Beta Kernel 14 Dec 10

Disclaimer: I’m not responsible for any damage you may do to your phone by installing this

WARNING: I’m still considering this a BETA Test, it’s just a public beta. There may still be bugs left in the kernels from all the work I’ve done on them. I think I’ve caught them all, but I’m only human.

If this beta goes good, which it should, then I’ll clean up the code and get it up on github, but until then, please don’t update the XDA threads, this is just a public beta. If all reports are good, then I’ll do fresh builds and do an official release this weekend.

Changelog:
Started again from scratch with the HTC INC MR3 source tree
Added BRAVO/EVO support
Cleaned up majority of the compiler warnings, only a couple left

Most clean ups came from the glacier tree, at least HTC is trying

Moved the source tree as close to mainline as possible
Updated to 2.6.32.27
EVO FPS Patch
EVO 3/5 point multi-touch mod
Kernel LZMA support (smaller kernels)
Automatic process group scheduling
gpu+
BFQ IO Scheduler (default)
Interactive Governor
Smartass Governor (default)

Moved all the settings from the code to Kconfig
Fixed the sysfs interface for Smartass, all files located in: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/smartass
Tweaked the settings extensively

Over-clocked to 1.22GHz, may not work for all, to include me

1.22GHz requires 1400mV, so it’ll kill your battery

Under-volted slightly
128MHz enabled
ck2 patch-set to include updating BFS to 357

BFS and CFS co-exist in the source tree nicely now

sqn’s sysfs interface for VDD Levels
50K sampling for the Conservative Governor, since calkulin wanted it
much more that I can’t remember, DL’s rubbing off on me….lol
Z

Download links:
BETA Kernel Bravo CFS 14 Dec 10 (456 downloads)
BETA Kernel Evo CFS 14 Dec 10 (743 downloads)
BETA Kernel Inc CFS 14 Dec 10 (543 downloads)

md5sum:
7ba68581711296cc2fa5fbc86a2a11d3 ztest-BRAVO-CFS-121410.zip

317b38636c4a0a153ded53e245d516d2 ztest-EVO-CFS-121410.zip

2f04983d941c026dd718821dc59f0384 ztest-INC-CFS-121410.zip

30 Comments

  1. Ping from Ardax:

    Any luck with AOSP kernels yet?

  2. Ping from IncredibleDude:

    Loving the kernels dude! Great job!

  3. Ping from Cavediver:

    I just flashed this new beta on my EVO. Initially it’s running real fast and smooth, and everything I tested worked just fine. Hopefully the battery life will be as good or better than the 12/5 beta. I have a question; I noticed you don’t use HAVS in your kernels; Why don’t you use it?

  4. Ping from bill bragg:

    So far running good on my evo, we shall see how the battery life goes!

  5. Ping from Josh:

    Are the Incredible Kernels over clocked by default?

  6. Ping from khanam:

    ok. so the newest inc kernel is the new king of all kernels for the inc. it is blazingly fast and smooth. fingers crossed on battery life. And for a change I am stable at 1.152 with a bevy of apps and service running!

  7. Ping from marcus:

    I have the newer version evo with the updated camera software i believe. I have tried multiple kernals so i can overclock them i am coming from myns rom for the evo but everytime i install them everything works fine but my camera/camcorder. It just shows a blackscreen but can feel the haptiac feedback. Peeps have been saying that htc has released the source codes. Know anything Ziggy?

    • Ping from Ziggy471:

      I know what the problem is, the newer version of the Evo uses a different camera sensor than the older versions. I have the code from the glacier and ace trees for it, however, it’s not a direct drop in. My personal opinion, it’d be better to wait for HTC to release the new version of the Evo source, and then it’d take me all of 30 minutes to implement and build.

      • Ping from ajaholic:

        umy old evo was stolen, luckily i had insurance but my replacement is new hardware and i can’t flash your kernels anymore!!! (need my camera features haha) is there any speculation on as to when the new source will come out?

  8. Ping from reggie:

    uhhh the 12/14 beta for the evo is rocking like cut off stockings Ziggy on Virus Revo 3.1 rom….Been off the charger for 3 hours and only at 95%….Ill say youve done a great job!!!!!!! My first kernel ive ever used to get that kinda feedback nd ive tried billions or Kernals….

  9. Ping from Ziggy471:

    Glad you all like the kernels. As long as no-one is having issues by Saturday, then I’ll make these official kernels and may even start my own thread on XDA in the INC forum.

    Z

  10. Ping from Freddie:

    Just ran into an issue running Calkulin’s EViO 1.6.2 and this latest beta on a Hardware 0003 EVO…

    The USB tethering in the Dec 5th kernel worked flawlessly but this latest kernel has given me problems. After connecting for about a minute, the phone would get stuck and then reboot. I tried it a couple of times with the same result. I went back to the Dec 5th kernel and am back to normal.

    Not sure if anyone else is having this issue but this was the only problem I encountered. I will be more than happy to help troubleshoot this if you give me some directions on what to do…

    • Ping from Ziggy471:

      I think I may have fixed it, just updated all Android USB Gadget drivers to the latest. If you comment again, use a good email in the top of the comment block, and I’ll email you a test link. Only admins can see that email addy.

      Actually, that goes for anyone, if you use a valid email addy in the comments, I’ll normally work on the issue and send something directly to you.

      Z

  11. Ping from gmichaelow:

    Many have run into the so-called “sleep of death” with your beta kernels on Uber Sense (Desire Z port to DInc). Basically it’s like you hit the sleep button, but then get a hot restart instead.

    • Ping from Ziggy471:

      Never seen that one, and I’m running ID’s Desire Z port, it’s what I normally test these kernels on.

      As for ‘sleep of death’, you must have come from the WinMo crowd like me. What is happening on yours, at least my educated guess, is you’ve overclocked too much, and something died, hence the hot restart. Or, it could be as simple as you found an issue in the Desire Z port, they still exist.

      Z

  12. Ping from Marcel:

    Hey Z,

    LOVE the beta as I can now officially clock to 1228!!!!! But, for some strange reason, the phone restarts anytime I try to run quadrant… I’m assuming once an app taxes on the cpu to much it restarts? Asisde from that it idles with no problems and does simple tasks such as emails, web browsing, texting. I’ll try playing a couple of games to see whether it restarts or not and report back.

    But my question reallyy; any idea why it’s doing that? Perhaps voltage needs to be raised a bit?

  13. Ping from Kevin:

    Trying your kernel with latest OTA Radio,etc.. on Myn Warm TwoPointTwo. I seem to get sluggishness with Market downloads and installs. Probably not your Kernel , but wanted to be sure. So seems to be stable.

  14. Ping from reggie:

    hey ziggy i got random reboots and freezes at 1152 on virus airbourne rom 4.8

  15. Ping from PhilE:

    Using the Inc version on Myn’s 2.2 RLS4.

    I had the issue where the Wifi wouldn’t scan on your last beta. It will scan without having to turn the wifi off and on, but it won’t connect to my saved networks automatically. Not sure if that’s kernel related.

    Other than that, I’ve had no problems. Thanks for all your work on these!

    Do you plan to release a BFS version as well? You mention that BFS and CFS co exist in the source now? But I’m not sure what that means exactly. It seems to benchmark a lower in quadrant than before, but the phone is just as smooth as before for everything else.

  16. Ping from reggie:

    Nevermind ziggy i got it fixed…had the new pri but it was a bad pri downloaded….but question do we need to set the governor to smartass ???

  17. Ping from t.bo:

    Been using it on my DInc for two days. Flawless so far. Have pretty much run through all my usual tasks… camera, connecting to WiFi, bluetooth, etc… Performs great and getting good battery life. Not overclocked, not using SetCPU.

  18. Ping from bikercr:

    I’m running an older kernel on my DInc with Virtuous ROM. I’d like to keep upgrading the kernel but don’t want to lose wireless-n. Although the speed difference is not massive compared to g (with a strong signal), the range is significantly increased with wireless n. That results in better speed and connectivity. Can you restore wireless-n to future builds?

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