[KERNEL][WIP] Mason kernel for supersonic v0.14
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I rooted my phone a long time ago with Revolutionary. I don't even remember what I did! I didn't know much about rooting and what I know now. I just followed directions! Anyway, back to the point, with s-on that means you're still locked and so I believe you can't flash radios or kernels.
Kendall
If you use the htc dev method it will still show you have s-on in the bootloader but the watermark *unlocked* should be there. If yes, you should be able to flash roms and kernels. Another suggestion before this discussion continues to derail this thread would be to start a new thread in the q&a section. There are some great peeps that hang out over there and would be happy to help..
Now back to your regular scheduled programming..
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Oh I'm not the one with the s-on problem. The problem was announced by KevinGee a couple posts back. I was trying to help
Kendall
Oh I'm not the one with the s-on problem. The problem was announced by KevinGee a couple posts back. I was trying to help
Kendall
Yeah I got that. No worries. Just trying to help get back on topic :thumbup:
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Duh, smelkus. It would be tough to flash a ROM without a kernel huh. Half baked unlocks....
Yes, back on topic please.
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Well idk what caused it because before my soft brick, I flashed a couple other kernels and nothing happened I was able to reboot and everything was good. But as soon as I flashed the mason kernel this problem occurred. but when I rooted my phone I unlocked bootloader and I got s-off but it still said it was s-on
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it may have been as "soon" as you flashed the mason kernel but your problem is "not" the mason kernel. you repeating it seems to imply that you want to somehow make the mason kernel the reason for you mishap and I am here to say that it is not. What version of twrp recovery was asked of you before I believe. I don't recall seeing you answer that question.
ropodope
What did the five fingers say to the face? Sa la ppa.
Yeah I know that came out wrong and I forgot to edit it, I'm not implying that the mason kernel is at fault. I'm using the latest version of TWRP 2.2.1 I think it is I don't really remember but I know it's the latest one.
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that's cool and yeah 2.2.1 is the latest. It cound be helpful knowing that. I'll do some checking around.
ropodope
What did the five fingers say to the face? Sa la ppa.
Okay I'll appreciate any bit of info you can give me. Thanks
Edit: Okay so i managed to get an Ruu to my sdcard but when its updating, it get passed the first two but then my phone just reboots into the bootloader again and checks for the zip file again. It never goees all the way through? Maybe another Ruu?
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Okay guys so i managed to get a Ruu to my sd card ( good luck i have like 3 phones to put my sd card) and it flashed all the way through this time but when i rebooted my phone the vibrations and green led light came back on.
Edit: OMG!!! Guys i got it to finally boot up and it didnt vibrate this time.
Yesss it not bricked anymore... WOW im so happy, thanks to everybody that was trying to help me.
Edit: OMG!!! Guys i got it to finally boot up and it didnt vibrate this time.
Yesss it not bricked anymore... WOW im so happy, thanks to everybody that was trying to help me.
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man that sucks. get with captain throwback. I "believe" he incurred a brick of sorts with twrp and was able to save it. he may be able to help you do the same.
ropodope
What did the five fingers say to the face? Sa la ppa.
ok what did you do so that everyone else will know. Thanks bud.Yeah i got it to boot up now, its not bricked anymore Thank god
ropodope
What did the five fingers say to the face? Sa la ppa.
Well first I grabbed another phone and transfered a RUU to my SD card, then I just went into the bootloader and my phone updated with the zip file. Now I'm back to stock and s-on but I'm still unlocked because it doesn't say "locked oow" in the top of Hboot. And I can't seem to get root access to anything.
But at least my phone works so its all good in the hood. Lol I'm going to see what I can do in the morning. It's 2:30 am here in Los Angeles
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But at least my phone works so its all good in the hood. Lol I'm going to see what I can do in the morning. It's 2:30 am here in Los Angeles
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now you need to reroot.
ropodope
What did the five fingers say to the face? Sa la ppa.
Well now im stuck without root and S-on and my phone wont charge unless its turn completely off, It works and everything but those are the problems
Try HTC dev method? Also what hboot/radio you running?
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Introducing the Mason kernel.
This started as a project to bring sbc to the supersonic ICS aokp rom. However I decided to go ahead and move forward with moving over some of the fine work that is going on for the Nexus line and bring it over to our beloved evo4g. I want to stress that to my knowledge the things that will be included beyond what is in tiamat/CM9 proper are not very well tested on our platform.
The overwhelming goal is to bring performance and stability improvements to the supersonic platform. The original idea, had a little less scope. I have now broadened its scope to include ICS, GB, and even Sense soon. The project will actually breed a whole line of kernels built for the supersonic with the needs of it's community in mind. Let's breathe some new life into our platform.
Thanks to the evervolv team without which we wouldn't have ICS on the supersonic at the moment.
Kernel Features:
CPU Frequency governors: conservative, ondemand, ondemandX, interactive, interactiveX, smartass, smartassV2, intellidemand, SavagedZen, minmax, lulzactive, lazy, lagfree, userspace, powersave, Lionheart, brazillianwax
I/O Schedulers: deadline (flash optimized), vr, noop, cfq, bfq, sio
HAVS, KSM (I series), Ext2/3/4, NTFS
Variants:
nosbc - Standard kernel without sbc
sbc - Smart Battery Control
hwa - Hardware Acceleration
fso - File synchronization off
Note on FSO:
I provide this without any warranty at all (not that I do with anything else). Yes, fso makes things faster, it's for the speed hungry among you, however there is the potential, however slight that you can get corrupted data on a crash. Do not run this without a proper nand, it's just a bad idea. I haven't personally had any issues, but that doesn't mean that in theory it can't happen. It's a very strong possibility however slight it might be. The price you pay for speed I suppose.
Note on SBC:
There are some out there who find sbc and unholy abomination. Though again I have not experienced issues personally, there are some out there that claim that it can damage your battery, particularly the lifetime of the battery. There is data to support both sides of this argument, and I'm not here to go over all that. But be warned that it may cause some battery issues, and take care that you are both advised of the risks and willing to take them for some extra juice.
TODO:
Code:* Slated for v0.15/6 sense variant. Yeah you heard me, all your kernels r belong to us. * Slated for v0.15 Various performance optimizations relating to RCU and power consumption. * Slated for v0.15 2 more governors. * Slated for v0.15 Backport of cpufreq from linux 3.0.y. * Slated for v0.2 Merging of the lines to give us one base kernel instead of 2. * Slated for v0.3 Linux v3.x.x Lot of work to be done here. Lots of 3.x.x code already being back ported.
Instructions:
Apply with your custom recovery. Amen Ra Style Recovery 3.11 recommended (But not required).
Changelog:
Code:v0.14 - Feature/Maintenance - * Added brazillianwax cpufreq governor * HWA support in the form of variant * Tweaks to RCU * Additional tweaks to I/O * SLQB * KSM * FSO v0.12 - Feature release - Catching us up with the nexus lines set of options. * Added ondemandX cpufreq governor * Added interactiveX cpufreq governor * Added minmax cpufreq governor * Added SavagedZen cpufreq governor * Added Lionheart cpufreq governer * Added intellidemand cpufreq governer * Deadline tuned for better performance with regard to flash based memory * Minor code cleanup v0.10 - Initial release - * Moved away from the default config and excluded some things that are really only suited for testing reducing overhead. * Added Lazy cpufreq governor * Added lulzactive cpufreq governor * Added ondemand cpufreq governor * Added ext2 support * Added ext3 support * Added ntfs support * Enabled SBC.
Current Builds:
Mason G series:
Suitable for non hardware accelerated roms, including gingerbread AOSP roms. Works on things like Decks GB 1.3d, and AOKP ICS.
G - v0.14 sbc Mirror 1 (Mediafire) MD5 74da6e014bcdae9db3dd4e80463736c4
G - v0.14 sbc fso Mirror 1 (Mediafire) MD5 e5234c781f2570f81c54e051021bc106
G - v0.14 nosbc fso Mirror 1 (Mediafire) MD5 8c5bc95fd33afd550a53791ab3fa3f8e
Mason I series:
Suitable for hardware accelerated ICS roms. Latest Evervolv preview builds and decks prebetas.
I - v0.14 sbc Mirror 1 (Mediafire) MD5 78de4224872ca118f671832f2d2359ed
I - v0.14 nonsbc Mirror 1 (Mediafire) MD5 991741161bbf03468d5c66e8f97390f2
I - v0.14 sbc fso Mirror 1 (Mediafire) MD5 97b47a4624b3eb714fb2e05350e485c2
I - v0.14 nonsbc fso Mirror 1 (Mediafire) MD5 9bc6d5e59b92c4943959f66778fe3781
Mason S series:
Suitable for gingerbread sense roms.
(Comming soon)
Legacy versions:
Only tested functional on non hardware accelerated roms such as AOKP and Decks GB 1.3d, considered G series Mason.
G - v0.12 sbc - Mirror 1 (dev-host) Mirror 2 (mediafire)
G - v0.12 nosbc - Mirror 1 (dev-host) Mirror 2 (mediafire)
G - v0.10 sbc - Mirror 1 (dev-host) Mirror 2 (mediafire)
Credits:
Code:preludedrew for the supersonic device tree that makes every supersonic ICS go. drewis for so much kernel work it's literally amazing. caynairb for such a great base for which us that are playing with the supersonic kernel have to work with. cyanogenmod team for kernel tree and all their hard work. franciscofranco, faux123 for lots of things kernel related. Knzo, Tegrak, Ezekeel, jsseidel, Erasmux, imoseyon, Mike Chan, Venkatesh Pallipadi, Alexey Starikovskiy, for governor work. ngh55 for logo love. This list could go on forever.
My Blog. My GitHub.
Side note:
I will try my hardest to maintain both this and the rootzwiki thread as time allows. That said let's keep the discussion pleasant and on the topic of bugs and features supersonic users would like to see either quashed or provided respectively. I feel bad for slightly hijacking the aokp and other ICS threads so lets move the kernel relevant conversation here.37Useful bug reporting:
* Include the Rom you are running.
* Include the kernel version you are running.
* Include any custom settings you have changed cpu governor/io scheduler/cpufreq scale etc.
* Include any tweak scripts you may be running.
* Include any voltage changes you might be running.
* Include what you expected to happen.
* Include what really happened.
* Include if you can reproduce the bug at will.
* Include logcat and/or any other logging mechanisms you might have available. OS Monitor is a fine choice.
* Include screenshots if possible/applicable.
Be as detailed as possible. Good bug reporting is a great way to add to the community, even if you aren't a developer, this is a excellent way to give back.17
I'm not sure if it will be this week or not. I had some very ambitious plans for 15, but some of those features need extensive performance testing to determine if they are truly valuable on our platform. Zcache for instance, which in theory should improve performance, however I haven't built up enough running data to prove that is so. I have 22 feature branches of my main line that are in various stages of testing for things that may or may not make it into 15 at the moment. Whats in the bag currently for sure: XZ compressed kernel for faster boot time, scary governor, wheatley governor, new crc32 algorithm that uses native c code with a slice by 8 so its wicked fast compared to the lib we were using before and adds a dash of speed to everything from tcp to the filesystem, as well numerous 3.0 code ports.
Well you should feel right at home. Mason is a fork of tiamat really, though it seems to move more and more a different direction every day I work on it. The ones you know aren't much different than you remember. The new ones should be covered in the various posts linked in previous posts.
Indeed this is true. I think wheatley will be the new hotness on the evo, but that's just me.15
Just wait till I really get going. I have a rom planned as well as about 5 applications. You'll be seeing a lot from me here in not too long.
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