I was hoping to conduct a brief survey of which Kernel people are using.
Please list which Kernel you are using on your Charge and why you like it? Also, what other Kernels have you tried?
I am pretty new to this whole deal of flashing Kernels and ROMs as I have only had my Charge for 2 weeks now(my first smart phone). I am currently running EE4 stock right now but I have tried a few different ROMs(Gummy and AB) and JT's Kernel(root/voodoo/CWM). I keep coming here every day for the last 2 weeks reading and reading on what to do and what works well and what doesnt. I was curious as to the Kernel specifically and wanted to find out what most of the more experienced users are using and liking.
We have 4 kernels, Stock, Kangfuscius, JT's, and Mine. Stock is what it is, the stock kernel. JT's I believe is stock with modified initramfs for Voodoo and some other functions. Kangfuscius is built from source, but has few modifications outside of OCing and some initramfs tweaks I believe. Mine is built from source, has a variety of mods to it, as well as tweaked initramfs with fixes, features, and voodoo. The kernel really comes down to what you are looking for. Personally, I run my own
Right now I'm using imnut's kernel. I used JT's right after he released it, and switched to imnut's because it is more heavily optimized. So far I like it just fine.
imnuts said:
We have 4 kernels, Stock, Kangfuscius, JT's, and Mine. Stock is what it is, the stock kernel. JT's I believe is stock with modified initramfs for Voodoo and some other functions. Kangfuscius is built from source, but has few modifications outside of OCing and some initramfs tweaks I believe. Mine is built from source, has a variety of mods to it, as well as tweaked initramfs with fixes, features, and voodoo. The kernel really comes down to what you are looking for. Personally, I run my own
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OK what is a initramfs? Or should I just not ask? lol
PB & J all the way! I've had zero problems with this kernel, just hoping for some overclock someday.
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imnuts's PB&J mostly because I like the lagfix, it's the newest, and he is the most active in the community, so I feel like we get the best support.
Also, what CWM do you prefer? Imnuts one or JT's? Or the one packaged into Droidxcon's AB rom?
chiahead52 said:
Also, what CWM do you prefer? Imnuts one or JT's? Or the one packaged into Droidxcon's AB rom?
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AB has JT's bundled in. I prefer imnuts's because the buttons work, he removed the potentially damaging backup/restore options, and he can test on the Charge. JT threw his out as a favor, but I don't think he actually has a Charge he can test on, and doesn't plan on doing dev for it (my apologies if I'm wrong on that).
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OK what is a initramfs? Or should I just not ask? lol
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initramfs=ramdisk It sets up the system as the phone boots to get it ready to run.
OK I installed Inmnuts new CWM and PB&J kernel earlier today. So far so good. I do notice it is decently faster with the lagfix enabled. Although the EE4 update did improve the speed alot IMO over ED1 and ED2. I have learned so much from all of you guys reading all this stuff over the past few weeks. I wanted to say thank you for all the advice and hard work!
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I've searched around, but have yet to find a definitive answer. Can I run ANY i9000 rom on the captivate as long as I use a reorient kernal, such as Setiron's?
run, yes, flawlessly, maybe, won't know until you try it.
That was the intended purpose of the reorient kernels from Xcaliberinhand. Setiron has simply extended Xcaliber's kernel with the tweaks and lagfixes of some of the other i9000 kernels.
l7777 said:
run, yes, flawlessly, maybe, won't know until you try it.
That was the intended purpose of the reorient kernels from Xcaliberinhand. Setiron has simply extended Xcaliber's kernel with the tweaks and lagfixes of some of the other i9000 kernels.
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Right on. I've been running Tayu's Lite with setirons for the last few weeks. I didn't use the rom supplied in the Dev section, though. I pieced it together separately. This is by far the best setup I have used yet, but after using the cogs previously, i became a flash junkie and want to try something else out.
I am also using Tayutama's rom but I will be trying out cognition once true source code has been released allowing proper kernels and tweaks to be done. I imagine cog will come back with a vengeance after the true update and source are released. Happy flashing.
Can I simply flash a new kernel on top of my ROM? For instance, can I flash SetrioN 1.3.3 if I'm currently runiing 1.2? Just put in in Odin under Phone? PDA?
Still learning here.
nsaia said:
Can I simply flash a new kernel on top of my ROM? For instance, can I flash SetrioN 1.3.3 if I'm currently runiing 1.2? Just put in in Odin under Phone? PDA?
Still learning here.
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what rom are you using? do you mean you are currently running Setiron 1.2?
I need to add a signature.
Running Doc 7.6 with SetrioN 1.2.
nsaia said:
I need to add a signature.
Running Doc 7.6 with SetrioN 1.2.
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If you've made adjustments to you OC/UV, you need to reset those to default. After that, you can just flash the new one right on top using CWM rec.
Thanks. I haven't messed with those settings.
Props to both of you for asking your questions in general. Remember to use a good descriptive subject in the future though.
I am currently using TW_kernel-0415-voodoo with Heinz 57 Rom but i am seeing a lot of people using OTB Voodoo kernel. What are the advantages of the OTB Kernel vs my current kernel and where can i download this OTB Voodoo Kernel?
Heinz 57 has the OTB kernel built in, if you would've read the post you would know this.
Thanks for that info what i was saying is that i flashed the TW Kernel and is the OTB Kernel better maybe i did not explain properly my bad
The OTB has the abilty to be configured how ever you like. Overclock underclock undervolt. Whatever you like. Where as the others are set however there set. So it just depends on what ur after. I personally have tried JT's., Peanut butter jelly time, the comavolt and OTB and OTB was the one I liked the best so I've stuck with it.
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Thanks for that info what i was saying is that i flashed the TW Kernel and is the OTB Kernel better maybe i did not explain properly my bad
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What add was saying is if you flashed H57 after you flashed that old TW kernel, you would already have OTB because it flashes with the H57 ROM. If you flashed the tw kernel after, then you would need to flash H57 again (or just the OTB kernel, which is found in the fascinate forums, pay attention to the version there are 3 different OTB's one for each type of ROM, AOSP/CM7/TW.)
Do some reading in the OTB thread and you will understand a lot more about it and how to use it, read from start to finish please
Ok thanks man that makes sense and i will roll with OTB
Thanks for all the input appreciate it. I flashed rom again and i am currently using OTB Kernel now where can i find information on stable setting for overclocking and undervolting etc?
Check out the OTB thread in fascinate development. I recommend reading the whole thread as it has a lot of settings and info that others have tried.
Tap-a-Talked.
Stable settings seem to vary from phone to phone. I can't get mine to run over 1200. 1300 works for a couple hours then locks up. I see some say they can hit 1400. Trial and error is they only way to find out.
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Just don't set any settings to boot in voltage control without a day or two of testing them out first.
I am new to android and trying to figure things out. I notice a lot of the ROMS say that they don't have a kernel. Do I need to download and flash a kernel as well as a ROM? What would happen if I just flashed a ROM? I was looking at Eclipse and Tweakstock as possible options, but both say they don't come with a kernel. I am running the stock kernel (2.6.35.7-EP4). What would happen if I flashed Eclipse or Tweakstock with the stock kernel? Would it work? If I do need to get another kernel, any suggestions?
Why would you look at Eclipse? It's extremely outdated. Also, TweakStock has a version with a kernel in it.
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Eclipse was the only ROM i noticed that said TW4. I wanted to be able to resize widgets and I know u can do that in TW4. As for the Tweakstock, I see now that there r multiple versions, though to be honest i'm kinda not sure which one im supposed to use. I think the last one with the experimental repacked EP4D kernel, but im not entirely sure. Again, I'm new to all this. Been on stupid windows mobile for the past few years, so i apologize if this is "no-brainer" stuff.
if you're on stock then the repack kernel should work fine
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I can't seem to get voodoo sound to run on stock AOKP M5 with stock kernel.
I bought the voodoo sound plus, but when i load the driver i get a ''voodoo sound driver loading error''.
I'm rooted and it has the correct permissions etc.
Anyone have any success with this?
Perhaps the stock kernel doesn't have voodoo settings? Not really sure. The first thing I do is flash a kernel and voodoo everything is working fine for me.
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dpeeps74 said:
Perhaps the stock kernel doesn't have voodoo settings? Not really sure. The first thing I do is flash a kernel and voodoo everything is working fine for me.
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Yes but i thought the whole point of the paid version of voodoo is that it loads the necessary drivers into the kernel :S
Doesn't AOKP on our phones have Pete's kernel as stock? I thought one of our members had the module loaded for Voodoo with Petes kernel.
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Doesn't AOKP on our phones have Pete's kernel as stock? I thought one of our members had the module loaded for Voodoo with Petes kernel.
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No idea about the kernel, but definitely not working :/
Bumping this as i'm desperate.
AFAIK, voodoo module only loads on stock ICS kernel, not pete's. But check his thread in development, I remember there was a debate about it some time ago, don't know what was the conclusion.
Although if you're a fan of a stockish kernel, load up SimpleKernel from terryhau, it's built from stock ICS sources and has Voodoo & BLN added.
Maybe I missed something, but I've noticed a huge lack of JB kernels for the infuse, which is pretty odd. are they out there and I'm just blind, or are they way more integrated with the roms now?
Most JB roms, if not all of them, use scott's kernel source. That's practically all there is at this level..
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Maybe I missed something, but I've noticed a huge lack of JB kernels for the infuse, which is pretty odd. are they out there and I'm just blind, or are they way more integrated with the roms now?
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and if you want to get technical we dont have any jb kernel, or ics kernels because every kernel for the infuse (unless it was from back before we got the official GB) are Gingerbread kernel modified to allow compatibility for ICS and JB, so technicially we wont have any jb kernel, but as far as a variety of jb compatible kernels i would believe the reason why we only have one of those is because most of our kernel devs are not doing much with the infuse now, unless it is posted elsewhere and not on xda, but in all actuality why do we need a variety of kernels, the one we have is working excellent and includes OC, and several other performance enhancing features such as ZRAM
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and if you want to get technical we dont have any jb kernel, or ics kernels because every kernel for the infuse (unless it was from back before we got the official GB) are Gingerbread kernel modified to allow compatibility for ICS and JB, so technicially we wont have any jb kernel, but as far as a variety of jb compatible kernels i would believe the reason why we only have one of those is because most of our kernel devs are not doing much with the infuse now, unless it is posted elsewhere and not on xda, but in all actuality why do we need a variety of kernels, the one we have is working excellent and includes OC, and several other performance enhancing features such as ZRAM
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Exactly this...our current kernel is phenomenal....and we lack kernel devs...that stuffs confusing...at least to me.
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