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I know most are going to say if you dont know what it does dont mess with it. Just have been reading alot but curious how it may vary from phone to phone?
If I may I will list some basic stuff.
SD card boost, I have read about this and it depends on the speed of your card, so what is the standard card rated at or what do you set it at?I set mine at 1024.
Auto memory manager, 8,10,16,32,64
Sysctl tweaks, Have read alot about this over the years with different phones and it is never really clear so dont ever touch it.
Build. prop tweaks
I have my lcd density at 235, vm heap at 55m so far and dont really use wifi.Have thought about trying to adjust the vm heap.
Cpu slider I have tried both conservative and ondemand but havent decided. Ofcourse if you read the basic stuff as to if you want performance or save battery it explains it.
Last I have also read about configure apps to sd card or internal memory. Some of the non important apps I dont use all the time went straight there.
Well let my education or slamming begin.
I'd say that vm heap is too high. I know it's subjective, but I don't think you'll gain anything over about 48, and most rims i've downloaded on 1ghz/512 phones seems to be set at 42 or 48.
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I'd say that vm heap is too high. I know it's subjective, but I don't think you'll gain anything over about 48, and most rims i've downloaded on 1ghz/512 phones seems to be set at 42 or 48.
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Depends. Some purposes need it higher. Team GummyCharged just released a patch to fix TSM Parts hot boot issues that increased the heap size to 80, and it seems to have done the trick. Last time I tried GC, I had multiple hot boots a day...haven't had one on the new settings yet.
I just saw something yesterday when I was on imoseyon page any had it about 80. Was doing alot of reading all over. Will play around a litte to see what may work.
This thread is regarding discussion about Doomlord UC kernel for our device. This thread is specially for general chit chat, opinions, Q and A related to his kernel so that main thread of Doomlord kernel in developement section will have less crowd of unnecessary questions & posts.
So I request senior members to help noobs here. Also if necessary Doomlord will also answer ur important querries here.
Important :-Kernel is working universally perfectly with EVERY firmwares without any problems.
Current version :- v14 (21st MAY 2012)
Original Thread for updates
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357747
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26353627&postcount=1659
Thank you.
Regards,
Vishal
Well now that kernel development is in full swing, could we look into fixing the notification bug? I don't know much about android development, but I read someone say it could be kernel related... That I feel is the biggest bug facing our beloved phone on gb!
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@doomlord finally you got our device, this device has seen lots of bad times and always neglected by senior members or devs. I know lots of your work involve sony ericsson devices,qualcomm devices .
So how do you feel about our device? It's cost only 17k and you know now how it is.
What do you think of it compare to others.
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I've just loaded UC v2 on my DXKP9 SL with ext4 and it works fine.
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I've just loaded UC v2 on my DXKP9 SL and it works fine.
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can u tell us which governer & scheduler will be best for battery & performance?
I'm not an expert in android governer and i/o scheduler but I've been using smartassv2 and vr with better performance than stock with a slightly higher battery drain than original settings when actively used. When idle I have about the same battery drain as default.
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can u tell us which governer & scheduler will be best for battery & performance?
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I've used smartassv2 (proposed by XDA_Bam) and Scary and interactive (proposed by Doomlord). I'm using my phone mostly as audioplayer (ie almost always audioplayer is working). For me is more better smartassv2. Because with other I have lags while changing pages in the applications menu or changing screens in the Go launcher Ex.
Also I'm using BFQ as IO scheduler, because I know it's the best for not too many concurrent processes reading/writing to disk. Also usually it doesn't have too big sense for mobile devices, because we don't have a lot applications working with hdd/sd card
can anyone tell me which governer and i/o should i choose for best performance while playing hd games (i dont care about the battery drain). actually i downloaded shadowgun non tegra but it gets a bit laggy when too many enemies appear on screen, i tried setting performance governer but its the same.
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can anyone tell me which governer and i/o should i choose for best performance while playing hd games (i dont care about the battery drain). actually i downloaded shadowgun non tegra but it gets a bit laggy when too many enemies appear on screen, i tried setting performance governer but its the same.
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1. You have to close all other application and services
2. The performance governor just put CPU to the max frequency, that's why it's the best for gaming
3. If it's still laggy you need or overclocked kernel (we don't have it yet) or make lower settings in the game (or in the Chainfire 3D)
@nail16: You need to OC or a new phone, that game is just too heavy for this phone.
After doing some research on available i/o scheduler I say simple i/o (sio) is the best from theory considering we're accessing a random access device. For quantitative conclusion someone needs to bench.
EDIT: @vishal, can you include a list of firmware versions that work with current UC kernel in your OP? For now I think we have XXKPM, XXKPQ and mine DXKP9. Also I think "[UC Kernel] Q & A" is a better title (the shorter it is the better), please change it if you feel appropriate.
Also here is very good benchmark of the IO schedulers
But remember that it was 2009, now it's 2011 and some things can be changed/optimized
what are the benefits of running custom kernel other than governer and i/o?, sorry noob question
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Also here is very good benchmark of the IO schedulers
But remember that it was 2009, now it's 2011 and some things can be changed/optimized
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I dare say those benchs are not enough to evaluate those i/o schedulers. e.g. In read_test.c, you see that the program will read chunk of 1MB one by one which is a very rare case that our phone would do in day to day usage. We need a better benchmark methodology to reach a conclusive answer.
What is TinyRCU? Link
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what are the benefits of running custom kernel other than governer and i/o?, sorry noob question
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On the kernel page, you saw lots of line saying added in v1, added in v2.
All those are not present in the vanilla kerel by samsung.
U can check each in google to see what it means and what good it brings the mobile.
Also read these links to understand more:
Fugumod Kernel
Steam Kernel
There are lots more.
Thanks ganesh, you are very noob friendly.
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I dare say those benchs are not enough to evaluate those i/o schedulers. e.g. In read_test.c, you see that the program will read chunk of 1MB one by one which is a very rare case that our phone would do in day to day usage. We need a better benchmark methodology to reach a conclusive answer.
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How many applications do you start every day that hard works with hard disk? Do you think IO scheduler can be bottleneck for usual usage of our device? I don't think so. Only games during load of new level, gallery (during making thumbnails) and launcher (during loading icons) work hard with "hard disk"
Updated op.
I was looking into fs benchmarks for debian linux.
Found that JFS was the least CUP intensive off all.
Would it be the same on Android?
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How many applications do you start every day that hard works with hard disk? Do you think IO scheduler can be bottleneck for usual usage of our device? I don't think so. Only games during load of new level, gallery (during making thumbnails) and launcher (during loading icons) work hard with "hard disk"
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No, I actually don't really care as long as my phone feel smooth, that's why I don't go out and do a benchmark myself to ultimately find an answer. My point simply was that benchmark method in your link is inadequate. Finding faults in other ppl's works is one thing I do at my job after all.
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No, I actually don't really care as long as my phone feel smooth, that's why I don't go out and do a benchmark myself to ultimately find an answer. My point simply was that benchmark method in your link is inadequate. Finding faults in other ppl's works is one thing I do at my job after all.
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What these benchmarks do is to guide us to use the appropriate one for our use.
As Doom says we can switch the IO Scheculer/Governor on the fly.
So where is the problem in doing so.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2104326
Hi,
Saw this on reddit this morning, as no one's posted it yet I'd just like to offer it up as another potential lag-fixer.
The source of the problem is that internal storage is not properly TRIMmed when needed. You can find lots of information on XDA - http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1971852 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1929021 for example. It is also well-known fact that running fstrim Linux tool from time to time fixes the issue until internal memory runs out of free blocks. Other solutions like mounting with -discard or disabling fsync may be dangerous.
LagFix is a user-friendly implementation of fstrim utility. It allows you to select which partitions to trim (you should leave defaults unless you know what you are doing) and run the process easily.
Please note that fstrim output depends on kernel and device. It works fine unless you see errors. You might see big amounts of bytes, zero amount or repeating amount. All are fine! Read fstrim manual to understand why all these outputs are valid.
It is also advised to reboot your device after the TRIM process so that kernel could reinitialize block data.
App is free and is available in Play Market. Current version is 1.0.
P.S. If your ROM mounts /data with -discard then this app is NOT needed! Mounting with -discard causes brickbug on some devices, so I DO NOT advise using -discard.
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Link on Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmonkey.lagfix
I applied it on my rooted, locked tf700 and, well, nothing bad happened. I am on the .25 update, which I feel made overall app-opening a little smoother, so I can't tell if this makes any noticeable difference, but it certainly doesn't seem slower after applying it. The dev says that if you run androbench after applying the fix i/o read should be higher, if anyone could run a few benchmarks of before/after it would be appreciated! I've never really placed much faith in benchmarks so didn't bother doing it myself.
Hope this benefits someone!
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I downloaded and installed it. Ran it, rebooted. It did trim, but the jury is still out on whether this actually helps or not. It's too freshly booted to really judge the effects properly, so I'll have it settle in and report back.
It didn't break my 700 -- that's a good thing to start with.
MartyHulskemper said:
I downloaded and installed it. Ran it, rebooted. It did trim, but the jury is still out on whether this actually helps or not. It's too freshly booted to really judge the effects properly, so I'll have it settle in and report back.
It didn't break my 700 -- that's a good thing to start with.
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Yeah, I was reluctant to be the first one to try it on an infinity... But it worked out for the better, I think. Now I don't know if the .25 jb update or this is to thank for the better performance. It should hope up till the 4.2 update at least! Quite pleased with the .25 update
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Just tried it. Could be my imagination, but my tablet seems snappier.
I am not convinced that it will have any effect: TF700's Hynix eNAND flash is eMMC 4.41 compliant, which does not have DISCARD command, the equivalent of SATA's TRIM command. The DISCARD command is supported in eMMC 4.51 compliant flash but I don't know if the Kingston flash in Nexus 7 is eMMC 4.51 compliant. Even if it does TRIM the TF700, probably it will have little effect if you have alot of free space left as it does not affect the garbage collection significantly. One would hope that TRIM should already be done dynamically within the file management software as it would reduce write amplification factor, hence improve write speed performance?
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I am not convinced that it will have any effect: TF700's Hynix eNAND flash is eMMC 4.41 compliant, which does not have DISCARD command, the equivalent of SATA's TRIM command.
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According to the spec, eMMC 4.41 supports TRIM - what's the difference between TRIM and DISCARD?
I read that eMMC 4.41 also supports "background operation" and "high priority interrupt" - these sound much more interesting related to lag than TRIM. Do you have any idea if these features are already used in the TF700's Linux kernel (or even at all in any kernel)?
faq in op link said:
Which devices are affected?
It is known by now, that Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7, Nexus 4, Nexus 10 and HTC One X need regular trimming. It is also believed that all pre-ICS devices used different memory and they do NOT need it nor support it. Pre-ICS support will be dropped in version 1.2. Other 4.0+ devices? Well, test it! And report if it really helps - your device will be added to the list.
How to properly test it?
Use AndroBench app before using LagFix and after. You only need micro test. Look for Sequential Write values. Reading from memory is NOT affected, because reading does not involve writting and only writting triggers search party for free memory blocks.
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For anyone looking for early confirmation of impact.
I think I'll give this a try. I have some hefty typing lag. I thought one of the first updates had gotten rid of it, but it came back, it was just temporarily relieved by the fresh reboot then. If it does help, it'll probably be a month before I confirm anything, just to avoid giving/having false hope . Thanks for posting op hope it works.
Edit, sorry, just noticed OP already mentioned androbench.
Edit 2: Saw no change in my androbench write speed. Sequential write was something over 5MB/s, random write was .15MB/s both before and after running it, and again after rebooting. lagfix claimed to have trimmed successfully. If anything, it felt more laggy for a while after running it. I'm an OS update or two behind FWIW, just installed Jelly Bean a month or so ago. I like to let everyone else test the updates before I install them. I'll probably run another bench this evening. :shrug:
fsTRIM = AWESOME fix - on CROMI, OCed kernel, fsync disabled
I just download the fsTRIM app and it worked with CROMI, OCed kernel, and fsync disabled. Will seem laggy right after runnng it, just reboot as soon as you do and things will be deffinitely running smoother and slightly faster now. Noticing less keyboard latency even as I type this out. I suggest trying it out.
UPDATE - Seriously try this **** out. Keyboard typing is radically smoother in browser, evernote, and google drive. Less latency between multi touch gestures ive set up in GMD Gesture Control as well. App opening is still instantaneous. Loading big web pages is definitely quicker. Will time boot and other things and update again soon.
Update - Opening large files and youtube is faster. large pdfs load faster. everything is really....snappy, and.....smooth.....best of both worlds. things were already pretty snappy and smooth with CROMI, didnt think they could get better but it has. I time everything as well to compare. I could barely time it after this fix as everything is basically instantaneous. Havent tried writing/moving large files on internal storage yet, will test soon, this is distracting me from my homework too much lol.
It works for me I can now download files and move them without having my tablet unusable until it's done.
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Just installed this.
Will give it a go...
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You posted the same content in two other thread sof you own making, and in this one. One helluva way to get to 2000 posts without interjecting anything actually useful. Neitehr is this post, I will mention myself, but please keep a lower profile next time.
So far I haven't noticed any difference at all. I'll give it the rest of the day and if I don't feel there is any change I'll just uninstall.
Hey all -
I have been a Transformer (and modding) fan since my TF101, and I just leapt from a TF201 to the infinity.
I'm not sure quite what I was expecting, but I surely wasn't expecting it to be slower. Responses to screen taps and swipes are very delayed, to the point where it's extremely annoying.
This is all subjective, I realize, but I was wondering if this is a widespread thing or if I should try to RMA it.
I had heard that CROMi-X was the rom to have, so I flashed 4.6.7.
I had also heard that the GPU was an ass-kicker, so I put on my favorite piece of eye-candy (that I've purchased) which is "Asphalt 7: Heat." - and it ran DOG SLOW, and wasn't particularly candy-ish.
Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but having the 201 and 700 side-by-side (literally, driving one with each hand, and poorly at that) the 700 was choppy and would pause every so often. It took MUCH longer to load, too.
So I was unhappy.
I read about the slow internal I/O and re-flashed with a Data2SD option, formatted the microcard, the whole nine yards, and it didn't really get any better. fsync is turned OFF.
I side-graded to the older CleanROM Inheritance 3.4.7, and it actually seems SLIGHTLY better, but the UI has a tendency to be very laggy.
I'm going to try "AndroWook" next, I had that on my Prime with good success.
I've googled and found plenty, plenty plenty of people who have a problem with the TF700 and its speed, which is really disappointing because it's supposed to be the top of the line.
So.. is anyone out there really HAPPY with their TF700? Is it zippy and satisfying? What ROM are you using?
Maybe I'll try to unload it on craigslist and go back to the TF201. It has lower "Androbench" marks, but is crazy more responsive.
*shrug*
I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts...
R
Just learned about 'lagfix.'
Gonna try that.
Is 4.1.1 better performance? I realize it'd technically be a step backwards...
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Just learned about 'lagfix.'
Gonna try that.
Is 4.1.1 better performance? I realize it'd technically be a step backwards...
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I'm still using 4.1.1. I run Cromi 3.4.6 with Hund's kernel 2.2, along with most of the tweaks found here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2232715). I am not running data2sd and my CPU/GPU profiles are not as aggressive. Apparently some people have been getting bootloops after applying these tweaks but I've never had it.
I've tried 4.2 several times (with different versions of Cromi-X) but usually come back to 4.1.1 within a day because it seems to run better.
Having said this, I think "lags" can be quite subjective - I personally think my tf700 is zippy but perhaps you wouldn't agree.
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Hey all -
I have been a Transformer (and modding) fan since my TF101, and I just leapt from a TF201 to the infinity.
I'm not sure quite what I was expecting, but I surely wasn't expecting it to be slower. Responses to screen taps and swipes are very delayed, to the point where it's extremely annoying.
This is all subjective, I realize, but I was wondering if this is a widespread thing or if I should try to RMA it.
I had heard that CROMi-X was the rom to have, so I flashed 4.6.7.
I had also heard that the GPU was an ass-kicker, so I put on my favorite piece of eye-candy (that I've purchased) which is "Asphalt 7: Heat." - and it ran DOG SLOW, and wasn't particularly candy-ish.
Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but having the 201 and 700 side-by-side (literally, driving one with each hand, and poorly at that) the 700 was choppy and would pause every so often. It took MUCH longer to load, too.
So I was unhappy.
I read about the slow internal I/O and re-flashed with a Data2SD option, formatted the microcard, the whole nine yards, and it didn't really get any better. fsync is turned OFF.
I side-graded to the older CleanROM Inheritance 3.4.7, and it actually seems SLIGHTLY better, but the UI has a tendency to be very laggy.
I'm going to try "AndroWook" next, I had that on my Prime with good success.
I've googled and found plenty, plenty plenty of people who have a problem with the TF700 and its speed, which is really disappointing because it's supposed to be the top of the line.
So.. is anyone out there really HAPPY with their TF700? Is it zippy and satisfying? What ROM are you using?
Maybe I'll try to unload it on craigslist and go back to the TF201. It has lower "Androbench" marks, but is crazy more responsive.
*shrug*
I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts...
R
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It is odd. With what you said, your TF700 should be very smooth unless there is a hardware problem Did you try a clean install? BTW, if you reinstall again, I would recommend that you should use Cromi X V4.6.5 instead of 4.6.7.
For some reason when I used the Advanced Wipe and wiped everything in TWRP. I still found some old files on my internal SD. However, when I used a formatted option, everything was gone and clean. Maybe you should do that. Also if you use Data2Ram, you should reformat your MicroSD as the same time with your clean install. A combination of Fsync Off, D2R, and Cromi X should work very well. My kernel is Hund's V3.0.6 with OC of 1.4G CPU, 520M GPU for Power Saving, 1.6G CPU, 600M GPU for Normal, and 1.8G CPU, 650M GPU for my Performance with UV about 35mV. My quandrant scores are 5800 for Power Saving = Game Mode, 6400 for Normal = Normal Activities, and 7000s for Performance = Browsing and streaming movies. Please report back if you decide to do a clean install, thanks and good lucks.
Here are my settings and quadrant scores using Hund 2.2:
Power Saving - GPU 650Mhz, CPU 1.45/1.4Ghz - Quadrant 5331
Balanced - GPU 700Mhz, CPU 1.65/1.6Ghz - Quadrant 6336
Performance - GPu 775Mhz, CPU 1.85/1.8 Ghz - Quadrant 7005
Personally I take the quadrant scores with a grain of salt because I've had setups where the scores were better but the tablet was not as responsive. I mostly run on Power Saving mode without any problems.
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Did you try a clean install? BTW, if you reinstall again, I would recommend that you should use Cromi X V4.6.5 instead of 4.6.7.
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Several totally clean installs at this point.
AndroWook was bust, it didn't even get past the "ASUS" logo.
I'm back to Cromi 3.4.7 with _that's kernel 3.1.10. A lot of folks are mentioning Hund 2.2, perhaps I'll try overlaying that now.
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Having said this, I think "lags" can be quite subjective - I personally think my tf700 is zippy but perhaps you wouldn't agree.
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I totally agree. I added a bunch of the PimpMyRom tweaks and rebooted. I'm letting it settle down and then going to see what's what.
I can't get the GPU overclock to take, though. I think I've mounted the FS r/w and I'm editing the GPU cap files to contain 1460 as directed, but the next time I open the file it's back to 1300. Weird.
So, my Quadrant score after all the tweaks were put in, on "Balanced," is 5266. On "Performance," it's 5139.
Erugh?
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So, my Quadrant score after all the tweaks were put in, on "Balanced," is 5266. On "Performance," it's 5139.
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Strange. I get 5200 in balanced mode without any special tweaks, and over 6000 in performance mode with fsync off.
The general user experience is acceptable, but not exceptionally smooth - lost frames in animations are common, but there are no long waiting times anywhere.
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Strange. I get 5200 in balanced mode without any special tweaks, and over 6000 in performance mode with fsync off.
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Did I mention I also have fsync off?
('Coz I do.)
Maybe it's faulty, which would make me sad because I doubt I can return it what with unlocking and flashing the crapola out of it. Hm hm.
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I can't get the GPU overclock to take, though. I think I've mounted the FS r/w and I'm editing the GPU cap files to contain 1460 as directed, but the next time I open the file it's back to 1300. Weird.
So, my Quadrant score after all the tweaks were put in, on "Balanced," is 5266. On "Performance," it's 5139.
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That is really odd. Unfortunately my knowledge of tweaking is entirely based on following other people's instructions so I don't know why the GPU changes are not taking. Are your CPU changes taking? Did you follow the instructions on init.d scripts/enabling his voltage table and governor tweaks?
Here's are my cpu.sh files. I switched the profile for powering saving mode and balanced mode because the tablet always defaults to balanced mode.
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Also, when I made the profile too aggressive (too high on CPU or GPU), the tablet got way hot and my quadrant score dropped. Since our tablets are all different on the amount of overclocking they can handle, maybe you're pushing your tablet too much. Have you tried easing down on overclocking?
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Here are my settings and quadrant scores using Hund 2.2:
Power Saving - GPU 650Mhz, CPU 1.45/1.4Ghz - Quadrant 5331
Balanced - GPU 700Mhz, CPU 1.65/1.6Ghz - Quadrant 6336
Performance - GPu 775Mhz, CPU 1.85/1.8 Ghz - Quadrant 7005
Personally I take the quadrant scores with a grain of salt because I've had setups where the scores were better but the tablet was not as responsive. I mostly run on Power Saving mode without any problems.
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LOL I totally agreed with on that. :laugh: However, I still think that it is better with some numbers as references others than words lags, smooth, choppy, slow, fast, and so on. :good: It is just my way of explanations.
This might be my final entry - after doing the PMR tweaks, and flashing Hund 2.2 (no offense, _that ) the Quadrant score in Performance mode is ... uh.. well, indeterminate because suddenly I can't attach to our wifi. Sigh. Perhaps I overtweaked.
Although, Asphalt ran VERY smoothly. I credit the GPU overclock, in combination with assigning all the 2D stuff to the GPU.
Yeah, definitely. After flashing hund 2.2, it won't acquire an IP address.
Today is surely an interesting day.
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This might be my final entry - after doing the PMR tweaks, and flashing Hund 2.2 (no offense, _that ) the Quadrant score in Performance mode is ... uh.. well, indeterminate because suddenly I can't attach to our wifi. Sigh. Perhaps I overtweaked.
Although, Asphalt ran VERY smoothly. I credit the GPU overclock, in combination with assigning all the 2D stuff to the GPU.
Yeah, definitely. After flashing hund 2.2, it won't acquire an IP address.
Today is surely an interesting day.
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You probably have problems because of PMR tweaks I remember I also had wifi issues after PMR and I think I didn't enable all the tweaks in the guide. Try PMR recovery where it restores all your previous settings-it should restore your wifi. If not, then maybe a clean install of Cromi and then doing the init.d/Hund/CPU/GPU tweaks should give you quite a bit of performance boost.
Hope by "final entry" you don't mean you're giving up!
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You probably have problems because of PMR tweaks I remember I also had wifi issues after PMR and I think I didn't enable all the tweaks in the guide. Try PMR recovery where it restores all your previous settings-it should restore your wifi. If not, then maybe a clean install of Cromi and then doing the init.d/Hund/CPU/GPU tweaks should give you quite a bit of performance boost.
Hope by "final entry" you don't mean you're giving up!
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Yeah, it seems as if the "Fast DNS" internet tweak means it has somehow thrown off DHCP.
I'm connected to the wifi AP, but I get no IP address, etc.
I guess I'll flash the recovery thing. Darn, everything but that was working great
No, I had meant to say 'final entry' insofar as I was finally happy with it - but while i was typing it, I wanted to put in the Quadrant score, and then I realize I couldn't connect to the website, and then I realized I had no IP, and here we are.
So that post sort of morphed as I was typing...
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I guess I'll flash the recovery thing. Darn, everything but that was working great
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Huh.
Wont' flash, at least not with twrp 2.4.4.0
Growf.
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Huh.
Wont' flash, at least not with twrp 2.4.4.0
Growf.
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Which is just as well, since when I rebooted I had an IP again.
Recovery image went south too, and I had to re-flash that via adb.
There is truly some weird stuff happening here.
Anyway, the quadrant score - now on "Performance" because I swapped cpu2 and cpu3, what a great idea - is...
IS.....
IS.....
5057.
Ah, the hell with it.
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Which is just as well, since when I rebooted I had an IP again.
Recovery image went south too, and I had to re-flash that via adb.
There is truly some weird stuff happening here.
Anyway, the quadrant score - now on "Performance" because I swapped cpu2 and cpu3, what a great idea - is...
IS.....
IS.....
5057.
Ah, the hell with it.
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Wow, that is just odd. Does the tablet get really hot when you run quadrant? It might be that the GPU/CPU settings are too high. Hope actual performance is still working out for you.
And as for recovery, I meant running the rescue package inside PMR that "un-pimps" the rom. Thinking back on when I installed the tweaks, I think I did everything mentioned in PMR except for Network & Internet mods. And I love the xloud mod!
Drenus said:
Wow, that is just odd. Does the tablet get really hot when you run quadrant? It might be that the GPU/CPU settings are too high. Hope actual performance is still working out for you.
And as for recovery, I meant running the rescue package inside PMR that "un-pimps" the rom. Thinking back on when I installed the tweaks, I think I did everything mentioned in PMR except for Network & Internet mods. And I love the xloud mod!
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It was pretty warm, yeah. I knocked the cpu back from 1900mhz to 1800mhz - which doesn't seem to matter since according to the little floating CPU monitor I have ("Cool Tool") it's never going over 1600mhz anyway.
I mean, I've got PMR trying to control stuff on one hand, the built-in "Power Saving/Balanced/performance" thing on the other, and also "Trickster Mod"
Idunno.
It does seem perkier after all this, so maybe it doesn't matter.
I wish Quadrant would let me see my score without hitting the internet though. I backed off the voltages by 0.025v per speed, and came up with 5499 this time. Although I don't know whether that's "performance" or what.
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It was pretty warm, yeah. I knocked the cpu back from 1900mhz to 1800mhz - which doesn't seem to matter since according to the little floating CPU monitor I have ("Cool Tool") it's never going over 1600mhz anyway.
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Did you use Hundsbuah's app to set whatever parameters need to be set?
Sorry for not being more specific, I have no experience with it, I just know Hundsbuah didn't only add awesome overclocking features into his kernel, but he also wrote an app to control it.
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I mean, I've got PMR trying to control stuff on one hand, the built-in "Power Saving/Balanced/performance" thing on the other, and also "Trickster Mod"
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And this is in addition to changing cpu#.ch files? I wonder if you've got too many cooks in the kitchen.
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It does seem perkier after all this, so maybe it doesn't matter.
I wish Quadrant would let me see my score without hitting the internet though. I backed off the voltages by 0.025v per speed, and came up with 5499 this time. Although I don't know whether that's "performance" or what.
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Is Asphalt still running better than before? I think the most important thing is that the applications you use are running smoothly and not upsetting you that (1) you spent $$$ on the tablet, (2) you spent a lot of time tweaking the tablet, and (3) you're not getting the performance you want.
I once spent a few hours tweaking CPU/GPU to figure out how I can maximize Quadrant score and what I came away from it is that high score doesn't matter if the tablet is getting way to hot for comfort and that low score doesn't matter if the tablet is running to my satisfaction. I almost never change my power setting and that means my score is probably around 5300, but I still like how the tablet responds.
Anyways, hope your tablet's running better than before and good luck with any additional tweaking! :victory:
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Did you use Hundsbuah's app to set whatever parameters need to be set?
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Well.. that's just madness.
No, I was not. I had these other tools and was messing with those.
Might be time to re-flash the kernel again.
It's been a while since I managed this stuff myself so I'm foggy on how to troubleshoot, but something along the lines of I don't have an /etc/fstab or it's empty so swapon is failing.
previously used FauxClock to manage this, unsure why it's not working like it used to.
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It's been a while since I managed this stuff myself so I'm foggy on how to troubleshoot, but something along the lines of I don't have an /etc/fstab or it's empty so swapon is failing.
previously used FauxClock to manage this, unsure why it's not working like it used to.
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well, to answer the question in the title.. because its pointless. zram/zswap is good for our old devices(like g1 or old school droid), with low ram. as thats what you are using the zram/zswap for, to increase ram. the nexus 5 has 2gb ram, i bet you will never run low on ram with a nexus 5. and if you think its a benefit to the nexus 5, then you are living in a placebo.
what happened to yours, i have no idea.
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well, to answer the question in the title.. because its pointless. zram/zswap is good for our old devices(like g1 or old school droid), with low ram. as thats what you are using the zram/zswap for, to increase ram. the nexus 5 has 2gb ram, i bet you will never run low on ram with a nexus 5. and if you think its a benefit to the nexus 5, then you are living in a placebo.
what happened to yours, i have no idea.
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can you help me get it back?
I feel like a FauxClock update broke it.
What it was actually doing was a bit more complicated, virtualizing the diskspace (compressed, too) as a buffer layer on top of the flash. This improved random read and especially random write performance which helped with multitasking a LOT as resume from suspend in the app lifecycle was resuming from RAM, not from flash. This meant less hitching/FPS drops when bringing up android recents, as well as during animation/draws when switching to the other app
This is the only reason I want it. Simply as swap space, yes not necessary
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can you help me get it back?
I feel like a FauxClock update broke it.
What it was actually doing was a bit more complicated, virtualizing the diskspace (compressed, too) as a buffer layer on top of the flash. This improved random read and especially random write performance which helped with multitasking a LOT as resume from suspend in the app lifecycle was resuming from RAM, not from flash. This meant less hitching/FPS drops when bringing up android recents, as well as during animation/draws when switching to the other app
This is the only reason I want it. Simply as swap space, yes not necessary
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that sounds what disabling fsync would do, help with random read and write. have you tried just disabling fsync? anyways, its your kernel that will have the zram feature, reflash it. if you have flashed/updated your rom, the kernel should be reflashed.
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that sounds what disabling fsync would do, help with random read and write. have you tried just disabling fsync? anyways, its your kernel that will have the zram feature, reflash it. if you have flashed/updated your rom, the kernel should be reflashed.
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no fsync is totes different
current guess is no init.d script for the zram because restored fauxclock from titanium and enable/disable only modifies the script, relying on the script existing in the first place, and it doesn't because I didn't manually install it myself. Uninstalling and reinstalling fauxclock doesn't work though, it's like certain settings persist somewhere. It's always been a bit goofy like that, and I don't feel like wiping and installing just for the ZRAM at this moment. Currently waiting on someone to post their zram init.d script, or if anyone here sees this and wouldn't mind uploading it, much obliged.
another question: how can I low-level format the phone? IE not just wiping the partition, but actually checking for bad blocks and cutting them out of the flash table. I have another phone that I think needs that, but all the CWM and TWRP recoveries seem to just do wiping not complete formats.
init tasks are somewhere besides /etc/init.d now it looks like
if anyone else needs it, flashing completely stock image straight from google and then rooting got me what I needed. Unsure why the "stock rooted" zips people provided weren't good enough. oh well