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How hot do you run?

Currently at 102.2F as reported by setcpu widget while plugged in and using it for the past half hour or so. Seems kinda high to me, what's everyone elses experience?
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Well when its plugged in it will be warmer than normal. Right now my phone has been on with constant texting and random other usage all day long and I am at 80.6 degrees

My phone stays in the mid 90s and early 100s with regular use. It only gets in the 80s if I leave it completely alone for an hour or so.
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I stay mostly in the 80s and can get into the 90s with heavy use. Don't think I've ever passed 100, but there's a chance something like psx4droid could have pushed me up. I average about 86F.
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aeidian said:
Currently at 102.2F as reported by setcpu widget while plugged in and using it for the past half hour or so. Seems kinda high to me, what's everyone elses experience?
Do you use the SetCPU profiles? You could set one to underclock the processor while charging.
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I do, its set to 800mhz when charging. 600mhz if it gets above 104F regardless of charging or not. Leaving it alone on the charger for the last half hour the temp shows 92F. Just firing up Xda app and typing this out the temp has jumped to 98F in about a min of use.
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Are you guys using SetCPU for profiles and overclocking, or are you just using it for checking temps and current speed?
These are the droids you are looking for.

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Are you guys using SetCPU for profiles and overclocking, or are you just using it for checking temps and current speed?
These are the droids you are looking for.
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I was using it to check temps for this but I use 2 profiles, which may help my temps (def helps my batt). The default profile is 1000 max, 300 min, on demand. The other is when my screen is shut off, 300 max, 300 min. I've found this has saved me a pretty sizeable chunk of battery. I tend to listed to music 7-8 hours a day and while it doesnt need full CPU it will use it if it gets the chance. Restricting the proc to 300 off has never caused any issues and I can get from 8am - 4 or 5pm staying over 70% battery I have the unstable apps overclock and used it for a while, but kinda came to the conclusion that I can't really justify needing to overclock yet as I never see any lag. I guess if I run into any lag at some point I'll prob clock back up to 1.3 or so.

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Are you guys using SetCPU for profiles and overclocking, or are you just using it for checking temps and current speed?
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I did overclock, but it ran way too hot, like 107F during normal use and didnt get below 100 dormant. 1gig is high enough to me. I have it set to underclock when charging or when below 50% battery or when above 104F.
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aeidian said:
I do, its set to 800mhz when charging. 600mhz if it gets above 104F regardless of charging or not. Leaving it alone on the charger for the last half hour the temp shows 92F. Just firing up Xda app and typing this out the temp has jumped to 98F in about a min of use.
Only other idea I have is downloading Droid Overclock and try running at low or ultra low voltage. Make sure to make a backup first. And try low before ultra low. Individual devices can be picky about a lower voltage and can go into a bootloop if it can't run on a lower voltage. Droid Overclock has profiles like SetCPU.
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1200 mhz on galaxy s. Safe?

Im wondering if anybody can attest to the stability and reliability as well as safety concerns with running a galaxy s phonew at 1200 mhz. I see a lot oflash kernels boasting this overclock. Thanks in advance
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Flash and find out. If it doesn't freeze, your good. Some phones can't handle the oc. There's really no grey area, it will either be stable, or it won't. 1.2 is the standard, and is probably the safest. I'm at 1.48 and stable.
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I'm mainly concerned for overheating as I've cooked a couple pc processors
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Use setCPU and set up a temperature profile. I have mine set so when the phone hits 120 F, the processor scales down to stock clock speed and cools off.

Dan_Brutal said:
Flash and find out. If it doesn't freeze, your good. Some phones can't handle the oc. There's really no grey area, it will either be stable, or it won't. 1.2 is the standard, and is probably the safest. I'm at 1.48 and stable.
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What kernel your using?
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Bullet[EDT]

U will not have any heat issues unless ur charging ur phone. When u charge a galaxy s phone ur gets very warm including in stock speeds

Definitely. The Infuse 4G has the same hummingbird chip overclocked to 1.2 ghz by default, so it should run with no issues. I can doing 1.3 ghz with no problem. Can't hit 1.4 though.
Sucks since my last phone could handle 1.6 ghz (through a custom 1.6 ghz DOW kernel, thanks Morific!).

It is safe but you lose battery life so that didn't work for me but it is safe and no overheating issues

Dunno what Kernel i used but it was by Morific, and was discontinued for being unstable, but my phone has been able to go up to 1.4, they tried a 1.6 but was far too unstable or something.

xriderx66 said:
Dunno what Kernel i used but it was by Morific, and was discontinued for being unstable, but my phone has been able to go up to 1.4, they tried a 1.6 but was far too unstable or something.
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I think the Manhattan project messes with the environmental properties of the phone or something.
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Dan_Brutal said:
I think the Manhattan project messes with the environmental properties of the phone or something.
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Yes, the Manhattan project was a dud since it never really overclocked the device. In fact it only slowed it down.
But I requested a 1.6 ghz version of the DOW kernel from Morific, just for fun. Surprisingly it worked well with my old device.

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Im wondering if anybody can attest to the stability and reliability as well as safety concerns with running a galaxy s phonew at 1200 mhz. I see a lot oflash kernels boasting this overclock. Thanks in advance
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That depends on the phone a lot. I know lots of people who use 1200 but I did with Overstock and Tigers Blood and my phone would freeze. Also use set cpu for the same side to keep an eye on temp.
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I've had no problems oc'in, but it really does depend on your chip. Been running mine at 1420 for a week, super stable never gone above 29c under load. IMO, just have to give it a shot and see how stable it is for you.

I'm using Bullet and have been getting great battery life even with it fully OC'd. About 20-25 hrs with moderate use.

CrazyCharlie said:
I'm using Bullet and have been getting great battery life even with it fully OC'd. About 20-25 hrs with moderate use.
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+1... im using Bullet with it tapped out and get pretty good battery life.

Can I get a link to Bullet? I've never seen it.

Can't not allowed to post the link to bullet....EDT's Site.

CrazyCharlie said:
I'm using Bullet and have been getting great battery life even with it fully OC'd. About 20-25 hrs with moderate use.
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With what rom??

Overclocked mine to 1.48 and been running stable for a few weeks now...
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Someone help me! (BatLife woes)

Alright I wasn't going to make a thread on this because this topic is already discussed elsewhere naturally but I feel my situation is different. All over the place I see people reporting great battery life with ICS.. well mine is HORRIBLE. I just flashed the latest nightly for Pete's bugless. I didn't change the kernel. Everything is stock. Only a few apps installed. Noop for scheduler and ondemand for governer.
The phones been off the charger for 55 minutes and I'm sitting at 76%. Idk what's going on. I've tried so many rom/kernel combos and I seem to get the same exact battery life no matter what. Around 6-9 hours with less than 1 hour of screen on time.
Things I've tried to combat this:
Undervolting
Freezing apps
Restricting background data
Underclocking
Brightness set to auto
And I'm sure a few other things I'm forgetting about. I've done all this and still get ****ty battery life. I've flashed the new radio hoping that it would solve my issues but no dice. My signal strength reports at -67 dbm yet the bars never go over 2. 3g or 4g. Even after updating plr.
On gingerbread cm7 I ran brightness at 70%, ocd to 1.4ghz and always got 15+ hours.
For the love of god someone help me. Cuz I think my phone hates the cream sammiches.
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try this kernel, trinity teuv underclocked/undervolted kernel, oc'd gpu http://goo.gl/rY6ga
and do not set brightness to auto, its a battery killer. i keep my brightness at about 20-25%.
also, be sure to fully discharge your battery then charge it completely, after 2 or 3 cycles you should be good.

simms22 said:
try this kernel, trinity teuv underclocked/undervolted kernel, oc'd gpu http://goo.gl/rY6ga
and do not set brightness to auto, its a battery killer. i keep my brightness at about 20-25%.
also, be sure to fully discharge your battery then charge it completely, after 2 or 3 cycles you should be good.
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I do this every day lol I let the battery drain to around 15-30% before I plug it back in.
Screenie: 1 hour later and I lost another 25% this can't be rom or kernel related. As I have tried trinity already and the same thing happens
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Ugh. Another 20% gone. Its only been a half hour from the above screenie. You guys see my dilemma? Lol **** me.
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21% ..
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i was having horrible battery drain after flashing a new rom & kernel - i finally figured it out that my APN settings were messed up and I re-entered them according to the correct carrier settings.
i don't know if that will apply to you since it looks like your 4G data is working properly, but since I was on wifi 99% of the time, as soon as I went off, my data didn't work. but it's something to look at.

4 hours later I'm down to 4% from a full charge.
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Could you try better battery stats to see if something is holding a wakelock?

Turn Data usage off :/ i think Fb or some app is using your 4g

irizwan said:
Turn Data usage off :/ i think Fb or some app is using your 4g
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I would be interested to see what your battle life diff is without 4g switched on. Also in that 4 hrs what was ur screen on time?
Have you thought of trying a new batt? Just got an OEM Samsung for 5 bucks on eBay. Worth a shot.
Oh remove fb app it blows...install friend caster way better less batt make sure you change the sync interval.
You could also try green power from the market to manage your data use while screen is off.
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Ok here's how my battery performs back in cm7 nightly 174 gingerbread. Almost 4 hours and only 25% chipped away. If you look above you'll notice I lost more than 40% in the same time with ics. And I'm doing nothing different. I'm even overclocked to 1.3ghz ondemand with noop for a scheduler.
I think I'm sticking to gbread until official source is out. Maybe then ill get the same battery life.
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That is really weird, if you have time try Milestone 3 and SG's latest kernel and just leave the settings stock . I get wonderful battery life with it hopefully you do to
Oh and are there any apps you are using on ICS that you aren't on CM7?
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Nope. Lately its only been a handful. I actually have more apps installed on gbread to achieve some of the features that are baked into ics. I just don't get it. Ics hates my phone. I even used the GPS today. So weird.
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Try what I suggested unless you did already then ignore lol
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Could it be a faulty battery?

Harbb said:
Could you try better battery stats to see if something is holding a wakelock?
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This. If you are installing the same ol battery-draining POS app then you are not going to fix it with any rom or kernel.

So you guys think my batter watcher widget is preventing my phone from sleeping properly? Ok.. I'm on cm7 right now. Battery is def back to normal. And this is with bacround data on. Ill delete bw and get better battery stats.
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Better battery stats is not the same thing as other (mostly useless) monitoring apps.

Look. 16 hours on gb. If none of my apps are killing the battery then what could it be?
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[Q] horrible battery life?

77% in 49 min and screen on for 49 min. Is this bad battery life? What would make it better? Thanks guys. I'm on cm10.1 with Franco. Clocked at 1026 min and 1512 max.

sounds average. Doesn't sound bad. Bad would be 49 mins screen on and you're at 50%. Screen brightness all the way down? Or is this cranked to the max?

kcbboy said:
sounds average. Doesn't sound bad. Bad would be 49 mins screen on and you're at 50%. Screen brightness all the way down? Or is this cranked to the max?
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All the way down. Good to hear that's it's not too bad though

Wait, could you tell us your governor? Franco kernel uses interactive as a default which in that case, you don't need to put the minimum to that high
49 minutes unplugged and 49 minutes screen on on 77% isn't that good at all. You should get at least 1 hour-1.5 if you were using it constantly.
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That's not so good IMO, I attached some pictures of what I'm getting, I'm also on CM10.1 and Franco.
You should flash Franco's and let it be, don't put the lower value that high.
Autobrightness on, Sync on, wifi always on, but not always connected (I always forget turn it off )

Could you please check how many mA Battery Monitor Widget reports?
Mine only shows 1500mAh, even when the battery is fully charged.
Would be interesting to know if this is a faulty battery or just displayed wrong.
Maybe that's why some get pretty good battery life, and on some it's really ****ty.

OneFreshDude said:
77% in 49 min and screen on for 49 min. Is this bad battery life? What would make it better? Thanks guys. I'm on cm10.1 with Franco. Clocked at 1026 min and 1512 max.
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Here's what i got
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I'm getting ~5 hrs screen on (low brightnes) and 20 hrs standby with Aokp and Matr1x Kernel. 288 mhz - 1,5 ghz.
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Nuu~ said:
Could you please check how many mA Battery Monitor Widget reports?
Mine only shows 1500mAh, even when the battery is fully charged.
Would be interesting to know if this is a faulty battery or just displayed wrong.
Maybe that's why some get pretty good battery life, and on some it's really ****ty.
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Mine says the same.
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kyokeun1234 said:
Wait, could you tell us your governor? Franco kernel uses interactive as a default which in that case, you don't need to put the minimum to that high
49 minutes unplugged and 49 minutes screen on on 77% isn't that good at all. You should get at least 1 hour-1.5 if you were using it constantly.
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I was using ondemand because my nexus was lagging for some reason and it helped but a clean wipe fixed that. I'll try interactive again

OneFreshDude said:
77% in 49 min and screen on for 49 min. Is this bad battery life? What would make it better? Thanks guys. I'm on cm10.1 with Franco. Clocked at 1026 min and 1512 max.
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Really depends on what you're doing in that 49 minutes. If you're playing games, have poor data connection, uploading to dropbox etc you can see the battery deplete really quickly. I never get great battery life because I use my phone a lot with the screen brightness all the way up.
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I was using ondemand because my nexus was lagging for some reason and it helped but a clean wipe fixed that. I'll try interactive again
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Also use latest Franco. He fixed a lot of things on the latest test version and it is smooth enough to use it in daily basis.
Also could you tell us what you were doing in that 49 minutes? Games take so much battery out thanks to beefy 1.5 GHz quad core processor. Thanks
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kyokeun1234 said:
Also use latest Franco. He fixed a lot of things on the latest test version and it is smooth enough to use it in daily basis.
Also could you tell us what you were doing in that 49 minutes? Games take so much battery out thanks to beefy 1.5 GHz quad core processor. Thanks
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I was just web browsing and answering texts. It's all good now though. Thanks guys!
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Aurora v5 Post your Battery Life Screen shots.

Hello,
I decided to create this thread in order to check how affected battery life is from different types of usage. Every user uses his phone at his one way so some might get more, others might get less. Here is mine.
CPU: 368/1200 mHz
Governor: Interactive
I/O: noop
Kernel by ezet using entropy values normal version.
Aurora v5u18

nikeradsn said:
Hello,
I decided to create this thread in order to check how affected battery life is from different types of usage. Every user uses his phone at his one way so some might get more, others might get less. Here is mine.
CPU: 368/1200 mHz
Governor: Interactive
I/O: noop
Kernel by ezet using entropy values normal version.
Aurora v5u18
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how much is your screen usage

33%. i usually get 1d 12h + with about 50% screen usage.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35881373
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entrapmen said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35881373
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The topic that I have created is about battery life on Aurora v5 not about testing other batteries :/
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nikeradsn said:
33%. i usually get 1d 12h + with about 50% screen usage.
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i meant how many hours of usage :cyclops:
i can see the percent from ss already :laugh:

Daily usage, games Internet, both 3g and wifi, to save battery I turn off data and wifi, calls about 2h daily, lots of sms.
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Mine

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nikeradsn said:
Hello,
I decided to create this thread in order to check how affected battery life is from different types of usage. Every user uses his phone at his one way so some might get more, others might get less. Here is mine.
CPU: 368/1200 mHz
Governor: Interactive
I/O: noop
Kernel by ezet using entropy values normal version.
Aurora v5u18
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Information like this in not useful at all, at least if you don't tell about your battery life time..... One battery with 2 years old will not have the same performance of another one with 6 months...

rimsilva said:
Information like this in not useful at all, at least if you don't tell about your battery life time..... One battery with 2 years old will not have the same performance of another one with 6 months...
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Ok my battery is about 1 and half years old, retail battery
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Nice theard.
CPU: 368/1024 MHz
Governor: Ondemand
I/O: cfq
ROM version: Update 18 entropy
Kernel: Stock
Battery model: HB4F1 (bought from ebay, chinese retailer), 1 year old.
Usage: Almost nothing except few sms and calls. Always 2G and Wifi off. Auto-brightness enable
People be specified when posting about battery results or use my topic it's more easy to see.

CPU: 245/1024, ondemand, noop.
Battery 1.5 years old, this is what i get without turning the screen off. Otherwise it barely lasts for 9 hours. Looks like its time to get a new battery

emre.yv said:
CPU: 245/1024, ondemand, noop.
Battery 1.5 years old, this is what i get without turning the screen off. Otherwise it barely lasts for 9 hours. Looks like its time to get a new battery
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Without turning the screen off, of course you will get a lot less. Because screen drains most of your battery during use
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I think that battery draining is big aurora problem.

Mlopik said:
I think that battery draining is big aurora problem.
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Well with ezet kernel I have the best battery life till now, even better than aurora v4.
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nikeradsn said:
Well with ezet kernel I have the best battery life till now, even better than aurora v4.
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Which version of ezet kernel? Is entropyv2 or entropy?

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Which version of ezet kernel? Is entropyv2 or entropy?
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V1, but it all depends on how you use your phone you can't expect much battery life if your using it 24/7
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nikeradsn said:
V1, but it all depends on how you use your phone you can't expect much battery life if your using it 24/7
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Hi! I have noticed that my battery is draining quite a bit in Aurora v5 and I guess it has something to do with the kernel. I would like to try the kernel from ezet, but where can I find it? Sorry for my stupidity

aleksik said:
Hi! I have noticed that my battery is draining quite a bit in Aurora v5 and I guess it has something to do with the kernel. I would like to try the kernel from ezet, but where can I find it? Sorry for my stupidity
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Here it is for Aurora 5.0 u18_entropy: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36291776
There are two different choices V1 and V2, use V1 it has the same entropy values as dzo's kernel. If you are using 5.0 u19 there isn't yet ezet's kernel for it.
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