yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Beta 6 live!

20150131 ZOMBi-POP Beta 6 changes

- Added sysctrl to /system/xbin as the file was missing. This means a lot more tweaks get applied. Doh!

- A suspect for OOM errors is B2RAM so dropped memory usage to 50MB as a test

- Fsync is enabled by default if you select ROM2SD or DATA2SD in the installation process

- Updated zipalign script to work with Lollipop apk folder conventions

- Updated the Android Lollipop bootanimation with latest official google one

- Updated YouTube to version 10.03.5

- Updated Android Terminal Emulator to version 1.0.65

Note Android File Host is down at the mo so only one mirror is available.

Let me know if we are still getting reboots please. Remember to post which kernel and tweaks you applied as well as data2sd/rom2sd and a last_kmsg if you do.

Thanks!!
[Asus Transformer TF700] keshavmot2:
Anyone else experiencing extremely slow download speeds? I am running with 45 mbs on other webpages???
[Asus Transformer TF700] drewski_1:
downloaded pretty quick for me.
[Asus Transformer TF700] rprussell:
probly cos everyone else is trying to download too - just like me, in a few minutes :)

Anywhere from 750k -> 1.25gb? or so?

Thing is, on one job - using es file explorer - it seemed to successfully copy 7+gb of files, then switch to "finalizing" or somesuch (I don't remember the message, I just remember thinking I was out of the woods) and then when it was done doing that, it rebooted.

I felt very sheepish when it came back up, because the destination files were not there - and neither were the source files anymore, since I had done a 'cut/paste' rather than a 'copy/paste.'

Again, live and learn...
[Asus Transformer TF700] keshavmot2:
Can beta 6 be uploaded to a mirror?
[Asus Transformer TF700] rprussell:
Yeah, pretty danged slow for me, too. :crying:

[edit]

ROM authors - did you incorporate the tweaks in the thread locked at the top of the development forum?

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ROM authors also: Does the tablet still CHARGE from the dock, even if the dock battery isn't detected by the system?

(I ask because mine seemed to die pretty danged quick once it was unplugged...)
[Asus Transformer TF700] shonkin:
Okay, downloaded beta 6... installed with all defaults (all tweaks enabled except the disable fsync). Maxed out at 1800ghz because I wanna find out if it can take it or not. ;)

Ran Antutu and got an error message the first time (test aborted). After that it completed without incident, average just a bit over 20000.

Nothing else to report.... yet! ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ozark_8125:
Does it help if we install a 'standard' set of tweaks while squashing bugs (like you recommended a couple pages back)?
[Asus Transformer TF700] ikkeT:
I also suspected the same. So I did remove the init scripts for b2r and zipalign manuallly couple days back. Zipalign was run in some boots before removal. I also had fsync on all the time. And I still got the mem panic which I posted, so at least b2r is not the single reason.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Rubister:
Well, re: battery life, I popped in a 4 GB class 10 micro SD I had laying around, and put a Cromi-X 5.4 data2sd fsync enabled install on it. I knew I remembered sweet battery life on the Cromi-X, I had more apps open that I had testing Z-Pop, browser, K-9 Mail, G Books, Better Battery Stats, a few others, and my battery life was around 7% to 8% /hour, almost half of what Z-pop uses. Here's the thing though, I had it on Asus 'power saver mode', which according to my research bumps the cores down to 600 or 700 Mhz, and turns the FPS down to 35. I don't suppose there's any benefit in having a FPS setting in Z-pop just for testing battery life? I'm about to pop my Z-pop card back in and see if I can squeeze the same amount of battery life out of it that way without having an FPS setting though. It's still fairly smooth at 700 Mhz on Cromi-X, but I noticed one app keeps closing when I'm using it, perhaps because the CPU is set so low.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ozark_8125:
Hrrrmmm... stuck on a boothang... _that / data2sd / f2fs / tweaks enabled / dirty flash.. Logcat attached.
[Asus Transformer TF700] TrofeoSC:
Well, I have a problem. I was on B5 and made a backup and then went to the wipe and did that three times and then went to format data for a further wipe and it went through the process and hung wiping data (I think) and since then, I can't get anything to work.

I was able to get to the starting fastboot usb download protocol screen with the RCK-android-wipe data indication. If I select RCK nothing happens except I get to the TWRP opening screen which stays there blinking every so often but never going to the menu. Same thing for the android option. When I select the wipe data I get to the Open Recovery script and it completes and returns me to the TWRP opening screen which blinks every so often and goes nowhere.

I can not shut the tab down with the power key it simply boots back to the blinking TWRP screen.

I have attached a screen taken with my phone of the wipe data info.

Any help would be really appreciated!

Thank you
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
So much for OCD wiping :p

Formatting data in TWRP can take 90 minutes +. You interrupted it, didn't you, and borked /data.

Here's you salvation, but it wouldn't hurt to read the whole thread ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=54521117&postcount=10
[Asus Transformer TF700] fatboyinlycra:
I had this (stuck on twrp splash) after a sudden reboot back on Monday I think it was. I fixed it by using fastboot to flash cwm, reinstall ROM, then used fastboot to wipe recovery and reinstall twrp
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
That new L bootanimation scared me! It's huge!!! LOL
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
It's also got a horrible white box around it that I need to fix. ;)

BTW I should have said no wipe required for beta 6 as it is the same base as beta 5.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
You've got a number of failures going on there with art in particular. Did the aroma actually finish properly?

Renstall it again - if that doesn't work you going to have to wipe data to get it to boot I reckon.

It's a beta ;) We haven't really done anything to optimize battery life and you need to remember a couple of things here:

All TF700s are now over 2 years old. That means your battery is now dying. I would expect you all to have only 80% of the capacity you had when it was new. Some people may have worse. It's just a life cycle of the batteries we use. Guessing but don't expect your battery life to be getting better.

Also the way omni is built is it doesn't have CPU profiles built in like Asus stock. It only has one profile in essence which is performance. This is great for speed and getting a good response from the device but it will not be battery friendly. It is built to max it out. That means you touch the screen and it will max it out to 1800 on all 4 cores.

Now there is some work we can do here. In the installer, if you are only using the device as a web browser and ereader, choose _that's kernel and set it to max out at 1500 or less. This will massively help your battery life. Asus never designed it to run all 4 cores on 1800. In fact I think they set it to only do 1600 on all 4 cores and 1700 on one. I can't quite remember now. So with OC comes heat and poor battery life expectation.

I will continue to tweak to see if I can get a good balance.
[Asus Transformer TF700] corb06:
Is there any other mirror available? Over 2 hours download time on my 100 mbit connection... And 0 peers and seeders on the torrentfile..
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Looks like Android file host is back up now so I will do the mirror. However - I just downloaded it from xda in about 1 min so the xda host is fine. Looks like you may some issues your side or somewhere inbetween...
[Asus Transformer TF700] corb06:
Yeah there are a few issues with my isp (Bahnhof) . The connection to dropbox is ridiculuessly slow also. Other than that its full speed =)
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Second mirror is up now :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] rprussell:
Say, are you planning on implementing the "use your settings from the last install" thing in the ROM installer?

(That was REALLY nice.)
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Not until we have a full release - it's too painful to implement if I am changing stuff in the installer each beta and it wouldn't work ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] rprussell:
Makes perfect sense. One of those things that a dev puts in that looks simple and useful but is actually hellish in the background :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] nate39:
I can't remember if I used Grimlock or not the last time I flashed. what ever it was, it was near or at the bottom of the list. It definitely made the tablet the fastest yet but reboots now and then, especially when in a game. I also disabled chrome and dolphin and use a stock browser and it has made going on the internet actually enjoyable. this holds true with my wife's tab which is running a stock ROM. Thanks for the work.

Am downloading beta 6 now.
[Asus Transformer TF700] rprussell:
Incidentally - I had a tablet reboot while trying to d/l the beta 6 zip directly to it ;)

last_kmesg reports (toward the bottom) "out of memory and no killable processes..."

So there ya go.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Yes I need to talk to [MENTION=5123642]lj50036[/MENTION] and [MENTION=2158597]hardslog[/MENTION]. The memkiller is set EXTREMELY aggressive in the rom. I haven't set this but we need to turn it down as it is trying to kill background tasks when there is loads of memory free and then it panics cos it can't find any to kill.
[Asus Transformer TF700] rprussell:
GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

And I don't have my USB cable with me - so I was using ADB over wifi to push the zip from my PC - AND IT REBOOTED IN THE MIDDLE.

I am cursed.

Gonna use a *@#$^& USB drive next.

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Holy cow.

So...

Wifi ADB push of the zip? Reboot.

Copying from the dock USB to the microsd using ES file explorer? Reboot.

'cp' from terminal emulator? Reboot.

Finally rebooted to TWRP, made a dir, mounted the USB disk (visible as sda1, thankfully!) and copied from there.

Installing. What a trip!
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ozark_8125:
Installed normally, formatted data, reinstalled and hung again. Not sure why all the art errors.. but might try reinstalling the previous zombi or cwm then reformat. CWM has fixed issues like this in the past for some reason. I need to figure out how to make a recovery flashable zip for twrp and cwm to make it easy to switch.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ChefChaudart:
For info, I was playing with the tablet, not hot, but quite slow.

Suddenly it went into a boot loop.

I took this "opportunity" to install your last release. But same thing, once at logon, it boots again :crying:

In this situation, how can I take a logcat ?
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Use the adb method described in post 3. You'll have to try and grab it before it reboots. Last_kmsg would be interesting too.

Are you using rom2sd or data2sd? Sounds like /data has become corrupted.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ChefChaudart:
none, default install.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ricardo89:
Hi, i installed beta 6 on my friends tablet. And i have a problem with sdcardi on rom2sd and data2sd. It's visible in es file explorer. But when i read it it is only showing an empty folder and after a few seconds SU asks es file explorer for permission but after permission still an empty folder. When i look at the info it is showing 180mb used of 53,60gb.

I tried it with all kernels. With Grimlock it is not even visible. With omni and omni/that kernel it shows the empty folder.

Please, what i am doing wrong?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ozark_8125:
Well, reflashed back to 5 and it's booted. systemui process crashes on first boot sofar, but at least it booted! It was on 6 with data2sd / f2fs with boothang and those art errors in the provided log and 5 is ok. :confused:
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Just had my first reboot :) Out of memory. You can help yourselves a bit here. Under settings, performance, open the top left tab and choose memory and set it to medium or aggressive until we sort it out in the rom ;)

Interestingly the device bootlooped - but after 3 unsuccessful boots it suddenly booted again. Weird.

Nothing. ;) I probably didn't fix it for grimlock - will have a look now.

I doubt anything from 5 to 6 caused this but maybe 6 highlighted and issue that 5 doesn't. If systemui is crashing that is more serious.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Mugen_Civic:
Hi,

i really like your Roms.

But i have one Problem.

If i choose a other Wallpaper, it doesnt apear.

I only get a black Wallpaper. Do you have any ideas?

Thanks a lot.
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58309010&postcount=95
[Asus Transformer TF700] RedSkyRoad:
Did not have a single reboot on beta5 but had my first reboot during beta6 setup.
[Asus Transformer TF700] shonkin:
Just to get an idea of beta six speed.... I ran Antutu this morning (after the tablet had settled in) and got 22363. Ran Quadrant and got a very impressive 8468. I do have it at 1800ghz, even though I thought I'd pulled that down to 1700. Gonna mess w/ memory settings as sbdags suggested.

Oh, running the _that kernel with all tweaks enabled (except for fsync off, which I left on). rom2sd1, f2fs /data partition.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jacobsensei:
Initial boot was laggy-sticky, but after reboot it's settled in nicely.

Running fast and pretty stable.

On Data2sd, F2FS.

On Grimlock OC 1.8, interactive, row.

I enabled all tweaks.

Thanks, again SB and company.

the ONE
[Asus Transformer TF700] fatboyinlycra:
I'm running internal, _that11, f2fs, no tweaks, fsync on, capped the tablet at 1.5GHz and scoring 21k on antutu.
[Asus Transformer TF700] cullenmq1:
[MENTION=518363]sbdags[/MENTION] thanks for an awesome Rom! Just wanted you to know (you probably already do) is that the aggressive oom/memory leak is common on a lot of devices. They plan on fixing it in next release (whenever that is). Check out post 177 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79729#c177
[Asus Transformer TF700] shonkin:
Okay, first spontaneous reboot.... log below.
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
The official fix for that bug appears to be already in the Omni source code.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Yes it is the same issue:

[18988.471740] Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes...

But fear not Beta 7 will be out soon with some lowmemorykiller changes ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Might be a problem with ES. It also shows me an empty datai folder, but File Manager HD sees it fine. Copy from/to is also no problem - although I tried it only with small files.

I flashed beta 6 last night and went to bed, checked build number this morning and thought I had messed up, it still showed build from 0125. So I flashed 0131 again - with the same result. :laugh:

Also, I was pretty darn sure I had selected the OMNI kernel, but About shows me _that11?????

So I'm not quite sure what kernel I'm running right now, but it runs great! :silly:

??? kernel, data2sd, fsync on, cpu capped at 1500, no beta tweaks = Antutu 22k

No reboots so far, but I haven't played with it much
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Yes both are correct. ;)

The base build didn't change for beta 6. And the omni kernel is based of _that11 ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Rubister:
Thanks for the detailed response :) I just wanted to weigh in and say I cut the max CPU speed down to 760 and did some playing around with the same apps, with WiFi on and Location on, battery usage around 6% to 10% per hour, I'd say that's pretty amazing, and the ROM was still very stable, no crashes. I was trying to install the 920 Text Editor app but every time it opened it gave me a crash report. I slid it up to 1700 Mhz thinking I'd set it to low for installing apps, still wouldn't install. I'm wondering if it's incompatible with Lollipop because I know it worked on Cromi-X which was JB. I haven't had any issues with any other apps, and none of them closed prematurely while I was using them either.

Update: I found this on a blog for app compatibility on Lollipop, I guess it's app incompatibility with Lollipop.

As at 15 November 2014

Doesn’t work

MX Player Pro 1.7.31

920 Text Editor 13.7.18
[Asus Transformer TF700] nhibel:
Hello !

I have just upgraded my TF700 to the beta 6 with Rom2SD and an all new micro sd card (PNY 64gb class 10 UHS-1)

So at startup there is this :

Is this normal ?

Then, here are my results in Antutu, do you think all is ok ? There are a lot of variations in stability test, is this normal ?

Thanks a lot for your feedbacks ! And thanks to sbdags for this Rom ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Yes this is normal - it's because in the ramdisk in the kernel those folders are empty - so just ignore them they are warnings.

I can't see your scores but as long as it is 21,000+ then you are doing ok.
[Asus Transformer TF700] drewski_1:
I installed Omni kernel also and see _that11 in settings as well ?

Sent from my LG-VS985
[Asus Transformer TF700] nhibel:
Thanks for the precisions :)

For the moment the tablet seems to be way faster than before ! Great work !
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Yes as I said it is based from _that11 with the omni ramdisk ;) It won't OC though.
[Asus Transformer TF700] nate39:
beta 5 was rebooting almost nonstop after starting out pretty good. So I was able to flash beta 6 with sbdags kernel and it has been stable and so fast I can't believe it. Thanks
[Asus Transformer TF700] TrofeoSC:
Ok, here is what I did:

1. Opened up a command window and typed adb.exe.

2. Put the tab on the flashing TWRP recovery splash screen.

3. typed in the commands as shown below.

4. The tab finally vibrated twice and the TWRP screen disapeared.

It vibrated twice again and appears to have shut off.

5. I attempted to restart by holding the power button and the left side of the volume button. and got the screen shown below.

6. I got it to restart to the RCK screen and started again by selecting the RCK and received only the flashing TWRP screen.

7. Went back to RCK screen and selected android and the screen went black.

8. Went back to RCK and selected wipe and the screen went black.

I guess I need a step by step instruction set to get it back into operation.

Thank you all for any help you can give me.
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
To get rid of this warning, delete the empty "system" directory from the external ramdisk.

You can't escape my kernel. :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ozark_8125:
Good night, man! Aren't you supposed to be in bed??? (or are you not actually in Coventry now, you international man of mystery, you!) :silly:
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
So can you still get into twrp?

Type those commands into the terminal in twrp and see what happens
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
You should reflash the recovery in fastboot, then flash the rom in recovery.

What you call the RCK screen ist the bootloader menu. When you see it your tablet is in fastboot mode.

So boot into fastboot, then flash TWRP. If you do not know how to do that, go here and scroll down to the part about installing the recovery:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2688891

After flashing the recovery do not fastboot reboot. Instead use this command:

fastboot reboot-bootloader

That will boot you back into the bootloader, then push Volume Up on the flashing RCK.

Hopefully TWRP will boot now and you can flash the rom from your microSD.

Let me know if you have questions
[Asus Transformer TF700] toolmanz:
I just installed beta 6 and its all good so far - except for a few minor distractions.

Data2SD, data as F2FS, Fsync on, rest of the tweaks as set as default. Running KK Launcher as primary.

Distraction 1: I keep getting "Unfortunately Launcher3 has stopped." when I am using the tab.

Solution: Freeze in TB

Distraction 2: When I enter TWRP and run Data2SD1, I get the following message in red:

E: Failed to get default contexts and file mode for storage files

Doesn't seem to affect anything - tab is fast and stable. Just thought I'd report in case it means something.

Thanks again for a great ROM!

T

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Oh 1 last thing - running TWRP 2.8.4.0 . :)

T
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
TWRP message doesn't mean anything - just ignore it for now - it won't cause any harm.

If you are not using launcher3 then yes freeze it. Or post a logcat ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Changelog so far for next release :) Probably do it first thing in the morning UK time as I want to ferret around with the grimlock kernel to understand why it is broken.

20150201 ZOMBi-POP Beta 7 changes

- Resized Nexus-Lollipop bootanimation

- Added the Unknown Pleasures bootanimation

- Testing read_ahead_kb set to 2048 not 4096 to see if it improves read/write stabilty

- Aroma theme updated - thanks Shonkin for the bg picture

- Fixed Overclocking not working on data2sd with _that's kernel. You now get 4x1800 cores on data2sd

- CPU will use all 4 cores at 90% max load instead of 85% on basic cpu tweaks

- Fixed missing sdcardi on grimlock kernel

- Fixed zipalign script so it runs properly once after a dirty or clean install

- Set the lowmemorykiller to less aggressive 2048,4096,8192,16384,24576,32768 via init.d script

- Split out the extra tweaks into two parts for further debugging - Basic and Extended

- Updated Titanium Backup to version 6.2.0.3

- Tweaks don't run from init.d on the grimlock kernel - needs further investigation!
[Asus Transformer TF700] drewski_1:
Doh, missed that detail! ?

Sent from my Nexus 9

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Titanium just updated to 7.0 today ?

Sent from my Nexus 9
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ozark_8125:
Well... shucks... I tried a fresh d/l and signature check, and it booted this time, sorry for the user panic.. :p
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ozark_8125:
Oh, and happy 2k thanks [MENTION=5123642]lj50036[/MENTION] - that 1,999 was bugging me so found another post to get you to the 2k... I had almost burned out my thanks meter on dags...
[Asus Transformer TF700] TrofeoSC:
All I can get into is the TWRP Splash screen and that goes on and off.

Any other Ideas? Can I open the tab up and reset it from inside??
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
Opening the tab up is really only necessary if you are going to replace a component ...

What is your bootloader version ?

What version of TWRP ?

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] TrofeoSC:
A BIG THANK YOU TO [MENTION=518363]sbdags[/MENTION] and [MENTION=499662]berndb[/MENTION]ib for saving me from my own stupidity!

I am now in possession of a living tablet and am much wiser to boot! No pun intended.

Again thanks to all who helped in this endeavor.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
So what was it that worked? Glad you got it back.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ricardo89:
still no acces on sdcardi

ok i saw alot of reactions on the problem that i'm not able to use my 53gb sdcardi.

I tried file explorer hd. datai, systemi and sdcardi not accesible.

Then i tried to enable root explorer en es file explorer. It worked for datai and systemi but not for my sdcardi.

My setup

TWRP 2.8.4.0

DATA2SD F2FS + ROM2SD

MicroSD 16gb - Storage Fat32 4 gb

- Data F2FS 9 gb

- ROM EXT4 1 gb

Wiped all the partitions on my tablet (Internal). Then installed the rom.

Is this the right way to do this?
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Are you saying you can't see sdcardi? Or are you saying that you cannot read from and write to sdcardi?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ricardo89:
I can't read and write on sdcardi
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
I can read, create and delete files.

I cannot edit a file for some reason (maybe permissions)

Not sure why yours isn't working - but I will have beta 7 up later with some changes.

BTW sdcardi does not work on grimlock but will in the new version