[KERNEL][UV][CWM] Entropy's Daily Driver-GB, 03/07/2012 (Small Fixes))

[Entropy512]

Is this a common issue that we're supposed to be having? Sleep of deaths? I haven't gotten any since I started using your kernel.

Not unless you use SetCPU to set a screen-off profile with a frequency limit below 800 MHz. Based on discussions with netarchy, our CPUs like to idle at 800 MHz, and if the CPU policy maximum is set below this, bad things can happen when the CPU tries to sleep.

I believe the above issue is why SetCPU gets such a bad rep with the Samsung owner crowd - Xan's Voltage Control doesn't let you set screen-off profiles.

 

[shishir95]

Daaamn. I don't know whether to be impressed or concerned for battery life? I set it back to on-demand, the half-second lag between me clicking something and something happening was driving me crazy.

The battery life has been much better now though, if you can fix the conservative mode's lag then that would be great.


offtopic:
I got a radio app to install and run for our phones and when it was scanning for channels, the phone crashed.

 

[Entropy512]

Daaamn. I don't know whether to be impressed or concerned for battery life? I set it back to on-demand, the half-second lag between me clicking something and something happening was driving me crazy.

The battery life has been much better now though, if you can fix the conservative mode's lag then that would be great.


offtopic:
I got a radio app to install and run for our phones and when it was scanning for channels, the phone crashed.

What app?

May be more evidence that the Si4709 (or was it 7409) driver is broken.

I'm surprised you were even able to scan... The radio app I got from jivy26 FCs

 

[shishir95]

Galaxy S Radio Widget from the Market, I think.

 

[kennonk]

Im not sure if anyone else is experiencing this but when I go into CWM using the the button combo from powered off the blue CWM menu loads fine but...any menu option I try at that point results in the menu becoming invisible and me with just a black screen with the CWM logo in the middle of the screen. If I hit the power button it goes back to the light blue main menu but any menu option I enter the above happens.

I have tried flashing the kernel over and I get the same results. Am I doing something wrong? Once booted into the stock rom, everything seems to run fairly smoothly, it is just CWM recovery that isnt working.

 

[Entropy512]

Im not sure if anyone else is experiencing this but when I go into CWM using the the button combo from powered off the blue CWM menu loads fine but...any menu option I try at that point results in the menu becoming invisible and me with just a black screen with the CWM logo in the middle of the screen. If I hit the power button it goes back to the light blue main menu but any menu option I enter the above happens.

I have tried flashing the kernel over and I get the same results. Am I doing something wrong? Once booted into the stock rom, everything seems to run fairly smoothly, it is just CWM recovery that isnt working.

We have a different keymapping - read codeworkx's first post (he updated the documentation).
Power = does nothing
Home = select
Back = back

I lost 4 hours of kernel dev time to that, thinking I broke something.

 

[kennonk]

We have a different keymapping - read codeworkx's first post (he updated the documentation).
Power = does nothing
Home = select
Back = back

I lost 4 hours of kernel dev time to that, thinking I broke something.

Doh...man I should have rtfm. Thanks for the quick response.

 

[Entropy512]

Galaxy S Radio Widget from the Market, I think.

Just tried it. Same results as you. Attempting to catch a kmsg of the crash using cat did not work, I really need to figure out how to get /proc/last_kmsg working

Edit: In my currently running kernel, it just bombs out instead of crashing. I'm fairly certain the 10/04 release had a crufty FM tuner module that shouldn't be there.

 

[mbze430]

Not unless you use SetCPU to set a screen-off profile with a frequency limit below 800 MHz. Based on discussions with netarchy, our CPUs like to idle at 800 MHz, and if the CPU policy maximum is set below this, bad things can happen when the CPU tries to sleep.

I believe the above issue is why SetCPU gets such a bad rep with the Samsung owner crowd - Xan's Voltage Control doesn't let you set screen-off profiles.

I actually have SetCPU set to 500/500 min/max on Screen Off. And I can wake it up from lock. But you are absolutely right, anything below 500, it won't unlock

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I read on the OP that this kernel has the cifs module. Just to be sure, have you tested it with cifsmanager... this is one of those "I NEED TO HAVE" feature (cifs/smb)

thx

 

[Entropy512]

I actually have SetCPU set to 500/500 min/max on Screen Off. And I can wake it up from lock. But you are absolutely right, anything below 500, it won't unlock

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I read on the OP that this kernel has the cifs module. Just to be sure, have you tested it with cifsmanager... this is one of those "I NEED TO HAVE" feature (cifs/smb)

thx

Just tested it, however with the default settings cifsmanager won't load the module automatically. I think it's rather stupid that cifsmanager expects the modules in /system/lib/modules (in the ROM) instead of /lib/modules (in the kernel's initramfs where it belongs)

Even stranger, modprobe wants /system/lib/modules, which is REALLY stupid.

Maybe I need to do some fancy symlinking in the initramfs...

 

[mbze430]

Thanks for the info... I'll keep checking back to see how that works out

 

[JordanElliott]

for all you new galaxy s ii users. Entropy is a wonderful dev. i have been using his infuse daily driver kernel on my infuse ever since he released it. its wonderful. don't hesitate to flash. u wont be disappointed. he does awesome work.

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oh 2 questions. cant u make it into a flashable cwm? or.. sorry just kinda confused coming from the infuse side with the cwm zip version. and another. will tinyrcu be added?

 

[Entropy512]

I'll eventually make a CWM package once I've done some other stuff.

tinyrcu doesn't apply to multicore devices. There is an SMP-aware RCU variant I've seen for Tegra2 kernels but I don't know how hard it is to apply to the Exynos or even if it's possible.

 

[Entropy512]

Updated. I have two uploads attached to the first post:
DD_10062011.tar is a stable release I have been running since last night, with the exception of the past few hours. See OP for new features - much of it is pulls from netarchy's Infuse contributions or bugfixes from Ninphetamine
DD_10062011_exp.tar is an experimental release that has only been running for a few hours - seems good so far. It has conservative governor's tuning parameters adjusted to be more responsive by default, and allows for much faster polling intervals so it will ramp up faster if needed. However I'm not sure if the polling interval limit might be too low - I'm running 40000 uS which seems good, limit is 25000 which might be too low on this device. I need to do more research and testing. If you experience stability problems, crank up the polling interval a bit. Credit goes to netarchy for this one too.

Unfortunately if anyone starts crashing, debugging the crashes is going to be difficult as ramconsole support is still not working.

 

[clown_luv]

Get it in entro good work bud, been busy today I c, ill talk to ya tommrow over in irc. Good work though!!!!
+10

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[Doug8796]

I really do wish you added oc as I love to do so, but could you please add Smartass governor?

 

[Boobie Watcher]

I'm on straight out of the box stock....can i just flash pit with odin and have rooted stock phone? Thanks!

 

[clown_luv]

I'm on straight out of the box stock....can i just flash pit with odin and have rooted stock phone? Thanks!

No need to flash pit. Flash his Odin package with root. Then after it reboots flash codes kernel to get cwm and customize away. Let me know if you need more detailed instructions have fun

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[eep2378]

Looks to be a nice update. Sgs kernel flasher should work too, right?

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[clown_luv]

Sgs kernel flasher will only work if rooted

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