[TESTING] Updated 5/14/11 New Kernel - Temp Test - SOD Fix!
 

Hey kiddos.

WisTilt2 wanted to get some more testers for this kernel, so please download and put it thru the ringer!

This is RHOD ONLY! Please, don't ask if any other devices will work as currently it probably will not! Use at your own risk!

UPDATE 5/14/11 Temp test, SOD prevention!

So the newest autobuild has been plagued with an odd SOD condition. WisTilt2 thinks he traced the issue, and he wants people to run this kernel to see if it's SOD-free (compared to the newest autobuild).

Let me know guys, thanks!

(In this case, I will leave the old kernel - but do please test this new kernel against the autobuild, see if the SOD's disappear...)

Archive:
UPDATE 4/15/11 SCBS integration

This is the new battery meter code that jonpry has been working hard on. To get the full benefits, you'll need an APK and a new rootfs.img. Please see jonpry's thread on PPCG for more information.

So download this kernel, grab the apk and rootfs from jonpry's thread (don't grab the kernel in his thread!) and follow his instructions if you want to give SCBS a spin. I've already noticed a difference, and I haven't generated a model yet. Rule of thumb with generating the model/algo is the more data the better - so go thru a few charge cycles, some heavy use, some sleep - the more usage the better the algo! Enjoy!

Just to be clear - this new kernel only has the updated SCBS code. Nothing else has been changed since the previous 4/4 test kernel.

UPDATE 4/4/11 Minor fixes...

Just an update to the previous kernel, stylus should be fixed (meaning it will boot into landscape again, fix needs to happen in userland) along with the button lights (when keyboard is open, button lights do not light now). Nothing major!

UPDATE 4/2/11 *Hopefully* failed panel wakes are gone!

WisTilt2 said he found and irq that was set wrong... and it was related to the touchscreen - hence the reason touching the screen wakes it! So this kernel seems to wake very nicely for me - how does it for you?

UPDATE 3/31/11

Quote:

Originally Posted by WisTilt2 This fixes the button lights so they go out when you open kbd and they turn on when you close kbd just like winmo. Also fixed the portrait/landscape unlock screen so at boot it should be in portrait so you don't have to do the back arrow trick to switch it.

Update: On the button lights, when the keyboard is open - the button lights will act odd... seems the kernel is torn, it flips them on and then quickly back off :p.

UPDATE 3/30/11 Button lights, PM Rework, kbd flicker/repeat key, and failed wake fixes!!

WisTilt2 has been trying to clean up his code so he can commit - this is working towards that goal. This new kernel has fixes for the kbd flicker/repeat ("stuck") key bug, the failed panel wakes have also disappeared for me - the panel doesn't always wake instantly, but I've never had to touch the screen to get it to wake - it's ALWAYS come up! Let me know, YMMV as always! Oh and yes, the 4-button light LEDs should now work perfectly as well ;).

Update - ok, might've jumped the gun on the repeat letter thing - but it does seem better... Just not perfect yet :).

RHOD100/AUO users - really need to know if this new kernel breaks your phones! I also would like to know if the SoD issue is actually squashed. I haven't had an SoD in forever, so to those who have recently, let me know!

Perhaps also good to note, is the sleep LED is changed in this one. Initially it will blink green to show that processes are going down and it's trying to sleep (a wakelock of some sort is present in other words). Solid green is full, deep sleep. So you should see blinking green when charging, with GPS enabled etc. You won't get a solid green LED until it's completely sleeping, as usual.

In addition, WisTilt2 has changed the boot screen. Hopefully it'll boot faster, but you'll see a lot less flying text - don't panic! It's normal ;).

Enjoy! Please feel free to report how this kernel works, so we can get the changes committed!

**Notice**
These kernels are meant for testing purposes - there is no public GIT repo that this kernel code resides on, however the majority of the changes get pushed to the master GIT repo for XDAndroid. The ones that don't didn't work or were simply in place for testing - again the changes that are being tested here are eventually destined for autobuild. Please contact me if you have any technical questions related to this kernel, I will do my best to explain the changes - if you want specifics, I can put you in contact with WisTilt2, the man in charge of pumping out these test kernels. Feedback is not only welcomed but encouraged, please reply to this thread with it!

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone/autobl)
 

Sweet. Thanks for keeping us updated and sharing!

David

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone/autobl)
 

The pleasure is all mine, the more people test before we commit, in theory the less problems we have when we do commit ;)

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone/autobl)
 

Great, I'm going to grab and test it soon :)

FYI, kernel 12.21.10 and 12.22.10 seen has same problem with panel reinit, I was must touch to screen to wake it up after sleep.

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone/autobl)
 

Every time? I don't think I've had it once yet, but I've only been running this for about an hour or so... I find if you wait an extra moment when you hit power, it'll come up.

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone/autobl)
 

Almost time :(
It seen up but not set brightness correctly until the panel is touched, problem can be a caused of I has modified build.prop & system.ext2 to put some trick and tweak it to make it better. Now I have Android run very stable, it's signal can back after SystemServer process is crashed, phone back to boot animation, less force shutdown and stability signal, with less drop signal time. Need more test, if it go stable enough I'll public my config :)

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone/autobl)
 

OK, so this is my test report:
- Need to touch to panel after each time wake up from sleep.
- In-Call volume & Speaker seen louder than past kernel.
- Seen improvement of power save is good, I don't see the LED on the top turn on in red anymore while I'm playing "Angry Birds Seasons", When I press power button, the LED go off almost time and go green when it check for email,SMS .... then go off in short time.
- Have a small black squad on the top left of screen after each time wake up from sleep, if I pull down notification bar then it will go away.
- AutoBL seen not work correctly for me, seen brightness always reset to default value, I think at 50%, but I'm not sure this test is correctly or affected by my tweaks in build.prop.

BTW, I'm very impressived with improvement made for this kernel.

Thanks!

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Best regard!
Uoc Nguyen

New Kernel (WisTilt2) 2nd Edition
 

Info: WisTilt2 has another test kernel he'd like some helpful volunteers with rhodiums to test. This test kernel is based on the previous test kernel posted by Arrrghhh earlier in this thread. In addition, it adds bzo's overclock with pm.sleep_mode=1 patch for even better battery life when you're overclocking. So set pm.sleep_mode=1 in your startup.txt when trying this, regardless of whether or not you're overclocking. It also adjusts the volume level of the speakerphone mic to make it easier to hear. Please report any problems you encounter with these kernels, including but not limited, to battery life and speakerphone. Please also mention your rhodium model. They may not all behave the same. Thanks.

WARNING: This kernel is for RHODIUMS only. This kernel could potentially -BRICK- a non-rhodium. So only try this out if you have a rhodium.

Wifi:There is a possibility that rhodium wifi is broken in the stripped version. (WisTilt2 and I use different toolchains. He built it, I stripped it to reduce its size. Our toolchains should theoretically be interoperable, but the resulting modules file is half the usual size. So I'm not entirely sure it will work.) If rhodium wifi doesn't work with the stripped version of the modules file, please give the fatter non-stripped version a try. Either way wifi isn't what we're testing here.

Kernel & Stripped Modules File(1.94MB version):

wistilt2-kernel-pack-stripped.zip

Kernel & Non-Stripped Modules File (fatter 8.69MB version, grab this only if you use wifi and the stripped version doesn't work):

wistilt2-kernel-pack.zip

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Re: New Kernel (WisTilt2) 2nd Edition
 

Regarding WisTilt2's new 2nd edition test kernel, there is a known minor issue where on occasion pressing the power button doesn't immediately wake the phone up when it is asleep. If this happens to you, simply tap the phone's touch screen once and it will wake up.

Re: New Kernel (WisTilt2) 2nd Edition
 

Thanks F22, I'll update the first post with this info if you don't mind!

Yea, WisTilt2 likes to change the way the LED behaves in his kernels... sorry for the confusion. He was messing around with it, I believe it's solid green in wake, blinking green in sleep.

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone/autobl)
 

well with the latest i can tell right off the rip that is loads way way way faster!!!. Well had my first reboot right after i got all pumped about the speed!!!

Edit: OOOOPPPPSSSY!!!! had two module files!!!

Ok after the reboot and the dumb mistake by me this seems real smooth. The backlight is acting a little funny from time to time

Wirelessly posted (Opera/9.80 (Windows Mobile; Opera Mini/5.1.21594/22.414; U; en) Presto/2.5.25 Version/10.54)

F22, are you using the google toolchain or one of the codesourcery ones?

CodeSourcery vs. Google Toolchains.
 

I updated to codesourcery's latest toolchain, 2010.09-50, earlier that same day. Prior to that I had been using codesourcery's 2008q3. WisTilt2 uses google's.

Re: New Kernel (WisTilt2) 2nd Edition
 

Not at all. Feel free. :santasnow:

Re: New Kernel (WisTilt2) 2nd Edition - Rhodium Definition
 

BTW, I kind of assumed everyone knew what a Rhodium was when I asked for testers and put up that big warning with the test kernel. (I'm too used to XDA Devs) For those that don't already know, a Rhodium is an HTC Touch Pro 2, aka AT&T Tilt 2. This includes Bariums & Tungstens, both GSM & CDMA. So as long as you have a Touch Pro 2 of some sort, you're eligible to test the improvements in WisTilt2's kernel.

Re: New Kernel (WisTilt2) 2nd Edition - Rhodium Definition
 

First post updated guys. Keyboard backlight works! Just need to have it on in WinMo when you boot haret. I'm paranoid so I hit a few keys until I see it dim, then I know linux has it. Once that happens, it should turn off after 3 seconds, turn on with typing, and turn on/off with portrait/landscape keyboard slides. Enjoy!

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

Thx for the work.
One question though. How does improvements like this make it into official releases or the XDA version or whatever?

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

Well it's a process. We try to test the crap out of everything before it's officially committed. Then once it's in the git tree, anyone can build it. Unfortunately the main "autobuild" service (GlemSom's) is down, so it's not receiving updates currently. Hopefully it'll be up soon. In the meantime, F22 maintains a thread with the actual committed stuff (which he just compiles from the git tree and distributes), and I'll be maintaining this testing thread.

Also, I've updated the first post again. New kernel has 5s timeout on the backlight, and the kbd backlight brightness should match what WinMo is using. Again, don't forget to initialize it in WinMo before booting!

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

Thats interesting, I guess i just dont have any idea how people can share code like that. Anything i have worked on isnt modular like that. I would break the crap out of everyone's code if i even looked at it LOL And when your actually coding the changes all that is local to you and your just doing the testing on your own before commiting.
How big are your changes that you are committing like in lines?
Once again thanks for all the work you guys do.

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

I can confirm that the keyboard backlight is now working like in wm. However, the front 4 hard key backlights are now broken. If the keys are lit before booting into android the keys stay lit and do not turn off. If keys are not lit, the keys do not illuminate at all.

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

Pretty sure those lights have not been implimented yet. Be patient. :)

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

Kbd lights work perfectly great work wistilt also battery last a lot longer about 15 hours with a modest days use and maybe a bit longer have tested a bunch but you can really notice the improvements on the battery life keep up the great work. thanks again arrgghh for keep us updated

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

WTF, just keep getting endless boot, bunch of little android dudes spelling android over and over and over and over....lol

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

had that same issue when replacing the modules it wasn't "replacing" it just added. so i had 2 modules. make sure there isnt 2

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

Tried it again, made sure no duplicate files, still got all the little dudes spelling android and never freaking stopping!!!

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

hmm thats strange, just to be sure is this a fresh android install or did you have it up and running already and just replaced the modules and zimage files?

I already had mine running and replaced those files and got some serious flickering when that boot screen came up but it didnt loop, and its only been a few minutes but keyboard backlight works great and I havent had any problems yet initializing the panel

wistilt you are a genious!

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

It's been up and running like a charm, run it almost exclusively to be honest, and all I did was remove the old zimage and modules and drop the new ones into andboot folder. I boot from haret directly, I've tried just about everything I can think of to make this freaking thing work, I'm basically out of thoughts at this point.... WTF.... I'm going to try to revert back to the older zimage and module and see if that works again.

Edit: Did any of you that are using the new kernel make any other changes, i.e. delete data.img, change anything in startup.txt, etc?

Edit 2: Nope, still looping with the old kernel too... something borked in the build. Does anyone have a link to the latest FRX03, or the latest changes or am I better off grabbing Reef's latest FRX03 and working from there? I thought there were additional changes to the Blazn build since then but would really rather not have to search each page of each thread over again for the past 5 months in updates if anyone has the changes or change log links handy.

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

I dont know of any blazn updates in the past few months but im currently using reefs FRX03 from his site and its working great with this new kernel, just make sure not to use the startup utility, that stupid thing would just dump my startup text whenever it felt like it.

but no I havent made any changes to data.img at all, just replaced the files

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

You will be better off starting with fresh frx3 from reef's, I was having the same issue until I started all over.

I agree 100% with your comments, I read every update every day, but I can't keep up.
there are too many different treads for different tests which I completely understand, but perhaps there should be a weekly re-cap/all in one build or something to get the latest without screwing up something.

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

Thanks for the confirmations guys, really appreciate it. Looks like it's time to reformat and rebuild this beotch now... Ima have to stop fixing the bathroom to get the phone rebuilt, priorities you know, lol :mrgreen:. Just hope the wifee understands and doesn't have to go potty anytime soon!!! :evil4:

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

haha thanked just for the laugh!

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

Indeed the 4-button lights are completely separate. Once we get the kbd backlight code finalized, those will probably be next. Patience :D

Well, it really depends... sometimes it's a one-line change, other times (like with the USB gadget commit) there's thousands of lines. All the code is available to the public on the GIT tree.


Back to the topic at hand tho, glad to hear the kernels working out for most... Hopefully it's up and running now fishingmedic...? LOL sounds like a bootloop was plaguing you thar :p Hopefully we'll get another tweaked kernel with smoother kbd backlight, and then on to the 4-button lights. WisTilt2 will be pleased that he won't have to do any additional work to get the RHOD100 guys' panel working...

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

I haven't noticed any great improvements in battery life on my rhodium 400 worldphone, battery took a dump after 8 hours the same as always. Also kinda weird, it took about 6 reboot loops where android would load all the way to the home screen before it finally settled down and now it seems stable. GPS hasn't locked the phone yet either.

Battery was nearly gone after 6 hours, and orange LED was lit nearly the entire time today.

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

did you run something like quickgps in winmo before running haret?

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

My battery lasted nearly 20 hours. That was what I consider light to moderate usage, there was a fairly big stretch where it was just sleeping (as I was asleep).

Either way, proper panel collapse will yield better sleep times - did you make sure your phone was properly sleeping...? Should get a solid green LED if it's sleeping.

Also, reboot loops? Do you mean where it's just slow? That's system_server being a bitch - just make a phone call to voicemail, works wonders for whatever reason.

I echo the QuickGPS comment above as well in respect to GPS. That's always applied, nothing with GPS has changed/been adjusted with this kernel.




Oh, and the first post is updated. Fresh new kernel hotness, kbd backlight 'flicker' is fixed, the backlight is basically on at a constant level now. Enjoy!

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

This last kernel has some issues, screen sensitivity very sluggish and the screen turns black.
I will revert back to the earlier one.
hmmm.Crap I deleted it.

Booted the phone again and the issue disappeared, kind of weird.

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

before using the gps the last time the phone did not reboot itself I did not use the GPS in windows mobile before launching haret

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

By reboot loop it actually reset the phone to the boot splash where it says HTC Touch pro 2 and the radio and ROM versions are showing. Knock on wood the phone was still connected to ADB when I woke up this morning! Also, not sure if I ever saw the greenI LED lit up, it has gone that far to sleep in the past, so I'll have to dig into that closer, any suggestions?

I definitely see some green action now from the LED, mostly green when the phone sits unplugged, so I guess it's sleeping. Is the kernel option pm.sleep_mode=0 necessary for 20 hrs of battery life?

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

wasnt it supposed to be pm.sleep_mode=1 thanks to bzos patches ?

Re: [TESTING] New Kernel (Speakerphone mic/keyboard bl!!!)
 

OCd @700 Mhz
FPS 2d: 30, stddev 4.66
Linpack: 4.606
Neocore: 18.5 FPS
Quadrant: 575