[Samsung Galaxy Light Guides, News, & Discussion] drakeheart77:
A different route

Hey all, thanx for the attention & activity in getting this thread moving.

I readily & always tell all I am not a Dev, I assist true devs here & there to work towards

stables, patches, fixing kernels, and so on.

That's out of the way, now on to the progress.

I have been using an AOSP deodexed stock 4.4.2 ROM, and praises to the efforts of

the community member, and much to my discredit I can't readily recall who this person

is to post a link to that thread, as is proper. oh well.

While the AOSP stock build is a big showing of progress, I say with a heavy heart that

it is very, very buggy.

What the positive effort was: It is debloated to such a level that upon a fresh install,

the user still has 4.2GB Internal Storage.

This, I've found, is the single most common misdirected goal and focus of efforts with

throw-away-yet-kinda-quality nocontract phone.

After I installed TB Premium, I discovered that the system ROM had around 182Mb available.

I now come to reports.

Every Stock 4.4.2 system app was still there, however the writer replaced a few (ie Camera

with Google Camera, for one) that completely eat up what precious limited RAM/

ROM performance we do have.

The build.prop showed only a few mods/edits, less than five.

The dalvik.vm.heapsize was 128m, heapstart was 8m, and growth limit 256mb.

That was same as stock. Speaking only for me, that was the biggest oversight that

tainted almost all efforts. Those sizes are entirely TOO big for this phone's britches.

If I seem like I just will not stfu, I can't blame you.

I feel I have to be as thorough as possible out of respect for my colleagues.

Now, since I am using Chrome from my device for all of this, you all will find up look oads

and images following this reply, fyi.

My first inspection was to install SetCPU, in small hopes that a customized kernel

had magically came. I am BEGGING for more governors and I/O schedulers, our less-than-

primitive 5/3 is downright insulting.

Kernel supports absolutely no tweaks, VM swap, O/C or min freq. U/C.

My goal is to take the only alternative given on 4.4.2 at all, and make lemonade.

System/app mover from Play Store.

There are countless threads on what is & isn't safe, my mods on that are my prefs.

In the end, I was able to free ROM up to just over 406MB. I can't begin to describe

the difference.

On to build.prop

To compliment my new device I just got, I set dalvik.vm sizes to a less audacious level.

I chose the more conservative of 8m, 64m, 128m. *Note any less on any 3 values, your FCs

will never cease.

Next, I made a few other edits I've favored on several devices, will upload my .txt.

Use of SD Fix for KitKat, along with Force2SD paid, I have 104 apps, many being very large

games, as well as the evil Chrome and FB storage rapists, all Google offenders at that.

I have a smug 4.32 GB Internal Storage available, saving me much embarassment by killing all my ROM wins.

AdAway 2.9 for KitKat, Override DNS for Root Users, the ONLY DNS mod that works on

KitKat, FasterGPS, Seeder 2.0, Root Explorer paid, TB Pro, NG Cache Cleaner, SignalGuardPro

and SD Booster make up my arsenal.

Touchwiz & Trebuchet are gone, I use Nova Launcher Premium.

Restoring TB app backups from external SD put my phone into bootloop.

I am clueless as to any reason why.

Using ANY root sysApp delete to debloat will also softbrick.

System/App Mover seems to be the only way. I speak from a few experiences and Nandroid

system part. restores.

I COMPLETELY CONDEMN MY PRIOR CONVICTION TO CWM.

I completely f*"$ed that up.

TWRP 2.8.0

NOTHING ELSE.

I even attempted a rash Aroma Installer to compensate for MusicFX being gone.

Ac!D Sound Mod.

Worked. And Improved.

RAM Manager Pro is gone too. I've found my build.prop edits are just right.

Any app tweak mucks it up.

Battery Callibrate Root, free on Store. Another win on battery life.

This is the most I can really do now.

Without a custom kernel, we'll be left behind like nearly all Prepaids, non flagships.

That's MY report, I beg for input/feedback/comments/criticism/ridicule, whatever.

Next Replies will be build.prop.txt, gps.conf, screenshots.