[ROM][OFFICIAL][5.0.2] AICP for OtterX [NIGHTLIES]

Hashbang173 · Jun 25, 2015

Guitarman said:
I'm using this latest build to post this message. I did not install Gapps and I slimmed down the total memory usage of the system apps considerably. It seems to average about 50-60 MB of free RAM. I do like the imp!ementation of the easy volume control tile

After those measures, the performance is pretty good, snappy almost. I'm going to try to tweak it some more if possible.

Thanks for your hard work, it's always exciting to see new ROM releases for this device

If people would be interested, I can add otterx back to the official nightlies for android 5.1.x

pfederighi · Jun 26, 2015

Hashbang173 said:
If people would be interested, I can add otterx back to the official nightlies for android 5.1.x

I'd be interested, but right now I'd be more interested in the following:
* figuring out, and solving, why 5.1 uses so much more RAM than 5.0 or 4.4.4 (is it OS issue or a kernel issue?)
* figuring out how to make a kang (is that the right term?) of the volume quicksettings tile so other ROM developers can easily add it to their ROMs if they want
* figuring out the changes Hashcode made to the LP kernel to fix the battery drain bug and backporting them to KK, because KK is just faster (on the KF, anyway)

Just my thoughts.

Hashbang173 · Jun 26, 2015

pfederighi said:
I'd be interested, but right now I'd be more interested in the following:
* figuring out how to make a kang (is that the right term?) of the volume quicksettings tile so other ROM developers can easily add it to their ROMs if they want

Please push this change to gerrit.

Register on the AICP gerrit
add you ssh public key to gerrit

cd path/to/aicp
cd path/to/projectYouModified
git add -A
git commit
git push ssh://yourgerritusername@gerrit.aicp-rom.com:29418/AICP/project HEAD:refs/for/your_branch

for more information on gerrit, see the documentation

Guitarman · Jun 26, 2015

Hashbang173 said:
If people would be interested, I can add otterx back to the official nightlies for android 5.1.x

I'm also interested in nightlies.....

Sent from my Amazon OtterX using XDA Free mobile app

pfederighi · Jun 28, 2015

Hashbang173 said:
Please push this change to gerrit.

Register on the AICP gerrit
add you ssh public key to gerrit

cd path/to/aicp
cd path/to/projectYouModified
git add -A
git commit
git push ssh://yourgerritusername@gerrit.aicp-rom.com:29418/AICP/project

for more information on gerrit, see the documentation

Will do. It might be a while. I still don't really get git let alone gerrit and in order for the tile to work I had to modify and add quite a few files in the SystemUI and Settings apks. Also,for some of the strings files, I'm not sure if I modified the files that should be modified. Also, should I put the code towards the end of classes/lists/etc or the beginning, or does it matter? I should probably download Inkscape to make an icon, too...

pfederighi · Jul 4, 2015

Hi everyone.

I thought I would experiment with using an alternative toolchain. I wanted to see if AICP 8.0 could be made to be decently fast. The following was compiled with the Uber toolchain and used the JustArchi optimization flags. It is significantly faster than stock GCC.

I also changed the brightness minimum to 1 and added a Volume quicksettings tile (there are some surprising internal differences between 5.0 and 5.1). I have not bothered to remove all the stuff that is irrelevant to the KF; feel free to remove or disable whatever you want. Also, disabling high end graphics and reducing animation time to .25 will help with speed.

Enjoy.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7BjC3Ky49TVMWhraTZXOThONzg/view?usp=sharing

Hashbang173 · Jul 5, 2015

pfederighi said:
Hi everyone.

I thought I would experiment with using an alternative toolchain. I wanted to see if AICP 8.0 could be made to be decently fast. The following was compiled with the Uber toolchain and used the JustArchi optimization flags. It is significantly faster than stock GCC.

I also plan to compile AICP with an alternative toolchain for otterx. I'll try to compile it with SaberMod and some optimizations today. We'll have to see which gives the fastest ROM.

Hashbang173 · Jul 5, 2015

Hashbang173 said:
I also plan to compile AICP with an alternative toolchain for otterx. I'll try to compile it with SaberMod and some optimizations today. We'll have to see which gives the fastest ROM.

OK, this is compiled with SaberMod toolchain with some various optimizations. It currently has -O2 but I can easily change that to -O3 if its faster.

FYI: this is AICP 9.0, Android 5.1

https://basketbuild.com/filedl/devs...aicp_otterx_lp-9.0-SABERMOD-20150705-1445.zip

Guitarman · Jul 5, 2015

This was an example of the free RAM available with the newest 8.0 release, 7-03-15 (minus the Gapps of course)

Sent from my Amazon OtterX using XDA Free mobile app

sparksco · Jul 5, 2015

Guitarman said:
This was an example of the free RAM available with the newest 8.0 release, 7-03-15 (minus the Gapps of course)

Sent from my Amazon OtterX using XDA Free mobile app

I think Android is meant to run at full memory most of the time. That's why they did away with task killers. Because Android uses a low memory killer now in the kernels. It's how efficiently the memory is used that matters. You can probably tell with a benchmark app like antutu.

sparksco · Jul 6, 2015

pfederighi said:
It is significantly faster than stock GCC.

Honestly UBERTC uses the same mods as sabermod toolchains. Different name, same game.

pfederighi · Jul 9, 2015

sparksco said:
Honestly UBERTC uses the same mods as sabermod toolchains. Different name, same game.

Indeed. In fact, going to sabermod.net reroutes to github.com/UBERTC. I just assumed that the name had changed or they were two projects that merged into one.

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I know this thread is for Lollipop, but since I'm still working with AICP, I think this is the best place to make this known. If I'm successful, I guess we could start a new thread.

I'm been experimenting with the latest Otterx AICP KitKat (version 7.0) in an attempt to get better battery life. I think I may have some success so far. Right now I'm seeing how long the battery lasts just sleeping. I'll let you know how it goes. Of course, you should have some idea of the success, or lack of, depending on how long it takes for me to post an update.

edit: Okay, I jumped the gun. I thought I saw only a 1% drop while I was at work the 1st day of testing. Apparently I didn't correctly observe the the start charge level before I left for work. Oh, well, back to the drawing board.

edit: I've made progress. I've managed to get better battery life, but now there's no audio. Grrr... I'll keep you updated.

sparksco · Jul 9, 2015

pfederighi said:
Indeed. In fact, going to sabermod.net reroutes to github.com/UBERTC. I just assumed that the name had changed or they were two projects that merged into one.

No someone else owns that site. The real site is https://sabermod.com

I've stated this in various places across xda and G+ if you bothered following the updates.

SaberMod will never join or be associated with UBERTC, as there is literally no benefit in doing so. And they also mirror a lot of the code from sabermod in various places with absolutely no credit to sabermod.

pfederighi · Jul 10, 2015

sparksco said:
No someone else owns that site. The real site is https://sabermod.com

I've stated this in various places across xda and G+ if you bothered following the updates.

SaberMod will never join or be associated with UBERTC, as there is literally no benefit in doing so. And they also mirror a lot of the code from sabermod in various places with absolutely no credit to sabermod.

Dude, cool your jets. I don't follow alternative toolchains on xda or elsewhere. I didn't know anything about them or how the process works. I did a Google search and followed some directions that suggested UBERTC. I thought I'd try it and was pleasantly surprised with the results, so I thought I'd share. I'm sorry if it so greatly offends you.

Thanks for the info, though.

sparksco · Jul 10, 2015

pfederighi said:
I don't follow alternative toolchains on xda or elsewhere. I didn't know anything about them or how the process works.

Thanks for the info, though.

LOL you brought up the old site so obviously you knew something? If you knew where to download the toolchains from the old site but you didn't know about the new site. Just curious what made you think sabermod merged with UBERTC? Did someone tell you this? But then again you knew nothing about toolchains...
NP on the info.

pfederighi · Jul 11, 2015

sparksco said:
LOL you brought up the old site so obviously you knew something? If you knew where to download the toolchains from the old site but you didn't know about the new site. Just curious what made you think sabermod merged with UBERTC? Did someone tell you this? But then again you knew nothing about toolchains...
NP on the info.

The directions I found, via google, listed three alternative toolchains: linaro, sabermod, and ubertc. They stated that linaro was for UI fluidity, sabermod was for raw speed, and ubertc was somewhere in the middle. I clicked the link that the directions had for sabermod, which I now know is incorrect, and it went to ubertc. The directions were a little old, so I, wrongly, assumed that since the link for sabermod went elsewhere that perhaps it was no longer maintained and ubertc was now the preferred toolchain. Now that I know that sabermod still exists, and where to find it, I will give it a try once I RMA my defective RAM, so it might be a while.

Anyway, I just wanted to see if an alternative could do anything to make aicp 8 nicer because it has "plenty" of free RAM (whereas aicp 9 has very little), but is somewhat jerky and slow. It's an improvement, but it still has plenty of issues. After using it for a while, I'm still not happy with it; it lacks the fluidity and stability of aicp 9 and the speed of aicp 7. It does have good battery life, though, which I have yet to figure out how to fix in kitkat.

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Hashbang173 said:
Please push this change to gerrit.

Register on the AICP gerrit
add you ssh public key to gerrit

cd path/to/aicp
cd path/to/projectYouModified
git add -A
git commit
git push ssh://yourgerritusername@gerrit.aicp-rom.com:29418/AICP/project HEAD:refs/for/your_branch

for more information on gerrit, see the documentation

I got everything done, but the git push always fails saying I don't have write privilege or something to that effect. Perhaps I'm not getting the </AICP/project> or the <refs/for/your_branch> part correct. I've tried everything I can think of, but it always fails. Do you have any tips on what I might be doing wrong? Thanks.

(yes, I know this post is lacking information, but I'm not sure what information would be relevant)

Hashbang173 · Jul 11, 2015

pfederighi said:
I got everything done, but the git push always fails saying I don't have write privilege or something to that effect. Perhaps I'm not getting the </AICP/project> or the <refs/for/your_branch> part correct. I've tried everything I can think of, but it always fails. Do you have any tips on what I might be doing wrong? Thanks.

(yes, I know this post is lacking information, but I'm not sure what information would be relevant)

If the project is settings, you would do: git push ssh://YOUR_GERRIT_USERNAME@gerrit.aicp-rom.com:29418/AICP/packages_apps_Settings HEAD:refs/for/lp5.1

pfederighi · Jul 28, 2015

Alright. It's here. OtterX KitKat with long battery life.

The details: After much effort trying to fix the KK kernel, on a whim I thought I'd see if the LP kernel would work. It does. I used the kernel/amazon/otter-common/sound/soc/omap source folder from the KK kernel. That made sound work. So, in the end, it was a rather simple solution.

Here's the kernel source archive and the compiled AICP 7.0. The ROM is compiled with Sabermod. ART works (the included Launcher3 doesn't work with ART, so install a different launcher before switching).

kernel source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7BjC3Ky49TVd19MNFQ3TWg5aHM/view?usp=sharing
ROM: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7BjC3Ky49TVeDVxUTAwU0NldnM/view?usp=sharing

Let me know what you think. Cheers.

lllukas · Jul 28, 2015

pfederighi said:
Alright. It's here. OtterX KitKat with long battery life.

The details: After much effort trying to fix the KK kernel, on a whim I thought I'd see if the LP kernel would work. It does. I used the kernel/amazon/otter-common/sound/soc/omap source folder from the KK kernel. That made sound work. So, in the end, it was a rather simple solution.

Here's the kernel source archive and the compiles AICP 7.0. The ROM is compiled with Sabermod. ART works (the included Launcher3 doesn't work with ART, so install a different launcher before switching).

kernel source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7BjC3Ky49TVd19MNFQ3TWg5aHM/view?usp=sharing
ROM: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7BjC3Ky49TVeDVxUTAwU0NldnM/view?usp=sharing

Let me know what you think. Cheers.

Hello.
Downloading right now

i leave little feedback soon.
Thank You

lllukas · Jul 29, 2015

@pfederighi
Hello. Well, You did it mate

Great battery life in this build (b)

However in my opinion Aicp has to much features , or linaro compilers isnt good for our kindles, whats making it little laggy compared to cm11.

I tried flashing kernel to officiall cm11, but I lost WiFi, and kindle rebooting it self

but I think, i know where the problem could be. ( modules from Aicp are needed??) I try this.

There is a possibility to send this fix to cm team, or hashcode its needed to do this.

Regards and Thanks You @pfederighi once again for Your effort. Its nice to see that kindle fire ? community isn't dead!

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