Root [OC/UC] ButterKAT Kernel for Stock 4.4.4 [KitKat]

[MonDillinger]

I'll make a new set of switcher zips for this kernel and upload it tonight. Also, for anyone who hasn't thought of this yet, never flash a switcher zip immediately before you flash a rom because this will leave you with no recovery installed. I spent a little while last night trying to help someone who made this mistake but it seems his phone might be permanently bricked. What he did was he flashed the switcher zip for carbon ROM along with the ROM itself (in that order) and somehow got stuck in a bootloop with no recovery installed and unable to get adb to recognize the phone. I'll be adding this warning to my thread later tonight along with the switcher & restore zips for ButterKAT Kernel.

He needs to boot into field test mode (FTM) and manually flash TWRP recovery.img from ADB

 

[ThatKid_Prince]

funny you ask that question. I always test a kernel and set it to its max before i set it to the frequency with best performance and stability..Ive played with this kernel for 5 hours ...using wifi,,bluetooth,watching youtube,basicly steady use. No... I repeat No heating issues as of yet...BTW ..Butternoob Rom is so smooth...nice..

Oh and what do you recommend for performance and stability?

 

[psvita501weop]

Why no GPU over clock to 650mhz?

 

[tonylc74]

Quadrant benchmark

 

[Blackhawk1969]

There is a built in governor with the kernel or do I need set cpu or something like that to set on boot etc?

 

[ThebananaEngine]

I installed your .zip in my recovery with butternoob. But its not showing up anywhere. I've looked. Am I doing something wrong? I don't have r/w installed

 

[ThatKid_Prince]

I installed your .zip in my recovery with butternoob. But its not showing up anywhere. I've looked. Am I doing something wrong? I don't have r/w installed

Use a kernal tweaker or something like setcpu or no frills and then you can change the CPU values and governers

 

[ThebananaEngine]

Thanks

 

[ThatKid_Prince]

Thanks

Np bro

 

[automoto62500]

102578

 

[Blackhawk1969]

If I flash this kernel and decide I want to go back to stock kernel can I just use twrp and use my last restore point I had with stock kernel? Or do I have to wipe sytem and data then restore? Or would I have to flash a stock kernel to get back to stock rooted? :=))

 

[MonDillinger]

If I flash this kernel and decide I want to go back to stock kernel can I just use twrp and use my last restore point I had with stock kernel? Or do I have to wipe sytem and data then restore? Or would I have to flash a stock kernel to get back to stock rooted? :=))

Yeah you can use a restore

 

[Blackhawk1969]

Yeah you can use a restore

Cool.. just wanted to make sure incase i started getting battery drain. Sometimes I can go three days without A recharge with regular phone use

 

[Blackhawk1969]

Wow... this kernel makes everything run extremely smooth.. no chop when im scrolling on webpages or app drawer or homescreens.. great job MonDillinger!!!

 

[Nawshaggster]

Worked like a charm, CPU at full tilt, mam you guys are top notch, and I will be looking for the new set of zips, my phone has never rebooted faster,many many thanks to all of the hard work

 

[Nawshaggster]

Worked like a charm, CPU at full tilt, man you guys are top notch, and I will be looking for the new set of zips, my phone has never rebooted faster,many many thanks for all of the hard work

 

[Masterchief87]

There are switcher and restore zips for this kernel on my thread. It looks like @MonDillinger just hasn't gotten around to updating the op yet.

 

[Nawshaggster]

OK, I'm about to dive in, not a 100% comfortable yet, so I'm going to go in and do a few things, viper mainly, if anyone has any must haves to reccomend it would be much appreciated as I would like to get it done all at once thnx I'm advance

 

[ghet2rockuu]

Yeah you can use a restore

you can just reflash the boot image from the stock rom in twrp

 

[leo5111]

anyone try this on the z987? it can run the zmax roms so wondering if anyone on cricket with the grandx max+ has tried it

 

[Masterchief87]

anyone try this on the z987? it can run the zmax roms so wondering if anyone on cricket with the grandx max+ has tried it

The camera for the z987 won't work with this kernel

 

[MonDillinger]

anyone try this on the z987? it can run the zmax roms so wondering if anyone on cricket with the grandx max+ has tried it

You Z987 users are just asking to be bricked. This is for the Z970

 

[psvita501weop]

You Z987 users are just asking to be bricked. This is for the Z970

The phones can use the same recovery and they have the same quad core 1.2ghz Qualcomm snapdragon 400 MSM8926 SoC and 2GB of ram I think its pretty safe from my view point...

 

[MonDillinger]

The phones can use the same recovery and they have the same quad core 1.2ghz Qualcomm snapdragon 400 MSM8926 SoC and 2GB of ram I think its pretty safe from my view point...

So does the Moto G 4G (Sans the 2GB of RAM) but you don't go flashing haphazardly. We can't efficiently test anything on you all's device, and its a reason they are different devices. If they flash, fine, we just can't fix anything, and you all will end up flashing stuff that has problems we won't go through the trouble of fixing because it isn't designed for your device in the first place. If you really want developer support, get your community to send a phone to Ethan (guy over AICP, Ressurection Remix, etc.), get us a link to your kernel source from ZTE, and we can get cooking. However, as it stands, you all are flashing a ROM that's destined to have problems.

 

[ThatKid_Prince]

Can anyone just add governers and I/O schedulurs to this for personal use since its open source?