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[HTC Sensation] Kepee:
ffs, I reverted once again back to the March 31 from the nandroid I made prior to flashing April 7, opened cool tool just to see what that rom does and noticed that that, too, keeps the cpu usage at 50-100% all the time, and the two processes that use the cpu the most are the android.process.media and the system_server. I'm getting desperate. I just formatted everything except the SD card and I'm installing the April 7 to see what that does. I have to wake up for work in three hours :crying:
[HTC Sensation] Skipjacks:
This is weird. This log cat spamming was something albino specifically fixed for the April 7 build. So its really odd that you are seeing it. Plus, I just checks my logs and I'm not getting this log spamming anymore. Why would this be present in some devices but not others? That's strange.

Maybe there is a hardware difference that one of the recent changes is exposing? I, just guessing though...

Also...let's remember this is a development thread that is sharing a non official nightly build. There WILL be problems doing this on occasion. Sometimes builds wont work right. Its the nature of the beast. So please keep that in mind when mentioning that a new build isn't working right. If it doesn't work right, revert to your nandroid of the build that was working better. If you didn't make a nandroid, find somewhere else to cry about it because no one here is going to have any sympathy for you. But please don't complain about a new build. Most of you are politely pointing out the problems....I'm not talking to this group. But there are a few of you who are whining about problems on April 7 build as if you are owed a perfect build or something. Stop that, because its really douchey.
[HTC Sensation] darkobas:
How much music and pictures do you have? Its normal when you cleaned cache, on the first boot, it scans all your media and if you have a couple of gigs of it, it takes a while. Once its done it will settle down.
[HTC Sensation] Skipjacks:
Excellent point!

Clearing the cache and dalvik can also create lag for the first day of use as well. That cache and dalvik exist specifically to cut down on lag. So after clearing those the files have to be rebuilt. That takes a day.
[HTC Sensation] Kepee:
Well sure, but I've never seen my phone lag this much. It can take 30 seconds for it to respond to a touch or to move to the next screen within an app (which usually happens instantaneously). That's more than just some minor lagging because it's doing something in the background.

But now that I did a clean install of the April 7 ROM the IO activity went down after it finished installing my apps and it didn't show the android.storage.media or whatever as the most cpu intensive app. But now when the screen is on, surfaceflinger is constantly using at least 30% of CPU time.

I'm also getting the same problem someone else reported earlier:
[HTC Sensation] erraggy:
I never had such lag after an update in which I only wiped cache and dalvik. Something weird happened to the 20130407 build for sure. I have reverted back to my nandroid of 20130331 and all is well again.

I'm just finishing my vacation and will be back to all of my fatherly and employeely responsibilities in roughly 12 hours, so I may not get an opportunity to troubleshoot the 20130407 build again.
[HTC Sensation] redback_rsa:
Eh, try removing your SD card to see if it clears things up.
[HTC Sensation] shadowx360:
Same here. I even tried flashing a new kernel to overclock the processor to 1920 mHz and set up softswap. Still extremely laggy. I wiped both cache and dalvik.
[HTC Sensation] extrem0:
I also was experiencing a bit lag in last build. I was using sultans kernel before and thought it would effect anything.

What I did was backup my data through 4ext and wipe everything, then flash rom and restore data. Everything seems great as before.
[HTC Sensation] dkephart:
This is still the case in the 4/7 ROM, right?

No lags here, by the way. Did everyone wait for the ROM to settle?

It is distinctly smoother & faster for me.

As you predicted, Albinoman, I'm missing the S2W...
[HTC Sensation] biomech91:
I didn't have a chance to find out, I reverted back to the Mar 31 build because of the lag (I gave it some time and it was still present).
[HTC Sensation] C.T.Richter:
So, now we know that's not dirty or clean flashing related, then it must be something HW wise that affects some devices while other not.

I remember early in Sense 3.5 days some devices which had AUO built screen had a blueish color effect (that was later fixed) while devices that had Sharp screen were unaffected, maybe something similar is happening here.
[HTC Sensation] mhd1st:
Huge huge lag after getting April-7 updated...
[HTC Sensation] ronattack:
omg i couldn't tell from everyone else thank u
[HTC Sensation] marcjw:
In case you're on to something, I'll start: I have the Sharp screen and no lag. Anyone else with lag want to identify your screen? To find out run a dmesg and look for "Panel Type" It should be either Sharp or Acer (AUO).
[HTC Sensation] erraggy:
I'm the AUO if I remember correctly. Also had definite lag issues. If anyone still has the instructions on identifying the display type, I'm more than willing to verify. I'm mobile only right now.
[HTC Sensation] C.T.Richter:
Well I have an Acer (AUO) screen and I have no problems at all with April 7th build.

People having lag, if possible get a logcat, KMSG, or anything else that can be of help so Albinoman can fix it asap.

When running fine as in my case, the latest build is the smoothest for me so far, take my word for it.
[HTC Sensation] marcjw:
The only way I'm aware of is the instructions I stated: run a dmesg and scan the output for "Panel Type".
[HTC Sensation] mhd1st:
Will good to know someone is funny enough
[HTC Sensation] marcjw:
Well, if you're Acer and I'm Sharp and neither of us has any lag, the display type doesn't sound like the smoking gun.
[HTC Sensation] Billyvnilly:
+1 to lag, I had force quits on Maps, Opera beta, gmail...

but I had a different issue/request. When you pair this phone with a bluetooth device (my car) the screen calls the device MSM8660. Is there a fix for this to rename it to sensation?
[HTC Sensation] bxlegend:
Clearing the dalvik-cache and cache does not create lag and the dalvik files do not take a day to rebuilt. It only takes a few minutes at most.

Again this will do nothing.

ROM settling is a mythos generated by ignorant people in the XDA community.

There is obviously an issue in the ROM that needs to be worked out. Best way to do this is for everyone experiencing the lag to collect a logcat an post it for the developer. This is how we squash bugs.
[HTC Sensation] dadanepal:
I had lags and crashes everywhere when I did a dirty flash. Had to pull battery twice within 20 min.

Do a clean install. I used Titanium to restore. All is smooth and functioning better than any previous builds. Battery seems good too even on the first day after a flash.
[HTC Sensation] bxlegend:
Why do people still pull their battery? Just hold down both of the volume buttons with the power button until the phone reboots.
[HTC Sensation] dkephart:
Settling is probably something best reserved for describing the heavy stuff going going on at first launch in Sense ROMs, you are right.

And anyhow I spoke too soon: lag city, apps fc'ing, etc. I moved back to 3/31. It didn't have to settle :)
[HTC Sensation] albinoman887:
all of you with issues try formatting tye system partition before flashing? some fw changed and sometimes it doesnt overwrite binaries for some reason. the hw overlay thing OOOPS thats what i get for staying up so late. i forgot to add a commit to fix it. I'll do that now. anyone with issues try changing mdp to gpu and enabletr to true for the time being in build.prop
[HTC Sensation] albinoman887:
wow i must have been tired. i rebased my display repo and forgot a cuple commits.
[HTC Sensation] darkobas:
That doesnt work allways
[HTC Sensation] Tobbyax:
I’ve just done this: wiped cache + dalvik, formatted system, installed rom, installed gapps. But it’s still laggy…

Anyway, thanks for your wonderful rom!
[HTC Sensation] henrik.dk:
so the problem is sorted out.

I also have lag from fresh flash.
[HTC Sensation] MidnightDevil:
I flashed another kernel and enabled / disabled HW overlays (as someoned mentioned before). I had no lag from the start probably either because I flashed another kernel before booting the rom or I don't know.

Either way it's running fine so far.

Thank's albino!
[HTC Sensation] elgar:
Could anyone post the previous version of the ROM, because this one is laggy?
[HTC Sensation] Tobbyax:
You can find it here:

http://x.tmgo.net/cm-10.1-20130331-Albinoman887-pyramid.zip

(it’s my personnal machine, so I’ll remove the file if it reaches a too much high traffic)

Reverting to this version is fine!
[HTC Sensation] darkobas:
allready posted
[HTC Sensation] Noobel:
elgar, here you go

Btw, apr7 lags on Sultan kernel as well, not as obvious as on an Albinoman's one. And I don't think it's related to screen manufacturer. (Sharp in my case)

Guys, I think it's really bad, bad, bad practice to force a freelance programmer to settle an ETA and release an update by all means asop, just for a sake of having an update or whatever you think may come along with it.

The guy didn't sleep, he was in a rush, cause you've made it such a big deal as if your life depends on it... ;)

Lets stop begging for updates, let developer take his time to make a quality update. Let it be once in a month or so, but really good working like swiss watch update! What's the point of flashing everyday anyways?

Cheers

:cowboy:

So what
[HTC Sensation] johnyfly1:
hello, when I charging the phone my screen never shut off...Where I disable this function? I cant find it :(

I enable it on vipers rom then I set autobackup with google account and when I install this rom function was enabled yourself and I cant disable it :(
[HTC Sensation] gururoop:
go to developer options and uncheck the "stay awake" setting.
[HTC Sensation] jkolner:
Iv'e had no lag with the latest builds and default Kernel.

But i tried Sultan r23 Kernel because i missed s2w, and it's very fast and responsive, but it also increased the battery consumption.

And regarding the ETA - i can accept that a noob is hyped and askes for a ETA, but when the same user askes for a ETA several times is realy emberassing.

Back to work...
[HTC Sensation] Noobel:
Donno how you've got no lag with arp7. Trebuchet lags like hell with default kernel, most of apps have a a very slow response, especially the ones with some kind of database.

Sultan r23 seems way faster, but still lags from time to time on the apr7 with certain apps.

Video recording didn't work with default kernel, with Sultan r23 it started to work suddenly after couple of reboots (?!)

All this comparing to mar31 build...
[HTC Sensation] smint86:
As stated by Tobbyax, formatting system made no difference to me either. I now change the variables albinoman wanted and will do some intense testing. I'll report back when I have some results. Just to point out the build.prop lines, so some people could join me with testing:

debug.composition.type=mdpgpu

debug.enabletr=falsetrue

edit:

Just to save same bandwidth for the personal serves of some users (which were so kind to point to the earlier version), here is a torrent of the previous one:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mjbqludjpljcqs4/cm-10.1-20130331-Albinoman887-pyramid.zip.torrent

magnet:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0342766309767981D7D12BB8622640CE65DB00E2&dn=cm-10.1-20130331-Albinoman887-pyramid.zip&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.publicbt.com%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.ccc.de%3a80%2fannounce
[HTC Sensation] johnyfly1:
ok but where are developer options in this ROM?
[HTC Sensation] pdemon:
* As of AOSP 4.2.1 Developer Options and Performance setting menu options are hidden until you go into about phone and tap build number repeatedly (aprox. 6 times) this only needs to be done once
[HTC Sensation] henrik.dk:
it might save sometime to make it default on as people are keeping ask ...

the one who originally brought such idea should be blamed.

simply stupid ...
[HTC Sensation] smint86:
This answer is not very useful. As there are many non-dev-related users of such ROMs (many more as are posting in this thread) you sometimes could brake more using those those options then you could benefit from them.

ps: If you want to blame the CM dev-team, come on... Switch the ROM ;)
[HTC Sensation] jkolner:
I use Apex Launcher and AndroidProWidgets.
[HTC Sensation] ziaulh.ch:
Trying this. Will report back. For now it seems to be ok as it removed the lag and so// lets see.. Thanks

EDIT: ITs not workbale. MOst of the apps are lagging too much!
[HTC Sensation] Noobel:
Trying it now on a dirty reflash, seems to be a lot better. Response is ok, video is working. Switched to INTERACTIVE governor.

Gotta keep it like this for some time...
[HTC Sensation] extrem0:
I woke up then i pressed power button and after 10 seconds it soft rebooted.

Logcat : http://pastebin.com/aYK78bdK

Last kmsg: http://www.sendspace.com/file/h4hrqs

After that i changed the lines in build.prop.

I'm experiencing lags when pressing power button now. I press once and after 2 seconds+- display comes on.
[HTC Sensation] smint86:
After a soft reboot, it would be better to provide the last_kmsg, which can be found at /proc/. If you make a logcat

after

the soft reboot, no information about the reboot itself will be in there. The last_kmsg contains the kernel "messages" which are saved till the reboot.

Concerning your wake up lags after changing the lines in build.prop: I can't confirm it.

Since changing those two lines, the lags seem completly have gone away, it feels like the 31/03 version felt as well. This was without reflashing it, I flashed the 07/04 update only once (dirty flash, as I'm always doing it). I then experienced the somewhat laggy feeling, like RAM was overloaded or something... I then changed those lines in build.prop, rebooted once and it feels much better. Maybe not 100% as it was before, but this may also be nocebo...

@albino:

If you need more "specific" feedback, like some detailed logs or something, just state it here. I would be happy to provide anything ;).
[HTC Sensation] M-M-C:
:D

btw, i dirty-flashed the last 5 or 6 builds, no lag or any other problem. just the missing s2w bothers me a bit ;) if my bank account wasnt a mixture between greece and cyprus i would donate something... maybe next month :)
[HTC Sensation] :
I would donate for a better hoster than goo.im...
[HTC Sensation] henrik.dk:
A warning dialog like that for performance options is a more general way to do.

I don't believe it is a team decision. otherwise I will be concerned about the quality of CM rom :rolleyes:. it is likely a geek who made it on something

which seems trivial but caused inconvenience to XDA users.

99.99999999999% average users are using stock ROM which are likely not CM.

I am not a developer either. But I have to at least enable it and get the restart to recovery to the power menu.
[HTC Sensation] diosys:
Hi guys.

I am having this problem with my batter charging as shown in the attached SS. Once I restart the phone it becomes 100%

The battery keeps draining even when the screen is off and nothing is working in the background. Battery is chichitec approx 9 months old.
[HTC Sensation] theggs:
Pull out the battery and put it into the phone again, then wipe battery data.

If not work, maybe you should buy a new battery.
[HTC Sensation] looneylv:
Totally agree! Mar7 is far from nice and 'smooth' experience... And its all because developer didn't have the time to properly make it because he was rushed... Im also getting massive lags....

I also would suggest to Albionman like ROM updates 2 times a month and thats it!(of course if there would need some hotfix then it would be an exclusion)

But I have a strange bug - my camera bug that I have posted earlier... Main camera is working 'fine' but FFC is not working at all(when I try to switch to it, camera 'freezes' and nothing happens until i choose back main camera).. Because Mar7 is so laggy just now experimented with this problem to get down with it...and flashed totaly other ROM Android revolution HD with full wipe... this is on this ICS based rom but also my FFC camera is not working and is with the same disease...

So there are 2 things that could be wrong...

1. My FFC camera is dead

2. Something fishy is in phones flash settings that ****s up something

Anyone maybe can write some tips?.. how to maybe fix the problem (of course excluding the option to take the phone to repair for money) What could be wrong?.. seeing my settings in signature...
[HTC Sensation] smint86:
Unfortunately I must revert my findings as well. If I first thought, that everything was fine, after some time it started lagging again. I think after 2-3 hours usage...

Reverting to 31/03 till albino maybe has some other fix our instructions for troubleshooting.

Swyped via Tapatalk
[HTC Sensation] MunkyButt:
Clean flash of April 7 and zero lag here. Only problem I, personally, have is swype is not working on stock keyboard.
[HTC Sensation] C.T.Richter:
I'm one of the lucky which have April 7th build running fine, however, I have had some random crashes.

They're random but do not happen often, and when it happens I can see the lag people have been reporting, that is pressing the power button and having to wait a few seconds before the screen responds, or apps taking long to start, screen flashing... this weird stuff.

Even repeating the same steps, I could not recreate it twice, so it's either completely random, or it's some phone routine that is crashing.

Well, in my case everything gets back to normal after closing the app that's crashed, worst case scenario a reset will get everythings back working fine.
[HTC Sensation] Catnap:
No.....
[HTC Sensation] access9:
I'm using the April 7th build. No lag here; using ondemand gov, sio (modified 99kernel to give me 1mb buffer). Battery is fine.
[HTC Sensation] sniperde:
Buy a new battery.

My chichitec showed the exactly same behaviour after roughly 5 months of usage.

I replaced the battery and everything was working ine again.
[HTC Sensation] black_bottom:
in which way you came to this conclusion?

to help you we need a screeshot of betterbatterystats (BBS) and your cpu-states and your partial wakelocks. or as a 1st step download cpu-spy from playstore and post your cpu-states after roundabout 1/2 d or more running the phone. then we will see what really happens.
[HTC Sensation] bxlegend:
It has worked all of the time for me no matter what type of freeze I've had. It is a part of the firmware and not the ROM which is why it should work every time.
[HTC Sensation] dkephart:
Rarely works for me on AOSP ROMs. Maybe there is some sensitivity of the volume rocker involved, since usually, and if it isn't going to work, it displays the volume slider overlay.
[HTC Sensation] rob.turner:
Could you provide the steps or code you used to accomplish this? I'm trying to rely less on tools like System Tuner for tweaks and this is one I'm missing. Thanks in advance.
[HTC Sensation] MIGhunter:
It isn't them doing this. It's android. If you goto the Android Developers page it explains it.
[HTC Sensation] erraggy:
Well documented @MIGhunter.

As for you, @henrik.dk or anyone else with complaints about how CyanogenMod and its features works, please take it up with them. This is a development thread for an unofficial version of it for our sensations and is no place to argue about CyanogenMod.
[HTC Sensation] akaHardison:
No Ad-hoc support.Ad-hoc network can be found,but cannot be connected.And bluetooth PAN cannot connect.Please help.
[HTC Sensation] access9:
Added this:

# - Set MMC readahead buffer size
# Wait for everything to become ready
sleep 120
# Internal MMC
chmod 644 /sys/block/mmcblk0/bdi/read_ahead_kb
echo 1024 > /sys/block/mmcblk0/bdi/read_ahead_kb
# SD card
chmod 644 /sys/block/mmcblk1/bdi/read_ahead_kb
echo 1024 > /sys/block/mmcblk1/bdi/read_ahead_kb

At the end of the sdcard section.
[HTC Sensation] MattFerg:
Anyone else find goo.im is down?
[HTC Sensation] xchilloutx:
Yup, seems so

Sent from my Jelly Sensation 4.2.2
[HTC Sensation] jkolner:
Regarding people that has lag, you could try LagFix from PlayStore.

I haven't got any lag so i don't know if it has any effect.

/ Sent from my phone /
[HTC Sensation] dr.bono:
I came back to update 31/3 because that's 7/4 is very slow. hello :eek:
[HTC Sensation] Louer Adun:
I see that there is a Bluetooth update in the latest build. Does anyone know if this includes the AVRCP 1.3 stack? I have been waiting for this, but don't want to flash a buggy build just to check.
[HTC Sensation] erraggy:
Just stop.

Revert? A revert should just be restoring the nandroid backup one ALWAYS makes before installing a ROM. The only people needing the previous version zip are those that have not flashed this ROM before.
[HTC Sensation] lvdb:
very slow for 7/4

:good:
[HTC Sensation] Skipjacks:
Just because it has always worked for you doesnt mean it always works. I have gotten my phone so locked up that even the power and volume wouldn't restart it too. Its rare, but it can happen. T does involve the firmware glitching to cause it, but that can and does happen.

Additionally its not a universal fix. You may not want to reboot back into the rom. You may have a need to go directly to recovery, usually because you are in a hurry and dont feel like waiting 2 minutes for a reboot juat so you can reboot into recovery. For that you have to pull the battery in order to go from a frozen state directly to recovery.
[HTC Sensation] aidanski:
To all you damn moaners, flash the bloody sultan kernel over the 7/4/13 build until there's a fix. Albino will be on it, so in the meantime either revert to 31/3 or change the kernel, but don't spam the dev thread with something we already know!

Sent from my HTC Sensation XE
[HTC Sensation] MIGhunter:
My phone just locked up on me and the power button and volume did nothing. I had to pull the battery.
[HTC Sensation] albinoman887:
i think it was the SIO scheduler, anyone try changing to deadline or something? anyways i dont have the lag at all. but i didnt before. so donno. gonna do some tests then upload build
[HTC Sensation] albinoman887:
btw reason i havent been replying as much is i need to re install tapatalk, i wiped my phone during testing :P
[HTC Sensation] dadanepal:
Mirror to 3/31 build

Does anyone have a mirror for 3/31 build. Looks like it's gone from goo.im.

I had a nandroid from from a older build.
[HTC Sensation] biomech91:
Here you go, it was posted a few pages back:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=40044969&postcount=7614
[HTC Sensation] bxlegend:
I was using noop from the start and still had the lag issue.
[HTC Sensation] dr.bono:
I know I can say one thing for granted., But a backup before flashing a new update, especially if it includes the kernel is right
[HTC Sensation] BlackDex:
Changed to others than sio, but no luck. Still got lag. Even changing min CPU and Max to almost the same value isn't helping. Haven't reverted to 31 release. I'll just wait for the next one :)
[HTC Sensation] Mrgrey44:
Maybe it's just me but I flashed the latest update today and ever since I did that my phone has been incredibly slow and laggy, I'm thinking maybe it's because of all the junk I have on it so I think I'm gonna wipe my phone and flash the ROM all over again. But if the problem is from the update I don't think I should go through all that :)
[HTC Sensation] C.T.Richter:
It's not just you, take your time to read a few pages back. It's already been reported that many others are having problems with the phone lagging.

If you can get a logcat or something that helps finding out what the problem is, that would be great. Otherwise you may wait until Albinoman releases another build, in the meanwhile recover your latest nandroid backup or keep using the build from March 31st.

But please, feel free to test with Apr7 build, to find and share where the problem is or a fix for the lag.