Sorry for the incredibly newbish question. (Feel free to refer me to other places this may have been answered.)
There seem to be a lot of "Speedy"/Performance scripts listed in the Sticky on the X2 Dev forum, and I was just wondering if someone would be kind enough to provide a line or two to describe each.
It seems to me like there is a lot of overlap between some of these scripts, especially when considering the tweaks added by various ROMs. So I am most interested in finding out basically which are compatible, and which are most likely to conflict with the available custom ROMs.
Here are a couple, but feel free to add more.
Speedy V6
Init.d Re-hack (required for some scripts)
Init.d Hack v0.6 (required for some scripts)
Speedy Gonzales v1.0 (thread closed)
Power Boost v2.0
-=V6 SuperCharger=-
SetCPU (an app that may/may not work in conjunction with some of the above scripts)
Again, sorry for my nativity here. I know this information can be found in the individual threads, but I'm sure a basic overview would be a really big help for those of us who are just now trying to get into the installation of some good speed scripts. It's also really unclear to a beginner which scripts/apps/ROMs will conflict with each other or which combinations might actually reduce effectiveness & stability.
Thanks!
ya i agree...too many of these overlap with each other.....which work with what kernal???....which works the best....benefits of each??....etc....
init.d hack is a way to allow you to store scripts in a directory called /etc/init.d that will fire up when the phone reboots. Without it, you could create the directory but your phone won't run the scripts.
It's best to flash the init.d hack first which "hijacks" the boot process and will execute any scripts located in the /etc/init.d directory.
Once that is flashed, I find the V6 Supercharger Scripts to be the best for making the phone speedy. I use options 9 and 12. 9 sets the optimal memory settings that seem to prevent music from skipping. Option 12 makes the launcher not get killed in memory which can cause skipping and hi cupping in the X2 as it unloads and reloads from what I understand.
I really haven't used anything else except the V6 Supercharger Scripts. They seem to be the most popular, but what it all boils down to is, experiment with each one and see which gives you the best performance you are seeking.
I also know many ROMS, such as Eclipse, have incorporated the init.d hack and have their own versions of many of these performance scripts in them, so mileage will vary.
Also, the kernel doesn't mean anything. It works with all kernels. But, many of them require Busybox installed since they use various UNIX commands that are not available in the stock image.
question: can't you just save the 99 v6 script as run as root, run at boot after you create the init.d directory instead of having to run the init.d hack? i've never run the init.d hack but have used the run as root run at boot save and it always loads fine on boots.
I really hope I posted this in the right place...
I loaded Eclipse v1.3 yesterday on 2.3.4 and I love it! It works really well. I had the issue about the gps but it went away after 2 battery pulls. I don't have any problems with iheartradio skipping or any other music for that matter. I have even noticed my X2 runs way faster. But, my internet is slower. No matter downloading or browsing, I can tell it is slower than before. Since Eclipse has the init.d already inside, can I download the Speedy V6 zip and flash it when I go into recovery mode? From what I have read in the forum, that should increase the overall speed of the phone. Or, being a noob, am I going about that the wrong way?
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tallyforeman said:
I really hope I posted this in the right place...
I loaded Eclipse v1.3 yesterday on 2.3.4 and I love it! It works really well. I had the issue about the gps but it went away after 2 battery pulls. I don't have any problems with iheartradio skipping or any other music for that matter. I have even noticed my X2 runs way faster. But, my internet is slower. No matter downloading or browsing, I can tell it is slower than before. Since Eclipse has the init.d already inside, can I download the Speedy V6 zip and flash it when I go into recovery mode? From what I have read in the forum, that should increase the overall speed of the phone. Or, being a noob, am I going about that the wrong way?
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I'd also like to note: On my CPU tuner app, it always says the Active CPU's are 1/2 and does not pass the test under the "check capabilities" portion of the app. I also had the same result before rooting and loading Eclipse. Will the new script cure that?
h_10 said:
question: can't you just save the 99 v6 script as run as root, run at boot after you create the init.d directory instead of having to run the init.d hack? i've never run the init.d hack but have used the run as root run at boot save and it always loads fine on boots.
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The main reason for the init.d hack is so u don't NEED script manager to run init.d scripts at boot. One less thing for ur phone to have to start up. One less application running on startup.
What I used to do(when not running a rom w/init.d support...eclipse HAS init.d hack built in along w/liberty (others too I believe)
Is I would flash the hack. Delete all init.d scripts and just run supercharger scripts from there.
that way there was no need to run the supercharger scripts at boot etc...
This thread Is a compilation of speed tweaks and mods I have gathered from the forums and used on my Galaxy Player 4.0. I can vouch for all of these tweaks, and all provide at least a modest performance improvement. I claim no credit for any of these mods, the glory goes to the fabulous devs who have created them.
To show you the possible performance increase, I have all of these tweaks installed with the Terrasilent kernel and Klin's R5 ROM, plus an Overclock to 1.5 GHZ, and I have scored over 2750 in Quadrant, as indicated in the screenshot below.
If you have any potential tweaks or suggestions, PM me, and I will check them out!
Note to devs: I believe I have posted this in the right section, as this does not 100% pertain to development.
Now, let's get cracking!
Tweak No. 1: convert RFS filesystem to EXT4.
RFS has been tweaked since it debuted on the galaxy S over two years ago, but still is not quite up to par with today's standards.
Steps:
1. Flash the Terrasilent kernel/ Klin's R3 (basically a kernel with Clockwork recovery 5+ on it)
2. Make a nandroid backup (make sure you have enough free space!)
3.after you reboot, navigate using a file explorer on the Gplayer to the recovery directory and rename all files (excluding boot.img) from .rfs.tar to .ext4.tar.
4. Open up nandroid.md5 and change all filenames (again, excluding boot.img) from .rfs.tar to .ext4.tar
5.Save that, reboot into recovery, perform a full restore, and reboot into download mode.
6. reflash the kernel you were using, and you are done!
The performance improvement is amazing, and I would recommend using this tweak to anyone, since it's safe, and provides a huge boost!
Tweak no.2: Universal Adrenaline shot.
This is an amazing tweak that has provided the biggest improvement for me. It should be pretty risk-free if you follow my directions. Do NOT try to unzip and manually install, as you will have to reflash you rom (bootloop). Additionally, you will have to reinstall any init.d tweaks you have currently, as this script wants to ensure no conflictions, and deletes them all
Steps:
1. Head to this link, read, and download Adrenaline shot v14 (don't worry, our device can handle the two risky tweaks).
2. Boot into recovery, and flash!
3. After flashing, I would optionally format /cache. After reboot, you should see a drastic performance increase!
Tweak no.3: EXT4 Journalism tweaks.
EXT4 is much faster than RFS, but on our Players, the lag is still noticeable, just navigating around the UI.
WARNING:This provides a nice speed increase, especially to large games, but if you have an unclean shutdown, or force restart your Gplayer, YOU WILL HAVE TO RESTORE!
Dire warnings said, This actually increases the smoothness of the Gplayer a decent amount, although for me the risk far outweighs the benefit.
Your partitions are as follows:
System: STL9
Data: mmcblk0p2
Dbdata: stl10
cache (use this partition if you want to test):stl11
Remember, you need su permissions for all of this!
Instructions:
1.First, FSCK the partitions (make sure you answer no to all but the first questions, as that could lead to file corruption! the errors are generated when the partition is accessed during the FSCK, which generates an error, since data is in a different section than it was before. Don't worry, most/all of those errors are flukes. The instruction is: e2fsck -f /dev/block/(partition name)
2. Disable journalism with tune2fs: tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/block/(partition name)
Note: tune2fs will not have the capabilities necessary unless you install the one from the one shot adrenaline tweak above.
3.reboot and enjoy!
If you want to reverse this, you will have to restore a nandroid backup, as CWM formats EXT4 with journalism, and a format is required to reset it. On the same note, you will have to reapply this tweak every time you restore a nandroid backup, just something to keep in mind.
Tweak no.4: Supercharge, and apply Loopy smoothness!
I am sure everyone knows about the ubiquitous v6 supercharger script out there, and it provides a big performane increase! Also, Loopy smoothness helps a lot in stabilizing launcher performance, and I view them to be equally valuable.
1. Visit here to download the latest supercharger script, and here to download T2 of loopy smoothness.
2. Launch the supercharger from the /sdcard/download directory, go throught the basic instructions, and the custoomize, reboot, and install nitro lag nullifier. Optionally install for easier access. I would also explore some of the other options especially reindexing.
3. move the loopy smoothness script into the init.d directory, open it, and remove the quotation marks around the launcher name if you are using the touchwiz launcher, or delete the quotations and name and add your launcher's process name (run ps in terminal emulator and find the most likely name, or look it up).
That's it! you should notice a definite performance increase, especially improvements in multitasking thanks to v6 supercharger. The launcher should also be a lot smoother.
Bonus (I have it in R5 rom, but have not actually applied it)
head here, download the latest script, and run it. It should add some extra build.prop tweaks that will greatly boost performance!
Some final suggestions:
1. Move to a custom launcher.
Using touchwiz, I always had about 125+- ram free after using a taskiller, but when I moved to go launcher EX (imho, the best launcher for the gplayer out there, beautiful, not hard on resources, and very customizable), I had over 160+ free after using a taskiller, which resulted in far smoother operation, and excellent multitasking!
2. use ondemand or ondemandx.
All the Gplayer profiles are good, but ondemand, although not the best at power saving, provides the best performance on our aging system, and gives a little extra juice when you need it.
3. use the deadline governor.
None of the other I/O governors come even close to NOOP and Deadline, but deadline is better for everyday use, and noop is better if you have several file transfers occurring at once (eg. hooked up to a computer, updating apps, and browsing the web). It comes down to your usage style, but I prefer Deadline.
4. Disable uneeded /system/app apps.
Fortunately our Gplayer is pretty bloat free, but you can disable more apps if you want. You should rename them to .apk1 instead of deleting them, just in case. Do not delete phone.apk, because for some reason it breaks the default camera app ( you can delete it if you don't use it).
Open up a terminal, run the ps command, and disable any system, apps you recognise in the list (una, fota, etc.).
Beta: Format sdcard as ext2
I had limited success with this mod, and it is definitely worth hassle of converting to ext2. Unfortunately, you must have an init.d script that runs at boot, and there will be the occaisonal permissipn issue, but chmoding the sdcard fixes that.
Steps:
1. Backup all of your /sdcard data
2.connect the gplayer to a linux computer in mtp mode.
3. Open a terminal, and type:
sudo umount /dev/sdx
sudo mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdx
4. Disconnect it from the computer. It will output an error when the media scanner runs, this is okay.
5. Create an init.d script with the following info:
#!/system/bin/sh
mount rw /dev/block/vold/179:1 /mnt/sdcard
chmod 777 /mnt/sdcard
chmod 777 /mnt/sdcard/*
chmod 777 /mnt/sdcard/Android
chmod 777 /mnt/sdcard/Android/*
6. Reboot, and restore your data.
That should be it! I used ext2 because i got permission errors with ext3/4 constantly, and ext2 was stable. The performance improvement is amazing, especially with apps that store data to /sdcard. My performance is at least doubled! Even thouh this is beta, I STRONGLY recommend doing this, as the performance is incredible (as I said)!
Note: after doing this, windows machines will not recognize the player, you will have to do all file transfers via linux.
Note: of app data is not recognized after restore, delete and redownload, after backing up the save file/s. At the moment, it is the only way I have to fix it.
Enjoy the speed!
Dalvik machine: the ULTIMATE speed booster.
I was poking around lately, and I discovered that dalvik settings are really far more powerful than most people give them credit for. Using them on an (unreleased) version of EtherealRom gave me a nice speed increase!
All of these can be added/edited in build.prop, if you so choose, under the variable "dalvik.vm.dexopt-flags=".
The most important one is u=y. This indicates that you want all VM code to be optimized for a single core, and provides a NICE speed boost. The next most important is o=a, as that indicates that you want it to optimize ALL the code, instead of selective batches.
I will update this later, I am exhausted right now, and need some sleep.
I now have my own custom rom that you can flash, that includes most of these amazing features (no ext converting, that has to be manual), plus some more! Note: this rom is ONLY for the 4.0. you will have to restore if you flash it onto the 5.0!
Download
That's it! I will certainly add on as time progresses, but at the moment that is all I can remember/know about, so be sure to pm me with potential tweaks so I can put it up here!
hanthesolo said:
This thread Is a compilation of speed tweaks and mods I have gathered from the forums and used on my Galaxy Player 4.0. I can vouch for all of these tweaks, and all provide at least a modest performance improvement. I claim no credit for any of these mods, the glory goes to the fabulous devs who have created them.
To show you the possible performance increase, I have all of these tweaks installed with the Terrasilent kernel and Klin's R5 ROM, plus an Overclock to 1.5 GHZ, and I have scored over 2750 in Quadrant. If you don't believe me, I will put up a screenshot, as I don't have screen capturing software on my Gplayer right now, and it's too much of a hassle.
If you have any potential tweaks or suggestions, PM me, and I will check them out!
Note to devs: I believe I have posted this in the right section, as this does not 100% pertain to development.
Now, let's get cracking!
Tweak No. 1: convert RFS filesystem to EXT4.
RFS has been tweaked since it debuted on the galaxy S over two years ago, but still is not quite up to par with today's standards.
Steps:
1. Flash the Terrasilent kernel/ Klin's R3 (basically a kernel with Clockwork recovery 5+ on it)
2. Make a nandroid backup (make sure you have enough free space!)
3.after you reboot, navigate using a file explorer on the Gplayer to the recovery directory and rename all files (excluding boot.img) from .rfs.tar to .ext4.tar.
4. Open up nandroid.md5 and change all filenames (again, excluding boot.img) from .rfs.tar to .ext4.tar
5.Save that, reboot into recovery, perform a full restore, and you are done!
Note: after converting, my /data partition is deleted/not recognized when booting into recovery on the terrasilent kernel. I think this may be an isolated incident, but you have been warned!
Tweak no.2: Universal Adrenaline shot.
This is an amazing tweak that has provided the biggest improvement for me. It should be pretty risk-free if you follow my directions. Do NOT try to unzip and manually install, as you will have to reflash you rom (bootloop). Additionally, you will have to reinstall any init.d tweaks you have currently, as this script wants to ensure no conflictions.
Steps:
1. Head to this link, read, and download Adrenaline shot v14 (don't worry, our device can handle the two risky tweaks).
2. Boot into recovery, and flash!
3. After flashing, I would optionally format /cache. After reboot, you should see a drastic performance increase!
Tweak no.3: EXT4 Journalism tweaks.
EXT4 is much faster than RFS, but on our Players, the lag is still noticeable, just navigating around the UI.
WARNING:This provides a nice speed increase, especially to large games, but if you have an unclean shutdown, force restart your Gplayer, YOU WILL HAVE TO RESTORE!
Dire warnings said, This actually increases the smoothness of the Gplayer a decent amount, although for me the risk far outweighs the benefit.
Your partitions are as follows:
System: STL9
Data: mmcblk0p2
Dbdata: stl10
cache (use this partition iuf you want to test):stl11
Remember, you need su permissions for all of this!
Instructions:
1.First, FSCK the partitions (make sure you answer no to all but the first questions, as that could lead to file corruption! the errors are generated when the partition is accessed during the FSCK, which generates an error, since data is in a different section than it was before. Don't worry, most/all of those errors are flukes. The instruction is: e2fsck -f /dev/block/(partition name)
2. Disable journalism with tune2fs: tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/block/(partition name)
Note: tune2fs will not have the capabilities necessary unless you install the one from the one shot adrenaline tweak above.
3.reboot and enjoy!
If you want to reverse this, you will have to restore a nandroid backup, as CWM formats EXT4 with journalism, and a format is required to reset it. On the same note, you will have to reapply this tweak every time you restore a nandroid backup, just something to keep in mind.
Tweak no.4: Supercharge, and apply Loopy smoothness!
I am sure everyone knows about the ubiquitous v6 supercharger script out there, and it provides a big performane increase! Also, Loopy smoothness helps a lot in stabilizing launcher performance, and I view them to be equally valuable.
1. Visit here to download the latest supercharger script, and here to download T2 of loopy smoothness.
2. Launch the supercharger from the /sdcard/download directory, go throught the basic instructions, and the custoomize, reboot, and install nitro lag nullifier. Optionally install for easier access. I would also explore some of the other options especially reindexing.
3. move the loopy smoothness script into the init.d directory, open it, and remove the comments around the launcher name if you are using the touchwiz launcher, or delete comments and name and add your launcher's process name (run ps in terminal emulator and find the most likely name, or look it up).
That's it! you should notice a definite performance increase, especially improvements in multitasking thanks to v6 supercharger. The launcher should also be a lot smoother.
Bonus (I have it in R5 rom, but have not actually applied it)
head here, download the latest script, and run it. It should add some extra build.prop tweaks that will greatly boost performance!
Some final suggestions:
1. Move to a custom launcher.
Using touchwiz, I always had about 125+- ram free after using a taskiller, but when I moved to go launcher EX (imho, the best launcher for the gplayer out there, beautiful, not hard on resources, and very customizable), I had over 160+ free after using a taskiller, which resulted in far smoother operation, and excellent multitasking!
2. use ondemand or ondemandx.
All the Gplayer profiles are good, but ondemand, although not the best at power saving, provides the best performance on our aging system, and gives a little extra juice when you need it.
3. use the deadline governor.
None of the other I/O governors come even close to NOOP and Deadline, but deadline is better for everyday use, and noop is better if you have several file transfers occurring at once (eg. hooked up to a computer, updating apps, and browsing the web). It comes down to your usage style, but I prefer Deadline.
4. Disable uneeded /system/app apps.
Fortunately our Gplayer is pretty bloat free, but you can disable more apps if you want. You should rename them to .apk1 instead of deleting them, just in case. Do not delete phone.apk, because for some reason it breaks the default camera app ( you can delete it if you don't use it).
Open up a terminal, run the ps command, and disable any system, apps you recognise in the list (una, fota, etc.).
That's it! I will certainly add on as time progresses, but at the moment that is all I can remember/know about, so be sure to pm me with potential tweaks so I can put it up here!
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Very nice thread! I'll try it once my device finishes charging. How did you manage to get 1.5 OC?
Thanks! you can tell I am more than a little OCD about my device's performance
I was able to achieve a stable OC by setting the internal voltage to 1.19V, and my core voltage to 1.4V, using Tegrak Overclock. This gives a nice increase to the performance of my player!
hanthesolo said:
Thanks! you can tell I am more than a little OCD about my device's performance
I was able to achieve a stable OC by setting the internal voltage to 1.19V, and my core voltage to 1.4V, using Tegrak Overclock. This gives a nice increase to the performance of my player!
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I'm not really familiar with OC at all but you just change the voltage and the 1.5 OC option will appear? Didin't you modify your kernel a bit to do this?
As I said in the OP, I have the Terrasilent kernel installed, which allows by default overclocking up to 1.2 GHZ. If you install Tegrak Overclock Ultimate, you can load it's module and overclock up to 2 GHZ with a max internal voltage of 1250mv, and a max core voltage ov 1400MV. Suprisingly easy, actually, and an invaluable tool. You can also change the I/O governor like I suggested from it as well. Attached is A screenshot of my quadrant score (I decided to do it anyway). The score is slightly lower than I said because I have Journalling disabled (to much of a hassle to keep restoring every day).
hanthesolo said:
As I said in the OP, I have the Terrasilent kernel installed, which allows by default overclocking up to 1.2 GHZ. If you install Tegrak Overclock Ultimate, you can load it's module and overclock up to 2 GHZ with a max internal voltage of 1250mv, and a max core voltage ov 1400MV. Suprisingly easy, actually, and an invaluable tool. You can also change the I/O governor like I suggested from it as well. Attached is A screenshot of my quadrant score (I decided to do it anyway). The score is slightly lower than I said because I have Journalling disabled (to much of a hassle to keep restoring every day).
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Oh ok you have tegrak ultimate. I had tegrak free and the limit was 1.3. Also for the journaling why don't you make a script to execute it at each boot?
Yeah, You can do some crazy stuff in the ultimate version!
I will upload the screenshot in the OP, the way I did it wouldn't work the first time
I didn't make journalism a init.d script because it is a one-time tweak, you apply it, and you have to reformat to go back! I also didn't spell out the instructions verbatim in case someone wants to selectively apply this tweak or use it as reference.
zaclimon said:
Oh ok you have tegrak ultimate. I had tegrak free and the limit was 1.3. Also for the journaling why don't you make a script to execute it at each boot?
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Also, I have triesd to make an init.d script to disable journaling and putting tune2fs in /system/xbin, but it errors out because you can only disable journaling when the partitions aren't mounted. So what I did was copy tune2fs to a directory, boot into recovery, unmount all the partitions and then disable journaling.
Surprisingly my quadrant score jumped by 400 points.
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Also, I have triesd to make an init.d script to disable journaling and putting tune2fs in /system/xbin, but it errors out because you can only disable journaling when the partitions aren't mounted. So what I did was copy tune2fs to a directory, boot into recovery, unmount all the partitions and then disable journaling.
Surprisingly my quadrant score jumped by 400 points.
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I was able to do it (albeit with warnings during e2fsck) using merely the terminal emulator, and after fixing permissions on tune2fs (I manually placed it). I checked it with tune2fs -l /dev/block/(partition) | grep features, and it claimed that I removed the has_journalism flag. Plus, I got the wonderful benefit of corruption after an unclean shutdown.
Is Rom compatibile with SGP 5.0(International) if not can you please pm me some advice about how to port it on SGP 5.0 ?
Unfortunately, This rom is based soly on the SGP 4.0, and would be very difficult to port onto the 5.0. I am currently working on a flashable zip file that contains most of these tweaks, so you won't have to use the rom.
Ok thanks mate , i try two tweaks and its amazing....its awesome feeling when onecore processor 1.5Ghz defeat dualcore Tegra 2
Which two did you try?
what score did you get?
It DOES feel pretty awesome to see quadrant shoot up past a tegra device
Sneak preview: me and Klin are working together on his next version of his rom, and it will have all of these tweaks, plus some extras (read: ext4 sdcard)!
One thing I am not certain about with the adreneline shot; do I need to manually delete my init.d scripts, or will flashing this delete them?
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The scipt will delete them for you when you flash, but it shouldn't cause any issues if they are not deleted. If some conflict, it may reduce the overall performance boost, but that's the worst that could happen.
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Which two did you try?
what score did you get?
It DOES feel pretty awesome to see quadrant shoot up past a tegra device
Sneak preview: me and Klin are working together on his next version of his rom, and it will have all of these tweaks, plus some extras (read: ext4 sdcard)!
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I try Ext4 and Adrenaline and i get 2612 points I enjoy for flashable pack of tweaks Nice work mate and good luck with all your projects PS sorry for my bad english
Glad it works! I am almost done testing ext4 sdcard, and I will have the steps up here soon. Additionally, Klin will release an update to his ROM with my tweaks includded in the next couple of days, along with more than one new goody
I don't get how you get such a high io score! My io is around 800!? I installed the adreneline tweak, but nothing noticeable, perhaps even worse performance. I have ext4 (I think, since I installed klin's r5). I use deadline scheduler. I also use v6 supercharger. What are you people's quadrant score with just the adrenaline and supercharger? No overclock.
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Klin's R5 only formats /system as ext4. to get the full benefit (and the noticeable increase), do it on all partitions using the guide on the OP. I would also use noop, as it seems to be slightly faster than deadline on ext4. Once you do that, you should get the increase.
Well, I just tried to convert to ext4 following your instructions, but following the reboot, it has been on the solid "samsung" (not the pulsing one) screen for several minutes, is this normal, or did something bad happen?
Hello Archos community,
I have bought the new Archos 50c Neon in early July, because of its nice price-performance ratio and the fact that it runs Android 4.4.2.
I have been able to successfully root it using Chinese "KingRoot", but am looking for an alternative SuperUser app. I already own a license of SuperSU Pro (which I am using for my tablet), but it turns out that the current versions of SuperSU (both 2.46 and 2.49) currently cause a crash when calling "su" from adb - seemingly because the Dalvik VM is unable to instantiate class "android.os.Environment" from SuperSU code when SuperSU wants to display its UI dialog that asks for permission. For the detailed issue description, please see here:
My thread in XDA SuperSU forum: Crash when trying to run su
Unfortunately, Chainfire (the author of SuperSU) from his signature is "away for most of the summer", and I will wait until he's back and then point him to this issue one more time.
In the meantime, I have created a script to successfully remove all remains/remnants of KingRoot (after successful rooting with it) and replace it by Koushik Dutta's OpenSource Superuser package:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.superuser
http://www.koushikdutta.com/post/superuser
I have attached a ZIP file to this post that includes everything needed to do so - here are the instructions:
Please note that I do not take any responsibilities in case you brick your device, and also note that you void your warranty for the phone when rooting (these should be clear anyway)!
Reset your Neon 50c to factory settings (optional, might be needed in case you run into issues otherwise when removing KingRoot)
Unzip the attached ZIP and copy its contents to the root of the internal SD storage on your 50c Neon (directory /sdcard)
Use the included kingroot_4.0.0.apk to root your phone (allowing to install apks from untrusted sources)
Then, from your PC, open an "adb shell" to your device (you need to activate developer mode and USB debugging in order to do so)
From this adb shell, execute "su" and allow this root access through the KingRoot dialog on your phone. You now have a root shell on your phone.
Open a second adb root shell in the same way to not become stuck in case something goes wrong with the first one
In the first adb root shell, cd to /sdcard and execute my script in the following way:
Code:
cd /sdcard
sh -x ./kingroot_2_koush_su.sh ./busybox ./superuser.zip
and while it is running, press enter three times when "ps | grep king" and "ps | grep k_" show whether there are still processes running on your device that are related to KingRoot. General rule here is: When there are processes still running for the first ("ps | grep king"), something went wrong and KingRoot uninstall will most probably fail, while the fact that only processes matching the second ("ps | grep k_") are found, is normal and will NOT stop the script from working successfully.
When the script has finished, your phone will do a "soft reboot" (from killing zygote). You should do another explicit "hard" reboot afterwards anyway before trying to use the newly installed Superuser package.
I have run this script myself on my device, and am pretty confident that after the script has run successfully, there are no remains/remnants of KingRoot left on my device. The Open Source Superuser app by Koushik Dutta runs without any issues.
Hope this helps - and am still looking for some help with why SuperSU crashes on the 50c Neon although it seemingly has been installed properly...
Best regards,
awl
Great work, thank you very much for sharing this. :good:
I have just successfully followed your instructions and they worked for my new Archos 50c Neon as well.
Just one remark concerning the Kingroot (as the app was confusing me with Chinese that I could not read): Make sure to turn your wifi on before you start Kingroot, otherwise the app won't do anything.
And now my questions:
Do you by any chance know if there is a custom recovery available for the Archos 50c Neon? I haven't found any.
Have you written a debloater script which uninstalls all uninstallable apps?
do you have a custom recovery for this phone as I cannot get the su to up date without it restarting into recovery for the clockwork mod superuser. I have got root but only if i set supersu to grant rather than prompt but this isn't a very secure way as you said the su binary is there but the system isn't allowing the prompt.
Da5t3rati0n said:
do you have a custom recovery for this phone as I cannot get the su to up date without it restarting into recovery for the clockwork mod superuser.
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AFAIK there is no custom recovery for this phone. I don't own it any more, it had too many weak points, such as most promintently speech quality/microphone and frequent hangups or no sound for one party during 3G telephony.
Sorry & best regards,
awl
awl14 said:
AFAIK there is no custom recovery for this phone. I don't own it any more, it had too many weak points, such as most promintently speech quality/microphone and frequent hangups or no sound for one party during 3G telephony.
Sorry & best regards,
awl
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Yes first thing I noticed about this phone was the call quality haven't had any dropped calls though also the touch screen is awful only 2 touch. Reasonable hardware though CPU is a spreadtrum 1.2ghz a7 quad core so runs cooler and more energy effient than the a9 with a mali400 mp2 twin core GPU runs Asphalt8 on decent settings and good frame. But sadly let by the touch screen as for SuperSU it roots the phone and if set to grant, root programs run so the problem is with the prompt not being allowed to show. I'm thinking this is more Google security than anything.
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Hello all, I got my Amazfit Pace a few days ago and the first thing that I wanted to do after flashing PACEified was get proper on-device root, as you know right now PACEified comes with adb root shell so we can modify the watch however we want from and adb shell but that means we're always dependent on another device for doing so, apps on the watch have no way of getting root access.
I am actually amazed that no one else even seemed to have any interest in achieving this as it was somewhat easy for me to figure it out and now I'm sharing it with y'all.
Requirements: being on a ROM that has adb root (ex: PACEified) or ability to boot the temproot kernel.
WARNING: If the stock kernel has dm-verity the temproot then install SuperSU method will lead to the device refusing to boot, I do not know whether it does or not.
Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any damage this can or will cause to your watch and/or phone, you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
Anyway here's the steps to getting SuperSU 2.79 fully working on your watch:
Download the attached zip file.
Copy the zip file to the watch.
Open a terminal/cmd/powershell in the folder where your adb binary is located.
Run the following commands in order:
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adb root
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adb remount
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adb shell
Now you are running shell commands on the watch itself so do:
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busybox unzip /sdcard/SuperSU-2.79-amazfit.zip
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cd /sdcard/supersu/
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sh root_amazfit.sh
Done, reboot and enjoy!
I hope this helps others as it did help me and I do hope I didn't make any mistake.
Credits:
Chainfire for SuperSU
Neuer_User for PACEified
KevinX8 for the SuperSU 2.79 zip for Android Wear (I used that one cause it already is setup to allow all by default)
Everyone else that I can't remember right now
List of useful root apps for the Amazfit:
MiXplorer-useful file manager with addons and root file management options: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1523691
Kernel Adiutor 4 Wear-very popular kernel options management app, won't give too many options since the stock kernel is actually quite limited but still allows tweaking a few things like changing the schedulers and their options, enabling init.d and other such stuff: https://forum.xda-developers.com/android-wear/development/app-kernel-audiutor-4-wear-t3126122 (I only tested this version but the latest normal Kernel Adiutor version might also work perfectly since the interface seems pretty friendly with low resolutions)
Advanced Settings for Watch-provides a plethora of options like Bluetooth and WiFi settings management, reboot menu and most importantly PACKAGE MANAGEMENT and by that I mean it doesn't just have the normal app settings menu that allows you to clear data/cache, force stop or disable/uninstall apps but ALSO INCLUDES A PACKAGE INSTALLER for installing apks straight on the watch: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sssemil.advancedsettings&hl=en (get the wear apk from inside the main apk, it is located in /res/raw just open the phone apk as an archive also WARNING: many menus/options make it crash cause this is not Android Wear)
Another one.
Wich are the benefits of doing that?
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Wich are the benefits of doing that?
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Same as on any other rooted Android device.
A few apps I have on the watch that use root are:
MiXplorer-file manager
Kernel Adiutor-can improve battery life/performance by messing around with it a bit
Root Essentials (the wear part sent from inside the phone apk)-it's great for uninstalling apps and such
Hello. Stock ROMs can boot "temproot kernel"? Could you please like to where it's explained? Thanks.
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Same as on any other rooted Android device.
A few apps I have on the watch that use root are:
MiXplorer-file manager
Kernel Adiutor-can improve battery life/performance by messing around with it a bit
Root Essentials (the wear part sent from inside the phone apk)-it's great for uninstalling apps and such
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Nice.
MiXplorer is my mobile favourite Android explorer.
I don't know the other apps, i must learn about it.
Any suggestions about them, Kernel auditor seems very interesting. I have very much problems with my Amazfit battery, last month suddenly i don't get more than 2 days of autonomy
Thx.
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Hello. Stock ROMs can boot "temproot kernel"? Could you please like to where it's explained? Thanks.
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Stock ROM can boot temproot kernel only if old enough version to not have the bootloader locked OR you unlocked the bootloader after, to get the temproot kernel go to the PACEified thread and read the install instructions, it has you booting the temproot kernel on order to flash it and it might be possible to just boot it, root and reboot but I am not entirely sure, if the Amazfit has dm-verity it will refuse to boot after altering the system, I actually didn't think about that when I wrote this guide cause it was 5AM so would recommend flashing a custom ROM.
@Neuer_User does the Amazfit have dm-verity?
Also would you consider adding SuperSU to PACEified in the future?
Double post cause mobile XDA is messed up, delete.
jmpcarceles said:
Nice.
MiXplorer is my mobile favourite Android explorer.
I don't know the other apps, i must learn about it.
Any suggestions about them, Kernel auditor seems very interesting. I have very much problems with my Amazfit battery, last month suddenly i don't get more than 2 days of autonomy
Thx.
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To be honest MiXplorer just about works but isn't really 100% usable cause things don't fit on screen, looking for a better root file explorer for the watch.
The stock kernel doesn't really allow you to control much cause the stock kernel doesn't seem to have too many features but can still change governor and a few other stuff and if nothing else it can enable init.d if you don't already have it enabled, I use the Kernel Adiutor 4 Wear version but TBH I think the normal one should be just as usable.
For your battery problem you could try deleting some unneeded apps like the Mi Home or the Chinese radio one (if on Chinese ROM/PACEified) and maybe Greenify will also work but wouldn't really put my bets on it, perhaps try using some battery saving scripts?
Right now I'm looking for an apk installer...I have a solution already but it's probably the worst one possible: a init.d script that checks if there are apps in a folder on the internal storage then installs all of them and deletes the apk files but that means you need to reboot in order to install apps, could make crond run the script every hour or so but that would also not be too convenient so either a script runner or a apk installer would be best.
BTW after uninstalling apps from the watch using a root app you need to crash the launcher or it will still show the icons for the uninstalled apps.
Also I'm working on improving the script to add safety checks (if someone tries to run it without the other files in the same folder right now it would most certainly end up in a mighty bootloop, fortunately a bootloop with adb access so easy to fix but still not great, I made that script in like 5-10 min after I manually did it on my own watch) and add more features like installing a newer busybox version and linking missing applets (unzip for example).
Updated 2nd post with a few useful apps, one of them finally giving us the power to install apps straight on the device, will publish the new version of my script in a few days, have been working on adding A LOT of new features and now I kinda need to concentrate on the project for my Android class for a bit, sorry for the delay.
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Updated 2nd post with a few useful apps, one of them finally giving us the power to install apps straight on the device, will publish the new version of my script in a few days, have been working on adding A LOT of new features and now I kinda need to concentrate on the project for my Android class for a bit, sorry for the delay.
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Hi Ranomez,
When do you plan to publish the new script for local root?
Thx in advance.
Merry Xmas.
jmpcarceles said:
Hi Ranomez,
When do you plan to publish the new script for local root?
Thx in advance.
Merry Xmas.
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Most probably next week, haven't really had time to work on it with the last week of college before the holidays and the fact that I bought Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on launch day and it's been eating most of my free hours, lol, sorry for the delay, anyways the current script still works for simply rooting but will give a no such file or directory error if init.d isn't already enabled, just ignore that.
Thank you @Ranomez
I've just tried your local root using the temproot kernel on the latest stock rom, and it worked great. So, I can say my pace doesn't have dm-verity enabled?
btw, SU was added to Stockfied, Pacefied and Stratosfied, just needs to be enabled.