No new CM7 stable release in 4 months - Nook Color General

I've been away for a few months and recently stopped by to see that there hasn't been a stable in about 4 months, does this mean that CM7 development for the nook is pretty much over? I'm currently running a dual boot with stock on internal memory and 7.0.2 on the sd card. If I wanted to update my CM7 should I just go for the latest nightly? I have no issues with 7.0.2 other than the battery life is just god awful. I am not a big android user so I don't know what the "norm" is, but I can leave my nook color booted into stock for probably a week without having to plug it in with minimum uses. CM7 7.0.2 even if I don't use the device at all will go from 100 to 20 in a matter of 48 hours.

Wow.. that is one hell of a logic jump to make, that because there is no "stable" (BTW, there actually is a RC1 that came after 7.0.2), that work has stopped. Since you haven't looked, i would suggest taking a look at the nightly log, and seeing for yourself.
Also, CM7 does a "stable" release as a whole; not per device. Anyway, yes, update to nightly 173 (i think you are around 50-100 nightlies behind), and really enjoy your nook..
http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=encore

download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=encore
download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=encore&type=RC
As a rule never presume a device that is currently still being manufactured and that has a community (several actually) that is dedicated to the modification of said device's development is dead.
I really hate to be this guy, BUT being that this is a very active forum on said device (and developments are posted nearly daily), it would also be wise to click a few links or do a few searches.

As for development... tough to come out with a stable when so much is happening (B&N releasing 1.3, all the advances in other areas of CM7, etc.)
As for battery life... stock should last extrememly longer... all it is is an e-reader with minimal "accessories"... CM7 is makes it full fledged android tablet... with a LOT more features etc... by nature it will utilize more battery than something that is idle without all the extras
Think about cell phones... I used to be able to go days without charging my cell phone (using it a lot)... now with android phones I have to charge it at least every day (sometimes twice a day)... there's a LOT going on in android devices that sucks up juice.

I've been running CM7 since n128 or so and my battery life is every bit as good, if not better, than stock. And currently Dalingrin's OC kernel is already integrated. It really is butter smooth and I'm running it off of sd.
That being said, it is curious to me why there hasn't been a recent release candidate...

Ok lets be clear on one thing here:-
CM7 stable releases are not aptly named.Often they are far from stable and really are more like milestones than anything else.
For the very best cm7 on any device the tricks are:-
follow the forums and see which nightly is currently the best.
flash every so often when a much loved nightly release comes out!
Simple and true!

Still, the funny thing I've noticed is that...I've not seen a single need to upgrade past RC1. Everything in RC1 works for me and is buttery smooth.
*Shrugs*

Read the CyanogenMod Blog post on the subject
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/the-state-of-cyanogenmod

I thought there was 7.0.2, then 7.0.3 stable, then 7.1 RC.
Where have you been in the last 4 months or will you re-surface in the next 4 months?

PoisonWolf said:
Still, the funny thing I've noticed is that...I've not seen a single need to upgrade past RC1. Everything in RC1 works for me and is buttery smooth.
*Shrugs*
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Major improvements after 7.1 RC:
Overclock kernel included
Amazingly fast boot up
Lots of small stuff, ability to switch sd card and emmc etc.
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Well I've noticed that PSX4droid and N64oid v2+ prefer 7.0.3. I'm not sure why but it could be new 32 kernel.
Everything else seems good though.

koopakid08 said:
Major improvements after 7.1 RC:
Overclock kernel included
Amazingly fast boot up
Lots of small stuff, ability to switch sd card and emmc etc.
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I already have the overclock kernel....and I don't reset very often. So I don't see much point in upgrading yet. I have a comfy 2gb internal and 4gb internal storage.
I have had about 400 hours uptime? Recently resettled to doing 240 dpi and I am finding that I absolutely love the giant everything plus a working market. Haha.

I had mine since end of March, ran rooted for awhile then phiremod then CM7 for quite a while. Had 7.03 running for some time, with very few issues. Main one is if I wanted to use bluetooth I had to turn it on immediately after reboot, then it seemed to work fine.
Rom manager kept prompting to upgrade to 7.1-RC, so gave it a shot.
Issues I saw -
1) When plugging in Nook, screen doesn't turn off. Googled this, some don't seem to think it is a bug. Actually on my new Acer A100, I don't think it does either, but I liked it when after plug in screen would come on, then short while later turn back off.
2) Biggest issue, now when unplugged overnight (twice now), it turns off completely. Is this the SOD? If so, I don't like it. 7.03 never did this.
3) But on the other hand, the good -
Nook Tweaks is awesome package but you need later version of Dalingrin to run it, not sure if later Dalingrin can be installed with 7.03 (I may try this). Nook Tweaks app brings some nice features like USB host mode (I haven't tried this - need special cable). Also ability to turn down headphone preamp - awesome. Anybody who hates the hiss or blasting your eardrums by accidently pressing the volume up, will like this feature.
Also bluetooth seems to be able to be turned on whenever now. Also nice.
So in my experience other than the shutdown thing, 7.1 worked fine, but because of shutdown thing I'm going back to 7.03 and doing some testing to use latest overclock and nook tweaks app.
My advice if you think you want to try the newer features do a backup first. You may want to go back if you get the shutdown thing, like I did.

Sorry guys didn't mean to upset anyone. Some of us are a less plugged in than others. I just upgraded to the latest nightly so hopefully the battery life will be greatly improved. I noticed that this can now be overclocked as high as 1200, but I left it at 800 for now just to see how battery life is.

congrats on your update. for me, my battery life has been awesome. 7hrs over night with only 1% drain. here are my settings for overclocking and voltage. I have been running with these setting for sometime now and it has been perfect, vary stable and buttery smooth and no SODs. I also set my screen to 16bits for better performance, about 4-6 fps better then 32bit. can't really see the difference between 16-32bit but can appreciate the better performance with 16bit.
me: cm7 n174 / conservative / 16 bit / nenamark1 22.9 / neocore 29.9 / quadrant 2642
300 @ .8125v
600 @ 1.0v
800 @ 1.1625v
1100 @ 1.2375v
1200 @ 1.2875v

s52m3 said:
Sorry guys didn't mean to upset anyone. Some of us are a less plugged in than others. I just upgraded to the latest nightly so hopefully the battery life will be greatly improved. I noticed that this can now be overclocked as high as 1200, but I left it at 800 for now just to see how battery life is.
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There was an update (or several) that fixed a deep sleep issue. I forget when it was, but it made battery life for me go from 2-3 days like you were saying to easily a week or more depending on usage. I'm also running the 1200 overclock (with interactivex governor) and have no complaints. Unfortunately, it's hard to track all of the improvements from the last stable release with all the nightlies, but some of the highlights are the battery life/deep sleep, improved bluetooth, and usb host, not to mention the included OC kernel (among many others i'm sure i'm forgetting).

I hung back for a month or so, staying on 7.0.3, but the other day I decided to go to the latest nightly after reading some of the comments on ROM Mgr about it. Night and day, really! And, haven't seen the SOD since 7.1 RC.
4 months is a long time not to be "plugged in" -- whad'ja do? Get an iPhone?
Welcome back!
Dshiz

dshizzel said:
I hung back for a month or so, staying on 7.0.3, but the other day I decided to go to the latest nightly after reading some of the comments on ROM Mgr about it. Night and day, really! And, haven't seen the SOD since 7.1 RC.
4 months is a long time not to be "plugged in" -- whad'ja do? Get an iPhone?
Welcome back!
Dshiz
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I don't actually own a smart phone The NC is my first experience with Android. I glance at the threads every few days to see if anything peaks my interest, but honestly at least half the stuff is over my head. Summer is the best time to spend less time on the computer and more outside, so I haven't been following much. BTW I'm a software developer by trade but I'm on the MS side of things

boxcar8028 said:
congrats on your update. for me, my battery life has been awesome. 7hrs over night with only 1% drain. here are my settings for overclocking and voltage. I have been running with these setting for sometime now and it has been perfect, vary stable and buttery smooth and no SODs. I also set my screen to 16bits for better performance, about 4-6 fps better then 32bit. can't really see the difference between 16-32bit but can appreciate the better performance with 16bit.
me: cm7 n174 / conservative / 16 bit / nenamark1 22.9 / neocore 29.9 / quadrant 2642
300 @ .8125v
600 @ 1.0v
800 @ 1.1625v
1100 @ 1.2375v
1200 @ 1.2875v
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Which nightly do you have installed?
Right now I have rc1 installed. Thinking of updating but wondered which nightly is good?
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boxcar8028 said:
congrats on your update. for me, my battery life has been awesome. 7hrs over night with only 1% drain. here are my settings for overclocking and voltage. I have been running with these setting for sometime now and it has been perfect, vary stable and buttery smooth and no SODs. I also set my screen to 16bits for better performance, about 4-6 fps better then 32bit. can't really see the difference between 16-32bit but can appreciate the better performance with 16bit.
me: cm7 n174 / conservative / 16 bit / nenamark1 22.9 / neocore 29.9 / quadrant 2642
300 @ .8125v
600 @ 1.0v
800 @ 1.1625v
1100 @ 1.2375v
1200 @ 1.2875v
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Have you tried going lower at 800 MHz?
I found my Nook Color stable with these settings:
300 MHz @ 0.8125v
600 MHz @ 0.95v
800 MHz @ 1.075v
1100 MHz @ 1.225v
1200 MHz @ 1.3v
(That is the lowest possible I could set them to for 300/600/800).

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[Q] Which Milestone ROM is the best?

According to the question I ask, I think I would like to standardize the "marking scheme"
1. Overall Performance
2. Boot up time
3. Battery Performance
4. Buggy?
5. Compatibility?
6. Internal memory after initial setup?
Thanks everybody! Just doing the research which one is the best.
I have used MIUI, CTM, etc... Want to get more information before I changed to another ROM.
I've only used Miui as I've never had any reason to change.
Overall Performance:
Seeing as it's BETA software, the performance all round is much, much better then stock.
Boot up time:
This isn't really an issue as I never turn my phone off. Unlikely computers phones are meant to be on 24/7 so boot time is moot in my eyes.
Battery Performance:
With every new kernel and update, I find my battery lasting that little bit longer. I can get around 1.5-2 days out of mine (as Miui has the option to turn off things / underclock).
Buggy:
For BETA software things break from time to time, although the things that do break aren't that important (Tether and the Theme Downloader mainly).
Compatibility:
What do you mean?
Internal memory after initial setup?
With a fair few apps I have ~30MB left.
cronos or iceandfire are the two best roms hands down...
Stock 2.2 is the best now imho
froyomod 2.4
I am using APAC (asia-pacific leak) since Friday, and it is absolutely brilliant - near perfect, I´d say.
By now you can also apply some themes, and the battery life is great!
The only problem I am personally having is that the app "LEDs Hack" doesn´t seem to be working at all anymore and I haven´t found anything else to turn of the Softkey-Backlights while in Dock Mode... once that is solved, I´d have the perfect ROM
Project elite
Used cyanogen for about 6 mo but alot of fc.went to sorcery for about a month, it looked great and performance was good but my cell reception was in the toilet.Now project elite since christmas and I have fallen in love with my droid again.they have the kernall clocked at 1100 ewhich will run warm after 1/2 hour so i clock to 900.status cool and stable plus you can eryn your browser as an iphone (which comes in handy for netflix)..keep that droid around it still keeps up or beats your friends phone....ps screw motorola for wanting to lock their bootloader.
MIUI is okay for me
CyanogenMod 6.1.2 for Milestone is my choice, tone of customise fine tune your milestone and good support fast bugs fixed won my heart
w3dig said:
MIUI is okay for me
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It also works for me. I installed this "app2ext" and worked amazing. 6 HD games, 5 Normal Games, 30 Apps+ And i still have 80mb free !
The only thing i don't like is the fact that MIUI launcher doesn't have scrollable widgets compatibility .
arttree said:
CyanogenMod 6.1.2 for Milestone is my choice, tone of customise fine tune your milestone and good support fast bugs fixed won my heart
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+ 1 for CM6...plus kabaldan has done so much for us milestone users and he still helps out.
Sent from my Milestone using Tapatalk
CyanogenMod 6.1.2 is my choice, fast fixes for bugs and like MIUI, after installing a ton of apps (over 30 as well) I stil have over 80mb free.
I've been on stock Eclair most of the time and it of course bugged me a lot. Tried Froyomod 2.2 and had the fast battery drain issue, now I'm using FroyoMod 2.4 and seems to be *much* better now.
I'd like to see the stock 2.2, but...
The bset ROM I've yet tried has to be the APAC leak, the latest nandroid. Its incredible. Kicks Nexus ass, bigtyme !
1. Overall Performance : Incredible. There is no other way to explain this.
2. Boot up time : NOt much of an issue, but if ur still interested, its almost equivalent to other roms available.
3. Battery Performance : The best Ive yet seen after trying every mod available, excet shadowmod. It gives me 2.5 days till discharge. For the milestone, thats a colossal feat.
4. Buggy : Not at all. No bugs found yet. Been 2 weeks.
5. Compatibility : Everything runs. Without applying external updates, or software hacks.
6. Internal memory after initial setup : 158MB. But most of my apps are on SD, So i Still get about 102 MB free on my phone.
FroyoMod 2.4c & G.O.T 2.2.1
_ MIUI is good for me now!
Now i'm using Froyomod 2.4, but a brazilian guy Edgar Castro launched new shadowmod version based on gingerbread.
I will install today.
I would also say CM6 is the best in terms of performance. Just to add on (NOT MEANING TO TAKE OVER THIS THREAD, just a suggestion), could we add how much mb of ram is available after boot? (E.g you could use advanced task killer, or memory booster just to see how much is available (BEFORE KILLING APPS) )
Hmph. I guess I'll have to do a major cleanup
38MB after boot.

[Q] Get me up to speed on latest CM7 developments

I've had my NC on CM7 stable (7.0, I think) and OC'd to 1.3 gHz for a month or so now and really haven't kept up with the latest and greatest since its been working beautifully with zero issues.
In fact, my only complaint about CM7 has been the battery life. I read a thread about nightly 74 fixing the sleep issue.
So, what's the verdict on battery life with the latest versions of CM7? Which one would be best?
The latest nighties have switched to the 2.6.32 kernel which allows for deep sleep without the sleep of death problem. Battery life when the device isn't in use is terrific. System performance is also a lot better overall. There is a new issue though, the 2.6.32 kernel causes what's being called Premature Battery Death (PBD). Essentially the device can't be turned back on without plugging the charger in when the battery gets below 30%.
Hmmmm. It seems like there's always a trade-off with this thing, lol.
So you can't power it on below 30% or out of sleep?
Pretty much, there's a thread on it in the development sub-forum. It's kind of random though for different people.
No I meant is it just when powering on or also when coming out of sleep?
Or is it........both?
Only happens when trying to power on when coming out of sleep when the battery is under 30% (typically).
It's not that bad.
Does it matter if you were originally on 1.1 or 1.2?
I'm not sure why people are updating to 1.2 only to use CM7, but like I said I've been out of the loop for a whole month and suddenly I know nothing all over again.
PBD isn't affecting everyone. Some people die at 30%, some, like myself die at 4%, it's random
Still rocking the Incredible with the XDA Premium App.
That's good to know. I'll give it a shot right after I un-fuck my Nook. I forgot to wipe any caches before flashing 7.0.3, so now I'm all kinds of dicked up.
I see that most people are updating to 1.2 even if they don't actually use it. Is this necessary for new OC kernels or something? If I'm just running CM7 on the internal memory without any desire to use 1.2 at all, ever.....do I need to update to 1.2 first?
LongbowFoSho said:
I see that most people are updating to 1.2 even if they don't actually use it. Is this necessary for new OC kernels or something? If I'm just running CM7 on the internal memory without any desire to use 1.2 at all, ever.....do I need to update to 1.2 first?
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You will need the 1.2 uboot to run the new kernels, not the whole 1.2 update from B&N. The updated bootloader says "Read Forever" at boot time, and if you see that you know you're good to go on the latest CM 7.1 betas.
Well, I went ahead and updated to 1.2, flashed the 87 nightly of CM7, flashed the new OC kernel and I'm in heaven. This thing is seriously smooth now.
The best part? I went to sleep with 90% battery and woke up with 90% battery.
Woot!

Cyanogen8

Cyanogen 8? Is this next? Or is this in the works? Also is 2.3.5 next and would it be numbered a different version when Ice Cream comes out? Also is anything coming from the devs to overclock to 800 yet?
cell2011 said:
Also is anything coming from the devs to overclock to 800 yet?
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It's been done. So very very few phones are even stable at 800, and those that could generally performed worse in benches at 800 than at lower clocks. Many of these devices bootloop above 700.
Cyanogen 8 will not come out yet since will most likely be ice cream sandwich. I am not even sure is 2.3.5 will even come out and no the devs can not overclock this device to 800mhz because is 768 is the limit of the processor. Most people's phones do not even run that smoothly at 768 anyways. If somehow the dev found a way to overclock it to 800 (impossible btw but this is just a what if kind of statement) since the processor can not handle 800 it would just overheat the thing and cause crashes.
Also, on a side note, this should not be in the Development section. This should be in general or Q&A
This belongs in Q&A for future reference.
CM8 will be next, obviously. It will be based on Ice Cream Sandwich, so no, it won't be in development until ICS is released to AOSP so that the CM team can start using that code. 2.3.5 is an update coming out soon for the Nexus S 4G that fixes wifi and network speed, as well as adding more secure NFC for Google Wallet. It won't really affect us when it is merged into CM7. ICS is expected to be Android 4.0, but it could be 3.5 if Google decides.
There is a kernel that goes over 800Mhz, but anything over 768Mhz can be unstable on some phones. I tried it and there were no real performance gains, but battery life was a lot worse. Performance was actually worse at the highest CPU clock, in my experience. Just stick with 768Mhz. It's stable and chances are that you can get even better performance at a lower clock. I get better battery and performance at 633Mhz. It all depends on each unique phone.
rizdog23 said:
Cyanogen 8 will not come out yet since will most likely be ice cream sandwich. I am not even sure is 2.3.5 will even come out and no the devs can not overclock this device to 800mhz because is 768 is the limit of the processor. Most people's phones do not even run that smoothly at 768 anyways. If somehow the dev found a way to overclock it to 800 (impossible btw but this is just a what if kind of statement) since the processor can not handle 800 it would just overheat the thing and cause crashes.
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I lol'd at this statement. Did you not read any of the posts above you?
When i began to post there were no posts yet. They must have got posted while i was typing. So seeing as the only post at the time was the op, then yes i did read the post(s) above mine.....
There is a kernel that goes over 800Mhz, but anything over 768Mhz can be unstable on some phones. I tried it and there were no real performance gains, but battery life was a lot worse. Performance was actually worse at the highest CPU clock, in my experience. Just stick with 768Mhz. It's stable and chances are that you can get even better performance at a lower clock. I get better battery and performance at 633Mhz. It all depends on each unique phone.
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I can confirm that the Godmode kernel was able to push some phones, such as mine, past 800Mhz. Although I had a faster processor speed, my battery would drain incredibly fast as well as overheat. Even though I never hit a bootloop with the kernel, the battery life, overheating, and loss of performance kept me away. Sacrificing too much for having a faster processor speed. Normally I overclock to about 729Mhz and have great battery life, speed and performance in conjunction with a min of 19Mhz and a smartass governor.
Sent from my Hero that never dies! ;D
dastin1015 said:
I can confirm that the Godmode kernel was able to push some phones, such as mine, past 800Mhz. Although I had a faster processor speed, my battery would drain incredibly fast as well as overheat. Even though I never hit a bootloop with the kernel, the battery life, overheating, and loss of performance kept me away. Sacrificing too much for having a faster processor speed. Normally I overclock to about 729Mhz and have great battery life, speed and performance in conjunction with a min of 19Mhz and a smartass governor.
Sent from my Hero that never dies! ;D
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Thanks. I am glad someone at least confirmed it. I never knew about the godmode kernel as ive only been here for a little bit. Sorry for misinformed post about their not being an 800mhz kernel. As I can see, i was wrong, but also I was correct in saying that the processor can not handle it....sometimes
rizdog23 said:
Thanks. I am glad someone at least confirmed it. I never knew about the godmode kernel as ive only been here for a little bit. Sorry for misinformed post about their not being an 800mhz kernel. As I can see, i was wrong, but also I was correct in saying that the processor can not handle it....sometimes
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Yup, I'm at 806 - 19 ondemand while posting this and I can already feel it slowing down a little. 729 - 19 on demand is my best setup. I've tested a lot with trying higher setups than that but so far 729 seems to be the best for battery life and performance on every rom I've ever tried
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA Premium App
rubyknight said:
Yup, I'm at 806 - 19 ondemand while posting this and I can already feel it slowing down a little. 729 - 19 on demand is my best setup. I've tested a lot with trying higher setups than that but so far 729 seems to be the best for battery life and performance on every rom I've ever tried
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA Premium App
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For some reason my phone never works well with higher clock speeds no matter what rom or kernel i use. I get my best results at 710-352 performance.
In before bierce gives birth over ANOTHER question being in the dev section
Sent from my Android using Tapatalk
rizdog23 said:
For some reason my phone never works well with higher clock speeds no matter what rom or kernel i use. I get my best results at 710-352 performance.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've noticed is that newer Hero's that were sold with Eclair as opposed to the original Donut, when I bought mine, are not able to reach those higher processor speeds past 691Mhz.
Sent from my Hero that never dies! ;D
i bought mine at radio shack back in september and it was still on 1.5 and ive never been able to get over 768mhz without it freezing and bootlooping its different with every hero.
i stay at 352-691 ondemand and thats plenty fast for me
Mine was running 1.5 also and it will run fine at 768 but battery life suffers so I usually run at 352/710 and battery and performance are good (depends on rom kernel)
Where can I get the godmode kernel ....
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
I actually got mine two weeks after it came out.....so i mean it could just be that this phone is dead now. I never had a refurb or anything. I got it wet once but it got repaired. I've only had this one the whole time. Do you think that is the issue?
rubyknight said:
Yup, I'm at 806 - 19 ondemand while posting this and I can already feel it slowing down a little. 729 - 19 on demand is my best setup. I've tested a lot with trying higher setups than that but so far 729 seems to be the best for battery life and performance on every rom I've ever tried
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA Premium App
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Hey rubyknight,
just wondering why 19? Ive seen people do that but can the processor really ever do anything at 19? if so, doesnt it affect stuff like wake. Im trying it now just to see for myself. Ive been playing with a really high min value between 480 and 576 with the high at 748 and it actually doesnt only seems to affect battery life a little, both on the .29 and .35 kernels on jaybobs roms and on OMFGB.
Thanks
chalan30 said:
Hey rubyknight,
just wondering why 19? Ive seen people do that but can the processor really ever do anything at 19? if so, doesnt it affect stuff like wake. Im trying it now just to see for myself. Ive been playing with a really high min value between 480 and 576 with the high at 748 and it actually doesnt only seems to affect battery life a little, both on the .29 and .35 kernels on jaybobs roms and on OMFGB.
Thanks
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It depends on the cpu governor that you use.
nandroids are for
sissies
ch1naski said:
It depends on the cpu governor that you use.
nandroids are for
sissies
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so update, ive run it at 19/768 on demand all day and after 11hrs 13 min its at 60% thats not bad for my phone! and there was almost no performance difference. Just the slightest UI lag... this is on jaybobs 7/8 with the .29 kernel, with background data off. And my regular usage which is not a lot. but for me its good. i wish I had tried it ages ago.
chalan30 said:
so update, ive run it at 19/768 on demand all day and after 11hrs 13 min its at 60% thats not bad for my phone! and there was almost no performance difference. Just the slightest UI lag... this is on jaybobs 7/8 with the .29 kernel, with background data off. And my regular usage which is not a lot. but for me its good. i wish I had tried it ages ago.
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I believe that you can set the ramp up frequency and that may help with the lag. Setcpu, advanced settings, I think?
nandroids are for
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[Q] Fastest Rom & Best Battery Life

Does anyone have any recommendations for a rom that is pretty fast and smooth while having great battery life. Also any tips to get really good battery life such as processor speed and kernels etc..any opinions appreciated.
I use jaybobs aosp or cm7 with .29 kernel so I can use my headset. I use setcpu and clock 576/691 at full power then drop it if battery gets too low or raise it when I'm charging. The only way you'd extend battery life drastic is to live with a good signal and actively manage your data connections and sync.
{you are my Hero}
dpeeps74 said:
I use jaybobs aosp or cm7 with .29 kernel so I can use my headset. I use setcpu and clock 576/691 at full power then drop it if battery gets too low or raise it when I'm charging. The only way you'd extend battery life drastic is to live with a good signal and actively manage your data connections and sync.
{you are my Hero}
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hmm i will try it ive used cm7 and aosp but they seem to lag for me when im using the keyboard alot but ill try that kernel and see how that goes. I guess what you said about the battery life make sense cause i live in a area with pretty bad sprint service. guess i can fix that by turning off data while i plan to not use my phone thanks for your respond. Anybody else have any suggestions?
I recently just installed jaybobs rom (august 14th) like 4 days ago. I use the kernel .35 CPU=480min/710max
along with the v8 tweaks, and firerats.
As of right now my battery is 19h 29m 0s on battery at 21% battery level
Texted a lot, talked for a few minutes, update apps on market. I only use it to talk and chat cause i have a tablet that i do my surfing or gaming stuff =P
Majin101 said:
I recently just installed jaybobs rom (august 14th) like 4 days ago. I use the kernel .35 CPU=480min/710max
along with the v8 tweaks, and firerats.
As of right now my battery is 19h 29m 0s on battery at 21% battery level
Texted a lot, talked for a few minutes, update apps on market. I only use it to talk and chat cause i have a tablet that i do my surfing or gaming stuff =P
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Could you send me a link to this v8 tweak? Ive never heard of it but im willing to try anything i usually get about 12 hours battery life.
I don't think the v8 helps the battery, i think it's just for performance. u should try it without it first.
heres the link to the v6 tweaks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
What do you do on your phone? 12 hours is pretty good.
Majin101 said:
I don't think the v8 helps the battery, i think it's just for performance. u should try it without it first.
heres the link to the v6 tweaks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
What do you do on your phone? 12 hours is pretty good.
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Well im running OMFGB August 12 nightly its one of the fastest and smoothest 2.3 rom ive ever used i havent used the aosp verion though so i dont know how smooth that one is. And i have email syncing and facebook and i use google voice a lot i mostly do texting and i keep my homescreens without any widgets that need to update a lot. i also calibrated my battery so i could get pretty decent battery life which in my opinion is 12 Hours but im still looking on ways to improve it.
ohh, i see. Yeah i know where ya comin from, I've done a lot of flashing and just decided to go with the most stable. They were all somewhat smooth but as for battery life, I've gotten the best battery with jaybobs rom.
Alex1123 said:
Does anyone have any recommendations for a rom that is pretty fast and smooth while having great battery life. Also any tips to get really good battery life such as processor speed and kernels etc..any opinions appreciated.
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For Battery life I would recommend extended 1900mAh batteries.
I didn't have to buy custom cover since they fit in the stock back cover.
2 batteries with external charger with shipping would cost you about $20.
I get about 2 days on a single charge with moderate use.
I am using CM7.1 nightly 160 at the moment.
If you are interested let me know I will point you towards the retailer
I bought them from on Amazon/Ebay.
Well im going to try jaybobs rom then and see how that does yesterday with OMFGB rom i got 11h 59m 2s and after that it shortly died off and im just running setcpu at 729 max 691 min performance lol i think i really need to change that if i want save battery does any one have any good setcpu profiles they would recommend? And i might look towards buying a extended battery but i dont really want to seeing as my upgrade is in december.
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Well im going to try jaybobs rom then and see how that does yesterday with OMFGB rom i got 11h 59m 2s and after that it shortly died off and im just running setcpu at 729 max 691 min performance lol i think i really need to change that if i want save battery does any one have any good setcpu profiles they would recommend? And i might look towards buying a extended battery but i dont really want to seeing as my upgrade is in december.
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Well that is what killing your batteries right there
I am no expert but I will tell you what I use,
I only use 1 profile besides the main one on setCpu:
Screen On/Main: 691 max 176 min (On Demand)
Screen Off: Max 264 min 19 On Demand ( Since I dont use it for music or anything else screen off with min 19 is no issue for me)
By the I also use v6 Super Charger and V8 kernel tweaks and they do make
your phone very snappy and responsive!!
Best of luck
I recently flashed gingerbread hero deck and it's pretty nice. But, something weird I notice is that my 3g download speeds have dropped off considerably (from 1200kbps range to 600). I can't explain it. I was on aosp's 5-23 rom before. I also recently started using firerats mod. Not sure what's up.
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Its the build prop that causes it. I'd use the V8 3g tweaks to see if it helps.
okay ive installed OMFGB 1.3.1 nightly 8/17 and with the V6 scirpt runs well along with the v8 and the 3g one which i cant recall the name of but everything now runs really good but im still calibrating the battery so i still have to see how that goes but so far its been good. Thanks for the tips everyone now to try out this jaybobs kernel hopefully everything will still work well.

[Kernel-OC-CPU/GPU-CIFS-FROYO] Thrillz: Get your thrillz while they last!

Welcome to the Thrillz kernel for LG Thrill 4G (may be compatible for O3D).
Standard disclaimer: You bork, your phone. I take no liability. K?
Includes OC to 1.2 native (no modules) and 100 MHz frequency.
cifs.ko module built in.
Conservative governor enabled.
init.d support native.
More to come.
V2 update includes:
Insecure boot
persistent root shell in adb
Removed 100 MHz frequency (caused more issues than it was worth)
Trying a 200 MHz frequency.
V3 includes:
Lock 200mhz when sleep (was set at 300, swapped due to removal of 300)
---Working on other improvements, may be a week or two due to cleanup of code and removal of non-4430 chaff---
V4
Updated frequencies (300, 600, 800, 1000, 1300)
Lower cpu voltages.
#Note, seems screen is eating more battery than CPU. Will investigate.#
Plan for V5
More governors, possible UV compatible with Xan's Voltage Control app.
If you have suggestions, ideas, please give me them.
I do plan on more governors (maybe smartass, interactive, ect....) more io schedulers (bfq, ect...) and anything else that comes my way.
Special thanks to those who have gone before me and helped my learn what I have: gtg465x, LinuxBozo, and Entropy512 for everything that I've learned from them in the Infuse 4G forums, Excaliburinhand for encouraging me to start my own kernel, CallMeAria, Urabewe, tylerwagler and gtg465x again for what they've done here before me... and to you for choosing this kernel (I know... Video game cheezy, but it's true. )
Git is below, it is under the wagler kernel git as it was what I forked and am pushing to. I decided it's time to get started with this.
And please remember, thanks button is good as is fueling my insanity. If you look at my Infusion kernels, I do recognize my "Insanity Crew." (and if you want to be kept in obscurity, I respect that as well. )
Good job man, everyday this forum gets better.
...fighting ninjas at night. Talking about this and that.
Work pretty good on o3d l'll check battry life let u know later
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Thanks! Keep the comments and suggestions coming! (hoping for p920h/p925 GB leak and official GB source for p920, but I'm fully supporting this in the mean time. Forward ho!)
So far this is best kernel for my rom (v10kv4) so far I got best mobile speed 1.6up 5down i never got this speed any rom or kernal before best speed i had before 1.5. &4 from thriller
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I hate to report that my battery life did not impress me at first but after charging it seems to be doing better. But i was losing about 15% every 3 hrs in idle. No wifi data or anything.
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Good to see you guys pushin' the kernel movement forward, and sharing your work.
Good deal on getting that built in overclocking going as well. I've been running the kernel for the past day. I did notice an issue, though. Maybe it's just my phone... But the 300mhz OPP, is not being utilized.
I've attached some screenshots.
I was planning to mention that, will try to fix. (100-300 bug) on battery life, what governor are you running? I've found better life on conservative or on demand.
my battery life is decent not the best try to calibrating battery will give you a decent battery life
bedwa said:
I was planning to mention that, will try to fix. (100-300 bug) on battery life, what governor are you running? I've found better life on conservative or on demand.
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Usually I'm in hotplug or performance... My device has no service, so it doesn't see "normal use" like most. Most of the time it just sits and sleeps.
So, what I did yesterday, really because I wanted to see if you guys squashed the random reboots I've notice in my own playing with LG's kernel source... Had a fully charged phone, flashed your kernel, ran a few benchmarks, still had over 90%, and just let it sit in hotplug. got back to checking it out maybe 12 hours later, noticed the drain, checked setcpu, and that explained it for me. My phone normally would be 80% to 90% in 300mhz... But I don't think 100mhz is able to accomplish most tasks, so it's always popping out, even when it should be idle sleeping.
One thing for me is wireless tethering.. The device needs to be able to accomplish this in the background, and 300mhz even on a DroidX is able to accomplish this. 100mhz is a no go, though.
If you find it real difficult to get 300mhz functioning with 100mhz, I'd say chop the 100mhz out for now, and give us a bump, or atleast put out a 'high voltage' 1388000 mV(TI's kernel 3.0 number) top slot version of the kernel... The overclock module still works with your kernel, BTW... So, in combination with the voltage bump, those that are real speed freaks can push toward that 1300mhz mark with stability.
P.S. No random reboots, so that gets a big thumbs up!!!
I'm going to try and keep to 5 freqs, going to see if 200 works. If not 300 will be low end. Wanting to see if 1.4 or 1.5 is possible with proper voltage. (we should reach sgs II performance benches at that level. )
bedwa said:
I'm going to try and keep to 5 freqs, going to see if 200 works. If not 300 will be low end. Wanting to see if 1.4 or 1.5 is possible with proper voltage. (we should reach sgs II performance benches at that level. )
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hehehe twould be pretty nice to rub in the face of the acclaimed best device..
Running new Kernel now, so far seems to be running smooth, max 1200, min 600 on Performance governor
Trekfan422991 said:
hehehe twould be pretty nice to rub in the face of the acclaimed best device..
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It would be nice but I have yet to see my Thrill out perform my STOCK SGS2 yet with any kind of tweaking.
I only hope it can be done.
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I think I got an issue. Starts to lagg when typing/texting. Maybe its the governor I used. I tried with both concervative and ondemand. Also hotplig too. Conservative had the least amount of lag but still noticeable. The other 2 were way too laggy. Unusable.
I believe that's due to the 100 MHz freq. I rebuilt later night without it and while I am typing this there is no lag for me. Re-uploading V2.
Anyone flashed this can comment on battery life and any issues?
Haven't had it long enough for battery use, but it made slim doomed speedier.
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Flashed it. So far no lag. Battery life kinda iffy. But it's a brand new battery. I'll clear the stats and see how battery life is then.
No issues, phone feels really fast, more batt drain though. I like it.
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