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[GPL][DEV-Kernel][WIP] 2.6.35 for desirec (DEAD?)

I'm no longer working on this. I've tried, failed, and moved on. It seems that some other folks have had some success. Maybe they will continue on. Between work, family, college, etc. it's obvious that I'm getting nothing done on this.
This is an attempt at taking the work being done for the heroc here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=911828 and porting it to the Eris.
Honestly, I know enough to be dangerous and that's about it. The HeroC (sobe and those thanked in the post linked to above) folks and those upstream from there are doing most of the work. So, thank you to them.
If anyone would like to help, please do. That's the main reason that I'm posting this now. The kernel doesn't even compile at this point, much less boot. (It's hard to boot something that doesn't exist. )
Source: https://github.com/gnarlyc/cm-kernel
So far, here's what I've done.
1) forked sobe's repo
2) copied the heroc board files, renamed the copies to *desirec*, and changed all instances of HEROC to DESIREC and heroc to desirec inside the files
3) started removing heroc touchscreen stuff and adding desirec touchscreen stuff
Why am I doing this?
1) learn more about kernels
2) use some that programming knowledge that I'm supposedly learning in class
3) get an updated kernel for the Eris

very nice, i do wish you luck.

Very good. Glad to see you working on this.
Powered by: GSB CM7

For those who don't follow the front page news, the Heroc 2.6.35 Kernel is now good enough to be considered a Release Candidate. Same link as in first post.

roirraW "edor" ehT said:
For those who don't follow the front page news, the Heroc 2.6.35 Kernel is now good enough to be considered a Release Candidate. Same link as in first post.
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Those guys are awesome. I have an exam on Wednesday and homework due on Sunday, but I'll take a look as soon as I can. If someone else wants to give it a shot, it won't hurt my feelings.

Got any screenshots ?
Can I run Flash on this ?

hallstevenson said:
Got any screenshots ?
Can I run Flash on this ?
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ROFL!!!
I said ROFL, dangit! (10 char...)

hallstevenson said:
Got any screenshots ?
Can I run Flash on this ?
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Reboot your phone and look at the splash screen. Now imagine seeing your phone stuck right there. There's your screenshot!
I'll send you a flashable zip, if you want it.

Flash doesn't work because they don't want to support our proccesors architecture.
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Flash doesn't work because they don't want to support our proccesors architecture.
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They were joking.

roirraW "edor" ehT said:
They were joking.
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I was half asleep when i posted. So I didn't realize that.

gnarlyc said:
Reboot your phone and look at the splash screen. Now imagine seeing your phone stuck right there. There's your screenshot!
I'll send you a flashable zip, if you want it.
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This worked I hav e flash now
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tazzpatriot said:
This worked I hav e flash now
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10 char...

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Any work still going on n with this?

This is what we would need to port over the new Hero Sensable Gingerbread right? Man if we could get this working, I would be about the happiest guy in the world

My final exam is on Wednesday of next week. So, I can promise that I will put much more effort into after that. I can't promise to get it working, but I'll definitely put a lot more time in. As I said before, if anyone wants to jump in and help, feel free. There's already one other person (breber) helping, but I think he's been in the same boat as me. So... Hopefully, he'll be able to help more after classes are over too.

Kernel updates are pretty much the only updates I ever care about.

Just an update. This hasn't been worked on as much as I hoped. However, I've had help from breber. Actually, he's made much more progress than I did. The kernel not only compiles, but it boots too! As soon as we can get the touchscreen working, it might even be usable.
Here's the current source.
https://github.com/breber/cm-kernel
If anyone else wants to take a stab at it, feel free. Our time is somewhat limited.
I've played around with adding the capella 3602 stuff back in, but it didn't seem to help with the touchscreen issue. The TS is one of the few components that are different between the HeroC and Eris.

gnarlyc said:
Just an update. This hasn't been worked on as much as I hoped. However, I've had help from breber. Actually, he's made much more progress than I did. The kernel not only compiles, but it boots too! As soon as we can get the touchscreen working, it might even be usable.
Here's the current source.
https://github.com/breber/cm-kernel
If anyone else wants to take a stab at it, feel free. Our time is somewhat limited.
I've played around with adding the capella 3602 stuff back in, but it didn't seem to help with the touchscreen issue. The TS is one of the few components that are different between the HeroC and Eris.
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So your moving on from this?

No Cyanogen on Droid X yet...I'm surprised.

Why haven't you guys got a CM7 port yet? I don't own a DX, but I got a cousin and I put that new GB rom on his DX a couple days ago. Anyways...have none of you heard of 2nd init? The Defy and..a couple other phones..have this boot menu made for them. One of the features in it it 2nd init. It has enabled full Cyanogen 7 Android 2.3.4 on it, and MIUI.
Cyanogen mod on the Defy is here and the 2nd init bootmenu is here. Porting of this shouldn't be that hard. Little changes to the scripts I would guess. I would look into it if you are wanting Cyanogen, MIUI, or any other roms that you can't flash without having an unlocked bootloader, or 2nd init.
To learn more about 2nd init, go here

Hmmm if I knew how to go about this I would definitely try it out. @aliasxerog on twitter has tried something like this before. Could you get in contact with him and see what he could do with this? Thank you for posting this and I really hope something could be done with this

I wish there were a cyanogen mod for the X, my son's cyanogen modded Optimus runs a Linpack (MFLOPS) score twice mine and he's got an ARM11 processor! at 800 MHz.
I also like the menu/screen better.

BravoMotorola said:
Why haven't you guys got a CM7 port yet? I don't own a DX, but I got a cousin and I put that new GB rom on his DX a couple days ago. Anyways...have none of you heard of 2nd init? The Defy and..a couple other phones..have this boot menu made for them. One of the features in it it 2nd init. It has enabled full Cyanogen 7 Android 2.3.4 on it, and MIUI.
Cyanogen mod on the Defy is here and the 2nd init bootmenu is here. Porting of this shouldn't be that hard. Little changes to the scripts I would guess. I would look into it if you are wanting Cyanogen, MIUI, or any other roms that you can't flash without having an unlocked bootloader, or 2nd init.
To learn more about 2nd init, go here
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to be honest cyangogen sucks ass! I develop roms myself and I'm not tryin to put Kousch down but it is not that special at all!

smyers1012 said:
to be honest cyangogen sucks ass...but it is not that special at all!
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I don't disagree that in general what Cyanogen does is bring only the Google part of Android over and it shouldn't be that hard...but it seems to be.
Most of the ROMs out here do work 85% or more, but they are all a little buggy, camera doesn't work right or WiFi doesn't work or no GPS or phone reboots or can't shut off or SOMETHING....I know it's just a patch, but often it's a patch that never gets addressed. Cyanogen seems to address all of the issues - no hate on those building ROM's, but Cyanogen finishes the job. It may not be the best build with the most bling, but it's mostly raw Google with no bloat.
After removing the bloatware and giving the user a generic Android experience, the processor has more juice for other applications. Example, my sons Optimus runs 8.5 MFLOPS stock @ 600 MHz, the processor is an ARM11 processor which is actually built to 800 MHz so he upped the clock to 800 MHz and loaded cyanogen and he now has >30 MFLOPS...on an older CPU than my Droid X that only gives me 13.5 MFLOPS.
So while I agree in theory that Cyanogen isn't magic, I agree with the original poster that Cyanogen does a complete job and is worth getting.

smyers1012 said:
to be honest cyangogen sucks ass! I develop roms myself and I'm not tryin to put Kousch down but it is not that special at all!
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Yea cuz Moto ROMs are WAY better :rollseyes:
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smyers1012 said:
to be honest cyangogen sucks ass! I develop roms myself and I'm not tryin to put Kousch down but it is not that special at all!
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1st.) Koush didn't make cynogen. Cynogen did. Koush made clockworkmod recovery
2nd.) To my knowledge, you are a relatively new developer. Cynogen has written a large amount of code in every aosp rom. If his rom sucks, why don't you compare download amounts?

I think maybe the great developers already moved on to a new phone? :/ Who knows.

x.v_ said:
I think maybe the great developers already moved on to a new phone? :/ Who knows.
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That is very true. For example drod who made rubix has gone on to the thunderbolt like many others

cvcps was working on CM4DX, but it doesn't look as though he will finish since the build is for froyo. He mentioned it was somewhat of a long shot since gb is about to be released.

What would it take to get Cyanogenmod working with our DROIDX kernel?
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smyers1012 said:
to be honest cyangogen sucks ass! I develop roms myself and I'm not tryin to put Kousch down but it is not that special at all!
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What was the last ROM you made that was community maintained and supported 20+ devices? It's pretty special in that regard!

Pain-in-the-ass bootloader. I'm not surprised in the least. He works on putting his ROM onto way too many different devices to spend an inordinate amount of time on one device, with how fast new phones come out nowadays. It makes sense that Cyanogen never came to the DX.

I honestly think a CM7 could be in the works - but they're waiting on a final GB release.

SeanRinVA said:
I honestly think a CM7 could be in the works - but they're waiting on a final GB release.
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It is and has been for a long time. It is being done by @cvps

The locked bootloader has made CM to the Droid X a huge hassle and CVPS has seen some success but nothing to get excited over

smyers1012 said:
to be honest cyangogen sucks ass! I develop roms myself and I'm not tryin to put Kousch down but it is not that special at all!
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Ha... Whatever you say... No matter how stupid it is...

X8 sitting with unlocked bootloader but no custom kernal!!!!

Even though the news started as X8 bootloader unlocked, right now there is no one for us making a new kernal.....
For x10 mini they have already one kernal and for x10 mini pro work is in progress....

Yeah, just wait...
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How come they already have kernelsfor x10 mini? if this takes months
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It takes shortly if the dev just improves the kernel (2.6.29 one)
But it takes long if they gonna make a all new kernel.

We just have to wait. Consider this as a good news. This is way better that we are expecting into something good rather than nothing at all. Right sandy

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Allow being hostile at every given oppertunity that just destroys the purpose of a community

Questioner said:
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Allow being hostile at every given oppertunity that just destroys the purpose of a community
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Yeah everyone, just wait patiently. Devs take such a long time because they are making a good new kernel .

by the way who is working on a kernel?

Questioner said:
by the way who is working on a kernel?
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maybe some great devs already workin on it or not

deedii said:
We just have to wait. Consider this as a good news. This is way better that we are expecting into something good rather than nothing at all. Right sandy
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Ya!!! Hope We will also have better kernels soon!!!!

oh dear. Better go play with your friends then opening useless threads.

zvorkapic.os said:
oh dear. Better go play with your friends then opening useless threads.
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This is general section lol!!!!
Just wanted to know what you guys think on this or if someone know that a kernel is already work in progress by someone....thats why I started this thread....I havent spammed any dev thread or something...I hope so.....
Anyway if I am wrong some mod can del this thread...and in that case sorry in adv....
Take care guys!!!!

Kernel development doesnt take months.my friend can compile it for two or three days.you just have to know C++ good.

Well, it can be compiled in 15 minutes, plus 10 seconds more to pack it (if you already have ramdisk).
But the problem is that NAND initialization is broken in SE's kernel source.

Blagus said:
Well, it can be compiled in 15 minutes, plus 10 seconds more to pack it (if you already have ramdisk).
But the problem is that NAND initialization is broken in SE's kernel source.
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What about x10 minis.

Blagus said:
Well, it can be compiled in 15 minutes, plus 10 seconds more to pack it (if you already have ramdisk).
But the problem is that NAND initialization is broken in SE's kernel source.
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Wouldn't it be possible to simply use a newer kernel from a non-SE phone which has roughly the same hardware components as X8?
Btw Blagus, I sent you a PM. Please respond.

Both Mini and Mini Pro already have custom kernel, very soon it will come to X8.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1253787
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1256095
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1254202

I think this is very good i dont mind waiting for new kernel we have many good roms to use till then
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FreeXperia team is working on a kernel.
Link: https://github.com/freexperia/semc-kernel-msm7x27
It's the SEMC MSM7227 devices kernel with some goodies added .

xperiauser132 said:
Kernel development doesnt take months.my friend can compile it for two or three days.you just have to know C++ good.
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That's need a month even a year to develop for me, I don't know C++
For now, we can just wait for our developers to compile them.

MultiBoot System

Over at samdroid forums an amazing dev had made something awesome in 2010.
Multiboot system.
http://forum.samdroid.net/f9/multi-boot-system-recovery-2640/
I am not a dev but yes I am a mod at samdroid, so can some of the amazing devs out here try this for the Atrix, considering we have a beast with 16gb memory and awesome RAM.
Just an idea, not imposing. Please do not flame the thread or me with why dont you try it coz I do not have the capabilities to do so.

munchy_cool said:
Over at samdroid forums an amazing dev had made something awesome in 2010.
Multiboot system.
http://forum.samdroid.net/f9/multi-boot-system-recovery-2640/
I am not a dev but yes I am a mod at samdroid, so can some of the amazing devs out here try this for the Atrix, considering we have a beast with 16gb memory and awesome RAM.
Just an idea, not imposing. Please do not flame the thread or me with why dont you try it coz I do not have the capabilities to do so.
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i always enjoy new ideas being thrown around, even though i have no developing skills either. regardless, there's already an idea similar to this that has been attempted for the Atrix, but nobody can seem to get it to work. it's called Boot Manager, and we have a talented dev that's been attempting to get it to work for quite some time now, here's the thread he started: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191014

This will be absolutely amazing! I'll be able to run CM7 and then dual boot to blur to use webtop and LS HDMI!
+1!

Alcapone263 said:
i always enjoy new ideas being thrown around, even though i have no developing skills either. regardless, there's already an idea similar to this that has been attempted for the Atrix, but nobody can seem to get it to work. it's called Boot Manager, and we have a talented dev that's been attempting to get it to work for quite some time now, here's the thread he started: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191014
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Posted in Cf's thread the link in my OP..maybe it helps him..

Notorious544d said:
This will be absolutely amazing! I'll be able to run CM7 and then dual boot to blur to use webtop and LS HDMI!
+1!
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Lets see how it goes ...and what comes up

I would love to see this happen.
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If Samcripp reads this ...

Agreed, multiboot would be amazing.
I have a multifetish for Aura and CM7 that needs a multisolution.
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Idea for 3.x Kernel

hello,
i posted it in the ICS update thread:
Hey, silly question, i know, think it would be asked many times.
i wanne opend a new thread at dev, but i cant't to less comments --_--
now, we know, we never get a 3.X kernel from moto, so, we must help us at our own, i asked me, how?
my idea was, what abei the LG P990, i heard, there are 3.x kernel, no officiel, i know.
What are the hardware differences at the LG and the atrix? fingerprint and camera, i know, but what about the rest?
it it identicly? is it possible, that we can work with it? at beginning, without camera and fingerprint?
perhaps we found an other device with an identicly camera and 3.x kernel, perhaps we can look in a direction like that? only moto bashing wont help anyway
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i hope any dev get give informations to me?

the developers already know that moto left us behind..
they're talking about it and what they are going to do??..just the time will tell us...we have to wait hehe
I'm not a developer but sometimes i asked then about start the work from some other similar device's kernel (same that you're suggesting here)..they told that it's an idea but should be necessary a massive rewriting...so it's not easy and they will need time even if the device is similar..

thats the point, i think we don't have any other chance, similar devices kernel, or from scratch, the second is the option which needs more time, i think
i wanne call me a developer, nothing in comparsion with our big ones but i would like to help your devs and i think, i'm not the only one, but i don't know how - i know that is many work and needs massive rewriting, but it's our only option.
i only hope some devs would found together and can say, how we, the, i wanne call it "non-kernel-hackers" , can help.

sw0pt5 said:
Why Defy can use Froyo kernel for CM9?
Why Defy can use GB kernel for CM10?
Why Defy bootloader is locked but still have a better development?
Defy also only have GB, no ICS
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I'm not sure if you noticed but the defy and the atrix are two very different phones.
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sw0pt5 said:
And two group of devs
but using same kind of OS
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Its not as simple as that. Each device is different regardless of the OS. If you think our devs aren't good enough or they aren't trying hard enough then I'm sure you know exactly how to do it so just try yourself .
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I just ask quarx for help...
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Cocolopes said:
Hi quarx!
I want to ask you something...how you do to make hwa work on jb for defy?...I ask this because in atrix forum we are mad cos motorola **** us not releasen ICS...
So I think...in first time the problem on defy was the locked bootloader...but you get it work. Atrix has an unlocked bootloader..and we have Nvidia drivers...and I think there is a phone using the same tegra chip on a 2.x kernel...soooo its possible to make something?
If the answer is YES...and you know how to do it...maybe the atrix comunity can donate to you to buy an atrix...
Sorry for the bad english...and I wait for your answer..thank in advance!
from the (m)ATRIX...
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You need update EGL libs and kernel drvier for this libs.
Hwa should work automatically.
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We have great devs working on atrix...the best ones....but we have no choice...we need help...so...
from the (m)ATRIX... no more moto!

I think atrix slowly died

sw0pt5 said:
Exactly!
Just hope someone can make a smooth CM7 with all the best tweats.
Actually, the stock ROM is quite reliable as daily driver.
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+1
base gb on cm7 or miui

Thread moved to general and cleaned.
There will be no more flaming here.....

I know of a dev that might be able to help us, as he has made CM10 stable Kernels for many devices and might be able to help us. He goes by the name of Hashcode, I'd link to a profile but I'm on mobile at the moment x.x
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MewRai95 said:
I know of a dev that might be able to help us, as he has made CM10 stable Kernels for many devices and might be able to help us. He goes by the name of Hashcode, I'd link to a profile but I'm on mobile at the moment x.x
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Please. Any help would be appreciated.

MewRai95 said:
I know of a dev that might be able to help us, as he has made CM10 stable Kernels for many devices and might be able to help us. He goes by the name of Hashcode, I'd link to a profile but I'm on mobile at the moment x.x
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=4243514

i worte a message to him, i hope he can help us
i'm glad, that this thread went to the direction i thought about at starting it

Anyway, i think that our best chances is to raise a found, by donating, and offer it as a bounty for the first dev to create a 3.x kernel for our device. We might find someone that way. Create that kernel takes lots of time and skills. Very very few people are willing to invest all the time required for free.

djluis48 said:
Anyway, i think that our best chances is to raise a found, by donating, and offer it as a bounty for the first dev to create a 3.x kernel for our device. We might find someone that way. Create that kernel takes lots of time and skills. Very very few people are willing to invest all the time required for free.
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agree

Cocolopes said:
I just ask quarx for help...
We have great devs working on atrix...the best ones....but we have no choice...we need help...so...
from the (m)ATRIX... no more moto!
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Got a response?

MewRai95 said:
I know of a dev that might be able to help us, as he has made CM10 stable Kernels for many devices and might be able to help us. He goes by the name of Hashcode, I'd link to a profile but I'm on mobile at the moment x.x
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yes hashcode is awesome developer and he has got kexec working one the droid razr/razr maxxx, bionoic and droid 3 I think..

djluis48 said:
Got a response?
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Yes...but I think he didnt have time to help us...
quarxs said:
You need update EGL libs and kernel drvier for this libs.
Hwa should work automatically.
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from the (m)ATRIX...

I too have sent Hashcode a message asking for possible assistance. I told him we would be willing to donate to the cause.

If you can organise a decent fund/development device, I'd recommend contacting TripNRaVeR. He has experience porting the vanilla 3.1.10 Tegra kernel code to a new device (the One X, which shipped with 2.6.39) hence he's probably already halfway there with knowing where to go next. It looks like LG and Sammy have ditched DVFS in their 3.1.10 releases on the Galaxy R and O2X, which would be nice (using standard governors )