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[Q] Best Kernel Out

What is the best kernel out so far as in performance and battery life.
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That's not an easy question to answer as it all comes down to personal preference. I've tried a few so far and Lee's is suiting my needs so far.
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I have the same questions and since it has been a while I figure more people have more input.
I keep hearing about TPC Stock ROM Optimized with Buzz OC.UV Kernel?
I am a total newb, but I really just want as few deviations from the stock as possible but unlocked, somewhat overclocked when I am working, extreme underclock on idle, and remove the bloatware.
What have you guys found?

Try Ingersoll.

On the AOSP side LordMod from the DHD section is awesome. That won't help you if you're using a Sense ROM, though.
CM7 Inspire 4G

Lordmod on cm7.

how do you know which one to use?
BFS vs. CFS

im a big fan of that guy di11igaf. Great work, good guy, and I hear he's pretty good lookin too.

di11igaf said:
im a big fan of that guy di11igaf. Great work, good guy, and I hear he's pretty good lookin too.
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hahaha. di11s work = EXCELLENT ROM, EXCELLENT KERNEL. Current uptime is 215 hours and counting. Clocked at 1036 on SetCPU.

tribalartgod said:
hahaha. di11s work = EXCELLENT ROM, EXCELLENT KERNEL. Current uptime is 215 hours and counting. Clocked at 1036 on SetCPU.
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DEAR LORD IS THIS TRUE?
Must flash...

If you notice, just about everyone gave you a different answer. There is no best rom. generally speaking, batt life is determined by clock speed and usage. plus each rom is a little unique. Just try out different roms and see what you think.
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ml42 said:
DEAR LORD IS THIS TRUE?
Must flash...
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Yup... this is how I test ROMs. If they make it past 250 hours, then they are worthy. To this day, I have only had one ROM do this, and that was on my G1. It was the TMUS rom by amazinglarry311. Di11s ROM so far is going to be the second, by the looks of it.
I run Cache Cleaner NG once every other day, tho it's really not needed that often.
Still have over 211mb free when using Advanced Task Killer, and no lags.
Battery life is from about 8:30am til just after midnight. In this time frame, the lowest I've gone is 22%. Average of 225 texts a day, maybe 3 phone calls, music ALL day at work (not streaming), and check FB every 2 hours or so. Along with the occasional email here and there.

I can't imagine sending 225 text messages in one day.
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acPIZZA said:
I can't imagine sending 225 text messages in one day.
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I send about 1000 a day =P
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Lee Droid works great for me, just like roms its what works good for u.
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lee's rom v 2.2.1 has been working great for me, but i want to up grade to v 2.2.3. Do I need to backup all my apps and do a clean install or could i just install over current version.

pgordon1955 said:
lee's rom v 2.2.1 has been working great for me, but i want to up grade to v 2.2.3. Do I need to backup all my apps and do a clean install or could i just install over current version.
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Just update
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Overclocked to 1.3Ghz Quadrant benchmark results

Just thought i'd show a pic

What did u use to o/c tegrak? And its to blurry, can't make out the score
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Success100 said:
What did u use to o/c tegrak? And its to blurry, can't make out the score
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yea tegrak... i'll try to get a clear one didnt know it came out that blurry plus i didnt keep track of score cuz i've been getting that all day

I know this is a stupid question but other than improve quadrant scores, what else does it really improve? Im running the overclock at 1.2ghz right now and I dont notice any difference
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I was testing it out and it didn't really make much of a difference on my for Quadrant Standard. I used SetCPU and put both min and max to 1.3 and set scaling to performance and not a big change. I dunno if I'm doing something wrong.

well i'm also deodexed kd1, bali kernel so i dunno n also runnin the touchwiz 4.0(beautiful interface, just a btw)... well my overall performance improved n battery life surprisingly good... its been 7 hrs now and i still got juice...

Success100 said:
What did u use to o/c tegrak? And its to blurry, can't make out the score
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most recent score 1211

What exactly do I have to do to OC it? I tried it when I had my Captivate but I thought that I needed a different kernel? SetCPU wouldn't let me go over 1ghz... But I do have the bali kernel flashed right now.
EDIT: Nevermind, I saw the other post right after I made this. Sorry to interrupt!

I started a thread about this a while back and I wanted to share the info that was shared to me. Just FYI
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Quadrant Advanced provides the breakdown for each individual area (multi-colored).
http://slideme.org/application/quadrant-advanced
The thing about quadrant however, is it's not optimized or suited for the processor in our phones (Hummingbird). It was designed for snapdragon processors.
Additionally, Quadrant is sub par in my opinion on benchmark test apps (even though it's well known) because it does operations that aren't typical. If you get advanced you'll see that it does like 60% all IO operations, however thats a really strange test because it would be like you running a full on database on your phone.
So the scenarios and tests it runs are not representative of the scenarios you are going to use your phone to perform.
I like SmartBench better because it gives you an index for Gaming and Productivity.
Samsung Galaxy S 4G's will slightly outperform the snapdragon/adreno combo that you see in the MT4G etc. Very slight advantage. In regard to productivity it does well too.
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U won't notice anything earth shattering from an extra 200 MHz. However for games and flash and videos it does help. Also improves app loading times and things like that so even though it doesn't seem to do much it does help alot when the phone is pushed to the 1ghz area
icy56 said:
I know this is a stupid question but other than improve quadrant scores, what else does it really improve? Im running the overclock at 1.2ghz right now and I dont notice any difference
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fknfocused said:
I started a thread about this a while back and I wanted to share the info that was shared to me. Just FYI
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i did use smartbench too.... n in terms of gaming it was rite up there with optimus but likely lower in productivity

Scored 1263 Running deodexed KD1, with Bali kernel and spb shell (which is kind of a resource hog)
I know it doesn't truly give a benchmark for our processor, but just like getting your car dyno'd before you build it... it's good for a baseline number. And I was just under 900 stock.
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shotchacokov said:
Scored 1263 Running deodexed KD1, with Bali kernel and spb shell (which is kind of a resource hog)
I know it doesn't truly give a benchmark for our processor, but just like getting your car dyno'd before you build it... it's good for a baseline number. And I was just under 900 stock.
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Where'd you get that battery?
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At 1.3ghz
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@1.3ghz ... this i wud say is an average cuz i've gotten better

badb4lyfe said:
well i'm also deodexed kd1, bali kernel so i dunno n also runnin the touchwiz 4.0(beautiful interface, just a btw)... well my overall performance improved n battery life surprisingly good... its been 7 hrs now and i still got juice...
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Woah, where did you get touchwiz 4 for our phone ? Ive been looking for it all day on google and I can only find the original galaxy s and the epic 4g's

skillz398 said:
Woah, where did you get touchwiz 4 for our phone ? Ive been looking for it all day on google and I can only find the original galaxy s and the epic 4g's
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074410
a thanks would be much appreciated

rickyy00 said:
Where'd you get that battery?
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Look for the status bar mod....under themes
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Is 1.0ghz what your phones comes with?
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Is 1.0ghz what your phones comes with?
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yes that wud be correct

Speed Tweaks, Battery Tweaks, and Quadrant Hekkks

This is just a collection of random tweaks that I put together for all of you that want to see fast speed and good battery at the cost of stability. Credits go to TeamACID, ACS, Juwe, zepplinrocks, and a few others... The zip is attatched.

First, and with many thanks!

Just flashed... Let's see what happens! Thanks Marcusant!
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Thanks will try it out.
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Downloading and testing now
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@ marcusant
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Whoops screwed that post up.. @marcusant, are these tweaks included in you're latest ROM already?
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Thankyou! Flashed and my **** wifi seems faster.

Improvement of battery life brings upon instability? Well that just plain sucks. I could really care less about overclocking. But..thats just me.
Is there a version of this tweak that might just carry the battery life end of the tweaks? Everything else can just work as it normaly would.
This is just a request...in no way is it a demand. Thank you
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Are you saying stability is iffy?

One note, this changed my "Build Number" to "MarcusantROM Revival v1".
Not necessarily a terrible, horrible thing.
Other than that, this is amazing.
Thank you a million.

can you post an explanation as to what exactly this does to achieve those things?

There are a ton of files and tweaks actually included in this. Its mostly code changing/adding. For specifics, if you know the linux OS, you can peruse the files that are included in it.

I don't know which tweak it was, but one of them absolutely gave me way better wifi reception. Getting strong, uninterrupted connections in parts of my house where id normally fade in and out constantly
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By cost of stability i mean agressive app killing. More tweak details l8r.
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marcusant said:
By cost of stability i mean agressive app killing. More tweak details l8r.
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are these already in your rom?

robl45 said:
are these already in your rom?
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No
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It works! running Revival v1 with Samurai 2.08 and it definitely smoothed out some rough edges- very zippy now. Sweeeeet! Thanks Marcus, love your work.

Installed this.... Noticed some speed improvements... But I'll have to see how it plays out... Wifi has stayed the same strength.
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Not sure if it is the new Samarui OC kernel, or these tweaks, I installed both at the same time, but i am definately noticing a diference. Flick golf runs awesome!

Unofficial CM9 ROM questions

According to the OP, the torch is supposed to be a working feature. However, I have not been able to get mine to work at all. Was just curious if this was an oversight or something I should correct on my device?
Additionally, I would like to know what a safe and stable OC speed would be for my Inspire 4G.... I'm a bit of a speed-freak but do not want to jeopardise anything.

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According to the OP, the torch is supposed to be a working feature. However, I have not been able to get mine to work at all. Was just curious if this was an oversight or something I should correct on my device?
Additionally, I would like to know what a safe and stable OC speed would be for my Inspire 4G.... I'm a bit of a speed-freak but do not want to jeopardise anything.
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Are you sure your camera LED's are in good working condition? Speed wise, you can overclock it to almost anything you want. If it is overclocked too much, your phone will just freeze and you might have to format everything to ROM default to get out of it. I think you can go up to 1.2 if I remember correct. I always underclock my ROM so that it saves on battery.
EDIT: I found out that it is an issue with the ROM, follow this thread in DHD, you might need a different kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28438592&postcount=153

LEDs and flashes are working fine. Thanks for the oc answer!
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Also, I'm still playing with safer speed limits but the difference has made my lead thumbs a little happier. 1420 looked good lol.
As for the torch, I'm too up to my neck with commissioned artwork to reflash so I'll use the lazy fix and use my video flash/LED if I just must have one.
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I remember reading somewhere that the inspire can go up to 1.8 but it's not recommended to go more than 1.5
I have mine up to 1.3 working great!

How is this latest build for a Dd?
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irish.iolar said:
How is this latest build for a Dd?
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Wrong thread my bad
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To go back to the thing about Torch, it its working in the 2.0 release and the test 2.4 release as well. I recommend the 2.4, it has better battery life.

So what difference has ICS made?

First off, this is not to take anything away from the incredible work put in by everyone. Its awesome that an online community can put so much effort in and share with people they've never met.
That said, have we gained much from this ICS? I was running XBSALL's GB ROM with the Prometheus kernel and it worked very well. 1400MHz, could occasionally free up 300MB RAM, scored 6500 on Antutu and had good battery life. Has this brought us anything more?
I asked this question before the port and was told that ICS will bring features like RAM management etc that will make our phones much better. We are still in the early stages of a ported ICS so we can't expect much yet but will this upgrade make a big difference to our phones?
I'm still quite a noob - GB was a massive improvement over Froyo, will we eventually see the same level of improvement with ICS?
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I think so but i guess we have to wait for some time.
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In my opinion the Stock ICS is much better than Stock GB...
Also my Antutu Benchmark scores were:
GB: ~4500
ICS: ~5600
GB(Promethius Project 21e + no idea b1) : 7017
Hehe but you cant compare a custom roms score with stock
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No, of course. Well that's a big jump between stock ROMs and your gain was massive. Is there a potential then to hit 8000? That would be incredible.
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No, of course. Well that's a big jump between stock ROMs and your gain was massive. Is there a potential then to hit 8000? That would be incredible.
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lol the O3D would blow up if it hit 8000 but i wonder what is the highest possible OC on the O3D it's strange that not all o3D hit the same OC like i Max out @ 1.38

Well the dark lestat used to be able to oc till 1.69 ghz!!! And me 1.5ghz
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Haha well mine was just over 5000 on stock GB and I managed to improve the score by 1400 but this guy jumped his score over 2500.
Regarding overclock, Prometheus did a really excellent job. On a stock ROM, mine was very unstable if over clocked to 1200 but was smooth at 1400 with his custom kernel.
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I think so , But we must wait for ICS costum roms and kernrals I hope it will make a difference.
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LeighR said:
Haha well mine was just over 5000 on stock GB and I managed to improve the score by 1400 but this guy jumped his score over 2500.
Regarding overclock, Prometheus did a really excellent job. On a stock ROM, mine was very unstable if over clocked to 1200 but was smooth at 1400 with his custom kernel.
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Tru ICS Needs Samno's Kernel

TMProduct1onZ said:
In my opinion the Stock ICS is much better than Stock GB...
Also my Antutu Benchmark scores were:
GB: ~4500
ICS: ~5600
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Thanks for your stock GB vs stock ICS Rom figures. Good to have this kind of comparison.
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ICS make a better use of RAM resources. This can be seen by exiting from games or browsers.
According to speed - maximum benchmarks should be the same on the same MHz. And the MHz depend on the voltage (and this is s.t. that you do not want to increase too much unless you want to charge it every 2h or have a NONmobile phone). And the voltage depend on the kernel. So... in this aspect - they are the same (probably 5% more points gained from different tweaks in the kernel but nobody can say for GB or ICS )

Ability to somewhat multitask by holding down the home button is quite nice.
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biggest differnce? now you can use ics apps... NBA 2K13 yeeeeeeaaaaa

OK, having played around with this, it is a much more efficient firmware. RAM management is better, giving faster performance.
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LeighR said:
That said, have we gained much from this ICS? I was running XBSALL's GB ROM with the Prometheus kernel and it worked very well. 1400MHz, could occasionally free up 300MB RAM, scored 6500 on Antutu and had good battery life. Has this brought us anything more?
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WOW 1400mhz,, never been stable for me 1356 was best imo. i used a few ROMS from here,, i liked cm7 but i didnt like the fact had no 3D , so after trial and error i ended staying with thaiz ROM
after a few headaches and watery eyes ive managed to install ICS big thx xbsalls :good:
on stock rom and kernel , scored 33xx(variable) on quadrant which is pretty impressive me thinks
i love the new rom, and all its features its bit like cm but with 3d lol
going to try and root and install custom rom next
OOOh BTW Ucam also swaps the camera round, its in settings

MattJaO3D said:
WOW 1400mhz,, never been stable for me 1356 was best imo. i used a few ROMS from here,, i liked cm7 but i didnt like the fact had no 3D , so after trial and error i ended staying with thaiz ROM
after a few headaches and watery eyes ive managed to install ICS big thx xbsalls :good:
on stock rom and kernel , scored 33xx(variable) on quadrant which is pretty impressive me thinks
i love the new rom, and all its features its bit like cm but with 3d lol
going to try and root and install custom rom next
OOOh BTW Ucam also swaps the camera round, its in settings
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may be you need a refreshment about GB speed
Look at my old benches:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1200179&d=1342373661

Is battery life any better on ICS?

Depend on kernel you use.
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I'm finding battery life worse but I was using a custom kernel before. Its not horrendous like froyo though
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may be you need a refreshment about GB speed
Look at my old benches:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1200179&d=1342373661
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WOW i was using Acura 3D max for a while but couldnt get a signal with the maximo speed kernels not sure why, only kernel that worked for me was Titan 0.6+
TBH i had to use Titan kernel for most non CM roms in order to get signal, maybe it was my baseband, im still on a massive learning curve lol
The fastet Rom i personally tested for GB was JOY OS , boy that was lightening quick , 4000 - 4200 plus on quadrant
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thx for the info though buddy