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[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
Released v8

Whats new in v8

~ Changed CPU freq table, can now OC to 1.8 with no reboots

~ Made tweaks for smoother UI experience

~ Added init.d tweaks ;)

~ Tweaks for better battery life (still testing this)

Screenshot just to show it can run at 1.8ghz, I dont recommend this for long periods though

Please Click Thanks
[Xperia Play Android Development] m2maddy:
More free RAM that too 36MB is very much welcome on ICS :)

Too tempting to switch back to ICS considering Sechko is updating his ROM as well.

But guess for now will stick to NXT 1.3 and Lupus v4 GB.

Any room for more RAM improvements in GB ROM as well :)

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Maddy
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
Lol never added the ram part tried it again and broke it so give me a while

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[Xperia Play Android Development] Hotmaskim:
I update to V8 and I have the same problem : no Wifi :-/

Am I the only one ?
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
ye wifi was fine for me try wiping your cache and dalvik. if not try reflashing the kernel and modules

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[Xperia Play Android Development] MonY960:
Works on UnOfficial ICS Test !
[Xperia Play Android Development] Hotmaskim:
Ok, my fault, i flash the wrong kernel (I have a CM9).

I just flash the V7 CM9 based and now wifi works great :)

Sorry for the mistake.
[Xperia Play Android Development] farenheith:
Best combo

Wedgess, do you know wich combo (scheduler + governor) can I use to best gaming performance?
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
probably intellidemand+sio or ondemand/x although going to probably have a intellidemand2 soon then id say that:p

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[Xperia Play Android Development] Blizzard89:
can you add support to LuPuSv8 for undervolting?
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
u should already be able yo try using setxperia

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[Xperia Play Android Development] Blizzard89:
there no option to set voltage
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
no problem ill fix it soon

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[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
Has anyone tested the difference with and without zram enabled in the everyday use? I enabled it and I'm not sure if there is a real advantage. For example, my free ram looks quite the same. Maybe should I test it with some heavier apps or games?

By the way, undervolting support will be very welcome. :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blizzard89:
is there already what new? my battery needs more term. please fix it :D
[Xperia Play Android Development] boomtngz:
hi wedgees

thanks for the great work with kernel :good:

one problem wifi tethering dont work it hangs during connecting to device but works usb mode dont no weather its the kernel or rom

Im using LuPuS-iCs-BeTa-v8 and XperiaPlay Ice Cream Pureness.ver.4.0

even though rom has wifi modules built in i flashed it again

but no luck

thanks
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
wifi tethering is rom related not kernel;)

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[Xperia Play Android Development] boomtngz:
thanks for reply

i thought it was rom related

is there anyway i can get it working?
[Xperia Play Android Development] mastrix:
kernel

When i flashing the lupus kernel and reboot than runs fxp kernel again? Sorry for my bad english:laugh:
[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
Wedgess, have you planned another update any time soon for this kernel?

Last week there was a talk about undervolt support and I wonder about when could be available. It will be the icing on top of the cake. ;)
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
I have made an update just havent got around to testing it maybe later today and ill check uv support then

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[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
Cool!
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blizzard89:
Thanks, sounds great :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
Released v9

Whats new in v9

~ Added in .400ghz on freq table (handy while listening to music)

~ Added governor - Intellidemand2

~ Kgsl - use highest performance level on wake-up from sleep

~ Lowered cpu freq on boot time, to avoid any issues on booting.

~ KSM added

For Under-Volting use SetXperia App
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blizzard89:
Great News! :D
[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
That was fast! Thanks!
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
Made it from my phone while at work. Gotta love VNC app :D

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[Xperia Play Android Development] Blizzard89:
Have a little problem.... Have flashed kernel v9 add WiFi fix and reboot... No wlan - reboot, clear cache und dalvik cache, reboot - same problem... Download both new, check MD5 summe, it's okay. Flash kernel, add WiFi fix reboot...

Status now - no wlan

What make I wrong?
[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
I'm doing some quick tests of undervolting with SetXperia and everything works fine. Seems my XP is stable with -75mV. :highfive:

Great job!

Any comment about the included new CPU governor, Intellidemand2? I guess is a more optimized version of the original Intellidemand but I wonder about what's new.

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It worked fine for me.

I downloaded both the v9 kernel and wifi fix, copied the fix to the SD card, flashed the kernel in fastboot mode, installed the wifi fix using CWM in the first boot... and that's all.

Are you using the v9 wifi fix?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blizzard89:
Yes, but I think I see where the problem... The .ko file in system/lib/modules has 213kb the file in new update 251kb... So it looks, as file is not changed... Why?
[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
Check if the phone file is read only or, in other words, be sure it has write permissions enabled in order to CWM can overwrite it.
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
yes ^^^^ this or simply delete it using a root FM and copy the one from the .zip to there and reboot

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[Xperia Play Android Development] Blizzard89:
No way :( I try it with root explorer, permissions changed copy file from sd to /modules every copy has different size and md5 so I deleted file reboot and apply zip reboot handy and WiFi not work same problem md5 different then original. This f**k my brain!!! Someone an idea what to do?

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Problem solved! And so simple, there was not enough diskspace :/ sorry for my stupidity
[Xperia Play Android Development] Spatinator:
One suggestion:

GPU overclocking would be sooo great :D
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
Wrong... I made one as a test for my self it made everything lag, thought it was ny imagination. so i made a version for the arc and it was laggy as well. reverted gou OC and smooth again. so No gpu OC on this kernel

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[Xperia Play Android Development] cj360:
Doom tried that, it didn't increase performance. Check his ics beta thread.

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[Xperia Play Android Development] Spatinator:
Okey.... :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] silvergt2:
the camera does not work properly (freeze camera) in this version 9 and version 8 if it works without problem ... update please ..
[Xperia Play Android Development] itazchu:
same here.. force close on video recording using markphyton's newest ics rom.
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
Cool ill fix it when I get time. use a v yhat works for now ill post a folder with previous versions

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[Xperia Play Android Development] MrMmmkay:
Could anybody upload v8 and wifi modules please? That would be realy great :).
[Xperia Play Android Development] zaryab:
done
[Xperia Play Android Development] MrMmmkay:
thank you :), could you please upload the kernel itself too?
[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
I'll try to take a look at Stock ICS with v9 kernel and also with latest Doomlord's to try to check what can be buggy.

Right now seems there's problem with the camera and I have a problem with the 2G/3G toogle from the QuickPanel that I don't know if it's kernel related. I'll be back with some tests.

And here's v8.
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
the toggle would be rom related. camera would be my problem. is it fc'ing. ill have to charge my play but it will be fixed

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[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
Well, I spent some time with Doomkernel v3 and I haven't find anything else, only the known issue about video recording. It wasn't a deep testing but there's nothing new to report.

In fact, I felt this test like a step back because Lupus kernel seems way better in UI responsiveness and memory use. Very good kernel Wedgess. :highfive:
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
Just saw mark updated his rom did this fix the issues??

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[Xperia Play Android Development] Spatinator:
Nope. Unfortunately not. The same as before.

Hope you can fix this. :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
Video recording still crashes.
[Xperia Play Android Development] spazmochad:
Awesome ROM. Will there be a WiFi tethering fix?
[Xperia Play Android Development] benben972:
Hey Wedgess

Lupus kernel support ext/swap partition ??

I have fat32/ext3/swap partitions on my sdcard

But i have an issue with swapper 2... :(
[Xperia Play Android Development] Spatinator:
Wifu tether isnt kernel related, its rom related
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
Strange just tested v9 on a different rom and video recording works fine?? Im thinking that is has do do with the sources mark is building on

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[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
Ooops. Does Mark know this?
[Xperia Play Android Development] chery2k:
Most likely not.
[Xperia Play Android Development] jamesbdx:
Video recording works fine on markphyton rom and v8. I've never tried v9
[Xperia Play Android Development] Lordomn:
Wedgess...is there a way to get wifi working(v9). I have reflashed the zip. Md5 sum matches but not sure why it's not working. But all in all great kernel. Luv the touchscreen recovery. Boot logo is sick also.

R800X- unlocked/AOKP/4.0.4
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
Wifi-should work fine with no problems never had 1 problem with it, looking at your sig your using AOKP, rite??? if you are your using the wrong kernel u want the cm9 version. If wifi isnt working on an ics beta based ROM then try deleting the wifi modules from system and try reflash.
[Xperia Play Android Development] alecao:
v8 Download Links

Hello, for those who want to Flash Lupus ICS v8 kernel (the link in the 2nd post is going to download v9 instead of v8), here are the download links for the kernel and Wifi fix.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zsjbg5bczva0mwc

Lupus ICS v8 Kernel

http://www.mediafire.com/?act4k4sjss30m5k

Lupus ICS v8 Wifi Fix

I've tested this version and the camera (video mode) is working good now (in v9 the video mode was force closing). And wifi works good as well. If this was already posted in previous pages, please forgive me.
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
Nope thats cool as long as their not mirrors u can post them here to help others. Where it says v8 downloads in OP its actually v9. Ill post a folder to all previous versions in post 2 to clean up the post up a bit.

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[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
v10 Released

- Made changes to intellidemand2 :)

- Made more optimizations for linaro

- Removed KGSL highest performance from wake untill I make a few more changes to it

- Camera nw works with markphytons' ICS tested for the last 3hours
[Xperia Play Android Development] pattixaris:
flashed v10, works great with markphytons' ICS (video recording works fine), but can't turn on WIFI, even though i flashed the wifi fix v10
[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
Wifi is working fine for me. Testing Intellidemand2. :good:
[Xperia Play Android Development] pattixaris:
ok then, i will do the process again from the beginning, thanks for the response

Edit: it worked after factory reset,...
[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
Oh, seems there's no support for voltage settings in Setxperia with v10 kernel. :confused:
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
ok damn, ill have a look at that tonight when im home from work.

Plus possibly a 480 recording version
[Xperia Play Android Development] Spatinator:
Can sb upload a wififix for v9 please??
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
http://www.mediafire.com/#c6ooyt7ybz7pk

Folder for all wifi modules

v9 isnt in there so here t is http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?erglzfg6kprr85d

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[Xperia Play Android Development] slim207rc:
I need help ..

My pc broke and now I'm stuck on an old one with win xp.

Problem is, I cannot open fastboot to flash the new kernel.

Heeeeelllllp please!!!!:confused:
[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
Probably you need the fastboot driver in order to Windows can use properly your phone.

Power on your device in fastboot mode and install this driver in the computer: http://drivers.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php?p=139077&t=4&i=1
[Xperia Play Android Development] criskros10:
hey the new version of ICS works good with the Markpython ICS ROM?
[Xperia Play Android Development] CosmicDan:
Heya wedgess, nice to see you are still doing crazy kernel stuff... good work :) Been a while!

I am interested in modifying a version for my MIUI build if you are willing to...? I don't have too much time to work on kernels anymore but some users prefer yours over my "basic" slim one :)

I guess your GitHub is still broken LOL. If you are willing to help out please let me know :) Cheers!

EDIT: Also, I can help you with my "automatic wifi module" if you like. So you can include wifi module in RAMDisk and nobody will ever have to download Wifi modules again :D
[Xperia Play Android Development] slim207rc:
Okay, already have drivers installed but I'll try this then

-Didn't help, fastboot command script still won't open to Type commands
[Xperia Play Android Development] CosmicDan:
Thanks for the permissions wedgess :D

BTW, I changed boot logo - picture attached :) You will also be credited on miuiaustralia.com. Cheers!
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
No problem. Communities are there to help, especially as there's not many of us left on the PLAY. just a heads up custom voltage control was removed by mistake on v10, so i will be fixing this probably tonight. Great work on the ROM
[Xperia Play Android Development] CosmicDan:
Ah well I usually don't mess with them anyway. 1.8GHz is stable :D but I will probably lower to like 1.3ghz soon, superbad seems like a good governor.
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
Ye superbad is nice and snappy :) ive never used it for a full day so cant tell about battery life ect, performance wise it seems great though. Ye I had to completely change the Freq table to make above 1.6 stable seems to be perfect though :D

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[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
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[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
v11 Released

- Added back custom voltage control

- New 480p version to free up RAM

- WIFi modules included-thanks to CosmicDan
[Xperia Play Android Development] CosmicDan:
Nice work wedgess, thanks! I have something to ask you though.

I and some other users are having some pretty serious battery drain with this kernel, I'm not sure why. I'm on intellidemand2 (which is same as latest updated one with dbus_input ramping right? Same as my one was) and with max clock at 1.5GHz, but it's noticeably worse than my older kernel :( Faster! But worse on battery. Any idea what this could be? Have you changed voltages for all frequencies? Maybe because its built with linaro toolchain?

If you could tar/zip your sourcecode, or push it to github, that would be very helpful!
[Xperia Play Android Development] Zerobarat1:
My battery drained around 40% in around 7h without doing anything so yeah it's pretty bad.
[Xperia Play Android Development] CosmicDan:
Yeah it bothers me... it was why i made a kernel with only intellidemand and sio, because maybe all the other new stuff that i don't use is causing it...

Please try and upload your source soon wedgess so I can help out!

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[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
Pretty sure it could be the fact that CIFS & NFS is enabled. Maybe i should try disable them and see if there is a difference. 40% in 7hours without touching it is bad!! I dont think Linaro is the problem and voltages are basically the same. I noticed Doom disabled both NFS & CIFS to stop battery drain.

Ill have to disable them and see if there is a difference. When I get home ill give it a try. And ye ill try push sources asap

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[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
I haven't that level of battery drain with this kernel. Maybe there's something else you passed by.

By the way, voltage control is back and wifi works without any add-ons. Good work guys! :highfive:

Can you tell me how big is the memory difference between 480p and 720p versions?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Zerobarat1:
Around 20 mb of memory from what I remembet
[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
Not bad.
[Xperia Play Android Development] RCalisto:
I have the same issue.. battery drains too way fast..
[Xperia Play Android Development] bamsbamx:
where are wifi modules? i cant get wifi working on v11(720p)
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
Wifi modules are in the ramdisk, they should auto load. Use a root explorer and delete in /system/lib/modules the bcm4329.ko then go back to the root and copy the bcm4329.ko from /modules into /system/lib/modules.

It should work without having to do that though. Ive had no problems

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[Xperia Play Android Development] bamsbamx:
oh thanks, i will try it now... but why didnt you write that in original post?

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okay, it worked, thanks again!
[Xperia Play Android Development] wedgess:
No prob, I didnt write it because I had no problems, wifi loaded fine witgout having to do that. I will add it to OP now though.

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[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
I obtain some 20MB+ of free RAM with the 480p version, which is great, but wifi doesn't load after flash it. Wifi worked fine for me with 720p version. Any hint?
[Xperia Play Android Development] jcarbox:
Can't believe how blind I am... Fixed. Thank you!
[Xperia Play Android Development] CosmicDan:
I just spoke to wedgess guys, NFS/CIFS is not the cause of battery drain.... if anyone could tell me their info it would help alot, because I want to help create a "LuPuS Lite" kernel, or even just fix the battery drain....

Those who have bad battery compared to original Doomkernel, what ROM are you on, what governor and clockspeed? Please share!
[Xperia Play Android Development] slim207rc:
Ice cream pureness from sechko.. Got real bad battery drain meanwhile!

I'm at 1,2ghz but haven't a clue which governor
[Xperia Play Android Development] solomon4400:
Im on lupus v11 ice cream pureness v5 oc'd @ 1.5mhz max 368mhz min, superbad governor and noop scheduler. medium usage has me sitting @ 13% after 1 day 2hrs and counting. Pretty good on my end.
[Xperia Play Android Development] CosmicDan:
Yeah I'm prety sure intellidemand is the reason for poor battery. See my last post in the MIUI thread for details.

I had pretty bad lag on superbad :(
[Xperia Play Android Development] extremetempz:
Best Comination

This With Sechko_JJ's HYBRID ROM v2 Zram enabled and 1.3ghz smartassv2 is the best ics combo i get 235mb+ Free ram and great performance
[Xperia Play Android Development] CosmicDan:
Why do people still think that Free RAM = Better? Have you never heard of caching? Multitasking and battery life takes a hit with so-called "free RAM tweaks".
[Xperia Play Android Development] jacklebott:
The creator of V6 Supercharger would beg to differ. Cached apps aren't included in the rating of the so-called "free ram"
[Xperia Play Android Development] CosmicDan:
Umm, yes they are. That's why everyone says that you shouldn't use (auto) task-killers on ICS and later - it has superior caching. I mean really, clear RAM on your app, then open one app and EXIT it, then check your RAM. It'll be much less. But killing it off is a bad idea because Android will reclaim that RAM if/when needed in an instant.

The only thing V6 supercharger does that is any good is adjust the OOM and ADJ values depending on your RAM, which good ROM developers do themselves. The rest of it is nonsense. I for one am glad to see more and more ROM chefs out there removing it from their ROM's once they see that it actually hurts performance.

My point was, Free RAM is a poor way to judge performance. Those who disagree don't fully understand the concept of caching. I suggest them to read this article - http://www.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care

In short, any ROM which performs better with "More free RAM tweaks" are simply just poor ROM's, or the user is using badly made apps that don't cache properly. ROM builders should instead learn how to optimize their ROM's from the get-go instead of resorting to controversial, constantly-debated tweak scripts.

EDIT: You've inspired me to update my signature, thanks :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] jacklebott:
Actually, most apps don't change the amount of free ram that's shown in the running services screen, for me at least. My ram decreases when I leave applications running in the background, or when more services are running. After a while of being on (like more than an hour, whether I run apps or not), the free ram starts decreasing steadily as well. I agree wholly that task killers are bad though
[Xperia Play Android Development] CosmicDan:
Well I guess it depends on the app then. In MIUI, the built in task manager shows the RAM consumption in total. On my phone/ROM for example, it will average about 50MB free. I can clear RAM and I'll get a toast saying "Done, ~160MB available" or there-abouts. Which is great considering I have a crap load of heavy apps running (Facebook, K9-Mail, Music, Go Launcher, etc.). But then if I put my phone to sleep, wait 10 seconds, then wake it up - my free RAM has dropped back down to 60MB or so, since Android is gobbling up those apps that I have running and use a lot. In those 10 seconds of screen-off, the CPU was working very hard.

My main point is that "More free RAM" *might* make some very heavy apps quicker to load like games, by a few seconds. But with tweaks that give you lots of free RAM, the system has to constantly load from NAND... and battery life and general performance will constantly suffer. We really should let Android handle if/when to purge an app from memory. We all multitask afterall.
[Xperia Play Android Development] jacklebott:
Hmm, MIUI must calculate the free ram differently. Killing apps certainly isn't a good way to get more ram, but uninstalling useless apps and disabling useless services to get more ram still helps (though I suppose that wasn't the method discussed, it still holds true)
[Xperia Play Android Development] CosmicDan:
True. Stock E-Mail app and stock Music app are two things that I remove, just in case they decide to think I might be using them and load :P
[Xperia Play Android Development] clivejefferies:
Getting rid of facebook is always a good start. Its use of services is horrendous.