Root [Boost Mobile] [ROM] n00b (B10 based) VIII.II FULL Install 1/23/2013

[MrBobo]

that's what's missing, I posted a new one with swappiness and minfree back in there!

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Updated the original n00b VII Update zip (post 1) to include the latest minfree settings. For anyone just joining us, you don't need to flash anything extra over n00b VI to get this minfree setting.

 

[drewhill77]

that's what's missing, I will post another zip in a few with swappiness and minfree back in there!

EDIT: here is the update that adds minfree, THANK YOU DREWHILL!

EDIT EDIT: damn that was annoying, I knew this too and had it on my swap script before, just totally missed putting that on the new zram script.

 

[Smoothkaos]

Are you having fc's or system reboots like SicFreak?

Not at the moment. I'm blazing fast right now after the 256 zram zip mrbobo earlier created. However, in the past I would completely get locked up where only a reflash of the rom would fix. Zram instead of the other ramswap on past n00b versions seems to have alleviated my issues but I'm not overly optimistic yet because I would run fine (never this snappy) for about a week then reboot for whatever reason and get locked up. I'm convinced it was swap now. Going to flash the minfree zip that was just created.

 

[LilBit]

So what do I do now? What do I flash? I flashed the first one.

 

[Smoothkaos]

that's what's missing, I will post another zip in a few with swappiness and minfree back in there!

EDIT: here is the update that adds minfree, THANK YOU DREWHILL!

EDIT EDIT: damn that was annoying, I knew this too and had it on my swap script before, just totally missed putting that on the new zram script.

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Updated the original n00b VII Update zip to include the latest minfree settings. For anyone just joining us, you don't need to flash anything extra over n00b VI to get this minfree setting.

Hey mrbobo just for clarification I notice that the new minfree zip is named the same as the previous zip from this morning. Its contents are different though with minfree settings correct?

 

[MrBobo]

you won't see the lag for a long time with the large zRam but the minfree values should improve things in the long run.

We can keep tweaking this out, I will keep playing with this for the next week or so.

 

[MrBobo]

Hey mrbobo just for clarification I notice that the new minfree zip is named the same as the previous zip from this morning. Its contents are different though with minfree settings correct?

yes, this is all being handled through the zram script and I wanted my links to stay the same for other posts.

if you open the S02zRam file in a text editor you can see the change I made.

 

[MrBobo]

So what do I do now? What do I flash? I flashed the first one.

I updated the n00b VII update zip in post one so just flash that.

 

[LilBit]

So should I flash minfree to?

 

[MrBobo]

So should I flash minfree to?

yes

 

[LilBit]

either zip from this post will do, I updated the n00b VII update zip as well as the zram update zip.

I flashed the new zram update you showed me. Now, is that the right one?

 

[MrBobo]

You are gtg lil one

 

[LilBit]

You are gtg lil one

YAY!!!! I also got to see your lil Mr Bobo was here again!!! (giggle giggle giggle)

 

[Smoothkaos]

YAY!!!! I also got to see your lil Mr Bobo was here again!!! (giggle giggle giggle)

I know every time I reboot I laugh to myself when I see it hiding down there haha

 

[SicFreak]

Installed the min flash... So, where do I go to see the zram stuff? I mean as far as what's being used?

 

[drewhill77]

Installed the min flash... So, where do I go to see the zram stuff? I mean as far as what's being used?

just type free in terminal emulator...it's listed as swap

 

[SicFreak]

Gotcha

 

[Konceptz]

is there any way to have zram use its memory more evenly? ie can it more evenly distribute the amount of ram used between physical and zram? as you can see from the screenshots regular ram is almost maxed out while zram is only used about 50%.....phone is experiencing lag in this scenario

 

[drewhill77]

is there any way to have zram use its memory more evenly? ie can it more evenly distribute the amount of ram used between physical and zram? as you can see from the screenshots regular ram is almost maxed out while zram is only used about 50%.....phone is experiencing lag in this scenario

What you've got to understand is that swaps (including zram) don't actually increase ram. They're simply storage for memory of unused/old apps. The system moves pages to swapspace to make more actual ram available.

You can make the system do this more aggressively by increasing swappiness, decreasing cache pressure and adjusting other vm settings.

 

[Smoothkaos]

What are some of the known good settings for swappiness? Kind of a just in case for possible issues down the road

 

[drewhill77]

What are some of the known good settings for swappiness? Kind of a just in case for possible issues down the road

System default is 60 and it goes up to 100...I tend to set it at 80

 

[MrBobo]

hey ya'll, I started a thread to take this conversation about zram/vm off the main thread:

http://androidforums.com/boost-mobile-warp-all-things-root/650685-dev-n00b-rom-zram-vm-etc.html

go crazy over there please

I am playing with a script update, if anyone wants to try it I uploaded a flashable zip over there.

 

[mikegmoney]

How do I get the power down menu back?(reboot,recovery,power off, ect) it didn't disappear until I flash the new VII update.now all it does is some kind of quick reboot automatically when I hold down the power button.anybody else have this issue?

 

[Smoothkaos]

How do I get the power down menu back?(reboot,recovery,power off, ect) it didn't disappear until I flash the new VII update.now all it does is some kind of quick reboot automatically when I hold down the power button.anybody else have this issue?

No, I can't say that I have. Since the VII update doesn't bomb your data, give it another go and reflash again.

 

[mikegmoney]

OK thanks.ill try that..