Development [Kernel][04.08.2023][Android 13] Kirisakura 1.0.1 for Asus ROG Phone 5 aka "Anakin"

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Sorry for the inconvenience, I have a Rogphone 5 16/256 with Bootloader unlocked only, I have read the instructions but I have not understood some things well: I have the stock firmware with Bootloader unlocked, I just need to install the twrp, root and kernel and enough? Do you need to do some wipes? Thank you so much to those who will help me.
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if you already own ex kernel manager or franco kernel manager app, you can use those to flash the kernel.zip. then there´s no need for installing twrp.

you don´t need to do any wipes. just follow the instructions in the first post.
make sure your phone is rooted, before flashing the kernel.
 
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if you already own ex kernel manager or franco kernel manager app, you can use those to flash the kernel.zip. then there´s no need for installing twrp.

you don´t need to do any wipes. just follow the instructions in the first post.
make sure your phone is rooted, before flashing the kernel.
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thank you very much x the answer I appreciate it very much, it is very noticeable that you are a dev. very attentive to our needs and quick in lending a hand to the end user, one last thing but this kernel was also born to set up and improve Rogphone 5 in the various aspects where a kernel can intervene?
 
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thank you very much x the answer I appreciate it very much, it is very noticeable that you are a dev. very attentive to our needs and quick in lending a hand to the end user, one last thing but this kernel was also born to set up and improve Rogphone 5 in the various aspects where a kernel can intervene?
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Read the first post for features and aspects of the kernel. It's pretty detailed already.
There are a lot of links and for the rest Google is your friend.
 
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Read the first post for features and aspects of the kernel. It's pretty detailed already.
There are a lot of links and for the rest Google is your friend.
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Installation complete, thanks advanced!
 
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Installed it one hour ago and "lost" the ability to control my rear touches with my Ultimate. At least my rear display still works. The option to set/change/enable them completely disappeared everywhere.
Is there a way to enable it for you without having the device? For now I could live without it but it would be cool to use them again in some time.

Unfortunately as already said no real change in Bluetooth audio game latency but the phone is generally a little bit hotter. At least it never went above 35°C before in the games I play mostly, not it reaches that level after a few minutes and surpasses it. 😅

However it feels a little bit more smooth 😎👍
 
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Installed it one hour ago and "lost" the ability to control my rear touches with my Ultimate. At least my rear display still works. The option to set/change/enable them completely disappeared everywhere.
Is there a way to enable it for you without having the device? For now I could live without it but it would be cool to use them again in some time.

Unfortunately as already said no real change in Bluetooth audio game latency but the phone is generally a little bit hotter. At least it never went above 35°C before in the games I play mostly, not it reaches that level after a few minutes and surpasses it. 😅

However it feels a little bit more smooth 😎👍
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might just be something else in the background. temps are about the same for me.

oh no, I was afraid of something like that. you´re rooted like in requirements mentioned?
can you go to terminal, type "su", grant permission, then when the beginning is a "#" type "lsmod" and paste the output here?

unfortunately I really lack the time at the moment to do longer remote debugging sessions. if you know how to take logs, logcat and dmesg, play with the rear zones on stock kernel and see if you see some lines when enabling, disabling the zones. That might be helpful. Then upload the logs here and point me to those lines.
 
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You were totally right about the temperature.. It went down to normal now.

Yes I had/have root access before and now.

Code: 
$ su
:/data/data/com.termux/files/home # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
:/data/data/com.termux/files/home #
I'll see what I can do about the logs. Never did that. I'll play around when I have time and come back.

Is there any particular order in which I have to flash boot.img, vendor_boot.img and dtbo.img
 
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You were totally right about the temperature.. It went down to normal now.

Yes I had/have root access before and now.

Code: 
$ su
:/data/data/com.termux/files/home # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
:/data/data/com.termux/files/home #
I'll see what I can do about the logs. Never did that. I'll play around when I have time and come back.

Is there any particular order in which I have to flash boot.img, vendor_boot.img and dtbo.img
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Did you flash TWRP?

Can you run those two commands before flashing stock kernel and trying to get logs? They need su access.
insmod/vendor/lib/modules/focaltech_fts_rog2.ko

insmod /vendor/lib/modules/sx932x_2nd.ko

Afterwards try lsmod again and see if they are loaded. Maybe check for the touch sensitive zones again.
 
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Anubarak16 said:
You were totally right about the temperature.. It went down to normal now.

Yes I had/have root access before and now.

Code: 
$ su
:/data/data/com.termux/files/home # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
:/data/data/com.termux/files/home #
I'll see what I can do about the logs. Never did that. I'll play around when I have time and come back.

Is there any particular order in which I have to flash boot.img, vendor_boot.img and dtbo.img
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Reinstall the kernel zip from the system side and it will fix itself.
 
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Did you flash TWRP?

Can you run those two commands before flashing stock kernel and trying to get logs? They need su access.
insmod/vendor/lib/modules/focaltech_fts_rog2.ko

insmod /vendor/lib/modules/sx932x_2nd.ko

Afterwards try lsmod again and see if they are loaded. Maybe check for the touch sensitive zones again.
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I didn't Flash twrp - I'm still a bit unsure what to do in which order to keep root + kernel + twrp 😅

Until I'm 100% sure I'll boot into it via fastboot each time.

I'll try that in the next ~12 hours (it's night time for me now) I read about how to take those logs and I'm sure I can provide all the required information now.

The only thing I need to know is where to get the original kernel from.
Not sure if I need to unzip my WW firmware from the Asus site and just copy those files or if I need to follow the instructions from https://xdaforums.com/t/vendor_-boot-images-root-stock.4325939/
 
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I didn't Flash twrp - I'm still a bit unsure what to do in which order to keep root + kernel + twrp 😅

Until I'm 100% sure I'll boot into it via fastboot each time.

I'll try that in the next ~12 hours (it's night time for me now) I read about how to take those logs and I'm sure I can provide all the required information now.

The only thing I need to know is where to get the original kernel from.
Not sure if I need to unzip my WW firmware from the Asus site and just copy those files or if I need to follow the instructions from https://xdaforums.com/t/vendor_-boot-images-root-stock.4325939/
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Have a copy of Magisk apk, the kernel zip from this thread, and the twrp image on your sdcard.
Boot TWRP and do Advanced -> Flash current TWRP
Install Magisk through TWRP
Reboot to system
Install the kernel zip

You'll have all three installed and running
 
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Deleted... Typed too slow. Your answer was already there
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hey, I just discovered that flashing the kernel.zip via TWRP is not working correctly at the moment.
The helper magisk module that´s supposed to replace two of the kernel modules is not getting installed correctly if TWRP is used.

Do you own EXKM or FKM app? If so can you please try flashing the kernel.zip via either of those apps?

If not I create you a separate zip, that should make it work in TWRP.
 
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I don't own them but I could buy the cheaper one if that saves you some work. But I still don't know where the stock kernel.zip is. Is it the kernel-source.tar.gz file from here https://www.asus.com/supportonly/ROG Phone 5 (ZS673KS)/HelpDesk_Download/ below the source code region?
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there is no stock kernel.zip.
you need to extract boot.img, vendor_boot.img and dtbo.img from the payload.bin inside the full firmware zip available on asus support site.
Flash all those three .imgs via fastboot and you´re back to stock. If you want to stay rooted patch boot.img via magisk-manager prior to flashing it via fastboot.
You can extract them with this tool for example:


attached is a more recent build of the kernel alongside a magisk module.

To try them, boot to TWRP, first flash the kernel.zip and directly afterwards the DLKM zip. Reboot.
After reboot go to terminal and do the lsmod command again and show me the output please :)
 

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there is no stock kernel.zip.
you need to extract boot.img, vendor_boot.img and dtbo.img from the payload.bin inside the full firmware zip available on asus support site.
Flash all those three .imgs via fastboot and you´re back to stock. If you want to stay rooted patch boot.img via magisk-manager prior to flashing it via fastboot.
You can extract them with this tool for example:
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I do that for every firmware, along with posting the magisk patched boot images. The DTBO has never need to be reverted, but I can throw that in the ones posted and start including it.

The direct link to the folder if you want to skip the thread

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I do that for every firmware, along with posting the magisk patched boot images. The DTBO has never need to be reverted, but I can throw that in the ones posted and start including it.
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I know, I saw your thread and it's nice that you do this.
But I think it's also important that users learn to do that by themselves if needed. Especially if they choose to modify their phones, they should know how to revert it without too much help from outside. And it's mentioned in my OP :)

My kernel flashes a modified dtbo.img, so the three images I mentioned need to be restored if one wants to go back to stock completely.
So I think people would appreciate if you start adding dtbo.img to your thread too :)
 
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    Kirisakura-Kernel for the ROG Phone 5

    Hello everyone,

    To keep it short: Here is Kirisakura - Kernel for the Asus ROG Phone 5 aka Anakin. The ROG Phone line-up internal codenames are traditionally derived from Yedi-Characters of the Star Wars universe. Three years ago the 1st gen ROG Phone bore the generic title "Yedi", the ROG Phone 2 was codenamed "Yoda" and the Rog Phone 3 bore the title "Obiwan".
    I would appreciate if everybody that flashes the kernel, reads at least once through this opening post and the following ones.

    Kirisakura - Kernel is designed to bring a handful of beneficial features to the device, while ensuring excellent performance and smoothness to get you safely through the day!
    If you expect a custom kernel to magically improve your devices battery life manifold and this is your only priority then this might not be the right place for you.
    However the kernel is built to keep battery life close to the same as you would experience the on stock kernel while being tuned to perform better in various UI related benchmarks. The same benches are used by google to verify and ensure UI smoothness on the Pixel devices. The scheduler is tuned to yield lower jitter and reduce jank frames.
    There´s also a cpu-battery saver mode that cuts back the CPU max- freqs, but without the disadvantages like delayed notifications from built into the system user-space power-saving modes.
    If that got your curious, I welcome you to continue reading if you´re still interested!


    This project aims to keep most of the subsystems updated, way ahead of the stock kernel, thereby improving security and performance, while keeping stability as the foucs during testing! This includes Linux-Stable, CAF-Upstream and kernel/common.


    A very positive development. Google pushed for CFI and SCS to be enabled by default in the android-common kernel. In this years generation ( 5.4 linux kernel base/ SD 888 ) CFI and SCS are enabled by default. It was a lot of work to get these features working nicely on the kernels I did develop on for the past few year. So it´s nice to see this is now there by default in everybody can profit from it.
    I put the explanations and links in hide tags here.

    Kernel Control Flow Integrity (Kernel-CFI), which is achieved by linking the kernel with LLD and Link Time Optimization (LTO), more precisely ThinLTO, are quite unique security features.
    The recently released Kirisakura-Kernel for the OnePlus 8 Pro was featured on the XDA-Portal due to the inclusion of CFI. The featured article explains CFI in great details, is easy to understand and definitely worth to read.
    If possible the latest Kirisakura-Kernel releases for various devices aim to include CFI in enforcing mode so users can benefit from this security features.

    Another security feature is Shadow Call Stack (SCS).
    SCS is another security patchset that is aimed at preventing attacks via return oriented programming (ROP).
    ROP is a technique where the attacker gains control of the kernel stack to overwrite function return addresses and redirect execution to carefully selected parts of existing kernel code.
    If you´re interested here are a few good links:
    Google Security Blog explaining SCS.
    LLVM doc about SCS
    Android DOCs documenting SCS

    If reading about linux or caf/qcom upstream in the paragraph above got you curious, have a read about Linux-Stable and why it is important here. The stable-process is not the same for every subsystem, but the general idea, rule of thumb and benefits are applicable for other subsystems as well.
    Read more about the Release-Model following this link.
    This conversation on the LKML mailing list also shows the power of Linux-Stable and why it´s very beneficial to not just say it´s not worth and a potentiol source for bugs:
    Starting with the Initial Message , the following reply and a good summarizing statement.


    Quick explanation of CAF-Upstream. CAF is short for Codeaurora-Forums. This is the place where development from Qualcomm for their SoCs happens. This includes the Snapdragon 888 that´s built into the different SKUs of the ROG Phone 5.
    The kernel-bases available on the Codeaurora-Forums, are basically the foundations OEMs use, to build their own kernel additions on top for devices featuring Qualcomm SoCs.
    The Qualcomm developers push regular updates to the bases of the different SoCs, a bit similar to how Linux-Upstream works. OEMs usually stop updating the initial base after the phone is released.
    This kernel focuses amongst the other features to provide the latest CAF-Updates merged in a regular manner, to provide updates, improvements and enhancements for SoC specific drivers and subsystems! This might take a while, because a lot of device specific testing is done on my end to ensure stability.

    The kernel includes a lot of improvements and contributions from other developers as well. Without this kernel would not exist.
    A big part of improvements originate from @arter97´s, @kdrag0n´s and @Sultanxda´s work. Many others contributed in some way or another to this kernel.
    A big thanks to all of them at this place!

    Now lets continue with a list of features in the next paragraph!


    Main Features:
    - Based on latest kernel sources from Asus for Android 12 and intended to be used on the latest Asus Stock-Firmware (currently 31.0810.1226.139)
    - compiled with Clang 14.0.7 and built with -O3 speed optimizations
    - Linux-Stable-Upstream included to 5.4.251
    - upstreamed CAF base for the Snapdragon 888 (qcoms internal codename "lahaina")
    - on max fan setting, use max rpm allowed by the driver
    - improve powerhal to reduce stutters during animations and scrolling (e.g. scrolling main feed in twitter)
    - include important fixes/improvements from kernel/common
    - tune scheduler for improved jitter and less jank frames
    - reduce power consumption during deep sleep
    - remove logging while device is suspended
    - remove sleep debugging from Asus for release build
    - disable various debugging mechanisms for drivers which are not needed on a perf build (for example touchscreen, fingerprint reader, display, binder)
    - disable various debugging configs, that are not needed in a perf kernel build according to google.
    - disable selinux auditing (we don´t have to adress selinux denials running a stock rom)
    - display tweaks to reduce power consumption on statically rendered images
    - disable unnecessary CPU errata for our specific SoC
    - disable per cgroup pressure tracking to reduce overhead
    - free up RAM by removing reserved mem regions used only for debugging
    - implement LRNG (thanks @arter97, see arter kernel OP for more info )
    - Flashing the kernel will keep root!
    - Flashable via EXKM, FKM or TWRP (if available) on a rooted system!
    - Anykernel zip is based on the Anykernel3 release from @osm0sis


    EAS related features:
    - Implement dynamic WALT-Window size depending on current FPS, collecting information about CPU-Load to provide more precise information for the scheduler
    - EAS implementation patched up to latest CAF state
    - updates from kernel/common
    - scheduler updates from sd888/ 5.4 kernel
    - scheduler updates from sony xperia 1 III kernel aiming to improve WALT

    CPU related features:
    - Power saving workingqueues enabled by default (toggleable in EXKM)
    - Change various drivers (WLAN, MM, audio, charger, power, thermal, glink etc) to use power efficient workingqueues. This compliments EAS in general
    - improvements to cpufreq/times/stats
    - vdso32 patches as found on Google Pixel devices (brief documentation here) (CAF 5.4 default, keep for documentation)
    - remove event debug logging
    - disable broken irq detection, disable debugmon
    - improve suspend/resume from audio driver (caf-upstream for audio-kernel)
    - cpuidle: wake only cpus for which qos has changed (this allows cores to keep idle states better)
    - disable debugging during sleep states as per qcom recommendation
    - remove RTB logging to reduce overhead
    - disable trace_printk as it shouldn´t be used on production/perf kernel builds
    - disable edac and coresight (following google on the pixel kernels)
    - disable jtagv8 debugging as recommended by qcom for perf builds to avoid potential power, performance and memory penalty
    - disable s2idle in favor of deep idle state -> improves deep sleep drain (google initially used 2idle for improved suspend/resume latency on pixel 3 and pixel 4, but disabled it on pixel 5. qcom followed suit for sd 888, but apparently didn´t see google reverting it on pixel 5. Other OEMs such as Xiaomi or OnePlus already disabled s2idle on their SD888 devices in favor of deep- read more about s2idle vs deep here)
    - raise LTO-inlining -> more info
    - improvements to RCU subsystem -> more efficient


    GPU related features:
    - GPU driver updated to latest CAF-State
    - gpu/kgsl improvements from pixel 4/pixel 5 kernel
    - add low_prio_worker thread for gpu driver (Improves performance when tearing down processes (eg, via LMK) and not blocking currently running UI from submitting work to the GPU
    - remove POPP functionality from GPU driver to avoid constant fight about downscaling with msm-adreno-tz
    - increase gpu worker thread priority
    - don´t wait for fenced GMU writes

    File System related features:
    - upstream BFQ-MQ to latest state in linux-mainline and default to 128KB readahead
    - improve memory allocations in kernfs
    - ufs improvements from pixel 4/ pixel 5 kernel
    - improve GC as to not interfere while user interaction is happening and prevent possible jitter or latency spikes
    - improvements to deep sleep power consumption (ufs driver, auto hibernate)

    Audio related features:
    - provide option to override audio profile based on impedance measurement (run 16ohm headphones in 64ohm mode, dangerous use with caution!)
    ----> more information/explanation how to control the feature linked here

    Display related features:
    - Backlight Dimmer (reduce minimal brightness below stock limit)

    Network related features:
    - Wireguard Support (Details)
    - advanced TCP algorithms enabled
    - use bbr as default TCP congestion algorithm (fasted algo according to this excellent research from @kdrag0n found here )
    - improved networking drivers from caf-upstream (especially wifi)
    - remove unnecessary wakelock from WLAN driver to reduce thousands of very short wakeups during a 7 hour deep sleep period
    - improved bluetooth performance (¹, ²)
    - Enable support for TTL spoofing

    Memory related features:
    - Speculative Page Faults left enabled (1. 2) (CAF 5.4 default, keep for documentation)
    - Fix various memory leaks in different subsystems
    - improved mm with patches from mainline
    - patches from kernel/common
    - improve memory allocations in various subsystems, video encode/decode, kernfs, cgroup
    - Backport to enable CONFIG_HAVE_MOVE_PMD (see here) , thanks @arter97
    - Backport to enable CONFIG_HAVE_MOVE_PUD (commit here) , thanks @arter97
    - free more RAM by removing unused reserved memory regions
    - mm: Micro-optimize PID map reads for arm64 (improves game performance, especially unity based games such as genshin impact)

    Security related features:
    - Control-Flow-Integration (CFI) and Link-Time-Optimization (LTO) (CAF 5.4 default, keep for documentation)
    - Use ThinLTO which was first used in the Pixel 4 XL Android R-Kernel instead of full LTO (CAF 5.4 default, keep for documentation)
    - Shadow Call Stack (SCS) Security-Feature ( 5.4 default, keep for documentation)
    - enable init_on_alloc for even more security, more information can be found in the commit message (CAF 5.4 default, keep for documentation)


    Misc Features:

    Wakelock Blocker:
    - advanced wakelock blocker with the ability to block any wakelocks (dangerous, use with caution)
    - please read [URL="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/p-is-for-power-how-google-tests-tracks-and-improves-android-battery-life/"]this for further info
    - blocking a kernel wakelock should only be done in case of firmware incompatabilities (WiFi network at work (can´t be changed) causes deep sleep to not work on the phone.) That´s the only use case I see for this feature. The kernel does not features this to improve battery life!

    Other features:
    - clean up asus drivers and fix a few warnings in kernel log
    - disable logging and debugging to make the kernel more lightweight in various places (includes binder, mm, vma, gpu, ipa etc)
    - fix several coding issues detected by newer Clang-Toolchains
    - enlarge dmesg size to ease debugging


    Flashing Guide, Download and Changelog

    Requirements:
    - unlocked Bootloader (this will void warranty and kill future OTA updates on all asus phones at the moment)
    - USB-Debugging in developer options enabled
    - latest adb and fastboot binaries
    - working adb and fastboot environment
    - magisk root
    - a backup of stock boot.img, vendor_boot.img and dtbo.img so you can go back to stock conditions (simplest way is TWRP or to extract from stock firmware)

    How to flash the Kernel:
    1. Download the latest kernel.zip and make sure you have properly updated to the latest matching Asus Stock-Firmware (check the feature list for the current firmware the source is based on). When the ROG Phone 5 receives an OTA update it takes Asus a while to release the source code for the new OS and me a while to build a new kernel. If you don´t want to face any issues, wait until I either release an updated kernel or give green light because there were no kernel changes.
    Always make sure to run the firmware the kernel is built for!
    If you feel adventurous and try in advance, make sure you have a backup ready!

    2. Flash the kernel.zip via latest TWRP (if available), EXKM or FKM app and do a full reboot.
    2a. Important: If flashing the kernel via TWRP, flash the DLKM magisk module found in the download folder that matches the kernel version.

    3. Reboot and profit.


    DOWNLOAD:
    Download is located always in this folder:

    Important: Read after Download
    Please take a look at the second post after flashing the kernel!

    Changelog:
    Android 11
    1.0.0 Initial Release
    1.1.0 https://xdaforums.com/t/kernel-14-0...-rog-phone-5-aka-anakin.4333363/post-85637825
    1.2.0 https://xdaforums.com/t/kernel-15-0...-rog-phone-5-aka-anakin.4333363/post-85709075
    1.4.0 https://xdaforums.com/t/kernel-30-0...-rog-phone-5-aka-anakin.4333363/post-85998687
    1.4.1 https://xdaforums.com/t/kernel-25-1...-rog-phone-5-aka-anakin.4333363/post-86184801

    Android 12
    2.0.0 https://xdaforums.com/t/kernel-01-0...-rog-phone-5-aka-anakin.4333363/post-86856155
    2.0.9 https://xdaforums.com/t/kernel-07-0...-rog-phone-5-aka-anakin.4333363/post-87049319
    2.2.0 https://xdaforums.com/t/kernel-20-0...-rog-phone-5-aka-anakin.4333363/post-87945265
    2.3.0 https://xdaforums.com/t/kernel-04-0...-rog-phone-5-aka-anakin.4333363/post-88250925

    Android 13
    1.0.0 https://xdaforums.com/t/kernel-07-0...-rog-phone-5-aka-anakin.4333363/post-88583063
    1.0.1 https://xdaforums.com/t/kernel-28-0...-rog-phone-5-aka-anakin.4333363/post-88832793

    Donations:
    Donations are not mandatory but very welcome if you want to support development or just buy me a coffee/tea :)
    If you like my work: http://paypal.me/freak07

    Credits:
    Asus for the development device, giving me the opportunity to create this project!
    @osm0sis for all his work, including the ak3 installer!
    @tbalden for being the best HTC, Pixel, OnePlus and now Asus wingman!
    @LeeDroid and @mwilky for their awesome roms and work I used on multiple devices!
    @Captain_Throwback for all the mentoring and guidance!
    @Eliminater74 for bringing me into the game and the Inspiration
    @nathanchance for his upstream guidance and assistance
    @RenderBroken for helping me out
    @flar2 for all his work
    @joshuous for all the help he provided to me in the past!
    @arter97 for giving me advice
    @kdrag0n for his help and advices!
    @topjohnwu for magisk!


    Source Code: https://github.com/freak07/Kirisakura_ANAKIN_ROG5
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    Update to T_1.0.0

    Hey guys and girls,

    Alright so here´s the next update. :)
    Entire kernel was rebased and build from scratch to add A13 support. All previous features and improvements are added back. That means this build is only for A13!

    After flashing the kernel.zip there will be a magisk module in magisk manager called AK3 Helper Module. Do not delete it.

    The link to the latest WW firmware can be found following this link.


    More changes in the Changelog below:


    Changelog:
    - Update kernel source with WW-33.0210.0210.200
    - bump kernel base to latest linux-stable and qcom
    - add improvements to RCU, which makes this code more efficient and reduces energy consumption a tiny bit
    - rework powerhal -> less frame drops, smoother animations
    - other improvements and tweaks please check github

    Androidfilehost is currently broken. Zip is attached to this post!



    Instructions can be found in the OP!
    But look at this post too :)

    Have fun, enjoy the kernel and your phone.

    Donations are not mandatory but very welcome.
    If you like my work and want to buy me a coffee/green tea to keep development going: http://paypal.me/freak07
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    Update to 1.1.0

    Hey guys and girls,

    I hope everyone is having a good day or starting into one. Here´s the next update.
    I forgot to include wireguard in the release. That´s now added.

    Since we´re not building a QGKI kernel, but rather a standalone kernel an important config that feeds information to the powerhal daemon didn´t get fully built, since the QGKI dependency wasn´t met. This resulted in lags in games like NieR.

    Also fix certain games like 7DS (com.netmarble.nanagb) crashing frequently on startup.

    thanks to @twistedumbrella for reporting the bugs and noticing wireguard missing.


    More changes in the Changelog below:


    Changelog:
    - add wireguard
    - enable qgki part of msm_performance to fix lags in certain games
    - fix some games ( for example 7DS (com.netmarble.nanagb)) frequently crashing during startup




    Download:



    Instructions can be found in the OP!
    But look at this post too :)

    Have fun, enjoy the kernel and your phone.

    Donations are not mandatory but very welcome.
    If you like my work and want to buy me a coffee/green tea to keep development going: http://paypal.me/freak07
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    F.A.Q:

    Question:     Is root preserved when flashing this kernel?
    Answer: Yes, the AnyKernel.zip will detect root and keep it.

    Question: Safetynet does not pass on my phone since I unlocked the phone, why is this so?
    Answer: Google introduced hardware backed attestation recently. Unfortunately the old kernel tricks to still get safetynet passing won´t work. Instead you will have to rely on some magisk modules. Short guide in post #4 below.

    Question: How do I return back to stock or another kernel.
    Answer: Extract boot.img, vendor_boot.img as well as dtbo.img from matching firmware you are on (you can do so by using this tool or similar ones found on XDA and when googling around) and flash them via fastboot. If you want to keep root flash back the magisk_patched_boot.img. Or dirty flash your rom and re-root.

    Question: Why is having Magisk installed mandatory for this kernel?
    Answer: The kernel uses a ramdisk overlay to apply some settings after boot. If you are not rooted these settings will not get applied and you miss some of the optimizations.

    Question: How to report bugs properly?
    Answer: Have a look at post #3 in the linked thread. The linked guide is a pretty good starting point.
    Before reporting any bug make sure you´re running on a stock configuration. That´s means you´re not using any mods, tweaks in kernel managers or other root tweaks , magisk modules, scripts or other modifications that alter various functions like sound mods, data traffic, sleeping behaviour, scheduler, magical battery tweaks etc.
    Try to describe the issue as detailed as possible! Give your exact setup, like rom, magisk version, kernel version.
    Is the issue reproducible? Does it happen frequently?
    Provide logs, otherwise debugging is a lot harder. If you can already reproduce the issue and provide logs it greatly limits the amount of time I have to spent until I figure out how to reproduce it.

    If the device force reboots/randomly reboots (that means you see the bootloader unlocked screen!) provide a .zip of /asdf.
    Easiest way is immediately after booting up, with a root explorer navigate to /asdf. Copy the contents to your internal storage, zip it up and send it to me.

    If the issue happens while the device is running provide a dmesg plus a logcat that you take while/shortly after the issue happens. This will log what´s running in the current session. Try to be as detailed as possible what´s happening when the issue appears. It will also help me in reading the log!
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    twistedumbrella said:
    I was trying to give you a pass, but I can take it back if you didn't want it lol. Pretty sure I know which config you are talking about. I had wondered why it wasn't enabled, so that explains it.

    The ROG Phone 5 is super finicky. It doesn't help that they released two (or three, depending where you're from) models and then immediately pushed out a second series with two more. All of them have slightly different hardware that Asus is trying to keep on a single code base.



    NieR Re[in]carnation - Apps on Google Play

    All Prayers Lead to The Cage
    play.google.com play.google.com
    has a bunch of tactile (effect) UI components that make it easy to pick out the lag.
    Click to expand...
    Click to collapse

    I pushed my source :) I took the pass don´t worry. :)

    CONFIG_MSM_PERFORMANCE_QGKI needs to be explicitly enabled.
    For some reason when extracting the defconfig from boot.img or from /proc/config.gz and using that to build the kernel it doesn´t get enabled.
    It seems there´s a lot for me to be learned about CAFs QGKI build "system". There might be more surprises.

    Yes, the ROGs are super finicky I completely agree.


    I´ll check the game and bluetooth on my end. thanks :)
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