love francos kernel

[twindragons187]

After much reading, I decided to give Franco's kernel a try. I'm on AOKP Milestone 3. I'm using FrancoGazelle, min/max set at 700/1200. Hot plug mod enabled. So far... just sitting on my desk here, I'm down to 91% just after 17 mins of being unplugged... Total screen time on: 8mins. I have LTE disabled since I get a fairly weak signal inside the building. Wi-Fi is off and GPS is off. So far... not that impressed with this battery drain. I'm also have the extended battery installed.

Let it settle. Run it through a few charge cycles first.

 

[dmmarck]

16.2 is out!

Changelog:

Changelog:
#16.2
* Custom Voltage mod from Ezekeel patched up to his latest changes - for more information check his github repo
* Dynamic hotplug removed - this is a good idea on paper but CPU spikes up every other time while trying to check if cpu1 was online or not, and that is not expected at all. I may return to this implementation in the future if I think of a better way to do it
* 350mhz bumped to 400mhz and set as minimum frequency as default - for testing purposes, we'll see that comes from this
* francoTurtle is the default governor again

 

[Jaycemiskel]

Getting some nice life out of 16.2.

 

[AZDROIDX]

17 is out, along with App update. I see 200mhz and 1500mhz added. Just flashed.

 

[Halo]

Well this kernel and my phone just don't get along. I bought the Franco app to support his work anyway. After trying different settings and running it for a few days, battery life has been crap compared to other kernels I have used.

 

[AZDROIDX]

17.2 is out, 17 was not playing good today with my phone. Had a few reboots, going to look at change log! Was about to return to 16.2 and saw his new 17.2

 

[greydarrah]

17.2 is out, 17 was not playing good today with my phone. Had a few reboots, going to look at change log! Was about to return to 16.2 and saw his new 17.2

My phone has always run best on Franco's kernel, but I never run his first base number (i.e. 15, 16, 17). It is usually updated to a .1 or .2 version the same day. Seems there is often a significant bug in the base version that quickly gets identified and fixed.

 

[AZDROIDX]

My phone has always run best on Franco's kernel, but I never run his first base number (i.e. 15, 16, 17). It is usually updated to a .1 or .2 version the same day. Seems there is often a significant bug in the base version that quickly gets identified and fixed.

Yeah, now that you mention it... that sounds about right. Good advise. Hard not to flash the latest and greatest tho, I'm getting impatient waiting for the next BB ROM from Peter! It's been 8 days since his last nightly! Lol

 

[ManBearPig618]

Anyone running 17.2? I'm running it with CNA 1.4 and my battery life seems pretty bad - Android OS is using the most juice and phone is running a little warm. This happened with a previous version of Franco's kernel (maybe 15.0 or 15.1?) and was fixed when Franco updated it.

 

[anon(525422)]

Anyone running 17.2? I'm running it with CNA 1.4 and my battery life seems pretty bad - Android OS is using the most juice and phone is running a little warm.

I'm running 17.2 as of yesterday. (With CNA 1.4, same as you.)

I'm coming from stock and have been a rom/kernel virgin up to now, plus this is entirely anecdotal, so I don't know how much weight it carries... but the battery life seems pretty good to me.

9 hours with pretty significant use (compared to my usual): 90+ minutes of screen time, about 40 minutes of playing or streaming music, a bunch of time spent restoring and tweaking apps/data from Ti Backup and grabbing updates from Market, a few texts, little web/FB/Twitter browsing. (No voice calls though.) JD is running on a 30 minute schedule and I am sitting at an office desk, though, not wandering around the city. LTE toggled off too. (Loving having quick access to that via the ROM, btw.)

I'm not sure if that's good by your standards or anyone else's, but it's pretty awesome by mine compared to what I was seeing on stock! Not noticing any heat problems.

[ Edit: Running the francoTurtle governor, btw. ]
[ Edit 2: Oh, and I toggled on Hotplug about halfway through the day ]

 

[SuperChargedJ]

Anyone running 17.2? I'm running it with CNA 1.4 and my battery life seems pretty bad - Android OS is using the most juice and phone is running a little warm. This happened with a previous version of Franco's kernel (maybe 15.0 or 15.1?) and was fixed when Franco updated it.

I'm running this same kernel on AOKP Build 23, and Android OS would be the second highest on battery consumption on my phone, behind screen of course. My phone also runs a little warm as well while using WIFI or 4G, but I would recommend letting the phone settle for a few days no matter what kernel you're using. Your device will figure things out and then battery life will greatly improve. I've used other kernels and I continue to stay with Franco because of the support and the performance.

Oh and my battery life is not bad, I've just noticed a faster drainage during my normal use. I would also recommend using BetterBatteryStats to find any rogue apps.

EDIT: With very little use today after charging the phone all the way last night, I'm at 80% - 11h 55m 38s on battery. Seems like it's getting back to what I'm used to.

 

[BringMeBack9801]

Is anyone having issues with color control not working on the Franco Updater app? In the latest release of the app, he said he fixed it, but the colors on mine still aren't changing. I'm using 16.1 if it makes a difference.

 

[willlayb]

betterbatterystats is saying some of my kernal is keeping my phone in a wakelock. i keep losing like 20-30% overnight when im on wifi, i do that since i dont have much signal in my basement. AOKP+franco 17.2 is still having android OS keep my phone awake when it shouldnt be. 5 hours on battery, screen off 99% of that time with 3.75 hours awake under AOS. i wish this crap would get sorted out

edit: i get enough signal that it doesnt search

 

[anon(525422)]

9 hours with pretty significant use (compared to my usual): 90+ minutes of screen time, about 40 minutes of playing or streaming music, a bunch of time spent restoring and tweaking apps/data from Ti Backup and grabbing updates from Market, a few texts, little web/FB/Twitter browsing. (No voice calls though.)
...
I'm not sure if that's good by your standards or anyone else's, but it's pretty awesome by mine compared to what I was seeing on stock!

Oops -- just realized I somehow snipped the part of that last post mentioning that I had 54% battery remaining after that usage. 9 hours for 100% battery would've been kinda crap.


After a few days getting used to it, I'm definitely seeing much, much battery battery life with Francos 17.2/CNA 1.4 than with stock. It's particularly good at retaining charge while sitting on standby, which I really appreciate.

Stock would drain the battery pretty steadily throughout the day, even if I barely turned the screen on and had it sitting in a solid signal area, to the point that I wouldn't be 100% confident about my alarm going off the next morning if I didn't leave it charging overnight. With Francos/CNA, the battery's currently sitting at 56% remaining after 30 hours. Very light use admittedly (a little under 1 hour of screen time) but it would still happily go 2 days without charging at this rate, just being available for calls and texts and checking up on emails. I'm not a heavy caller/texter so I'm much happier with this setup, since I can be confident about my phone easily lasting through the day when it's not seeing much active use.

 

[clarker07]

18 is up and sounds promising

Changelog:
-Completely rebased kernel - no more sh it code lying around
-Turtle and Gazelle not yet added as I need to tune them better
-Ondemand governor tweaked and used as default
-A lot of other changes that will be visible on my repo in a few hours
-Stability
-Long battery again

Sounds like it might be getting updates soon, but flashing a kernel is so easy I flashed it anyway.

 

[memphisboy]

Quick question, do I need to be rooted in order to flash this kernal? I have only unlocked my bootloader when I flashed 4.0.4.

 

[Nechasin]

18 is up and sounds promising

Changelog:
-Completely rebased kernel - no more sh it code lying around
-Turtle and Gazelle not yet added as I need to tune them better
-Ondemand governor tweaked and used as default
-A lot of other changes that will be visible on my repo in a few hours
-Stability
-Long battery again

Sounds like it might be getting updates soon, but flashing a kernel is so easy I flashed it anyway.

Does "Long Battery Again" mean what I think it means? We should get better battery life?

Also, what is the purpose of the color control?

 

[Juststef]

Quick question, do I need to be rooted in order to flash this kernal? I have only unlocked my bootloader when I flashed 4.0.4.

I think you do. I don't think you can flash without root.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

 

[walkingtaco]

I never think twice about updating this kernel. Not sure why people wait or stick to updates. Every update is better than the last. Phones never run better

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

 

[Nechasin]

18.1 is up now
#18.1
* SoD issue should now be fixed
* Added 1,5ghz step - use it with caution, you're on your own if you use this step so don't bother crying at me if your device doesn't run faster than your 8-core desktop