ZTE Blade CM7 (Kang Development)

karthiknr · Feb 23, 2012

wbaw said:
New kernel, cm7 gen2 only again. This needs testing, lots of updates since yesterday. New wifi driver included too.

Download: http://depositfiles.com/files/4rgcrjy2a
MD5: 33db29965ea4854f8d8cce0dc60b3817

Link not working for me wbaw.

EDIT:Working now,sorry.
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Gpu performance has increased drastically. Can be noticed when playing Reckless Racing.

Scrolling also is more smooth and quick. I'm running Burstlam's KANG. Managed overclocking it till 768Mhz. Hopefully it'll run without any FC's or reboots.

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Gokh · Feb 23, 2012

Counter strike is working very smooth now!! Thanks wbaw for this kernel

Send from my awsome ZTE Blade!

Rapier07 · Feb 23, 2012

Gokh said:
Counter strike is working very smooth now!! Thanks wbaw for this kernel

Send from my awsome ZTE Blade!

Which version of CS do you use? I'm using 1.35f and it just wouldn't join any server :/

saaransh9 · Feb 23, 2012

Ok which kang do you guys recommend I'm using 13 Feb burgerz built and now it had started giving me problems with Bluetooth I'm thinking about burstlam's built with wbaw kernel.

And what's the use of the boot.img provided by wbaw I mean is there any advantages of flashing it

karthiknr · Feb 23, 2012

saaransh9 said:
Ok which kang do you guys recommend I'm using 13 Feb burgerz built and now it had started giving me problems with Bluetooth I'm thinking about burstlam's built with wbaw kernel.

And what's the use of the boot.img provided by wbaw I mean is there any advantages of flashing it

I would recommend Burstlam's build added with the above(wbaw's) kernel.

Graphics has seriously improved. More smoother animations and he has tweaked the Ondemand governor settings. Gotta wait and see the results of that though.

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Rapier07 said:
Which version of CS do you use? I'm using 1.35f and it just wouldn't join any server :/

Same problem here.

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karthiknr · Feb 23, 2012

wbaw said:
New kernel, cm7 gen2 only again. This needs testing, lots of updates since yesterday. New wifi driver included too.

Download: http://depositfiles.com/files/4rgcrjy2a
MD5: 33db29965ea4854f8d8cce0dc60b3817

Source code available on my github here: https://github.com/John-Kenney/zte-turies-35/

It's been updated with the latest zte source code released yesterday. Plus a bunch of bluetooth patches (seems to be little effect), more overclocking, updated wifi driver & a few other minor updates... full list is here: https://github.com/John-Kenney/zte-turies-35/commits/master

It particularly needs testing if you have a new blade & any hardware doesn't usually work properly in cm7 (camera, touchscreen, sensors).

Having some FC issues. I flashed Gapps after flashing your kernel. The problems i face may be because,like you said,the dalvik cache being built again. Coming to the problems,market has FC issues and shows nothing but Loading on the screen. Maps also force closes. Some of the apps i installed before flashing Gapps crash often. I had restored the apps using Titanium Backup.

So is flashing Gapps after flashing the kernel,the issue here?

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saaransh9 · Feb 23, 2012

wbaw said:
I'm not sure any blades will do 1ghz, mine only does 672. I've enabled 2 higher frequencies in case anybody has a super phone, you can try taking it up to 844mhz if you're brave.

I think a 100%+ OC on the GPU is a nice win though.

we can do it if we increase voltage of the cpu.

or is it possible to to able to control the voltage according to our convenience.

Gokh · Feb 23, 2012

Rapier07 said:
Which version of CS do you use? I'm using 1.35f and it just wouldn't join any server :/

I'm using the 1.35i version, multi work perfectly, and it's very easy to do

Send from my awsome ZTE Blade!

Rapier07 · Feb 23, 2012

Gokh said:
I'm using the 1.35i version, multi work perfectly, and it's very easy to do

Send from my awsome ZTE Blade!

I updated to v1.35i but it just wouldn't join

sqbo · Feb 23, 2012

finally i can add post in this section

Okay, I have 200points less with this kernel in AnTuTu as with Burstlam ROM

Gokh · Feb 23, 2012

Rapier07 said:
I updated to v1.35i but it just wouldn't join

Strange, maybe internet connection, i have 50 of ping

with my blade IG

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wbaw · Feb 23, 2012

sqbo said:
finally i can add post in this section
Okay, I have 200points less with this kernel in AnTuTu as with Burstlam ROM

Antutu sucks, it's useless. For some reason I get a 200point drop whenever I change kernel without a wipe. Forget about it, it's meaningless. Try playing a game that lagged before.

Anyway... I think I might have missed something in the last kernel, I think axi speed was limited to max 200mhz (still faster than the 160 before), fixed in this kernel. Street Fighter 2 Turbo is (just) playable in mame for me, so my phone is complete.

Download: http://depositfiles.com/files/lpf62l1l2
MD5: 5604aab46519303d056ce7ceffce377c

Source code: https://github.com/John-Kenney/zte-turies-35

wbaw · Feb 24, 2012

saaransh9 said:
we can do it if we increase voltage of the cpu.

or is it possible to to able to control the voltage according to our convenience.

I don't know if it's possible to increase the voltage, there are 8 set voltage levels for the cpu (0-7), the top speeds are all at 7. I don't know if it's possible to change the levels, I don't even know how many volts they correspond to. I can only alter the voltage levels for lower speeds, if it's at less than 7 then it crashes my phone @ 600mhz, 8 is invalid.

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xyz`1 said:
Oh..its seems to be stable ive been using for a few hours?tried and tested almost everything no bugs..I understood what you did to get the GPU OC..but then is the blade source code of any use to users without cam probs etc..?

Yes, the new source code seems to make the camera work much better even if it worked for you before, the pictures are clearer & framerate is higher for video. They've updated all the camera drivers, not just the ones that didn't work at all before.

There are quite a lot of other updates too, it was a big update from ZTE. You can see everything that ZTE changed here: https://github.com/John-Kenney/ZTE-R-kernel-35/commit/c9244b86744c2b266585a7c28f1cd2b9c5eb6713

[] AL [] · Feb 24, 2012

Wow quite a few changes to the kernel indeed.
Thanks for your work on that wbaw.

I've tried the kernel you gave a 3-4 days ago; things were fine but I've also installed Battery Monitor widget in order to get a closer look on battery consumption and this morning, I reverted back to burstslam kernel just to check the difference for a couple days...

Because although things runs fine on the phone, I'm a little worried that all the OC'ing just makes the battery drain faster; especially if there's no easy control over vsels... While the phone is in standby or airplane mode the battery lasts forever: 1% drop in 8 hours: impressive! But I find that as soon as the display or wifi are on, the battery just melts compared to my phone. Reported current draw can go up to 600-700mA without have anything demanding running --> so this is my main concern and where I'd like to see improvement.

But I'll keep investigating as I need more solid numbers...
Keep up the good work.
Cheers.

wbaw · Feb 24, 2012

Those were zte's changes, not mine. That's the difference between the new blade/v880 2.6.35 source code & the old (zte turies, they were all the same though) 2.6.35 source code.

My changes are here: https://github.com/John-Kenney/zte-turies-35/commits/master

Solid numbers are the problem, we have them & don't want them. There are 8 settings for cpu voltage 0-7. Those correspond to voltages, I just need to find out what they are & if they can be changed, I'm not sure the voltages can be changed. It's because of the msm7227. So I can't really interface it with any of the overclocking programs because they expect to use voltages. Also I can't overvolt high speeds, they're already at the maximum.

I've had to use conservative undervolting defaults, like those used on the sony x8/x10mini, to minimise the chances of anybody having crashes because of it.

For wifi undervolting, I think I copied that from arco's kernel for the htc wildfire... https://github.com/John-Kenney/zte-turies-35/commit/ef1eaa958bd133552a963527dac3165a75818f5c

Again, I'm not sure how they correspond to volts, standard should be 3.3v.

The screen & wifi are always big power users, nothing you can do about that except only use a dim screen (no auto-brightness) & don't use wifi.

The wifi & cpu should use less power undervolted.

Check what apps you have installed too, maybe one of those is causing bad battery drain. A bad app (or bad settings) make more difference than the kernel or the rom. The battery is only 1200mah, so it can't really be drawing 600ma if your fully charged battery lasts more than 2 hours, I've never had it that bad.

karthiknr · Feb 24, 2012

karthiknr said:
Having some FC issues. I flashed Gapps after flashing your kernel. The problems i face may be because,like you said,the dalvik cache being built again. Coming to the problems,market has FC issues and shows nothing but Loading on the screen. Maps also force closes. Some of the apps i installed before flashing Gapps crash often. I had restored the apps using Titanium Backup.

So is flashing Gapps after flashing the kernel,the issue here?

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Very surprising. I did a few reboots,then re flashed the kernel and all of a sudden,Gapps started working too.

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karthiknr · Feb 24, 2012

I've a doubt. I'm thinking of compiling my own CM build. How do i integrate the undervolted kernel into the build?

I'm also getting stuck at one point. I'm unable to execute the git-core command. Using Ubuntu10.10 on Virtual Box.
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sqbo · Feb 24, 2012

wbaw said:
Antutu sucks, it's useless. For some reason I get a 200point drop whenever I change kernel without a wipe. Forget about it, it's meaningless. Try playing a game that lagged before.

Anyway... I think I might have missed something in the last kernel, I think axi speed was limited to max 200mhz (still faster than the 160 before), fixed in this kernel. Street Fighter 2 Turbo is (just) playable in mame for me, so my phone is complete.

Download: http://depositfiles.com/files/lpf62l1l2
MD5: 5604aab46519303d056ce7ceffce377c

Source code: https://github.com/John-Kenney/zte-turies-35

Okay, I have installed kernel with wipe, score in antutu is only 1500

But can I can set freq. of GPU higger than 160mhz ? right ?

Master One · Feb 24, 2012

Is there any recent CM7.2-RC0 based KANG which has no GAPPS incorporated?

Unfortunately even targetbsp's KANG (which has often been mentioned as the *vanilla* KANG) has GAPPS already included.

I am in the opinion, that no ROM should include GAPPS, which is the CM way, because GAPPS can always be flashed separately.

I am experimenting with the idea of using Android without Google. If there is no recent KANG without GAPPS, what's the easiest / fastest way of removing GAPPS from an installation?

Amphoras · Feb 24, 2012

Master One said:
Is there any recent CM7.2-RC0 based KANG which has no GAPPS incorporated?

Unfortunately even targetbsp's KANG (which has often been mentioned as the *vanilla* KANG) has GAPPS already included.

I am in the opinion, that no ROM should include GAPPS, which is the CM way, because GAPPS can always be flashed separately.

I am experimenting with the idea of using Android without Google. If there is no recent KANG without GAPPS, what's the easiest / fastest way of removing GAPPS from an installation?

targetbsp's KANG doesn't include gapps. CM7 tries to backup the gapps it finds during the installation and then restores them afterwards. If you want to flash it without them, format /system from Clockwork before you flash the rom.

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