNovaKaine:
Can anyone recommend good sources for custom boot animations? I wanna try a few ones out.
[Verizon Droid Charge] apascual89:
Yes it works, I backed up and then restored without issues
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1053250&highlight=boot+animations

enjoy

edit: hey imnuts this is Jaekar99's boot animation collection from the Fassy forums maybe you could include this link with instructions in the OP of your kernel threads now that they support it, there seems to be a lot of questions about it
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
I mainly use Absolute System Tools for changing boot animations. The app has a boot animation library that you can browse through.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kamikazemike6:
Are shutdown sounds supported with this kernel?

The link posted above by anoninja is great.. even has previews for most of the animations as well as several shutdown animations..

My question is, does anybody know how to get shutdown sounds working? or does this kernel not support it. I know in stock theres the shutdown.ogg file in System/media/audio/ui, but that file is no longer there with my new setup running gummy fe 1.9 with this kernel. Anyway to get it working again?
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
Get a shutdown.ogg file that is the sound you want

Place shutdown.ogg file in /system/media/audio/ui/

Shutdown your phone and listen to your new sound
[Verizon Droid Charge] scourge99:
Apparently installing a new kernel does NOT root your phone contrary to what the HOW-TO thread states: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14692818&postcount=1
[Verizon Droid Charge] KassaNovaKaine:
Hmm... I installed this one:

But it didn't seem to work. I downloaded the zip file and used CWM's "install zip from sdcard". Rebooted and nothing changed. Am I doing something wrong or is it incompatible with my device (Droid Charge)?
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
its not meant to be flashed in CWM, unzip it and use root explorer or something similar to put the actual "bootanimation.zip" in the /system/media or /data/local directories.. you may want to either remove or rename the stock files but I don't think its necessary as your custom one will overwrite it

blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G
[Verizon Droid Charge] hogowner:
This kernel works great!!

Sent from my 4g Verizon Charge!
[Verizon Droid Charge] kamikazemike6:
Woohoo

Figured it out it was a premature question :p but thank you for the confirmation, I am diggin the custom boot/shutdown animation and sound.

Does anybody else think it would be pretty cool to have a hard-key mapped so that you could hold it during boot/shutdown to make your phone do so silently.. like if you were in a movie theater or something? I do anyway.. :D
[Verizon Droid Charge] scourge99:
no voodoo kernel does not appear to provide root.

kernel with voodoo does.
[Verizon Droid Charge] nerdydesi:
I also spent an hour trying to get a custom boot animation but to no avail. Any help out here? :(
[Verizon Droid Charge] thelandon:
I, too, cannot get custom boot animations to work. I've also tried both data/local and system/media, placing bootanimation.zip in either one.

All I get is a black screen. :(
[Verizon Droid Charge] hazard209:
anoninja118 explains how to install custom boot animations at the top of this page.
[Verizon Droid Charge] streetlightman:
imnuts, can you confirm that you can now backup and restore for cwm? one user verified that you could but its interesting that you left it off of the change log which is why i'm hesitant to try it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] thelandon:
I followed anoninja's directions exactly. I'm still stuck with a black screen on boot.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
I don't use backup/restore ever. I just keep a semi-updated backup from TiBu and restore that if needed.

Also, I got the fix_permissions script fixed up (I think) so it doesn't cause errors. Will also have another update soon to hopefully get a little more performance for those that want it (there is a cost for it though)
[Verizon Droid Charge] idle0095:
how do i get root kernel. This kernel isnt root at all. I got no root.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
The kernel does have root, it just doesn't get setup in a manner that the system can actually use it. However, I will update this soon with a fixed up root install script.
[Verizon Droid Charge] hazard209:
You can try this. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1192604
[Verizon Droid Charge] rdearth53:
Hey, imnuts. Just wondering, does this kernel have swap support for creating and using swap files? Thanks!
[Verizon Droid Charge] :
Is something different about this kernel other than the listed changes?

I flashed this over Eclipse 1.2 and for some reason im getting a slight lag sometimes, and that's even when I changed the minimum frequency a bit higher.
[Verizon Droid Charge] thelandon:
Thanks hazard! I tried BAC lite and Pro (refunded) and settled on Boot Animations Installer (these animations are superior to BAC imho). Sadly, none of these apps, paid or not, have resulted in a successful boot animation install.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Lithium98:
I know it says any rom, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. Can I voodoo the hell outta my gummycharged (gingerbread, not froyo) phone? Voodoo lagfix is the best thing to happen to the Samsung line of phones.

Sent from some device on the third terrestrial planet in the solar system.
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
This is Froyo only. There is a EXT4 kernel for GB by navenedrob here in the development forum, I have no first hand experience to share with you as I haven't tried it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] thelandon:
I finally figured out my boot animation problem. I was on Humble 1.42. I switched to Eclipse 1.3.1 and everything works great! :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
As far as I know, the GB kernels from the leaks all support ext4 natively, so if you can get the FS to ext4, the stock kernel should work (no promises). And yes, the kernels here that are built from source are for Froyo only.
[Verizon Droid Charge] lane32x:
Voodoo kernel on Gummy Charged... Vibrate no longer works

Anybody else seeing this symptom?

*edit* evidently I installed Go SMS Pro at some point, which disabled my vibration notification for text message. ...aaaand I'm dumb.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
Nope. My phone is on silent nearly all the time and vibrate is working just fine for me. Even works when sound is on too as I have notifications setup to vibrate always.
[Verizon Droid Charge] stranula:
You may need to check the individual app settings, what specifically is not vibrating that you want to vibrate?
[Verizon Droid Charge] lane32x:
Edited my post. I feel like a complete n00b for the first time in months. Wow that was sad. Thanks for the responses though. cripes.

<hangs head in shame>
[Verizon Droid Charge] Nidaja:
My phone routinely reboots; sometimes when I'm using it, and sometimes when I"m not (last night, it rebooted while on the desktop charger).

This is a log file from the voodoo file on my sd card: I realized a couple of days ago that there are many in the voodoo folder, and I"m guessing that one is generated every time the phone reboots. This is not from last night's reboot, but they all look very similar, especially the ERROR lines.

I have no idea what this all means, but I'm hoping that someone here does, and it might lead in a direction to answer why I and others get these seemingly unexplainable reboots.

TIA

2011-08-06 16:57:54 model detected: charge

2011-08-06 16:57:55 option: lagfix enabled

2011-08-06 16:57:55 option: lagfix is allowed to convert /system to Ext4

2011-08-06 16:57:55 filesystem detection on system:

2011-08-06 16:57:55 Ext4 on /dev/block/stl10

2011-08-06 16:57:55 filesystem detection on dbdata:

2011-08-06 16:57:55 Ext4 on /dev/block/stl11

2011-08-06 16:57:55 filesystem detection on cache:

2011-08-06 16:57:55 Ext4 on /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

2011-08-06 16:57:55 filesystem detection on data:

2011-08-06 16:57:55 Ext4 on /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

2011-08-06 16:57:55 no need to convert cache

2011-08-06 16:57:55 no need to convert dbdata

2011-08-06 16:57:55 no need to convert data

2011-08-06 16:57:55 no need to convert system

2011-08-06 16:57:57 manage fat.format in /sbin

2011-08-06 16:57:57 fat.format wrapper installed in /sbin

2011-08-06 16:57:57 fat.format renamed to fat.format.real & symlink created to fat.format_wrapper.sh

2011-08-06 16:57:57 manage fat.format in /system/bin

2011-08-06 16:57:57 fat.format wrapper already installed in /system/bin

2011-08-06 16:57:57 running extension: apk_cleaner.sh

2011-08-06 16:57:57 ERROR: apk_cleaner cannot do its job. zip binary is missing

2011-08-06 16:57:57 please contact your Voodoo lagfix kernel vendor to notify this error

2011-08-06 16:57:57 running extension: install_bln.sh

2011-08-06 16:57:57 BackLightNotification improved liblights cannot be installed or is not supported

2011-08-06 16:57:57 running extension: install_su.sh

2011-08-06 16:57:57 secure su binary for Superuser apk already installed

2011-08-06 16:57:57 running extension: sdcard_cleaner.sh

2011-08-06 16:57:57 sdcard cleaned up

2011-08-06 16:57:57 running extension: update_vold.fstab.sh

2011-08-06 16:57:57 running init !
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
Voodoo generates a log every time the phone boots up. The line that shows ERROR isn't an issue, and I think I may have taken that stuff out to prevent the stuff from showing in the logs. If I didn't take it out I will as the tools necessary for the things to work aren't in the ROM, and I don't want to put them in the ramdisk as it's already somewhat cramped for space. What it is doing isn't really needed anyway, they are just extra functions that voodoo can do on boot if you want it to.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Nidaja:
imnuts, is there anything that does generate a log file that does describe why the phone does reboot? I'm getting these reboots without error messages or force close messages; just the phone freezes and reboots.

And I"m not sure why/what is going on when it reboots while on the desktop charger.

Just trying to track down the offending problem, thank you for your assistance in helping me to track down information!
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
If you have ADB setup and debugging enabled on your phone, you could just leave logcat running in the background, dumping the output to a text file. If the phone does a full reboot, logcat will end right as the error occurs, so if it is an app causing it, you'll see it there. If that doesn't work, you can use dmesg to dump the kernel log to a text file to see what shows up there just before the reboot. "adb logcat" and "adb shell dmesg" would be the two things you're looking for.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
Despite the different date, this is the same update that the OC kernel got. It should help make the phone at least feel faster for users, doesn't really improve performance from a benchmark standpoint. There are several changes in this update. Notably, you can now enable/disable logcat and I've added swap support and swap space to help make up for the lack of usable RAM.

Here are instructions for logcat. From a root shell (or adb) run "logcat-enable" to turn logcat on, or "logcat-disable" to turn it off. By default, logcat will be on when your phone boots until you run logcat-disable. You can enable logcat while the phone is running and it was previously disabled. However, to disable logcat if it is already running, you have to run logcat-disable and then restart your phone.

For the change with swap space, it is automatic, and not something that is user configurable, and likely won't ever be user configurable. We have several partitions on our phone, and one of them is /preinstall, which is basically ~410MB of unused space that is more or less useless. Since it isn't being used, I took this space and turned it into a swap partition to give us some virtual memory. I spent the last 4-5 days with this configuration to make sure that it didn't slow down over time, as I saw several mentions of swap causing problems on android phones over time. I haven't noticed that in my usage. This is better than other methods of introducing swap space because it is on internal memory, which is faster than putting it on the SDCard (significantly for most users), and doesn't take up storage space from /data which is the other place I've seen it put.

Using this kernel, I have noticed that using the camera to take pictures doesn't really have nearly the delay/lag between photos that it did before. I don't know if this is due to the swap space, logcat being off, or a combination of the two. Also, the phone doesn't start slowing down or getting jumpy as you open/use more applications. I also haven't had ADW get closed and pushed out of memory since doing this. I have noticed stutters in things (I tested with Angry Birds) but they were less frequent than before the changes, and didn't cause as many issues for usability as the same lag/stutter from before the change.

The minor changes were an update to the recovery binary for CWM, and the fix_permissions script should not be fixed so it works. If anyone has any problems, feel free to list them in the appropriate thread. Please keep kernel issues here, and any problems in recovery in the recovery thread. I won't post a new Odin CWM file, just flash this or my other kernel and it will update recovery for you.
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
nice, flashing now :) logcat support will really help, maybe now some issues people are having can be figured out... I saw you tweeted EE4 kernel source is incoming, are there any ways it will help smooth out the boot lag or maybe enable BLN or any other big changes?
[Verizon Droid Charge] cujo6801:
I thought I read that wrong when it said fix pemission not fixed. but definitely is not fixed

SENT FROM THE DOG POUND
[Verizon Droid Charge] rukshmani:
CWM and THIS and am I rooted?

A quick question, if I am on stock rom, and first odin latest CWM and than flash this Kernel, will I be rooted, or I need to install rooted EE4 rom before installing the kernel?
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
Thank you for the informative post. Maybe next time you can provide a few less details about why it isn't fixed and what isn't working with it...
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
Can someone confirm this kernel works with Humble 1.5.1?
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
It will work for all EE4 based roms.
[Verizon Droid Charge] 24BlackMamba:
i just updated the kernel on my phone and my phone is lagging alot now.. idk why.. i guess ill reflash it to see if that helps.
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
The 7/30 version caused my phone to boot loop with Humble 1.42. When I flashed back to 7/10 everything was good. Just wanted to get a comfirmation of it working.

Edit: confirmed that 8/7 version is working with Humbe 1.51.
[Verizon Droid Charge] 24BlackMamba:
hahahahaha
[Verizon Droid Charge] fz798:
you beat me to it. I just flashed 0807 on 1.51 and it's working fine.
[Verizon Droid Charge] MasterRy88:
Has anyone noticed speed improvements when disabling the logcat?
[Verizon Droid Charge] tysdad08:
Ok first time I have been lost in a long time but how do u turn logcat off like what do u download to do it and steps please I'm good at flashing stuff and Odin but this I'm lost.
[Verizon Droid Charge] chiahead52:
I would like the same pretty please?
[Verizon Droid Charge] rand4ll:
Load up terminal emulator on phone then do these commands, pressing enter after each:

su

logcat-disable

reboot

that is it
[Verizon Droid Charge] chiahead52:
mine is saying logcat-disable not found..huh?
[Verizon Droid Charge] rj57:
Start up a terminal, get a root prompt (type su), and then type logcat-disable at the root prompt.

After you reboot, logcat will be disabled.

Sent from my SCH-I510
[Verizon Droid Charge] rand4ll:
Did u flash the new kernel?
[Verizon Droid Charge] rj57:
You will need to dl and flash the 8/7 version of the kernel with CWM

Sent from my SCH-I510
[Verizon Droid Charge] cujo6801:
ok sorry for the short post and your right I should have given more info....I'm on humble 1.51 .flashed new kernel then rebooted.then I went to recovery/advance/fix_permission.pressed select.then in about (now I'm just guessing here) a tenth of a second it was done...now again I'm just guessing here but I did not think that that was long enough ....If I'm wrong I'm very very sorry.....
[Verizon Droid Charge] tysdad08:
Thanks dude that's what I was think it was but yea u helped me out thanks.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
I have no idea, as I've never run it. However, if it displayed the following, then it should have worked.

All the script does is goes through and chmod's a bunch of files, it shouldn't take long to do with flash memory.
[Verizon Droid Charge] cujo6801:
okey doke.....
[Verizon Droid Charge] chiahead52:
yep I have it installed but its showing that error when I type in it terminal....I tried it both with and without the quotes....once I typed in SU I had to approve the superuser status and then I typed in logcat-disable and it threw the error

I know the Kernel installed because I was running the blue one and when I flashed the kernel my custom boot animation came up..I will reflash the kernel and see
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
if "logcat-disable" doesn't work, try "/system/xbin/logcat-disable"
[Verizon Droid Charge] chiahead52:
ok it said touch /data/local/disable-logcat: Permission Denied

Logcat will be disabled after restarting

so sounds like that worked...thanks
[Verizon Droid Charge] chiahead52:
just an FYI-after I disabled the logcat...the next boot something was wrong with wifi...just wouldnt enable and said error..I didnt do anything other than reboot again and it seems ok....not sure if its related to anything or not......also how can I verify if the logcat is running or not?
[Verizon Droid Charge] thelandon:
Did anyone else bork their wifi after flashing the 8-7-11 kernel? Also, where can I find the previous kernel? Thanks!
[Verizon Droid Charge] thelandon:
Nevermind.. I had a backup copy of the 7-10-11 kernel on my hard drive. All is well again.
[Verizon Droid Charge] cold21blooded:
Does the partion flash itself or do I have to turn it on

Sent from the mind controlled charge of @rsqweezy