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[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LunaticSerenade:
I can confirm for the CM kernel on XT926 that GPU is OC'd to 480, CPU OC works up to 1.99 GHz.

[edit] I ran the dmesg thing, and it says my processor is 'fast.' I only have up to 1.99 GHz.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Helltoupee:
Running Aug 15th 10.1 Kernel XT907 and GPU is clocked to 480 . I'm getting some pretty insane artifacts. Mostly to do with transparencies I think.

I tried to toggle 16 bit on and off with reboots between and even tried to clock the GPU down to 400. I think it might have helped a little but still getting a lot of artifacts.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Were you getting these artifacts previously?

I need to roll a new kernel as well, looks like I'm missing some patches from the 16th and one from yesterday (relating to video, oddly enough).

So give that new one a shot, along with the latest CM nightly.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LunaticSerenade:
I remember getting some artifacting on an older build of CM, but it happened regardless of the kernel.

Sent from my CM 10.2 XT926
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] pir8man:
I am running FFW-5 (v19) kernel on stock JB rom. My proc comes back as Nominal. I was able to get 1.99 GHz while I was testing CM 10.1. Unfortunately that OS is still not ready for my daily use, so I rolled back to JB. In JB, I cannot seem to get above 1.89 nor ANY GPU overclocks.

can you/anyone confirm that the FFW-5 kernel reaches above 1.89GHz or can do any GPU overclock.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
I know the GPU OC is in there.

Reaching above 1.89 on that clock is not going to happen, without thermald hacks - which without the device, I'm not sure how I can even attempt.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] ZenInsight:
What rom is this best used with? Carbon...CM...or Stock rooted?

Anyone benchmark it? Is 1900mhz simply 22% (or so) faster than stock or does the GPU oc help as well?

Does this kernel still allow for the hdmi out to work properly?

How is battery life for normal usage?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] pir8man:
No above 1.89 on stock rom. I can live with that, happily.

Can we adjust the gpu overclock or is it already as good as it gets with FFW-5 kernel? If it needs to be configured, what app will work?

Sent from my XT897
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] idimitro:
I am quite sure the problem is with the kernel. I've been running the 01.08 Carbon for a few weeks and now I know when it is "normal" to crash. Before flashing the kernel the phone works correctly. After flashing it, even without playing with the voltages and the frequencies, the phone is unstable - restarting randomly in pretty much any applciations.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Any ROM. There is a kernel for stock (v0.x are stock kernels). There is a kernel for CM and CM-based ROM's (pretty much any custom ROM) - this is in post #5, and these kernels are dated.

I'm pretty sure the HDMI out still works, but I never tested it.

Battery life is highly dependent on usage, configuration, apps installed, cell coverage, whether or not wifi is used... there's an infinite number of factors that affect battery life.

Adjusting the OC can be done with most apps which allow CPU scaling. There are a few recommended in this thread - can't remember off the top of my head which do the GPU specifically tho.

Well, don't use it then. Many other people run the CM kernel quite happily - one even said they won't update CM until my kernel updates :p.

However, if you're not matching the kernel to the version of the ROM, it will be unstable.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] pir8man:
I finally found that Trickster MOD allows for GPU adjustments. However, whenever I set it above 400, it instantly reverts back to 400 again. I tried with kernel v 19,18,17,16... and none worked out. let me know any testing or assistance I can give to get the GPU OC working with FFW-5 kernel.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LifeInTheGrey:
Forgive me, I saw this yesterday and became quite elated, but checking today I did not see a CM kernel more recent than 815. Have you compiled the kernel with these video playback fixes?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Not yet, ran into some issues with my build environment... and then work :o.

Will try again today/tonight... Hopefully...:eek:
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LunaticSerenade:
That damn work thing lol

Sent from my CM 10.2 XT926
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Yea, real life sucks sometimes :p.

But, food & beer consumed, build environment fixed... I have pumped out a CM-10.2 kernel.

Will update cm-10.1 soon, although seems like there will be no new builds of that ROM.

Edit - CM-10.1 updated as well... I think I will stop building this kernel (specifically the cm-10.1 branch, I'll keep up on 10.2) unless someone has an objection.

Thanks!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LifeInTheGrey:
This would make me very sad, as I still run Android 4.2.2 (XenonHD). I would understand though, it's not always all about me. :P

Edit: side note, the new 10.1 kernel caused some major visual artifacts for me, had to go back to 8/14. Perhaps I'll just stick with this combo until XenonHD updates to 4.3.

Sent from my Razr MAXX HD
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LunaticSerenade:
The new CM 10.2 kernel is running great so far!

Sent from my CM 10.2 XT926
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Do they keep up on kernel updates from razrqcom?

If yes, I can continue to build it. If no, then there's no point.

Good luck.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] gtownswagga:
OK lickarock. I have been stern the CPU to rite under 1.89 and it hasn't happened n 3 days. I hope that helps u

---------- Post added at 09:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:11 PM ----------

I'm still textn like crazy too. 1000+ a day. No occurrence of freezing wat soever
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Plancy:
I've never had the keyboard problem, but then I disabled a lot of apps and done some build prop edits provided by system tuner, and other stuff.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] mfsr98:
arrrghhh, congrats for this kernel ! ;)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Appc6700:
Wifi

I seem to have a problem with the Wifi tether..it says my kernel doesn't support it...? "Noob!" I know, I know...I appreciate the help.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
I didn't think it was a kernel issue... I haven't tried to tether yet for some reason, but look at this thread
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tetrabyt:
Arrrghhh, tried your v5 kernel with the latest update. Only issue I noticed, was that I couldn't get wifi to turn on.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Blah... I wonder if the modules need to be updated. Can you pull a logcat? Thanks. I haven't even updated yet, I just keep ignoring it...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Hammerfest:
FTW arrrghhh... quit paying more attention to the TP2 then the Photon Q :P

jkjk, glad to see a phone I bought for a family memeber has you trolling around serving up the good stuff! (man I miss the TP2 days...)

EDIT: because of the drama on XDA and other forums this past year, I said trolling to be taken in a joking and at the same time, lovingly jibing manner... nothing offensive meant by it...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] sixxt9:
I did notice the same issue. At first i thought I'd done something wrong with the update, but now that i see this i guess it would be the kernel. No rush though. Whenever you get around to it will be fine.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tetrabyt:
The Update sucked anyway.. 3G went to hell for me. seems like it got slower. takes a while to reconnect. the icon disappeared and seemed like you weren't even connected. prl is at 55009 like it's always been. I like my overclocking so I went back to my backup. besides, I like seeing my 3G icon while I'm on the phone. :)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Rennert:
Can you setup the kernel for the new motorola update 77.8.10?

The kernel works on this update (overclocking ok) but Wlan doesn't work (can't activate)

...Tapatalk
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
I'll probably have to do the update in order to update this kernel....

I'm on TWRP, and I don't think anyone has gotten it to work on any custom recovery yet.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tetrabyt:
twrp worked fine on the update for me. cwm seemed to have issues with backing up especially... but it could have just been me.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Oh? I thought you had to flash back to stock in order to do the update... I'm getting tired of that nag screen.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] sixxt9:
Yeah you have to flash the stock recovery, system, and boot partitions over in order to do the update, then you can just flash TWRP back over. Assuming you did the original root method with the unlocked bootloader. I'm not familiar with how it all works under the other root method though...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tetrabyt:
That is correct. :)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] sent17inel:
Hahahaha. Gave me a little scare as I was about to try this. Hahahahahaha
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] lrpontes:
My Xt897 has a HARDMOD to use brazilian SIM card (vivo), unlocked, rooted and still with 77.6.36.XT897 SW version (I'm afraid to do the automatic motorola upgrade that's appears every time on wi-fi

I wanna know if It's good to change for this kernel. Whichs modifications will happen on my device.

I can't configure my APNs to Vivo (brazil). the configuration not save any information every time that I try and all list of apns still blank...any suggestions?

thanks a lot!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
The kernel won't help with your APN issue. That's a userland issue... Either you're putting in the wrong information, or the phone is not provisioned properly to accept the APN for your provider - I use CDMA, so I can't help you here.

The kernel will help with things like over/underclocking... Other than that, this kernel doesn't offer a whole lot to be honest.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Aaargh!:
Coming from an Evo Shift and a very active Development section, your (arrrghh) help is very much appreciated. Wish I had the time and knowledge to develop for the Q. Thanks for what you have done and I look forward to your next kernel. :eek:
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] ZenInsight:
Excellent and thoughtful response. Do you recommend rooting and installing that kernel for a stock O/S (for now until 10.2 is stable). I am most concerned with better battery life and overclocking.

Thanks for your reply. You are a great dev. Easy to talk to and kind.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Better battery life and overclocking are kinda mutually exclusive - usually if you want one, the other is not possible :p.

But there are options for undervolting, which I have heard helps. Underclocking I have had mixed information about - some say it doesn't help at all, and can in fact hurt at bit because the processor has to spend more time working, as it's at a lower speed.

The other factor which can help or hurt battery life is the governor.

Perhaps the most important thing for battery life - make sure no wakelocks are keeping the device up and running. I forgot the app, but there was an app which showed wakelocks - basically an app misbehaving and keeping the device awake/running (even if the screen is off!)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] ZenInsight:
Right. I realize. I guess I meant keeping the device in a low standby mode when the screen isn't on and controlling the cpu spike during usage to only when they are needed.

I would love know what that program is though.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] steveo17:
better battery stats would be what you're looking for. but from what i understand the 10.2 rom is creating the wakelocks which results in absolutely terrible battery life!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LifeInTheGrey:
No, they haven't released a new version that is 4.2.2 based since August 6. No worries then, 814 makes this baby purr anyway, I have no complaints!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] pir8man:
arrrghhh, i would love to get the GPU overclocks working on stock rom (FFW-5). please let me know how I can help.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
I think they are working...? I know you said it immediately flips back, perhaps there's something else needed for stock.

It's really difficult without the device. Feel free to submit pull requests, I will certainly accept patches.

Regardless, I'll need a log. dmesg and logcat. I think there's still a few things broken on the stock kernel, I haven't given that thing any attention in some time...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Tinchoska:
Gpu oc works perfectly

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[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] pir8man:
I recommend breaking this thread out into 3 threads. one for Stock, one for CM10.1 (maybe useless now that the project is abandoned) and one for CM 10.2.

It's very confusing with ppl posting questions and tips about their kernel and not being clear about which rom/kernel they are referring to.

just my 2 cents. feel free to ignore. :)

clear example is the previous post. he is running Carbon Rom (from his signature) but is responding to a post about the stock rom/kernel.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
In the GPU OC sense, they should be basically identical so his response is valid in this case.

I've thought about breaking them out, I don't think I'm going to tho...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LunaticSerenade:
Hey arrrghhh, the most recent build isn't preserving CPU settings for the second core on CM 10.2
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] pir8man:
Attached are the logs u requested. sorry it took me a few days
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Huh.. that is really odd. A lot of errors about wlan it looks like...

Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to fix this. There are a few things I think I can fix, which I am going to attempt to... but without the device, I might need to roll some test builds.

I definitely have a list of broken things to fix, but I am not quite sure what is going on in your dmesg. Just the same error over and over...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] pir8man:
anything I can do to help, just let me kno
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Stevethegreat:
"Rumour" says that this kernel runs on Motorolla's Razr M. Now I own one such phone but I'm rather hesitant to flash this kernel because if memory serves me right flashing a kernel of another device is a good way to brick even kill your device. So what gives? Why this rumour persists (i.e. people reporting that they were able to use it on a different device)?

As far as I can tell even if the tiniest of differences exist between Photon Q and Razr M (which I suspect it does), it's inadvisable to cross-flash kernels. I'd await some solid feedback or even better a good explanation on why the "rumours" persist.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] brandon71:
Theres no difference between the photon Q RAZR m and the RAZR hd. I'm using this kernel right now on a RAZR m
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] aviwdoowks:
Examine the # in about phone kernel they are all the same: Q, M, HD & What ever else with the same # will take the Q kernel.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
As others have stated, all the msm8960 Motorola's use a common kernel.

So RAZR M, HD, Atrix HD, and Photon Q. I feel like I'm missing one, but there are some CDMA and GSM variants.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Tinchoska:
Someone here with an XT 925 with Carbon's 8/23 nightly? I wanna see if your bat stats are like mines....

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[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Stevethegreat:
Interesting, so that would imply that everything developed for either or all of those devices can well be flashed to each other. Roms, kernels or fixes, would it not?

It's especially interesting to me because they do not seem to share the same resolution (and I'm sure there ought to be some other small differences as well)...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LifeInTheGrey:
You're over extrapolating. That's like saying cars with the same chassis have the same engine, interior, and speaker system.

The kernel is common, but I'm fairly certain it ends there.

Razr MAXX HD | XenonHD 8.6 | arrrghhh's 8.14 kernel
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Stevethegreat:
My bad then, sorry...

My understanding is/was that kernel is what exists between the hardware and the os (in this case the ROM). As long it would work well, in priciniple, you would be able to couple it with any ROM designed for this/that kernel. But apparently that's a wrong interpolation...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
The kernel is common, but there's a lot of settings specific to each device that would not translate across ROM's - screen resolution is one of them. On the Photon Q for example, there's a physical QWERTY keyboard. Sprint has a weird issue with voicemail that requires an overlay in the device tree.

Etc, etc...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EcHoFiiVe:
Actually all ROMs/kernels seem to work with the Atrix HD, RAZR HD, Photon Q, and RAZR M together. The only thing is the CDMA/GSM settings which can be easily fixed. Other than that all the devices seem to be identical.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Stevethegreat:
OK thanks. That explain a lot.

Time to try this kernel, then, I guess...

Thanks for your work too.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Mykalmunlight:
No more input on the 10.2 kernel?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Been trying to fix bugs, without avail.

I suppose I should rebuild it huh...

Edit - just checked, there's no new commits from CM. Why do you want me to rebuild it? Last commit was August 20th.

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_motorola_msm8960-common/commits/cm-10.2
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] dragonhart6505:
Am I safe to flash any of the CM 10.1 versions on Eclipse V5 b3? Currently using June 30 build and running like butter, but can I update or will it break me?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Grab a cm-10.1 kernel closest to June 30th.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Mykalmunlight:
I'm sorry arrrgh I didn't mean for you to rebuild. What I meant was are there any other bugs than the clock on processor sticking. Right now I'm using the kernel that comes with beanstalk and if I flash yours I don't know if I can restore a backup because of 4.3 issues.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LunaticSerenade:
arrrghhh, if you need/want to test an AOSP fix, I'm typically able to screw around with such things on the weekend.

Sent from my Carbon XT926
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Neighbor808:
Aug 21 Kernel gave me a black screen on flash (Atrix HD) I was on CM 10.2 at the time. I forgot to clear cache and dalvik though, that might've been why... Any feedback on how this kernel works for BeanStalk 4.3.07? I'm cautious about flashing now lol, just trying to make sure.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Comet1966:
Could someone Pretty Pretty Please give me a flashable zip of the stock 4.1.2 kernel, I really need it. Thanks in advance!

Edit: It says .11 FFW is the Vanilla one from Motorola, which means it is the complete stock kernel correct?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
I don't know what BeanStalk is, but the CM kernel has worked on all the CM-based ROM's so far. I doubt BeanStalk is any different.

Also, you shouldn't need to clear anything on a kernel flash. What CM version were you on? Like, what date... Was it after August 29th? If so there were kernel changes, I need to rebuild. Remember, the kernel is sometimes very particular and you need to be diligent about matching the dates as best you can, or else issues can happen... Obviously this isn't fool-proof, but it's a good rule of thumb.

Edit - to expand on this, if you look at the commits on the CM tree you can see there are changes on the 20th, then nothing until the 29th and 30th. So my 21st kernel is up-to-date with all of the changes to the 20th. Since there are now changes on the 29th and 30th, my kernel will be dated August 31st, but with new code from the 29th&30th.

Hopefully that makes sense and isn't just more confusing :p.

Yes, it is a source built kernel however - I'm not sure what toolchain is used by Motorola, so it's not a "truly" vanilla kernel.

If you want this, grab the FXZ for JB, extract it, and fastboot flash the boot.img.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Comet1966:
[/QUOTE]Yes, it is a source built kernel however - I'm not sure what toolchain is used by Motorola, so it's not a "truly" vanilla kernel.

If you want this, grab the FXZ for JB, extract it, and fastboot flash the boot.img.[/QUOTE]

Or, could I take the stock boot.img, and put it in one of your zips, just to take place of the one in it?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] steveo17:
Here's the kernel flashable

http://db.tt/q95h6ccG
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Comet1966:
This will work with XT97c?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] ZenInsight:
0.19

FFW-5

This is the latest stock kernel correct? Specifically for battery saving ability...can anyone comment on how this is over the kernel that comes with the stock ROM?

If I CWM back up, will my old kernel be restored if anything strange happens? Anything else I need to know before flashing this?

Thanks!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Yes, that is the latest stock kernel.

If you backup the boot and system partition, you will be able to restore your stock setup.

Enjoy.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] ZenInsight:
Recommended app for over/underclocking? Setcpu...nofrills? Recommended governor for battery saving?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Any app should work, people seem to prefer Trickster Mod.

I like the Wheatley governor myself.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] ZenInsight:
After reading this page...I think my brain is melting.

http://www.alliance-rom.com/community/wiki/governors-explained/

Wheatley seems like a good (and recent) multi core choice though.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EcHoFiiVe:
Latest kernel doesn't want to flash. Tried downloading it twice and I get a bad installation error.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Check the MD5?

What's the exact error? Any status numbers, like Error Status 7?

What recovery are you using?

I might need to update the updater-binary... not sure...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LunaticSerenade:
Latest CM 10.2 kernel flashed perfectly over Carbon.

I'm getting incredible battery life also.

Sent from my Carbon XT926
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Tinchoska:
How you set this up? Uv? Oc? Scheduler? Governor?

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[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LunaticSerenade:
-100 mV, OC to 1.998, Wheatley, SIO.

Sent from my Carbon XT926
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Tinchoska:
Will try this

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[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] hugodefcon:
Ill try this as well. Hope i get great battery life.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Tinchoska:
Another, and promise last question... can you please show me how voltages are? On screenshots couse they by default are at 1150

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[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] hugodefcon:
Also what's you're min clock frequency?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LunaticSerenade:
Voltage defaults to 1300 mV at 1.998.

Min clock at 96 MHz.

Sent from my Carbon XT926
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EcHoFiiVe:
Never mind, it wouldn't download correctly with Chrome so I used the AOSP browser and it downloaded just fine
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] steveo17:
Does the 8/31 kernel have the fixes for call volume
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] kabaldan:
I've analyzed the libacdbloader issue and pushed the cm-10.2-audio kernel branch only yesterday, so the answer is no.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] LunaticSerenade:
The call volume isn't bad though. FWIW.

Sent from my Carbon XT926
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Thanks buddy.

I also build from vanilla razrqcom (actually official CM kernel tree now), not any special audio branches.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] hugodefcon:
what exactly is the difference between your kernel and the cm one?

just curious.

aside from the overclocking and undervolting, whats the difference?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Please read the changelog... I haven't made any of my own changes lately, but what you point out and schedulers/governors, and a few other tweaks - not much really.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] hugodefcon:
So we could say battery life would be about the same?