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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] _Sofos_:
Stock battery?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] feelpt:
do you use any bat saving apps? greenify or something like that?

i must be doing something wrong because only with really light usage i can reach 4h screen on... if a play a game i can forget about 4h...

3h30-3h45 would be my max with some gaming.

and some users here getting 5h+ ???
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
That was with quite heavy use tbh.. Battery saving apps are a myth mate (IMO) although greenify can be quite useful, I don't think it helps too much. BTW i was using stock alucard settings this time.

Edit I posted my stats a few weeks ago as well I think I got 5 and half hours screen on... But with slightly lighter usage.

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Yes mate.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] m1trand1r:
[MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION] bro...heads-up

Good luck mate;)

Beam-ed through your pineal gland via//Android 4.4.2.:p//
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
LOL, mine isn't building yet. I still missing a few commits for the jflte

But I successfully spend some time today building the latest SaberMod toolchain from source
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] brunodu91:
Of course smooth is more important!

Envoyé de mon S4, via tapatalk 4 Vip .

Slimsaberkat 4.4.2 v5.6, alucard Kernel , buzz launcher , modem ET bootloader NC4.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] m1trand1r:
Hell yeah!

Flashed it with formatting system and used build 5.6 gapps for 4.4.2... [MENTION=1228651]fusionjack[/MENTION] is wicked man.....:D

And good luck to you my mate.....to build it successfully as soon as possible....;)

And when will you claim your RD title...?:D

Beam-ed through your pineal gland via//Android 4.4.2.:p//
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] NotaHue:
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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kipue:
I really believe that the quality of the network one is using is key for the battery life.

Where I live in HK, network reception is quite bad, and for sure I could never get those numbers, although my usage I think could be qualified as medium.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
yesterday the build would even start (exit with errors within 5 minutes)

I started the build earlier, not expecting it even to start building (not all commits are pushed yet)

But much to my surprise it started building, not sure if it will finish but it's a start :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Bad network quality is specially bad for battery if you are using mobile data.

In my hometown the network is weak, but at home on WiFi it doesn't impact battery life.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
Google Play services does not account for heavy usage...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
Hangouts, Google+, Gmail, YouTube, WhatsApp, PowerAmp, XDA Premium, Google Chrome and Google Search...

They are all the apps I used mate. Seems pretty heavy use to me.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
I'm sorry, but heavy usage did not make Phone Idle and Google Play Services show up on the 2nd and 3rd places in battery usage statistics... at least not for me, anyways. And I am quite a power user.

Here's my battery usage statistics, gathered over the past... I dunno... a month or so. Note that these were not made in consecutive days.

Old = my battery, used from august of last year.

New = a friend's battery, which was not one week at the time of testing.

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I use Tapatalk ~10% of the time and it NEVER shows up in the battery usage statistics. But Chrome does, even when it's less used than Tapatalk... I give up. I don't know how Android ranks some apps in the battery usage statistics, it seems f***ed up anyways.

Oh and Google Play Services is nowhere to be found in the most of my statistics (if not all).

My girlfriend uses Opera more than WhatsApp or Gmail, yet Google Play Services oftentimes ranks #1 or #2 in battery usage statistics. She's got a stock S4 mini, though. So... go figure :eek:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
I have no idea, either way I class it as heavy use for a phone (I don't even use my computer that much lol)... I don't think that the correct results are displayed most the time so I agree with you there tho. I know for me YouTube won't show up on the list but on my HTC it shows up even if it hasn't been used lol... Anyway I edited my first post because I had just got up from night on the beer and at first I thought what is this guy talking about... But then I looked at the stats and saw how you may of seen it. Lol.

Edit: how did you zip your battery stats like that? That's pretty cool lol.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
I just take a few screenshots at the end of the day, then move them in to folders myself. Then... I just archived it as a .zip on my computer, lol. :silly:

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I know HTC's doing funky things when it comes to the battery usage statistics. For one, "Screen" does not show up in there anymore (oh come on!).

But AOPS... :eek:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
I was hoping it was an app, I CBA zipping files :)

htc are getting worse with each phone.. The HTC desire is the best phone they have ever released and that's 4/5 years old.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
Yes. The HTC Desire was the best phone I ever had. Probably because it was (almost) top notch at that time, and also my first Android modding experience, I guess. :laugh:

But oh well, enough OT, I guess. Back on topic... How's SlimKat looking recently, [MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION]? :D And... Saber... :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kipue:
To keep on the battery off topic, I notice that on my normal usage (I'm a creature of habit as we say), any rom gives me really more or less the same results on battery time. It's really strange, I try different kernels, location on/off, Wi-Fi on/off, greenify and so on, but the difference would be maybe +/-3%.

That is unless the rom really has a problem and there is a strange drain!

Back to Slimkat, I notice a flicker of the screen when charging. Another rom which does it is AOSB, but much more on it. I tried a few kernels but really could not put my finger on it.

Anybody else experiencing this?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
This is been discussed before, it's due to the latest Qualcom GPU drivers.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] _Sofos_:
I agree with what you've said about battery.

About the flickering, it's the new Adreno drivers. If you are on a custom kernel like KT's or Alucard's simply change GPU governor to Simple instead of On demand.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
I agree, setting the gov to Simple does improves things but it doesn't solve it completely. It still happens but not as frequent.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kipue:
Thanks and thanks :)

Was lazzy to look in the answers although I had the feeling that I read about it somewhere :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
I see no flickering. What I do see is freezing... a lot! Happened 3 times while watching a local movie with MX Player and 2 times while watching an online movie with Viral Lite. Time frame = about 30 minutes.

Whatever that thing is, I hope the Slim team kills it fast!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
I'm waiting for all necessary 4.4.3 commits to be pushed. As it is now the ROM won't build because of missing commits.

I'm all prepared for a new build.

The next release will be build with the latest SaberMod 4.8.4 toolchain. Until the last build I used a pre-compiled 4.8.3 version but that one hasn't been updated so I decided to compile the SM toolchain from source so I'm now no longer depending on others for that.

Next release will be build with V3 optimizations (same as the test build I posted earlier)

Changed the gps.conf, it will give a faster GPS fix, specially indoors. Thanks to [MENTION=3855065]s3icc0[/MENTION] for that :good:

I will also included my own build of Alucard's V2.6.7la kernel build with SaberMod 4.8.4

A lot of users are using my kernel setting. The current way of importing them isn't the most user friendly so I decided to include my settings in the kernel. The default profile will still be the unchanged Alucard default., The battery profile will contain my settings excluding the CPU voltage settings . The extreme battery profile will have my full set of kernel settings including my CPU voltage's.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
So... what will the settings be, by default? Yours or Alucard default? :confused:

Right now I cba to modify anything in STweaks mainly due to how awful it looks. I miss KTweaker :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Default settings will still be Alucard default. But if you want to use my settings you just select battery or extreme-battery profile and after about 50 seconds STweaks will restart with all new settings loaded.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] _Sofos_:
Brilliant idea ;)

It's allot more user friendly in this way, other profiles were pretty much useless there anyway.

Edit: Just tried HK Theme xposed module to check a theme I've downloaded and seems to be working fine btw. I know a system theme manager is a better option but still.. there's an alternative.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
+1 its so ugly it hurts my eyes.. KTweaker looks so much better (and does a lot more) but alucard kernel is growing on me as I've been using it the past 3 weeks, and it gets better with each update.

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[MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION] I take it your kernel build will be smoother as it uses a newer toolchain? Or is there another difference?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
I didn't do a comparison. I flashed the 4.8.4 build version about an hour after the 4.8.3 released build.

The 4.8.4 build is stable, fast and for me, with my ROM and kernel setting, extremely battery friendly and lag free.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] svd1977:
Hi i want to try this rom,im on 4.2.2 old bootloader,can i flash this straight?will it work for me without having trouble i mean do i need anything before flashing it?thanks in advance
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Follow the installation instructions on the first page and you will be fine. Many have done it before you ;)

I'm also still using the old bootloader BTW.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] svd1977:
Im beginning to download your rom, and starting to backread

Thanks once again
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Jsilver73:
Did I miss something? Test build you posted earlier, can't find it, is it hidden somewhere :eek:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] wonsky21:
Guys, I need help... Is there any way to recover lost pictures from internal sd? My little nephew was playin with my phone an accidentally deleted all pictures taken earlier... :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Pre-weekly for those that are desperate to try Android 4.4.3 :D

Changelog
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
If you'd of had Google+ installed it would of automatically backed them up for you.. But if you haven't and they are now deleted, they can't be undeleted. :( its a bar stood when that happens mate, I made the same mistake before :( but now I always let Google back me up.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] m1trand1r:
Oh....No....[emoji44][emoji37].....that's bad....very bad....I heard about Recuva tool....I think that [MENTION=4867168]Unexist6969[/MENTION] posted in dorimanx discussion thread once.....but I never tryed it myself.....maybe it'll work....try....

I'm sorry for your loss.....and you should spank your little nephew a bit.....gently...;)

Beam-ed through your pineal gland via//Android 4.4.3.:p//
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Hen-3:
There is some free software you van download for recovering lost data from SD or usb .

It works pretty good.

Try google to search fort it.

I used some free software to recover data from my SD card.

I got it all back.

Sorry but i can't remember the name of te software.

I hope you get it all back.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
Recuva works only for removable disks... UMS not MTP. :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
Interesting, Ive never seen this before, if you ever remember the name of the app will you be so kind to PM it or something. Thanks :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] m1trand1r:
Hum....thanks for heads-up ...I didn't know that....;)....but what if one switches to UMS instead of MTP mode.....would that work?....just thinking loud;)

Beam-ed through your pineal gland via//Android 4.4.3.:p//
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] wonsky21:
But all these tools need internal sd mounted as mass storage. Unfortunatelly we can't do it in Slim...

Maybe a quick flash of Sammy rom?

Edit: I've just looked in my file manager that not only pictures are lost... My all internal sdcard is wiped... How the f*ck did he do it??? He's only 2 years old...

Well, I can do a full wipe now...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
It was a secret build, but things change fast it's obsolete already.

If you're fast you can be one of the first to run SlimKat 4.4.3 on there S4
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] brunodu91:
Flash with system wipe is necessary I suppose?

Why pre weekly? : it will miss something?

Envoyé de mon S4, via tapatalk 4 Vip .

Slimsaberkat 4.4.2 v5.6, alucard Kernel , buzz launcher , modem ET bootloader NC4.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
The weekly will be 5.8 but not all commits are pushed for that.

This is a preliminary test build. Everything I tested is working fine.

You can expect some TRDS issues because we will need new gapps for 4.4.3.

I dirty flashed this on top of 5.6 no wipe, no gapps change and everything is running fine.

Camera, BT, WiFi etc all working.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
Dirty flash and all is well... Thanks man. Awesome.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Hen-3:
Maybe slim team must think about a kids mode just like sammy did :p

Sounds likes he's going to be a real good hacker.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] munichsfinest:
Downloading :cool: Already loving this ROM :) Alucard Kernel supports f2fs too like KT, doesn't it? Didn't try it for quite a while.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
Yes mate, I'm running the latest test ROM on f2fs already lol.. Not really worth the hassle tho, ext4 is just as good and has more support.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ParkerParker:
Everything running awesome, flashed rom, module mini 4.4.3 gapps, SuperSU R3, tbu restore, this rom has insane speed and stability! Also [MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION] thank you for including your default kernel settings, if you haven't tried them you need to they are perfect
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] munichsfinest:
Yeah that's kinda true lol :D But one wants to be as advanced as possible or something like that :angel: Either way, it takes me 2 minutes to change file system, and as I'm almost exclusively using AOSP based ROMs it doesn't matter.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Jsilver73:
Agreed - I jumped on it as soon as it was available, convinced myself (placebo) that it was quicker, however in my return to ext4 I honestly didn't notice any difference :/

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Errm - I been running 4.4.3 for almost a week now :cowboy: jumped ship because of the 'dreaded freezes' and the temptation of new source offered by dandvh :cyclops:

Can't wait to get back to beloved slimkat all sabored by you though kantjer.

And as I'm sure you've already found for yourselves 4.4.3 is smooth :D

But wait - a dev earlier told me that Android 5 is not far away!!!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
September mate, android lollipop :p and they have stopped us writing to the system partition on it... So apps like titanium have to be done thru recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] munichsfinest:
Really? :eek: Did they hire some Apple guys to stop people modifying their devices? God damn it :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
So I heard, but there is a way round it with a custom kernel/rom hack or something or other... Chainfire will know how to get round it, he knows everything lol.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] brunodu91:
V5.7, it's awesome

Actually, only dialer it's changed since 4.4.3.....

Wait and see

Envoyé de mon S4, via tapatalk 4 Vip .

Slimsaberkat 4.4.3 v5.7, alucard Kernel , buzz launcher , modem ET bootloader NC4.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Greggd:
Do we still flash the OnePlusOne Bionic drivers with this?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ParkerParker:
Haven't tried, this build is so fast I'm not even sure you would see a difference (someone speak up if I'm wrong:))
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
They should call the next Android L. Just L. Simple as that. Cut the sweets crap. Numbers is all we want. Last thing I want to tell someone is that my phone's badass as it runs the latest Android version : Android Lollipop or something like that. :laugh:

I'm just saying... cause if they don't come up with some badass names for the future versions of Android, they'll just sound lame. Imagine, in a few years from now, Android Strawberry... Android Oatmeal... No. No... They must be badass!

RIP sobriety. :D

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Hmm... Do we really need them? [MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION]? Or SaberMod has them all + extra goodies...? :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] munichsfinest:
I use 1+1 bionic and made myself a working 1+1 dalvik zip an hour ago - you do notice it even on this lightning fast ROM :D

[MENTION=4129455]Formhault[/MENTION]: just had the funny thought of a ROM dev advertising his ROM like "I take you to the candy shop... I let you test the Lollipop" :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
I guess that's better than titles like "This ROM has the 0x048391c patch included! DOWNLOAD NAO!" (example, there's none titled as such, I guess / hope).

Oh well... we should stop. [MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION] will be so mad. Sorry, mate. But we just can't wait for the new 5.8 build :(.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] brunodu91:
+1

Envoyé de mon S4, via tapatalk 4 Vip .

Slimsaberkat 4.4.3 v5.7, alucard Kernel , buzz launcher , modem ET bootloader NC4.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Mistertac:
Care to share the Dalvic patch you got working?? I've yet to find one that works with Slim. I've already got the Bionic. If you don't mind.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
[MENTION=5630226]gALEXyS4[/MENTION] I'm glad people are asking you now lol.. I had 5 PM's asking how I did it after David mentioned me knowing (straight after) now its your turn :p

Edit: in case Alex isn't online I'll tell you all once more... Navigate to system/bin.. Find a file called installd... Copy it... Go to the dalvic zip you downloaded.... Unzip..... Delete the installd in the zip and replace with the installd from this ROM.... Zip back up and flash

Edit 2: yes its noticeably smoother and increases quadrant by at least 3,000
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Mistertac:
Hey thanks ! I can handle that. I must have missed you explaining that earlier or whenever this was talked about.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] John_wba:
No problem my friend, it was quite a while back so its understandable you couldn't find it. Remember to make a back up too in case for some reason it doesn't work for you. Happy flashing lol.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ParkerParker:
This is awesome, not sure how I missed that, I guess I like to spend my days bootlooping flashing different dalv patches lol, worked like a charm, and I stand corrected, it does make a fast rom even faster.. Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] vagaBond07:
I've been jumping from Liquid Smooth to this since they are mostly the same, but this ROM is solid ROCK compare to later one. Can't wait to have V5.8

pressing "Thanks" is faster than typing it.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Zoot Allures:
Thanks Kantjer for this last one. Dirty install over v5.6 went fine. :good:

I had these, too.

But now, with v5.7 / 4.4.3 and real "default" (I mean not Kantjer's settings) Kernel-Alucard-V2.6.7la settings, it seems OK, no more buzzes and other adverse sounds.

Between SSK v5.6 + Kernel-Alucard-V2.6.7la (with sound glitches) and this last one, I tried the last Danvdh-GE-4.4.3 (with KT kernel, afaik), there was no sound glitches too.

Really don't know the causes of this problem, only in 4.4.2?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] oildale:
Well now I'm really looking forward to the 4.4.3 release of SSK. The sound glitches are popping up more often than they were at first. Not enough to make me switch, but starting to get there.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ParkerParker:
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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] lost_:
5.7-pre is working fine so far. Dirty flashed + BaNkS 4.4.3 minimal gapps.

No issue with sounds. Been streaming Spotify via BT smoothly for hours. Earlier was streaming via AirPlay to Airport Express too. Replaced DSP with V4A
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Obagleyfreer:
Hey man can you upload or link to the bionic and dalvik patches you're using with 5.7? :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] feelpt:
hey guys

since i'm having unbelievable results with some gapps i found, i decided to share with you guys...

here's the link : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2530929

the guy is still tuning some stuff, but the results are unexpectedly good

cheers
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] munichsfinest:
As [MENTION=5358233]John_wba[/MENTION] told the recipe for the Dalvik patch, I'll give you the fast food for good measure :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Obagleyfreer:
Thanks man!

So we can just eat this fast food right away?

No need for swapping ingredients and cooking?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] munichsfinest:
Just flash it and that's it :fingers-crossed: I'm gonna play around a bit with M8 dalvik and so on... Theoretically it should be possible to put the stuff directly in the ROM zip before flashing, shouldn't it :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] lost_:
With all due respect, there are some so-called mythical tweaks there that you might not want. Some are already tunable from STweaks. Some are probably useless/harmless/do-nothing-placebo. There are apps there that don't belong in a GAPPS package (G is for Google).

The add_to_buildprop script is scary. Could be harmless, but definitely add clutter to your build.prop and possibly duplicate entries. I wouldn't flash this 'gapps'.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] wonsky21:
So I want to make a combo: unofficial 5.7, latest Alucard kernel, slim minimal gapps 5.6, 1+1 bionic and dalvik patches. Is it compatible? :)

GT-I9505 | SlimKat 4.4.2 UNOFFICIAL build 5.x by kantjer
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Mistertac:
Sure that'll work... Have at it.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] brunodu91:
What is the rule out 1+1 bionic and dalvik patches?

Envoyé de mon S4, via tapatalk 4 Vip .

Slimsaberkat 4.4.3 v5.7, alucard Kernel , buzz launcher , modem ET bootloader NC4.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] CyberT3:
I flashed this rom today for the first time and it seems to be running really good. Nice work! ;)