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[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
I wouldn't touch it. I've actually raised the high-speed frequency 1 step by default to provide a little extra juice if it really needs it. I don't think your issue is gpu related. Is it only one game having the issue?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] buddybin:
Happy with vindicator r5

Xtrestolite deodexed 2.4 rom

Always used mobile data and wifi

Social network and blog reading

Standby 12 hrs

Sot 6hrs
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Great! Are you using task packing or anything in VControl? I think I can improve battery life further in the next build.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] buddybin:
Yes, i enable power efficient workqueue and power aware task schduling

Always Smooth and battery friendly with vindicator kernel[emoji1]
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] EasyGoingXD:
Awesome Kernel! No VControl changes! Brightness set to half-auto.

1 1/2h Bluetooth Music Streaming, 1 1/2h GPS with radar warning app, GREAT Standy By stats!, LOVE IT! My new daily kernel :)

Think i can get it to 6h without bluetooth or GPS, oh and about 16 hours without WLAN :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Happy to hear you are liking it! :) I'm personally testing out task packing, power aware scheduling, and power efficient workqueues all enabled in VControl ATM. It should improve battery life, and I haven't noticed any performance loss, in fact my pcmark(a benchmark that measures performance doing everyday tasks) score improved with these things enabled which is not what I expected. Anyways, if you are looking for even better battery life its something worth experimenting with.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] EasyGoingXD:
My next full-battery-load will be with max. power saving inside VControl. No lags or something like that right now :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Nice! I'm still not convinced on power efficient workqueues though. Samsung included them in kernel source but didn't enable the by default. And in my testing I feel like they have actually made my battery life worse, but its not really any scientific testing :( anyways. What I'm saying is if you get worse battery life, try turning power efficient workqueues back off with the rest still on. Good luck!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] guastucci:
It is strange. This trouble in going on only with your kernel (the one that I´d like to use :crying::crying:).
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Faelz:
Hi!

I noticed good battery results after flashing this kernel but my phone isnt entering deepsleep anymore (it stays at low frequences, but deepsleep time is 0)

I use deep sleep battery saver, grennify and amplify... Before flashing, it was entering deepsleep...

Maybe some tweak i didnt do or something?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] EasyGoingXD:
Stock konfiguration of the kernel...sleeps like a baby, Lost 2% over 10h deepsleep
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Faelz:
yeah, but mine isnt going deep sleep.

9H on 400mhz, lost 25%...

If it was i think the battery life would increase much more!

Maybe should i flash the kernel again?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Pedroc1999:
[MENTION=4517211]Xileforce[/MENTION]

May I rattle your brain? I need some advice and I think you're the ideal person for this.

As it stands, my phone is loaded with apps, simply because I am a bit of a hoarder, however I do use them all, I have 550 odd packages installed and I do use most on a daily/weekly basis.

I have a pretty bad issue with my RAM usage, and I've had it on my S4 and S5 too, and thats RAM management, sometimes, even after restarting, I have as little as 600mb free, and with only clearing apps, I'm often left at 90% usage (200/300mb free) And even through the use of Smart Manager/Smart Booster, it ain't getting any better.

Are there any tweaks, I or you could make, to the kernel, that would result in more aggressive killing of backgrounds apps and RAM management in general? I know in Synapse and Kernel tweaking apps there are sections to do with the RAM, but some guidance would be great if you could spare a little while (Also i'm sure I am not the only one who suffers from this)

Thank you, Pedro
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Mahnsinn:
Is it only for me or is the dl link down?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Well, that's a good question. I'm not an lmk/ram management expert but I may be able to help some. Sadly, just stock the s6 has fairly horrid ram management, and even with custom kernels its still far from optimal. If you make the lmk more aggressive, it will kill more tasks which will give more ram, but potentially worse multitasking. Anyways here's a short explanation of tuning the lmk. Id recommend using kernel aduitor to do this BTW. First we would go to the low memory killer tab. Now you will see a list of names with values next to them. This is the type of process, and then the corresponding amount of free ram, below which, that process will be killed. For example. If we set empty applications to 300mb, then if ram falls below 300mb empty applications will begin to be killed. Thanks se values can be adjusted for all of the different categories. The first one you will want to adjust is empty applications as these apps are not running in the foreground, or providing any background content(music etc). To make it simpler though you can also just try one of the presets or just raising all of the sliders a little bit which should just make it generally more aggressive. If you want to go further you can go to the virtual memory tab, change swappiness to a higher value like 150 and increase the vfs cahe pressure to something like 200. This may also help. Beyond that I'm not too sure though. Good luck!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Hmmm...sleeping very well here. Can you install better battery stats and check the partial wakelocks screen?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] imransyafi:
I'm pretty sure unused ram is wasted ram. Its there means it cached for when the user wants to access it it can be accessed quickly. Let android itself manages its memory dont mess task cleaner and stuff. Why have a lot of ram when youre gonna leave it empty.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Pedroc1999:
Because I'm noticing a pattern, when the phone experiences a RAM nightmare (Below 200mb) Touchwiz (or what not) Kicks my OC settings to 1.7GHz MAX and 1.3GHz MAX, meaning in a very laggy, very slow and unusable UI, leading to a force reset as operating Touchwiz becomes impossible

I dont want to free all RAM etc, but I want to 100% avoid them situations
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Faelz:
Ive just installed it. It seems to be collecting data...

But here`s a pic of the cores usage...
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nofam:
That doesn't look like BBS? Did you install this? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterbatterystats

You need to check Partial Wakelocks as Xileforce suggested.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
We are not messing with a task cleaner. Im referring to the built in android low memory killer(lmk) that is part of the kernel. It has tuneables to make it more or less agressive.

Agreed, that doesn't look like the correct app. It's free on xda BTW. Just a quick Google search should bring it up I would imagine.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Pedroc1999:
[MENTION=4517211]Xileforce[/MENTION]

A few more questions, if you don't mind.

Performance, is there any way that a new Governor could be added that favours performance a bit more? One which would ramp up the A53 a bit more quickly, while keeping the A57 at the same settings if not slightly faster again, but limit both during screen off?

Entropy, I heard its something to do with random number generation at the lowest level, would adjusting this result in any performance gains?

Thanks, Pedro
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Fruktsallad:
Just enable enforced mode in kernel auditors governor tweaking section. Does just about what you're asking for. Otherwise you could manually edit the different values in there to your liking.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Unfortunately as far as other governors go, most are not built to handle hmp systems. So they treat all cores as equal, which isn't true on our device. That's why interactive is pretty much the only governor that works correctly for us as Samsung has heavily modified it to tie in with hmp among other things. Luckily interactive is very configurable so we can vastly alter its behavior in realtime. If you want to make the little(A53) cores more aggressive the easiest thing to do is reduce the target loads. Stock Samsung runs at 75 for A53. The lower you put it, the higher the tendency to use higher frequencies. You can also raise the min sample time a bit. As far as entropy goes, don't touch it. I've already included a pretty big entropy patchset which improves it, as well as frandom which is a much faster entropy generator. Did I answer your questions?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Faelz:
Yeah. BBS. At first it didnt show anything on partial wakelocks, but here you go...

on BBS it show some time in deep sleep, but the time wake with screen off is much higher... Since i have Deep Sleep Battery Saver and grennify i think deep sleep should be higher, right?

I`ll fully charge it and leave alone during night and see results tomorrow.

[MENTION=4517211]Xileforce[/MENTION]
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nofam:
No - that screenshot you've posted is displaying 'Other' - tap the screen where it says Other and select Partial Wakelocks from the list of optons. This will show you specifically what apps are preventing Deep Sleep.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Faelz:
sry. Now it's the right screenshots

This time i fully charged and went to sleep. That is what i found as soon as i woke up.

thanks!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Pedroc1999:
Yes thank you [MENTION=4517211]Xileforce[/MENTION], nut its sparked another, and thats my issue with 'Set On Boot' within Kernel Adiutor, It simply does not apply, do you personally make VControl? If so, an option could be added to 'Apply Current Settings On Boot' which would identify anything (Changed in Adiutor) and make the according changes on boot, or save directly to the kernel, would this be possible?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nofam:
It looks like your GPS has been locating your phone constantly since you took it off charge; I'd almost certainly blame Whatsapp, as it's notorious for draining battery.

My suggestion would be to install the Xposed Framwork, then buy Greenify, set it to Boost mode, and enable all the experimental features.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] superleeds27:
[MENTION=4517211]Xileforce[/MENTION]

Anything worth looking at in the new source drop?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Haven't looked yet. Finals :(
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
I do make VControl. However the way it works is when u toggle something in VControl, it applies that setting to the proper file, as well as saving that value to another permanent file. So when u reboot, it reads the value from the perm file and re applies it automatically as part of the boot up script to the proper file. So in order to support what you are saying i'd have to manually do that for every single setting, which would take forever sadly :(
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Gpsd is the GPS daemon. So basically, turn off your GPS when you aren't using it :P I actually just leave location all together off until I need it. It's only a quick goggle away.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] imransyafi:
I'm noticing a huge delay in waking phone up. Like the time for the screen to turn on when waking up. Anyone have this problem? I have all power savings option enabled in VControl.

I'm pretty sure its kernel related, flashed AEL kernel and its gone.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] superleeds27:
Battery life with the screen on seems brilliant, but idle drain seems to be rather high when compared to AEL and TN2009.

Not sure if theres anything that can be done, or if it's a known issue?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Okarina26:
[MENTION=4517211]Xileforce[/MENTION]

i wanna thank you for your great work,patience and friendliness to help everybody........which is not quite natural in this forum....:good:
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Faelz:
But here's the problem. I keep GPS off almost all the time (i use GPS once a week, tops)... Location is off always.

does WhatsApp use GPS? i never saw any relation before and on other phones...

Is there any wakelock or alarm that i can change with amplifly to prevent it?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
I've only had this very rarely 90% of the time it wakes up instantly for me. Usually when I get it I just do a reboot, because its almost like there's a rogue app or something and that fixes it.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Everything can be improved :) have you checked your wakelocks and partial wakelocks though? Sometimes it's just random luck that you have some weird app keeping things awake more often. My idle drain is quite good atm. This is also the only kernel that has a screen off max frequency limiter which should help
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
I don't use GPS very often either. As far as I know the only way around that is just leaving location toggled off until you need it. It shouldn't run when it isn't on. It's possible that certain apps like WhatsApp may try to periodically check in on your location for one reason or another and if you are inside it may have a hard time locating you making the GPS stay active for longer periods of time. That's just my guess
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] BuTuCuTz:
This kernel has a great standby time, and a good screen on time. I am happy with the battery life.

A problem though. Has anyone noticed a decrease in touchscreen responsiveness? For example, when I'm inside an app, I have to struggle to pull down the status bar. Or when I try to click a link...
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
I haven't noticed this, nor have I done anything related to touch sensitivity so I'm not sure what it would be. :/
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Faelz:
Is there a way that i can find out which app is using GPS even when its off?

i'll greenify Whatsapp tonight and see if the GPS will continue to be used all the time...

Either way, can i like force close GPSD? if yes, how?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nofam:
There's almost certainly an app that's trying to Geo-locate you; are you using Google Now? Whatsapp would still be my likely culprit, as I leave my GPS on all the time (GPS only, not GPS, Wifi and mobile networks), and I don't have any wakelocks from it.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] superleeds27:
This is something ive been trying to do and track over the last month or so.

What ROM is everyone using?

I really like Xstreolite as it's slim and barebones - but hasn't been updated for two months.

I know this shouldnt be that type of thread and post, but if anyone has any decent suggestions?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
I'm on xtre as well. I'll probably stay here until cm becomes stable enough to be a daily driver, and then compile my own build of it with my favorite optimizations and run that.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] superleeds27:
Might give it a try again then, just shame there isn't a newer update! Edgar seems to have gone a bit quiet actually.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] miguelson.lazarre:
Rom galaxy grand plus
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Pedroc1999:
Ah shame! on another note, can a script be made to AutoSet a Kernel Adiutor profile?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Yea I have both him and Glewarne in my hangouts and I haven't seen either of them in quite a long time now :(
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
I'm not sure. I've never tried to do something like that.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] EasyGoingXD:
[MENTION=4517211]Xileforce[/MENTION] Could you push your latest source code from V5 to github that other devs could look into? :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
O__O it appears you are correct! Looks I totally forgot to push the latest stuff! Apologies, had finals past two weeks and guess I forgot. Will push it as soon as I'm home from work in a few hours!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] superleeds27:
So what settings are people running on this? Vcontrol, what's enabled and disabled etc.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nofam:
Yeah I changed from Xtre to CrisscrossROM, and then the dev sold his S6 - too many great phones competing for dev's attention!!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
I'm currently running sensorhub disabled(huge wakelock gone) task packing and power aware scheduling enabled. And I've left power efficient work queues off.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] BuBbLeFIZzY:
I have notice my ram gets very high after a day, and my system starts to lag and eventually freeze. I dont know if it has anything to do with kernal or maybe because im using stock rom. But i was using your older kernals with the same rom. It never jump this high before. 925T oj7
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nofam:
Same here - the sensorhub disable is a must-have IMO, you can go 10 hours overnight losing 1 - 2% only. I've been running this change since early test releases and I've never seen a bad side effect to date.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Faelz:
Never used Google Now... Can i post my app list here? i dont have many, just 3 pages but almost all 3rd party apps are greenified.

Even so, since i turned location off, the phone shouldn`t keep GPS on even with a app requesting it, right? It didnt before...

I`ll test for Whatsapp tonight and post the results here.

If nothing changes i`ll clear cache and probably flash the kernel again...
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nofam:
Probably best to post it in the Q & A section, as it's almost certainly not a problem with the kernel, as others haven't reported it. Post the link to it here though, and I'll happily take a look for you. :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Same. As I said when I added it, its gotta be there for a reason.....I just haven't figured it out yet xD the only thing I could think of is like Google now while screen is off. Which I haven't tried.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] boostermbkking:
with the R5 kernel, I have the ram full of 90% and very slow down speed after 7/8 h of use, how to fix this???
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] superleeds27:
So i reflashed Xstre ROM and applied the same settings as you [MENTION=4517211]Xileforce[/MENTION]

Standby seems fine now.

It must be something Xstre has or doesn't have thats giving the decent battery life. All the other ROMS with the same user setup have given bad bttery life.

Wonder what it could b? Smartmaager maybe?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Faelz:
Whatsapp was blocked in Brazil, dont know if its because of that or not but the phone is entering deep sleep now :D:D

But i think it isnt. When i woke up and checked BBS there isnt deep sleep and GPSD was used 100% the time. Out of nowhere the screen went off and wouldnt light up again, even when i tried to charge it.

I had to press vol-, home and power button to start the phone. After that it seems thats entering deep sleep and GPSD isnt on all the time.

I`ll keep an eye on it but its probably solved.

Thank you very much guys!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] dandroid13:
WhatsApp isn't blocked anymore, check your wakelocks, lol. But seriously, never had this gps issue with WhatsApp, I'm not sure if it uses location like Facebook Messenger does.

Enviado do meu Galaxy S6
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Faelz:
I didnt think it was Whatsapp too, ive never had this problem with it.

Dont know how, but the wakelocks are ok now...

thanks!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Alarand:
This might be a silly question so I apologize in advance, but does busybox get reinstalled on each boot? If so is there a way to (properly) update busybox or disable auto installing? I've been looking for info on how busybox installation gets integrated into kernels or roms but I can't find much.

So the busybox installer app will install version 1.24.1 but every time I reboot it goes back to 1.23.2. Call it ocd but I'm curious so I thought I'd ask. I see glenwarnes autoroot script has a busybox install part but it seems to copy from /sbin to /xbin, and the busybox file in sbin also gets reverted at boot for me, from what I can tell. The only other thing I could find was the busybox file inside /res but other than simply deleting it I'm not sure how to go about stopping it from getting reinstalled.

I only mention this cause I'm a huge noob and I don't want it to seem like I didn't at least try to look around for the answer

Anyhow, awesome kernel still! :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] imransyafi:
Sadly im still noticing delays when waking up the phone. Even after reboots. Will be on Hacker kernel for now. ?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Indeed, it does. I never really thought of the negatice implications of this. I suppose i could keep it and update the binary, or just remove the feature. Idc either way. The reason it gets reverted in sbin is due to that being the ramdisk, which will get reloaded every boot.

Hmmm. The only time I notice delays is after I've had my phone on for several days, which seems to be some oddity with ram management I'm trying to fix in r6. However the only thing I can think of that may be causing delays would be the CPU limiter while screen off. As that's the only major difference related to screen off on hacker kernel that I noticed.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] RealGalaxyLink:
Can't set max frequency of A53, I used synapse
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Medel-Silver:
Hello [MENTION=4517211]Xileforce[/MENTION], is possible to disable sensorhub wakelock without VControl? I would like to know how, thanks in advance.

Regards.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] imransyafi:
I'm sorry but regarding my issues with delay with waking up the phone, I believe I've been using RC2.1 rather than the official R5. Flashed the latest one and its all gone, for now. Thanks [MENTION=4517211]Xileforce[/MENTION]
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Yes :) /sys/module/wakeup/parameters/enable_sensorhub_wl. N means no wakelock. Y means wakelock
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Awesome. Glad to hear that
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] jelbo:
This is the single thing that irritates me greatly with any S6 kernel. After a few days it gets slower and slower to unlock, until it just won't wake up and you have to hard reset. I just had that.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Fruktsallad:
QFT. Just had that same thing. Doesn't take me a few days, though. The most I can stand it is about 24 hours, after that it becomes unbearable. The kernel that avoids that the best so far is Unikernel imho. Don't know what it does/doesn't do differently than the others...
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
Are u using FHA or dha?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Fruktsallad:
At the moment FHA, but I believe this happens with DHA as well. Have you noticed any difference?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Xileforce:
My kernel uses dha stock. I was just wondering if maybe FHA fixed this issue as most other kernels also use dha
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Fruktsallad:
Alright. Sadly seems like there's no difference though... :-/