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Siyah Gingerbread kernel (v2.x)

hawker said:
Hmm. I think it was because I set the screen to dynamic about half hour ago to try to up the brightness.
Back on standard, the screens do now seem pretty much identical on S99 and 2.6.1, so I'm back on 2.6.1 now.

Is your screen brightness auto-adjusting properly? Mine no longer seems to do this as briskly and as intelligently as usual.
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mine had been fine all morning, but suddenly gone very dark and not adjusting back properly now. Strange goings on with brightness.
 
Thanks butty.
However i'm not entirely sure your battery.zip is actually being executed
(see my pm)

I'll do some more testing....
 
hawker said:
Thanks butty.
However i'm not entirely sure your battery.zip is actually being executed
(see my pm)

I'll do some more testing....
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Thanks old son... back to the drawing board... or the pub. :D

Sorry about the red herring. Looks like the kernel then. :(
 
Its all down to file formats differing to Windows files butty.

Linux and UNIX have a different convention for text files compared to Windows.
Windows files delimit each line with 2 characters, a Carriage-Return and a Line-Feed
UNIX (and Linux) delimit with just a CR
Hence when you open up a .zip in 7Zip and look at the contents to 01Siyah, updater-script etc, the lines are all joined up and are difficult to read.
If you place a CR-LF delimited file in init.d for example, the CR character will be detected and the line run, then it will try to execute the next line with a LF character at the start, and will therefore fail.

So chances are that battery.zip file of yours was not actually being run.
If I were you I would download the file again and give it a go with Gokhan's parameters.
If you want a V3 file with V2 screen parameters then I can send one to you
 
hawker said:
Its all down to file formats differing to Windows files butty.

Linux and UNIX have a different convention for text files compared to Windows.
Windows files delimit each line with 2 characters, a Carriage-Return and a Line-Feed
UNIX (and Linux) delimit with just a CR
Hence when you open up a .zip in 7Zip and look at the contents to 01Siyah, updater-script etc, the lines are all joined up and are difficult to read.
If you place a CR-LF delimited file in init.d for example, the CR character will be detected and the line run, then it will try to execute the next line with a LF character at the start, and will therefore fail.

So chances are that battery.zip file of yours was not actually being run.
If I were you I would download the file again and give it a go with Gokhan's parameters.
If you want a V3 file with V2 screen parameters then I can send one to you
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I understand that perfectly old boy... which is a bit worrying for me! :eek:

I was going to take my own advice about, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" and "Know your limitations" and go for my works do down the pub... which being a self employed, one man band, is a quiet affair. :D

However, you've tempted me a little longer with your V3 offering... yes please!
 
I don't care what anyone else says... "You're a star!" :D

Siyah v2.6.1 + siyah_battery_3aGoodScreen.

That should do me until the next kernel release.

Thanks hawker!
 
turbohobbit said:
I'm not sure if something's up with my phone, but every time I change the setting to "when screen is off" I come out of the screen, go back in a few moments later and it's defaulted back to "never". Any thoughts?
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I'm finding that after a reboot, my wifi sleep setting is reset to "Never". I am checking to see if it also happens after a delay. How do I stop this from happening?

On reading more about this, Never is probably fine, but it is odd that you don't really have a choice.
 
hawker said:
menu>settings>wireless+networks>wifi settings>menu>advanced>wifi sleep policy

HA HA.
Have you seen what Gokhan has posted up?
Sydney's personal kernel

:D :D :D

I cant wait for this download to become live :)
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Wow it makes sense to me now. I've only just twigged . Even with being out of the forum a few days.

All we need now is an RD edition that has terrible battery drain.
 
Sydney99 said:
You're always on the pop, surprised you get anything working on your phone shotgun
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Seriously though I've got to slow myself down somehow. I don't want everyone else to look bad.

Anyway a question for hawker. Have you noticed anything in the kernel which has reduced the loud speaker volume? I've been caught short so many times when my bluetooth headphones have run out of juice so I've just stuck my phone on loud and ignored everyone who thought I was weired for having my tunes blaring. Anyway long story short happened today and it was so quiet.
 
No I've not noticed any problem in the loud speaker department butty.
As for those tweaked battery zip files, all I did was adjust the min and max gamma settings.
 
Now that opens up another kettle of fish. Is that even a saying?
I might have to forget about that one at the moment. There's always tomorrow when I'm slightly more sober and maybe a little less insane.

Edit: yeah sorry I meant min gamma. That'le teach me for being stupid.
 
Finally, I think I got to right place to ask. I have rooted my phone to oxygen ROM and put the siyah kernel on it. But I'm still not happy with the battery :/ So it would be great if you could tell me how can I fix it.

If I got it right, a have to flash Ultimate Kernel Cleaning Script before flashing the kernel. And have to use version for Samsung Based ROMS only( because of oxygen ROM on it?!).

my phone is Samsung GT-I9100

thanks in advance
 
Because I can't post link in my first post I was thinking of this. It confuses me because it says Samsung Galaxy S I9000 in title.
 
I don't mind the darker screen but it's non-reaction to ambient lighting when set on auto is a bit perplexing.

There is definitely a drop in overall volume output, as Shotgun mentioned.

Since flashing 2.6.1 and the batt zip v3 and then undervolting each clock step by 75mVs, my phone runs warmer than it ever has. It's not worryingly hot, but it's got me wondering about the benefits of undervolting since heat is energy and it's presence would seem to indicate that the phone isn't using all the juice the battery is putting out ie.less efficient.

One other thing, and I'm not sure if it's down to the kernel or if it's just an input interface bug, I've had problems with text editing in the browser (particularly here on the forum), the cursor can't always be placed at the end of the text being edited. I had the same problem weeks ago but thought it had been ironed out.
 
caplja said:
Finally, I think I got to right place to ask. I have rooted my phone to oxygen ROM and put the siyah kernel on it. But I'm still not happy with the battery :/ So it would be great if you could tell me how can I fix it.

If I got it right, a have to flash Ultimate Kernel Cleaning Script before flashing the kernel. And have to use version for Samsung Based ROMS only( because of oxygen ROM on it?!).

my phone is Samsung GT-I9100

thanks in advance
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Yes, flash the cleaner zip (I'm pretty sure you need the Samsung based one for Oxygen) then the kernel.


caplja said:
Because I can't post link in my first post I was thinking of this. It confuses me because it says Samsung Galaxy S I9000 in title.
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Don't worry, it works fine on the s2, myself and others here have been using it on ours for a while now.
 
fonegyro said:
Yes, flash the cleaner zip (I'm pretty sure you need the Samsung based one for Oxygen) then the kernel.




Don't worry, it works fine on the s2, myself and others here have been using it on ours for a while now.
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Thank you. I've done it without problems. I'm only interested now in these battery.zip files, do I need that despite of using JD ultimate ?
 
fonegyro said:
I don't mind the darker screen but it's non-reaction to ambient lighting when set on auto is a bit perplexing.

There is definitely a drop in overall volume output, as Shotgun mentioned.

Since flashing 2.6.1 and the batt zip v3 and then undervolting each clock step by 75mVs, my phone runs warmer than it ever has. It's not worryingly hot, but it's got me wondering about the benefits of undervolting since heat is energy and it's presence would seem to indicate that the phone isn't using all the juice the battery is putting out ie.less efficient.

One other thing, and I'm not sure if it's down to the kernel or if it's just an input interface bug, I've had problems with text editing in the browser (particularly here on the forum), the cursor can't always be placed at the end of the text being edited. I had the same problem weeks ago but thought it had been ironed out.
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Have you tried 50 on each step. I don't get any heat problems with mine . It might just be the case that your cpu doesn't like to go down 75. These settings kind of took allot of trial and error for me, its possible to go lower than 75 for me but then my phone starts to get temperamental
 
I have to say i'm not getting on with 2.6.1 at all.
Lost 8% battery over night (10 hours) which is double my usual drain.
I'm back on void.echo for the time being, and perhaps switch to 2.5.2b if I get fed up of no boot animation.
 
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