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[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
First thank you for sharing.

I will flash 0429 + 3.2b this afternoon and see how it works.

Until now, as for me, the last solid and working combination is 0422 + 3.1.2. I am not a flash junky and I usually prefer to stay with good working conditions, even if it is not the newest Kernel nor CM build. All this stuff are still highly experimental, and novelty doesn't always means improvment.

I don't think there are a lot of changes between Kernel 3.0.20, 3.0.26 3.0.30 or whatever else. The new big change will come with 3.2.
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
Hi,

I don't think the kernel version tie in with desktop kernels. Android has it's own framework that uses a Linux kernel but not necessary the full kernel as we use on our linux flavors for desktops and etc.

Yes, I always pay attention to the changelog, before I flash the latest build. However, the changelog provided by SiyahKernel site is not descriptive enough, that is why I am suggesting to make it more elaborate like the CM9 nightly build. Which I have full confident on what they had changed in the code and how critical is the change before I made sensible judegement to flash it.

Just for example, today there is a new feature going to be added to the SiyahKernel:

new feature: breathing effect for native bln implementation. to enable: “echo 1 > /sys/class/misc/notification/breathing” it will only work when bln notification is active.

But this does not tell me much. What is this new feature do? How will this be useful to me? Is this feature gives me conflicts with other behaviours? etc...

So if the Siyah creator can share his code changes, it will made more people to have confident on his change.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
You are perfectly right, and it is usually difficult to find relevant info about the changelog between two Kernel versions.

The way I proceed is reading his main thread, but it takes time! I know some users like testing every new change, even if these changes are damaging the good march of the Kernel.

I am a long time follower of Gokhan work, and it has always been like that. I have no idea how to clarify things. If you have some, they are welcomed!!

His code is open, but not so much updated. Cyanogenmod is now a big machine, with lots of devs and means. Gokhan is working alone, and hard, so it will be difficult for him to adopt such process as CM. Best would have been a close cooperation between him and CM, but there have been lots of historical rub and his work was not always welcome in the CM environment.

I would say it is a dev war, like kids looking for the one who have the biggest one !! And some CM devs are not happy because they don't have the biggest one :-)
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
I only started to follow SiyahKernel when I flash my SGS2 to CM9 and needed the wonderful BLN feature in the kernel. Gokhan makes my dream come true! :)

I am very glad that Gokhan started to work closely his source with CM9 nightly builds which helps to leverage everything has to offer between both CM9 and SiyahKernel.

You mentioned that his code is open, mind pointing me where to get those code? Is it reside in some versioning system such at GIT or SVN?
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
https://github.com/gokhanmoral/siyahkernel3
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
|OP| has been updated

2012/05/01

flashed CM9 0429

flashed V3.2.b4

UMS is working from user space.No need anymore to mount under recovery. MTP is owrking perfectly

Can not echo 1 > /sys/class/misc/notification/breathing, with ADB or Root explorer. /sys/class/misc/notification/ is only a directory full of symlinks. /sys/devices/virtual/misc/notification/bretahing is the right path
[Galaxy S II General] raptor22:
I flashed 0429 CM9 Build with v3.2 Beta1 and ever since I had a weird issue along with the later betas gokhan released.

Any time I used the 8 step or 9 step frequencies the device within 30 minutes of inactivity regardless deep sleep or charging would go into a SOD and I would have to press power button for 10 seconds or so and force reboot. Reverted back to the 3.x default and everything was fine. This issue has been present in v3.2 beta1, beta 2 and beta 3.

With beta 4 even when I used the 3.x default the device also went into a SOD. I removed all undervolting and used default ExTweaks Default profile settings to make sure, but SODs still happened.

Aside from pulling some logs like in proc/last-kmsg am I missing anything else? Posting here as new members can't post in development thread.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
I can't give you an answer, just an advice. Some beta version of SyiahKernel have sometimes issues. If your device is working properly with 3.2, stick to it.

Try to investigate with CPU spy, and see if any app or process could be the suspect.

As for me, no SOD at all. Even if you can't post the dev thread, try the search button. Usually, someone else has already experienced your issue.
[Galaxy S II General] raptor22:
I see. Guess I will stick to beta 3 for now, going relatively stable. CPU spy shows 92% sleep, no wakelocks with BBS, so I have no idea what is the issue.

Actually searched the dev thread before posting, someone else had a similar issue, but got chided for not providing enough details and a log.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Another good way to proceed is to run for a while CM9 with default Kernel and see if the issue repeats.
[Galaxy S II General] raptor22:
Yup I did try that before and I got no SODs. So I guess its an issue with the kernel?
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
So the good news is you are in the right thread! The bad news is this thread is not very active!

How do you set your Kernel settings? ExTweak only, or any extra apps? I would recommand uninstalling any extra app about CPU/GPU settings.

Did you always do clean install? Wipe cache/dalvik cache? Do again a wipe. Try flashing again your Kernel.

Do you use any extra init script? If yes, remove them. Check if an old script is not running at boot.

I like to say best is to stick with Extweaks and no extra apps/scripts.
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
I find ExTweaks being the best tool to customize SiyahKernel.

I just uninstalled BLN Control Pro because ExTweaks now has even more features to configure BLN. But I am hoping ExTweaks will have the missing feature for configure Proximity sensor for BLN.
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
What happen to latest SiyahKernel v3.2b5?

It says:

added breathing_start (mV), breathing_end (mV), breathing_period (ms), breathing_step (mV) interfaces to notification miscdevice. further customizations are possible by modifying those such as faster blinking or less brighter breathing.

But I don't see this feature in ExTweaks. Where is this settings?
[Galaxy S II General] raptor22:
I guess somehow people like to post on dev threads first.

My kernel settings are no OC, -25mV UV, and some slight GPU threshold changes. I do not use any BLN as I don't need it and the only other app besides ExTweaks is SetCPU. No scripts involved here I do not use them. I didn't think of wiping dalvik and cache when I flash kernels but guess I will give it a shot.

Wiped cache and dalvik and trying out beta5, looks good so far. Hope this thread becomes more active gokhan should get some peace on his dev thread like codeworkx did.
[Galaxy S II General] nokai:
vk rom v4.7.1 can use SyiahKernel 3.2.b4??
[Galaxy S II General] AntonioGPS:
Something weird happened to my GT-I9100 phone running 4.0.3 ICS, Siyah Kernel 3.2b4 and XXLPR..

I noticed that the battery life spam was terrific under theses conditions. Over a day with a regular use of the phone visiting some WEB pages, checking my e-mail, playing a little bit and revising my RSS news...

But it happened that today, I went to a BTT ride out of my town, in places where I am sure that I've lost the signal of my phone company..

And after a 4h ride, when I tried to phone my spouse, I was chocked because my phone battery was fully and hardly exhausted as ir never happened before. It needed a 10 min charge to be able to connect again so I could make phone calls

I believe that in most of this time, my phone has been attempting to find the phone signal, and in doing that, it run out of batteries

I have not ideas if this depends upon the modem or the kernel...

Any ideas?

Has anybody tried Siyah Kernel under non coberture to test if battery spam is shortened because a higher consumption ?
[Galaxy S II General] DadeFazer:
Yes, I'm using it successfully as second rom and it's running smooth.

Dave.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
+1

It was one of the goal of this thread. When dev one is too crowdy, finding info becomes near impossible unless you spend 1 hour.
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
The latest Siyah v3.2b6 still doesn't have the mV settings for the breathing.
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
Anyone here experiencing Exchange Services draining battery like there's no tomorrow??

Mine show up at 30+% usage in the Battery running latest CM9 nightly build 0503 with SiyahKernel v3.2b7.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
2012/05/05

flashed CM9 0504

flashed V3.2b7

NO ISSUES

Everything is running so smooth, it is boring in fact !! :-)
[Galaxy S II General] shr33kant:
I agree.. I am stuck playing unreal 2004 to pass the time..
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Cyanogenmod nightlies is often down these days. Please find below the changelog for 0507 build.

It seems there are big changes in icons, with many users complaining. As for me, I will wait and let the dust settle before updating. No hurry and sticking to 0506.

Waiting for Syiah rc1, then plan to dual boot with B2G, as it is the next big thing according to me.

I updated my Extweaks settings in post 121. Not sure they are the best settings around, I am still trying to fine tune, but battery life (1day 1/2 with normal usage) and scrawling are OK.

0507 changelog:

Settings: fix manually adding network (android_packages_apps_Settings)

Add @hide to new fields/methods (android_frameworks_base)

fix most sign and variable initialization warnings (android_external_busybox)

CM9-Settings-Update Russian Translation (android_packages_apps_Settings)

CM9-Camera-Timer mode-Update Russian Translation (android_packages_apps_Camera)

SystemUI: New PowerWidget icons (android_frameworks_base)

Settings : Customizable lockscreen targets (android_packages_apps_Settings)

Lockscreen : Customizable shortcuts (android_frameworks_base)

Replace Themes stub with the actual launch intent (android_packages_apps_Settings)
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
2012/05/09

No update yet to 0507 and rc1 as I am testing new Extweaks settings and

want to keep the same config to see if there is any difference.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Changelog for nightly 0508:

Camera: fix crash on restore preference (android_packages_apps_Camera)

Camera : Use non translatable array for comparison (android_packages_apps_Camera)

Add a different icon for no wallpaper option (android_packages_apps_CMWallpapers)

hardware/qcom: 8660: Fix to mute issue from second voip call (android_hardware_qcom_media)

SystemUI: Recreate navigation bar when rebuilding the status bar (android_frameworks_base)

Volume Settings: link volumes / mutes vertical arrangement (android_packages_apps_Settings)

Volume Settings: fix link mute states checkbox (android_packages_apps_Settings)

Display correct signal bars for some Samsung devices (android_frameworks_base)

Camera: Captilize 'off' timer option (android_packages_apps_Camera)

PowerWidget: Use resources for the indicator color mask (android_frameworks_base)

2012/05/09

flashed 0508 CM9

flashed V3.2rc1

Still in the process of fine tuning Extweaks settings with

more agressive settings. Need more battery cycles to make

an opinion.
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
I am now in the stage of monitoring the battery drainage in standby mode.

wi-fi, bluetooth, GPS, and 3G turned off.

Also ExTweaks undervolt the GPU to 100,200,267.
[Galaxy S II General] bluefa1con:
it the wifi issue still there ?
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Nop. It is gone since long now.

I just keep the warning for users who flash once in a while.
[Galaxy S II General] anstaendig:
You mean you underclocked the GPU. Did you also undervolted it a bit?
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
After flashing the latest Siyah v3.2.1, I use back the defaults.

But so far it's ok. So I will stick to the defaults.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
I changed a litle bit some settings in Extweaks. Not so sure it is a big deal, but it is not so bad too!

After one year of CM7/CM9 usage with SyiahKernel, I found that in most cases, trying many various settings, my battery life is always near 1 day 1/2 with normal usage.

Then, the most battery eater is your screen. So best is to use brightness as low as possible. This not totally the way I proceed, because the SGS2 super amoled screen is really wasome and I am not a big fan of "dark" screen with difficult reading.

Here are some of my new Extweaks settings. I realized that all the fuss about NOT using 100 Mhz is FALSE. Using mores steps and aggressive settings allowing to load second core quicker are battery friendlier.

Governor: Lulzactive

I/O Scheduler : noop

Second core is enabled above 20% load

Second core is disabled below 15% load

Min freq for second core to be turned on : 500 000 KHZ

CPU Step count : 18

CPU Smooth Scaling : 3,3,2

GPU Freq step : 160, 200, 267 MHz

GPU Volatage levels : 850,900,950 mV

GPU Thresholds : 85, 75,100,40 %

GPU StayCount : 1,1,1 sec

TouchMove sensitivity : 2 pix

MIN_GAMMA : 6

MAX_GAMMA : 20

charge current : 650 mA

disabled Auto-install Root and Android Logger

LED Voltage Control : 2800 mV
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
2012/05/09

flashed 0513 CM9

flashed V3.2.2

Dual boot now with B2G. A quick How-To will follow.
[Galaxy S II General] umermajeed:
I think i have bombarded you with enough PMs I am just gonna follow up here...

I tried following your instructions to dual boot gecko..

I got to the lockscreen...I can't get the make sync command to work...IT says

git pull origin master

bash: git: command not found

Makefile:588: recipe for target 'sync' failed

make: *** [sync] Error 127

I have tried searching...didn't find a solution..I am hoping you can help me with this...I am using windows7 btw

I am doing make sync while phone connected on the gecko lockscreen...

I just realized that windows says failed to install driver when i connect in from gecko...altho adb detects the device..heimdall doesn't but for that the phone has to be download mode AFAIK
[Galaxy S II General] bluefa1con:
will be waiting for B2G tutorial
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
In post 3, there is a step by step guide. I wrote it quite quickly, but overall you should be able to dual boot easily.

I
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Please find in post 3 a quick and dirty step by step guide to dual boot with Boot To Gecko.

The OS is in its eraly stage, so do not expect to use it daily. Wifi, SMS, GSM work, but I got issues with phone calls.
[Galaxy S II General] bluefa1con:
meh too much work :p

any chance of upcoming cwm zip?
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
For sure, 2014 shall be OK. Very early stage.

See you there.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Cyanogenmod changelog website keeps being down. Please find below changelog for 0514

update-cm-9-20120514-NIGHTLY-galaxys2-signed.zip

PT-BR: Missing Translations (android_packages_apps_Settings)

init: Increase maximum number of Android properties to 372 (android_system_core)

Enable Wi-Fi Direct Settings Menu. (android_packages_apps_Settings)

Add required permissions and files for data (android_system_core)

Telephony: Add HSPAP to getTcpBufferSizesPropName (android_frameworks_base)

SimUnlockScreen: Explicitly register themeChange receiver (android_frameworks_base)

galaxys2: set early video size on video recording (android_device_samsung_galaxys2)

phone : remove ldpi drawables (android_packages_apps_Phone)
[Galaxy S II General] umermajeed:
here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26116133&postcount=482
[Galaxy S II General] kehinde:
Cant get market to work after installing CM.

hi everyone. will be glad if someone can help out.

i cant get google play to work after installing CM. I followed the guide by droidphile. the exact step i followed are listed

1. installed stock rom dxlp9 by flashing odin

2.flashed cf-root lp9

3. installed siyah 3.2.4

4.boot into recovery and wiped 2nd rom cache, then installed CM.

5, flashed gapps while still in recovery.

however no matter what i tried, i cant signed into google play on the 2nd rom(CM). I HAV WIPED, USED NEW AND EXIXSTING ACCOUNT STILL NO LUCK. the error message is connection TIMED OUT. GOOGLE TALK ALSO COULDNT SIGN IN. HOWEVER am able to access internet on other Apps.

The only solution seems to install it the old way.

any one that knows pls let me know what am doing wrong. thanks.

a Zillion thanks to Gk and all those involved. u know urself. thanks a lot.
[Galaxy S II General] bigkay:
Solution go to ur APN setting and delete proxy leave it as not set it solved it for me...please hit the thank button... please copy the value just incase u run into problems but am very sure it will work
[Galaxy S II General] kehinde:
thanks but my settings show proxy is not set.

thanks alot.
[Galaxy S II General] nuraniharun:
I using siyah kernel, I not see any bug.
[Galaxy S II General] Tråget:
What does the LED voltage control do?

Can't find a good answer to that question anyware on the net. =(

Has it got something to do with how low you can go before the ledbuttons stop working or something like that? 'Cause i've pulled it down to 2500mV without seeing any difference. Thanks in advance! =)

edit: Never mind, after installing the latest Siyah it worked like it should. :D

Now I know what it does!
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
WARNING:

CM9 0520 have an issue with phone call. Stay away this build.

0521 and 0522 didn't solved this issue. Nevertheless, users report no issue when using SyiahKernel. If correct, there must be something broken with the default CM9 Kernel.

Best is to stay away from any build greater than 0519. Btw, there is no real major improvments since 0518
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
I added in post 1 two ways of getting CM nightly build changelogs without using the regular CM website. Yahoo APi is down almost every day, so it has been difficult to know what's going on.
[Galaxy S II General] cheemais:
Dude, just wanted to take a moment and say thanks for the awesome work you have been putting up with.

I always come and refer to this thread before flashing the latest nightly or kernel. Great stuff ! :)

BTW, do people still see Android OS as the major battery Consumer ? I check mine on daily basis and it comes to an average of 42-48% daily.

R'

Ishwinder
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Thank you for your comments.

Yes, Android OS is the main battery eater, followed by screen. There is nothing you can do, unless you want a dark screen, which is a shame as the Superamloed screen is awsome.

Try peagsusq as governor, you will be surprised how much time your kernel spend in deep sleep and save battery. Leave all settings by default first, then slowly move a litle bit some of them.
[Galaxy S II General] DadeFazer:
Maybe corrupt release 0520

Same trouble after flashing 0520.

I tought it was a broken release file, even if MD5 was fine.

Market (Play Store) and Twicca (best tweeeter client ever) stopped working reporting App isn't installed.

Being the second ROM I was not able to restore last backup I made without swapping.

But since GM told he removed backup/restore functions in CWM because of weird behavior I decided to gave up with CM9 for a while.

I'm already missing it, but maybe stopping for a few days to flash nightly once a day will detox me :-P
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
It is a good idea to wait a litle bit before flashing immediatly any new build or kernel.

Try first to browse last 5-10 pages of the thread, and see what all flash junkies say about the new build. This quick review can prevent a lot of peine in the ass.

As far as I can, I try to stick here with the last fully working build/kernel duo. In post 1 you can find the configuration I use. I need a fully working device and won't play too much with broken stuff.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
The new 3.2.5.2 Kernel is removing at boot superSU app and replace it by superuser app.

This is a very good thing, as Extweaks no more crash on first launch.

As often, all your Extweaks settings will be reseted to default. So, in case you are not sure of what settings you use, write them somewhere before you flash the new kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
I don't understand why, but kernel 3.2.6 removed the forced install of superuser.apk. Now Extweaks crashes again often at first launch.

To go back to superuser.apk, and avoid FC's with Extweaks, follow this:

-Flash 3.2.6

-In Extweaks, remove and reinstall Root as indicated. A reboot is usually needed.

A lot of default settings in Extweaks have been radically changed. Gokham decided to follow observations made by AndreiLux in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26488751&postcount=425. These new settings are supposed to give you extraordinary battery life.

I must admit I am not totally convinced by this new 3.2.6 kernel, and ready to revert to 3.2.5.2

I think the idea in 3.2.5.2 to force install superuser.apk was good and shall stay.

Flashed CM9 Nightly 0523. No more issues with device rebooting when incoming calls.
[Galaxy S II General] erniem:
Just flashed CM9 with 0524 and my Siyah kernel got replaced by the CM kernel, is that normal
[Galaxy S II General] bencairns:
Yes. Just reflash siyah after CM
[Galaxy S II General] bencairns:
Anyone on the last couple nightlies + siyah getting a notification (sound and vibrate, triangle symbol in notification drawer) when shutting down or rebooting the phone?

Only thing ive changed is some of the profile settings (home, work, etc)
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Nup, don't see that on my device.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
A lot of users report wifi issues with 3.2.6 because of new driver

Superuser.apk is no more force installed, thus you have to manually remove/install Root/Reboot in Extweaks.

As far as I can tell, battery life has nothing extraordinary with new AndreiLux settings.

===> if you want a rock solid device and not spend hours tweaking it, stay away 3.2.6

As for CM9 builds, Apollo music app is back in this build. This is a new fresh app with some issues. For those of you listening music with your device, best is to stick with the old defaut music app.

===> if you listen music and like well organised track infos, stay away CM9 0524
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
WARNING!!

For all of you living in the Geneva area, switzerland, there is a pay app on Google play for using public transports TPG. This app is a FAKE and will do nothing else than redirect you to the TPG website via your browser.

TPG is currently building a free app for Android.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
In 3.2.6.2, wifi issues shall be solved.Have a look at last posts in the discussion or dev threads for confirmation. My wifi is connecting with no problems, but I need to move around to see if other networks connect well.

Some Extweaks settings have been changed and make more sense to me.

I do not see anything against this new build.
[Galaxy S II General] ggogolewski:
Option to change scheduler is missing...

Edit: sorry, I find it :-D

Wysyłane z mojego GT-I9100 za pomocą Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
I do not see anything from not flashing this Kernel.

Btw, 3.2.5.2 ia the last solid and issue free Kernel. So if you are not a flash junky, and just want a fully working device, best is to stay for now on 3.2.5.2. You will not miss any big changes!
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
WARNING!

Term.apk, Terminal emulator, is broken in 0527 CM9. This build use a new version of term.apk, 1.043, and it keeps FCing.

If you use frequently term app, copy an old version (1.042) from a backup, or somewhere from the web.

ISSUE SOLVED with new 0528 build.