yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Duncan1982:
Did you read Arters most recent post in that "No changes were made that can drastically effect battery life".

My post confirms this so a possible check on your apps and or wakelocks :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nimalen87:
Ah nice nice. Looking for v2 on that rom to flash. So waiting :)

Hope you flashed the initial release
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
There are tons of potential reasons other than kernel that can affect battery life on Android.

Battery reviews are useless for beta-testing as I simply did not touched anything that can possibly affect battery in any noticeable form.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nimalen87:
Yes I did. But I don't install any fancy apps to my phone. I have some certain apps which I usually do backups and restore in each and every rom. So I am comparing with those. So app settings is not fault though. Any ideas?

---------- Post added at 07:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:08 AM ----------

What are the potential reasons? Hence I am running your back to not 3 rom latest version and your kernel v5 beta. So if it's rom then what can I do?

OK will see. I will report back if problem exists. Thanks arther for your hard work.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Duncan1982:
Could be a few things like have you recently flashed a new rom? And then possibly update google services. My knowledge is limited in comparisons with Arters lol

Who may be able to throw up a few more things that may be sucking up your battery.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] GeorgeNYer:
Where can I get lmktweak?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] davebugyi:
By reinstalling the kernel.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] HaGii:
And no deep sleep is not kernel related?!

I literally had no deep sleep while my phone was idle for the last 6 hours...
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
I'm 100% certain that is not the kernel.

Use BBS or wakelock detector.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] HaGii:
Okay. Thanks.

And is there any recommended BL and modem we should use along this rom?

Edit:
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] davebugyi:
It is not philz. Looks like my fingerprint sensor just died - as it is doing the same thing after reflashing the stock firmware. Pretty neat for a "flagshi*" after just 3 weeks of usage.

Is it not possible to reflash the phone to it's out of the box status?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] HaGii:
For everybody having deep slepp issue after installing kernel, here the solution:

Don't install beta5 kernel right after install of the Rom. FIRST install the 4.3 version and right after you can update to beta5.

I first installed beta5 and had massive battery draining when i was asleep, then i installed 4.3 over it and beta5 again -> battery drain gone.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] jack allen:
i do like the kernel it is smooth and dont drain during sleep i had lost 1% over 8hrs which is awsome but reverted bak to 4.1 as i use the sound control
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nerddd:
The beta running very smoothly, very responsive on back to n0t3! Only thing I've noticed is lag on unlocking screen directly after boot (on bubbles effect), but only during first unlock after boot
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] rogoul:
It's been almost 2 days with the beta version and still feels better for me. Only one issue observed - while deleting some old photos my display gone dark and phone was unresponsive for a couple of minutes.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] armijo91tdi:
How is everybody getting Stellar Battery Life

so im running 4.3, with Xtrestolite and i keep seeing everybody ranting and raving about great battery life. i literally only text and use spotify, and i can barely get 9 hours total, barely 2.5ish hours of SOT. any tips or tricks?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] GeorgeNYer:
Fast charge not available yet?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] emcardle660:
This sounds stupid, but can someone hit me with the download link? The one's on the OP don't seem to work for me
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] olskar:
Fast charge works fine for me with provided charger, not for you?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] GeorgeNYer:
It's taking a longer charge time compared to unikernel. Dunno if its rom related because I just flashed Crash rom last night and then flashed this kernel right after. Prior my charge time from 5% was little over and hour, now its about two hours. I'm on a g920t
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nimalen87:
How was the charging speed before flashing last rom?

Our speed is like 80% in 40 mins. So your charging adapter seems to be the problem
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] gpvecchi:
Latest beta has an absurdly long lasting battery! Perhaps just a little laggy in scrolling, but wonderful!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] GeorgeNYer:
But I'm using the same wall outlet I always been using.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] GeorgeNYer:
I use to charge at a minimum of 1200 mA. I tried all outlets of the house and I know its not the wall adapter because it was working fine before. And as you can see it takes about 40 minutes to charge just 30 percent. However I did notice when charging from a completely depleted battery it charges at 1200 mA, still short of what I use to before but doesn't exceed 1200. From a depleted battery I use to charge at around 1440 mA
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] virulentt:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] I don't know if this is compatible with 64bit phones but you should take a look :) http://www.iflscience.com/technology/hush-software-increases-battery-life-android-phones-16
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Noxxxious:
Latest stable kernel = http://arter97.com/browse/S6/kernel/4.3/

How it works? -> If you are on 920F you choose the 920fi folder. The FI stand for 920F and 920i. I hope you figure out how it works.

Beta (920F only I think?) = http://arter97.com/browse/S6/kernel/beta/
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] gaston_garcia:
What ROM are you using?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
That's Android ROM part(framework and settings), not kernel.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] olskar:
Fast charging is always slower in the last 20% or so up to 100%
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] JavierHouse:
Please [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] with my device kernel "Broken" no advanced with you kernel.

Mi device is ..

And my software ..

View attachment 3475345

Please help me.

PD: Link your kernel in my device ?

Suggestions ?

Cheers!!!

Enviado desde mi SM-G920I mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] gpvecchi:
XtreStoLite deodexed. And Xposed eats so much battery...
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] :
Well I got 0.0% in idle for 6 hours with xposed.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Тhe Dark Knight:
It's not true.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Rebel25:
Are you running other apps to save battery or do you have some xposed modules installed?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] interestingkid:
amplify, greenify, power nap, boom, amazing idle hours

SOT cannot be increased because of the screen anyway so the best bet is to increase your standby
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] ghbuur:
exactly my words too. I'm happy now. cpu is 78% in deep sleep. wifi always on and using whatsapp etc.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] emcardle660:
Thanks! :) There's 3 different ones I can download, which one do I flash?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Rebel25:
One is the kernel and the other two are for custom recovery. If you already have a custom recovery installed then you only need arter97-kernel-g920fi-4.3.zip.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] wund3rground:
I just don't understand some of the battery issues some of you have. I have FB, Twitter, 2 Gmails, and Reddit all syncing and pretty heavy usage and I average 5 hours SOT with juice in the bank when I get home. Could it be some of you are running so many battery conserving apps that you're just shooting yourselves in the foot?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] steve97ta:
Could be....I stopped using all that a while back and just let the rom/kernel do its thing. I'm seeing about the same 5 hrs a day with use like you
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] garethbale:
I have s6 SM-G920F, this is the correct kernel for my mobile?

Enviado desde mi SM-G920F mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] spelaben:
Yes
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Soft4y:
[MENTION=5839536]garethbale[/MENTION],Yes ,mate. Go on,flash it ;)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] garethbale:
Can I configurate the Double tap to wake the mobile function?

Enviado desde mi SM-G920F mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] ghbuur:
download kernel audiutor. there you can activate it ;)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] armijo91tdi:
Not entirely sure what is happening, i mean spotify alone shouldn't be destroying my battery like this by its self, and currently am not using any battery apps.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] interestingkid:
Okay so what we're your steps?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] gpvecchi:
There's one thing I don't understand, plz... Do I have to format in f2fs to use this kernel or may I stay stock?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Darktitor:
Flash XTRESTOLITE

Flash add on

Flash Arter97 kernel

Go to mount and storage

Toggle ext4 --> F2fs migration

Format /cache F2fs

Format /data /data/media F2fs

Reboot

Envoyé de mon SM-G920F en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] fljotavik:
flashed again this kernel with TWRP, now with xtrestolite 2.2.

everything works :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] twinh3ad:
No, it's not compulsory to convert to f2fs. It just one of amazing options this kernel featured.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] interestingkid:
damn it, I don't know why I'm able to convert /cache into f2fs but I'm not given the option to do it with /data. It just goes straight to yes or no for formatting

EDIT: Never mind, saw the instruction, needs to format both data and media, backing my music up now...
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] matheus_sc:
Thanks man works for me all fine now.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] interestingkid:
anyone getting a slight delay when opening up the keyboard using swiftkey? I'm getting the delay at least...
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
Initial support for

SM-G920F/I/S/K/L/T/W8

SM-G925F/I/S/K/L/T/W8 has been done.

Obviously, I haven't tested all of those.

Next release will have those device supported, but please do report back if you have any problems.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] gianton:
Thanks for your hard work mate. v1.0 is working great on my G920F.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
Wait, when have we reached 15 pages?

Already?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] thereassaad:
If i delete swapfile from system/ what will happen? ?? & is it good to deleted? ?

Don't Pray For An Easy Life, Pray For The Strength To Endure A Difficult One.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] interestingkid:
arter, could you please look into the micro freezings and stutters? It happens with swiftkey (during the initial popping up of the keyboard when trying to type), and some here and there stutters while navigating the phone. Maybe the governor is geared more towards battery friendly settings, in which case this is normal
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] thereassaad:
[emoji16][emoji14]

Don't Pray For An Easy Life, Pray For The Strength To Endure A Difficult One.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
Set it to performance and see if it solves it.

I personally don't use SwiftKey and can't switch to another kernel.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] interestingkid:
it's weird, it doesn't happen every time also, so i'll have to see if changing the governor will fix it

but won't switching to performance drain battery? switch to performance for both BIG and LITTLE?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
Just for testing.

If setting it to performance fixes it, I'll see what I can do.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] interestingkid:
well, without giving it any time, when I set it to performance for both cores, no lag, stutters, or freezings in animations (obviously). Pulling down the notification bar is liquid smooth, while there is a noticeable frame drop in interactive governor

maybe the stepping up is a bit too conservative for the current settings.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] xillaron1:
Will converting /system to f2fs require me to reinstall my ROM?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] gpvecchi:
Well, my battery lasted more without Xposed. I assume it depends on how many and which modules you have.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] boostermbkking:
what app I can use for set up this kernel? with synapse i can't change neither the governor!!!

help please...
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] ManDone.vRs:
Kernel ADiutor
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] demmo81:
the kernel is awesome by the way but i don't know why Whatsapp is draining a lot now after i updated the kernel :(
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] ManDone.vRs:
is not a kernel problem ...
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] radioshaq77:
Would changing radio bands with advanced signal status be enough to run this kernel on my unsupported g920a?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] ChongoDroid:
So much circumstantial evidence in here lol.

By the way screen on time is especially relative because it's amoled meaning if you're using a lot of blacks you can stretch that battery life like I did here.

Also using like 20 tools to save battery life is probably going to cause more problems than good. Research what you're using and remember that less is more.

I got my best screen on time yesterday View attachment 3476130
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Duncan1982:
Was that done in Adobe photoshop? Lol

Kidding yeh it will never be consistent as the phone will behave in different ways each day as will the user. But averaging 5hrs is decent for me :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] C.H.T.J.:
Arter keep up that good work... Latest beta runs smoooooooth and Really nice :D
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] boostermbkking:
This kernel there aren't cpu min at 200mhz?

Whats the best setting for better battery saver?

Thanks...
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] davebugyi:
Not for me.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] self_slaughter:
Finally working on my 920i!! (4.3)

Been wanting to try this for ages but the recovery would never boot for me.

Installed last night and converted my partitions to f2fs.

Working brilliant so far. Xposed was killing my battery using GPS. (Draining faster then my USB in the car could charge it!) so I figured it was time to try something different.

This was just the ticket.

Phone quickly charged to 100% so I disconnected it to see how it would go.

Had more battery left at the end of the day off charge then I did with the phone charging all day using xposed. :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] davebugyi:
I am using the same ROM, but not using light manager. Default behavior when fully charged is a statically glowing green LED (not fading) for me.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nimalen87:
Where did you find 'power nap' 'boom'? I searched on xposed installer downloads section and it's not available there.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] interestingkid:
boom was just an expression word

power nap is in beta, gotta sign up , search on google
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] r03ter:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] I notcied sometimes when my mobile goes to deep sleep and I receive call, the screen doesn't switch on... It stays black screen..

Rom: Back-to-not3

Kernel: arter97 5 beta

Mobile: SM-925F
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] herculesPh:
whats the best version for battery?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] cire27rn:
Ur using note 5 rom?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] MistaJae:
Unfortunately, this kernel has had a negative affect on my battery. Tried switching to Unikernel but got stuck at Samsung boot logo. How can I flash another kernel without re-flashing my ROM?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] :
You can't. How long have you tried it and did you clear cache? This kernel is incredible on battery. I lose 0.0% over 8 hours of sleep with data on.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] garethbale:
Some link of philztouch??? I flash one recovery of this thread, in odin put pass, but when reboot the phone in recovery mode, appear stock recovery, help!!

Enviado desde mi SM-G920F mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] sapnesh:
Is the battery life of latest beta is better than unikernel v8's?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] :
Well, not tried Unikernel for some time. I have 0.0-0.1%/h drain over 8 hours of sleep with mobile data on. It's definitely enough for me.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] MistaJae:
Had it a few days and the screen on drain is worse than I had previously. Screen off is also worse but to a lesser extent. I'll persist with it for another day or so, but I'm 10-15% down with the same usage & apps. Only thing I've changed in the last week is the kernel
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] steve97ta:
In my experience I get good battery with this kernel both 4.3 and the beta are great.

One way to avoid the bootloop from this kernel is to make a nandroid using other kernel then flash this one.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Harregukalerik:
Smoother and better battery for me....... but all phones are diffent so test
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] ariefabuzaky:
Can someone test antutu for f2fs system ? Thanks
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] interestingkid:
Here ya go
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] herculesPh:
I went back to XtreStoLite bro
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] ariefabuzaky:
And your SOT average ?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] interestingkid:
Can't give because I play Vain Glory

The graph is the only thing I can give you

SOT doesn't mean much because it all depends on what you are doing during that SOT

I've got good idle drain anyway
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] ChongoDroid:
So basically your report means nothing [emoji57]
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] koko115:
Why led notify blink in light flow verry dimmer, on stock kernel blink much bright... ?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] 21cdb:
I get acceptable screen off drain with this kernel, but when I'm using the phone it drains really quickly. It's been like that on every version I've tried, including the latest beta. I don't know why. All Unikernel versions even with all performance settings drain less with screen on and are also fine with the screen off. You'd think it would be the opposite.

I'm on a G920i with Xstrestolite.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] JavierHouse:
Please name or rom note 5 in Galaxy s6 ( SM-G920i )

Enviado desde mi SM-G920I mediante Tapatalk

---------- Post added at 03:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:55 PM ----------

Who rom ? Please name best rom. In 920i ?

Enviado desde mi SM-G920I mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] norbert.ganslmeier:
There is no best rom. it depends on your taste. For me XtreStoLite with arter beta works just plain awesome.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arash64a:
Can i install this on my G920FD 5.1.1 with Odin ?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Richard_10:
It's a very cool feature I loved in the xperias. Thank you [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] for adding it. I hope the the issue with the number of knocks will get solved
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] dschmiddi:
Does this Kernel works with the Engineering Bootloader without trippin Knox. Want it as alternative for the Unikernel.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Noxxxious:
What doesn't work with the engineering bootloader is the question..
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
5.0 went live.

5.0

Updated to Linux 3.10.88

Major memory managements changes for better responsiveness

- Reverted vfs_cache_pressure back to 100

- Dirty writeback adjusted(reduced)

- dirty_expire_centisecs and user_reserve_kbytes tweaked

- Drop file-system caches on screen-off to reduce screen-on delay

- S6 & S6 edge - LowMemoryKiller values tweaked

- Note 5 & S6 edge Plus - LowMemoryKiller values reverted back to stock

- Replaced FHA with DHA

- swap-on-disk disabled by default(/system/swapfile)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Gilg@mesh:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION], why replace FHA with DHA? when I read here http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6/development/research-memory-management-dha-t3132060/page22 they say FHA when using 5.1.1?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
No, DHA is still the default with 5.1.

I just went for the defaults as I honestly can't notice the differences.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] cba1986:
thanks for the update. but you can consider to release a version with the audio mods? i use it a lot and it is the only thing preventing me for updating.

The changelog says that swqp is disabled by default. how do you enable it?

thanks in advanced.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] panathcypan:
Any difference between beta and stable release?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
In-call audio is still broken, and it's not worth my time to compile a whole another kernel.

I'm planning to take another test at it and work with AndreiLux to fix it.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/system/swapfile bs=1048576 count=x

x = 100 : 100MB of swap

x = 500 : 500MB of swap

x = a : a MB of swap
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] cba1986:
ok, thanks. i will wait then. 4.1 is working fine for me.

---------- Post added at 02:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:10 PM ----------

[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] i tried to create a swapfile by adb shell but i get this error:

root@noblelte:/ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/system/swapfile bs=1048576 count=1024

dd if=/dev/zero of=/system/swapfile bs=1048576 count=1024

dd: /system/swapfile: Text file busy
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
You already have swap enabled.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] cba1986:
ok thanks.

I thought not because multitasking is seriously degraded. i cannot have more than 10 apps open. it was near 16 with 4.1.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] radioshaq77:
Has anyone run this kernel on g920a? Any advice?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Indranuj Kar:
Which kernel is better if not the best for g925I? This one or Vindactor?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Flakito97:
Compatible with t-mobile variant? ?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] steve97ta:
Yes just flash the audio fix after if needed
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nasko_spasko:
You serious?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] cazrack:
5.0 kernel with my crazy kernel auditor performance settings is incredible smooth in browser and messenger, (also using adaway).

Just ran a geekbench 3 session and got 5322 in multicore.

Simply the best S6 kernel ever, is it possible to donate a beer or two?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] skivnit:
:( too bad no audio controls, they work fine on 4.1

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] cba1986:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] something in v5 affected multitasking performance. it dropped the amount of open apps from around 16 in 4.1 to no more than 10 in 5. yes I have a 1024MB swap enabled when I did the test.