[RELEASE] ShinTo Kernel “NewBorn” L09A06 for LP
!!!PLEASE READ AS CHANGES ARE EXTENSIVE!!!
More information of the origins of ShinTo Kernel can be found in previous version posts.
How to install ShinTo Kernel?
- First CREATE A BACKUP OF YOUR ROM (in case something awful happens and you need to restore)!
- Did you create the backup in recovery?
- Go to recovery mode (Power off phone / Once powered off, press PWR + HOME + UP VOL).
- Once inside recovery (tested with TWRP 2.8.5.0) you select install and choose the .ZIP that you have previously downloaded from here.
- Once installed, reboot into normal mode and wait for the phone to come up.
One thing you will notice right out of the bat is that the led starts to blink in different colors and brightness; that’s ShadowLED working for ya 😉
How to UNinstall ShinTo Kernel?
- Flash any other kernel you would like on top of ShinTo Kernel.
ShinTo kernel uses it’s own unique and private “init.d” so from this version on, it won’t touch /system/etc/init.d anymore.
All options can be enabled/disabled in Synapse and the settings survive a flash, reflash & even a format, backup, restore, etc…
Alternatively you can recover the backup of your rom if you messed something up.
How to go from EXT4 to F2FS & vice versa?
ShinTo Kernel includes a new and much improved clever code at bootup that takes care of a couple of things for you, so you can test F2FS in any combination you see fit, and even go back to EXT4 if you don’t like F2FS without loosing any data but you have to follow some logical steps detailed here by the great Megaflop666:
- Update TWRP to the latest and greatest (2.8.5.0 at the time of this writing), you can download it from http://teamw.in/project/twrp2“
- Drop to TWRP and flash the latest Shinto Kernel
- Reboot and let the phone fully boot up and settle down, give it 15 minutes
- Open Synapse and make sure all settings are stock, if it tells you that your previous settings cannot be used, click “Understood“, and then click the apply check mark at the top.
- Go into ES File Explorer or something of your choice and get ALL USER DATA THAT YOU WISH TO KEEP off of the internal SD card.
- IF YOU MISSED IT BY NOT READING #5, YOU WILL LOSE ALL PERSONAL DATA ON YOUR INTERNAL STORAGE BY DOING THIS (as TWRP doesn’t back that part up)!
- Drop to TWRP and run a FULL NANDROID BACKUP to your External SD Card.
- Go to SETTINGS and unselect (un tick) “use rm -rf instead of formatting” (We want TWRP to actually format with f2fs)
- Go to Wipe and Choose Advanced Wipe
- Select System and choose change or repair file system
- Choose f2fs and go through the steps where it tells you that all data will be lost and apply it.
- Follow steps 9-11 for Data and Cache one at a time.
- Go to SETTINGS and select (tick) “use rm -rf instead of formatting” (We don’t want TWRP to restore back to EXT4)
- Do a restore, but ONLY CHECK SYSTEM & DATA for restoral, NOTHING ELSE IS NEEDED.
- It will tell you that your backup was made with ext4 and may not boot, don’t worry it will boot.
- After restore, reboot your device. First boot will take a few because it’s a new file system and your apps will have to reconfigure themselves, etc.
You can see what partitions are in what format if you go to the i/o VM tab in Synapse.
On what models does ShinTo Kernel work?
For the time being, it has been confirmed to run very fast & stable on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 SM-N9005 (international SnapDragon) and on N900T (TMO T-Mobile USA), on any Samsung LOLLIPOP 5.0.x TouchWiz rom.
It is only meant to work on Samsung TouchWiz roms, for now… 😉
Working very well and doing battery.. Noticed some errors in Synapse when setting precov for the first time but it set correctly
Haven’t had the time to review and improve Synapse so there will be bugs there. Thx for reporting, will try to improve Synapse for the next release.
Thanks buddy..L09A06 works awesome, battery-use and performance!!..
As always you’re most kind, I’ll keep improving it and bringing exclusive surprises
THANK YOU!
Another brilliant release! You really put a heart into the phone! Very smooth UI, very responsive and aggressive while in use, sleep quickly and very well too! Question, what’s the settings for kernel VM > DBR, DR and Swappiness? Suggestion: as ShadowLED is taking over LED control from notification, is it possible to bind notification to touch key light (e.g. blinks when a message comes)? Muchas gracias!
Hi there, so i saw a post where you required some logs for feedback. Here’s mine: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B24gwDhTSqH_V29sWkhpTmM3NmM/view?usp=docslist_api
My notes are within the Zip folder on what I think caused problems. Hopefully you find some useful info for your next release 🙂
Cheers
Thx!
Greetings!
I tried a lot of kernels but yours i like the most. Probably that’s why i always come back to it. Lovind the concept of Precognition governor. Thank you. Keep up the good work.
PS: I’ve been getting some random reboots when fast charge is active. I set the failsafe to disabled, and used custom charging values. I don’t need help but you could look into it to fix it in next versions.
Sorry I cannot for the life of me find the download link anywhere? Can someone pls provide me the link, thanks!
Look closely at fourth page and you shall find what you seek.
Good luck!
Just an FYI, the precog gov. setting doesn’t stick after reboot, defaults to interactive.
Please give your phone a couple of minutes after booting before checking the settings with Synapse.
If you change your phone while it’s powered off and try to power on it reboots back in changing mode.
This kernel is great. From some reason the last update from August 23 does not work well on my note 3. I cannot change the governer to precog, and I get an error message. It is working well with the previous version from July 24. Do you have any idea why is that?
Thanks for your work.
I would suggest uninstalling Synapse and removing it’s data before flashing the latest version of ShinTo Kernel.
Thanks. I will try that and let you know.
I tried to uninstalling Synapse and its data and then flashing the latest version of ShinTo Kernel, but it did not help, precog did not work.
Download link?
I set the min gpu freg 200mhz in synapse but it still 27mhz, my phone is so lag
I’ve SM-9005 (international version) and in Synapse I’ve 27 mhz on GPU, but no lags, it runs very smoothly. Try to delete all files in synapse folder and reboot. If you get no luck, reinstall kernel, but before flash a kernel cleaner zip. If it still lags, try to full wipe and reflash your ROM.
Hey mate, can you email me your recommended default settings for the kernel & precognition govenor?
I’m attempting to put together a .git repo of my tweaks (since they are all ramdisk related, why not make it universal 🙂 )
I’m going to try to get as many in there as possible and definately want precog on-board
https://bitbucket.org/kpirnie/team-dompop-ramdisk
Ok, apparently I’m a tool, you’ve already got them in there…
Is “precognition” correct for:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
Hey Kev!
Yeah it’s called precognition
There’s nothing to change or tweak in the public version of PrecoGOV (precognition governor).
No defaults that you set or anything on post_boot?
Sweet!
Yep…that’s the whole point of PrecoGOV
Where is the kitkat version for those of us who haven’t to update to lollipop, I have waited for 3 month did you discontinued it?
The only problem is that i have many lags in games. All the rest works perfectly on my note 3. Any idea?
I’m extremely confused, where is the download link?
Never mind, I couldn’t see the Pages Links, which meant I couldn’t go on to the Page with the downloads.
Hi Carlos, IMO this is already the best and flawless release! Smooth, responsive, stable, rock solid, battery friendly, all function working… Can’t imagine what further improvement you will include… AWESOME!
Thank you very much for your continued support!