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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Bonami2:
Hello. Anyone is having a laggy phone with the 5.1 version?

I have the canadian i9250 phone.

It stil work well for single task but i cant play Music with soundcloud or google play music and browse internet or it end crashing the music app. Ram usage is low. But cpu usage is 100% often

Anyways i use it for a Wifi antenna on my pc for now. :D

Thank you for updating that old phone. Can now use OTG stuff
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AgentSmith:
Any chance we get to see it combined with the luckyk mod for more available RAM? Because if they can fix the remaining major bugs that would be awesome. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] massima:
There is a ZMOD ROM with the luckyK, you can find it in the download section of the luckyK page. See also post #541. My maguro is the daily phone, I'm stuck with the old freshgiammi release. I haven't tried it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] morfances:
I am using the latest build 5.1.1 and I feel good.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AgentSmith:
Yes I know. I'm running it. ;) I was just asking if there are any plans for a Marshmallow version and whether Ziyan plans to incorporate it himself in his ROMs sometime in the future.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musafercom:
hi

can you please help me where to find "the download section of the luckyK page "

and how to flash it becuase my device is too much slow on the latest 5.1.1 release.

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] madhavs:
http://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/?id=8795#downloads
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musafercom:
thanks

please tell the installation steps i need to do.

do i need to fatory reset for example

i am on the latest ZMoD build dated 9/9 and trwp recovery 2.8.7.0

appreciate your assistance
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siealex:
If you are on the latest ZMOD, simply dirty flash that build and gapps and don't flash anything else.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musafercom:
one last question please

which build is "that build " and which gapps please because the builds are with different names and i do not which is the right one for better ram management.

do you mean this build

aosp_maguro-ota-2015-11-05.zip

i already have gapps minimal one

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] WoolTomb:
Hi [MENTION=2633638]Ziyan[/MENTION],

i know that u are very busy, but when do u release a new build of MarshMellow?...i would flash it :D

Thank you very much:o:o:o
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Genie's:
You can use Raxfian OS or MWisBest's ROM instead.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ziyan:
We're still experimenting with it with MW, we'd like to fix the main bugs (like no data on toro, because this will be a unified build) before releasing a build marked as 'relatively stable' (like zmod 5.1) :) I'm also very busy right now, as the semester is ending so I have to study a lot :crying:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bamtan2:
Let's all donate to [MENTION=2633638]Ziyan[/MENTION] and [MENTION=3390093]MWisBest[/MENTION] so they can have a good Christmas and release new builds when they're ready :) :good:

I'm happy waiting as long as you need me to, because you guys are the bosses ;) :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phaleg:
In download tab, I don't see the 6.0 link anymore ...

:confused: :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] momojuro:
It was available for experimentations, I think that the link was removed to let the place for the stable 5.1 version. ZMod 6.0 has important unfixed bugs as the OP stated, you should wait for a future release. Meanwhile, you can use Raxfian OS and support both (or all) of the devs. Good luck for your tests [MENTION=2633638]Ziyan[/MENTION] ! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] konnarides:
I just done a clean install on my GalaxyNexus with the open Gapps 5.1 nano , all went well.

After reboot the Startup wizard came up, and after entering wifi key Google play services

has stopped popped up and the wizard went back a step.

Tried a few times with the same results.

Anyone here know why ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] morfances:
I used the slim zero gapps, no problem
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] konnarides:
Thanks,, do you have a link for the "slim zero Gapps" ??

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24269982087009952
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] morfances:
Please

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24269982087009952
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] konnarides:
Great I'll try again !!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AgentSmith:
I've noticed there is no emergency broadcast option in the ROM. I thought that was a standard Android feature. Am I wrong or was it deliberately left out?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] moo_we_all_do:
This hurts :'(

My computer doesn't have enough processing power to compile the OMAP4 repository for toro. Any make tips? I noticed the "Jack Server" uses up a lot of memory.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] blystad:
You're probably running out of RAM. Building AOSP can take a lot of resources.

I suggest the following:

1) If you compile in a VM...Don't... Install Ubuntu as your main OS. Running Windows/OS X+Ubuntu wastes a lot of resources.

2) Add a 16-32GB swap partition.

3) Enable ccache (this will speed up your builds in the future).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molimo:
Hi Guys,

First of all I must appreciate of all developers who work on Gnexus.

I have a main question and this is: Why no one (of developers) try to complete his/her project?

I mean most of them decided to get right of his/her Rom while there are some f.. bugs in these Roms, especially about 5.1.1 for Gnexus. I know that our Gnexus maybe has low ram, weak CPU or ... but there are a lot of developer in XDA who work on older phone than ours and are successful to make or cook a bugless Rom. You can easily look around.

I think either our developer couldn't Fix main bugs or it is not worth to Fix them for people that are waiting to use their creation and enjoy 5.1.1 or 6 Android.

I hope someday someone appears and solve all of bugs in this phone.

Unfortunately I have no knowledge to develop a Rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bamtan2:
[MENTION=2633638]Ziyan[/MENTION] and [MENTION=1822609]MWB[/MENTION]est and others are working on new roms, just like you ask :) ZMOD 5.1.1 is a very good rom right now :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siealex:
ZMOD 5.1.1 does not allow me to use all available RAM. At approx. 150..160 M free RAM it lags like hell or freezes. Is it a ZMOD specific bug or common for 5.x?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ziyan:
It's 5.x being too memory hungry. While we're continuously trying to improve it, you might want to give my experimental, yet-to-be-released AOSP KitKat ROM a try, which includes all our device specific goodies we developed since 5.x :) PM me for the details.

The truth is, very few developers are actual developers who fix or improve things. Most of them just kangs stuff to build new ROMs.

Please give me a list of those f.. bugs you found, because other than the 6 pixels wide purple line in video recording, it's getting hard for me to find one.

I feel sad that we're not successful. But, just for a reference, could you please give me a list of devices which were released in 2011, and has bugless 5.1, hell, even 6.0 ROMs? And I'm not talking about hacked together releases with PIE, SELinux and all the other security stuff disabled.

Totally the case. Thank you for your generous support! Should we even continue development for this phone, if we can't fix the (mysterious) main bugs? Maybe someday someone appears and fixes them.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siealex:
Why does it display 140..160 M RAM free but lags like it doesn't have free RAM at all? 4.4 starts lagging at 30..40 M free.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ptmax13:
[MENTION=2633638]Ziyan[/MENTION]

First of all, let me say that I cannot begin to express how grateful I am for your efforts, together with [MENTION=3390093]MWisBest[/MENTION]. You are totally awesome firstly for keeping the development until now, and secondly for sharing your work with us, FOR FREE.

People should be grateful for this kind of work being handed to them for free, and not criticizing and trolling the only devs that keep this device alive.

Report any bugs you find, being as descriptive as possible, so the devs can identify and fix them. Anything else is trolling.

Anyway, just my 2 cents, enough off topic...

Very interesting... Kitkat was the last good android version for GNex, I would be interested in a final ROM... For now, I'm much satisfied with Zmod 5.1.1.
[MENTION=2633638]Ziyan[/MENTION] How is 6.0 compared to 5.1.1 and Kitkat, in terms of memory management? According to your experiments...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siealex:
The last good ROM was Paranoid Android on 4.3...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bryantjopplin:
Don't mind the uneducated. Anyways can we increase the system partition on this phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nikodr:
I cannot say it enough times.

You need modified and tweaked kernel settings.

Also forget usability on 5.1.1 or 6.0 if you dont overclock.For the past 18 months i always have my phone overcloked to 1.65 max,and gpu 512.

I apply nephelim settings,and my phone is ok.

I can surf,send emails,watch youtube,play steel avengers strategy game,install games,and listen to music.

With stock settings this is next to impossible,battery is a little less now,but i dont care.

Also before postings about bugs remember we have very talented people that made this possible.I have a 2011 phone and it has android 6.0.

Though my daily driver is 5.1.1 zmod with r211 kernel.

There are sections on xda and other places that have the tweaked settings and how to use them.If you want your galaxy nexus to fly,learn how to tweak it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siealex:
What kernel are you using? I'm using LuckyK 2.9 and I can't OC past 1.42 Ghz, my phone freezes. Can you multitask with Neph's settings?

Do you get 1 hour of screen-on time with these settings?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nikodr:
Auro kernel r22 btsmitty83 and i get 2 hours onscreen time
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siealex:
Full Auto? It runs very strangely on my phone. With LuckyK I get 40 min to 1 h screen-on time with moderate use and up to 2.20 with heavy browsing or chatting.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] PainFly23:
Have you done any sort of thermal testing though? What do you have your temperature limit set to? The main concern with overclocking, especially on the Galaxy Nexus, isn't battery life, it's heat and thermal throttling. In my experience, I actually get worse performance when overclocking because the phone heats up like crazy and then begins to throttle performance to try to cool itself down. I can almost guarantee if you're going all the way to 1.65 GHz then you're going to have thermal throttling issues after using your phone for more than a few minutes at a time.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siealex:
My phone starts throttling after 20..30 seconds of full load at 1.42 GHz and about 1 minute on 1.35 GHz.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nikodr:
ι dont have always there, the max frequency is 1.65,there is min on and max off. Check nephelim settings to see.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bamtan2:
5.1 works well for me and I suspect 6.0 will too. The RAM is limited and that's a problem. But a manageable problem.

I also think keeping 4.4 up-to-date for Galaxy Nexus is a very good idea. For most practical purposes, it is probably not worse than 6.0, and I understand its kernel has more free memory. Very smart idea to keep legacy code alive, [MENTION=2633638]Ziyan[/MENTION] and friends!! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siealex:
6.0 uses approx. 100 M more RAM than 5.1, it barely boots up with GAPPS.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phaleg:
Do you have a source for that?

If it's true, then there is no real evolution in android... there is no sense in creating a different android that uses more resources and gives, apparently, no real advantage :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siealex:
Several people on our local forum tried different 6.0 ROMs and they get 200..220 M free on boot, on 5.1 without any third party apps I get 280..300 M.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phaleg:
but you meant included at least gapps? Which package?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siealex:
Yes, gapps, I don't know the exact name of 6.0 gapps, the package is similar to PA's Nano gapps. I'm using a very old Banks minimal package (approx. April 2015).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hemantv:
[MENTION=2633638]Ziyan[/MENTION] Can we get the AOSP KitKat build you're working on if it's good enough for daily use? That'd be great.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thagringo:
[MENTION=2633638]Ziyan[/MENTION]

at some point it was mentioned there would be a MM kernel release with more free ram available.

Are the sources available somewhere ? Because i would try for myself to actually remove all the memory that is reserved for the camera / recorder to gain as much free ram as possible.

Personally dont care at all about the camera and if it would depend on me i would disable it completely if that means getting to around 900 Mb available to userspace.

Maybe with this and cpu & gpu overclocking we can get a kernel that makes it less of a pain to use with MM.

Thanks for all the time you have invested in this BTW and happy new year everyone !!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phaleg:
I respect your effort to have a MM rom running on a maguro, now comes my question...

What is the real advantage of MM compared to 5.1 ? I really don't see it and I am running maguro on 5.1.1 and Note 3 on MM

In order to do it, you would sacrifice photos and video, something that contribute to turn a phone into a smartphone :rolleyes:

Furthermore, don't forget that any maguro atm is still running on 3.0 kernel
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thagringo:
real advantages ? None compared to LP as far as i know. It would basically be for fun.

Im aware the gnex struggles with LP already, my interest is basically to push this device to its limit but i dont expect a nice & fluid MM experience even if i manage to get it all working.

Thats why my first move will be to remove all the reserved memory for the camera ( and probably even push it further after that if im succesfull ). I know that modifying the memory pool is tricky, have tried myself already a couple of times and failed misserably ...

I have also seen the discussion about modifying the partition table to get a bigger system partition, thats something i want to play with too.

So, if anyone knows if there actually are sources available to start with pls. let me know.

Thanks !
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siealex:
The best way to get a "nice & fluid" experience is stock 4.3. And nothing else...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phaleg:
SlimKat is nice and fluid as well...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bamtan2:
That's a good idea! I do think there is room to have a separate "max memory" build for experimentation and testing (and even real world!) usage. [MENTION=2633638]Ziyan[/MENTION] and friends have the ability to do that, but maybe not the time! :) [MENTION=6140342]Fenix46[/MENTION] has been experimenting with it, and I think he could help you...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sym_m:
Best rom i have trying on gnex is cataclysm rom better than all roms and better than stock

Sent from my HTC One M8
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eternal70:
If its 5.1 to MM, there are many ART improvement in MM. I notice MM is smoother than 5.1. But yea, of course 4.3 is still the best for our gnex in terms of speed and battery life

---------- Post added at 08:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:31 AM ----------

A little bit OOT, in my opinion lack of sources and development is not the one who really "killed" our gnex, but the evolution of the apps itself. I recently went back to some old 4.3 roms and installed some daily use sociap media apps, and notice that it also still makes the gnex nearly unusable. Since the introduce of material design, application size are increasing very high. So, it will come the time when even if we revert back to ICS, the gnex is still only just a "plain" smartphone. I remember the days when chrome is still only ~20mb and our gnex still using stock gapps and not pico like these days[emoji20]
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scorpeeon:
Well, my n7 2013's standby battery life drastically improved with 6.0. I'm also not sure in the logic why it would struggle more with MM than it did with LP. MM is basically a polished, optimized LP (like 5.1 was after 5.0), with some useful major additions. It is in no way any slower, than LP was on my tablet.

RAM usage is also an interesting question. 5.0 had a major UI overhaul compared to 4.4, so you would expect that would mean more RAM usage. But other than that, most updates shouldn't have much reason to increase RAM usage - they could even reduce it due to subsequent optimizations, etc, see: project svelte in 4.4. Also most people agree that beside system components, google play services and related apps cause most of the memory usage (leaving only a few 100 MBs of free RAM on gnex), and most of the apps have material design no matter what version you are on because of compatibility packages (google apps, and most other apps have material design on 4.3 too - google apps are at least relatively optimized but there are many apps that are much worse, like facebook: it's ugly, unoptimized, drains battery and eats all the RAM). I would image that because of that, on older versions of Android (like 4.3) the same app could use more RAM due to having to load and use these compatibility packages while on 5.0 and above, this design is part of the native OS, so there's no need to load these compatibility packages.

At the same time, as official support ended and drivers aren't updated anymore, it becomes increasingly challenging to bring newer versions in a stable form to an old device. I think this is the main problem when bringing new versions to old devices. Of course I'm not a ROM developer, so this is all mostly just speculation on my part.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nikodr:
Part of problen is the absence of 3.4 kernel ans the optimizations it brought. I think fenix46 work towards more free ram is the best alternative.

Nexus 7 2013 has better battery life because the kernel is 3.4 and android optimizarions canntake advantage of that.

Even though we have android 6.0 and new gpu drivers we cant expect the advantage of more battery due to the 3.0.x era of kernels for gnex.

I am happy though. Android 6.0,a good team that actively works, maybe newer kernels with shared ram, - remember for a 1 giga device it had only 693 mbytes of ram available - now we have 760 and soon maybe even 850.

I feel good :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AgentSmith:
We probably have to start accepting that development is coming to a stop for this phone. Recent developments were quite amazing but they cannot compensate for the fact that this device is aging quickly. Our devices start breaking down. The compass in my device doesn't work anymore and I'm sure other people have hardware problems too. It's becoming hard to resist to simply buy a new phone while others have done so already and keep their GN as an extra.

A few people I know are using Windows Phone now and it's tempting to switch myself. I've been using custom ROMs for years but I think I've reached the point where I don't want to be bothered anymore with lengthy rooting processes and trying out different ROMs to see which one I like most. I want a nice out of box experience now and windows seems to provide that. Its frequent updates of both security and functionality are great and the app gap is becoming smaller. And above all, it runs great on mediocre hardware. Certainly worth a try. Besides, I really want 4G now.

Nevertheless a big thanks to all developers here! They certainly stretched this phone's usefulness a number of years. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siealex:
Try switching to a simple phone...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bamtan2:
I think what you mean to say is that you want a new phone. which is fine, but off topic for this development thread. development will continue, as it does on every open platform with open software: there will be ups and downs, and people will come and go. but there is no "stop" because 7 billion people own this free and open source software for the millions of phones in the wild

also: migrating to a new android version always took time and work. meanwhile the older versions continue to work as well as ever. 5.1.1 works great for me! I just limit the number of applications I install, to save RAM. [MENTION=2633638]Ziyan[/MENTION] and [MENTION=3390093]MWisBest[/MENTION] have produced very bug-free code in my experience, which is even harder than just getting it "working".
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phaleg:
I quote him... Maguro runs best with 5.1.1 rom and it is enough to limit the number of applications that you "really" need to get a nice and cosy experience.

Maguro forever ^^
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] paolocorpo:
DO you have any idea regarding this "eonugh" number ??

10 ... 30 ... 50 ... how many in your opinion ??
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phaleg:
20-30 should be fine with these additional tips

try to switch some apps with their own lighter versions (eg: facebook lite or the other one)

reduce the number of apps that run in the background or auto start

few video games and that your maguro can run
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AgentSmith:
Of course I was referring to this specific phone, not the entire android platform. I still enjoy my GN, every day. The devs have performed some miracles here if you ask me. I was merely trying to put some realism into the thread, that's all. You can only go so far into stretching a phone's lifetime.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Punkiderma:
personally, I think a well optimised Kit Kat, with all the progress and patches developed until now, would be the perfect end for this phone.

I love to flash the newest versions, but mainly I use my phone for real: I think that Kit Kat is the version that better suits our phone. With that, and my extended battery, I think this phone for me will last at least another year, but I hope more .

I'm very curious about the updated Kit Kat AOSP that Zyian announced in a previous post, I can't wait to try it!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] paolocorpo:
I am agree with you

What do you suggest at now for our GNEX ??

Actually i am using CM11 but after some months I am noticing some delay ...

thks a lot

Paolo
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Punkiderma:
As of now, I'm using the latest liquidsmooth with franco kernel. Some delays after a while are normal: I tried to optimise everything using boot manager and clean master to stop the boot of unwanted apps and greenify to hibernate them. Also, I uninstalled every system app I don't need.

I think that cm11 is the most updated kit kat rom right now, I was thinking to give it a try
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] paolocorpo:
Are you using this one ?

LS-KK-v3.2-UNOFFICIAL-2014-11-04-maguro.zip
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Punkiderma:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] WoolTomb:
Are the new Android 6.0 build ready??¿ i really want to flash your new rom [MENTION=2633638]Ziyan[/MENTION]
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] paolocorpo:
Has nobody some issue with camera and video ??

My GNEX cannot perform teh focus of picture

Sometimes video has not audio
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] r.albu:
Camera focus can be a bit tricky sometimes but works; don't know about video as I use it rarely and can't test it right now.

@Ziyan: will we see in ZMOD some of the improvements you made to CM official(!) for GNexus? Thanks and congratulations: there are news about it almost everywhere.

All the best
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nikodr:
Use open camera app from store. The only app where you can control the focus. With it my nexus can take very good quality pictures and videos.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] paolocorpo:
On my GNEX camera focus is completely not running well :( ...

That's good idea ... i quote you :)

i will suggest this app to my daughter ... many thks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nikodr:
Its a well known fact that google didnt fix because it stopped supporting the galaxy nexus . Most of the gapps have a canera app not suited for our phone, there is no ficus control in google camera. Focus should be allowed to change from auto to infinity, the problem you have is that it tries to auto focus and fails miserably. The only way to have correct photos and videos is to use open camera and check the focus settings. It makes the maguro have good quality. Trust me.