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[Galaxy S III General] deom2i:
2nd Rom not found!!!

Please help, Recovery status states that 2nd ROM can not be found!!

I have followed this below steps to install AOSP Omega ROM:

1) Present sammy, setup aosp as secondary:-

i) Hit "Run 2nd Rom Utils" in Stweaks app from your current rom. This will run the embedded recovery in the kernel. Under dual boot options, wipe 2nd Rom data and cache+dalvik. Format 2nd Rom System.

ii) Using install zip to 2nd rom option, flash aosp rom as 2nd rom.

iii) Fix 2nd Rom permissions

iv) Flash Siyah again

I have fix permission by Hit "Run 2nd Rom Utils" in Stweaks app after installing AOSP and also fix permission then reboot.

I still get blank screen!! where im i going wrong? :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] Anthartic Rain:
Ok seems to work out, I hope don't have to do that everytime I plug the phone. But now I see some hidden folders that I wasn't able to see before. Some dude wrote that uninstalling kies and installing this (GalaxyS3 Toolkit V6):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1703488

can solve the problem too.

has anyone tested?
[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
quite happy. played fifa12, asphalt7, dead trigger, couple of 3g and wife data.
[Galaxy S III General] chrismast:
I just installed SlimBeam yesterday as well and followed the same steps without issue:

1) Present sammy, setup aosp as secondary:-

i) Hit "Run 2nd Rom Utils" in Stweaks app from your current rom. This will run the embedded recovery in the kernel. Under dual boot options, wipe 2nd Rom data and cache+dalvik. Format 2nd Rom System.

ii) Using install zip to 2nd rom option, flash aosp rom as 2nd rom.

iii) Fix 2nd Rom permissions

iv) Flash Siyah again

Go to 2nd Rom util. - Wipe 2nd rom data & cache & dalvik - Format 2nd rom - flash aosp rom - without reboot fix permissions - without reboot flash siyah - reboot
[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
guys, can I install an AOKP ROM as a secondary rom? Ages ago I heard there was aproblem with dual booting an AOKP one.
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
I am a little bit confused with latest Siyah on SGS3. I am using pegasusq as a governor with standard settings.

Now starting every time SetCPU I can see only one core working even when 100% CPU is used. Why other cores are not working in this case?
[Galaxy S III General] deom2i:
After flashing Omega AOSP it ask to reboot!! same issue black screen when boot to 2nd ROM.

Is it compatible? :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] erto90:
If someone is interested, i opened a thread for exchange our audio configurations

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2027495
[Galaxy S III General] gokhanmoral:
thanks.. that will be very useful.

also I will ask you guys to test 1.8.1 and see if the sound is better or worse.

there were some users who reported that the stock sound was better and I suspect the eq band modifications may be the reason of it. I removed extra bass modifications in 1.8.1.
[Galaxy S III General] dantheman122:
One small problem in latest 1.8.1 (possibly earlier, I didn't check?) is that GPU Voltages are all set to max 1200mV, I don't know if they're running at it, but default sliders show it at that. Also, what does SCHED_MC do? Is it worth trying setting 1 or 2?
[Galaxy S III General] gokhanmoral:
I will check gpu voltages when I go home.

can anyone check if they are running at max or just the sliders are incorrect?

sched_mc is default 0. I was setting it to 2 in the previous versions. now it is up to you to choose.

I am still using it at 2 as it makes more sense considering that we have at least dual core enabled almost all the time.
[Galaxy S III General] dantheman122:
What app lets me check the voltages? I tried a few and couldn't see GPU ones.

Ahh cool, I'll make it 2.
[Galaxy S III General] gokhanmoral:
just use adb shell and cat /sys/class/misc/mali_control/voltage_control file

or open it with a text viewer...

it will show you the voltages
[Galaxy S III General] deom2i:
i have flashed Slim bean ROM and it works fine, i guess the problem is with AOSP ROM.
[Galaxy S III General] dantheman122:
It shows:

900, 925, 1000, 1050, 1100 ('000 for all)

I just tried changing the Voltages and got a boot loop, I just put them to defaults. Had to swap to perseus kernel to get out of loop, tried using an old Siyah Reset script but it didn't seem to work. Can someone confirm this? I had flashed 23 toggles mod but it's still working fine after going over to perseus.
[Galaxy S III General] enigma1981:
All my GPU voltages were maxed at 1200 - I tried to set them to the default values (as stated in stweaks) and the phone froze and I had to hold the power button to restart it - upon reboot, it froze while loading and I had to reflash kernel via recovery to undo the voltage changes.
[Galaxy S III General] Lither:
What are the changes of 1.8 and 1.8.1?

When 1.8.1 is release tonight, do I just need to flash it via CWM over 1.8?

Also I'm currently using EvenMoreBatteryProfile.zip and EvenMoreBatteryTweaksGovernor.zip once I flash to 1.8.1, both profile will still be there or do I need to flash it again?
[Galaxy S III General] antonyyip:
I also want to know too~~~~~ Anyone knows the change from 1.8:confused:
[Galaxy S III General] droidphile:
New build has some extra tunables for Stweaks - like early suspend delay and the whole per frequency UV thing. I will post updated versions of all the profile zips soon.
[Galaxy S III General] erto90:
Sound thread updated with more infos

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2027495
[Galaxy S III General] antonyyip:
Thanks guy!

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Lither:
Did you made all the profiles in Siyah kernel topic? I assume that when I flash 1.8.1, I will need the latest version of kernel profile?

Also when 1.8.1 is release tonight, do I just need to flash it via CWM over 1.8?
[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
siyah 1.8.2 is released. I flashed it through cwm over the 1.8.

I changed FBSuspend Delay to 100ms and voila! the crt-off animation is live again.
[Galaxy S III General] usmann090:
Please some detail.

U just replied it has overclock capability.

Could u explain it and give complete answer of my question.

Thanks for that.
[Galaxy S III General] gokhanmoral:
well, sorry but you will have to flash 1.8.3 or set it every time you restart :)

v1.8.3 is up
[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
Okay, I will do that now. Good job on crt-off animation thingy.
[Galaxy S III General] cmajetic:
Gpu voltages are also fixed now? Someone mentioned it in the development thread. Would just like to know if 1.8.3 is the last version for today :P Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] gokhanmoral:
it's codeworkx's hack, I've just added it to stweaks.
[Galaxy S III General] gokhanmoral:
I hope that it is the last version for tonight. :)

yes, gpu voltage initialization is fixed.

stweaks settings will reset after flashing 1.8.3 and you will have real stock gpu voltages.
[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
Have now 1.8.3. Rebooted to check if any...all is okay. Thanks GK for importing that fix for crt-off anime thingy. Good Night.
[Galaxy S III General] Lither:
Did you made all the profiles in Siyah kernel topic? I assume that when I flash 1.8.1, I will need the latest version of kernel profile?

Also when 1.8.1 is release tonight, do I just need to flash it via CWM over 1.8?

Is there any benefit of me upgrading from 1.8 to 1.8.3? My main use is Facebook, Viber, Internet and Games
[Galaxy S III General] cmajetic:
Now you can undervolt all cpu steps at once and each by its own. How does it work now? I hope you know what I mean.

For example when I choose undervolt cpu -25 the sliders on the next tab stay the same where you can undervolt each step alone.
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
del
[Galaxy S III General] GPKrzychuXxX:
Siyah 1.8.3 play better then 1.8 ???
[Galaxy S III General] JohnnyGT:
flashed latest 4.1.2 Polish firmware and this 1.8.3 Kernel (CWM) and no issues .... Thanks mate
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
I was gonna ask this too.

If i use cpu tab to undervolt by - 75mV, and let the CPU uv tab to stock default, which takes priority?

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Maplobats:
I set to -75mV and left the individual step settings as is, and when I checked in system tuner pro, everything was undervolted -75mV across the board. I'm not sure how it would work with changing the individual settings also, but I prefer to just set -75mV for all anyways. Maybe if I get bored some day I will tweak each individual step
[Galaxy S III General] Infy_AsiX:
1.8.3 is nice. After flashing all the stweak settings were back to default.

As for the changes how come mc_sched is set to 0 by default if it used to be 2 and thus saving power. Also the bass does sound different and better for me.

?????? Galaxy S3 ??????
[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
So I am not the only one then, bass in siyah 1.8.3 pleases me more.
[Galaxy S III General] InevitableDJ:
i dont know, to me it sounds really weak, currently now the iphone sounds better i'll be going back to 1.7 perfect bass
[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
enable it please. It scared the **** outta me. I thought my phone did not get to any kernel at all.
[Galaxy S III General] Droidphilev:
Hi Gokhan,

+1 for this please
[Galaxy S III General] colang:
Stweaks missing

hi i have just flashed the latest jelly bean XELKC and now i have no more stweaks app i have flashed siyah via mobile odin and CWM no luck ?? any ideas :p
[Galaxy S III General] gokhanmoral:
undervolting setting in cpu tab is always applied first.

and if you choose set on boot in cpu_uv tab, the voltages will override the other one.

so, there is no need to set anything in cpu tab if you are using cpu_uv tab.

I have not removed andreilux's "set on boot" setting because it lets you to test the voltages without worrying that they will be applied on boot.

if you do not select "set on boot" you will make at least one tiny change in that tab for all the voltages to be applied.

I usually change the voltage on 1800MHz as I don't use it.

and I can say that lower frequencies can be undervolted much more than the higher ones. so, if you have time, test them...

I am now testing

200MHz: 750mV
300MHz: 750mV
400MHz: 775mV
500MHz: 850mV
600MHz: 850mV
700MHz: 875mV
800MHz: 900mV
800MHz: 950mV
1000MHz: 1000mV
1100MHz: 1050mV
1200MHz: 1100mV
1300MHz: 1150mV
1400MHz: 1200mV
[Galaxy S III General] chrismast:
I just did the same and still got my stweaks app :), you can re-download it via play store
[Galaxy S III General] colang:
fixed my system was RO had to remount RW and installed the apk :cyclops:
[Galaxy S III General] wind0zer:
Stable 99%

1400000 1200
1300000 1138
1200000 1100
1100000 1050
1000000 1000
900000 950
800000 900
700000 875
600000 863
500000 850
400000 850
300000 825
200000 750

This is after many trial and error. Although everything is perfect, so to speak, the only thing I've noticed is that after it reaches full charge, the phone goes off and the big green battery shows.

Now with v1.8.3 I can easily UV -100 at all gpu freqs like before : ) (I couldn't undervolt gpu in v1.8; max I could without glitches was -25mV.)
[Galaxy S III General] Anthartic Rain:
I upgrade from 1.8 to 1.8.3 and I keep receiving the message "unable to find software on your PC that can recognize your device" etc, etc, I can transfer files normally now, no problem. But I can't see some folders I'll like to see, for example inside /android/data I just see one folder in windows, before this kernel I was able to see all the content and copy them according my needs. How can I fix this?
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
Not stable at SGS3 with stock 4.1.2: the phone freezes after going idle. All is going OK after reboot but just until next sleep.
[Galaxy S III General] gokhanmoral:
it is stable on my device :)

you have to find your own settings when it comes to undervolting...
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
Sure, it was just to let everybody know.
[Galaxy S III General] cmajetic:
With the new official 4.1.2 your kernel is not as smooth as the stock kernel. I just tried stock settings because the battery drain is quite high even with stock settings. Stock kernel is more fluid and has less battery drain or quite the same. On dlj4 your kernel was awesome but now it causes lags.

This is no offence but I am wondering a bit. Sound is still much better than stock ;)
[Galaxy S III General] ryukisai:
@ Gökhan :

First of all : Thanks to continue developing for SGS3 !!

I have a question about the new undervolting interface you just ported to your kernel. What is the behavior if i set a global -25mV in the regular CPU tab, and then tweak the voltages in the CPU UV tab ? I guess you would recommend using only 1 of those methods, right ? Maybe a switch in STweaks to choose which mode to use would be nice.

Also, still in STweaks, about the headphone amplifier :

I think if you could display the slider value directly as the gain dB value, it would be easier to read. As of now, i guess the 0 dB gain is reached at value 57, right ?

Do you know what the stock gain value is ? 0 dB / 57 ? I mean, would your kernel set to 57 / 0 dB sound the same as a stock kernel ?

I also think putting back the stock GPU voltages in the description text of GPU tab would be nice. (I personally usually forget the stock values, and i was using this description text to compare when undervolting.

:good: Thanks in advance and i appreciate your work daily !! (Using it continuously for like 1.5 year on SGS2 / 3). :good:
[Galaxy S III General] antonyyip:
I tried the new Siyah 1.83, it reset all tweak settings and I have to undervolt again. Tested with no problem found, quite stable!
[Galaxy S III General] lucas.viana:
Am I the only one with less RAM available now in v1.8.3? Even if I kill everything, I only get 360-370 free :( On v1.8, after kill everything, free ram was like 450 mb..
[Galaxy S III General] enigma1981:
Gokhan, is there any way to adjust the amount of ram that gets shared for video?

Swyped from my Galaxy S3
[Galaxy S III General] redlag:
Hey guys, I am trying to use Slimbean as the secondary rom. I was successful in flashing the rom but the gapps gave me some error related to /system path. Any ideas?

You have to flash the gapps from the dual boot menu in the secondary only right? or from the first page of the kernel?
[Galaxy S III General] MoonBlade:
i cant copy large files to internal or external Sd card. i tried to connect via usb in both ROMs that i use . i failed to copy large files in both the ROMs.

So i figured it must be problem of kernel . i had this problem in siyah v 1.8 and theni upgraded to siyah v1.8.3 still the problem exists. i am able to copy smal files though. for the same reason i cannot copy ROm.zips to flash them.

Eventually i copied using Bluetooth to my internal SD but when i try to flash its showing installation aborted unable to read fro E:\...

Please help me in this regard . your Works and effort are so much appreciated

Thanks,

MB
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
Unfortunately I can confirm this. Stock kernel is smoother, there is no labs when exiting idle mode with incoming call etc. Even boot time differs: 27 secs with stock against 36 secs with Siyah (measured with DX Toolbox).

Sure I have compared with latest Siyah with default settings in STweaks.
[Galaxy S III General] gokhanmoral:
exiting from idle (also happens when you receive calls I presume) is probably related with some kernel level changes which will be better if samsung releases sources... so blame them...

but boot time measurement is just nonsense.

do you think it makes sense to compare a kernel without any boot-time features (no init.d support, no scripts running, no profiles applying) with a kernel which is full of features + lots of ramfs overhead such as ntfs3g binary, stweaks apk, recovery and dual-boot feature...?

even lzma vs gzip compression difference adds several seconds...

so... just think about that comparison again...
[Galaxy S III General] cmajetic:
You are right with the bootup time but the overall experience is more laggy than with stock kernel. That's the problem. Sometimes there are random lags in apps or the settings that do not happen with stock kernel. Don't know why and it's not a very big deal but it could perform much better.
[Galaxy S III General] Lither:
@gokhanmoral

Is there any benefit of me upgrading from 1.8 to 1.8.3? My main use is Facebook, Viber, Internet, Music and Games
[Galaxy S III General] djglenn1337:
Just upgraded to 1.8.3 and I no longer have S Tweaks. Tried installing it again, and still none. Any advice?
[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
Its apk is still there in \res folder in internal SD. GK disabled auto-installation. You can also get stweaks from Google Play.

I had received an update for stweaks in this evening from Playstore.
[Galaxy S III General] carlos67:
Dead right GM. The guy is comparing apples with oranges. Does he really expect the boot time to be the same with all the extra trickery and goodies in your kernel? If he does he is a fool.

As a side note, would it be possible for you to have a slimmed down version of your kernel (eg siyah "light") without eg. ntfs3g/2ndRom support. Would it make any difference to the "feel/speed" of the kernel? Probably not but I gotta ask.
[Galaxy S III General] gokhanmoral:
well.. apart from the boot time delay which is bearable those additional files won't do any harm.

but he may be right about the performance because I have just noticed I forgot to rollback a test commit (even pushed it to github) which was previously rolled back.

also... I have checked gpu frequency/voltage settings again and everything seems to be working fine.

so, if you have instabilities with high gpu clocks then gpu voltage of 1.2V may not be enough. in that case you will need to use init scripts to increase gpu voltage even more. I don't want to make higher gpu voltages possible on STweaks as it is potentially unsafe.
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
OK, sorry about boot time comparison - yes, it was stupid because I forgot about additional boot features of Siyah. Pardon me!

But decrease of performance was observed not by me only.

And the main problem as I already mentioned is exit from idle mode. It is very annoying when I have to wait for about 10-15 seconds during incoming call because I cannot do anything with the phone.

Sure, Samsung is responsible for private code of kernel, but whatever.

And sure the sound is really better with Siyah... but I'd better buy a player additionally than use smartphone as a player only.

Once again - I am not against Siyah, I love this kernel very much! And thank you very much, guys, for continuing of development and support of this wonderful project. But in latest firmware the problem is too observable to forget about it.
[Galaxy S III General] carlos67:
Just out of pure curiosity, and because quite a few people saying that stock is smoother than Siyah, I just did the following. I switched from Siyah v1.8 to XXELK4 stock kernel to see how smooth stock is for me.

Well.... I gotta tell you that I have immediately switched straight back to Siyah because the first thing I noticed on stock kernel is that in Android Pro Widgets (scrollable twitter/facebook and calendar widgets) there is loads of stutter whilst scrolling through these widgets - almost unuseable. I mean REAL jerky scrolling. Now on Siyah I get no stutter at all whilst doing the same scrolling.

And I'm nobodies fanboy - just call it as I see it.

Got to add that I use Droidphiles extreme init.d script for lulzactive (with deadline sched) and the UI experience is sublime and smooth and IPhone like. Yes, battery could be better but for me it's all about the UI experience. In actual fact, because I have massively de-bloated all the touchwiz crapware and stopped loads and loads of autostarts in Rom manager, my battery actually is pretty damm good giving me 2 days (~50 hrs) with light usage and a good full day when using it moderately even on extreme performance settings. wifi on 24/7 - gps/bluetooth off 24/7. 50% screen brightness all times. Omega 33.3 WITHOUT supercharger. :D

To all: if you freeze loads of unnecessary services/apps/autostarts that you don't use, this will compensate battery life and enable more aggressive settings for performance whilst maintaining decent (not brilliant, but decent) battery life.
[Galaxy S III General] gokhanmoral:
please test 1.8.4 if you have lags with 1.8.3
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
carlos67, I believe it is not the best way to compare stock kernel on custom firmware (Omega 33.3).

But whatever - I just let you know about what I see. If I am only one - OK, in this case something with my phone/settings. But I know a number of guys who expects the same problems. They are not in XDA (bad English), but you can see at least one user who expects something similar here.
[Galaxy S III General] slipudatung:
EDIT: Just saw gm's post about 8.1.4 and gonna try it now.

Updated from 1.8 to 1.8.3 and ui slowed immensely. Re downloaded and flashed back and forth testing, the ui lag is huge for me.

On 1.8, things like touch boost and over clocking weren't used at all, gentle fair sleepers were disabled tho but ui is super smooth.

On 1.8.3 I have had to bump up over clocking, touch boost at 1200 and also disable gentle fair sleepers to even make it usable. Even then I still can't do basic things like search for a contact without it hanging.

I have flashed back and forth, trying as many combinations in stweaks as I can to enhance ui experience but it seems fruitless.

Has anyone else had/fixed this experience with 1.8.3?
[Galaxy S III General] gokhanmoral:
I think the lag was because of a commit that I rolled back in v1.8.4.

and I guess it was also the reason of the lags we had in v1.4/v1.5s...

please test v1.8.4 and report if you still have the lag
[Galaxy S III General] c0manche:
Did get a slowdown on the latest 4.1.2 with 1.8.3 kernel but initially put that down to the new rom from Samsung have now installed 1.8.4 and see if it does the same thing and report back if it does.

But either way this kernel is amazing compared to stock

keep up the good work
[Galaxy S III General] slipudatung:
Thanks so much GM! 1.8.4 seems to have fixed much of the lag. I will test it more over the next few hours and let you know if there are any other issues.

Geez you are good.
[Galaxy S III General] carlos67:
I agree 1.8 is super smooth - probably GM's finest work to date. Thats why I am not updating to anything newer because I see only downside in doing so. Sometimes a developer can start to "fix things that aren't broken" and in doing so, start to make things worse (for the satisfied majority) in order to pander to a few users complaining of lags here and bad battery there. These complaining users are usually not fully aware of how to set their phones up for optimal performance and this is usually (though not always) the cause of the poor performance and not the kernel/rom etc.

Surely, there must come a point when, with no new sources available, the kernel reaches an optimal state. For me maybe that is v1.8 - its flawless on my phone.

btw....wasn't refering to Gokhan above, just a general observation from 3 years on XDA across countless forums.
[Galaxy S III General] Anthartic Rain:
Hi guys, so I don't see anyone talking about file exploring in windows, the file copying is solved (as far as I can see) But I still unable to see some files and folder I need to in Windows. Is this a normal behaviour of the kernel? any fix or workout?
[Galaxy S III General] sduford:
I just ugraded from 1.8.3 to 1.8.4, do I need to re-flash the batteryprofile and batterygovernortweaks or are they still active?
[Galaxy S III General] djglenn1337:
Thanks matey
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
I agree to differ. siyah v1.8.3 for me is flawless on 4.1.2

Sent from my GT-I9300

---------- Post added at 10:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:29 PM ----------

I am not getting any of this on Omega V34 or stock polish 4.1 2. Everything so far is smooth for me on siyah as was stock.

Sent from my GT-I9300

---------- Post added at 10:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:32 PM ----------

I've never seen the file copying issue.. Maybe I'm lucky. It has always worked for me on Win7 and Win8.

Sent from my GT-I9300