yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Cablespider:
Yes, it is included in AEX. I freeze rather than uninstall because I'd have to go through the removal process every time I dirty flash. It's obviously not hurting by keeping them frozen.

As for an app list; I freeze anything that I don't use and won't hinder the OS in any way. For example, the calendar app and related sync services. I also switch off the permission for apps accessing the calendar. I don't use text to speech. Frozen. Simtoolkit. Whats that? Frozen. Halthingamabob. Freeze sucka. The updater service doesn't work. Fine, freeze it. Things like that. Your list will vary from mine.

I'm suspecting the same thing but have no evidence to prove it. All I can do is test ROMs with each bootstack and review results. I do feel I'm getting better results with the universal stack but testing is ongoing at this point.

I have tested them all and feel Butterfly is the bet all around performer for my usage pattern. I'm a moderate user that uses the phone for entertainment purposes mostly. Light gaming, heavy browsing and lots of streaming; video and music. It's a great balanced profile.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] shpitz461:
Doesn't work for me, I was able to change the driver to OpenGL HD, it says 192KHz is supported, but when playing, 16/48 is all I get.

I'm running the 7/7 AEX build with stock ROM.

Another issue I noticed it the beta poweramp is that music stops when screen turns off, didn't happen before with the version from playstore.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] bkores:
You are amazing. Love the new bootanimation.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] mickyjs:
dirty flashed from 6/19 to 7/7 no problem, lovely new boot animation, still can't power off when connected to power source.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] beastobadness:
You need to try v709, v790 is not working with wired HiRes .

I have managed to fix my HiRes problems...disabled Dolby atmos in magisk and it started working again...must have been a conflict.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] JTruj1ll0923:
Has anyone tried Substratum with the latest AEX? I keep getting a bootloop every time I try. Also I am using a mostly stock, other than magisk, clean flash.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Cablespider:
Substratum running fine here. I did have to uninstall all of my overlays after dirty flashing due to a few fc's. Reinstalled after a reboot and all is fine.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] JTruj1ll0923:
Hmm.... Mine was a clean flash... Maybe I'll reinstall Substratum and delete all compiled overlays. Thanks
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Cablespider:
What's the version of your Google Play store? I only ask because OpenGapps hasn't updated since the 5th and installs a problematic version of the store. Licensing checks are borked without an update. If you downloaded a fresh copy of gapps, it may be crashing due to the failed check. Just a wild guess.

I had to force an update on DU because the store wouldn't auto update and I needed to do a bunch of app checks to finish setting up the ROM.

https://www.xda-developers.com/latest-play-store-breaks-license-verification-paid-apps/
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] DarkQuark:
I am now using that app and am not sure how I ever used YouTube without it. I still have the sound issue however but I can live with it. One question, though. What do you do to stop the Play store from updating it? Just turn off auto updates (this is what i did)? Or is there another way? Thanks.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] JTruj1ll0923:
The OpenGapps I used was 06/06/18. Google play store version is 10.6.08. Also I just reinstalled Substratum and my theme and still bootloop.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] JTruj1ll0923:
I use this: https://xdaforums.com/android/software-hacking/mod-detach-market-links-theme-ready-apps-t3447494

You put a detach.custom file in / and flash the detach.zip file on that page. Here is mine that only has YouTube if you need. Just put it in / and take off the txt.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Cablespider:
Okay. That's not the problem then. Do all of your themes cause a bootloop?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] JTruj1ll0923:
Just went through one by one and it seems the only one is Android System, so the most important one. Also this is after I updated Google play store just in case.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Masterjuggler:
This is AEX specific so I'll put the main post here rather than the throttle thread. [MENTION=4493018]Infy_AsiX[/MENTION] has been helping me to remove the forced thermal throttling in AEX, and after some testing, preliminary results are promising.

I whipped up a magisk module that raises the throttle limits and disables (sets permissions to 000, same effect) what we assume to be the force throttle service, system/bin/thermalserviced (the v2 module). The v3 module also disables system/vendor/bin/thermal-engine, which references the /system/etc/thermal-engine-8996-normal.conf, which means there is zero throttle regardless of what's in that conf.

I had some wonky behavior on the stock AEX kernel where my max frequencies kept being set to 1GHz no matter the temps. Switching to Hellsgate kernel solved that, but the v2 was sort of flaky with default force throttle triggers being randomly enabled, so v3 removes it completely.

I included proof of no throttle vs throttle and some before-and-after benchmark candy to incentive you guys to test them and let us know what happens.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Cablespider:
I'm not sure what's going on. I installed a few of my themes to test and they work. I did dirty flash, though. Maybe someone doing a clean install can chime in.

Last ditch effort...is the display option to have the built in theming system run alongside Substratum enabled?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] inrockweareone:
Hi wondering if anyone is having issue with phone randomly freezes and restarts? It would freeze in random apps and even just on the home screen.

My phone is the G version, I did clean install of AEX 5.6 from here with new B12 bootstack.

I have not modified the kernel.

I have Magisk 16.0 installed and having only 2 modules enabled - Jojoc Battery 3.2 and Youtube Vanced. I checked in the Jojoc thread and I think it is not the issue.

No other mods running. I have EXT4 file system throughout.

This rom is perfect for me so I really want to make it work without any random reboot like this... Any help appreciated!
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Cablespider:
You may not think the mods are causing a problem but have you tested without them just to be sure? Before reporting an issue with the ROM itself, steps like this should be performed to see if you can reproduce the problem in a stock state. Technically, even Magisk is unsupported by the dev.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] inrockweareone:
Thanks for the reply. I have tried without the mods after checking with the thread for Jojoc and did a clean install and it still had the same issue.

I'm wondering if there is anything else is missing?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] JTruj1ll0923:
Yeah I've never had this much of an issue, especially after a clean flash. And regarding the display option, no. I made sure that was off after the second bootloop. Thanks for trying to help anyway!!
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Cablespider:
I can't think of anything. AEX has been pretty stable for me at least. Try updating to the newest version. We're at 5.7 now. You chose the G version during the bootstack install? You should be running Nfounds TWRP (3.2.1-8), correct?

Sorry, brother. If I get some time, I'll do a clean install to see if I can reproduce the issue. That won't solve your problem, of course, but could confirm a ROM issue. A few days ago, people dirty flashing weren't seeing problems while the clean installers were. Again, I hope others doing a clean install reply.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] JTruj1ll0923:
Thanks bro! I hope so too. Also as an update Magisk is not the cause so that rules out any modifications I can think of.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Cablespider:
Do a clean install of 5.7. It was released today. See if that helps. Run it stock for a while to check stability.

https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=5862345805528043607

[MENTION=5851430]JTruj1ll0923[/MENTION] - It's not the ROM. I just did a clean install of AEX 5.7 and Subs works just fine. I wonder if you have a system write issue. There is a command you run in TWRP terminal or some sort of procedure. I just can't remember what it is.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Infy_AsiX:
I'd also recommend to apply Intellithermal in kernel thermal control as a replacement if you're concerned about overheating. That or using a less powerful governor or just lower the max frequency down a bit, effectively self throttling. Will still require some monitoring of CPU freq performance until settled on what throttle temp allows enough performance without heating too much.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] joaocandeias:
Hi! I just installed the latest AEX but I'm facing this problem. There are some white letters that makes almost all notifications unreadable on the white theme. I tried AEX once before and this wasn't happening. Any tip?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Choobilsky:
Thx [MENTION=5492451]NFound[/MENTION], that's the very best build so far. I was happy with every AEX Oreo release, but usually had some issues with the first boot after flashing. Had to hit power button to get everything running, most times seemed to be caused by magisk.

This time I just noticed that Magisk add-on didn't flash right in TWRP (error saying that no boot image found), so I manually flashed the zip file following the ROM - and the phone booted up fine. Very smooth and snappy, like the new animation. Everything looks stable.

Couple of days ago I flashed the LXT butterfly Magisk mod, which improved battery life by some 60 per cent (from 3 to 5 hours sot). This is pretty good, as I permanently use two Sim cards and WiFi, some BT while in the car .... Didn't noticed any loss of performance, but I don't use the phone for gaming.

So, thx again for this great job. Owe you another beer!
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Hylex:
Really cool to see what the chip is capable without any thermal limits. +17000 CPU score on Antutu. :good: If battery life wasn't a concern, I would totally follow suit. However, 91C on the CPU temp is gonna kill our phone's battery, through both higher wattage draw, and residual heat created by the CPU heating the rest of the phone, including battery. We need to create a liquid nitrogen phone case. :p

According to your first graph with stock AEX kernel, the phone begins to throttle after 10 seconds. There are few processes my phone does that would tax the CPU for longer than that. Sustained gaming probably would, but I don't do that anymore.

Maybe the stock kernel should be tweaked for less strict thermal throttling, since it's summer and I'm regularly getting 90F+ weather over here...

Edit: I forget to mention. Thanks NFound for all your hard work. I admire the effort you put in all the different ROMs, be it AEX, DU, RR, PixelExperience, etc. I read all the posts in this thread, but I don't have much to say. Just know that there are plenty of people here like me quietly rooting you on! :D
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] JTruj1ll0923:
Thanks man! While you were doing so I did a clean install as well, only GApps and AEX. Something must have messed up in my first install because it did work perfectly. Wish me luck. And thanks again!

Okay, I again am not sure what is happening. I just reinstalled everything clean and I am stuck with the same bootloop... Any idea how to take a log of a bootloop?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Masterjuggler:
If you look at the monitor on the top right of my screenshot, you'll see that the battery temp is actually 46C after almost 10min of sustained full load on all cores. It's certainly not pleasant for the battery, but not like you're baking it. I'm also on the battery change bandwagon. It's definitely a decision you make for yourself, how careful you are with your battery. A lot of people keep it between 20% and 80% capacity, leave it off the charger at night, etc. I prefer to switch out the battery every year or two and not have to care. For the few games I play, it almost never gets hot anyway, just nice to have the power when it's needed.

I also hardly game, probably 99% of my usage is just web browsing, forums, and music. The problem is the default throttle trigger is set to 37C, which is really quite low. The few times I actually want the power, I could never get it, like with certain animations in fate/grand order.

I have a new battery coming in hopefully this week, and when I have my phone open I'm going to try adding a copper spacer between the SoC and the heat pipe to see if it helps, and it really should. Right now there's about a 2mm gap between the two with some pink goop as a conductive medium. Even the best thermal compounds only have a thermal conductivity of about 15 W/mK or so (watts per meter-kelvin). It's only meant for the tiny gaps between heatsinks and chips that mate almost perfectly already, in order to help imperfections like surface roughness or non-flatness. Not for gap filling. Copper is 386 W/mK. I was going to use a penny, but can't find one that's straight copper, so I just hammered flat a parted section of copper pipe in preparation. For reference, the aluminum that makes most heatsinks is 204 W/mK.

It's not the kernel causing the throttle, it's a hard throttle in AEX. The kernel has nothing to do with that, which is why we've been having so much trouble.

I'd much rather use my v2 module because it still respects whatever throttle trigger temps you set, unlike v3 which disabled it entirely. Problem is I was getting strange behavior with it, so I'd like other people to test it too and see if it works for them. There just isn't enough time in the day for me to try every combination of module, kernel, and whatever else.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] JTruj1ll0923:
Okay to keep this consolidated a bit, I am just replying here. Here is a log I took. From what I can tell it crashes toward the end but I haven't scanned enough to see why.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] ramnkc:
[MENTION=5492451]NFound[/MENTION] always on display still having issues :(.

I am on AEX 5.7
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] WesTD:
idk why but the device is getting too hot and laggy. AdAway doesn't working too. it was okay on previous build. Flashed clean with Magisk 16.6
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] hjjiang:
not sure if this is a current bug or not, but on RR-O, the charging LED does not work
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] NFound:
DirtyUnicorns 12.4 is here!

Full changelog:

– Merged in latest tag for AOSP security updates

– Fix DUI settings custom action dialog lag

– Fix bootanimation build warnings / size

– Fix memory leak of page “Languages & input”

– Fix crash issue when user uses multi-window mode on WifiCallingSettings

– Fix NPE in SettingsPreferenceFragment

– Fix broadcast receiver leak issue

– Fix window transformation related issue

– Fix Phone info FC related to Eab provisioned on some devices

– Fix CustomTile NPE in handleRefreshState

– Fix tabs in the udpater with no files showing previous fragment

– Fix left clock glitch on landscape and cleanup code

– Fix ContentService JNI leaks

– Fix slow-app ANR dumping

– Fix socket leaks in various android.net.Network methods

– Fix doFadingAnimationLocked in sanitized builds

– General theme fixes

– Media Provider fixes

– Analog deskclock widget changes

– Improve lockscreen ambient analog clock design

– Improve compatibility with LMT and other apps that don’t preload recents

– Ensure that locked recents apps are respected

– Don’t update if HeadsUp is disabled

– Hide freeform task header icon

– Lock rotation on SetupWizard to avoid issues

– Make scramble PIN layout Multi-User friendly

– Split calendar click action from clock in qs footer

– Remove janky fonts

– RTL changes to doze/gesture packages

– Ensure our AOSP security dialog respects RTL

– Ensure bluetooth icon is transparent when disconnected

– Include WallpaperPicker for all builds

– Add special captive portal servers for chinese

– Add Square style battery

– Add ability to allow to add custom clocks as analog clock overlays

– Add ability to keep pressing on SmartBar ime arrows to move kb cursor

– Add bigger recents icons, dynamic mediaplaying and alarm clock infos

– Add ability to allow single tap on app icon to show app info overlay

– Add DU and deep night clock

– Add dt2sleep to Launcher 3

– Add flashlight gesture & group it with the sleep one to Launcher3

– Add onLongClick functions to calendar/clock in qs footer

– Add ripple effect to the power menu items

– Add ripple effect for alarm and date

– Add option to show battery percentage when charging

– Add permission whitelist for EmergencyInfo app

– Allow to kill any app from recents panel in a safe way

– Allow details view for Cellular tile when tile title is disabled

– Allow for a more robust way to reset DUI options

– Added translations

For Axon 7:

- Fix bootanimation

Download: https://androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=275963
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Predatorhaze:
so good!i dont know what to flash DU or AEX lol
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] alansupra94:
Lol same.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Predatorhaze:
Im on aex 5.7 now with hellsgate x11 dragontc...seems all ok
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] anon1135:
so many battery mods as well hard to decide which to use if not a custom kernel. anyone staying on stock completely? looks like the options are stock, jojoc, ltx, custom kernel or battery replacement
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] shpitz461:
Is there a battery style mod I can use? the AEX styles with text inside the battery is way too small for my old eyes...
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] ((RayDar)):
Try Blokada instead.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Soyunamortz:
Running DU 12.4 ...

What camera are you guys using ?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] shpitz461:
In Magisk Manager goto settings and turn on 'Systemless hosts'.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] NFound:
Ahaha, thx :highfive:
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] joaocandeias:
Any help please?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] DarkQuark:
Are you using substratum? I had that very issue but it was due to substratum.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] WesTD:
i know but it is not working
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] joaocandeias:
No. But it actually got installed when i restored all apps after the AEX flash. Could it be related?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] JTruj1ll0923:
Did you by chance add ExFat SD Card support to this DU build?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] EBeatFLA:
Just an update... Still on DU. After testing all of the LXT profiles, Butterfly seems to be the winner for me. My phone doesn't sleep as well as Glassfish but overall battery life for the day is better with Butterfly. I could disable some wakelocks to squeeze some more out of Butterfly, but what's the point, I'll probably be clean flashing another ROM or build tonight anyways.

Edit: Performance is good on both, no worries there. I feel Butterfly is a bit quicker though, so again, the winner, good balance.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] DarkQuark:
Yes I think it could based on my experience. Try removing it.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] anon1135:
DU smooth~
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Martinxyzko:
On AEX 5.7 i have problem. After i apply theme in substratum , i get bootloop(start aex logo). I tried found solution for this problem, but i only found another- when i tried apply new picture to wallscreen and lockscreen i got same bootloop. On 5.6 i didnt have any problem.

On new DirtyUicorns i have problem with sd card, but this problem is probably because i have card in exfat format.

RR working great.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] joaocandeias:
I forgot to say but i actually removed it and nothing
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] bkores:
Settings crashes when toggling on/off Wi-Fi access for apps. However, the change takes effect.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] JTruj1ll0923:
Weird... Seems to only be with swift black. I took my help queries to their support, but just wanted to add an update here.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Cablespider:
That's not much of a report.

Which ROM? What do you mean by 'Wi-Fi access for apps'? The normal toggle? Did you dirty flash? Have you tried a clean install to see if you can reproduce the problem? Are you running a substratum theme? If so, have you tried without?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] bkores:
AEX. Yes, normal toggle. It's labeled 'Wi-Fi data' in Settings > Apps and notifications > [app] > App data usage. No, I clean flashed. It crashes regardless of whether a Subs theme is installed or not.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Cablespider:
Understood. Thank you. I can confirm the fc.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Dodgexander:
Screen off action placing phone to 2g is broken in latest aex. Has been for a while. It doesn't restore network state and keeps phone GSM only on primary sim.

Slim recents continues to be broken often only showing 3 apps. Reported it some time ago but still broken.

B12 boostack (not universal) is broken as it doesn't let you write to system.

Shame really. I'm part of the aex group and a donator too, but it's mostly written in Russian and most people reporting stuff in English is overlooked.

Don't get me wrong, there's some real work going into jacked up beta sources and no kernel source but these stupid bugs get annoying!

Also I haven't found any battery tweak to do much for me. LXT or jojoc I always get at most 3h SOT and I have tuned app ops to death. It's funny because I see some people report great results but for me with horrible drain where you think it would make the most difference it does next to nothing.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] DarkQuark:
When it happened to me I could never undo the changes it made I had to reinstall. A dirty reflash might do it though.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] janthe6th:
I have the same experience with AEX and LXT. I love AEX as it is but I don't think LXT is friendly with AEX. LXT creates lag and doesn't help much with battery. You should try out DU with or without LXT. Light weight no frills and get the job done. No lag with LXT Glassfish. Accubattery reporting about 10% battery improvement BUT I'm still testing real life usage. I don't think I'm missing AEX.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Choobilsky:
I'm very happy with stock and ltd butterfly. Massively improved battery life

---------- Post added at 12:44 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:35 AM ----------

Check! Thx again (Henning)!
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] ramnkc:
Stock kernel and modem with B12?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] joaocandeias:
By dirty reflash you mean flash the rom again without wiping or flash an update right?