[Driver] Qualcomm S3 Adreno 220 GPU ICS Flashable Update {UnSigned}

gjcamp · May 5, 2012

This Adreno GPU update is ONLY designed to work on Qualcomm S3 ARM7 Devices running ICS.

Greetings, I have been on XDA for a long time and I hope that you all can benefit from this patch as we have over at the Amaze Forums. Here is a link to my Original Thread and evidence of this patch's success for our Qualcomm S3 Adreno 220 GPU devices running ICS.

We have proven that this driver Patch has doubled our GPU throughput for 2D and 3D rendering.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1631223

I have only tested this on my T-Mobile HTC Amaze (Qualcomm S3 Adreno 220 GPU) and have not experienced any issues.

I have created this Recovery Flashable Patch to Install the Qualcomm Updated Adreno Drivers on the "Official Ruby ICS" release.

Qualcomm Developers Website

I did not get a screenshot of the results before flashing this, however I have seen dramatically improved result on my Quadrant 3D scores with "Force 2D GPU rendering" UNCHECKED in the Setting->Develop Options Menu of this ICS Release. With this option checked I have seen improvements on both 2D and 3D. Although results are slightly degraded for 3D from post update the 2D results have doubled in value.

Quadrant results were obtained immediately after restart to avoid any other processes interfering with the results.

AFTER "Adreno ICS Update" Screenshot 2D Rendering NOT checked.

AFTER "Adreno ICS Update" Screenshot 2D Rendering CHECKED.

If someone would post a screenshot of the before Quadrant result I would gladly add it to this post. Please only post results Immediately after restart for conformity.

Android Ice Cream Sandwich Required
Root Required

Pre Requisites fulfilled (Root) (ICS)
Install "Adreno ICS Update" to the root of your SD Card
Toggle Signature Verification in Recovery
Install zip via Recovery
Fix Permissions
Reboot
ENJOI!!!

Thank you dhkr234 for the flashable zip framework.

Please post any other tested configurations and I will add them for other community members reference.

The usual warning goes here. I'm not responsible for what you do, or how you execute, use this at your own risk!

gjcamp · May 5, 2012

Additional Configurations Tested

Additional ROMS with confirmed improvements:

ROMS with these NEW Adreno Drivers Baked in:

ssojyeti2 · May 5, 2012

First!

Looks nice, I'll test it out...

notsointeresting · May 5, 2012

Interesting. Thanks

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Datguy_n_Disguy · May 5, 2012

Will this work with the ics leak?

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gjcamp · May 5, 2012

Datguy_n_Disguy said:
Will this work with the ics leak?

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From Original Posting

This Adreno GPU update is ONLY designed to work on Qualcomm S3 ARM7 Devices running ICS.

I have an HTC Amaze running the ICS Leak for the Amaze and have experienced the results displayed in the OP.

Thank you,
gjcamp

METHOD1911 · May 5, 2012

Has anyone tried this on Newts Rom.

Method1911 3D

gjcamp · May 5, 2012

METHOD1911 said:
Has anyone tried this on Newts Rom.

Method1911 3D

As long as Newts ROM is ICS it would improve performance.

If it is Gingerbread it may not help.

Thanks,
gjcamp

meangreenie · May 5, 2012

just tried them on the gsm ics leak.. no difference

force gpu for apps in developer options makes the 2d test in quadrant run at 60fps on both sets of drivers, 3d results are the same

edit, nenamark 2 seems slower @41fps, was getting 48fps before

Datguy_n_Disguy · May 5, 2012

gjcamp said:
From Original Posting

This Adreno GPU update is ONLY designed to work on Qualcomm S3 ARM7 Devices running ICS.

I have an HTC Amaze running the ICS Leak for the Amaze and have experienced the results displayed in the OP.

Thank you,
gjcamp

I knew that, I just wanted to make sure if it worked with THIS leak.

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gjcamp · May 5, 2012

Datguy_n_Disguy said:
I knew that, I just wanted to make sure if it worked with THIS leak.

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Try it. Be a trailblazer.

you can always reflash to your original.

Read the OP. This is for S3 devices with the Adreno220 GPU running ICS. IT SHOULD WORK.

Instead of asking these type of questions I would like see actual results posted.

Thank you,
gjcamp

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gjcamp · May 5, 2012

meangreenie said:
just tried them on the gsm ics leak.. no difference

force gpu for apps in developer options makes the 2d test in quadrant run at 60fps on both sets of drivers, 3d results are the same

What about your 2D and 3D Quadrant scores?

FPS are not really objective results.

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meangreenie · May 5, 2012

gjcamp said:
What about your 2D and 3D Quadrant scores?

FPS are not really objective results.

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little to no difference on quadrant, nenamark 2 is definately slower, i have already changed back to the original drivers

gjcamp · May 5, 2012

meangreenie said:
little to no difference on quadrant, nenamark 2 is definately slower, i have already changed back to the original drivers

nenamark 2 may already have the updated binaries.

Thanks,
Gjcamp

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evolution3d · May 5, 2012

About to flash this to viperROM ICE3D Beta 1.

---------- Post added at 10:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:29 AM ----------

Improved my overall Quadrant score by about 400 points. It DOES WORK with the ICS leak that came out yesterday.

luis4ever · May 5, 2012

Will this interfere with latest kernel from chad? It gives a lot of GPU performance by itself.

Quad:

Antutu:

Nenamark 2:

gjcamp · May 5, 2012

luis4ever said:
Will this interfere with latest kernel from chad? It gives a lot of GPU performance by itself.

Quad:

Antutu:

Nenamark 2:

Ask Chad.

Thank you,
gjcamp

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tvsian · May 5, 2012

I didn't have much luck with this on CleanROM ICS Edition.

Pre-patch, GPU rendering on, everything else default (no kernel change or overclocking), I got 2936 overall, 1006 2D and 1980 3D.

After the patch the overall dropped to 2336 and 2D to 1000, 3D went up a bit to 2098. I tried again with GPU rendering disabled just for the heck of it, and it went down to 2273 overall, 368 2D, 1967 3D.

For now I'm flashing back to the driver that's included in the ROM, but maybe this will work better with a different kernel.

erick1499 · May 5, 2012

luis4ever said:
Will this interfere with latest kernel from chad? It gives a lot of GPU performance by itself.

Quad:

Antutu:

Nenamark 2:

Woah, what is your clockspeed, setup, also where is chads kernel?

luis4ever · May 5, 2012

erick1499 said:
Woah, what is your clockspeed, setup, also where is chads kernel?

ViperROM, @1536 and mpdesicion and termald deleted on system/bin. Kernel is on his thread.

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