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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] megaequs:
I can't explain how, but the Imperium Kernel v1.9 (link below) give me a very good battery life (4,5h SOT and more) with the following settings in STweaks:

CPU:

SCHED_MC: "2"

CPU-governor: "intellimm"

Max Freq: 1566 MHz

Min Freq: 384 MHz

GPU:

GPU-governor: "Simple"

Max Freq: 320 MHz

I/O:

Internal Scheduler: "sio" "1024 kB"

SD-Card Scheduler: "sio" "1024 kB"

MISC:

Android Logger: "Off"

ZRAM: "Off"

TCP Congestion Control Mode: "Westwood"

Power-Saving-Mode is no more nessesary, it only starts to lag with it.

Imperium Kernel v1.9:

http://forum.freelatestmovies.org/g...ernel-imperium-ll-kernel-v1-0-t3058867/page80

(Download on this Page)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Fonsocruise:
Using Imperium 1.9 and running perfectly, it gave me 4h the first day...simply perfect. This rom is amazing too. Great work!!

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Just one last thing, I dunno if you guys could have an answer for this. The percentage of battery drops to 90% really fast...

once i unplug it form the charger it goes from 100 to 90 in like 5-10min....I don't know if that's normal or not but it freaks me out
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MacGyver27:
Basically have the same setup of my phone as I used to with v9 Phoenix Rom - even less amount of apps but the phone is so slow, laggy all the time. Thought LMT was slowing it, since it was showing about 3% of consumption.. Uninstalled it, no change. Was even forced to remove Avast antivirus, cause phone was dying.. After removing performance is much better but still so many lags everywhere. Even if someone is calling, it takes 5 second to recover from that event and allow me to pick it up. Once was watching YouTube video and it didn't even recover from that.. Almost 20 seconds! Showed the calling screen but wasn't responding to the touch nor buttons.

Does any one have similar issues? BTW my kernel is latest CWM. Appreciate any information. Thanks. mgv
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] heblu:
Wipe cache/dalvik from recovery

Also consider changing kernel to AEL (my no1 choice) or imperium. Both should do the job
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] pyetookh:
Hello folks.

I’m getting desperate!

I like PhoeniX ROM on my i9505 a lot but sadly it makes three tone sound on my phone every 2 seconds. Not always but most of the time. After installation it is fine for example for half an hour. Then it goes to sleep and when I wake it up it makes this sound on and on. After a few hours and using my phone on and off it stops. And then it goes on again. Sometimes it stops during constant use without me noticing when because I have my phone on vibration only. I know it is not triggered by any alarm, number of unread messages, battery level or SD in or out. I searched the whole phone (including root) for all .ogg files and checked them all. None is the right one.

Previously I was on Imperium v11.0. I reinstalled Imperium 4 times with different Aroma setting (Dalvik wipe, cache wipe, “pre new ROM wipe”). I still couldn’t find what triggers this sound.

I left Imperium because I thought it is it's specific bug. Followed PhoeniX instructions to flash new Philz, new modem and bootloader and installed PhoeniX ROM v11.6 late in the evening with quite modest selection from Aroma. Then added only my standard SD card and installed WhatsApp from Play. Nothing else. Next day morning the stupid sound is back. It is almost midday and the sound was once off and now it is back on during this morning.

Can anybody help me, please?

Using CM12.1, Dirty Unicorn Lollipop or Gummy ROM Kitkat is no problem at all. No silly repeating sound.

Any advise is very welcome. Please, remember I am only beginner in the whole Android business but capable to flash or root with step by step guides.

Thank you
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] lawyer_06:
Can you be more clear about your issue? What do you mean exactly by "three tone sound", i didn't understand it. Can you make a video review about your issue?

Have you done a FULL WIPE (also wiping internal storage?) before flashing the ROM? I hadn't had such an issue when i was on Phoenix..
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] pyetookh:
Hi. Thank you for your reply.

I haven't done a FULL Wipe because I do not know how. I only cleared 3 areas as described in my original post using Philz. It always worked fine with other ROMs. This obviously excludes the "sound" on Imperium and Phoenix. When I went back to CM v12.1 (Lollipop) it disappeared. So I think it must be because of a common app or something in both Imperium v11 and Phoenix v11.6.

I can post a video in next 4 hours. Don't have any recording device at the moment.

The sound comprises of three different tones one after another (like notification sound or similar) "too-dee-dong" being roughly half a second long altogether followed by 2 second pause. During normal use through the day it comes back and disappears. Sometimes you wake up your phone and it is OK but mostly once you wake it up it goes on. It goes off only when you shut down your screen (power button - don't know how you call this "stand by") or when you decrease volume to zero. Otherwise phone or media volume adjustment makes to changes to this sound at all. It is simply ON or OFF.

It is ON when you play video, make a phone call, use calendar, anything.

Both applies to Imperium and Phoenix

I'm happy to provide any information if you can tell me how (log, video, screenshot..)

Much appreciated

Edit: It is actually not doing the sound during phone calls.

But it keeps on doing it during Skype phone calls. I called "Echo" and the sound switched from external speaker to the ear speaker so it was a bit quieter. When Echo played it back to me I didn't hear it. When Skype call finished the sound was back in full strength
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] lawyer_06:
Sorry, but without a video that will show your issue clearly, i think i would not able to understand your issue exactly. I think the "words" don't have the power of "video" while describing your issue, so a video that will show your issue would be better for us to help you. :) As i said before, i hadn't have such an issue while i was on Phoenix ROM, so i can't imagine what is your issue exactly now..
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] radz_:
[MENTION=2739548]tamirda[/MENTION] just updated his S5 Rom 2days ago..

Hope to see another or maybe final update here
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] heblu:
Yes, I hope so too
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] pyetookh:
Here is a video as requested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qqDCc8Wi30&feature=youtu.be

Doing some house improvements so sorry for the dirty hands. This is also my very first video so not ideal too. Hope it gives you a certain picture of my issue.

I called the camera phone hence the silly vibrations of camera but maybe you can here in background the same sound from speaker of the videoed phone when screen is on. It goes off during phone call when screen is off too.

Also volume control has no impact to it unless completely off.

The sound is on during video play too in default player

Hope this may help a bit

Thank you for your effort
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] lawyer_06:
Ok, thanks for the video.. Sometimes a picture or just a short video is more effective than what a dozen words try to tell.. :) So in this cases i suggest to post a picture or a video of the issue. Now, i can understand your issue "clearly" :).

It is really a weird and funny issue. It seems as if a timer counts down in background. Until now i haven't encounter such an issue. Neither on this ROM, nor on any other ROMs. I will try to help you fixing your issue as possible as i can. For that, i will ask you some questions to diagnose what cause that issue:

1- What's your phone model?

2- Which Recovery (and version) did you use to install the ROM?

3- Can you write the steps you have followed while installing this ROM?

4- How did you restore your apps? Did you download them from Google Play Store or via Titanium Backup or any other app?

5- Do you know how to flash an official stock ROM via ODIN?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] pyetookh:
Dear lawyer_06,

1. My phone is GT-i9505 UK almost 2 years old

2. The sound first appeared on Imperium ROM flashed with Philz Touch 6.09.6.

Phoenix was flashed with Philz 6.15.3

3-4. When it appeared for the first time on Imperium I had WhatsApp, Viber, restored contacts from SD card using Super Backup, Folder Explorer, Small Weather Widget, Smart IR Remote, OfficeSuiteProv3.0_300, Evgeny.Converter installed. Since then it came back to all my attempts of installing Imperium without installing a single one of them and using modest options in its Aroma during installation.Most of the apps I use are from Play. Only 20% of them are from my micro SD card and they were downloaded a year ago.

Before install of Phoenix I changed Philz to newer version, installed Odin on my PC, installed Samsung drivers, istalled bootloader and modem in Odin following original installation guide in the very first post of this forum. I didn't install anything else than WhatsApp and stayed with my SD card used for installations only (same used on all previous installations of different ROM - not formatted! for last two weeks). Next day morning the sound was back...

5. If step by step guide link is provided how to install stock ROM I can hopefully do it ;)

I see that I have all my telephone numbers without restoring them so definitely some traces of previous ROMs are still left in my phone. Clear message that I don't know how to do a "full wipe" prior installation. We should probably try CLEAN installation first. But don't know how.

Thank you
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] lawyer_06:
Ok.. Firstly i will guide you for making a FULL WIPE and then flashing the ROM after it... If this process doesn't fix your issue then i will guide you to flash the official stock firmware via ODIN and then flashing Phoenix after it. As you said you haven't advanced knowledge in this area, so to prevent the mistakes will be made by you, i will guide you step by step. But, before all these progress i will give you the link of the latest TWRP RECOVERY (v2.8.7) and as the first step i want you to install it on your phone. In this way, we will eliminate the potential issues that cause from the old Recoveries' and their old versions' installation faults. After you download and install TWRP on your phone, then we will going to make a nandroid backup in Recovery Mode just in case something goes wrong. And then i will want you to back up your Internal SD Card.

Here is the link of latest TWRP Recovery v2.8.7 for our phone models. Download it and flash it in your current "Recovery Mode" like a normal ZIP file. After you install it, you will have TWRP Recovery v2.8.7 on your phone. And then we will perform all the steps via this Recovery. Let's start the first step:

Link of TWRP Recovery v2.8.7 [S4 - i9505 (jfltexx)]:

=> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6PT9GoNoQdja1lrN3lWcHV1cTA/view?usp=sharing

After you perform each step, tell me if everything went ok or not.. Good luck..
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] heblu:
[MENTION=2739548]tamirda[/MENTION] recommends phils recovery

I tried once to flash phoenix with twrp, but I had some problems

No issues with cwm or phils

This does not mean that it cannot be flashed with twrp (which is also my default recovery), but for the best results I say better go with cwm or phils

Good luck!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] mbaier:
thread is huge..so xposed work ?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] lawyer_06:
Yes.. I also have used Philz Recovery (v6.58.7) while installing Phoenix ROM and lots of other ROMs in the past. :) And i hadn't had any issues with Philz. But then @_alex74_ has stated in one of his previous posts (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62085316&postcount=7268) that he has done all Phoenix ROM testings with latest TWRP Recovery (v2.8.7). :) And he suggested to use TWRP Recovery instead of Philz Recovery. That's why i am also suggesting TWRP. Philz is no more updated. So i am suggesting TWRP to prevent all potential issues that will caused by the old Recovery versions's fault. I am trying to minimize the risk of potential issues as possible.. ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] pyetookh:
Your good will to help me is impressive. Thank you very much.

I just installed TWRP using your link and it works fine. There was nothing to lose on my "flashing microSD" so it is freshly formatted in FAT32 having only TWRP on it at the moment. My "daily microSD" contains only media, nothing else and will go in once the system is fully working.

There is nothing I wish to keep in internal memory so we can do full wipe

I'm ready for another step :)

I got this message from another member: I have this sound when i use nfc ... strange [emoji54]
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] zezzet:
Sometimes when received a call i don't listen anythink. I try change kernel, wipe data, dalvick but the problem stay

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] lawyer_06:
Ok.. if you don't have any data on "Internal Storage" to backup, then we can do a FULL WIPE. I assume you have done all your Contacts, SMSes, Messages etc. and other apps' backups via "Super Backup" app or any other backup app. Right? And i assume you have the Phoenix ROM v11 and Phoenix OTA Update v11.6 ZIP files ready on your ExtSD Card. Right? If all these prerequests are ok, then you should now make a Nandroid Backup of your current ROM just in case something goes wrong. To make a Nandroid Backup in TWRP Recovery Mode, tap on "Backup" button, then put tick to the "Boot", "System" and "Data" options. (You can also put tick to the "Cache" and "EFS" options if you want, but normally they are not necessary.) And from the "Storage" button, for the backup location choose the "Micro SDcard", not "Internal Storage". Because we will wipe everything in Internal Storage then. :) After these processes now swipe the button to right side to start the back up. After the back up finishes successfully then we will wipe everything on phone except the "ExtSD Card (Micro SD Card)"

To make it from "Wipe --> Advanced Wipe" option tick the "Dalvik Cache", "System", "Data", "Internal Storage", "Cache" checkboxes. (

Don't tick

the "Micro SDcard" option, because the backup file is located in there.) Repeat this wiping process once again. (Normally doing this wiping process just once is enough, but i want to minimise all the potential issues as possible, so i want you to make the wiping process twice. :) ).

After this wiping process finished, then Install "Phoenix ROM v11" ZIP file. And then without flashing any other file, reboot your phone to System and do all the phone set up process and make all your main phone settings (but don't download or install any app or file on your phone). And then after you have finished your main set up in your phone, and after you understand the phone have settled down, then again go to Recovery Mode and this time install "Phoenix OTA Update v11.6" ZIP file and reboot your phone to System. This time look if there is any issues on your phone. Especially observe if your previous issue is still there or not. If you don't observe any issues then this time you can set up all your preferences on your phone and you can download all your apps from Google Play Store. I don't suggest to restore your Contacts, Call Logs, Messages and any other "System" apps from Titanium Backup. Because in some cases, this process causes some issues.

Follow all the steps above carefully.. And if you have any issues you can report here.. (If i will not able to answer your post here immediately because if i am not ready in that moment, i hope someone helps you.)

Good luck..
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] heblu:
Didn't know about alex's post....

Well, in this case, go for TWRP :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] pyetookh:
This is getting pretty frustrating. The silly sound is back...

I dully followed your kind instructions step by step: Clean SD card with only needed zip files, Nandroid backup, twice clean using the latest TWRP, installed Phoenix v11.0 only. Selected mainly all S6 options in Aroma. Believe it or not the sound appeared on the very first screen after installation - where you choose your language. It disappeared two screens later (where you choose your wifi). Sadly it was back again when it reached "desktop screen" for the very first time...

This is actually pretty sad.

Do we want to go thru stock ROM route or would you just recommend me to stick to something like CM12.1 or any other less fancy ROM?I would really like to run my phone on Imperium or Phoenix :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] lawyer_06:
Yes, it looks like a very annoying and a weird problem.

In this case, we will perform the second method to solve your problem. I hope it fix it. If you haven't had this issue just on Touchwiz ROMs, then we would guess it is a hardware related issue. But, you are telling that this problem just occurs on Touchwiz based ROMs and not on CM based ROMs. So, it means the problem is related with a point in Touchwiz ROMs. And i hope flashing an official stock ROM via ODIN could fix it.

Now, i will guide you to flash an official stock ROM via ODIN and after it flashing Phoenix ROM, we are especially downloading an OF2 based official ROM to match the base with Phoenix ROM's base:

1- Firstly download the OF2 based official ROM to your computer from Sam Mobile's below link. Then after you perform a FULL WIPE (as you have done above) in Recovery Mode, you will reboot into "DOWNLOAD MODE" while you are in Recovery Mode and then you will follow the instructions about how to flash the official ROM via ODIN. You will find that instructions in the Sam Mobile's same page below the download link of the firmware you have downloaded. You will also find there the link of ODIN's latest version there:

=> http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/54114/I9505XXUHOF2_I95053IEHOG1_3IE/

2- After you flash the official stock ROM succesfully, then look if your problem is still exist on the stock ROM or not.

3- After you flash the stock ROM via ODIN, your Baseband and BL will be changed to OF2. And your TWRP Recovery will no longer be available. You will have the stock Recovery on your phone. And to have TWRP Recovery on your phone again, you will need to flash the .tar file of TWRP Recovery via ODIN's "AP" slot. Without a custom Recovery as TWRP, you will not able to install Phoenix ROM or any other Custom ROMs.. So, later you will need the .tar file of TWRP. And in the link below you will find the .tar file of

TWRP Recovery (v2.8.6)

. I have just the .tar file of version 2.8.6 at the moment, i don't have the .tar file of version 2.8.7, so after you flash version 2.8.6 via ODIN, then you can go to Recovery Mode and upgrade your TWRP version to v2.8.7 by flashing the one i have given its ZIP file link before.

=> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6PT9GoNoQdjbDAxZkdDcTdaZG8/view?usp=sharing

4- If you perform all the above steps succesfully then we will again come to the start point as if you will flash the Phoenix ROM in TWRP Recovery for the first time.. :)

Don't hesitate to ask the points that you didn't understand or you think that are not clear enough. If you have a question to ask and if i will not be ready at that moment to answer your question, at that moment the Search Button of XDA will help you in behalf of me.. ;)

Good luck..
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] tamirda:
Guys,

Please stop pm me with requests.

I am not a private technician, and i am not your worker.

Moreover, finally after 1.5 years in the army I am on vacation, and i am trying to get off from xda during the vacation.

My PM box is for devs and friends, not for requests or help.

Then stop or get blocked.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] zezzet:
Sorry for my pm, thanks for your work.

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] pyetookh:
Amazing!!! The level of support I'm getting from you is unbelievable. Thank you so much!

Your step by step guide is perfect.

Irish Lollipop works well with no issue at all. I didn't have it on for long and didn't bother to install apps or other things. But it looked pretty clear to me that the sound is gone.

I managed to get easily all the way to the point 3. Unfortunately I struggle to flash TWRP 287 over 286. Older version looks like good old MS DOS :D. Every time I reboot into recovery it shows me green Android robot lying on his back with red exclamation mark on his tummy. When I try to "apply update from external storage" and confirm TWRP 2.8.7 it gives me a few red lines "E: failed to verify all file signature". It ends with yellow "...successful". But when I reboot into recovery again I'm back on old manual TWRP 2.8.6.

Any possible solution to this, please?

...update: The annoying sound is back on this Irish ROM too. It was triggered by my "daily use microSD card 64GB". All was fine until I inserted my bigger card in. The sound started within a second it was in. In the same moment I realised I didn't clear all the previous traces from previous systems on it. Removing the card and inserting my "testing and installation microSD" didn't bring much change. Even when I deleted all the system traces from both. It was on and off regardless what card was in or wasn't.

I tried Dalvik and installation wipe using TWRP 286 and reinstalled Irish ROM via Odin. New installation was OK until I inserted my "daily use microSD card 64GB". I previously removed system traces but when it went in (with all the pictures, videos and documents only) the sound was back again. Could it be a virus which spreads all over the system and copies itself onto "testing and installation microSD" from there? I do not run any antivirus software on my phone.

Thank you