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IMUcarmen said:
Another question. I'm not sure if this is possible, but I was wondering if there was a way to see a change log for aokp nightlies. I'm on 5/9 but would try the latest 5/12 if there were actual worthwhile changes made. If there isn't anyway to see the changes it's no big deal I was just curious.
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I don't think so. At least not yet.

I got them to save the build manifest but afaik they aren't publishing it.

There is a project to put a live change log on the new web site but that won't correspond to any particular build.
 
IMUcarmen said:
One thing I've been noticing on my phone lately though is that I get massive delay with opening apps and general functions. At times when I do things it takes 2-5 seconds before the action is completed. I was looking for some feedback on this if you are experiencing this. I'm not seeing this as an aokp4.2 issue or bug because it's been happening on all roms lately. It could be my setup, or perhaps something else. Could someone please give me some feedback. Thanks
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I haven't noticed anything that excessive, the occasional lag but not enough to be bothersome. I haven't tweaked anything, pimp my ROM, CPU, etc. Just running it "as is" :p

What launcher are you using? Lightning launcher was causing problems for me, went back to Nova for a while, which was fine, and using Apex right now, also fine. Are you using the ribbons a lot? I've seen since comments about lag when opening apps from them...?
 
Nokoko said:
I haven't noticed anything that excessive, the occasional lag but not enough to be bothersome. I haven't tweaked anything, pimp my ROM, CPU, etc. Just running it "as is" :p

What launcher are you using? Lightning launcher was causing problems for me, went back to Nova for a while, which was fine, and using Apex right now, also fine. Are you using the ribbons a lot? I've seen since comments about lag when opening apps from them...?
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It's not so much lag as delay.

I use adw ex mostly but also next some lately. Currently I'm using adw ex.

I'm using ribbons but hardly use it to open any apps except Google's new gestures app. I do use pie a lot though.

Thanks for the feedback nokoko
 
IMUcarmen said:
One thing I've been noticing on my phone lately though is that I get massive delay with opening apps and general functions. At times when I do things it takes 2-5 seconds before the action is completed. I was looking for some feedback on this if you are experiencing this. I'm not seeing this as an aokp4.2 issue or bug because it's been happening on all roms lately. It could be my setup, or perhaps something else. Could someone please give me some feedback. Thanks
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I get it too... on all ROMs after a while. Immediatly post flash, all seems well but after a couple of days the lag starts to show up again. I've come to think it's just the Spectrum
 
Am I the only one that liked the unicorn boot image? Lol I flash it every time I install a new version haha
 
Oh and if you have a lag, use the pimpmyrom app or v6 to tweak your entropy. It will immediately increase performance. I set my ram to flush every 2 hours for even more performance.
 
V6 can do entropy too? I use seeder for entropy depletion on my Gnex, and I'm not convinced it's making much of a difference.
 
MrB206 said:
Oh and if you have a lag, use the pimpmyrom app or v6 to tweak your entropy. It will immediately increase performance. I set my ram to flush every 2 hours for even more performance.
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I tried to use PimpMyROM but its just too advanced for me. I have absolutely no idea what to do with it. Entropy, density, etc is all greek to me. I don't know whether to increase or decrease any of the settings. Maybe when I get time, I'll google a user guide for it.
 
PrinceCorwin said:
I tried to use PimpMyROM but its just too advanced for me. I have absolutely no idea what to do with it. Entropy, density, etc is all greek to me. I don't know whether to increase or decrease any of the settings. Maybe when I get time, I'll google a user guide for it.
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Entropy:
Basically this is the pool of random numbers for the kernel to use. By default... most of the roms for our phone only have a pool of a couple hundred (300 ish) unique numbers. Ideally (imo) you want the most you can. But a number around 2000 is probably plenty. The kernel needs unique numbers for just about everything it does, so if you're multi-tasking alot (so to speak) you could be running low.

Unfortunately, the method that Pimp My Rom uses is to feed /dev/random from /dev/urandom using a seperate binary. There's been some debate on this being a security issue. Supposedly, the V6SuperCharger script doesn't do it like this and increases /dev/random directly... perhaps from hwrandom. Actually, I can confirm that it doesn't link them over. It sets kernel.random.read_wakeup_threshold to 1376. I'm guessing this just makes the kernel fill the entropy to that level before shutting down that function.

Density:
This is just the screen density. Think of it similar to your computer's screen resolution... but in reverse. The higher the number, the larger the icons and UI. By default it's around 320. I usually like mine between 210-220 (phablet mode in PAC). Just because it shrinks everything down and makes it feel like I have more screen real estate. Afterall, whats the point of having this resolution screen if you aren't gonna use it. The catch with using an app to change density is that it only changes it for the system ui. To change it in most apps, you need something that runs off Paranoid code (the P in PAC). It has some hacks in the framework that lets you modify the density for the apps.


Entropy is probably the only tweak in PMR that you'll actually notice much performance increase in.
 
Yoinx said:
Entropy:
Basically this is the pool of random numbers for the kernel to use. By default... most of the roms for our phone only have a pool of a couple hundred (300 ish) unique numbers. Ideally (imo) you want the most you can. But a number around 2000 is probably plenty. The kernel needs unique numbers for just about everything it does, so if you're multi-tasking alot (so to speak) you could be running low.

Unfortunately, the method that Pimp My Rom uses is to feed /dev/random from /dev/urandom using a seperate binary. There's been some debate on this being a security issue. Supposedly, the V6SuperCharger script doesn't do it like this and increases /dev/random directly... perhaps from hwrandom. Actually, I can confirm that it doesn't link them over. It sets kernel.random.read_wakeup_threshold to 1376. I'm guessing this just makes the kernel fill the entropy to that level before shutting down that function.

Density:
This is just the screen density. Think of it similar to your computer's screen resolution... but in reverse. The higher the number, the larger the icons and UI. By default it's around 320. I usually like mine between 210-220 (phablet mode in PAC). Just because it shrinks everything down and makes it feel like I have more screen real estate. Afterall, whats the point of having this resolution screen if you aren't gonna use it. The catch with using an app to change density is that it only changes it for the system ui. To change it in most apps, you need something that runs off Paranoid code (the P in PAC). It has some hacks in the framework that lets you modify the density for the apps.


Entropy is probably the only tweak in PMR that you'll actually notice much performance increase in.
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Thanx yoinx but that was pretty much all greek to me too! lol. I just don't know enough programming to understand most of that stuff. I just want to know where to set the settings... and there are a slew of them in PMR. Think I'll just stay away from it.
 
PrinceCorwin said:
Thanx yoinx but that was pretty much all greek to me too! lol. I just don't know enough programming to understand most of that stuff. I just want to know where to set the settings... and there are a slew of them in PMR. Think I'll just stay away from it.
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On the first page of it, there's a recovery flashable download (think it's the first page).

Just tweak the settings to where ever. If they don't work or the phone doesn't boot... flash the file. It'll wipe it all out. The other pages are a bit more straight forward than that first page. Most are like turn this on or off... with a "?" to explain it to you.
 
trav06 said:
V6 can do entropy too? I use seeder for entropy depletion on my Gnex, and I'm not convinced it's making much of a difference.
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Yeah V6SuperCharger does it too. I can't think of the setting that actually does it though. For some reason I want to say that it's the Nitro Lag Nullifer setting.

Seeder is good stuff too. The problem with seeder though is the same as with Pimp My Rom. I believe that it's just filling /dev/random from /dev/urandom.

See my previous post about how V6 is doing it. If you don't want to run the supercharger script again for no real gain. You could execute the command that it adds to the init.d script to see if you get any gain.... I'd disable the other entropy apps you use so that you don't cause issues.

The way V6SuperCharger is doing it is:

busybox sysctl -w kernel.random.read_wakeup_threshold=1376

This should stick until you reboot, you can execute it from adb shell or terminal.
 
The only problem I am having is that with pmr if doesn't keep the entropy settings upon reboot.

Also with pac, I can get a see-thru lock screen. It's there a way to get this thru AOKP?
 
IMUcarmen said:
Try that boot animation I posted mrB. It's sick
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Oh I shall. Heh.

As for pimpmyrom and entropy, it works for me, but I did the entropy in supercharger too. Overkill? Maybe. But my phone is a slug, so I'll take all the tweaks I can.
 
MrB206 said:
Oh I shall. Heh.

As for pimpmyrom and entropy, it works for me, but I did the entropy in supercharger too. Overkill? Maybe. But my phone is a slug, so I'll take all the tweaks I can.
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You really shouldn't use both.

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IMUcarmen said:
Another question. I'm not sure if this is possible, but I was wondering if there was a way to see a change log for aokp nightlies. I'm on 5/9 but would try the latest 5/12 if there were actual worthwhile changes made. If there isn't anyway to see the changes it's no big deal I was just curious.
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This app pulls from gerrit, not device specific so you kind of have to sort thru it but it's somewhat helpful. For example, on the 14th some memory leak fixes were merged so I assume those would be in the 05-15 build?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jbirdvegas.mgerrit
 
The 05-15 build has a Dark AOKP setting. This is the system theme.

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