yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Gen8 Android Development] jackson0829:
All data with " strange wording "which I could not read it??

I believe it is not English or other normal language
[Gen8 Android Development] blawoef:
I think I figured it out... put a 0 too much, guess overlook to 10.5ghz was a bit ambitious?? :D

bit of a wonder that it managed to spend some ticks there??!!
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
@$auron:

It's the same as with everything else, i find the archos FM not as crappy as the one you put in there, personal opinion.

And as i didn't have anything in app.old...

When i try to go into settings i get a "application not installed" msg.
[Gen8 Android Development] blawoef:
No, I have to backtrack again. There Is a problem!!

Look at this

$ $ # # # Uruk-CPUGovernor statistics:
Current governor: interactive
Overclock module: Enabled
Current max vsel: 65
Current max rate: 1050000
CPU Max: 1050000
CPU Min: 300000
Available frequencies: 1050000 800000 600000 300000
CPU statistics (tick spend in every frequency range):
1.05 GHz had 63652 ticks (9.86%)
800 MHz had 4764 ticks (0.74%)
600 MHz had 38239 ticks (5.92%)
300 MHz had 539107 ticks (83.48%)

So I corrected the settings for overlook but there's something wrong with the governor. It does not use / scale to higher speeds even when doing the most CPU intensive things like playing angry birds...

---------- Post added at 01:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:46 PM ----------

AFTER MORE TESTING -------

There may even be a deeper issue with this build. Even with UD CPU governor and overclocking entirely disabled I get stuttering in demanding applications and ultimately force closes... especially angry birds has become unplayable. That was never the case before...
[Gen8 Android Development] lohtse:
Am starting to notice serious issues with RC5...

1: bad stuttering when using media apps for video of mp3's

2: Battery drains FAST!

3: Games becoming unplayable after a time..

4: Apps disappearing but reappearing after a reboot...

this all happens whether OC'd or not

reverted back to RC4 and alls well..

Using an Archos 32(8Gig)
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Hi,

I see there are some bad mojo with with RC5 ;) - have any of you checked how this feel comparing to Archos stock OS 2.4.81? (this is most significant change in RC5). Bad thing is - I do not notice any drawback with RC5, so it's kind of hard for me to test it.

I've tried to add better power benchmarking kernel settings (for powertop) - but sadly it brakes binary modules already present, so it wont work - and without this, powertop does not provide any reasonable data...
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
The fact that CPU is not going on 1GH with angry birds - does not have to be wrong. When I've checked angrybirds used about 50% of cpu when on 1Ghz (plus some for system) - so 800Mhz is completely fair frequency for the game..

You may also notice slowdowns - not because of slow cpu, but for example because of swapping in background (so check memory usage).
[Gen8 Android Development] Higgsy:
RC5 wothing fine so far on a70it.

sent from my mind using telepathy
[Gen8 Android Development] deliverywong:
After few days, at rc5, my device can't play game "my country", battery drain faster then rc4 under no oc. But market is back to normal and update appear w/o problem.
[Gen8 Android Development] lohtse:
two more issues to add to my earlier post( about a page back)

First one is some lock ups/NO response.. By this I mean my archos 32 just locks up randomly or after using an app it becomes completely unresponsive for a while... then alls well again..

Second is am now having random reboots... It can happen at anytime and with any app/game. It also happens when the archos is not even in use and is in standby...

Again this did not happen with rc4 and have had same issues OC'd and not OC'd.

Looks like will go back to RC4 till issues fixed as there are more problems day by day and with the currect issues My archos is too unreliable....

Thank you for the hard work and am looking forward to RC6..

PS

HAPPY XMAS EVERYONE!!!!!
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
First of all - "I hear you" - even if I do not answer for every post ;)

I've made some kernel changes (archos made some commits in december), and added iotop (and kernel stuff to support io monitoring). Also there will be python and powertop in new RC. Already updated overclock manual with some (hope so) usefull informations.

Last thing - there is also working NTFS write support with ntfs-3g on my device (RC6) but sadly Vold is refusing to use it (only manual mounting). Every time I touch something in android "core" I thing this stuff is made by guys who do not get how the Linux works :(

Anyway - do I miss something, or Archos did not released sources for Vold manager? (I've checked Android source - and including 2.3 vold does not have support for ntfs, so Archos had to get it from other source or write it by themselves)
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
They did not release it, it is not gpl so they don't have to. It is http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

They did write the stuff by themselves to support ext3 and ntfs

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Oh well, I guess I don't have motivation to rewrite it (although it does not seems to be to complicated).

But I need help - any of you heard about successful compilation of tiwlan_drv.ko kernel module for gen8 kernel?

I've spend last few hours on compiling different source etc. etc - some of them did load to memory, but were unable to set proper IRQ. Most of them hanged device.

So perhaps someone else found a way to do it? (from different projects).

Source from TI are for newer kernels... source from archos does not work (unless in my case) - some clues would be appreciate :)
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Source from archos should work. I did a short writeup how to compile it http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/Gen8DeveloperNotes#HowtobuildtheWLANsourceprovidedbyarchos

It worked for me, I used the compiled module on my debian image. No problems.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
I used old tar archos source of wifi driver (not git one) - but used the same procedure... I'll give it one more try - but symbols in binary are completly different (and we have more like zoom3 board - then zoom2, there are sources for zoom3 - but for 2.6.32+).

edit: And yes - this source is working :) thanks (but it's kind of annoying that previous releases were useless)
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Glad it worked for you. :)

Better not use tarballs from archos they are old and mostly from early development stage also not very frequently updated. Use the git from them they keep it really up to date. Only a few days or less after a firmware update the gpl changes are also pushed to the git.

If they forget it we just need to point it out and it will be done asap.

The source for the wifi driver is btw from april this year when they pushed the gen8 git, so available for a long time. BTW if you have any question regarding archos development, you are free to drop by on irc://irc.freenode.net/openpma .

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] SamSan:
Thanks for the efforts..!!!

divx118 and $auron!! Please start working together.. :)
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
+1

Und include letama into the team.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1404492
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
UrukDroid 1.6RC6

Hi,

New release - it should be like beta again, because of changes.. but ;)

UrukDroid 1.6RC6 change log:

- new patches on kernel from december update from Archos git

- full iptables support (with NAT, conntrack etc) - so everything is now possible (redirect, proxies etc)

- full kernel timing for power consumption monitoring

- recompiled wifi driver (that's why above is possible)

- added python 2.7, iotop (for watching io), powertop (for power checking - but it's not as usefull as on x86)

- added ntfs-3g support - full read/write support for NTFS file systems (need to be used manually, vold does not use it)

- added UrukDroid rescue menu, repair submenu with disabling overclocking (for those who made their device unbootable with overclocking) and dalvik cache cleaner

- recompiled overclock for new kernel, new settings in cpugovernor

- new feature in cpugovernor script (genconf, current)

- update script tries now to keep /data/.tmp cleaner, and for those with disk shortage /data/.tmp can be now symlink to directory on sdcard

Like always - do backup first (and if you will restore it - restore kernel/initramfs first - since 1.6.RC6 is not compatible with previous releases).

http://sauron.pourix.com/UrukDroid/UrukDroid-1.6/UrukDroid-1.6RC6-update.tbz2

ps. about "joining forces" - I don't mind to help, but as I can see we have different needs and approaches. I don't see anything special in new Android releases (perhaps just html5 video support ;) ), so I'm quite ok with 2.2. Second thing is that our devices are a bit unequipped in memory :)

Anyway - Android is more of choosing less evil then choosing something good - if there would be any good (normal) Linux distribution for touch devices I would not hesitate to change it instantly.
[Gen8 Android Development] lohtse:
thanks for update...

will we have redo oc settings? if so is there anything different or just do old way?
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Yes OC settings will be overwritten - so please remember values. Update is in old way.
[Gen8 Android Development] rapunzel11:
I've tested Google Voice Search 2.1.1 with UrukDroid 1.6RC6. It works but I have one small Problem. By starting the App I get an audio error. If I tab the "Speak again" button the recognition starts as usual. Anyone has an idea to solve this problem? It seems that the App can't find the microphon at first start.
[Gen8 Android Development] akmalhisyam:
is it possible to use the wpa_supplicant on rooted stock firmware?

it would be really nice if my stock firmware could connect to ad-hoc..
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Yes you can.

edit: I've just checked, and until today we had 57 724 downloads of UrukDroid 1.5 installation files :)
[Gen8 Android Development] trance_sh:
First,Tnx alot for ur efforts, dear Sauron!

Then I wanna know will u give another official release as 1.5? if so, when?

and What about ICS?

:* :* :* U Rock man :* :* :*
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Hi,

No comments on RC6?

I've made some final cleanups...

- recompiled hdmi kernel modules (since we have source now....)

- readded xbox pad kernel module (it was missing during kernel update)

- more tests during overclocking config generation - just to be more sure... (cpugovernor genconf) - check updated manual

- UrukDroid update process will now store staging files on /mnt/storage (and automatically change previous settings on older configuration) and will check for free space on this device before doing update (this of course will all happen AFTER this update ;) )

- some framework-res updates

- Rescue Menu restore backup, now erases old files before restoring backup (this was not done so far for safety reasons - now it's like it always meant to be ;) )

- some linking fixes, small script changes... bla bla bla - boring ;)

If during update you will see "Loading..." screen - don't worry, just wait until device reboot.

http://sauron.pourix.com/UrukDroid/UrukDroid-1.6/UrukDroid-1.6RC7-update.tbz2

If there will be no major errors for next 3 days on this RC i'll push it as 1.5 to 1.6 update and prepare installation package.
[Gen8 Android Development] rplc790222:
RC7

I had some problems with RC6, several reboots, some problems with wifi connections, memory usage and launcher crashes, so I will do a fresh install with RC7 instead, thanx I will tell you how does it works as soon as I test it
[Gen8 Android Development] trance_sh:
Hi,

comments on 1.6: Battry Drainin, so much! my 2-weeks-old A101T lost 8% in 10min,(exploring in AstroFileMan., all other services were closed, Cpu govern off,swap off, everything in Urukconfig were disabled except Media Scanning) :0

Is the problem fixed on rc7, Sauren?
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Did you loose 8% from 100% to 92%? I'm asking because battery calibration around fully charge is often inaccurate and you may simply unplug charger and loose 5% in less then a minute.

Please use tool like Battery Widget or Battery Monitor Widget to see what was going on during discharge.
[Gen8 Android Development] trance_sh:
no! 59% to 51%! and also I calibrate my device last night after installing 1.6rc! I let it shotdown,then charge it for 5hours. (Did I calibrate it or I did smthing wrong?)

By the way I installed BattryXL 2hours ago! It helps I think , but I didn't chek the stability of my services and device! Is 1.7RC ok u think?
[Gen8 Android Development] Bingoig11:
Just upgraded from 1.6RC6 to RC7, the tablet seems to be a little faster and smoother (but maybe it's me).

Will monitor the battery drain (I already know by using Battery Monitor Widget that it cannot go more than 94%)

Anybody know the A101 battery capacity (by default Battery Monitor Widget tells 1500mAh)?
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Well - A70 has 3850mAh (check here), as far as I can see on A101 disas. pictures - battery capacity is not advertised...

A101 has also two battery pack - I'm not sure if they are the same as in A70 - but certainly 1500mAh is wrong value (it's most common value for smart phones).
[Gen8 Android Development] trance_sh:
1.6RC7 is Cool

1.6RC7 Feedback:

-Fast and smooth(Played Brother in arms2 which run so laggy on rc6) :)

-The only bug I could realize was: About Device>Status can't be selected,it closes as u touch it :confused:

-I haven't tested battery usage yet, but my battery drained fast from 45% to 27% in about 15min, but after 1hour it's 20%!!! Maybe because of charging randomly due to Rom-Upgrading in these 3 days, it has gone mad,plz s.b. test battery usage before sauren Upgrade to 1.6 official. :cool:

* I've changed power plan to POWERSAVINNG in setting, disabled live wallpaper,disabled all Urukconfig (except Media Scanning) right after installing RC7 about 6hour ago! [Would these affect on battery? Specially Urukconfigs, CPUGOVERN and... ? Plz tell me what to do]
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
"powersaving" or "cpugovernor" - they both change "cpu governor" at kernel level.

I'm still not sure what to think about power usage on RC7 - it takes time to see - but if ask me, I would consider WiFi as a potential problem... please disable wifi and see how it behaves.
[Gen8 Android Development] vantoman:
$aur0n the problem is with wifi as you mentioned ; after disabling it i faced no problems at all but while wifi is on the battery drops from 100% to 88% in just 1 hour

i guess there is something wrong
[Gen8 Android Development] kiemthu123:
Do I need to fully charge my A70IT before updating, and let It fully die (power off) then charge full while off? I using RC6
[Gen8 Android Development] sublimejosh2000:
I have had issues using Google Music with RC6, I am going to try RC7 and see how it goes, also noticed some odd things with Netflix but only when I try to resume a video. Really need GMusic to work as this is my jukebox right now... good work! ! Looking good
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
@vantoman:

12% in one hour with wifi on is perfectly inside the specs.

Which also means that some software on your device is keeping it awake while connected via wifi.

So look after the wakelocks.
[Gen8 Android Development] trance_sh:
Big tnx for rc7 $auron

Well,well, I'm not a progeramer,just professional user;) but I know the high-energy-consumption of wifi, it was off during the test of rc6! (Generaly, I always switch it of when I'm not surfing). just wanna know if the cpugovernor affect on battry when it increase or decrease the cpu frequancy and speed or not? Tnx dear :*

*back to RC7: every thing seems to work ALLRIGHT! played HD games today,the battery usage were good(or atleast the same as Archos rom)

just wanna remind u two issuse (that might knot be considered as bug):

-STATUES button in ABOUT DEVICE menu

-the amount of FREE MEMORY is about 30m.b less than Uruk1.5! all the setting and configuration were set the same.

So when will the URUKDROID 1.6 get released? and do I need to re install the whole package? I am now still on 1.6rc7.

---------- Post added at 04:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:37 PM ----------

Forget about rc6, full of imperfection, go for rc7 or wait a couple of days for Complete Urukdroid1.6 ! I've installed rc7 yesterday, it works like a clock.:p:)
[Gen8 Android Development] monstercheese:
Wouah, RC7 is great for me, had only one glitch, my 101 didn't come back after screen turned off and i had to reset. Except that no lag, like if there is memory swap. No fc when playing flash video, my it become really fast.

Really good release since RC3, thanks for your job and have a happy new year !!!
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
My about menu is working ok - anyone else can confirm problem?

Memory - with new firmware there is new usb manager app (about 8Mb), I'm not sure if anything else but this should be all. When I'll kill all "background" apps I have about 105 to 108 Mb of free memory (cache+free).

You can check memory usage with "top" command and sort on RES column (use <> to move sort column) - to find out what is using your ram.
[Gen8 Android Development] sublimejosh2000:
Any ideas about Google Music? It will not work. Anyone else can confirm this. It is kind of a big deal for me, as it has 20,000 cloud songs in it...
[Gen8 Android Development] monstercheese:
Woups during my message my tablet hung with screen turned off :)

Just about battery, for my device (it101) i didn't notice change between this release and previous. I found a fc on settings, about this device, state, i can't open it.
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Well I don't want to be rude - but this "service" is available for US only so like for me it could even not exist. It's kind of "racist" of our times...

anyway - can't check it ;)
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
I need an output of android log... (watch /data/test/logcat.log during this FC).
[Gen8 Android Development] devwithzachary:
lol however im in the UK and have it working thanks to signing up via a proxy server! there is always a way ;)
[Gen8 Android Development] trance_sh:
:confused:

mine value is the same, and also it reach 118 after closing games and apps. But it was 130~145 in urukdroid 1.5 :confused:
[Gen8 Android Development] sublimejosh2000:
Didn't realize you weren't able to get Music from Google outside the US. Its very odd thing because it was working fine in RC2, but got broke after. As always, I appreciate your work $aur0n. If anyone knows any tricks to get it to work, let me know. I have tried q few different versions to no avail. I will report that I am very happy with the speed. It is much more fluid than ever previous, and I cannot report any other anomalies
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
I never had so much memory free - but I use (since I remember) FancyWidgets (it was FancyWeather few months ago) and It chews memory like hell (every widget takes memory - sadly...).
[Gen8 Android Development] trance_sh:
I never use widgets, I even turns of LiveWallpapers! I reached 145mb, I'm sure; but not at start up, just after lunching games and apps and close them with default SystemMonitor! ??No idea?? :(
[Gen8 Android Development] lohtse:
since rc4 if I use stock music player for 20mins or more My archos 32 reboots....Use player pro for over 3 hours no issues...only happens with stock player....
[Gen8 Android Development] trance_sh:
Just for your information! > It's is ok now, I dont know what did happen, I now get 125~132 mb of free memory when I close apps(specially games), though it's not stable and decreases over time. I didn't made any changes, or any setting.
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
UrukDroid 1.6

Hi,

UrukDroid 1.6 - final update

It should be applied on any previous 1.5 release or later.

Comparing to RC7

- update system will now prefer update during boot process (but only if there is enough free space on rootfs for this, otherwise it will do update on live system)

- because of this I've made some post update scripting stuff.

- scp fix (transfer TO archos was not working - strange that nobody notice that, I had some other ssh stuff and it was working for me)

This changes will be "at work" after update so you won't see them until next release (or you can apply this update twice ;) ).

Like always - please do backup first.

http://sauron.pourix.com/UrukDroid/UrukDroid-1.6/UrukDroid-1.6-update.tbz2
[Gen8 Android Development] Bingoig11:
Going to update :D

But I never had any issue with WinSCP transfers :confused:

Edit: Updated as usual, everything's ok and working smooth and fast :D
[Gen8 Android Development] jandre:
After updating I've lost root access. I've returned to RC7
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
This was probably depending on the "path" you have used to be on 1.6 (install 1.5 or upgrade from previous versions) - this was just a missing symlink - but there were certainly version where this was not working.

Quite unbelievable, could you do update once again and check those two files.

[root@urukdroid /]# ls -l /system/bin/su
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 22364 Dec 24 21:33 /system/bin/su*
[root@urukdroid /]# ls -l /system/app/superuser.apk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 843503 Dec 24 21:32 /system/app/superuser.apk
[root@urukdroid /]# ls -l /data/app/ | grep -i sup

There is a chance you've installed another version of superuser and it's messing with it - try to uninstall superuser upgrade before also.
[Gen8 Android Development] jandre:
Superuser gives permissions (and they are in the log of SU), but programs say that I haven't SU permissions (SetCpu, Titanium Backup). In explorer programs like Root Explorer or File Expert I can't see a lot of files (the content of Data, etc).

I don't remember if I have an updated SuperUser (I'll check it this evening), but I've updated without problems, to RC1, RC2 ... RC7.

Great work Sauron.
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Any more confirms 1.6 final it's working or not - so I can go more public...
[Gen8 Android Development] trance_sh:
every time I wanna change rom,I reformat myA101it> then install SDE only(no archos rom)> install uruk 1.5> Update uruk 1.6xxx

is there any other way which is clean enough as this method and can also save me time?

I'm satisfied with rc7 but I change to see if i could help. :* ;)
[Gen8 Android Development] losrodriguez:
I have problems with the permissions
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
What kind of problems?
[Gen8 Android Development] Higgsy:
All working fine here after the 1.6 final update. Many thanks.
[Gen8 Android Development] losrodriguez:
Something programs i have permissions,,, but in others (checkroot, setcpu,etc..) it say that i am not root.
[Gen8 Android Development] sweetypie:
sauron.pourix.com - server down?

Can't get any of the links at sauron.pourix.com to work "cannot find server" is the server down? Is there a mirror?
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Yep - it looks like it's down...

Alternative link:

https://rapidshare.com/files/1238619642/UrukDroid-1.6-update.tbz2
[Gen8 Android Development] Neo Cortex:
Yup. Everything seems to be working well. Thanks for all your work on this.
[Gen8 Android Development] deliverywong:
I had the same problem, lost the root. Now, go back to rc7, thanks to the backup. Anyway, thanks aur0n.:D
[Gen8 Android Development] PaTr10T:
Same issue here sadly, lost all root
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
But I would really like to know what was wrong with your setup - final is almost exactly the same as RC7 (5-6 files changed...)
[Gen8 Android Development] Bingoig11:
On my side no issue with root, everything's working fine, fast and smooth. Great job $auron. Thx :D
[Gen8 Android Development] jandre:
I've checked these two files in RC7, and they are the sane.

I think the problem is also in Rw file system.
[Gen8 Android Development] steven20052009:
Update 1.6 from 1.6 RC4 - everything went fine until the device restart... and launcher is stop unexpected => force close => so It couldn't log in to main screen.

Could anyone help,please? Thanks