[KERNEL] ElementalX-N5X

[user822]

Question about hotplugging: Is it really intentionally disabled.
Manually disabling a single core in Kernel Adiutor works just fine, why are they kept on all the time?

 

[flar2]

Question about hotplugging: Is it really intentionally disabled.
Manually disabling a single core in Kernel Adiutor works just fine, why are they kept on all the time?

Hotplugging is unnecessary from a power saving perspective. The cores don't need to be offline to go onto a low power state.

But the big.little architecture depends on extremely low latency. Hotplugging just slows things down with no benefit.

Offlining cores with KA will only be temporary, eventually the thermal daemon or something else in the system will put those cores back online. Just like with hexacore mode in my app.

 

[akil3x]

Hello guys, can someone tell me what the difference between normal elementalX kernel and the new version EAS ? Thanks in advance

 

[AquilaDroid]

EAS has an experimental governor named Sched, which some users seem to like. If you search this thread for "EAS" you'll see their comments.

 

[bobby janow]

I have no idea what's going on with he reboots. Enough people have reported them that I have investigated, but I've come up with nothing. And as I've mentioned, my wife's 5x is running completely stable. She ran for 20 days straight without restarting the phone.

Other than Google's changes, I haven't made any changes to the kernel for quite some time and everything was definitely stable up until March. I suspect something with the March update caused a problem, but only for some people. Not sure if it's hardware, software, kernel or system.

It's not happening on April update so you might want to take credit for it. Just sayin'.

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[pbailey212]

I have no idea what's going on with he reboots. Enough people have reported them that I have investigated, but I've come up with nothing. And as I've mentioned, my wife's 5x is running completely stable. She ran for 20 days straight without restarting the phone.

Other than Google's changes, I haven't made any changes to the kernel for quite some time and everything was definitely stable up until March. I suspect something with the March update caused a problem, but only for some people. Not sure if it's hardware, software, kernel or system.

It seems most of the reboots have been on PA, it might have been ROM related, but the April update seems to have helped

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[joetheshmo]

It's not happening on April update so you might want to take credit for it. Just sayin'.

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What? On April update as in the ex update or the ROM update as in stock April update?

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[bobby janow]

What? On April update as in the ex update or the ROM update as in stock April update?

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Stock. And everything that stems from it. There was a problem with March. It's been fixed it seems.

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[LiquidPlacidity]

I have no idea what's going on with he reboots. Enough people have reported them that I have investigated, but I've come up with nothing. And as I've mentioned, my wife's 5x is running completely stable. She ran for 20 days straight without restarting the phone.

Other than Google's changes, I haven't made any changes to the kernel for quite some time and everything was definitely stable up until March. I suspect something with the March update caused a problem, but only for some people. Not sure if it's hardware, software, kernel or system.

I've had no issues at all with your kernel. Been on stock for quite a while. Switched over to pure nexus about a week ago. I'm not having any issues these people are having. Maybe they're flashing over an already custom kernel? I backed up stock on mine and restore boot.IMG each time I flash a new ROM/kernel.

Great work though. Definitely my favorite

 

[suku_patel_22]

@flar2 Is it feasible implement " Double tap to show ambient display"?

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[bobby janow]

I've had no issues at all with your kernel. Been on stock for quite a while. Switched over to pure nexus about a week ago. I'm not having any issues these people are having. Maybe they're flashing over an already custom kernel? I backed up stock on mine and restore boot.IMG each time I flash a new ROM/kernel.

Great work though. Definitely my favorite

Nope. Stock rom, stock kernel.. random reboot. Stock rom, 1.11.. random reboot, PN stock kernel and 1.11 random reboot. Now it didn't happen often but it happened perhaps once or twice a week or maybe more. But on the April update I've not had a single reboot no matter the rom, kernel or activity. Flar's wife didn't have reboots on the March update either so it's probably something in the chipset that make it bonkers? I have no idea but I certainly agree, great kernel.

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@flar2 Is it feasible implement " Double tap to show ambient display"?

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Wouldn't that be similar to double tap to wake in terms of battery drain?

 

[suku_patel_22]

Wouldn't that be similar to double tap to wake in terms of battery drain?

I am assuming that bringing up ambient display would be less battery consuming than waking the phone up.

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[joetheshmo]

I am assuming that bringing up ambient display would be less battery consuming than waking the phone up.

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It would still require you to power the screen to be waiting for input.

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[flar2]

@flar2 Is it feasible implement " Double tap to show ambient display"?

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It would still have the same drain as regular doubletap. The other problem is that ambient display is handled outside the kernel. I think you would have to hack the sensor library, which is a closed binary, to modify it.

 

[suku_patel_22]

What does wake function timeout do? When does it disable the wake gesture?

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[bobby janow]

What does wake function timeout do? When does it disable the wake gesture?

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I'll take a stab at it. I believe the timeout is when no further input will be detected. The shorter the time period, the less battery drain. There is also an option, at least the last time I looked at it, the if you turn off the screen via the power button the dt2w function is disabled immediately.

 

[flar2]

What does wake function timeout do? When does it disable the wake gesture?

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It disables the wake gestures X number of minutes after you turn off the screen.

 

[The1nonly1]

Will the installation wipe data from my device?

 

[joetheshmo]

Will the installation wipe data from my device?

Nope

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[bbgun7]

ElementalX Kernel
for Nexus 5X (bullhead)

ElementalX is like the stock kernel by default, but allows you to change almost anything you want.

ElementalX is designed for maximum stability. It is made for people who depend on their phone every day.

ElementalX is simple and clean. It does not have useless kernel patches or make dangerous or experimental changes to your phone that cause weird or inexplicable problems.

ElementalX has useful and well-tested features that make your phone better.


Features

• Easy installation and setup with Aroma installer
• Overclock or underclock CPU
• Advanced color control
• Wake gestures
• Camera launch gesture
• Sweep2sleep
• Sound control
• Touchboost option
• Thermal control
• MultiROM support
• Backlight dimmer option
• NTFS r/w and exFAT support
• Option to disable fsync
• Vibration control
• Does not force encryption
• Does not modify system partition
• Compatible with systemless root
  

Installation

1. Flash in recovery

For maximum compatibility with all ROMs, ElementalX uses your existing ramdisk.
Do NOT flash this over other custom kernels!
You should only flash ElementalX over the kernel that came with your ROM!!!



Download

Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow)
ElementalX-N5X-1.12

EAS version (experimental)
ElementalX-N5X-1.12-eas




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Source code
https://github.com/flar2/bullhead




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XDA:DevDB Information
ElementalX-N5X, Kernel for the LG Nexus 5X

Contributors
flar2
Source Code: https://github.com/flar2/bullhead

Kernel Special Features:

Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 1.12
Stable Release Date: 2016-04-05

Created 2015-11-04
Last Updated 2016-04-05

Does the latest version have the new bfq i/o scheduler?