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[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dwitherell:
Yeah quiet hours are nice. I may look into such things at some point. The options you mention as being unavailable are due to the lockscreen you have selected. Those options are currently only valid on the stock Circle lockscreen - nothing else. The last thing you mentioned I believe is also referred to as BLN - that is something that requires some specialized lib/kernel work that is beyond me currently.

I'm glad to hear this is staying anywhere near the bar set by cm/aosp-based stuffs - there's a reason everyone wants that sort of thing and if I can get the stock ROM to come anywhere close Im happy :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Palisandr:
Thank you

Dear Devon,

Thank you for your work and an effort to explain everything to the user community. The ROM is certainly more stable than CM10. I also have some concerns about the battery drain. Looks like it is faster than on CM10. I will post some comparison tomorrow (night time drain on CM10 vs Tweaked 2.x ICS).

Thanks again for the work done, it is greatly appreciated!
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dwitherell:
Awesome - any and all research is appreciated! One thing to note though is what kernel you use. The Scorched v1.0.20 kernel that comes packaged with the ROM is still being improved upon (with battery drain concerns being key in mind) by Merwin - so I would expect differences between that one, the v1.0.22 kernel Merwin posted (also available CIA tweaktools), and the stock UVLH5 kernel (available on tweaktools). Admittedly the latter should be better just because it isn't OCed at all, but you can get apps like android tuner or even edit the 91scorched file in /system/etc/init.d to set the max CPU.

I suppose the take home to all this is that there are all kinds of variables to consider (didn't even bring up governors or anything) - regardless I am very interested in hearing what you discover, so keep me posted!
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Palisandr:
Just reflashed new v1.0.22 kernel. Hopefully battery will last longer. With the old setup (v1.0.20) that's what I had: before going to bed battery was at 100%. After 7 hours of idling (night) battery was at 68%. 7 hours later, during which I only had made a couple of calls - each about 7-8 minutes, navigation for about 20 mins, internet browsing (on WiFi) for about 10 mins. Battery is at 27%.

Very much hope that the new kernel will be much better on the battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Phattack:
My gallery stopped working out of no where today. It was working earlier now I can't see my photos.

Any ideas??

Edit: I got it fixed.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] anactoraaron:
Battery life

This is probably in the wrong area... but in regards to battery life...

I think some of us are a bit spoiled (hear me out here) coming from whatever rom we came from prior to flashing tweaked. I can tell you that on Thomas's PA 2.99.4 and the LZ kernel (phase 3) I can have wifi & sync on and have the screen off all day (12+ hrs) and still have 80+% left at the end of the day. Just today I went on a bit of a road trip (briefly used navigation) and made a few calls (about an hour an a half in calls) and came home. Got on wifi & sync'd, sent out some emails, sent a few text messages. About mid way through the afternoon I turn my screen on. 84%. 7 hours 44 mins on battery.

So to sum up my thoughts here... I think some people don't realize that the scorched kernel is more of a performance/fluidity kernel (hence the name 'scorched') and are expecting/wanting something more like LZ (aimed at better than stock battery life while keeping stock like performance). I like the awesomeness in the performance of the scorched kernel, but when it's all said and done it comes down to how you use your phone and what you need from it. I personally will have days where I literally don't use my phone at all (I have a Kindle Fire with CM10 to play games on too lol) and when I pick up my phone after 12 hours off the charger barely used I expect 90% or more battery remaining. There's also days where I'm on my phone non-stop making calls, sending emails, etc and don't want to have to wait for my phone to catch up with me. I'm not as concerned with battery life then, as long as it doesn't go dead in 2 hrs lol. :)

I guess what I'm trying to say is... well... if someone wants tweaked 2.1 with the stock ICS kernel to get better battery life then ask nicely and maybe the cool awesome bowl of awesomeness dev here will make a zip/build for you to have so you can have what you are looking for with this rom (it's a bit more constructive than ...expressing disappointment... with battery life). These guys worked hard to get such a polished rom/kernel for us and don't make a dime doing so. Big thanks to dwitherell & merlin :good::good::good::victory:

Or you can be like me and realize we sometimes can't have everything and use two different roms (there has to be some degree of parity or all the roms here will all be identical!). I personally switch between Tweaked and PA 2-3 times a week (although the new phase 3 LZ OC'd to 1.72 is pretty amazing for both performance & battery life). CWM is your friend.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] LiveFaster:
If I'm not mistaken, he already has the stock kernel available via tweaktools.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] theshowman:
As mentioned in the other dev thread I was getting very poor battery life, so I finally got the chance to switch kernels to stock using tweaktools and my battery life is once again back to what I considered normal.

An overnight drain of 6 to 8 percent rather than 25 to 30 with relatively high usage lasting me nearly a full day instead of 8 hours.

I just noticed that there is a scorched v1.29. I think I was using 1.22 (tweak tools would not upgrade to 1.29 need to look into that )

I'll see if that gets me near stock.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dwitherell:
Yep - I need to update the link on tweaktools, thanks for the reminder :)

In the spirit of the holidays I may put out a smaller-than-normal update today... I'll include the 1.0.29 kernel, and my dabblings with the AOSP lockscreen. I also made it so you can have longer screen timeouts if desired, and revert the pulldown to show actual carrier info again if desired.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] theshowman:
Wow, nice thanks, hopefully with carrier name showing up in notification drop menu :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dwitherell:
Ask and you shall receive :) Update is now posted.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] theshowman:
Just went through the upgrade.

I'll hang on to scorched v1.29 to see if it's battery usage is suitable to my usage.

But,

Notification pull down still reads "TSM Tweaked" and not the carrier name.

Edit: just found a setting under TSM PARTS menu, now have carrier name back :)

Also, About phone hadn't been updated to v2.2, still reads 2.1, most likely a build prop thingy

The lock screen changes are no good to me since I'm on a pin lock screen.

Other than that, I'll be playing with it a bit more and report if necessary.

Thanks again
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dwitherell:
Dangit - yeah forgot the build.prop thing for what version... it's always something lol. I shall fix it.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] theshowman:
Back again :)

Okay, so I'm back to stock kernel from scortched 1.29.

The battery life is just not there for me otherwise.

Last night, and during baby feedings (4-5 hours stretch) on standby, and it used up 23% as opposed to 4 or 5 with stock.

Not sure why.

Seems like no one else is having similar issues which is weird.

I've studied the battery usage using gsam but nothing obvious shows up aside from the apps gobbling most of the battery.

I've also used CPU monitor tool to see what percentage is at various frequency and lo and behold it spent most of its time at the standby frequency which again doesn't explain the poor battery life.

Well, the snappier scortched is a shame to miss out on but I think I can make due without it.

Thanks to OP and merwin for their efforts.

Happy new year.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] anactoraaron:
(off-topic)

I think that the battery life isn't there because of this bit of info listed in the scorched thread in the dev section:

"However, battery life will most likely not be as good as stock, since the device is overclocked and DVFS (dynamic frequency and voltage scaling) is turned off. I have done my very best to squeeze every ounce of battery life out of this device."

DVFS is a hardware enabled power saving feature for all processors very similar to Intel's Speedstep tech. Dynamically changing voltage with the cpu clock speed is vital to power saving - otherwise you are pulling the same power draw in deep sleep as you are OC'd to 1.8Ghz. Did some googling and found out a bit about this. I would guess that the kernel wasn't completely stable with it on so in order to have it, it had to be shut off (says the almighty google lol). Personally I don't often need an extra ~300 mhz if the tradeoff is much higher battery usage - even if the device is in 'deep sleep' most of the day. Like I have said before, everyone's needs vary.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] bostonbru:
lockscreen

Im using HD widgets, and id like to have the weather on the lockscreen. However in the in the "TSM Parts/LockscreenSetting/Display Options" the options for that are blackened so that I cant enable. Is this a problem with a bloatware app I need to install first? I installed the livewallper.apk just to make sure and still doesn't let me.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dwitherell:
The weather is currently only set to show on the circle lockscreen - you can't enable it until you are using that lockscreen.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] merwin:
It's not that the kernel wasn't stable, it's that DVFS prevents modifying voltage manually, and it kind of takes over the cpu scheduler. I think I'll try a build with DVFS on and the scorched governor and see what happens :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] anactoraaron:
Thanks for the clarification, google only gets ya so far :) Basically from what I read researching this having DVFS on can cause instability (due to voltage either automatically being set too high or too low) in OC kernels so I assumed that this was the case here... but I guess not. By the way if you need a tester let me know. I have another week before life gets busy again :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] LiveFaster:
I'm back on tweaked. This rom really does show how much time you put into this its so smooth and polished in every way and form. Last time I left this rom due to battery issues, but I am giving it a go again, this time with the stock kernel found in tweak tools. So far everything is running great. This is a quality rom no doubt about that. One question, although it is stock kernel does it have some modifications to it? I see it may have init.d support? And also I can still change frequencies via no frills CPU. In no way is it giving me bad performance, I just want to know :) thank you for this polished work.

Also the voldmod swap is working great. I couldn't find out how to swap SD/internal memory on cm10, and on tweaked it was just a simple tweaktools function :)

Sent from my SGH-T769
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] henslo:
Kinda OT but anyway we could get something like this ported to the blaze?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1929403

Sent from my SGH-T769

Looks awesome and somewhat alternative to downloading multiple themes. Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] johnb380:
Edit:

Hey Live not to try n draw u away from this Rom it is smooth but here is a post in CM10 thread for changing ur vold.fstab in CM10 its been in our forum for months just gotta search bro but here it is if u ever wanna try again you only have to change the 0 to a 1 and 1 to a 0

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=33253737
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dwitherell:
Thanks for the kind words :) The stock kernel has been slightly modified to allow for custom boot animations, but other than that it's all stock (meaning no frequency changing ability, though I believe there are some pay apps out there that allow for such things to be done). The rom itself supports init.d through some merwin-based cleverness using a script the system runs at boot anyway. Glad the vold swap is working out as well :)

That would be awesome... hmm... I wonder if such things would be possible. I may have to look into that one - nice find :)

LOL *shakes fist at johnb380* I see how it is ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] LiveFaster:
Wow I looked everywhere but on the actual cm10 thread lol. Thanks man I will keep this information as I always find a reason to change roms lol. As of right now I'll be sticking to tweaked, there's nothing from cm10 that I miss as of now. But I know I will go back someday so thank you haha.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] johnb380:
Sorry bro I hope u know I love ur work seriously but I've always had a love hate relationship with stock modded... It's kinda like the old saying, "the grass is always greener on the other side!"

When I'm on Tweaked I love it its smooth and Polished CLASSY if u will... Then after awhile I get that urge for something a Lil dirtier Sluttier so I go back to Aokp or Slimrom or some variant of CM10 and so on and so on... Lol... See LOVE/ HATE RELATIONSHIP

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[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dwitherell:
LOL it's all good no worries. Options are never a bad thing I was just giving you a hard time :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] monkeybuttons:
I like the looks of the rom and the smoothness. Thanks for the great and hard work.

I would like to bring an issue to your attention though. I haven't been able to get a log cat since it's my wife's phone (not sure it would work for my issue anyway). Yesterday my wife went to work and tried to turn it on and nothing. She tried holding the power button down and nothing. Took out the battery for a few minutes, put it back in and held the power button and nothing. She tried to charge it for a couple of hours and tried everything again and nothing. It was just dead.

When I got my hands on it that night I took the battery and micro sd out and, on a fluke, held the power button for 30 seconds while the battery was out. Put battery in and it booted. Put in memory card and it hard shut down (like I removed the battery, except I didn't). Held power to 2 secs and it booted. Battery was at about 75%. Seemed fine, but an hour later it wouldn't turn on again. This time I left the mem card in and held the power button for about 10 secs without battery and it worked. As far as I know it hasn't done it again, but I don't know since my wife is home and I'm at work.

Setup:

I kept the original Scorched kernel, didn't mess with oc/uv, governor or scheduler. Only applied a few tweaks such as volume wake and disabling full battery notification, and maybe a couple of others I can't remember. Restored only user apps and data with Titanium, and restored sms/mms using GoBackup. I also replaced SuperUser with SuperSU (kept SuperUser installed but replaced the binary with SuperSU's).

What do you think the issue could be? Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

EDIT: Sorry for the novel. Just wanted to thoroughly explain the problem.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dwitherell:
Well, that is definitely one of the stranger issues I've heard. This is all my wife uses and she is quick to point out issues, and this one definitely has not come up. There is nothing in your description of your setup that would point me to possible culprits either - all sounds good there (though the supersu binary is what is bundled with the rom fwiw). Keep me posted on if such things occur again, or if a pattern emerges or anything. A logcat would be nice, but in my experience they are no fun to get with situations like this. Sorry for the troubles!
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] monkeybuttons:
UPDATE: It happened again this evening. Through ROM Toolbox I just changed to ondemand and cfq and changed max frequency to 1512. I'll let you know off this helps our not.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dwitherell:
Yes, please keep me posted. Somewhat off topic, but have others used ROM Toolbox without issue? I have some vague recollection of hearing issues with that app - though that may very well be from another phone to be honest. Just curious.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] anactoraaron:
What recovery are you using? TWRP or CWM? Which version of CWM (if using cwm)?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] merwin:
Probably won't be able to change the upper end frequency with DVFS enabled, which the stock kernel has. That is because it changes the frequency tables often, including down to 1.18 GHz whenever it wants to.

If you do have success though, let us know.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] bostonbru:
calling issue

For ahwile now , Id go to make a call it dials but i dont hear no tone or anything, however somehow the call connects as id find out later. Id hang up and call again it will work. not sure if anyone else has this issue or if anyone might know how i can fix this?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] henslo:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2019310

Here's a whole thread with people having same problem. I had it happen once changed rom and kernel don't know if that was it but hadn't happened since
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] monkeybuttons:
Sorry to drop a problem like that then disappear. Her phone has been fine since changing to ondemand and under clocking, though I haven't checked to see if the frequency I chose stuck. She did say her battery life didn't change so it probably didn't stick.

It's only ROM Toolbox lite.

I didn't know twrp was available for this phone. I have the cwm you use when using odin. It's 5.0.2.7 or something like that. The one that's based on the SGSII I believe.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] anactoraaron:
I assume you are on 5.5.0.4... try updating to the official 6.0.1.4 (through ROM Manager or download it here) and wipe everything and re-flash the rom through CWM (Backup everything first!!). I don't use ROM Toolbox, so I don't know how compatible it is. I use antutu (free) to set cpu frequencies - it can re-apply settings on boot, but setcpu or others may work well too.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dwitherell:
I know most have moved on to newer and better things, but for those running this hows it going? I've got a few ideas for an update (modded nfc so it can work with screen off or lockscreen, nfc/android beam toggles, tweaks to wifi toggle, call recording, maybe set things up to install via aroma), but haven't started any of it to see if it's all even reasonable. Any other thoughts from the crowd?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] henslo:
Maybe some theme mods to install via aroma?

The ROM is great already anything new would just be the icing. Thanks for the work :thumbup:

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T769
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] LiveFaster:
ROM is running great. Since you asked i think it would be nice to see if it were possible to get the pull down notification toggles to look like the ones on cm10, more clean looking and maybe also how on jb when you touch the date on the pulldown it takes you to calendar and the time to clock. That would just be like a assesorie. What I would really like is a new themed MMS app. I really like the AOKP stock MMS app how it let's you tweak colors and font sizes and stuff. If you could somehow get that to run on ICS, or just theme the stock ICS MMS app to a more holo look. Also I'm not sure if you already have modified the MMS app to make the picture size restrictions to a higher resolution?

I might be suggesting something impossible to do, but nevertheless here are my thoughts :)

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[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] anactoraaron:
It's been 3 weeks now and I've yet to experience any issue - nor moved on to newer/better? things. I wiped davlik today because my mobile data wasn't turning on - turned out there was no need as I was just in a dead spot and my signal bars weren't updating that quickly :o

As for suggestions.... I would like to have full customization or close to it for the 3/5spot lockscreens (like CM) so I can pick out 2-4 apps to have at the ready (I don't prefer the phone/volume there). If it is even possible. Or... if you could just change the 3spot to have 2 custom apps (which seems easier to me than getting 4 custom apps on the 5spot)... Or change the volume control on the 3spot and 5spot lockscreen and make it the default messaging app (for me-my preference :)). Also is there a way to change the battery icon? Or maybe make different battery icons (with different colors) available in tweaktools (which may be the best route to go with this)? Oh! and while I'm thinking about it... is there a way to add color control for the power widgets? I'm getting tired of seeing blue when I need to turn on wifi/data/etc. :)

Another thing we could use is a theme or two (I check tweaktools for themes once a week)... wish I knew how to do it *ahem* had the time to learn how do it... and if I had the time to learn how to do things I would actually ask to help you with enabling BLN... It's still the only thing I miss from CM10. But this is a busy time of the year for me and and in two months I will have another daughter :) ...so free time isn't something I will have a lot of soon. I guess the next phone I buy I will make sure it has a notification light - I didn't realize how much I wanted one :)

Also I have been meaning to post this for awhile... the renice tweak is also a cause for reduced battery life (but improves performance). I decided to do some experimenting with the stock kernel and noticed about a 20-40% faster battery drain with it enabled (in deep sleep)- it was a noticeable drain. When I get time I'm going to go back to Merwin's kernel and turn it off (I believe renice is on by default?) and post what I find.

I think the main reason this thread appears kind of dead is that it's running so stable/smooth/good! :victory::cyclops::good:
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] chjema:
Still rocking this ROM :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dwitherell:
Yeah some themes would be great... hoping some kind wanting-to-learn person comes out of the community... :) If not, I'm no good at it but I can try to come up with something at some point.

How are the toggles different? Just curious - image work is not my thing but I need to take a crack at it and rework them, that I do agree with.

On the pulldown if you click on the clock now you get the world clock bit... I agree the date-to-calendar would be awesome, but that will take some serious thought as I am unsure how to go about such things presently.

I did modify the MMS to up the pic resolution limits, and I can see about tinkering w/ the aesthetic a bit. Who knows, maybe I'll try to add in some options, but that is a MUCH larger undertaking. Thanks for the ideas!

Color for the toggles would be tricky... though I can think of a tweaktools-based way to offer an option or two on that. Adding an extra selectable slot on the lockscreen will also be a bit cumbersome - I will attempt to do so, but I'm pretty sure I won't like the icon behavior, so I might just add in an Mms default w/ icon as I agree - I tend to have that as a shortcut :)

Also - I've stumbled upon a way to offer up a few on-the-fly options for battery icon, so I think I'll offer a stock, stock Tweaked, and then maybe a blue or green circle option...?

The renice tweaks need to be edited by you to be truly effective. That being said - I tend not to use it myself. I don't believe it is in any way incorporated into merwins awesome kernel - the script is really a way to force certain often-used apps into staying in memory. If you don't have any issues with such things it can likely be left alone, but it's fun to tinker - hence my offering it as an option. Sorry to hear about the battery drain though!

Theme stuff is beyond me, though I may try to take a crack at it at some point. It's a great way to start tinkering with android stuff though for those interested in learning... :) :) :)

I know merwin has been working on BLN stuff still, so who knows, maybe some good will come of that still.

Thanks for all the great feedback and ideas!

:)