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Momentum Kernel​
Hello everyone! How are you doing?
Today I give you Momentum!! A somewhat minimalistic kernel that will drive your watch to perform with the least amount of lag possible with decent battery life.​
Momentum Features:​
Option to enable all 4 cores
Has performance, powersave, userspace, ondemand, smartmax, and interactive governor options
CPU Underclock to 96Mhz
Features IntelliPlug along with a CPU Profile for how the cores are enabled
And has noop, deadline, row, cfq, and fiops for I/O scheduling
More exciting features to come!
Momentum Release Versions:​
2/28/16 Initial release v0.1A :
Lightly modded!
4/2/16 First update v0.5
Added underclock to 96mhz.
Momentum Downloads:​
Marshmallow release {NEW}
LOLLIPOP VERSION {OLD}
Recommended Files and options to use with Momentum:
Download Kernel Auditor to change kernel settings. This one is modified for Wear. You will need SuperSU and busybox for it to open! Install Kernel Auditor by typing adb install KernelAuditor.apk in the CMD
Kernel settings that I recommend changing are, CPU Governor to Interactive, Go into CPU Hotplug and turn on IntelliPlug, and scroll down to the second option below IntelliPlug to Profile, Change that to Eco Conservative. But experiment to see what options work for you! Your watch should run with very low to no lag now!
XDA:DevDB Information
Momentum , Kernel for the Asus ZenWatch 2
Contributors
T10NAZ
Source Code: https://github.com/PharaohsCurse/Momentum-Kernel
Kernel Special Features: Intelliplug, SmartMax Governor, 2 cores enabled while touching the display
Version Information
Status: Alpha
Created 2016-02-29
Last Updated 2016-04-02

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Thank you @mammothjojo88 and @matze19999 for giving the Kernel a spin before I released it!

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Future of Momentum:​
I will keep this Kernel updated whenever new kernel versions drop, and will work with any and all OTA's that will drop to make sure it runs good with them.
Add anything that I find that will benefit the watch, and what the users suggest!

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Overall nice kernel! Thank you!

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Any significant impact to battery life?

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Rockwig said:
Any significant impact to battery life?
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there isnt a horrible impact, I can manage to get under 3 days

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Is there a way to tweak the hotplug settings or the amount of cores?
Just like using kernel adiutor or synapse on the smartphone but on the watch?
Does the watch react faster to user input with this kernel?
Does the watch wake up faster from always-on-display-sleep-mode?

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r0tati0n said:
Is there a way to tweak the hotplug settings or the amount of cores?
Just like using kernel adiutor or synapse on the smartphone but on the watch?
Does the watch react faster to user input with this kernel?
Does the watch wake up faster from always-on-display-sleep-mode?
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Kernel Auditor download You need SuperSU and busybox, I used the wear 5.0.1 su and I think i found a wear busybox somewhere on xda
The watch totally performs better, scrolling through menus and overall using the watch feels like it should and it wakes up about the same from screen on sleep!

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T10NAZ said:
there isnt a horrible impact, I can manage to get under 3 days
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Wow, 3 days? I can't even get close to that on stock, I assume ambient display off, but is there anything else you do to get that battery life?

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I think you should specify supported device is only for WI501Q. I don't think this works for WI502Q. I have tested with tethered boot, and same with recovery, "booting...FAILED (remote: dtb not found)"

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DDz_1888 said:
I think you should specify supported device is only for WI501Q. I don't think this works for WI502Q. I have tested with tethered boot, and same with recovery, "booting...FAILED (remote: dtb not found)"
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Ahh alright, would you mind being a tester for me? When I get home I can produce a kernel for the 502

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Since you're taking suggestions, maybe you could add lower frequencies and maybe even higher frequencies just for the lulz.

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T10NAZ said:
Ahh alright, would you mind being a tester for me? When I get home I can produce a kernel for the 502
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Sure thing. But since I would like to keep my watch as stock as possible before getting working recovery, could I be a tester for the recovery first? I really cannot afford to ruin system partition I don't feel safe before backing up stock boot and system partitions first. And my watch just updated itself to Android system 6.0.1, hence kernel compatibility issues may be a problem.

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So, I finally got my watch up and going fully. In short, like OP is suggesting, you'll need to be comfy with adb commands. I've gone ahead and zipped up the Wear BusyBox, Wear SuperSU, and KernelAuditor.apk, all flashable within recovery once you get up and going with tethered boot.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3yTF2VrLVv8cW82Wnl4REdYZTA
Maybe OP will want to grab these files and put them in the OP so others won't have to hunt them down like I had to lol!
*edit* Oversight on my end. The Kernel Auditor apk is in my zipped file, but I forgot I got the apk from OP lol.

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tzbigworm said:
So, I finally got my watch up and going fully. In short, like OP is suggesting, you'll need to be comfy with adb commands. I've gone ahead and zipped up the Wear BusyBox, Wear SuperSU, and KernelAuditor.apk, all flashable within recovery once you get up and going with tethered boot.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3yTF2VrLVv8cW82Wnl4REdYZTA
Maybe OP will want to grab these files and put them in the OP so others won't have to hunt them down like I had to lol!
*edit* Oversight on my end. The Kernel Auditor apk is in my zipped file, but I forgot I got the apk from OP lol.
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You can flash the kernel, its just twrp thats all weird

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Sorry, yeah, flash the kernel through TWRP. That's what I did lol. I actually had posted differently just wanting to confirm flashing the kernel to the boot sector lol, but I just hit the button and it works. I don't believe you're at the point yet where you want to release an untethered recovery to flash on the watch as of right now. Thank you for your work on getting the modding started.

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if i flash this now what do i need to do to get the 6.0.1 ota on my W501Q ? make a backup of everything prior to rooting kerneling busyboxing etc and restore that when the ota is finally live? would sideloading or installing the ota also require restoring everything to stock? always had custom roms on my phone so im a total ota noob

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will this kernel work with the new MM update that was just released? I'd love to try this since I'm noticing some lag now that im using the watch a lot more with the speaker playing.

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slothdabski said:
will this kernel work with the new MM update that was just released? I'd love to try this since I'm noticing some lag now that im using the watch a lot more with the speaker playing.
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It will not, it looks like I'll have to update the kernel here soon

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got the update sideloaded by now. havent done any modifications before. so the kernel is out of order but that was expected.
does the supersu-2.40-wear.zip still work? since its required by kernelauditor (and i want to finally root it)