[ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO (07132013)

[AndyOpie150]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

You might want to disregard my previous post until I can verify the app didn't get corrupted in download from market (only have 3G).
With fresh install of ROM and Gapps and no theme It didn't go over 153.
I'll stop at McDonalds and download from their WiFi, then run it again.

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[QuinnSF]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

Is there a way to make use of the voice button right above the camera button? Like use it as a shortcut to Gallery/Quickpic?

and any way to make the lockscreen look like quattrimus? do i need to buy that lockscreen app?

 

[skealoha86]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

Ok, I'm getting inconsistent results. I tried Seeder again and was able to consistently see entropy pool values around 3500-4000. Then I uninstalled it and the entropy dropped back down 130-200.

This morning I decided to check and saw the entropy pool rise slowly from 400 to 3100.



Last night I uninstalled ivona voice because I didn't like that it was running as a background service but that is the only difference. Wondering how much of an effect certain applications have on entropy.

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[mrg666]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

This means the entropy patch in the kernel is working. Probably something was using too much entropy. Maybe ivona was the problem. I have been using svox classic without any problems, but I had to buy a voice (Grace US).

@QinnSF - Regarding the extra button on the phone, it is not configured in the source code. I wouldn't bother attaching it to anything given that the latest trend is eliminating as many physical buttons as possible on the latest phones and using touch screen as much as possible. There are many configuration options in the lock screen settings of CM7. You can also download a lockscreen app from the market (hololocker, widget locker, go locker, ....)

 

[scorson]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

Hi, I've been using BS 1-31 since it came out and settled on it but I'd like to try MIrage. Always been curious but the way AndieOpie has been heaping praise on it at the Android Forums it sounds pretty good.
I haven't messed with other roms in long time and the only recovery I've used is Xionia CWMA 1.2518.4 (with the blue text).
Will this recovery still be fine?
fyi, I don't use link2sd, only have the one partition, not sure that matters but thought I'd mention it. I do understand the stated advantages to using link2sd but I don't use quite as many apps as most of you.
Another couple questions I have, it does have theme chooser built in correct?
Also, I've read some of this thread and confused about the the notification bar, is it clear or black? I'd rather it be black.
Also, the clock can't be colored or moved correct? These aren't deal breakers just curious..

Thankyou mrg666

 

[kraven]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

Is there an app that will show entropy use by app?

 

[mrg666]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

scorson, the minimum recommended recovery is BobZ's recovery. There is EarthnFire's latest recovery as well. Don't use Xionia. You can use MiRaGe without Link2SD just fine as long as you don't fill /data. Theme chooser is included, bar is black. Clock can't be colored and moved, and that is how I prefer

kraven, I am not aware of such an application.

 

[scorson]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

Thanks for the reply mrg. I'm a little nervous about using a different recovery and don't know or remember how to go about installing it. I suppose I could try EarthnFire's, I went to that page but is it pretty simple to switch recovery's? Can it be stated in a couple sentences? I'm just being lazy about it I know I should just get reading..

 

[mrg666]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

Can it be stated in a couple sentences? I'm just being lazy about it I know I should just get reading..

https://github.com/inferiorhumanorgans/android_device_lge_thunderc_common/wiki/IHO-Recovery

 

[upconvert]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

Flash image GUI from the play store makes flashing recoveries very easy.

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[scorson]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

Hey thanks upconvert for helping, but after backing up/syncing a few things I just used mrg's link provided and grabbed the iho recovery and it was pretty simple, I just had to install terminal emulator again, found I have the new recov, so now I'm going to delete and wipe a bunch of stuff pretty quick and go for it!

Oh goodness, seems to be a prob. either I don't know how to use this recovery or something went awry. I could'nt get out of the recovery and it acted funny, wouldn't go to advanced just showed static circle/tophat then when going back wouldn't respond to commands to reboot or anything. I pulled battery and it rebooted to BS however. Should I use a different recovery or try installing again?

Well I checked the md5 and it was right so I tried flashing it again and same thing. So maybe a different recovery for me I don't know

And one more edit lol. I tried Bob's recovery and seemed to do the same thing. Then I tried the ZenGarden and this one the menus seem to behave, so I guess I'm good now. I don't know what the problem was with the others, probably user error somehow I don't know..

 

[AndyOpie150]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

The camera button is the select button on all CWMod recovery's and their variants, like the BobZohme modified CWMod recovery (VM670NH_recovery.img).
The ZenGarden use's the virtual home button.

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[scorson]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

The camera button is the select button on all CWMod recovery's and their variants, like the BobZohme modified CWMod recovery

(VM670NH_recovery.img).
The ZenGarden use's the virtual home button.

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That explains a lot

 

[upconvert]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

That brings back memories. Thank god for touch recoveries. They weren't around when I made that pebcak. I guess, more accurately, thank earth-n-fire.

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[AndyOpie150]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

The first touch screen recovery for the V was the: Touch Screen recovery, which used the virtual home key or the camera button for selections.
Then came the COT and ZenGarden, which for some reason I haven't tried to see which physical buttons do what.
Now I guess I'll have to.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.

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[scorson]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

Shiny new rom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[scorson]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

So you got this "Holo Launcher" on there, I have to check that out now and see if the old GO Launcher EX 2.85 comes back or not. Hmm.. I have to say that this rom is quite attractive looking just with the font change! I thought I had the Cyanbread selected in Theme Chooser but only see system colors.

 

[yaconsult]

Entropy Seed Generator Not All It?s Hacked Up to Be

I just happened to come across this article today after installing the new kernel. Curious what the experience of others has been. The phone seems a bit faster to me, but according to this, the entropy change has nothing to do with it?

Entropy Seed Generator Not All It?s Hacked Up to Be ? xda-developers

[...]
The premise of the hack is that you can reduce lag by keeping a section of the Android file system (/dev/random) full of random bits so that the system does not have to wait for the file system to generate them. In theory that sounds great, and has shown some success in certain areas where lag was obvious, but it presents all sorts of other problems.

It is for those concerns that we do not recommend using this fix. The fix itself in no way causes harm, and is near-placebo in its effects. CyanogenMod developer arcee posted information on the fix, stating that

The only users of /dev/random are libcrypto (used for cryptographic operations like SSL connections, ssh key generation, and so on), wpa_supplicant/hostapd (to generate WEP/WPA keys while in AP mode), and the libraries that generate random partition IDs when you do an ext2/3/4 format. None of those 3 users are in the path of app execution, so feeding random from urandom does nothing except make random? well? less random​

There are valid concerns about lag and how the Android OS handles them, and there is discussion currently ongoing within the Android Code about this, but this fix does not address those issues and instead gives performance gains through boosting CPU speed. The developer himself stated that this could in effect reduce battery life, since the hack is waking the CPU every second.
[...]

 

[skeeterfood]

Re: [ROM+Kernel] MiRaGe-CM7.2-IHO

The entropy fix in this kernel is not the same as seeder. It is a fix for the underlying problem of why something like seeder was created in the first place to keep the entropy from dropping. It does not cause the CPU to wake more often than before like seeder did and it is not possibly diminishing the randomness of /dev/random.

 

[mrg666]

Re: Entropy Seed Generator Not All It?s Hacked Up to Be

Yaconsult, the discussion you have linked is about the seeder app and I actually agree with the CM developers that it is an ad-hoc fix. I wouldn't include in MiRaGe. See my earlier comments here.

What I have included in the MiRaGe kernel is a patch that addresses the entropy depletion problem in the kernel level taken from LKML. It will probably be included in the mainline Linux kernel soon. This patch is not even specific to Android. So, skeeterfood is right. There is no change on the Android side since the problem is addressed at its root.