yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Mahnsinn:
Maybe I miss read it. Srry then. I hand over the guilt to my hangover xD
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] borjaag:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] new kernel sources are out ?

http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=920f
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Code124Y:
no worry, im not angry anyway... peace out
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] sarvesh563:
Alpha 1 is very smooth..its like i can feel the butter flowing on screen !

Too smooth..

No reboot and hangs till yet using since its out.

Will taste alpha 2...

Great work!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] cdx47:
I'm not sure that I want to change from Alpha 1 LoL But seriously for my phone I am not sure how you can improve on it.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] vrtsvas:
Hi,

I did as you said , i have loaded the philz file for my g920i from arter page, but it seems that i cannot get it running somehow, i have tried turorials on how to get into the phil z but nothing. i have tried the hardware combination of holding the volume down + power+middle button and when it gets into the blue screen press the up button and it get its me in a dead adroid icon with the yellow eplanation mark label and then into a screen that has different options but nothing like the pink screen that you should be getting with philz.

Is this related to phone not being rooted and running the KNOX version?

or maybe i am doing something wrong with the hardware combination button.....

Please advice

cheers
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] MarkerBean:
where is the Philz Kernel to download?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] ghbuur:
philz recovery you'll find on arters homepage in his final kernel sections. not in alpha or beta folders.

think here should be the latest

http://arter97.com/browse/exynos7420/kernel/6.0/
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Bashliev:
You have to be rooted, then install custom recovery , then hold volume UP + home + power button and from the recovery flash kernel

Don't know whats that knox version you are running
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] skivnit:
So far so good, multi tasking is fine with 7 apps opened no reloading, no locking up yet (which did happen on alpha 1)

Edit: apps get killed after 20 minutes

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
7.0-beta1 is up.

7.0-beta1

LowMemoryKiller minfree, vmpressure adjusted for better multitasking

Latest Note 5, S6 kernel sources merged

Latest ramdisk, dtb.img merged

Input booster issue fixed for S6, S6 edge variants

CONFIG_EXYNOS5_DYNAMIC_CPU_HOTPLUG_SLEEP_PREPARE set to 1 for better stand-by battery life

Support for G9208, G9200, G920FD, N9208, N9200, N920CD added (untested)

- Please read the 'Supported devices' section

- These variants are untested, please report if it's not working as intended

The newly added Dual-sim variants may have sensor issues. Please feedback on those.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] sardroid:
There's only 5.0beta1:
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] skivnit:
Yup no 7 beta

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Dijkstra88:
Guys look under the folder Alpha. it's there located.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Duncan1982:
Yes that would be the Beta folder as per one's screenshot.

It's not there unless its just hidden for some users lol :P
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Dijkstra88:
Or it's still in the upload progress :p:D
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Duncan1982:
Haha yeh indeed, that's what i was thinking but it wont be a large file, unless arter is doing some modifications and will release as beta 2 :P
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] D!3G0 #1:
online!!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] sarvesh563:
Where is it?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
Lol clumsy me.

It's up now.

http://www.arter97.com/browse/exynos7420/kernel/beta/7.0-beta1/
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nicsarnero:
Many Many Thanks arter97
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] cba1986:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] 7 beta 1 for g925i doesnt flash. it stay on "removing knox".

alpha 2 flash just fine.

i found the problem, had to reflash the entire rom(v9 xposed) and reflash the kernel again.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Cygnuss:
Arter this beta1 is really good thank you for your hard work, i will send something your way :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] :
Thanks [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] ! The new beta is sooo amazing!

Tapatalk'd from my S6 Edge~
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] skivnit:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] time for the sound tweaks? :)

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] steve97ta:
Beta is working on Tmo S6E using Arrow rom ?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] richterqq:
First ,thank you so much about your work, but 7.0-beta1 doesn't work on G9200 by using G9208's kernel. The phone can not boot into the second screen and the phone is always in the first screen without boot looping.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] GeorgeNYer:
I'm on a g920t, could I flash from either the exynos7420 and s6 folder or only the s6 folder???
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
Ugh.

Thanks for the feedback.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] batuzai04123:
Me too, tried the kernel G9208 7.0 on myG920FD xtrestolite rom, stuck on samsung first boot logo. :(

Even with Cache wipe/Dalvik/art cache.

Kindly let us know if this is ROM related? Or kernel issue? Thanks :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Hemant:
Will wait for your next update. Please do support G9200 as none available on xda. Thanks.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Maiaman:
Thank you for your great work, accept this symbolic donation 3AR139330W493720U, my nation in this terrible crisis which in recent months had our currency devaluation absurd ...

[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] kernel 7 beta 1 running smooth, with latest version stock G920IDVU3DOJ6 for SM-G920I converted all to F2FS and also using Xposed. :
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] alerems:
Hi, guys.

Proud of this kernel, using it everyday.

Got a problem after 7beta1 - almost all is white after a boot up, can see only some shadows and can interact with the screen. I'm on Xtresto 2.4., 925fi.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] sanders132:
Tested v7 beta G920T running weta rom v8.1 and boots up fine.?☺
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Cygnuss:
i wiped dalvik cache and cache and it booted fine
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Darktitor:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION]

I've got 3 SOD on latest bêta with your Note 5 port

Envoyé de mon SM-G920F en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Wildfear:
I was using your kernel, G920FI version,from v2 to v6 on My G920FD without any issue, should I change to G9208 or keep using G920FI ?

I think I will try both ...

Edit : G920FI version seems to work fine on my G920FD as before.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nadejo:
Latest kernel has better standby? : D i can barely see any standby usage. Thanks for the update!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
What's a SOD?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
FI version won't have a functional Dual-sim.

Try 9208.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] amirage:
Screen Of Death
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
And what's that?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] drock212:
Wonder if he means a kernel panic... The demigod screen
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] batuzai04123:
arter is it okay now to use G9208 on my dual sim G920FD phone?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] gianton:
+1 v7-b1 on Crash ROM, without xposed or even Greenify I get 99% deep sleep.

Great work [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION]
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arter97:
It should. Please try.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] jojobans:
plz help I need stock kernel 925F android 5.1.1 for flash odin

build is OH8
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Darktitor:
I mean it was lying on my table and when I had to press power button to power it on again ^^

Envoyé de mon SM-G920F en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] drnjstj:
What did the logfile say?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] spelaben:
Wow, lost only 2% overnight in 8 hours with the new 7.0 beta while I usually lose about 8% in this time span. :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] batuzai04123:
Sorry to say [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] but it failed when using G9208 7.0 beta version

I'm using dual sim version G920FD

Tried clearing dalvik art cache

Roms tried: Stock, Back to not3, xtrestolite but no luck

Its kernel issue i think for G920FD devices

Reverted back to alpha version 2 kernel :( and it worked without issue

I think G920-FI works well coz ive been using it before this G9208 version.

But sorry cant have only one sim at a time. Lucky for others worked for them since most of them dont have duos :).
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Indranuj Kar:
1. Install normal ClockworkMod(or PhilZ) recovery

2. Put arter97 recovery on you SD card

3. Enter recovery

4. Flash recovery

5. Reboot recovery

6.1 Select "Mounts and Storage"

6.2. Select "toggle f2fs <-> ext4 migration"

6.3. Select "format /cache"

6.4. Select "f2fs"

6.5. Select "Yes - Format device"

7.1. Select "format /data and /data/media (/sdcard)"

7.2. Select "Yes - Format"

7.3. Select "f2fs"

7.4. Select "Yes - Format device"

8. Reboot

to convert to f2fs should the above steps be done before flashing the new rom or after flashing the rom?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] aegeuss:
It's «Sleep of Death» not «Screen» ;) where the device does not wake up from screen off situation.

SM-G920F cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] amirage:
Doh
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] borjaag:
Stuck at Samsung first logo when I try installing this kernel (BETA-1) with WETA ROM 8.1 :/
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] android4life92:
Definitely best kernel for the S6. Amazing performance and battery
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Cygnuss:
Wipe cache and dalvik cache and reboot
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] davebugyi:
I think it is quite logical to install after format, since format erases everything on the given partition.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] ebusuhejbi:
I can't download arter97 b1 kernel. .any other Dowland link please
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] osmosizzz:
Nope that's the only one.

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And sleep of death is when the device is in sleep mode and it won't get out of it. Pressing the home button or the power button doesn't wake up the screen.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] batuzai04123:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION]

any updates on G920FD dual sim support?

Wanted to try the beta version badly :(
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Indranuj Kar:
I dont know whether this is a fault in my sm g925I but shifting from unikernel to Arters kernel I am finding the touch to be a bit "heavy". In unikernel the touch was very smooth(almost equivalent to my previous iphone6) but now with Arters kernel I am finding it not that smooth. Anyone else having this issue?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] habis:
i am having dual sim G920F and i am on beta version.. working smoothly
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Amin Nasr:
I think responsiveness was better in v6 and also it was smoother. tnx for your hard work waiting for v7
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] RJTBVK:
V7 beta is tuning just fine. The changes in the updates are so small and fine running. You can never feel the difference. Impossible. It's all in your head. People who wright, wow my phone is flying now are losing it. It's all fine tuning. Noting more nothing less. If you block your ads and get root to debloat it. Your phone is super smooth with stock kernel.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Amin Nasr:
how can i debloat?

I'm on back to note 3 v10 xposed edge
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] gwolfu:
read what debloating means and you will see if you need it or not

most likely custom roms are already debloated
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] drock212:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3201783
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Wildfear:
Yet your G920FI version works fully on my G920FD with Wanam ROM as base, dual SIM is fully fonctionnal since V2.

Try G920FI variant kernel ^^
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] jody2k:
Your right but not battery wise, there is where the stock kernel fails bcuz crapsung does have incompetent devs not taking seriously. Spending more time on adding bloatware than actual stuff they should do
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] RJTBVK:
I agree 100% just was referring to his lag. If there is any I always enable enforced mode to 1. Big and little
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] RidinNerdy:
So I have literally Googled everywhere for this answer and I couldn't find one so I made a video and now posting it here...

https://youtu.be/TtS_dzB4IFQ

My philz Touch Arter recovery isn't working at all... I'm on "Back to the Not3 rom and Arter's 6.0 kernel with F2FS and I can't flash anything at all.. I am also using tmobile device and I can't wipe cache, can't install zip, I'm stuck in can't even restore my back up...

Please help.... Thanks in advance!

Btw could it be because I lost root??
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] xsidex:
Hey, samsung released an app called samsung game tuner that allows you to control framerate and resolution of games in a per app basis. I've had it working before but with your rom it says "imcompatible device"

Can you take a quick look into it and see whats causing the issue? Maybe is just a naming thing and can be easily user fixed.

I'm running Crashes rom on my Internation Galaxy s6 edge, with Unikernel the app works, but not with the latest Beta of this kernel.

Help?

Regards!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] RJTBVK:
Hahaha what's in that drink. I bad it's not coke uhh cola

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I see in arter rom thread you got help. Start fresh or only with Odin a custom recovery. I always use twrp.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] D!3G0 #1:
I agree with you bro. v6 the best setting for my
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Huey85:
Never mind, found out the cause of the issues I was having.

BTW, v7b1 is running great here on XtreStolite on 920I!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] skivnit:
Yup got sleep of death as well, never had it on alpha

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] RJTBVK:
No sod here, best kernel. You use default settings?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] gianton:
7-b1 running rock stable since it was released on my G920F with [MENTION=3915037]Crash[/MENTION] ROM.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] seniga1:
Had 1 SOD with 7.0 beta 1
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] cba1986:
too much UV
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] skivnit:
Why you guys always assume the other person did something? I been using this kernel since it's early days and I never UV, most of the times its fine, latest beta is crashing simple as that

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] davebugyi:
Probably ROM/phone variant problem. I am using the kernel since v4, but never had one crash/SOD. Also beta2 is working fine with UV as well.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] erghetto:
Great kernel this 7.0 beta 1.

Really in love with it
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Huey85:
Best battery life I've ever gotten with arter's v7b1 and XtreStolite v2.4..
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] cdx47:
7beta1 so far so good. No SODs and sleeps at least as well as 6alpha.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] RJTBVK:
Delete all those ridiculous init.d tweaks. I always do that. init.d is so gingerbread. We don't need them anymore. A good kernel will all do that for you.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] enebro77:
What about Antutu ?

Cheers
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Cygnuss:
i have 70k in antutu with interective and row
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] D!3G0 #1:
you can enable fast charging?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nadejo:
I got the feeling that the full documentation of the soc (a57/a53) is on the site of ARM. And there is really much information.

for example a53

http://search.arm.com/search?q=a53&...Site_Refresh&ulang=de&entqrm=0&wc=200&wc_mc=1
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] davebugyi:
But still it's not the complete Exynos 7420 documentation.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] nadejo:
Maybe its still usefull
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Dijkstra88:
Hi [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION]. New beta is running fine. Just noticed that Linaro released new snapshot 5.2-10 gcc few days ago. For your information :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] RJTBVK:
How do you recognize a kernel flasher junkie.

They post in the most active kernel thread reminders that there is new source or any other updates that involve making a kernel.

I think he knows. He is not still making gingerbread kernels. Hehe
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Huey85:
I don't really care much for synthetic benchmarks and care more for real world performance. And this thing flies. No stutter. No lag. Just pure speed. But here you go..

Interactive governor and fiops scheduler.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] maximumx2:
Awesome!

The stability and performance of your Kernel is truly unmatched but i would have one little request to make it perfect. Could you please implement underclocking for the a53 and a57 cores down to 200mhz. It would make battery life even better.

Thanks for your awesome work! :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] ashwin988:
Fast charging does work man. Why? It doesn't work for you?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] rockgom:
Hi where can i find the cmw recovery or philz for g9200
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] D!3G0 #1:
it does not take long to load.. when the stock has carried me in 40 minutes

it is as if it would be charging via USB
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] GeorgeNYer:
I can vouch. I remember on stock my g920t would charge much quicker. Ever since rooting and using custom roms and kernels charging from 1% to 100% takes 1 hour and 20 minutes.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] batuzai04123:
Beast :D

Keep up the good work [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION]
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] arshcaria:
Are you sure?

I tested it when it was almost untouched (full stock). It took about 1 hr 10 min from 5% to 100%.

After flashing custom ROMs, it is still the same.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] erghetto:
Underclock doesn't give better battery life. It could give worst results.

Take more informations about it.

Most people think that if a core works at lower frequencies, uses less power, but do not consider that it has also more frequencies to scale and overall it works more.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Erik1805:
I am running xtrestolite deo mod v.2.4 with Unikernel. I am also using TWRP. Can i flash the latest beta of the arter kernel on my S6?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] RJTBVK:
Yes look your version in download folder.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Rhodesfreak:
Hi guys,

The performance of this kernel is impressive, but anyone has an idea why light flow is not working as before? The notification light is less bright. I have searched the thread but I haven't found an answer to this.

Thanks
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Erik1805:
What is best to do? Download the beta or the alpha2 kernel?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] mauley:
7.0-Beta1 is the latest.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] RJTBVK:
Search to but can't help you, mine works just fine. Clear cache and flash again
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Erik1805:
Which app can i best use to change kernel settings?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Darktitor:
Use Synapse :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Erik1805:
Does anyone have a good settings for battery/performance?
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] RJTBVK:
Default
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Bashliev:
You can try undervolting but it may cause instabilities and there is not that much of a difference maybe the device is runnig a bit cooler but could be placebo i personali do 1mvolt global undervolt both clusters
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] maximumx2:
Yeah but i could use even lower mV for the lower steps and this should give me better battery live when screen is turned off or cpu usage is low or do i think wrong here? :)
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] whittikins:
Ah, thanks for explaining.

So what does he mean by this? It sounds like something different than changes to the governor because that's not related to touchwiz.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] AndreiLux:
Hahaha talk about making pompous statements to make oneself look smart.

There's absolutely no mystery to this. TW has a user-space module which helps control DVFS response-time and it controls among other things such as the scheduler inputs also some inputs in the interactive governor. All he did was disable the interface so that it scales faster and also less efficiently, and is the reason as to why it takes a battery hit.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] whittikins:
Gotcha. Is that the same effect as using Xposed modules to disable DVFS? I remember using Wanam Xposed on the Note 4 and seeing that option.

Sent from my SMG-G925T
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] AndreiLux:
No. Samsung changed the framework module like a year ago so it behaves differently and does more stuff now.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] risx:
My capacitive buttons stopped responding with this initial release kernel.

I will have to wait for the G925W8 version of your kernel
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] Wildfear:
Working on G920FD (dual sim) with wanam deodex ROM.

edit : flashed with TWRP, not using F2FS.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] sahandv1989:
How do you flashed kernel whit twrp? I downloaded kernel .went to recovery and installed and every think was successfull wiped cach and dalvik booted up and runs phone but it was not arter kernel. It was unibase kernel installed before! Did i do any thing wrong?

Note : flashed arter phliz recovery tried again but it was same like i never flashed arter kernel!
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] aamir2day:
Would love to try it on g925i, hope u release it soon
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] xillaron1:
Had the same issue, flashing the kernel with flashfire ended up working for me.
[Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge Unified Development] shaunofthedead231:
Hello. First of all, a great thanks for this Kernel, I've been using for around ten minutes (along with XtreStoLite 2.2b and Alliance Framework) and I already noticed the difference regarding the performance. Nothing else to say aside from that for now on, though I'd like to point out the fact that trying to remount the system partition info F2FS caused my G920F (International model) to get stuck in the GS6 boot logo, which made me flashing the stock ROM and reflashing everything again. It's fine with the data and cache partitions though. Don't know if I did anything wrong, if someone could enlighten me with this, I'd be thankful !

Also, for those who can't seem to get the kernel flashed correctly with XtreStoLite (2.2b), try wiping cache and Dalvik along with factory resetting THEN flash the kernel, all of these using PhilZ custom recovery ; that worked fine for me.

Cheers!