[ROM][JB 4.2.2] [WIP] [ Katnerstone Hybrid ] [MultiWindow Panels (Cornerstone)]

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PaintballerAlex07

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I tried it yesterday but there are several issues with it:
-apps still remain visible after closing
-statusbar blocks buttons or cornerstone doesn't seem to give space to it
-eos settings do not take effect as the default eos4 rom
-some system apps force close when opening in cornerstone
Hope this helps :)

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timduru

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New version #033

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New version #033 uploaded
No major changes on the cornerstone side.
This update is mostly here to bring it up to date with the changes in EOS4 & KatKernel 103
And with the latest version you can also switch back to TabletUI which should make the cornerstone layout a bit happier too ;)
(might require to reboot after you change the value into EOSControlCenter for TabletUI to kick in.)
See if it helps some of the previous issues & such.
 
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grosbouf

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Hi,

just a little message to say that I love the idea and the job you started !!!

Hope you will continue to work on it, and hope you'll find a solution for the quite anoying problem of small windows/panel flashing ;)

Thank you for the sharing !
 
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TomTcom

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I'll certainly give a bump. Tim don't let katnerstone die!

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TomTcom

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A whole better experience using nova launcher prime with katnerstone. Skype works great too!

I ran into Google play issues trying to install stuff so if you do with the default launcher clear dalvik and keep trying. The default launcher seemed to cause a lot of issues.

I bumped up speed, turned off transition effects, and made my launcher only have 1 screen which I usually do anyways.

Much more usable now and quite happy even with some bugs here and there.

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amrth

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timduru said:
Keep in mind that it's still a Work in progress, don't try it unless you're ready to play with a few bugs and workarounds for the moment.
Make sure you read post#2 to see the already known issues & workarounds
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

Few issue that I have encountered till date.
1) No lock screen.
2) Collapsing the small panels, part of the apps will stay on top of the cornerstone interface - This is annoying
3) Unable to set wallpaper.
4) Airplane mode does not work.
5) Play store Crashes.
6) Gallery functions crash - especially when I set the wallpaper

I really thought the latest ROM would be much more stable than stated!!! Going back to the old Liquid smooth ROM :crying:

BTW Tim lets the spirits go high :good:
 
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amrth said:
Few issue that I have encountered till date.
1) No lock screen.
2) Collapsing the small panels, part of the apps will stay on top of the cornerstone interface - This is annoying
3) Unable to set wallpaper.
4) Airplane mode does not work.
5) Play store Crashes.
6) Gallery functions crash - especially when I set the wallpaper

I really thought the latest ROM would be much more stable than stated!!! Going back to the old Liquid smooth ROM :crying:

BTW Tim lets the spirits go high :good:
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Click to collapse

Thanks good to know.
I'm sure most of the issues are in the cornerstone side. EOS4 by itself works great, but adding cornerstone means extra work. Until EOS4 is fully stable/released, cornerstone can be debugged. Great roms btw Tim.:)

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amrth said:
Few issue that I have encountered till date.
1) No lock screen.
2) Collapsing the small panels, part of the apps will stay on top of the cornerstone interface - This is annoying
3) Unable to set wallpaper.
4) Airplane mode does not work.
5) Play store Crashes.
6) Gallery functions crash - especially when I set the wallpaper

I really thought the latest ROM would be much more stable than stated!!! Going back to the old Liquid smooth ROM :crying:

BTW Tim lets the spirits go high :good:
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

Check out the Google groups link from the on-screen website. The devs mentioned the lock screen was disabled by them for ease but they forgot to turn it back on.

The code is available on github too. The Google group thread has some interesting info too.

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MEC-777

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Great concept and very useful. All the best to those working on this project. :)

There were just too many bugs and problems that I couldn't use my tablet on a regular basis so I had to uninstall this. Just re-flashed the latest EOS4 ROM and very much enjoying that alone. :)

Definitely keeping tabs on this thread and the development of the Katnerstone hybrid. If it becomes much more stable in the future, I'll definitely re-install. :fingers-crossed:

Great job so far and keep up the good work! :D
 
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Skele Drew

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How is the work going on this to iron out the bugs? I'm using it as a daily driver right now and would like to continue doing so when I return to college. It'll do very nicely as I do a lot of multitasking in class. But a couple of the bugs are really annoying, especially the flickering dialogs. Keep up the good work!
 
timduru

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Skele Drew said:
How is the work going on this to iron out the bugs? I'm using it as a daily driver right now and would like to continue doing so when I return to college. It'll do very nicely as I do a lot of multitasking in class. But a couple of the bugs are really annoying, especially the flickering dialogs. Keep up the good work!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

Was not able to fix that yet unfortunately.
Been quite busy with other things & devs lately, it's kinda on hold, so don't really expect updates on it soon.
I might just see toward HALO or rewrite parts myself later on instead.
 
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canisofwar

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Look at catkiss 4.3 if you want multi window it works pretty well with few bugs

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    Katnerstone Hybrid Rom
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    JellyBean 4.2.2
    MultiWindow Panels - EOS4 & Cornerstone based
    KatKernel & KatBoost included


    Hi everyone :)
    Here's the first rom including my Cornerstone port to Jellybean 4.2.2 :)
    Quite a few have been impatient to get it, and as TeamEOS prefers not to have an official Cornerstone build at the moment,
    I'm taking it into its dedicated thread, so that you can get a first taste, and it should help the traffic in the original EOS4 thread that way too.

    Keep in mind that it's still a Work in progress, don't try it unless you're ready to play with a few bugs and workarounds for the moment.
    Make sure you read post#2 to see the already known issues & workarounds

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    ​

    DOWNLOADS:
    • ROM: Katnerstone-4.2.2_V033.zip
    • FSYNC is off by default in the rom, if you prefer it on just flash this after the rom: fsync_on.zip
    • Latest Gapps Package: 4.2.2 Gapps for TF101
    • Older 4.2.1 Eos Gapps for TF101
      If you prefer to have the Swipe feature in the default Keyboard you can use this version, but the Keyboard will crash on auto-correction
      If you use this version, make sure you go the keyboard settings and change these settings:
      + Auto-correction off
      + Show correction suggestions:always hide

    What's Cornerstone ?
    Cornerstone is a code modification to the window manager & graphic layers that allows you to run 3 apps together on the same screen in different panels.
    You can also run without the 3 panels (so that it is the same than running a regular rom), start or stop the multi panel interface at any time,
    the side panels can also be collapsed or expanded at run time.
    For more information see their website: http://www.onskreen.com/cornerstone/

    Features:
    Feature wise you get all the EOS4 features + Cornerstone on top.
    See respective links for details.

    Installation Notes:
    As with any JB4.2.2 roms you need a recent recovery to flash it. The latest TWRP is advised.

    Going to Katnerstone4.2.2 from a rom < 4.2.2:
    • Backup everything !
    • Go to recovery
    • Make a full wipe / factory reset
    • format /system
    • Flash the rom
    • Flash optional kernel
    • Flash gapps
    • Wipe cache/dalvik
    • Reboot
    Updating from Katnerstone 4.2.2 #VXXX to #VYYY:
    You can usually skip the full wipe step.
    If ever you encounter an issue make sure you make a full wipe first before reporting though.


    Main Goals:
    Well of course the ultimate goal will be to eat all the bugs ;)
    I'll go by priorities:
    - Fix the few bugs introduced when not running in 3 panels mode.
    That way we can basically use it as a daily rom, and then decide to activate the panels or not as needed.
    - Fix the cornerstone specific bugs.
    - Improve the rom and cornerstone features.


    Issues & Workarounds:
    Keep in mind that it's still a work in progress, and I'll try to improve it as time permit.
    Cornerstone is not released for Jellybean 4.2.2, so it required quite a few adjustments, and there are still bugs,
    some introduced by the 4.2.2 version, and some that are still there since the 1st cornerstone version for ICS.


    See post #2 for more details & how to report


    Disclaimer: The usual
    The rom is provided as is.
    Use at your own risk, I won't be responsible for any damages caused to your Transformer or to yourself.
    In most cases if something breaks, flashing a rom on top should fix it.

    Changelog: -
    Sources: https://github.com/timduru/

    Credits:
    - TeamEOS for the original EOS4 rom
    - Onskreen for the original cornerstone code
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    Additional info & links

    Known Issues & Tips:

    Multi-panel interface specific:
    • When collapsing the small panels, part of the apps will stay on top of the cornerstone interface.
      => just ignore, you can still hit the collapse/expand button in between the apps
    • Collapsing and expanding might not position the cornerstone "vertical bar" correctly sometime
      => just hit the collapse/expand button a couple of times and it'll reposition correctly.

    Without running the multi-panel interface:
    • The default browser's is displaying the first page even if you choose another page
      => Start the cornerstone panels and try again.
    • Launcher seems to get killed everytime you hit the home button.
      => It doesn't do it if you run the panels.
    • Recent apps window might rotate wrongly.
    • Top most dialogs will get crazy and flash (dialogs asking you for default apps and so on)
      => you can still click on the choices if you're fast
      => hitting the home button or another recent app will get you out of the "loop"
      => running with the multipanel interface is not having this issue, so you can start the multipanel temporarily the time you can pick the choice in the topmost dialog.

    General:
    • The cornerstone code might stop services randomly, this bug is there since the first release of Cornerstone unfortunately, so it might not be easy to fix.
      Annoying side effects: everything that relies on a service that has been killed might not work properly (clock will not update, some of the EOSCC changes won't work, and so on...)
    • The original code is made for TabletUI, so it's not aware of of the statusbar on top, because of that the apps and cornerstone interface is "layered under the status bar currently.
      => For the top cornerstone panel you can still reach the top right button to choose the app running in the panel, even if you can't see the icon just click there.
    • Not all apps are compatible with the cornerstone code
    • Desktop wallpaper might not display with default laucher
      => use another launcher

    EOS4 & JB Specific:
    GPS:
    if it is taking a long time to get a lock or no lock, follow this:
    http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38368206&postcount=2452

    Google search:
    If the version you're using is crashing when you open Google Now,
    go to Settings => Language & Input => Voice Search , then uncheck Hotword Detection.

    Other Tips


    How to report:

    Things to check before reporting:
    - If it's a general question or if it is not specific to this rom ask in the Q&A section
    - make sure you have read all the tips and searched on the forum before reporting an issue.
    - try to reproduce your issue right after flashing and before restoring anything
    - wait that the cpu usage is down to close to 0% for a few seconds before proceeding with testing.
    - Check that it is not already listed in the known issues.

    Reports about performances issues:
    Keep in mind that coming from a full wipe / factory reset, there are a few cpu and disk io tasks that are going to happen:
    - Mediascanner service is going to rescan all your medias, which can take from a few minutes to a few hours or days if you have many
    - Google will restore / sync things.
    So make sure that it is finished and that some app is not eating the cpu or disk io before reporting.



    What to send in your report::

    - Make sure you describe exactly what happens before/during/after the issue.
    - If you can reproduce it, write a step by step way of reproducing it.
    - If your issue is a performance issue, explain in details what you define as such
    (is it taking time when you click , is it that it seems to have a low fps ? ..)

    Make also sure you indicate the following:
    - which rom/version are you using ?
    - which kernel are you using ?
    - did you follow the exact procedure listed above for flashing ?
    - did you restore any of your applications / settings ?

    Run these commands in a terminal:
    su -
    busybox top -n1 > /sdcard/top
    dmesg > /sdcard/dmesg
    logcat -d > /sdcard/lc
    include the resulting files: /sdcard/top & /sdcard/dmesg & /sdcard/lc in your post

    Thanks that will help to debug and save me a lot of time if I get correct reports ;)
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    New version #033

    attachment.php
    New version #033 uploaded
    No major changes on the cornerstone side.
    This update is mostly here to bring it up to date with the changes in EOS4 & KatKernel 103
    And with the latest version you can also switch back to TabletUI which should make the cornerstone layout a bit happier too ;)
    (might require to reboot after you change the value into EOSControlCenter for TabletUI to kick in.)
    See if it helps some of the previous issues & such.
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    slyn4ice said:
    I am very tempted to try this. I've tried earlier versions of cornerstone and although they were buggy I found the features invaluable. I still don't understand why Google would resist something like this. Anyways, thread has been silent for a few days, so I have to ask - TimDuru, how often are you planning on updating the ROM?

    I know it's a work in progress and I thank you for all your work on this and EOS4!
    Click to expand...
    Click to collapse

    It'll take some time to fix the bugs, if ever I can fix them.
    So yeah still WIP ;)
    From there, I'll update it if there is something to update, can see about adding more features and such.
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