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[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] Phenom2122:
+1 to that. Low battery life is just a smart phone thing, ever since owning my first smart phone, the average is one day, maybe two if I'm out and about and not using it so much. I would love to know how some people get such excellent battery life and if they even use their phones at all. Or if they take into account the charge the phone will receive when plugged into the pc.

For me personally, a lot of the joy I had when I first got this phone went away ever since upgrading away from the 4.4.2 mark. Things just don't seem to work properly anymore. UC Browser constantly freezes or gets this other weird behavior where it is still alive, just not wanting to do much. From time to time I get a similar 'freeze' in all areas of the phone, where it doesn't seem to detect my touches for a moment or two but the display doesn't freeze at all. This is mostly noticeable in games but also shows itself in various list views especially. Different Xposed modules seem to work whenever they feel like it these days. It seems to not always start up with the phone correctly.

Has anyone else experienced a general drop in performance and usability ever since moving away from 4.4.2? Maybe it is something I am doing wrong but to be honest I'm considering going to a JB firmware, just for a while at least and sitting things out.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] jake3317:
[MENTION=3261191]F4k[/MENTION]. Eversince I run the CarbonROM, I had this small issue with the light sensor displaying a static value after some time. The only chance to get the light sensor working, is to read out the proximity sensor. Either by making a phone call, using a sensor-reader app or a reboot.

I have created a logfile, where I use sensor-viewer to read the (stuck) light sensor value. 2: I read the proximity sensor. 3: I read the light sensor again (voila, it works again). http://pastebin.com/M8he86C9
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] Herr Harro:
Does anybody also have the issue that the connection shortly breaks down after finishing a call? It seems that after a call the phone needs some time to connect to any network (cell/WiFi) again. After that everything works fine again, its just these few seconds without connection.

Regarding battery life, my battery also looses more than 10% energy over night. Could be better but I can live with charging my phone every second day. Its still better than any smartphone I possessed earlier.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] jake3317:
BTW, my battery life has been stable ever since. I use llama app to turn off the cell signal overnight and get always 3-4 days as a light user.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] aguaz:
[MENTION=3261191]F4k[/MENTION], would you mind providing device repos and instructions to build for serranods?

thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] OmegaRED^:
My phone was stolen T.T

Took it right out of my pocket and ripped out the battery asap. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] Vilo76:
I'm a very "light" user :

Beside some heavy data usage periods, my usage is restricted to a couple of calls/sms per day.

In addition, I pay a great attention to disable Data/WiFi/BT/GPS when not in use (that is to say 95% of a typical day).

And finally, I've set min freq to 162 and undervolted all steps by -75mv.

Previous Carbon ROMs was giving me 4/5 days of life, were the last one gives 2/3 max.

Stock 4.2 ROM last 3 days max.

Yes, I shouldn't complain to have 3 days of battery, but there is still something that went wrong with lasts versions.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] OmegaRED^:
thanks for making my sgs 4 mini truly a great device FAK.

I owe you a lot for your efforts and won't be able to test lte roms for you anymore.

I hope the best of luck guys. will be getting a new device soon.

Thanks for a great time everyone, you guys all made me feel welcome and all worthy of being around.

:o
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] mikle85:
Nice rom. installed 3 days ago, no issues so far, battery life is really good here. How themes work? not really looked into it jet.

One problem is that i dont like androids stock phone book/contacts app, but thats only me. Any one knows something different?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] kamikaze702k:
Play store FULL of replacements, ex dialer for example, search "contacts" for themes play store "CM11" and apply lol, get a whole new look, the 'theme pack' sub menu will show you everything your installed themes offer, from style, boot animations, icons, fonts, sounds, etc...

Enjoy ur experience

Sent from my GT-I9195 CarbonKat 4.4.4
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] mikle85:
Nice tips. thank you.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] kokabunga:
I love the features of move to sd. That is why I am keeping this ROM

Envoyé de mon GT-I9192 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] kamikaze702k:
Severe battery issues here, been swapping through few batteries to eliminate battery problems, but check this..

Been charging device since 4pm, at 11pm finally it goes to 100%, that's 7 hours!! That's not the shocking part, so it goes fully charged, I unplug the charger, then lock my screen, go downstairs have a glass of water, come back up and device gone to 56% in a matter of minutes! Now that's taking the biscuit!

Desperately hoping for a new release, as much as I love this ROM and [MENTION=3261191]F4k[/MENTION] , if this persists I'll have no choice but to either downgrade or find something new for everyday use, this hurts me so much to say but what else am I supposed to do? :(

Situation has become bad to worse

Clean install, PA 0 day gapps

Sent from my GT-I9195 CarbonKat 4.4.4
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] situ1962:
Has anybody experienced the issue of random time change to GMT.Mine changes to GMT randomly.My time zone is India.i.e. +5.30 hours of GMT.I have checked auto update of time.But randomly it reverts to GMT although the time zone is correct.Then to correct it I have to untick and then tick the auto update option and it then shows the correct time again.This happens many times in a day and it is very frustrating.

Another weird issue that I am facing is,I am using a BSNL sim in slot 1 and a Reliance sim in slot two without any issue.But if I swap the sims slots then neither is recognized by the phone.Has anybody experienced these problems ?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] kamikaze702k:
[MENTION=1310980]situ1962[/MENTION] yes, I did experience that same issue but in a previous release not the current latest build

Sent from my GT-I9195 CarbonKat 4.4.4
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] F4k:
New builds are on the way, I was facing some issues when compiling 'cause I reverted JustArchi optimizations and I'm trying something new.

But I can now delivery builds compiled with Linaro 4.8.3 toolchain, no issues so far even that ugly playstore glitch is now gone.

Hopefully we'll have better battery life too plus a better smooth device :)
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] kamikaze702k:
Love you bro

Sent from my GT-I9195 CarbonKat 4.4.4
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] dclarkg:
Hello everybody! I flashed this awesome ROM on my girlfriend's s4 mini and everything works great, no FC's, great battery life and super smooth and snappy! The only issue is that when I connect the phone to the computer Windows does not see the external SD card and only shows the internal storage, also if I open a file explorer it shows a external_sd directory but is empty, The SD card is a 16 gb ExFat card. I was searching the thread and for what I read there is no ExFat support on the ROM but it should appear on Windows at least right? Any ideas on this?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] kamikaze702k:
I'm sure there is exFAT support, however long time ago I formatted my exFAT into FAT32 due to facing several issues with exFAT cards, since then I've not had any issues, I have a guide on how you could do this is you wish?

Sent from my GT-I9195 CarbonKat 4.4.4
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] dclarkg:
Thank you for the response my friend! I wanted to use exfat since since is more reliable, I'll format the card again and if it does not work I'll use FAT32, I know how to format it but thx anyway for the guide offering :good::highfive:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] Phenom2122:
If she is going to be sticking with this rom, it also supports f2fs for the external sd, which operates quite nicely. You can format it to f2fs with F4k's Philz Touch recovery (perhaps you could take a look, it has quite a nice little list of supported file systems to format to including ext4, vfat, exfat etc)
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] rolo143:
I've been struggling with the same battery issue, my phone doesn't lasts more than 4 hours, I have to charge it everytime, and it takes about 3 or 4 hours. :(
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] dclarkg:
Are you having this isse on otehr ROMS? It could be the battery since over here the battery life is great and it charges as usual :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] gladson1976:
I don't have the battery issues in my 9192. I'm using the latest release and I do have somewhat heavy usage (Candy Crush and Subway Surf, movies, 3G on all the time,..) and I have around 18 hrs battery backup.

I've done a clean install of the ROM.

I am using Greenify though to hibernate quite a few apps (especially the games) and BootManager in Xposed to select the apps that start on boot.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] iFlasher:
Just leave the device in the night and see the battery in the moring, you may get scared (just joking)...
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] gladson1976:
Done that too :) normally get 2 to 3 percent drain at night ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] rolo143:
Will try Greenify and Bootmanager to see if that helps. Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] johny.mnemonic:
You must have done something really bad to your phone;)

Such a huge drain can only be caused by some serious issue. Even the most demanding 3D games can't cause such a high battery drain.

You definitely need clean format and new flash.

We all have some sporadic battery issues, it's not prefect that's true, but nothing serious as you describe. The worst I had seen on my phone was 15%/h drain and even that happened twice since I flashed last build. Usually it's around 2-3%/h with peaks to 8%/h.

Today I had one 12%/h peak, when I surfed internet for few minutes while in the car on highway. I guess some issue with cell switching while using data...who knows. But even with that I still have 38% of battery after 11 hours off the charger and 70 minutes screen-on time. Perfectly usable as daily driver.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] kamikaze702k:
[MENTION=378021]johny.mnemonic[/MENTION] trust me, I've formatted and clean flashed latest build several times, I've done nothing bad, I don't play games nothing, use my device for simple tasks such as calls text emails whatsapp Twitter, that's it! Only safe apps installed, no rogue apps or cracked apps etc, previous builds I've had amazing battery life but just the current latest build it's eating my device hard! From 1.30am until 5am, deep sleep, screen off, took like 20+%

New builds are coming soon so hopefully it'll fix things

Sent from my GT-I9195 CarbonKat 4.4.4
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] dclarkg:
You should try another ROM and see how it goes but I'm pretty sure is not the ROM, are you on 3g, 4g or wifi?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] kamikaze702k:
I'm pretty sure it's not the ROM, I've been with F4k n carbon since the very first build, if anything it's something in this latest build, 3g, sometimes when I'm outdoors, indoors WiFi on, using deep sleep battery saver also, which stops WiFi n wakes it every 2 hours for 1 min, or wakes WiFi until I wake the device...

I might try another ROM for a few days see what happens then come back when the new build is out, but personally I just love CARBON too much! It's only started happening in this build and I'm pretty sure it's something to do with Google play services! Since they updated it it's become more battery hungry, more and more each day

Sent from my GT-I9195 CarbonKat 4.4.4
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] F4k:
New builds online

This builds come with brand new f4ktion kernel 1.5.5 included, changelog will be available shortly in his own thread.

They are compiled with Linaro 4.8.3, -O3 and with many others opt flags, please report if there are any issues only if the issue persist after a clean installation.

[MENTION=943196]k2wl[/MENTION] reported that in his custom builds for GT-I9192 (serranodsxx), there are issues with network related to new updates on CM source, so please if you have an similar trouble with network, stay with a old build for the moment on S4 Mini Duos.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] coldgin_:
Thank you F4-KAPO !! :good::good:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] volksieboi:
Something weird happened...

Downloaded the new build, moved it to SD card.

Rebooted into recovery... and it disappeared.

Now im bricked cos silly me didnt make a backup. :(

I'll sort it out when i get home but that was just weird....
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] situ1962:
I have made clean instal and enjoying since 8 hours without network related or any other issue on my 9192.Also so far I have not faced the random time changing issue of the previous build with this one.Thanks a lot for the beautiful and smooth build.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] fburgos:
What disappear?

Sdcard from recovery, then try different recovery or different sdcard.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] Wildfear:
Trying it right now on my i9192 with full wype.

So far so good, I'll get back if I find some bugs ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] etan123:
I had similar issue yesterday with CM11 M8. My phone stayed at 30% a long time and then went pretty fast to 0%. But that's not the problem: it took then around 7 hours to fully charge the battery while the phone was off! Unbelievable... So as you said it doesn't seem to be related to Carbon or F4k kernel...
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] volksieboi:
say what now?

the Carbonrom .zip file that i downloaded disappeared. just before i rebooted into recovery i moved it from internal memory to my external SD card.

I suspect that something went wrong and it didnt move. I cant see it in my internal or external memory.

But its not a trainsmash. I will download the zipfile to my PC when i get home and flash then.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] kamikaze702k:
Installed yesterday's build last night, everything running smooth, did an overnight charge with device off, device been turned on for one hour, I'm down to 83%

Will give it a few days to see how it goes, but around 20% in an hour is pretty fast I'd say, possibly calibrate battery on next full recharge and see how it goes, it's too early to say anything yet

Sent from my GT-I9195 CarbonKat 4.4.4
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] DLD23:
New build seems smoother with the navigation for some reason. I am happy so far.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] F4k:
Yes, I noticed that too.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] axman79:
Installed new build. No problems until played with Performance options in Settings. After switching to ondemand governor and checking to activate this option on boot my 9192 keeps freezing and restarting.

No problems before and rom was quite smooth. Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] jamus28:
My i9190 is having the same issue. After switching to ondemand, I can click exactly one thing on the screen before the phone completely freezes and I have to force reboot.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] F4k:
Yes, there seems to be a trouble with ondemand governor, so please don't use this governor until it get fixed.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] fburgos:
Also reporting 9192 dirty flash and no bugs
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] GiannisSma:
F4k is it posible to upload Kernel f4ktion 1.5.5 eur-lte??
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] F4k:
I need to fix first ondemand governor, then will release a new version.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] GiannisSma:
Ok thank you! We will wait.. :cowboy:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] Vilo76:
IntelliDemand is broken too, it causes phone shutdown after screen lock.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] F4k:
I can't reproduce this, what's your kernel configuration?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] DLD23:
I use intelliactive and row 1ghz max... works perfect
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] kamikaze702k:
Using oldskool classic smartmax with sio , nice

Sent from my GT-I9195 CarbonKat 4.4.4
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] mikle85:
can i just flash kernel to prev build? its working great i dont want to mess it up, but a little OC would be great.

How can i add more pages to the "desktop or table or you know the background"?

Could you add "restart to recovery" in power menu option F4k?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] Phenom2122:
Seriously, I do not know if my phone has ever felt smoother and more responsive then it does right now. System animations are smooth and fast, everything Xposed is working flawlessly so far, even UC Browser (which has admittedly become quite a ram hog) seems to be loving this device right now.

Thank you F4k for a very awesome update!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] aguaz:
Bump:

I am aware the k2wl has a repo for cm, but I failed miserably porting that, so it'll be awesome if you could provide your repos.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] kamikaze702k:
Battery life so much better, overnight charge, few hours with device powered off, the first 30% went down fast but since then it's been gradual, been on well over 12 hours, still got around 8%

Definitely a smoother build, everything feels nice and fluid, Xposed works fine, themes now stick, kernel looking good, no issues at all

Sent from my GT-I9195 CarbonKat 4.4.4
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] Phenom2122:
I just have to say, it looks like there is no more issue with the time taking forever to update on startup, so no more whatsapp errors. This is AWESOME. Will be interesting to see how the contextual notification header behaves now.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] fburgos:
I think [MENTION=943196]k2wl[/MENTION] and [MENTION=3261191]F4k[/MENTION] are using cm11 repos for Serrano3g and only apply patches from [MENTION=5368296]sekil[/MENTION]
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] DLD23:
The UI on this when I said was smooth was a understatement... its iPhone like in smoothness but without all the apple trash :)
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] coldgin_:
Hi, you should not. If you do it, graphics will flicker randomly... I know it 'cause I've done it just to try it out :)

regards.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] situ1962:
Previously I had reported that the random time changing problem is not there in the new build.But I was wrong.It is still there.Otherwise the rom is very smooth.Is this problem of random time changing happening to me or anybody else also faced problem?Is there any solution for this?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] volksieboi:
[MENTION=3261191]F4k[/MENTION] you are truly THE MAN! :D

New build is running like Bruce Fordyce at the Comrades Marathon. :good::good:

Silky smooth.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] Vilo76:
In my case, time is set to auto (both parameters) and the time/date is not retained after a reboot.

But as soon as the phone as access to NTP servers (i.e. Data or WiFi engaged) the time/date is set correctly until next reboot.

Does your problem appears with auto or manual time / date ?

I put CPU gov to IntelliDemand, decrease min freq to 162, and then decrease all voltage by 75mv.

Phone works normally until I lock it. A couple of milliseconds after lock, the phone force shutdown.

By the way, I'm setting Kernel params with Kernel Tweaker (on Play, by Rigamonti).

I've just tested with default Perf settings, and not problem ... so I guess this is a prob with above APK.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] Phenom2122:
I noticed recently while trying the latest SlimKat (with F4ktion kernel), in the Performance Control app there is an option in app settings to 'Use init.d script'. This option is missing in the exact same version of the app in Carbon. Any ideas why?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] kokabunga:
Hi,

Great rom!

Th only annoying thing is the keyboard selector that appear each and even time I enter a text fiel.

I caanoot find the option to hide that permanente keyboard selction dialog...
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] Phenom2122:
Settings>Language and Input>Advanced Options>Selector Notification
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] F4k:
It's easy, that script is not included on carbon, therefore will show you nothing.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] Phenom2122:
Haha you know, that makes perfect sense! :P

That's actually one thing I still haven't looked properly into, I must find out more.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] bobo1704:
I thought that CyanoGenMod was the best ROM for my I9192, but I was totally wrong!! The best ROM out there!!

Thank you a lot! Keep up the good work!!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] jake3317:
When I replace the updater-script file in the installer.zip to get an F2FS System partition, I can install the ROM fine. It boots OK and system is F2FS. So far, so good. However with already 2 ROM's that I tried that, Wifi is greyed out and won't work.

When I install the ROM again, but then original, without the changed updater-script, it installs fine, without F2FS on System and then wifi works as it should.

My procedure to replace the update-script:

In windows explorer (win 8), I open the zip - delete the updater-script - slide the modified updater-script in the right folder.

The update-script file, I downloaded here in the F2FS thread
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] freaksamael:
There's a extra line in updater-script that is not in your f2fs updater script:

symlink("/data/misc/wifi/WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini", "/system/etc/firmware/wlan/prima/WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini");

just symlink (or copy) /system/etc/firmware/wlan/prima/WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini in /data/misc/wifi/WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini (replace), set proper permission and WiFI should be OK. You can compare those files with notepad++ (UNIX format) and insert them with total commander.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] F4k:
You're using an outdated updater-script, that file doesn't have a wifi symlink and that's why you don't have wifi.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] ovisionario:
Man... This ROM is best.... My phone is very fast fluid and less battery usage... Congrats. AND thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] hansare:
In settings of your launcher you can adjust the number of home screens.

In options for developers check advanced reboot for restart to recovery.

Sent by a pigeon
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] kamikaze702k:
Definitely the BEST release build thus far! 2 days on battery whereas before just a few hours

Animations and touch responses are on point!

Not bothered about android L, personally I don't know what all the fuss is about, I'm not liking the material feel on the icons in most themes out now, seems like everyone is just jumping on the band wagon to keep "up to date"

But I say, not everything "new" is always better !

Sent from my GT-I9195 CarbonKat 4.4.4
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] DLD23:
Go keyboard with white theme is best for me :) all extra predictive crap and spellcheck turned off.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Android Development] volksieboi:
hey guys.... any one tinkered with the DPI ?

Some apps are incompatible on the playstore.

Its nothing major. but has anyone done this? and what have your findings been?

just curious :)