[ROM][4.4.4][10/21] SlimSaber - i9100 - Galaxy S II Android Development

SlimSaber i9100 Uber 4.8
Making SlimKat more faster and smoother​
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SlimSaber: Uber toolchain 4.8.4
SlimKernel: Uber toolchain 4.9.4​
Disclaimer
I'm not responsible for any damages on your device.
It comes from my hobby to building rom that is actually for private use and then some users found it on my goo.im. Due to some suggestions from them (rkoby13 is one of them ), I decided to create this thread to share my builds with you.
My focus is to optimize the ROM in many areas and compiled it with custom toolchain Uber for more performance and smoothness.
I choose SlimRoms as a base because it is a lightweight and not a bloated ROM, but it still has rich features. Combined with some of CM features, I bake a ROM that has more useful features but still lightweight.
The ROM and the kernel are tested by me first before I make it available online. I could have overseen something during testing, please be understand.
Features summary
See here. Thanks a lot Harsha Raj!
Installation instructions
Coming from 4.1.x or 4.2.x or 4.3.x or another ROM to 4.4.x:
Flash a kitkat compatible recovery from here. A kernel is a recovery and a recovery is a kernel.
Reboot to recovery. Not to the system!
Full wipe: data, cache, dalvik cache.
Mount system and format system partition manually.
Flash the unofficial build.
Flash gapps from here. Please use the 'minimal' one since our system partition is not big enough to carry the 'full' one.
Coming from previous unofficial build:
Wipe cache and dalvik cache.
Flash the unofficial build.
No need to re-flash gapps. Gapps will be restored back automatically by backup tool during flashing.
Another version of full wipe/dirty flashing from Hopper8
Known Issues
See this post.
F.A.Q
See second post.
Latest release
Latest 4.4.4: 20151021
Latest 4.4.3: 20140616
Latest 4.4.2: 20140604
Full Changelog
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Credits
SlimRoms - The SlimRom team
zzmoove governor - ZaneZam
Uber toolchain - Cl3Kener
SlimSaber banner and signatures - kroz
Special Thanks
HardCorePawn - for his great work making the SlimKat available on i9100 device.
Dorimanx - for patches to disable sqlite fsync.
Sources
https://github.com/SlimSaber
How To Build
See this post

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F.A.Q (Freaking Annoying Questions)
Battery percentage drops frequently after boot
The full gauge needs to be reset. See here how to do it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55371824&postcount=15027
How to disable CellBroadcastReceiver
There are three possibilities to disable it:
Disable its setting: See here
Remove it: Settings - SlimCenter - SlimSizer - Delete CellBroadcastReceiver
Freeze it: Use Titanium Backup and freeze 'Mobile Broadcast'
Root doesn't work!
Enable 'Developer options'
Go to Settings -> About Phone
Tap on the Build Number 7 times
Go to Settings -> Developer options -> Root access
Choose 'Apps' or 'Apps and ADB'
How to set zzmoove profile
Available zzmoove profiles:
Default
Will set governor defaults
Yank Battery
A very good battery/performance balanced setting - DEV-NOTE: highly recommended! -
Yank Battery Extreme
Like yank battery but focus on battery saving
ZaneZam Battery
A more 'harsh' setting strictly focused on battery saving - DEV-NOTE: might give some lags! -
ZaneZam Battery Plus
NEW! reworked 'faster' battery setting - DEV-NOTE: recommended too! -
ZaneZam Moderate
NEW! setting based on 'ZaneZam Optimized' which has mainly (but not strictly only!) 2 cores online -
ZaneZam Optimized
Balanced setting with no focus in any direction - DEV-NOTE: relict from back in the days, even though some people still like it! -
ZaneZam Performance
All you can get from zzmoove in terms of performance but still has the fast - down scaling/hotplugging behaving
ZaneZam InZane
NEW! based on performance with new insane scaling active. a new experience!
ZaneZam Gaming
NEW! based on performance with scaling block enabled to avoid cpu overheating during gameplay
How to set the zzmoove profile:
Go to Settings - Advanced options - Performance - choose zzmoove governor
Press menu key and choose Governor Settings
Search for 'profile_number' and pick a number from above
Press 'Apply values' and eventually enable 'Apply on boot'
Only profile_number can be persisted, any other gov settings will be changed based on the chosen profile template.
* Media scanner eating my battery
* CPU stuck at 1.2 GHz
* Random music player stop
For media scanner problem, try this following solution first: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47868557, also see this.
At these problems could have the same root cause: The kitkat sdcard fuse daemon issue on the Exynos 4210 family of devices. There is no fix yet. See this thread for more information.
How to check corrupt partition
See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50264173&postcount=9137
I have excessive RILJ wakelocks
See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50227440&postcount=9049
and here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50758124&postcount=9790
My recovery won't flash the 4.4 zip... aka "Status 7 error"... what do I do?
You need a kitkat compatible cwm. See installation instructions in 1st op
How to change DPI?
Currently, this feature hasn't been ported... so you'll need to install Texdroider DPI from the playstore... or edit /system/build.prop and change ro.sf.lcd_density to the desired value
Stuck at the Samsung logo
Follow this steps to get rid of the stuck and to have back your valuable data:
Go to recovery and make a twrp/cwm backup.
Do a full wipe + mount system + format system.
Flash the rom + gapps.
Reboot to rom and skip the setup wizard.
Go to recovery again and advance restore your data only.
Reboot.
My timezone is reset and it is wrong
See this workaround from rkoby13 or eskriminal here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45572515&postcount=2668
What is Toolchain?
In software, a toolchain is the set of programming tools that are used to create a product (typically another computer program or system of programs). The tools may be used in a chain, so that the output of each tool becomes the input for the next, but the term is used widely to refer to any set of linked development tools.
A simple software development toolchain consists of a compiler and linker to transform the source code into an executable program, libraries to provide interfaces to the operating system, and a debugger. A complex product such as a video game needs tools for preparing sound effects, music, textures, 3-dimensional models, and animations, and further tools for combining these resources into the finished product.
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toolchain
What is SaberMod?
The term "SaberMod" is coming from:
SaberMod is a AOSP based ROM with some extra features added in and mostly from CyanogenMod. SaberMod started out pure AOSP when android 4.2.1 launched. Originally it was pure AOSP with a few extra features I ported over from CyanogeMod and linaro optimizations. Then I rebased everything off of rasbeanjelly because I liked many features found in rasbean. Since then I've modified a lot of the code so not much of it is rasbeanjelly based anymore. But you will still find some commonly used features found in rasbeanjelly. SaberMod is not a rasbeanjelly or CM clone, or KANG. Custom kernels are included for certain devices when available. These are personal builds we make for ourselves and originally became very popular in the nexus 7 forums. Features are very rarely added, and are built to SaberMod's team members liking. Currently there are two members of SaberMod working on this project. Myself and @jarjar124 . Please understand our time is limited and we are only two people who have lives, and do not have 25-50 members like CyanogenMod to add things. And our goal is not to add a bunch of features that bloat the system of the ROM.
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Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2158698
What is Linaro?
Linaro is the place where engineers from the world's leading technology companies define the future of Linux on ARM. The company is a not-for-profit engineering organization with over 120 engineers working on consolidating and optimizing open source software for the ARM architecture, including the GCC toolchain, the Linux kernel, ARM power management, graphics and multimedia interfaces.
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Source: http://www.linaro.org/linux-on-arm/

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Goodies
Radio cleaner
If you have signal dropping problem or once messing with your RIL, flash this to return to the OpenRIL: http://d-h.st/LqZ (Credit to codeworkx)
It flashes also the LS8 modem.
KrozMod Collection
A theme collections by kroz, visit his thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1960233
Signatures by kroz
SlimSaber
SaberMod SlimRoms
Download here: http://d-h.st/users/kroz/?fld_id=25717#files
Bootanimation by kroz
Download here: http://d-h.st/users/kroz/?fld_id=28876#files
More information about this bootanimation, see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47920976&postcount=5592
Bootanimation by thereald
Download here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2499512

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Nice work mate,I am downloading now and will post my thoughts. Thumbs up
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

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What does saber mod Toolchain do mate?
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2

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Downloading and very curious
Thanks for your efforts!
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda app-developers app

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Anyone could supply some OpenPDroid patches? Thanks
Or could you implement them @fusionjack?
Cant wait to test - downloading...
Greetz
SlimBean-6.2|Dorimanx9.34|i9100¬Tapa2

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diddly3000 said:
What does saber mod Toolchain do mate?
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2
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its job is to compile libs and some other stuff with some optimizations. as result, the rom could be smoother or faster. whether it is a placebo or not, you decide it.

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leechseed said:
Anyone could supply some OpenPDroid patches? Thanks
Or could you implement them @fusionjack?
Cant wait to test - downloading...
Greetz
SlimBean-6.2|Dorimanx9.34|i9100¬Tapa2
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Since unofficial build 20130602, Slimbean has merged CM's privacy guard. I don't think another 'privacy' thing is necessary.

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fusionjack said:
its job is to compile libs and some other stuff with some optimizations. as result, the rom could be smoother or faster. whether it is a placebo or not, you decide it.
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Ok I guess I will decide downloading
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---------- Post added at 01:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:28 PM ----------
Will I flash this build with slim 6.xx gapps?
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fusionjack said:
Since unofficial build 20130602, Slimbean has merged CM's privacy guard. I don't think another 'privacy' thing is necessary.
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Ok didnt know that
Nice gimmick but its lacking on personal settings - i checked it but i still prefer pdroid as i can set almost anything with the pdroid manager, not only contacts, messages & call logs
Greetz
SlimBean-FJ03/07|i9100¬Tapa2

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diddly3000 said:
Will I flash this build with slim 6.xx gapps?
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If you dirty-flash over the official one, you don't need to flash gapps. gapps is automatically backed up prior to flashing ROM.
If you do full-wipe, then you need to flash gapps after flashing ROM.
You can consider these builds are nightly and the builds from the official thread are stable and weekly. So the same rules are applied and forget the toolchain thing.

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fusionjack said:
If you dirty-flash over the official one, you don't need to flash gapps. gapps is automatically backed up prior to flashing ROM.
If you do full-wipe, then you need to flash gapps after flashing ROM.
You can consider these builds are nightly and the builds from the official thread are stable and weekly. So the same rules are applied and forget the toolchain thing.
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it's good to flash upgrade package for build 6.x tho
Sent fom my S-II running >>SlimBean build 6.9 Unofficial (20130703) SaberMod 4.9 by fusionjack<< powered BY >>DorimanX kernel 9.34<<

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rkoby13 said:
it's good to flash upgrade package for build 6.x tho
Sent fom my S-II running >>SlimBean build 6.9 Unofficial (20130703) SaberMod 4.9 by fusionjack<< powered BY >>DorimanX kernel 9.34<<
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oh, didn't notice that. thanks.

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leechseed said:
Ok didnt know that
Nice gimmick but its lacking on personal settings - i checked it but i still prefer pdroid as i can set almost anything with the pdroid manager, not only contacts, messages & call logs
Greetz
SlimBean-FJ03/07|i9100¬Tapa2
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yeah, I heard that pdroid can basically do more than cm's privacy guard or other things. I didn't follow the discussion.

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@wonsky21:
to answer your question from official thread: the unofficial build 20130701 has already the newest mali r3p1-01rel1 May 13.

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fusionjack said:
yeah, I heard that pdroid can basically do more than cm's privacy guard or other things. I didn't follow the discussion.
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Ok
Will you stick to cm guard or will you go for pdroid?
Like this modded rootbox comes straight patched:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42234394
Greetz
SlimBean-FJ-03/07|Dorimanx9.34|i9100¬Tapa2

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leechseed said:
Ok
Will you stick to cm guard or will you go for pdroid?
Like this modded rootbox comes straight patched:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42234394
Greetz
SlimBean-FJ-03/07|Dorimanx9.34|i9100¬Tapa2
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i'll stick with cm pg, because i don't think we can have both in the rom. even if we can have them both, it looks to me like to have two antivirus software.
there is too many changes if i want to revert cm's pg which could break here and there. so better to stick with cm's pg.

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Btw, if you guys have problem with gps, you can try to flash the static navigation gps lib that I put on OP.
I usually flash this after flashing ROM. I find I can get gps fix easily with this lib.

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