[ICS] Nyan Colonel v5 (Atarashii) Voodoo & No Voodoo

Been running this all day, and I gotta say, its pretty awesome. Snappy, smooth, no random reboots, and the best battery life I've gotten in quite a while. Still gotta experiment with the OC/UV and other goodies, but so far I'm very happy with this kernel.

Sent from my Supercharged CM9 Shadow Epic 4G

knock.back said:

hey marcusant..

could you possibly make a guide to nstools saying what the various steps should be set to for undervolting? i dont really know what arm voltage and int voltage means and i know undervolting too far can be dangerous... thanks

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IIRC, the internal voltage is for the bus/GPU voltage. I couldn't find a whole lot about it, but a Google search brought up some Nexus threads talking about it. I just don't have the time to really read it right now. To under volt like you would with voltage control, you'll want to adjust the arm voltage (which is the CPU voltage). Its tough to have a guide on undervolting because every phone is different. But I have 100 and 200 undervolted -100 and all other steps up to 1000 at -50 using the conservative governor. My phone is stable and has no deep sleep issues or locking up, rebooting, etc...

Edit: I have not touched the int voltage.

Sent from my SPH-D700 using xda premium

Im in reboot hell.
how do I undo the undervolt/overclock without recovering the entire phone..>?
I used same values I had on marcusant's revival rom v1...(yeah, I don't fiddle my ROM much...) but those setting - set via nstools - did not seem to be compatible wit this kernel/AOKP rom combo... burned through 50% charge on an xtended 3500mah battery in less than 6 hours and now it's just rebootin, and rebootin, and rebootin...

incisivekeith said:

Marcusant, could you provide a patch, or in the next version, to allow for natural color schemes without any overlays? Thanks.

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he would likely have to create a seperate patch for each individual epic as it seems that every screen has its own niche for gamma. Its easy enough to adjust the settings yourself isn't it? The purpose of including voodoo color is so that users have the ability to customize their color scheme the way they want. I prefer very low gamma offsets with a very high brightness setting to make my blacks and greys deeper and my brighter colors pop. (r: -55 g: -55 b: -38). The brief green saturation I get before screen-off is a small price to pay for how awesome my screen looks. Actually, I kinda like the green, it lasts for a second n looks trippy. Just play with your settings and you'll find what works with your setup, and you'll probably realize what an awesome tool voodoo color is.

knock.back said:

hey marcusant..

could you possibly make a guide to nstools saying what the various steps should be set to for undervolting? i dont really know what arm voltage and int voltage means and i know undervolting too far can be dangerous... thanks

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This would be extremely difficult as every processor handles overclocking and undervolting differently. It will take some messing around on your part to find your optimum settings. Be sure to make a nandroid before you start and each time you find a good uv for a particular freq. If you uv too low and your phone crashes it can cause data corruption, a backup will allow you to fix that and return to your good settings. With oc/uv its always YMMV, but I would say a good place to start would be enabling all freqs, and undervolting freqs 100 through 1000 by -75 mv, and start from there. I've been running my epic with the following settings with no ill effects.

100 mhz: -150 mv
200 mhz: -150 mv
400 mhz: -125 mv
600 mhz: -100 mv
800 mhz: -100 mv
900 mhz: -75 mv
1.0 ghz: -75 mv
1.1 ghz: -50 mv
1.2 ghz: -50 mv
1.3 ghz: -25 mv
1.4 ghz: default

I DO NOT suggest starting with these values! What I DO suggest is: Start low, run some tests, benchmark apps are good for testing your cpu, play games with heavy cpu footprints, scroll around madly all over your phone, whatev you can do to stress your cpu. If your phone handles it normally, undervolt another step, rinse and repeat. Keep track of what worked, restore your backup and use those settings (thus alleviating any data corruption you may have caused while testing). Remember DO NOT set your boot settings until you are ABSOLUTELY SURE your settings work. Good luck!

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I love this kernel but marcus I just wondering if you got paid by the OC Apps Devs? First was SetCPU, then Voltage Control and now NSTools. I feel that Im going to my medic, everyday a different pill for the same... Again THANK you for this kernel.

BTW: what the heck is the cartoon in the boot splash?

Sent from my SHP-D700 SPH-700D arh!!! Epic 4g with CM9

beltsnspoons said:

This would be extremely difficult as every processor handles overclocking and undervolting differently. It will take some messing around on your part to find your optimum settings. Be sure to make a nandroid before you start and each time you find a good uv for a particular freq. If you uv too low and your phone crashes it can cause data corruption, a backup will allow you to fix that and return to your good settings. With oc/uv its always YMMV, but I would say a good place to start would be enabling all freqs, and undervolting freqs 100 through 1000 by -75 mv, and start from there. I've been running my epic with the following settings with no ill effects.

100 mhz: -150 mv
200 mhz: -150 mv
400 mhz: -125 mv
600 mhz: -100 mv
800 mhz: -100 mv
900 mhz: -75 mv
1.0 ghz: -75 mv
1.1 ghz: -50 mv
1.2 ghz: -50 mv
1.3 ghz: -25 mv
1.4 ghz: default

I DO NOT suggest starting with these values! Start low, run some tests, benchmark apps are good for testing your cpu, play games with heavy cpu footprints, scroll around madly all over your phone, whatev you can do to stress your cpu. If your phone handles it normally, undervolt another step, rinse and repeat. Keep track of what worked, restore your backup and use those settings (thus alleviating any data corruption you may have caused while testing).

Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA

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I just wish you could toggle the value easier than using the damn slider...

Do you have any steps to recover from reboot hell- I think I undervolted one step to far...

csmasn said:

I love this kernel but marcus I just wondering if you got paid by the OC Apps Devs? First was SetCPU, then Voltage Control and now NSTools. I feel that Im going to my medic, everyday a different pill for the same... Again THANK you for this kernel.

BTW: what the heck is the cartoon in the boot splash?

Sent from my SHP-D700 SPH-700D arh!!! Epic 4g with CM9

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That unicorn and kitty is the best damn boot animation EVER! The unicorn represents the team that brought you such glory, remember it! The NYAN CAT IS ALL GLORY! Wear the swag with pride!

Try turning on the Unicorn Porn Live wallpaper, it will change your life too

Too many exclamation points...

Bigjohn_S said:

I just wish you could toggle the value easier than using the damn slider...

Do you have any steps to recover from reboot hell- I think I undervolted one step to far...

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When that happened to me I had to boot into clockwork and flashed the rom over. Flashing the kernel over didn't work b/c I tried that first.

But I think this should work if you're using NStools.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1333696

Bigjohn_S said:

I just wish you could toggle the value easier than using the damn slider...

Do you have any steps to recover from reboot hell- I think I undervolted one step to far...

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if you are using voltage control, it prompts you to make a recovery zip incase of something like that. its called vcrecovery.zip or something like that. itll be on your sd card and flashable via cwm. idk what nstools does or not, havent used it yet, im in the process of flashing this kernel now on my girls epic (she has mine today :/ .) but this is a prime example of why you should always make a nandroid before playing with uv, and why you should never set boot settings until youre absolutely sure. sorry bro, youre gonna have to either restore an old backup, or start clean.

edit: you might try just flashing cm9, aokp, or whatever rom youre using without doing a data wipe, that should flash their stock kernel and remove boot settings, then you would be able to keep all your data, but if its been corrupted from bad shutdowns/freezing/locking up, youre kinda outta luck. youll have to restore an old backup or flash the rom and kernel again fresh. try that, just wipe dalvik and cache, let us know if it works, good luck.

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marcus,

at first i was like:

:O

what happened to samurai and wheatly!?!?

but then i read that you "tweaked conservative, and tweaked ondemand." did you tweak conservative to act a little more like samurai and ondemand to act a little more like wheatly? thats what it seems like.

oh yeah and, i see that someone posted you can adjust the gpu voltage via nstools (which i havent gotten around to downloading yet.) Does this kernel also allow for GPU overclocking?

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Bigjohn_S said:

Im in reboot hell.
how do I undo the undervolt/overclock without recovering the entire phone..>?
I used same values I had on marcusant's revival rom v1...(yeah, I don't fiddle my ROM much...) but those setting - set via nstools - did not seem to be compatible wit this kernel/AOKP rom combo... burned through 50% charge on an xtended 3500mah battery in less than 6 hours and now it's just rebootin, and rebootin, and rebootin...

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hey, found this on nstools thread on xda, if thats what you used, maybe it will help:

begin quote:

Notes:

- If something bad happenned and you want to reset NSTools config,
install reset_nstools.zip in recovery (if its not work, try to mount /data from recovery menu before applying the zip)

- If you want to switch kernel, i recommend to uncheck 'restore on boot' setting.
It will reset to default kernel setting. You can recheck that after reboot.

- starting in v1.8 app will detect kernel version on boot, if the version has changed the settings will be discarded.

- The new permission on v1.12 and up: read contacts is used for detect missed call. You can check the source code on my github to make sure this app don't read/send your contacts data.

- read this thread about CPU governor

- for those who have problem with smartassV2 governor settings, ask your kernel developer to patch their source, see this post

Originally Posted by krfoy
just fix the issue in smartassV2 (link: https://github.com/abev66/linux_NS_ICS_vilta/commit/ad316c6049c6ce07b6bc01fd1778b8567efa9bc2)

it's not a NSTools issue.

:end quote.

hope that helps you out some bro.

So far, so good. Thanks again Marcusant, great work!

yeah, used NStools because that is what was recommended in the first posts...

john

Bigjohn_S said:

yeah, used NStools because that is what was recommended in the first posts...

john

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did you read the post that 1999TL and I referred to? It may help you out. It basically says if you flash a different kernel your boot settings will be deleted. So, do that, and you should be good without losing any data. Then you can reflash this kernel and MAKE A NANDROID THIS TIME (lol ..) and find your best settings and you'll be straight. Good luck bro.

edit: I suggest after reflashing nyan kernel that you use voltage control to do your undervolting and testing, (leave NSTools UV settings alone until you know what works) that way, whatever you set wont be saved as boot unless you tell it to. That way if your phone freezes or reboots, youll go back to the original settings. Then, once youve found what works for you, you can set it up with NSTools. You know?

saramon said:

That unicorn and kitty is the best damn boot animation EVER! The unicorn represents the team that brought you such glory, remember it! The NYAN CAT IS ALL GLORY! Wear the swag with pride!

Try turning on the Unicorn Porn Live wallpaper, it will change your life too

Too many exclamation points...

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Thank you. And I use the Unicorn Porn LW.

Sent from my SHP-D700 SPH-700D arh!!! Epic 4g with CM9

Marcus, for some reason with this version i can't get 100 mhz to stick no matter what. before, in vc, it would always say on the first page that 200 was the min but if i had saved it at 100 it would still scale down to it, but thats not the case with this one. Is there a work around that i missed somewhere? What do you suggest?

Can someone post the apk for the unicorn porn lwp?

Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA

beltsnspoons said:

if you are using voltage control, it prompts you to make a recovery zip incase of something like that. its called vcrecovery.zip or something like that. itll be on your sd card and flashable via cwm. idk what nstools does or not, havent used it yet, im in the process of flashing this kernel now on my girls epic (she has mine today :/ .) but this is a prime example of why you should always make a nandroid before playing with uv, and why you should never set boot settings until youre absolutely sure. sorry bro, youre gonna have to either restore an old backup, or start clean.

edit: you might try just flashing cm9, aokp, or whatever rom youre using without doing a data wipe, that should flash their stock kernel and remove boot settings, then you would be able to keep all your data, but if its been corrupted from bad shutdowns/freezing/locking up, youre kinda outta luck. youll have to restore an old backup or flash the rom and kernel again fresh. try that, just wipe dalvik and cache, let us know if it works, good luck.

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marcus,

at first i was like:

:O

what happened to samurai and wheatly!?!?

but then i read that you "tweaked conservative, and tweaked ondemand." did you tweak conservative to act a little more like samurai and ondemand to act a little more like wheatly? thats what it seems like.

oh yeah and, i see that someone posted you can adjust the gpu voltage via nstools (which i havent gotten around to downloading yet.) Does this kernel also allow for GPU overclocking?

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hey, found this on nstools thread on xda, if thats what you used, maybe it will help:

begin quote:

Notes:

- If something bad happenned and you want to reset NSTools config,
install reset_nstools.zip in recovery (if its not work, try to mount /data from recovery menu before applying the zip)

- If you want to switch kernel, i recommend to uncheck 'restore on boot' setting.
It will reset to default kernel setting. You can recheck that after reboot.

- starting in v1.8 app will detect kernel version on boot, if the version has changed the settings will be discarded.

- The new permission on v1.12 and up: read contacts is used for detect missed call. You can check the source code on my github to make sure this app don't read/send your contacts data.

- read this thread about CPU governor

- for those who have problem with smartassV2 governor settings, ask your kernel developer to patch their source, see this post

Originally Posted by krfoy
just fix the issue in smartassV2 (link: https://github.com/abev66/linux_NS_ICS_vilta/commit/ad316c6049c6ce07b6bc01fd1778b8567efa9bc2)

it's not a NSTools issue.

:end quote.

hope that helps you out some bro.

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Thanks for all that.
I just re-installed AOKP.
Will tamper with Nyan again when he releases the next version, I think.
Want to see what the battery life is like on AOKP 'stock'...

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beltsnspoons said:

did you read the post that 1999TL and I referred to? It may help you out. It basically says if you flash a different kernel your boot settings will be deleted. So, do that, and you should be good without losing any data. Then you can reflash this kernel and MAKE A NANDROID THIS TIME (lol ..) and find your best settings and you'll be straight. Good luck bro.

edit: I suggest after reflashing nyan kernel that you use voltage control to do your undervolting and testing, (leave NSTools UV settings alone until you know what works) that way, whatever you set wont be saved as boot unless you tell it to. That way if your phone freezes or reboots, youll go back to the original settings. Then, once youve found what works for you, you can set it up with NSTools. You know?

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What is a "nandroid".
I've used titanium to back up stuff... but I keep hearing this "nandroid" as if it's a specific thing, but can't find any such app on market?

Bigjohn_S said:

Thanks for all that.
I just re-installed AOKP.
Will tamper with Nyan again when he releases the next version, I think.
Want to see what the battery life is like on AOKP 'stock'...

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What is a "nandroid".
I've used titanium to back up stuff... but I keep hearing this "nandroid" as if it's a specific thing, but can't find any such app on market?

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A nandroid backup is a backup of your entire nand storage.
Its the "Backup" option in ClockWorkMod. It backs up more than apps and their data.

~ E.R.A.