[KERNEL] TUNED, LOS14/15/16(Android7/8/9) for S5 [22/ago/18] faster and lighter

[invisiblewave]

Well, I spoke a little too soon. Had to get off this kernel, I couldn't live with the occasional lagginess. It rendered GA virtually unusable, amongst other things. Currently running on the Smartpack kernel which is so far performing well.

 

[j1gga84]

@fbs
one last boeffla kernel for Nougat was released
I guess your next update would also be the last for N then

regards

 

[kal4metal]

@fbs
one last boeffla kernel for Nougat was released
I guess your next update would also be the last for N then

regards

Not only the last boeffla kernel for N, but also the last boeffla for S5 altogether, as lord boeffla himself stops supporting it

 

[Mcha01]

Can you add oreo support ❤?

 

[Cuzeg Spiked]

Turns out whenever I sleep the device, 3 out of four cores turn off after sometime and it stays as 1 core showing in KT monitor even though I have 4 cores which shows some hotplugging, even when i disabled mpdecison and deleted the mpdecision binary in /system/bin. Although mpdecision kept enabling every boot after disabled in kernel adiutor but deleting mpdecision binary solved my problems as i didn't like the slowdowns. I had to change to min 4 cores yet again in boeffla config app to make 4 cores show up again but if i wasn't needing the performance gain, i kept it showing 1 core in ktmonitor even if 4 cores show up in other cpu monitoring kernel management apps. Wallpaper was dark and i mainly used amoled dark theme in apps where i could. A bit overkill I know but i like overkill. Mileage generally varies in battery but i can confirm this is a great kernel imo. Even if i did google i could get alright performance + battery, provided i use amplify/greenify and such.
Gave Tuned hotplug a try and set cpu range between 729mhz all the way to 2.4ghz or so depending on game and then general useage and see how it reacted. The interactuned governor pretty smart if not smarter than interactive being tuned. My S5 feeling fast every day, keeps reminding me of my S6 and S7s but for 32 bit devices, its impressive the soc. No wonder the nexus and the Oneplus Ones were considered the smoothest fast devices of their time. Kernel support is awesome.

My battery life after using this kernel, undervolt by -85mv globally, using fdroid applications, yalp store, bfq, 128kb read ahead, 883mhz cpu clock with interactuned with 0 io is busy, 27mhz gpu clock with msmcpufreq. I used Lightning browser, Privacy browser, jumpgo, xda labs, openlauncher, brave browser, fair amount of fstrim through boeffla config which granted me better speeds, art optimisation magisk module with balanced profile 3 in termux terminal, using debloat terminal command for some system apps, then my discord usage, simple gallery, simple contacts, simple of any app, lots of multitasking of apps i normally use that aren't games and no google play services which was easy. Not too shabby battery life. I had 7-8 hour SOT, probably could get more but idling i could last my device longer. Xprivacy Lua, appopsxposed, privacy guard i used to prevent app startups at boot and background stuff with a few app exceptions. I did notice that the power saving efficency to performance effects battery and performance even with cpu governor changes and stuff which i expected. If i used 4G i know my battery would be less but not that bad.
My screen flickers but not a rom issue at lowest brightness so i do slightly higher brightness than lowest. I did use bluetooth on headphones often but even then a nice battery life. Wifi scan turned off and bluetooth scan via appopsxposed and location off. No amplify i ever used. doze disabled, samsungdoze disabled.

I used my device from 10am to 8.30pm which is not too bad. well there was 1 hour sleep and a little idling but overall thats impressive. If i gamed i could reach 4-5 hours if i wanted. Hotplugging i could do more battery but i didn't like the hotplug and the display power mode savings. Thermal Core control drivers also i turn off. This kernel truly is the best i've used for elite S5 performance when needed and if i wanted to to low power modes. Boeffla kernel is good too but the tweaks in this make it even nicer. I do use an external SD card but all apps using internal storage, files in external. around 23GB overall usage storage but almost 6GB in internal storage and i have 32GB class 10 SD card which is nice.
I even tried ext4 journalling off which helps a bit in performance and battery but i assume ext4 tweaks is turned off journalling and it keeps automatically enabling itself when I don't want and the app is meant to leave em off by default. I know boeffla ended support which i understand but i am excited to see the final version of this tuned kernel also. Left lmk at default. VM settings you don't have to tamper with but i shared anyway. Default usually fine for vm settings.
Feels good to have no bottleneck or very little in games and in general use. no real lags or stutters for days, no crashes, nothing. Most stable and convenient. Might give this a try on LinageOS , AICP and other lineage 14.1 kernel roms that could potentially work.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1phivZMFzgPuTGkYuSjJ8_tngx9NJrICi

The bc profile i used.My rom was RR which is good. I keep feeling faster performance every single day which is convenient.

I should benchmark my device on antutu if it worked that is. I think i would reach close to 70k on old antutu and a decent score on new antutu. Benchmarks don't tell the whole story but it would be an interesting thing to get the highest score.

Edit: Gave this a try on AICP which performs even better and lighter. Awesome on Aicp but even without custom kernel it was already a fair bit faster and less battery using. Now im getting regular 8 hours battery life or more . 5 hours of gaming also which is a lot even on intensive games. i did use low clock speeds though locked at 883mhz for normal usage and something like 1267mhz or as low as 1036mhz for the games i play. If i slept device, well ages.

 

[fbs]

new build is up

 

[pipapaule]

new build is up

thanks. just installed it after going back to nougat. will report back if there are any problems.

 

[joey118]

new build is up

Kltekdi pls?

 

[Cuzeg Spiked]

Hi!
I'm using RR 5.8.5 (G900v) and I daily play like 2/3 hours videogames that need some graphical power (World of Tanks Blitz, PUBG, etc) and another part of the day the phone I have it active with 4G.
Do you recommend this kernel a lot?
Additionally, in case I want to revert the process, what do I need to do to uninstall the kernel?

Thanks for aswering me!

Yes it runs those games amazingly for a Galaxy S5 even if its only 30fps but at moderate settings or low. Overall this kernel is great like many kernels including boeffla kernel. 4G no problems also in battery. Lock clock speeds and performance governor for best results, though i heard interactive/interactuned from boeffla works best on LOS based roms. 2/3 hour gaming and the rest 4G on other tasks should do okay in battery.
Eternium for me easily average 30fps and up to 50fps highest settings. Dungeon Quest, easy 60fps for me at highest settings also but at 1.4ghz rather than 2.4ghz or so and emulators play awesome like PSP.
Yes newer phones are faster and 64 bit helps but the performance of this old 4 year old flagship phone that is 32 bit and comes cheap still very nice, especually on aosp. Many games i throw at it whether they are well known or not run quite well. GL tools does help in making games run better though but even out of the box run nicely. i found they ran best at aicp but thats just me since i like aicp rom a lot. Disabled vsync (debug.gr.swapinterval=0, debug.egl.swapinterval=0 and huwi.disable_vsync= true, but i only use it where needed as build prop tweaks, otherwise no need to as extra battery drain could be possible but worth it on games that don't break from disabled vsync). recording games and videos no problems.

Hello there, I have been experimenting with undervolting on this kernel (28/02 version), and rr rom. At first I did a 'global' undervolt of -75mv, then I decided to try and find the lowest stable voltage for each frequency. This is what I've settled on, and found to be stable, for now.
frequencies;
300 - 1036 -125mv
1190 - 1497 -100mv
1574 - 2457 -75mv EDIT: Had a few crashes so using -50mv for these frequencies
2534 & 2611 -50mv (I have oc'd to 2611)
Please note, I did not try any less than -125mv for any frequency
on the new antutu I got about 68k.
battery life seems better, although I havent really paid too much attention to it if im honest.


I'd really be interested to hear how you are getting on with -85mv globally?

Doing great thank you. No crashes and better battery than -100mv or so. then I tried what you did for undervolting which worked even better (overclock frequncies i undervolt by -25mv to -50mv.) I seem to get 2611mhz as my favourite overclock frequency like you as well. Stable af all around, using latest final kernel build. Stable on RR and other roms, including aicp which is my favourite rom. My S5 still got good enough silicon lottery for a nice overclock and undervolt. using different profiles from tasker, the 1ghz low clock for general use profile, gaming profile for overclocks and a mid profile for mid level clocks for low demanding games. Now consistently getting 7-8 hour sot up to 10hr and 4-5 hour games or a whole lot of days idling on the aicp rom but RR rom did fine though and LOS as well. Any LOS based rom basically does good but i found aicp the best overall. Battery life did improve from undervolt but its okay if you didnt pay too much attention to battery life, just as long as you enjoy device as sot depends on many factors depending on user. i rarely use social media except maybe discord and slack but i also watch youtube, browse on browsers like Brave or Lightning and games. No google though so my youtube is a magisk module ogyoutube with microg.

Edit: My new trim results after so much auto trim in aicp, manual trims overall. Its a vast improvement from my last screenshots. Androbench will agree too but overall general usage felt faster and games too. Many thousands of unnecessary files unseen by android deleted after TRIM happened while still keeping important data but making the emmc flash ssd storage of the S5 last longer. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oNdKUtOSOfUv1phdunUTTSJ_FErwvgAg/view?usp=sharing . The amount of blocks i had before and now, vast difference. Trim ftw. Trim all android devices no matter which kernel and the performance + longevity benefits show. This kernel especially shows that gain very well.

 

[JohnDoe93]

new build is up

Can you also make an updated version for klteduos (g900fd)? Last kernel you posted for duos is from 11/2017.

 

[fbs]

Can you also make an updated version for klteduos (g900fd)? Last kernel you posted for duos is from 11/2017.

hum klteKDI is up, let me remember how I did that duos build..

 

[fbs]

Can you also make an updated version for klteduos (g900fd)? Last kernel you posted for duos is from 11/2017.

test this

 

[fbs]

I'm struggling to learn how to point my github to get lineage updates itself instead of boeffla's (now that he won't be updating it anymore)

 

[andrew2432]

@fbs

Hey if I'm using my 900p/kltespr as a WiFi only device, will this work?! Roms and stuffs do but a kernel....idk haha

 

[sunilpaulmathew]

The easiest way in my opinion (that I always used to update my Kernels), is to simply "cherry pick" new commits from LOS kernel repo. By considering the changes in your repo over stock LOS, simple pull requests maynot work nicely (that you always (I guess) did from Lords boeffla's repo).

I'm struggling to learn how to point my github to get lineage updates itself instead of boeffla's (now that he won't be updating it anymore)

 

[fbs]

The easiest way in my opinion (that I always used to update my Kernels), is to simply "cherry pick" new commits from LOS kernel repo. By considering the changes in your repo over stock LOS, simple pull requests maynot work nicely (that you always (I guess) did from Lords boeffla's repo).

I never did this cherry picking thing.. I seldom use the web interface.. I had created a fork of andi's kernel and then on every update I run:

git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/boeffla_cm14​

then all differences from the last release were applied automagically..

now I was thinking how to tell git that my "upstream" should be other repo, and how to set from which commit onward it should fetch/sync...

 

[fbs]

@fbs

Hey if I'm using my 900p/kltespr as a WiFi only device, will this work?! Roms and stuffs do but a kernel....idk haha

idk too.. if you install it and it doesn't work, just install the ROM zip again, without any wipes, and you're back online

 

[sunilpaulmathew]

Idk how to change the upstream repo, but I'm sure that your specified methods will work only if the commit history of both repo is significantly same (might be difficult in your case).
Regarding the cherry-pick side, you can do that by running

git fetch LOS-repo-link branch (e.g. git fetch https://github.com/LineageOS/android_kernel_samsung_msm8974 lineage-15.1)
git cherry-pick commit-id (available in commit url link) - for picking a specific commit
or
git cherry-pick first-commit-id..last-commit-id - for picking a series of commit​

It should work fine unless there is no git conflicts...

I never did this cherry picking thing.. I seldom use the web interface.. I had created a fork of andi's kernel and then on every update I run:

git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/boeffla_cm14​

then all differences from the last release were applied automagically..

now I was thinking how to tell git that my "upstream" should be other repo, and how to set from which commit onward it should fetch/sync...

 

[JohnDoe93]

test this

Thx, tested it for the last two days. Works great so far. Both sim cards work and overall really smooth experience. I still have to test battery drain overnight but it should be fine, too. So you can probably attache g900fd kernel to OP as supported device.

 

[limalvin1203]

Will you bring this to cm15?