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[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] stefanjadex:
Question about Ninphetamine-2.0.5

Hi everyone,

I just want to ask (maybe some stupid) questions, because I never flashed a kernel for my SGS2. And I'm not so experienced with Android anyway.

So, please be gentle with me... :)

I have SGS2, with Lite'ning 4.2 ROM with Ninphetamine-2.0.2 kernel.

Questions are:

1. Can I flash this kernel 2.0.5 for my rom? Will my rom / phone support this kernel?

2. If it will be ok, then I'd like to flash the kernel through CWM app. I saw in the first post that I should use the tar file. Now, should I put the "tar" or the "zImage" file on my SD card and then to flash the kernel?

Thank you in advance for your kind help for an Android beginner.

Stefan
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] miisterlim:
1. I'm not too sure but I assume you can as you are already on the ninphetamine kernel.

2. Copy the tar file and flash.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] fscherz:
1) Yes, I use it on LR 1.5

2) You can flash with CWM, I did it as well. You need to download the ZIP and leave it as it is. I download directly from Tapatalk and flash it via CWM without using PC.

p.s.: Is your HTC better than the SGSII?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] abhiwltya:
Oh man..hacre...u were funnier in op than russel peters :D ...

Well can someone tell me if this kernel is overclocked by itself or we have to manually do it.I dunt want to overclock just i want stock speeds.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
Seeing as it doesn't say it's overclocked as standard on the OP which you say you've read you can believe that it's not. It only states it can overclock to 1.6GHz. But to answer your question it's stock speeds as standard as that's what I run.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] veyka:
Can be overclocked

Also can cause death by silly questions :D
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] slekkas:
I've been reading this thread for hours but i cant find anywhere that says how to use the BLN. All i saw was a post referring this link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1206726 but from what i read there it doesn't support lightning ROM v5. How can i make use of the BLN? Is there an option i need to activate or a software to download?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] nikzDHD:
Yes search market for bln.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] slekkas:
I've searched for bin but i get a 1000 results about bin laden:). Can you tell me the developer or something else to search?

BTW thanks for the quick response.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] stoney73:
Not bin, try BLN.Back-Light-Notification.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] jfive74:
can this be flashed on a stock but rooted kg2 or kg6 rom? thanks.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] alexandruvlad:
Hello

Can someone share / suggest some voltages for freqs up to 1.2 Ghz ?

Battery-saving wannabe here :)

Thanks a lot
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] nikzDHD:
Keep reducing by -25 until it's stable. Not all phones will be the same.

Mine are:

200 = 800

400 = 825

800 = 925

1000 = 1050

Ondemand 200mhz to 1000mhz. Underclocked and stable.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Major_Sarcasm:
I'm seriously considering a break from this thread as I fear that stupidity might be contagious.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] lpsi2000:
LOL, I hear you there.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] carlos67:
And how was the w**k?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pspilot:
Yep, you say it, for you it would be enough - others might think different :). That's why I suggested the control. But a control can also be easier for the dev, since he hasn't to find a hard-coded optimum he has to change again, if people complain. The control itself is no big deal.

Contradiction, Sir :). I find the indoor brightness ok in normal and bright office light. The darker it becomes from there on, the more the screen's too bright. But that's only MY opinion.

I assume the kernel must do the hardware control. The setting itself has to be an app of course. I see it like the overclocking: control app + kernel support.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] veyka:
You need the bln app, a fixed liblights and half a brain.

This has been gone over at least 10 times in this thread alone.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] victorinoxs:
Am I dreaming or pinch-zoom&pan feature in stock browser is not supported by this kernel?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] veyka:
Rom issue not kernel
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Pfeffernuss:
It's basically the same on every forum, on every site, everywhere. Drives me crazy as well.

Leave the pc off, close the curtains, stop every form of social life whatsoever and enter Captain Caveman Mode. It's bliss.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] slekkas:
I purchased BLN Control Pro but i get this message "this liblights does not support bln"

it's strange because Ninphetamine-2.0.5 should work with this app. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Samuel Rozenberg:
UTF8

any one can help ?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] veyka:
The derp of the day award goes to YOU

The error msg, says, that you need a new liblights, hmmm, maybe you know, you might want to search the thread for a fixed liblights, or look back about 1page max where I said the same thing. ^_^
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Samuel Rozenberg:
I mean with UTF8 helping Cifs 'wich does work)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Major_Sarcasm:
Hacre-dude

Not sure if it's useful to you or not at this late stage, had the phone lock up on me last night for the first time. Was out getting drunk, phone was in my pocket, went to use it and it was dead. Had to hold the power button for a while to get a reboot so it was a complete lockup rather than a shutdown. I've attached a kmsg.log.

Cheers
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Interesting... Nothing I see at a glance, but Ninpo is the expert :)

What are your sleep speed settings?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] JDouce:
is anyone able to rebuild the kernel with the ftdi_sio.ko and usbserial.ko from the /drivers/usb/serial/

I tried to rebuild the kernel and I just get errors, also the current makefile in the source is broken by the comment on line 357 you have to delete it before make will work, alternatively, can someone point me to a link on how to build kernels.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Major_Sarcasm:
I have a screen off profile in SetCPU with 200 min / 500 max. UV settings for 200mhz are 825mV and 500 is 875mV. Settings have been steady as a rock since Ninph 1.x.x was released (and indeed for some time before that when I was using Tegrak).

Might be just a one-off. I'll keep an eye on it.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] raffaele88:
hi,i integrd your kernel in my rom "batista70 rom" but first boot i have bootloop...whi?

thanks
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
That's a ROM issue. This thread is for kernel issues, but this seems like a ROM-level issue, else it would affect everyone. Take a read of the logcat etc
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] dirobeshploppy:
No android phone supports this feature as this thread mentions a number of times. The only way to get this is to buy an iphone.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
BAHAHAHAHAH

I salute you :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
Completely false, what are you on about? :confused:

Why give advice if you don't know what you're on about yourself?

It can work and people have it working but it's not a kernel feature, the kernel just allows it to be used with ROM's that support it so the guy just needs to go read the BLN thread or try a ROM that works with it and he'll learn to use it along with the app.

EDIT: I probably read it wrong and hoping it was tongue in cheek to put noobs off but I did the old look at post count and think, oh no not another one lol
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] :
Just wanted to let you know that I'm still on 2.0.2 as I don't need bln and with 2.0.5 my phone has touch screen sensitivity issues / not responding properly when connected to charger.

Anyways, slightly uv / no oc 2.0.2 is the best kernel for me out there :-).

Kudos.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] jackleung:
U don't need nls_utf8.ko, it's built into the kernel already. I can mount an samba share folders and able to read the Chinese and Japanese files/folders name without issue.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] tolis626:
Guys,I have absolutely no idea if I should ask this here,but here goes.

Is exFAT supported through USB-OTG?I have a 2.5" external hard disk in which I keep all my movies,but I have formatted it to exFAT because of FAT32's annoying size limitations.

On a side note,if it is supported I'll try formatting my (external) SD to exFAT to avoid video splitting for HD movies.

Now,if it's not supported,can we do anything to add support?I know that there was a patch at a certain time that enabled exFAT support for linux,but I have no idea if it went in the mainstream kernel.My Ubuntu installation has also gone to scrap and I am bored to repair it,so I can't properly test.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Samuel Rozenberg:
Well then its a ROM issue (coz i cant).

which ROM are you using ?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] jackleung:
No sure about exFat. But we could have NTFS support for your usage above. But the ntfs module I compiled only work for read only. We need NTFS-3G to have r/w support but somehow it's not working with Harce's kernel. That's why me and another user is awaiting for Harce opinion on that.

@Samuel, any rom should do fine, I am currently using Leomar 2.5. Take a look on my example.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] tolis626:
Aha,NTFS could do the trick,but I try to avoid it as I've faced some incompatibilities before.Plus,exFAT will probably become standard when SD XC cards hit the market. :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] CaspaTheGhost:
Its Hacre mate...
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] inkyadrian:
Iphone- Does the Ninphat kernel work on that thing?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] CamoGeko:
Are you serious?

Transmitted from a Galaxy far far away via XDA telepathy.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] CaspaTheGhost:
No way.........
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] cr0wnest:
Good one :D
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] veyka:
Halp i flashed this kernel on my toaster and its now threatening to toast me alive, is this a known bug?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] viva.fidel:
Does this kernel include vitalij's touchscreen fix? It's not clear if the touchscreen sensitivity mentioned in the changelog is the same deal or not
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] desean:
Yes. Already mentioned before, at least twice. Please search before asking.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] veyka:
Yes it is clear as there is only one sensitivity fix, this has been answered more than once.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] LockeOn:
I want to share my UV setting (set with Voltage Control without OC) with Ninphetamine 2.0.5 which are tested for a week and are rock solid - not a single hang or reboot (Tested with CPU Stability, many video players while watching .mkv with soft decoding, advanced HD Gameloft games and few benchmarks). Hope it helps other users with UV which provide great improvement to battery life while using the phone.

1200Mhz -100mV

1000Mhz -125mV

800Mhz -150mV

500Mhz -125mV

200Mhz -175mV

Thanks to Hacre for his magnificent kernel - keep up the good work buddy.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] SolBallads:
@Hacre

I use your kernel since the first day i rooted my sgs2 and I am completely satisfied so it is only fair that you get a little something for your efforts and humor.. so a small donation is on its way.. Thank you very much!

Confirmation number: 4U483749NM034035W

ps please let me know if you received it!
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] stoney73:
Yup, just install it through iTunes. I have 'Ninphat-slim' running on my Xbox, and it has turned into a monster. No longer does it need to be plugged in, it now only requires a hamster running on a wheel to power it.

I'm working on installing the same kernel into my fiance, hoping for the energiser-bunny effect. It is proving a hard task though, as she only seems to accept stiffy drives,not USB compliant at all.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] s2d4:
FFS, UR MUM IS NOT THE SAME AS MINE!

TRAINING THEM THE SAME WAY WON'T WORK!

I tested them for a week so thanks for sharing ur mu...... o damn!
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] carlos67:
Well I flashed it on the washing machine and it's now spinning up to 1500 RPM from 1200rpm.

The missus is ded chuft. ;)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] dirobeshploppy:
I flashed it on the wife's dildo and now she's divorcing me.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] trancer_84:
There's only one thing standing between me and this great kernel:

My phone freezes completely when i use my VPN connection.

VPN is a must for me, and CF root is the only kernel that doesn't cause my phone to freeze.

Is there any solution that would fix this problem?

My phone really wants to get it on with your ninph 2.0.5 ;)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] _cummoo:
Phantastic kernel! Today i installed the Nimphat an my new blowjob-machine- and guess what... it works like a charm!!!
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AndroidGX:
There's something strange, I used 2.0.5 for a long time (almost since its release) and never had any problem but since yesterday, I switched to a KG6 rom (LeoMar75 and Cognition latests) and I'am encountering some random reboots without any reason.

I can't find any workaround release about the 2.0.5 on 1st page, but only at 2.0.2 version. Since 2.0.4 it is said workaround "deprecated", why ? my english is bad and I don't understand very well, is it because you don't want no more develop a workaround edition over 2.0.2 ? or because you integrated them directly since over 2.0.4 versions ? do you guys have same problem ?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] veyka:
Are you rebooting to the samsung screen with the yellow triangle or to the boot animation?

As if its not dumping to the yellow triangle samsung screen its a rom issue

If it is dumping to the yellow triangle grab a last_kmsg as requested in the first post
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AndroidGX:
Thanks for you reply.

I can't remember as I didn't paid attention, but I think it was both, I will keep an eye on it this time and will post a report with last_kmsg if problem persist.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] mdalacu:
I am using Cisco Vpn (vpnc) just fine with this kernel.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] tolis626:
Well,I too have had a couple of random reboots for the first time,but that's probably a rom issue for me.I ****ed up and had to reflash,restoring everything from Titanium as I don't have a solid connection.But it's certain things that gave problems.

If I understood what I read in last_kmsg,it crashed either when the GPU went into suspend mode,or when the phone started the second core(there was a difference to a secondary processor booting,so I suppose that's what it was).

If it happens again I'll post my last_kmsg,now I can't. :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] bruce258:
Is this serious?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] jlevy73:
If it is my name is Puff the Magic Dragon
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] veyka:
I had to check, but the app used by this chap lists uv values in amount subtracted from the stock voltages.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] bruce258:
Wookey..... Thought i had lot of beer:)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Hmmm that might get confusing for folk setting via setcpu. I have not set up uv at all yet btw... Perhaps I should?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] veyka:
Ain't you underclocked? Strange to be without being undervolted!
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pspilot:
Underclocking without undervolting is nearly useless.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] EarlZ:
Exactly!! Its just like getting a faster dualcore phone and underclocking it :p
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Hacre:
Care to expand upon this before I call you an idiot in an overly elaborate and creative manner?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] veyka:
I just realised I am a twit, its not really underclocking as such, its adjusting the scaling so it doesn't use higher freq steps.

For an insane moment I have images of 800mhz@1200mhz voltages going through my head.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Piercy0812:
you're my idol.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] LockeOn:
Let me repost this UV settings which as I can see caused a little bit of confiusion. Please note that every device is different and these settings might and probably will differ from your own but this should be some kind of a starter for all who would like to UV.

This shows:

"Cpu Clock" - "Original Voltage" minus "Undervolt Amount" which equals the "Modified Voltage"

CC----------OV-----UA-------MV

1200Mhz - 1300mV-100mV=1200mV

1000Mhz - 1200mV-125mV=1075mV

800Mhz - 1100mV-150mV=950mV

500Mhz - 1000mV-125mV=875mV

200Mhz - 975mV-175mV=800mV

I hope that it is clear now.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Major_Sarcasm:
I'm sure that my 'Original Voltage' values are different to yours. Which is odd.

I suppose that posting o/c and u/v values that work for an individual do help n00bs with a start point, but in all honesty, how difficult is it to cut 25mV off a value and test it for a bit? Peeps are just bloody lazy.

@Hacre: Since changing to Cog 1.4 I've had two complete lockups, just frozen with screen on. Once in GMail and the other looking at an SMS. If it happens again, I'll grab a kmsg log just for idle curiosity's sake. Really don't want to do a complete wipe, but if it keeps happening I s'pose I'll have to. I flashed over Cog 1.30 with a Dalvik and Cache wipe (which I think the Cog script does anyway).
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Piercy0812:
wanker

ps. mods just following his sig. greetz.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] kalpik:
Well of course kind sir! Would love to catch you on your IRC someday :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] twisted_swe:
I'm gonna use this kernel even if I know theres a better one out there,(not gonna happen but in theory) just cuz your posts are so damn fun, hehe :D
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Mighty_X:
Well even if its true that the score is meaningless, I wonder and want to know why my score is so far away from the 4000 which can be reached without any trick...

There must be a reason therefore or not?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] jody2k:
I flashed to this, played some games, did some benchmarks....The only thing I saw were some points in benchmarks that are raising, so why taking the risk then?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] defnz:
The e-peen test seems to be a bit hit and miss

Out of, possibly, 20-30 Quadrant tests I've only hit 4000+ twice otherwise it goes anywhere from 3.2-3.9k depending on how hot the phone gets. Yes, I was bored at work.

Otherwise, e-peen aside, the kernel is damn fast
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] kalpik:
Yes, please don't take the risk if you didn't notice anything different from stock.. A lot others (including me) noticed a huge increase in responsiveness.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Don't OC if you don't know what you are doing and the risks - some report higher chances of device failure.

The reason the kernel has OC is that some of the peons who base their kernel using decision upon perceived e-peen length will be put off due to a lack of OC...

So despite the fact that there's no need to OC, the ability is there if you want it. But as said by ninpo, we don't want to know if you can't run your CPU at 800 mV on 1.6 GHz... That will earn them a lovely place in post 5 :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] twisted_swe:
And me!

10chars
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Hamst0r:
With 1200 mhz about 4000-+ too!
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] veyka:
This kernel is based on samsung sources from the KF2 era, once samsung release an official KG 2.3.4 rom in sure it will be rebased.

Been running this and the test version that because this for a few days with no problems, sleeps better than me and is blazing fast.

Benchmarks are meaningless but we all like to get our epenis' out sometimes ;)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] jody2k:
And what about the battery life? i'm searching for kernel with the best battery life and also has some good performance, any suggestions?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] powlemann:
1st post humor much appreciated in a German office at lunch time :)

So far running the release version stable at voltages found in xinfinityoO's sig.

Will report back for battery life and sudden flashes of light.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] seshmaru:
I prefer linpack over quadrant, but I don't run either anymore since seeing what happened on the Eee Pad Transformer.

When Asus released the second update all benchmark scores dropped by 20% while actual performance went wayyyyy up. This event has made me vow to never run benchmarks again.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Piccles:
what's BLN? :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] LeWildDroid:
http://tinyurl.com/3uc97tv hope that helped :D
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Hacre:
Well Quadrant worked for the purposes I was testing for. I was looking for the performance ceiling on various compiling methods for the kernel, so I was looking for the fastest possible generated code. This has nothing to do with IO scheduling, but pure CPU throughput. That's why multiple tests were required, as the highest scores are attained when Android doesn't do something in the background and while as much of the storage based benchmarking was in cache.

This "cheat" however is nothing like any of the cheating you refer to.

I do not.

It is, you can verify with CPU Spy.

CPU Spy doesn't auto refresh when you open it, you need to do this manually via Menu -> Refresh.

Welcome to post 5...
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] el.motar:
Dali.....

I and Salvador Dali agreed with you and the op.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Masturbator
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] veyka:
Great battery life, but that depends more in usage patterns and what you have syncing and your rom more than anything.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Piccles:
LOL...it certainly did!! Thanks for typing it into google for me :D
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] tolis626:
You remind me of myself a little Hacre(Or Ninpo,whatever you want).Never saying anything without a tone(or more tones) of sarcasm.I tend to avoid this in the forums because of reasons well-understood by everyone here.Whatever though... :rolleyes:

Gonna test 2.0 today.Version 1.4 worked pretty well for me surprisingly.The only random thing I had was...Oh wait,nothing.Reboots?Yes,when overclocking,not under any other circumstances.

Well,all that,add GPU voltage/clock control and I'm sold.Well done pal! :D
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Hacre:
Some phones automatically cut the max voltage by 25mV or 50mV (forget which, can't be arsed to look) via some rather complicated code. So I'm guessing your original voltage at 1200MHz is 1275 or 1250.

So you were fine...then switched ROMs and are now having problems....sorry why do I care about this?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Major_Sarcasm:
Bloody charming that is.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Major_Sarcasm:
Indeed, 1275.

Hehe, clearly you don't give a ****. However, the kmsg might be of interest for purely academic reasons?