In the 101 course, you likely used the automated installer. That is fine for beginners, but advanced users need control over partitions. For BigDroidOS 201, we perform a manual partition layout.
Even advanced users face problems. Here are the top three "201-level" issues and their fixes. bigdroidos 201
BigDroidOS ships with a hidden CLI tool. Open a terminal (local or adb shell) and run: In the 101 course, you likely used the automated installer
su
bigdroid_tune --governor schedutil --max_freq 70%
bigdroid_tune --gpu simple_ondemand --max_gpu 500000000
Pro Tip for 201: Create a persistent script in /data/adb/service.d/ so your tuning survives reboots: Pro Tip for 201: Create a persistent script
#!/system/bin/sh
echo "1500" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/schedutil/up_rate_limit_us
echo "energy" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/energy_performance_preference
This shifts the CPU from "performance" to "power saving" without throttling UI responsiveness.