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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
When I started the SSK project I thought I would only change the toolchain and add a few build optimizations.

But the number off changes and cherry-picks is now growing beyond a point my old workflow isn't working any more, it's becoming very hard to manage all.

I changed the whole source set-up and I'm now doing a first test build to see if the base is working.

If that works I can start adding the new commits [MENTION=1228651]fusionjack[/MENTION] posted. So no promises that will all be done today.

I hope it will be ready before Monday when we will see the stable 7.0 SlimKat source (I except). But if I have something interesting sooner I will upload it.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] hawkerpaul:
Me too, but you can pinch the recents area to close all the open apps
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Jsilver73:
Hey Kantjer - I'm sure I speak for all when I say that we really appreciate your work, but don't stress though, take it easy and most importantly don't let this project become a burden to you. No harm will come to us for having to wait a bit for new builds, I'm quite happy with what we already got and whatever else you bring is just numerous cherries on the cake with lots of icing and some nice chocolate sprinkly things and other stuff (you get the picture right) :laugh:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] hawkerpaul:
Personally, I would restrict the number of updates to your ROM, as it seems to be on a daily basis sometimes! This must put a strain on you.

Perhaps limit yourself to a new update every 1 or 2 weeks perhaps, thereby allowing you time to get the best stuff in, possibly only releasing to a handful of testers in the meantime until the date of release.

Don't put pressure on yourself mate. You're doing a absolutely fantastic job.

:good:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] HaTrED_:
QFT!

We are the ones that should be grateful for your time, dedication and efforts bringing to us something special. Relax, we'll wait anyway! :good:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
My plan was always to follow the weekly official builds and only release a mid-weekly if I think something really interesting was added.

I like to idea of releasing test builds to a select group of users, that way I won't scare off the rest with daily builds.

Let me think about it.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] wonsky21:
So I guess that it was my lunch I smelled then ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] fusionjack:
oh why not...destruction is our mission, lol...:angel::D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
Give yourself a break [MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION] you've earnt it mate.... Once a week or two is perfect. But If you ever want to go down the testers route I'll happily help there too lol. :) thanks for your work.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] fivecheebs:
^^^ What he said!! ^^^

I'm not convinced there are many of your current users who are so easily scared! ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Zoot Allures:
[IMG="Alfred Neuman"]http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090330192126/uncyclopedia/images/8/83/Alfred2.jpg[/IMG]

Me worry?! :laugh:

Seriously, mate, an update every now and then would be nice, it's sometimes hard to follow though recent SSK OTA notifications.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ahoslc:
Another freeze on the notification drop down
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Those short (5~10 seconds) screen freezes are happening on al S4 AOSP builds from time to time. No cause or solution is found yet.

There is nothing I can do about it. Tweaking the kernel seems to help, I'haven't have a screen freeze in about 2 weeks now.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] FlanjeUK:
I hope I'm one of the chosen fearless testers ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] gaww:
If you checkout duel/multiboot, you can have your cake and eat it.

I currently have Phoenix ROM as "primary" and this ROM as "secondary". I had to debloat Phoenix significantly (done by not selecting apps in aroma) for it to fit.

As for your problems:

Did you "reflash" bootloader or ODIN it (also - are you KNOX'd) ?

As for partitions - had you used mobile ODIN recently - it will repartition at times by itself. in PC ODIN - you would have to select that option, which is off by default - much safer tool.

As for the signal strength - was that based on the icon in the task bar or by doing speed tests? If you do speed test - you have to make sure the exact same server is used for both, as download speeds can vary as much as 15 mbs between different ones.

f it was the icon - that also is not really I indicative, as I have had faster speeds on ROMs indicating less signal strength (see this all the time when using duel/multiboot).
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ahoslc:
What's weird is I was not getting them at all till the recent tweaks.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
I was months without and out of the blue it happened 3 times in a day.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ahoslc:
Also seems like the phone now has issues waking having to hit button twice now
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] oildale:
Well I'm not 100% sure what I've done this time, but with the 0730 release my phone is working perfectly. No freezes. No music glitches. Nothing. I think I may never upgrade my ROM ever again. It's the first time to be glitch-free in months.

This is just with the 0730 SSK, 0729 Alucard that came with it, and the Slim_mini_gapps.BETA.4.4.4.build.6.x-173. No xposed at all and running Dalvik. I think the only changes I made in STweaks are to set my GPS region to North America and to set the IO read ahead to 2560kB.

Thanks again for all the hard work kantjer. Even with the past glitches SSK is still the best ROM out there, but at least for me now, it's perfect.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] HaTrED_:
Damn, just got a RR after playing Sky Force 2014... the first one happening to me, ever!!! The phone was very sluggish and suddenly, bamm, RR! :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
I'm testing fiops i/o scheduler and read ahead cache set at 256 since a few days. That seems to Improve performance and stability.

If some of you can join me in testing these setting and give feedback. If positive I will include them in the ssk profiles.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] wonsky21:
Both, deepsleep and awake?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Yes
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] vt0r:
I did quite a bit of speed testing of I/O schedulers a few months ago, and noop was the fastest, followed in very close second by fios.

I've been using your extreme battery profile with the noop scheduler and 1024 read ahead for a while now, but I might bump the read ahead down to see if that offers any improvement.

All the other schedulers besides noop and fios simply apply too much logic to I/O, which is counterintuitive on EMMC and flash media and ends up slowing down total throughput.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience.

Regarding your remark about some i/o schedulers being counter intuitive on EMMC, that's the exact same idea I have about a large read ahead cache. They are in my experience working counter productive, increasing i/o and cpu load and thereby decreasing performance and increasing battery use.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] vt0r:
Makes sense. I bumped it down to 256 earlier, and I'll also give the fios scheduler another shot to see if there's any difference I can see between it and noop in real world testing (my previous testing was just large numbers of I/O tests, including sequential and random read and write).

Though that's almost real world, I suppose only using the device with those settings for a while can truly gauge its effectiveness. It's all about perception. :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
LOL, I'm testing noop now,
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Greggd:
I'm made the changes you suggested (testing fiops i/o scheduler and read ahead cache set at 256) it definitely seems better on web page loads and not "stalling" for a long time before becoming usable again. Video's are still not working properly. If they play I can usually hear but not see them. It seems this has been the case for the last 2-3 builds. Hopefully that is helpful for you.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] brunodu91:
Hi

What must to change to testing noop? All set and what else?

Envoyé de mon S4, via tapatalk 4 .

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ParkerParker:
The video thing (sound but no video) happens using Firefox, Chrome works.. Just a guess but I'm thinking mabye it's because Firefox opens web pages (for me} in desktop view?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Greggd:
You're correct. Somewhere along the line that seems to be working again. Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] brunodu91:
Up

Envoyé de mon S4, via tapatalk 4 .

Slimsaberkat 4.4.4 released, alucard Kernel , buzz launcher , modem ET bootloader NC4.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
Down
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
change BFQ to noop
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
The Slim resents transparency bug will be fixed in the next build. It's working fine for me now on today's build.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
You need to set the ANDROID_LOOP to true in the custom ring tone file. Look here for instructions how to do that.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Annunneo:
I don't mean to intrude but ive been lurking this thread for a while and am not running this ROM. I'm using cm11 and I too am having the problem with videos not showing and hearing sound only with Firefox, just thought Id share that with you guys.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] lost_:
Changing those two lines indeed did it. THANKS! Man, what don't you know?? :)

Uncompressed, it's 2.5GB, 21 minutes. Compressed, it's 1.8GB 40 minute. Unlike TWRP which splits up the backup files by at most 1 GB each, Ameer's script creates one big file. I haven't tried restoring to make sure it works properly. Has anyone tried it?

I might just create a cron script that places an open recovery script into the proper place and reboot to TWRP at 2 AM. Unless there is an app that does this already...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] hawkerpaul:
My alarms have always looped, and I've not had to do anything else at all
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] munichsfinest:
My inner clock almost always wakes me before any alarm goes off, any fix for that? :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kofe:
Pull out the battery and leave it like this for about 20 minutes. This should fix it! ?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Greggd:
In an unscientific comparison basically just facebooking and browsing websites, my experience is better with FIOPS than NOOP
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Only some custom sound files need to be patched, most of them are OK.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Jsilver73:
Err, sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I am starting to think that maybe the Bluetooth stutter is actually caused by something in the ROM - the reason I say this is because I have been running stock SK kernel the past couple of days and still experience sstutte on stock default settings, it can take up to an hour but it always comes :(

I'm sure my hardware is fine because on Dan's ge and googy kernel zero stutter ever.

Perhaps the o3 flags don't play nice with Bluetooth.

I really hope I'm wrong and would really like to hear from anyone who uses this ROM and uses Bluetooth for long periods of time (because I have been fooled many times by being to 40 mins or even an hour with no trace of stutter then boom)

I'm thinking of flashing stock slim just to test and see if it is working or not.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] munichsfinest:
Suddenly I got msm_otg wake lock, 2h and no end in sight... 100% awake. Without having the phone plugged in via USB. Any suggestions?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] bepperk:
me too.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] munichsfinest:
After I rebooted my phone it took some minutes to settle and now the problem is gone. Weird.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] s3icc0:
Not sure where my problems were based... I did the same flashing procedure as last 6 months... Anyway now enjoying Phoenix rom Dr bloated by aroma and then cleaned by titanium (many deletions and freezes apps; just don't freeze or delete samsung galaxy apk it is hell to get rid of problems it cause).

At least I already know why I left tw years ago... So I am giving it few weeks to see all the bad things and then I am going back to aosp (slim definitelly) maybe I will wait for L builds

---------- Post added at 02:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:32 PM ----------

And one free-of-charge tip for all. If you haven't had a chance to try I strongly recommend the FLEKSY keyboard.... It improved the speed I type a lot and what I found the best on it are the other dictionaries e.g. I can finally write at speed in czech language with diacritics which I found hard on any other keyboard
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Jsilver73:
Thought I might have solved my Bluetooth stutter woes with faux kernel but after exactly 56mins stutter.......... Grrrrrrrrrrr :mad:

Good news is though that I can't remember the last time I got a freeze :D

Now - mission freeze free and stutter free at the same time lol

I guess I'm going to have to try latest KT kernel now :eek:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ParkerParker:
OT.. You try atlas Web browser? My first impressions are.. Fast.. Nice options

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.atlas
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Mystique:
I've recently found cm browse..
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Jsilver73:
I may have found a solution in faux kernel, been running for over an hour and ten minutes with zero stutter using intelliactive and fiops :) let's hope alucard can find a fix :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Good to hear we haven't lost you to a TW ROM.

One other thing you can test with Alucard is to disable cortex brain while playing music.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] gaww:
I have your selected TW as primary and slim currently as secondary with duelboot/multiboot patcher. You can have both if you do it that way. You should check it out.

I use TW ROM in order to have everything I need working including some (but not many) Samsung apps - plus now S5 MOD V2.0, which is included in Phoenix ROM.

I also am up to date on this ROM, which I think really stands out in the AOSP/GE/CM11 universe (also it is slim - necessary for my multiboot setup).
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Jsilver73:
No, that happens when hell freezes over!

I do confess to a very debloated (which is still really fat comparatively) tw in primary slot simply for times with my family when I know I'm going to take a lot of photos as I think we agree the one good thing about tw is the camera ;)

Is there a way to disable/enable cortex brain with tasker?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Not that I know off, but we can always ask [MENTION=4899086]alucard_24[/MENTION]

I think we had a similar issue back in the S2 dormanx days and that was if I remember correct solved by a special music setting.

You can always try to disable cortex in STweaks and see if it solves the problem. If it does we at least know where to look, if not we don't have to bother finding a Tasker or STwaeks solution for that.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Jsilver73:
yes - I remember the discussion - it went on for years lol! Hope its not going to be the same for Alucard.

I'll reflash rom and kernel then and see if this does work
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
wait a PM is on it's way ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] gorillaCF:
thanks kantjer. my custom alarm ringtone has been looping in the earlier versions of SSK, only since the last 2 (or maybe the last 3) versions, it started not to loop. no idea what happened. thanks for providing the solution.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
I have some sad news, I dropped my S4 in the water yesterday evening. I let it dry all night and it booted once this morning, but after a minute the screen went black and didn't not turn on again. Also the USB plug isn't working.

I have placed the phone in a bag filed with rice to let tit try for an other 24 hours :fingers-crossed:

This means no new SSK build today (I can't test anything), sorry for that.

If the phone is permanently broken I don't think I will replace it with an other S4, so that will mean the end of SSK for the S4 :crying:

I will let you know how it all goes.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Jsilver73:
Fingers crossed for the rice :fingers-crossed: its been a good run though ;) sorry for your loss :eek: we pay for your beloved whilst he is intensive care :laugh:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kofe:
Oh maaann, why are u so clumsy? :p

We all hope your phone lives :D

We don`t want ssk to end :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] wonsky21:
Sad day for all of us... Good luck for the rice, however I'm afraid it is too late for it. You should do that before trying to boot your phone... I hope I'm wrong ;)

GT-I9505 | SlimSaberKat 4.4.4 jflte by kantjer
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kofe:
If ssk comes to an end it`s TW time for us :( :crying:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] m1trand1r:
Oh....crap.....I feel sorry for you bro:(

but....S-2 is pretty much cheap now.....we have all....will ya come back?:D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Jsilver73:
WTF!

When hell freezes over lol.

I think I have sixth send as I installed Slimkat last night on my fifth multi slot and it is working nice, very stable with stock kernel straight out of the box ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] hawkerpaul:
Very sad news indeed.

Try and unscrew anything you can inside the casing and opening it all up. The more it's exposed the better the chance of drying out properly. Just find yourself a small set of screwdrivers and try not to lose those tiny screws!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] :
Dammit...

That's why i bought that, and everyone should!

http://www.seidio.com/obex/
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] fivecheebs:
Bad luck man. Ill keep my fingers crossed for you.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
LOL, I still have my S2., but if I need to replace the S4 I think it will be a Nexus 5
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] FlanjeUK:
I hope your S4 is OK, I have just had my screen replaced last week and my phone feels like brand new, don't wanna lose you and SSK :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
I'm also not looking forward replacing my phone.

I hope to get it back to life, Will probably need to replace the USB port but that's not a very expensive repair I hope.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] malybru:
Really sorry to hear that. :crying:

Hope you can revive it

:(

Transmitted telepathically
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] FlanjeUK:
USB port is cheap if you're up for a little DIY ;) fingers crossed that's all you need
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Build based on stable SlimKat 7 is almost done.

I need a volunteer to flash it. It never happened that a build didn't boot (except for the times I was adding new stuff which I didn't do this time)

Anyone?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] HaTrED_:
Deeply sorry to hear that mate but your first attempt ... i don't think that rice will bring it back... :rolleyes:

When an episode like this one happens, the first thing to do is put the equipment in rice for a couple of days! Let's hope that i'm terribly, terribly wrong!!! :fingers-crossed::good:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] sanoc69:
hello

i can try
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Thanks I will send you a link in about 15 min.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] HaTrED_:
If you wish, i can try it too! :p
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
I'm uploading now, I will post the link here, after confirmation everything is OK I will announce it officially.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Please let me know if it boots OK

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23578570567722856
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] sanoc69:
boot and works
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Thanks, it will be available on the usual place.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
SlimSaberKat-jflte-4.4.4-20140804 uploaded

change log:

kernel update

Slimrecents background color & transparency

Make mobile settings on main settings page

kernel profiles updated (i/o settings)

synced with SlimKat 7.0 source
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] HaTrED_:
Yes it does! :good:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] wonsky21:
I assume it is patched for vulnerability of fake id bug?

GT-I9505 | SlimSaberKat 4.4.4 jflte by kantjer
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
yes it is
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] brunodu91:
So kantjer, you will stop releasing on s4???

Envoyé de mon S4, via tapatalk 4 .

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
That all depends if I can bring my S4 back to life.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Zoot Allures:
Bummer! You're as clumsy as I am.

Wishing you the best in reviving it. Good thing that Sammies are easy to open without a crowbar and parts quite easy to replace, kind of tedious micro-Meccano. Been there, done that, I had to replace S3 front (broken screen after a fall) and the SIM/SD Card S4 reader (because I'm clumsy).
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
yea yea, you sound like my wife now :D

Bad thing is that the parts are so expensive.

Called a local repair centre and they advised me against repairing a water damaged S4 because of the cost of the parts. And even after replacing some part there is still a change of having issue further down the line, it doesn't look promising.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] gaww:
Afraid you are right - it is recommended to immediately pull battery and leave it off until it is totally dry (can take days).

Besides rice, using a hair dryer on warm (not hot) setting can speed the drying up - bat again may have zapped it on first try with water still in it.

Now if it won't come back to life, maybe you can find one with a broken screen but otherwise working. The prices for new screens are close to the selling price for a used one on Ebay - so might be able to get a good deal on one.

Come on XDA universe - do you have or know anyone who has such a device.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Zoot Allures:
:angel:

I was lucky somehow in that matter and yes, with this drowning it will be tricky.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] brunodu91:
Hi

What the data roaming national? Wtf?

Envoyé de mon S4, via tapatalk 4 .

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] munichsfinest:
[MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION] you should wash your phone with distilled water and then let it dry - the problem is not the phone getting wet, it's the minerals sticking to the electronics.

[MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION], again: For some reason, mobile networks settings are not on settings main page after flashing today's build, any idea what might be wrong there?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Yes I forgot to add the commits :o

I will make a new build later.

On the other subject, was impatient and pulled my phone out of the bag filed with rice, inserted the battery and booted it.

The only visual thing is that there is a slight screen flicker sometimes. But my USB port is working again.

I'm now charging it and will try to flash today's SSK later.