[ROM] RoyalGinger 3.0 - ckisgen - 8/3/11 - 2.3.4, Netflix, gTalk Video over 3G/4G

[Royalknight6190]

After boot up this rom is very fast, i'm guessing this is running better than RC2, thanks again TeamRoyal!!!

RC2 is up but im staying wid ginger till glacier is up, i dont think the rc2 its better than this...

I am updating this Rom right now to have all the wonders of RC2 with all the Cyan stuff taken out besides things that help with speed and performance so it will be just like Ginger is now just a great and newer version.

Also to all the people who had issues flashing this we found out why and I am fixing that issue also right now. Hopefully will have something ready for you guys tonight.

We also have a great TeamRoyal Boot Animation that is simple yet awesome built by a great XDA'er who is now part of TeamRoyal. I am on the look out for somebody who wants to join TeamRoyal but this person has to have the skill of building Themes or at least porting themes. PM me if you got this skill and we will talk.

So far I Love this ROM, except for 1 things that I'm still deciding whether I should keep RoyalGinger or go with RoyalGlacier is the Genius app. I can't seem to get the genius app to work with this Rom. It work great without bluetooth, but when bluetooth is connected, it FC like crazy.

I will look into this while I am building RoyalGinger 1.3. thanks for the info.

 

[phaino00]

FWIW, all this discussion about boot time appears inane. If it is necessary for the rom to work more efficiently and responsive, that can only be good for your device. The reason we enjoy this rom is because it is efficient and responsive. So, I believe more energy should be focused on improving the rom's efficiency and speed than whether it takes 60 seconds or 499+ seconds to boot.

IMHO, do not add scripts to speed up boot time if it decreases the efficiency and responsiveness of RoyalGinger 1.3.

BTW, still have not established a plausible hypothesis for the disparity in internal storage numbers.

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[DADDYDC650]

I am updating this Rom right now to have all the wonders of RC2 with all the Cyan stuff taken out besides things that help with speed and performance so it will be just like Ginger is now just a great and newer version.

Also to all the people who had issues flashing this we found out why and I am fixing that issue also right now. Hopefully will have something ready for you guys tonight.

We also have a great TeamRoyal Boot Animation that is simple yet awesome built by a great XDA'er who is now part of TeamRoyal. I am on the look out for somebody who wants to join TeamRoyal but this person has to have the skill of building Themes or at least porting themes. PM me if you got this skill and we will talk.



I will look into this while I am building RoyalGinger 1.3. thanks for the info.

Loving Gingerbread but I'm still getting the same video plaback/orientation issues on CM7 RC2 as well as RoyalGinger. I'm starting to doubt if the bug will ever get fixed... =*(


"Am I the only person having issues with video playback on RoyalGinger and CM7? Let's say I record a minute long video using my MT4G. When I open Gallery to play that video back and I keep switching the viewing orientation over and over a couple of times, the video player will start to tweak out. Sometimes I have to take the battery out because the playback will trip out big time and leave me with a weird static looking screen and I'm not able to back out of it.

It seems like a similar issue the MT4G had on the original stock 2.2 ROM with YouTube playback.

I always format, wipe both caches, wipe boot along with system and I even format my SD card. I know It's not my cell because I have zero issue when running RoyalThunderbolt, Ice Glacier, Royal Glacier or the stock 2.2.1 ROM. Anyone? I would love to run Gingerbread but I don't want to be extra careful when viewing videos in fear of having to pop the battery out."

 

[xxpada]

bumpity bump on the video issue. for me it even got to a point where I had an infinite scrolling of my screen lol it was kind of funny my friend was like dood what's wrong with your phone is it effd already? I wasnt trippin' I knew itd b fine if I juss rebootd

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[DADDYDC650]

bumpity bump on the video issue. for me it even got to a point where I had an infinite scrolling of my screen lol it was kind of funny my friend was like dood what's wrong with your phone is it effd already? I wasnt trippin' I knew itd b fine if I juss rebootd

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I'm surprised more folks in this thread or any of the CM7 threads haven't mentioned this issue. I'm guessing that they don't record videos much and play them back or maybe because they never flop back and fourth between orientations? Sometimes I'll be able to switch orientations a few times with no issue but if I keep at it a few more times, it'll start tripping out.

 

[daryllh]

I'm surprised more folks in this thread or any of the CM7 threads haven't mentioned this issue. I'm guessing that they don't record videos much and play them back or maybe because they never flop back and fourth between orientations? Sometimes I'll be able to switch orientations a few times with no issue but if I keep at it a few more times, it'll start tripping out.

I've been recording videos for a blog I'm doing, for an album I'm producing. The video capture hasn't been an issue for me with this ROM or CM7. I have had moments where I think it's going to weird out during a rotation but it never has.

 

[dragone5]

I got the same video issue when I playback a high resolution video in portrait mode. I just keep it in landscape mode to avoid the issue and I remember the stock ROM would always playback in landscape mode so that must be the issue.

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[dungtran88]

I just ran linpack and quadrant on Ginger v1.2

63.703 linpack
3174 quadrant

doesn't seem very low to me!

How the hell did you get that score. I flash RoyalGinger 1.2 and run the quadrant and got 1300. I mess with the OC settings and now it drain battery like crazy. I restore it but seem like it still draining.

 

[Tazzaras]

Has anyone ran into a problem sending MMS, I tried last night and this morning and kept getting a generic network failure error

 

[dungtran88]

Has anyone ran into a problem sending MMS, I tried last night and this morning and kept getting a generic network failure error

Nope, I send MMS like fly.

 

[brzgw]

Hey
I don't mind the first boot up to be long. That happens with every rom. But every reboot takes like 5 mins. Is it suppose to be like that. I do reboots couple of times a day. other than that i get awesome battery life, maybe because i have data connection disabled from TMO. Also themes work like magic on this. I love it

 

[ckisgen]

How the hell did you get that score. I flash RoyalGinger 1.2 and run the quadrant and got 1300. I mess with the OC settings and now it drain battery like crazy. I restore it but seem like it still draining.

setCPU .. I just max the clock speeds and try some of the more performance based gov's (performance, interactive, etc)

yes, it def drains the battery a lot while you've got it oc'ed this much (and also while you're running bench tests over and over, it's working the processor pretty hard. but once you've put the clock speeds back to 'normal' and changed your gov back (presumably to smart ass...that's the best one imho for balance of performance and battery) everything should be fine and back to normal. reboot your device when you're done just for fun if you'd like...I think I usually do

i'm running some benchmark tests with faux's latest 2.0.6 kernel .. gonna post some screenies when i finish up in a min

 

[ckisgen]

Hey
I don't mind the first boot up to be long. That happens with every rom. But every reboot takes like 5 mins. Is it suppose to be like that. I do reboots couple of times a day. other than that i get awesome battery life, maybe because i have data connection disabled from TMO. Also themes work like magic on this. I love it

YES, the 5 min boot time is normal! we've put some performance scripts in this ROM that runs during startup and takes a few extra mins but the performance you get in return is worth the wait!

i think some people are seeing slightly less boot times (maybe 3-4 mins) but i've pretty much been around 4-5 mins every time on 1.2

 

[dungtran88]

setCPU .. I just max the clock speeds and try some of the more performance based gov's (performance, interactive, etc)

yes, it def drains the battery a lot while you've got it oc'ed this much (and also while you're running bench tests over and over, it's working the processor pretty hard. but once you've put the clock speeds back to 'normal' and changed your gov back (presumably to smart ass...that's the best one imho for balance of performance and battery) everything should be fine and back to normal. reboot your device when you're done just for fun if you'd like...I think I usually do

i'm running some benchmark tests with faux's latest 2.0.6 kernel .. gonna post some screenies when i finish up in a min

I just flash 2.0.6 and its the same, I don't use setcpu and my setting are default min/max using smartass, uncheck the reset on boot, ran the quadrant and got 1800.

 

[phaino00]

Ckisgen,...

Food for thought. Same apps installed on cm 7 RC 2 and RG1.2. Internal storage is 198 MB used in cm7 and 256 MB used in RG 1.2. Has TeamRoyal noticed anything in their testing of 1.3 concerning the disparity?

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[ckisgen]

Loving Gingerbread but I'm still getting the same video plaback/orientation issues on CM7 RC2 as well as RoyalGinger. I'm starting to doubt if the bug will ever get fixed... =*(


"Am I the only person having issues with video playback on RoyalGinger and CM7? Let's say I record a minute long video using my MT4G. When I open Gallery to play that video back and I keep switching the viewing orientation over and over a couple of times, the video player will start to tweak out. Sometimes I have to take the battery out because the playback will trip out big time and leave me with a weird static looking screen and I'm not able to back out of it.

It seems like a similar issue the MT4G had on the original stock 2.2 ROM with YouTube playback.

I always format, wipe both caches, wipe boot along with system and I even format my SD card. I know It's not my cell because I have zero issue when running RoyalThunderbolt, Ice Glacier, Royal Glacier or the stock 2.2.1 ROM. Anyone? I would love to run Gingerbread but I don't want to be extra careful when viewing videos in fear of having to pop the battery out."

Guys - we are aware of this issue, no need to continue to post multiple times about it. it doesn't happen on everyone's phone but we still acknowledge this is happening on some devices.

between future updates on RoyalGinger and also as Faux continues to bring his kernel up to current CM baselines - we will get this issue fixed.

bottom line - it's on the list and will be taken care of. hopefully sooner than later! (especially if you know how Team Royal does it!)

in the meantime....don't mean to sound like the Dr. that tells you not to do that when you tell him 'it hurts when I do this' ... but how about not rotating your phone over and over back and forth between portrait and landscape since you know it could freeze? my device has never locked up just simply rotating once or twice under normal conditions while watching a video ...

(AGAIN, we're fixing it!!! so no need to respond to this with 'OHHH HERE COMES STEVE JOBS TELLING US NOT TO HOLD OUR PHONE THAT WAY HARDY HAR HAR HAR...etc.)

 

[ckisgen]

Ckisgen,...

Food for thought. Same apps installed on cm 7 RC 2 and RG1.2. Internal storage is 198 MB used in cm7 and 256 MB used in RG 1.2. Has TeamRoyal noticed anything in their testing of 1.3 concerning the disparity?

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phaino00, yes I have discussed this issue with the dev team more than once. we are working on a fix. hopefully in time for 1.3

royal got tied up on some other business earlier today but we are still working hard to get 1.3 pushed out ASAP. shouldn't be long guys.

thanks for hanging with us.

this ROM ROCKS!!!

Sent from my RoyalGingerlicious Glacier using XDA App

 

[phaino00]

phaino00, yes I have discussed this issue with the dev team more than once. we are working on a fix. hopefully in time for 1.3

royal got tied up on some other business earlier today but we are still working hard to get 1.3 pushed out ASAP. shouldn't be long guys.

thanks for hanging with us.

this ROM ROCKS!!!

Sent from my RoyalGingerlicious Glacier using XDA App

Thanks. I am really interested in what is causing it more than when to be honest. My little human brain has not identified the cause yet....;-))


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[ckisgen]

I just flash 2.0.6 and its the same, I don't use setcpu and my setting are default min/max using smartass, uncheck the reset on boot, ran the quadrant and got 1800.

yes, that's your issue right there. in my previous post i said i maxed my clock speeds (aka - i slid both min and max sliders all the way up to 1.84gHz) and also changed the governor to performance or interactive. you have to be careful when doing this though because if you don't make the adjustments carefully or you do it too quickly or all at once - you could freeze your phone up (no big deal, just pull battery and reboot).

this ROM is bundled with faux123's gingerbread kernel which : directly from faux :

"CM Settings -> CPU Performance does NOT set the CPU speed/governor properly with my kernel... Still need SetCPU 2.1.x in order to make the changes stick.

in other words - you NEED to download setCPU and USE IT! (unless you want to flash the original cm7 kernel or dumbfuqs kernel...but why??)

make sure you UNCHECK set on boot in cm7 performance settings ... and also - if you're installing setCPU for the first time (since a new kernel and/or ROM flash .. or EVER for that matter) - then reboot your device after installing and after you've booted up and gotten to your lockscreen - WAIT 5 minutes (don't touch anything!!) for it to fully boot ... NOW go into setCPU and press the menu button, the autodetect settings and let it do it's thing. now, you can click 'set on boot' in SETCPU and you'll be good to go for everyday use ... (these are NOT instructions for getting high synthetic benchmark scores...just how to get your device running properly with the awesome kernel that's included with this ROM)

i also recommend a reflash of the kernel for....well really everyone for now. ESPECIALLY if you've got kernel related issues (wifi, GPS, screen lag, reboots, freezes, etc) ... this is very temporary and we should have this fixed on the next release, v1.3 .. but for now, there's a glitch in the initial flash/boot script that is causing some people's kernels to underperform. REFLASHING THE SAME KERNEL FIXES THIS. more instructions coming in a new post i'm going to make below...thanks guys

 

[ckisgen]

FIX FOR GPS and WIFI ISSUES

as I said in the post above ... we have discovered a glitch in a script that we believe is causing faux's super awesome gnarly kernel not to perform to it's full capabilities ... this could manifest itself on your device by any number of things including: weaker GPS performance, wifi issues (slow/trouble connecting or holding signal), screen or device lag, freeze ups, random reboots, etc.

we apologize for this and discovered it within a few hours of release of v1.2 .. (FYI - we do test these updates but we've leaned towards pushing the release out to you guys QUICKLY rather than sit on the update and test it for days and days or weeks to discover and iron out every single little bug...we believe this is what most of you want...but if it becomes too much of an issue, we'll start spending more time in testing prior to new releases, meaning you won't see updates quite as fast)

we should have this kernel flashing bug ironed out for v1.3 ... which should be out VERY soon (ideally tonight or tomorrow latest barring unforseens during final stages of dev)

IN THE MEANTIME: REFLASH THE KERNEL AND THIS SHOULD/WILL SOLVE ALL OF THESE ISSUES!!

Link to Faux123's Gingerbread Kernel Thread/Download the kernel here

1) download the kernel from the link above. v2.0.4 can still be gotten, which was the version bundled with RoyalGinger v1.2 however, since Faux is the man, v2.0.6 is already out and I'm currently running it on mine ... either one is fine.

2) UNCHECK 'set on boot' in setCPU (double check that set on boot isn't checked in cyanogenmod settings -> performance -> CPU settings .. this should NEVER be checked when using this ROM and/or faux123's kernels)

3) boot into recovery

4) wipe cache

5) wipe dalvik cache

6) fix permissions

7) flash faux's kernel (install ZIP from SD card, choose file from SD)

8) when it's done flashing the kernel - reboot device

9) after 3-5 minutes, and you see your lockscreen - LET IT FULLY FINISH BOOTING (DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING for another 5 MINUTES!! this is like a kernel 'settling' period when it's newly flashed)

10) hold down power button from lockscreen and reboot device

11) after 3-5 minutes and you see your lockscreen - LET IT BOOT FULLY FINISH BOOTING again (3-5 minutes this time)

12) now - unlock your device, open setCPU, press the menu button, select 'Device Selection', press 'Autodetect Speeds / Recommended' .. hit the OK prompts ... there's like one or two

13) VIOLA! now you can pick your min/max clock speeds and governor and press 'set on boot' (I use the default smart ass gov, 1.1gHz max 245hz min .. so does Faux ... this seems to be the best balance of performance and battery)

FYI - this is the exact process I use to flash a new kernel every time and I almost never to never experience any kernel related issues (wifi, GPS, lag, etc) .. and I flash new ROMs and kernels multiple times daily on a typical day from testing this stuff out for you guys as my non-paying 2nd job

(if any of this is helpful to you, please don't forget your THANKS button folks!)

Happy flashing!