yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
If user wants to go back to stock kernel he/she will lose ntfs support , but let me test some more maybe I can solve that also.

EDIT:

Solved it , I will upload a new package so it will support ntfs on your kernel , ezterry's and stock acer kernel so the user won't even notice something has changed. They just need to flash this package one time or you build it in your kernel zip , I will build it in my roms.

vold is cm based and vold1 is acer udfs supported for stock kernels vold.fstab doesn't need to be changed fo ICS.

back in a minute.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Well, this method won't work on the 501. Kills off the 3g. Sees the network, but won't lock-in.

EDIT: The ntfs portion works well though.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
Not sure how hard it would, be but should be able to make Vold work with both ufsd and ntfs drivers by just allowing one to be blacklisted somehow. Just a thought
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
I think this may be why:

# CONFIG_PSENSOR3G is not set

When you told me earlier that the 3G had ties with USB - I disabled this to see if it had any effect on the NTFS freezes / lockups - I will re-enable it when I get the new builds up. Moscow it was working correctly at around the 3rd build wasn't it?
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
You and your damn 3G:p
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
So does the 500 and 501 both have slots for sim cards? If so are they working correctly?
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Everything with 3g had been working up till I flashed Civ's Vold. Afterwards, it looks like things did when WDS and I got the 3g running.
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
That don't make a lot of sense to me but of course I don't know the history of problems that you guys have been working on with 3G, I'm just curious how it even relates with vold. Do you have any dmesg/logcat output of 3G/Vold tracebacks? I've really got to get some sleep right now though, if you can get any relevant info out of the logs just upload them if you don't mind. I will take a look in the morning first thing when I get up and fix the new zips for you guys.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Hang on a little. I'm going to use the vold WDS and I had in my builds. As I don't think any of that was released to the public yet.

MD

EDIT: No change. Still dead 3g.

Go get some sleep Mate. It can wait.
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
Yea you all will probably have it figured out before long anyway. Hope so :D There is always ntfs-3g and FUSE - implement a way to get Vold to mount with ntfs-3g and it would probably solve your issue whatever it is. Or maybe it wouldn't. Just throwing the idea out there since we don't really know whats going on to try to fix. Good night mate
[Acer Iconia A500] yaworski:
I was looking at CyanogenMod's vold source code yesterday and it looks that it shouldn't be very complicated to add ntfs-3g support to it. Android already supports FUSE at least from Honeycomb as it is used to mount /data/sdcard as /sdcard with virtual vfat file system (maps vfat to ext4 on /data). So we only need ntfs-3g binary and Ntfs3g (Ntfs3g.cpp and Ntfs3g.h) vold implementation to supercede Ntfs (Ntfs.cpp and Ntfs.h) files and change Volume.cpp to include and use the new implementation instead of native readonly one. I will try to do this.
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Edit, I'm missing something , now it doesn't work anymore , will get back
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
HA HA! Who knows.

But to add insult to injury, the ext SD Card won't mount with it also :laugh::laugh::laugh:

Restoring factory vold brought my SD back, but not 3g????

Looks like I will restore back to original config. Oh well.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
I think I may be an idiot.

Will go to the shop and make a payment for my Data Sim. Considering 3g doesn't work when I restored my usual config.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
So, as a final result, the vold from Civato does not break the 3g (beeline cut of my 3g at noon until I paid. Silly me, and was just bad timing it happened after flashing the vold update)

However, the vold does not seem to work entirely. It wants to as the USB icon comes up, then goes away.

Paragon is still needed to mount the ntfs drive. But a new twist. Before the vold update from Civ, I had to start the paragon app and mount the drive each time I connected. Now it seems, only 1 initial mounting, and as long as the tab isn't rebooted, it will mount continously afterwards. So a halfway improvement.

Unfortunately, leaving the USB Drive connected when the tab goes to sleep, results in SOD.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Try this one MD , hope it works for you now , flash with cwm.

Should work on A500 / G100W and A501 and it will wotk on stock Acer kernel , ezterry's ezT20 kernel and this gm-A500-1.5.1 kernel.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
She rocks baby! Mucho Gracias!

Will still have to work out the SOD when leaving USB plugged in and tab sleeps. But that's a completely different issue. However, it woke from the first sleep. Will let it sleep for 30 min. Will post results.

Much thanks Civato!

I notice there's an ntfs-3g file included. What's in it?

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
well it is really simple , cm9 vold and ntfs-3g is in the flashpackage and that is all to it.

It supports , stock Acer/ezT20 and this gm-1.5 kernel so it runs NTFS.

So in future rom builds just place them in bin.

Oh and ntfs-3g is this
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
I'm guessing that it is the ntfs-3g binary file, however I haven't looked at it yet. It is really simple solution to ntfs problems as ntfs-3g is in a binary compiled for arm which uses FUSE (that is built into this kernel) to mount NTFS partitions with full read/write access. So I'd say the ntfs-3g is the arm binary needed to do all this :D
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
I know this is OT, but kinda in a state of emergency here with bills.. Does anyone here want a Zotac Zbox AD02 system including wireless Keyboard+Mouse+32GB OCz Onyx SSD + 4GB DDR3 ? System is well worth $400 I'll include a 20" Acer LED Monitor for $350 for the entire system. hope nobody gets mad about this post, like i said this is urgent.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Thanks for the kernel work!

Confirmation number: 2FJ66864J4941781H

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
And the cm9 vold , they both are needed to make it work.

Don't forget to add the ntfs solution(post121) in your OP , I updated my roms RE-FLEXxx and FLEXREAPER-RELIX so they always work , regarding what ever kernel is beeing used.

Please mention this is OP that the NTFS zip flash is not needed on my roms, don't want my users to mess up things.

some $

Confirmation number: 7UP3775927916711Y.
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
much thanks guys, check your inbox.

I have just now got done with everything going on around here, and trying to get a break to set down and update the configs and OP. There isn't any issues with the ntfs driver being built in static for you guys when you try to mount with the ntfs-3g patched vold is there? I'm looking at the config for the A500 going to leave mostly as is, but for Moscow Desire (and other A501 users) I'd like to do a test for you using a diff config pertaining to your 501 using 3G, sensors, usb etc. I will build a separate a501 kernel and send you a link in PM so that it doesn't get confusing to the others, and you can let me know how it works or if there is no differences. I appreciate everything guys!

PS Civato I will update OP with the info right now.
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
Aside from all of the FileSystem messes - has anyone been testing the backported interactive governor? Wondering if it seems to be stable on the A500 for everyone and if you guys like how it scales the CPU according to load without keeping each freq of the cores sync'd. I personally liked that and seen it as a great battery saver - But how is it working for you guys? No KPs from it are there?
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
I use lulzactive with tweak script in in it.d
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
That is my personal favorite too, but after using the new interactive, it comes pretty close as it scales really smoothly, although it doesn't really do a hotplugging of a core - it does a good job at allowing one core to stay min Freq and allowing the other to ramp up -until it needs the other cores help then it will scale up as needed. I like that myself.
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
This is the init.d script I use , I set lulzactive as default in my ram script of kernel so this script loads automaticly.

#!/system/bin/sh
#
# lulzactive-performance-tweak

echo "70" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/lulzactive/inc_cpu_load
echo "6" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/lulzactive/pump_up_step
echo "1" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/lulzactive/pump_down_step
echo "10000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/lulzactive/up_sample_time
echo "80000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/lulzactive/down_sample_time
echo "2" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/lulzactive/screen_off_min_step

It makes the CPU jump to Max load at 70% and Max screen off speed is 458 MHz. And some other tweaks .
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
@Moscow Desire: check your inbox for a new 501 file to try, thanks.

@Civato: Did you try the RC2 I put in the OP yet? Just wanting to make sure that NTFS is still no longer an issue and if you now have working CIFS ;) I seen what you meant now haha. Let me know if you try that Interactive gov out how it does.
[Acer Iconia A500] lifeofcoding:
Nice man! I'm happy someone started this, I'm more than happy to test and report.

Edit:

Downloads not working for me.. mirror?

Okay I was able to download by visiting website homepage, browsing developers, then found your files,

Thanks for sharing
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Will check it later today. Have job ;)

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Not able to download rc2 , sorry m8. And don't have much time today.
[Acer Iconia A500] lifeofcoding:
Direct links in OP do not work, just displays error.

You guys can download it from here though:

http://beta.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=410
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
Good looking out man, I should've known to stick with github for direct links until the new afh was out of beta.

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] lifeofcoding:
Not a problem man, your doing some good work here, and I know others like me will enjoy it.
[Acer Iconia A500] adrock74:
Running rc1 with civato's reflex stryker and this tablet is running better than ever. Lulzactive + v(r) and no issues with excellent battery life. Now rc2 link is back up, could it get any better:D
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Remember that is because in re-flex stryker rev3 got a lulzactive tweak script so it will be very responsive with that governor set as default , so flashing only the zImage like in these installation packages will keep that intact.

You can check if the script loaded if the settings our shown in the app lulzactive.

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GM , interactive is working sweet, 3840 quadro without problem on Re-Flexxx,,,,

But'lulzactive stays my favorite.
[Acer Iconia A500] adrock74:
Can these settings be applied in the lulzactive app? I tried to do this and checked apply on boot, but settings reverted back after boot.
[Acer Iconia A500] 10507:
I am still getting SOD in sleep mode with USB plugged in. Other than that, everything is running smooth and fast with my CM10 WDS ROM

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Yes but if you just want to use the app you need to delete the init.d script or it will load those settings.

System/etc/init.d lulzactive
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
If you're getting SOD on CM10, why are you posting In Civ's ICS thread? I would think the best place to post, would either be in WDS's CM10 thread, or the kernel thread itself.

Remember, CM10 is a work in progress. (WIP), and some things will happen.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] 10507:
I think I am posting in the correct thread. This is linuxsociety's kernel thread, right? I am testing out his kernel, so I think I should report this finding for linuxsociety.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
HA hA. Sorry mate, for some reason my header was saying Civ's rom. ????? Maybe just a bad day.

As with the SOD, are you sure you flashed iv's latest Vold?

The reason I ask, is that at least on the 501, if the correct vold isn't installed, I got the SOD when leaving USB plugged in. So I'm going to guess, you don't have the correct vold for the 500. Probably still have the stock one installed.Or you flashed one of the earlier ones.

Which one did you install?

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] adrock74:
Ok, i gotcha. The init.d script has your settings so im just not going to use the app (unchecked on boot). Thanks. Learn something everyday. Great kernel. Just cant justify a jb switch if im running this good.
[Acer Iconia A500] 10507:
No problem there mate. I think all the testing of linuxsociety's kernel makes you a little dozed out:) Thank for taking the time to help out linuxsociety with his kernel, without you, Civato, and linuxsociety we would not be having this awesome kernel.

No, I am on the latest kernel R2 posted on OP. Is there something else I need to flash, besides that kernel in OP?

Thank for looking out,

10507
[Acer Iconia A500] lifeofcoding:
Hey, I noticed after I installed this on cm10 rom, my tablet no longer has vibration function, when i power it on, no vibration like usually, also if I enable vibrate on touch in cm settings, it does not vibrate, as well as in cwm touch recovery.. very odd.
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
I will definitely check into the Acer Vibrator settings for you

**Edit - Just looked at the configuration and everything is set up right, if you don't have the vibrate at boot, that wouldn't be kernel issues, maybe your Vibrate motor is malfunctioning at the hardware level??
[Acer Iconia A500] lifeofcoding:
Oh man I hope not, I did just pop up my tablet today, because my volume button collapsed into the tablet, making it unusable..

But the back case pops off very easy, did not touch, pull, or unplug any wires, just glued the button on, which was not near anything important, and has a decent size space between it and the circuit board..

So I'm like 95% certain I didn't mess anything up when I opened it, I was extremely careful... perhaps a coincidence?

I did read somewhere in the general forum, that someone bricked there tablet, and when they turned it on, didn't vibrate either, but his doesn't boot..

Everything else works fine on the tablet, though I did notice around the same time this happen, when I boot my tablet (using unlocked ICS boot loader v8)

on his boot screen, (right before it goes to the boot animation) the screen glitches and turns fuzzy and chopped up for a second, then goes too boot animation.

I do appreciate you taking the time too look into it, to see if you could help me.

Edit: come to think about it, I flashed your kernel last night, and I think vibration worked fine.. this is odd, looks like I have to pop it open again and check the vibration hardware if I can find it. Sucks, just got it put together with volume button fixed and everything, not got to pop it open again :-\
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
That is odd, it sounds like you have the same behavior as the A100 (glitch before boot animation) . This is typical for the A100 though because we are using a boot loader from the A200 and it just happens - afaik the A500 does not suppose to do this though, but not owning the A500 its hard to really say because I have never actually seen one boot.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
You may want to try flashing the vold file patch located directly above the download link in the OP.

Like I said, on the 501, without it, I was getting SOD when plugged in until I flashed the newer vold file.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
Really makes sense too because stock kernel's ntfs is a module that doesn't load and the paragon loads in the init scripts - this kernel has ntfs built in and if Vold is doing something during screen off pertaining to the disk it is going to cause a lockup due to the Vold being made for paragon. At least thats how it appears to me anyway. I think the ntfs-3G may be a good all around solution for the users who want to use this kernel, and if so I can just knock the native ntfs off and rebuild without it - should prevent these SODs relating to ntfs/usb from happening.
[Acer Iconia A500] lifeofcoding:
So I feel stupid..

looks like it was my fault.

I downloaded a vibrator app (LOL!) for testing.

And still vibrating did not work, so I tried to reflash boot loader and recovery,

I do this by the manual method, when I plugged my tablet up to my computer and put it into apx mode,

But windows sees it connect then instantly without even trying says can't recognize which is weird (it worked before)

So I popped open my tablet, and guess what fell out? A decent size ball of electrical tape lol

For when I was fixing the volume rocker, this ball of tape must to fell on my tablet from my lap when putting it back together,

It was squished between the back case, and the circuit board lol so I removed it, left the back off and plugged it in, and now windows recognized almost instantly now, so reinstalled boot loader..

After that I rebooted and on power on, my tablet vibrated ;) haha

But I still get the weird glitch and fuzzy choppyness on boot loader screen right before it goes to boot animation, it never did this before, till last night.

So everything is all good any fixed, now the only thing I'm worried about is the bootloader screen glitch because it never did this till recently, I even tried changing the boot loader image, but still does it.. pray its not failing, or something else serious...

I'll take a picture of it or something tomorrow and show what I'm talking about, but basically before it goes to boot animation the boot loader screen glitches and looks scrambled for a split second then shows boot animation (I also tried different boot animations, and reinstall in the rom from a clean flash)
[Acer Iconia A500] adrock74:
Been running rc2 most of the day and had my first tablet freeze up tonight. Rebooted and in about 5 minutes another random freeze. Im running @ 1504 ghz lulzactive /vr. Not sure if its due to u/v so i reverted those settings. Maybe my tablet doesnt like 1504, this is the first time ive really run it that fast due to civatos roms rarely require o/c. Ill try it again.
[Acer Iconia A500] 10507:
Tablet would not boot past the bootanimation after flashing the vold file patch.
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
If you are undervolting that could be the issue, if you have previously used other kernels and expect the same UV settings to work with this one, they most likely wont! The voltages in this kernel most likely differ from the other kernels available, resulting in adjusted UV settings ;)

Which rom are you using? Can you reboot into recovery and wipe the cache/dalvik and then see if it will boot past animation? Do you have any 3rd party programs that are running at boot that may depend on Vold for monitoring media or other files? If so this could cause a problem when flashing the patch as Vold will be passing different mount arguments for storage devices - so if the 3rd party app is passing an argument to Vold that it can not process - then it may result in the UI never appearing. Can you get adb while it is stuck at boot animation? If so we could tell more if you attached a logcat.txt -- dmesg probably won't be as useful but you could also attach it just in case. Thanks for the report!
[Acer Iconia A500] jaizero:
I can verify the bootloader screen glitch but otherwise working well on cm10 A500...
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
Boot Loader screen glitch isn't really a bug, after careful observation of dmesg at time of kernel load, I can verify that there is no kernel issues causing 'problems' at the time during kernel decompress/load. The glitch is most likely due to the adjustment of voltages and core/gpu frequencies set by the kernel differing from those set at boot with the bootloader/firmware. I don't see this as really being a problem but may be a minor annoyance to some. if any similar glitches begin to appear post-init during use of the android UI then please report back with dmesg and logcat logs for the time the glitch occurred.

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] lifeofcoding:
I'm happy I am not the only one, I was starting to become worried!

---------- Post added at 03:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:59 PM ----------

Thanks for the info, that's good to know, I'm happy my hardware is not failing lol
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
Nah it isn't hardware failing for sure, I had a person with an A500 last night to give me a full dmesg output and I went through every line and there was no failing hardware (they to noticed the garbled screen for a slight second). Which release(s) do not do this and which one(s) do? if it becomes a big issue I will just turn the changed configs back to the prior settings and try to smooth out the pre-boot animation transition. Also there is one possible cause of the top of my head, i'm not exactly sure of which releases are doing this and which ones aren't, but the new backported interactive governor behaves quiet differently than before especially on iniitial load and when changing between it and another governor. If you guys can report back the release that doesn't do this at boot and the ones that does, I will go back through my changes and eliminate each one by one. Thanks all

PS a quick way I could see if interactive is the issue is to build the kernel with lulzactive as default again keeping the remainder of the configuration the same. (You can't change default gov from system settings to prevent this, because whatever gov is set as default in the kernel configuration will load before Android ever initializes user settings - with the glitch being noticed prior to boot splash - the user selected gov will not be loaded at the time of the glitch)
[Acer Iconia A500] lifeofcoding:
Oh okay,

well I had ezterry kernel installed and had it on lolzactive so when I flashed your rc2 release, the ROM kept my settings, and lolzactive was still the selected governor and even now its set to it, I'll change it to different ones and test your theory I'll report back.
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
Be sure report back, today I have been doing work on the A100, building a new TWRP that includes a custom recovery kernel patched to help aid in preventing the MMC_CAP_ERASE brick bug that is all so familiar with the Samsung devices and been the blame in theory for a few of the iconia tabs. Just making it as a precautionary. Done got a working build, hasn't been thoroughly tested though. If all goes well I may do the same for A500, but I'm sure there may already be a public release of twrp for A500 that includes the brick bug patch, since the community is larger and theres tons more developers working with a500. If people may be interested they can let me know and I'll see what I can do ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] lifeofcoding:
Well tried every governor and even out it back on 1000mhz but there was no change
[Acer Iconia A500] linuxsociety:
@lifeofcoding I sent you a link in PM to test to see if it fixed the boot screen issue. If you don't mind testing I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

**Edit 08/26/2012

I'm pretty sure that the RC3 on the front page is going to become stable for a500 here soon, afaik the scrambled display prior to boot animation is fixed, and everything else working fine, of course this is all just hearsay since I don't own the tab, but I kinda have to take their word on it too, so if anyone has found any major issues in the RC3, please inform me before I take this kernel out of development status, thank you guys and thanks for testing!