[Xiaomi Redmi 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] Vishalcj17:
Paranoid Android Quartz 5 is out!

This update includes the following device specific changes:

Fixed up idle drain fully.

Staging for kernel 4.9

A whole new tree made from scratch/

Surface flinger offsets from Pixel 4a.

OTA will work. Those in Quartz 4 will recieve OTA updates gradually!

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Paranoid Android Quartz 4 is out! (Release 2)

This update includes the following device specific changes:

Hotfixes regarding issues that were there in Quartz 4 release 1.

I'll recommend a clean flash. Also backup your persist partition from recovery incase you lose your sensors.

Paranoid Android Quartz 4 is out!

This update includes the following device specific changes:

Switched to CAF's implementation of Bluetooth. (Connects even faster now)

Switched to CAF's audio configs. Now, Audio quality should be better as they have been tuned. Specially the mids and bass.

Introduced AudioSphere effect by dolby.

Updated media configs from LA.UM.8.6.r1-04400-89xx.0 and removed the slow-cpu tag.

Updated prebuilt thermal from daisy.

Reverted a commit that was causing speed issues while connected to wifi.

Added two new boosts which are mentioned in CAF's Boost Framework, i.e, panel-veiw and pre-fling boost.

Stopped balancing MDSS and kgsl-3d0 IRQs

Modified the thermal config. Increased the max frequency for thermal throttling and the temperature threshold to 46C. (Celsius)

Increased the Charging threshold by 4 degrees. (Celsius)

Removed unnecessary overlays that caused animation breaks and jerks.

Updated Common blobs from LA.UM.8.6.r1-04400-89xx.0

Kernel side changes :-

Added power saving flags to all panels.

Fixed Idle drain (it should be 2-5% because of gapps).

Using GCC-10.

Avoid RCU CPU stall warning and RT throttling.

Fixed severe lag when a device wakes up from deep sleep.

OTA will work. Those in Quartz 3 will recieve OTA updates gradually!

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Paranoid Android Quartz 3 is out!

This update includes the following device specific changes:

Fixed major UI/UX lags and removed Coral's Stune settings, using CAF's setting now.

Update perf configs from LA.UM.8.6.r1-04400-89xx.0

Removed Custom VSYNC offsets which caused jank. Now HWUI graph reduced by around 50%

Bumped up the display saturation by 10%

Changed the default display config (Kinda to vivid mode)

We are using CAF's boost framework now.

Battery should be better, by atleast 20%-25%

Fixed camera crash.

Switched to OSS GPS hal.

Totally fixed screen recorder crash and lags.

Memory management is tuned, specifically for 2GB devices

Updated Graphics, GPS, Postprocessing, perf-iop blobs from LA.UM.8.6.2.r1-07100-89xx.0 And added thermal hals from stock oreo.

Building LibVulkan.

Resetting read_ahead for dm-0, dm-1, dm-2 to 128.

Gaming performance should be even better. On my tests, I hardly notice lags on 720p, HD, 60FPS (Set from GFX tool)

Kernel side changes :-

Using GCC 9 now, will do GCC 10 by next build.

CPU-Idle should be even better (idle drain should be lower)

Tuned up genirq. this is basically load balancing, which should be better and more battery efficient.

Disallow ashmem memory from being remapped

F2FS performance should be better, introducing rapid gc for android.

Adjusted ion system heap pool orders

improve page migration heuristic

Backported LMK account for unevictable pages.

Set CONFIG_HZ to 250.

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OTA Updater is also fixed up this time, so for Quartz 4, it should be good!

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Paranoid Android Quartz 2 is out!

This update includes the following device specific changes:

Fixed heating issue while charging.

Fixed IOP Hal spam in logs.

Updated Display and perf stack from LA.UM.8.6.2.r1-06600-89xx.0.

Fixed Night light.

Removed low ram flag for 2gb devices (Causing PIP issues)

Kernel sided:

Upstreamed to lastest caf tag LA.UM.8.6.r1-04200-89xx.0

Fixed deepsleep issues on some devices.

New users can download from link in the first post.

For existing ones, OTA will be available gradually.

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Paranoid Android Quartz 1 is out

Quartz 1 is now available for this device! Please have a read to the next post on our blog.

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Please do a clean install, we hope you enjoy this stable release!

NOTICE: Google apps are present in these builds, there is no need for external zips to be flashed

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