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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kmso:
i miss 1.5 and 1.6ghz....running so smooth and stable on18.5

so not gonna update to 18.6:(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drawde40599:
now its working??? Wth . OK
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JcMalta:
18.6 feels great!

Just loaded 18.6 @ 700/1350 Conservative .... WOW! ... Despite having used this kernel since the beginning, I don't think I have ever seen/felt my phone run so smooth...

TY Francisco!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Laynee1:
Flashed 18.6 .. Will post impressions tomorrow :) But i expect a lot, according to previous franco builds :)

One question for Franco :

Im from Serbia, the land where nothing more than youtube, facebook and the best Engeneering College in region and widely, is available.. So i cant buy apps from Market.. How do i get your application ? Thanks in advance
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] johno168:
Use market enabler, works for me. I'm in New Zealand and i can but apps but some google apps like currents and music aren't available so i just use market enabler, its very useful.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joelteixeira:
I was using volume+ too but I haven't installed it since last format. I probably have some problem on my ears but I can't really feel any difference changing between 1 and 20 and rebooting.

Note that I can't feel difference between this values, but in a general way the volume seems great to me.

Does it need reboots between changes?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bradm23:
What are the stock gamma settings?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LuffyPSP:
Does this work on 2.3.3?

anyway, 18.5 is the smoothest i've ever run. other #18.x builds has been laggy. downloading 18.6 right now. running AOKP B24. plan to jump to CM nightlies soon enough.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Did the same for me, and then I'd get a notification and sound would get loud as fuxk.

I'm on 18.4 again . Wish there was an option to disable or enable the sound hack. (App doesn't do it)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stellaryt:
Use Market enable or Market unlocker.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dyndragon:
Got through the whole day and only used 30% battery. 1000/700 conservative w/ hotplug. amazing!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Felixpau86:
it's been amazing for me too. I even uved by 50 and running a load of apps with minimal drain
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drawde40599:
GPS lock 9 satellites in 10 sec . Its not the kernel
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kin24173493:
Any conflict if I use volume+ and volume hack in kernel settings? or I should only use volume hack? thx
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zephiK:
Don't see any conflict between the two as I'm using both. But I would be careful because you wouldn't want it to be too loud and make your speaker burst.

Disable one of them and keep one of them on (in my opinion) to a volume of your liking.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Niksko:
Running #18.6 and so far so good. Really smooth and stable.

Any chance of lowering the minimum undervolt voltages?

For some reason, my 1200Mhz can go all the way down to 600mV and is still rock solid and stable. I'd love to see how low it can go. Maybe in the dev branch?

Also, saving the color multipliers doesn't seem to work for me. Every time I reboot I have to set them manually again, because loading them does nothing (even though I've saved them)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drawde40599:
No need for both, since volume + always running in background ur battery probably be better without it

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I didn't even notice 350 gone . I live in alaska its cold and we have like 8+ feet snow this year so I play on my phone way to much I've tried every setting Franco has had since before he had the phone his stock settings R best no need to go under 700 . Ur phone .... just saying: )
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kin24173493:
Found that the color multiplier can not be saved after reboot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drawde40599:
18.6

18.6 no issues runs beautiful!!! Maybe just me but 1200 on 18.6 feels fast like it did on 18.4 . Don't no if was tweaked but feels better . Thanks Franco running perfect

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Update app from market and if u missed it u must be on 18.5 or 18.6 to.work ----/set, save, reboot, hit load color.... it works the sliders don't move when u hit load color but color dose change . U must hit load colors after every reboot
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Antob125:
Just wondering if we still have to open camera and force close it? I remember a ways back that this needed to be done. Do we still need to?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Unzitron:
When running 18.6 with the volume hack turned on Pandora pauses itself. Is anyone else having this issue. I am running AOKP 26.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kin24173493:
OK I got it. But have to hit load after every reboot is quite odd. :o
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SrTapir:
Same happens to me, 1200Mhz seems to be stable in any Voltage, like if the true value was not change.. :S
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drawde40599:
Ya, in time I'm sure u won't have to but, must be more difficult than just adding color folder: )) I'm not a dev ....so don't have a clue it works and its better than messing with those damn sliders so I happy!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kashix:
just flashed to #18.6 will post results after a day of usage! cheers franco!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drawde40599:
O **** I remember that: ) he was testing / looking for battery drain if I remember right, those days r gone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leelaa:
Dont know if this is the right thread to ask. Is anyone using this kernel on cm9? Is it any good for thst rom?

sent from me.....obviously
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kashix:
there are some users running cm9 with this kernel, seems to work just fine, don't have to worry I guess!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] clefster:
The volume boost functionality seems to be unreliable. I will be enjoying some music at a normal volume.. then I'll get some google talk notifications that come through at a deafening volume. Then I turn it down for those.. and then the boosting seems to go away. It's quite strange.

This is on both 18.5 and 18.6
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] EddieN:
I just wanted to say that I just upgraded to 18.6 from 18.5 and tried the gamma calibration menu. Upon just touching the 'blue' slider my whole screen went haywire with bright colors and horizontal lines/red dots everywhere with no screen updates. I took a screenshot (even though it won't show anything) and i heard the sound, so the phone didn't crash. It just messed my screen up so I had to do a battery pull.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Vangelis13:
From the op: http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/com.franco.kernel/franco-Kernel-updater
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zenzip:
Franco when you think is possibile to add governor like francoturtle ? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Laynee1:
Lol im blind mfer.. Thanks mate
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] minipaolo:
franco, would you explain this?

* C4 state enabled again as it was seen on the omapzoom repo

Thank you! :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] treperio:
i have flashed thr new franco kernel 18.6... where is the new audio option, to increase the volume? i search in rom control, but i didn't found the option...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zenzip:
found it in franco kernel app...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] minipaolo:
in franco updater app. You can find it in the market.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phunghoang24:
GPU is so good, after testing, 2D and 3D so smooth!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zenzip:
a little question... if hotplug mode is enable how much battery I can save? so, with hotplug mode on we can save a fair amount of battery or this feature is like undervolt that can save almost 2-3% ? thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ChongoDroid:
In theory yes, haha I found it created wake up lag but testing shows that with hot plug enabled it does save battery. Test it yourself and see if you like it. :)

Sent from my francoPhone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DarkGruf:
Like other sayed it's in Franco's app or if you don't want it you can set the volume for instance with root exlorer you go here :

/sys/devices/virtual/misc/twl6040/boosted_volume

and change the value. 15 is default value in 18.6, more is louder and less is...less.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] franciscofranco:
Pretty sure this 18.6 is very close if not already a milestone release.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zenzip:
Franco you'll never add again governor like francoturtle?+

PS.

What do you think about this?

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a little bug, when I reboot the phone, governor goes back to conservative...always... also if I have selected other governor and checked "set at boot" option in franco app...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CaspaTheGhost:
Unfortunately it is kernel related, as much as I wish it wasn't, it is for me...

Tested again this morning on my way to work and it could only see one satellite but couldn't get a lock, at home it could see 3/4 but again couldn't get a lock...

Exactly the same locations with the only difference being Leankernel and I get 9 and 7 respectively and in both instances I get a lock within a short period of time...

I don't understand it at all, I've even tried 'Fastfix' from the market but that has no effect...

I'll test again tonight when I get home, but I know it will be the same scenario, no proper lock or very poor lock, flash new Leankernel, try again and get a decent lock etc...

Irritating to say the least...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] agligoros:
yes

I'm a nood and i want to know too:D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] koaaN:
With latest kernel (18.6) my network is dropping 24/7.. did not happen with 18.5
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Magoggles:
This is a very good release for me. Going perfectly. Unlike 18.5 which I reverted to 18.4. Using the stock settings I haven't had any problems.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JcMalta:
No GPS problems here. Found 6 sats within 4 seconds, locked them in another 3 seconds.... maybe 5 seconds later 2 more sats found .. locked 8/8 after another 2 seconds.

Using the excellent "GPS Status" program.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xTremePower:
hello,

I tested with AlsaMixer, and your 18.6 kernel for the volume boost,

it's work great, BUT the sound settings are reseted to 9 if I recive a notification for SMS or unplug the earphones.... I have to set it again..... bug ? or have a simple correction fot this ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lambetts:
I'm really tempted to try 18.6. But I had a release that my network was terrible unfortunately. Maybe it was 18.2. But I was so upset when I couldn't use this kernel. Choppy phone calls etc. It was bad. I reseted kernel to stock and my reception and calls are like 95% better. Still, I didn't think the kernel could cause that. So wanna use your kernel man!!! Haha.

Running Apex 1.0.2. Maybe I missed something.

Also, hotplug?? What mode does that put the phone in? Is it the most battery saving mode? I have hotplug, conservative, ondemand, userspace, powersaver, interactive and performance. I'm assuming they go up in power hungry-ness???

Thanks guys.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bradm23:
Just curious about the sound control, does it increase all volumes (ear piece, external speaker, headphone) or only external speaker volume?

Also what are the stock default setting? I had set on boot selected and not sure what default was.

And is the stock gamma controls 0,0,0?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kashix:
Hot plug means that it will turn off 1 CPU when you switch off the screen to conserve more battery. It contributes to battery saving, recommended governor is to use conservative! Hope that helped!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dmmarck:
I have it--very noticeable in settings menu.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tcchuin:
I have the same problem as you... With other kernel, my phone gps locked almost immediately
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dmmarck:
Just used the GPS w/ this kernel last night (4 hours) and today (30 minutes). No problems here, but I also have different radios which may or may not matter.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lambetts:
Thanks dude. I seem to get a little difference in performance with each setting but not seeing a great deal of battery saving on either one? I can keep my screen on and watch the battery go down like every 4mins is a percent, is this normal? I run like 25% screen brightness.

Thanks again. :-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kashix:
You can give me +1 on thank meter if I've helped :p hehe!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GchildT:
You do not have to use AlsaMixer if your using the Kernel Settings. I used Alsa before Franco added the sound mod to his kernel. I too, had the issue where the max vol was reset after headset disconnect.

Just use Franco kernel settings only. Works great for me. I keep the max at about 13 or 14 for use in my car aux jack.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kimboinatl:
This never stays checked in my copy of Franco Updater. It used to before. Anyone know why? I'm on 18.2 using ondemand.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hasnol143:
for people having trouble with low volume (I have volume+) and when I updated my kernel I got low volume even when it was set to Max, I fixed it by going into my volume settings and sliding the device volume and ringtone volume to Max again and it fixed it!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zenzip:
a little bug... when I reboot the phone, governor goes back to conservative...always... also if I have selected other governor and checked "set at boot" option in franco app...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lambetts:
Hey man,

Ya I was on the road and I cant thank, (non premium app...) have now though. =)

Although as I said, it doesnt make any difference if I'm on that or not. Tried them all. =(

Thanks again though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Booker-T:
How can I disable the volume hack?

I use DSPManager, which is much more user friendly
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drawde40599:
Maybe this will help u? http://teamroyal.net/blame_the_rom.html
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Elganja:
thanks for the link!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drawde40599:
Mine stick just tryed it, update ur busy box I THINK! was the fix . Cause Working here. 1.18.4 from titanium backup my version, tweaked version I guess, I think version that come with cm9 people having luck with also GOGGLE it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zenzip:
I've lastest version of busybox...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Elganja:
you want the cm9 version, not what you get from the market app...

try this

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=907063&d=1329536905
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] franciscofranco:
If you have 3.2.2 updater app you don't need crap busybox because it doesn't use it anymore.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Elganja:
good to know
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CaspaTheGhost:
Been using 'GPS Test' but will give that one a try...

Think its a twist of fate in terms of ROM and kernel combination, I'm using a custom MCR ir11 bake but will be switching to AOKP when I get a chance...

Sure we have a number of AOKP & Franco users on this thread, you guys are fine with GPS right?

Had issues on multiple radios, but for clarity I'm on KK6 at the moment...

Thanks for that, very useful. I'll give it a try this evening...

Not a major issue as I'll be switching to AOKP when I get the chance, but it is strange the way certain Kernel/ROM combinations have this issue?!!

@Franco

18.6 is running great for me so far (apart from the above, which is contentious to say the least!), no SoD's as I had on previous 18.x builds...

Many thanks...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drawde40599:
I got nothing then
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hasnol143:
One problem I found, I have brightness set to minimum, i changed colors and gamma to the ones suggested by the Franco app (amazing btw), hot plus on, 1200-700 and no UV and every time I wake my screen the screen goes very blueish before coming back to normal (happens for half a second). It gets fixed as soon as I increase my brightness though or use auto brightness....any ideas?

Edit: im using conservative governor and disabling hot plug doesn't help.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kashix:
I've had it before, think it's normal. Just increase your brightness slightly to reasonable level and it should negate that effect.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Exostenza:
Was waiting on 17.2 for the 18 release to be stable and decided to flash over on 18.6 and I have to say good job Fanco! Very smooth and the battery saving is fantastic. I bought your app and the extras like colour and sound are very useful. Thanks for your great work and I am happy I bought your app to show my support.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] danielvc:
Every 18.x has been very stable for me, but it is impossible for me to crash 18.6 (even with heavy UV) :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] magn2o:
+1

You're not alone.

What seems to have fixed it for me is setting the Maximum Sound Volume to 13. When at 15, Pandora would "pause" after a few seconds. When set to 14, it would happen after 5-10 minutes. Set to 13, I've gotten over an hour without issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chirea.mircea:
Franco I love you.

18.6 is just awesome, especially with the 15 volume hack, that's louder than I could get out of Volume+. The phone is exceptionally smooth and stable, the only place where it ever feel laggy is in Reckless Racing 2 (but that's because of a midrange GPU on a massive screen with excellent graphics).

I have a couple of questions though: have you seen any benefit from undervolting and what governor do you recommend? I'm currently on conservative but notice some delay/lag when unlocking the phone after deep sleep.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] franciscofranco:
Try interactive and see if you can reproduce that issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DynamicRam:
i have no lags no freezes no bugs at all

but i had less battery drain on 3.0.21 , i think after the milestone release you should go back to the latest linux kernel as a beta (keeping the milestone as a stable)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] renaud:
Also 3.0.8 has a big security issue (that means even stock kernel is vulnerable) , I did not verify if Francisco has patched it, I hope so.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jrbourque:
It was weird for 18.6 my music kept stopping every 5 seconds would have to hit play over and over again. Went back to 18.4 and good to go
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zenzip:
Yes I've 3.2.2 updater app but having yet this issue...any ideas?

Inviato dal mio Galaxy Nexus usando Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] timafey:
What are the stock cpu speed on 18.6? I had 13.1 and it had a tendency to carry over some of the values like cpu speed even when changing kernels all together. Is default 700-1200? Or 350-1200?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gahh Its Lee:
I believe its 700-1200
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CaspaTheGhost:
Conservative is the preferred choice... Sure that delay isn't from auto brightness? It seems to cause wake lag for some.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] magn2o:
Set the Maximum Volume in the app to 13. Seems to have fixed it for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] franciscofranco:
**** I'm pretty sure I forgot that. Thanks man.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] franciscofranco:
I have no idea. I use a Boot.Receiver method just like setCPU to echo the frequencies/governor and it works for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dawgpound6985:
Thought I was the only one having this issue. Will try that Max volume to 13.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lukasb9000:
I'm using 18.6 and have the volume set to 15 in francos app but the volume is not louder?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] simone87stilo:
I also set to 15 but no difference because I feel? 18.6 kernel
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ohrensessel:
Hi Franco,

first of all I want to thank you for your great great work. I especially like your update frequency, gives me the feeling my gnex can get improvements pretty fast.

As with some of the other kernels (e.g. GLaDOS current version) the load average with your kernel doesn't drop below a certain threshold. For your kernel this threshold is 1.0, for GLaDOS its 2.0. This comes from processes waiting for (disk) i/o.

With your kernel one process probably related to the interacvtive governor is constantly waiting for disk i/o, because of which the load average never drops below 1.0. See the output of top for that (process kinteractiveup is in state D):

top -n 1 | grep [R,D]
User 5%, System 0%, IOW 0%, IRQ 8%
User 17 + Nice 0 + Sys 0 + Idle 264 + IOW 0 + IRQ 26 + SIRQ 0 = 307
PID PR CPU% S #THR VSS RSS PCY UID Name
20151 0 1% R 1 1012K 412K fg root top
73 1 0% D 1 0K 0K unk root kinteractiveup

I'm on the ondemand or conservative governor normally, but when I switch to the interactive governor (even only shortly) the process isn't in the list of processes waiting for disk i/o anymore and the load average drops to lower numbers as intended. I don't think that this process causes any performance issues or such, its some kind of cosmetic issue probably.

Another thing I was wondering about are the strange values for VSS and RSS for the kinteractiveup process, but I have no explanation for that.

(see my post on rootzwiki for further reference http://rootzwiki.com/topic/14685-19-feb-glados-v115/page__st__330__p__473070#entry473070 here you can also see that this process isn't present on stock 4.0.4 kernel)

Do you have any idea whats causing this? As I said I'm not sure if its influencing system performance or anything (I don't think so). Maybe its even an intended behaviour?

I would be glad to help any further if thats necessary.

Kind regards!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DarkGruf:
Could it be an old init.d file interfering ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wonshikee:
Nm figured it out

Needed

#!/system/bin/sh

To run a script for android.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fortesquieu:
Could you list out what are your UV values please?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zenzip:
how can be rebuild init.d file?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] franciscofranco:
That's quite interesting. I'd say its a bug in interactive governor, it shouldn't be waiting for I/O activity by any means specially if its not the governor of choice and can, in fact, hit the system performance/battery in the long run. I'll take a look, many thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sishgupta:
I can confirm the music pausing at level 15 in grooveshark (like Pandora) and not pausing at 13.

13 doesn't sound as awesome though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dmmarck:
Same for Spotify. Hasn't paused at 0, but I did have the volume dip there when reverting back.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nmesisca:
test kernel

just my 2c on this last test kernel..

I have had no artifacts so far, and it seems quite stable. I am using the non OC version. However, battery drain is still there, my GN says its been awake for 63% of its time, while in reality i might have picked it up twice in 9 hours to check my emails. Deep sleep time is really tiny as well.

hope this helps,

N
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bdcdxw:
Hi, Franco, thank you for your hard work.

However, I have to point something out.

1. The OC kernal 12/11 and 13/11 test seem like having some lag compare to stock kernal when I use the HD 1.3.2 ROM.

2. Compare to the stock kernal (1% battery drain per hour), the OC kernal with UV still consume high amount of battery (around 4%).

3. When the phone has a long time deep sleep (>1 hour), press power botton to wake up the phone, there is a 2 seconds lag for the screen.

These three things are always annoying me, I have to go back to stock kernal. Now with the stock kernal, the battery life is much longer and no lag or wake up lag any more.

Anyway, I will keep an eye on your next relese, hope it will work well with my phone. Thank you again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] EddyOS:
Just had the phone reboot whilst sat on my sofa doing nothing
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DJ "suMo*:
JRCU Test OC is fire!!.

Sent from my GN
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
Perhaps too much under volt? Since I'm back at stock voltage levels has remained stable for me. Back to the drawing board for under volt
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] franciscofranco:
Please install BetterBatteryStats and get me the wakelock screens.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
Minus me getting the under volt levels too low this kernal has been great, best one iv used
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] franciscofranco:
It will get better as soon as I get my hands on the GN, I want to experiment a lot with it!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drdino:
These are my undervolt settings, very stable, no reboots or freezes.

I tried 750mV for 350 mhz but I got one or two reboots under sudden load changes so returned to 775.