yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
you can not control bln .. no bln for sms ....for superuser u must flash via recovery
[Nexus S Android Development] k-kuchen:
OK, never noticed that SMS won't show.

But what comes to mind in terms of bugs is the cut off PIN number pad
[Nexus S Android Development] cn.fyodor:
The BLN behavior is the same as in 4.3. BLN for SMS works for me, just tested minutes ago. As for the Superuser, I merged all official commits from Koush, but still we got deprecated su warning. Anyway you CAN get root permissions or su requiring prompt in any applications. Just the warning sounds annoying...

I was always using a custom IME for my language, no cut of PIN pad here. Please show me an example. :P
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
What app u use for bln ?
[Nexus S Android Development] lagloose:
just checking out build3. Everything looks good so far. But i'm still missing the little up/down traffic arrows in the signal inidicator. Probably a missing kernel setting...

Greetz
[Nexus S Android Development] cn.fyodor:
None. The BLN function is supported by the light library built in the ROM. Or you mean how to custom/control the BLN for SMS?

From the image, if you inserted the SIM card, its occupied space would be freed. See my snapshot. :P But will try to adjust the SIM icon layout.

Google disabled this traffic arrow feature because they are inaccurate. CM reverted to the old behavior, but I probably won't do that.
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
Yes for sms and missed call pls
[Nexus S Android Development] k-kuchen:
My phone is also set to German and it looks like in this screenshot.

Anyway thank you very much for Build 3 and your great support, cn.fyodor! :laugh:
[Nexus S Android Development] zurny:
I'd like to thank all the devs that are working on this ROM for our phone, I really appreciate it!

Rock on!
[Nexus S Android Development] klusark:
Those were removed in 4.4. CM11 has them though.
[Nexus S Android Development] array81:
I'd like try this rom on my Nexus S. Can somebody give me a good GApps link for Nexus S and Android 4.4?

Can I use this: https://plus.google.com/107979589566958860409/posts/6eZrEBD3H99 from Paranoid Android?
[Nexus S Android Development] Erythnul:
Google removed that, to save on CPU/GPU overhead.

Source: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...nd-only-shows-connectivity-in-quick-settings/
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
PA gapps work, Banks seems good as well...
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
flash now..this rom support mtp ?
[Nexus S Android Development] khalid_ham33d:
Superuser still says the su binary is not installed, although supersu works. Can anyone tell me the rowxcolumn in the drawer you are getting in the Google Launcher of PA GApps? I used to get 5x5 with earlier version of PA GApps but now I am getting 5x4 which is quite strange...
[Nexus S Android Development] k-kuchen:
I also have got 5x4 for some time now. I think it was changed when Google Search was updated
[Nexus S Android Development] khalid_ham33d:
Also I can't find a way to copy anything to system folder, which I used to do when I was at 4.3

Similarly I can't flash some zips which were alright with the alpha build 1 but after that I couldn't flash those zips... Really confused, tried almost everything...

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Yup, may be, but I really miss it, it looked good... Any GApps with that grid? or any method to change the grid size?
[Nexus S Android Development] k-kuchen:
I do that in CWM Recovery using ADB
[Nexus S Android Development] khalid_ham33d:
Hmm... Will try that too... :)
[Nexus S Android Development] k-kuchen:
Don't forget to mount /system first ;)
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
[MENTION=2253579]cn.fyodor[/MENTION] I test bln and work for sms but not for missed call !!

also anyone get flash player working ?
[Nexus S Android Development] ui10:
For the cut off pin code :
[Nexus S Android Development] array81:
I have many restart until now. Sometimes when I use my Nexus S android restart... :crying:

For example if I try to install some application (green power premium)...
[Nexus S Android Development] kikko088:
I try this rom and for now I had some problem only the first time I set the phone...probably is normal!

After this the phone is smooth and fast, all seems to work (I don't know if bnl for call work but bnl for sms,whatsapp work), for now i'm with dalvik.

Only two question (unnecessary), why the status bar is black and not transparency? there is way for edit quick tab?(add,remove give the possibility to enable or disable wifi without go into menu setting)

kikko088
[Nexus S Android Development] ethan_hines:
I confirm that Devil Kernel breaks (FCs) the play store.

Are there any other custom kernels that work well with this build?
[Nexus S Android Development] notbrodie:
for those that care about benchmarks, i performed a couple. setup is completely stock except for 2048 readahead and performance governor.

first is stock android.

second is with ART enabled

third is with Moto X optimized dalvik libraries

fourth is nexus 5 with moto x dalvik
[Nexus S Android Development] khalid_ham33d:
Copying and flashing was an issue because of Memory full, I've taken care of that, now they are functioning properly. Can anyone using PA GApps tell if you are still getting the "OK Google" hotword detection. Mine isn't working for a while now and I can't understand if it has something to do with the ROM or with the GApps? And any method to change the grid size of Drawer in GoogleHome?
[Nexus S Android Development] lagloose:
Enabling ZRAM

Some of you have perhaps read that Google optimized Kitkat to use zram. Read section 'Swap to zRAM' from here: http://source.android.com/devices/low-ram.html for more infotmation. Due to the fact that AOSP has no 'init.d' support, here's how to manually enable zram.

Using adb, create a file 'zram.sh' on your sdcard with the following content:

#!/system/bin/sh

echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset

echo 30 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

echo $((64*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/disksize

mkswap /dev/block/zram0

swapon /dev/block/zram0

Then enable zram by typing 'sh zram.sh'. The 'free' command should now show you Swap enabled.

As you can see i've set swapsize to 64Mb and reduced swappiness to 30 because IMHO the default value of 60 is way too high. Some people say that it's even better to reduce swappiness to 10 because it tells the kernel to only swap if it is absolutely necessary. Just test around a little and report back here if you see any improvements.

[MENTION=2253579]cn.fyodor[/MENTION]: Perhaps it makes sense to compile an optional kernel with zram enabled and activated. In the ''Swap to zRAM' section mentioned above you'll find everything which has to be done.

Greetz
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
[MENTION=2253579]cn.fyodor[/MENTION] I see on your op that kernel set 200mhz min cpu..but on your rom is set to 100mhz ..I must change to 200mhz min cpu on nstools ?

also use row and interactive ...
[Nexus S Android Development] cn.fyodor:
Yes, BLN for missed call doesn't work. You can try Light Flow to support it with specified color notification (say cyan, no red). If it works on NS, please let me know. Thanks.

For the min CPU freq, it's the default behavior set by Google. I temporarily set it to 200, but didn't find much performance boost, so I reverted to the stock value.

Thank you for the tip. I read the guide when KitKat was released and zRAM was built in the Kernel for months. :P Also I check-picked many zRAM patches/fixes from Google 3.4 Kernel. However I still don't recommend to use zRAM for daily driver because the compressing operation takes a bit CPU time, it seems more pressed for NS.

Actually RAM is not the performance bottleneck any more after the extra free kbytes patch was merged, but the CPU/GPU hardware. We have to admit that NS is really old like we are getting old too...
[Nexus S Android Development] lagloose:
I talked about 'improvements' and not performance... :)

I agree with you that using zRAM won't improve performance, but IMHO it might give better Multitasking and 'free' MM a little bit from managing Memory. At least for me, the Launcher wasn't 'killed' anymore after heavy multitasking when using zRAM. I personally find it worth to give a little CPU time for that behaviour ;) But anyway, everyone can now check out for himself if he wants to use zRAM or not.

And YES, we are getting old too fast :)
[Nexus S Android Development] rakeshbro:
Flashed it on my nexus s, Everything is working fine till now, But superuser always poping-up and saying to update su binary, but it's not updating to latest binary, then i installed super-su updated su binary using it(normal) the set it as system app and then the default superuser app gone from drawer, Now it's taking to much time to give root permission to any root-access app.

Btw thx for the rom, Very stocky feeling :silly:

Edit :

SuperSU now working good.
[Nexus S Android Development] Some_Person:
Thanks for your amazing work, cn.fyodor!

I just have one question: is it possible to disable BLN?
[Nexus S Android Development] khalid_ham33d:
Photosphere not working with these in this build, was working fine before but now it isn't there...
[Nexus S Android Development] Engic0:
I did a dirty flash on build 2 ...broke google play! - flashed gapps again to fix it...

superuser had to be updated...

Photosphere doesnt work :(

rest all works just fine...

Mediafire MIRROR
[Nexus S Android Development] mushan3420:
WeChat Email Helper shows black screen and WeChat Voice Intercom FC. I have the latest version of WeChat.

微信邮件助手黑屏，微信语音对讲机强制关闭。微信已经是最新版本。
[Nexus S Android Development] devil188:
So for some reason the "OK Google" feature does not work for me in alpha build 3 , but it worked at build 2 . I set the language to English(US), but it still doesn't work. Anyone know why it does not?
[Nexus S Android Development] 4I-I:
Did you flash different gapps?
[Nexus S Android Development] devil188:
I flashed the PA Gapps
[Nexus S Android Development] 4I-I:
What i meant was, did you flash the same gapps with build 3 as you did with build 2?
[Nexus S Android Development] devil188:
Yea, the same one. Should I download the latest one and then flash that one?
[Nexus S Android Development] the1dynasty:
Still following this thread in hopes someone could help me port it to crespo4g... I just need it to boot and have working WiFi and Bluetooth for audio streaming... I have a Nexus 5 so I don't need the data/cell part to work lol...
[Nexus S Android Development] rolf2000:
Photosphere working, build3

First of all many thanks to you and everybody working close for this great efford to improve and develop this build3.

This is very motivating, helpful and outstanding.

To whom it might concern there is a way to work with photosphere:

1. Delete/Rename camera2.apk and gallery2.apk in system/app

2. Install (I used root browser) NewCameraApp...see: http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/apk/Photosphere/NewCameraApp[2].apk

3. Empty RAM as much as possible (I am using Android Assistant)

It works well.

I would like to have some tips and tricks to improve performance a little bit. I inactivated some apps already (Drive,Google+,Hangouts Earth,Drive, Google Play Magazines and books, News) but hope to increase speed with your ideas and use some apps again....I am using Darvik instead of ART and still hesitating because of compatibility with some apps (?).

I had severe problems with missmatching MD5 by restoring ROMs, but could resolve it by clearing input with nandroid.md5...

Again, thanks a lot.

Best,

:)
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
I have the sa e problem.with banks gapps..also not replace the camera ..
[Nexus S Android Development] mushan3420:
But in my case, it works.

I am using GApps from Nexus 4. I just put the files from Nexus 4 Deodexed rom to Alpha 3, so I don't have separate GApps.
[Nexus S Android Development] devil188:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2397942 <- I downloaded this Gapps, the full package
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
use puffin browser or photon ... you don't need to flash the adobe .apk

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@devil188 I have the same problem ..but with banks gapps..when I try the build 2 with gapps all working ...on build 3 some app not replace with on gapps
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
hey guys u use ART ?
[Nexus S Android Development] ej8989:
I can't. Too many FCs.
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
ok...you get Fc on browser without art?
[Nexus S Android Development] 4I-I:
File doesnt exist...:(

I flashed devil kernel and set it to smartass v2 and row and my phone is rly snappy!! ;)

Gesendet von meinem Nexus S mit Tapatalk
[Nexus S Android Development] ej8989:
Nope. It's fine with dalvik. On ART root is somewhat broken (?), and all apps that needed root privileges FCs.
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
i get fc when browse some time ..on aosp browser
[Nexus S Android Development] b95505017:
backup account not work?
[Nexus S Android Development] rolf2000:
Photosphere Download

Try to enter address step by step....First:http://downloadandroidrom.com/ then:apk then:Photosphere

There seems to be a link protection.

Best,

:cowboy:

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I installed ROM without GApps first. Changed from Dalvik to ART. And it worked. After that GApps should be installed, which I did not try yet.

Best,

:cowboy:
[Nexus S Android Development] rolf2000:
DevilTools (apk) works fine with 1200MHz,interactive,row and Zram 10%.

Could finish AnTuTu benchmark very first time with 5438. Is there space for improvement?

Best
[Nexus S Android Development] cn.fyodor:
Hmm, since I got the kernel crash mostly or all the time due to hardware rendering in Dialer application, I suspect there are some bugs about EGL calls there. So I now build out the one without GPU rendering. Please test if it helps to fix the reboot issue. Push the apk to /system/priv-app/ directory, you need to adb remount first of course.

Cheers,
[Nexus S Android Development] SakisProHD:
Where can I find Devil kernel?
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
ok I put now to test it... but how I can test ? because never I get reboot when I am on dialer...
[Nexus S Android Development] mushan3420:
Could you please help with this?

Porting the Google dialer

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2537394
[Nexus S Android Development] k-kuchen:
So far the dialer is working
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
Search bars, Google, reading threads in XDA, possibly the same developers section you found this ROM in.. Looking first helps??

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http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=46810981

Note the time difference, that's how long it took to actually look for it..
[Nexus S Android Development] SakisProHD:
Sorry but I thought it was only for Jelly Bean at first,anyway thank you!Also do you know if these gapps:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2012857 will work in this ROM?
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
I haven't used them, but others say they work..
[Nexus S Android Development] spider623:
i hope that this will get in beta soon, i want to flash it now but my sis has the phone until she buys one for herself
[Nexus S Android Development] DarkShadow69:
These Gapps are working perfectly fine for both aosp and unofficial cm11 releases :)
[Nexus S Android Development] lagloose:
Hey,

at the moment i'm switching between your AOSP and Euroskanks CM11 from day to day. I didn't have any problems with reboots and graphical glitches in CM11. Could it be that the driver failure is because you raised surfaceflinger FPS in yout kernel ? (just a thought...)

Greetz
[Nexus S Android Development] cn.fyodor:
Probably not. I'm definitely sure the reboot issue is caused by kernel oops in the PVR drivers. It does nothing with Samsung display driver (FPS things). And I doubt CM will survive this issue since both are using the same drivers/EGL blobs etc.

Btw, it's not SurfaceFlinger FPS. SF is just a surface compositor. :P
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
U can use it..its stable like other rom

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Yes no problem
[Nexus S Android Development] lagloose:
[MENTION=2253579]cn.fyodor[/MENTION]: One more thing perhaps worth a change...

Translucent statusbars in GEL or Lockscreen depend on setting 'ro.config.low_ram' in system/build.prop. If this property is set to 'true', translucency will be disabled, regardless of settings in framework-res.apk. (See here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2510410) So it might be an idea to dig in the source and make translucency independent of 'ro.config.low_ram' while all other aspects which are influenced by this property remain as they are. But that's your decision....
[Nexus S Android Development] cn.fyodor:
Actually I did the tweak to keep the HighGfxAccel on (reverted though), but not enabled and tested the transparent UI effects yet. That's because personally I don't like a transparent bar on top, which looks not that solid for me. lol Anyway Google disabled this UI feature for Nexus 7 or GN(?), so I thought we'd keep it off on NS too. Will try to enable it if you guys want.
[Nexus S Android Development] devil188:
//Do you already know the bug that you can't say "ok google" in build 3 anymore. It worked for build 2.

//Even the cross in the menus is ticked, but it still ain't working.

//My mic does work, tested it out by calling someone.

You can try, I'd like to see how the transparent effect looks like :)
[Nexus S Android Development] ethan_hines:
Yes please bring back "Ok Google"
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
I don't see any different with dialer.apk
[Nexus S Android Development] steven676:
You know, that's actually somewhat suggestive to me -- CyanogenMod lacks the equivalent of https://gist.github.com/steven676/7276901 (try harder to find EGL config with lots of features) in frameworks/native (we may need to introduce something like that patch for 16-bit color support on Nook Color, though). It might be worth reverting that patch; if that causes the crashes to go away, I'd try https://gist.github.com/steven676/7667680 (disabling pbuffers; you need to set the corresponding TARGET_DISABLE_SURFACEFLINGER_PBUFFERS flag in BoardConfig.mk) to see if that fixes the problem. (If that doesn't work, you could then add https://gist.github.com/steven676/7667657 (disabling OpenGL ES 2.0 in SurfaceFlinger entirely; set TARGET_DISABLE_SURFACEFLINGER_GLES2 in BoardConfig.mk) as well.)
[Nexus S Android Development] Reenee:
Which gapps everyone is using?
[Nexus S Android Development] arpitsinghi:
You can use Gapps available over here

http://d-h.st/users/dhacker29/?fld_id=27426#files

I used

gapps-kk-20131110-artcompatible.zip 109.82 MB

It works like a charm on my phone, please see this is not all the gapps but contains essentials

Regards,

Arpit
[Nexus S Android Development] arpitsinghi:
Scope of improvement and minor Customization

Firstly i would like to thank cn.fyodor for the nexus kitkat ROM. My phone is now running much faster. I understand its a stock ROM. I always love it and that's the reason i don't expect that kind of customization either

Few Places of improvement

.

This settings menu is additional, I understand that its for handsets which don't have touch sensitive buttons, since we have we can remove this

Minor customization

These shortcuts mentioned in screenshot will be very useful, if you can include those, owner info is not required, also these boxes size can be reduced in order to accommodate these extra shortcuts

Also, It would be great if we can open these by bringing notification down from very right hand corner instead of 2 fingers.

I understand that you may not have time for that, but if you have and if it doesn't take much of time, please include in your next update

Thanks,

Arpit
[Nexus S Android Development] cn.fyodor:
I can confirm it's not the EGL config patch causing the kernel crash. I reverted your 7276901 patch and no surprise I got:

W/SurfaceFlinger( 98): no suitable EGLConfig found, trying a simpler query

then system runs generally fine, but still crashes sometimes also due to the PVR drivers. Meanwhile EGL was set to GLES 1.1, therefore it seems also not the 2.0 version detection thing. Also 24 Bit config worked fine on 4.3. But the PBUFFERS is a new flag and may worth a try. :P

I really doubt CM 11 can survive this reboot issue. It can be easily triggered by opening the Dialer app many times instantly after a heavy load (eg using web browser or memory-hungry app). I hope some CM users can give it a try and report back.

[MENTION=4568199]arpitsinghi[/MENTION]: Thanks for the suggestion, but I'd say this ROM will not customize the UI interface, I will keep it as stock as possible.
[Nexus S Android Development] khalid_ham33d:
You can get back the "OK Google" feature back by modding the build.prop

Just change ro.config.low_ram="true" to ro.config.low_ram="false"

Build 3 has this feature enable which disables the OK Google as well as the Photosphere feature which weren't having any issue with Build 2. Change this and you'll get back these two features... :)
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
I have ran CM11 (EuroSkank) with no crashes/ reboots (minus a couple Firefox FC's)... I am using Devil kernel, but it seems very stable..?? My only issue thus far is with 3g dropping out, and I have to re-choose my cell provider to stop data roaming..
[Nexus S Android Development] zsparrow:
Sorry for asking this,is this ROM suitable and stable enough to use as daily ROM ? I normally make phone calls, fb, streaming YouTube ,SMS that's all.
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
Yes !!!
[Nexus S Android Development] zsparrow:
Thanks ,downloading now, can't wait to try it out! May I know which gapps and kernel suit this ROM best?
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
i use banks gapps. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2012857

for kernel ..rom is stable with stock kernel ..so if you want try flash devil kernel ..
[Nexus S Android Development] rho57:
IMO, No. No. No and no.
[Nexus S Android Development] zsparrow:
Is the download link had problem? I tried to download from the first link,when I clicked download it just download a 194kb file,then when I download through Google link,it download succeed, but when I try to flash,it says some file is missing,installation aborted(status 7) something like that. Any solution? I had wiped everything.
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
Using CWM 6.0.4.3 recovery?
[Nexus S Android Development] array81:
This is my experience after some days of use this rom. The rom is quite stable. The main problem is this: about 1 or 2 times for day (before a call or after a call) the dailer have some problem and my device is reboot.

I have tested both original dailer.apk and cn.fyodor dailer.apk but the result is the same.

I hope this can help to solve the problem.
[Nexus S Android Development] devil188:
K thanks, now it works :3
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
After flash again with new dialer i get fc ...
[Nexus S Android Development] k-kuchen:
Did anybody try to make status bar translucent in Alpha 3?

Will setting "ro.config.low_ram" to false make the phone noticeable slower?

How is this going so far?

BTW the SIM card is inserted in this screenshot
[Nexus S Android Development] abinash:
Installation aborted while I am trying to flash that zip file though am using cwm 6.0.3.2(not latest).

Where I can find supported
[Nexus S Android Development] DarkShadow69:
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager

And

For flashable zips of ver 6.0.4.3
[Nexus S Android Development] jc4gavejc:
I ported this to our ill-favored Nexus S 4G, and I gotta say, you built a solid ROM.

Thanks so much!