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[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Just wanted to let everyone know I'm looking into a few more tweaks that I might be able to work into the kernel and hopefully by the weekend if things seem promising enough there will be another update. Also wanted to throw out that I'm trying to get a modified cwm together, well have been, but time hasn't been on my side on getting it put together so far but I'm hoping over the weekend I can put something together and see if I can't get it pushed into a release for red nebula sometime next week.

Oh and I saw the post over in mtcarey's thread there kyuta and I know what you mean, I'm so freaking jealous right now....;p I'm glad to see the progress we've all made (me, you, and mt) in the past few weeks though and I can say we are top of the food chain right now as far as highly tweaked true cappy gb kernels go and that's good with other people leaving to new devices.

Once again I want to give a huge thanks to all the people running my kernel right now you guys are awesome. The only thing I ask is if anyone doesnt already have one could you sign up for a dropbox account with the following link to help me out getting some more storage space for my projects to help me keep things moving along and give me a place to keep revisions, notes, etc... I'm down to like to 10% and it really aint going to cut it much longer at this rate.

http://db.tt/xKAVt8C
[Captivate Android Development] radraz:
Great kernel! smooth as silk... Trying to get it to lag but no luck :)

props dude! Awesome job.
[Captivate Android Development] ddoubt:
hey Jsmokey I´ve PMed both you and Kyuta about the BT issue ok!

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hey Jsmokey...

the line "symlink("sanim.zip", "/system/media/bootanimation.zip");" from your script broke my bootanimation coming from Samurai 1.2 (my file is bootanimation.zip)

I ran this: "symlink("/system/media/bootanimation.zip", "/system/media/sanim.zip")" and everything worked normal again

I have a lot of issues, don´t I? :D
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
His kernel doesn't support bootanimation.zip like mine does (I don't think any of the I897 kernels do but instead use a symlink) and, as you pointed out, he has it backwards and left out the directories for the sanim.zip. I'm sure he'll fix it when he sees your post though.

As for your PM I'll have to reply after work today after I do some researching.
[Captivate Android Development] mtcarey:
Hey, I just noticed this... looking forward to giving it a try! Glad to hear you've jumped into the vast and mysterious world of Linux kernel settings. :confused:
[Captivate Android Development] Tritan88:
After some digging around I found what was causing the issue. It turns out my modified settings.apk file had an issue in it that I overlooked when I was tweaking it for something else. So I broke it myself and had nothing to do with the kernel at all.

Thanks for the hard work on the kernel. I look forward to the updates.
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Thanks. I've actually been building and tweaking linux kernels for quite a few years, just didn't realize how much of it actually applied to android's kernel. It has led me to do a lot more research into what certain things do exactly that I didn't quite fully understand before though.

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[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Lol. I can't believe I forgot to fix this. I actually just used my modified version of boogs original kh3 script and I noticed it when I was modifying the script, I was going to fix it and completely forgot about it and when I did the zip for kj3 I just replaced the zimage in a copy of my kh3 zip.

Thanks for reminding me guys I'll get that fixed and put the fixed versions up sometime tonight.

Glad to hear you got bt working in your rom let me know how the kernel works for ya.

Sent from my I897 w/Antares Darkcloud, Red Nebula kernel, & 1.3Ghz OC using Tegrak.
[Captivate Android Development] Wdustin1:
I have seen better battery life when Comparing to samurai kernel nice work!

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[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Thanks, the biggest thing is my settings wait a little longer and for slightly higher load (mines 75% most other tweaks use 60 or 65%) to up cpu frequency and some of the kernel sched and tweaks reduce the amount of time things linger around causing the cpu to stay running full bore which does definitely help a little with battery. Oh and the vm is set up to keep more information in ram instead of swap so it isn't constantly pushing information back and forth wasting energy and resources but still uses swap enough to keep ram from getting overly full and keep things nice and responsive.

Oh I haven't added it to op yet but v1.1 has the scheduler for the internal memory set to noop instead of cfq as its been proven that with solid state memory noop and deadline are much more efficient to use than cfq. Just thought I'd throw that out for everyone since I haven't had a chance to update OP yet.
[Captivate Android Development] mattern1974:
Congratulations on your successful and brilliant kernel!!

I switched back to Pinnacle 1.3 (home, sweet home!) just to try it on a KH3 rom.

This FLYS!!!! AWESOME!! I added Acid Tweaks and Supercharger V6 script and it absolutely smokes!!

Will you be including a higher version of CWM Recovery in any later builds (such as the one in Samurai 1.2) or doesn't it matter much?

Also, I think I asked in a previous post but....is Antares Darkcloud your rom? If so, where/when can we try it out?

Thank you so much for the great work!!
[Captivate Android Development] hoopas:
Im curious about your Antares rom....gonna share any time soon??:D
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Thank you and yes kh3 does fly I don't understand what's so different with it but theres a pretty large difference in performance.

Yes antares darkcloud is my rom, I posted a few pages back about it, hopefully I can finish it in the next week or so. If you want a peak of the overall look of it and a teaser of the revolution theme and buttons I'm making for it check out the post your homescreen thread in captivate themes section. I may post a few more teasers here for everyone too.

As far as v6 supercharger I don't really recommend it with my kernel as it will nullify some of my tweaks and make done of them less effective as most of the values are semi dependent on each other, but hey if it works for you then feel free. Oh you may get a slight drop in battery life btw using v6 so if you want just put anything new before 90_lmk_vm script and my values will stay in tact. Its up to you though if you're happy with it that's what counts.

I'm working on a modified cwm 5 so in the next couple weeks I may push a new version including it.

edit: Just got back to work on anatres theme and I would like to push the eta a little further. Even just for my stock modified theme red/black its going to eat up a few days and the revolution theme probably close to a week on its own. I have quite a bit I still want to add to the rom too so I'd say at least a full week to get a base version out without the revo theme.

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[Captivate Android Development] mattern1974:
You are very welcome!! It is great to see a real dev here doing interesting work.

I re-ran the Supercharger V6 script to undo the changes it made. Gonna see if it makes any difference in the speed I've been seeing or battery life.

Take your time with your rom!!! I'm sorry if I put any pressure on you and I know that asking for ETA's is pretty rude. It is just that I am sort of a flashaholic and get excited for the "next greatest thing" My apologies if I was rude.

Seeing you dev a KH3 rom has me thinking about all of the new AT&T leaks. It's a never ending "what next?"..."more, more, more!!" but you just may have hit the nail on the head with working on possibly the most stable version (KH3).

Once again, thank you for the good, quality work!!!
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
No worries and no you didn't put any pressure on me I've been meaning to get back to it once I had some time free. It wasn't rude to ask I'm glad people are showing interest in it and I don't mind giving a rough estimation on releases.

I think a lot of devs are just a little overly touchy on the whole eta thing personally. I mean none of us can give an exact eta but we should be kind enough to the people supporting and using our work to give them some clue of when something will be done.

That's exactly why I picked kh3, it may not be the absolute newest but is blazing fast and extremely stable compared to most other leaks.

Sent from my I897 w/Antares Darkcloud, Red Nebula kernel, & 1.3Ghz OC using Tegrak.
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Update to OP. I posted the fixed versions of both kh3 and kj3 that had a problem with the symlink for boot animations that ddoubt brought to my attention. Also pulled the old versions of both to clean it up a little. Oh and I put you in the credits too ddoubt for reminding to get that fixed. Thanks again everyone and enjoy!
[Captivate Android Development] ddoubt:
hey Jsmokey... I fixed the BT issue... had to rebuild Serenity from scratch, but its working 100% now :D

I think the problem was on the frameworks I messed too many times using an older build of apkmanager... anyway, thanks for all the help!
[Captivate Android Development] radraz:
Noticing a little more battery drain in comparison to corn. Anyone else experiencing the same thing? Its well worth it though, no more lag :)
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
that's a little strange most have told me its better. Mine actually lasts longer now with 1.3ghz overclock compared to when I was running 1.0ghz in my early test versions.

On average I still have around 40% at the end of the day and I browse the internet and listen to a lot of music everyday. That's with 100% brightness and a 5 minute screen timeout setting too. In my rom I did a lot to help conserve battery though too, upped wifi scan interval to 2 minutes that sort of thing.

Have you tried wiping battery stats and do a couple charging cycles? It sometimes can work itself out after running it a day or so without clearing batt stats.

Like I mentioned before though every device is going to react slightly different to these tweaks.

Glad to hear you got it all worked out ddoubt. If you release it feel free to link or include my kernel if you want to.

Sent from my I897 w/Antares Darkcloud, Red Nebula kernel, & 1.3Ghz OC using Tegrak.
[Captivate Android Development] BitteredBro:
HI Jsmokey. I've been trying Red Nebula (KH3) for a couple of days and it's running without issues and as fast as samurai with EXT4.

Now i've some questions:

You recomended not to use v6. What about S.A.S.? It affects the performance of your kernel?

Tegrak has a I/O tweak. You recommend to use this option or I should leave it alone?

Samurai it's KJ3 based and worked well with Pinnacle (KH3). Is there an downside to use the KJ3 version of your kernel with Pinnacle? Having bootanims it's cool!

I´m on Pinnacle with Red Nebula and having some hangs using resource demanding games (CK Zombies, ShadowGun, etc.) Wanna share some recomendations to make them run better?

Congratulations on your great work. Waiting for Antares darkcloud!
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
Just wanted to say that a lot of people have been saying they see no difference between running rfs now vs ext4 and some even claim their phone seems to be quicker and more responsive with rfs rather than ext4.
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
You can try any of the tweaks really I just don't recommend v6 because it changes a decent chunk of things around that pretty much are in exact opposition to mine.

As far as gaming only thing I can recommend that may help is chainfire 3d and play around with the settings some and see if that helps. I don't play many games other than angry birds and fruit slice occasionally so I never really noticed anything like that.

Only thing I noticed with kj3 version on my kh3 rom is for some reason it displays the data directory as empty. Not sure why, I went through init.rc pretty thoroughly trying to figure it out but there didn't seem to be anything that should cause it. Plus when you flash back to the kh3 version everything is still there.

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[Captivate Android Development] -Thrive-:
I tried this smoothness init.d script posted by lpy in the i9000 development thread and it seems to work well with Jsmokeys scripts and I see a noticeable difference.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1137554

Edit: As Kyuta Syuko points out in the next post, keep in mind YMMV.
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
This was pikachu01's response to that tweak when I asked him about it.

So if your phone starts to become laggy after a while or while you are or after running some RAM intensive apps you have an idea as to why.
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Interesting, I need to look into this more as it kind of builds off what my kernel already does. Keep whats in the background from loading the cpu and mem up while its not actually being used and lagging things down and keep what you need, whatever is running in the foreground, in the cpu and ram.

That's actually why its so hard to lag my kernel down by opening a ton of apps up, if they are in the background for more than a few seconds they get kicked to the curb by the kernel sched while leaving everything in ram long enough so there isn't any real delay switching back forth between them.

Sent from my I897 w/Antares Darkcloud, Red Nebula kernel, & 1.3Ghz OC using Tegrak.
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
As I talked about early here is some teasers of antares darkcloud

This shows custom buttons/activity title bar and check boxes:

This shows dialog box, the one for governor selection, while pressed the impressed is a little dark I need to lighten it up and the default selection buttons, these were actually for disabled buttons but I threw them in default too just to see how it would look:

This is the radio buttons as they are called in the framework, they aren't just recolors, I remade every icon in high res with new light and shadow which is why it's taking me so long:

Let me know what you think guys!

I have a few more I can post of things here and there but I'm holding back some til release as a surprise for everyone. And yeah I know that battery icon looks terrible with it. I'm waiting to put my custom one in though.

Sent from my I897 w/Antares Darkcloud, Red Nebula kernel, & 1.3Ghz OC using Tegrak.
[Captivate Android Development] BitteredBro:
wow! nice... im not a big fan of red in my phone but those buttons look cool.

On a different train of tought, have you seen this? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1323005&page=2. It worked for me and havent seen it mentionated before in any captivate thread.

Building spectation for your rom its ok, but your are killing us! jajaja. Go ahead man. that level of detail makes the waiting wort it.
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Thanks, the color choice is actually mainly because of the origin of the name, antares is a supergiant star that burns red and its actually 820x the size of our sun named by the greeks meaning against aries and actually is viewable during parts of the year with the named eye but because of its color is mistaken for mars a lot of times. Theres a lot more I could go into about it, I'm really into astronomy, but I won't bore everyone.

I may do a blue theme later as antares b, antares a's little sister, is blue haven't decided yet though.

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[Captivate Android Development] -Thrive-:
Good to know. So far I have not experienced that. The fun of flashing is trying new stuff to see if you can make your phone just a little bit better. As always, YMMV.
[Captivate Android Development] ddoubt:
blue is nice :D - I was thinking of doing a blue theme for Serenity myself but my design skills are terrible...

good looking ROM you got there Jsmokey, looking forward to it!
[Captivate Android Development] Wdustin1:
Blue would be awesome

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[Captivate Android Development] edtonn:
Theming on your ROM looks awesome! Been running v1.0/1.1 KH3 for a few days now & loving it. Battery life seems to be on par with Boog's KH3v5 so far, which is decent but not awesome. Hoping it settles down a little (or I stop talking on the phone as much!). Looking forward to the ROM!
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Thanks everyone I appreciate it, if I do a blue theme it'll probably be a while. We're taking almost a months work already redesigning icons from scratch with vectors for templates, and testing over and over to make sure everything looks right. I mean we're talking well over 1000 images and I still need to do dialer, settings, and a few others.

I've been saving everything as gimp projects though to use later as templates so once everything's done it shouldn't take nearly as long to whip a blue theme up. I'll pretty much just need to redo the layers with color and maybe tweak the lighting and shadows a little.

On the topic of the kernel I'm hoping to get another update pushed by sunday night, as long as time and the wife allows. Shes already on the verge of murdering my computer, as if the 30+ hrs I already spent programming a week wasn't enough she says....lol

I really want everyone to know how much it means that my projects are so well liked and appreciated, the past month I've barely got 5hrs sleep a night at most and every free minute I've had to spare from work, my family, my job(s) has been spent on them. I have 3, my 'real' job at my families restaurant, programming jobs here and there, plus a pc repair business I run from my workshop.

Sent from my I897 w/Antares Darkcloud, Red Nebula kernel, & 1.3Ghz OC using Tegrak.
[Captivate Android Development] Wdustin1:
Well thank you so much for your dedication it is much appreciated best gingerbread kernel to date in my opinion and I am excited to see what improvements you could have made on a already perfect kernel!

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[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Thank you very much, I appreciate the kind words. Things in life have been very stressful lately and my only relief has been working on these projects and locking myself in my 'programmers cave' to escape from it all.

Everyone's support is what has made all the time I've spent worth it and is why I don't ask for any donations and I don't complain when I'm asked when this or that will be done.

There's not a whole let left to do with the kernel till I can get source to work from but there's some things I've been working on/holding back to add that should make it that little bit better.

Update: tomorrow night definitely should have an update with at least my build.prop modifier script, and hopefully a few other things.

Sent from my I897 w/Antares Darkcloud, Red Nebula kernel, & 1.3Ghz OC using Tegrak.
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
I don't mean for this post to be negative, but I personally don't think it's wise or proper to modify the build.prop from the kernel. I consider it ROM territory. If you add build.prop tweaks into the kernel it'll overwrite the corresponding build.prop tweaks the ROM maker may have made or the user may have made (if they're like me and like to tweak the build.prop more/differently than the ROM maker), and may make people less inclined to use your kernel. Course this is just my thoughts and opinions on this subject.
[Captivate Android Development] Wdustin1:
I have no idea what I am talking about so please correct me if I am wrong. You have pikachu 3g tweaks in your kernel and from what I have read all they do is adjust the build prop to isn't that the same thing. Lol I could be wrong I mean no disrespect just wondering

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[Captivate Android Development] Wdustin1:
Jsmokey, are you going to do anything with the 2.3.3 sources?

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[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
Well those along with the LMK settings are the only setprops I have that I can think of that aren't there by default and those usually aren't something that are set by ROM makers.
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Sorry I should've been more specific earlier. It won't actually modify settings already in place. It checks beforehand if its already in there or not and if it is it wont change it. Its basically adding things stock and some roms might not have and backs up the original build.prop just in case something isn't to there liking. I'm also making an update.zip to release with the .prop version to revert any changes made if they don't like them. Basically it just mounts the partition, runs the script that replaces the modified .prop with the one that was backed up and they'll be back to their old settings again.

Sorry to get everyone all riled up. This will actually be released as its own version for people using basically stock roms. The main version will stay in place without the .prop tweak modifier script but they will both still receive the same new tweaks to everything else as I add them.

Didn't know the network tweaks were pikachu's, if they are I'll credit him, I thought I found them in an old post on rootzwiki or android central. Could be wrong though because I put them in when I started the kernel and went through a ton of reference material since then. The one's in init.d in the tcp_ip script I discovered in some linux tweaking books after playing around with some values they had in them and a few forum articles for tweaking linux.

edit: I went ahead and went through init.rc real quick after I got home and the only other set prop that was mentioned is boot sound. Just thought I'd answer since it was asked.
[Captivate Android Development] Kyuta Syuko:
I didn't mean to sound all riled up I just wanted to voice my opinions about it, but the way you're planing on doing it sounds pretty interesting.
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Lol, I didn't really mean, anyone I'm particular. Just everyone got.a little worked up. Thank you, I thought it would be kind of cool to do for the people rockin mostly stock roms.

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[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Ok I wanted to give an update, I got a little carried away with cwm today so I don't know if I'll be pushing the new prop version tonight and I wanted to take kind of a vote and see what people would rather me work on getting pushed first, a new version with a modded and hopefully fixed nandroid cwm recovery or some new tweaks and the prop modifier version.

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[Captivate Android Development] xpakage:
I vote nandroid.

And another for nandroid :p
[Captivate Android Development] mfdemicco:
+1 for nandroid.
[Captivate Android Development] -Thrive-:
Definitely Nandroid
[Captivate Android Development] Wdustin1:
Nandroid

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[Captivate Android Development] climber1872000:
A working nandroid would be nice.

Thank you for all your hard work and contributions.