Siyah kernel - Dummies Guide

[abhishek021196]

I am a total noob. So please dont get angry or anything, okay?

Upload Mode is the same as Recovery mode, right? Vol Up + Home + Power..?

 

[Shotgun84]

You don't have to worry about anyone getting angry with you for asking questions. We are here to help and were all noobs once.

Yeah upload mode is the same as recovery.

 

[Hawker]

I am a total noob. So please dont get angry or anything, okay?

Upload Mode is the same as Recovery mode, right? Vol Up + Home + Power..?

Even the great Slug, ironass and Shotgun84 were noobs once, so dont worry.
You're on AF now, not XDA

 

[abhishek021196]

Umm, I can get into recovery. The touch thingy is pretty cool.

But, when I start up Odin v1.85 the 1st box doesnt turn yellow. I have been waiting for a minute and its just blank. I know, for a fact that my phone has Debugging enabled.. So, any idea what might be wrong??

Thanks again,
You guys are the best.

 

[abhishek021196]

PRAISE THE LORD.

I realised I had to be in the Download Mode to be able to use Odin. I just flashed the Siyah-v2.6.14 and my phone is alright now..

THANK YOU SO SO MUCH.

 

[ironass]

Umm, I can get into recovery. The touch thingy is pretty cool.

But, when I start up Odin v1.85 the 1st box doesnt turn yellow. I have been waiting for a minute and its just blank. I know, for a fact that my phone has Debugging enabled.. So, any idea what might be wrong??

Thanks again,
You guys are the best.

Odin is not turning yellow because you are in Recovery.

To connect to Odin you need to be in Download as per Hawker's post...

If not, if you can get into download mode (VOL-DOWN+HOME+POWER), flash a GB kernel via Odin

 

[Shotgun84]

PRAISE THE LORD.

I realised I had to be in the Download Mode to be able to use Odin. I just flashed the Siyah-v2.6.14 and my phone is alright now..

THANK YOU SO SO MUCH.

No problem. I'm glad you're sorted.

 

[iT0mm0]

just installed .7b on omega ics rom, wifi is already 10x better than on the CF kernel on the rom, heres hoping to a good battery life

 

[hippityhop]

just installed .7b on omega ics rom, wifi is already 10x better than on the CF kernel on the rom, heres hoping to a good battery life

Omega rom with siyah's latest makes it very very very good. Battery life is superb as well. 85% at 9 hours.

 

[Kie]

I guess I'll do the honours again

Siyah v3 RC1 is out! That's right the first official version of Siyah ICS is available to download at gokhanmoral's site! Exciting times ahead!

Changelog:

- used lights.exynos4.so which supports both Samsung and CM9 ROMs (thanks to myfluxi for making necessary modifications on it for CM9 part)
- added back BLN support for CM9 based ROMs.
- fixed touch screen sensitivity problem while charging
- fixed CPU scaling problem and sleep-of-death issues with screen-scaling (script or SetCPU) (thanks to Entropy512 to find the main reason of the problem. I have modified my code based on his patch and removed my previous workarounds)
- ondemand governor is ondemandx now (it has a default screen-off profile with upper limit of 500MHz, configurable with ExTweaks app)
- J4FS module (thanks to hardcore). I think Hellcat has an app in the market to let you change boot logo and that app needs this module to mount /mnt/.lfs
- battery and performance defaults for uci.sh interface. the defaults are located in /res/customconfig folder. you can either copy them over /data/.siyah/default.profile or use “kernel specific options” menu in the recovery to select one of them as the active profile.
- fixed MTP. It will work both on Samsung and CM9 now.
- a new, hotplug aware governor… I didn’t test it much but the code seems good. The only negative issue I noticed so far is that it is from Samsung (thanks to AndreiLux@XDA for giving the heads up)
- MIUIv4, cMIUI and AdyScorpiusMIUI support. (not fully tested though)
- Added auto-install of ntfs-3g binary and we are back to XZ compression because of this addition, but with -1 flag to have fastest xz decompression.

Edit: In addition, the changelog for v3 RC2 is out:

- fixed touchkey lights staying off in CM9
- fixed proximity sensor initialization problem (that battery sucking red little light near camera)
- fixed the problem that prevents some zip files to be flashed in CWM Recovery
- changed battery and performance defaults a little
- added Entropy512′s fix to prevent cpu0 to be hotplugged
- SLUB again
- fixed sdcard issue with HydrogenICS

Sounds all good!

 

[gokhanmoral]

rc2 is up.
if you are on rc1 flash rc2 immediately.
the only experimental change is touch sensitivity while charging.
other than that everything should be better.

 

[galsII]

i can flash Siyah v3 RC2 to my galaxy s 2 ics dxlp7 right?

 

[galsII]

i can flash Siyah v3 RC2 to my galaxy s 2 ics dxlp7 right?

 

[Kie]

i can flash Siyah v3 RC2 to my galaxy s 2 ics dxlp7 right?

Yes, that should work fine

 

[galsII]

flashed via odin? or via cwm?

cant find a complete instruction in flashing via cwm..tnx

 

[Kie]

flashed via odin? or via cwm?

cant find a complete instruction in flashing via cwm..tnx

Definitely Odin! For convenience, I use Mobile Odin; saves using a computer

 

[galsII]

tnx man..

 

[lavellep]

Hi All,

I'm using that Omega ICS ROM a few threads up.. Will this be compatible with that and if so, can I just download it on my phone and install using CWM? I'm at work so don't have access to a PC with Odin on it.

Sorry - probably obvious question but knowing my luck, I'll brick the phone!!

 

[Shotgun84]

Yeah it should work and can be flashed with cwm

 

[ironass]

Siyah kernel v3.0rc4 is up!

"Changelog:

fixed liblights and it should be working on CM9 as it should have been.
fixed MIUI problem in initramfs (another typo)
fixed wifi toggling issue"

SiyahKernel for SGS2 | "One kernel to rule them all"

 

[Kie]

Great news! And looks like we'll be seeing the official v3.0 very soon!

 

[galsII]

siya kernel v3.0 is out...

 

[Kie]

A great day! Both AndyX ROM v9.0 came out AND Siyah v3.0 official. *drools*

 

[ironass]

Siyah kernel v3.0.1 is up!

"Changelog:

fixed Task Manager/Active Tasks issue
fixed module loading issue which was causing some weird problems such as fm radio not functioning or android logger not working.
added fs and readahead optimization parts of thunderbolt scripts back (thanks to pikachu01@XDA)
set vitalij value to 5 for default and battery profiles, 3 for performance. You can use ExTweaks to customize it to your taste.
performance profile tweaks. you’ll have to reset profiles in CWM Recovery to be able to use new performance defaults.
adbd, init, recovery and lights.exynos4.so are recompiled using latest cm9 sources."


EDIT: updated on 9th April, 2012 to fix auto turn-on problem while charging in off mode (Samsung ROMs only). If you are on a Samsung ROM or MIUI please download again.

 

[dynomot]

Flashed stock ICS via Odin (I9100XWLP4), flashed CF-Root v5.4 LP3 via Odin. Then flashed old bootloader and sucessfully used my USB jig to get rid of yellow triangle and reset flash counter. Flashed Siyah 3.0.1 via CWM.

All good so far, but now I must go to bed !!