[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] xdav20:
[MENTION=1657835]jahlex[/MENTION] Thank you for your quick responses.

You mentioned the main back camera should either be IMX298 or s5k2p7 but I have both listed. What does that mean? Both drivers trying to access the same HW lense which only one of them is the actual driver made for!, am I making any sense?

The reason I have not specified my own experience about charging is because I never (loosely) charge my phone, I use external charger cradle to charge my batteries and just swap batteries as needed. Both USB component and battery would last ten folds longer. However, I mentioned it because charging issues (or discussions) also USB component related and something tells me both stems from the same cause. I'm 100% sure something changed since root and USB port does not behave the same, similar to the camera. I'm surprised not one member mentioned about exfat support being removed sometime after rooting. Not saying the root process did it, in fact, I'm confident it didn't. After flashing a kernel and the subsequent reboot I received my SD Card was corrupted and needs to be formatted. I took the SD Card out and used a USB Reader and everything was readable on that SD Card. I had to reformat it in V20 in order to be accepted. And then when I inserted the same USB Stick that I used a minute ago with no problem got the same treatment as the SD Card did by V20. So this tells me, someone removed exfat support from the kernel or the kernel update had inadvert effect which also removed exfat support.

If a bad change was made to the kernel or to a different part of the ROM and the subsequent updates didn't reverse that bad change then the bad change would remain and continuously cause problems and everyone (developers) would wonder why things are not working as they should.

I use the word infected to suggest my phone has that bad change that will not go away until I wipe everything, delete all my backups (because all inherited the problem, hence infected), and have to start from scratch or find the fix. I'm not lazy, but something tells me the problem will come back unless I stick to emdroidle's kernels only after flashing a new kdz. Wait!, I remember [MENTION=6984210]emdroidle[/MENTION] mentioned something about a mistake about naming a file exfat instead of texfat, something along that. For instance, the kernel that I flashed may have that mistake and caused my ROM to lose exfat support for good, until next kdz flash that is.

I'm thinking because V20 has 64GB of internal storage and external SD Card most members don't bother with USB OTG anymore but OTG to transfer files among all my devices are very common occurrence and I cannot be without it.

I'm currently using your kernel, the werewolf variant v0.01. The standby consumption is excellent but as soon as I start using it the battery loses charge way quicker than what I have observed previously. BTW, I observed werewolf kernels consume up to 500MB more RAM.

I'm going to do a test with my 2nd pure stock V20 and see how much both consume battery while I'm sleep and how much they drop after I start using them.

The art of smoothness is not just in hands of developers/modders who tweak the CPU profiles for best results, it is also an art users should learn how to setup and use their devices with reasonable expectations. Less is more.