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Welcome to the machinex wiki! Really just a space for older changelogs. Older Updates:

UPDATES - MarkFour - SEPTEMBER 10, 2016 MarkFour CHANGELOG: -ACTUALLY removed zen decision for good -more under-the-hood cpu and scheduling improvements. This bad boy is amazing for battery and performance. -default governor is now hellsactive, and it will actually stick because this update hijacks qualcomm's post_boot script. The important stuff is left in, the garbage they use to override our preferences is out. -updated the uninstaller script to reflect the change mentioned above. -reduced slimbus overclock from twice the "golden-ratio" values to the "golden-ratio" values. Now audio/video is perfect. -minor Synapse updates, but this update has such better performance that I'm rushing to get it out in lieu of adding too much fancy stuff. -random entropy generation is even faster, as it is now contributed by individual cores going online/offline. -probably more

UPDATES - MarkThree - SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 MarkThree CHANGELOG: -Added new governors, some for performance, some for battery life, and some for balance. As a reference, check out the link in my performance and battery life post. -More low-level scheduling/cpu code to bring those areas up to scratch -Slimbus enhancements, for stability as well as something experimental. All of us S4 kernel devs have tried out the "slimbus overclock" patch here and there, which makes audio communication in the hardware faster, but this is something different. Both ROOT and CLOCK gears are tuned to levels that are optimized using "golden-ratio" logic in order to correspond to each audio frequency step. Also, 44100hz & 48000hz freqs are added to the default playback adjust frequences, given that they are the most used frequencies in audio playback for most mediums. We will try it out together and see if its performance outweighs potential battery drain.

• Alucard Hotplug is now the default. -Use MTP while fastcharging is now set by default. I turn it off when not using it because my battery seems to charge faster with a wall charger when mtp is disabled. Use at your discretion. -added FSUTILS section in Synapse, with options to trim your data/cache/system folders at the click of the button, and also with handy buttons to remount your system/rootfs as rw or ro. -added samsung samp_spcm enable/disable capability, merely as an option. Frankly, i've not done extensive enough research either way and don't plan to, but I welcome "y'all" to test the results if it's something you care about. -removed Synapse options that literally did nothing -System is even faster -modem issues don't seem to be there, but i'm sure they'll pop up on a deepsleep now and then, still haven't fixed autosleeps RAW POWER for it yet. But you're looking at like, once every 50 sleeps so whatever for now... -Installer should account for Imperium Kernel's symlink, thus be more smooth when coming from his rig. -Removed Zen_Decision. It's a genius idea when having to battle with msm mp_decision, but we don't have it running in kernel or userspace so... -RETYPED ALMOST THE WHOLE BLOODY OP BECAUSE THE INTERNET SCREWED ME. Thank goodness for google's cached webpages. I'll bring the op back to looking presentable again soon. -more maybe? I'll letcha know if i think of anything else.

UPDATES - MarkTwo - SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 MarkTwo CHANGELOG: -Interactive-based governors not only work, but they work fast -A TON of low-level scheduling/cpu code to bring those areas up to scratch -Added Alucard Hotplug, and it's working in Synapse NOTE: The seek bar will not show up at first for Alucard Tunables. To get it working, select Alucard_Hotplug, then use the CLEAR SYNAPSE DATA button in the REBOOT tab(or delete Synapse's data in settings.) Have fun kids! -MODEM is much more stable -The battery/charging code is also much more stable UPDATE:Sep 6 part 2

• purely cosmetic. Updated hotplug descriptions in Synapse to include Lazy and Alucard hotplugs, and made sure that all kernel version info clearly states MarkTwo.

BUGS: A great deal of time (pretty much a year, maybe a year and a half?) went into ironing out some of the major bugs that came with upgrading so many crucial subsystems for a barely supported SoC such as ours. (ironically, it has like full 4.6 device-tree support so...cool) A good hunk of this kernel's infrastructure is 3.10-3.18-even a little 4.0+ based, and as such, there are certain drivers that I have hacked my way into preserving functionality, all while maintaining compatibility with android/touchwiz userspace. It's a delicate tightrope act to say the least. -Synapse has a built in log collection feature that will be of much use if you'd like to help to debug this bad boy. -Synapse governor tunables have issues sticking (sometimes). In the meantime, do it manually, go with stock values (I tuned each one myself in the source), or grab Flar2's Ex Manager/Faux's Fauxclock apps or a free one (make sure to delete Synapse from priv-app if you do go down that road though, or at least disable it).

• Again, drop caches once in a while. Persistent ram and dcache code need some more work, but I will get to it. Right now I'm busy making a fancy shmancy kernel thread.:This is probably not necessary anymore, but it's useful info in case you ever are in a jam.
• IMPORTANT: Reset your fuel-guage (also made a button for it in Synapse) if you find your battery/system getting laggy or weird anywhere below 50%. I still have some power-driver updating to do and the fuelguage gets wonky. [UPDATE]: it's a little better now.
• Nothing else off the top of my head, but I'm sure I'll be editing this page tons when something pops up.