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[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
test build 2 is in fact 777kernel-otterx-8530.zip

but test build 1 never made it out☺.

8530-plus1 was supposed to be the initial release but i found it not to be as good as test build 2.

sorry for the confusion?.

I see the same results as you, so there's still more tweaking to be done. ill have some more test builds coming?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sabres032:
I tried the 85/30+ fire a bit and yes, there is lag. I went back to the test build 2 and all is well again.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] samsat:
Hmmm. I don't see a 777kernel-otterx-8530.zip only a 777kernel-otterx-8030.zip which you refer to in a previous post as test build 2?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
sorry i mean 8030. i will number different from now on, I now have a spread sheet with all the settings i try. so the next build will be 777kernel_b4 and they will then be named b5, b6 etc. sorry again for the confusion. b4 is being flashed now?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
at least with build 2 we now have a bench mark to compare with.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
777kernel-b4

Link: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23681161096069623

md5: 3d56864747dd225b1ee7113690716d2c

normal install instructions

install from recovery

wipe caches

reboot

select & apply smartassV2

let it settle

enjoy

I left min/max as 80/30 but played with the other settings. please report any sods as I've dropped awake frequency and sleep frequency values and alted others, should help with battery a bit (fingers crossed). :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] asjimene:
Running b4 now. I ran b2 all day and used the tablet through the day and it is now at 66%. It has been running for about 7 hours. Nice work! I'll report on b4 performance later.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashbang173:
Not sure what I did differently but I have Swype working pretty well on my CyanogenMod Linaro build (with 777 Kernel). I'm typing this with Swype right now.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pullipuli:
Finally I am back in SlimKAT with the help of a factory cable.. !! :victory:

I did the latest builds from steve (including the governor settings), but unfortunately the power button issue persist.. :eek: The rom is really fast, I don't feel like its a single core half gig device..

My worry is why this SOD happening only to me...

I will try one more OtterX ROM today to make sure its not a h/w issue.. :fingers-crossed:

by the way the lock screen flicker is still there, I noticed the screen always rotates to counter clockwise just before the lock. I tried this with rotation-lock settings as well but no change.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] asjimene:
For me, I'm not getting an SOD, however I do need to press the power button multiple times sometimes.

However this ROM is super quick now, I'm amazed at the performance!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
pullipuli you seem to be experiencing SOD on your own.

asjimene try 1 press but wait a second or 2. im not about tonight, so no update tonight?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
pulli turn off "screen off animation" somewhere in settings
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pullipuli:
I will try that tonight and report (sry will take another 6hrs...)

Do you know any way I could check what was running during the sleep? any log I can enable? the tab is warmer now when it fals to SOD (slightly warmer than ver 8.0's SOD, may be new governor pushing the idle freq?). I expect zero temp after an hr of lock but the tab got a consistent temp. :eek:
[Kindle Fire Android Development] asjimene:
Yep, turned on after about 2 seconds. Looks like I need to be more patient :P
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sabres032:
[MENTION=4410674]lovejoy777[/MENTION] b4 kernel is by far the best yet. Everything is snappy and I see no lag. Device wakes fast and I have not had a SOD.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Ixthusdan:
I am on b4, and have had a dramatic improvement of battery usage. Kindle runs fast and smooth. I have only lost 5% battery over 12 hours of no use. Big improvement. I will try lots of activity and see what that does. ( previous drain was 25% over 12 hours of non use)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] kvestas:
I must say I'm amazed. 777 b4 kernels rules!!! Many thanks Steve!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Italico:
Thanks so much for the great job!

May I ask why it is suggested not to overclock, and how does it relates to lags?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
try 1200 it may be fine. but i know on some kindles it makes them stutter a bit more, i have two kindles one of them is very strong and stable but the other is a bit fussy. i also want anyone testing my kernels to be on the same settings to get accurate feedback.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
guys I had all three of my animation settings at .5 and was experiencing a little lag/stutter opening the app draw and some apps, I swapped to .25 and no lag what so ever. (im not talking about the difference between the animation times?) there in developer settings
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
scaling all frequencies nice too?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
new one coming tomorrow, minor changes?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] asjimene:
The battery seems to be holding our really well too. I have been using the tab all day and it is still at 45%

Edit: 14hrs 30mins now at 30%. :good:

I think we have a winner here!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sabres032:
So you are saying to switch the animation settings in developer settings from .25 to .50? So far all my testing the animation has been set h to .25 with no issues.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Italico:
In fact mine seems snapoier with 1200, altough sometimes it stutters a bit... I should try, maybe with next build ;)

For sure SmartassV2 helped a lot! :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
[MENTION=4975132]sabres032[/MENTION] no the other way. it works a lot better on .25
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Ixthusdan:
Played last night, no charge, still at 49% battery this morning. This is the best battery since I switched to otterx.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] DonDeLome:
Question about ROM and gapps files

I'm currently running Hashcode's OtterX ROM and would like to try the SlimKat. My question is: what is the difference between adb pushing the files from my PC to the Kindle or just downloading the files directly to the Kindle from the links??? The Slimkat ROM passes the MD5 check but I didn't see a checksum for the gqpps.

An explanation would be appreciated ?.

Thanks - The Don
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sd_shadow:
if you have a bootable rom you can download from kindle or connect to pc and copy to kindle's sd card, if you do not have a bootable rom you must use adb push

When the md5 is not posted, you can just download twice and compare checksums, if they match download was good. The file size is posted, and 99% of the time if that matches file is complete, but I do prefer to have a MD5 checksum to compare to.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pullipuli:
Okei confirmed its nothing to do with ROM. I did a clean install with OtterX PAC-Man version and the SOD is still there :crying:

[MENTION=4410674]lovejoy777[/MENTION], Your ROM just rocks !! I realized it again when I was in PAC-man(even-thought it was a short stay). I am running back to SlmKat, I will only stay here even with this SOD :).

Another strange thing..... I found this option in "Display->Animation" section and by default it is selected as "Horizontal", but I was getting an effect similar to another one in the list "auto orientation" . And the best part is when I switched off this animation the SOD is reduced; its random now.

and absolutely no SOD in TWRP screen :D, is it a driver issue? H/W issue ? :(
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
whats your steps for a clean install?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pullipuli:
1. Copied PAC-Man OtterX, GApps to sdcard

2. Boot to recovery(TWRP Otter version) and factory reset (default with external mem excluded)

3. Installed ROM

4. Installed GApps

5. Cleared caches/dalvik

Reboot
[Kindle Fire Android Development] DonDeLome:
Thanks for the quick reply. I thought that was the reason for the files download vs push, but I wanted to be sure. Nice trick for checking non md5 files.

I'm going to flash the SlimKat and give it a whirl !!

Thanks again - The Don
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
ok [MENTION=4781467]pullipuli[/MENTION] factory reset then wipe system.

factory reset doesn't wipe the old rom or gapps.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
mrs going out in ten minutes then im on it:)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
I'm going to find the limit of default sleep ideal freq, ill keep lowering until we get sods.

except pulli has anyone had a sod on b4?

b4 has ideal sleep set at 24000. it was 30000 before, i will try 20000, which is what the sgs2 smartassV2 has set. im sure this is what effected better battery on b4. expect sods in b5 so keep b4 on your sdcard. i will test it first to make sure its ok but these things are best tested by more than 1.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
build 777kernel-b5 is up.

Link: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23681161096070386

md5: edcaacd38631ab743afd9afd27bd333c

no sods yet:) ideal now set at 20000 when in sleep.

normal install instructions.

let me know if/when you have a sod:)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sabres032:
No SOD on B4, it just flies. I'll give b5 a go and report back.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Ixthusdan:
B4 was solid for me. Just to be clear, I am using slim 8 as the base ROM and flashing the beta kernel. So far, b5 has no issues.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashbang173:
Will you be pushing these changes to GitHub?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
when its ready ?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] asjimene:
B5: just as fast, no SODs
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
no sods here either, and that will save battery as it ramps up slower after 20000mhz now not 24000mhz.

let me explain what I've done.

wakeup_freq =80000mhz

ideal_sleep_freq=20000mhz

ideal_awake_freq=80000mhz

and altered how long it stays at a frequency before ramping down and ramping up. this one is good but b6 is better:) as long as the sods keep away we should see it wake ok, speed up and save battery.:D
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
build 777kernel-b6

Link: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23681161096070421

md5: 97203e0938d1055ff4eb4c72483190c4

changers.

***********

delayed frequency ramping up time when above ideal_frequency

and

risen frequency ramping down time when below ideal_frequency.

should smooth things up (hopefully).
[Kindle Fire Android Development] asjimene:
B6 feels snappy, screen turns on immediately. Liking it so far.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
[MENTION=4630246]joshuabg[/MENTION] its on github. build 6 changes :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lllukas:
[MENTION=4410674]lovejoy777[/MENTION]

Hi. If You need more things to test from sgs2, then i could give You this because i have this phone :) of course with Slimsaber, from fusionjack. He add many interesting features, like notification on lockscreen (screenshot attached) maybe You could look on His Github ;)

https://github.com/SlimSaber

About Your kernel, im on b4 and no sods, better batery life since flashed otterx few mounths ago. I dont have time to flash b5 or b6 yet :(

There are faster testers than me :( its sooo saaaad [emoji24] [emoji28]

Regards my friend.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lllukas:
Look at this guys :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=55608256
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
mmmm anyone tried chrome after a proper clean install?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashbang173:
Link? I'm not seeing it for some reason.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
https://github.com/slimkat-otterx/k...mmit/7570dcaea986cf2bd57229d3862f50d638bfbd78
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
don't forget to credit me in your thread:-p
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashbang173:
[MENTION=4410674]lovejoy777[/MENTION] Actually if you don't mind, Can I use this also on the Shield Tablet? I don't own a Shield Tab but I thought I'd help out with the development since there is only one person developing on it.

Edit: You might want to add these commits to your kernel as well: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_amazon_otter-common/tree/cm-11.0
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
I've had some lag on b6. no sods though. its ramping down too quick or up to slow. I've just done a make clobber on my slimkat source and its gone to sh&t again. it just keeps erroring out:( need to sort it before i can make any changes..
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
i sorted it. its building slimkat 8.1 rom with b6 kernel. when its done i will make some small adjustments and release it with b7. because i did a make clobber it will take 3-4 hours.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
also thanks to joshua i will add some commits from cm-otter-common.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
b5 is the best so far. [MENTION=4630246]joshuabg[/MENTION] wait a bit and i will sync b7 changes to git. its a lot snappier than the commits i made for b6. the only difference b7 will have from b5 will be ideal_sleep_freq will be 20000 instead of 30000. so it should perform just like b5 but save a little bit more battery when asleep. hope this makes sense lol
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashbang173:
Already Compiling now, I'll make another build tommorow or later today if this one works. I already planned to do a test build after this one with the Linaro 4.9 toolchain.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
it builds fine with linaro 4.9 it works fine just has a little lag at times.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashbang173:
Is Linaro 4.7 Better? That's what I'm compiling with now.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
when ever i gave my users the choice they always asked for 4.9. although I'm messing so much with mine that i find it hard to ever tell the difference :) edit smartass cpu freq defaults in your source to match the image below. make sure to do it in your source though not with trickster as it sends it crazy. if you change ideal_sleep_freq to 20000 instead of 30000 you will have the 1st 777kernel-b7 (even before me :)) with these settings we haven't had a single sod :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashbang173:
Thanks, The First build I started today (The one with cherrypicks of your changes on github) is still compiling (Deleted ccache and did a make clean).
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
same here. the race is on, who can release 1st:). i am still building after a make clobber, then i have to add some edits do a make installclean and rebuild again, then upload. hours still to go:) its a winner config though, trust me. lol
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sabres032:
Sorry I haven't given much feedback over the past couple of days. Work has been of the hook busy and I just haven't had the time. [MENTION=4410674]lovejoy777[/MENTION] I flashed the B6 kernel today, used the device intermittently for about an hour with no issues. Device seems to be sleeping fine, waking fine, no lag noted and over 14 hours battery is draining at 2.2% power hour. I'm of from work the next four days so I'll have a little more time for testing.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pfederighi:
Since it was asked earlier... Yes, I've had some SODs with b4. I've also had one SOD with b6. That said, b6 is smooth and I've only experienced an occasional lag, but nothing severe.

Some experiments and thoughts:

I tried out the latest pa-gapps-pico. Everything seems to work fine. I did experience one major lag with this setup when opening Browser.

I tried out slim-gapps-8. Everything seems to work fine. It seems a littler snappier than pa-gapps and no different than slimp-gapps-7. I'm leaving it installed.

Battery life is good.

For some reason, and this just started happening with CM as well, GoogleLocationService is always running and can't be killed. Any ideas? It happens with CM-gapps, Slim-gapps, and PA-gapps. While I'm sure the battery/CPU use is negligible, the RAM use is not. I've seen it eat up 38 MB at times.

The free RAM isn't quite as good as CM11. My experience has shown that CM11 typically has ~15 MB more free RAM than SlimKat at any given time.

Thank you for all your hard work. SlimKat runs great.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Guitarman:
I'm now running the 8 build compiled with Linaro tool chain and have 200MB of free RAM. I freeze the Google Playstore and all the Google services until I need to update apps. ROM runs speedy!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
have you tried b5 kernel?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
[MENTION=4630246]joshuabg[/MENTION] does chrome crash on your build?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashbang173:
When I tried to flash it this morning It wouldn't boot at all. It just hung at the bootloader. Sounds like something is wrong with the kernel. How large is the kernel you generate. For some reason mine was only 4.xmb
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
mines booting ok. it took all night to build though. you mean boot.img size?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashbang173:
Can you give me your boot.img size too. By kernel I mean out/path/to/otterx/kernel
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
Slimroms build 8.1 with 777kernel-b7 use slimroms mini gapps build 8

Link: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23681161096071018

md5: 642c9ef2e4a3b013b1d230ba3221b043

Slimkat Build 8 gapps

Link: http://www.slimroms.net/index.php/d...4-4/14742-slim-mini-gapps-4-4-4-build-8-x-282

777kernel-b7 (kernel only, same as in rom above)

Link: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23681161096071037

md5: 602e397f50e2abcc246bf6e777ced136

in trickster mod it still shows default sleep freq as 30000, not sure if it drops to 20000 in deepsleep???

Enjoy steve.

I will be tweaking some test kernels later:)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
4.6 MB boot.img

did you make manual edits to your source or fork/clone my github? is it since trying linaro4.9?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashbang173:
I cherry picked the commits, I used Linaro 4.7
[Kindle Fire Android Development] asjimene:
Did a clean install of 8.1 it is as smooth as before. No SODs, I'm still setting everything up and will report back here later.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hedied4me:
So that I know to keep an eye out for it. What is an SOD? Screen on delay?

Sent from my cdma Virgin Mobile HTC Desire 601 zara_cl
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lllukas:
Slim 8.1 on board :) for now working really smoth, no sods or freezes.

I noticed lags when wake up from long deep sleep on 8.0 and earlier builds, now lets see how its in 8.1 ;)

Many thanks for Your huge work !

Its really bign things !

Regards [emoji481] [emoji481] [emoji481]
[Kindle Fire Android Development] kvestas:
Thank you Steve for constantly keeping this ROM improved and updated.

I have tried flashing the last set. Unfortunately unsuccessful - Google play services error appears right after starting and Google stuff does not work. Must be something wrong with slim mini gapps 8.x because slimkat 8.1+smg7.x works just fine.

I guess we just have to wait for mini gapps update from the slim team.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
yep ive just experienced it. going back to build 7 gapps.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] koop1955:
SOD is Sleep of Death. Not really THAT scary, the Kindle enters Deep Sleep state, but won't come out of without powering down and back up. (Long press of the power button.)

Good reference on SOD and other errors here: http://androgeek.com/5-android-errors-how-fix/
[Kindle Fire Android Development] kvestas:
I found some important information about moving from gapps7 to gapps8:

http://xdaforums.com/slimroms/general/gapps-official-slim-gapps-trds-slimkat-t2792842

It appears you have to remove google account and clean google services data when doing this. Will try this right now...

---------- Post added at 08:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:06 PM ----------

Indeed, that definitely helps. The only inconvenience - you have to recreate a Google account.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pfederighi:
How do you "freeze" apps/services? Is this the same as "disabling" them in App Info screens?

Thanks.

---------- Post added at 01:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:19 PM ----------

If this question is directed to me, then, no, I have not tried b5. I went straight from b4 to b6. Now that b7 is out, I will be trying that in a few moments.

As always, thank you for your efforts.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] koop1955:
When people say "freeze an app" they refer to using Titanium backup, which used to be the only way to do it.

Disabling should have the same impact, although you'll need to check if it survives rebooting.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
ok ive got a new way of tweaking the kernel without building and flashing a new one each time. also from now on the default governor will be auto changed to smartassV2 when you flash a new one (no need for trickster each time) :). i just need a tester
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
wait for build 8 its got new commits from cm kernel (thanks [MENTION=4630246]joshuabg[/MENTION] ).
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
777kernel-b8+ has some new commits from cm-otter-common, it also has a new script in the .zip it flashes a file to /system/etc/init.d/ called 01smartass

before flashing clear trickster mods data from /settings/apps/

flash as normal wiping both caches then reboot

then please check to see if smartassV2 is set as the default governor with trickster or cpuspy.

Link: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23681161096071163

md5: 0c7fa202f4da651a0594a84ee1eb6cba

enjoy steve
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
I just did a clean flash with slimrom 8.1 & 777kernel-b8+ and its the best so far?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hedied4me:
What are your recommended kernel settings for use in trixster mod currently or same as last few updates?

Sent from my cdma Virgin Mobile HTC Desire 601 zara_cl
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
From Dankoman (slimroms gapps maintainer).

Google changed a bunch of stuff in new play services. This has caused issues for several apps, including maps and hangouts. Some modifications needed to be done, but I think I've got the kinks worked out. After flashing latest gapps (which is version 282), if you're having issues with maps or hangouts won't stop trying to update itself, do this:

1. Remove Google account from phone

2. Clear data for play store, play services, and services framework.

3. Reboot into recovery and clear cache.

This should prevent the need to clean flash (though that will also take care of the issue, if you'd rather do that), and you should only have to do this once.

thank [MENTION=5012676]kvestas[/MENTION] for the link
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
it should have set smartass automatically when you flashed b8+.

just check with trickster to make sure smartass governor is set (the script is a new feature and needs testing).

please let me know if smartass was set:)

i use stock everything else at the minute so i can compare my different releases.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sabres032:
Tomorrow world be best for me.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
ok guys

This is everything upto date, it needs a clean install, i followed dankomans steps and lost wifi so had to do a clean install, realized that my kindle needed a clean:).

Instructions

*************

download slimkat 8.1+ below & mini gapps build 8

put them on your sdcard

boot into recovery

factory reset

advanced wipe/ check system, cache, dalvik and wipe

install rom and gapps and reboot.

Link: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23681161096071201

md5: 57cf0b3292032ae660af5357393b1d8b

Enjoy Steve