[DEV] Aero Control v2.2.0 (Stable)

Blechd0se · Oct 14, 2013

Hello guys

It's finally here, the Aero Control App i have spoken for so long. This is actually my first contact with Android App Development. Since
i know how the kernel works and what it does, its quite frustrating to see, that users could customize their phone even more with just
simple tricks and shell commands. However for the most its a pain to type on such a small screen such wired commands in a shell.
Thats why i created Aero Control!

Aero Control features a nice and shiny user interface following the Google Guidelines for User Interface Design.
Its designed to give new and inexperienced users a quick start to set things up while not overwhelming them with information.
On the other hand even advanced users can tweak many parts of the OS & Kernel to get the most out of their device.
Basically, it gives you full control over your device without the knowledge to know each parameter or path.

Aero Control will hopefully someday replace the Defy Parts in the Settings.apk of Android and ship with each new ROM release.
Since this is my first app, bear with me. I am human too

Disclaimer;
The good part about this is, its Open Source! That means everyone can grab the code and modify/compile it for free! I want this to become more
like a community project. Everyone can suggest features / send bugs or even do a pull request. The code is actually quite
easy to understand, at least i tried to document it as good as i can. It's probably also a good way to learn java

You can also help me translating if you want to. I take no responsibility for what you do to your device.

Help with Translations:
You can help me with translations. This is the file that needs to be translated. You can either fork my project on github and make a pull request to send me your translated file
or you send me a pm or you post the file here in this thread. If you don't know where you should save your file, have a look over here.
Make a new folder and add your language flag (example; values-es for spanisch files).

Donate to Quarx
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PayPal: alex.christ@hotmail.de

Enough spoken, here are the features;

Full CPU Control (Change each parameter for every governor out there!)

Live CPU overclock/underclock

GPU OC/UC (overclock/underclock from a nice to use interface)

Memory Performance Tuning (enhance performance even further e.g. enable fstrim or zcache)

Basic Kernel Backup/Restore Option

Set your values on Boot

Basic DefyParts features

Profiles - define your own profile on the fly!

CPU Statistics overview

Per-App Profiles!

'Your Settings'-Feature

AppMonitor

This App is designed to not only work on the Defy, i tested it with my Nexus 4 and most of the Features work there as well.

Aero Control on Play Store

Download

Aero Control on Github

Have fun and enjoy!

Blechd0se · Oct 14, 2013

Changelog:

2.2.0

[commit]: Version 2.2.0
[commit]: activity: move root-check to SplashActivity
[commit]: helpers: custompreference: fix wrong summary value after onCreateView()
[commit]: shellHelper: use the new shell as fallback
[commit]: appmonitor: catch OOM execptions if necessary
[commit]: activity: move root-check before jobmanager
[commit]: library: add missing annotations library
[commit]: aero: optimize imports everywhere
[commit]: idea/library: add all the missing stuff
[commit]: helper: rootHelper: check for "id" too
[commit]: profiles: show toast about system apps status
[commit]: cpu/memory: handle no parameters correctly for schedulers/governors
[commit]: appmonitor: fix a stupid typo
[commit]: appmonitor: catch one OOM exception
[commit]: helptexts: add deadline tunables helptexts
[commit]: cpu: fix cpu governos will freeze the UI
[commit]: helpers: prefernces: allow to call setEnable()
[commit]: appmonitor: almost disable the complete logging
[commit]: appmonitor: small visual tuning
[commit]: appmonitor: use predefined paths for modules
[commit]: appmonitor: dont execute exportData() in its own thread
[commit]: shellHelper: hot-fix for FCs on startup
[commit]: version: bump up to Beta 4
[commit]: appmonitor: add tutorial for appmonitor
[commit]: appmonitor: add a reset button for statistics
[commit]: appmonitor: don't delete on exportData()
[commit]: cpu: add cpu boost tunables
[commit]: appmonitor: make export/import threaded and speed it up
[commit]: shellHelper: make sure we dont parse LFs
[commit]: appmonitor: disable cleanup process during import of data
[commit]: appmonitor: micro-optimize various parts
[commit]: shellHelper: fix problems with race conditions
[commit]: shellHelper: switch to getLegacyRootInfo() for getInfo() fallback
[commit]: appmonitor: add getVersion() and save it in export
[commit]: appmonitor: save the right data on exportData()
[commit]: appmonitor: move notification text to string file
[commit]: helptexts: add two more helptexts
[commit]: shellHelper: fix various problems with the new shell
[commit]: version: bump up to Beta 3
[commit]: values: update strings
[commit]: Utils: move usage statistics warning and show it on start
[commit]: preferences: allow to disable per-app toasts
[commit]: helpers: material: checkbox: partially fix high cpu load
[commit]: shellHelper: refactor shell-handling
[commit]: perapp: don't force shutdown
[commit]: appmonitor: small layout adjustments and fixes
[commit]: appmonitor: fix import/export of data and create only one thread
[commit]: backup/restore: fix crash during backup on defy
[commit]: layout: fix skip button text color
[commit]: appmonitor: redesign detail fragment of appmonitor
[commit]: perapp: use UsageStatsManager for lollipop+
[commit]: perapp: fix various NPE and bugs
[commit]: helpers: add helptexts to various tunables
[commit]: helpers: files: switch from zone4 to zone1
[commit]: helpers: settings: fix one more NFE
[commit]: appmonitor: jobmanager: fix one of the stupidest bug ever
[commit]: memory: remove one class-variable
[commit]: memory: fix IO scheduler tunable not clickable
[commit]: statistics: small UI changes
[commit]: appmonitor: jobmanager: fix one NPE
[commit]: appmonitor: add import/export of current data
[commit]: preferences: show version number in email
[commit]: AppMonitor: be super paranoid when cleaning up
[commit]: AppMonitor: add a gpufreq module
[commit]: Splash: Add a skip-button to the slpash screen
[commit]: manifest: fix screen rotation bug
[commit]: preferences: fix boot delay initial value
[commit]: appmonitor: allow easy back and forth navigation
[commit]: layout: unify no data found views
[commit]: overview: fix cpu temp and one NFE
[commit]: preferences: set correct checked state for appmonitor
[commit]: memory: display current entropy pool/poolsize
[commit]: helpers: shell: call waitFor() befor we destroy()
[commit]: values-de: small typo fixes
[commit]: helpers: shell: exit shells correctly
[commit]: profiles: fix one more NPE
[commit]: preferences: display default boot delay correctly
[commit]: misc: correctly display 'Your Settings' category
[commit]: slider: catch one more NPE
[commit]: fragments: reset the title when onResume() is called
[commit]: memory: add entropy read/write threshold tunable
[commit]: aero: fix a NPE during onResume()
[commit]: boot: allow to disable reboot notifier on reboot
[commit]: memory: remove LowMemOption and zCache
[commit]: fragments: fix subfragment setTitle()
[commit]: fragments: turn preferences into cards
[commit]: layout: improve appmonitors layout a bit
[commit]: appmonitor: add the current time usage
[commit]: appmonitor: only show notification once
[commit]: preference: disable appmonitor if service is off
[commit]: fragments: small cleanups and improvements
[commit]: layout/fragments: add the GUI for appmonitor (3/3)
[commit]: service/adapter: add service relevant changes for appmonitor (2/3)
[commit]: appmonitor: add the framework of appmonitor (1/3)
[commit]: library: add a new chart library
[commit]: aero: make the overview a bit more efficient
[commit]: gpu: add more gpu file paths
[commit]: shellhelper: add a fallback for getInfoArray() too
[commit]: layout: fix strange colors with theme engine
[commit]: shellHelper: fix a potential NPE
[commit]: profiles: add the FAB menu
[commit]: library: add the floating action button
[commit]: profiles: small layout adjustments
[commit]: shellHelper: try root only after permission-check
[commit]: tutorials: make check-code smarter
[commit]: shellHelper: use root as a last resort
[commit]: boot: add option to delay set-on-boot

chule250 · Oct 14, 2013

sorry for the noob question but.. does this work on stock kernel?

jalal-jap · Oct 14, 2013

can I use this apk For other device ( XT910) ?

EldonTyrell · Oct 14, 2013

Thank you for your work. All the amazing developers keep me on this little workhorse device.

One thing I notice: Overview has deadline in brackets, my selection according to system settings. Noop always looks to be selected in Memory Tuning menu. If I select deadline, exit and return, still says noop. I'm on SlimBean 4.3 if that matters.

Sent from my MB526 using xda app-developers app

pravarth · Oct 15, 2013

I was under the impression that the memory controller on the defy doesn't support trim. Has the fstrim command worked for anyone?

jassi32 · Oct 15, 2013

Thanks for such an awesome work ---
just installed it , and i liked the interface - its great

I know its Alpha -- this is my report so far .....

Initially the app showed me some wrong reading --- like GPU @ 100 mhz , while its was on 200 mhz ,
after setting -- gpu @ 266 , enabling zram , and a reboot --
it still shows nothing enabled -- gpu @ 200 , zram disabled --
1 more strange thing is ,its showing me I/O scheduler as noop , while i am on deadline ......
terminal too shows gpu at 200 after reboot , so i have to it up manually ....... no problem for me .......

P:S - i on Mokee 4.3 rc 1 , using 5th oct aero kernel + i had flashed pure performance mod on top of it

ela1103 · Oct 15, 2013

jassi32 said:
Thanks for such an awesome work ---
just installed it , and i liked the interface - its great
I know its Alpha -- this is my report so far .....

Initially the app showed me some wrong reading --- like GPU @ 100 mhz , while its was on 200 mhz ,
after setting -- gpu @ 266 , enabling zram , and a reboot --
it still shows nothing enabled -- gpu @ 200 , zram disabled --
1 more strange thing is ,its showing me I/O scheduler as noop , while i am on deadline ......
terminal too shows gpu at 200 after reboot , so i have to it up manually ....... no problem for me .......

P:S - i on Mokee 4.3 rc 1 , using 5th oct aero kernel + i had flashed pure performance mod on top of it

Could you provide the 5th oct aero kernel +

Blechd0se · Oct 15, 2013

chule250 said:
sorry for the noob question but.. does this work on stock kernel?

Most likely yes, but you won't have the same features as with one of the most recent Aero Kernels. Just give it a try.

jalal-jap said:
can I use this apk For other device ( XT910) ?

In theory yes. I designed it to work with other devices as well. However you won't have something like GPU overclock properly-
Just try it and report back

pravarth said:
I was under the impression that the memory controller on the defy doesn't support trim. Has the fstrim command worked for anyone?

It does support fstrim, i fixed a few bugs in it and also disabled it in ramdisk. Just try it and report back, thanks

jassi32 said:
...
Initially the app showed me some wrong reading
...
1 more strange thing is ,its showing me I/O scheduler as noop , while i am on deadline ......
terminal too shows gpu at 200 after reboot...

Yes, i have to take care of some initial values. I will fix this as soon as possible

Set at boot is currently not implemented, because i want all features to work before one can set them at boot.
So its kind of normal behaviour. The scheduler thing is a bug, it just sets the first scheduler it sees.

ela1103 said:
Could you provide the 5th oct aero kernel +

Please don't post such questions in this thread. There are plenty of other threads to post/ask/search this, thank you

Anton111111 · Oct 15, 2013

Cool!
It will very cool if you will add profiles like power saving, performance and etc. with pretuned cpu and gpu settings.

Kayant · Oct 15, 2013

Great

Great to see it's in Alpha now

Am guessing it's not build able yet during Android runtime right??

Blechd0se · Oct 15, 2013

Anton111111 said:
Cool!
It will very cool if you will add profiles like power saving, performance and etc. with pretuned cpu and gpu settings.

That sounds like a good idea, but i need the help of the community here. Play around with the settings and if you found
something like the best possible configuration send me a pm or post it here.
Something like: Governor: interactive; hispeed_freq: 800 mhz, target_loads: 80; gpu oc: 266 mhz

It's very easy with the app

Kayant said:
Great to see it's in Alpha now

Am guessing it's not build able yet during Android runtime right??

What do you mean by android runtime? It is buildable (using android studio here). Just import the project and hit compile

If you need any help here, just say it

TJKV · Oct 15, 2013

Blechd0se said:
That sounds like a good idea, but i need the help of the community here. Play around with the settings and if you found
something like the best possible configuration send me a pm or post it here.
Something like: Governor: interactive; hispeed_freq: 800 mhz, target_loads: 80; gpu oc: 266 mhz

It's very easy with the app

Inbuilt presets are cool, but what about presets that the user can create after installing the app? Because personally I would much rather create my own presets than use hardcoded ones. Also I don't think it is possible to define the best possible configurations either, since some devices don't work well with settings that may work well on another device. Example would be vsels, where some devices can go really low or maybe really high with no problems.

What do you mean by android runtime? It is buildable (using android studio here). Just import the project and hit compile
If you need any help here, just say it

He might have meant including the app into the android compile process, so when we compile our roms (PA, SB, PAC etc) it will build and package aero control into the rom automatically. I guess it should be possible, I'll look into how to do it.

BTW OT for this thread but: I just compiled a debug enabled kernel. Is this correct? I have included "mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/" in an init.d script I have been using that overclocks the gpu.

Blechd0se · Oct 15, 2013

TJKV said:
Inbuilt presets are cool, but what about presets that the user can create after installing the app? Because personally I would much rather create my own presets than use hardcoded ones. Also I don't think it is possible to define the best possible configurations either, since some devices don't work well with settings that may work well on another device. Example would be vsels, where some devices can go really low or maybe really high with no problems.

Yes that might be the solution for the long term. At the moment i have no clue how to realize that and first of all i want to include
all the basic stuff (defy parts and updater will probably take a while

). The reason behind those hardcoded values is simple;
if users report back that values fits the best for them i can make them default in the kernel and all users can benefit from it

TJKV said:
He might have meant including the app into the android compile process, so when we compile our roms (PA, SB, PAC etc) it will build and package aero control into the rom automatically. I guess it should be possible, I'll look into how to do it.

BTW OT for this thread but: I just compiled a debug enabled kernel. Is this correct? I have included "mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/" in an init.d script I have been using that overclocks the gpu.

If you have any news here, just report back. I am sure others are interested in this as well

Yes the commit looks right for me. Also putting it in a init.d script is also a good choice, but remember as long as these options are enabled, there is no
deep sleep. If booted up check /sys/kernel/debug/* with a file explorer or with the cat command. If it exits everything went well.
You can always check the documentation of the linux kernel, if unsure

TJKV · Oct 15, 2013

Blechd0se said:
Yes that might be the solution for the long term. At the moment i have no clue how to realize that and first of all i want to include
all the basic stuff (defy parts and updater will probably take a while ). The reason behind those hardcoded values is simple;
if users report back that values fits the best for them i can make them default in the kernel and all users can benefit from it

Okay

If you have any news here, just report back. I am sure others are interested in this as well

Yes the commit looks right for me. Also putting it in a init.d script is also a good choice, but remember as long as these options are enabled, there is no
deep sleep. If booted up check /sys/kernel/debug/* with a file explorer or with the cat command. If it exits everything went well.
You can always check the documentation of the linux kernel, if unsure

Yup confirmed it works

Oh, thanks for reminding me about the deep sleep!
But the leaks in the log on your server are really small right, just 64 bytes each? Do those really affect anything? And yes i'm reading the kernel.org docs on kmemleak slowly

pravarth · Oct 15, 2013

Blechd0se said:
It does support fstrim, i fixed a few bugs in it and also disabled it in ramdisk. Just try it and report back, thanks

Ok, i tried fstrim command, using both the app and issuing command through adb. It works! :good:
Although I didn't run a benchmark to validate if there was any real improvement

Code:

# fstrim -v /data
/data: 535531520 bytes was trimmed

When I run fstrim through the app, there is a popup which shows "trimming" and then % completed. But during the process of trimming the phone doesn't respond for a while, so the % doesn't move beyond 0% at all until it is successful. I think it is unnecessary to have the % completed if it doesn't really work'.

Instead if you could show a message asking the user to expect the phone to be unresponsive and wait until the process is complete, that would be better. Otherwise, they maybe tempted to pull out the battery thinking it's stuck. Just my opinion. Also I appreciate the good work

skrewie · Oct 15, 2013

Max OC 1000mhz ? Cant get it to 1200......

pravarth · Oct 15, 2013

skrewie said:
Max OC 1000mhz ? Cant get it to 1200......

You can set the cpu clock speed and vsel in the bootmenu. Of the 4 clocks that you set in the bootmenu you can choose whichever to be the max/min in the app, much like how you could in the performance settings.

The only apps afaik in which you can set clock/vsel are setvsel and milestone overclock.

Kayant · Oct 15, 2013

TJKV said:
He might have meant including the app into the android compile process, so when we compile our roms (PA, SB, PAC etc) it will build and package aero control into the rom automatically. I guess it should be possible, I'll look into how to do it.

Yep this what I meant

I should have been clearer. I think to build during compilation something like this is needed so android knows to build the app. So I guess not yet

skrewie · Oct 15, 2013

Thanks ! My defy is now running @ 1.3 GHz ! Works great, this phone is awsome thanks to all dev people !!!

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