[GTALUG] Help with Kernel: Linux version 3.4.42-gf151976 (hudsoncm at ilclbld86)
Russell Reiter
rreiter91 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 16:51:31 EST 2017
Top posting this as it may be of some general interest.
As I related in my earlier post, gaining access to apps on this phone was
near impossible at first. In addition to finally enabling developer mode
and those other changes I related below, I turned off all animations and
chose simulated monochrome as color correction.
I didn't really think a monochrome simulation would ease processor
stress's, as simulating monochrome might be just like making brown sugar;
you know, just adding the molasses back into the refined sugar, so to
speak. - It worked tho.
While waking the thing up still takes a lot of finger tapping and power
button screen redrawing, it seems once NAND is fully energized and
unsuspended, it behaves normally. No unexpected screen outs during use, the
back of the unit is noticably cooler and no Row Access Strobe lines on the
display.
So while I still have to shake hands like a mason to get it going - it's
going and I am, as always, having fun with a Linux kernel - even if it is
cross compiled on a broken platform.
So now I confess, I bought, for the first time in my life, a M$ Windows
operating system. I've done some work on it and had copies donated to me by
Dell for a volunteer project but I never bought it.
Well I didn't specifically buy the OS, it came on the HP mini 110 I
purchased, but I did activate it. I did that just to see Windows 10 before
I check out Linux on Atom.
As for this phone, not a screen flicker, blackout or other glitch in the
entire time it took me to one finger compose this post.
20 min+-
Russell
Sent from a semi-resurrected Moto XT1060
Almost ready to mod.
On Feb 13, 2017 11:32 AM, "Russell Reiter" <rreiter91 at gmail.com> wrote:
I like to tinker with stuff and this is also a kind of semi-long, maybe
even funny story.
I am asked quite often to help people with Android problems so I fool
around with phones, usually theirs not mine. I did get to like Motorola
enough to buy a Moto G and use it. A couple of months ago I was looking
through ebay and saw an ad for an Unlocked Moto X and assuming they meant
carrier unlocked, I ordered it.
When it arrived after the estimated delivery date, I charged it and
inserted my sim and no joy, it was locked to Verizon. I opened a trouble
ticket and tried to get the seller to provide me with an unlock code but
they couldn't. I guess because there isn't one. Ebay has refunded me and I
guess the seller settled with them for false advertising because I am now
in possession of a semi-borked Moto XT1060. (Looking at CRdroid at this
point)
I say semi-borked because after I rebooted without the sim, all sorts of
gremlins showed up. Most especially what I believe is a Verizon "ghost"
carrier induced BSOD. After a couple of intermittent hours of booting and
fuzzing, I got enough of a screen to be able to navigate to settings,
enable developer mode and force GPU rendering and disable HW overlays. Now
I can actually use the thing on wifi. It still takes a lot of keypresses
and screen taps to fuzz the thing on, but once I got the screen on, I was
able to generate a bug report and mail it to myself.
It also sent me a screen-shot of the screen I couldn't see at the time. At
first foray I was operating in the very narrow space at the top of the
screen, which I kept alive by dragging my finger down from the top and
pressing the power button repeatedly to force a redraw of the screen.
I now know, after getting the report, my phone thinks it is 10.24PM, Monday
February 13th. Actually it looks like the bloatware deliberatly overheats
the cpu and so far, as long as I keep the phone in the cold space between
my windows, it seems to function almost normally, except it won't accept
the sim card.
So it seems the boot loader is locked at NAND: 0x30BE. Has anyone on the
list had success in flashing an open source boot loader to a Motorola
device?
I've looked around a bit and the ghost rom is available but I can't seem to
find a comparable stock motorola rom for this model.
Any advice is appreciated and here's a couple hundred lines of debug code
for anyone who is interested.
Thanks in advance
Russell
========================================================
== dumpstate: 2017-02-13 22:24:05
========================================================
Build: LPAS23.12-39.7-1
Build fingerprint: 'motorola/ghost_verizon/ghost:
5.1/LPAS23.12-39.7-1/1:user/release-keys'
Bootloader: 0x30BE
Radio: msm
Network: (unknown)
Kernel: Linux version 3.4.42-gf151976 (hudsoncm at ilclbld86) (gcc version 4.8
(GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 24 13:07:11 CDT 2016
Command line: console=null androidboot.hardware=qcom user_debug=31
msm_rtb.filter=0x3F ehci-hcd.park=3 maxcpus=2 vmalloc=400M
androidboot.emmc=true androidboot.serialno=T062808WJT
androidboot.baseband=msm androidboot.mode=normal
androidboot.bootloader=0x30BE androidboot.cid=0x2 androidboot.hwrev=0x8300
androidboot.radio=0x2 battery= mot_sst=1 androidboot.modelno="Moto X"
androidboot.carrier=vzw product=ghost androidboot.device=ghost
androidboot.secure_hardware=1 androidboot.write_protect=1
restart.download_mode=1
------ UPTIME (uptime) ------
up time: 05:22:57, idle time: 00:23:57, sleep time: 04:51:47
[uptime: 0.100s elapsed]
------ MMC PERF (/sys/block/mmcblk0/stat) ------
28364 8048 2870460 156850 15886 4451 783348
94420 0 90690 251070
------ MEMORY INFO (/proc/meminfo) ------
MemTotal: 1836564 kB
MemFree: 332876 kB
Buffers: 6452 kB
Cached: 853692 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 870116 kB
Inactive: 468376 kB
Active(anon): 479560 kB
Inactive(anon): 1692 kB
Active(file): 390556 kB
Inactive(file): 466684 kB
Unevictable: 1092 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
HighTotal: 1316860 kB
HighFree: 101020 kB
LowTotal: 519704 kB
LowFree: 231856 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 76 kB
Writeback: 20 kB
AnonPages: 479596 kB
Mapped: 263488 kB
Shmem: 1772 kB
Slab: 41212 kB
SReclaimable: 14572 kB
SUnreclaim: 26640 kB
KernelStack: 10296 kB
PageTables: 24060 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 918280 kB
Committed_AS: 36379564 kB
VmallocTotal: 401408 kB
VmallocUsed: 91272 kB
VmallocChunk: 150532 kB
------ CPU INFO (top -n 1 -d 1 -m 30 -t) ------
User 66%, System 26%, IOW 1%, IRQ 0%
User 115 + Nice 51 + Sys 66 + Idle 14 + IOW 4 + IRQ 0 + SIRQ 0 = 250
PID TID PR CPU% S VSS RSS PCY UID Thread Proc
3263 3526 1 21% R 962764K 59040K fg u0_a46 MotoCareBgThrea
com.motorola.motocare
12895 12895 0 8% R 19124K 1608K shell top top
1195 2116 1 8% S 1078640K 106124K fg u0_a12 RenderThread
com.android.systemui
282 282 1 6% S 86956K 11388K fg system surfaceflinger
/system/bin/surfaceflinger
1195 1195 1 4% R 1078640K 106124K fg u0_a12 ndroid.systemui
com.android.systemui
981 1011 1 2% S 1161192K 115372K fg system PowerManagerSer
system_server
981 998 1 1% S 1161192K 115372K fg system Binder_2
system_server
981 1129 0 1% S 1161192K 115372K fg system WifiStateMachin
system_server
981 1566 1 1% S 1161192K 115372K fg system Binder_E
system_server
981 981 1 1% S 1161192K 115372K fg system system_server
system_server
981 1363 1 0% S 1161192K 115372K fg system Binder_5
system_server
981 1008 1 0% S 1161192K 115372K fg system android.display
system_server
282 607 1 0% S 86956K 11388K fg system EventThread
/system/bin/surfaceflinger
3263 3525 1 0% S 962764K 59040K fg u0_a46 MotoCareSvcThre
com.motorola.motocare
16 16 0 0% S 0K 0K root kworker/u:1
1452 1477 0 0% S 960692K 48180K fg system GCDaemon
com.motorola.process.system
1352 1373 1 0% S 961936K 50780K fg u0_a39 GCDaemon
com.motorola.motodisplay
1579 1950 1 0% R 1009952K 66604K fg u0_a58 RenderThread
com.android.launcher
1352 3814 1 0% S 961936K 50780K fg u0_a39 breathing drawe
com.motorola.motodisplay
282 1587 1 0% S 86956K 11388K fg system Binder_4
/system/bin/surfaceflinger
282 2545 1 0% S 86956K 11388K fg system Binder_5
/system/bin/surfaceflinger
149 149 0 0% S 0K 0K root mmcqd/0
1195 1615 1 0% S 1078640K 106124K fg u0_a12 Binder_3
com.android.systemui
981 1092 1 0% S 1161192K 115372K fg system Binder_3
system_server
1579 1579 1 0% R 1009952K 66604K fg u0_a58 ndroid.launcher
com.android.launcher
1263 1284 1 0% S 945312K 34852K fg u0_a61 Binder_1
com.motorola.slpc
1195 12432 1 0% S 1078640K 106124K fg u0_a12 hwuiTask1
com.android.systemui
981 1465 1 0% S 1161192K 115372K fg system Binder_8
system_server
2429 2602 1 0% R 1113684K 100784K fg u0_a4 GoogleLocationS
com.google.android.gms.persistent
2429 2603 1 0% S 1113684K 100784K fg u0_a4 Binder_5
com.google.android.gms.persistent
[top: 1.502s elapsed]
------ PROCRANK (procrank) ------
*** exec(procrank): Permission denied
*** procrank: Exit code 255
[procrank: 0.100s elapsed]
------ VIRTUAL MEMORY STATS (/proc/vmstat) ------
nr_free_pages 83681
nr_inactive_anon 424
nr_active_anon 119775
nr_inactive_file 116690
nr_active_file 97650
nr_unevictable 273
nr_mlock 0
nr_anon_pages 119749
nr_mapped 65894
nr_file_pages 215057
nr_dirty 30
nr_writeback 0
nr_slab_reclaimable 4067
nr_slab_unreclaimable 6700
nr_page_table_pages 6014
nr_kernel_stack 1290
nr_unstable 0
nr_bounce 0
nr_vmscan_write 0
nr_vmscan_immediate_reclaim 7
nr_writeback_temp 0
nr_isolated_anon 0
nr_isolated_file 0
nr_shmem 444
nr_dirtied 78103
nr_written 66652
nr_anon_transparent_hugepages 0
nr_free_cma 0
nr_dirty_threshold 15874
nr_dirty_background_threshold 3968
pgpgin 1435230
pgpgout 266750
pswpin 0
pswpout 0
pgalloc_normal 2409175
pgalloc_high 2727696
pgalloc_movable 0
pgfree 5348019
pgactivate 155050
pgdeactivate 46
pgfault 7022719
pgmajfault 9302
pgrefill_normal 0
pgrefill_high 0
pgrefill_movable 0
pgsteal_kswapd_normal 27457
pgsteal_kswapd_high 127101
pgsteal_kswapd_movable 0
pgsteal_direct_normal 290
pgsteal_direct_high 1393
pgsteal_direct_movable 0
pgscan_kswapd_normal 31501
pgscan_kswapd_high 163346
pgscan_kswapd_movable 0
pgscan_direct_normal 290
pgscan_direct_high 2118
pgscan_direct_movable 0
pginodesteal 0
slabs_scanned 48256
kswapd_inodesteal 11
kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly 74
kswapd_high_wmark_hit_quickly 142
kswapd_skip_congestion_wait 3
pageoutrun 2831
allocstall 31
pgrotated 263
compact_blocks_moved 5547
compact_pages_moved 113444
compact_pagemigrate_failed 1389
compact_stall 0
compact_fail 0
compact_success 0
compact_retry_success 0
unevictable_pgs_culled 273
unevictable_pgs_scanned 0
unevictable_pgs_rescued 0
unevictable_pgs_mlocked 0
unevictable_pgs_munlocked 0
unevictable_pgs_cleared 0
unevictable_pgs_stranded 0
unevictable_pgs_mlockfreed 0
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