[NAND][ROM] CyanogenMod 7 : kernel updates

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ashwin1234

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I use Zeam launcher. Wakeup is fine
Try playing a song using the Music app, press home button to minimise it, and lock the phone. There is no way to wake the phone up anymore. I can feel the phone vibrate as I touch the unlock slider. I am using the sliding tab lockscreen style.

The only way is to remove the memory card so the music stops, only then the lockscreen will appear when waking up.

Edit: I have tested with other music players, and the screen never wakes up when a song is playing. I have already disabled the lock screen music controls in CM settings and also in the music player apps. This problem was never here in the 19th NOV build. I used to be able to pause and skip tracks in my lockscreen itself in the 19th NOV build.
 
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Pete Rask

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Zeam Launcher is a home screen replacement for ex. the already installed ADW launcher, and has nothing to do with kernel :p Search for it in market. Download and install.
 
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attisa

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Hi there! And thanks for your great work!
Can anyone make a mirror for the latest update.zip in the another server?:D:D
Thanks alot! I can't download from this server!!:mad:
 

aseteo

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Okay fixed the camera problem i was having, where the camera would enter the program, but as you try to take a photo, it crashes, it happens that the phone crashed while taking a picture, and that corrupted pic as trying to load in the camera gallery, and was crashing the camera, deleting the file solved it, the camera quality is poor on this build, a previous version, (cant remember which one), the autofocus and stuff worked and the pics came out nice, but i see that zargloub has put that on the to-do list, thanks

I took the good pic on the 9th of january, so i believe it was the previous version of Android, the one that crashed upon missed call had the camera properly working,

Idk if that helps,
 

yuyamin901002

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it still crashes when missed call comes, however, in silent mode, all problems can be solved. In silent mode, u just have to choose a ringtone in sound setting, it could still ring but not vibe and not crash.

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Thanks! This link solved my problem! Downloading...!:D
I am using the 20 november build for about one month and was great! now I am Curious to see new builds!!:D:D
The new build solve lots of problems. Try it now!
 

Elibl

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this is how the latest kernel behaves for me:
battery level went normally from 100% to 80%. a few min before dying it jumped up and down between 1,2,3% and 80% then the phone went off immediately without shutting down
recharged from 80% to 100% in half an hour
battery life was good so far
going to try wipe battery stats in cwm after full recharge...
 

ryo2456

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this is how the latest kernel behaves for me:
battery level went normally from 100% to 80%. a few min before dying it jumped up and down between 1,2,3% and 80% then the phone went off immediately without shutting down
recharged from 80% to 100% in half an hour
battery life was good so far
going to try wipe battery stats in cwm after full recharge...

I have wipe before I flash the new kernel, the % was drop slowly and the drop of voltage look like same as usual.......
 

Elibl

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yep after the wipe it looks pretty good for me.

you're doing a great job zargloub!!
 
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yuyamin901002

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this is how the latest kernel behaves for me:
battery level went normally from 100% to 80%. a few min before dying it jumped up and down between 1,2,3% and 80% then the phone went off immediately without shutting down
recharged from 80% to 100% in half an hour
battery life was good so far
going to try wipe battery stats in cwm after full recharge...
what did u mean 4 the new kernel that preforms well? boot.img or update.zip?
 

Elibl

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the kernel is packed to boot.img or am i wrong? so the update.zip contains rom and kernel... i ment the latest kernel (boot.img) flashed it via fastboot. the rom is still 20th november sun dream rom
 

yuyamin901002

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the kernel is packed to boot.img or am i wrong? so the update.zip contains rom and kernel... i ment the latest kernel (boot.img) flashed it via fastboot. the rom is still 20th november sun dream rom
:DI got what u mean,Thx~Maybe i was wrong. 4 making sure, do u mean that packing the latest boot.img into update.zip(to replace the boot inside) and install update.zip in recovery can directly update the kernel?:D
 
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Elibl

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yes that would be a possibility...
but you can also directly update the kernel without new install. just via fastboot:
-plug in usb
-reboot in bootloader or turn phone on while keeping power pressed
-put the boot.img in your fastboot folder
-type in cmd/terminal:
cd "path of boot.img or fastboot" (or simply open the command prompt by: rightclick + shift in fastboot folder -> open command prompt here, then you can skip this step)
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot

and that's it. pretty fast ;)
 
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yuyamin901002

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yes that would be a possibility...
but you can also directly update the kernel without new install. just via fastboot:
-reboot in bootloader or turn phone on while keeping power pressed
-plug in usb
-put the boot.img in your fastboot folder
-type in cmd/terminal:
cd "path of boot.img"
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot

and that's it. pretty fast ;)

u r so patient;)Thx~~
 
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ryo2456

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yep after the wipe it looks pretty good for me.

you're doing a great job zargloub!!

btw has someone the same issues with adb and usb storage not working? (adb even no notification) tried a lot different installation ways/orders but can't get them to work

yeah, the performance looks better. the voltage is 3840 mV at 95% after 7:3X:XX.
 

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    Hi, i work on kernel only, from Alexander's repository.
    You can update only the kernel whith fastboot, using boot img from archive.
    Of course, given "as it", if your phone may unlikely be damaged, i'm not responsible for it. I'm just sharing with interrested people work i do for myself.

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    February 8th 2012
    g3434d04 http://www.file-upload.net/download-4098661/update.zip.html

    This new corrects :
    * framebuffer that isn't updated after resume while there isn't external event.
    (black screen when out of suspend)
    * battery management

    Remaining to do :
    * libgps
    * Fix the Wifi indicator up in the status bar to correspond to its signal strength + wifi & BT mac adress
    * Wifi crash when connected and device suspended
    * When go to plane mode and come back from it, phone call terminate immediatly.
    * Often, data connexion need to be relaunched
    * better camera support + frontal camera
    * fat partition on sdcard at boot (but not prioritary on my mind, and might not be a kernel problem).
    * fm radio
    * Light sensor for the LCD

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    February 10th 2012
    g9aa4109 : http://www.file-upload.net/download-4103743/update.zip.html
    The same, reverting modif for volume keys :
    g3803607 : http://www.file-upload.net/download-4104515/update.zip.html
    Found battery datasheet :) : http://www.digchip.com/datasheets/parts/datasheet/280/DS2746-pdf.php
    There's a register to correct accum capacity register increase. Added support of it when battery seems full and not charging anymore.
    Found more information about the accu capacity register. So i modifyed the comportement (accum value correction) for low value.
    But not tested, battery still not low enough.
    Edit : low value accum value correction does not work at all. You should not use this version. Ill reread datasheet monday.
    Edit2: bug of shame found :-s
    unsigned char i2c_msg[3];
    i2c_msg[0] = r;
    - i2c_msg[2] = v & 0xFF;
    + i2c_msg[1] = v & 0xFF;
    i2c_master_send(pclient, i2c_msg, 2);
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    February 13th 2012
    From now, only boot.img will be sended jerrytan93 will make complete packages. You can update kernel with fastboot or use his package.
    g392f03a : http://www.file-upload.net/download-4112252/boot.img.html
    Correct previous bug.
    Add default accum bias value at startup.
    Low voltage accum correction not yet working ...
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    February 13th 2012
    gc1c1691 : http://www.file-upload.net/download-4112793/boot.img.html
    Battery : Correct bug about temperature value, fake value was read when changing ACR and Android was shutting down, and so, could update low power ACR correction.
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    February 14th 2012
    g8b7498e : http://www.file-upload.net/download-4116028/boot.img.html
    Stop using BIAS to control accum value, and modify them manually
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    February 15th 2012
    g7d2b8de : http://www.file-upload.net/download-4118062/boot.img.html
    Improve high voltage end charge detection and add near conditions
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    February 15th 2012
    ge8a16dd http://www.file-upload.net/download-4119224/boot.img.html
    Again battery management correction, and removing battery logs. I hope last version. Testing until tomorow.
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    February 20th 2012
    gb3f6c5b http://www.file-upload.net/download-4132262/boot.img.html
    Battery improvments again : better support of low voltage (and low power correspond now to 15%), prevent indicator from going lower than 15% when voltage is still correct.
    EDIT : !!!!!!! DO NOT USE !!!! After some days, problems appears. Switch back to previous ge8a16dd
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    February 28th 2012
    gf111062 http://www.file-upload.net/download-4154237/boot.img.html
    * New battery improvment : correct very high values for acr, does not go up to 100% values when plug/unplug
    * backlight : pass better values to hardware
    * From now, modules are included, so you can do modprobe, for example for nat
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    March 1st 2012
    g7b652eb http://www.file-upload.net/download-4158027/boot.img.html
    Minor updates on brightness : lower values for leds, higher maximum value for backlight
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    March 19th 2012
    g7e16eb7 http://www.file-upload.net/download-4197091/boot.img.html
    Higher maximum value for backlight, some improvements on battery managing.
    From now, packaged with neopeek's modified rootfs. Corrects bug on minimum cpu freq value and others, like netd daemon launch (interfaces android with network events ...)
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    March 22th 2012
    g21761cf http://www.file-upload.net/download-4204721/boot.img.html
    correction for battery (end charge detection and low value shutdown). I hope last modif on this driver. Seems ok now.
    wifi : correction on signal level read from chip, but android still gets bad values.
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    March 23th 2012
    gbe0fc00 http://www.file-upload.net/download-4206990/boot.img.html
    wifi : revert previous modification
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    April 4th 2012
    gc30016e http://www.file-upload.net/download-4239101/boot.img.html
    Diffs from March 19th (g7e16eb7) version :
    acr battery register management tries to make better ...
    minimum cpu freq down to 19 (actualized in boot.img-ramdisk/init.kovsky.rc too)
    prevent from keys wake up screen (when in your pocket)
    This version seems not working well, but i don't know wich commit you'll have to revert :)
    I won't work anymore on the kernel, because my battery is dead and i will buy a new phone.
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    june, 11th 2012
    g62c777c http://www.file-upload.net/download-4435319/boot.img.html
    Battery improvment with brand new one Elibl bought to me. (thanks !) :)
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    june, 11th 2012
    gc7e3fa8 http://www.file-upload.net/download-4435456/boot.img.html
    Change NAVI_SILVER_RIGHT to KEY_SEARCH
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    june, 14th 2012
    g57e5113 http://www.file-upload.net/download-4444937/boot.img.html
    low battery voltage from 3.4V to 3.5V
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    june, 19th 2012
    gfd19c03 http://www.file-upload.net/download-4459644/boot.img.html
    Add commit from CoolrunnerII : " Do not turn on auto focus vdd (kovsky_af_vdd(1)). Auto focus control doesn't work anyway. Without power the lens is in infinite focus length that give ok images at more than a meter distance."
    Not tested.
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    june, 29th 2012
    gf3ce616 http://www.file-upload.net/download-4489319/boot.img.html
    Add commit from CoolrunnerII : "fix for the lost call bug."
    Not tested.

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    Some people asked me how to rebuild boot.img. Here is a way to do.
    You should use debian whith classic dev tools packages (arm gcc, git, etc ...).
    It's easyier to make a script to make compilation and resend by fastboot.

    # Get boottools
    git clone https://github.com/AndroidRoot/BootTools.git
    cd BootTools
    make
    cd ..

    # Get and build kernel (if you want to use mine)
    git clone git://gitorious.org/~poussevin/linux-on-qualcomm-s-msm/tp-alex-linux-xperia.gi
    t -b android-2.6.35

    cd tp-alex-linux-xperia
    cp arch/arm/configs/htc_msm_android_defconfig .config
    make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- TARGET_BOARD_PLATFORM=msm7k
    make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- TARGET_BOARD_PLATFORM=msm7k modules
    rm -rf modules_path
    mkdir modules_path
    make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- TARGET_BOARD_PLATFORM=msm7k INSTALL_MOD_PATH=modules_path modules_install
    cd ..

    # Recreate bootdir
    rm -rf newboot
    mkdir newboot
    cd newboot/

    # Unpack original boot.img
    export PATH=../BootTools/:$PATH
    cp ../boot.img .
    ../BootTools/unpack-bootimg.sh boot.img
    rm -rf boot.img-ramdisk/lib

    # Replace image
    cp ../tp-alex-linux-xperia/arch/arm/boot/zImage boot.img-kernel

    # Change minimum cpu freq
    sed -i 's/min_freq 122880/min_freq 19200/g' boot.img-ramdisk/init.kovsky.rc

    # Add modules
    cp -rf ../tp-alex-linux-xperia/modules_path/* boot.img-ramdisk

    # Rebuild boot.img
    rm boot.img-ramdisk.cpio.gz
    cd boot.img-ramdisk
    find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip > ../boot.img-ramdisk.cpio.gz
    cd ..
    mkbootimg --cmdline "fbcon=rotate:2 smd_rpcrouter.hot_boot=1 no_console_suspend" --kernel boot.img-kernel --ramdisk boot.img-ramdisk.cpio.gz -o boot_new.img
    cp boot_new.img ../boot.img
    cd ..
    rm -rf newboot
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    Hi, thank all for your proposals, Elibl said he send me one.
    I didn't realied so many people were using this kernel.
    So i have a wonderfull phone for everyday (Defy+ is a good choice), and when i'll have an alive battery and some time i'll continue to work on the kernel.
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    For now battery is still near the x1 on my desk. I got it back from my daugther,
    Lot of work this month, but i'll have a look as soon as i'll have some free time. Don't worry :)
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    I think I finally have gotten somewhere with the battery drain. Alex had written some code to turn of power to the LCD-panel, but he had put a "return;" in front of it. I removed it and Voilá: Lower battery drain :D

    You do get some artifacts on the screen when going out of suspend. I think this is just an annoyance, but I have just tested it since last night.

    I just uploaded a boot.img file.
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    The percentage is calculated from Volt readings and not storage capacity (mAh) :)

    It's a bit more complicated.
    There's an internal register in the battery, that increase or decrease, managed by battery chip.
    We can correct values, when we estimate it's not good, in the driver (for example, if you don't do anything, the register grows while it's pluged, even if charge finished).
    We estimate in the driver the "full" value of this register, and calculate ratio with it.