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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jigen90:
Bln Help

Sorry guys, but BLN thing is making me crazy!

(I'm a Siyah user since GB version, I know this kernel quite a bit)

1st I enabled BLN in STweaks settings, I set a timeout to notification (5 minutes), steady, ticked BLNWW, and tested it ->turn off screen and it works.

I rebooted, tested again in STweaks and works.

Now, I cannot use BLN for any app.

I tried BLN Control (same setting as Stweaks, disabled blinking) but when I test it in app, turn off screen and leds are not working.

I'm using CM10, under profiles I made an application group called BLN with all apps I want, under active profile I set Notification ON and LED ON for this group, but it didn't work.

I tried LightFlow, I set light white and "flash rate" = Always On (according to Stweaks steady), but it didn't work. In LightFlow I got "panel control", "sec_touchkey control" led too, I tried to enable both with no success.

I tried using both CM Profile and LightFlow together, but it didn't work.

BLN Control and CM Profile together, didn't work.

tried:

cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/backlightnotification/enabled

and it prints "1".

echo 1 > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/backlightnotification/notification_led

and touch keys turn on!!

I really don't uderstand where's the problem..but it doesn't work for any app :(

Is there someone who could help me?

I only want to have BLN working for Phone missed calls, SMS, Gmail, Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger.

Someone who has a little guide step by step??

Please

UPDATE: the ONLY app with working bln is NStools. With that enabled I have bln for ONLY missed calls. Now..how to extend this behavior to the other apps??

P.S.

I searched a lot on XDA, in this thread, in CM thread, on google..2 days and I didn't find a working solution.

I've a Solution!!

BLN is not working, BUT I found a workaround.

I just disabled and uninstalled everything BLN related, Stweaks settings, LightFlow, CM profiles, NStools, BLN Control,etc.

I installed from market NOLED.

Under settings I changed color of every notification to BLACK -> for our SAmoled black = screen OFF!

Noled offer to disable backlight touch key, but in this case I turned on -> unchecked "Disable Backlight"

Under CM settings-> advanced under screen I selected Turn on touch keys when screen on, and selected timeout to NEVER

Under Stweaks I selected same option for touchkey (Led Timeout = No Timeout)

Now BLN works.

Everytime you get a notification from an app monitored by NOLED, the screen will turn on with BLACK led = screen off and touchkeys will light up!

Only two bad things: phone is not in deeeeeeeeeeep sleep! Screen on = touchkeys on (that means they are on during normal use of phone, while web browsing, using screen, etc. Like Samsung stock!)

But Noled is quite good, it stays at the lowest frequency during notification period!

This is not a true BLN without wakelock, but it works!! (like a bln) :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Balthazar997:
Hi Guy,

I have bad battery dduration compare with stock kernel.

Does anyone could provide me a good tuto to improve it with siyah kernel ?

Thx
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Many40:
Hi,

Second or third link from my signature (depending on what Siyah you are using. Have fun. Regards
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Debadatta:
GM, have a look at xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2048511. Exynos exploit.

/dev/exynos-mem provides read write access to all physical devices to all users. OMG.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skully☺:
When on CM9 my 64GB formatted as NTFS wasn't recognized, so I formatted it as FAT32.

However, if you manage to get it mounted and are able to write to it, I'll reformat and restore the contents.

---------- Post added at 02:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:19 PM ----------

I've been using some of Many40's tweaks for some time now. Thnx:good:

You can also look at:

- http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=22673227&postcount=14116

- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

- http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=32327122&postcount=16039

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gokhanmoral.stweaks.app

Edit:

- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1369817
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p_10:
Hi,

I used method 1 from universal rooting for ics phones from here...http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1746794 and had only temporary cwm and stock kernel for 4.04.

i) Can I use that temporary cwm to install siyahkernel 5?

ii) Or can I use that temporary cwm to install a rom?

iii)Also i am on the insane chip (is that something I have to lookout for)..

iv)What all do I need to backup before trying out this kernel ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Many40:
i) yes

ii) yes you can as well

iii) this temporary recovery is safe

but I personnaly haven't checked it so I would recommend to flash Siyah from it then reboot recovery, do all necessary wipes and flash new rom.

iv) the best backup is nandroid.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sun90:
i) Can I use that temporary cwm to install siyahkernel 5?

Yes, u can use the temporary CWM to install Siyah v5.0.1

ii) Or can I use that temporary cwm to install a rom?

Yes, u can , but its always recomended to flash a custom kernel before installing a custom rom

iii)Also i am on the insane chip (is that something I have to lookout for)..

No need to worry, once u flash the Siyah kernel as its 'Brick Bug' free kernel for u

iv)What all do I need to backup before trying out this kernel ?

AFAIK nothing,just Flash the Kernel and then backup ur exsisting rom using Siyah kernel recovery
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p_10:
Thanks for the quick response Many40 and Sun90..flashed the kernel now :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ba7rani123:
PhilZ-cwm6 kernel supports exFAT,
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pikachu01:
Hey Gokhan,

AndreiLux posted a fix here for the Exynos exploit:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35541696&postcount=61
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hi,

I've been using Siyah Kernel for about a week now.

I've had no problems until yesterday when i found it out. The problem is, that when i download stuff from the built-in internet browser, it after sometime freezes. And it freezes everytime i want to download something on mmy phone using the internet browser. This is a big problem with me since i very much like Siyah kernel, but i also downlod in my phone often. It freezes for quite a time, so all i can do is reset my phone, pressing the power button for about 5 seconds.

Just yesterday, i hade formatted my internel SD + wiped cahe and data..so i wanted to download flash player for Youtube to work. I did download it on the second try because on the first one it froze while downloading and i restarted my phone only to download it again..and then it dowoaded without any problems.

I hope you can fix this a.s.a.p as i download using the browser very often, but there's no rush.

Thank you, and btw i love the logo that appears while booting up :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sun90:
it has nothing to do with the Kernel ma8, try after deleting Data/Cache of the Browser and see, also try a diff browser like 'ICS browser+' or 'Google Chrome' and see if the issue persists with them or not:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] parag1dubey:
No more updates from gokhanmoral about the kernel for leaked JB? :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] parental92:
guys is gokhans website down? i cant access it, need to download siyah 5.0.1:confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sun90:
Yes, its down for now, may be some maintainence thing:)

find the kernel att below
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] parental92:
ok thx mate :)

installing this on my MIUI now ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Many40:
Hi,

I think either you messed up in your configuration too much or it's a rom issue.

I just checked bln+blnww on 10-20121104-NIGHTLY-i9100/Siyah 5.0.1 with Light Flow 3.3.0 Lite app - everything works well.

Remarks:

- if you set blnww: NOTIFICATION_TIMEOUT doesn't work, neither breathing nor blinking.

- I left other settings default (in STweaks/BLN, rom and app).

Regards
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supertomi:
Only stock kernel/ROM support exfat, no custom ROM. So either you format it to fat32 or use a stock ROM (afaik).

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9100 mit Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bland.life:
Siyah has yet to support CM10.1, right?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Many40:
Siyah doesn't support CM10.1 so far and it's not clear if it's gonna be supported by next release or not.

This is what Gokhanmoral mentioned about that:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35321141&postcount=4636
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sun90:
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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gokhanmoral:
I haven't been reading the forum for 4-5 days. I seen his commits on github but I didn't have time to check/test them. I arranged a meeting with a friend for the weekend to get Siyah working on Samsung JB roms (at least, and maybe cm10.1). before then, I won't be around too much.

I have no idea who mcm811 is but I have not released anything that supports cm10.1 or new samsung jb roms.

please remove the links from your post because that kernel doesn't belong to this thread. he can call his kernels anything but nobody should announce a kernel in another kernel's thread and it is not Siyah even though it advertises itself as Siyah+. I have no copyright or tm for "Siyah" but I find it wrong for him to use the same name.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Osutin:
I can't wait for your Kernel to be released with support for the leaked Jelly Bean ROM. I absolutely love your work, and have been itching to be able to dual boot my phone again. I absolutely love the new user interface and features in the leaked ROM, but there is nothing like having the ultimate choice that comes with dual booting. Keep up the good -- err, awesome is a much more suitable word -- work!

Note, I'd be more than happy to, in the future, test stuff, if you ever wanted people for testing. In a little less than a year, I'll be able to upgrade my phone. Assuming somewhere near that point in time you'd ever want people to test a new build of your kernel, I'd be more than happy to risk my phone for it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
This Siyah Kernel, does it work with my Stock ICS ROM v4.0.4 XWLPY?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Many40:
Yes, of course.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sun90:
Deleted, and my Apologies for the same :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
But i can't seem to flash it via Odin..

I'll try CWM see how that goes.

*EDIT* Worked perfect with CWM

Thank you for help :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daerragh:
Can anyone please post the latest STweaks.apk? I couldn't find any STweaks original thread to ask there. I know the app is on GPlay, but I just want the latest .apk. Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AayushDhuria:
Hey gokhan, that is essentially Siyah kernel only but modded to work with his kangs of CM.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tungstwenty:
You can install it from the /res folder of your device.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daerragh:
I'm coming from SGS1 section, so I'm new to SGS2 flashing. I bought SGS2 i9100 with NeatRom. I'd like to flash Siyah 5.0.1 via Odin.

I'm in Download Mode and it says there that I currently have Binary Version: Samsung Official. Is it save to flash Siyah 5.0.1 .tar over this "Samsung Official"? What does Samsung Official mean. Is it bootloader version or kernel?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skully☺:
STweaks was first included in kernel 5.0i if I'm correct.

The version in the Play Store is newer.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jigen90:
Hi Many40,

thank you for your answer. Probably you're right and I messed up my config.

Could you be so kind to post here a step by step configuration to have BLN working for every app? (using blnww)

For example, if I want to set bln for whatsapp what I need? Could you guide me??

Thank u
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Many40:
I'm not an expert of bln and this short test made especially for you :) (I'm not usually using this feature). However, as far as I know, when you activate bln from a kernel, it's activated for every app which is able to support this feature. (stock apps aren't).

what I did, I only activated BLN+BLNWW in STweaks app and installed Light Flow light. Everything rest - default (I checked sms'es and missed calls notifications)

Regards
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hyperbolic:
I would like to know if the new exploit can be done also in Siyah kernels.

Does Siyah kernels is Samsung based kernels ?

If so, does Siyah will rls a fix on his kernel or should I apply the fix via the thread ?

Thank you.

EDIT:

I have installed voodoo app and it said there my system is vulnerable so I ticked to fix it and it seems games I play stuck while playing.

It isn't stable app, Still want to know if Siyah will rls a fix.

Thank you.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rav4kar:
Folks, I have Siyah 5.0.1 on my SGS2 at&t ( that does not have physical home button like I9100) and power button stopped working and that's only way to wake up/turn on screen, do you know if there is any mod or app that can help volume rockers to wake up screen, please pm.tia.:fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Many40:
Hi,

Samsung devices like i9100 store a flash counter to keep track on how many times someone flashed custom firmwares (including kernels) to the device via odin (download mode). In reality whatever you flash via PC odin it increases the counter. You can check it in download mode:

- custom binary download: no

- current binary: samsung official

means you didn't flash anything via odin but:

- custom binary download: 1 (or more)

- current binary: custom

means you did flash something (not necessarily custom, might be stock) via odin.

What doesn't trigger custom binary counter is: KIES, OTA and custom recovery (eg CWM) what is in my opinion best way to flash anything.

So, yes you can flash TAR version of Siyah 5.0.1 kernel via odin (as PDA in odin) but then you will have to use Triangle Away app to remove custom binary counter with yellow trianle on boot.

Regards
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drraptor:
Today I tried to flash Siyah 5.0 and Siyah v4 on XXLP6, through temporay CWM, but flashing was aborted everytime. what might the issue. :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Many40:
Possibilities which came to my mind:

- on CM10 roms: settings/display/volume rockers wake > ON

- Play Store: Widget Locker app
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newHere:):
+1 for this question...

is it possible to change the LCD type?

thanks! :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ss03101991:
Ques

i was wanting to flash the v5.0.1 on the stock indian ICS 4.0.4. do i need root access first? or will flashing the kernel automatically root the device? i just bought a new S2. hope someone can help. :) thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Many40:
Yep, flashing kernel automaticaly roots your phone. On stock rom you have a few possibilities:

- flashing tar ver of kernel via pc odin as pda. Disadvantage is that your custom binary counter will increase and you will get yellow triangle at boot. To disable this you can you later Triangle away app.

- flashing tar ver of kernel via mobile odin

- flashing zip version of kernel via temporary CWM recovery which you would need to flash first. You can't flash zip kernel from stock recovery.

Regards
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bombaybadboy:
Mobile odin need root and so does cwm recovery :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Many40:
Hi,

But what is it to do with what I wrote :confused:

- mobile odin needs root for sure

- if phone is rooted doesn't mean it's automaticaly have CWM recovery

- mobile odin doesn't have CWM recovery but special version of temporary recovery (different then CWM or TWRP) provided by a flashkernel (only when you run the app). From this temporary recovery is possible only to flash some update zips and OTA updates zip files :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bombaybadboy:
From how it read he was asking if he needed root and it looked like you said yes, you can do it 3 ways. Pc odin thats ok but mobile odin or cf cwm both need root access. Looked like a chicken and egg problem. Flash siyah kernel to get root but those apps need root to flash. Or did I read your reply wrong :) sorry of I did
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Many40:
No problem mate. I see, I should've been more exact.

So, again genraly after flashing a custom kernel like Siyah, a phone is rooted automaticaly.

I proposed 3 ways to flash a kernel:

- pc odin (no root required prior flashing)

- mobile odin (root is required prior flashing)

- temporary CWM recovery, flashed from stock recovery (no root required prior flashing).

BTW you mentioned something about cf cwm. Did I write something about that? Rather not.

Regards
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bombaybadboy:
You are right I read that wrong sorry :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] axpira:
In 4.0 we have the option to don't do Wakelock on BLN?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Many40:
Blnww (bln without wakelock) is available since version 5.0i
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAZZI_US:
Please don't shoot me for not having read each post in this thread!

My system:

GT-I9100 no G

Stock 4.0.4 XWLQ2 (DBT)

I've flashed the Siyah kernel over the Samsung stock system several times in the last weeks, but always got a laggy UI after some time. For example when I'm in the settings menue and the press the back soft key to get back to the main menu or home screen, the transition looks like missing some frames (or just lagging).

Even resetting the options in ExTweaks didn't help to get back a smooth system.

Re-Flashing the stock FW with (of course) the stock kernel brought back the smoothness, which persists as long as I do not touch Siyah again.

I really love Siyah and it's possibities and therefore I'd like to use it.

Is anything known about this problem? Links are welcome, too.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sun90:
which version of Siyah did u flash v4.1.5 or v5.0.1 ma8, if 5.0.1 then try 4.1.5 and see or if it was v4.1.5 then flash v5.0.1 and see:)

u have to try those to see which is better for u on ur stock firmware:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAZZI_US:
I tried v4 when ICS came out and tried v5 when v5 came out. But I always went back to full stock, because it began to lag at some point. Clearing cache and the whole bandwidth of resets didn't bring any improvement.

It felt like some configuration in ExTweaks messes up the UI responsiveness irreversibly.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pikachu01:
Try applying ThunderBolt! tweaks and see if your UI performance improves :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAZZI_US:
Thank you for that advice. Currently I haven't installed Siyah. So I can't test that.

But even if TB tweaks improved the UI performance, the question why the defaults don't work properly like on others' phones persists. Don't get me wrong! I don't want to tune and tweak performance, I just want to know, why the highly appreciated Siyah kernel leads to a laggy UI on my (!) phone. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pikachu01:
Could be a few things:

- You have other tweaks that don't actually work well.

- You enabled some task killers/ OOM tweakers/ RAM tweakers that don't actually work well

- You have apps that go haywire (run all the time/take all the available memory)

- You tweaked the frequency to go low all the time

- Your CPU overheats so it throttles down the speed
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAZZI_US:
1) No. I used only ExTweaks and didn't apply any patch, script, library or else.

2) I know how Android works and never installed any memory management application or task killer (I even try not to use the built in of Samsung).

3) Well, if so, I'd have the same problems when using the stock kernel. The laggy transition occured also with a restarted system and no previously started app.

4) The only "tweaks" I made were changing min. frequency to 100 MHz and playing around the schedulers and governors (with their default config). Resetting everything didn't cure the lags, as I mentioned above.

5) Well, no.

I used Cool Tool to monitor temps, cpu, loads etc. But nothing conspicious.

As far as I remember Siyah worked perfect under Gingerbread (2.3.4).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skully☺:
When I was still on CM10 with Siyah kernel (v5.0.1), the screen was laggy when starting to scroll. The reason was I set my lower GPU clockspeed at 66MHz. It became smooth (as butter:D) when raised to 106MHz.

I think this is the same reason why the lowest CPU speed was set to 200MHz in Siyah v5, where it was possible to go as low as 50MHz in earlier Siyah versions.

My CPU speed was selected to be between 200 and 1200MHz.

See the screendumps for the settings in Voltage control and STweaks.

In the opening tab of Voltage control you can see the current CPU speed. It should go down to 200-500MHz after a few seconds. If it stays high (say > ±800MHz), then there is a process that is using CPU time.

Edit: I see BAZZI_US has a new post

Use PegasusQ and cfq as govenor/schedular.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAZZI_US:
PegasusQ and CFQ are the Siyah defaulst in v5. So I used them of course, too.

I don't think the CPU has a great impact in normal UI performance, as long as it is not set to 100 MHz max. or some strange things like that.

But what you write about GPU is interessting. I never toched the GPU settings, except the "use VPLL" (or whatever it is called). I remember Siyah to set the minimum GPU frequency to 66 MHz, which is the same as the stock kernel. (?)

Now again the question: Why do the defaults work on other S2s and not on mine? And why does Siyah begin to lag after some usage (days) even with stock-like configuration (ondemand, CFQ,...)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Many40:
Maybe you have "Non-Siyah-friendly" Exynos 4210 SoC (System-on-Chip) :D

Now, seriously, try with vpll (mali clock source used in s3) disabled (on some s2 devices may work not stable) and set pegasusq + sio. You can try pegasusq default settings, settings from

Droidphille thread

or from my signature (second link).

Regards
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pikachu01:
Your LMK might not be optimized. Depending on your app usage, and you might have faced low memory situations. Current ThunderBolt! implementation is still not the most optimized as I've just discovered a bug on it. Try to use that LMK after I've publish a new version.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAZZI_US:
I read the list on that ThunderBolt! thread in your signature. There was a passage in which problems with low RAM are mentioned and that the user shall exit minimised programmes. But thats not what Android's memory management intends.

Could it be, that with the normal Android behaviour some custom kernels run into some "memory-emergency" and slow the system down, since they "think" they get out of memory/capacity?

PS: I just want to flash the kernel without any further intervention of the system. I want to be as close as possible to a stock system, just with the (stable) optimizations of the kernel.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robertobsc:
Hi Gokhan and guys,

let me ask a technical question....

What parameters inside kernel make possible to one kernel support more undervolting then other??

some friends are testing dorimanx and Siyah. the agressive undervolts supported in Siyah gives freeze in Dorimanx.

Are they the arm / bus voltages that makes that difference?

If possible be very techinical... which are the specific variables pls....

Thanks!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
does latest siyah works with leaked jb?XXLSJ