I've been keeping up on the changelogs for entropy's daily driver and I have noticed his evident concern for the bug starting in 2.6.35.12, and I was just wondering what the differences are between say 2.6.35.7 and 2.6.35.14? and whether or not that bug is really that big that I should worry about it or not?
on a separate note, right now I'm kinda struggling to figure out whether to use Siyah or entropy's daily driver? its definitely noticeable the difference when testing benchmarks I think Siyah is faster, but other than that theyre pretty similar for practicality's sake, however I do like the 100mHz CPU state in Siyah just for saving battery there...
Does anyone have one they prefer or real reasons for one or another?
Thanks
I think you just have to use the one you like the best. Entropy described it the best I think in another thread. He is a little more on the conservative side but focuses on stability. The siyah kernel is very good. I tried it for a day and had no problems. I just use entropys cause I know his work. Just go with the one your happy with.
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I'll give you my theory on what I chose.
I've been using Entropy's since this board debuted. I've liked his work from back on the Infuse boards prior. He's very active around here and very knowledgeable. That right there goes a long way for me.
As to the actual kernels themselves, I tried Siyah for a few days and honestly had no issues other than the occasional issue where when locking my screen, it would take a screenshot instead. This might be fixed by now. But, as you said, it benched very well. With that said, the overall experience to me was the exact same with basic UI navigation along with watching videos and playing various games.
I have nothing against the Siyah kernel but from what I mentioned above, I'd rather use and help support Entropy with his kernel and report any issues that come about. Luckily, I've yet to report on a problem...
Like the others have said, it's really a matter of personal preference. Flash both and try them out.
I personally prefer Entropy's for the battery life and stability. But Siyah is also a very good kernel that places emphasis on performance. It can't hurt to try both.
It's not necessarily a bug that occurred in .12 - it's more like a bugfix that broke stuff dependent on the bug. It's a display-only thing - e.g. there are no known benefits OR drawbacks to .14 (that's why it's experimental - it's an unknown) other than that some forms of battery drain will no longer cause Android OS to be extremely high in the rankings in Settings->About Phone->Battery Usage.
e.g. it's harder to notice some causes of drain
As to Siyah vs mine - Siyah is for those that want to live on the bleeding edge - experimental CPU frequency governors, more aggressive application of patches - it leads to potentially better performance but can also lead to a higher likelihood of encountering a regression (something that broke).
Hey, I have my Galaxy note 2 on stock rom, 4.1.2. Odexed
I was wondering which is the best kernel that supports swaping external memory on internal
I really need your help, i dont know which kernel I should choose, I was going to try redpill kernel but people are saying that it has battery draining problems
Please help me, I baby my note 2 and I would rather die than seeing my note 2 having issues, and thats why I dont flash custom roms
Or, if there is a way to swap external mem on internal with some kind of app or OTHER WAY THAN A KERNEL
Thanks
You can use search button for that script. And you have to use kernel with init.d support.
perseus has best battery life with good performance, high costumisation by stweaks. agni best performance set by trickster mod problem is i can't set over the gpu... neak is good but i think it,s not so smooth. that was a shot review of some kernel. my choice at the time is agni
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Perseus really does have the best battery drain.
But it lags in games.
Redpill has the best audio engine. Scoobydoo
Some members like. Neak more. Wolfson
Adam is currently going into the right way... You could. Try adam... Seems to. Ne. Very good.
Every custom kernel supports init.d.
Just flash the mod exsd2internalsd..... And you're good to go
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Stock is the best kernel, if you care about performance. Period.
But you'll realize that after using a fluid ROM like ARHD, with stock ROM performance of all kernels felt same to me. Still if I had to choose one I'd go for N.E.A.K, as it is pretty straightforward with nifty features, just if it had the exFAT support!
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Stock is the best kernel, if you care about performance. Period.
But you'll realize that after using a fluid ROM like ARHD, with stock ROM performance of all kernels felt same to me. Still if I had to choose one I'd go for N.E.A.K, as it is pretty straightforward with nifty features, just if it had the exFAT support!
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I don't know on what basis you're making this claim, but anyways it's been the exact opposite for me - Redpill, Perseus, Devil all have great fluidity (had to mess about with the settings of Perseus a bit to eliminate the initial lag - but with no other) - and I haven't tried OC/UV much. Not to mention the headphone/speaker amp and saturation prevention options, screen calibration etc. which you miss out on stock.
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I don't know on what basis you're making this claim, but anyways it's been the exact opposite for me - Redpill, Perseus, Devil all have great fluidity (had to mess about with the settings of Perseus a bit to eliminate the initial lag - but with no other) - and I haven't tried OC/UV much. Not to mention the headphone/speaker amp and saturation prevention options, screen calibration etc. which you miss out on stock.
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The basis was my own testing with Perseus, Red Pill and even Adam, for a pretty long time. Not a single one was as fast and fluid as stock, even with the modified settings of stock kernel found here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41902544&postcount=4602
Oh, and as I said, if you are on stock ROM you won't notice anything, that's why I used Perseus as long as I was on stock ROM, but since I moved to ARHD, there was no other option other than stock.
Yes, I agree there are some advantages of custom kernels, like saturation prevention as you said, but no way I was giving up very noticeable performance degradation for some extra features without which I am not bothered at all. And since I installed Viper there are some amplifications, so that point is unchecked from custom kernels advantage list.
PS: If you have no problem could you send me your settings of whatever kernel you are using? I wanna try once more and see. Please don't bother if that kernel doesn't support exFAT.
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The basis was my own testing with Perseus, Red Pill and even Adam, for a pretty long time. Not a single one was as fast and fluid as stock, even with the modified settings of stock kernel found here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41902544&postcount=4602
Oh, and as I said, if you are on stock ROM you won't notice anything, that's why I used Perseus as long as I was on stock ROM, but since I moved to ARHD, there was no other option other than stock.
Yes, I agree there are some advantages of custom kernels, like saturation prevention as you said, but no way I was giving up very noticeable performance degradation for some extra features without which I am not bothered at all. And since I installed Viper there are some amplifications, so that point is unchecked from custom kernels advantage list.
PS: If you have no problem could you send me your settings of whatever kernel you are using? I wanna try once more and see. Please don't bother if that kernel doesn't support exFAT.
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I never ever stayed stock except for the while I had to send it to service. Otherwise I used redpill (exFAT supported) and I've noticed no difference at all from when I had stock unrooted. What's your issue - are you experiencing lag with custom kernels? Or what?
Fair point regarding Viper (love it and use it always myself), but FLL tuning and DAC resampling options make it sound better at that. IMO.
I stay on Perseus, mainly because of its color calibration and all the Stweaks customization features. Now if I use stock kernel, I feel my screen is completly unrealistic, almost fluorescent lol
As for performances, the Note 2 is just powerful enough not to see any difference between kernels. People using ARHD will always tell you that stock kernel is the best for the following reason: Mike1986 says stock is the best and won't give support if you're using another kernel. Period.
I'm using ARHD, but can't stand the fake colors and the lack of customization provided by stock kernel (no GPU overclock for example, no CPU overclock, nothing you can do if your "whites" are pink or blue, etc)
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As for performances, the Note 2 is just powerful enough not to see any difference between kernels. People using ARHD will always tell you that stock kernel is the best for the following reason: Mike1986 says stock is the best and won't give support if you're using another kernel. Period.
I'm using ARHD, but can't stand the fake colors and the lack of customization provided by stock kernel (no GPU overclock for example, no CPU overclock, nothing you can do if your "whites" are pink or blue, etc)
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What the hell does this suppose to mean? Mike says.....blah blah....I don't care what Mike says! And what support are you talking about? I was on Perseus while I was using A.R.H.D, one can flash any kernel on ARHD, what to support there?
It's my view, and I am quite sure of all the ARHD users too, the stock kernel gives much more fluid and lag free performance than any other kernel available. Everybody likes customization, but as I said not with the price of performance compromise.
And you can OC GPU/CPU with Tegrak on Stock kernel. Get your facts straight before typing some gibberish.
Perfect example of why "best ROM/kernel" threads are not allowed.
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Hi Guys
Do you know what is the best ROM to improve colors, gamma and general image quality. At the moment I have Slim Rom JB 4.3 and I'm not fully satisfied. The previous versions had that option. The new one does not. Any ideas?
i don't think s2 have 4.3 rom
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i don't think s2 have 4.3 rom
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there is a couple actualy coz i flashed some already but none of them had the options also none of them had BLN. I don't really care about 4.3 it can be 4.2 or 4.1 as long as it has the funcions
it would be good if it had BLN
Dorimanx kernel has BLN and gramma fix and sharpness fix ;D
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Hi Guys
Do you know what is the best ROM to improve colors, gamma and general image quality. At the moment I have Slim Rom JB 4.3 and I'm not fully satisfied. The previous versions had that option. The new one does not. Any ideas?
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i would personally recommend dorimanx mate
Flash the latest one and You will love it
Has all the gamma settings and bln too
Thanks guys. I tried Dorimanx and it's really cool but you can only adjust blue and red and gamma only brightens the screen. Both light colors and black. What I'm trying to achieve is to have more vivid colors good contrast deep blacks and shiny whites... and dorimanx can't realy do that. It does have BLN which is good
I am a big fan of custom ROMS, to be more accurate cyanogenmod. And I like it just like that, without changing kernel or other mods. The downside is it not supporting bln.
Nowadays I am giving a try at Cyanogenmod 11 M9 + Gustavo_s Kernel just because of bln but I am not happy with battery.
So my question is why don't major custom roms support bln? Since our device has no led i see this as a great feature.
most likely for battery saving, having 2 leds always on when you have a notification will and does drain your battery can cut off a significant amount off my battery life
Hello there,
In the last 2-3 weeks, after cleanly reflashing 32.2.A.5.11 with stock repacked kernel, I noticed that my phone is getting unusually hot. This was happening especially while using navigation (Waze) with data on, and consisted in the SoC getting to 50-55°C, apps getting closed (including foreground Waze) and phone being generally unresponsive.
Before this last reflash I used AndroPlus v42, with largely the same suite of installed applications, and with a slight difference in ambient temperature of maximum 5°C due to obvious reasons.
So the question rises: Has anyone seen this kind of difference in thermal behavior between stock and AndroPlus kernels?
Thanks!
PS: I didn't go too much into the details as I don't have them, especially about the previous kernel settings. So I only expect some rather generic answers. I might decide to switch between the two kernels in the next 1-2 weeks depending on available time.
PS2: I only switched to stock because I wanted to have full original functionality of the phone, but might decide to go back to AndroPlus as X-Reality and some camera de-noise functions are of minimal importance to me.
I recommend you use Zach's kernel (https://forum.xda-developers.com/z5...rnel-zachs-kernel-playground-z5c-wip-t3350690) by @zacharias.maladroit. Latest version for Nougat (2_12_2) is stable and runs quite cool. Last night I just disabled Core Control and enabled SOC temp toggle under Thermal using Kernel Adiutor. Currently testing if it makes a difference.
Anyways, give it a try.